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The Commoner.
FEBRUARY 27, 1903.
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This is
Sublirao
Reassurance.
things."
Tho European princess who recently eloped
with her French tutor has made a statement in
ikxui iiei " ,utu a-ha ,ioYiiPa that she ever
wrote a letter containing coarse
remarks about her husband; and
this princess adds: "People in
our rank of life never do such
mi.1- nn..nnna win bo oxtremeiv
gratifying to tho plain and simple folk who bo-
i i i.innn, tmvA nnmn to beliOVO
cause ot hovuiui mwucuu, ? -
i that, after all, pernaps kings and queens ana
,ucbt ui.vv- ',: mPB fi,o rpt of US.
princes ana princusu mw o " '
made of clay and may do wrong under provoca
tion. It is proposed by some congressmen that the
position of special pension commissioner be cre
ated for each state. This com
The missioner is to take from the
Pension members of congress the duty of
Airent. looking after tho pensions. K
there are any members of con
gress who have grown weary of discharging their
duty with respect to pensions, there are many
industrious and energetic men at home Who would
he quite willing to take their places. Tho sug
gestion that a special pension commissioner be
created for each state will not appeal very strong
ly to the people who believe that'the duties that
would naturally fall upon that officer can be dis
charged by members of congress.
An interesting explanation of the alleged
Rockefeller telegrams to certain United States
senators is advanced by the New
Hero's York correspondent of tho
a Philadelphia Press. This corre-
Selution. spondent says that the anti
trust measures now before con
gress are favored hy J. Pierpont Morgan and that
some of the clauses in these alleged anti-trust bills
were practically suggested hy George W. Perkins,
Mr. Morgan's right-hand man. This correspondent
explains that Mr. Rockefeller differs with Mr.
Morgan as to the desirability of paying any at
tention to public clamor and that Rockefeller is
therefore opposed to measures which have tho
favor of Mr. Morgan and his associates.
Referring to the report that the trust mag
nates may conclude to oppose Mr. Roosevelt's
nomination in 1904, the Omaha
MM Beo, a republican paper, says:
They "-No intelligent, man will under-
Should." rate tne power and influence of
great comDinations that are
vast and far-reaching and if exerted in tho politi
cal field, will not be without effect" "If exerted
in tho political field" is particularly good. The
editor of this republican organ is not generally
regarded as a humorist and yet one might bo
persuaded to believo from this statement that tho
great combinations have not all along exerted
their power and influence in. the political field.
The Washington Post is responsible for tho
Btofy that while Secretary Moody was confined to
his home undergoing repairs
A made necessary because of tho
Striking accident at Annapolis, Mr.
Query. Roosevelt waliced over to Mr.
Moody's house. He rang tho
bell. The negro butler came to the. door. This
was tho conversation: "I should like to see Sec
retary Moody." "Mr. Moody am not at home,"
'But I understand he is at home, and I want to
eeo him." The butler hesitated and then said:
"Well, I'll see. Who Is you?" "The president,"
Mr. Roosevelt replied. "President ob what?"
asked the butler scornfully. Just then Secretary
Moody heard what was going on and established
tho entente cordiale.
Although Mr. Roosevelt could not bring him
self to recommend the removal of the shelter
which the trusts find in the
tariff, in his message to con
gress he did suggest the ap
pointment of a tariff commis
sion whose duty It would
recommendations concerning
In that message Mr. Roose-
in cases of "a monopoly
which works ill" tho tariff shelter might very
properly be removed. And yet no republican in
congress, so far as heard from, is exerting any
effort even to comply with Mr. Roosevelt's mes
sage relating to an appointment of a tariff com
mission. Tho president devoted considerable at
tention to this tariff commission in his messago
and it would seem from the energy ho employed
in that particular recommendation that, unless ho
has changed his mind as to tho merits of the
That
Tariff
Board
be to make
tariff revision,
velt said that
recommendation, it might be well for him to again
direct tho attention of congress to his sugges
tion. To bo sure, it is not at all likely that such
a suggestion would prevail. Democrats would
probably oppose it on tho ground that congress
is presumed to be a tariff commission. Tho re
publicans would refuse to give it support because
they do not even care to make the admission in
volved in the selection of such a tariff board, that
tariff revision is ever to bo considered.
Justice
and
Justice.
The republican papers that are having con
siderable to say about the killing of an editor in
South Carolina are strangely
silent in tho presence of tho
startling revelations mado by
Youtsoy with respect to tho as
sassination of Governor Goobel
in Kentucky. The man who killod tho South
Carolina editor is under arrest and is booked for
trial." Several of tho men who woro charged
with complicity in tho assassination of the Ken
tucky governor are fugitives from justice and one
of them enjoys his freedom under the protection
of the republican governor of Indiana who has
persistently refused to surrender tho accused to
tho Kentucky authorities in order that ho may
bo tried.
Mr. Roosevelt received quite a shock when
the senate declined to confirm tho appointment
of-Addicks' friend, Byrne, to bo
Byrne united States district attorney
and in Delaware; but that was in-
Crura. consequential compared with
tho shock which Mr. Roosevelt
received when tho senate committee reported, by
a vote of 8 to 6, against the confirmation of Crum,
the negro whom Mr. Roosevelt appointed to bo
collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. Recent
ly Senator Hoar deemed it necessary to make pub
lic a protest against Mr. Roosevelt's alleged in
terference with the senate In the matter of leg
islation and altogether there seems to be a 'dispo
sition on tho part of republican senators to give
Mr. Roosevelt a genuine touch of the strenuous
life.
Wljliam E. Gurtls, the 'Washington correspon
dent of the Chicago Record-Herald, is. authority
N for the statement that although
IN0 it was extensively advertised last
Shackle summer that Mr. Littlefield of
There. Maine represented tho president
-i in tho preparation of an anti
trust bill, that Mr. Littlefield is very much ag
grieved because the president has refused to use
his influence to pass the Littlefield bill and ha3
in fact turned the cold shoulder to that measure.
It has been generally understood that Mr. Roose
velt was in favor of tho Littlefield bill and a
great many people other than the gentleman from
Maine wJU be surprised to know that the Little
field measure does not havo the presidential in
dorsement '
Republican papers generally congratulated tho
party that Mr. Addicks of Delaware had with
r. . drawn from the senatorial race.
Check it seems, however, that Mr. Ad-
Book dicks' withdrawal was condi-
Route. tional. The condition, although
not bluntly stated, was that Mr.
Addicks should bo permitted to name tho two
senators from that state. So republican leaders
must struggle along with the Addicks problem a
while longer. The objection which these leaders
make to Addicks is that ho has obtained his
prestige as a senatorial candidate by tho uso of
money. That is indeed a strange objection com
ing from the representatives of a party that
habitually elects men to tho United States senate
whose power and prestige has been won along tho
check-book route.
Recruits
Worth
Keeping.
The editor has received a letter from a Ver
mont supporter of the Kansas City platform offer
ing to do what he can to in
crease The Commoner's influence
in that state. He was one of
tho early supporters of tho re
puWican party and that he has
enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors is evi
denced by the offices which he has held. But in
.1896 he could not indorse the republican position
on the money question and in 1900 his opposition
to the republican party was still further con
firmed hy that party's position on imperialism. Ho
represents the patriotic and intelligent element in
tho republican party that has been alienated by
the .party's subserviency to organized wealth and
he has been attracted to tho democratic party
becauso of tho principles set forth in tho Chicago
and Kansas City platforms. Asldo from tho prin
ciples involved tho democratic party cannot af
ford to alienate men who aro brought to it by
conscience and judgment in order to conciliate
those former democrats who havo supported the
republican party in the recent campaigns and who
mako their return to tho democratic party condi
tional upon tho party's abandonment of demo
cratic principles.
o-o
A Now York clergyman recently delivered a
sermon from tho text: "My father which gave
mo is greater than all; and
An nono is able to pluck them out
Inspiring of my father's hand." This
Theme. clergyman was prompted to
. chooso this toxt becauso of a
little incident that happened one wintry morning
recently when tho streets wore covorod with ico
and he was walking with his little son. "You had
better take my hand so you will not fall," said
tho fathor. "I would rather you would tako my
hand, fathor, then I cannot fall," replied tho son.
Tho. clergyman referred to this statement as "pro
found philosophy and glorious theology." It was,
indeed, an interesting incldont and might well
servo as inspiration for a powerful sermon.
Tho Philadelphia Public Ledger, founded by
Gcorgo W. Childs, the paper that has regularly
supported tho republican ticket,
A arraigns tho republican party
Bitter in theso words: "If tho ro-
Protcst. publican majority of congress
were at all sincere In Its pro
tended efforts to curb or destroy tho trust evil
it would go directly to tho point by repealing tho
trust-breeding, trust-fostering and trust-sustaining
Dlngloy duties, which alone support tho pre
datory trusts in their nefarious activity. But tho
republican majority is not sincere; it is juggling
with tho matter; it has no purpose to Interfere,
with the trusts. Its only object, judging from
its 'conservative' action, is to try to induce tho
country, to believe it, intends to do something
which it does not mean to do. Thcro is no trust
bill before congress which is not a transparent
fraud and sham,',' .Np democratic paper has gono
.farther., than this -.in tho arralgnraont of tho re
publican party on tho, trust question.
According to tho terms of the bill introduced
by Senator Aldrich to permit tho secretary of tho
treasury to loan money to na
tional banks on any other se
curity than government bonds
and providing that tho govern
ment shall havo a lien on all
assets of banks in which public moneys aro de
posited and that this lien shall bo in force after
the security deposited by tho secretary of ih'o
"treasury shall bo sold, in the event that those se
curities do not realize a sufficient sum. If tho
Fowler bill, providing for asset currency, passes
and if tho Aldrich bill should pass, then tho as
sets of a bank will havo a very large burden to
bear. When it is remembered that the bank as
sets aro largely composed of tho deposits, one la
tempted to wonder where the bank depositor will
find his protection when tho republican leaders
shall have accomplished their purpose of per
mitting the banks to put up their assets In pawn
for government money and as security for the
money which tho banks are to bo authorized to
issue.
The
Poor
Depositor.
The New York World is authority for the
statement that tho republican leaders of tho sen
ate recently notified tho presl-Antl-
d0nt that "they will pass tho
Trust Blkins rebate bill, which weak-
Bills. ens Tather than strengthens the
existing laws against discrimin
ation between shippers in freight charges. They
will pass the Knox bill, expediting the trials of
suits against trusts In tho federal courts. They
will also pass the bureau of commerce bill, in
cluding as it does provisions for a certain meas
ure of publicity for the transactions of all cor
porations engaged in foreign or interstate com
merce, though not for so large a measure of it as
the president has advocated and as is provided
for by the Littlefield bill. But the Littlefield bill,
passed by the house on Saturday by unanimous
vote, tho directors of tho senate will not at
tempt to put through, and they so told the presi
dent" And now we are told by no less an au
thority than William B. Curtis, the Washington
correspondent of tho Chicago Record-Herald, that
the president has turned the cold shoulder to tha
Littlefield bilL
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