THE
I If?) I i W? I (Pi f Q . J-
makes a great deal of difference WHO owns f Ac
which his paper advocates.
Commoner
A SOI.TIIKUX OPINION.
Th Tiiiifs-I inin rat of NVw Orleans
In t fairly be con.stih-rc d llw best re p
t .'n'jfive of democratic sentiment in
th- i.fith. The Courier-Journal for
mally hle the premiership in southern
j .fii.ilism. btlt forfeited the place by
if.-, lpostaey In IS'J.. The honor then
t-t t.r the Atlanta Constitution, but
tint p.ipr by Its alvoeaey of colonial
iin nd by its surrender of the demo-cr-iti--
position on other questions "in
fh interests ef harmony" leaving the
lrt-i!rshir of the southern press to the
Tirii.'s-lJemorrat. and this leadership is
being well sustained. Its editorials are
.ifr in and clear, ami they draw a prop
er disMin tion between the Hamiltonian
ii"A. which prevail among the re
puhlt an and gold democrats, and the
Jeffersonian views which prevail among
th believers In the Chicago and Kan
City platforms.. Its manner of deal
ing with the present situation is well
illustrated in its recent editorial on
T1k Tombstone of Democracy" which
win be found on another page. Its sum
ming up is accurate and comprehen
sive: "If the country prefers republi
rn policies the reins of ower should
h? entrusted to republican hands; if
lmo- ratic remedies are desired, a
dem x ratic doctor should be called in.
Lt Mo have no more quacks who give
bro.id pills and poison by turns with
out thought of the patient's disease.
The practitioner of this kidney is but
the undertaker's advance agent."
MASKED BATTERIES.
In discussing newspapers in a recent
interview, Mr. Dryan mentioned some
of the papers which tall themselves
democratic, but which can Le relied
upon to support any republican policy
in which the financiers of the country
are interested, lie expressed the wish
thit the law might compel a disclosure
of the names of the men who really dic
txtn the editorial policy of papers.
Among these the New York Times was
referred to by name. The Times refers
t this comment and attempts to de
fend the papers which speak as cor
porations without a personality behind
f h corporation. It says:
"Wo regard that, and Mr. Bryan
o'tght. to regard it. as a real negligible
dtil. The vital question is. "Do these
pipers tell the truth; do they teach
!! nd doctrine; and do they in their
duly exhortations, seek to set the feet
of democracy Into paths of safety?'
Thse are the Important things; if the
newspaper is sound, then Mr. Bryan
rn.iy leave the supposed dictator of its
polti-y to his money grubbing in the
dust-holes of Wall street, for. though
it may cause him daily anguish, how
tire poor wretch shows his wisdom by
committing to more competent hands
th Ailing of its columns!"
Th Times, instead of disclosing its
ownr or the dictator of its policy, pre
Hunt this puerile defence of the news
paper which fires its dally round from
atnriush. So it makes no difference at
alt who controls the paper! Suppose
it should appear that the Times was
owned by John D. Rockefeller lof
course this is only a supposition),
would Its defence of trusts have as
mi:h weight as if it were owned by
some one not at all connected with the
trusts? Suppose it were owned by
th- officials of the National City bank?
Would its defence of every Wall street
scheme have the same weight as if it
v?re owned by some one who could
vi?w the subject disinterestedly? Sup-V.-e
(and tnis may not be a supposi
tion) it is owned by a man who habit
ually votes the republican ticket and is
in t-onstant communication with the re
publican leaders, would its advice to
democrats have as much weight as it
wouid If it were owned by a man whose
nUeiity to democrat'e principles was
unquestioned? i. ...e Times was a de-
President Roosevelt, when at Keo
kuk. Ia. .received a miniature fac
simile- of the first American flag made
by lietsey uosa. 11 was a sm ii
descendant of the maker of the first
tig. The dispatches do not say
whether the donor called attention to
th- tict that the Betsey Ross flag
n?ver 3tood for a European colonial
system. That change has come about
imd?ryi republican administration.
Mr. Hanna's great feat of marching
up t!i hill and then marching down
ain is another feature added to some
already spectacular political history.
rtr-retarjr Gage lnhis speech at Chi
cago said: "It is no more necessary to
put up full security for every note Is
Hud than It Is for an Insurance com
piny to set aside full security for the
full amount of risks taken." Suppose
a mm wants to borrow at a bank; he
must put up full security. Why should
the bank issue money on less security?
Mr. Fowler continues to be so thor
oughly opposed to a silver dollar which
be uee.Iares to be naif fiat" that he
spends all of his time advocating a
bank currency that is all fiat.. The
u.-mal crimp in republican logic con
tinues to manifest itself In Mr. Fow
ler' financial utterances.
METROPOLITAN
Comment.
I fe ndant. in a suit at law. would It con
sent to have tie witnesses against it
concealed in an adjoining room? Would
it allow the witnesses to talk to the
court or jury through a Kpeaking tube,
relieved from the scrutiny of a cross
examination. The Times says that the vital thing Is
"Do these newspapers tell the truth;
do they preach sound doctrine; do they,
in their daily exhortations, seek to set
the feet of democracy into the paths
of safety?" The ..mes talks as if tne
readers of the newspaper accepted its
utterances as If they were utterances
of a voice from heaven, whereas a
more intnmate acquaintance with that
editorial oracle might show that the
voice was anything but heavenly, and
that the inspiration came from an en
tirely different quarter.
The Times assumes that the dictator
may be "money grubbing in the dust
holes of Wall street." while his agent,
the editor. Is filling the columns of the
paper with competent hands. But sup
pose the editor is numbered among
those who boast mat they can write
as well on one side of a question as on
the other, and suppose ne is told to
write ou the capitalist side of every
question to defend the gold standard
and a bank currency., to argue that
trust are a natural development and
necessary to public welfare, to justify
imperialism and glorify government
by injunction hasn't the reader a right
to know the Influences which control
and the interests that guide the edi
torial pencil? The defence made by the
Times is in itself a sufficient condemna
tion of the so-called impersonal, but
more often subsidized, newspaper rep
resentative of some plutocratic inter
est or group of interests.
JOHN S. ROBINSON.
The democrats and populists of Ne
braska are called upon to mourn the
untimely demise of ex-Congressman
John S. Robinson, who recently suc
cumbed to an attack of appendicitis
Mr. Robinson served two terms in con
gress, and was an ideal representative,
dean in private life, industrious, able.
incorruptible and faithful to every
trust. He leaves to his widow and chil
dren a more valuable legacy than
money.
DEMOCRACY DEFINED.
Mr. William O. McDowell, of New
York, president of the Cuban-American
league, was asked at the close of one
of his lectures: "What is the correct
conception of democracy?" He re
plied: "It is tn aspiration a deter
mined purpose hoping for. struggling
for. fighting to the death for. Liberty
the equal well-being of all men. It is
a religion built upon a creed that as
serts the natural dignity and birthright
equality of all men. It Is the golden
rule, the ten commandments, the Ser
mon on the Mount, and the American
Declaration expresseu in a single
word."
The word "democracy." it will be
seen, has a meaning deep and-broad. It
derived from the Greek and means the
rule cf the people, and the rule of the
people, resting as it does upon the doc
trines set for in the Declaration of In
dependence, can only be preserved by
the cultivation of a profound and uni
versal respect for human rights.
Both aristocracy and plutocracy are
constantly at war with democracy and
the democrat mupst be not only vigi
lant and active, but he must know that
his own security rests upon the protec
tion of the equal right3 of all.
JOSEPH W. FOLK.
The following sketch has been sent
in by a friend of Hon. Joseph W. Folk,
city attorney of St. Louis, whose per
sistent prosecution of boodlers has de-
Mr. Baer. the anthracite coal king.
admitted before the interstate com
merce commission that he fixed the
nrice of anthracite coal, and he also
admitted that there was an agreement
among the coal roads not to undersell
each other. This seems to be a viola
tion of the criminal clause of the Sher
man law. but as the amount realized by
Mr. Baer from the violation is very
arge he will not have to go to jail.
The Chicaeo Chronicle commends
the anti-libel law of Pennsylvania, but
this is not the only undemocratic posi
tion taken by this alleged oemocratic
newspaper.
The president's pugilistic spirit seems
to crop out on all occasions; it per
meates his thoughts on every subject.
We have never had any other president
who seemed to be so In love with pow
er. Even the presidents who have
known long military service have been
less infatuated with the exercise of
authority.
When a man follows his convictions
and does what he thinks he ought to
do, nothing that comes afterward can
make him regret his action. When a
man does anything from improper mo
tives he generally lays up a store of
remorse, because things seldom turn
out as he calculates.
MASKED BATTERY.
paper, and what INTEREST he has in the policies
ITsiil lir e-ourte-sv if Th:- ('omiuonir.
veloped an astonish amount of corrup
tion and given him a plae? in the con
fidence and esteem of an increasing
number of people:
"Joseph W. Folk was born in Brown
ville. Tenn.. on October 28. ISC!). He
comes of a distinguished southern fam
ily, always democratic. After gradu
ating at Vanderbilt university he en
gaged in the practice of law in his
home town. Brownville; then in 1893
he removed to St. l.ouis. where he en
tered into the active practice of his
profession. He took a lively interest
in polu.cal affairs as a public-spirited
citizen, and was a warm supporter of
the national democratic ticket in 1896.
In September. 1900, a committee of
prominent democrats waited upon him
with a request that he accept the dem
ocratic nomination for circuit attor
ney. Mr. Folk replied that his law
practice was confined to the civil
branch of the law. and that he could
not accept. When the committee re
ported this, it was instructed to return
and say to Mr. Folk that the conven
tion would nominate him anyway and
that if he declined it would have to be
before the convention. Of course, un
der these circumstances, a second
declination was impossible, but Mr.
Folks cautioned the old-time "bosses"
of the party that he recognized no poli
tics in criminals. "He who violates
the law," said Mr. Folk, "is not a demo
crat, neither is he a republican he is
a criminal and must be treated as
such." The "bosses" regarded this as
mere political buncombe at any rate,
it did not deter them from giving Folk
a unanimous nomination, and from
then doing what they could to elect
him. In November, 1898, St. Louis
had cast a republican majority of 10,
000. and it was not supposed in No
vember. 1900. that Folk could be elect
ed. In this, however, both friends and
foes were surprised: he was elected by
a handsome majority, and immediately
upon taking ofiice in January, 1901,
he gave evidence of his "sincerity by
prosecuting election repeaters, regard
less of the political party in whose in
terests their frauds had been commit
ted. When certain notorious demo
cratic "Indians" were given peniten
tiary sentences a great outcry was made
by an element of practical politicians,
and a demand was made upon Mr. Folk
to confine his prosecution of election
fraud cases to republican "Indians."
A refusal to comply with this demand
aroused against the circuit attorney the
bitterest animosity of some of the
most potent politicians in the St. Louis
democracy, an animosity which be
came intensified when later on Mr. Folk
actually prosecuted and convicted the
head boss of the party, the man with
out whose support few men in St. Louis
during the last quarter of a century
have dared to aspire to a democratic
nomination. Corruption has been ram
pant in the city for many years, but
so prominent and powerful were the
beneficiaries of that corruption, no
circuit attorney had dared assail them.
Mr. Folk has shattered this stronghold
of corruption, and has laid bare more
official bribery than was ever before
discolsed in the history of the world.
It was freely predicted, when Folk se
cured a three-year sentence in the pen
itentiary for the millionaire head of the
democratic "machine" in St. Louis,
that the powerful influences back of the
millionaire boodler would -crush the
daring official. It is sa.u now by the
incensed followers of the "boss" that
the prediction has been verified, and
that Mr. Folk can not receive a sec
ond nomination, however, humble,
from a democratic convention. A dif
ferent view is held by others, but how
ever this may be. it is certain that out
side the ranks of "practical' politicians
among the great mass of honest citi
zens, republicans as well as democrats,
no name in Missouri is no v more hon
ored than that of Joseph XV. Folk.
"Quite apart from his brilliant rec
ord in the circuit attorney's office, Mr.
An Inouirer asks what became of the
temporary injunction restraining the
Wabash employes from striking. It
was dissolved upon full l?raring, the
court finding that the alligations of
the netition were not sustained. As,
soon as the injunction wss d:?so!ved 1
the company proceed? d to settle with i
its emnloves. showine that ire railroad
companies rely upon government by
injunction to assist thera in coercing
their employes.
The indications are that Mr. Hanna's
White house bed has not been slept in
ior several consecutive weeks.
The republican state convention of
Pennsylvania has indorsed everything
bearing the name republican. This,
however, is not much of a vindication
for Pennypacker's libel. lnw nor of the
civic virtue of a million citizens who
meekly submit to the sort of thing im
posed upon them by the most corrupt
political machine in the world. ,
Governor General Taft announces
that he has discovered a fine health re
sort in Luzon. This is calculated to
rene,w the activity of Mr. Hull of Iowa,
who has managed to pull off some very
juicy jots by reason of being chairman
of the bouse committee on military
affairs.
Folk has stamped himself as a man ot
note; in the spring and summer of
r.)io when St. Louis was almost in a
state of civil war on account of the
great street railway strike, the striking
railroad men requested Mr. Folk to
represent them. He did so. and his
services in arbitrating that great con
flict and in restoring peac e to St. Louis
were of inestimable value to the citi
zens at large as well as to the strikers
whom he more specially represented.
The latest episode which has caused
Folk to be discussed by the people, is
his refusal of a $15,000 house which a
committee of citizens tendered him as
a token of appreciation of his services
to the public. His reasons for refusing
that he had done nothing more than
his duty, and that it did not seem ap
propriate to receive valuable gifts
merely for having done his duty, were
reasons that appeal to all men of a
fine sense of honor; they are reasons,
however, which are very often over
loowed in this commercial age, and Mr.
Folk's aci.on become conspicuous when
contrasted with the action of some pub
contrasted with the ac tion of some pub
lic men who have not hesitated to ac
cept houses or any other gifts 'tendered
them.
"Withing the last few weeks Mr.
Folk's probe has reached out into state
affairs and already the boodlers of Jef
ferson City are preparing to join the
boodlers of St. Louis, either in the pen
itentiary or in hiding in Mexico and
other forign lands. The lieutenant gov
ernor of Missouri has been forced to re
sign under the Folk calcium light and
in his written confession he relates
how, during session, two noted lobby
ists sat behind the lieutenant govern
or's bene- and there wrote out amend
ments to bills and sent them into the
senate to be adopted by their servile
tools. Servility on the part of the sen
ators was obtained by a liberal dispen
sation of thousand-dollar bills. This
disgraceful practice made the office of
a Missouri legislator profitable, finan
cially speaking, but it is safe to say
uie practice will be discontinued dur
ing the remainder of Mr. Folk's term
of office. With half a dozen senators
indicted and on the road to the peniten
tiary, ancl with a circuit attorney ab
solutely fearless even of the most pow
erful political bosses in the state, it
it not probable that legislators will sell
their votes again.
THREE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
A reader of The Commoner asks
three questions:
First What provision is made to in
sure retirement of national bank notes
when the bonds upon which they are
issued have matured or have been re
deemed? Second Can any state bank issue
notes for circulation within the borders
of the state?
Third Would it be possible for the
banks to organize a boycott against
silver and silver certificates in case
silver was restored?
Answer to the first: If the bank is
using bonds at the time of the ma
turity of the bonds it can withdraw
them and substitute other bonds. As
bank notes today rest upon bonds they
would have to be retired if the bond-s
were redeemed and cancelled.
Answer to the second: A state bank
can issue notes, but those notes are
subject to a 10 per cent tax. It was
intended to be prohibitory, and has
proven so.
Answer to the third: The banks
would not find it to their interest to
boycott silver. The banks are so de
pendent upon the government that they
could not afford, and would not at
tempt, to oppose the policy of the party
in power.
The business interests of the country
know where to lay the blame if things
go wrong. The president has reopened
the "settled money- question" by de
claring that our currency laws need
modification.
Some of the gold papers of the south
are giving Mr. Cleveland credit for
trying to settle the race question. They
should remember that it was the de
Eel tion of the Cleveland democrats
that made it possible for Mr. McKinley
to be elected twice and for President
Roosevelt to inject the race question
into politics.
If the reorcanizers had been half as
mucn in iavor or narmony in jbo as
they pretend to be now, we would not
have to meet the problems which a re
publican administration has forced up
on us.
f . i o n " !
Nebraska's republican legislature en
acted a law increasing the assessment
roll from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000.
and the republican state board of
equalization promptly raised the rail
road assessment a fraction less than 2
per cent. This is notice to farmers and
small home owners that they must
prepare to dig up enough to pay a big
increase in their taxes.
People who insist that the expansion
accomplished under Jefferson was the
precedent followed in the expansion
practiced in the Philippines are in
vited to read the two treaties and com
pare them.
AND THE PEOPLE PAY
OF WHAT AVAIL IS IT TO FINE
MONOPOLIES?
The Amounts Are at Once Collected,
with Interest, from the Public
How Much Longer Will the Voters
Submit to Be Plundered?
A singular ending came to the prcise
:ution of the Federal Salt company
:he California salt trust in the Unit
3d States district court at San Fran
cisco, The prosecution was under the
Sherman anti-trust act and the attor
ney ol the trust entered a plea of
guilty."
The maximum fine for each offense
under the law is $3.0(10. Probably in
his case a lighter sentence will be im
posed. It is said that when this trust
was formed a few years ago the price
)f salt throughout California was in
creased from $il to $30 a ton.
The people of California may ami
probably will have to pay the amount
:t any judgment entered against the
iriiEt. The example of making the pi-o
;e pay the fines imposed on the trusts
was established in Minneapolis. The
burden always falls on the people.
In Minneapolis a suit against the
Standard Oil trust was successful anil
a fine of $7,5'0 was imposed. The fine
was promptly paid and the same day
the price of gasoline a Standard Oil
by-product was increased by five
cents a gallon. The amount of the
$7,500 mulct was soon realized and
then the increase of five cents a gal
lon for ;;asoline was remitted. The
people, not the trust, yaid the fine.
More recently various butchering
j companies with headquarters at Kan
sas City were found guilty of violating
the Missouri anti-trust act and were
fined $5,0(i(j each. They did not ap
peal the cases, but paid the fines. The
next day the price of beef at the Kan
sas City establishments was raised
two cents a pound.
In like manner most of the labor
strikes which result in an increase of
wages or in any other expense to the
employer are quickly followed by
higher prices for the public. Some
strikes have been settled with this in
view.
The fact that the price of anthracite
coal has been advanced enough to pay
the companies for the cost of the
strike last yeiar is apparent in current
quotations.
In these eases it appears that the
trusts and others are able within the
law to make the people pay the cost
of all the strikes and the amount of
; the Judgments which they incur for
violating the laws. No stronger proof
of the "corr.ered" conditions of Ameri
can industry and production can be
supplied.
Between the great employers and
their striking employes, suffering for
all of their misdeeds, are millions of
law-abiding Americans who derive no
benefit from favoring laws and who
have not as yet been able to corner
anything. To them "prosperity
means nothing but extortionate and
ever-increasing prices for necessities
How long will they submit to the
present policies under' which they are
plundered.
Lacey's Iowa Idea.
It is through the medium of Con
gressman Lacey of Iowa that Wash
ington formulates for Iowa the Iowa
idea.
At a banquet in Des Moines the
other night Mr. Lacey held up Henry
Clay to admiration as "the original
protectionist," coupling his name with
that of McKinley and others. He
stated that "Clay shed his first blood
for protection" in a duel with Hum
phrey Marshall. Said Mr. Lacey
He regarded a doming scnedule as
sufficiently sacred in those days to be
willing to die for it."
Mr. Lacey omiuea to recall some
things in the career of that old hero
of sacred robbery of the many for the
enrichment of the few. When the op
ponent of that system called attention
to the fact that it was for the benefit
of the rich the manufacturing capi
talists at the expense of consumers,
including the poor, Mr. Clay was frank
enough to admit it and attempt to jus
tify it. ."Take care of the rich," said
Clay, "and the rich will take care of
the poor."
Will Mr. Lacey be equally frank?
If so why does he take care to dodge
that famous doctrine of "the original
protectionist" ?
Another thing that Mr. Lacey omits
to recall is the fact that Mr. Clay
never defended protection as a per
manent policy or even as a sound eco
nomic policy for other than" defensive
purposes. It was wanted only to es
tablish manufactures of necessary
articles so that the country would not
be subjected to privation in case com
merce should be interrupted by war,
especially by war with England. Pro
tection for about ten years he thought
would be long enough to enable our
manufacturers to hold their own with
out further favors.
What has Mr. Lacey to say to that
doctrine? We have had protection,
higher and more of it, for more than
forty years, and now it is notorious
that our manufacturers can sell their
goods and wares In the markets of
their keenest rivals not only without
protection, but with protection, wher
ever there is any, wholly against them
and in favor of their rivals. Under
these conditions is he not about ready
to admit that Henry Clay's promised
day of industrial independence and
liberty has arrived?
Desperado Statesmanship.
When Mr. Roosevelt reached Ta
con..a on his circular swing he made a
speech in which he said he wished to
say one word "on our foreign policy
and upon what must ever be the main
prop of any good foreign policy the
American navy."
If people will cudgel their memo
ries a little they may recall some
thing of that kind that they have
heard before from the same source.
Indeed, they can hardly fail to recall
the fact that Mr. Roosevelt has been
harping continuously upon the duty
of going on with tremendous and
anflagging energy for an unlimited
:ime building and manning warships.
They will, no doubt, recall word3
jf his to the effect, that we must play
a great part among the nations
whether we wish to or no;, and tho
only quest Ion for us is whether wo
Khali play It well or ill. They wHl
remember also that he holds nx a
weakling and a craven anyone who
ventures to think we may not need it
thousand warships, more or lens, with
which to play the part well.
At Tacoma he quoted the motto
which tells its own story of its ori
gin "Never draw unless you mean
to shoot" applied It to our forelvn
policy. ParaphraKed for that appli
cation il should read: Don't build a
niosster navy unless you mean to
use it.
That was not exactly what Mr.
Roosevelt wii.hed to be understood as
meaning, but It is precisely what the
big navy policy necessarily means.
To go to the desperado statesmen of
the kind quoted by Mr. Roosevelt for
further illumination, we nil know that
those eminently strenuous heroes ilil
not load themselves down with dead
ly weapons and carry them wherever
they went with no intention of using
the in.
Mr. Roosevelt must be well aware
of the fact that the practice by the
men of "the range- of making walk
ing arsenals of themselves was not
at all conducive to peace. .Neither is
a like practice among nations any
more than the locating of powder
mills in the midst of great cities
would be conducive to safety.
Isn't it about time for the American
people; to tire of desperado statesman
ship and begin once more to put faith
in the power and greatness of a noble
example of successful self-government
of that cordial good vAl to
ward all who aspire to freedom from
an alien yoke which e;ills forth friend
ship and gratitude instead of suspi
cion and hate??
Go to the Bottom of It.
The public is not at all interested
in the personality of the; dismissed
cashie r of tho Washington postofflce,
who has brought charges of irregular
ities in the conduct of that office in
relation to the general postofflce de
partment. But the public is serious
concerned that these eharges and all
other charges shall be; investigated
thoroughly, regardless of whose repu
tation, in official life or out, they may
affect. Then is more than suspicion.
It is admitted that there are defects
in the organization of the postoflice
department, due to the rapid growth
of its vast business. What Is now
imperatively demanded is that these
defects, great and small, be tnorough
ly exposed and the proper remedies
applied.
Apparently No Danger.
Would the steel trust be put out of
business even by the entire repeal of
the 4" per cent duties under which it
practically monopolizes the homo mar
ket and sells abroad $100,000,000
a
year, much of it at a lower price than
is exacted from our home consumers?
Would the window glass trust lack
reasonable prosperity if its SO to 100
per cent protection under which it has
more than doubled the price of glass
were reduced? Do the manufacturers
who export $400,000,000 worth of their
products in a year, selling them In
open competition in every market in
the world, require any longer protec
tion which averages higher than the
war tariff of forty years ago?
Secretary Hay's "Open Door."
Some of our New York capitalists
are making a determined effort to
have the State department take some
action to keep open the door in Man
churia, so a press dispatch tells us
This does not seem to agree with the
announcement of Secretary Hay, who
says the door is open, but there you
are. There are some strange anomal
ies under this administration, that
Providence has vouchsafed to us, and
the "open door" is one of them.
An Example of Inequity.
Our excessively conjugal fellow
townsman Mr. Mills may justly com
plain of the hardship of his lot.
Though he has but four wives he is
cast into prison, while our good friend
and brother Hadji Mohammed Wolo-
mol Kiram of Sulu, who has forty or
such a matter, draws $188.88 per
month (Mexican) from a paternal
government and wallows In the lap
of luxury. Here, evidently, is in
equity. Chicago Chronicle.
Has the Record as a Talker.
Mr. Roosevelt, as the head of a
great state, has so completely
smashed all records, both domestic
and foreign, in the oratorical line that
no ruler, ancient or modern, remains
in the same class with him. It is a
phase of his administration entirely
unanticipated and therefore doubly
interesting. He is incontestlbly the
one man In the line from Washington
to himself who can claim the title of
"the talking president."
"Paternalism," Indeed.
Twenty Americans In Manila raided
the stage of a locral theater and broke
up a "seditious" performance. The
sedition consisted in the waving by a
woman of a Katipunan emblem and
the expression of a hope for freedom.
Were the rioters punished? No; they
were praised. And "semi-seditions
plays" are to bo mejre carefully cen
sored. This is "paternalfeci" with a
vengeance.
The Tariff Responsible.
It is the tariff which allows the
trusts to make these high prices for
their products. Had there been nc
such overcapitalized combinations the
competition between the fctrparate es
tablishments would give to the people
the benefit of prices regulated by the
cejst of production and would make
the prosperity more general and more
encoring.
The Candidate for 1904.
The candidate for 1904 must com
mand the confidence of the sober busi
ness men of the country as well as
the wage-earners. He must be a
champion of the people without pan
dering to their follies and he must
be ready to protect the property of
the country without failing to curb
its arrogance.
Too Much Water.
The ship building trust is being r?
organized. It was found that two or
three hundred per cent of water was
too much i"r it to float ia.
Iowa Farm 4 Par Aero Caab.
btltm K crp till t'M MUI.II !.!.. tu Hy.Ia.
King Expects to Be Eaten.
The Wng of Ulaiu apparently Ion
nouses a petiso of diplomatic humor.
He Is quoted an saying I linn no
idea thut benevolent uttslmllnl Ion
will lot Mm alone. "I know," ho
Baid, "that I Blmll be one day oaten
with English or French saucn. Th"
latter Is too tHHte-leHH. I prefer th'
English sauce, mlxe-d with tho famoun
lapunese nance."
A Royal Coal Stoker.
Th story Is current that tho I)uke
of Cannaught, whn e-omlng liomei
from Inella in the battleship Renown.
Jetermlne-d tej Inquire peTX-emally Into
Ihe conditions of naval stokers. In
spite of prote-Kts he elese-enebjd 1 XI
the) hoile-r room. Having been provld
eel with a proper kit und n shoved. he
proe-eeded to Moke; e-oul with (ell tho
enthusiasm at bis commune!. At tho
end ef half un Iiour his royal high
ness eonfesseel that lie had e-iieugh,
and he yielded up his hhove-I with tho
admission thut naval nteke-rs have no
easy time.
Why It Is the Best
in iKJcniifco miide by nil entirely dllTerent
ijrecKei. Dcllanee h lurch U unlike any
otLer, Uittt-r uud one third uiyra for lii
COlitJ.
An Interestinq Old Coin.
While George W. Rogers of Adam.
N. Y., wus doing Mime nprlng plow
ing last week lu turned up a gold
medal about the lze of a inoelern quar
ter. It be-ars the date; of IMll, mid on
onej side am Ihe words: "Sir Isaac
llrock, tho Hero of Upper Canada."
On the other, "Success to Comine-reei
and Pence to the Worhl." with a monu
ment represented In the e-eiite-r.
Oldest American Naval Veteran.
In the; naval homo In riiibcdc-lphi.t
William Mackafiee will e-elebratu Ills
100th bill inlay ne-xt Se-plembe-r. He
is the olde-st living ve-te-ian of the
American navy. Born in Baltimore
In ISO.'!, lie; jf)ineel the frigate; Cem
stltution as an apprentice in 1M7.
He serveel nearly cemt inuously In the?
navy until old age sent him to thu
naval home.
X do not believe PJso's Cum for ConnuapMou
oas an c&c0iil tor cougluc uml rolda. Juhn ff
tJoTEU. Trinity Springs. Intl.. Kcjb. 16. 1U0U
Tolstoi Helps the Jews.
Count Tolstoi's contribution of
$7,500 In aid ejf the perseeuteel Jews
of Kishineff is one of the; largest
made Jn Russia. Thejugh not a Jew,
and a harsh critic at times of tho
Jewish theology, Tedsteu has. not. hesi
tated to deneninee in unmoasureiel
terms the treatment ejf the raerej by
the Russian government and pe-ejple.
What He Was Celebrating.
President Jacob (Jejuld Kctiurman,
of Cornell p university, was born in
Novla Seejtia. Last Fourth ef July
his young son used up all his lin-
cracke-rs before; dusk and begged his
father for more niemey. "I'll give yeu
some more;, my son," said the pn
fessor, "If you will te ll nie; what you
are celebrating." "That's easy, clad,"
said tho lad, who was born fn New
York state. "This is the anniversary
of tho day when we; Iic;ke-d yeju fel
lows." An extra and nne-xpeeteelly
large supply ejf cash was forthcoming
on the spot.
An Historic Billiard Table.
There Is a billiard table in Iondon
at the present moment that can boast
of a lifetime ot two cenfuries and a
long acquaintance with men who have
made history. It bedemged originally
to Louis XIV., passed Info the posses
sion of Napoleon I., and now, in its old
age, has come into the; hands ejf
Messrs. Orme & Sons, anel Is em ex
hibition in Soho square. This cele
brated table Is smaller than an Eng
lish table. The body ef the table is
a block of oak, weighing 10,000 pejunls,
covered with a cloth ejf electric blue.
The frame of the table Is of rose
wood, and the six pockets perhaps
the most striking feature of the table;
are reproductions in bronze ejf queer,
hideous old gargovles. When the ball
falls Into the pocket the lower jaw
of the gargovle drops, and the ball is
found in the mouth. It is a clever bi'
of ancient mechanism.
They All Saved the Seeds.
A western politician is autherity for
the following story: Mark Hanna
once gave a banquet in Ohio to fifty
farmers. The dessert was to be twen
ty-five luscious fieorgia watermelons.
The day before the dinner Mr. Hanna
had the melons plugged anel pourrd
a pint cf champagne; into each mellon.
then placed them on ice. After the
dinner each farmer got half a melon.
i'hey began tasting them, winked at
each other, looned wise, and before the
affair was over every farmer was
slipping the seeds into his vest pocket.
Wet boots anel expected pleasures
are hard to put off.
THAT'S THE TIME
When Proper Food is Necessary.
Proper food is never more necessary
than when recovering from a wasting
sickness, when over-eating would be
fatal, and yet the body needs nourish
ment and plenty of it.
At this time the condensed food
Grape-Nuts is shown to be one's most
powerful Friend. Four teaspoonfuls of
Grape-Nuts and cream will sustain a
healthy man for half a day, and a less
quantity in warm wilk will build up
the convalescent wonderfully. No
stomach Is too weak to digest and rel
ish Grape-Nuts. "I was taken sick
with typhoid fever and everyone who
has had this disease knows how weak
and lifeless a person feels when be
ginning to recuperate. .
"I had to be very' careful about my
diet and could eat only very light
foods. These did not seem to nourish
me and instead of getting better every
day I was juet at a etandstlll and
everyone began to fear a relapse. One
day while lying In bed very -jauch dis
couraged my sister, who was reading
to me from the paper, read an article
about Grape Nuts and we decided to
end for a package.
"From the very first meal of Grape
Nuts I began to Improve, strength
came In bounds and leaps, with tho
result that I was soon out of bed; my
change for the better seemed simply
marvelous. My mind Is clear and
strong and my body sturdy. I am now
entirely recovered." Name given b
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mica,
There Is a reason.
A dessert that helps the bocy, that's
tb thing! Any number of them la
the little recipe book in each package
u Grape-Nuts.