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APRIL 8, 1910
The Commoner.
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Washington News
The house has adopted a resolu
tion providing for investigation into
the charge that a corrupt lobby is
maintained at Washington in behalf
of the ship subsidy bill.
Word has been received that the
French chamber of deputies had
passed a bill approving the Franco
American tariff agreement.
W. M. Davidson, superintendent
of schools in the city of Omaha, vis
ited Washington in his capacity of
president of the department of su
perintendents of the National Educa
tion Association and met with other
educators. The purpose of this meet
ing was to discuss a bill prepared by
Senator Owen, and recommended by
the committee of which he is chair
man, to establish a department of
public health and education, with a
cabinet officer at the head and direc
tor general" of education, each hold
ing positions permanently at the head
of each of the two branches of this
department. This would involve the
transfer of branches ffom several of
the other departments.
Virginia to report the bill providing
for publicity of oampaign contribu
tions and expenses, which was favor
ably acted on by the committee sev
eral weeks ago.
Two witnesses have told the con
gressional committee investigating
the "shooting up" in the town of
Brownsville, Texas, August 13, 1906,
that a big black dog belonging to a
company of negro soldiers and
known as its mascot was scampering
ahead of the men who were engaged
in the shooting. This is accepted as
strong testimony.
' Senator, Root delivered a speech in
the senate In defense of Mr. ' Taf t's
railroad bill. He devoted his atten
tion largely to the court of commerce
clause.
Democratic members of the house
are denouncing the failure of Repre
sentative Gains, republican, of West
Justice Moody, who has been ill
for some time at his home in Boston,
is now on the road to recovery. His
physicians say he will be ready to
return to his work on the supremo
court bench by next fall.
Justice Brewer's remains were
buried at Leavenworth, Kan.
Representative Fowler of New Jer
sey denounced the postal savings
bill as "another patch on the crazy
quilt of our political, financial and
banking legislation." Mr. Fowler
said that "Aldrichism" was another
name for special interests.
President Taft and cabinet mem
bers express great gratification for
the government's finances. They say
it will show marked improvement
over last year.
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when you set the grip, but you won't
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Tou won't care. You will be too mis
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How to stop those cold chills from
chasing- up and down the spine, the
Incessant pains in the limbs and back,
nausea, coughing- fits, sneezing, dis
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POULTRY AND EGGS
Here is a sedate "Washington dis
patch carried under date of April 1
by the Associated Press: "Repre
sentative James Tawney of Minne
sota, chairman of the appropriations
committee, frowningly stalked into
his office today during a lull in the
home proceedings. He picked up a
memorandum on his desk. v It read:
'Call up Mr. Train, main 7380.' Mr.
Tawney hurried to the booth tele
phone, and called the number. 'Mr.
Train?' he asked. 'Did she?' asked
a voice at the other end. 'Did she
what?' asked Mr. Tawney, impatient
ly. 'Who is this?' 'Union station.'
Then a light broke upon the 'watch
dog of the treasury,' and he slammed
the transmitter back on the hook,
and sat down abruptly. Represent
ative Adamson of Georgia', ranking
democratic member of the railroad
committee of the house received an
envelope. Adamson, about to sub
mit the minority report on the rail
road bill, opened the envelope, when
suddenly a trick arrangement, in
which a coiled rubber band figured,
was sprung, releasing the rutfber
with a buzz heard over most of the
ho.use chamber. Judge Adamson
jumped from his seat. When he re
covered from his shock he laughed
and remembered It was April fool's
day, and that congress was not exempt."
ministration has been adjudged a
failuro is ono of common morality?
The people may bo deceived by tho
intricacies of tariff schedules, they
may bo poor judges of tho constitu
tionality of federal laws, but tho
false pretense, tho broken pledge,
bad faith, these aro faults in honor
which they perceivo as quickly as
anybody, for the moral sense is pri
mary and universal. Carl. Schurz
used to say that while political argu
ment and appeal often loft an audi
ence unmoved, ho never failed to
carry his audience with him on a
moral issuo if ho could put it clearly
before them. Wo need not tell Mr.
Taft, for ho knows it already, that
tho broken tariff pledge of his party
has been brought within tho clear ap
prehension of the people. No truth
in our political history was over bet
ter known.
His party and he appealed for tho
votes of the people upon tho promise
that the DIngley tariff should be re
vised downward, we repeat, revised
downward. Ho made that promise
many times, as a candidate pledging
his personal faith that tho party's
promise should bo kept. Tho votes
were given, his party triumphed, ho
was elected. The promise was not
kept, Mr. Taft and tho republican
leaders have deceived the people.
What does it avail him now, what
has it availed him since tho Winona
speech to repeat his feeble, paltering
defense of that dishonorable decep
tion? Fifteen million voters can not
be lied to and not find it out. Un
doubtedly Mr. Taft believed the
pledge would be kept'. He did not
then consciously deceive the people.
But on that day last September when
ho abased himself to declare, as he
declared again Saturday night, that
the Aldrich-Payne tariff is "the best
customs law that has ever been
passed" the country learned with
deep regret and concern that it must
revise its judgment of the character
and moral fiber of its president. That
is why Ohio, his own state, is in
grave danger; that is why in every
state from the Ohio border west to
tho Pacific the party is rent with
factional discord; that is why the re
publicans, in all probability are to
lose in next fall's election their ma
jority in the house of representatives.
How different today would have
been Mr. Taft's standing before the
people if with the courage of a man
he had vetoed the bill and denounced
the treachery that shaped it. New
York Times.
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Representative Shirley of Ken
tucky discussed his resolution, pro
viding a method by which a majority
could bring before the house any
bill pigeonholed by a committee.
MR. TAFT AND THE PEOPLE
President Taft altogether fails to
understand the cause of the wide
spread and growing displeasure of
the people with his administration.
His speech at the Republican club
banquet Saturday night was a cry of
alarm unmistakably it was that.
But it was also an attempt at justifi
cation, and in that his failure was
so disastrous that he visibly added
to the causes of present dissatisfac
tion. What is it that blinds the eyes
of Mr. Taft to the plain truth that
the great issue upon which his ad-
GETTING A RAISE
A year ago a manufacturer hired a
boy. For months there was nothing
noticeable about the boy except that
he never took his eyes off the ma
chine he was running. A few weeks
ago the manufacturer looked up
from his work to see the boy standing
beside his desk.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"Want me pay raised."
"What are you getting?"
"T'ree dollars a week."
"Well, how much do you think
you aro worth?"
"Four dollars."
"You think so, do you?"
"Yes, sir, an' I've been t'inkin' so
for t'reo weeks, but I've been so
blamed busy I ain't had time to
speak to you about it."
Tho boy got the raise. Success.
MASCULINE TACT
"He's always getting himself in
wrong."
"What's he dono now?"
"Told that young mother, when
she showed him her baby, that his
sister had three just like it." De
troit Free Press.
REFORMATION
"You used to be an awful spend
thrift." "Yep. But I ain't any
longer." "Ah! Reformed?" "No
I spent it all." Cleveland Leader.
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