Commoner
WTM.IAM J. STO.NK ny MISSOtMll
in a recent la-ue The Commoner
promised to presr nt the namcn of sev
eral person worthy to be considered
as candidates for thw democratic nonil
nation for president in 1901. The Com
moner doe not Indorse any one Kan
Kits City platform democrat as against
any other, but presents the claims of
each as those claim sare made by
friend. This much Is said so that do
importance may be attached. to the or
der in which the names are suggested
A itolitiral admirer of William .1. Stone
ha-t this to Hay of his availability:
' The (subject of this sketch was bom
on a farm in Madison county. Ken
tucky. May 7. 184S. he will therefore be
years old when the campaign of
opens. He lived in Madison conn
ty until M2. when he went to Colum
bia. .Mo., to reside with :i sister. Mr
Turner. He attended boili tb unblie
8( Iiools and the university located at
Columbia. In I Ml).", the degree of I.I..D
wis conferred upon him by the I'niver
t-iry of Missouri.
"M? selected law as his profusion
arvl after admission to the bar went
to Bedford. Ind.. where ue began the
practice. He resided there, however
only a year and a half, and returned
to Missouri, locating at Nevada. V'er
nou county, where he held the office of
prosecuting attorney during 1S73-1. He
took an early interest In olitlcs. being
an elector upon the Tilden and Hen
dricks ticket in 1S7K.
"In Ih8l he was elected to congress
an-! served three terms, retiring in
11'JI. In 1892 he was elected governor
of the state of Missouri, and served
for four years. He was one of th?
leading spirits In the I'ertle Springs
convention, and was closely associated
with Mr. Hland in the successful ef
fort to put Missouri in the front rank
among the stales that contributed to
the writing of the Chicago platform.
He was one of the delegates to the
Chit ago convention and made a strong
Ight for Mr. Bland's" nomination, be
ing entirely In sympathy with him In
hi.-i views upon the money question
He was made the Missouri member of
the national committee, and was by
the committee chosen vice chairman
and chairman of the executive commit-
tee.
"During the years that Intervened
between lXlui and 19h he was one of
the most loyal and untiring of the na
tional leaders, and in the campaign
nf X'Mht was put In charge of the east
ern headquarters of the national com
mittee.
"In I'Mrl he announced himself as a
candidate for the senate and made his
fight on a state platform indorsing the
iana.4 City platform, winch he. as a
member of the platform committee,
had assisted in writing. He was suc
cessful in his campaign for the senate,
nlthouch he had the active and bitter
opposition of the Cleveland democrats
of the btate and of such representa
tives of the corporations as claim al
legiance to t le democratic party.
"While he has shown unusual abil
ity as a lawyer, it will be seen that
his service to his congressional dis
trict, to his state and afterwards to
his party in the nation, has occupied
a large portion of his time. Six years
in congress and four years as chief ex
ecutive of the state of Missouri have
given him acquaintance with public
du'ies both legislative and executive,
while his connection with the national
organization of the party has brought
him into close contact with the issues
before the country and with the public
iii-n who have dealt with tho.se issues.
"As a political orator he has few
superiors and as an experienced, saga
cious and courageous leader of men.
few equals in the country. His appeals
hav. always been directly to the peo
ple and his strength is among the
masses. While he has lteen at all
time-s a democrat he has the confidence
of the other parties that have co-oper-sifd
wim the democratic party in re-
ent aarupaigns.
"As a democratic candidate he would
be strong with the rank and file of
the party and as president he would be
a fearless and incorruptible exponent
of JefTersonian democracy."
GETTING RKi FOR THK
BATTLE.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, in
Its issue of March 24. devoted one and
a half pages of its space to the repro
duction of editorials relating to the
suggestion that Grover Cleveland be
come the democratic naminee in 1904.
More than a year ago Mr. Watterson
warred the democrats of the country
tint an organized movement was on
r.ot having for its purpose the nomi
nation of the man who. although re
peatedly honored by the democratic
party, had. during his second admin
istration, sacrificed its principles and
who. during two subsequent presiden
tial campaigns, refused to support the
ticket and gave open aid and encour
agement to the enemy.
Au effort has been made by the
Cleveland managers to hold some of
their followers in check and yet it ap
pears that many or them have grown
restive and have prematurely agi
tated the Cleveland boom. It may be
that the managers of this boom may
no: obtain the desired encouragement
for this particular candidate and they
may find it convenient to replace Mr.
Cleveland by some one who. while be
ing personally less objectionable, will
ret stand for everything for which Mr.
Meveiand stands.
But whatever the result may be as to
the particular candidate, democrats
bad!
Too bad. that the Palmer
;t-,ould be disrupted
by the quarrel between Cleveland and
v,.i, i we nave a harmony
dir.r.er and bring them together in
so-r.e way?
f- will be noticed that there is noth
in the strike commissions report
to ore vent the coal barons from adJ
.eg that 10 Pr cen' wage increase to
the price of the coal.
Dr. Crura appears to have been the
only one pinched when that "door of
hope" closed.
Up to date that half-a-mlllion appro
priation for the attorney general's de
partment has not been used In a man
ner calculated to make the octopus
duck and side-sfo.
The organization of democratic clubs
for the defense and promulgation of
democratic principles Is a duty that,
devolves upon loyal democrats In all
sections of the country. "N '
One of Mr. ClevelamLVrWshlpers
declares that tne popuiai.
president Is "unbounded. ini
t.i false. It 1 bounded-
south, nt least, by Henry Watter
Comment.
have now received sufficient warning
;o place them on their guard.
To be sure, Mr. Clevc .and would he
the most representative candidate
which the reorganizes could select,
but whether they continue to push his
candidacy or decide to substitute the
candidacy of another who will be Just
as susceptible to the influences to
which Mr. Cleveland yielded during his
Recond administration, the result will
be disastrous to the democratic party.
Democrats who are more anxious for
the establishment of the principles in
which they believe than they are iu
the temporary acquirement of office,
owe It to themselves to organize im
mediately and prepare for the conflict
that is at hand. It will be a contest
between the rank and file of the demo
cratic party and those men who would
sacrifice democratic principles for the
mere control of the democratic ma
chine and for the nomination of a
candidate who In the event of his elec
tion would be governed by the same
influences that would govern the re
publican candidate.
The influences behind the reorgani
zation movement are powerful. They
are well equipped with money. Their
leaders ate unscrupulous; they will
stop at nothing to accomplish their
purpose. It will be the duty of demo
crats In every prevluut throughout the
United States to organize for the pro
tection of their party and the defense
of their principles.
Kvery mall brings reports of the
preliminary work for the organization
of democratic clubs; announcement
of these organizations will be made in
subsequent issues.
A SHAMEFUL SITUATION.
One of the most shameful spectacles
upon which the people of a great state
were ever required to gaze has recent
ly been presented at the capital city of
Nebraska.
In 1902 at a conference of corpora
tion lawyers, the man who was subse
quently chosen by the republican state
convention as its nominee for governor
was picked for that honor.
Representatives of the corporations
selected, very generally, the republican
nominees for the legislature.
The republicans carried the legisla
ture by an overwhelming majority.
electing more than 100 out of the 133
members.
In spite of the fact that it was
known that the republican candidate
for governor was chosen by the corpor
ation lawyers, he was elected, although
by a reduced majority.
The corporations promptly accepted
the republican victory as a triumph for
corporation rule and it seems, also,
that a majority of the republican mem
bers of the legislature agreed with the
corporation agents on this point.
Three corporation lobbyists were on
duty in Nebraska's capital city, openly
directing this republican legislature.
There has been a general demand on
the part of the people for a revision of
the revenue law and a very general
complaint because the railroads of the
state were not paying their proper pro
portion of the taxes.
In response to this sentiment, a rev
enue bill was framed by the republican
legislature In which bill new and larger
burdens were placed upon taxpayers
generally, while the corporations were
given everything they demanded with
respect to the method of corporation
assessment.
The situation is so humiliating to
republicans who do not Indorse such
methods that even republican news
papers have found it necessary to en
ter bitter protest. The Omaha Bee. a
republican paper, has entered frequent
protests against these proceedings, a
fair sample of these protests being an
editorial in a recent issue in wnu-n
the Bee said:
"If any man or set of men should
deliberately concoct a scheme to sei
the town on tire or blow up its puune
buildings with dynamite the commu
nity would rue up as one man to have
them thrown into prison or lynched,
but when men set about deliberately to
undermine and destroy self-govern
ment, the people tamely allow them
to proceed with their devilish work.
And yet this 13 precisely w nai tia
been going on at Lincoln for the last
sixty davs under the leaiiersnip oi
John N. Baldwin, the head pusher of
the most rotten lobby that na3 ever
infested the state capitol."
Cornoration lobbies nave mitsi-o
various state capitals at various times;
and yet. as a rule, they have done
their work in a covert way. But in
Nebraska the mask has been entirely
thrown aside and upon the theory that
the people will indorse whatever may
be done by the republican pan) me
corporation agents have demanded or
the official representatives of that
party the fruits of the victory which
the corporations won at the last elec-
ion.
The reuublican editorial to whun
reference has been mane was eniiuru
Shameless Betrayal or tne reopie
The situation is. maeeu, "r""
one and yet when men had good rea
son'to believe that the republican can
didates were chosen by the corpora
tions, what reason din mey nave iu
placing confidence in those candidates!
What reason did they have for believ-
n that those candidates, u eiecitru.
would do anything to pru.iur
pie with relief from corporation im
position? .w rm
Figs may not ue gamr.
histles: and measures ui6.i".
, cutest eood to the greatest num
ber may not be expected at the hands
ot public officials who owe their office
o corporation influence.
If money is so wonderfully abundant.
as the administration organs ciauu.
whv this tremor of fear lest withdrawi
ng fifty millons of public money from
banks to pay for the ranama
ontract the cu rency to an extent
prejudicial to business.
While shaking hands with te
fathers and mothers of large families
President Roosevelt should not neglect
to explain to the mthat the trusts are
making it very hard to reed so many
mouths.
Indianapolis leading eye. ear. nose
and throat speclalsts frame all over
the country are In attendance at the
annual meeting of the American laryn
galical. rhlnological and otoglcal soci
ety, which opened here April 9. Sev
eral papers were read and discussed.
Columbus. O. Prof. Ernest A. Eg
gers head of the department of German
at the Ohio state university, committed
suicide by shooting himself at his
home. It Is said he was despondent
from ill health. Professor Eggers
leaves widow, who Is a member of
a distltgulshed German family, and
two cL'.ldroa.
NOT MEANT TO HURT
INTERESTING SIDELIGHT ON AN
TITRUST MEASURES.
Elkins Bill Drawn Up by Railroad
Magnates Folly of the Claim That
the People Can in Any Way Be
Benefited by It.
That the Republican party, the legls-
lathe tool of the trusts, would In no
way injure the trusts is self-evident to
all right-minded men. That the so-
called "antl Crust" bills w hich the Re
publicans permitted to become laws
last winter are not bills to in any way
curb the trusts and benefit the people
Is also self-evident to any man who
has carefully read the bills. Nothing
in the party record and nothing in
the bills, except the titles, forbodes
evil to the trusts. It will, therefore
surprise but few to learn that the real
authors of the bills were the trusts
themselves the very ones that tried
to further hoodwink the people by
sending telegrams to Senators order
ing them not to pass these "antl
trust bills. The facts in regard to
the "Nelson amendment" "anti-trust'
bill have not yet leaked out. but the
New York Journal of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin of March 25 con
tains the story of the authorship of
the Elkins anti-rebate bill. It Is as
follows:
"Chicago. March 23. During the
progress of a meeting of Western rail
way executive officials to-day to dis
cuss the Elklna law. It was stated that
A. J. Cassatt, president of the Penn
sylvania; Paul Morton, second vice-
president of the Santa Fe, and E. D
Kenna, first vice-president and gen
eral counsel of the same road, are
authors of the bill.
"It Is stated that the first draft of
the bill was made by Mr. Kenna and
embodied the ideas of the three men
named. This draft was submitted to
the President, the attorney general
and the chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and subse
quently was amended. As finally in
troduced, however, the bill was essen
tially the bill prepared from the sug
gestions made by Messrs. Cassatt,
Morton and Kenna. after repeated con
ferences at the executive mansion.
"Mr. Morton said to-day: 'I believe
that the act will secure the mainte
nance of the freight and passenger
rates, and this will be of inestimable
benefit to the entire country, to rail
roads, to shippers and to consumers.' "
In view of these facts will the Re
publicans continue to call the Elkins
an anti-trust bill? Do they imagine
that the people are such everlasting
chumps that they will believe that
the trusts are going to cut off their
own heads with a weapon which they
themselves forged for that purpose?
Mr. Morton says that the Elkins bill
will benefit the railroads. His state
ment that it will also benefit shippers
and consumers is a gratuitous insult
to our intelligence. The railroads can
be benefited only by increased freight
rates, and these must be paid by ship
pers and consumers. The railroads
will get the benefit and the people
will pay the freight. It's a clear case
of "heads I win and tails you lose."
The people can't beat such a game as
long as they let the trust sharks and
the Republican political mountebanks
shuffle the cards and hold the stakes.
BYRON W. HOLT.
HEAVY TAX ON CONSUMERS.
Result of Absurd Tariff Duties on
Manufacturers' Materials.
Uncle Sam's Bureau of Statistics
issues self-praising letters two or
three times a week. These letters
contain such statistics and informa
tion as the writers think will benefit
the Republicans and help to continue
their party in power. Unfavorable
figures are kept dark as long as pos
sible. The Republican boom letter for
March 29 says:
"Manufacturers' materials formed
more than half of the imports into
the United States in the month of Feb
ruary. For the last fiscal year, end
ing with June 30. 1302, the Importa
tions of manufacturers' materials for
the first time passed the 400 million
dollar line, having grown from 243
millions in 1882 to 278 millions in 1892,
and 415 millions in 1902. The figures
for the eight months of the fiscal
year justify the assertion that for the
twelve months ending June 30. 1903,
the total value of manufacturers' ma
terials imported will exceed $450,000,
000. and will far surpass that of any
preceding year in the history of our
import trade."
As the average duty paid upon these
raw materials when they enter our
protected country is about 15 per cent
the amount of this duty this year
will be about $67,000,000. This, then,
is the amount of tax paid directly by
consumers, npvn materials imported.
It is becoming such a heavy burden
that the manufacturers are clamoring
to have it lightened and are petition
ing Congress to remove the duties on
raw materials. They are banding to
gether into reciprocity leagues and
tariff-drawback leagues. The manu
facturers who are pushing the Lover
ing Drawback bill are woi'dng in a
perfectly legitimate way for reduced
duties on matrials when v ported in
manufactured form. It is foolish and
absurd to handicap our exporting
manufacturers by compelling them to
pay more for materials than is paid
by their foreign competitors. If we
are not wise enough to permit them
to manufacture cheaply for ourselves
we surely should not stand in their
way when they wish to manufacture
cheaply for foreigners and to thus se
cure trade which otherwise is entirely
lost to them and for which there are
no compensating gains to us or them.
The most significant fact, however,
in this connection is that a few great
trusts have so monopolized our rw
materials and are charging such high
prices for them that thousands of or
dinary manufacturers must procure
materials abroad and pay the tariff
duties on them. These duties have
become so burdensome that many
manufacturers are concluding that it
no longer pays them to stand for
"protection" which protects only their
giant competitors. The greed of the
big protected corporations, having a
monopoly of raw materiala, has be
come so great that they have squeezed !
out the more numerous smaller manu- j
facturers. with more numerous Totes, I
and now have monopolized and taen
to themselves nearly all of the tariff
benefits. Thus steadily as in a "circle"
hunt, are the beneficiaries getting Into
closer quarters. With thousands of
manufacturers aiding the hunters, in
stead of protecting the game, the "fin
ish" of "protection" is near at hand. It
can not come too soon. Byron W.
Holt.
Curbing the Trusts.
Attorney-General Knox should soon
be able to make a good showing
against the trusts, as he has all the
money and assistance he asked for. He
has now two assistant attorney-generals
and a corps of law clerks and
$500,000 to spend to put the machin
ery in motion. Any ordinary lawyer
with this money and the trained
assistants that Knox now has would
make the trust fur fly. but as Knox
did not take advantage of the crimi
nal section of the inter-state com
merce law before it was repealed by
Congress at its late session, he may
not be very active in pushing the civil
sections against the trusts. There is
one hope for the people, through the
ambition of President Roosevelt to
succeed himself, and he can hardly
expect to be nominated and elected
President unless he spurs on Knox to
do something, or changes him for a
more thorough going trust-buster. It
is over a year before the people will
be selecting their delegates to attend
the national conventions and they
will expect at least some of' the bad
trusts to be brought up with a round
turn by that time, or there will be
opposition to the continuation of a
do-nothing administration. The trou
ble with the honest Republican voter
is. he hardly knows - who would be
any more active against the trusts,
amongst all the leaders of his party.
The People Always the Prey.
win
Ice Trust "It's time for me to get
busy now."
Legislation for the Banks.
B?fore the special session of the
Senate adjourned a resolution was
adopted authorizing Senator Aldrich
chairman of the finance committee, to
name a subcommittee to frame, during
the recess of Congress, a comprehen
sive financial measure, to be intro
duced at the beginning of the next
session. Senator Aldrich is to be
chairman ol the subcommittee, so it is
certain that whatever the scope of this
proposed legislation may be, it will
coincide with the opinion of the Wall
street bankers that the United States
treasury should be run in their inter
ests. The banks now naving ji.ju.uuu,
000, all the surplus money in the treas
ury, except the fifty million dollars
that is considered necessary Tor use
as a working balance, are desirous of
a change in the law. so that they can
replace the United States bonds held
as security ror xne auove joan won
bonds of railroads or municipal cor
porations. This change would allow
the banks to use the United States
bonds as a basis for the issue of more
bank currency. There will doubtless
be other provisions in the bill, which
will also be to the advantage ot the
banks, and it is safe to say that the
great majority of the Republican Sen
ators will vote for it.
The Ship Subsidy.
William E. Curtis, the Washinffon
correspondent of the Chicago Record-
Herald, says that no further attempt
will be made to pass the ship subsidy.
At the same time Mr. Curtis admits
that three-fourths of the Republican
members of the House are in favor
of the measure. He explains that the
bill recently before Congress was de
feated because the Republicans of the
northwestern states joined with the
Democrats. The Louisville Courier-
Journal, however, hits the nail on the
head when in commenting upon Mr.
Curtis' statement, it says: "The
ruth is, it suits the purpose of the
ship subsidy grabbers to create the
impression that they have abandoned
this raid on the treasury. We have
already had experience of that kind of
tactics."
Inadequacy of Fines.
Great stress is laid in Congress on
the fact of the inadequacy of some of
the fines stipulated in the anti-trust
provisions. It was contended in the
House that the Hoar bill was too weak
kneed against violators of its pro
visions, and the Elkins anti-rebate bill
was regarded by the advocates as far
too moderate in the matter of fines.
The whole history of English attempt
to suppress monopoly by terrible fines
shows how futile it is where the spoils
are sufficient to risk violating law.
Wrong systems never were abolished
by fines. The true remedy is to abol
ish the laws which make the system
possible. Until we repeal some of 'the
laws under which the trusts were in
corporated the fines will not save us.
Boston Globe.
E. M. Shepard's Platform for 1904.
(From His Speech In Chicago.)
Upon this program let us then make
our campaign: The establishment of
equal rights; the abolition of special
privilege; the maintenance of Demo
cratic self-government. The program
means resolute tariff reform, begin
ning with the goods which have fallen
under monopoly, resolute and practi
cal prevention of interstate commerce
preferences and abuses, rigorous re
duction in cost of administration, the
promotion of the Philippine self-government
and independence, and the
provision of fair and secure normal
and normally distributed currency by
all banks' Which hold banking char
ters from the government.
"' . . i I 4S.
THE PANAMA MUDDLE
SUSPICIOUS ' CIRCUMSTANCES
CONNECTED WITH IT.
Bargain Seems to be Just About as
Bad as It Could Be Made Violation
Of Treaty Almost a Certainty
Large Sums Voted.
The manner in which the Panama
?anal treaty was ratified by the Sen
ile reflects no credit upon anybody
?oncerned.
It appears from such reports of the
discussion as have been made in the
newspapers that not more than one
senator expressed himself as wholly
satisfied with the arrangement and
it is well known that many of the
iblcst members have found objections
to its adoption which might have been
considered insuperable.
In spite, however, of the notorious
ly unsatisfactory bargain with Colom
bia which Secretary Hay submitted
there was a practically unanimous
purpose to accept it and assume all
the obligations Involved with as much
haste as possible. Perhaps at some
future time we shall have an explana
tion of this prec ipitate action in adopt
ing a treaty which nobody but John
Hay Is proud of, but at present there
is a great deal of mystery about the
affair.
Under the provisions of this treaty
the United States will be called upon
to expend not less than $300,000,000
for the construction of the canal.
Colombia is to receive $10,000,000 for
Its concession and annually for all
time It is to be paid $250,000 for the
use of Its land. As things go nowa
days, it Is within the range of possi
bilities that some of this money is to
oe used ror questionable purposes.
Colombia is not so certain a quantity
In the political divisions of the world
as to preclude the suspicion that job
bers nearer home may already have
a lien on the payments which It is to
receive. These sums are large enough
to have purchased the zone In fee
simple.
In this treaty also we bind ourselves
not to increase our territory in Cen
tral or South America, and we speci
fically acknowledge the sovereignty
of Colombia, generally represented by
a military dictator or other upstart,
over one of the greatest works ever
undertaken by man. In other words,
the canal, the construction of which
by government can be justified only
as a measure of national defense, is
to be constructed and operated on
land controlled by one of the least re
sponsible governments on earth.
Of course there are in all this in
finite possibilities of mischief, with
the certainty that if at any time it
shall become necessary for us to take
possession of and protect what should
be our own property we will be com
pelled to do so in violation of a
treaty.
Mr. Hay was in a hurry when he
made this bargain and the assent of
the senate has been gained on the
theory that everybody else was in a
hurry to have his bungling work rati
fied. No doubt there will be plenty of J
icycuiaute hi leisure.
New Phase of Railroad Mergers.
The railroad problem is evidently
being immensely broadened. The
trans-Mississippi roads and capitalists
have ideas and interests of their own
which begin to be in conflic t with the
ideas accepted in the east. It is not
longer a matter of course that our
exports shall come to the Atlantic.
Powerful agenc ies are at work to
divert them to the Gulf of Mexico and
to the Pacific. Competition for busi
ness between the eastern trunk lines
seems to be impending. Not lone
since it was held to be an axiom
among railroad men that no eastern
corporation should seek to extend its
lines to the Pac ific. It being taken for
granted that the trans-Mississippi
lines would content themselves with
the vast region west of the father of
waters. The Mississippi was assumed
to be a magical dividing line between
different railroad worlds. But the
trans-Mississippi roads begin to seek
freights east of the Mississippi, and
the Gould interest plans which had
hitherto been . treated as almost in
conceivable a trunk Hue reaching
both Atlantic and Pacific. We are
evidently nearing a new phase of the
game of railway consolidations.
Extent of the Trust Evil.
The late bouse of representatives
passed Mr. Littlefield's anti-trust bill
with a hurrah, well knowing that the
Senate could be depended on to kill
t or render it innocuous. The author
of the bill, in the course of his argu
ment, made use of some facts which
showed clearly the modern industrial
tendency- Mr. Littlefield vouches tor
the reliability of his figures, which
were prepared by the congressional
information bureau and which appear
n the Congressional Record. They
nclude a list of the industrial trusts
existing in this country on Jan. 1 last.
Mr. Littlefield calls it the most com
plete list ever published:
Xumber of trusts....
Common stock
453
.$r.973.S53.S50
. 2.0.91,308.320
. 1,163,774.528
Preferred stock
Bonds
Total capitalization. . . $3,231,130,608
Now, by the census of 19'0. the en
tire actual capital in land, buildings.
machinery, material and cash engaged
in manufacturing in this country in
that census year was $9,874,664,087.
It is estimated that by last January
these figures had reached $10,500,000,
000. In other words, we now have a
capitalization alone of monopolistic
combines practically equal to the ac
tual value of all the industrial insti
tutions of the country, though only
about half of them are in the trusts.
Raising the Price of Oil.
A new brain microbe has been de
veloped. It belongs to Prof. F. M.
Taylor, who sits in the chair of politi
cal economy at the University of
Michigan.
Prof. Taylor says that Rockefeller
is all right in increasing the price of
oil from time to time. Rockefeller is
right, he says, because of the benefits
conferred on society. Rockefeller puts
another cent a gallon on the price of
oil. He clears by the operation from
$5,000,000 to $8000,000. He ttfen
gives $l.uoft,ooo for the caur.e of edu
cation, which is for the benefit of
society.
Prof. Taylor tays that In America
wo clo not raise money enougfe by
taxation to pay the cost of Improved
educational methods. Therefore, when
Rockefeller raises the price of oil and
from the proceeds of his Increased
revenue gives a small part for "the
benefit of society" he levies a bene
ficial popular tax not provided for by
law.
"It is. of course," says Prof. Taylor,
"a system of voluntary despotism
which we Americans submit to." We
submit to this despotism in many
other ways. Our tariff system, which
taxes the people from $3 to $5 In order
to produce $1 In revenue for the gov
ernment. Is like the Rockefeller sys
tem of collecting by the advanced
price of oil from $5,000,000 to $8,000,
000, of which $1.(100,000 goes to "the
benefit of society."
Prof. Taylor adds: "Social Inequal
ity is necessary to progress and nec e s
sary to collect enough capital to run
business. Mr. Rdckcfeller has more
money than he can use, and thus he
turns It into productive c apital."
Of such preposterous nonsense Is
the "science!" of political economy
composed "as she Is taught" at the
University of Michigan.
The Eternal Penalty.
Some inquisitive people who have
it dinned in their ears that the war
in the Philippine Islands has long
been over want to know why the
transport Sheridan is about to take
one thousand or more soldiers to
Manila. We are still maintaining a
large military and naval force in our
"new possessions." As our soldiers
become worn out In the unfavorable
climate of the Philippines they are
brought home, and others are sent to
lane tneir places, ims makes a targe
transport system necessary, and there
is no prospect that there will be a
surcease of this heavy expense for
years to come. The situation Is
not a.t all charming for us. but
our government cannot claim that
it went into the conquest of
the Philippines with its eyes shut.
The example of resistance to what
was regarded as an usurping power
had stood for more than a hundred
years. What are we getting for all
the trouble we have taken, and what
are we likely to get? We have a
large standing army in time of al
leged peace, and a burden on our con
science that ought to keep us awake
many nights.
The Political Sick List.
One of the oddes features of
American parly life is the existence
of what may be called an invalid
corps in each political army, which,
it is understood, is to be nursed
along by perennial ofliceholding.
There are certain men in this state
and in other states, and there are cer
tain men in the national arena, who
have apparently a prescriptive right
to office. Whatever happens, these
men are to be taken care of. The
pathos of an electoral overturn, the
thing that moves rude, strong men al
most to tears, is the reflection that
the political sick list will be turned
out of its comfortable haunts into a
world where men must work in or
der to Jive.
A Dangerous Precedent.
Let there be assembled at one-e a
grand mass' meeting of the United and
Tenac ious Soc iety of Holders of Snaps.
There is treason in the ranks. Th?
principal of a:i Iowa school has re
signed, giving as a reason that he has
not the audacity to are-opt $70 a month
for teaching nine; pupils in the high
school. He is satisfied with the po
sition, the pupils and patrons ar satis
fied, but he hasn't the conse-ience to
draw the money and not return a quid
pro quo. Now, wouldn't that scandal
ize the great body of snap holders in
the land? What are public jobs for if
not to provide snaps? And if once
the mic robe of conscience gets to work
among the thousands holding snaps
who can tell the outcome?
Weary of the Senate's Trickery.
It was very clever of the United
States senate, no doubt, to circumvent
the president, thwart the will- ejf the
American people by a discreditable
deal and make a mock of poor little
Cuba's confidence, but the American
people are becoming weary of the
senate's perversity and the trickery of
the so-called leaders and they have
it in their jkjwct to bring that body
to a realizing sense of its responsibil
ities. A radical change in the meth
od of choosing senators is the 'ob
vious remedy, and when the people
demand that change it will be made.
New Phase of Imperialism.
Seven Porto Ric-ans living in Chi
cago now know the difference be
tween being an American citizen and
an American subject. They wished to
vote at the municipal election, and
after persistent effort they learned
from Washington that under the laws
of a benevolent Republican Congress
they are not citizens or voters, and
there is no way in which they can
become such. All others, except Chi
nese. can become citizens, but out
own subjects cannot.
A beautiful thing Is this Imperialism
of ours!
Too Many Presidential Trips.
So the Hawaiians want to see the
president, clo they? Well, it seems
as if they ought to be gratified, but.
on the other hand, if they are, the
first thing we know he will have de
mands from Guam, the Philippines.
Porto Rico. Alaska and Tutuila that
he can't Ignore, and he will have to
do more stunts than a traveling sales
man to cover his territory. leaving
him scarcely any time to devote tc
the office seekers and politicians. And
then what will happen?
What Surprises the People.
There never was any doubt In th
mind of the public that there was t
combination of packers to control meat
prices, but the surprising thing is that
the courts should have been able U
discover it by a judicial inquiry.
A Puerile Explanation.
Gen. Leonard Wood's explanatior
that the "gifts" he accepted in Cubi
were merely "personal" is too trans j
parent.
Personal" gifts for ofEcia'
favors explain themselves.
Cupid Is alwaya nhootlng anJ con
tinually making Mt-
flio tlm Co-liftl '
Work 4rr Ihn 'ol!
Laiatlv Broiiio(Jiilu)n)'l il.ltn. I'rfre'i.--.
TalkntlTe men are great self ent it
tlners. Iowa Farm 4 Par Acr Cmh,
btlurl I cmp tttl sld. Mt'l.ll AM.. Hlmn t llf. !
Crank notions are all right If they
can be turned to good ad vanillic.
1 Rich American Dies In London.
John Temple Leader, an American
by birth and very wealthy, ha juut
died in London. He owned the cAtl
of Vincigilata, near Florence, which Is
fitted up magnificently In tho tnediuval
style.
A book in the hand in woi'li two in
the press.
LIVE STOCK ItKKI'l )F.KS.
Attention is railed to the advertise
ment of the Lincoln !morting Hoit
company. They have a large number
of imported Marl; IVrcherons. Eng
lish Shires ai'd CerniHii Coach slal
lions which th y are offering a speri.il
Inducement to b::ers iu the way of a
discount of L'O per rent. This com
pany has been in business In Lincoln
for sixteen years with the lareKt
and most convenient barns iu the Uni
ted States; one barn costing over $10.
00. They own their own plant aivl
their guarantees and statement ar
well fortified, both financially an I
morally. This is a tare rhunce to buy
a first-class stallion at a low price
Visit their burns or write them at
once.
Ye cannot
Mammon.
serve good English tt.ll
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
A nirr'-mf will ttto-lv d-stri".r lliit ft r'" ot m-U
ami roiiii'lci' ly i-raniif? itxi wholn .vn-iii
rnirriii il ihiouvli I lie liiiii-ooa mi if . Su li
itii'ls 'hoijltl n-yr 1C uyvl rir.?t on i)ir,rill
tiulis fClll rrpiual.l i)iviriiii-i. ill- lam'
tliev mil do it frnfolil Co til K'xul ton can !-. 11
derive from lh':in. Hull (.alaiih C;nn-. mati'i
fartilifd l I". J. C'lH-rwy & .'j., lulid i. O . i on
tains no tncrcui v. and it lakni liit-iimll. ai-tin
(lirrrtl.y Uon lhf Mom! and innroii hihTc of lli
systr-ni. In buying 1 1 all C 'alar i li i 'iif ! nm fo'i
gel (lie VMtiiine. It is tak-ti iiil'-rnallv. un! ina lr
in Tol-lo. Ohio. tf I-. . C'li-n- ft . 'ru
iiioimhK f rre. Sold liy I Ji UKi stt, inn 75r ift hold 1.
Hull s I amity J'illa aie lli: be I.
Too many people try to areumulat ?
by adding nothing to nothing.
Sensible Housekeepers
will have Defiance Starch, not alonn
because they g-t one-third more for
the same money. but also because of
superior quality.
A good nam- i:4 rather to ' c lio
than gre-at characters.
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mrmbrr ol the laiuily.
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parlAtMtbe blood, qncbctb OH rat
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GRAIN CROWING. MIXED FARMING.
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HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE
the only rharve tor which Ull'i fur mk !! rut r .
Abun'lan-e of utter ami fuel. bulMlnif riaturl
cb?ap. ikjh irraa for jiai-'.ur- ami liny, a fen!; t'.'.
aiinii-li-ut rainfall, ami a i-l!inat giving au , iri
and adt-'juat?? reaon of jerowtii.
bend to the followtng for an Atlaa and ottii
literature, and n: for i-rt!flrate irlvjnie yoi ri
(lired freight ami iaenirer ratea. etc., eti
hupertnteorient of Immigration. Ottawa, tu4 1 1
or to W. V. Bennett, hoi New York Life. KM. .Omaha
'eu.i the authorised t auaUiau Ooveiuuient A-ul.
L: r t l i: journ r, y 5,
s to lake resorts and
mountain homes will be more
popular this summer than
ever. Many have already
arranged their simmer tours
via the
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Chicago.
Milwaukee & Sf. Paul
Railway
and many more are going to
do likewise. Booklets that
will help you to plan your
vacation trip have just been
published, and will be sent
on receipt of postage, as
follows :
"Colorado-California." six eentt.
"In Lakeland" and "Summer
Homes," six cents.
'Lakes Okoboji and Spirit Lake."
four cents.
F. A. MILLER,
General Passenger Agent,
CHICAGO.
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