July 25, 190a
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I tie Commoner.
News of the Week
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build a lino from Galveston to Du
luth, with a line running up the Sioux
river valley into North Dakota, with
a branch line from Brookings to tho
Missouri river along the North and
.South Dakota lines. ,
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A message from Honolulu, July S,
' via San Francisco to tho Chicago Tri
bune, says: A. S. Humphreys has an-
nounced his resignation as circuit
judge. He was the first judge op
pointed in Hawaii after its annexation
as a territory. He Vas appointed by
President McKinley, Soon after tak
ing tho bench he became involved in
difficulties with local attorneys, part
ly on account of his seventy In court
room pra'ctice. In June, 1901, he went
to Washington to. defend himself
.againgt charges preferred by tho Ha-
, -waiian Bar association, which sought
his removal. He was sustained by tho
' attorney general and' the president,
t and returned to Hawaii to resume, his
.place on the bench.
According to the census bureau bul
letin Issued July 15 at Washington
and relating to the woolen manufac
tures of the country, the total capital
invested for the year 1900 was $392,
040,353, and it is reported that the
earnings on "this capital amount to al
most 9 per cent. The wnole number
of establishments that year were re
ported as 2,653.
One hundred and eight Boer pris
oners from Bermuda arrived in New
York July 14. Among me most promi
nent of the officers was Gen. J. B. Wes
sels, Peter F. Steyn, a brother of
President Steyn, J. DeVilliers, late at
torney general of the Free State, and
Joubert Reitz, a son of the Free State
secretary. All are on their way to
their homes In tho Transvaal. Com
mandant Peter Ferreira or tlie Orange
Free State ( said there are now about
4,600 Boer prisoners in the Island of
Bermuda. Two hundred of these are
Cape rebels. As most of them have
no money for thoir passage home they
will have to wait until a British
transport arrives. Some of the re
leased privates complained of the
treatment accorded them, Commandant
Ferreira said that he did not think
officers or privates had much to com
plain of, adding that it was certain
that the English cared for them much
better than the Boers could have done
for the English.
A dispatch from Washington undor
Mate of July 17, says: The war de
partment has made public tho last
note of Secretary Root to Governor
Taft relative to the negotiations con
cerning the friars, which formed the
basis of Governor Taft's note to the
Vatican yesterday. Secretary Root's
note, which is a very lengthy one,
dwells on the thought that the Vatican
v is not asked by tho Philippine govern
ment to withdraw the friars, and that,
,- should the Vatican take such action it
would be considered a purely volun
tary step. To withdraw the friars, the
note contends, would be very advan
tageous to the chifrch. The reasons
for the withdrawal are not religious or
racial, but arise from political and so
cial relations, which Induce the lay
. Catholic population and native priest's
- to desire not only the expulsion of the
friars, but the confiscation of their
lands. Tho secretary has taken up tho
question of the manner or acquiring,
by purchase, tho friars' property.
While regretting that no definite
agreement was reached, he expresses
the hope that the Vatican will finally
conclude to withdraw the friars of its
own motion and without any agree
ment To the end that an ultimate un
derstanding may bo reached he asks
that tho church authorities forward,
- as soon as possible, full and complete
lists of tho friars' properties.
A Washington dispatch to tho Now
York World under date of July 10,
says: Tho American antl-truBt league
today mailed a letter to President
Roosevelt' severely censuring him fc
oulogizing Attorney General Knox in
his Pittsburg oration July 4. The let
ter redites tho efforts made by the
league, as told In The World, to secure
action by Attorney General Knox
against various combinations alleged
to be acting in- violation of the Sher
man, anti-trust act, and reviews the
evidence furnished Mr. Knox as to
their operations Reference is then
made fo the fact that .the president at
Pittsburg devoted more than half of
his speech to a defense ana eulogy of
Attorney General Knox, and the let
ter continues"; ' "Such action on your
part forces' us to tho conclusion that
some- of your subordinates and ad
visers are keeping back from you a full
knowledge of tills most reprehensible
actlpn and inaction of Attorney Gen
eral Knox. So overwhelming was the
weight of evidence against your at
torney general that not one member of
the whole congress, nor one official of
the whole government could be found
to stand up and defend him until your
speech of July 4 was delivered; and,
Mr. President, we have a right to in
sist that a bare denial, even by the
president df the United States, of these
well-known charges is no sufficient
defense for Mr. Knox. Mr. President,
if you have not read the evidence we
have filed with you and your attorney
general in these cases, you should do
so without delay, and when you have
examined the evidence you will surely
retract your defense and eulogy of Mr.
Knox made on July 4. If you have a
knowledge of the papers, facts and
evidence in this case and you still con
tinue to uphold and defend the attor
ney general, then your conduct is
equally reprehensible with his and
will be even moro severely condemned
by the people of the United States,
for they had hoped for better things
had hoped at least for an honest en
forcement of the law while you were
president of the United States. Such
an honest enforcement of tho laws is
now prevented by the collusion ex
isting between the attorney general
and criminal trusts. If Mr. Knox is
permitted longer to prostitute the de
partment of justice to such base uses,
the people will hold you responsible;
for it is within your power, Mr. Presi
dent, at any time to retire him to mer
ited disgrace and fill his place with an
attorney general who will 'enforce the
laws equally to the rich and to the
poor, without fear, favor or hope of
reward.' ".
Why?
New Castle (Colo.) Democrat: Pres
ident Roosevelt is making speeches
denouncing the trusts and says that
an anti-trust law must be passed at the
next session of congress. Why wait
until congress adjourns? Or why de
fend Attorney General Knox for fail
ing to do his duty under existing
law.s? Or what is more pertinent
still why keep a trust attorney like
Knox in the cabinet at all? It would
seem that the people outside of tho
trusts have a right to know why the
government is conducted In the Inter
ests of the trusts.
What the Government Costs.
Tho enactment of the big river and
harbor appropriation bill makes cer
tain an aggregate of public money ap
propriated by this session of congress
fully equaling, if not exceeding, the
striking figure to which Chairman
Cannpn of the house committee on
appropriations pointed with alarm last
week. He gave a table of estimated
revenue for the next fiscal year, with
authorized expenditure as that ac
count now stands in the various ap-
propriation bills enacted or passing,
of which tho following is a summary:
FISCAL YEAR 1903.
Estimated ro venuo $"639,520,630
Appropriated by regular
bills in presont stages.. 590,036,404
Permanent annual appro
priations 09,921,220
Miscellaneous appropria
tions 10,000,000
Deficiency appropriations. 20,838,134
Total'approprlations ?091,445,753
Apparent revonuo defic
iency 51,925,128
This makes no account of tho sink
ink fund payments which would in
crease expenditure by $64,000,000 more,
if thoy were made. And tho state
ment does not include or make ac
count of any expenditure which may
be incurred by the passage of an isth
mian canal bill or a ship subsidy bill
or many other pending bills relating
to expensive projects.
It is to be said, however, that If ex
penditure stops where it is, tho year
will show no deficit to speak of if
revenue comes up to tho estimate; for
appropriations for a given year are
never entirely expended in that year.
The river and harbor bill, for exam
ple, authorizes and appropriates for
projects which will require some years
to carry out In many cases. It is cal
culated that the margin between ap
propriations and actual oxperiditurs
will just about equal the apparent de
ficiency in revenue as given abova,
showing an equality between revenue
and expenditure for the coming fiscal
year. But it is evident that the days
of the surplus are about over. There
is to be quite a large reduction in tax
ation, beginning with July 1, but the
principal way in which the problem
of surplus has been met Ib to spend It
and not a dollar of the expenditure
Is to go toward debt reduction.
Attention is called by the above fig
ures to tho enormous increase going
on in the cost of the .federal govern
ment. Deducting from tho total of
appropriations that made for tho post
office department whose revenues are
included in the revenue estimate, we
should have a total appropriation for
the fiscal year 1903 of about ?560.
000,000. This compares with a total
of $479,365,657 only as recently as for
the current fiscal year. But it com
pares with an average aggregate year
ly appropriation of only about $300,
0C0,000 just prior to the Spanish war.
The costs of this government havo
thus nearly doubled within five years.
The fact is fairly entitled to the de
scription of astounding. Public
Opinion.
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The New York Journal recently com
piled the following statement of the
respective "outputs" of the chief pub
lishing houses of tho United Stafes:
Tho MacMillan Co., New York ,...692
Charles Scribner's Sons, NT Y....212
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.. 195
J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 194
Longmans, Green & Co., N. Y....192
The Abbey Press, New York 160
Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 118
Harper & Bros., New York 123
T. Y. Crowell & C0.7 New York. .116
Dana, Estes & Co., Boston 11Q
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.. 104
D. Applcton & Co., New York 103
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York.... 103
E. P. Dutton & Co., New York... 101
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