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.owners it appears further that less than' a. dozen
ship-owners and only, four shipbuilders would
foe beneficiaries.
"This then is what the ship subsidy bill would
do, summed in a sentence: It would take from the
pockets of 70,000,000 people $0,000,000 a year
to put it into the pockets of less than two J(.on
private business concerns all told."
Broken
Pledges.
The Peoria Herald-T r a n s c r i p t
says: "Whenever protective du
ties have been imposed, increased
or retained in revisions of our tariff their principal
justification and, indeed, their avowed purpose
hae always boon to create or stimulate competition
in this country. Nothing is clearer than that
every protected interest which has entered into
ono of combinations called 'trusts' has broken
the promise under which it obtained its tariff pro
tection and should be Bummarily deprived of it."
Nothing is clearer than that the Peoria Herald
Transcript has in simple language presented an
oxact truth. Is it not strange, therefore, that
with this record of imposition in plain view of
every observing man, "protection" as a campaign
slogan is effective when employed by a party
whoso leaders make no serious pretense towards
trust regulation.
Men's Opinions The death of the Queen has ex
OI Women. cited considerable discussion as
to woman her placo, her influ
ence and her capabilities. The Now York Sun
lias collected the following opinions of great
men :
Remember, woman is most perfect when most
womanly. Gladstone.
Earth has nothing- more tender than a pious
woman's heart. Luther.
All I am or can be I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln.
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'tis woman, wo
Jwui, rules us still. Moore.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet
my wife there. Andrew Jackson.
Even in the darkest hour of earthly ill woman's
fond affection glows. Sand.
Women need not look at those dear to them to
know their moods. Ho wells.
Oil and water woman and a secret are hostile
properties. Bui wer Lyttou.
Raptured man quits each dozing sago, O woman,
for thy lovelier page. Moore.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks
shall win my love. Shakespearo.
He that would have line guests, let him have a
fine wife. Ben Johnson.
A woman's strength is most potent when robed
in gentleness. Lamartino.
Lovely woman, that caused our cares, can every
care beguile. Beresford.
Poison to The Now York Press is a rcpub-
the Party. lican newspaper that has never
been backward in its support of
the republican administration. And yet the Press
draws the lino at the ship subsidy bill and says:
Let there bo no mistake about the character of
the opposition to the ship subsidy bill in Congress. It
is not the filibustering of a few cheap demagogues
which has to be feared. It is the republican appre
hension that there is death in the pot. In its present
shape the bill means poison to the party system which
years will not eradicate. '
It is difficult for some republican organs- to
The Commoner.
overcome the opithct habit. The Press doos not
hesitate to brand as " cheap demagogues " those
Congressmen who have remained true to public
interests by opposing the ship subsidy scneme.
And yet the Press admits that the scheme means
"poison to the party." It has not been forgotten
that the Porto Rioan bill and other administra
tion measures were denounced by republican news
papers, even more vigorously than the Press de
nounces Mr. Hanna's subsidy scheme. And yet
when it became necessary to defend those admin
istration measures, the same republican organs
employed all their energy and ability to that end.
Let us hope that the New York Press will not be
found, a few weeks hence, an ardent defender of
the subsidy scheme.
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Enlightening the World.
On October 28, 1 880, the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty in New York harbor was dedicated. On
that occasion a distinguished citizen of New York
delivered an eloquent oration. Among other
things he said:
American liberty has been for a century a beacon
light for the nations Under its teachings and by the
force of its example, the Italians have expelled theii
putty and arbitrary princelings and united Under a
parliamentary government the gloomy despotism of
Spain has been dispelled by the representatives of the
people and a frcb press; the great German race has
demonstrated its power for empire and its ability t
govern itself. The Austrian monarch, who, when a
hundred years ago Washington pleaded with him
across the seas for the release of Lafayette from the
dungeon of Olmutz, replied that he had not the
power" because the safety of his throne and his
pledges o his royal brethren of Europe compelled him
to keep confined the one man who represented the en
franchisement of the people of the country,, is today
in the person of his successor, rejoicing with his sub
jects in the limitations of a constitution which guar
antees liberties and a congress which protects and en
larges them. Magna Charta, won at Ruhnymede for
Englishmen, and developing into the principles of the
Declaration of Independence with their descendants,
has returned to the mother country to bear fruit in an
open Parliament, a free press, the loss of royal pre
rogative, and the passage of power from tlie classes
to the masses.
The sentiment is sublime which moves the people
of France and America, the blood of whose fathers,
commingling upon the battlefields of the Revolution,
made possible this magnificent march of liberty and
their own republics, to commemorate the results of
the past and typify the hopes of the future in this
noble work of art. The descendants of Lafayette,
Rochambeau and DeGrassem who fought for us in our
first struggle, and Laboulaye, Henri Martin, DeLes
seps, and other great and brilliant men, whose elo
quent voices and powerful sympathies were with us
in our last, conceived the idea, and it has received
majestic form and expression through the genius of
Bartholdi.
Then this orator proceeded to say that, higher
than any monument in the world,
this statue of Liberty rises towards the heavens to
illustrate an idea which nerved the three hundred at
Thermopylro and the ten thousand at Marathon;
which drove Tarquinfrom Rome and aimed the arrow
of Tell; which charged with Cromwell and his Iron
sides and accompanied Sidney to the block; which
fired the farmer's gun at Lexington and razed the
Bastile in Pans; which inspired the charter in the
cabin of the Mayflower and the Declaration of Inde
pendence from the Continental Congress,
He further predicted that this statue would
growiii the admiration and affections of man
kind. And ho concluded with a beautiful pict
ure showing that from .tlie' "unseen "aiicP ;ttio un
known, two great; souls had come to participate
in that celebration
the spirit voices of Washington and Lafayette joined
in the glad acclaim of Franco and the, United States
to Liberty enlightening the world.
This oration was delivered less than fifteen
years ago. The orator was Ohauncey M. Depcw,
now a United States senator from the titato of
New York. Today, Senator Depew is the cham
pion of imperialism. His voice is raised and his
vote is cast in the "United States Senate against
the proposition that tho people of the Philippines
have a right to aspire to the same liberty to whi ;h
our forefathers aspired. His voice is raised and
his vote is cast in favor of a policy of imperial
ism and ho would deny to the people of the Ori
ent the privilege of profiting by the force of
American example, the exercise of which, privi
lege gave to the Italians, the Germans, the Aus
trians, and other people such large advantages.
But ideas live, notwithstanding the apostasy of
those who first proclaim and then abandon them.
This Nation will vet return to the Declaration of
Independence; it will yet justify the hopes ex
cited by its history.
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Beneath the pressure of life's cares today,
1 joy in these; f
But I can say
That I had rather walk this rugged way,"
If Ilim it please ' ,
1 cannot feel . . '$&'
hat-all is well, when dark'riing''Clouds. conceal V
The shining sun
Hut then, I knoW ,
God lives and loves; and say, since it is so,
"Thy will be done." ,
I cannot speak - ;?
In happy tones; the tear-drops on my cheek '; "
Show I am sad; '-:-y''?
Rut I can speak -j
Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.
I do not see ' l;!:,f
Why God should e'en permit some things to'bcjS
When He is love; ' T y
Rut I can see,
Though, often dimly, through the mystery,. .
His hand above! ;
I do not know v ,. V t
Where falls the seed that I have tried tofcoww.
With greatest care;
Rut I shall know
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I do not look
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To read my fate;
But I do look
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For promised blessings in God's Holy Bo'okVv4
And I can wait. : ' Ti
I may not try .., ' "''
To keep the' hot tears back, but hush that'sigh
"It might have been" ;?
And try to still :
Each' rising murmur and to God's sweet will
Respond, "Amen!" "
Rev. F. G. Bkowning.
This is the preparation for a good old age. Duty
vrell done, for its own sake, for Go l's sake, and tho
sake of the Common wealth of man. When a man
works only 'for himself he gets neither, rest here no
reward hereafter. Robert Collyer,
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