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FEBRUAKT"1'9, 190 '-' .
The Commoner.
the nation led by the most-enlightened
and most-eminent of its leaders.
"Agitators and incendiaries retired
Into the back ground as wm aivays
be the case where the country is in
earnest and statesmen who had much
to lose but were not afraid to risk
it stepped quietly and firmly to the
front.
"In the face of such unaminity of
purpose guided by so much worth
and talent, the ministers lost their
nerve, and like all rulers who do not
possess the confidence of the gov
erned began first to make mistakes
and then to quarrel among them
selves Still "the reformers
were not doing better in the division
lobby than in 1821 and their ques
tion showed no signs of having ad
vanced, since the day when it had
been overthrown by Pitt, on the. eve
of the French revolution.
"But the outward aspect of the
situation was very far from answer
ing to the reality while the leaders
of the popular party had been spend
ing' themselves in efforts that seemed
each time more abortive than the
last dividing only to be enormously
outvoted, and vindicating with calm
ness and moderation the first princi
ples of constitutional government
only to be stigmatized as the
apostles of anarchy a' mighty change
was surely but imperceptibly effect
ing .itself in the collective mind of
their countrymen.
For while the tired waves vainly
breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back through creeks and inlets
making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the
main." .
Privilege fell, liberty regained
prestige, the reform bill passed,rgiv
ing extended franchise to jthe peo
ple; the whlgs regained their former
power, liberty returned to bless, the
people of tliat "tight fjttlg Island,"
and yet jtvillga,tion,-(liberty regulat
ed by law) "did not perish in the
peaceful revolution. May our be
loved country1 have the. statesmen in
it to guide the ship of state into
these peaceful but calm and free
waters of; liberty, as the English
whig statesmen did in the year 1830.
YES OR NO?
"My gbodri woman," said -the
learned judge, "you must give an
answer. in, the fewest possible words
of whichyou are capable to the
plain anjL sample question whether,
when .you j were crossing the street
with the baby on your arm, and the
motor car was coming down on the
right side and the dog cart was try
ing to pass the motor car, you saw
the plaintiff between the carriage
and the dogr cart or the motor car
and the x dog cart, or whether and
when you saw him at all, and wheth
er or riot near the carriage, dog cart
and motor car, or either, or any two,
and which of them, respectively, or
how it was." The Pilgrim.
15
"SPINELESS SHRIMPS"
In Ub speech to the legislative
delegation ' iot Allegheny county,
George T.. Oliver, indorsed for the
position to be vacated by Senator
Knox, expressed sentiments of this
community, of whose hands he seeks
political , honors, that will, bear
analysis.
.-Mr. Oliver thinks that "western
Pennsylvania in Its natural resources
and as a result of development under
the tariff system" of the rebublican
p party is one of the richest and most
Important regions of the world!"
This sounds good. Something like a
Fourth of July oration.
It totally ignores, however, that
this economic policy, so-called, Is
rapidly and destructively depleting
these wonderful resources of ours,
and also that within, less than a year
one of Mr. Oliver's, papers was beg
ging for money from the charitable
to keep workingmen of these re
gions and their families from freez
ing and starving.
Then Mr. Oliver further says: "I
have faith in western Pennsylvania's
future, provided ft Is not subjected
to inimical legislation." That. Is, this
blessed region can prosper only if
Its governmental privilege Is main
tained. In other words, we of this
community are such spineless
shrimps, to indulge in a Lawsonism,
that we can't make good with these
bounties of nature without the added
bounties of protection. A nice spec
tacle we thus present to the world
that the output of suddenly rich
steel millionaires may be continued!
Pittsburg Post.
IT IS NO MYSTERY
According to the Boston Herald,
one of Mr. Taft's most aggressive
supporters, the "Mystery of 1908" is
no mystery, but a very obvious fact,
"for any one can see that Mr. Taftfs
handling of the church question in
the Philippines has won for him a
great body of Roman Catholic sup
port." The Herald adds: Johns
town, Pa., Democrat.
We take the usual vote of Boston
to mean that the Catholics here were
warm in his support. Three hundred
more votes would have given him the
city, notwithstanding the fact that
Mr. Vahey obtained here a' plurality
of between eleven and twelve thou
sand! The usual vote of the city of
New York muBt have a similar mean
ing and other great centers of popu
lation Indicate similar cause and
effect. If the facts are as we suspect
them to be, they must find general
recognition.
This was substantially our inter
pretation of the" result at the begin
ning. Mr. Taft Is tor succeed Mr.
Roosevelt, not 'because he promised
to "clinch" the Roosevelt policies,
not because he lias promised a "rea
sonable profit" to manufacturers,
riot because' he was the Inventor of
government by injunction, not be
cause he approved the president's
action in the Brownsville affair, not
even because of his personal suavity
and charm, but because certain re
ligious elements on purely sectarian
grounds were drawn to his support.
Is this not something that should
give us pause? Jownstown (Pa.)
Democrat.
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On the Open Road. By Ralph
Waldo Trine. Thomas Y. Crowell
& Co., Publishers, New York. Price
50 cents.
He Can Who Thinks He Can. By
Orison Swett Marden, author of
"Every Man a King," etc. Price
$1.00 net. Thomas Y. Crowell &
Co., New York.
Lewis Rand. By Mary Johnston,
author of "To Have and to Hold,"
"Prisoners of Hope," etc. With il
lustrations by F. C. Yohn. Hough
ton Mifflin Company, New York,
Boston. Price $1.50.
Good Gumption, or the story of a
wise fool, by C. A. Jenkens. The
Southwestern Company, Nashville,
Tenn., Waco, Texas, Topeka, Kans.
Macon, Ga.
Eve and the Evangelist. A ro
mance of A. D. 2108. By Harry E.
Rice. Illustrated by D. Orrin Stein
berger. The Roxburgh Publishing
Co., Incorporated. Boston, Mass.
A Captain .of Industry. By Enoch
Johnson. The C. M. Clark Publish
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The Earning Power of Railroads.
Compiled and edited by Floyd W.
Mundy, of James H. Ollphant & Co.,
20 Broad Street, New York City.
Rooseveltlan Fact and Fable. By
,Mrs. Annie Riley Hale. Illustrations
by Hudson. Broadway "Fubllshing
Company, New York. Price $1.50.
Songs of the Golden Sea. By
Lome Campbell. The Wagner &
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USUAL CROP OF
CREAM
SEPARATOR
SNARES AND TARES
If actual merit alone prevailed the DE LAVAL cream separ
ator would be the only one made, sold or used.
But the dairy farmer with his dollars is an alluring proposi
tion to those who "need the money,' ' so that every season
brings with it a new crop of separator fakes and fabl'os, with,
some of the old conjurers over again and always a few fresh
ones.
Last year the new and improved line of DE LAVAL machines
literally swept the iield. This year everybody has a "new"
machine, which is the one thing they universally harp upon
in their talk and advertising. But it is mostly bosh and non
sense. There is mighty little new to them. No more DE
LAVAL patents have expired so that there is nothing else
"new" that. they can lay hold of this. year.
There's the usual crop of fakirs appropriating the facts of
DE LAVAL separator use and the endorsements DE JjAVAI'
separators have received, and quoting them as though they
applied to their own inferior imitations of the standard cream
separator.
There's the concern which makes an inferior disc separator
and speaks of the "disc" separator being "the machine which
has won out universally in Europe, the home of the disc sep
arator." True, but "it was the DE LAVAL that has donc'tho
winning out in Europe, as it has in America.
There's the political separator concern, with the new "year"
or "cents" trademark, whose claims it is to be hoped nobody
ever believes, and which manifestly practices the circus man's
theory that the great American public ever likes to he fooled.
There's the only concern which has stuck to the abandoned
DE LAVAL "hollow bowl" of thirty years ago, but will this
year desperately join the procession of ten year hack DE
LAVAL imitations with a "disky bucket bowl" machine.
There's the "Trust," striving to complete its monopoly of
dealer and farmer, harvesting much costly separator experi
ence, largely at the expense of buyers-for-use, through trying
to build a cream separator like ordinarily made farm
machinery.
There's the "mail order" outfit, with their cheaply made
machines, bought here and there, not made by themselves or
sold under the real manufacturer's name, all claiming the
earth, and many of the things that should be below it.
But the merry lot changes and dwindles every year. They
gradually drop 6ut and leave their unfortunate patrons help
less with trashy machines. More will fade away this year.
The dairy farmer, like the creameryman, is coming to know
something of separators. He doesn't swallow mere "claims"
so easily. Ninety-eight per cent of the world's creamerymen
use DE LAVAL machines. The percentage of farm users con
tent with nothing else is always increasing.
There isn't a single reason why every man who buys a
cream separator this year should not buy a DE LAVAL. There
are many reasons why he should. The "best costs no more
than the various grades of inferior imitating machines.
A DE LAVAL catalogue may be had for the asking. A DE
LAVAL machine may be tried for the asking.
The De Laval Separator Co.
42 E. Maci&om Street
CHICAGO
1218 &. 1215 Filbert St.
PHILADELPHIA
DOUMM & 8ACRAUENTO ST8.
SAN FRANCISCO
General Offices:
165-167 Broadway,
NEW YORK,
178-177 Wiumu Street
MONTREAL
14 & 16 Princem Street
WINNIPEG
107 First Street
PORTLAND, OREO.
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