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A Taylorstown, Pa., reader of The Commoner
writes: "You canget from the postmaster gen
eral of Canada circulars snowing
all about the postal savings
banks of Canada, in early all
the depositors are poor people,
but their deposits amounts to
more than ?G00,OOO,00O. Shall protection not reach
our laboring classes and make their savings safo
as our nation?"
Postal
Savings la
Canada.
An
Explanation
Needed,
"Some fine British distinctions are thus re
ported by tho Singapore Fre Press: "The official
list of the strength of tho Man
chester regiment, just landed at
Singapore, reads: 'Twenty offi
cers and two ladles, four war
rant officers and two wives. 518
rank and file and ten women and twelve chil
dren.' " It is explained by the Louisville Courier
Journal for the benefit of "some sensible Ameri
can wives" that "all these "ladies, wives and
women are the wives of officers and men. in the
regiment."
In Line
With g. o. p.
Logic.
A subscriber writes to say: "I cannot un
derstand "how it can be that when the republican
party subjugates, tortures and
enslaves a people that are too
weak to prevent, It Is 'benev
olent assimilation;' but when
the south held slaves, and in
most cases treated them well, it was 'a covenant
with death and an agreement with hell" This
subscriber concludes: "Can Tho Commoner in
form?" Perhaps the explanation Is that what
ever the republican party does is right and tnat
whoever opposes whatever the republican party
may do is wrong. That is not yery clear, but it
is certainly in line with present-day republican
logic.
Grosscup'
Blood
Bolls.
Judge Peter S; Grosscup, appointed to the
federal bench by President McKinley, 'recently
sam: "When I see the laws of
my country introduced to enr
able men to consolidate money
for the public good, turned into
the excuse for swindles that
should land the promoters in tho penitentiary,
and when I see that to be the almost universal
history of corporations, every drop of my blood
bolls with hate and revenge." Judge Grosscup
might also have expressed his Indignation against
the failure on the part of executives to enforce
laws which we're intended to land the violators
of the law in the penitentiary.
Why the
Complaint
Then?
Tho Kansas City Journal, a republican paper,
says: "There is "much complaint about the ven
ality of legislatures and tho use
of money in senatorial elections.
Despite these complaints, how
ever,, the United States senate,
under the constitutional meth
od of election, has always been one of the ablest,
purest and most respected legislative bodies that
ever met in the world; aid it Is greatly to be
doubted if Its character vbuld be much improved
under a different method of election." Then
will the Journal explain how it happens that
"there Is much complaint abcut the venality of
legislatures and the use of money in senatorial
elections?"
Henry D. Lloyd, the student and writer on
economic and industrial questions, who died re
cently, was -the author of a book
It May entitled "A Country Without
Stand Strikes." inferring to isew
Alone. Zealand's experiment with cer
tain problems, Mr. Lloyd said
that the United States should not hesitate to un
dertake any essential reform, saying: "Men of
almost every race have united to form the politics
and the society of these United States. Why can
they not unite to reform that? And as for the
isolation (of the New Zealanders) that Is a for
tunate incident for the weak, but the United States
has a nobler kind of isolation in its might and
wealth. It can stand alone for any cause it
chooses to espouse."
At Vincennes, Ind., recently, a divorce was
granted to a woman and in ,lhe order she was
prohibited from marrying with
in two years. The newspaper
..-dispatches say that the woman
arose and dramatically declared
-that the j"dge could make it ten
years so far as she was concerned. $he said she
"was done with men as she had had enough ex
perience; but before the astonished judge and
A Fin
Bit of
Diplomacy.
The Commoner.
lawyers had time to recover, tho woman added
that sho had reference only to men outsido of
tho court room. That was a flno bit of diplomacy,
and might suggest an opening for such talents In
the court circles of Europe.
Tho Philadelphia Public Ledger, a republican
paper, says: "The Indian scandal is tho most
unsavory with which tho gov
ernment has had to deal, be
cause it furnishes evidence of
an apparently uncontrollable
desire on tho part of almost ev
ery government official who has tho opportunity
to use his position of responsibility and trust for
tho purpose of making monoy illegitimately. Tho
postal scandal was a trivial matter in compari
son when viewed in this light."
The
iRdiaa
Scandal.
'Tho
Logical
Candidate."
A staff correspondent for the Brooklyn Eaglo
has waited upon Mr. Cleveland and formally an
nounces "If shown that it is his
duty to his country and his par
ty to do so, he, Cleveland, will
accept the nomination for tho
presidency." And then tho Ea
gle goes to the trouble of quoting from a num
ber of republican newspapers, which quotations
aro generally to the effect that Mr, Cleveland is
"the strongest and tho best" man. Tno Eaglo
makes too great an exertion. It will be generally
admitted that if the democratic party is to bo
republicanized, if tho democratic party is to corao
under the control of Wall street, then Grover
Cleveland is the democratic party's logical can
didate for tho presidency.
In a recent editorial tho Chicago Chronicle
said: "Mr. Depew's piteous plaint in 1898 that
the talk of war with Spain 'hurt
Jingle stocks' has an echo In England,
and where anything looking to ac-
Clink. tIon against the Turk is sternly
deprecated because it has a ten
dency to impair value of Turkish bonds. The
jingle of the guinea and the clink of the dollar
are ver much alike." Perhaps it is not out of
place to say that "the jingle of the guinea and the
clink of tho dollar" have much influence upon
American politics; and unless memory Is serious
ly at fault, the Chicago Chronicle, although posing
as a democratic nowspapor, has generally given
very ready response to the "jingle and clink" so
far as concerns its attitude In tho politics of this
country.
In the light of the fact that the New York
Sun and Harper's Weekly are vigorously criticis
ing Mr. Roosevelt, some repub-
Fcarfully Ucan papers by way of explana
and Wonderfully tion are pointing to the alleged
Made." ac tnat Mr. Morgan controls
the Sun and Harper's Weekly
and that therefore criticism from such sources
should have no 'effect with the people. It is in
teresting to remember that in the campaigns of
1896 and 1900 these same, republican papers cheer
fully printed tho well .7rltten editorials of the
New York Sun and of Harper's Weekly to the
detriment of the democratic cause, although at
the time It was known' that then, as low, those
publications were under the control of tne Mor
gan influences. Such things as these and they
happen frequently remind ts that the republican
logic Is fearfully and wonderfully made.
A reader of The Commoner sends an extract
from the Wilsllre Magazine In which it Is said:
'"therefore, that very astule
The agent of the trusts In the
Elkins United States sena.e, Mr. Elk-
Law. ns introduces a new bill as to
trusts, which takes away' the
imprisonment feature (from the anti-trust law)
and this Is rushed through and signed by the
president after the evidence is handed In by Mr.
Hearst showing the unquestionable guilt of Presi
dent Baer and others in the matter of the coal
trust If Mr. Baer should be found guilty, there
is no imprisonment attached to his violation of
the anti-trust law." This reader asks for confir
mation of this statement. This paragraph does
not relate to the Sherman anti-trust law. tbe.chief
feature of which provided-fine and imprisonment. It
relates to what is known as the Elkins bill, a
measure that pretended to aim at discrimination
in the matter of freight rates, Tho imprison
ment and fine feature of the Sherman anti-trust
law yet remain intact although tho republican
administration has not undertaken to enforce
that provision. The Elkins bill, as it was passed
and signed by the president, provides the penalty
In the way of a fine.
Tho Washington correspondent of tho Chicago
Txlbuno roports that agents of tho ocean steam
ship trust aro collecting In tho
government departments data to
bo used In an attempt to re
vive tho ship subsidy bill whoa
., , congress meets. Commenting
editorially upon this statement, tho Tribune says:
ThlS la tO bO GXDectcd. Tim man whst Unr, U
yet out on tho hunt for a subsidy novor abandons
.. -.... u 4.W um, uu uiu uuui ior a suDfliuy
Never
Abandeas
His Scheme.
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and yet ho has declined to enter Into a Joint de
bate with his opponont on the ground tliat there
Is nothing to discuss. Mr. Hanna la ono of the
chief promoters of this ship subsidy scheme. Will
tho Chicago Tribuno say that If Mr. Hanna is en
titled to reflection, ho should not be willing and
ablo to defend his subsidy schemo in tho presence
of his opponent and beforo tho peoplo whose
votes ho seeks?
"More
Money
Needed."
An Athons, Pa., reador or Tho Commoner dl-
recta attention to tho fact that in ita issuo of June
20, under the caption of "Moro
Monoy Needed," this papor said:
"It la less than seven years
since wo were told in tho cara-
naifm Of lftOfi flint wn litul nlontv
of money In tho country and did not need any
moro. Since that time tho volume of monoy has
been Increased over 1500,000,000, and yet money
Is still so scarco that the financiers insist upon
tho need of all surplus menoy at tho banks in
order to keep business going." Commenting upon
this statement, tho reader says "the treasury state
ment for Juno 1, 1903, shows money in circulation
as $2,882,000,000 In round numbers, the statement
for July 1, 1890, was $1,GOG,000,000, showing an in
crease to date of about ?87C,000,0(JO. Obviously it
was to your advantage to show a largo Increase in
circulation as possible, but the discrcpaucy in fig
ures is so great that justice Is not done In the
argument."
Referring to tho policy of protection, Gov
ernor Cummins of Iowa, in a recently delivered
speech, said: "Wo may differ,
i no , Wc d0 iIJTer, respecting the de-
Iowa tails of application, but when
Idea. tho Policy Itself is threatened, it
becomes every man who ap
proves It, whether ho bo republican or democrat,
whether ho is for revision or against revision, to
life his voice in its dofenso and cast his vote for
its safety." Tho Nov York Tribuno says that in
tills Governor Cummins has "defined afresh" tho
"Iowa idea" and while heartily commending the
statement, says that It "does not bristle with
heresy nor truckio to free trade sentiments." As
a matter of fact, the statement attributed to Gov
ernor Cummins docs not "define afresh" the "Iowa
Idea." In truth, that statement by Governor Cum
mins is just about as "clear as mud." The "Iowa
Idea" Is very clearly stated. It Is represented in
the proposition that tho shelter which the trusts
find In tho tariff be destroyed. Tho Tribuno will
not indorse that proposition and since tho "Iowa
idea" was repudiated by tho Iowa republicans in
state convention assembled, Governor Cummins
has had but little to say In support of the idea
to which at one time be claimed such devotion.
Those who imagine that the reorganizes con
fine' their objections to democrats who advocate
. .. tuo hated "1G to 1" reposition
Objections mtLy flnd instruction In reading
to Tom L. tbe bitter assaults made by the
Johnson. organs of tho reorganizes upon
Tom L. Johnson of Ohio. Mr.
Johnson has not made bimetallism one of his
chief principles; and yet the New York World,
while claiming to be a democratic newspaper,
boldly calls upon Ohio democrats to vote against
Johnson and to assist In the election of a repub
lican candidate. The New. York Times, another
alleged democratic newspaper that does not nnd Jt
convenient to support democratic candidates r
democratic principles, has some very bitter things
to say concerning Mr. Johnson. The Brooklyn
Eagle and other lesser lights of tbe reorganizes
adopt similar tactics with respect to the demo
cratic nominee for governor of Ohio. The ob
jections to Mr. Johnson are not that he is an
advocate of bimetallism, bu. that he may be de
pended upon to do his best In the way of pro
tecting the people on general principles. In the
parlance of the street, Mr. Johnson "means busi
ness" In tae Contest between the people and the
trust magnates and the organs of the reorganiz
es, howeyer much they may decry the "16 tol"
proposition, would cheerfully accept a man who
pretended to believe In bimetallism if he could be
relied upon so far as the people are concerned to
"hold the word of promise to tbe ear to breitk it te
the hope."
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