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V ,. o ' The Commoner tg. 33, ipoa ie Houston Post lays Itself open to the re of less majeste by suggesting a very plaus ible explanation for recent pro ilntstratloM ceedinKs wben it says: "Docs It and not look like the administration Trusts. wants to bo able to say to the people, 'See, we have prosecuted ie beef trust and to the beef trust, 'See, we have jtponod the case till after the elections, and if m put up for the campaign fund like good repub- ms wo will drop the case when the elections are ice safely over?' " yyy It is now announced that Mr. Roosevelt will il an extra session of the senate on November 11 to ratify a reciprocity treaty 'After with Cuba, and also a treaty tho which will embody the essential Election. features of the Piatt amendment. It is also promised that there will be a bit of tariff revision after the elections. Tho elections will take place prior to November UL It is significant that every hope held out by republican leaders depends upon what the party will do "after the election." It is reported that Queen Alexandria upon greeting General Kitchener after his return from South Africa told him that there was one thing necessary to make him everything that could bo de sired. Kitchener asked what that was. The queen replied: WA cleverrhandsomo wife." To this Kitchener re joined: "That is a defect capable of being rem edied." This was good advice and if Kitchener Is as level-headed a man as he is a capable soldier, ho will act upon it at the proper time. Good Advice to Kitchener. In a speech delivered at Chautauqua, N. Y., 'August 11, Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio pointed to the fact that he spoke and They voted repeatedly against the Tel- Wanted ler resolution declaring that our Territory. purpose in the war was not ag grandizement and that we did not want any territory. Mr. Grosvenor said: "I did, and I had Cuba in mind. I believed then, and I believe now, that she is too near and presents too great possibilities of trouble to permit her to wan der away from us in any way." Undoubtedly there are other eminent republicans .who share Mr. Grosvenor's views, yet who are not quite so frank as the Ohio congressman in stating them. &k2 Postponed Until October. The attorneys for the beef trust filed a de murrer to tho proceedings in the federal court at Chicago on August 4. These at torneys contended that tho prosecution has not stated such a case as would entitle it to the relief prayed for. The dispatches announce: "It is not expected that any further Bteps will be- taken in the case by either side un til October." Can it be possible that even the in junction proceedings were intended to be for cam paign purposes only? Can it be possible that,, af ter all, now that he is in a position to "shackle cunning as in the past we have shackled , force," Mr. Roosevelt is not really anxious to forge the chains? wys John Barschen, a New York butcher, under stands trusts methods. Referring to the reported organization of the packing corn-Understands- panies Into one great Jxust, this Trust New York butcher in an inter- Methods, view with a reporter, said: "They will combine. No doubt tof It In my mind. The men who are sworn to en force the laws appear to be afraid to perform their plain duty. Temporary benefit will accrife to the consumer, and In all probability forced retirement Rather Late for Entertainment. from business for tho small dealer. Tho packing combine can corner tho food supply and for a timo there will bo a steady market with low prices. That will bo tho period when competition Is being smothered. Then will come a boom in prices and' vast profits squeezed out of the people." The newspaper dispatches report that Mr. Roosevelt is entertaining a party of Boemgents at his home and that these Boers are being treated as members of tho president's family. It is also pointed out that the president recently engaged in a shooting match with a number of Boer oillccrs. ThlB is all very gratifying to bo sure, and yet ono cannot avoid the wish that Mr. Roosevelt had displayed a little of this good feeling while tho Boers were struggling for their republics. If Mr. Roosevelt had, for instance, invited tho Boer envoys to lunch in the White house, tho entertainment might have been of Borne practical value to the brave Dutch men of South Africa. In a recent interview Speaker Henderson -declared that the republicans were nevor bo united as they are today and that har AII, all -mony prevails throughout tho is party leadership. Walter Well- Harmony, man, the Washington correspon dent of the Chicago Record-Herald, in a dispatch to his paper, under date of Aug ust 12, said some things that are not calculated to sustain Mr. Henderson's claim. Mr. Wellman says: "Grave and reverend senators who in interviews pronounce for Roosevelt's nomination havo been known to damn him most vigorously in private conversation. One senator who recently said in an interview that there would be no opposition to tho president, who had earned the approval of tho party and tho country, privately declares that Mr. Roosevelt Is a 'pernicious young upstart.' " Tho state department submitted to Secretary of the Treasury Shaw whether the proposed bond issue by the Cuban government Tell It was lawful. Secretary Shaw has to tho replied that it would bo super- Marines, fluous for him as secretary of the treasury to decide that the pro posed loan would be In violation of the conditions imposed by tho United States, and the fact is that the inhibition against Buch a loan exists in the Cuban constitution itself. This government will therefore probably hint to the Cuban officials that while they may read their authority in their con stitution, they may learn their limitations in tho Piatt amendmtnt That tho people of Cuba "ought to be free and independent" is well understood anu this government has gone on record ,in attesting the fact; but that the people of Cuba "are free and independent" is a tale that may be unfolded to" the marines. - It is reported that Generals Botha, DeWet and Delarey of South Africa will soon visit the United States and appeal to the Amerl- W1II Not can people to help the Boer 'Appeal widows, orphans, and Jjurghers in Vain. who were crippled or ruined by tho war. These brave men will undoubtedly receive a cordial welcome in tho United States and undoubtedly, also, they will ob tain material assistance. It is significant, how ever, that the British colonists so often find it necessary to turn to America for relief. While Great Britain was pursuing Its unholy war in South Africa, British subjects InJndia were starv ing and the people of the United States were re quired to save them from the ravages of famine; and now although the people of the TranBvaal and of the Orange Free State have become, through the fortunes of -war, subjects of Great Britain, now that Great Britain has asserted complete sov- A Terrible Commentary. creignty over their land, now that they need aid and assistance to reestablish themselves oven In peaceful pursuits, they aro rcqulrod to appeal to tho people of tho United States for relief. Thoy will not appeal in vain, oven though a great many poople will believe that England should repair th damage which British greed has accomplished la South Africa, A New York butcher, John Barschen, a victim of tho food trust, recently gave an Intorvlow to a Now York newspaper reporter, and In one paragraph of that Interview-there is something pa thetic. Mr. Barschen Bald: "When the newspapers wor making that great fight against tho beof trust thoy succeeded In making Roosovolt Bay that tho rav ages of the trust must bo stopped. But tho price of beef is highor than it over was, and 'Roosevelt has done nothing, Knox has done nothing, and thoy novor will do anything. Nobody appears to be big enough or strong onough or bravo enough to do tho right thing." Roosovolt has done noth ing, Knox has dono nothing; nobody appears to b big enough or strong onough or bravo onough to do tho right thing! What a terrible commentary upon the courage, tho intelligence, and tho patriot ism' of republican leaders. Are You Helping? The Commonor asks the hearty co-operation of every democrat interested In the preservation and promulgation of democratic principles in its efforts to enlarge Its" circulation. 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