The Commoner.
MARCH 27, 1903.
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Sioux City Journal: A get-rich-quick
man under the name of '.'spec
ulation scientist" should get just as
heavy a sentence.
Indianapolis Sentinel: The sultan
of Morocco refers to Secretary of State
Hay as "the venerable vizier." But
even that is better than "Little
Breeches."
Joplin Globe: A Massachusetts
democrat is under arrest, charged with
perjury for swearing in his vote at
a republican primary. The charge
should be changed to lack of self
respect Milwaukee News: President Roose
velt ia planning to go on a hunting
trip as soon as the senate adjourns.
Having hunted' the octopus all winter,
it would seem that he would prefer a
rest The strenuous life, however,
takes no vacation.
Pittsburg DiBpatch: Governor Cum
mins and the Iowans are still shout
ing for reciprocity and the redemption
of pledges. Congressional estimates
of the work of the last session do not
appear to have been readily assimi
lated in Hawkeyedom.
Atlanta Constitution: As long as
they have "sweat-shops" in the north
where ten-year-old girls work for 10
cents a day, the north might do bet
ter to took after its child slavery
problem before trying to settle the
south's race problem.
Houston Post: "Mr. Dooley" is to
receive $40,000 a year from the Harp
ers and Majah Taylor, the colored
cyclist, is to receive the same amount
for his winter's work in Australia.
Moral: Make a specialty of educat
ing the strongest part of yourself
whether brain or brawn.
Houston Post: The war depart
ment has perfected a "riot cartridge,"
the bullets of which are Baid to -be
magnificent manglers, and has in
vited the governors of all of the states
to order a supply. Whether they are
designed to be used for or "agin" the
trusts remains to be seen.
Rock Island Argus: Rev. Dr. Hil
lis, of Brooklyn, declares that the
worship of wealth is supplanting the
worship of God. Ho says that a man
who steals a railroad is applauded. The
question naturally arises as to where
Dr. Hillis has been hibernating all
these years. His talk shows that un
til now he has been as unsophisticated
as a girl fresh from a convent
Pittsburg Post: The committee on
commerce in the senate has finally
concluded to leave, the Dr. Crum nom
ination alone. Thus Mr. Roosevelt
will have confronting him the- Andrew
Jackson problem of defying the sen
ate by reappointing a man twice fail
ing of confirmation. Some comprom
ise should be effected whereby the
president could be made the leader of
his party.
Still the "If."
The republican so-called anti-trust
law just passed by the congress, and
which gives to the new department of
commerce and labor the power to in
vestigate and gather information
about certain great corporations or
trusts, and to report such data to th
president, is a meaningless and harm
less one so far as the trusts are con
cerned. Here is the law in a nut
Bhell, and you can draw your own
conclusions, as it is a combination of
"ifs.
If the secretary of this new de
partment is so inclined ho may fish
for facta in regard to trusts
If the chief of the bureau of cor-
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porporations in this new department
is not owned by tho trusts, and it he
is capable, and if he has competent
and honest assistants and if they fish
in the right place, they may obtain
valuable data;
If, when valuable data is obtained,
tho president wishes, he may have
access to it;
If, then, the president has time to
read it, and sees fit to do so, he may
make public some or all of this data;
or,
If he thinks best, he may simply
make "recommendations to congress
for legislation" to regulate trusts;
If, then, congress is not controlled
by the allied trusts and railroads, Jt
may, in tho course of time, pass new
legislation to tho offending trusts;
If, then, the evidence is sufficient,
the courts may, in years to come, de
cide that the new legislation is con
stitutional, and that some particular
trust has been guilty of illegal prac
tices. If, then, the trust has not already
changed its -form or ceased to exist,
it may pay a nominal fine, and in the
course of eight or ten years as did
the Standard Oil trust slightly
change its name and location and
continue its business of plundering
the people.
When one reads this program of
"ifs," the only word he thinks of is
"Rats." Brainerd (Minn.) Arena.
Gorman sad Harmony.
Mr. Gorman is for "harmony."
Of
course. He always wants "harmony"
when some sort of job is in progress.
But it is remembered that he did not
particularly desire "harmony" at the
moment he was engaged with Mr.
Quay, Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Allison, Mr.
Piatt and other attorneys of the tar
iff barons in the emasculation of tho
Wilson bill. Mr. Gorman was then
looking out for the private interests
of Mr. Gorman.,, He was practically
as good a protectionist as the best of,
them when it came to writing sched
ules applying to coal and other Inter-,
ests with which he is connected and.)
out of which he has grown opulent
Yet he is for "harmony" now and wo
suppose that as the senate leader of
the minority he will play into the
hands of the privileged classes not
less effectively than he did in 1894-'
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