Nebraska Newspapers

    FOLLY OF JINGOISM
REASONS ADVANCED FOR IM
MENSE NAVY LACK FORCE.
idea of a Combination of European
Powers Against the United States
is Preposterous Tendency Toward
Free Trads.
The ra.son fur the Fjoech of Presl
ient Roosevelt at San Francisco la
arhich he tuailo co strong a plea fur a
greatly enlarged navy and other prep-
rations for war, is now apparent. II in
friend. Senator I!e, delivered an
Address at Greenfield. Mas4.. In whicn
i spoke of dancers from without due
to our great Induatrial growth and
pow-r.
"We have." said he. "a higher en
Tgy of organization and prditctlon
than any other nation. For tliU r-a-n
we are driving les highly organ
ized and leas energetic p-opI s to the
all. Whether the opposition thus
aroused ran be tlll or whether it will
become 1sperate anI manifest Itself
in a political or militaiy manner no
mo can hay. It behoove ua, bowevcr,
to w.itfh carffully and be always on
jiir guard lrh in our conduit and our
re:idiesH."
President Roosevelt nr.il Senator
l oil','e an- vi.! ntly ngre-ed that strcn
tioiu nit a art' necessary to preserve
I hi. country from the united opposi
tion of Europe either imiitical.'y by
tariff: and other foriiM of protection
'ir by the more resolute method of
war. It may be that both these
doughty statesmen are merely intent
upon arousing a mania.' spit 1 1 in the
hearts of their countrymen, so that
they will allow themselves to be bled
more, freely for large? appropriations
for the navy, the army and the other
concomitants of expansion. Hut if
they are sincere In their advice and
really fear this country Is in such
great danger, it would seem that they
should take their fellow citizens mor.
Into their confidence and say how
soon the attack may be expected and
what country will take the lead in
crippling us. But are they not mis
taken? Can any country or a com
bination of them gain anything b
such a moe? Kngland. dependent as
he is upon the United States for al
most her daily bread, can have no
such intention. France has always
been our friend and. besides, is having
hard work to make both ends meet
without the far greater expense of
war. Germany is in the midst of a
social revolution, and the growing
lower of the people is such that her
vast armaments are more likely to be
decreased than to inaugurate a war
that would drain her resources to the
utmost. Russia could make no stand
against us on tiie sea. and without the
command of that element, who could
harm us?
These two strenuous statesmen,
Roosevelt and Lodge, should be moie
chary of their war talk and not excite
the American people unnecessarily.
The Republican party with Its ex
treme protective tariff to shut out all
importations and fostering the sale ot
exports to foreigners cheaper than to
our own people may force Europe to
combine against us. but all would lose
by such protest against international
trade. The tendency is toward free
trade and more of it. and those who
Invite an economic war. much more a
military one. for their own agrandize
ment will not be backed up by the
American people.
Joss Stick Diplomacy.
There's as much virtue in a joss
stick in mosquito time as in an if. In
regions pestered by that alert tor
mentor the wave of the burning joss
stick has become an amulet. Its flame
and odor are equally disagreeable to
the little nuisance and when the air
is sufficiently charged with the joss
stick the mosquito disappears.
From a protection to a pastime is
not a great distance. The joss stick
has become an amusement. Dexter
ously waved in the dark. It can be
made to write and the puzzle is to
read its letters of light on the air vi
brations. The words brilliantly but flimsily
formed are fascinating but elusive.
They are out almost as soon as they
are in. It requires a quick eye and
unusual power of perception and in
terpretation to catch the joss stick
phrases while they arrive, dazzle and
flit.
Chine and Russia have been playing
Joss stick diplomacy with Secretary
Hay and his friends. No other bead
of a state department has been lured
to "porch fireworks." All thj others
are too old to be caught in trickery
so transparent.
Secretary Hay does not lack years.
His vanity and credulity make him
an ea?y dupe of oriental ambidexter
ity. While he thinks the glittering
joss sticks in the porch of statesman
ship are keeping off international
pests of problems. Pekin and St. Pet
ersburg wave their solemn messages
to him with joss stick pens and he ac
cepts their ambassador's assurances
of the significance of their coruscating
phrases. Nobody but himself Is de
ceived, .but meanwhile the chancelle
ries have no end of fun.
Meanwhile also the gentleman at
Oyster Bay speaks softly and Russia
carries the big stick In Manchuria.
Divided Counsels.
The Republicans are having troubles
of their own these days and and on
questions that they should be most
united about, and the numerous pil
grimages to Oyster Bay of the leaders
of the different factions do not seem
to clear the way for united action.
First we are told that Senator Al
ii rich and his committee have agreed
upon a financial bill which Is generally
acceptable to Wall Street and is ap
proved by President Roosevelt. Then
we hear that Uncle Joe Cannon is
mulish and does not fall In with the
program. He is "agin rubber cur
rency' 'and does not think any finan
cial legislation necessary "we have
the best currency on earth." and so
on. Strange to relate. Rockefeller and
Morgan agree with each other that the
Aidrich bill will save the country and
incidentally of course. Wall Street.
Thcr are very Insistent that the loans
to the banks by the United States
treasury, without Interest, should be
made legal, and. If possible, perman
ent. They also demand that the re
ceipts from custom duties should bo
deposited In the banks, as the Internal
revenue taxes now are. This latter
part of the program ' Is said to St
especially objectionable to the prospec
tive speaker, and Congressman Fov. It
in an interview tays that Unci Jo
prefers the Fowler asi.ets currency b!!t
to the Aidrich bill. With Wall Strt
and Congress divided on tho scope an'
plan of financial legislation, and t'u
Republican leaders ivMed, there Ij
a chance that the Deiaoeitic Uilanrity
may have to decide the question of
legislation or no legislation.
In all the controversy about the pro
posed financial legislation it will be
noticed that no Republican comes for
ward with any proposition that would
be of comfort or assistance to the or
dinary voter. The people appear to
have no place at the Republican feast.
The Wrall Street financial magnates
are invited to Oyster Bay, the trust
and corjx-ratlon officers and attorneys
are called into conference, but not one
known friend of the common people is
invited, or. indeed allowed, to voice
their sentiments. Wall Street, tho
trusts and the railroads are omnipo
tent in th3 counsels of the Republican
party.
Big Anarchists.
We wish to call the attention of
Secretary Cortelyou and the Depart
ment of Commerce, whose business it
is to obtain and publish facts against
the trusts, to at least one great trust
that is doing business openly ami in
the most brazen manner and in defi
ance of the laws. The Iron A?t of
July 23, pa.'je 29, contains details of
"the steel billet pool." This trust is a
revival of the association which has,
at Intervals, been doing business for
many years. The members of this
new pool are the United States Steel
Corporation. Jones & laughlin Steel
company. Wheeling Steel & Iron com
pany. Cambria Steel company, Penn
sylvania Steel company, Lackawanna
Steel company, and Maryland Steel
company. Meetings are held at New
York every day. at which Inquiries
and sales are regularly reported. The
agreement refers exclusively to prices
w" leh have been established for the
principal points of consumption and
which are quoted in the Iron Age.
The trust, like Its prototypes, the
steel rail pool, the sheet steel associa
tion, and dozens of others with which
the United States Steel corporation is
mixed up, are clearly trusts, not only
under the Sherman anti-trust law, but
in the eyes of the common law. All
the new department has to do is to ob
tain, in legal manner, the facts as pub
lished in regard to all of these trusts
and the attorney general will have no
trouble In squelching them. Why are
these great lawbreakers not now at
the bar of justice? Or are the trusts
above the laws?
Popuiist Factions Unite.
The two factions of the people's i
party, each with a national organiza
tion, have decided to amalgamate, and
in order to strengthen their chances
for success issued an address to all re
form bodies to join in the work.
The address, which was adopted at
the joint conference in Denver, Colo.,
declares the unrest apparent through
out the country make it advisable that
all reform bodies work In harmony.
It stated that it is futile to expect
aid from the republican or democratic
parties, and affiliation with either Is
declared impossible. The address con
tinues: "Our fundamental principles are
known to all populists and are no
where better stated than in that im
mortal document enunciated at Omaha
on July 4. 1S9S. However, for the ben
efit of the uninformed, we declare our
uniclding adherence to the demands
for (a) a money, whether stamped on
gold, silver, or paper, to be coined
and issued exclusively by the govern
ment and made full legal tender for
all debts, both public and private; (b)
a system of transportation and the
transmission of intelligence owned by
the public and operated by the govern
ment at the cost of service; (c) land
for use rather than for speculation and
the abolition of alien ownership of
land; (d) American ships for Ameri
cau foreign commerce, without a cent
of subsidy."
Popular Election of Senators.
The great reason why the people
desire the popular election of sena
tors is that the United States senate
is no longer amenable to public senti
ment. The senators represent poli
tkians and noTitical machines rathe:
than the people. They are thus made
independent of the people and find
it perfectly safe to defy the public
will. There is another objection tc
the present method and that is that
the senatorial elections interfere with
the legitimate work of the legislatures,
consuming time which should belong
to law-making. It al?o has a bad
tect upon the personnel of legislatures.
Men are elected to the general assem
bly frequently with regard only tc
their vote for senator and with no re
gard for their fitness as lawmakers.
Roosevelt Not a Paragon.
Speaking of the charge that Miller
tb- bookbinder of the government
pruning office, had spoken disre
spectfully of the President, a con
temporary declares that, even if true,
the matter would cut no figure with
Mr. Roosevelt, "who Is the last man in
th world to discharge a man on
grounds personal to himself." The es
teemed contemporary evidently has
forgotten the case of the woman de
partment clerk in whose case the
civil service regulations were suspend
ed in order to dismiss her for lese
majtste. Chamberlain's "Iowa Idea."
News from merry England show
that Mr. Chamberlain is utilizing .the
"Iowa Idea" that is. he is hedging
on his protective tariff proposals pend
ing the parliamentary elections, after
which he will come back to the ortho
dox protection doctrine that the tariff
is sacred and not to be touched save
to increase it when it is too low.
Vacillating Cummins.
The Honorable Cummins, it seems,
has views respecting the currency as
well as on the tariff. As his views
are subject to revision "for the good
of the party" at any moment, however,
they will not be likely to exercise any
profound Influence upoa leglalaC3K.
THEIK EYES OPENING
WORKERS BEGIN TO UNDER.
STAND THE TARIFF ROBBERY.
Laborers in the Textile Mills of Phila
delphia Show Their Sentiments
Plainly "Prosperity" Only for the
Rich.
The prolonged strike of the textile
Workers at Philadelphia has had
iood effect that will aid the whole
country in throwing off the Incubus
A the protective tariff. Special dis
patches from the Quaker City report
lhat during the last few weeks the
trend of political feeling has been
changing rapidly, p.nd in every street
parade made by the strikers banners
were carried bearing sarcastic an
nouncements and questions such as:
'We are protected by a tariff but the
Republican mill owners say we will
oe starved into submission." "Why
ire the tariff protected mills closed?"
ind many others of a like nature. One
motto was especially significant: "If
prosperity is so general, why can't we
nave a bit of it?"
The workers are at last discovering
hat the protective tariff means high
prices for what they have to buy and
;axiug the many lor the profits of the
'ew. They now discover what it has
Deen difficult to make them believe,
hat the trusts and combines are un
willing to increase wages to a par
illi the increased cost of living or
ndeed anywhere near it.
Only two excuses have been made
for protection: first, to control the
lome market tor 'American manufac
.urers. and second, to protect Amer
can labor. The first excuse has been
oretty fully accomplished at the ex
Dense of the consumer. The tariff
las prevented competition and has al
owed the trusts to raise prices, until
:he average cost of living has in
creased 40 per cent. The second ex
ruse has been an arrant failure or
:he working-man would not be strik
ing for a fair share of the properity
Jiat the trusts enjoy. The wages re
ceived by these workers are certainly
ess than will keep them in comfort
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STANDING PAT.
Brroklyn Eagle.
at the present high price of living.
The hours of labor of the Philadel
phia textile workers have been too
long, when it is considered that a
majority of the workers are women.
?irls and children, and ten hours a
lay or sixty hours a week, in badly
ventilated work shops, is more than
:heir tender years should be asked to
?ndure. The wages paid range from
fl3 a week for the expert weavers to
$3 a week for the children. Do the
hours or the wages protect these
workers as the protectionists would
iave us believe? The manufacturers
have advanced the price of the prod
ucts of the mills and carpets and the
ither textiles the workers produce
lave increased fully 25 per cent and
:hose who buy them have to pay that
increase. So in Philadelphia we have
in acute exposure of the workings of
the protective tariff the workers dis
satisfied with their condition, instead
jf the good wages and comfort that
che champions of the protective sys
:em would have us believe always ac
companies it.
The manufacturers, who are mostly
rombined into trusts, are the sole ben
eficiaries of this extraordinary sys
tem, have become rich and are grow
ing still richer. They sell to the
American people at exorbitant prices
and export similar goods and sell
:hem in Europe and elsewhere at
such less price. And yet the Repub
ican leaders say "stand pat," "let
well enough alone," "The friends of
protection only must reform the tar
ff" and when some inquisitive or im
patient voter asks when the reforma
tion will begin, the answer always is
after election, and like the Spanish
"Manana." to-morrow will never come,
rhe tariff will never be re'ormed.
intil the people elect a ma.'frity of
jongress that are free from the trust
aint and whom the corporations are
jpposed to. It is not human nature
o expect those who are receiving
rust and corporation favors to legis
ate against them.
"Graft" vs. Civil Service Reform.
When President Roosevelt appointed
Ret" Clarkson serveyor of the port
f New York there was a general gasp
f astonishment by civil service re
'ormers and a good deal of surprise
vas manifested by the less truly good
wliticians. That Clarkson paid but
itt'e attention to the duties of his of
ice. but was making secret trips to
he Southern states, with a strong
nclination to confine the society
le sought to "black-and-tans" and
lily-whites," who were known to
ie important factors in selecting dele
;ates to national republican conven
lons, occasioned no amazement
imongst politicians. They regarded
tim as the personal representative of
he President and what may be called
i eecret service mission for him.
Jl ark son regards public office as a
rlvate snap and although President
toosevelt Is supposed to have other
nd opposite views on the duties of
tubllc officers, he does not evidently
Usapprove of the Clarkson "graft" of
1 rawing a good salary without inch.
if any, return to the people who are
taxed to pay it. . Clarkson is an old
political pal of Postmaster-General
Payne, they having been mixed up in
some similar deals securing dele
gates, on former occasions, so nobody
will be particularly surprised at the
information that "Ret" Clarkson Is the
official who has furnished the revenue
cutt.e- for Postmaster-General Payne
anrhis family to take their summer
outing on. That revenue cutters were
not intended for private use does not
seem to have troubled the elastic polit
ical consciences of either Clarkson or
Payne. It Is through this loose Idea
of the private snap that high officials
regard as their political perquisites
that the grafting and looting in the
postofflce and other departments have
grown to such serious scandals.
STRANDED IN KANSAS.
Exoerience of Students Who Went
West to Harvest Wheat at Big
Wages.
One of the great evils of to-day is
the quiet and secret, but powerful in
fluence ot great corporations. Speak
ing broadly, they control our politics,
our press, and our pulpits. On mat
ters affectir.g politics or legislation, we
can believe out little that we hear or
read. The press and especially the
great metropolitan journals, are well
under control and act almost as a unit
in doing the bidding of the trusts
railroad and industrial. They are es
pecially interested in fooling the peo
ple as to the prosperity they are en
joying. Hence they give us only the
bright side and are inclined to paint
this in too glowing colors. They quote
each other and repeat the most absurd
prosperity canards, but usually forget
to publish corrections when made.
In order to sustain or advance prices
of stocks in Wall street, the big east
ern papers nearly every June teem
with news about the great harvests
and prosperity out west and the in
ability of farmers to get sufficient
hands, even at high wages, to harvest
their grain. This year, probably be
cause there was more doubt than usual
in the minds of investors, unusual
space has been given to these stories.
Kansas farmers, we were told, were
sure to blockade the railroads with
their great crop of wheat if only they
could secure enough hands to harvest
it. They were offering wages of from
$2.50 to $6.00 per day and board, etc.,
etc.
A number of young, poor, and, as it
appears, unsophisticated students in
eastern colleges believed these stories
and .decided that here was their chance
to earn enough money to pay their col
lege expenses for a year, especially as
the railroads were generously .offering
reduced rates to men going west as
harvest hands.
A special dispatch to the New York
World of July 24, from a Mr. Nuttall,
who went west with these college men
and wio, "burned and blistered by the
sun and penniless and disheartened,"
had begged and worked his way back
to St. Louis, said that several score
of college men and artisans were
stranded in the prairie towns of west
ern Kansas and were in dire straits.
He said the railroads had charged
them $29 or $30 for transportation
from New York besides their other ex
penses and that when they reached
Ness City, where the New York em
ployment bureau had sent them, they
did not find the farmers on hand offer
ing fabulous wages for harvest hands.
In fact, there was no demand any
where in that vicinity for harvest
hands.
Finally a farmer appeared who want
ed five times. Nuttall was one of those
chosen. They worked for three days
in the blazing, burning sun. eating the
coarsest food and sleeping in the barn
and working fourteen hours daily. At
the end of three days they were given
$3 each and told they were not needed
any longer. When they stated that
they were given to nnderstand they I
would be paid $2.50 per day apiece. 1
the farmer slyly reminded them that
he had fed and lodged them and that
he had deducted $1.50 per day per man
for this.
Nuttall with his $3 got on the first
train going east. He had to give the
$3 up to various brakemen before he
got to Kansas City. There he sold
his watch for $2.50, on which he man
aged to get to St Louis. A purse was
raised for him here, and he started
for New York to-night.
Thus have these college students
learned their "prosperity" lesson In
the dearest, but best, of all schools
that of experience. ' Tens of thousands
of investors, scattered all over the
country, have been attending the same
school and have been fooled by the
same kind of information published in
the great newspapers, which are often
"come ons" for Wall street. And yet
some people express surprise at the lit
tle Influence which metropolitan news
papers appear to have with voters.
Moral: Between false news reports
and the juggled statistics of our agri
cultural department, we do not know
"where we are at" or what the future
will bring forth. In the meantime It
will probably be best for each of us
to let the western farmers and the
Wall street sharks shift for themselves
and harvest their crops without assistance.
fT
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FORWARD MARCH GUIDE RIGHT!
In the campaigns of 1896 and 1900
the democratic party made an honest
fight for honest principles and polled
more votes than the party ever polled
before.
"What if it has suffered defeat? Co
ercion and corruption, coupled with
the desertion of gold democrats, were
responsible for the defeat of 1896, while
the defeat of 1900 was due to war en
thusiasm and improved industrial con
ditions. The party has suffered de
feat before, but it has not faltered In
its purpose or abandoned its principles.
Did it not suffer defeat in 1864 and
again in lsos? Did it not surrer de
feat in 1872 and also in 18S0? Did it
not make its tariff reform plank more
emphatic rather than less so in 1892.
after being defeated on that issue in
1888?
It stands for positive, aggressive de
mocracy and ltn principles as formu
lated in its last national creed the
Kansas City platform are sound and
clearly defined. That platform de
clared imperialism t obe a paramount
issue, and the republican party has
done nothing to settle that issue or
remove it fiom the arena of politics.
That platform declared private mo
nopolies to be indefensible and intol
erable, and the republican party has
done nothing to settle that issue or to
lessen its importance. Neither has
anything been done to settle the
money question. No one would dare
commit the democratic party to the
gold standard, and if bimetallism is
desirable there is no better statement
of it than that found in the platform.
Besides the plank on free silver, the
platform covers other phases of the
money question and commite the party
to a financial system made by the peo- j
pie for themselves. The fight coming
on in congress over the currency legis
lation proposed by the banks in their
own interests cannot neip giving
Drominence to this question, and the
Darty could not avoid the issue if it
would.
On the questions affecting labor, too
the platform is explicit and the party's
position well stated. Neither does the
tariff plank of the Kansas City plat
form need revision in fact there is
nothing in that platform that requires
aDologv or explanation. As no issue
in that platform has been settled and
as no new ana ovcrsnaaowing issue
has arisen since 1900, nothing remains
but to continue the fight along lines
already laid down until the people
realize the dangerous tendency of re
publican policies and turn to our
party for relief.
In spite of the obvious necessity of
maintaining the party's integrity the
reorganizers are actively engaged in
an effort to emasculate the platform.
They want to keep up a sham battle on
the tariff while they secretly advance
the interests of financiers and protect
the trusts frcm any effective legiEla-
tion. The duty of those democrats
who believe in the Kansas City plat
form is clear. They must march for
ward and meet the enemy a3 they
have in- the campaigns ot the past.
They must fight for the reaffirmation
of the Kansas City platform and for
the application of the same principles
to new questions as they arise. There
must be no surrender and there can be
no compromise of principle that is not
equivalent to a surrender. If the re
organizers refer to the defeats of 1896
and 1900, -remind them of the defeat of
1894 and tell them that the party
would have been annihilated had the
n.velBTiit leaders-hio continued. If
they doubt our ability to win a victory
in 1904 on an honest platform like that
adopted In 1900. tell them that it offers
tetter promise of success than any
dishonest platform, and that if defeat
In view of the probable trouble Mr.
Hanna will meet in his senatorial cam
paign, it is not now difficult to under
stand why he took eo much interest
in securing the acquittal of Lstes u,
Rathbone. It will be remembered that
Mr. Rathbone handled the telephone
with the skill of an expert during a
former senatorial campaign.
Somehow or other the tariff" on
wheat did not succeed in making the
grain thresh out according to pros
pects. The attent!on of the "stand
patters" is called to this remarkable
fact.
The Houston Post devotes a column
of editorial space to "The Republican
Financial Program." The program Is
to issue a lot of asset currency and
then respond to the clacque's encores.
, Mr. Machen made the mistake of not
acquiring a case of sickness and going
abroad until the statute of limitations
operated in his favor.
That "liquidation" on Wall street
reminds the public very forcibly of
what the republican organs used to
a "democratic panic.
THE LAST ONE ?
does come it will not only be less
sweeping than a defeat on different
lines, but that there would be no dis
honor with it. Honor and expediency
unite In demanding fidelity to the last
national platform and to the Interests
of the people on all questions.
ANOTHER WALL STREET
DE-
MAND.
Wall street has been demanding an
elastic currency for some time, but
now comes the demand from the Wall
Street Journal for an elastic anti-trust
law. It says that the decision of the
court in the merger case "c alls loudly
lor remedial legislation." It says:
"The law must be made, if poss-ible,
more elastic so as to permit of such
combinations as are beneficial even
though technically in restraint of
trade." Elasticity seems to be jujpiilar
in Wall street elasticity of conscience,
elasticity of law, elasticity of currency.
and elasticity even of the Declaration
cf Independence. It would seem that
v.c need le.su elasticity instead of more
WHY NOT SENATOR COCKRELL?
Why not Francis Marion Cockrell of
Missouri for president? His Christian
character, his long experience, his
great ability, and his unquestioned in
tegrity make him worthy to be con
sidered among those eligible to a dem
ocratic nomination. As one who has
been in harmony with his party on
every question he would be acceptable
to the Kansas City platform demo
crats, and yet what reorgani.er could
find a personal objection to him? His
long service would disarm criticism
and his popularity would spread as he
became better known.
He is b9 yearst of age. but young
enough for service yet. His service in
the confederate army would not weak
en nim. nrst, because the war is over,
and, second, because his record has
been such as to commend him to those
who wore the blue as well as to those
who wore the gray.
The Commoner has already men
tioned several available men and has
others in reserve, but it takes pleas
ure in proposing Senator Cockrell.
THE GORMAN INTERVIEW.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, a cham
pion of Senator Gorman, say of its
candidate that he evaded the question
as to his willingness to accept a presi
dential nomination, but declared that
there are three issues before the coun
try "tariff reform, economy in public
affairs, and honesty in office."
As the republicans will insist that
they, too, favor economy and honesty,
that would leave tariff reform as the
only issue, and as Senator Gorman
was chief among the group of senators
that emasculated the Wilson bill and
brought ridicule upon the party in
1894. his candidacy would eliminate
the tariff i&sue. But there is another
issue that should not be overlooked
by the reorganizers. namely, that the
democrats should hold offices. This
issue presents something definite and
tangible. A platform demanding the
offices and omiting all references to
other questions ought to be sufficiently
general to please the men who have
been in the habit of bolting, and, ac-
cording to their logic, it Is not neces
sary to consider at all the men who
have been loyal to the party.
The Gorman interview is an excel
lent illustration of the aimless .wan
dering of the corporation element of
the party. No policy on the question
of imperialism; no policy on the trust
question; no policy on the money
question; no .fight against an asset
currency or other schemes " of the
financiers, and no contest worthy of
mention on the tariff question. It is
impossible to believe that any large
The president has ordered Postmas
ter General Payne to bring the post
offlce investigation to a speedy close.
Now if the people will only under
stand it rightly, while Payne obeys
orders In a political sense, the cam
paign may go on.
There Is something radically wrong
about the democracy of a democrat
who is always in favor of following
republican advice.
Those undigested securities might be
disposed of by equipping them with
bathing suits and life preservers.
Governor Pennypacker says he never
reads the newspapers, thereby con
fessing that be is missing some of the
most humorous of references to him
self.
It is to be presumed that one W. S.
Taylor of Indiana from Kentucky is
applauding Governor Durbln's deter
minatlon to uphold the law.
It is cheerfullv admitted that Grovwr
Cleveland Is the unanimous choice Sl
the republican organs for the demo
cratic nomination for president.
Used by court ep j' of The Commoner
number of democrats can Indorse so
lifeless and inanimate a ollcy. The
Kansas City platform democrats are
the only democrats who are making
an aggressive tight for cb'tiio' iatl;
principles and policies.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
In Its iKMiie of Friday, July 31, the
Wall Street Journal said:
"As it was In the beginning of the
year, is now, and Is likely to contiiiu
to be during all of 1903, the money
question is the one of moKt vital Im
portance. There is nothing In the
business situation as it pnsentH itself
at this lime to prevent a continuance
of our national proN.icrlty, except the
congestion of th money market, dut
to its Inability to expand as rapidly u.i
the trade und industries of the coun
try." The Journal addresses the bankets
when it reminds tlicni that ' the? money
question Is the one of ineht vital Importance-."
When other repre sent at Ives of Wall
Street aelelre-KK the people, tb' people
are assured that the money ejue-htiou is
a dead issue.
From the Ktandoint of Ihenn men
the people should not tamper with tb
money question. They should ikj! dis
cuss it. They should not ln.si.s4. upon
having a part in the arrangemerit. of
our monetary system.
With the bankers It is different.
They are to be reminded that "the
money question is the one of most
vital importance," and they are to b;
counseled to urge senators and repre
sentatives in congress to see t hat thl
question is disposed of entirely In line
with the vital interests jf the- finan
ciers. Uut when the Wall Street Journal
admits that "the money question Is the
one of most vital importance." with
what reason dejes it aswime tei draw
the line where the discussion of this
question may terminate?
Does it object, to the bimetallists
urging their method of providing the
country with what, they beli'ive to be.
a sound monetary system? (ir (;h
it insist that all discussion with re
spect to this question ef "mejst vital
importance" be limited to a considera
tion of the currency system proposed
by the financiers and that participation
in that discussion be confined to the
financiers themselves?
The Wall Street Journal has made
a most interesting confession. What
ever men may say about the "elead
and buried past," whatever men may
say about "worn-out issues." the in
disputable fact remains that in the
discussion of our flnan. lal syste m the
"money quest.lejn" cannet be separate-d
from the money question.
The navy department has decided to
discourage the enlistment ef negroes,
and to begin a gradual elimination of
the colored man from the navy. Hail
this policy been adopted by the army
six or eight years ago there would
have been some ragged holes In a cer
tain San Juan reputation.
The National Civil Service league
seems to be laboring under the delu
sion that the president Bhotild still be
lieve in strict enforcement of the civil
service laws. Rut this may be due to
the fact that none of its members has
had to worry about re-election to a
high office.
A college edueratlon is within the
reach of every young man and young
woman who possessed the desire to
achieve and the will to do. The Com
moner hao a proposition to make to
those who desire to secure a college
education and invites correspondence
with them.
Mr. Morgan Is going to give Uncle
Sam some paintings, and of course
Uncle Sam is expected to continue
certain lines of gifts he has been send
ing Morganward for several years.
The exposure of a vast amount of
corruption in democratic Missouri Is
resulting In the sending of a lot of
republicans to the penitentiary.
Perhaps that New York congressman
went Into the glove contract bwause
he wanted his speculation handled
that way by future Investigating com
mittees. Mr. James J. Hill has not expressed
his choice for president, but since the
handing down of a certain decision In
the merger case It would be safe to
guess.
The employes who took prfferred
stock in the steel trust at 82.50 are be
ginning to understand the disinter
ested efforts of the trust magnates to
interest them in the enterprise.
A "democratic" platform that meets
with the approbation of the financial
kings Is not a democratic platform.