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The Commoner.
April 4; 190a
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Wausau (Wis.) Herald: Altgeld
was one of America's ablest men.
Durango (Colo.) Democrat: The St.
Louis platform pledged to "promote
bimetallism," the Philadelphia plat
form to "restrain trusts." Ananias
was but a retail liar.
Medicine Lodge (Kas.) Index: Pop
ulists and democrats who look to, re
publican politicians' and newspapers
for advice and inspiration are in ter
rible straits. Don't be deceived.
Wichita (Kas.) Democrat: It will
bo noticed .that Governor Taft's . con
fessions as to slavery and polygamy in
the Philippines were in response to
.questions asked by the democratic
members of the committee.
Bellefdnte' (Pa.) Deniocrat: It looks
as though congress would appropriate
many million dollars to the ship
builders as a subsidy. This 'is more
flagrant stealing than under the guise
of a protective tariff. Hanna is lead
ing this raid. Roosevelt should turn
it down.
Massena (N. Y.) Forum: All this
servile devotion. to England was mad2
to appear as an expression of graU
tude to her for saving us from a lick
ing in 1898. Now it transpires that in
.pursuine: this policy the administra
tion deliberately helped to sustain a
mo?t iniquitous pervasion of historical
truth.
Vancouver (Wash.) Register-Democrat:
The Fowler bill, proposed in
the house to reorganize our financial
system, is the boldest ' piece of vil
lainy ever introduced into a legislative
body;' JHamia's ship subsidy bil is a
mere" bagatelle In comparison, THe
Fowler bill practically turns the gov
ernment over to a gang of money
sharks.
Xork (Neb.) Democrat: It was not
necessary for Secret, ry Hay to use
so much Associated press space ,to let
it be known .that he was receiving the
Boer., representatives only in' the ca
pacity of private citizen. Those who
have kept tab on Secretary Hay sluce
the Boer war began did not expect
anything different and th.ey were not
disappointed.
Henderson (Ky.) Daily Gleaner: Mr.
Altgeld was possessed of a monster
mind, having few equals and no su
periors in America's rank of great
men. He was a friend of the people
and of all distressed humanity. He
forfeited his life in an exertion on be
half of the Boers whose freedom from
British bondage he as earnestly sought
and longed for as does Kruger' himself.
Columbus (0.) Citizen: Altgeld's
sypathy was always with the weak
as against the strong, with the poor
as against the rich, with the friendless
as against the powerful. His death,
so closely following a powerful argu
ment for the Boers, in whose cause
he believed with all the intensity of
his nature, was a fitting ending for a
lifo of which so much had been spent
in the cause of the downtrodden and
oppressed.
Montrose (Pa.) Democrat: If ever
there was a word in the English lan
guage prostituted to a base, selfish,
greedy, unholy purpose, it is the word
"protection," as connected with our
tariff laws. Today it stands for noth
ing but selfish, inordinate, oppressive
greed on the part of "protected" in
terests, who are piling up wealth by
millions at the cost and expense of the
consumers, the vast majority of whom
are i)oor. (And many of these people
seenrto enjoy the situation, too, and
vote accordingly.)
HIS BUSY DAY
UNCLE SAM "Tell the Boer Envoys I can't do anything for 'em, I'm too busy designing Whitelnw Rcid's
costume for the Coronation. By courtesy of The New York Journal and American.
Minneapolis (Kas.) Better Way:
Why was. the Declaration of Indepen
dence suppressed and not allowed to
circulate among the Filipinos? Why
is slavery and polygamy tolerated un
der the American flag? Why does not
the government declare its intentions
relative to the Philippine islands? If
it was wrong for England to quarter
soldiers in her colonies in 1776, is it
right for America to do the same
thing in 1902.
Coldwater (Mich.) Star: It would
be a fine thing if the Light Guard could
only have a representative of the Fili
pino republic that we crushed speak
at the same time the Boer represen
tative, Wessels, speaks, and let them
compare note3. But then we are not
casting out beams in our own eyes.
And besides the quarter million Boers
have "certain inalienable rights" that
the 10,000,000 Filipinos, our former
allies, 'have not! r
Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger: We
confidently look for better days for the
democratic party, but we cannot hope
for Its regeneration by the gentlemen
who attend Manhattan club banquets.
They are wedded to their idols and we
must confess we have but little in
common with them. They claim they
are democrats, but they are not demo
crats of the kind that live in Ken
tucky, the south or anywhere west of
the Alleghaney mountains.
Frankfort (Ind.) Standard: A
"Cleveland victory," that is, a victory
of the democracy under leaders of the
Cleveland style of politicians, is a
possibility to remote as to be hardly
worth a second thought glory be!
But if any comlaination of unfortunate
circumstances should bring about
such a calamity, the party would die
the death and Its memory would be a
stench in the nostrils of men as long
as wood grows and water runs.
Garnett (Kas.) Agitator: President
Roosevelt met ,the Boer envoys "un
officially" Wednesday and informed
them "officially" that the United States
government could do nothing for
them; that he (Roosevelt) would have
nothing to do with their troubles. He
might as well have told them that the
sympathy of the administration is with
England. Doubtless, the Boer repre
sentatives knew beforehand wha the
result of their visit would be, but they
made Teddy show his hand.
Daphone (Ala.) Standard: Prince
Henry in his visit to the points of In
terest In and around Philadelphia gave
to the inspection of Cramp's ship yard
not only the full 45 minutes put down
in his program, but extended the visit
to one hour and forty minutes, and
then said he could spend the whole
night there. To the inspection of In
dependence Hall and its priceless
treasures, including the Declaration of
Independence, he gave seven min
utes! But then, you know, the ship
yard can turn out worships, and In
dependence Hall can turn out only
ideas, and such ideas as seem of late
to be out of date, fit only for dream
ers, not men of state.