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NOVEMBER .27, 1D03.
So far this year customs receipts have fallen
off $8,000,000. . Expenditures as compared with
last 'year have Increased more
Sorely than $11,000,000. The treasury
It Is all surplus of $13,000,000 on Novem-
Bu5ineg. ber 1, 1902, Is represented hy
about half a million on Novem
ber 1, 1903. Who will doubt that this is a business
administration?
A North Missouri editor asked: "Who is the
happier, the man who possesses $100,000 or the
- man who has seven daugh
A Great ters?" Another Missouri editor
Problem promptly solved the problem in
Solved. v- this way: "The man with the
surplus girls, of . course. The
man with the money is not satisfied and wants
more, the man with the seven daughters is satis
fied -he has enough."
Referring to the proposition that the, differ
ential on refined sugar be removed, the New York
Commercial says: "To cheapen
Count Out refined sugar for American con
the sumers was no part or purpose
Consumer. of this reciprocity proposition."
The Commercial might have
added that to lighten the burdens of the con
sumers in any respect is no part or purpose of
any of the present-day republican propositions.
Angered because of ,the revelations in the
shipbuilding trust case, J. Pierpont Morgan is. re
nv .ported to have said: "From now
Why not 6n.it must be the survival of the
a Morgan fittest. I will do nothing more
Confession? . to protect anybody in connec
tion with this matter." It is
to be hoped that Mr. Morgan will carry out his
purpose ;as announced.- -Ho might begin by mak
ing a confession of his own part in the1 disgrace
ful transact'Idris".' "
In the November Review of Reviews, the edi-.
tor of that publication suggested that the United
'.","" States encourage the secession
From a of Panama from Colombia. The
Reputable Philadelphia Public Ledger, a
Source. republican paper, commenting
upon the suggestion, said: "It
would be hard -to find in, bur history a more per
fidious proposition made from a reputable source."
The Ledger is bound to -admit, however, that the
republican administration seems "to have acted
upon the "perfidious proposition."
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It is reported that the only penalty that will
be required, of Perry S. Heath for his part m the
ppstofflce scandals will be his
resignation as secretary of the
republican national committee.
Mr. Hqatli will be permitted to
retire, not however necessarily
as a punishment, but because it is thought to be
bad politics to permit "him to remain. It would
seem, however, that inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt
has had so much to say 'nbaut hone3ty and fidelity
to duty, he would bo able to devise some plan
whereby Mr. Heath could be called to account
for his official misconduct
The Washington correspondent for the Chi
cago Tribune says that "it is admitted by every
one now that the -canal eitua
Does It tion, instead of being cleared by
riean the revolution in the istlimus,
Delay? has been .greatly complicated
K thereby, and some party leaders
are afraid of the political effect of the delay in
view of the approaching next national election."
Perhaps this explains Mr. Hanna's prompt "and
cordial indorsement of Mr, Roosevelt's Panama
Polte, Perhaps it also explains why other gen-
Perry Heath's
Good
Luck.
"Garfield
was for
Sherman."
Payne
Called it
"Hot Air."
The Commoner.
tlemen who have never be-, known to do any
thing distasteful to the trans-continental railway
Influences are lined up in support of Mr. Roose
velt's Panama scheme It was at first bolioved
by many that whatever might bo said with re
spect to the morality of our part in tho ranama
revolution, that that revolution meant speody
construction of tho canal, but It is not difficult to
believe that thoso under tho control of tho trans
continental railway influences do not think that
canal construction will bo expedited by the
Roosevelt 'policy.
The Washington correspondent for tho Chi
cago Chronicle reports this interesting incidont:
"A group of congressmen wore
talking presidential politics in
a committee room when one
of the members said: 'Hero is
Hanna ready to enter upon a
new six-year term March 4, .1905, but ho will
never begin that term. You remember Garfield,
another Ohio man, had been elected to a similar
term, but instead of being sworn in as senator ho
took the oath as president. Mark me, history
will repeat itself.' 'But Hanna is for Roosevelt
was suggested. 'Yes, and Garfield was for Sher
man,' said the first speaker significantly."
The New York Commercial is very much op
posed to congressional inquiry into the postofflce
scandal. The Commercial sayB:
"Let the department itself run
to cover the rascals vno have
been mismanaging tno country's
postal business. It will bo time
enough for congress to take a hand when it has
been disclosed that tho postmaster genc.al is not
doing, his full duty in the most effective way
possible." Will tho Commercial undertake seri
ously to say that tho postmaster generaVs atti
tude from tho beginning of these scandals was
such as to justify the Impression that he is will
ing to do his full duty in tho most oifCvtlve way
pbss'ible? . ,
The Philadelphia Record has concluded: "Tho
full effect of the trust system on the welfare of
"'' s the' workingmen cannot bo
learned from a comparison of
tho cost of certain food articles
in different years, 'lue number
of men employed, the regularity
of their employment, tho amoun paid in wages,
the relative cost of the higher cuafityoj! food used
formerly, and of the inferior articles to which
circumstances reduced them, must all be consid
ered. It is beyond all doubt, however, that In
spite of the increase of wages in certain industries
here and there the condition of the workingman
is not as comfortable now as It was formerly."
The, national bureau of labor has prepared
statistics showing that the percc ago of Increase
in the cost of living in 1902 as
They Know compared witu 1S9G was not
by Costly more than 16.1 per cent. Tho
Experience. Sioux Cit. (la.) Journal, a re
publican paper, says that "while
living expenses have increased, tho earning power
of workingmen also has been augmented Prob
ably statistics on this point would show that the
two movements have nearly if nbt quite balanced
each other." The Journal will have difficulty in
convincing tho average man that the "two move
ments" have anywhere near balanced each other.
The cost of living has materially increased while
the income of the people has not increased. Men
who feel their grocery and meat- bills bearing
heavily upon them, do not need statistics to con
vince them that our present-day boasted pros
perity is by no means general,. They do not need
. The
Laborer's
Condition.
statistics to provo to them what thoy have al
ready learned by actual and costly "experience.
The People
Pay tho
Freight.
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The
Law's
Delays.
Cablegrams to the Now York World announce
that tho Pennsylvania Steel company has con- "
traded to dolivor 20,000 tons of
stcoi rails In Beirut for the
Mecca railroad at $22.88 per ton,
Tho World reminds its readers
that tho stool rail pool that mol
in this country recently, refusod to lower tho list
prlco of $28 per ton to homo consimcrs, and ex-T
plains: "In effect tho Pennsylvania Steel com
pany delivers Bomo G.000 miles from New York six
big shiploads of stool, pays tho heavy freight
charges, and accepts for them $100,000 loss than
American rauroads would havo to pay for tin
samo goods. And in tho end tho people pay tho
difference."
Tho Louisville Courier-Journal provides somo
food for thought when it asks: "In view of tho
actual fact slnco tho admlnla
Why. Not tratlon made short shirt of Co
Take tho lombla, which to say truth dc
Canal too. served little consideration on its
own account why an It so
liberal with tho French company?" Tho Courier
Journal adds: "It could havo wiped out tho
French company in Panama as easily ns it has
wiped out Colombia and got its much-vaunted
franchises for nothing. Was It afraid of Franco?
Or wero its rolations with Bunau-Varilla, and tho
stock gamblers who financed tho revolution, too
close to mako it safe to play tho double-cross on
tho French company?"
Writing in tho Independent on the law's de
lay, Justice David J. Brewer says: "I was as
sured by ono in a position to
know that In a single state ono
of tho great railroad corpora
tions by appealing every Judg
ment against it to the supremo
court of tho state that court having a crowded
docket -made enough in compromising tho Judg
ments against it In tho trial courts to pay the en
tire cost of its legal department." Justice Brewer
has devoted considerable thought to this subject,
and while few will, wo think, bo inclined to agree
with him concerning tho denial of tho right of ap
peal in criminal cases, it cannot be doubted ihat '
marked improvement must bo made with respect
to tho delays In all cases.
Walter Wollraan, the Washington correspon
dent Xor tho Chicago Record-Herald, referring- to
. Colombia's mistake in filing its
protest with tho president of
tho senate instead of with tho
state department, says: "These
binders of etiquette are Insig
nificant compared with the crowning piece of folly
committed by the distraught Colombians in of
fering an insult to the United States government
in the charge that tho United States had fomented
the separatist movement on the isthmus. Tho
Marroquin document was Informally dlscusse'd at
the cabinet meeting today ani the conclusion was
that the best thing the United States could do
would be to ignore It as a piece of unwarrantable
impertinence. Besides, it makes little difference
what Colombia may say or do. Manifest destiny
has worked Itself out and there Is no way of
turning back the wheels of progress." It Is diffi
cult to understand why Mr. Wellman refers to
this as an insult to the United States. We had It
on the authority of Mr. Wellman himself during
the early days of August last, that the "United
States would take a hand in the separatist move
ment on the isthmus and Mr. Wellman then told
us, long before the revolution was brought about;
that it was manifest destiny and could not be
averted. x
But was "'
it an
Intuit?
".