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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 6
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t Weal Point (Nob.) Democrat: Pro
I motors of the Hliip subsidy bill arc now
falling it the subvention. Why not go
a little further and cull It plain "graft
York (Neb.) Democrat: If the presi
dent wants to stop all debate as to his
opposition to the rebate he will allow
fMr. Morton to gently abate. He docs
Boom to have subsided.
O'Neill (Neb.) Independent: Gover
nor LaFolletto of Wisconsin was
elected United States senator on the
ilrst ballot. Sometimes i good man
1 can get upwards in politics.
Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel: President
Roosevelt may disrupt his party in
trying to force a revision of the tariff
and regulate railroad freight rates,
but the democratic party stands ready
to tako up the work where he lays it
down.
I-Iorton (Kan.) Commercial: It is
quite amusing to notice the antics of
republican politicians in demanding
that the state and government go after
tho trusts and bring them to time. Two
years ago they would have called this
populist doctrine and anarchy.
West Union (0.) Defender: Of course
tho republican party will not reform
tho robber tariff. That would be kill
ing the goose that lays tho golden egg.
It is from tho trusts fostered by tho
protective tariff that the republican
party receives its campaign contribu
tions. Lawlor (la.) Disnatch: True the
package of sugar you get from your
grocer is growing smaller and smaller.
You barely got sixteen pounds now.
Wcro tho tariff and sugar trust re
moved you would get twenty-five
pounds. It is clearly a case of a peo
ple trying to tax themselves rich.
Stanton (Neb.) Register: Some re
publican editors seem to think it
strange that W. J. Bryan should com
mend President Roosevelt's attitude
on the railroad rate question. Why
shouldn't he? Roosevelt is advocating
good democratic doctrine, when ho in
sists on stringent rate laws, the same
that Mr. Bryan has advocated for a
decade.
Kearney (Neb.) New Em sinmimvi.
Tho supreme court of the United States
has just decided the famous beef trust
case that was ,egun in Chicago some
years ago. The court finds against the
packers and that they were in a con
spiracy to fix prices. Now we will see
them keep right en fixing prices and
carrying on their unlawful combina
tion just the same a3 though the court
had not decided against them. S'uch
combinations defy tho law and tho
courts.
Fort Collins (Colo.) Democrat: You
prod a republican on tho trust and cor
poration question and you touch an
open sore. Were it not for his stub
horn disposition he would join hands
with every democrat and independent
in the land tomorrow, and run a knife
through tho midway of every blood
sucking combination in existence. No
good citizen of any party wishes to
embarrass capital or discourage invest
ments, but combinations are in exis
tence assuming gigantic proportions
whose exactions from labor are ox
cessivo and unreasonable.
AFTER SICKNirse
tho lionrt Is almost suro to bo left in a weakened
condition, nniUuould bo treated with Dr Miles'
..Mow Hcnrt Cure, amedy th,U will rebuild ami
invigorate the heart nerves, and enable It to of
fer assistance-to tho convalescent organs hi
furnishing an abundant supply of pure blood to
nourish them; Money back if Ilrst bottlofufls o
Hastings (Neb.) Democrat: Tho
United States supreme court has passed
on tho beef trust case, and has de
cided against the packers. This de
cision can have no possible bad effect
upon the great packing concerns, be
cause, in spite of law, they have an or
ganization by which they can, each
morning, determine the price of beef
for the day. Independent packing con
cerns have been driven out of busi
ness at the beef centers and when a
train load of cattle or hog3 arrive it is
at the mercy of the packing trust.
This decision may be better late than
never, but for all immediate service
it is useless.
Bloomfield (Ind.) Democrat: The
government of the United States pays
$500 per year for educating each Fili
pino boy sent to American schools to
be educated. We do not know whether
this will meet the approval of the la
boring men of this nation, who are
struggling to educate their own sons
and daughters and at the same time
helping to pay the expenses of educat
ing those boys, whom we purchased in
tho $20,000,000 deal. You, poor but
honest and hard working American
boys, who are striving to educate your
selves in our colleges don't you wish
you were a Filipino for the purpose of
being educated.
Elsberry (Mo.) Democrat: One para
graph in Governor Folk's address de
mands special attention. He said:
"Labor has as much right to organize
as capital, and the laboring man is
usually lust as patriotic, has nurnnsp.s
just as noble as his employer." This
o yum ucmuuiuu), it ftiuius intuiiiy
that one man has as much right to the
protection of the law as another. It
is contrary to all principles of govern
ment to give a man special privileges
because of his wealth or influence. No
man should be given privileges that
are denied to another. If more gov
ernors believed like Folk there would
be less trouble between capital and la
bor. Tlie capitalist would not go so
far in opposition to labor if they were
not assured that the governor would
protect them with the state troops.
Papilllon (Neb.) Times: President
Roosevelt really seems to be in earnest
in his endeavors to regulate the rail
road rates, and is making strenuous
efforts to get congress to pass such a
measure. But if he is honest in this
regard he has been sadly deceived in
the selection of one of the members
of his cabinet. We refer to Secretary
Morton, of the navy. For a number
of years this man has bean vIpp nrp-a?
dent of the Santa Fe road .and has had
cnarge of the -traffic management of it.
It has recently developed that there
ha3 been the most shameful and flag
rant abuses on this line in the matter
of secret rebates, and when Morton's,
attention wa3 called to the fact that
he said that the road did right in
granting tho rebates he would have
done tho same himself. This is the
man whom the president has selected
because of his knowledge of railroad
affairs to aid him in his war upon se
cret rebates and unjust rates The
people will not expect much of such a
man as this. The president may be
honest but ho is exercising pretty poor
judgment in the selection of his lieu
tenants. Hudson (Wis.) True Republican: It
is rather consoling to democrats to
know that all the reforms which are
;flWn,Ins ng!tatod and Promlaodto
IT H?an ,?mcials Uave ben advo
cated by tho democratic party for
twenty years. RavIbi Z:?I
land prosecution of the trusts wore two
very prominent planks in tho demo
cratic platform for two or three differ
ent presidential campaigns; while their
efforts to regulate freight rates were
successful in securing the passage of
tho Reagan bill, framed by Reagan of
Texas, a democrat, which provided for
tho appointment of the interstate com
merce commission. Tho bill as first
prepared gave the commission exten
sive powers but its wings were clipped
in its passage. It is the restoring of
this law to the force of the original
bill that Roosevelt and his party are
staking so many promises on. The
great good they are about to do to
mankind comprises the very work
they, themselves, defeated when the
democrats have tried it in the past.
Democratic papers are either very
modest about recalling these facts or
they forget history with astonishing
facility.
Th Benefit of Fairy Tales
It is very reasonable to argue that
no creation of human fancy could last
as fairy tales have lasted through no
one knows how many hundreds and
thousands of years unless it was very
good. For that which is not good and
not sound must surely die, and only
that which is good and sound shall last
through the grinding of the ages.
So I believe that parents should fin
thek- children's imaginations full of
fairy tales if they would make those
imaginations strong and healthy. Aa
for that man or woman who ha3 not
the3o bright and joyous things flying
like golden bees -through the dim re
cesses of his memory, I- can only say
that I think his or her parents must
have been neglectful of the earlier
training' of their child, and that I am
sorry for that poor soul who has lost
so much pleasure out of its life.
Howard Pyle in Book News.
A Blind Student
Edward Ray, of North Carolina, to
tally blind and very poor Js making he
roic efforts to secure a master's de
gree from Harvard university. Afler
completing a four-year course in tho
University of North Carolina, outstrip
ping all his classmates, he spent a year
as tutor. It is with the money earned
in this way that he is endeavoring to
win his way at Harvard. His chief dif
ficulty is the use of the text books
prescribed for his courses. He has not
enough money to have them tran
scribed into the raised alphabet, so he
has to hire a student to read to him.
Kansas City Journal.
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OTHER FLAGS
A NEW BOOK....
.... BY ....
""'....WILLIAM J. BRYAN
A collection of articles written by Mr. Bryan while in
sumvyv, uuDa ana Mexico, together with a number of
j eceut speecnes ana lectures never before published in
book form.
CONTENTS.,,,,
Oi the High Seas.
Tariff Debate in England.
Ireland and Her Leaders.
Growth of Municipal Ownership
Thanksgiving Address (London
England).
France and Her People.
Republic of Switzerland.
Three Little Kingdoms.
Germany and Socialism.
Russia and Her Czar.
Rome, the Catholic Capital.
Tolstoy, the Apostle of Love.
Notes on Europe.
Pearl of the Antilles.
Birth of the Cuban Republic.
Mexico First Visit.
Our Sister Republic Mexico.
Value of an Ideal. -
A Conquering Nation.
Attractions of Farming.
Holland Society Address.
Imperialism.
"I Have Kept the Faith."
(S't. Louis Convention Speech.)
Naboth's Vineyard.
British Rule in India.
Philo Sherman Bennett
Wonders of the West.
Mf' fSiffl Impressions of men and conditions abroad lend te the book
a special interest for those who contemplate a trip t foreign shores.
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