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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1901)
' Harrison Press-Journal G. A. FHIPPs, Publisher. HARRISON, NEBRASKA waalUy resident of a town In Miller ounty. Mo., has selected a site near hla own home and is building for timself wiU bis own bands an elabo rate torn a, For six scholarships recently award id by the Cworgia School of Technol gy there iwre 569 applications. ThU accepted as evidence that the young white men or the South are inclining toward manual and mechanical work is a career. Georgia papers note Ttiis thange of sentiment with much satls iactlon. Foraerly there was a preju Uce against mechanical labor. A pathetic example of devotion to urt has just occurred in New York, ueonard Cordes, long a noted orches tra player, was dying on Wednesday, 'hen he called for his violin. It was I valuable Italian Instrument and when le took it in bis bands he began play ng "When the swallows homeward ly." Just as be finished playing that eautiful melody his heart ceased to teat In the coffin with him will be Juried his loved violin. The robbery of a sum of money, many jewels, and other valuables, rep resenting altogether a sum of $50,000, waa carried out the other day In the Rue Quincampoix, Paris, In a most audacious fashion. The burglars took in apartment on the fifth floor of the house on Saturday, paying $55 as their first Installment of rent The next day they bored a hole through the floor Into the apartment immediately below while the tenants were away spending the day In the country. When these unfortunate people return ed at night they found their safe blown open, their rooms In confusion, their money and jewelry gone, and the robbers escaped. The veteran academician, Sidney Cooper, has just entered upon his ninety-ninth year, and still paints a few hours dally. A series of his works was recently exhibited in Lon don. In France also a remarkable In dividual works on steadily, although he has reached the age which gives a man a right to rest. Jules Verne haa begun bis ninety-ninth book, and has lived ,to , see many of his fantasti cal tales of adventure by land and sea and air come within the bounds of possibility. As age is not without its achievements, so it need not be with out Its hopes of a new start. A Chi cago woman of ninety-two lately apologized to Miss Jane Addams be cause she was not neighborly. She had always meant to be neighborly, but bad put it off from time to time. When the hot weather was over she Intended to begin. In giving organs to 350 churches in Scotland at a cost of nearly a mil lion of dollars, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has but followed a hint given by two famous Americans. When Moody an J Sankey first went to Scotland.the novel . feature of an evangelist singing to a small America organ, created much comment So simple and catching were Mr. Sankey's tunes, however, that they were resung in every village from Klrkmalden to John 0 Groats, and the call for small American or gans on which to "try the tunes" came by the hundred. It is interesting to add that nearly thirty thousand dol lars in British royalties on the Moody and Sankey hymns being refused by the evangelists, the Scotish committee turned It over to the Moody church in Chicago. As a Scotch-American to Scotchmen, Mr. Carnegie has certainly repaid their Just generosity. Another disaster, similar to that which occurred two years ago, has be fallen the Welsh colonist in Patagonia. The River Oam wy has once again overflowed its banks. The harvest had not been gathered, and tha people had to fly to the mountains. By a great effort the embankment on the north ern side of the valley has bsen kept In tact Lower down the river flooded over many farms. The place was like a sea; the embankment had to be bro ken down to allow the water to go back into the river, and it ebbed gradually. At Oalman great efforts wen made to safeguard the Souses, but the river rose higher than it did two years ago, and flooded three-quarters of the whole valley. Only three houses are reported to have collapsed ia this locality, but the whole of the year's crops are practically ruined. The colonists have held a meeting, asking the Argentine government to grant them land on the hills on each ids of the valley, where they could escape ia case of need. It was also, resolved to ask the government to Niters those who are la seed, to as sist tbs ookmists generally la making ' good Us damage, and to take asasares to protset them against farther floods. The breaches la the embankment are being tiled ap, but a good many eolo alats dselars that they will emigrate) to It tfl aoUworthy that of Us men and worn asawtloaad la Us recent edition of IwiWto la America," flfty-alas or oat of those whose education Is kaow art aCSsft graduates, and sev mttf ftt ntmi college. Tans tVfrt rcZt grsdaatsa art barely a tM VzHni of tl total popula tes. 7 tzZ oat oas-half of rarnf t La aCaUol distinction, i tit TtZzZZi rrssk remarks, UZitC HS30 of Ms, so far ri t2 la eoaoaraK. are a r.rJ trJLii to cms Cm PLUTOCRACY'S AIM IS TO MUZZLE THE HONEST TION OF PRESS. POR After Havtac Parchaee the Dtolwutt Paper Freedom (or Dishonest Frees ad Maul far Honest Free Is the Aim of C orporm tlons. The attempt of the plutocrats to muzzle a free press and free speech is as old as the government Hamilton and the Federalists tried it and were so thoroughly defeated that as a party they disappeared from the stage of American politics, but tbeir teachings unfortunately did not die with them, and now appear again under the stress of national misfortune, taking advan tage of popular excitement to again rear its hideous bead. The Nashville News well describes this when it says. An arbitrary government and a free press can never agree together without an explosion. This ia a self-evident fact, and is the teaching of history. It is as well known to the gentlemen who are seeking to monopolize the in dustries of the nation and lax all the people for tbeir industrial benefit as it was to Thomas Jefferson or any other of the foundera of the government Free speech is essential to a free peo ple, and the one cannot exist without the other. Undoubtedly the blackest portend of trouble in the future which has recently shown itself is the dis graceful attempt of the organized cap ital of the country, through its subsi dized newspapers, to use the sentiment aroused by the national misfortune of the murder of the president, as an ex cuse for an attack on the freedom of the press. If this were an isolated case it could be put down to the idiosyn crasy of some hysterical editor. But it is national and shows unfortunately from the number of papers engaged in it, that an enormous percentage of the daily press has been acquired by the same interest which now controls prac tically, all the transportation lines, the coal oil, the ships, the iron, the steel, the coal and the agricultural machin ery plants, and which is reaching out after a monopoly of the hardware, the retail dry goods business and the fed eral judiciary. The order has been is sued, and from Maine to California the chorus of yelps and howls from the pack has answered vociferously. The burden of the song is the same in ev ery case. The cry is "yellow journal Ism," and the demand is that the gov ernment be allowed to decide what may be said and what may not be said In a newspaper about public affairs. CIVIL GOVERNMENT OVERRIDDEN. The civil government in the Philip pines which was established on Dec laration Day to emphasize that a cer tain amount of freedom had been in augurated and to carry out promises made to these Filipinos who surren dered, is a farce., it now appears the military claim full authority and have ordered the deportation of a civilian who on appeal to the Supreme Court that the civil end of the dual govern ment has set up, has been ordered re leased under a writ of habeas corpus. General Chaffee, however, holds that the court has no such power and is in fact a figurehead to please the Filipinos and fool the American people into be lieving t'aat peace exists there, and has appealed to the war department, who is, through the president, the real power under the extraordinary Spooner amendment The trouble arose from the fact that the government has been trying to carry water on both shoulders, to be prepared to trace its authority to either source as legal exigences may seem to require with a view to meet the constitutional questions that are before the United States Supreme Court If the civilian can be deported by the military commander there can certainly be no civil government In the Philippines, and tbe expensive one that has been set up Is worthless. LABOR LOOKING AHEAD. The steel strikers appear to have learned a lesson from tbe result 01 their late repulse by the steel trust for Uelr organ, the National Labor Tribune, In discussing the effect of the strike, says: Now, as a matter of fact, there is never likely to be a time when the steel corporation can afford better to precipitate a fight than it could the past summer. Wnat it fears, and what every other trust fears, above every thing else is a public anti-trust agita tion which will affect tbe elections, snd either bring about hostile legisla tion by the existing congress or bring into power a congress representing a hostile political party. A year from next month a new congress will be elected. Two years from Uat again Uers will be elections for not only a new congress, but for a new president Tbs best time for a strike, from tbe company' standpoint. Is when there ia no political campaign In progress. The worst time, from its standpoint. Is the time of a campaign of some Import- THE COAL TBCST. The coal trust. It no appears, can work fas double twist on Us pries of wal. As Us trust controls Us rail roads Uat carry the coal aad alto owas Us coal mines,' they can, whsa they havs raised Us pries of coal to , Us too aotch, give It an extra twist by raising Us freight oa coal, -all Ut traffic will bear," as Us follow! ag ta terriew la tbe Washlagtoa Post shows: "Wail Ue recent combtaaUoaa of rail roads la this country kav aot Mate rially advanced freight rates at far as eoal is eoaesraod, tkoy Bars caaaitsd m tko pries of coal bsiag .aetaagii." rsaMtfkof Mr. Joka Daff, a eoal Jotftor af Now Bedford. Bam "Ton ass." as continued, "all but sbout IS per seat of tbe total output of coal of Us Unit ed States is controlled by the railroads. Prior to the consolidation the roads owned as many mines as they do now but it was individual ownership, and competition kept the price down. Now there is no competition, and as a re sult we pay just about 11 a ton more for coal, both hard and soft, than we did one year ago. "The Lehigh, tbe Philadelphia and Reading, tbe Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, the Jersey Central, and the Pennsylvania roads in the big Mor gan syndicate own practically all tbe coal mines in this Eastern section. They secured them by increasing freight rates to the mine owners along their lines, thereby compelling them to sell out Railroad rates for shipment of coal are about the same, but they stay down because the companies don't have to put them up. They put the in crease on the coal Itself. Of course we here in tbe East ship most of our coal by water, but most of the barge com panles are controlled by the railroads of the combination. Rates hae not advanced for water shipment, because an Increase would immediately drive many vessels now carrying other prod ucta into tbe coal business. - TBR PRESIDENT AND THE TRUSTS. President Roosevelt In his Minneap olis speech delivered but a few weeks before big accession to tbe presidency, said: "We shall And It necessary in future to shackle cunning as in the past we have shackled force. The vast individual and corporate fortunes, and the vast combinations of capital, which have marked the development of our industrial system, create new conditions and necessitates a change from tbe old attitude of tbe state and nation towards property." To which the. Kansas City Star re plies: ''These are pointed and direct sentiments inspired by conditions to which no thoughtful and sober-mind ed man can be blind. They are not uttered In any spirit of Intemperance agitation or any false alarm for polit ical purposes. They come from an in fluential "member of the party which capital in modern years has regarded as its chosen champion. They do not proceed from a person who has ex cited the suspicion of the conservative element by the radical character of his opinions." If President Roosevelt tries to shackle the trust and corporation, which are all noted for their cunning, he will split the Republican party into two camps. He will bave the common people with him, but tbe Republican politicians will be against him, at least tbe most important of them who are maintained in their places by the money of the combines. But Presi dent Roosevelt making a stump speech and Roosevelt as President may be en tirely different persons. GAGE AND GAMBLERS, The Wall street sharks and their side partners, the bankers thereabouts, should keep a. tighter muzzle on some of their number or buy up some more of the newspapers that are apt to let the cat out of the bag. To work their graft on tbe United States treasury they should all stick to the same tale, or the people will be asking with more emphasis than they are now, why Ue treasury should be run in the in terest of the banks and the Wall street gamblers. Tbe banks of New York made a demand on Secretary Gage for money. He gave it to Uem out of the United States treasury in order Uat the money stringency might be re lieved. Now comes a banker of New York Forgan of the First National who says in Ue Chicago News: "At tbe same time our deposits are keeping up in a highly satisfactory way. Coun try banks are not withdrawing Uelr balances and this is doubly gratifying when applied to tbe Institutions in Ue northwest where heretofore Ue de mand at this time of the year has necessitated a heavy diminution of Ue moneys deposited In the reserve cen ters." Under the circumstances why do you suppose Mr. Oage was so ready to extend aid to tbe New Tork bankers. The financial organs of Wall street are hinting that another combination of capital will soon be announced Uat will be more startling than the enor mous Steel trust, but they do not tell us what line of enterprise Is to be monopolized. Tbe consolidation of all the railroads is about due, instead of the community of Interest plan they are now working under. In vastness of capital snd the number of men em ployed that combination would be a fearful menace to our political Institu tions which would make thousands of voters at the beck and call of one man. The Inevitable result of tbe Imperial istic tendencies, of Ue government is found In the annual . report of Us beads of bureas of Ue army and navy. They all demand more officers aad mors men, and tell of the great dan ger to Us country If their demands are not complied with. As Us army has been raised to a maxim am of 1M, 000 men aad tbs aaval fores largely Increased by Ue last eougross, tko former at all events far beyond what Is asossisry. these demands for a still greater Increase is pretty good proof that Us Democrat charge of ml 11 tar lam is rapidly being acoamptUkseV ' A report last issasd by tko radish Board of Trad gives sUtisties of tk m la rates of wages aad Us hoars of labor. Ta groat fsatars ia tko. riot la soal mlaers' wagaa, whisk ta tk ditsrsat districts raago from tf to 41 par ssat No wondar tko EagUsfc Ma to eompvt wttk soal, wttk oar towsr lairs' ti va&M of aaa tsia. SAW M'KINLEY ANGRY. Osi Ocraaloa Wbaa lb Lata PresMaai Was Rlghteoaslr laeHsakas, i One remarkable characteristic of President McKinley was that he very seldom lost his temper. Very few of his friends, even those who wen most intimate with him, had seen him In an angry mood, but be had shown his temper In tbe presence of statesmen once or twice in a way to surprise them. Just before he was nominated for President, McKinley wag cam paigning in the West He had a pri vate car, and Mrs. McKinley and her colored maid were with him. At Dan ville, 111., he made a speech, and while the train stopped the maid went to find a drug store and secure some medicine for Mrs. McKinley. After the speech the car was attached to the limited train, and, amid the wild ex citement of the enthusiastic thousands, the train pulled out for Terre Haute for an evening meeting. Boon after the train started the colored maid was missed and McKinley requested the committee to stop the train until she could be found. They assured him that the train could not be stopped, it was limited on Its run, and some one remarked that such a train could not wait anyway for only a colored girl That remark .made McKinley mad. He seized tbe bell rope and gave It a vigorous Jerk, remarking with emphasis that the train would stop and that he would not leave Dan ville until tbe girl was found. He did not propose to leave a strange colored girl there in a city filled with excited crowds to possibly meet In sult because of her color. She was under his protection and he would not go until she could be found. The train came to a sudden stop and the dignified committeemen, now meek in the presence of their Indignant leader. turned out to institute a search for the missing colored maid. She was found, the train moved on, but it was some time before McKinley's good nature could relieve the embarrass ment of the comrclt'.ce. They had sen McKinley mad, and it took them a good while to get over the sensation. SIGNS ON WAGON ROOFS. Wrinkle That Haa Coma ia With tha Ralldlaf of Flats. "When flats began to multiply," said a man who lives in one and so, natur ally, takes notice of things associated with them, "the owners of delivery wagons and so on began having signs painted on the roofs of their wagons, to catel the eye of those who dwelt In homes above the street level. They painted these signs first with the namt one letter under the oUer, like a silne. straight down the middle of the wag on top from end to end. Sometimes they painted the name in the same location, but with tbe letters arranged in tbe ordinary way, this making a sign that could be easily read from one side of the street only. Then they took to painting the name on the wagon roof In two places along either side of tbe top near the edge. Thus painted, one or the other, of course, could be easily read from either side of the street In wagon roof lettering the latest thing I have seen was on the top of a moving van, whose entire roof was covered with lettering, in lines placed crosswise to the top and beginning at the forward end and running, line under line, clean back to the rear end, so that Ue van's exten sive roof, as you looked down upon it. was lettered like a great poster. And of course this was not done Idly, for tbe van is a vehicle that may stand backed up an hour or two in front of a house and tbe poster on its roof is then brought where it can be easily read by anybody in the air along that side of the street way. New York Sun. Aa Apology. The Green Bag, an English legal journal, tells the following story: On one occasion a junior counsel on their lorsblps giving judgment against his client, exclaimed that he was surprised at their decision. This was construed into a contempt of court and the younc barrister was ordered t attend at the bar next morning. Fearful of the con sequences, be consulted his friend, John Scott (afterward Lord ElrfnnV who told him to be perfectly at ease. for be would apologize for him in a way that would avert any unpleasant result - Accordingly, when tbe name ot the delinquent was called, .Scott rose and coolly addressed Ue judges: "1 am very sorry, mr lords." ha M "that my young friend hss so far for gotten himself as to treat your lord ships with disrespect; he Is extremely penitent, snd you will klndiy ascrlbs his unintentional Insult to' his Ignor ance. You must see at once that it did originate in that. He said he was sur prised st the decision ot your lordships. Now, If he had not been Ignorant ot what takes place la this court every day had ha known you but half so long as 1 have done ha wonld not be surprised at anything you did." It Is a surprising fact Uat ws ship innually from Ue Halted States to Iwsdsa mors Uaa fl ,000,000 worth of Keel machinery, including sveryUIng from a typewriter or cask register to a locomotive, and ws take oar pay la raw suteriaL The exports of Iron aad steel lust about balance Ue Imports. Sws ltt ssad us pig Iron, steal Ingots, bars, rods and sheet Iron. Ws make It p into BMcklaory dad toon and scad t back to kor. ' " A tort can llvs tf days wlUout mild food, mrly drlaklng water; IT lays wiUoat IUsr sating or drink g. aad oaiy avs days whsa sating 0114 food without drlakiag. TARIFF AND PRICES. WHY SENATOR HANNA IS AGAINST . RECIPROCITY. II Vfould II tc a Tunicary to Relieve tha Paopla freas tha Hardens 1 posed By the "Sctentlheallr Arranged Schedules". We have the authority of Mr. Han na Uat the protective tariff is too scientifically adjusted to be meddled with. Mr. Hanna not being consid ered an authority on Ue tariff, thin information would not be valuable bad be not been boss of tbe Republican party. So far all that Mr. Hanna has said about Congressional legislation haa been attempted if not accomplish ed, so that we are forced to believe that it is not Intended to attempt any tariff reform, however much needed. There is no doubt that Mr. Hanna is technically right in his estimate of the way the tariff has been adjusted and yet the way the present tariff was built waa very simple. Each manufacturing or producing Interest, except the ordinary ' farmers and planters, were invited to come before the Republican members of Ue. Ways and Means Committee with a sched ule that would protect their particu lar industry and the whole were then arranged under the same schedule as Ue McKinley tariff bad been. Of course there were some who wanted more protection than was given them, tbe rate being adjusted to suit the gen eral scheme. The wool growers want ed a prohibitive tariff, but Uelr inter est clashed with the carpet and wool en manufacturers, who wanted free raw material and here was where tbe scientific adjustment came in to play. It was so with some other interests. Tbe proposed reform of placing on tbe free list those trust productions that the trusts are selling abroad at a lower price than they are selllug them at home would probably not affect the revenues, for but few, if any, impor tations, are made under the present tariff rate, and if the foreigners at tempt to import when the duty is re moved there will be no revenue pro duced, for there is hardly much like lihood ot the trusts allowing any im portations as they will bring down their price to the level, where it would be unprofitable for tbe foreigner to attempt to compete. Tbe result there fore would be that the price of trust articles would be reduced to our con sumers just low enough to prevent foreign competition and this would be the present price less tbe tariff rate about 45 per cent AH these trust made articles would be reduced In price, - which would about equal the ! foreign price with the freight and j profit added. This should not much interfere with business, except the trust monopolies and the time for the change from the high tariff to tree trade in these trust articles could be set for enough ahead to allow the Jobbers and retailers to get rid of their stocks in anticipation of the lower prices that would prevail There is nothing scientific or myste rious about this proposed tariff re form and there is no reason why it should not be adopted except that the trusts wonld kick vigorously and threaten to reduce wages and other' wise make all tbe trouble possible, But give them a little time and they would adjust Uelr business to Ue lower level This is not ideal tariff reform, for there are many other inequalities that require adjusting almost aa much as the trust monopolies, but it would do tor a beginning snd a tariff for rev enue only with high rates on luxuries and low rates on necessities, which is tbe Democratic doctrine, will follow when the people demand it A TANGLE IJt THE PHILIPPINES. The extraordinary spectacle of two governments set up by one suthorlty in the Philippines has led to a clash between tbe military and Ue Supreme Court, in which tbe President has re fused to Interfere, Uough both held their authority through him. ' Com mentlng on this strange state of af fairs the Washington Times says in enect me military ana civil au thorities are told to settle It between Uem. But suppose they cannot; what Uen? They are already In disagree ment, and the Issue having ben made, some higher power should decide It The very circumstances that there has been such a clash shows thst Ue di viding line between tbe military and civil Jurisdiction Is not clearly drawn, and Us first duty of tbe home govern ment is to maks it clear. Unless this la done Uere is liable to be ever-re curring disputes accompanied by much lll-fsellng snd tbe effect cannot be other than bad upon the native popu lation. One of Ue specious pleas against extending Us - Constitution to the Philippines is Uat the people there are Inferior aad altogeUer unfit for self- government; and still we are furnish ing them fairly strong evidence that ws do abt know so very muck sbout government ourselves, a prime es sential la government Is certainty boU aa to Ue law and wher the pow er Is vested by which U law Is to be enforced. This essential is wholly lacking la Us Philippines. 7h mili tary aad civil branches of the local government aro at loggerheads and Us President of Ue Ualfid sXates, la whom tbs supreme power has been vested, refuses to Interfere. Probably tko affair will get straightened out la a fashion, bat nevertheless ft is a sug gestive of a very unsatisfactory condi tion of government la our new pos- Wky Us President sboould decline to decide U point Is aot apparent Tbe reason given out is that too.. United States government should astf j Interfere with the local government any more than Is absolutely necessary. There may be force in this reason, but It Is bard to Bee It The local gov ernment Is literally the creature of tha President There being a divided au thority In the Islands, It is of tbe highest importance that Ue line of cleavage should be drawn so sharply that there should be not the smallest doubt concerning it ' Tbe statement of tbe issue that haa arisen between Goneral Chaffee and the court is a meagre one. The gen eral is simply said to have ordered the deportation of a man first described as a civilian, but later as a soldier. This -difference may have an Important bearing upon the question ot author ity. There may be other points in volved which make it unwise for U President to interfere. Possibly it would Involve the necessity of an ex plicit statement of tbe authority un der which he himself is acting whether by virtue of his position as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, or under the Spooner resolution. In certain contingencies the difference might bave a great deal of legal sig nificance. If the President fs merely acting as commander-in-chief of Ue armed forces of the Republic. It Is of course suggestive of a state of war. As i is well known, a military commander i can do many things In war that woaid , not be upheld In peace. It is not im possible that the administration de sires to leave this question open for the present because of the bearing it may bave upon the legal status of the Islands. But whatever the motive the refusal of the supreme power to decide a question of authority between sub ordinates certainly creates an anoma lous situation in government THE PFRI'OSE OP THE TRUST, It is evident that the trusts are In tent on the overthrow of organized labor. Tbe Steel trust has virtually disorganized the Amalgamated Asso ciation and will doubtless complete the Job at the next attempt It Is an nounced "officially" that the presi dents of the coal carrying roads of the' eastern states have refused to consider any proposals for a joint conference with the officers of the coal miners' organization. The great coal operat ors have decreed the death ot union labor, as did the Steel trust tbe death of the Amalgamated Association. How ever,. In doing this, the trust officials are cutting from under them the main support to their "right" to own the coal mines and the steel factories and the railroads. Having had demands which they consider Just turned down, having been refused even a conference with their employers, what is more natural than that these men should look for some other method of getting-' a bearing? After a careful investigation of the ways and means they will learn a les son from the employer that of con trolling the law-making and law-enforcing bodies of the country. That a majority shall rule Is a principle which we admit theoretically as right, the employes are largely In tbe majority, hence they learn, and are being forced to learn that they have the coveted power in their own hands to turn the machinery of government to their own advantage, and they will do it And in doing this, there will be no infringe ment of the rights of the minority there will be no privilege or protec-' tion granted to one class of citizens which Is denied to another, as in Ue case to-day. TARIFF REFORM, NOT RECIPROCITY. The ilmple question that tbe Repub licans of tbe coming Congress must settle is not reciprocity for tbe benefit of the few, but tariff reform for Ue help of tbe many against the trusts. On this question the Commoner says: "The period of excluslvencss is past" That means that our country must en ter the markets of tbe world, and when It does so It will be absurd to talk sbout needing protection from foreign ers. When we sell abroad the freight must be added to the price we must sell at the foreign price less the freight In other words, we bave Ue ad van Use of double freight when we sell at home. When it is admitted that we can pay tbe freight and compete with foreign ers, no one will have the audacity to ask for a high tariff to protect domes tic manufacturers against foreign com-' petition. Mr. McKinley's statement that we cannot sell everything and buy noth ing is an axiom, but It will shock the high tariff advocates we have gone on the theory that we ought to sell to everybody, and buy of nobody. But tbe president s speech suggests one melan choly thought. Tariff reform Is about the only thing tbe reorganizes favor ' that Is Democratic and It would be really cruel If the Republicans ahonld sbandon protection and leave tbs re organlscr no issue at all. The Wall street gamblers are afraid of Ue future, according to Us press reyuru. ana me Doom In stocks Is over. The next thing to look for will be a reaction from high trices la aa- cesslties and then reduction of wages, or the trusts will bsve no money to psy dividends on their watered stocks. Morgan and company must be carrvlnr a pretty heavy load by this time If the reports are true of the amount of trust stocks that hare been unloaded oa Ue syndicate. ' Tbe 8ulUn of Sulu Is ud to a trick or two. He pretended tn ha iew .. would not reielvs tbe consreaamafi Itlng the Philippines. He has probably heard of Us way thsy treated the Mor mon Roberts and prefers to an to his pension In peace to haviig gay ma troversy about It, .t. s - m