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Ilathdrum (Idaho) Silver Bludo: It
IooIch us though modern ropuhllcanlBin
spoiled corporate pilfering.
Denton (111.) Standard: "More
monoy" was our light, and out of
"moro monoy" has como audi prosper
ity as wo have had.
Grand Forks (N. D.) Plalndcaler:
Prof. Lombard's theory that the soul
Is In tho spinal column Is rather rough
on politicians who have not any back
bone. Hardy (Ark.) Herald: Perry Bel
mont's defeat for congress in Now
York Is another losson to ropubllcan
istlc democrats who try to dictate our
party policy.
Do Soto (Mo.) Press: First, a poem
by tho English poet laureate; now the
proffer of a visit from a German
prince. How popular your Uncle
Samuel la getting, to bo suro.
Brunswick (Mo.) Brunswlckor: Gen
oral Bell Is said to favor harsh meth
ods for tho suppression of the Fili
pinos. What moro can thoy do than
kill thorn. This thoy have been doing
all tho tlmo.
Gunnison (Colo.) -News: Havo you
of lato noted any republican editors
remarking that "trade follows the
Hag?" Thoy are perhaps absent
mindedly thinking over 1901 trade re
ports from tho Philippines.
Stoutsvlllo (Mo.) Banner: If Cuba
Is wlso she will cease hor clamor for
tariff concessions, enact a prohibitive
tariff law and tax horaolf onto tho top
wavo of prosperity, as wo are told the
United Statos has done. .. v,
Rushvillo (Ind.) Jacksonian: Un
necessary taxation is extortion and the
Immense surplus piled up In the na
tional treasury by this policy is an ac
cumulation of monoy that should havo
been loft In tho pockets of tho people.
Lancaster (0.) Democrat: With tho
increase of Mr. Foraker's influence in
Ohio, as opposed to Mr. Hanna's, tho
word "boodle" has given place to
"commercialism," which is, at least,
moro euphonious.
Medicine Lodge (Kas.) Index: It
looks like tho ship subsidy will win
out yot. Keep posted as to who is re
sponsible and then voto accordingly.
That Is the only way to get honest ser
vice out of congressmen.
Westmoreland (Pa.) Democrat: It
is certainly quite plain that if the peo
ple want the predatory combines
checked or regulated thoy will have to
look to some other source than the re
publican party ,under its present con
trol. Jacksonville (111.) Courier: Tho
consistent protectionists will do well
to keep Mr.- McKlnley's last public
speech from tho hands of tho young.
Its breadth will prove pernicious to tho
young mind which must be narrowed
to conform with republican views.
Albion (Mich.) Mirror: A noticeable
feature of tho docorations of the
White house on tho evening of the
dinner given to tho diplomatic corps
was the profusion of tropical plants
and palms brought from our Pacific
possessions we almost said "sent by
devoted subjects."
Lincoln (Neb.) Independent: Tho
cost of the national government has
gradually increase until now it
amounts to $12 per capita. Republi
canism and Imperialism come high
but it tho people will havo them they
must pay tho bill. When hard times
como and each family has to put up
$60, thoy will wish "that thoy hadn't
gone and done It."
Fremont (Neb.) Horald: If it be
comes necessary for tho administration
to ask congress for an appropriation
to pay tho expenses of this special
embassy there will be some anti
toady music that will be more pleasing
to tho plain voters of this country than
to tho administration.
Ithlca (N. Y.) Democrat: Mr. Bel
mon't success In finally obtaining rec
ognition as tho regular democratic
candidate, was also won by methods
too obvious to bo mysterious. The
election last Tuesday proved, however,
that the voters of the Seventh district
preferred a republican representative
to a democratvof Mr. Belmont's stripe,
lie was dofeated by 394 majority.
There are many things that, money
can do, but there are yet some things
it cannot do.
Bowie (Tex.) Cross Timbers: The
dispatches report that "a Filipino
leader and a large number of follow
ers gave up their arms unconditional
ly." They will now rate as among our
"best citizens" in the orient. Tho
amount of the bonus they received for
giving up their guns is not stated.
Marianna (Fla.) Times-Courier: The
New York World is authority for the
statement that it cost Perry Belmont
$80,000 to learn that the people did
not wish him to represent them In
congress. Wo are glad he was defeated
and wish that all such misrepr'esenta
tives of the party who can spend a like
sum for a ten thousand two-year term
will meet the same fate. Democracy
would not gain anything by being re
sponsible for his shortcomings and
lavish expenditures.
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? The Babcock Bill Is to Be Smothered by the Ways and 'Means
Committee and Its Author Sat Upon. S
-Reproduced by courtesy of Pittsburg 'Post.
Florence (Tex,) Vidette; The re
organjzers, who aro nothing more nor
less than tho gold standard democrats
of 1896 and 1900, are gettting together,
and will renew their attack on dem
ocracy in coming campaigns under a
different head. Their war cry will be
"harmony," and again in 1904 they
may defeat tho democratic party. This
alLt.hey cnn h011(3 t0 accomplish.
The Chicago platform will succeed it
self, and the democratic party wants
no better constitution for their organi
zation than this document furnishes
Millheim (Pa.) Journal: The Fili
pino may not know what liberty is,
but ho has enough sense to see that
the article offered by the American
government is a counterfeit. He can
seo that carpet bag officials are not tho
missionaries or apostles of liberty. He
has sense enough to know that a great
nation will not spend three hundred
million to "carry liberty and the
blessings of civilization" to a people
who can get these things for them
selves. Are wo to make American
citizens or subjects of the Filipinos?
David City (Neb.) Press: Leading
men in Europe are expressing severe
criticisms about the habit of our
United States supreme court in chang
ing its mind so often on questions of
national importance to ourselves, as
well as much inconvenience to those
who buy from us and sell to us.
La Grange (Ga.) Graphic: Would
it be considered traitorous to suggest
that we send the Liberty Bell over to
the Philippine islands so that the na
tives could gaze upon it? If the Dec
laration of Independence is an "in
cendiary document," as Jos. Ohl says
a United States army officer declared,"
then our beneficent assimilate) rs would
most likely regard .the Liberty Bell as
the fire-alarm of anarchy.
Bandon (Ore.) Recorder: Much has
been said and written about regulat
ing trusts by law, and there are said
to be laws sufficient to control the"
trusts provided the laws are enforced.
However tills may be trusts seem to
thrive on law and it begins to appear
that they are more likely to control
laws than laws are to control trusts.
Take the tariff protection for instance;
that kind of law is as good for a trust
as corn is for a lean hog.
Grinnell (la.) Gazette: The North
western Christian Advocate scores
Charles M. Schwab, president of the
United States Steel corporation, for
gambling at Monte Carlo, and suggests
that the company should secure an
other president. The corporation has
become so habituated to raking in
large sums of money which it does not
earn through worse than useless tariff
schedules, that it will r'ef use tb BB6 J
any moral turpitude in Schwab's trans
ferring other people's money to his
own pocket without giving value re
ceived. Louisiana (Mo.) Times: The Phil-
ippine tariff bill will doubtless. Ijo
passed. It is useless for such men as
Senator Hoar to protest. The con-',
scienceless corporations have decided
that they want the bill as it is, and
the needs of the Filipinos will not be
considered, neither the duty of the,
republic to a liberty-loving people, Bat
there will come a reckoning time. The
spirit .of liberty and justice still lives
in the hearts of the American people,
and they will yet rise in their might ,
and sweep those who would oppress
the people from office. Democrats,
our time is coming, just work and
wait patiently.
Ava (111.) Citizen: The monopoly
press is still praising the president's
message, but in one respect we con
sider it a trifle lame, that is if it is to
reflect the needs of the majority. The
message devotes exactly eight lines to
agriculture.- To some people it would
seem that an industry numbering 40
per cent of the population should re
ceive a greater consideration than
what could be expressed in eight linos
For example, he might mention the
fact that one half the agriculturists
prbper are tenant farmers hundreds
of thousands more of them now than
a decade ago, and constantly increas
ing, lie might also have said that
farm laborers now receive for their.
l,ng hours of drudgery an average of
?14 a a month and board. Yes; thero
Is a good deal that the president might
have said about the farmers, if ho had
exceeded eight lines In his summing
up of the agricultural situation.- He
might have explained why some of tho
government's sympathy for the na
tional banks, for the shipping interests
and for "civilizing? the tropics is not
extended to the home farmer.