HOW TO KAISK WAUKS
BY VOTIN3 RIGHT THEY CAN BE
INCREASED ',0 PER CENT.
Sirlke Off the Tariff and the Average
Family Will Have 9100 a Year More
to 8pnd Figures That Prove This
Assertion.
The workingmen of the United
States can raise their was 10 per
cn without a strike. They can do
thin by voting for nien who will abol
ish the accursed system of tariff "pro
tection" which adds 10 per cent to the
cost f living without in any way
bene fit. in,; labor. A Having of 10 per
cent in expensed is equivalent to an
odvance of 10 pr cent In wages. It
Is. In fact, an Increase in wages, for
actual wages are not money, but the
goods which money will buy.
Workingmen sell labor and buy
poods. It is to their interest to have
labor dear atxl goods cheap. How
can a tariff on goods protect Ialor?
A tariff on goods, by barring out for-
Ign goods, makes it easy for our
manufacturers to form trusts and put
up prices. This they have done. Prices
of goods are now 35 per cent higher
than in 1S07, when the Dlngley bill,
which greatly increased tariff duties
on goods, became law. Trusts ami
monopolies now control the prices of
nearly everything.
But the Dinley bill did not put a
fluty on labor to keep out foreigners
and protect workingmen. It left labor
tin the free list and 3.0(H) immigrants a
day. or nearly l,000,0oo a year, are
landing in thia country to compete
with American workingmen and keep
wages down. Many strikes are lost,
or partly lost, because of this steady
inflow of foreigners, all looking for
work.
Take the case of the beot and shoe
workers of Massachusetts and see
what th'-y pay for tariff "protection"
'and how little they get for their
money less than nothing.
The 1D2 report of the Bureau of
I.abor of Massachusetts tells us that
the average number of persons em
ployed in tho lx)ot and shoe industry.
In l'J3 was jt.22l, and that the total
wages paid was $:5o.o95.S5i. This
makes the average wages $191.43 each
per year. The average workingman's
family contains about 4 1-2 persons, at
least two of v;hom work for wages.
The yearly wages of the average fam
ily, then, is about $DS3.
The report of this same bureau, in
1001. on "Prices and the Cost of Liv
ing." estimates that families with
incomes from $730 to $1.2u a year
lend certain percentages for certain
items of expenditure. Baed upon
tli.se percentages, but making allow
ances for expenditures for liquors and
tobacco of $.",i per family, which nn
pears to have been omitted from tho
bureau's estimates, we get the follow
ing: Tariff taxes paid by the average
family of workers in the boot and
Mhos industry:
.Tariff tax paid to
Yearly
E peci.lt tit res 3 . J
tor I H I
ti H f-
It.,nt SIiJS.42 S .SO K.0O $ 10.)
Furniture ami
hotiM.'hoM fur-
nihinat 25. M .5rt 4.V 4.E0
Kul an. I Unfit.. ai'.W .S 2-' 2J
;r.M-ri.-9 IM-J.TU 4 w 2-J.t
Aleuts, tlsli and
tc 1.V..T7 -2T 5 5.2
jiillt Zt.M . .- -u5
i'l.tihing 13l.l 5.00 20.00 30.00
IVrsomtl r:i-
lne 3.a . 5 5.30
K.Iiieation 3.73 .10 .5") .tit)
swprs anI
trt..li.-ul .... 10.12 .15 1.00 1.15
JIel!tm and
ch.irity 15.04 .15 1.00 Lla
Sn-I.'tle and union-
11.30 .1i .75 .sr,
Insurance lI.oO .05 .25 .30
Amusements and
travel for rec
reation 12. 4S .10 1.00 1.10
Travel to an.l
from work U .05 .25 .30
Sicknens and
funeral cx-
por.s-a 27.1.1 .50 3.00 S.50
Other expenses. JT.tJ .T 4.00 4.40
I.ituor. malt.
oistillej. etc... 34.00 .f 3.00 3.50
Tobacco lt.00 .65 4.W 4.65
$mOO $13.75 J?5.25 nm.oo
In partial explanation of the table
It may be said that the tariff, by in
creasing the prices of nearly all ar
ticles, increases the cost of buildings,
cars, railroads, boats, etc. It thus in
creases the cost of doing business and
of transporting goods. In these ways
the tariff enters into the price of near
ly all goods, including many on the
free list. Even when you buy flour,
meal, meat or milk you pay your
share of the tariff cost of steel rails,
of structural material in bridges and
buildings and of the paint, glass, tin
plate, etc.. used in cars, depots, steam
ers, warehouses, stores, etc. About
10 per cent of your rent goes for the
extra tariff cost of building your home
and of keeping It in repair. The
trusts, which charge two or three
prices for glass, tin plate, lead, pipes,
nails, screws, etc.. all present their
bills to you through your landlord.
You do not see these trusts or realize
how much tariff there Is in your bill,
but they get your money Just the
same. The great steel trust collects
tariff taxes averaging f per family.
Because yon do not buy steel rails or
other steel goods you may Imagine
that you do not pay your share of the
tariff profits ($73.noo.oo.) of this
greatest of all trusts. You are mis
taken. The tariff trusts go over this
protected country with a fine comb.
They miss nothing worth mentioning.
To show how carefully the tariff
cost of each item has been estimated
In the above table we will go over the
expenditures for a few articles.
The per capita consumption of
sugar. In 1302, was 72.8 pounds, or
about 326 pounds per family. The
average retail price In New England
was not less than 5 1-2 cents per
pound, or $13 per family. The gov
ernment collected a tariff tax of $53.
033.511. or $3 per family. But It col
lected on only 3,031.915,875 pounds,
while we paid It on the full 5.750,
C'OO.OOO pounds consumed. While the
duty on refined sugar Is only 1.95
cents per pound, nominally, yet. be
cause of the countervailing duty levied
to offset the export bounty paid by
Germany and other countries, the ac
tual duty Is about 2.25 per cent. In
cluding the profits on the tariff tax,
it Is certain that we pay nearly 3
cents per pound more for sugar than
we would pay If there were no tariff
on It. In fact, before England put m
duty on sugar, two years ago, it waa
felling there for about 2 cents, end
was so cheap that it waa fed to stock
to fatten It. At 2 12 cents per pound
tho tariff on sugar taxes each family
over $8 a year, only $3 of which
reaches our national treasury. j
Sugar Is only one of hundreds of
article:! coming under the "groceries"
Item. In a similar way the tariff cost
of woolen clothing Is estimated at $1C
per family and the tariff cost of other
clothing at $20 per family. The allow
ance for tariff cost of liquors does not
Include the Increased cost because of
the Internal revenue taxes. This
amounts to $20 or $30 more per fam- !
Hy. I
Thus, at a fair estimate, the tariff
on goods adds $109 to the cost of
living of the average family of the
boot and shoe workers. Only $13.75
of this tax reaches the government
which Is less than the average ($14.26)
per family collected last 3'ear. It thus
appears that the average family
spends $888 for goods and for legiti
mate taxes and gives $95.25 each
year to the tariff trusts. These trusts,
then, increase the cost of living more
than 10 per cent. As the wages anu
expenditures of the average family ol
the boot and shoe workers are about
13 per cent greater than those of the
average workingman's family In the
manufacturing industries of this coun
try, we may conclude that the average
tariff cost per family Is about $90, and
that the abolition of tariff duties
would save this much per family and
reduce the cost of living at least 1C
per cent.
.Why do the voters vote to tas
themselves so heavily to fatten tht
trusts? Why not vote to keep the $9
which you now give to the trusts and
have so much extra to spend on youi
family? Try it!
BYRON W. HOLT.
an
Payne Trying to Stop the Leaks.
THE SUGAR TRUSTS.
They Join Hands to Rob the Farmer
and the Consumer.
The Sugar trust, officially known as
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany, has bought the controlling inter
est in the Oxnard Beet Sugar combine,
so that in future there will be no more
competition between these two high
waymen as to who shall hold up the
consumer, and we may expect the
price of refined sugar to gradually, ii
not rapidly, rise. On the other hand
it Is probable that the price paid tc
the farmers for beets will be reduced
for the sugar trust will have no incen
tive to increase the output of beel
sugar and will probably decide to de
crease It. The profit on refining cane
sugar being greater than on manufac
turing beet sugar, in consequence cn
the discriminating duty of nearly one
cent a pound on refined sugar, tc
which must be added the countervail
ing duty, which is imposed to offset
the export bounty paid by foreigi
nations, making the actual duty or.
refined sugar about 2.23 cents a pound
If the reciprocity treaty with Cuba is
ratified this winter, the sugar trust
will have a further advantage of a
25 per cent reduction on all sugar Im
ported from Cuba, and as sugar can be
grown much cheaper there than it car
be manufactured from beets, the out
look for the farmers who grow beets
is not reassuring. It is stated that
the sugar trust magnates have invest
ed in a large acreage of the finest
Cuban sugar lands, and when the reci
procity treaty is an accomplished fact,
these lands will be utilized to produce
sugar.
The only hope for the farmers whe
grow beets, and also for the genera
public the consumers of sugar, is
that the discriminating and counter
railing duty shall be abolished and
the sugar trust would then have tc
reduce the price of refined sugar tc
prevent the competition of the foreigi
article. As beet sugar is refined when
it Is manufactured from the beets
without going through a separate re
fining operation, as the cane sugai
does.it is probable that the trust would
find it more profitable to manufacture
beet sugar than to buy and refine the
cane raw sugar when the preferential
duty is abolished.
The Democratic position is that a
reasonable duty on sugar is necessary
to raise revenue, but the preferential
duty which allows the trust to In
crease the price to the public and
pocket the difference is robbery.
A Costly Postime.
The recent sham battles on the New
England coast and the visit of the
fleet to Oyster Bay cost the United
States navy more than the war with
Spain. The figures may be open to
challenge, but they are not far wrong.
What the American does not take into
account is the immense satisfaction
which the commander in chief felt in
displaying the navy to his sons and
the neighbors about his summer home,
together with the pleasure afforded
the summer folk in Maine and the
deserved relaxation allowed the
officers of the ships, worn by over
work in their country's service.
"Regularity" Carried too Far.
Secretary Hitchcock manifests some
disposition to minimize the frauds in
the laud office because they were not
brought to his attention through the
regular channels. It may be remem
bered that Mr. Payne assumed the
same attitude when the postal rotten
ness was disclosed. The extreme so
licitude of federal officers for the
preservation of strict "regularity" may
be commendable, but why is it dis
played only upon occasions when
scoundrelism la threatened .with ex
posure? Men love women in proportion to'
the attention they receive.
t - r ,
KNOX NOT THE HEAD
LAW BUSINESS TAKEN FROM HI3
DEPARTMENT.
Evidently the Attorney-General Has
Lost the Confidence of President
Roosevelt Friend of the Trusts
May Resign.
Has anyone heard of Philander
Chase Knox lately.
The question is pertinent because,
while all Mr. Knox's ministerial col
leagues are more or less deirably in
the public eye these days, the dis
tinguished heard of the department of
justice has slipped out of sight alto
gether. The last heard of the attorney
general was when he sternly forbade
the district attorney for Porto Rico
to prosecute certain military and
naval officers for smuggling.
In point of fact. Philander Chase
Knox does not seem to enjoy the con
fidence of hi3 chief. Otherwise how
can we account for the fact that all
the really important work of the de
partment of justice is taken from its
regular officers and intrusted to spe
cial counsel.
The beef trust prosecutions were
handed over to William It. Day. The
Northern Securities litigation was
placed In charge of D. T. Watson of
Pittsburg. Now it is announced that
the prosecution of the postoffice de
partment thieves will be conducted by
Charles Jr Bonaparte of Baltimore.
Not one of the gentlemen named has
any connection with the department
of justice. They are lawyers in pri
vate practice. Yet they are assigned
to conduct the most important litiga
tion. The chief of the department of
justice is ignored. . He is so little
heard of that it is sometimes difficult
even to recall his name.
Under these circumstances we may
be prepared at any time to learn of
Mr. Knox's resignation. Never in
sympathy with the violent anti-trust
views professed by the President, he
can hardly be blamed if he seizes the
first opportunity to sever his relations
with an administration which evident
ly withholds its confidence and trust
from him.
FREIGHT RATE INCREASED.
The Farmers Foot the Bill Through
the Tariff Tax.
Eastbound freight rates on flour and
grain will be advanced two cents Oct.
1. so the railroad combine has decided.
This advance will, of course, be paid
by the producers and is to offset the
10 per cent average advance in wages
which the employes of the railroads
have wrung from the unwilling rail
road magnates. The farmers will foot
the bill on the flour and grain that is
exported because the market price is
fixed in competition with the flour and
'grain from all other countries. The
price of flour and grain in the Eastern
states Is also fixed by the surplus ex
ported, so that here. too. the farmer
will pay the increased freight. How
much higher the railroad combine
'will make freight rates depends on
how much kicking there is on the ad
vance noted, but when navigation
closes on the water route, it. is toler
ably certain that freight on these arti
cles of prime necessity will be ad
vanced to "all the traffic will bear."
Producers, other than farmers, are
protected from this competition from
other countries by the tariff, but as
comparatively no flour or grain is
imported into this country, there can
be no protection that will add to the
price above that of the markets of the
Svorld. What a paradox it is, then,
'that the tariff bill contains a rate of
25 cents a bushel on wheat, fifteen
cents a bushel on corn, the same on
oats and ten cents a bushel on rye,
placed there to fool the agriculturalist
iinto believing that he is protected like
other producers.
An equal paradox is the duty on
wheat flour of 25 per cent ad valorem,
for if the manufacturers of flour were
"protected like the manufacturers of
other articles, they could add the 25
."per cent protection to the price they
charge, or nearly that, and yet no
'foreign flour could come in and corn
beta with them. The price of flour,
that is exported, is fixed by the law
f supply and demand in the markets
bf the world where the surplus from
all countries which produce more than
jhey can themselves consume, is sold
iin competition, so that neither the
'farmers or the millers are protected
by the duty on flour.
There are only two classes of agri
culturalists that are protected by the
tariff, the sugar planter and the rice
:grower, and these are confined to a
small strip of land on the Gulf of Mexi
co, and are few and insignificant in
number as compared to the vast num
ber of other agriculturalists.
While not receiving any benefit
from the tariff, the farmers, as well as
everyone else, are required to pay the
tariff tax on sugar and rice for the
benefit, of the few growers " these
products in the United Stat1- md a
bonus, besides, to the sugv trust,
which is especially protect - y the
tariff. The farmers, although, -ot be
ing protected by the tariff, r - i like
the balance of us obliged to ; ay not
only the tariff tax on nearly every
thing they eat, drink or wear. ' "t also
the more onerous tax that the- trusts
impose on their products, wtich in
cludes about everything.
And yet nearly one-half the f rmers
vote the Republican . ticket and thus
perpetuate the tariff tax from which
they get no benefit.
LABOR DISPUTES.
Capital and Labor Do Not Agree Upon
Increased Cost of Living.
The Employers' Association of Chi
cago pretend to have gone to a rrreat
expense to try and discover wha. the
increase of the cost of living has been
c-uring the last five years. They em
ployed a corps of experts to unravel
the knotty question, who have re
ported that the increase has be a 15
per cent during the time mentioned.
Another corps of experts employed by
Dun's Mercantile Agency hav 2 for
years been figuring on the same propo
tion. and every month publish the
result of their investigations. Over
p. year ago Dun's announced that the
coat of living had Increaaafl il r
cent from the lowest point In 1S37
and as their figures are accepted th
world over, as reliable, tho absurdity
of the ret.uk s of the Employers' Asso
elation experts is apparent. Dun's fig
ures are based upon the averag
prices at certain dates of 350 article
of consumption, with due t allowance
for the relative Importance' of each
Since the highest point was reached
In 1902, there has since then been a
decline of nearly 6 per cent, and
from August 1, 1902. to August . 1
1903. there was a reduction of 2.2 pet
cent, which will probably be again
raised when the figures are published
for August of this year, in conso
quence of the large advance in the
prices of cereals. Anyway, the In
crease from 1897 to the present time
has been about 35 per cent. Everj
provider for a household has prob
ably discovered that this raise in the.
cost of living has taken place. Evei
since the Dingley bill was passed in
1S07, there has been a steady increase
of prices until the climax of 1902,
when the beef trust and tha coal trust
put the prices of their product out ol
all reason.
As most of the 350 articles of con
sumption are controlled by trusts and
combines, it is unlikely that the price
of their products will decline until the
monopoly that the tariff protection
gives the trusts is abolished or dimin
ished. There will be slight fluctua
tions as during the past jrear, but
no great decline until a panic causes
a lack of consumption of everything
but tho necessities, or the monopoly of
the combines through the tariff, is
taken from them.
The Employers' Association ot
Chicago has been fighting the demand
of the labor unions for higher wages
and this one-sided attempt to prove
that the cost of living has only in
creased 15 per cent and that there
lore wages should be only increased
in like ratio, will hardly settle the
dispute. Wages must keep pace with
the cost of living or the laborers can
rot partake of the prosperity that the
trusts, combines and corporations are
boasting of, and to attempt to prevent
that adjustment by fictitious figures
is only to incite strikes and lockouts.
Still Paying the Price.
The transport Kilpatrick is about
due at New York. She is bringing
home the bodies of 387 officers and
soldiers of the United States army
from Manila the latest item in the
bill of costs that we are paying year
by year for the possession of those
so far wholly unprofitable islands.
It would be interesting to know, if
it were possible, exactly how many
precious American lives have been
paid up to this time for the un-American
folly of purchasing the liberties
of an alien people and compelling
them by armed force to submit to the
sorry bargain. Up to April SO, 1902,
according to the official returns of
the adjutant general, 139 of our
f.fficers and 4,016 enlisted men had
died from wounds, diseases or acci
dents, and 2,897 officers and men had
been wounded. In the nearly eigh
teen months since that reckoning was
made there must have been a con
siderable lengthening of the list of
victims.
The penalty paid by the conquering
white man for carrying his govern
ment without "the consent of the gov
erned" into climatic conditions where
in he withers and dies is never to be
evaded. For sending the flower, ol
her youth to the Indian shambles
England has poor excuse that her
merchants collect large trade divi
dends on their death. In the Philip
pines we are sacrificing our young
men without adding anything of con
sequence to the grand total of Ameri
can commerce.
Rcossvelt Then and Now.
Payne says that there is an agree
ment between Allee and Ball as to the
division of the Delaware patronage,
and that under this agreement Allee
was entitled to the Greenwood post
office if he wanted it. In Payne's
opinion there was nothing else for him
to do but meet Alice's expressed
wishes and turn Miss Huldah out
We know how this little history
would have struck Theodore Roose
velt of the civil service commission
and what he would have said about
it. How does it strike Theodore
Roosevelt, president, and what is he
going to do about it?
Roosevelt and Addicks.
The president has gone far to Jus
tify doubt of his sincerity as the up
holder of decent politics by his mani
fest leaning toward the Addicks wing
of the republican party in Delaware.
He can hardly hope to retain Post
master General Payne in his cabinet
and escape a direct responsibility for
offensive misuse of the federal patron
age which that official brazenly ad
mits. The Treasury to Be Looted.
With the fat surplus In the treas
ury, the demand for improvements in
various parts of the country and the
willingness generally of Congressmen
to help each other out, there are indi
cations that the coming session of
congress will make Tom Reed's billion-dollar
affair look like the en
forced parsimony of hard times.
The Sham and the Reality.
Cartooning is . not a lost art, as is
shown in a recent drawing depicting
Mr. Roosevelt eloquently orating upon
civil service reform while Postmaster
General Payne, in the background, de
capitates women postmasters who are
"personally and particularly" obnox
ious U political beses.
Might Extend Prudence.
The president, according to a con
temporary, deserves commendation
for the prudence which he exercises
with respect to his personal safety,
and that is true. If the same pru
dence were exercised in administra
tive matters even more commendation
would be due.
Needs American Spellbinder.
As Mr. Chamberlain is having some
difficulty in persuading the Britlab
workingmen that they can tax them
selves rich, he ought to Import ship
load of statesmen from this country
who make specialty of that
ment.
Why not pry
Commoner
SELFISHNESS ADMITTED.
Those who ane in favor of turning
the currency of the country over to
national banks assume, ns a rule, that
the banks will exercise in a patriotir
way the authority conferred upon
thtm. Occasionally a republican paper
is candid enough to admit that the
banker acts purely from selfish mo
tives, and such an admission is worth
reproducing for the benefit of those
who may ignorantly hold a different
opinion.
The Lincoln (Neb.) Daily Star is one
of the most candid of republican pa
pers, and in a recent Lssue it had th
following in regard to banks:
"But a man who engages in bank
ing, the same as those who crease
in farming, merchandizing, manui'ac
turing. etc., does so for the purpose
of making money for himself. Tlmt is
why he puts up United States Lands
a-s security for circulation because he
expects to make a profit on the bank
notes. When he can make a distinctly
greater profit by recovering the bonds
and selling them he will ordinarily do
it. If a farmer could secure from the
government circulating notes on the
security cj warehouse receipts for his
stored grt4n, and if the price of grain
should subsequently rise so that he
could make much greater profit by re
covering his warehouse receipts and
selling the grain, he would certainly
do it. That is to say, he would do
just what the banker is doing all
within his legal rights.
"It in a simple plain matter of busi
ness. There is not a particle of sen
timent in it. The banker and the
farmer act on the same general con
siderations of interest and upon the
same conditions of human nature."
The Star is correct, in saying that
"is a simple, plain matter of business,"
but if the banker is going to exercise
the power for his own advantage, why
give him a power that can be used
against farmers and merchants, and
people in other occupations? If he is
going to sell his bonds, and withdraw
circulation every time he can make
a profit by selling the bonds, will net
the currency fluctuate in such a way
as to jeopardize the interests of the
public? Must the security of the peo
ple be endangered whenever the bank
has a chance to speculate and make
more that va3' than in ordinary bank
ing? If the public generally under
stood that the banker is as selfish as
other people, and that he will use for
his own advantage power put into his
hands, there would be few outside of
the bankers' association who would be
In favor of turning the financial sys
tem of the United States over to the
financiers.
If Senator Hanna will clearly out
line what he thinks ought to be done
on the Philippine question, or state
his opinion on the. trust question, or
defipe his position on the asset cur
rency, or propose a system of just
state taxation, or show why the rail
roads should not be required to give
a Ieent rate to the public, or explain
why home rule should be denied to the
cities of Ohio if he will do any of
these things he can get up a contest
that will draw his attention away from
his illness. The trouble is that Mr.
Hanna's "let well enough alone" policy
is merely an excuse for not meeting
the issues that are presented. He is
like the boy who, when being led
toward the woodshed, suggested to his
father that they talk about something
else.
Some of the gold democrats of Wis
consin are finding fault with La Fol
lette because he is attacking corpora
tion rule in politics. One of them is
quoted as saying that La Folletteism is
a disease that must run its course. A
man's sympathy with corporate wealth
and with organized greed is generally
manifested by the attitude which he
takes toward any remedial legislation.
La Follette is in error when he advo
cates republican policies, but he is
everlastingly right when he protests
against the manner in which the cor
porations are running the republican
party.
Although Uncle Sam's printing es
tablishment is now the largest in the
world, Public Printer Palmer will re
quest an appropriation from the next
congress of nearly $2,500,000. The
public printer thinks that the capacity
of the government printing office
should be doubled and he proposes that
two large wings conforming to the
architecture of what is now known as
the new office be built. The public
printer says that the present structure,
which has but recently been completed,
does not give him one-half the room
required to carry on the constantly In
creasing business of the government.
into the rest of them while
Comment.
THE AS.SET CURRENCY.
After saying that the next congrers
will do nothing on the currency ques
tion which is radical and may not do
anything which is moderate, the Chi
cago Tribune says: "The agitation for
an asset currency will not die out be
cause of the refusal of the next con
gress to do anything. Many bankers
believe there would be money for their
banks in such a currency, and they will
not let go of any scheme which has
money in it. There will be many dis
cussions, arguments, and votes before
the a.-:set currency project is finally
disposed of." Is it not also fair to
believe that if the republican party
remain in power after these discus
sions, arguments ami votes, the asset
currency project will be adopted be
i anse there is money for the bankers
in such a currency; and have we not,
also, the right to believe that after
the republican party shall have adopt
ed that system the Chicago Tribune,
faithful to -.3 characteristics, will be
found apologizing for a currency sys
tem against which it has repeatedly
protested?
EYES ARE OPENING.
The Sioux City Tribune, a newspaper
that in recent years has supported ihe
republican party, has concluded that
"the banks that are on the Inside of
Wall street financiering are now ask
ing for fiat money, but under the con
trol of the banks." And the Tribune
has come to the conclusion that "the
country will probably decide on two
things at an early day: to abolish a
tariff so high that monopoly may find
shelter behind it, and to curtail the
privileges of the national banks."
The Sioux City Tribune seems to
have reached thi3 concluson because,
as it explains: "The Chicago Tribune,
a newspaper owned and edited by
multi-millionaires, is responsible for
the statement that the recent tremen
dous slump in Wall street was the di
rect result of a policy inaugurated by
the great financiers, and managed by
J. Pierpont Morgan, for the purpose
of reduc ing prices. Prices were pound
ed down, lower and lower, until solid
railroad stocks were bought on less
than a 6 per cent basis. Then they
took an upturn of 10 to 20 points.
Many of these stocks were loaded on
the public by Mr. Morgan. Steel stock
was sol to employes of the steel trust
at more than double the price it now
brings. This wa3 done ostensibly for
the benefit of the more than 300.000
employes. History will judge it dif
ferently." WHY NOT INVESTIGATE?
The Omaha Bee, a republican paper,
says: "Charles Joseph Bonaparte has
been selected by Mr. Hitchcock to take
charge of the investigation of the op
erations of the Indian land speculators
and crooked Indian agents In Okla
homa and Indian Territory. If the
man with the Napoleonic ancestry had
been detailed to pay a visit to the
Omaha and Winnebago reservations In
Nebraska he would have found a state
of affairs just as scandalous as has
subsisted in the southern Indian set
tlement." How does it happen then
that our strenuous administration does
not Investigate the "scandalous" situa
tion at the Omaha and Winnebago res
ervations? Is it possible that under
the republican administration fraud
and dishonesty thrives in official cir
cles to such an extent that with all
the resources of the federal govern
ment, the administration finds it im
possible to cope with the situation?
There is a new Fowler bill and the
American Banker presents its main
features as follows: (1) Conversion of
greenbacks into gold certificates. (2)
Authorization to deposit any public
funds in banks without security except
a prior lien; and the payment of 2
per cent interest for such deposits.
(3) Notes issued against general as
sets. The interest received for the de
posits is to be devoted to the conver
sion of the greenbacks into gold notes.
Organization is the best remedy for
demoralization. Organize a democratic
club in your voting precinct.
The Ohio democratic platform Is be
ing severely criticised by a lot of dem
ocrats who never lose an opportunity
to vote for republican candidates and
policies.
The Massachusetts theory that some
men are too big to be elected to a
small office often results In electing to
large office men who are entirely too
small.
Defeat In a manly fight for princi
ple will be more profitable In the long
run than victory in a diahon&st scram
ble for political pie.
you are at it? ,
Courtesy of Th Commowr.
A PARTY PRINCIPLE.
The New York News recently Fahl
that Ihe New York state coniMilUi at
a recent meeting laid it down posit
ively as a party principal that lulled
SJates senators should be; elected i,y
direct, vote of the people.
Commenting upon this Ktatenicnt,
the Washington Post says:
"If it be in ord"r, we would like to
inquire how, when, and where that
committee, or any other similar body
of citizens became clothed with au
thority to lay down a party principal?
The only authority competent for that
work is a national convention."
It is strange I he Post. i.hotiM now
Insist that the only authority com
petent to lay clown a party principal
is the national convention. Is memory
at fault, or is the Post one of those
newspapers that have always Insisted
that the Kansas City platform docs not
represent the principals of the demo
cratic party? Is the 'o.-t one? of lho
newspapers that have laid great em
phasis upon the ac tion taken by every
committee or stale or local contention
where hq affort was made to discredit
the demc-cratic- national plat from of
1900?
Are we to understand that in the.
Post's view whenever a political com
mittee or state or local convention In
dorses policies and principals to which
the fianc iers do not object or with
which they are heartily in sympathy
then a political committee or a stato
or local convention is competent au
thority? But when a minor organiza
tion Indorses a plan like the cjoitiou
of senators by popular vote, then the
minor organization is without author
ity? If, however, the editor of the Port
will take the trouble tc read the Kun
sas City platform, be will discover that
even according to the rub: laid down
by the Post, the New York demcx rat i:
committee had the highest authority
for declaring the popular ejection of
senators to b a party principle. Thi
Kansas City platform declares: "We
favor an amendment to the federal
constitution providing for the election
of United States senators by direct
vote of the people." But perhaps the
Post's explanation is that the national
platform is written for a brief cam
paign and that, from one presidential
election to another presidential elec:
tJta a party is without principles.
SUGGESTS ELBOW GREASE.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: "Now the
Turners want a trust. The best (rur-t
frr them is triiat in elbow grease. It
I'! the man who works his musc-Jcn and
not his politics who gets ahead in thN
country." The Eagle has expressed
Itself very clearly In favor of trusts
r.s they are now organized. It has de
clared that It believes in trusts and
It is anxious to see the democrat!';
party take its stand i.-i favor of the
system. But the Eagle believes In
trusts that are operated for the special
advantage of the particular elates
represented by the Eagle. So far as
the farmers are concerned, in fh
Eagle's opinion, "the best trust for
them Is trust In elbow grease." Why
not a bit of elbow grease for some of
the Eagle's client? Is Jt not really
true that the men, represented by th
Eagle, who work their politics make
considerably more than the men who
work thflr muscles? If the Ea(.;le be
lieve in a trust for the financier and
for the manufacturer, with what rea
son does it object to the proposeel
farmers' trust?
A democratic club In every voting
precinct would enable loya! demo
crats to lay the foundation for a sub
stantial victory for democratic princi
ples next year.
"The good old name of Sullivan" is
quite prominent in American affairs
today. One Sullivan has been elected
head of the Fraternal Order of Eagles
another is running for governor of
Iowa, and another Is a candidate for
re-election to the supreme bench in.
Nerbaska.
The San Antonio Express declares
that "the hand that is rocking the
cradle at Gray Gables is not rocking
any democratic boat." Perhaps. It U
difficult to rock a boat while boring
holes In its uottom.
Chicago physicians are astonished
beeauge a man in that city is alive
after having his heart severed. Did
these physicians ever study the caes
of the wholly heartless men who traffic
in the bodily comfort of the people?
Turkey and China must understanl
that they are the mocst available ma
terial upon which to try the "Li
stick" flourishing business.
The 2:00 minute trotter arrived far
and away ahead of the trust-buatlng
republican administration.
