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pany. He told the Helm committeo
of the Illinois legislature that it was
not true, and I believe him.
" 'Also Weyerhauser was named,
but I don't know which Weyer
hauser.' "
Representative Swagar Sherley, of
Kentucky introduced an amendment
to the pure food and drugs act pro
hibiting false and misleading state
ments as to tho curative value of a
medicinal preparation on patent
medicine labels.
OUR BIRD FRIENDS
Do you attend the morning con
certs? If you do not then you have
missed one of the soulful uplifts of
Onawa. Our town, studded as it is
with trees and shrubs, is the abiding
place of thousands of song birds.
I hear, or think I do, some man
or woman whose soul is dwarfed,
and whose senses are dumb to the
tunefulness and soulfulness of these
early matins, turn aside in derision
as if this part of creation has no part
in the coarse fiber of their being
pity for the soul so poorly developed.
It is not strange that the being
that can not praise, be it human or
not, is lost to the sweetest and
holiest of earth.
I love the laughter of the chil
dren, because it is tuned to the
music of joy and innocence.
I love the singing of the boys and
girls, because it floats from hearts
that are vibrating the strains of love
as it dwells in joyous souls.
I cherish the lullaby of the mother
as she sings to the babe on her
breast, because it is love from the
heart's deepest fountain.
I love the hallelujahs of hym
nology and the anthems of the mas
ters, because they link In sublime
grandeur the harmonies of earth and
heaven. . .
T love the TBymphonies of the great
orchestra as it reveals the possibili
ties of tho tone world and brings to
us the immortal strains as if bor
rowed from a realm all divine. s
But, I turn to catch -a glow of
creation, in this tho springtime of
life, when it is renewing itself
when the resurrection of nature is
bursting forth in the thousand
avenues of creation in resplendent
form.
But in it all there is nothing more
charming than the matins of the bird
creation, trilling- and' chanting their
praises of thanksgiving.
Our own Missouri . valley from
mountain to plain is richly endowed
with these feathered songsters of
the air.
Their species run into the hundreds-and
their calls, chants and
symphonies proclaim'- each bright
morning their praise for the new
born day.
I hear what seems to be a requiem
longing for a lost or departed lover,
and again I hear the twitter and the
love Bong of the sparrow and thrush
the bravado of the bluejay, the
tuneful and finished cadence of the
martin and the bright praise of the
lark, all tuned with nature's splen
dor, to which symphony of the mas
ters have given listening ears that
they might transplant for great or
chestral effects, but only as an ar
tist's brush is given vision to repro
duce a sunset. W. H. Wonder in
the Onawa Democrat.
it would furnish tho easiest method
in the world for making ineffective
the competition of tho Independents.
Judge Gary has full faith and con
fidence that the price fixed by a
standpat government and like a
true son of Privilege, ho can imagine
no other Bort would bo ample to
provido dividends on the $1,200,
000,000 of watered securities lsauud
by the overtopping steel corporation.
And ho realizes that nothing short
of governmental power can pay
premiums on nothingness much
longer.
It is a very fine scheme for
Judge Gary. But tho American
people still believe that government
has plenty of work without pulling
the steel trust chestnuts out of tho
fire. And as for the regulation of
prices, why not try to regulate them
by letting them alone? Why not
give us absolute free trade in steel
and steel products, and then, after
a few years' experiment, see whether
prices needed regulating? Denver
News.
POLITICS AND BUSINESS
Tho democratic majority in the
house of representatives has so far
eschewed politics and paid strict at
tention to business. It has made a
record for quick work which stands
without a parallel in the history of
that body. This record can be con
tinued providing the democrats con
tinue to give attention to business.
The democratic program has in
cluded a reduction of the duties of
schedule "K," known as the wool
schedule. The reduction proposed
has in many respects been radical
because the wool industry of the
country, controlled by the trust, has
manipulated in such a way as to
Increase the cost of wearing apparel.
The purpose has been to reduce the
cost of living. But this purpose has
been somewhat shaken by the protest
Of. the trust which has threatened
reprisals in case too radical reduc
tions In duties are made. The threats
have somewhat disturbed Champ
Clark, speaker of the house, who
has presidential aspirations.
Mr. ClaTk wan a party to the tenta
tive program of the democratic cau
cus in which radical reductions in
the wool schedule were decided upon.
He is as much bound by the decision
of that caucus as any other democrat
who attended it, political aspirations
to the contrary notwithstanding. He
can make no greater mistake now
than to engage in a game of politics
for his own advancement, at the ex
pense of his party and the business
of the. country. Pennsylvania Grit.
THE MEANING OUT
. When Judge Gary says he would
like to have the federal government
supervise the business of tho steel
trust, he is merely expressing his
confidence in the ability of the steel
trust to manipulate the foderal
government. If the government
fixed a price at which stool products
could be sold, and permitted none
to cut that price as Gary desires
WELCOME TO MR. BRYAN
It will be a great pleasure to wel
come Mr. Bryan to Des Moines
today.
He comes to lay tho cornerstone
of the new Young Men's Christian
association building and this will not
be a perfunctory service, for no man
has stood for manliness in private
life more conspicuously.
He comes to make a few brief re
marks about the general character
of tho republican administration, and
it will be a relief to listen to a witty
democratic arraignment, after so
many months of rasping republican
arraignment.
He comes finally to give us some
hint of the democratic situation, and
for once the country is genuinely
interested in what the democrats
propose to do, and in what Mr.
Bryan proposes to do.
It Is not unlikely that Mr. Bryan
will say something tonight that will
be heard a great deal beyond the
walls of the banqueting room. Tho
time, the place and the man are
well met, and this is the psychologi
cal moment.
Welcome to Mr. Bryan. Des
Moines (Iowa) Register and Leader
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