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Josophus Daniels, editor of tho
naloigh (N. C.) News and Observer,
printB in his paper this editorial:
Two of the ablest men in Amer
ica are Colonel Henry Wattorson of
Kentucky, and Senator Bajloy of
Texas. Mr. Bailey is easily the first
constitutional lawyer in the senate,
and Mr. Watterson is easily tho
foremost American editor.
Upon a question of constitutional
law, Mr. Bailey's opinion would be
entitled to first place but upon tho
question of the democratic principle
of the tariff, since tho retirement of
John G. Carlisle and William R. Mor
rison, no man is to be regarded as
being so capable of stating the true
democratic principle upon tho tariff
as Colonel Watterson. Ho wroto
tho platform upon which Mr. Tilden
was elected to the presidency and
if he did not write the platform on
which Mr. Cleveland was elected in
j.892 ho inspired it and was instru
mental in securing its adoption,
when Mr. Whitney and others of
Mr. Cleveland's friends were trying
to got a "straddle" plank in tho
1892 platform.
A fow days ago after Senator
Bailey had voted In the senate
against free lumber and free Iron
ore and cast other rotes that pleased
Mr. Aldrlch and the other high
priests of protection, Colonel Wat
terson wroto the following brief
paragraph in his paper:
"Senator Bailey, demanding that
the magnates of the steel trust be
put in jail, votes to put them In
palaces by voting for a tariff on
iron ore and against the old demo
cratic doctrine of free raw ma
terials." Tho next day Mr. Bailey In the
senate quoted the above statement
by Colonel Watterson and said:
"Tho old democratic doctrine of
free raw materials! How old? Old
enough, thank God, to have perished
before this day; and yet not so old
as that it ever received the indorse
ment of the democratic fathers. It
was in a season of madness and folly
proclaimed as a democratic doctrine;
but it has long since beep rejected
as a democratic heresy."
And to this reply Colonel Watter-
son's Courier-Journal answers as
follows:
"It is old enough to have been
formally enunciated by the demo
crats in the days when they made
the tariff a dominant issue, when
they made a tariff for revenue only
a cardinal party doctrine and when
they won victories on their plat
forms thus proclaimed. Just when
it was 'rejected as a democratic
heresy,' Senator Bailey did not en
lighten us, and nobody else seems
to know, or seems even to have
heard that it ever was rejected. No
one, on this occasion, appeared suffi
ciently interested in Mr. Bailev'a
revelations to ask his authority for
declaring that the doctrine of free
raw materials 'has long since been
"rejected as a democratic heresy,'
but when a -week later he recurred
to the subject, Mr. Aldrich was
curious enough to Inquire of him:
'Since when has the doctrine of tree
raw materials ceased to be a dem
ocratic doctrine?' To which Mr.
Bailey is quoted by tho Associated
Press as replying: 'Since men like
I have come into power In the dem
ocratic party.'
"This, we presume, is adequately
illuminative. Tho authority that
has pronounced the doctrine demo
cratic heresy, and rejected it as such
is Senator Bailey himself not the
democratic party in representative
convention assembled, but merely
the democratic ptirty as it exists in
Senator Bailey and 'men like I"
And when Mr. Aldrich reminded him
that every other conspicuous demo
cratic leader except Senator Bailey
had advocated tho doctrine,' the
Texan did not so much as hint of the
identity of 'the men like I' who,
with him had overruled-democratic
conventions and democratic plat
forms, though in the same speech
he reiterated tho announcement that
lie repudiated so recent a democratic
platform as that declared at Denver
last year. And by the way, ' tho
Courier-Journal fears it is so obtiise
as to fail to understand the mentaT
processes by which the senator takes
it to himself as a virtue to reject
platforms of tho democratic party,
while discrediting the Courier-Journal
for having rejected candidates
of the democratic party, as he would
discredit It when he says that 'these
things would be more persuasive to
me if they come from sources that
have always been loyal in their sup
port of tho democratic party and its
candidates.' For the life of us we
can not grasp the sharp distinction
which Mr. Bailey makes between re
jecting a party candidate, and- re
jecting a party platform."
In his speech Mr. Bailey declared
that Mr. Cleveland "undid the demo
cratic party;" also said that the
:democrats declared for free raw ma
terials "in a season of madness and
folly,' and after thus denouncing
Cleveland and his followers in the
democratic party and Bryan and his
followers in the democratic party,
proceeded to read a lecturq by Col..
Watterson, because in 1806 Col.
Watterson did not supp.or.t Mr.
Bryan, though he suppor.teqvJiim in
1900 and 1908. Colonel Watterson,
made the mistake of his lifet in that
1896 campaign, a mistake hlch he
would not have made if'.h.e had
known Mr. Bryan and measjujjed him
accurately, but he has nevqr made,
any mistake when it h.as come to the
qdvocacy of the principle which par
ried the democratic party over the
siough of despond in . 18 68 and
placed It on the high tide of popu
lar favor and victory In. 1876.
In the matter of the tariff, if
asked "Under which King, Bezo
nian?" Watterson or Bailey we
would not hesitate to volunteer un
der the Kentucklan.
should be carved on the tombstone
of Peter Fenelon Collier. His son,
who inherited his millions, is not
ashamed to proclaim that his father
landed in this country 'tt poor -boy,
without friends and In the land of
opportunity carved out his own -fortune
in the field of honest endeavor.
Dallas (Texas) Times-Herald.
A SON'S TRIBUTE TO HIS FATHER
Peter Fenelon Collier, the noted
publisher and founder of Collier's
Weekly, died a week ago and died
In harness. ' In Collier's Weekly of
May 1, a son pays this simple tribute
to his father: .
"It was my father's wish to die in
harness, and so it came to pass. His
gallant spirit went forth to meet
death with the same -smile with
which he faced the new country as
a poor Irish boy pver foity years
ago. Ho worked his way to success
with his strong hands (as a carpen
ter onco inrfDayton, Ohio,, and at
other humble, honorable tasks), and
with his unflinching courage and
with his big open, boyish heart.
"He was absolutely fearless, yet
tho gentlest, the most easily moved,
of men. He had friends in ajl walks
of life, sprinkled all over the. world.
He worked hard and played hard,
and he lqyed his fellow men, not
theoretically, but with a hearty and
personal affection.
"This business he built, this paper
he founded, and are now thrust'upon
my shoulders. Jt is in memory. of
the most loving comrade In, tfce world
that I dedicate them to clean causes
such as those for which he would
have had me fight. God. grant me
strength to be worthy of him whom
I loved so much.
, t "ROBERT J. COLDER."
A modest, and model tributeto the
memory tof the: departed from;the pen
of the. only son, who was his-chum
as woll as business associate, "He
worked his way to success with his
strong hands," is an inscription that
PLUTOCRATS IN THE PILLORY
. Senator Dolliyer, republican, rep
resents in part a state which never
voted for a democratic presidential
candidate; -He is a stalwart partisan
whose loyalty to the organization is '
no more in question west of tho
Mississippi than, is. that of Senator
Aldrich on the shores of Narragan
sett Bay. . In the course of a, two
days' speech Mr. Dolliver has assert
ed, intimated' or insinuated ,
1. That the cotton and woolen
schedules of the pending tariff bill
were prepared -by interested parties
in New York and that many of their
sponsors in the senate, do not know
What they mean.
2. That whereas there is a pre
tense that the measure reduces tax
ation, the fact is that there is an in
creasei and designedly so.
3. That the tin-plate tariff of
1889 brought into existence a mon
opolized industry which was at
length unloaded on the United States
steel corporation, with a rake-off to
the ' promoters sufficient to buy the
Rock Island railroad.
4. That many of the rates in the
existing law and in the proposed bill
are so extravagant and unnecessary
as to bring the policy of protection
into ridicule. ?
5. That in 1890 McKinley permit
ted the beneficiaries of-the tariff on
wool to write their own section In
ihis bill.' . " .... . . . .
6. That in 1897- Dingley's avowed
puTpose 'to reduce tariff- taxation was
defeated by theclamor o the men "
interested: , . ..,
' 7. That in the pending bill the
tax upon uoods containing small
quantities of wool is excessive and
especially burdensome upon the
po6r. .
8. -That the avaricious are using
the protective tariff as an asset in
financing'; conspiracies in restraint of
trade. '
9 That only once in forty yisars
has th public interest or the wel
fare of the republican 'party been
made paramount over sordid private
considerations.
10. That the tariff has corrupted
American Industry and made great
industries mere adjuncts to political
agitatiori.
The' preqlse form which the Pavne-
Aldricji bill., shall assume upon pas
sage, can not oe roretoid, out Jt will
be many a. day, we believe before
this republican indictment of the
privilege . and plutocracy of protec
tion willbe forgotten.-r-New York
World..
AS ,THE TWIG BENDS
Kendall had a son., who was the
pride of. his. heart. One , day he
found, one: of. his favorite cherry
trees cut down '",..
' "Jack,"' he said, "did you do
Ihat?.",
With quivering lip Jack, replied:'
"Father, I can't deceive i-you; I did
not cut the tree down ; -Billy Brown
didiit, but I bossed the job.'
Tears'of Iftv unrnnf 'Intn tio ofT
er's eyes. "Bless you, my boy," ho
Bam: "jjniy win oe president of tho
United States, .but you will be chair
man, of the national committee. 'V-i
Success Magazine.
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"One-half of the world does not
know how the other half lives.".
'VWell,;,it Is gratifying to: think
that one-half of the world attend
to its own business." Puck,
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