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"THE GREAT rOSTPONEU"
Secretary Taf t in his eagerly await
ed speech delivered before the Buck
eye Republican club at Columbus
last night, furnishes the" complete
denial to the taunt that the demo
cratic pjirty "has no iBsue" on which
to make next year's campaign. He
disposes of. the jibe that Roosevelt
has stolen all of Bryan's thunder by
proving, to his own satisfaction at
at least, that Roosevelt's policies and
Bryan's are entirely dissimilar. His
object in doing this is not to please
the federal element, since the radicals
link Bryan and Roosevelt. Contrai
wIbo, he makes a lingeringly tender
appeal for "conservative" support for
his party, his president and himself.
Particularly does the secretary
appeal for conservative support for
the presidential candidacy of William
Howard Taft. For just as he shows
that Roosevelt is conservative where
Bryan is "radical" so he shows that
Taft is conservative where Roosevelt
Js radical. And in the process ho
effectively and completely escorts
himself out of the political house of
Bryan and LaFollette, and slams the
door behind him.
1 siinnorta the interlocutory de
cree in court review of the rate bill
which Bryan and LaFollette op
posed. He favors agreements as to rates
between competing railroads, sub
ject, of course, to the assent of the
, interstate commerce commission.
He asserts, in opposition, to Bryan
and LaFollette, that the total of out
standing railroad securities is "not
much, if any, in excess of the pres
ent physical value."
He proclaims the doctrine that
the importance of government rate
making is "much exaggerated," as
serting that discrimination is the
chief evil. 'Here he is entirely in
accord with Foraker and the late
lamented railroad press bureau.
On the trust question Secretary
Taft is a mere, echo of Mark Hanna.
"Combinations of capital are neces
sary;" the government should 'not
interfere "unless ;" there are
"lawful trusts as well as unlawful;"
"good" trusts as well as bad; "the
mere aggregation of all plants in one
ownership does not suppress competi
tion;" the anti-trust laws should be
amended so as to distinguish better
between "lawful" agreements and
those that are pernicious, etc., etc.
And so naturally Mr. Taft takes issue
with Mr. Bryan in his announcement
that the trusts should be extirpated,
"root and branch."
Secretary Taft differs from both
Roosevelt and Bryan as to a federal
license for interstate corporations.
Ho looks on that policy with suspi
cion and distrust.
Ho takes issue with both Bryan
and Roosevelt by opposing a federal
Inheritance tax and a federal income
tax, unless and until the government
revenues require them. He does not
favor either now.
As to the tariff, he favors Its re
vision "by the republican party" only
"as sooii after the next election as
possible," if congressional commit
tees shall deckle, after investigation,
that it ought to be revised!
This speech, with its declaration
of principles, will be a comfort and
a stay to that element of the repub
lican party that has fought Roosevelt
inost bitterly, it will appeal to that
element of pretended "democrats"
that has been searching for "a godd
southern candidate." But it will
prove disappointing and discouraging
to millions of good republicans who
had hoped to make their's a progres
sive party, radical and militant In its
opposition to wrong however strongly
intrenched, and injustice wherever
found. Omaha World-Herald.
it Is safe to eay, bo contont without
tho coffco duty, but if the savings
bank is established an agency will
bo In oxistenco which will help to
fit them for n higher political fitatug,
and thoy should welcomo it on that
an well as on other grounds, Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Your Nerves
Arc the life, the vitality, the energy of
your body.
It is tho nerves that cause the heart
to pulsate, the lungs to inhale tho oxy
gen, the brairt-to direct the motion of
every organ or the body, the stomach
to digest food, the liver to secrpte the
bile, the .kidneys to filter the blood, and
the bowels to carry off the waste.
"When tho nerves of tho stomach be
come weakened or exhausted, Indiges
tion, Constipation and Inflammation re
sult, because the stomach is inactive.
This is true of all the organs of tho
body, and proyes that to cure disease
you must strengthen the nerves.
Dr. Miles Nervine
is the great specific for the nerves, and
In bringing them back to health never
fails to euro all cases of Nervousness,
Sleeplessness, Neuralgia, Headache,
Spasms. Backache, Muscular Twltch
ings, St. Vitus Dance, Epilepsy, Stom
ach. Liver and Kidney Troubles.
"For over two years physicians and
health resorts failed to relieve me of a
complication of stomach, liver, kidney
and heart affections. Six bottles of Dr.
Miles' Nervine cured me."
G. W. ARCHBOLD, Grocer,
Decatur, Tnd.
The first bqttle will benefit, if not,
the druggist will return your money.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS FOR
THE COLONIES
When the government opened its
postal savings bank in the Philip
pines It had serious difficulties to
contend with. The saving habit had
never been fostered among the na
tives, and what efforts had been
made in that direction by the Span
iards were of a character more apt
to discourage than to develop it. The
Spaniards had been more interested
in getting the money of the natives
than in anything else, and they had
even used the savings deposits to
aid them in suppressing the last Fil
ipino rebellion. The natlyes had not
only seen their, money disappear,
knowing they would never get it
back, but they saw it used as a
weapon against them.
Despite this the success of our
postal savings bank has been marked
and, indeed, the officials report that
their expectations are more than re
alized. There has been an increase
in the number of depositors each
month without exception of Individ
ual deposits. Large accounts are not
expected or desired in the bank, but
the more numerous the small ac
counts become the better the gov
ernment will be satisfied. Thus far
the natives have not kept their bal
ances steadily, but have shown a ten
dency to withdraw money from time
to time, and then to start fn at once
to replace it.
Already the bureau of insular af
fairs has under consideration the ex
tension of the savings bank to Porto
Rico. It is only within a short time
that Porto Rico, heretofore without
any spot in our administrative estab
lishment to which it could, look for
authoritative communication with
our government, has been assigned
to this bureau, and if the first result
of the Innovation will be the grant
of a savings bank service to the Isl
and it will beyond any question be a
great benefit. The citizens of the
United States may indeed watch the
extension of government savings
banks with a personal interest of
their own, for every fresh success
in the colonies will be a fresh argu
ment for the establishment of such
banks on the mainland.
The people of Porto Rico will
doubtless welcome the savings bank,
but it is not what they are Uirectly
seeking at the present time. They
want a duty on Brazilian coffee to
give them the benefits of protection,
and they want to have their senate
made elective so that they can have
a more direct hand In their , govern
ment than they have :now with only
a single elective house. They must,
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