PLUTOCRACY'S Alt
IS TO MUZZLE THE HONEST POR
TION OF PRESS.
After Having rurrhnted the Dishonest
1'apvrs trredum for DlihonMt I'rrwt
and Mazzle for Honest l'resa la the
Aim of Corporations.
The attempt of the plutocrats to
muzzle a tree press and free speech is
as old as the government. Hamilton
and the Federalists tried it and were
eo thoroughly defeated that as a party
they disappeared from the stage of
American politics, but their teachings
unfortunately did not die with them,
and now appear again under the stress
of national misfortune, taking advan
tage of popular excitement to again
rear its hideous head. The Nashville
News well describes this when it says.
An arbitrary government and a freo
press can never agree together without
an explosion. This is a self-evident
fact, and Is the teaching of history.
It is as well known to the gentlemen
who are seeking to monopolize the in
dustries of the nation and tax all the
people for their industrial benefit as it
was to Thomas Jefferson or any other
of the founders of the government.
Free speech is essential to a free peo
ple, and the one cannot exist without
the other. Undoubtedly the blackest
portend of trouble in the future which
has recently shown itself is the dis
graceful attempt of the organized cap
ital of the country, through its subsi
dized newspapers, to use the sentiment
aroused by the national misfortune of
the murder of the president, as an ex
cuse for an attack on the freedom of
the press. If this were an isolated case
it could be put down to the idiosyn
crasy of some hysterical editor. But it
is national and shows unfortunately
from the number of papers engaged in
it, that an enormous percentage of the
daily press has been acquired by the
same interest which now controls prac
tically all the transportation lines, tho
coal oil, the ships, the iron, the steel,
the coal and the agricultural machin
ery plants, and which is reaching out
after a monopoly of the hardware, tho
retail dry goods business and the fed
eral judiciary. The order has lf?en is
sued, and from Maine to California the
chorus of yelps and howls from the
pack has answered vociferously. The
burden oi the song is the same in ev
ery case. The cry is '"yellow journl
iirn." and the demand is thut the gov
ernment be allowed to decide want
mny be said and what may not be said
in a neTvt-paper about public affairs.
CIVIL. fiOVEKXMEM OVEKKIDDIA
The civil government in the Philip
pines which was established on Dec
laration Day to emphasize that a cer
tain amount of freedom had been in
augurated and to carry out promises
made to these Filipinos who surren
dered, is a farce. It now appears the
military claim full authority and have
ordered the deportation of a civilian
who on appeal to the Supreme Court
that the civil end of the dual govern
ment has set up. has been ordered re
leased under a writ of habeas corpus.
General Chaffee, however, holds that
the court has no such power and is in
fact a figurehead to please the Filipinos
and fool the American people into be
lieving that peace exists there, and has
nppealed to the war department, who
is, through the president, the real
power under the extraordinary Spooner
amendment.
The trouble arose from the fact that
the government has been trying to
carry water on both shoulders, to be
prepared to trace its authority to
either source as legal exigences may
seeni to require with a view to meet
the constitutional questions that are
before the United States Supreme
Court. If the civilian can be deported
by the military commander there can
certainly be no civil government in
the Philippines, and the expensive one
that has been set up is worthless.
LAItOil LOOKING AHEAD.
The f teel strikers appear to have
learned a lesson from the result 01
their late repulse by the steel trust,
for their organ, the National Labor
Tribune, in discussing the effect of the
strike, says: Now, a3 a matter of fact,
there is never likely to be a time when
the steel corporation can afford better
to precipitate a fight than it could the
past summer. What it fears, and what
every other trust fears, above every
thing else is a public anti-trust agita
tion which will affect the elections,
and either bring about hostile legisla
tion by the existing congress or bring
into power a congress representing a
hostile political party. A year from
next month a new congress will be
elected. Two years from that again
there will be elections for not only a
new congress, but for a new president.
The best time for a strike, from the
conapany standpoint, is when there is
no political campaign in progress. The
worst time, from its standpoint, is the
time of a campaign of some import
ance. THE COAL TRUST.
The coal trust, it now appears, can
work the double twist on the price of
coal. As the trust controls the rail
roads that carry the coal and also owns
the coal mines, they can, when they
have raised the price of coal to the
top notch, give it an extra twist by
raising the freight on coal, "all the
traffic will bear." as the following in
terview in the Washington Post shows:
"While the recent combinations of rail
roads in this country have not mate
rially advanced freight rates so far as
coal is concerned, they have resulted
In the price of coal being increased,"
remarked Mr. John Duff, a coal jobber
of New Bedford. Mass. "You see," he
continued, "all but about 15 per cent
of the total output of coal of the Unit
ed States is controlled by the railroads.
Prior to the consolidation the roads
owned as many mines as they do now,
but it was individual ownership, and
competition kept the price down. Now
there is no competition, and as a re
sult we pay just about $1 a ton more
for coal, both hard and soft, than we
did one year ago.
"The Lehigh, the Philadelphia and
Reading, the Delaware, Lackawanna
ind Webtcrn, the Jersey Central, and
Che Pennsylvania roads in the big Mor
;an syndicate own practically all the
coal mines in this East-rn section. '
They secured them by increasing
freight rates to the mine owners along
their lines, thereby compelling them to
sell out. Railroad rates for shipment
of coal are about the same, but they
stay down because the" companies don't
have to put them up. They put the in
crease on the coal itself. Of course we
here in the East ship most of our coal
by water, but most of the barg com
nanies arc rnntrnllerl hv the raflrnnrl"
of the combination. Rates have not Tbe rnited States is to receive a
advanced for water shipment, because visit tnis winter from Princess Hairie
an increase would immediately drive Ben Aad- wli has created a stir in
many vessels now carrying other prod- England by her crusade against so
ucts into the coal business. tial conditions in Turkey. The Prin
THE PRESIDENT AND THE TRl'STS,
President Roosevelt in his Minneap
olis speech delivered but a few weeks
before his accession to the presidency,
said: "We shall find it necessary in
future to shackle cunning as in the
past we have shackled force. The vast
individual and corporate fortunes, and
the vast combinations of capital,
which have marked the development
of our industrial system, create new
conditions and necessitates a change
from the old attitude of the state and
nation towards property."
To which the Kansas City Star re
plies: "These are pointed and direct
sentiments inspired by conditions to
which no thoughtful and sober-minded
man can be blind. They are not
uttered in any spirit of intemperance
agitation or any false alarm for polit
ical purposes. They come from an in
fluential member of the party which
capital in modern years has regarded
as its chosen champion. They do not
proceed from a person who has ex
cited the suspicion of the conservative
element by the radical character of his
opinions."
If President Roosevelt tries to
shackle the trust and corporation,
which are all noted for their cunning,
he will split the Republican party into
two camps. He will have the common
people with him, but the Republican
politicians will be against him, at
least the most important of them who
are maintained in their places by the
money of the combines. But Presi
dent Roosevelt making a stump speech
and Roosevelt as President may be en
tirely different persons.
CAGE AND (il)tDLERS.
The Wall street sharks and their
side partne-3, the bankers therer.bouts.
fchould kocp a tighter muzzle on some
of their number or buy up some more
of the newspapers that are apt to let
the cat cut of the bag. To work their
graft on the United States treasury
they should ail stick to the same tale,
or the people will be asking with
more emphasis than they are now, why
the treasury should be run in the in
terest cf the banks and the all street
gamblers. The banks of New York
made a demand on Secretary Gage for
money. He gave it to them out of the
United States treasury in order that
the money stringency might be re
lieved. Now comes a banker of Net
York Forgan of the First National
who says in the Chicago News: "At
the same time our deposits are keeping
up in a highly satisfactory way. Coun
try banks ire not withdrawing their
balances and tbio io doubly gratifying
when applied to the institutions in the
northwest where heretofore the de
mand at this time of the year has
necessitated a heavy diminution of the
moneys d posited in the reserve cen
ters." Under the circumstances why do
you suppose Mr. Gage was so ready to
extend au' to the New York bankers.
The Khip-subsidy bill will not havj
such an easy sailing in the next con
gress as its promoters have expected.
It is quite possible that the steal will
not be recommended by President
Roosevelt in his message to congress,
for the Washington correspondent of
the Record-Herald states that "Senator
Spooner has been in consultation with
the President respecting it and has
fully stated the position of the West.
Among other things the senator is re
ported as saying that Western Repub
licans are in favor of building up the
American marine by discriminating
duties, that is. by lowering tbe rates
upon foreign goods brought in Ameri
can ships." That would be a legiti
mate bounty to aid the building up of
the American merchant marine. But
before endorsing it, the bill with all
the details, must be examined, for
Mark Hanna and the ship-subsidy
schemers are experts at getting up bills
that give away more than they seem
to.
The financial organs of Wall street
are hinting that another combination
of capital will soon be announced that
will be more startling than the enor
mous Steel trust, but they do not tell
us what line of enterprise is to be
monopolized. The consolidation of all
the railroads is about due, instead of
the community of interest plan they
are now working nnder. In vastness
of capital and the number of men em
ployed that combination would be a
fearful menace to our political institu
tions which would make thousands of
voters at the berk and call of one man.
The Inevitable result of the Imperial
istic tendencies of the government is
found in the annual report of the
heads of bureas of the army and navy.
They all demand more officers and
more men. and tell of the great dan
ger to the country if their demands
are not complied with. As the army
has been raised to a maximum of 1C-D,-000
men and the naval force largely
increased by the last congress, the
former at all events far beyond what
is necessary, these demands for a still
greater iccreas3 is pretty good proof
that the Democratic charge of militar
ism is rapidly being accomplished.
A report just issued by the English
Board of Trade gives statistics of th
changes in rates cf wages and the
hours of labor. The great feature is
the rise in coal miners' wages, which
In the different districts range from 3t'
to 43 per t ent. No wonder the English
are unable to compete with Americas
coal, with our lower miners' wages and
much less value of coal lands.
Dan Daly appears as a star in "The
New Yorkers," a musical farce which
succeeds Andrew Mack at the Herald
Square Theater.
TO TELL OF TUB KEY, !
WOMAN KNIGHT ERRANT COMINC
TO AMERICA,
, The Princess Hairle Ilcn Ayad. Wife ot
Former Diplomat of Ottoman Em
pire, Is Carrylnc on a Crusade Against
Social Conditions.
cess, wno is a daughter or a lormer
Turkish minister to France, hopes to
eradicate polygamy in Turkey by or
ganizing a movement against it from
the outside. Her lectures in London
have been crowded and she has be
come a fad with society there. She
has a beautiful and refined face, un
like the usual heavy type of the East,
and carries herself in a regal way.
Her husband, who was sentenced to
prison for espousing the cause of the
deposed sultan, Murad, but escaped, is
PRINCESS BEN AYAD.
with her in London. When out driv
ing she wears a heavy veil over her
face, according to Turkish custom.
LIFE IN GUATEMALA.
Happy-Clo-Lucky Disposition of Amer
ican L ca ed There
It is one of the ironies of fate that
fond parents with dissipated eons
should stud them to the tropics in the
uope that the outdoor life and new
surroundings will reform them, writes
a Guatemalan correspondent. The ex
periment has bern made many times
with disastrous results, and nowadays,
when a joung fellow steps down the
gangplank at any Central American
port the American and European vet
erans whe have for years been ou their
way to the devil via the tropics, mutter
cynicallv: 'One more unfortunate.
Wonder if he has any good money to
sell," and as a preliminary to conver
sation, ask the newcomer to take a
drink. If he takes the first one, it Is
generally all off with reform, and the
chances are ten to one that he will
drink from three to five times as much
a3 he did at home.
There are men, of course, who are
strong enough to resist the temptation
to drink, but they are even fewer than
one would expect. Indeed, it is only
natural that it should be so, since there
is every inducement to forget present
miseries in drink and few reasons for
not doing so. While the tropics con
tain many "white" men. as distin
guished from natives, who are of the
finest character and highest attain
ments, it is unfortunately true that
they also contain more than their full
share cf men who have made a failure
of life elsewhere.
Life In Guatemala, as elsewhere
south of Mexico, is a strange medley oi
civilization and barbarism, grim life
and death struggles, and happy-go-lucky,
devil-may-care humor. To be
gin with, the absence of public opinion
makes every man a law unto himself
to a large extent. The constant
never-failing source of jokes, and oaths
as well, is the money. When a man
lands in the country with f 100 and sud
denly finds that he has $S00 he is apt
to think it is a fine country nnd to
throw away what he has as if it had no
value whatever. The rate of exchange
is constantly varying, and as ali rail
road salaries are paid in the native
currency, no man knows what he will
be drawing at the end.
Roosevelt and Grant.
"President Roosevelt," said an old
resident of Washington, "has many of
the tastes and traits of Gen. Grant Of
course he is more loquacious, and I do
not doubt that he will make a better
administrative officer, but, like Gen.
Grant, he doesn't wish to have a sort
of halo thrown around him because he
is the President of the United States.
He walks to church and he permits his
children to romp. Gen. Grant's chil
dren were not so young as the Roose
velt heirs, but just the same they
ruled the unofficial end of the White
House. Gen. Grant walked nearly ev
erywhere he went, and a stranger who
had never seen his portrait would
probably have taken him. on one of
his trips from the White House to the
capitol, for a countryman seeing the
sights. He waa the greatest windov
gazer I ever knew. Anything novel
would attract him. I can see him now,
in my mind, with the inevitable cigar
between his teeth, standing in front
of some store on Pennsylvania avenue
looking at baubles designed to attract
women and children. And so demo
cratic was President Grant in his
habits that the crowd passed him by."
Ruioklnr in Ccba.
Cuba produces no tobacco for chew
ing or pipe smoking. The Cubans who
smoke pipes may be counted on one's
fingers without making a second
round on the fingers. The cigar and
the cigarette prevail. To what extent
the Cuban cigarette might ever be
come popular with American smokers
js a matter beyond determination. It
is certain that most Americans of pro
longed residence, become, if they be
smokers, addicted to the Cuban brands
and find difficulty in weaning them
selves back to American brands on
their return.
Byron spent the leisure hours of
nearly four years in the preparation
of the first two cantos of Childa
Harold.
m oo 1 Old fiifthop.
Had Bishop Potter of New York not
become eminent as a churchman, he
might have won high honors as a
diplomat. Asked by a lady the other
day what he thought of female suff
rage he answered: "I have got far be
yond that point; I am trying to make
the best terms with the sex that I
can obtain."
Look at the Ealielsf
Every package of coeca or chocolate
put out by Walter Baker & Co., bears
the well-kTiown tr-de-rra'-k of the
chocolate girl, and the pl-.ee of manu
facture, "Dorchester, Mats." House
keepers are advised to examine their
purchases, and make sure that other
goods have not been substituted. They
received three gold medals from the
Pan-American exposition.
Noted Writer Chances His Name.
Ernest Seton-Thompson, the well
known author and writer, has been
granted permission by Justice Gisch
off of the New York supreme court
to change his name to that of Ernest
Thompson-Seton. Mr. Seton-Thompson
in his petition said that the sur
name of Thompson was a pseudonym
adopted by his family, which hid
from the English government after
having taken part in the Jacobite re
bellion of 1745.
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NAM FADELESS DYES and be dissat
isfied from any cause whatever, to re
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When a small boy finds out what
worries his mother he always does it.
When a girl's education is complete
her diploma is a marriage license.
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