Commoner
JAS. MARSHALL IIF,.l.
The .Commoner I.rh received th fol
.iowirij; in reganl to James M-irshall
Head of Nashville, Tenn.. whose name
has been mention-! in connection with
the presidential nomination:
"James Marshall Head was lxrn in
Sumner county, Tennessee, July 25,
1H."5. His fall:er was a prominent phy
sician whose practice in that rounty ex
tended over a period of fifty years. The
son.. James M., attended school at Gal
latin, the rounty seat, and then read
law for two years in the office of
Hon. James J. Vetrees. He also attend
ed Harvard university, completing the
course and receiving his degree in 1876.
From that date until his removal to
Nashville in 1K83. Mr. Head practiced
his profession at Gallatin. At Nash
ville he Ixvanie a member of the firm
of Champion & Head, and later of the
firm t)f Champion. Head & Hi-own. and
enjoyed a large ami lucrative practice,
especially in the ehanrery court.
"In 184 Mr. Hal became editor-in-chief
of the Nashville American, at
that time one of the leading democratic
papers In Tennessee. While the Ameri
can was under his editorial control it
was a staunch supporter of democratic
.ideas and policies.
"Mr. Head was prominently identified
with the Centennial exposition held
at Nashville In 1897. In IH'Mi he became
the Tennessee member of the demo
cratic national committee, and was
thoroughly identified with'the work of
the pary in the campaigns of 181 and
t!oo.
"He is a man of conviction, discre
tion and determination, and he has
been one of the most useful members
of the national committee.
"He was nominated and elected
mayor of Nashville in IS:)'.) and since
thai time has devotrd himself to the
working out of municipal problems
Being a firm believer in the municipal
ownership of city franchises, he has
gradually, but constantly enlarged the
city's control over its own work and
has made an enviable record in this di-
eel ion. The city of Nashville has for
years owned waterworks, and they have
been so well conducted that they realize
a net balance to the city over and alove
all expenses. During his administra
tion he has established an electric light
plant, the first effect of which was to
reduce by one-third the charges of the
private company, and the city plant
promises to give the city twice the
light for a little more than half of what
was formerly paid to the private plant.
He has also secured a contract with
the gas plant and street car company
that gives the city a chance to buy the
gas plant at the end of ten years and
the street ar company at the end of
twenty years. At the present time the
gas is sold at not more than a dollar
per thousand, and the city receives 5
- per rent of the gross income from the
gas plant, and a privilege tax of 2 per
rent of the gross income from the street
car I'owpany.
"Mr. Head has proven his ability as
an executive: he is diligent in business,
affable in his manner, and yet firm in
dealing with public- affairs. As a speak
er he is ready and c lear, and his char
acter gives strength to his doscourse.
His sympathies are with the common
people, and he deserves a foremost
plac e among the earnest and conscien
tions students of the problems of the
present day. In his first fight for the
nomination for mayor he had the op
position of the local corporations, but
his administration has been so univer
sally ppular that he was re-elected
practically without opposition."
A VOICK FROM KUROPK.
The. Financ ial Chronic le of London.
' in its isHiie of February 3 last, contains
the report o." a meeting of the stock
holders of the London Trading Hank
llimitfct). Mr. Wightman Cooper, pres
ident of the bank, in moving the adop
tion of the report and accounts, made
some remarks in regard to the silver
question. The following is a quotation
from , his speech as it appears in' the
Financ ial Chronicle:
'Continuing, he said that he desired
to make a few special observations in
regard to silver. There seemed to be
a need of more metallic- money. Bank
ing had to same degree saved the cir
culation of metal, but its usefulness in
that direction had now about reached
its limit. Although we were steadily
adding to the supply of gold and silver,
still its production was out of propor
tion to the world's ele.Mand. hence the
greeil of nations to posess more gold
fields. (Hear, hear.) The millions of
people in the east who relied upon
America and Australia for their supply
of silver might, at no distant dat. be
ert short of metal by th c losing of the
mines, due to displacing the silver
standard for gold. The falling pric e of
silver was causing serious damage to
commerce in many parts of the world,
especially so in China, where the injus
tice was felt of having to pay the war
indemnity on a gold basis with silver
rnri,en-y. and some claim for exemp
tion In this connect was. he believed,
being made. It was a well-known fac t
that the great silver deposits of the
world were worked out. and as the sil
ver area was small as compared with
the goid area it would appear safe and
wise to open the Indian and American
mints to the free coinage of silver on
the U'rins that prevailed previous to the
movement against silver, which had re
sulted in c heapening the bullion value
and upsetting our business relations
with silver-using countries and so dis
turbing the power of exchange."
Of all the triumphs in the recent
municipal contests none was so purely
a personal triumph a's that achieved by
"Coiden Rule" Jones of Toledo. Nomi
nated a fourtli time by petition, with
no party organization back of him and
with both a republican and a demo
cratic candidate against him." with
nearly all the papers ignoring him and
Looming his opponents, he won an easy
victory and has the satisfaction of
proving again that a man in politics
can get along without about everything
else If he can only keep the people with
him. Jones is a lovable man.
The German ambassador has
hastened to sugar-coat the Dewey Inci
dent past all recognition.
Jones of Toledo is quite confi-
dencat it is a poor rul' tnat wm
rot wV - several times In succession.
The rep rTj Vers c annot raise enough
dust to preve?JK people from seeing
their wig-wag sftv.al. to the trusts.
It would seem tliTe .only thing
Carter Harrison bas t'lAkt Is the cor
dial support of the tiuK CtsUago
Comment.
RIOT CARTRIDOKS.
It Is a little singular that the na
tional administration should announce
Its readiness to furnish riot cartridges
to tfie various state adminstrations just
at the time when republb an'leaders are
boasting of universal prosperity, uni
versal contentment and universal ap
probation of republican principles. The
very discussion of a riot cartridge is
suggestive of conditions that need rem
edying. Victor Hugo has descrfbed the
mob as "the human race in misery."
and It is as important that mobs should
be prevented as that mey should be dis
persed. Is it not an indication of the
application of the Imperialistic idea to
domestic- conditions, that the admlns
tration should spend more time devis
ing means to put clown a mob than It
does in devising remedies for the evils
that lead to the formation of mobs?
Imperialism rests on force rather
than justice; imperialism coerces
rather than persuades; imperialism, in
stead of curing evils, compels silent
submission to those evils. The republi
can party today is loading the masses
with taxation while it permits great
aggregations of wealth to plunder with
impunity. When reminded that there
may be clashes between labor and cap
ital, instead of providing boards of ar
bitration for the settlement of condi
tions, it prepares riot cartridges for
distribution; instead of destroying gov
ernment by injunction it prepares to
bac k up the judge with the army, while
he uses the courts to enforce the de
mands of the employer as against the
claims of the employe.
And yet a sleeping people must be
awakened and it may be that the riot
cartridge will do what reason and logic
have failed to accomplish. If the rank
and file of the republican party are not
ready to administer a rebuke to the
leaders of the party their dec ision may
be hastened when they are brought face
to face with the horrid realities for
which the administration seems to be
preparing.
The democratic party is sometimes
ace used of being radical. As a matter
of fact, it is the conservative element
in the country today. It seeks to apply
well settled principles to gross evils;
it seeks to preserve law and order by
the most effective means, namely, the
establishment of justice. The republi
can party, on the other hand, boasts
of its love of law and order, and yet it
fosters and promotes injustice and
favoritism.
The democ ratic party has been ac
cused of being hostile to the well-to-do.
This indictment is as absurd as
it is false. The democratic party is
the best friend of honestly acquired
wealth, and by attempting to protect
each person in the enjoyment of that
which he earns it offers the greatest
stimulus both to industry and thrift.
The republican party, on the other
hand, by confusing wealth acquired by
spoliation with wealth acquired by
brain and muscle, is liable to bring
upon honest accumulations an odium
that ought to be reserved for predatory
wealth.
It is to be hoped that the riot cart
ridges will never oe needed, but tt.e
mere issuing of them ought to educate
the people to the gloomy and melan
choly end of republican tneories and
republican policies.
HARRISON RE-ELECTED.
Carter Harrison's majority was not
as large as was expected by his friends,
but it wss enough to enable htm to
protect the city from the schemes of
the street car magnates. The result,
while a great compliment to Harrison,
is also a signal victory for municipal
ownership. The second city in the
United States has thiu recorded itself
on the side of a great and growing re
form. Mr. Darrow shares with Mayor Har
rison the honors of the victory. As the
leader of the Altgeld element of the
Chicago democracy and as the special
champion of municipal ownership his
active support was probably sufficient
to draw enough votes from the labor
candidate to Harrison to win the day.
The fact that Harrison and Darrow
were together and were opposed, by
Hopkins is a hopeful sign to those who
are anxious to take the party in Illi
nois out of the hands of the reorgan
ize. Kansas City platform demo
crats are both pleased and encouraged
by Carter Harrison's success.
JOHNSON'S VICTORY.
The democrats of the nation may be
pardoned if they give audible expres
sion to the satisfaction they feel over
Tom Johnson's victory in Cleveland.
When it is remembered that Cleveland
is the home of Mark Hanna and that
Johnson's election menaced the busi
ness as well as the political welfare
of Mr. Hanna, and when it is further
lemembered that all the financial and
corporate interests of the city were
openly arrayed against him. Johnson's
victory becomes the more remarkable.
It proves both that Johnson is iwpular
with the masses and that they are in
favor of the reforms for which he
stands and for which he has labored.
Cleveland's mayor is a brave fighter,
an honest man and a good democrat.
It is fortunate for the party that it has
such a leader in Ohio strength to his
arm! His sturdy blows are weakening
the republican stronghold.
A whole lot of republican editors who
are pointing with pride to the success
of the rural free delivery system wouia
quiet down if they happened to remem
ber that rural free delivery is a .'pop"
scheme and fathered by Hon. Tom
Watson.
Ptople may exist in a flat, but they
cannot live without babies.
The Hannaficatiou of Cleveland. O..
has again been indefinitely postponed.
Those reports of conflicts between
"ladrones" and "constabulary" in the
suburbs of Manila bear a decidedly im
perialistic flavor.
The Milwaukee speech seemed to be
the last flickering ray of light on the
trust question. The president ejoes not
make it the theme of all his -eches,
a ho iiri last summer. . u
The Sultan of Sulu continues to have
the courage, of his salary and per
quisites. The coal trust made us all so hot
that the Ice trust will have a cincb
this summer..
1 1 -
Tom Ix)fUn Johnson has added a
menagerie of wild republican animals
to hi scircus.
It seems that the only method left
whereby the Chicago Chronicle can de
feat Cartff H Harrison is to- support
him.
TRUSTS IN CONTROL
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NOT
A FREE AGENT.
Bureau of Corporations Already the
Pliant Tool of Monopoly W. M. Col
lier Prates of "Publicity" as Rem
edy for Present Evils.
Thotfo who are looking to the new
Department of Commerce with Its bu
reau of corporations to relieve the
pec pie of the burdens of trusts and
monopolies are almost certain to be
victim of misplaced confidence. Evi
dence is accumulating to show that
the bureau has already become the
pliant tool of the trusts. Some, and
perhaps all, of the important officials
in this department are selected by the
big corporations. It is said that a cer
tain man who was once with the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
who is an editor of railroad literature
and journals and who received $5,000
from the railroads for testifying be
fore the coal strike commission last
winter, (and whose testimony, by the
way, was sadly defeated by Darrow's
cross-questions), is now being pushed
by "powerful people" for an impor
tant position in Cortelyou's depart
ment. This man tells his friends that
he is practically certain to get the
position because of his influential cor
poration backing.
Mr. W. M. Collier, recently ap
pointed solicitor to the Department
of Commerce, may or may not have
been strongly backed by the trusts.
If, however, they had not read his book
"The Trusts What Can We Do With
Them? What Can They Do With Us?"
and found it satisfactory, he would not
now be in political clover.
His book is not the worst one
written by lawyers who are bidding
for corporation practice, but it is bad
enough. In it he talks about "the
awful evils and dangers of monopoly"
and gets ready to speak plainly and
say things, but he always stops short.
His greatest denunciation against a
particular trust Is directed to the ice
trust. He mentions this to illus
trate a combination with a monopoly
when, in fact, its only monopoly was
the control of some docking privileges
in New York. He looked past' scores
of important trusts with far greater
monopoly privileges than this one,
probably because they were officered
by Republicans, and because many of
the officials of. this one were Demo
crats. His book was writien in 1900.
Since then the ice trust has gone so
nearly to pieces that it has had to be
reorganized. This fact is a sad com
mentary on his judgment of monopo
lies and trusts.
But It is in his remedy department
that Mr. Collier displays his great
skill in magnifying little things and
minimizing big ones. He would not
ithink of destroying trusts because
''great business organizations have be
jeome a necessity" and because "con
isolidation and combination render
possible cheaper production and in
finitely cheaper distribution." As in
cidental to his great remedy, publicity,
;and as if they were of little conse
quence, he airily enumerates the fol
lowing remedies:
"Abolish special privileges, prevent
unfair competition cut-throat com
'petition compel corporations to sell
to all upon equal terms, give us full
publicity, prevent the evils of over
"capitalization, make management
honest and competition, we believe,
will do the rest."
Of the means to attain these desir
able ends he tells us next to nothing.
He ignores such minor details. Pub
licity receives great attention. He
says it will "restrict the creation and
.establishment" of trusts; "it will coun
teract all the dangerous possible ten
dencies"; "it will be a protection to
the shareholder and to the investor;
it will be a "body-blow." even if not
!a death-blow, to extortionate prices;
it will be the stimulus to higher wages
and to better prices for raw materials;
it will be the certain preventive of
railroad discrimination and for all
special favoritism; and the effective
curb upon every attempt by corpora
tions to corrupt legislatures and pub
llic officials."
His last words are: "If asked what
;is the remedy for the great evils, in
dustrial, social and political, which
are inherent or incidental to trusts,
four answer would be: "First, pub
licity; second, publicity; third, pub
licity the remedy which is most ef
fective in itself and the remedy which
aIone can suggest the fourth and all
others that may be needed."
. Any conscientious trust-buster, af
:ter reading Mr. Collier's book, must
reach the conclusion that he was just
the man for Cortelyou's department
with its bureau to bust the bad
trusts wide open with publicity if
the president says"Turn on the light
and smash them."
It is barely possible that the fact
;that Mr. CoUier's views on publicity
?as the remedy for trusts coincided
with those of Gov. Roosevelt in 1900,
'which were quoted in Mr. Collier's
book, may have opened the dc or to his
new berth and that no corporation
backing was necessary. If so. Mr. Col
lier's hands are untied and we may ex
pect to see the trusts wither away and
die when he turns on the light of pub
licity. Suggestions for Cortelyoj.
Now that Secretary Cortelyou's bu
reau of corporations is getting ready
to get busy, we would suggest That he
can find material on trusts, or rather,
traces of trusts, in the Iron Age of
April 2. By turning to page 52. first
column, he can get points on th?
Ice trust, which has just announced
prices so high that the trade is buy
ing conservatively and has a "general
feeling that prices are not likely to be
higher," and that they may be lower.
Bright wire goods trust, which has
announced higher prices.
Stove and tire bolt trust, which has
made , "a substantial advance" In
prices.
Shoe trust, which Is firmly adhering
to its "recent advance to $1.50 base"
on the top of "successive advances
which have taken place" and which
"afford the jobbing trade an opportu
nity to undersell the manufacturers."
Wire picture cord trust, which is
"announcing materially higher quota
tions." .
Binder twine trust, which, in the
name of tho International Harvester
company, has fixed up a schedule of
very high prices for twine.
Window glass trust, 'which has
agreed to shut down its plants on
April 18 and to keep them closed, for
about six months and which is expect-'
eel to announce higher prices soon.
Surely the Industrious Secretary,
who is trying hard to make a great
anti-trust record, can find material In
some of these trusts, when he turns
the light on them, to make good grist
tor Attorney General Knox, that "pro
found jurist and fearless public ser
vant." as President Roosevelt calls
him. whose business it is to bust all
of the bad trusts he can hear of offi
cially. Bad luck. to the trusts, with
all of these "profound and fearless"
gentlemen on their trail. They might
as well He down and give up the ghost
at once.
The People "Make Good." as Usual.
Philadelphia newspapers estimate
the financial results of the decision
given by the high commission which
arbitrated the coal strike.
Miners' wages are increased from 10
to 23 per cent. The average is 15 per
cent. To make themselves good the
operators will add 25 cents a ton to
the price of coal at the mines. In or
der that they, may share In the gener
al prosperity the railroads will add a
proportionate amount for carrying
coal.
The big coal yards will add 50 cents
a ton to the wholesale price which
retailers will pay for their stocks. To
make themselves whole the retailers
will charge their customers 75 cents
more a ton.
This brings the adjudication of the
strike home to the public. Its cost to
them is estimated at from $30,000,000
to $40,000,000. The final cost in these
matters always comes back to the peo
ple. Chicago Chronicle.
The Candle Light Remedy.
PUBLIC TY'fr
The Victim "Yes, publicity enables
one to see just how he does it, but
what good does that do me?"
Grist for Cortelyou's Mill.
Now that the Department of Com
merce is on its feet and spoiling to
get anti-trust facts and to publish
them if the President thinks it ad
visable thus to spoil his chances in
1904 Secretary Cortelyou will . wel
come suggestions from any one who
scents the trail of a trust or who
knows where are their lairs. It is
the duty of each and all of us to put
our anti-trust facts up to Cortelyou.
He is new at the business and may
be slow in striking the trail, if not
encouraged at the start.
If Mr. Cortelyou will turn to page
4G of the lion Age of March 12 he
will get track of several trusts which
have eluded our sleepy Attorney-General.
First, there is the. Cut Nail
Manufacturers' Association, which is
about to advance prices; then there
are the mills which compose the Barb
Wire Trust, which are filling orders
made before the recent advance in
price; then the wood screw manufac
turers, "all of whom are in a com
bination" which is firmly maintain
ing the advance in price; then, the
Copper Wrire Trust, the Brass Rods
and Brass Tube Trust, the Rivet and
Bur Trust, mentioned on this page.
There are sixty more pages of this
Iron Age and the trail of the trust is
on them all. .
Come to think of it, nearly every
trade journal contains information
about trusts. Then there is the list
of three hundred trusts of Congress
man Littlefield of Maine. This Re
publican list, printed In a recent Con
gressional Record, has a total capi
talization of $14,000,000,000, and does
not include the steam railroad trusts,
which would add about $11,000,000,
000 more.
When Secretary Cortelyou has ob
tained and published the facts in re
gard to these three hundred trusts
and has exposed the source of their
power to put up prices to the highest
notch and to make the cost of living
greater than ever before, we will, it
he is not too tired to tackle it, give
him a new grist of trusts. In the
meantime we hope to see the admin
istration destroy the power of the
bad trusts, as soon as the new secre
tary has located them.
"Prosperity Strikes."
"Prosperity strikes" is the very sig
nificant designation of a New York
newspaper for the strikes on April 1,
when several hundred thousand work
ingmen stopped work because their
demands for higher wages were re
fused. The workingmen are simply
striking for some of the prosperity
which the trusts and monopolies have
been enjoying for. several years. The
workingmen. along with the rest of us,
have been paying the high prices and
rates which have made the trusts and
railroads prosperous, and they are now
asking for their share of prosperity.
As a matter of fact, it will take an in
crease of 40 per cent in money wages
to put real wages as. high as they were
in 1897, for, according to Dun's tables
of prices, the cost of living is 40 per
cent higher now than in 1897." No la
bor organization has asked for or ob
tained a 40 per cent advance . since
1897. Why should labor not be able
to live as well and to save as muct
now as then?
Havoc of the Trust-Busters.
Since Congress - has adjourned the
debris of busted trusts scattered all
over the country is terrible to behold
Cleveland Press.
HIE TRUSTS ' OBJECT
SENATOR ALLISON MAKES HU
MILIATING ADMISSION.
Evidence That the Corporations Con
trol the Senate and the Republican
Ptrty Thus the Consumers Are
Robbed.
Senator Allison says the principal
ssue in the next national campaign
cvill be the tariff. The Senator has
jiadvertently, perhaps, supplied a
erery strong argument why the policy
it protection should be defeated. He
said :
"Reciprocity is a beautiful theory,
iut I am convinced that it cannot be
out into practice. The instant it is
proposed to reduce the duty on any
given dutiable product by means of a
reciprocity treaty the Industry affect
ed immediately objects. Where a num-
Der of large industries are affect
ed by the proposed reciprocity treat
ies they' exert enough influence to de
feat the treaties.
"It is impossible to secure the rati
fication of reciprocity treaties be
cause of the tremendous pressure
brought to bear by the interested in
dustries. The same difliculty applies
to the enactment of a maximum and
minimum tariff, because such a propo
sition surely would provoke strong
opposition."
The Republican national platform
of 1900 pledged the party to the "as
sociated policy of reciprocity, so
directed as to open our markets on
favorable terms for what we do not
ourselves produce in return for free
foreign markets"
The Republican party, by its high
est tribunal, according to Senator
Allison, indorsed a policy that is im
practicable and yet from Blaine to
McKinley, it was declared to be a
distinctively Republican policy. It is
now discredited because the "indus
tries affected" the trusts object to
it and they exert enough influence to
defeat the treaties." The will of the
trusts and not the will of the people
is the Senate's authority. The "pres
sure" of the trusts is so "tremendous"
that Senators must, perforce, yield to
their demand and submit to their dic
tation. It might be supposed that
Senator Allison, after his long politi
cal experience and his brilliant ca
reer as a statesman, would not have
made an admission so humiliating.
Why should the Senate be so con
siderate of the trusts? It is a branch
of the American Congress, legislat
ing, in part, for the American people
and not for the industries affected.
The Republican party may be reliev
ed of this "tremendous pressure" in
1904.
"We renew our faith in the policy
of protection to American labor," said
the Republican party in 1900. The
"tremendous pressure" for the reten
tion of protective duties does not
come from the workingmen of the
country. The "influence" to which
the Senate yielded so gracefully and
so readily came from the "affected in
dustries" that is the protected con
cerns. The Senator admits, what
everybody knows, that the bene
ficiaries of protection and not the
working people are the clamorers for
a high tariff and also that the "indus
tries affected" are trusts mainly. They
control the Senate absolutely, and
Senator Allison knows it.
Why should the consumers the
great body of Amcican people suf
fer themselves to be robbed by the
trusts? Why should the industries
which so strongly oppose any reduc
tion of the Dingley tariff duties con
trol legislation, as against the inter
ests of the great body of consumers?
A PLEA FOR PAUPERS.
Democratic Journal's Opinion of the
Glass Trust.
Unless glass-making has changed
materially within a few years the in
dustry is carried on chiefly by chil
dren, and the only well-paid workers
engaged are a few foreigners imported
for the purpose of directing opera
tions.
Glass is protected by the Dingley bill
at tariff rates ranging all the way from
25 per cent to 100 per cent. It is
strictly a pauper industry one which
is supported by public taxation as
truly as any poorhouse or insane asy
lum. The men who have become
wealthy by means of it owe all that
they have to unjust laws and not a
farthing to their own industry and
sagacity.
Fifty years ago no self-respecting
American would accept a fortune com
ing in this way. To-day there are
plenty of men who not only are glad to
become public charges but who are
not ashamed to stand forth in oppo
sition to a humane movement in favor
of preserving to American childhood
some of the blessings which . belong
to it.
Hardly a Sunday passes in this town
that some eminent clergyman does not
guardedly inveigh against the- greed
of the age a greed which stops at
nothing. Where will these gentlemen
find a finer example of the base pas
sion which they thus characterize than
in the contemptible little group of
American glass manufacturers who,
doubling their prices under the robber
tariff, hypocritically pretent to dignify
and ennoble American labor by em
ploying little children for long hours
at small wages?
To be effective preaching must be
explicit. It must be illustrated. It
must cite examples. The glass manu
facturers of Illinois are the most im
pudent coterie of tariff plunderers,
wage trimmers and child oppressors
of whom the Chronicle has any knowl
edge. Every dollar that they have is
tainted.
If the pending bill on becoming a
law would, as these beggars and bul
lies declare, cause them to close their
works it should be passed for that
reason alone with the doxology as an
accompaniment. Chicago Chronicle.
The Monroe Doctrine.
In his advocacy of a great navy as
an indispensable means of maintain
ing the Monroe doctrine Mr. Roose
velt wholly ignored peace guarantees
which require no warships.
The country that controls the
world's food supply controls the
peace of the world if its own con
duct be honest, upright and dfscreeL
No foreign power dare make an un
just war upon the United States. We
coin! starve such un antagonist 1 ti t W
peace In a few months.
Should criminal folly at the lien
of the federal government plunge the'
American people into an unjust war
which the people would not support
the Monroe doctrine might be placed
iu serious peril.
Should any. of the other republics
on the continent forcibly repudiate
the doctrine and cede territory to
a iowerful monarchy we should have
serious difficulty in maintaining the
doctrine.
The American continent ought to
be sacred to democracy. By a firm
example of honor, patience and court
esy we can do more than by a big
navy in perpetuating republicanism
In America.
.The President's talk about a "big
stick" is boyish. A manlier maxim Is
to be found In Washington's counsel
"no entangling alliances."
No Relief from Republicans.
The sages of the Republican party
say we cannot hope for lower tariff
by reciprocity treaties because the In
dustries affected by tho few reduc
tions made by the treaties rise- in
their might and call a halt cm the
Senate. If these few industries con
trol the Senate how about the many
that would be affected by a revision
of the tariff by its friends? And how
about a system under which a few in
dustries admittedly shape legislation
which ought to be in the interest of
all the people? No relief from trust
sheltering duties can be expected
from a party which upholds such a
system.
Facts in Panama Canal Treaty.
Mr. Roosevelt's eulogy of John Hay's
diplomacy in the matter of the Pana
ma canal was" to have been expected,
perhaps, but there is little in the facts
to justify it. We are to dig the ditch
at an enormous expense and are to bo
mere tenants of Colombia, paying
that thrifty dic tatorship enough money
to have acquired a fee simple a much
larger section of its territory than we
are now to occupy on lease with very
uncertain rights. The Colombian
treaty may not have been entered into
so far as the United States are con
cerned with the idea of breaking it
at the first sign of difficulty, but that
will be its fate without much doubt.
Why?
Five groat packing companies have
paid fines of $5,000 each for violations
of the Missouri anti-trust law.
If a state law against combinations
to control prices can thus be enforced
why cannot a national law against
such combinations in interstate trade
be enforced?
While Mr. Roosevelt Is rushing zig
zag hither and thither telling people
about trusts will he not be good
enough to explain why no attempt has
been made to enforce the criminal
provisions of the national law while
Missouri has easily succeeded in en
forcing her state law?
Small Rent for Public Lands.
One of the opportunities which Sen
ator Warren of Wyoming does not
mention in speaking of President
Roosevelt's western tour is that of ob
serving the operations of the syndi
cates that have gotten possession of
great ranges of the public domain. A3
these syndicates are pasturing im
mense herds of sheep on the public
lands at a rental of about a cent an
aero and making two clips a year the
president may personally testify to
the iniquity of their demand for the
maintenance of duties that are near
ly prohibitory upon fine foreign wool.
Getting Their Pound of Flesh.
Cruel war has broken out again be
tween the Havemeyer sugar trust aiid
Arbuckle Brothers, who have been
lying down together very amicably
for a good while. The Arbuckles
charge that the trust has violated the
agreement to maintain prices. By
and by they will learn, as so many
others have learned, that the only
way to maintain monopoly prices Is
to merge themselves in a monopoly
trust. Then they can get tho entire
pound of flesh nominated in the Ding
ley tariff bond.
Only an Unpretentious Jaunt.
The fact that President Roosevelt
carries but two secretaries, one doc
tor, three stenographers, three mes
sengers, two secret service men, onu
poet-naturalist. representatives o!
tree illustrated papers, one official
photographer and two telegraph oper
ators and will make but 200 speeches
rather than give a quietus to the na
tion that his western trip is to be
anything but an unpretentious little
outing for the purpose of avoiding
publicity.
An Unprofitable Investment.
Secretary Shaw signed last Monday
a warrant for $3,000,000 for the treas
urer of the Philippine islands to cover
the relief appropriation. The Philip
pines continue to prove quite an ex
pensive luxury. They have already
cost this country over $400,000,000,
which is probably more than the gross
value of all the trade they will bring
us in 100 years. Atlanta Constitu
tion.
The Senate and the Cuban Treaty
The American Senate must consent
to be impaled on one of the horns ol
a dilemma. It was either extraor
dinarily stupid in the form of the
treaty which it confirmed or it took
action with the purpose of subjecting
the treaty to a great risk of destruc
tion.
In the Philippines.
In a small skirmish In the suburbs
of Manila the United States authori
ties assimilated forty-five Filipinos
the other day. It will comfort their
surviving relatives to know that they
were put out of the game by a clvi;
and not a military governmenL
Morgan's Hand Seen.
Mr. Roosevelt's speech warning
everybody to keep hands o3f the Baered
robber tariff shows the effect of those
long and prayerful consultations with
J. Pierpont Morgan at the White
House.
When a woman writes a leaer of
sympathy she usually exhavibts her
store of pet expressions.
Strange Test of Innocence.
"A strange way of te-stlng the Inno
cence of tet. accused person Is e-mploy-ed
In India," said a Philadelphia dotti
er In hides who lately returned from
Madras. "They haul the man up and
give him a mouthful of dry rice to
Chew. I don't suppose yeill ever chew
ed dry rleo? Well. It Is hard work.
It lakes a deal of che?wing Ut get ft
masticated into a glutinous mass, like
gum, and that Is tin condition that
the accused Is required to get It ini'
within ten minutes. If you are ralm
and not afraid, you Huc-cee-d, but If you
aro nervous and scared, you fall. Fen
It seems that fe-ar has a strong einVet
uivon the salivary glands; It prevent
them from secreting saliva. The mouth
of a badly frightened person is almost
as dry as a none. It requires a tre
mendous flow of saliva to chew dry
rice, and therefore" the scared pris
oner inevitably falls In thin tent. It
isn't, of course, a test employed In the
courts of the big towns. It belongs to
the Interior, less enlightened village's."
t:MV00 per M. TewiV " Single Hinder."
straight itc cigar, cost the deiiler no met
more than ot her !o cigars, but the blgher
price enable tin factory to ue higher
grades tobacco.
Threw the Name In.
Among a late c rop of stories toM at
the expense of Chicago Is this one, set
afloat by an Italian paper: When the
Duke of VeraKiie, the dese-endant of
Christopher Columbus, visited Chicago
he inquired at a telegraph office tho
charge for a telegram to the city of
Columbus of ten word. "Flfteri
cents," answered the official, "not In
eluding the signature, which Is wired
free." Whereupon the duke wired:
"Mayor, Columbus: Shall visit your
city next Monday or Tuesday." And
he signed it: "Christ obal Colon de To
ledo y Ijirreategui de la Cerda Rami
rez de Baquedancy Ganto Almirantc
y Adc-lantado Mayor le las Judlas,
Marques de; Jamaica, Duque d Vera
gua y de la Vega, Grande de KHpaiia.
Sentor del Heine, Caballero de la In
slgno Orden del Toison d'Oro. Gran
Cruz de la (Tone-option do Villavi (osa.
(lentil Hotnbrc eie Camaria del Rey
de Espana."
If you vvlnh Ix-niit ifol, clear, white e-Iotbnit
use Itml Cross liu.Il lileio. Letrgu 2 oc
package, 5 cents.
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Says He's Overpaid. '
Among office holders in Washington
Compl roller Trac ewell of the treasury
is regarded as a most extraordinary
;crson. M.r. Trace-well's salary is $r,.
f00 aiid ho thinks ho is overpaid.
Worse? than entertaining such a ht-r-odox
opinion, however, is the fac t that
be has not hesitated to give oxpro.ssieju,
thereto. During the? recent session of
congress bo was giving a sub rotuinit
feo some information regarding hU
office. The; clfaiitnau complimented
him by saying: "You aro the first, ifiau
government officer who has appeared
before us who did mjt ask for au in
Cioase of salary." Trace-well n-plie'd
bluntly: "I'm getting a blank sight too
much now." In private c-onve;rsatieii
later ho said: "Considering the hoi-rtt
of the-ir labor and the ir rosKnslbiIities
government employe- are paid more
than any other class of men in the
world." All of which Is regarded In
bureaucratic- circles as little? short of
revolutionary.
Defiance Starch Is put up 10 ounces
In a package, if) cents. Ono third
more starch for the same money.
What They Cost Him.
A IVotfa friend oftho lale (!on.-I
Robert (;. Ingersoll tells how, whib
Colonel Inge-i-soll was living in Peoiia,
he was called upon one elay by Gen
eral John A. Logan, says the New
York Times. The? colonel was upstair s
at the time, ami Gcijei.il Iari w:n
Ushered into I lie lil
I table?, were three volumes of Vejl-
vaire-s works, an edition d luxe repre
senting all that was he -.si in the book
binder's art. General Logan pie-ki'd
them up one- at a time, absorbed In hi
admiration at th-ir beauties. Whib
to engaged Colone l Ingcr.sol emoted
the room .
"Colonel," said the w neral. bold it.
one of the? volumes in his hand.-,, "this
is the most magnificent volume J ever
have sc-en. I de not want to seem
impertinent, but would you mind tell
ing mo what these books cost you?''
"Those? books.' began the colonel,
the twinkle in his eye? growing bright
er at each word, "cost me the gover
norship of Illinois."
Notes From the Scientists.
The electric life-saving hook of J.
McKenna, a Scotchman, is a long jxjla
with a hook and an electric light at
the outer end. The light is mad'i
to glow when seeking a body In thj
water at night
The new Austrian steamship pro
peller practically has eight blades, tha
four that usually run out from the
boss being cranged to straight sup
ports for the four propelling blades,
which are at the usual angle, and
meet at the outer end of the boss. It
is claimed that vibration is abolished
and coal consumption reduced.
The growth of crystals is so direct
ed by P. de WatoviUe as to give tho
transparency and luster of cut and
polished stones. The method la sim
ple, the small crystal being so mount
ed that while growing Jn a saturated
solution It can be continuously rotat
ed at the rate of several rotations per
second. Potassium and ammonium al
tims, copper sulphate and sodium chlo
rate give particularly fine results.
Think of your own faults and yo'i
will talk less about the faults of oth
ers. The only way God can keep brother
.lood alive in some of us is by tha
bonds of common suffering.
Money may not make the man, but
that doesn't prevent the man from,
trying to make money.
It is easier to get a modiste to cut
gown than it is to get her to cut
the price.
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