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Sppf ial to The Keronl-HeraU. St. Joseph. Mich. The brave act of a mother saved the life of her child
from a terrible death near Fresiott yesterday. Mrs. Frank Gray, with her family of four children, was picking
berries, when a !are black bear appeared. The three elder children ran to the house, leaving the baby under a
tree. The bear picked it up and started off with it. when the frightened mother secured a rifle and shot the ani
mal dead. Used by courtesy of the Commoner.
Commoner
OX MAMMON'S SIDE.
The Milwaukee Sentinel seem3 anx
ious to earn a front place among the
champions of organized wealth. It re
cently published an interview with
Mr. Hryan and then quoting a part of
the interview proceeded to make an
ultra-corporation argument on the
questions referred to. Here is what
the Sentinel quoted:
"The money question must be an is
sue so long as the money changers at
tempt to run the treasury department
In their own interests, and the labor
question must also be an issue, involv
ing as it does both arbitration and gov
ernment by Injunction."
And this is what the Sentinel says:
"The peculiar genius for politics pos
sessed by Mr. Hryan is. admirably illus
trated by the paragraph quoted. He
had previously opened the way for
these two issues by lining up 'the peo
ple' a title which he gives to those
who agree with him or who accept
his doctrines without amendment
against the corporations. Having
brought this happy business disturb
ing and calamity breeding matter to a
focus, he would make sure of accom
plishing his purpose by attacking the
integrity of the national currency, and
the grand climax would be reached
when he brought out his labor issue.
"Just at this time, when leading
union men and employers. a3 well as
economists of national reputations, are
working night and day with the hope
of finding a solution of the labor prob
lem that will insure the rights of both
employers and employes, of organized
labor and organized manufacturers.
Mr Bryan comes forward with the
cheerful suggestion that the matter be
treated as a political issue. He would
adopt the policy that has brought dis
aster to Australian industries com
pulsory arbitration and he would
abolish -government by injunction
which means that in cases of rioting
the protection of the courts is to be
withdrawn from employers of labor
until after the damage is done and the
property destroyed. Even labor lead
ers who are entitled to respect for
having accomplished seething of sub
stantial benefit for oranized labor do
not make these demands.
-On the whole, it may -e said that
Mr Bryan's program is about the most
omplele andVomising one that could
be deviled for bringing about indus
trial chaos U would be difficult to
mpro've'ipon it in any
at any point. It would not be neces
ilry to adu shotguns, dynamite, and
rei flags in order to round it out. for
tSey would all come in due course of
ThV. reveals the viewpoint from
which the Sentinel surveys the political
" Those who object to having the
treasury department run by the money
"hangers in their own Interests are. ac
cording to its logic "attacking the in
tcTr "ty of the national currency." and
those who prefer arbitration to strikes
ind who condemn government by in
action are denounced as disturbers
of the peace.
Mr Bryan has never advoc ated com
pulsory arbitration, as the Sentinel
might have known, and would hae
known If it had placed a proper esti
mate upon accuracy of statement. Both
the Chicago and Kansas City plat
forms demanded arbitration and while
rn to date the newspapers that have
been most severe in their criticism of
Mr Bryan for his remarks concerning
ihe Iowa democratic platform are
those which are republican and those
which claim to oe utu.w.v
ways support republican policies and
candidates.
"Philadelphia-Corrupt and Con
tented " is the way Lincoln Stefflns
wrius of Philadelphia. Why should
Mr. Stemns waste so many words
"Philadelphia -Republican." would
have told the same story.
Of course ex-Governor Taylor was
too far away from the scene of the
Kentucky republican ccmventlon to
hear the cheering that greeted, the
mention of tis name.
It has dawned upon everybody but
John Hay that Russia and China have
Sen enjoying a spell of "easy thins
diplomatic intercourse" with our secre
tary of state.
General Simon Bolivar Buckner sat
In a republican convention in Ken
tucky as a delegate the other day
The general ha merely changed
namcB, not politic.
"BUT THIS MOTHER DOES NOT
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Comment.
the republican leaders steadfastly re
fuse to consider the question, the sen
timent in favor of voluntary arbitra
tion is growing and will ultimately
triumph.
If. in the meantime, there are dis
turbances, lockouts, boycotts or blood
shed, the responsibility will not rest
upon those who seek to establish just
and peaceable means for the adjust
ment of differences, but upon those
servile and sycophantic worshipers at
the shrine of Mammon who insolently
assault all remedial legislation.
The Sentinel will praise the presi
dent for suggesting the arbitration of
one strike after the loss of one hun
dred millions of dollars, but it con
demns Mr. Bryan for advocating arbi
tration as a means of settling all labor
disputes without the necessity for a
strike.
The Sentinel boldly defends govern
ment by injunction and it does so with
full knowledge that the purpose of
this extraordinary writ is to deny the
laboring man the right of trial by jury.
If the editor of the Sentinel were
charged with a libelous assault upon
the reputation of a citizen or a mur
derous assault upon his employer or
even with converting a subscription to
his own use. he would be entitled to
a trial by jury and no court could deny
it to him; but he is so soaked and
steeped in prejudice for the great cor
porations that he would rob the wage
earners of this invaluable safeguard.
Of all the forces in society no one
force is doing more to create class- hos
tility than plutocratic newspapers like
the Sentinel that blindly follow at the
heels of the money magnates and bark
at all who plead for justice and fair
play.
THE WORLD MOURNS.
The universal sorrow evinced at the
death of Pope Leo shows the willing
ness of the people of all denominations
to lay aside their prejudices and do
honor to those who really deserve well
of their fellows and he ha9 earned
this. In his selection there was a for
tunate conjunction of the man and the
opportunity. His mental and spiritual
traits admirably fitted him for the
eminent place which he filled and his
position as the head of the great Cath
olic church gave him a large sphere
in which to act. While he was the
highest representative of one branch
of the Christian church, and passion
ately devoted to his task, he took an
active part in all mat concerned hu
manity and his mighty influence was
ever thrown upon the side of peace and
justice.
The valiant fight which he made for
life aroused profound sympathy and
the prolonged struggle gave an oppor
tunity for his admirers to lay their
tributes at his feet.
His successor, while inspired by his
lofty example, will find it difficult to
live up to the pattern set by the recent
occupant of the Vatican.
"LITTLE UNKNOWNS."
The New York Post did not seem to
know of the existence of Judge Walter
Clark of North Carolina before his
name was mentioned in The Common
er This is not so much a reflection
upon the judge as it is upon the Post
It is more than passing strange that
the newspapers which represent the
reorganizing element should be so lit-
Salt Lake claims to have discovered
a new comet, but it may
the trail of Perry Heath as he skipped
out for his health until after the In
vestigation of the postal department.
The discussion of the food value of
alcohol is again attracting attention.
The. chief trouble is. however, that
nobody uses it for food.
Senator Burton should have known
that the president would object to be
ing used for advertising purposes for
another man's benefit.
Those eastern college football boys
who tackled the Kansas and Nebraska
wheat bundles may have missed the
gingering-up applause of the fair co
eds in the, grandstand.
In view of their kindly assistance, it
would seem that the republican party
bosses might select a candidate for vice
president from among the "gold demo
crats." '
Those cheers for Taylor In the Ken
tucky republican convention are cer
tainly worth something as the founda
tion of a Roosevelt running mate
boom.
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REPUBLICS
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PARTY
tie acquainted with the record and the
merits of a man like Judge Clark. The
New York World is so astonished at
the obscurity of the men whom The
Commoner has mentioned in connec
tion with the presidency that it ex
pressed its indignation in a cartoon
entitled "The Little Unknowns from
Nowhere." One of thte men mentioned
in The Commoner is a United States
senator, and iias been both a governor
and a congressman: another is mayor
of Cleveland and has four times de
feated Mark Hanna in his home city,
another has been a prominent mem
ber of congress for ten years from one
of the great states of the union, and
was his party's choice for United
States senator in the last legislature,
and the fifth is mayor of one of the
leading southern cities.
FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.
At the Christian Endeavor society
meeting, held in Denver recently, a
Mr. Beach, described in the press dis
patches as a missionary in China for
six years, declared that foreign syndi
cates had secured every available rail
road concession or business enterprise
in that country and that the greed of
these foreign operators had brought
about an industrial revolution in that
country. '
"If the Chinese had the spirit of the
men of 1776," he added, "there would
not be a foreigner or missionary left
in China." This explains the anti
foreign sentiment which is to be found
in the countries that are being "de
veloped." The "civilized nations" are
engaged in commercializing the world.
The business men of these nations ob
tain concessions and monopolize trade,
and then the home government is ex
pected to back up the demands of the
traders with armies and navies.
Money! money! money! Human
rights are being subordinated to it;
notinne ar hpinz embroiled in it, and
Christianity is being retarded on ac
count of it. Until within a few years
America was free from suspicion and
her representatives could go anywhere,
but now that we have joined other
nations in land-grabbing we must ex
pect to meet the same opposition and,
if we are going to get our share of the
plunder, we must leave a trail of blood
as other exploiting nations have done.
Imperialism must be abandoned or it
will work a complete change in the
ideals and methods of our government.
The Chicago Chronicle's logis is as
badly crimped as its democracy. The
Chronicle says: "The actual value ot
silver produced in this country in 1901
was $33,128,400. If the mine owners
could have taken it to the mints for
freeco inage into dollars they would
have had $71,387,800." Well, if they
would have been "SO-cent dollars," as
the Chronicle claims they would have
been, what would it have profited the
mine owners?
The Chicago Chronicle avows and
avers that Mr. Cleveland has not
grown rich in the service of the silver
mine owners. This is all very well
as far as it goes, but will the Chicago
Chronicle be good enough, now that
it is on that subject, to tell us in what
service Mr. Cleveland has grown rich?
Captain Pershing went to tfc? Philip
pines a captain, and is still a captain.
It appears that Captain Persuing has
been unfortunate in that he has not
been where silver services were in
more demand than ammunition
It is to be hoped that cunnirrr In the
nnstat rienartment will be F'ackled
much more effectively than it L?.s been
in the world of trusts and combina
tions. The congressman who was inter-
tn t Vi a nrmv elnve contract evi-
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dently wanted to have a nana in the
easy money uusiness.
TUr. Hqv retirement and the "bust-
jng of trusts" by the g. o. p. are as like
as two peas in a poa Dotn- are nom
ing more tnan talk.
The Paducah News-Democrat wants
to know why the president does not
call the extra session just before in
stead of just after the election. The
News-Democrat seems to be laboring
under the hallucination that the ses
sion should be devoted to caring for
the people's interests.
Uncle Joe Cannon is not going to
announce his committees until he gets
the proof sheets from the Wall street
committee of revision.
Of course King Peter Whatshisname
ovitch has his court sized up so that
he can tell vitch is vitch.
THE TARIFF ISSUE.
JUDGE TAFT MAKES PLEA FOR
THE PHILIPPINES.
Congress May Ba Forced to Make Con
cessions to the Cubans and the Fili
pinos, but Relief for the People of
the United States Is Not Likely.
The last congress refused to pass
the bill to reduce the tariff rates on
Importation from the Philippine
islands and all the protectionists were
in a great state of glee about IL Al
though the flag waves over the unfor
tunate islands, they are treated by the
Republican leaders as a foreign coun
try. Gov. Taft on the Fourth of July
sent a message to President Roosevelt
in answer to his Independence Day
congratulations, making a plea for
concessions in the Philippine tariff
schedules, thus rebuking the Repub
lican leaders who have determined to
"stand pat" on the tariff Issues until
after the presidential election. Now
Judge Taft is too wise a politician to
make this effort for tariff reform a
leading issue and press the matter on
President Roosevelt unless he feared
the result, except the reform of the
tariff was accomplished before the
election of 1904. He knew his mes
sage would receive the widest public
ity and create a public demand for tar
iff concessions to the Philippines, such
as congress would not dare to ignore.
The Republican leaders have been
comforting themselves that all dan
ger from the tariff agitation was post
poned when the Iowa idea was laid to
slesp by Senator Allison, and this fire
from the rear is very disconcerting to
them. If the Philippine tariff issue is
opened up in congress, the Democrats
will demand that trust productions be
added to the free list or the protec
tion they now enjoy vastly diminished.
A record vote on such a proposition
would be disastrous to a number of
Congressmen from close districts and
would lead to trouble in some of the
western states, where tariff reform
and trust control are demanded by a
large percentage of the Republican
voters.
Many of the favored monopolies do
not want the tariff, even with the
Philippines, touched at all. They op
posed the reduction of the Porto
Rican duties and are still fighting reci
procity with Cuba. If the Philippine
tariff is abolished, it will be under
whip and spur, a procedure by no
means desirable to the Republican
party on the eve of a presidential elec
tion. There is no doubt that Presi
dent Roosevelt in his message to the
coming special session of congress
will urge Cuban reciprocity on that
body, and he may suggest that the
Philippine tariff be abolished. But
will the Republican leaders, the ultra
protectionists who control congress,
adopt his recommendations? President
Roosevelt also knows that our home
tariff should be revised to take from
the trusts the monopoly it now gives
many of them, and thus reduce the
price of trust productions. But will
he have "the nerve" to recommend It?
Such a political move would be vastly
popular with the people, but would be
denounced by the trusts and their ac
complices, the Republican politicians.
The President's next message to con
gress will be scanned with more than
usual interest and the action of that
body will be watched by the great ma
jority of the voters with anxious solici
tude to see if any relief will be grant
ed from trust extortions. Congress
may be forced to give reciprocity to
Cuba and free trade to the Philip
pines but the Republican leaders will
not permit the sacred tariff that robs
our own people to be molested. They
look to the trusts that are making
millions out of tariff protection to lib
erally supply the campaign funds to
defeat the will of the people.
EXTRAORDINARY APPOINTMENT.
President Roosevelt Promotes Wood
to Be Major General of the Army for
Personal Reasons.
It is generally supposed that promo
tions in the army and navy are made
on the score of seniority and merit,
but such has not been the case for
the past few years. Civilians but just
appointed, have been jumped over the
heads of the regular officers who have
spent the best years eff their lives in
the service, and even the highest com
missions have been given to some,
who, as far as service was concerned,
had no right to receive the promotion.
It is officially announced that Presi
dent Roosevelt has promoted Brig.
Gen. Wood to be Major-General, and
when it is remembered that he has
only been two and one-half years in his
present rank and it is only five and
one-half years when he was merely an
assistant surgeon, his further advance-
Lment is a rank injustice to those of
longer service. The claims of Gen.
Wood seem to rest on having been
Colonel of the Rough Riders regiment
to which the President belonged and
to the personal friendship which ex
ists between them. His active service
was confined to two months in the vol
unteer service and participating in one
skirmish. There are still on file in
the War department grave charges
azainst his administration as governor
I of Cuba, which President Roosevelt
and Secretary Root refused to have
investigated, which should be impar-.
tially gone into before advancing him
to high honors over those whose rec
ord is unclouded.
Gen. Theodore Schwan declares In
an article in the Journal of the Mili
tary Service Institution, that "no one
not in the service can appreciate the
incalculable harm done by a single
bad or undeserved promotion to a
high place over the heads of seniors
of equal or greater merit and ca
pacity." President Roosevelt has de
clared that "every promotion and ev
ery detail under the War department'
must be made solely with regard to
the good of the service and to the
rapacity and merit of the man himcelf.
So pressure, political, social or per
sonal of any kind will be permitted to
exercise the least effect in any ques
tion of promotion or detail." If the
President had lived up to that declara
tion he would not have promoted Gen.
Wood oyer other officers of far greater
length, of service and of much more
conspicuous merit. His promotion is
iji entirely personal one, the very
Iting President Roosevelt decries, and
yet he hks done It. The President
may think he is quite capable of com
manding an army in the field. If sucJi
an occasion should offer, but those of
ficers who have been long In the ser
vice and therefore best able to judge,
would, if they spoke their minds, ad
vise him against doing so. Ills posi
tion makes him, under the constitu
tion, commander-in-chief of the army
and navy, but that supreme law does
not make any President a great ad
miral or general, nor does the friend
ship of the President make a great
general of Doctor Wood. The promo
tlci must be passed upon by the sen
ate and there will be strong opposition
to Its approval.
Happy New Zealand.
Considering that New Zealand Is
without tariff protection, and, in fact,
practices none of the methods of the
Republican party in this country to
make everybody rich by taxing them
indirectly, insidiously, underhanded,
and, it may as well be admitted also,
unfairly, she is doing remarkably well.
We have been hearing many good re
ports from her, but none better than
the following from Dr. J. M. Peebles,
who has just returned from that
island. He says:
"I have to say, without the least
mental reservation, that New Zealand
is the most prosperous country I have
ever seen. It is the most liberal-minded,
fraternal-spirited, thrifty and ad
vanced country in the world. I say it
with all due admiration and patriotic
love for my native New England.
"The state-nvneu railroads, tele
graph, telephones, etc.. I unhesitat
ingly affirm, are at least fifty years
ahead of those of the United States
and England.
"Though gifted witth searching
eyes, not a tramp did I see In the
country; not a beggar's voice did I
hear; nor did I witness In village,
town or city any poor, unemployed,
sad-faced souls pleading for work to
keep away the wolf of poverty."
After reading the above take up any
of our daily papers, read of strikes,
riots, mobs, lynch Ings, suicides, cases
of starvation (and they are unusually
frequent lately) and then go out and
march with the "stand-patters" and
shout for protection and prosperity.
Above all, don't worry yourself think
ing about what a miserable country
this would have been if it had never
had "protection" to lean upon and
had depended entirely upon its natur
al resources. Think of It!
Payne: "Sh-hl It's going to sleep!
How Carnegie Catches Suckers.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie is a sort of
Dr. Jeykl and Mr. Hyde man on the
tariff question. In this country he is a
high-protectionist and has probably
made over $300,000,000 out of tariff
duties in iron and steel. In fact, he
probably has more tariff profits in his
breeches or bank than any other man.
He has shown his appreciation of our
tariff generosity by giving nearly
$100,000,000 of his protected profits
back to us in library buildings, etc.
Or perhaps the amount returned is a
"conscience fund," instead of a "thank
you."
But, strange to say, Mr. Carnegie,
who resides in England, is opposed to
protection for that country. He is
solemnly warning England against the
dangers of protection and is depre
cating" the possibility of a three-cornered
tariff war between the United
States, Great Britain and England.
He fears, he says, that such a fight
would prevent the English-speaking
race from becoming the "dominant
world-power."
Just what Mr. Carnegie has in mind
is hard to say. In fact, it is difficult
to follow the meanderings of a pro
tectionist's ideas, or rather assertions,
for it is by no means certain that they
always speak their minds. Possibly,
if Mr. Carnegie would disclose all that
is back of his assertions, he would say
substantially:
"I am a protectionist in America be
cause ray steel mills are tiere; that
is, the steel mills: which I built and
which, though sold, may return to me
any year because of the mortgage I
hold on them. Protection in America
adds about $75,000,000 a year to the
profits of these steel mills, because it
enables them to sell at much higher
prices in America than in foreign coun
tries. I am a free trader in other
countries because I want to keep as
many foreign markets as possible open
to the products of my steel mills. Of
course it would never do for me to
state my real reasons, so I must try to
fool the people of both countries by
talking about the 'English speaking
race,' the 'the dominant world power
and such rot. It is remarkable how
easy It is to catch suckers."
Mr. Carnegie Is like the late Jay
Gould in politics. He said, "I'm a
Republican in a Republican state, a
Democrat in a Democratic state, and
an Erie railroad man everywhere. and
always."
BYRON W. HOLT.
Our Oriental White Elephant.
"Trade is not following, the flag
much faster than the constitution In
the case of the Philippines. Exports
from the United States to the 'depend
ency having declined from $4,814,404
in 1902 to $3,598,613 in 1903.. But there
has been a notable growth in Imports
from- the archipeligo. the figures for:
1903 being $11.0S9,S96, against $6,447.
500 in 1902. Such an, 'adverse bal
ance will probably make the lament"
ed Dingley turn over in his grave."
Johnstown Democrat. ' .
TARIFF AND TRADE.
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF "PROTEC
TION" HUMBUG.
No Foundation for the Claim That the
Business of the Country Was Ever
Hurt by a Low Tariff The Panic of
1473.
II. S. Wallace writes to a leading
newspaper saying that hh a laboring
man he is "old enough to have lived
through several alternate periods of
protection and free trade or low tar
iff." and he "positively knows" that
he has had "steadier work and much
higher wages under protection than
under free trade.'
Mr. Wallace must bo pretty old If
he has lived through several alternate
periods of protection and free trade
or low tariff in this country. Wo have
never bad a period of, fret; trudo in
this country at all, though there was a
pretty close approach to that under
the tariff of 1789 tin first after the
adoption of the constitution of the
United States.
We have never had a day of low
tariff sirce 18C.1. but the tariff lias
been built continually higher ee-pt
for two temporary and slight reduc
tions, each leaving the rates much
higher than they were under the Mor
rill protective tariff of 1SC1.
Mr. Wallace swallows without salt
the lie cf the protectees and t'n lr at
torneys that the people tried "a small
dose of free trade when they elected
Cleveland in 1892,' and that this small
dose produced the panic of 1833 and
closed factories and opened soup
houses right and left. '
He swallows whole the lying as
sumption that the "dose" was admin
istered before the panic of 1893. when
in fact it was not administered until
fifteen months after that event and
after the- process of closing the fac
tories had been going on about that
length of time. He swallows the lie
that the tariff of 1894 was a "dose of
free trade," when it was in fact even
less of that than the Republican tariff
of 1882. The tariff of 1894 was in fact
far more highly protective than was
the Morrill tariff of 18C1.
We had a comparatively low tariff
from 1846 to 1801 and such republicans
as Garfield and Allison admitted as
late as 1872 that the country was
never more prosperous than during
those fifteen years.
There was something of a panic, in
1857, twenty years after that of 1837,
but it was trifling and its effects dis
appeared In a year, whereas the panic
of 1873. occurring only sixteen years
later, when the protective system was
in full blossom, was ten times more
disastrous and the country did not
recovery from the succeeding prostra
tion for fully five years.
Mr. Wallace evidently does not
speak from experience, as he Imag
ines. He is plainly a victim of the
sophisms and the lies of thote who
have been made rich at the expense fit
the people by monstrous tariffs for
spoliation only.
Uncle Thomas Too Modest.
It is commendably modest in Uncle
Thomas Piatt, asked whom he deems
the most astute statesman of bis day.
to reply by naming Senator Quay. It
is, however, modesty at the expense of
accuracy. Mr. Quay is not the most
astute statesman of the present day.
He is not to be compared with the
venerable Uncle Thomas In any par
ticular. Whatever we may think of the poli
tics and policies of Mr. Piatt, it is Ira
possible to deny him the possession of
a gift for political leadership of a prac
tical kind in which he is unapproaehed
by any of his contemporaries. His
title of "easy boss" is the best test!
monial to his ability.
There other men in politics who
have won distinction as leaders, but
there is none of them who has main
tained supremacy with so little frie
tion and with such uniform success as
the senior senator from New York.
Mr. Hanna has spent dollars where
Mr. Piatt has spent dimes, yet Mr.
Hanma is admittedly a waning force.
while Mr. Piatt is as strong as ever
Mr. Quay has managed to retain his
grip on Pennsylvania, yet he has had
to fight indictments, criminal actions
and other disagreeable attacks; Mr.
Piatt's pesonal character has been
unassailed.
In short, of all the "bosses" who
have arisen within the last twenty
years your Uncle Thomas is the only
one in either party who enjoys a con
tinuous reign unbroken by successful
revolt or even by dangerous attack.
Hence his compliment to Mr. Quay
is merely unwarranted derogation of
himself. If there is a pre-eminently
astute politician in this country it is
purring, amiable old Uncle Thomas
himself. If any one doubts it let him
Inquire of Frank Black, Benjamin
Odell or any of the other temerarious
youths who have from time to time
undertaken the . perennial job of
"downing old Piatt."
Uncle Sam in the Opium Trade.
Gov. Taft and his advisers have
beard from the United States on the
opium question. President Roosevelt
R.nd Secretary Root received convin
cing arguments against the infamous
proposal urged by Gov. Taft that the
opium monopoly should be assumed by
the government of the islands In the
name of the republic which has under
taken to bring the Philippines up to
the American standard.
Gov. Taft's machine at Manila has
.-isen to the emergency. It has sub
mitted a bill not only to prevent mo
nopoly but to make Importation of
pium unlawful except by pharmacists
tnd Its sale permissible on only a
physician's prescription.
This is admirable. It disarms criti
:lsm of the Roosevelt administration
n relation to the projected opium con
;ession by which another ring would
lave been enriched and in time an
ther scandal would have been un
earthed. .
But the secluded concessioner does
lot despair. The change of heart in
he' Taft council is not radical. The
mbstitute bill will serve as a' subter
'uge until after the -presidential elec
ion. Then if the country votes Taft's
.vay the projected opium monopoly
vlll no doubt be resuscitated and ac-tomplished-
For, according to Information from
Manila, instead of adopting the substi-
tute and putting it in operation fort!i
with, discussion of the new proposal
"was Indefinitely postponed."
The Tariff Logicians.
The St. Iouls Star has attempted to
explain how a tariff on manufactured
products makes manufactured prod
ucts cheaper by stimulating competi
tion and at the namo tlmo niak
wheat dearer by preventing rniu peti
tion. But ItH explanations are h lame
as the explanation of tho protection
ists usually are. The price of wheal
Is fixed abroad. Whither the farrnei
sells to the miller In his home utato or
to the miller In Europe, ho getn th
foreign price less carriage and com
mlenlons. The Republicans try tf
show that a tariff on wheat mitten the
price of the farmer's wheat and titer
they try to tdiow the farmer that t
tariff lowers the price of inaiitifacliire
products. They make the same htku
inent in regard to wool. Tliey do nol
put the arguments side by side, but It
the course of the same siwcli the)
will assert that a tariff o;i wool miner
the price of wool ami that a tariff oi
the goodH made out of the name woo
lowers the pi lee of the goodn. The)
mal.e these contradictory argument
rot because there is m.y truth ft
thi.-n, but bcraiiKe they have to do
c'ivo the fiirmer. The manufacturer!
unilert-'taml the m-ci'i wlty for s.u li ar
gutnei.'ts and overlook them. Inn Re
publican fanners are exueeteil to tv
oept them at their face alue. The
Commoner.
Result of Imperialism.
Senator Fotor of Louisiana had yes
tertlay to plead with hid fellow Itienf
not to lynch a rcgro who was in tin
custody of the officers of the law. Ol
course, we recognize the senator's kit
vice, but what a state of things wc
have come to when It is necessary tc
beg people calling themselves re
spectahle Lot to commit murder! Very
ominous was the al tempt of even
United States soldiers at Fort Ic-aven
worth to lynch a negro who had been
in a fracas with one of their number,
Where is this thing to stop? The fact
that their regiments had seer nervlct
In the Philippines, and had ac
quired the notion that "nlnt. have
no more rl?ht than wild animals,
should furnish food for thought tc
those startled Imperialists from the
President down, who are wondering
where the new ferocity against an "In
ferior" race got ita frcbh Impulse.
New York Post.
Spoilsmen Still In Control.
Many of the men In charge of the
public business, even as public service
is now limited or defined, rarely dc
their work promptly, efficiently arte'
impartially. Kven In the post office do
partment, the boast of the advocate!
(jf government ownership, the service
costs nlniost twice as much as it. conic'
be clone for, and men in hih place?
peddle contracts, work thc-lr "grafts
and cumber the salary list with th
rames of idle relatives and women.
The public business of the country It
still on the party of spoils basis Irt
spite of all the efforts of reformer!
and the costly experience of the poo
p'e. who feed the spoilsmen.
Tariff and the Trusts.
British radicals are pointing tc
bankrupt American trusts as so man)
arguments against the Chamberlait
protective tariff proposition. They are
wrong, however. The bankrupt trust!
have come; to grief through the avarlc
and dishonesty of their promoters, not
because of the tariff, which Is in truth
the mother of trusts.
Peace for a Time.
Gen. Davis thinks that our forces In
the Iliillppines may safely be reduced
considerably, which indicates thai
there will be nothing special doing lr
our colonial possessions until a new
crop of "ladrones" Is ripe for the har
vest the old stock having climbed
the golden stair via the Krag-Jorgen-sen
route.
Wood an Expensive Luxury.
Our fellow-citiaens of Zamboanga,
P. I., who have hitherto been under
the sway of a sultan, will now discovci
what "official dignity" Is and what It
costs. Brigadier Ieonard Wood If
about to dawn upon them as provincial
governor and the brigadier come
high, as the people of Cuba can tesify.
Maxim Went Wrong.
What! our liege lord Theodore
hedging on his purpose of shaking the
Kishineff petition under the imperial
nose of Nicholas! Impossible. Was it
not our liege lord what formulated the
historic and strenuous maxim: "Never
draw unless you mean to shoot?"
Two Postoffice Systems.
Dr. Iyenaga says that the postal
system of Japan is more highly devel
oped than that of this country. It
must be a daisy if it producers func
tionaries more active than Tyner
Beavers & Co., though Dr. Iyenaga
probably does not mean development
of that particular kind.
Trust Question Being Settled.
An occasional dull boom from down
New York way marks the explosion of
another "useful and necessary com
bination of capital." The trust ques
tion, as Uncle Hanna predicted, is set
tling itself, but no; precisely as Uncle
Hanna expected It would.
Nomination Going Begging.
And now Gov. Cummins denies that
he ever agreed to accept the vice pres
idential nomination, and the Job will
once more have to start out on Its
weary task of finding somebody who
will take it in.
An Accommodating Platform.
After reading the Iowa resolutions It
is easy to understand why both fac
tions In the Republican party claim a
victor)'- The platform means any
thing that tho reader wishes it to
mean.
Incident Is "Closed."
Mr. Hay announces that tho Kishin
eff petition incident is closed, and so
it Is closed so suddenly that the fin
gers of Mr. Hay and his illustrious
chief got caught In the crack.
Doyle Not to Visit America.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle denies the
statement that he is coming to Ameri
ca to get local color for a revival of
"Sherlock Holmes."