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Vol. 2, No. 33.
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Uine bo a cot beside the hill;
A' beo-hivo's hum shall sooth my
car;
willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall, shall linger near.
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,Tho swallow oft beneath my thatch
Shall twitter from hor clay-built
nest '
Oft shall 'the pilgrim lift the latch
And share my meal, a welcome
guest
Around my ivied porch shall spring
Each frtfgrnnt flowor that drinks the
dew;
And Lucy, at hor wheel, shall sing
In russet gown and apron blue,
Tho village church among tho trees,
Whoro first our marriage vows were
eivon.
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peals shall swou tno
With merry
breozo,
' And point
heavon.
with taper splro to
Samuel Rogers.
THE PAXTON
Ralph Kitchen, Mgr.
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THE WEEKLY PRESS FORUM.
Connersville (InL) Examiner: It
becomes our painful duty to inform At
torney General Knox that a court and
not a cafe is the proper place to knock
out the trusts.
Sholbyville (HI.) Leader: The dem
ocratic policy -places the moral PJ0"! people should not be deceived again.
material prosperity, and makes the
man higher than his money.
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Fairbury (Neb.) Journal: Some
thing liko $200,000,000 was appro
priated by the last congress for the
support of military affairs. It costs
like smoke to keep a Christian nation
liko this In fighting trim.
Apploton (Wis.) Press: Iowa repub
licans demand such revision of the
tariff schedules as may be needed "to
prevent their affording shelter to tho.
trusts." By the time this is done
there would bo very little of the tariff
left
Webster City (la.) Graphic-Herald:
What do you think of a democrat of 20
years' standing joining the republican
party because ho believes in "expan
sion?" It would be bettor that he
practice "contraction" till his skull
fits his brains.
Greencastle (Ind.) StarJPress: The
era of reform in tho affairs of govern
ment is championed by the democratic
party; republicanism la so allied to
trusts and protective tariff robbery
that it is their abject and devoted
apologist and protector.
O'Neill (Neb.) Independent: - The
democratic reorganizers should join
the party of the reorganized. The cor
porations, the trusts and the railroads
have thoroughly reorganized the re
publican party. There is not room
for two parties of this kind in Amer
ica. Wauseon (O.) Expositor: Mr. Roose
velt and Mr. LittleQeld will now ap
ply themselves to entertaining the
public with an anti-trust hippodrome
while tho other republican leaders
will devote their time to convincing
the trust leaders that "there's noth
ing in it"
Jordan (Minn.) Independent: We
are a patient people, but it does not
seem right that we have tariff laws
which encourage the formation of com
petition crushing trusts that will sell
their products at from twenty to fifty
per cent cheaper to foreigners than to
Americans.
Monro City (Ho.) Democrat: If
our republican, friends intended to
knock out the trusts and relieve the
people of the burdens imposed by
trusts, they would have done so while
congress was in session. They are
Just talking now to get votes. The
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Vandalla (111.) Democrat: It is only
by defeating the party in power that
the onward march of oppression by the
trusts can be checked. Without the
support and backing of the national
administration trusts cannot live. De
feat the party in power and you de
feat the trusts.
Chardon (O.) Record: Knox is go
ing on a tour to Europe, Roosevelt is
having jolly baths at Oyster Bay,
trust-owned judges are sending miners
to jail, tho coal operators are advanc
ing prices each week, and, in short, ev
ery prospect pleases and ye goose of
prosperity honks high!
Hamilton (Mo.) Advocate: The re
publican party Insists that there must
bo a tariff to protect our billlon-dol
Wichita (Has.) Democrat: At the
rate at which United States soldiers
continue to be killed by natives in the
Philippine islands it will not be long
before it will be necessary to send.
more troops over there If the govern
ment expects to maintain its sover
eignty over that country and its peo
ple. Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: Last
year, when potatoes were $1.00 per
bushel, it was the Dingley tariff, alias
the republican party, that did it. Thfs
year, with potatoes at 15 to 17 cents
per bushel, and the same tariff in
vogue, it is the abundant crop that
does it! Here is republican campaign
logic for you!
David City (Neb.) Press: By a sys
tem of massage and gymnastics a
French physician has a sure cure for
idiocy. That man would be a blessing
in Nebraska, where republican editors
and politicians favor taxing our peo
ple one and a half millions of dollars
annually to protect 535 sugar beet
growers, who can make more money,
and do it easier, raising corn and
hogs.
Chicago (111.) Dispatch: If the dem
ocratic party is again to be surren
dered into the hands of the men who
betrayed the party during the '90's,
then we may expect a revival of the
people's party which, this time, will
come to stay. It will mean a repeti
tion of the disaster of. 1894. It will
teach the would-be reorganizers that
there is not room in Illinois for two
republican parties.
Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel: The re
publican state platform contains the
amazing and amusing assertion that
every promise by the national platform
has been fulfilled. What about rec
iprocity? Why are not Oklahoma, Ari
zona and New Mexico admitted to
statehood? When will the new depart
ment of commerce be established?
What law has been passed to curb the
trusts? No republican promise con
cerning these issues has been fulfilled.
Belding (Mich.) News: During the
past six years we have offered a stand
ing reward of one hundred dollars to
any republican who will satisfactorily
explain how it is possible to protect
our laboring men who produce the
hundreds of millions of dollars' worth
of products annually exported to for
eign countries by and through the
means of levying tariffs on imports.
Why don't Congressman William Al-
den Smith or some other smart Aleck
reach out for this reward?
Lebanon (S. D.) Independent: Sena
tor Carmack, of Tennessee, criticises
the republican hand book just issued
boldly and fearlessly, and, In return, is
being criticised without stint or de
gree of mercy. He agrees with the
authors of the little book that no one
will have to guess what the republi
can party will do, for he says: "It
will not do what it professes to intend
and if will Hn wlinf tf I
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anxious to avoid." He continue.
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petition, and yet Germany finds it
necessary to put up a tariff wall- to
save hor industries from tho competi
tion of our little "infants"
Sterling (Neb.) Record: If it is his
"surplus", that the American manu
facturer Is selling abroad at "cost"
which means 35 per cent less than in
Amorica, the American consumer
would like to have him change about
and sell to him at cost while he makes
his profit off of tho foreigner.
can party contains nothing consistent
m any line."
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Newkirk (O. T.) Democrat-Heraldri
The dally papers last Monday devoted
a column of their space in telling how
President Roosevelt with a small pis
tol shot five times at a target and hit
the bulls-eye every time. Now if he
could hit tha bulls-eye of the meat
trust just once, some of those "full
dinner pails" might be filled with
something besides air. It would at
least make more Interesting reading.
Mankato (Kas.) Advocate: A lot
more traveling: men will now wniir
Jthe plank. The big reaping and mow
ing macnino manufacturers have
formed a combine all under one head
and one management, with, a capital
stock of 1120,000,000. Two or three
companies are still outside the com
bine, but it is thought they will soon
be forced to surrender. Then of course
harvesting machinery will be cheaper!
Oh, yes, just watch the prices come
down when the trust gets in shape.
Sullivan (Ind.) Democrat: Secretary
Shaw says that it will not do to talk
about revising the tariff now, that al
though it is a fact that there are un
just schedules in the tariff they must
bo let alone, for if an attempt was
made to pull one of them out the ben
eficiaries of those unjust schedules
would jpull the whole structure down
on the party. How is that for an ac
knowledgement of servile obedience to
the trusts? And then it comes from an
administration spokesman.
Lawrence (Kas.) Gazette: Score
another great republican victory. The
great binder and harvester companies
have formed a "merger." Of course
prices will at once go down. Barb
wire, "did you know. So long as the
farmers are" blessed with big crops and
are thereby able to keep up, so long
will many of them sleep and vote tho
republican ticket and howl prosperity.
But just wait until times tighten up
and hear the "yeowl." It will then be
too late.
Blossburg (Pa.) Advertiser: The
machine republican party, state and
national, are owned and controlled by
the trusts. No enforcement of anti
trust laws and no legislation in the
interest of the people will be passed
while the republican and trust ma
chine is in power. Government by in
junction and a refusal of a trial by
jury will continue to be practiced by
the machine. Will the people ever
awaken to their rights, or will they
continue to vote in tho interest of tho
trusts and the machine and make mere
slaves of themselves?
Boulder (Mont) Sentinel: Any law
that gives the seller an unfair advant
age over the buyer is an unjust law,
and it cannot escape the reasonable
protest of the people when that qual
ity is found out The American peo
ple are brave, and they are as just and
intelligent as they are upright and
brave. Their sense of justice is aroused
when they discover that manufactur
ers here sell their products abroad at
lower prices" than they charge right
here at homo. Their intelligence will
not permit them to be lulled or gulled
by the duplicity of the republican par
ty with its cheap, clap-trap arguments
designed to befool the voter. They
have opened their eyes to tho fact
that the maintenance of our rate of
wages does not depend on high duties
when industries can market their
products abroad, where lower prices
prevail, at prices that undersell tho
foreigner in his own market. They
know that "the foreigner does not pay
tho tax" when they see that the duty
Is clapped on to the home price in ad
dition to a fair profit, and they have
seen that the protected industries put
their prices up just as high as it is
possible and yet steer clear of for
eign competition. They have learned
that protection makes millionaires of
the manufacturers who get it, while
it makes them pay him more for his
products than he charges his foreign
customers, and that the laborers it
professes to protect have to pay higher
for their living than they over did and
yet their wages show no increase.
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