PARTY DIFFERENCES
DISCIPLINE IN THE TWO GREAT
ORGANIZATIONS.
Criticism of the Democrato Method
of Procedure, as Compared With
the Republican Recalcitrants
Forced Back Into Line.
Tho Republican party is a party of
admirable discipline.
In this respect It presents the
strongest poHsiblo contrast to the
Democratic party, which has the least
lladpllne consistent with an organ
Ued existence.
If the Republican party were' like
he Democratic la this respect the
Henderon pisoIo would hardly cause
more than a ripple of excitement.
When a conspicuous Democratic
nuile breaks put of the traces and lets
fly his heels to the disastrous wreck
age of tho Democratic wagon nobody
yets much excited, because It Is Just
what everybody is looking for and is
rather disappointed if he does not see.
If It Is not down on the bills it is un
derstood to be part of the show as
much a3 the clown in tie circus or
the end men in tho old-stylo minstrel
trou pe.
With the Republican party it Is dif
ferent. If any one in the working
traces begins to grow fractious tho
team is driven to a retired spot where
the noise will not be heard and the re
bellious animal is subjected to disci
pline of one kind or another until
he Is ready to reappear In public pull
ing along as submissively as though
nothing had happened.
. From the party point of view there
is a whole lot of wisdom in the Re
publican way and a corresponding lot
of folly In the Democratic way.
Not long ago the western organs of
the Republican party and the local
politicians thereof were quite warm,
the most of them, in booming what Is
known as the Iowa Idea. Iiut there
was insurrection In that Idea, and the
disciplinarians steered its western
supporters down Into a ravine and la
Lored with them In that seclusion for
l season.
When they reappeared they were
very cautious In their allusions to
the fewa idea in their organs and
their speeches and their platforms.
The disciplinary medicine was work
ing about as satisfactorily as usual,
and a facilis descensus had been pro
vided for the insurrectos by some of
the head disciplinarians at Oyster
Ray, when suddenly Mr. Henderson,
who had not been Invited Into that po
litical heaven, broke loose with a wild
war-whoop and refused to g?t back
into line in obedience to orders wired
from the seats of disciplinary power.
Mr. Henderson's astounding effront
ery and obstinacy In acting for him
self at first threw the other managers
off their balance, tut already they
seem to have righted themselves and
to have gathered up the disciplinary
reins with the partisan wisdom which
has characterized them in the past.
It now looks as though the big wag
on from which Mr. Henderson threw
himself in his. haste v.ould roll right
on. leaving that statesman to pick
.hmsqlf up and dust W. .self off and
meditate upon his loneliness at his
leisure.
Meantime tho western organs and
platform carpenters and spell binders
will submit on the tariff question as
t'aey always have done and leave the
Iowa idea to wander about, awaiting
a more convenient season for its rec
ognition. Ten Millions for Relief.
Taking dispatches from Washington
at their face value, we would suppose
that Secretary Shaw had directed that
$10,000,000 be taken from the treasury
and deposited with national banks of
fering the requisite security in the
form of United States bonds.
If he has in fact done such a thing
it is a pretty serious matter. It is
not to be supposed that he has disre
garded precedent and the law as it
has always been construed with re
spect to deposits of public money in
banks.
The law provides that collections
under the internal revenue laws aiay
be deposited in designated bank de
positories. In another section it pro
vides that public money excepting
customs duties collected may be so
deposited.
The meaning must be that money
may be deposited when collected, but
not after it has been turned Into the
treasury. After It has been turned
Into the treasury that which comes
from customs duties is not distinguish
able from that derived from any oth
er source. In order, therefore, to com
ply with the provision that custom
duties must not be deposited in banks
it is necessary to hold that only money
derived from other sources can be de
posited, and that it must be deposited
as collected and before it is placed in
the treasury.
Construing the law thus, as it has
been construed heretofore. It is evi
dent that any relief derived from new
deposits can be afforded only to the
extent of current collections of public
money except customs.
Home and Foreign Prices.
The trust.i have been forced to ad
mit that they are selling their prod
ucts to foreigners at lower prices than
they sell the same goods to American
consumers. So much is conceded. We
may stick a pin right there. Now
ccrr.s the explanation, the excuse.
Foreigners are given lower prices, it
is said, "to offset transportation
charges and duty," "to meet English
manufacturers, "rather than be
forced out of the market," "to meet
foreign prices. But when -.his Is said
the fact remains that the price is
made lower and that a profit is made
on the lower price. And this is the
only material point.
All That Is Necessary.
An eastern newspaper quotes the
tirst section of the Sherman anti-trust
act and asks President Roosevelt to
enrorce it before askins for higher
authority in a constitutional amend
ment; it is as follows: "Every con
tract, combination in the form of
trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in
restraint of trade or commerce among
the several states, or with foreign na
tions. Is hereby declared illegta.
Every person, who chaU cuke any such
contract or encage fn any anch com
bination or conspiracy shall be dee mad
guilty of a misdemeanor and, on con
vlctlon thereof, shall be punished by
fine not exocedlng $5,000 or by im
prisonment not exceeding one year, or
by both said punishments, in the dis
cretion of tho court"
Duties Shelter Monopoly."
Speaker Henderson, criticising the
Republican platform of his state,
which calls for a reduction of tariff
duties that "shelter monopoly." boldly
declares that there are no such
duties.
How, then, does he account for the
fact, fully proved by the price current
lists of exporters, that the American
farmers pay $14 for a trust-made
plough which a foreign farmer can
buy for J12.C0?
What sort of a tariff is It If it does
not "shelter monopoly," that enables
the steel trust, on the sworn testi
mony of President Schwab, to sell its
steel rails for $23 a ton in Europe,
and at tho tame time charge Ameri
can buyers $28 a ten for them?
If tariff duties that enable tho
manufacturers of barbed wire to
charge American consumers $3 per
100 pounds for It while they are sell
ing it at $2 per 100 pounds in foreign
markets; that put American axes in
tho hands of European farmers for
$7.20 a dozen and make American
farmers pay $8.25 a dozen for them;
that provide English tables with
knives at $12 a ross that cost Amer
ican families $V$ a gross, and that
provide European women with sewing
machines for $7 apiece less than
American women pay for them If
such duties are not "sheltering mon
opoly," what are they sheltering?
Certainly not the American people.
Trust Mayi'tes Not Alarmed.
The shrewd ind resourceful men
who are at th head of the great in
dustrial combinations entertain no
apprehensions as to the future of the
trusts so long as the American people
can be deluded into the belief that an
amendment of the constitution is all
that is necessary to curb the power
of tho trusts. Of course they will pro
fess to be : larmed and indignant at
the President's philosophical and not
unfriendly discussion of the subject on
the stump and in his message to con
gress, but that is only a part of the
game. Such tactics are as old as the
hills.
Republicans In the South.
The Savannah News quotes Sena
tor Money of Mississippi as saying
that "a white Republican party in the
south, accompanied by an attendance
of dignity and worth, Is a practical
impossibility." But the News re
marks: "It may be so, though the
readiness with which many white men
of standing voted for McKinley seems
scarcely to bear the statement out.
The Republican party is essentially
the party of special privileges and
centralized government, and there are
men in the south occupying advanta
geous positions who think these things
are right."
Where Prosperity Is Found.
The Toledo Beo (Dem.) quotes the
price list of forty household articles
necessary to life, health and comfort,
including rent, provisions and other
domestic supplies, showing an increase
in price since 1897 of from 10 or 12
to 40 per cent without any correspond
ing increase in the wages of labor and
no increase in the pay of salaried po
sitions. It then asks: "What sort
of prosperity Is that? Who is enjoy,
ing It? The favored few who con
tribute liberally to II anna's campaign
funds and take their compensation in
apecial privileges."
Spirit of Protest in Iowa.
Although it has cot till this week
attracted national attention, the spirit
of protest against existing conditions
politically has been abroad In Iowa a
long time. It took a long time for in
surgency to muster courage enough to
tackle the misrepresentation of iowa
in national affairs. For years insur
gency had its hands full taking the
state administration out of control of
local corporate Influences. Governor
Cummins' nomination was the victory
of this movement.
Arrogance of the Trusts.
An eminent corporation lawyer was
privately quoted the other day as say
ing something like this: "Five years
ago my clients used to come to me and
say: 'We want to do such and such a
thing; is it legal? I would then ex
amine the matter carefully and give
an opinion on it. and not until they
had my opinion would they go ahead
with their plan. Nowadays they come
to me and say: 'We have done thus
and so; make it legaL'" Wall Street
Journal.
Wellington's Sad Plight.
Senator Wellington of Maryland,
who has played the length of his
string so. far as the Republicans are
concerned, now wants the Democrats
of the Cumberland district. In that
state, to nominate him as a candidate
for the lower house. As the Maryland
Democrats are tolerably level-headed,
the chances are that they will do noth
ing of the kind, and that Wellington
will continue to be what he is now a
man without a party.
Senator Hanna's Position.
Senator Hanna said to an interview
er at Oyster Bay: "As long as I re
main in the senate and can raise a
hand to stop you you shall never touch
a schedule of the tariff act." The cor
respondent says that "a flushed face
and a clinched first accompanied this
announcement."
The President and the Trust.
The Albany Argus (Dem.) quotes
President Roosevelt as saying aftei
his return from his southern tour: "J
feel like a prize fighter," and adds:
"Prize fighters nowadays talk and
don't fight much. Was the president
thinking of his attitude toward the
trusts?"
Party Leaders Anxious.
It used to be the rank and file whe
were bothering over a revision of the
tariff. Now it is the party leader,
and they are anxiously button-holing
each other while asking what they art
to do to be saved.
HIE TRUST PROBLEM
ONLY WAY BY WHICH THEY CAN
BE CURBED.
The People Should Send a Majority of
Democrats to the Next House of
Representatives Honest Tariff Re
vision Then a Certainty.
The Trusts are hauling on the lariat
of the Rough Rider, through their
senatorial friends, Hanna, Allison,
Spooner, Aldrich and Lodge. A con
ference was held at Oyster Bay, Sept.
16, and its purpose la stated In that
good republican organ, the Record
Herald, of Chicago, which said: "The
practical question which President
Roosevelt wants determined is wheth
er or not In bis speeches on his west
ern tour be shall encourage or re
press the tariff-revision agitation,
wnich is fast becoming the most acute
phase of the national politics of the
times. The President has found dur
ing his recent tours that tho demand
for taking the tariff from trust-made
goods Is more pronounced than sup
port for his own trust legislation
proposition. He has learned that the
people look upon the former as some
thing that can be attained immediate
ly if Congress will only act, while the
latter is far in the future. Hence the
President's anxiety to know what he
ought to do about it."
The President is evidently in a tight
place. In his stumping tour of New
England and the South he was as si
lent about tariff reduction on trust
productions as the republican cam
paign book, but he Is getting restive
under the restrictions of the "let well
enough alone" policy. The Senatorial
Coterie above named has been
strengthening up his backbone to con
tinue to let well enough alone and not
make promises in his Western trip
that cannot be realized wnen Congress
meets.
If the President breaks the lariat
that the trust Senators have lassooed
him with and ta. 3 tariff revision
there will be a serious split in the
republican party. The ultra protec
tionists, headed by the Protective
Tariff league and the Home Market
club, are determineu to withstand any
aaempt of revision. The leaders of
the republican party are of the same
opinion and a majority of the Senate
are controlled by the same trust influ
ences. To open up the question of re
vising the tariff on any one schedule
will open the way for other amend
ments, and under the rules of the
Senate a vote cannot be avoided. The
Democrats will see that the Repub
licans are put on record on every
schedule, and public opinion may be
come so strong tnat enough Repub
licans will be found voting with them
to force a general revision of the
schedules that protect the trusts in
tneir monopolies. This revision will
not take place at the second session
of the present Congress which meets
next December, for a few determined
protectionists could prolong the dis
cussion and prevent action. Nor will
the House of Representatives, organ
ized as it is in the trusts' interest, ini
tiate such legislation, but the new
Congress to be -elected in November
may be organized on different lines.
If President Roosevelt should call
a special session next March or April
with a message recommending revi
sion of the tariff, it would open up the
whole subject, or the leaders would
have to ignore hi3 recommendations
and a party seism would result.
There is another way in which the
people can compel action against the
trusts, by electing the majority of the
next House of Representatiees who
are Democrats and pledged to tariff
revision. With such a bill passed it
would be up to the Senate to accept
or defeat it, and the same public opin
ion that elects the popular branch of
Congress would doubtless bring some
Republican members of the Senate to
vote with the Democrats. Vote for
State Senators or Representatives
who will pledge themselves to vote for
a United States Senator who is for
tariff reform, and trust monopolies
will soon be a thin of the past.
The Taming of Roosevelt.
Two political events occurred on
Tuesday, Sept. 16, that will have a far
reaching effect on the politics of the
country. That they nappened simul
taneously may have been an accident
but would point to a deep laid plan.
On that day President Roosevelt
had called together at Oyster Bay
the leaders of his party to consult
with them about the position he
should take on the tariff and the
trusts in his political speeches in the
west.
On the same day Speaker Hender
son declined to accept a renomination
to congress, giving as the reason that
"a great many" Republicans in his
district were in favor of reforming
the tariff by taking off the protection
that the Dingley bill gives to the
trusts.
Both the president and the speaker
of the House of Representatives had
discovered that "a great many" Re
publicans wanted reform. They were
tired of paying more for the trust
made goods than the same goods were
being sold to foreigners for. Speaker
Henderson had, through the power
of his political machine, stifled the
voice of those independent Republi
cans, and on the face of the returns
his convention, made up of office
holders and political strikers, renomi
nated him and made a platform of his
own choosing of the patented stripe.
This happened in May. He returns
to his district in September and finds
the voice of the people crying alond
for reform. He resigned the nomina
tion, a very honest and sensible thing
to do under the circumstances, as
his own interests were at variance
with the voters.
Over a hundred Republican nomi
nees for congress, if honest should
take the, same step. Grosvenor and
others of Ohio;Hemenway and Landis
and Overstreet of Indiana; Louden
6lager and others in New Jersey, and
so the list of states might be gone
through. Nearly every congressman
from r0wa, If honest, would step
aside. All these and others know that
tariff reform sentiment is overwhelm
in? tn the central and western states.
iVesident Roosevelt has also dis
covered, even in New England, that
tariff reform sentiment was rampant,
but he did not have the pluck of Hen
derson. He looked for a way to evade
the Issue that he knew was right an4
on the side of the people. His con
science told him that he should boldly
champion their cause against the
trusts and corporations. But he)
heeded It not and called In the chosen
protection advocates, knowing what
their advice would be before he asked
it.
The senatorial Junta that controls
legislation, through their power as
chairman of the Important committee,
decided, of course, that reform of the
tariff must not be an Issue. The presi
dent must go to tho western states
and make no promise of relief from
the real cause of the enormous prices
of the necessaries of life. Thus the
trusts have the president gagged, his
talks to the people will be stifled by
the orders of the senatorial Junta.
The coincidence of the announcement
of the retirement of Henderson at the
very time the senators were persuad
ing the president to forego tariff dis
cussions, is so remarkable that it is
easy to believe that the trusts are
back of both of these extraordinary
announcements.
All the senators r resent have been
consistent friends of the combines
and corporations, every vote they
have cast, the bills they have smoth
ered, all prove this. Now when the
pinch comes and an erratic president
is to be lassoed why should they not
all join in a plan to corral him?
Henderson will soon get his reward,
but will the president reach his am
bltion?
How Hanna and the trust magnates
must be laughing In their sleeves at
the taming of the Rough Rider.
William Teddy Tell.
Important Shipping News.
The Republican fleet is in great
danger from tariff fog and Trust
rocks. The pilot at Oyster Bay is rat
tled and swearing.
The Republican brethren are
thrown on their beam ends and the
captains of the state ships are howl
ing their orders in the teeth of the
adverse gale that has struck them.
The pilotsWiat gathered at Oyster
Bay have issued a new chart which
discloses several hitherto unknown
dangers and a new red beacon light
has been ordered on the rocky tariff
coast to warn these mariners from
approaching too near it. The trust
rocks are looming up in every direc
tion and it requires all the skill of
the political mariners to avoid those
dangers and yet hold to the course
that has been marked out for themi
which must be resisted in order td
reach the haven where they would be
the snug harbor of Washington
The perils of the voyages of these
craft have been added to by the pirate
Henderson who, with his swift ship,
Protection, manned by a large crew
of the most desperate freebooters
who have ever sailed the main, is hid
behind the rocky promonotory of
Dubuque, and they fear him.
The most disastrous news that
comes to the captains of the fleet is
that the ammunition supplied them
from the Republican arsenal is worth
less, and it will take time for the
powder mills and casting shops to fur
nish m new supply.
The good ship Illinois with Captain
Rowe in command, struck the tariff
and trust rocks Sept. 18, and is leek
ing badly, her ammunition is to be
discharged and a new consignment
put aboard. The Chicago Tribune of
that date gives the account of tho
worthlessness of the ammunition,
though the editor is evidently so rat
tled by the reports of disaster that
are pouring in th?c he has mixed up
politics with his shipping news. Here
is what he says:
"The campaign managers will fol
low the results of the conference at
Oyster Bay on Tuesday and prepare
new literature on tariff revision,
trusts and reciprocity with Cuba. The
purpose of this is to divide them and
treat each question separately."
Other ships of staio are known to
be in similar desperate condition and
news of them Is awaited with anxiety.
Good Democratic Platform.
The Cleveland Leader (Rep.) aska
what better anti-trust platform the
Democrats can adopt than that of the
Republican national platform of 1900
as follows: "We condemn all con
spiracles and combinations intended
to restrict business, to create mon
opolies, to limit production or to con
trol prices, and favor soch legislation
as will effectively restrain and pre
vent all such abuses, protect and
promote competition and secure the
rights of producers, of laborers and
all who are engaged In Industry and
commerce." The Democratic answer:
"You did not mean it and have done
nothing in two years to carry the
platform Into effect through enforcing
anti-trust laws.'"
Common Sense Solution.
The Brooklyn, N. Y., Citizen (Dem.)
says that "a constitutional amendment
is a sham prescription" to cure the
trust evil and that "the Democratic
proposition to abolish protective
duties on all articles that are con
trolled by trusts, and which experi
ence has shown can be produced at
cheaply here as in Europe, is manl
festly the determination of commo
sense combined with good faith."
Commoner
extracts from W.
BEGINNING TO THINK.
I recently had an Interesting con
versation with a well-to-do republican
and the substance of it is reproduced
because it Illustrates what is going on
In the minds of many who have been
so busily engaged in business that
they have neglected their civic duties.
The republican referred to introduced
himself on a railroad train and asked
If he might submit a question. Of
course he was invited to ask as many
questions as he liked. He began by
explaining that he had grown up In a
republican family and had voted the
republican ticket regularly down to
and including 1900, but he said that
since that time he had been thinking
ad that he had come to the conclusion
that some men were accumulating
such large fortunes that they were ac
quiring a dangerous influence over the
country among such men he men
tioned Morgan and Rockerfeller. To
assure me that he was himself in no
danger of want he remarked that for
a number of years his Income had
ranged from ten to thirty thousand per
year. After enumerating the evils of
concentrated wealth he stated his con
clusion, namely, that he could
suggest but three possible rem
edies; filrst, the reform of
monopolists so that they would cease
to tyrannize over their fellows; sec
ond, restraining legislation, and. third,
revolution. He did not. have much faith
In the reformation of the monopolists
and did not like to think of the possi
bility of revolution, and he was al
most convinced that the republican
party would not enact effective re
straining legislation. He asked me if
I could think of any other remedies and
I told him that he had covered the
ground. I agreed with him that while
an appeal to the conscience of the
monopolists is proper and desirable, it
would not. be fair to make the people
rely for their safety upon the success
of such an appeal. I assured him that
revolution was not to be thought of;
that those who would not protect their
rights by the ballot need never to ex
pect to have them nrotected by force,
and I had no difficulty in agreeing with
him that the republican party is im
potent to supply the remedy. The re
publican party lost some of its best
men in 1872 men who had joined the
party from high motives and would
not stay with it when it became cor
rupted by power. Then the greenback
and nopulist parties drew away a large
number of republicans who were not
willing to have the country run by a
few financiers in their own interests.
In 1896 and in 1900 the republican party
again suffered from the desertion of
many of its most intelligent and pa
triotic members some estranged by
the gold standard and others by the
policy of imperialism. The party thus
weakened by constant erosion was fur
ther ininred by the accession of a con
siderable number of gold, corporation
and monopoly democrats. Besides hav
ing exchanged its reformers for the
money-loving and money-serving ele
ment in other parties it has ! en mort
gaged bv its leaders to the banks, the
syndicates and the combines. It is
powerless to respond to the wishes of
the peonle and must in the end disan
point those of its members who still
entertain a lingering hope of its re
generation. Not only- does th republican party
refuse to yield to the reasonable de
mands of its better members, but it
goes on buildinsr the dam higher and
higher, unmindful of the fact that
each new plank increases the danger of
flood, for nubile oninion. now re
strained, will some day sweep all ob
stacles away and mock the efforts of
those who attempt to stop' the progress
of civilization and check the develop
ment of human liberty.
My caller informed me that he knew
fifty republicans amens his nersonal
acquaintances who were thinking se
riously on economic and political con
ditions and who were reaching the
same conclusion that he had.
It. was encouraging to learn of this
promised reinforcement from the ranks
of successful business men. We have
already a nowerful army of the middle
classes those who have brain and
muscle, who are willing to work and
only desire a fair share of the re
wards of their toil the common people
who are both the wealth producers
and warriors of the nation. We can
never expect to secure the support
of thos who can be corrupted or co
erced, for our party lacks the means
either to buy or compel votes, and let
us hope that it w'll always lack the
dese to do so. Onr appeal must be
to those who can think and have the
courage to act. and this appeal can be
made to the rich as well as the poor
to the rich that they may leave the'r
children a good eovernraent. which is
a more substantial inheritance than
welath: to the poor that they mav
guarantee to their children a fair
chance in the race of life.
The democratic partv Is really the
conservative party of the nation; it
builds upon time-honored principles
and opens it doors to those of every
calling, profession and occupation, pro
vided, they believe in equal rights to
all and special privileges to none. It
is gratifying to see that men of inde
dopendent fortunes are awakening to
the seriousness of the situation and
beginnine: to search for a remedy for
present ills.
A careful readinsr of the president's
touring speeches will reveal an evident
desire on his part to pin-pong the
tariff question into the re-election net.
While framing long sentences to con
ceal his thoughts about the trusts. Mr.
Roosevelt mieht experiment a little
hv enforcing the criminal clause of the
Sherman anti-trust law.
The insurrection in the Phillipines
has been suppressed anin; isn't it
about time for the republicans to say
what thy are going to do with the
Filipinos.
Congressman Cousins savs the Iowa
republican platform is a "dirty, lousy
lie." but Mr. Cousins would rather be
Infected and soiled than lose his Job.
Chairman Babeoek has crawled so
far back into his tariff revision hole
that only the tips of his ears remain
visible.
It seems abot time that the "in
fant" industries be stopped in their
practice of assimilating the whole bill
of fare.
The "Babcock idea" we heard about
last winter seems to have been dis
guised. Tom Johnson's "circusr is drawing
the people, and also a lot of republican
Imprecations.
Comment.
J. Aryan's Paper.
MR. LITTLEFI ELD'S DILI
Mr. Littlefleld baa made known the
details of his proposed anti-trust bill,
which bill, it is said, has the indorse
ment of President Roosevelt
The "Important feature" of the bill.
In Mr. Littlefield'B opinion. Is that pro
viding that no one shall be exempt
from giving testimony in an inquiry
into a trust an the ground that his
testimony might tend to Incriminate
him or subject him to penalty. It Is
provided, however, that no person shall
be prosecuted or subjected to any pen
alty or forfeiture on account of any
transaction, matter of thing concern
ing which he may testify or produce
evidence. Mr. Littlefleld thinks that
this provision will bring men like
Morgan, Hill and Vanderbllt into court
and force them to turn state's evidence
against their will.
The bill provides that a man who
sues a trust and recovers Judgment
is to receive three times the actual
damage suffered, is to have all his
lawyer fees paid by the trust, and that
the trust is to pay all other expenses
of the suit, including the court co-ts.
The bill further provides for the pub
licity Idea through a system of regis
tration, to be made with the secretary
of the treasury. A tax of 1 per cunt
per annum is to be levied on all capi
tal stock Issued and outstanding of
any corporation engaged In Interstate
commerce whose outstanding capital Is
not full value or whose capital stock
is not fully paid In cash or other prop
erty at its cash market value, or whose
capital Is based whelly or in part, di
rectly or indirectly, during any period
of its development upon the capitaliza
tion of earning capacity of economics.
One thing that stands in the way
of the "Important feature" of Mr. Lit
tlefleld's bill, that relating to the tes
timony of trust magnates, is thut tho
indisposition on the part of these mag
nates to reveal the secrets of their
methods will not be interfered with by
the guarantee that they are not to be
prosecuted on the basis of any con
fession. The existing federal law provides a
proceeding which would be more effec
tive than anything yet devised by Mr.
Roosevelt and his associates. It is
the criminal indictment. And it will
occur to the ordinary man that it Is
decidedly strange that these republican
leaders go to so much trouble to frame
ponderous bills under the pretense
that the trusts are to be crushed or
controlled while the most effective
weapon lies idle on the statute books.
It is true that the people are con
fronted with a great problem In the
question as to how to deal with the
trust evil, but we have a riht to doubt
the sincerity of men, who. while pre
tending to make a campaign against
trusts, have not undertaken to enforce
the chief feature of the existing law
have not undertaken to give the peo-
which is the criminal proceeding, and
pie an explanation of their failure to
adopt that simple and practical plan.
The Cleveland Leader says: "The
republican party is competent to settle
any question that may arise. It is
the party of prosperity and construe
tion. It meets issues with intelligence
and wisdom, and all the timid men who
vote its ticket have to do is to keep
busy at the daily affairs and to trust
the party to do its duty as it always
has done in the past.
But. who are the party?
Here we are told that the timid
voter has nothing to do but vole while
"the party" will look after everything,
The republican organization, com
posed of a few leaders and controlled
by corporate wealth, will attend to the
government and relieve the voters of
all responsibility. The rank and file
of the party are told to trust "the
party;" they are told that "the party"
can do no wrong; that it always has
done right and always will.
If a lay member of the party as
sumes to criticise imperialistic methods
he is denounced as a timid republican
and told to trust the party. If he
objects to having the financiers dictate
the financial policy of the government
he is denounced a3 a timid republican
and told to trust the party. If he com
plains of the trusts or of a high tariff,
he is denounced as a timid republican
and told to trust the party. The
Leader's' advice recalls a story told me
some years ago by a farmers' alliance
speaker. He said the farmers would
elect a man to office and that it was
the duty of the official to act as a
watchman on the tower. "But," the
speaker added, "when the farmers In
quires, 'Watchman, what of the night?
the answer is plow on. plow on." The
Leader would simply add "and trust
the republican party."
The money wrung from the people
by unjust taxation is loaned by the
government without interest to favored
banks, and the act is called "relieving
the money famine." And the wonder
is that there are so many people who
believe it.
Imperialists said thev could not dis
cuss their Philippine policy until the
Filipinos laid down their arms; now
they say that the insurrection has
been suppressed and that it is too late
to discuss the subject.
Anthracite coal is still rising, but
be patient, republicans, the president
may get his amendment through in
four or five years and you ought to be
willing to freeze a little bit for your
party's sake.
The statement that the steel trust
earned $140,000,000 profit last year Is
misleading. To earn is to render an
equivalent.
It is barely possible that the presi
dent imagines he can cure the trust
evil by suggestive therapeutics.
One democrat was elected to the
Vermont senate. The Vermont legis
lature can not be wholly bad.
Perhaps Mr. Henderson's opposition
to the platform was not so great as
his fears of the result.
It seems that the news of the decla
ration of peace in the Philippines has
not yet reached the soldiers and Fili
pinos. The republican leaders appear to be
working several of the McKinley poli
cies in the reverse motion.
Mr. Knox's fight against Miss Taylor
is much fiercer than his fight against
the beef trust.
The gentlemen who imagine that de
mocracy needs reorganizing should
consult an alienist.
H OWING THE WAV.
Host of our readers know all about
the aches and pains of a bad back,
very few people are free from sick
kidneys, aa the kidneys are the most
overworked organs of the body and
"go wrong" at times no matter how
well the general health may bo. The
trou bio Is so fow understand Uie ln
dieaUona of kidney trou bio. You ero
nervous, tired out and weary, have
sUtchea, twinges and twitches of
backache pains, but lay It to other
causes; finally the rinoysnco and
suffering attendant with urinary dis
orders, retention of the urine, too fre
quent urination makes you realize tho
seriousness of It At any stago
you should take a remedy that will
not only relieve but euro you. Road
tho following aad profit by tho lessou
it teaches:
C. J. McMurray, a resident of Freo
port. 111., ad dr fun 47 Iroquois St,
says: "I have greater faith in Doan's
Klalncy Pills today than I had In the
fall of 1897, when I ttrt took that
remedy and It cured iu of an acuto
pain across the back Ubd 1 input foot
action of Uio kidneys. Since I in ado
a public statement of these facta and
recommended Doan's Kidney Pills to
my friends and acquaintances, thor
oughly believing as I did both from
observation and exporienco that thoy
would do Jut as they were represent
ed to do. I am still jleuied to re
indorse my stftteruttut given to the
public shortly after I first began to
use the remedy."
A FRE1C TRIAL of this great Kid
ney medicine, wJilch cured Mr. Mo
Murray, will be ualled on application
to any part of tho Uultod States. Ad
dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price
60 cents per box.
To Prohibit Base Ball. ;
The legislature of MIhhIhhIppI will
probably be asked to consider a bill
to prohibit the game of baHcball be
tween the 1st of September and the
close of the yenr. The reason given
for this Is rather peculiar. It is said
that when the reason for cotlon pick
ing arrives the negroea become pro
foundly interested in baseball. In on
little town the other day nine games
of baseball were In progrenn at one,
time, thereby taking 1GI4 men from
the cotton fields, without counting the
Bpectators. As the n-groe keep their
ball teams organized the year round
In some of the cotton regions, it Im
hold that they can get enough of the
game in eight months of tho year.
Tho coal miner kicks because he in.
kept down In tho world.
Dropsy treated free- by Dr. IT. IT. Ornn's
Sons, of Atlatitu, tin. Tim gt -nttHt diopKjr',
sjKx-ialibts in U.o world. Knad their o-iver-'
tiaament ira another column of tbiH pnpnr
Bettor the old man's bank account
than the young man's I. (. U.'s.
KF.I) CKOHS llll. I. lUX'K
Bhould bo in every home. Ank your grocer
for it. Largo ' ok. puckuo only 5 cents.
The man wno puts a quarter In thoi
contribution box feels a glow of prido-J
ful ownership the next timo ho hears
the chimes on that particular church.'
HotherGrajr'nSwiwi I'uwiuti for CtolldrAoj
Baccemfully UHed by Mother Jray, our
tn the Children's Home in New York. Cur
Feerlshfiesa, Bad Stomach, TwtfiJng DIJ
orders, raovo'and rogulnte tho Jinwoln audi
Destroy Worm. Over 30,(XX) testimonial..
At al) dmgjriKta. 2T.C. Kample FHKJC Adi
Irwt Allen H. (JlniBtod. LolloV. N. Y..
An Indulgent husband may be allj
right, but it depends upon what he
indulges in. .
Mrs. WlnKlow'N Kooililnc Hymn.
t:!iren ti:t tilutr. nofK-im iniih, r-!ur fn-j
atluD.ullayn fain, cur h wlii'l colli;. 2Uc ttotlls.
For e
Oiunin
Talk is cheap, even to those who inJ
dulge in extravagant remarks. !
I do not belleTC Pisa's Cur
has un equal for co'.mh mJ
Uockk. Trinity Springs, Irj-i.,
for Consnaipttotij
colds. Joiiw F(
Fob. 16. Ibuu
Wo succeed with otln
rs as we romj
uo others as
nrehend them; we val
they comprehend us.
Afct. Cl'-TO-UATR HOI
xfcK vvptmrn
TJfie Ked Cross Hall Ulan. 1
clean and sweet as whuu no
t xuakes cloth'
iw. All srocor.
Prfzo fighters often refjulro thnlr,
second wind, but book agents never
lose their first.
Do Vonr Frt Ache mod Borof
I Shake into your alioes, Allen'a Foot-'
Ease, a powder for the feet it makes!
tiffht or New Shoes feel Kasy. Cures;
Corns, I5unions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and'
Shoe Stores, 25c Sample wnt FREK.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Lelioy, H. Y.
If Love were wise he would no'
longer be love.
WIIKN VOL' KIT bT.IKCII
buy Defiance and the best. H o. I Of
10 cents. Oiice used, always used.
A woman's head Is often much soft
er than her heart
Dealers say that as soon a a custo
mer trion Defiance Kta.rch it is Im
possible to sell them any other cold
water starch. It can be usea coia or
boiled.
More men have axes to grind than
own grindstones.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color
Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling
Most women have a delightful way
of being mean.
Sensible Houseveepers
will have Defiance Starch, not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because of
superior quality.
Prejudices are the opinions of other
folks.
EverrbodT'e liablo to Uchior nils. Hick
and poor, old and jonnjc terrible the tor
tare they suffer. Only one sure care.
Doan's Ointment. Absolutely safe; caa't
fail.
The sculptor is obliged to carve out
his own figure.
S YEARS flQO
wa baran mr praiana bnl-
vmmm ri aauiag aftlirai na - r
chaadiaaat wboloaaia priraa
CHICAGO
The house that tells tb troth.
I I I I ccBad!aHwbolt!aprir rj
II I I I I Cir. tolbaconautfi.r tmo II
1 W 1 militoaa of jw.pJa orJ-rd U
V V U fjodafrom na lut yi.r. aa-
lie from Umh W east, r
Tonr selsbbora trd with aa why ! i
yonl Onr fuoo-taca ratkloria t lia tha atory. I
We will scad 11 boa racein ul U Orvt. r.
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