Commoner
Extracts From W.
4 t r-4-4'eW-Ta
Tho NalkMt Mmr.
The natkm Umj in aorrow and in
humiliation in sorrow lecano its
chief executive, it official head, is
pawning through the valley of th
hadow of death in humiliation he
caux- the president of onr republic has
fallen a victim to the cruel and cow
ard ly method employed in monarchies
There helplc- and hoiele.H subjects
MWrtime nH"t arbitrary piiwrr willi
t iolr nee.
In niifr! n.l in the contemplation
of law all lire are of otial value all
are priv!esa but when evcnty-tivc
ini.Uont of tople evt one of their
numlvr n in rot hint with the au
thority which attache, to tl.e presi
dency, helveomcs their reprvnt.itive
and a blow aimed at h'.ni rvscntett as
an attack upon all.
IVneatli the partisanship of the inli
vidua! lies the patriotism of the citi
zen, sometimes dorrr.vit. it is true. but
always active in hours of peril or mis
fortune. While trie president's life
hangs in the balance there are no party
lines. The grief of jersonal friends
and close political associates may le
inoiv pui jnant. but their sympathy is
more sincere than that extended by po
litical opponents. A! though none but
his family and his physicians are ad
mitted to his room, all hi- countrymen
are at his t-dside in thought and sen
timent, and their prayers a.vnil for
his recovery. It was characteristic of
his thoughtfulness that, even amid the
excitement follow ?ng the assault, he
cautioned his companions not to exag
gerate his condition tohis invalid wife.
The latest dispatches give gratifay
ing news of his improvement, but
there is still deep solicitude lest unfa
vorable symptoms may yet appear.
And the humiliation! Are our pub
lie servants those who ai-e chosen by
the people and who exercise for a lim
ited time the authority lestowed by
the people are these to live in con
stant fear of assassination? Is there
to be no difference Wtween our consti
tutional government and those des
(totic governments which rest, not
iitMin the consent of the governed, but
upon brute force?
There is no place for anarchy in the
I'nited States: there is no room here
for those who commit, counsel, or con
done murder, no matter what political
excuse may lie urged in its defense.
The line letween peaceful agitation
and violence is clear and distinct. We
have freedom of speech and freedom of
the press in this country, and they a .
essential to the maintenance of our
liberties. If any one desires to criti
cise the met li oils of g.. eminent or the
conduct of an official he has a perfect
right to do so. but his appeal must lie
to the intelligence and patriotism of
his fellow citizens, not to force. Let
no one imagine that he can improve
social or political conditions by the
shedding of blood.
Free governments may be overthrown
but they cannot le reformed by those
who violate the commandment. '-Thou
khalt not kill."
Under a government like ours every
wrong can .1 remedied by law, and
the laws are in the hands of the
people themselves. Anarchy can be
neither excused .i.r tolerated here.
The man who proposes to right a pub
lic wrong by taking the life of a hu
man being, makes himself an outlaw
and cannot consistently appeal to the
protection of the government which
he repudiates. He invites a return to
a state of barbarism in which each one
must, at his own risk, defend his own
right and avenge his own wrongs.
The punishment administered to te
wouM-be assassin and to his cocon
spirators, if he has any. should lie such
as to warn all inclined to anarchy that
while this is an asylum for those who
love liberty, it is an inhospitable place
for those who raise their hands against
all forms of government.
While the lalorers for the United
States Steel corporation are fighting
for the privilege of organization, it is
announced that the president of that
trwfct, wk is said to draw an aaaaat
salary of ll.Oiin.OyO, has purchased a
trr.ct of ground for a residence, pay
ing therefor the sum of StfiO,ooo, and
ihat when completed Mr. Schwab's
home will have cost in the neighbor
ho.nl of S2.noo,000. It would seem that if
the revenue from the trust i sufficient
to enable one of its officers, who, a
few years ago was a poor man. to build
a palatial home, that the trust is suffi
ciently prosperous to give its working
men the privilege of organizing for the
pnrpoaeof protecting their bread and
but tee.
Jackson, in his celebrated message
vetoing the extension of the bank char
ter, said that the humbler uterabers of
society were the victims of injustice
whenever the government, by grant
ing legislative favors and privileges,
made the rich richer and the potent
more powerful. If the men who eat
their bread in the sweat of the face
would act in concert at the polls, a
speedy and inexpensive remedy would
be found for every evil complained of.
Fusion in Nebraska resulted in wrest
ing the state from the control of cor
rupt republican rings. Fusion prom
ises to do the same thing in Pennsyl
vania. Good sense and good morals
demand that no one condemn a move
that result, or promises to result, in
good to all the people.
Mr. Grosvenor is missing a golden
opportunity when he fails to impress
upon the farmers that the high price
of potatoes is due entirely to the Ding
ley law and the good graces of the ad
ministration. Can it be that Mr. (iros
venor ia growing careless in his old
ge?
It was noticeable everywhere that
those who addressed the people at la
bor day meetings pointed out the fact
that wrongs could only be remedied at
the ballot box. Mayor Reed of Kan
tu City stated the case aptly when he
toaid the laboring men were not law
breakers bat should be law-makers.
Ha aloha's Oplaloat of Kufcw.
Prince too Hohenlohe Lb credited
with having held an opinion of the
German Emperor that was none too
high, and Is said to have remarked of
him: "Ilia greatest fault Is that he
thinks there are no limitations to his
will.-
Comment
J. Bryan's Paper.
Tit Two should Stand Toaelher.
The toilers on the farm and in Die
factory have cause to believe that they
are Wing cheated out of a part of their
earnings.
(hie of the things that labor has rea
son to fear is the effect of private mo
nopoly. The trusts have liocn grow
ing rapidly during the last few year?
and all wage-earners nre menaced by
thetu. Nome have suggested that the
employes should join with the employ
ers in controlling the industries and
then divide the advantages of higher
prices. Such a proposition is immoral
M well a impolitic. The employe
could no more justify aiding the trusts
to extort from the consumers, even if
they could share in the results, than
an honest citieu could justify giving
aid to a highwayman on promise of
part of the plunder.
lilt t such an agreement would Ik as
nnw ise as wrong. If trnst made arti
cles are sold at high prices, compared
with other products, the demand will
be reduced and lalnr thrown out of
employment.
In a test of endurance the farmer can
stand it longer than the man in the
factory, but why should the lalonng
man in the city array himself against
his lest friend the farmer?
The trust hurts the consumer first,
and then the producer of the raw ma
terial, and last and possibly most
the laborer. All three should combine
to destroy the private monopolies now
in existence and to prevent the creation
of any new monopolies.
Next to the trust in its evil effect
upon lalor is wnai is Known as govern
ment by injunction. According to our
theory of government, the executive,
legislative and judicial branches should
lie kept separate and distinct, but it is
coming to le the custom for the judge
to issue an order declaring an act to
be unlawful and then assume the pre
rogatives of the executive and enforce
the law. while as judge he sits without
jury to condemn the person whom he
is prosecuting. The main purpose of
this judicial process is to deprive the
accused of trial by jury, and while
every citizen should resist this attack
on the jury system the employes of
great corporations are just now its
special victim.
The wage-earners as a part, and as
an important part. too. of society, are
nterested in all questions which effect
our civilization, but they areat present
experiencing the necessity of reform
along the lines alove suggested. m
Will They Reniemner?
Mr. Davis, vice-president of the
amalgamated association, in a recent
speech, charged J. Pierpont Morgan
with a fixed determination to destroy
all labor organizations. He said:
The steel men are picked as the
first organization to be wiped ou'..
That is why the opposition to us is so
bitter, so uncompromising, so regard-
ess of the possibility or arbitration.
Next will come the poor old miners, if
we axe beaten. Then the carpenters
and machinists, anil after them one
rade after another. If we are defeat
ed we wil! all become slaves, and life
will no longer be worth living.
That the trusts, if permitted to ex-
st. will ultimately destroy the labor
unions, is too plain a proposition to
admit of dispute, but will the lalioring
men remember at the polls the lesson
they are learning at the door of the
factory? The wage-earners have it in
their power to destroy every trust and.
by so doing, to restore the era of indus-
rial independence, but will they exert
that power on election day? No one who
understands history or human nature
can doubt that private monopolies are
a menace to employes, as well as to
producers of raw material and to con
sumers. The time w ill come when the
evils of the trust system w ill lie recog
nized " by all. but in the meantime
many bitter lessons are lieing learned.
'Kxperience is a dear teacher,"' but
apparently the only one whose instruc
tion is heeded.
The republican party is determined
to retire greenbacks and substitute
bank notes, to be issued by the banks
for their own profit and controlled by
them for their own advantage. . W
must resist this effort or place the
democratic party in a position entirely
antagonistic to the position of Jeffer
son, Jackson and all the democratic
leaders down to the time when Cleve
land betrayed the party into the hands
of the Philistines of finance. The pa
per money issue is entirely separate
and distinct from the silver question,
and jet it lis a significant fact that
those who declare the silver question
dead have nothing to say about the ir
reconcilable conflict tietween govern
ment paper money and national bank
notes. The increased supply of gold
does not affect, one way or the other,
the question of paper money, but the
influence of the money power is such
that whenever it can bribe or terrify
a man into the support of the gold
standard it can silence his opposition
to banks of issue.
Dodging tBe Trust Qaestlon.
The St. Louis Ololie-Democrat says
that Vice President Roosevelt's Minne
sota address was the ''most interesting
address which labor day called out
anywhere in the country." Then the
Globe-Democrat pointed out certain
features of that address and omits to
touch upon the most important part
that wherein the Vice President frank
ly admitted that it is ''more and more
evident that the trust problem must be
grappled with by the federal govern
ment." It is true the address was a most in
teresting one. Perhaps because of Mr.
Roosevelt's conspicuous position in the
republican party it would be fair to
call it the most interesting address of
any delivered on labor day. But why
is it that republican organs hesitate to
touch upon the all-important feature
of Mr. Roosevelt's Minnesota speech?
rertaMo Mouse.
Portable bouses are made in Con
necticut for shipment to Venecuela.
Four handy men can in three hours
erect one of the domiciles.
rHE ROBBER TARIFF
N NO WAY PROTECTS AMERICAN
LABOR.
itlll a Mendacious Representative of the
Party of Trust and Combines Keeks
to Holster l'p Its Alleged Benefits to
Oar Working Men.
It Is not very satisfactory to quote
that mendacious representative of tv
president. Gen. C. II. Grosvenor. for
he has u babit or crawling out of any
tight place he gets Into by denying the
Interview, but as the one about to be
quoted sounds grosvenoresque and Is
being quoted by the trust organs who
take Grosvenor seriously. It may he
well to expose its absurdity. Speaking
of the Increased number of American
products he found for sale in Kngland.
he said: "1 understand that Mr, Rab-
vWk would take the duty from all
these articles. W hile that misht not
fatal to our prosperity, it woul l cer
tainly cripple our .strength. The tariff
insists in developing our fore's i trad.
If this tariff is removed the goods Of
foreign mills will be rushed ill on
us. weakening our m:inuiarturng
strength. I find we are soiling barley
?n Kngland. If the tariff was off. Can
adian barley would kiil cur barley
production. The same arguments are
as good now as when the McKinley
bill was passed.
"I find in this increased transporta
tion for foreign markets an additional
incentive for the building up of our
merchant marine. We should not
hesitate to take prompt measures to
bring this profitable carrying trade nn- i
der American control. Mr. Habcock's ,
proposition is practically one for free
trade."
In the first place. Grosvenor knows
very well that the Babcock amendment
to the tariff bill only proposed to place
th iron and steel products of the
trust on the fre? list and especially
provided that articles manufactured
from them, such as cutlery .should still
be protected. Grosvenor calls that free
trade, which will arouse the ire of
Babcock. who lately declared he is
still an ardent protectionist. This dis
agreement of these Republican breth
icn can be viewed with equanimity by
those who wish to see real tariff re
form. Grosvenor. like all the trust repre
sentatives, knows that the weak spot
in the tariff policy is that the farmers
of the country get no protection while
they have to pay the tax that the
trusts add to nearly everything they
use. This i why he cites the tariff on
barley and says he found we are sell
ing barley in England, and that 'if
the tariff was off, Canadian barley
would kill our barley production." He
might have added that he found our
wheat and flour there also and that
the same result might follow if there
was no tariff on these articles, but
that would have leen too barefaced
even for this trust advocate to argue.
The tariff on barley Is thirty cents a
bushel and we are evidently growing
more barley than we can consume or
we would not be exporting it; the sur
plus, like our surplus of wheat and
corn, has to seek the best foreign mar
ket it can find. The surplus of the bar
ley crop of Canada has to find the
came market. The price is fixed by
the English buyers and the price of
barley in this country is fixed by the
price of the surplus sold abroad.
Would Canadian barley, even if the
tariff was removed, be sold here for
less than it will bring in England? It
would surely seek the highest market.
The Year Book of the Department
of Agriculture on page 781 reports that
the exports of barley in 1900 reached
23.661,602 bushels and that the export
price fell from 60.7 cents a bushel to
47.4 cents.
This official information is rather
unfortunate for Grosvenor as with this
large surplus to sell and the conse
quent low price, the Canadians or any
other foreign growers would certainly
not look to this country for a market.
It is also an equally unfortunate argu
ment for protection that the price of
tarley is almost the lowest on record
with the highest tariff. This Is the
wonderful protection that the farmers
are getting under the Republican
tariff, showing that protection to any
farm product is Impossible as long as
there is a surplus of that product that
must be sold abroad.
CONTKOI. BV TAXATION.
It is well to remember when legisla
tion to control the trusts Is being pre
pared that the most potent power that
can be used against them Is taxation,
this n be applied by the state3 them
selves. Not oy any unfair mode but
by making them pay equally in pro
portion to what other people pay ac
cording to the amount of their prop
erty. At present the monopolies do
not pay but a small part of what they
should. The steel trust owns or con
trols 80 per cent of all the Iron mines
in the northwest which in a great
measuse enables them to be the gigan
tic monopoly they are, on this they do
not pay one-tenth of the taxes that
they rightfully should.. Mr. Schwab
testified before the Industrial Com
mission that these iron mines were
extremely valuable for the reason that
they contain only a limited supply of
ore, a supply which cannot "last very
long, perhaps 60 years." He continued:
"We own something like 60,000 acres
of Connellsvllle coal. You could not
buy it for $60,000 an acre for there is
no more Connellsville coal." I believe
that Connellsvllle coal will be ex
hausted in 30 years." The Columbus
Press Post In commenting - on this
said: "That monopoly control of the
raw materials, without, which there
can be no industry, furnishes the trust
an impregnable fortress against which
the hosts of labor cannot hope to pre
vail with their present methods of
warfare.
"It is contrary to public policy to
permit such a gigantic monopoly of
raw material provided by nature.
"To prevent such a monopoly there
are bat two courses open. One is so
cialism. If we were to try; to cure
the evil of private monopoly by tak
ing the remedy offered by socialism
we should probably be like the Irish
man who said that, on account of the
awful medicine prescribed for him,
he was sick a long time after he goi
well.
"The other course is that suggested
by the platform of the Ohio Demo
crats, the most radical anti-plutocratic
platform ever adopted by the
Democratic party. Mr. Schwab says
that the Connellsvllle coal is worth
160.000 an acre and declares that the
ore field of the northwest are of almost
inestimable value.
"The employe of the trust, if he says
enough to own a house, will pay taxes
on 60 per cent of the full value ot that
house. Would it not lie interesting to
know how much taxes the trust pays
on Its 60.000 acres of coal fields?
"President Schwab says the value of
the great ore fields of the northwest
Is more than equal to the entire cap
italization of the I'nited States Steel
Corporation.
"Why dots the triu-t acquire prop
erty in all these fields?
"Certainly not because it has any
present use for them, but because It
wants the legal power to keep others
from usiiiR them so that It may com
mand a monopoly price for this raw
material.
"Thf way to destroy that monopoly
power li to tax it to death. Let the
trust pay taxe.- on the true valuation
of its property and it would not find
it si profitable to hold idle the raw
materials without which competition
is impossible.
"The power to tax Is the power to
drFtroy. Willi that powor intelligent
ly used, the people could eliminate the
element of mouupoly from industry,
increase the security of all legtimate
forms of property and increase the op
portunities for remunerative employ
ment for both labor and capital. But
no one is going to drive them to free
dom. Until they gain wisdom we must
expect their blind protests to end in
failure."
Willi 11 Ml U.I. IT HK?
That disinterested capitalist,
Carnegie, made millions out of
Mr.
steel
and has for the past e;ir been trying
to appease his conscience by building
libraries. But the Homestead horror
is a. spectre that will not down and his
vast fortune that was wrung from the
exhausting -labor of thousands is but
of little use to him. The trut has
taken his place and it too wants its
pound of Hesb and being a corpora
tion it will never make restitution like
Carnegie. In commenting on these ex
traordinary matters the New York
Journal says: "Is it better for the
United States that the steel industry
with all the minor industries depend
ent on It. should support in comfort a
million human beings, the steel work
ers, their wives and children, or that
It should make a dozen human beings
enormously rich -so that they don't
know what to do with their money, or
in fact, how to give it away?
"Is it better for the United States to
have a quarter of a million fteel work
ers wtll paid, educating their chil
dren, feeding their families properly?
Or is it better to have Mr. Carnegie
scattering millions, Mr. Morgan buy
ing fine pictures and yachts and brie
a-brac, and Mr. Schwab drawing $1,-
000.000 a year?
"For our part we are bound to say
that we think a great national indus
try should be made to support incom
fort and in plenty a great section of
the American people, that it should
munificiently reward organized genius
but that It should not be distorted
into an instrument for manufacturing
a few multimillionaires regardless of
those who actually work.
"If the founde.s of this ration
could return, which would please them
more
"To see a miliio'n homes made happy
by a great American industry?
"Or to see a few individuals rendered
cynical, intolerant and over-bearing by
vast, useless wealth?"
The Manila New American of July
12th publishes a full account cf a new
outbreak ot the Filipinos against the
friars. The New American calls it a
peaceful protest. though in some
places stones, tomatoes and rotten
eggs were burled at them and the
police nor the soldiers did not inter
fere to protect them. This is rather
a ticklish business for the administra
tion to handle, not only regarding the
peace of the Philippines, but from it
effects on the voters in this country
Absolute fairness to both parties and
no connection between church and
state is. the only solution of the
trouble. The land question involved
is. however, a much more troublesom
question.
When Lord Pauncefote returns tc
Washington he will bring with hlro
a new treaty that the "Birmingham
Post" hears from a most reliable
source will be satisfactory to both na
tions. The Post also says an "im
portant announcement" will be mad
soon. The people of the United Statet
will be quite anxious to hear this "an
nouncement" and know how much oi
our Alaskan coast and territorj is tc
go with the deal. It is said that Pres
ident McKinley . has smoothed out
some of the1 rough places in the Unltec
States senate for the new treaty.
That is a strange tale that comet
from Tampa, Fla., and monstrous l:
true, that a committee of citizens or
ganized by the cigar trust, kidnapper
the labor leaders who were heading s
strike of the cigar workers and trans
ported them by sea to some unknowi
place. One of the kidnapped is sale
to have escaped from the vessel. How
would it do for Morgan to kidnap tht
leaders of ' the steel ' strike ' and trans
port them beyond seas? These bt
strange times, my masters.
From the grove at Canton thert
come no word about the naval scan
dal, but there is a strong indication
that the "man of destiny" intends t
dump his secretary of the navy along
side of Alger for making a mess of th
attempt to down Admiral Schley. Wil
liam of Canton is not going to shoul
der any of the blame If there Is any
one else to put It on.
The Monroe doctrine need not wort?
any of the European nations, if the)
do not visit America on any lan
stealing expedition.
SLATES UNDER FLAG.
THOUSANDS OF BONDSMEN IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
ftdlrlat Report to the National tiovmen
meat Cites I-'act and Figures A fn
ktat Hour re of Trouble to American
Kulera Im Far Fast.
Not long ago the Manila government
sent us tht news that one of the dattes
jf the Sultan of Sulu had abolished
slavery. This was an evident effort
of the censor to lead us to believe the
whole institution as it exists in our
new possessions was being extinguish
ed. The official report of Col. Pet
tit and Major O. P. Sweet, who are
the commanders of the United States
troops in the islands where slavery
and polygamy exist, tell a different
tale. The first named officer says:
Under our orders I believe all Fili
pino slaves and captives have been
turned over to us, and fur.'her slavery,
either by conquest or traffic letween
islands, has been prohibited. Th?
tholitdinient of slavery can be at
tempted in one of two ways by war
or by purchase. The latter would be
futile. I cannot Imagine a more deso
late people than the More slaves would
be if set free. Their freedom would
be of short duration. War could be
had for the asking. K Is 'for the
United States government to decide If
it wants it. The Mores have plenty
of arms and ammunition and a coun
try passable only by its waterways."
Major Sweet says: "The question of
Slavery, although uot recognized by
the United States. I still a fact, and
Is a constant source of trouble on ac-
."unt of slaves escaping from one mas
ter to another, or their being stolen.
Whenever a question of relating to
slavery conie3 before me, I simply
make the owners prove they are slaves
beyond doubt, in which case I have
nothing to do with them, but in case
I can pick a flaw in their title, I give
the alleged slaves freedom papers.
Thousands of Mores are held as slaves
who are by right free people."
Thousands of free men slaves under
the stars and stripes and the Taft
commission and the home government
doing nothing to free them. "If they
are slaves without doubt, I have noth
ing to do with them." says this officer.
Sixty thousand troops hunting down
Filipinos and not a man or gun used
to even attempt to suppress this trade
in these unfortunate and miserable
people.
Congress has given President Mc
Kinley full power in the Philippines,
increased the regular army to 100,000
men, appropriated all the money asked
for and yet he has made no move to
suppress this blot on our civilization.
In his tour through the South and
West his every hour theme was full
of rapture and exultation that the flag
waved over freedom and prosperity.
How free and prosperous are these
slaves? But they can dally gaze upon
the flag. The Republican party has
made President McKinley as great an
autocrat in the Philippines as the Czar
of Russia is In his dominions, and
Russia with all her barbarous customs
has none of this.
Yet the American. people with their
eyes open but blinded by partisanship
or the pelf promised and distributed
by the Republican machine, voted for
Imperialism, of which this slavery in
the Philippines is one of the attributes.
MVST1RIOISLV DIRA Pl'KARKK.
The politicians who are running the
Republican party are having piled up
against them a good deal of evidence
that they are not only the greatest
treasury looters that the United States
has ever been cursed with, but they
are also guilty of pillaging the gov
ernment archives to accomplish their
ends. Evidence of this was lately pub
lished and the Washington Times
says: "It was developed yesterday
that all of the secret correspondence of
the Signal Corps of the army relating
to the Spanish war has mysteriously
disappeared from the flies of the war
department. Among the missing docu
ments is a dispatch from Colonel Allen
to General Greely, announcing the
presence of the Spanish fleet in Santi
ago harbor. This message, it is said,
was immediately communicated to
Sampson, who allowed eleven days to
elapse before taking any steps to meet
the situation. As the original of this
communication and the official en
dorsements which may have b?en made
upon It are very necessary for Ad
miral Schley's counsel to see. perhaps
the public need not be surprised to
know that it ba3 been put out of the
way.
The excuse is offered at the depart
ment that possibly General Greely,
;hief of the signal corps, deliberately
may have destroyed the records, with
a view of concealing the names of per
sons used in the secret service of the
United States. But nobody will bo
ieluded by any such subterfuge. If
General Greely had done a thing of
that kind it would be a matter of pub
lic record and his reasons and author
ity for the act would be spread upon
the flies of the department. He is
onveniently in the Philippines; and
will not return until November 1, so
there are several weeks during which
he onus may be laid upon his shoul
ders problematically. All the same, the
American people will conclude that the
signal service records have been stolen
for a purpose, as many public records
have been stolen or falsified for var
ious, but always infamous, purposes
during the past few years. ,
"One would think that the Samp
son scandal had become too hot . for
even the administration to bear, and
that It would do something In the line
of an attempt to convince the coun
try that it Is no longer an active party
to the conspiracy against the victor of
Santiago. It would better make the
effort before it Is too late; because
every daynow adds to the proof that
a plot has been hatching ever since
August, 1898, to rob Admiral Schley of
his laurels and transfer them to Samp
Kn, the man of the Mantanzas mule.
AN ADMIRABLE PLATFORM.
The Democrats of Cambria county.
Pennsylvania, adopted at the late
convention a most admirable platform
K-hlch shows that the fiscal policy of
Tom Johnson, the mayor of Cleveland,
is spreading beyond the confines of
his own state and is worthy of more
extended adoption. The most impor
tant declarations are: "The Democratic
party stands for equality of rights and
demands equality of opportunities. It
is opposed to the granting of special
privileges to individuals or corpora
tions. It. therefore, condemns the pro
tective tariff and demands that taxa
tion shall be for public revenue only.
It condemns the trusts as a monstrous
outgrowth of privilege and It propones
to destroy the triieta by th simple de
vice of withdrawing from them the
benefit of the laws under which they
have established and are maintaining
monopolies. All goods controlled by
trusts should he plated upon the free
list; and every legislative advantage
now conferred upon aggregation of
capital should be. recovered by the peo
ple. Taxation hhould fall, not iipox
Industry nor upon thrift, but upon spe
cial advantages; and it should ap
portioned in accordance with the
ijonntH conferred iiy tin govern
ment. The denio atlc pai ty, therefore,
condemn.-! th? existing Kern and
prii ll (- In Iviiimy Ivitniu iiri'b r whl b
the gruti t)iin'-fi of t-ik.ii;oii f&U.i
upon the labor nod Ind'iMfry of tb
people MI toKr.V7.i- monopoly
pra'tlfally eapex. Corporal mo
nopoly J M'ftlHl'llOHn'" f;ivof-d a! the
expeime of the fanner, lb m" Uutit.
the riixriiifu'-tiir'-r and the di(nii Th
latter t out i IbuliM pr opoi t 'ofiti :
hurulif-.l or perhap a tfi'Ufd t!fix
as much to the -ot ft th wntinitut
as the railtvay and otlor prUllegei ' i
terests and they receive Infinitely s-
in return, i n principle or oj
lion In taxation shoiiM omnia ud t;-
wlcest recognition "
"
Mill' SI IS I III HI 11..
A conference J noon to be held by j t.'j valley fro-n N'-w Mexl'o, who con
the Republican leaders to arrange for ! tra't to thin -u at ho rnucb per acre,
the Jamblng through the next Con- j ' tti the vicinity of Rocky Ford,
gress of the $1&0.000.00 fch'p-Kubxtfy j Kh-re the land has b--n cultivated ex
steal. The Pennsylvania r& II road's. tx-nnlvejy, Jt j pv-.mh!e under only fair
team of experienced lobbyist U r-- j iou 'Monx Ui ralfe twenty tons of
lied on to make Its pathway it'.-mnt . -...f tJ, tJ? are, while thrifty and In
and profitable to those member of o'ltrlou farmers grow from twenty
Congress who are open to thU kind of; ,t xj thirty ton to the acre, and in
argument and the Administration will : yn, jrU.i.Vca as high as thirty-five
aid the atrocity with all the influence tons
it can bring to bear. The chairman of
the Republican national committee,
Mark Hanna, is the engineer in charge
and will put forth all his power to
pass the steal and our good kind and
generous President will sign the bill
and see that his good friends of the
steamship combine get the swag regu
larly. They put up a good stiff sum
for the campaign fund last fall when
Hanna needed the money and of
course common gratitude would -com
pel this promised favor in return.
These people who voted for Presi
dent McKinley cannot grumble if th
steal goes through for it was well
known and indeed proclaimed by those
who are interested that it would pass
early In the coming Congress and that
President McKinley had promised to
recommend its passage and he carried
out his part in good faith in bis mes
sage to Congress just after the elec
tion.
Doubtless a large number of Repub
ltcans voted for President McKinley
with their eyes shut to this and othe
raids on the treasury; quite satisfied
because he was labeled Republican
and they voted for Congressmen who
also are pledged to support it on the
same broad basis
Democrats can point with pride that
those who have been elected by their
votes are solidly opposed to this class
of legislation and If a black sheep ap
peals when the flock is counted, he
will be marked for slaughter at the
first opportunity, for it will be known
that he has been bought and branded
bv the Hanna herders.
w nen some poor devil of a moon
shiner with no political pull is caught
by the government he is put through
the courts and imprisoned without loss
of time. If a bogus silver dollar or
bank bill is passed,' the secret service
is everlastingly after the forger. There
teem.s to be great tenderness In
bringing the larger thieves, like Neely
and Rathboae, who are accused of
looting the Cuban postal department,
to justice. In the New lork customs
department peculations have been
going on for a long time and the
treasury department had full informa
tion to that effect but has not dared
to even arrest the thieves because of
their high political standing. It
would hurt "the party" you know.
The Rev. Father John Boyle is quot
ed as accounting for the decay of Ire
land by the fact of absentee landlord
ism. But is it absenteeism or land
lordLsm that is at the bottom of Ire
land's decadence? If all the absentee
landlords were to come back from I-on-
don and Paris and Rome and take up
their residence on the Irish soil from
which they draw their rents, would
it be easier for the Irish people to
live? Wouldn't their rents be Just as
high? Wouldn't their rents indeed be
higher? What difference does it make
to the Astor tenants in New York 'or
to the Scully tenants in Illinois and
Kansas where Astor or Lord Scully,
lives.
The report that the keg combine of
the army and navy departments, head
ed by Corbin and Crownlnshleld. are
to represent this country at the coro
nation of King Edward, is not extra
ordinary in view of the other antics
of these favorite ridden departments.
Congress should stop this nonsense,
anyway, we are represented enough
row with an ambassador and attaches
both military and navy and sons of
some father to whom Hanna Is under
some obligations for a good stiff con
tribution to the Republican campaign
fund.
What farce this Neely business Is.
there Is no intention to convict him,
the Administration dare not do it. be
cause as Rathbone said. If he suffered
there would be others that would suf
fer too, implying that some persona
much higher In authority were impli
cated. The government has been mak
ing pretense of obtaining evidence la
the case in this country, but nearly all
those who were asked to testify or to
go to Cuba as w '.messes refused to do
so. Of course they did.
KAILR0AD NEWS.
MR. SEAQRAVES LOCATES 200 FAM
ILIES IN COLORADO.
Cobb froaa Northern Fa rope to Rale
Mugiar Meets.
Mr. C. I Seagraves. passenger agent
of the Santa Fe, J as returned from
the sugar beet district of Colorado,
and completed arrangements to locate
two hundred families from northern
Europe, the first fifty families to lo
cate near Holly, about October 20. M
Seagraves said:
"The leader of the colony Is an ex
pert agriculturist, and has visited and
carefully Investigated all sections of
the United States, and pronounced i-e
Arkansas valley the most promising of
any section visited, on account of tho
'iprb climate, rich soil and the most
perfect irrigation system In the world,
backed by a reservoir supply with suf
ficient water to irrigate all the lands
for two years without a drop of rain,
thus Injuring the farmers against fail
ure of rrnim. After the first movement
the balance will follow as fast a
hfim-H ran be provid'-d for them."
Mr, H'aKrave advlB'-s that the farm
er Id the vall-y are very prosperous.
kini an that h.-rtion will be densely
pf,pi!af-d jrfjd brought up to a hig'n
Mari'5.irl of cultivation, if - ill in flvo
or it yntn "m tf: k best and
tt''l ,T,iif' st ttait'.'... in the
ft
' f .' W r a v-ry profitable
f ''
i ' In th thln-
; ninjc e' KS'-h lajita aoout two
i wk. Tt.'.t tt ir, howfver. Is be-
i Ing overcome 7 labor brought into
"The price cf beets Is determined ac
cording to their sugar content, the av
erage being about J3 psr ton. The cost
of growing beers, including all labor,
peed, as wpII as harvesting the crop
in the fall is about $25 per acre, leav
ing the farmer $75 or more profit aa
aire for his beet crop.
"The Arkansas valley of Colorado Is
considered the ideal sugar beet coun
try as they grow more tons to the
acre and contain a larger percentage
of sugar than beets grown anywhere
in the world. The Rocky Ford fac
tory is now rearranging some of it
machinery, the beets being so ricu
they will not submit to the usual
methods employed at the other fac
tories. "Cantaloupes are also a very profit
able crop, and many growers estimato
they will pay $100 an acre net. I saw
two and one-half acres near Rocky
Ford that yielded the grower one
thousand dollars. This was on rented
land of which the owner received one
third of the crop. This may be rather
an exceptional case, but it proves what
intensive farming will do.
"Alfalfa, as well as small grains, do
well and are profitable crops to grow.
Vegetables of all kinds, poultry and
dairy products command good prices,
and a ready market in Denver, Colo
rado Springs, Pueblo and the mining
camps.
"Lands in the vicinity of Rocky
Ford, before the erection of the sugar
factory, that sold for thirty-five, fortj
and fifty dollars an acre, are worth
today from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred and fifty dollars an acre.
The question is what is land worth
that will net over and above all ex
penses from seventy-five to one hun
dred and twenty-five dollars an acre?
"Lands In the Holly district and the
very choicest in the valley and under
a most perfect system of irrigation.
with a never failing supply of water, a
perpetual water , right going with the
land fa selling at thirty-five dollars per
acre, with ten per cent down and the
balance in seven years at six per cent.
The company will also build houses."
barns, etc., on which they require fif
ty per cent down and the balance la
seven years at six per cent.
"The Dunkards and Menaonltes are
now colonizing large- tracts of lands.
while other settlers are pouring Into
the valley from all over the country.
the valley from all over the country.
Topeka State Journal. Sept. 2, 1901.
Where Eaton Cam From.
Dr. Edward Dwight Eaton, the new
president of Beloit college, is by pro
fession a Congregationalist minister
and was formerly the pastor of the
Newton, Iowa, Congregational church.
Brooklyn, N. T., Sept. 18. The Garfield
Tea Co., manufacturers of tiarSeld Tea,
Garfield Headache Powders, Garfield-Tea
Syrup. Garfield Relief Planters. Garfield
Digestive Tablets and Garfield Lotion, are
now occupying the large and elegant office
buildingand laboratory recently erected by
tbem. For many year the Garfield Rem
edies have been growing in popularity and
their success is well decterved.
Money invested in knowledge pays
the best Interest.
WISCONSIN FARM LANDS. '
The best of farm lands can be ob
tained now in Marinette County. Wis
consin, on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway at a low price and oa
very favorable terms. Wisconsin la
noted for its fine crops, excellent
markets and healthful climate. Why
rent a farm when you can buy one
much cheaper than you can rent and
in a few years it will ' be . your own
property. For ;- particulars address
F. A. Miller. General Passenger Agent.
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail
way, Chicago.
Good eaa to Jala.
A recent addition to good Influences
is the "Don't Kick Club." ef Buffalo,
that already contains some 7,000 listed
members. Its fundamental principle is:
Better say nothing than speak III of
your fellow men."
To Moraaoalse the Or la at.
Three Mormon missionaries have
started for Japan to spread their re
ligion, and from this beginning Mor
monism wil! soon probably find itt
way into China, the Philippines and
t!a other lands of tie Orient.
