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tion for carrying out its policy of catering to the
wants of the corporations that put money above
American blood and might above justice and
right. Clearly General Merriam has just grounds
for complaint.
The Kansas City Times thinks that farming
would be successful in the Klondike if the coal
supply was sufficient to keep the vegetables from
freezing while they are growing. The Depart
ment of Agriculture might experiment with cold
slaw and iced tea.
Agencies of American politicians, who pro
Reconciliation, fess to believe that we can whip
the Filipinos into friendly rela
tions with us, have forgotten what Chatham said
of bayonets as agencies of reconciliation. "How
can America trust you," said Chatham, "with the
bayonet at her breast? How can she suppose
that you mean less than bondage or death?"
Great When General MacArthur re-
Expectations, ported that "the expectations of
the administration have not been
realized " he did not mean it. What lie meant
was that while the expectations of the adminis
tration have been realized the claims of the admin
istration have not been. " But MacArthur is not
the only official in the Philippines or in Wash
ington, either who realizes with joy that lan
guage can be used to conceal thoughts.
Extravagance Some of the republicans are be
Increasing. coming alarmed at the extrava
gance of the present Congress.
The appropriations for this session will not be far
from eight hundred millions. Deducting about
one hundred and fifteen millions derived from
postal receipts, it still leaves nearly seven hundred
millions to be raised by taxation.
Senator Hale was recently led to remark:
"The tide, immensely swollen heretofore, is more
swollen and more turbid." "And still rising,"
interjected Senator Spooner; "Rising rapidly,"
added Senator Allison.
Why does not the administration call a halt?
Because the tax eaters control the republican or
ganization and their appetite grows with the
feeding.
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They Cannot
Lose Him
Politicians who imagined they
were burying Theodore Roose
velt when they nominated him
for the vice-presidency, were not acquainted with
the characteristics of their intended corpse. Mr.
Roosevelt has recently been hunting lions in Col
orado, and in his bloody jaunts through the for
ests, a well-equipped literary bureau has accom
panied him as a pillar of cloud by day and a pil
lar of fire by nicrht, thus preventing the achieve
ments of Mr. Roosevelt in the wilds of Colorado
from being hidden from the world. This liter
ary bureau describes one of Mr. Roosevelt's ex
periences in this striking way:
He killed a lion with a knife thrust, and in doing'
so exposed himself to danger the average man would
not face for a million. He does not wait for the dogs
to stretch the animal out, but rushes in while the
lion is fighting with the dogs.
In'tho particular instance related by the guide,
who was with him, the animal was a large lioness..
She fought fiercely, and while several of the dogs had
The Commoner'.
her about the hind legs and haunches and were drag
ging her backward she had a vicious hold on another
dog.
Mr. Roosevelt sprang to the rescue of the dog
which the savage animal seemed about to get the best
of, and she quickly lot loose of the dog and sprang at
the arm of the hunter. Ho held his gun in his left
hand, and, quick as lightning, thru3t the stock into
the wide open jaws while ho found her heart with his
hunting knife. The stock of the gun was partly
chewed and broken off, and he can keep it as a me
mento of the closest call he ever had.
The man who rushes in where canines fear to
tread, who can hold his gun in his left hand and
quick as lightning thrust the stock into tho wide
open jaws of a lioness while ho finds her heart
with his hunting knife, is not likely to be entirely
lost from sight in the vicc'presidential chair.
the words of Lincoln. Tt is a significant fact that
the present policies of the republican party com
pel the leaders of that party to ignoro tho senti
ments expressed and the principles advocated by
the first republican president.
Lincoln charged Douglas and his supporters
with an attempt to limit and qualify fundamental
and self-evident truths; the republican leaders
cwio under the same condemnation today and,
therefore, extracts from Lincoln's speeches are no
longer popular in a republican gathering oven
when the ostensible object of tho gathering is to
do honor to his memory.
What Did
He Expect?
The Jefferson- The largest celebration of Liu-Jackson-Llncoln
coin's birthday this year was that
League. held at Columbus, Ohio, under
tho auspices of the Jefferson
Jack son-Lincoln League.
Nearly two thousand persons partook of the
dollar dinner and listened to addresses by Con
gressman Lentz, Chairman of the League, Con
gressmen DeArmond of Missouri and Shaffroth
of Colorado, Ex-Senator Towne and Ex-Governor
Altgeld, Hon. Tom L. Johnson of Ohio, Hon.
Alexander Troup of Connecticut and Mr. Bryan.
Senator-elect Carmack of Tennessee sent a letter
to be read on the occasion and Dr. Howard S.
Taylor of Chicago contributed a poem. , '
The League was originally intended as a local
organization, but it has become so popular that
the organization is being extended into other states.
it
.
A Tardy The Indianapolis Sentinel calls
Protest. attention to the fact that some
of the republican papers are
making a tardy protest against the ship-subsidy
bill. It says:
The only way to oppose such jobs and steals
.effectively is to oppose the political party which
advocates and carries them out. The ship subsidy is
in line with republican preachments and practices for
the last thirty years. It was a part of the frankly
avowed republican program in the, recent campaign.
Those who voted for Mr. McKinley did so with their
eyes open. They knew that his election and that of
a republican congress meant that this project of
scoundrelism would be carried out. They are not
really in earnest now in their opposition to it. They
are simply "making believe.' Their appeals to the
democrats in congress to help save the country from
the swindie which the country itself indorsed last
November are purely theatrical.
His Principles No one can read the republican
Ignored. speeches delivered upon the re
cent anniversary of Lincoln's
birth without noticing how completely the princi
ples of the martyred president were ignored. His
ability as a lawyerwas referred to, his patience was
praised, his tenderness and mercy eulogized, and
his homely wit repeated, but there was no attempt
to apply his principles to present-day problems or
to draw practical lessons from his public life.
Why?
In 1859 the republicans celebrated Jefferson's
birthday just as the democrats celebrated Lin
coln's birthday this year. In 1859 Lincoln re
ferred to and quoted the words of Jefferson just
as the democrats are now referring to and quoting
The Chicago Tribune has been
asking republican editors for
their opinion of tho ship-subsidy
bill. An Indiana editor answers, "There never
was a more infamous attempt to rob the treasury
as well as to defraud tho people than is repre
sented in the subsidy bill. Why not subsidize
the farmers to raise corn and wheat? The bill
goes to show that organized wealth has an insa
tiable greed without regard to tho rights or wel
fare of the people."
This indicates that at least one republican ed
itor has awakened from his Rip Van Winkle
slumber. It would be interesting if this editor
would now tell us what he expected in tho way
of legislation when he labored for a republican
victory last fall.
A Very Good Richard Cobden, that eminent
Example. Englishman, would be surprised
if a copy of the new army bill
were laid before him and he was told that tho
United States of America had enacted that bill
into law. It was Cobden, who, in a speech de
livered in 1850, said, that in tho matter of na
tional defense, the United States set Great Brit
ain "a very good example." "Does anybody
dare to attack that nation?" asked Cobden.
"There is not a more formidable power in every
sense of the word, although you may talk of
France and Russia, than the United States of
America; and there is not a statesman with a
head on his shoulders who does not know it, and
yet the policy of the United States has been to
keep a very small amount of armed men in existence."
Freedom of
The Press.
The deportation of Editor Rice
from Manila because of his crit
icism of American ofiicials ought
to give the American people some idea of what
is to be expected under colonialism. Free speech
is not consistent with military rule or carpet bag
government. Men who exercise authority with
out responsibility to those whom they govern
cannot tolerate criticism, and any suggestion of
malfeasance or misfeasance becomes incendiary
and dangerous. Human frailty makes public
ofiicials liable enough to error even wheji re
strained by a free press and when that restraint
is taken away the people have no protection what
ever. There is a love of justice to bo found in
every human heart, and when justice is denied,
those who are responsible for the denial never
think it wise to have the matter discussed. Be
nevolent assimilation is too tender a plant to
withstand the frost of criticism.
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