Nebraska Newspapers

    PROSPERITY STILL REIGNS
_
Democratic Efforts to Breed Distrust Have So
Far Proved Futile.
REBUKE FOR THE CALAMiTY HOWLERS
Railway Traffic Is Heavy, New Factories Are
Being Erected, and Iron and Steel Mills
Are Crowded with Orders. %
There is an effort on the part of some
Democratic newspapers and a few blat
ant orators to create lack of confidence
in the public mind by saying the coun
try is going to the bad: that great in
dustries are shutting down; that the
railways are retrenching, instead of im
proving roadbed and equipment; that
no new factories are being constructed:
that thousands of working people are
idle and that Republican prosperity is
a myth. These statements are so pal
pably false or so greatly exaggerates!
that intelligent persons are not misled by
thern. but there is <longer that when the
canards are reiterated by the calamity
howlers a few people who do not keep
closely in touch with industrial and coni
mercial conditions may be led to believe
them.
Any man or newspaper that deiil»er
nteiy attempts to create distrust in the
final net* I or commercial world i* little
less chan criminal. Some States have
punitory laws framed for the purpose
of sending to prison persons who circu
late uatruahful rumors about banks and
trust companies. If the man who causes
a run on a bank by spreading a false
report is a criminal, is not the man or
newspaper that attempts to make politi
cal capital by destroying public confi
dence also a criminal? And, by the same
reasoning, is not the party that permits
or indorses the utterances of the calam
ity howler and spreader of false rumors
an enemy of the law?
What Is Possible.
Suppose ibe Democratic party won a
victory at tin' polls through destroying
confidence in commercial and industrial
circles, would the administration of that
party have the confidence of the people?
Would not capital, which is always timid
in the face of uncertainty, begin to hide?
And wheni capital is distrustful what
happens? Industries lag or close, trade
of the retail merchant falls off. the job
ber and wholesaler suffer, railway traf
fic diminishes. hundreds of thousands of
wage earners are thrown out of work,
distress becomes general, soup houses
are opened and cities are compelled to
begin charitable works for the idle.
No political party that countenances
the creation of distrust is worthy of the
people’s confidence. It will be a sorry
day for the country when the calamity
howlers succeed in reversing those benefi
cent policies which the Republican party
has put into effect and which have re
sulted in an cru of the greatest pros
perity any notion has ever known.
That industries and business of all
kinds continue to prosper there can be
no doubt. The few strikes in the build
ing and other trades are not indicative of
depressed conditions. Wage earners do
not strike in times of panic or waning
prosperity. Strikes are generally for
higher wages, and no toiler expects an
increase in wages w hon work is scarce
and thousands of his fellows are idle.
There is ample evidence that prosper
ous times are still with us. A gkrncc at
the newspapers. Democratic as well as
Republican, shows that millions of dol
lars are being expended in building new
factories and enlarging old ones, in con
structing new trolley lines and improv
ing the roadbed and equipment of steam
railways.
More persons are employed now than
ever before. Aj» proof of tliis statement,
take, for instance, the railways, whose
traffie always is a reflex of business
conditions generally. The number of em
ployes on the pay rolls of the railways
in the United States on Jime 30. 1903.
was 1.312.537. or 638 per 100 miles of
line. These figures, compared with those
of 1902. Shcnv an increase of 1232222. or
45 per 100 miles of line.
A summary of dispatches taken from
tiie Boston Evening Transcript, the
L’ittsburg Dispatch and other reputable
new«qwpers in the last five days is here
given:
Steam and Electric Railway*.
New York.—Two million Is the estimate
of the cost of the srccl rails wanted by
the Grand Trunk Pacific sponsors for 1905
delivery.
Kansas City.—One million dollars Is to
be spent by the Chicago. Burlington A
Quincy Railroad Company in the develop
ment of holdings in Clay County. Mo., op
posite Kansas City.
Jackson. Miss.—Three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars will he spent by the Coast
Electric Hallway in constructing a line
from Henderson Point to Point Cadet.
Pittsburg.—The Baltimore & Ohio will
spend >500.000 In improving Its passenger
station at Baltimore; the 'Wabnsh-Pitts
burg Terminal Is erecting a >75.000 freight
house at Pittsburg.
Alamogordo. N. M.—The El Paso A
Northwestern Railroad Is building fifty res!
deuces at Alamogordo for employes.
Buffalo.—Ten large locomotives have
been added to the rolling stock of the Bos
ton & Maine Railroad equipment.
Sinton, Tex.—Work commenced on th"
St. Louis. Brownsville A Mexico Railroad
which is to extend through Sau Patricio
Comity.
Pittsburg.—Pittsburg railroads are In
crea: lng their coal and cattle car supply.
The Baltimore & Ohio is In the market for
1.000 gondolas and 250 refrigerator cars:
the Wheeling A Lake Erie has ordered l.OUi
wooden and 500 steel cars; the Pittsburg
A Lake Erie has put Into service 1,000 new
steel cars.
Burlington. Vt.—At a cost of >200.000 th"
t’entral Vermont Hallway will construct u
branch line from Bethel to the newly de
veloped granite quarries three miles from
Bethel.
Buffalo.—The Lake Fhore Intends to re
sume four-tracking the road from Buffalo
to Chicago.
Wichita. Kan.—The Frisco Line Is recon
structing Its track and roadbed between
Wichita and Ellsworth, giving employment
to several hundred laborers.
Pittsburg.—The Union Switch and Sig
nal Company reports that the new orders
booked for August exceed any other month
of the year. ^ ..
Chicago.—Western railroads brought
to Chicago last week 5.205.000 bushels of
grain, showing an Increase of more than
1,000,000 buahela over the grain traffic In
the corresponding week last year.
New York.—The manufacturers «fmt
chlne tools report that there to a decided
improvement In the demaud from the rall
roods which are repairing their rolling
“jjji Tm Tight million dollar* will fee
o -. * - .
expended by the Xew York. Now Haven
and Hartford Railroad in improving the
service from Xew York to the Bronx. The
road will issue Sl.t.odO.OOd of bonds.
Altoona. I’a.—Twenty-five locomotives
are being built for the Pennsylvania Bail
load Company at the Juniata shop'
Derby. Conn. The Xew York, Xew Ha
ven and Hartford Railroad Company has
decided upon important improvements on
the Berkshire divistmi «r Derby.
Memphis. The projected railroad from
| lark,'dale t<> I'riar's l’oint. in Mississippi,
is said to lie assured: estimated cost of con
struction. por mile.
Jefferson City. Railroad officials at Jef
ferson City say they are much encouraged
because of the heavy increase in business
within the past two weeks.
Fitchburg. A S7.OdO.uoo deal involving
the purchase of twenty different trolley
roads in Massachusetts and Northern Cnn
nectieut is under way.
Su|*erior. Mis.—Tin1 docks are so full of
coal many boats are still compelled to
wait several days t*» unload. This condi
tion is owing to a scarcity of cars which
j are being used in the wheat fields.
Detroit. — Freight traffic officials of the
roads centering In Detroit all state that
; business is picking up.
Iron and Steel Industry.
j Pittsburg.—One hundred ami fifty more
! ir"» to be given employment j(j now mills
• being erected by the Inter-State Stixd Com
! pany of Tarenttim and the Allegheny Steel
| and Iron Works.
. Pittsburg.—By producing 1.651 cotton
| bundle ties in eight hours' work the rm
, ployes of the Pitt si m rg Steel Company
break the world's record: previous record.
1.614 bundles.
St. Paul. —One hundred thousand tons of
ore in excess of last year's product wiil be
taken out of six working iron mines on the
Iron Range, adding in royalties to the
‘ school fund
i Knsley. O.—Bus ley steel plant running
, on double time turning but :;o.4**> tons of
. steel rails for the Louisville and Nashville
i Railroad Company.
Braddoek. Pa. — The Kdgtir Thompson
j plant of tile 1 nited States SteeJ Corpnra
) tion has resumed operations, giving employ -
ment to l.txxi workmen.
Pittsburg.—Twelve hundred men given
employment by the resumption of work in
Clairton l'urnaee No of the Fnifed States
Steel Corporation and Mills Nos. x and !t of
the Amerban Sheet St*-el and Tin Plate
Company.
Pittsburg.—Six hundr-'d and fifty given
employment by resumption of mills in the
Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel
< 'ompany.
Pittsburg. New open hearth furnaces of
the ('nited Stall’s Steel Company plant at
Canton started up together with the plate,
sheet, bar and billot mills.
4'hieago. Contract for 64.4XXi.lXHt pounds of
material awarded the American Bridge
Company by the South Side Iterated Rail
road. to be used in extending the system:
estimated cost. $5.4K)0.ikhi.
Newport. Ky. — Five liuiiiired men given
employ mi tit by a resumption of work in the
sheet, peddle and bar mills.
Braddoek. P« On hnudred and forty
thousand dollars was paid out bv the Kd
gar Thompson steel Works after the first
week of res-umj tion e.f business.
Pittsburg.—The pay roll of the Home
stead Steel Works has been Increased $3(1.
4M> by the employment of additional men.
Pittsburg. Tile large portion of the big
rail order of the Pennsylvania Railroad
l-’oijipany was secured by the Carnegie
Steel Company. This, with other orders,
will keep the rail mills r.t Braddoek oper
ating for the mxt six months.
New York.—At a cost of $1.4X10.000 a new
plant of the Seamless Tube Company i*
being built at Mouessen. Pa.
Southern Industries.
Asheville. N. C.—In the last year 117
buildings have been erected at Asheville
at a cost of $300.4**1. and work under way
represents an additional expenditure of
$175.4100.
Chattanooga.—The Government will spend
millions of dollars the coming year in near
by improvements t-* the benefit of Chat
tanooga wage earners and producers.
Charleston. W. Va.— A $2.4*141,04X1 ax fac
tory is to be established at Charleston.
Memphis.—More than 34.4xxl.ixxi has been
sper.t in building enterprises during the
present year.
Tampa. Fla. — During the year $4V»J*.319
has been expended in new buildings and
$50,411*1 of lends an’ to be issued for mu
nicipal improvements
Rock Hill. S. C.—> hydro-electric plant
recently completed at a cost of fl.lfxi.rxxi
is furnishing power for machinery and
lighting purposes covering an area of twen
ty-five miles.
Paris. Tex.—More than fl.Oofl.rxxi is the
estimate of investments at Parts during the
year 1904.
San Antonio.—Building operations now
under way represent an expenditure of
$750,000.
Berkley, Va.—A steel door and Mind fae- |
tory Is a new addition to Industries of j
Berkley.
Dallas, Tex. There is -a demand for !
2.000.000 laborers in the cotton fields and in i
the factories of the South.
Memphis. Term.—The Mena Coke and '
Coal Mining Company of Mena. Ark., has ’
l>eon chartered with a capitalization of
$2t>0.000. ,
Columbia, S. C.—A cotton mill is to he 1
established at Columbia by the Marion !
Cotton Mills Company, with a capital stock
of SI(>>.000.
Richmond. Va.—The new Ashby Cotton
Mill, remaining 8.000 spindles, will be !
started up at Emporia. Sept. 15.
Charlotte. X. The remodeled Ix>rny ;
. Mil's of Gastorla trill hare orer 50.000 j
spindles and 7<*0 looms in operation by Oe- .
tol>er.
Co’.rmbla. S. C.—The Drayton Mills of ,
i Spartanburg, operating 12.400 spindles and
:«» looms, will double its plant.
| Austin. Tex.—The Brazos Valley Cotton j
Mills Company has been incorporated with
t a capital stock of Spio.oOo.
j Charlotte. N. C.—The contract hns been 1
awarded for $luo.Ot>» for the erecting of i
; buildings for the Etowah Mills of Greens- !
The company is incorporated for ;
I $1.000,000.
Nashville.—A $.VX».«*''¥> plant for the man
! ufacture of carbon paint Is to be erected at |
Nashville. Work on the $75,000 stone dam :
, <if the City Mills Company has been
started.
SandorsTllle. Ga.—More than $245 coo
has been spent in Snudorsville in the last
year In industrial enterprises and improve
ments.
Baltimore.—Three million dollars Is to ho
Invested it: rommen ia! enterprises upon
the resumption of navigation of the Oc
mulgce Itlver between Macon and Hawkins- I
vide. Ga.
Louisville*-—The Kentucky Packing and <
Provision Compnnv is a new industry for
Louisville. The plant has a daily capacity
of 1,000 hogs. 100 cattle and 300 sheep.
Memphis.—At a cost of $25,000 the
i Welsh & Lesh Manufaetnring Company is
I doubling the capacity of Its spoke fae’torT
tit Grenada. Miss. A $20,000 sand brick
plant Is being erected by the Grenada Cot
ton Oil Company.
Birmingham. Ala.—Universal Equipment
Company organized, capital $60,000
Sylacagua. Ala.—Capital stock of the
Alabama White Marble Company increased
to a quarter million dollars; property to
be developed. _
Xtocsllaaesa*.
. jSf* Jeckout and strike of
1.200,Plumbers In Brooklyn has been de
give* off, the master plumbers granting
the journeymen an increase of wages from
$4.Vi to $4.7.» a day; the agreement runs
two years.
Trenton. V J. Statistics show that the
increase in the minilii r of manufactories in
New Jersey in the last ten years is almost
tlnuli'e that of unv other State, the percent
age being 72.
Kansas City. Mo. Among the noteworthy
improvements at Kansas City are
t»*i soap factory; oil refinery and
pipe line; Sl.tmo.utlO packing plant; railroad
elevators, additions to terminal facilities
costing Sl.OOo.wm
Harrisburg.— Four hundred men ami
women are to lie given employment In new
industries at Loch tel. near Harrisburg. The
large farm of former 1'nited States Senator
J. 1). Cameron is to lie transferred into an
industrial village.
Canonsbiirg. I’a. employing :!.<>»*> men.
the Standard Tin Plate Company has re
sumed operations.
Minneapolis. Kastern capitalists arc con
templatlug the establishment of a large
soap factory at Minneapolis.
Salem. Ore. One hundred thousand dol
lars is to lie Invested in a linen mill at
Salem, giving employment to its* |«*rsons
the first year.
Pittsburg. The capital stock of the Yel
low Creek Coal Company of Wilkesbarro,
I*a.. lias been increased to St.tXHMAk). the
company having purchased l.ti"i* acres of
coal land iu Brush and Saline Towusbips.
Ohio.
Zanesville. O. It is positively stated that
the mines of the CronksviMe district will all
lie in oiteration within a few days.
Pittsburg. More than l.ooo of the l.oOn
men laid olT iu the last three months by
the West iughouse Flectrio and Manufac
turing Company of Fast Pittsburg have
been taken back Tin- West inghouse Ma
chine and Air Brake Companies are rushed
with orders.
Detroit. A new $TmO.000 passenger
steamer ordered by the Anchor Fine to tie
built by the American Shipbuilding Com
fta ny.
Toledo. Marine men are speculating on
an increase of sailors' wages with the open
ing of full trade. The wages are now S2
per day. or 2A cents higher than in pre
vious seasons.
Fort Collins. Colo. Fifteen thousand dol
lars has been subscribed for the establish
ment of a canning factory at Fort Collins.
The enterprise is being promoted by the
Fort Collins Beet t;rowers' Association.
Milwaukee.- Capital stock of the Wiscon
sin Bridge and Iron Company increased
tlim.oua to meet expansion of business.
New Bedford. Mass Company organised
with capital stock of JhitlU***: will erect a
VMltlt) spindle mill.
Wilkesl arre. Pa The Sim striking mlu ts
nt the Rarnuin Ctdliery of the Pennsylvania
Coni Company, at Pittston, have returned
to work.
Pittsburg.—An unusually heavy move
ment of coal and coke is reported. At
YorngwoiMl alone 1.4<Jt> loaded cars are
awaiting movement.
Detroit.—Six-story addition to plant of
the American I.ady Corset Company, giving
employment to 7**» more persons.
Ovid. Mich. Board of Directors elected
for proposed factory.
McPherson. Kan. The assessor's report
show* an increase of 2.1tV7 acre* of broom
corn planted this year over last year.
Nt rwalk. Conti. Industrial difference*
between manufacturers and their employes
in tin- Norw; Ik distri t have been adjusted
satisfactorily to both sides.
New York. The new *'.•.'*»*. o**> Hotel
Astor w ill be opened for business Sept. It).
DAVIS WILL NOT DO.
Too Old for the High Position to
Which He Aspire*.
Dr. J. It. McFatrieh. editor of the
Third Ward Republican, a Chicago publi
cation. says:
"It may be that former Senator Henry
Gassaway Davis is planning to have his
money talk for him during the campaign.
It is only on this hypothesis that his re
ply to the notification address of John
Sharp Williams can be satisfactorily ex
plained. The octogenarian vice presiden
tial candidate of the Democracy at the
White Sulphur Springs function indicat
ed that he is sadly deficient, in so far
as present is«up' are concerned. He had
nothing to say upon any of the questions
which interest the voters of both parties.
A careful reading of his address fails
to disclose where he stands oil any vital
issue.
"The man who is popularly supposed
to carry the State of West Virginia
around in a shawl strap had not a word
to say regarding the trusts. He omitted
an allusion to labor and capital. So far
as the speech indicates there is no such
thing as the Philippine question. He had
nothing to say about the tariff, lie is
certainly old enough to have heard of the
Monroe doctrine, but not a line of this
important bit of Americanism can be
found in his speech. For all he says
there is no such thing as the Panama
(anal and the closest observer cannot
barn whether he believes in the open
door or reciprocity or any of the things
which men discuss. And has not Fnole
Gassaway heard of the United States
navy?
"For a speech which was looked for
ward to as a sort of keynote essay, the
utterance of the old gentleman with the
barrel is a great disappointment to the
Democrats. To the Republicans it is
merely an evidence of the fact that Mr.
Davis does not possess, at his advanced
age. the necessary mental equipment to
properly appreciate the great public ques
tions which must confront the next pre
siding officer of the Senate.
"Of course. Uncle Gassaway is a thor
oughly respectable old gentleman. lie
is also possessed of much wealth and for
a man who has slipped over the So mark
is well preserved and active. Rut there
is a vast difference between minding his
own personal business and attempting
at the sunset of life to take a hand in
the strenuous work of conducting the
great affairs of a big nation. As Vice
President Henry Gassaway Davis will
not do.”
The Lone Fisherman.
It is only one of the curiosities of an
American national campaign the result
of which is foreordained, but it arouses
more than a slight degris* of interest.
Where is the Lone Fisherman, the man
who has been twice President of the
United States? Where is he. and what
is he going to do between the present
time and the 8th of November?
What is he thinking about—this Ix>ne
Fisherman, and what are his inclina
tions? We are all interested in him as
we should be interested in any ex-Presi
dent of the United States. aud. being
interested, we have also a curiosity.
What about Cleveland? Is that portiy
and forceful old gentleman going to have
anything to do with politics this year, or
is he simply intent npon the considera
tion of the subject of lines, bait, and all
that sort of thing?
The impression seems to prevail, and
one apparently justified, that the Sage
of Princeton is not much interested in
the Sage of Esopus. The Sage of
Princeton has at least a certain caliber,
and the two men do not fit.
Still, we all want to know what the
Lone Fisherman is going to do.
“The Republican party will be found
espousing those is«ues and thoae
questions which make for the sta
bility, the honor and the welfare of the
country.”—Senator Fairbanks at Ind.an
apolii, December 11, 1MXX
Jndge Parker is said to have written
his financial views so as to not offend
Bryan. He voted that way, too, a couple
of times.
SOME Cbbii'AFtiSONS
CONDITION OF TREASURY UNDER
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS.
How tli* Public Debt Was Managed
V\ hen Democracy Wa* in Power mid
How the National Kinancti Were
Conserved Later by Republican*.
When fjrover 1 'leveland liegan the first
fi*-a! year. .fn)y 1. 1 x:of his second
term, our puhiie debt was $ 1.242.1 MXt.OOU:
wlien the fourth fiscal year closed, dune
|2<*. 1X07. it was $l.S17.*NtO.*MN>. an in
crease of .<272.01 AUhlO. without anything
to show for it.
I When Benjamin Harrison began iiis
first fiscal year, duly 1. Isv.i. our public
debt was .Xl.tfV.UMMUMM): when his fourth
fiscal year ended, dune 20. 1.X02. it was
#1.545.000.* M to, a decrease of $74 *)00.
j »MMt.
\\ hen we add (’levebiid's increase of
i $272.1 ton.*nsi in the public debt to Harri
j sou’s decrease of $74.*Hxi.<MMi. we have
a bill of indict men t amounting to $21*1.
iKXi.iMMt against the Democratic party as
a result of "four years more or' Drover.”
" hen Benjamin Harrison began his
first fiscal year, duly 1. 1S.S1.*. he found
#*(4o.tK».*Mxi ,-asii in the public treasury:
j when lie closed his fourth tiscai year,
i dune ■’’>*>. 1S'.*2. the cash balance was
$7*>7.***!(».<!(Ml. increase of #•; I.IKMMI :•>.
without selling any bonds t > increase the
public debt.
When Drover ''leveland began his first
second-term fiscal year, duly 1. lxl»2. lie
found $707.'MmI.*wx' cash in the pubic
treasury: when lie closed his fourth fiscal
year of that second term, dune 2*». ixit7.
he left only $S21dMNt.*HMi of a cash bal
ance. though in the meantime he had s >1.|
enough bonds for cash t • increase the
public debt by #272,0*Mt.ix.Mt; consequently
he really decreased the treasury cash by
S120.0»t*MMM). being the $272.'MM*,'MM
bonds sold less the $ 124.*NN 1,00b dilTer
ence between the $X21,000,000 and the
#7»>7.'<*Mt.O*Mi cash balance.
When Benjamin Harrison began his
first fiscal year. July 1. 1S8D. the net
public debt—that is. the entire debt less
the cash in the treasury—was $075,000,
*i»M>: when lie dosed his fourth fiscal
Year, dune 20. lsiftt, it was only $X2S.
'MM.immi. a decrease of s 127.*hi*mm*l as
the result of four Republican year*.
When <1 rover Cleveland began the first
fiscal year of his disastrous se-ond term,
duly 1. 1X!>2. the net public debt was
SKIS,*t*mt.iMxi; when lie dosed the fourth
fiscal year. June 2*>. 1X1*7. it was $J*M’>.
«MXMM>>. an increase or sl4S.ObO.OOU. as
the result of four ltenio-ratic years.
When we add Harrison's decrease of
$127,000,000 in the net public debt to
Cleveland’s increase of #14X.immi.*hmi in
the same, we have another #2X5.000.00*1
bill of indictment against the Demo
cratic party fur only four years of finan
cial misrnle.
>\ hen William McKinley began the
first fiscal year of !ii> fir-t term. July 1.
1897. he found only $821.tKnuHM in the
public treasury: when he dosed his
fourth fiscal year. June 20. 1!M>2. the
treasury cash balance was Jl.OIIS.IKH.
<Hni. an increase of $207.000.<NIO as the
result of four Republican years of pro
tection to American industries and finan
cial ability. And this was in spite of the
fact that $240,000,000 had Iteen paid out
for the cost of the Spanish war for the
freedom of Cuba.
When we add McKinley’s increase of
$207,000,000 treasury cash to Cleveland’s
real decrease of $128,000,000 in the same,
we have $405,000,000 jtln- the Spanish
war expens*-, as the true pain to the
country of four years of Republican pros- J
perity immediately following four years
of Democratic adversity.
When Roosevelt’s first fiscal year be
gan. July 1. 1901. the treasury cash bal
ance was $1,008,000,000: when he closed
his third fiscal year. June 20. 1904. it had
increased to $ 1.382.000.ooo. art increase
of $284,000,000. notwithstanding that all
the Spanish war taxes had not been
abolished, but $50,000,000 had been paid
out for the Panama canal property ami
rights; aud that $5,000,000 had been
given, and nearly $5,000,000 more loaned
to the Iiouisiana Purchase Exposition.
When we summarize the treasury cash
transactions from the beginning of
Cleveland’s second-term first fiscal year.
July 1. 1892. to the close of Roosevelt’s
third fiscal roar. June 20. 1904. we have
the following:
Cleveland’s loss in treas
ury cash. $128,000,000
McKinley’s gain in treas
ury cash . 2C7.000.000
Roosevelt's gain in treas
ury cash . 284.000.000
Paid cost Spanish war.. . 340.000.000
Paid Spain for Philip
l«nes . 20.000.000
Paid account Panama
canal. 50.000.000
Clift and loan Louisiana
* Purchase Exposition ... 10.000.000
Total.$1,109,000,000
Eleven hundred and nine millions of
dollars betterment less forty-eight mill
ions increase in our interest-bearing debt
between July 1. 1897. and June 20. 1904.
leaving one thousand and sixty-one mill
ions ($1.001.000.000) to the credit of
seven years of Republican control of our
national finances.
WALTER J. BALLARD.
Schenectady, Aug. 25.
SLY OLD DAVID.
Unique Position Now Occupied bjr
Judge Parker's Manager.
It is not often that a political leader
finds it necessary to promise his party
associates that he will keep out of office
and be unrepresented in the councils of
his friends in case of the success of his
own nominee. This unique performance
has been exemplified by the Mephisto
phcles of the Democratic party, David
Bennett Hill.
The effect is rather grotesque. It is
much as if the king of the nursery rhyme
were to declare that he would not, in
any case, taste of the pie. after the four
and twenty blackbirds had been caught,
plucked and baked in a big dish of pastry.
The reception given to the promise
of Mephistopheles to "be good after
the 1st of next January," is rather com
ical. The more outspoken of the Demo
crats say plainly, “Pshaw! I don’t be
lieve it!" while the more secretive ones
simply “wink the other eye” with a
grimace that would make the fortune of
the man that “broke the bank at Monte
Carlo.”
It is a sly sld David, so it is! Well he
knows bow to draw the ass'a skin over
his own; confident is he that no braying
mill hide tram tbs faithful few bis real
nature, while the gullible many, he im
i ngines. will joyfully count ii]K>n his nieek
1 ly retiring into private life as soon as he
’ h::s seen liis party triumphant in the fall
election*.
It is a grotesque position, that of the
Woifert's Roost politician. To gain his
end* iie promises to keep out of all par
ticipation in th>* results he is working for.
. It must have been at some cost in self
respect that this si>p was given to the
! more respectable wing of the New York
i Democracy, men who will not train with
i Dili, ami who <lo not scruple to say so.
But with those at whom the shot was
i aimed Hill's promise will avail nothing,
j Thev know the man. He has no friends,
j nor lias he any enemies who believe in
j him. except as to his limitless power for
! evil politics in whatever he undertakes.
| It is quite probable that he will retire
• from polities before the first of January,
j lOOTi. but it will be. not by his own voli
! ti<*ii. l>nt 1 >eeanse of the defeat of his
party at the polls in the preceding No
vember.
MR. HILL’S RETIREMENT.
It la Kortunat* for Him. bat Its Man
ner Is Not the Beat.
David Bennett Hill announces that he
will at tlie end of his sixty-first year re
tire from politics, but that lie will take
a fiarr in the present campaign. The mis
take that .Mr. Dili makes is that he does
not retire now. This is one of the things
lie said in his recent opening campaign
spee.'h at Binghamton. New York:
That vast corruption exists in malty de
le) it incuts of ilii* Federal (roveriiiucut Is
virtually conceded. It has been declared
often that more corruption tins been dis
closed during the last four years than dur
ing the whole previous period of our his
tory. Therefore it must exist, or it could
uoi lie disclosed, i 'onvletiou* for frauds,
hnwci or. can be counted on one's fingers.
The Republican party tends toward social
ism when il advocates the right to build
up our man's business at the expense of
the community. What the American people
demand is a free field and a fair contest in
the race of life.
It is perhaps fortunate for Mr. Hill
that lie lias decided to disappear from
politics. It is m ist unfortunate, for his
sake, that in his speech, practically open
ing the campaign on the Democratic
side, he should have been guilty of polit
ical falseh »od. That is not the manner
in which a good American should sing
his swan song.
All men should he fair. Mr. Hill de
clares tint enormous corruption exists
under the present Republican adminiotm
iion. and intimates vaguely that the Re
publican party is responsible for any evil
which may have occurred. He refers
"specially to frauds of the Postoffice De
partment. and there were some frauds.
We at lea-t admit this. Into every
great party will necessarily lie ingrafted
some thieves. What has happened in
the I'isited States following the discov
ery that some officials of the I’ostoffiee
Department were indirectly stealing?
What his happened is this:
The Republican party punishes its
own thieves and throws them out of it
ranks. What happened to the men who
stole under the present administration?
They ire already wearing stripisl clothes
and doing the lockstep in various locali
ties. Could there he a better proof of
t!i< soundness anti honesty of the present
administration in that it punishes its own
sinners, and. very properly, punishes
them to the utmost.
David Bennett Hill, in intimating that
there has been unpunished crime among
the vassals of the party which is conduct
ing the affairs of this government just
now, is guilty of jiolitical trickery and
isditical falsehood of the baldest kind.
It is very earnestly to be regretted
that an exceedingly clever American
should mar the circumstances of his exit
from political life by expressions of what
are not facts, and of a sort never coun
tenanced by the greatest leaders of great
parties. What Mr. Hill wiid at Bing
hamton cannot mar the outlook of the
Republican 'party one jot or tittle, but it
can mar the respect which the American
people held, aside from all party lines,
for one of the shrewdest of politicians.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Those Wh» Voted for McKinley Prob
ably Will Support Roosevelt.
(Kansas City Star, Independent.)
Some allowances must be made, of
course, for the optimistic representations
of politicians at the approach of every
great election. It is a part of the game
to manifest confidence, even if the policy
of ‘'claiming everything” has been dis
credited by the best political managers.
But the declaration that, according to
more or less careful canvasses, those
young Democrats who bolted Bryan and
voted for McKinley will remain in the
Republican party, is quite plausible.
Those old Democrats in whom the party
spirit is still strong in spite of the trying
alignment of the Democracy four and
eight years ago. may be expected to re
turn to the fold pretty generally this
year: but there is nothing except jmrti
san feeling to draw them, and this does
not exist to any great exrent among thp
jounger generation, especially among
those who hove already broken over the
lines to vote for a Republican Presi
dent. «
Indeed, President Roosevelt appeals
with especial force to the young men of
the natiou. Considering his achieve
ments, he is still a young man himself.
He is in intimate sympathy with the
spirit of early manhood. He is vigorous
in mind and body, and Is active in both.
He is strongly progressive. His leader
ship has been inspiring to all classes,
but more especially to those in whom
ambition is assertive. His policies ap
peal forcefully to those who would make
a stronger and a better nation. He stands
for those reforms that are regarded as
essential to the perpetuity of personal
liberty nnd civic righteousness.
The belief that President Roosevelt, in
his splendid fulfillment of an obligation
assumed as a result of accident, has earn
ed an election at the hands of the people
he has served, is especially strong in the
hearts of the younger generation of vot
ers.
The Democratic argument this year
should he printed in the humorous col
umns. It is, in brief: “You need not be
afraid of us. for if we elect a Presi
dent and the House, the Republican Sen
ate will keep us from doing any dam
age.”
“Growth ia the lew of oar national,
■octal and Industrial being. We have
not yet reached the limit of the Divine
pnrpose. Tomorrow will be greater
and more splendid then today.”—Senator
Fairbanks, at St. Pant, August St, IMS.
Whenever the Democratic party has
had the power it haa attacked and de
stroyed the policy of protection for
American industries.
WHEN HILL WILL QUIT.
! David lieu nett Hill says bo will abac*
don politics when Parker is elected.]
1 When Parker is elected,” Mr. David
Bennett Hill
I Announces that his speaking voice will
suddenly grow still:
He says that for rude politics he really
shall not care.
When Parker has been planted in the
Presidential chair—
j O, gentle reader, with alarm do not
grow cold and stiff;
There’s much of virtue in that ''When,”
as Shakespe-ike said of "if.”
“Y.’Iieii Parger is elected”—it’s a strik
ing trait of Dave’s
That always in his statements there’s
a little phrase that saves.
You see. it would have sounded like an
unexpected joke
Had he said he’d retire the day that
Davis said: “Pm broke.”
! “WHTDN Parker is elected, I shall put
campaigning by.”
Was how lie emphasized it, and he wink
ed the other eye.
When Parker is elected, then the stars
will shine at noon.
And we will shovel snow along about
the month of June,
The birds will put on trousers and the
crocodiles will sing,
The frogs will lie electing Mr. Stork to
be their king.
And when these things have happened,
if you think to notice it—
"WHRN Parker is elected.” David
Bennett Hill will quit.
“When Parker is elected”—why. he
might as well have said
That he’d be chasing ballots when the
rest of us are dead,
And that we’d hear him talking when
the Last Day’s trumpet called,
Or that he’d drop his scheming when he
ceased from being hailed.
When Parker is elected—he will quit,
and also then
We’ll learn that David Bennett Hill
is growing hair again.
ROOSEVELT AS PRESIDENT.
Some of the Prominent Achievement*
of the Administration.
(Chicago Tribune.)
What, positively, has he (Roosevelt)
accomplished ?
Ho has handed over to Cuba the gov
ernment of the Cuban republic.
He settled the anthracite coal strike
which for half a year had demoralized
the industries of the country.
When Great Britain, Germany and
Italy were attacking Venezuela he in
duced them to desist, thus preserving the
inviolability of the Monroe doctrine.
The three commissioners appointed by
him to discuss the Alaskan boundary
question gained a complete victory for
the American contention.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty, which
had been defeated by one Congress, was
passed in a subsequent special session,
because Roosevelt insisted.
By the creation of a bureau of com
merce and labor, for which his influ
ence is solely responsible, the President
has taken the first definite steps toward
the solution of the trust problem. Light
will be let in on the management of the
trusts. Then, when their evils art' defin
itely. not vaguely, ascertained a proper
corrective can be applied.
The door to China’s trade has been
kept wide open to our trade.
But the most enduring benefit the
President has brought to the country has
been the assurance that the Panama
canal would be finished. In the isthmian
imbroglio the President acted always
within the treaty rights of this nation;
his official conduct was eminently cor
rect. But were it not for his exceptional
adroitness and vigor during the crisis the
prospect of the interoceanie canal would
still be years in the future. For nearly
400 years man lias dreamed of piercing
the American isthmus. But it remained
for President Roosevelt to bring these
dreams within sight of realization. His
tory will record his connection with the
Panama canal as the most momentous
feature of his first term.
Thus Theodore Roosevelt has been an
upright and painstaking, vigorous and
useful, honest and patriotic President.
It seems both wiser and fairer for tiie
American people to re-elect him rather
than to elevate in his place an untried
jurist, who, however exemplary his per
sonal character, has had practically no
experience whatsoever to tit him for the
most difficult position in the world.
"Why Change?
Why should there be a change in the
national admini<*tration? What’s the
matter with Roosevelt? Has anything
gone wrong? Has k been necessary to
issue tmuds to pay the running expenses
of the government? Is there any money
in the treasury? Has the soup house as
sert etl its supremacy since the palmy
days of Grover? Has Theodore Roose
velt M rayed any trust reposed in him.
or has he manifested any symptoms of
spinal affection? Has the soA'slled I)em
ocratm party advanced any assurance to
the American people that they are any
more iwoticient in the twentieth century
than they were in the nineteenth? Oan
they satisfy the honest, industrious, pro
ducing citizens of America that they seek
for anything but to again grasp the sur
plus and again empty the treasury, as
they have oil every previous opportunity?
Farmers Ignore 1 by Democrat*.
The Democrats of Kansas, in making
up their State tkket, have entirely ig
nored the farmer. The Republicans
nominated two of the leading farmers of
the State as Rs Iroad Commissioners.
Seven out of thirteen nominations, in
cluding Governor, on the Democratic
ticket ara lawyers, while the Republicans
only recognized the lawyers in the nom
ination of Attorney General, jndges of
Supreme Court, and one member of the
Railroad Commission. The policy of ig
noring the farmer, which the Democratic
National Committee is reported to have
announced, is carried out with a ven
geance by the Democrat* of Kansas.
Balfour, the prime minister of Eng
land, in a speech delivered at Sheffield,
declared that Cobden, the apostle of free
trade, was “a great man, bat he failed
to foresee the developments of the last
half century which had made free trade
an empty name and a vain farce.”
The element which leads and domi
nates the Democratic party to-day stands
not for tariff for revenue, but for ulti
mate free trade. There Is ao use tryiig
to dodge that fact. The workingmen of
America most take note of h.