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immmmmmemm. FW 16 The Commoner, Vt 2, No. 34. 9 F g p Carmacfc on OiMMtag. ; On the flyleaf of the campaign book recently Issued by the republican con gressional committee, these words appear: "Yon do not kare to guess what tkt republican party will do. The whole world "know ft purpose. It ban em bodied them in law and executed them in administration' Senator Carmack of Tennessee, com menting upon this statement, recently gave out the following interview: "I thfnk there Is a measure of truth In this quotation. The whoe coun try, if not the whole world, is begin ning to know the purposes of the, re publican party, though it has not as yet fully embodied them in law and executed them In administration. There is a pretty safe rule to follow in de termining what the republican party will do, and that Is that it will not do what It professes to Intend, and that it will do what is seems most anxious to avoid. "If the world knows the purposes of the republican party it does not gather Its knowledge from republi can platforms. It had always pro fessed to be ardently in favor of bi metallism up to the very time it final ly enacted the gold standard. The world may have known vhat the pur poses of the republican party were, but tho republican party certainly never intended that tho people should know. "The same Is true of its record on reciprocity. If Mr. McKinley were living today he would probably confess that he himself was mistaken as to the purposes of the republican party on this question. "Perhaps the world knows what the republican party intends to do on the tariff and trust question. It prob ably knows that it has no thought of passing Mr. Babcock tariff bill or Mr. Llttlcfleld's anti-trust bill, but I am very sure that tho managers of the OUR CLUBBING LIST Do you wish to take another paper or magazine with THE COMMONER? Here is our clubbing list. 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We cordially Indorse the position of President Roosevelt In appealing to the courts to secure regulations that will control great combinations of capital which pre vent competition and control the in dustries of the people without legal sanction or public approval. From the platform of the republican state convention of Iowa, July 30, 1902. i ".V" , WnOKNEr-iStNFflAL Knax NoTicp Do Not lUAKBHlrJ. Hb 13 slcspv KjMP F 4 D AlLR? "yc.it (tlORGAN VAssoKtEO TRUSTS TRl Cfi IRK1 j .J icSW -1N MorsJ-o BEEF-fl l Tzf sA m,,? & MsM v& BS SST I f CHORUS "Ha, ha, ha! Wow!"-New Yorh Journal. republican party have very strong hope that tho people of the United States do not know. "When Mr. Littlefield's anti-trust bill went through the. house of repre sentatives at the first session of the Fifty-sixth congress, did the world know that it was the purpose of the republican party to use that bill simply for campaign purposes, and then let it die without one effort to save it at the next session of congress? There is certainly very credible doubt in tho minds of some very nrominent repub licans today as to what should be the purpose of tho republican party in dealing with the tariff at the next ses sion of congress. There are some who actually believe that it will effect a genuine revision of our tariff sche dules. There are others who are equal ly as confident that these schedules will not bo touched. "Sometimes the republican party embodies an alleged purpose in law and does not execute it in administra tion. Tho Sherman anti-trust law, for instauce that law has its periods of activity during campaigns, but al ways relapses into innocuous desuo tudo when the campaign is over. "Does tho whole world or do the American people know what are tho purposes of the republican party in the Philippine Islands? The party leaders evidently think so,, and they therefore consider it unnecessary to make any public statement on the question. It has emphatically declined to say whether it intends to hold the Philippines permanently as a vassal province; whether it intends to in corporate them into the union, or whether it intends at some time or other to give the people freedom and Independence. "You will find among the party leaders and supporters of the admin istration men like Spooner who think a colonial policy would entail vast burdens and dangers upon the United States; men like Beveridge who think It Is our destiny and duty to go forth conquering and to conquer; men like the president, who like this kind of thing because it is warlike; men like Secretary Shaw, who think there is money in tho business of seizing ter ritory and killing the inhabitants; other men who think we ought to get out of the Philippines, but don't know how to do It; in fact, all shades and varieties of opinion. You might take a dozen republican senators at ran dom and no statement of the purpose of the republican party in the Philip pines could be written that would com mand a majority of their votes. "If the people of the United States are to look into the legislative record of the republican party for. the future indication of what may be expected of it, where will they look, and what will they find? Nothing consistent in any line." Let Him Showjt. The president of tho United States will be acting in the interests of tho people, whom he Is in office to serve, if he will take a personal Interest in the anthracite coal strike. True it would place him in an embarrassing position to take a hand in that strike, but surely he is brave, strenuous and fond of fight. Let him.mount his gov ernmental broncho and ride into the fray and at least give the coal opera tors a little advice. He is opposed to trusts, he says, so let him show some opposition to the one Trustthe coal trust that is making the most disas trous fight against the laboring man today in the east. Springfield (HU. State Register. V Js