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Urbana (0.) Democrat: . If congress
would repeal the tariff on trust-mado
goods it could have tho $500,000 .it has
appropriated for a fake prosecution of
the trusts. -
Charlestown (Ind.) Democrat: It
is time to swear off surrendering tin;
party organization to so-called reor
ganizes who hope to win through
cowardly silence, and who trust to luck
instead of to organization!
La Fayette (Indj Democrat: En
tangling alliances with foreign ' na
tions is the one to be dreaded thing
that every administration of whatever
party, has always avoided until the
present time. But it now seems to
have been acre a ished.
Beavertown ftviioh.) Clarion: The
appropriation of half a million dol
lars to be distributed among such law
yers as Attorney General Knox may
see fit to favor, appears to be about all
the trust legislation congress will en
act this winter.
Owensburg (Ky.) Messenger: And
the beef trust incorporating in New
Jersey, capital $3,000,000. merely add-.
another horn to the Knoxian dilemma.
But, bless you! The administration
would just as soon be on one horn as
on the other, and in a pinch could
even straddle both.
Emmettsburg . (la.) Democrat: In
the next congress there will not be a
populist in either house. However,
populism has, not been in Yf in. . It
has been one of the most successful
political educators of pur age. The
good it has accomplished will live in
the decades to come.
Auburn (Neb.) Granger: As 'con
gress has agreed on an appropriation
to fight the trusts it seems probable,
that Mr. Hanna's declaration that
there are no trusts has been overruled.
The trusts, if they exist' will now
proceed to select the attorneys to do
the prosecuting and draw the money
as fees.
York (Neb.) Democrat: The Fowler
bill-is being worked' over so it can be
given a new name, but the same old
asset feature sfyd pretended. ,gold
standard; will bo : retained. The con7
spirators know that. there is not gold
enough on top of the globe to make
this government and ''banks safe for
anything. . '-
Kenton (O.) Press": If the United
States had confined operations to the
Western Hemispnere England and
Germany womd never have sent a flenf
to bombard or blockade the ports of
Venezuela. But we jumped the.Mon-
roe doctrine fence to get out and Eng
land and Germany feel licensed to
jump it to get in.
Sinclairville (N. Y.) Spectator: Mr.
Rockefeller is a generous man and a
pious class leader, but we respectfully
suggest that he take a Sunday off
to consider tho question whether he
could not do the poor a little good by
restoring oil to its old price and de
ferring a few contributions to tho Chi
cago university?
Canton (Mo.) Press: Just as soon
as it waT found practical to use Texas
oil for fuel tho Standard Oil people
gobbled up the oil fields, and prices
nave gono to soaring upward. This
pves Rockefeller more spare change
to add another million of dollars to
6AOTrVJavorlte church or university.
Ith foreIBnQr doesn't pay the tax
Waukesha (Wis.) Dispatch: Con
gress is not so unalterably opposed to
tlio trusts as the appropriation of that
half million to fight them might sug
gest. The appropriation will be ex
pended all right, but scarcely to tho
demolition of the trusts, who will un
doubtedly be found doing business at
the same old stand after the appro
priation has all been expended.
Wichita (Kas.) Commoner: This
robbery (Standard Oil) is a mere baga
telle in comparison with the robbery
of the great money trust in times past,
and, of wliat it will be in the future,
under the manipulation of the gold
bug contingent. And in the efforts of
the money trust to corner the finances
of the people, such newspapers as the
Kansas City Star have aided and
abetted.
Harrlsburg (111.) Register: Tho
Chronicle claims that the reason a sil
ver dollar will still buy as much grub
and clothing as a gold dollar, notwith
standing the fall in the price of silver
bullion, is "because "Uncle Sam is do
ing business on a gold basis." If that
fact makes a silver dollar as good as
a gold dollar, why are the republicans
trying to have a law passed to redeem
the silver dollars in gold?
Noblesville (Ind.) Democrat: Bro
ther. Republicans, your party bosses
have voted ?4,000,000 to the railroads
centering into Washington, D. C, for
a grand depot and $2,000,000 addi
tional for damages Teceived by the
Pennsylvania and B. & O. railroad
systems, making hi all $6,000,000 of a
donation to these two roads. How do
you like It? Well, something has to
be done with the money In order to
lreep up present high national taxes.
Arlington (Ga.) Courier: If tho
Monroo doctrine comes through the
Venezuelan affair unscratched, it is
safe 'to say that it will bo equal to any
further emergency. It has already
been very much beut if not broken.
Sparta (Wis.) Democrat: It is evi
dent that the president is ready to re
pudiate the-promises of the republican
national platform when it comes to a
possible increase of the democratic
majority in the senate by the admis
sion of the territories.
Milan (Tenn.) Exchange: In the
eighty years .since the Monroe doctrine
was first propounded, the navy of the
United States has never equalled that
of any of the great European powers
and yet the doctrine has never been
violated. The reason is plain. Tlio
United States feeds a large portion of
Europe. Were Germany or England,
for instance, to make war on the
United States, thoir armies would
starve. All this talk about making our
navy equal in strength to theirs is
jingoism. t
Oskaloosa (la.) Times-Journal:
There will not be one little bit of anti
trust legislation this winter. On tho
contrary every trust pirate can count
on having his "vested rights" pro
tected in every quarter of tho world.
For example, Roosevelt has just told
our ambassador to Great Britain to
inquire why the Standard Oi. company
may not obtain a foot .old in India.
ow would the dear people like to be
obliged to yank the flag into that
country so that Standard Oil trade
mignt roiiowY
Dover (N. 3.) Index: 'Tis well to
recall tho fact that when tho rennhH.
I cms defend tho Dingloy tariff law
when they assert that it shall not be
revised, to remind the obstreperous
g. o. p. that Congressman Dingloy,
the author of that tariff law, said while
he and his republican associates on
the committee of ways and means
were framing those schedules: "We
are purposely making them too high,
because we want them as a basis which
will enable us to offer foreign coun
tries material inducements to enter
into reciprocity treaties with us."
Hastings (Mich.) Journal: Schem
ers may talk about an asset currency,
and theorists may prate about dis
pensing with silver as a money metal,
but the unvarnished truth is, that
there is more United States silver
money in existence today than there
was ten years ago, " and ten years
hence there will be more than ther3
is today. Any increase in the volume
of business will demand a correspond
ing increase of money, the basis of all
business. In tho present monetary
panic for that is what tho condition
is the only solution will be found in
the quantitive theory of the circulat
ing medium.
Carmi (111.) Democrat: After much
profound consideration the republican
authorities ascertained that the Sher
man anti-trust law was ineffectual.
Thereupon a republican congressman
immediately introduced a bill to ap
propriate $500,000 to enforce thelaw,
and a republican congress passed ft
with a whoop. Appropriating the
people's money to enforce a law that
is of no force is a fair illustration of
how the republicans fight the trusts.
Tho public. gets the worst of it at both
ends. It is skinned by the trusts and
swindled out of its money by tho gov
ernment Rising Sun (Md.) Journal: In read
ing the editorials of the corporation
dailies on the money question, you see
a great deal about the 30-cent silver
dollar, great pains always being taken
to compare it tp the national bank
note, yet, as 'an exchange puts it, if a
man should concludo that the small
piece of paper issued by a national
bank was not sound money and. want
it redeemed, all ho could get for it is
ono of .these despised 30-cent silver
dollars. When you think about it,
doesn't this make the "sound money"
national bank note look a little like
the proverbial "thirty cents" also?
Newton (la.) Herald: Is a rule
made simply to be broken? Can we
consistently enforce a principle here
which wo deny a few miles away? In
other words, can we colonize wherqyer
wo please and deny that privilege to
the nations of Europe? Hardly. The
Monroe doctrine has been slapped la
tho face by tho Philippine situation.
A republican administration did the
slapping. It is a poor rule that will
not work both ways. What is sauce
for the goose certainly is sauco for the
gander. It comes in bad grace from a
republican to oven suggest tho Mon
roo doctrine as an obstacle in the
Venezuelan imbroglio, for it was his
party which removed the obstaclo.
Jefferson City (Mo.) Democrat: Tho
fact that some of the leading lights of
republicanism are trying to have Gen
eral Smith reinstated, is persuasive
evidence that Roosevelt meant what
he said when ho announced that the
Philippine war hH'd been conducted
with "marked humanity" by tho
American troops. 'It is after all but
a matter of terminology. Perhaps the
administration attaches to tho quoted
words a meaning different from that
which the majc-ity of us usually ac
cept. If this bo true, General Smith's
reinstatement should follow as a logi
cal sequence, and this new evidenco
ot Rooseveltian consistency should be
welcomed with delight A man may
issue an order to "kill all over ten,"
and still conduct the war with
"marked humanity" tho only ques
tion being what kind of a mark? Why,
the mark of Cain, df course.' '
Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat: The gold
standard press, with. '.'ghoulish glee,!'
announce that. Mexico is about to
abandon tho use of silver as money
and adopt the single -gold standard.
It may he that, should our sister re
public adopt this plan, the. additional
demand for the yellow metal will
cause such an increase in the purchas
ing power of gold as to endanger the
speculative" stocks whoso increase, in
price has made up much of our boast
ed prosperity. .Money has been great
ly in demand in Wall street during tha
past year, and more than once a
panic has seemed imminent Let
Mexico adopt the gold standard and
reach out after gold, and our specula
tive friends may have another ex
perience like that of 1893.
Monmouth "(111.) Democrat: An ex
change says gold is- swooping 'almost
everything, .befprq. it in. jjpth, hexnte.
ptferes. Silver is despised, and it'Js
possible that in some future 'genera
tion the price of the white metal may
finally sink to that of the red iidetal,
copper. This may be true, but the
"old dollar of our dads" is still very
acceptable in many localities, and tho
aforesaid exchange can no doubt find
uso for a few of .them any day in the
week. It is really singular how peoplo
will deny and denounce the only
metal that keeps gold from becoming
all powerful throughout the civilized
world. wLeri the few great financiers
of this and other nations get what they
want by cornering tho gold market,
the little small fry financiers who aro
today so a.bly assisting them in their
efforts to monopolize the earth, will,
like the rest of mankind, look like, a
thirty-cent shinpjister. .. ,' ',
Rockland (Me.). Opinion: It is
worthy of npte that tho lonly-nprthern
state carried by 'the democrats this
year, Rhode Island, is that one where
the convention nominating the ticket
took the most radical ground. Tho
Rhode Island democrats fully indorsed ,
and reaffirmed, the Kansas City 'jriat
form, gave the glad hand to Mr. Bry
an, and .made a declaration of prij
ciples that Jefferson would have, been
delighted With. The Boston Herald
honored the democrats of Little. Tthody
with a rebuke of what it termed "dem
ocratic stupidity" in allying the party
there "with Bryanism," which, in its
judgment made it certain that tho
state would be republican by. a larger
majority than usual. On this radi
cal platform they nominated Dr. Gar
vin, a radical of radicals for tho sin
gle tax, absolute free trade, free sil
ver, greenbacks, government owner
ship of public utilities, etc. And, on
this platform, Dr. Garvin was elected
by a majority of G,000, in a state
that is usually regarded as having
the strongest republican party of any.
Bryanism does not seem to bo abso
lutely fatal there.
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