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The Commoner.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 7
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Fair contest if equally applicable to
the plan of the National Contest Com-
' Thousand of dollars changed hands
lag a result of wagers concerning the
fvoie which would be cast for the can-
dldates of the two great political par
ties. Those best qualified t- predict the
result and to estimate the number of
I votes either candidate would receive in
'maar instances did not approximate
'the result In a giren state within 100,
000. It is probably safe to assert that
(there were few estimates submitted
that were the result of careful fore
: thought and basl upon knowledge of
conditions that approximated the to
tal vote of the winning candidate with
in 100,W. It is clear, therefore, that it
was largely a matter of chance whether
one estimate would more nearly ap
proximate the retult Chan another.
Neither of these contests is a "legiti
mate business enterprise." In each,
thousands invest small sums in the
hope and expectation that luck will
enable them to win large returns. A
comparatively small percentage of the
participants will realize tl-eir expecta
tions, and thousands will get nothing.
They are in effect lotteries under the
guis'e of "guessing contests."
In view of the construction given the
law by the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States in the Coyne case and the de
cision of the court of last resort of
New York In the I.avin case, I am con
strained to disregard the rulings of
this Department previously referred to,
and to advise that you are authorized
to deny the use of the malis in further
' ance of the two schemes mentioned in
1 your letter.
Respectfully,
W. H. MOODY,
Attorney General.
Hllty On Happiness
The MacMlllan company, of New
York, has recently published Carl
Ililty's essays on the meaning of life,
grouped together under the title, Hap
piness, and translated by Francis
Greenwood Peahody, professor of
Christian Morals in Harvard Univer
sity. The Commoner commends this
book to its readers with the assurance
that they will find in it a most whole
some moral tonic. The author Is a
native of Switzerland and is at present
a member of the Sw!ss'House of Repre
sentatives and professor of Constitu
tional Law at the University of Bern.
His writings cover a wide field in ethics
and politics. He finds the secret of
. happiness in work, performed with
regularity and guided by an unselfish
purpose. His analysis of life, motive
and method is searching and his con
clusions accord with the personal ex-
' perlence of those who have studied
themselves with a view to self Improve
ment. In seven chapters entitled, "The
- Art of Work," "How to Fight the Bat
tles of Life," "Good Habits," "The
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The "Absorption" of Democracy
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House of Representatives, Washing- attention to the dereliction of the re-
rl n it u 1 im- Tn the Editor publican party with regard to exactly
a. D. C, Feb. 1, 190o.-To the Editor 1 gIslatIon. You will find this on
pages 20 and 21 of the "Proceedings
f 11.. nnn.nn.nlin Onlll'ntl I inn" of Cf
ton
of The Globe: I have just received
your late note, accompanying a copy
of your paper, containing an editorial
enitlod, "Shall Democracy Be Ab
sorbed?" Your note says that you will
be pleased to have ray personal views
upon the subject matter of the editorial.
Of course Democracy ought not to be
absorbed, but that is no reason why
democracy ought not to absorb other
things if they are good, no matter
whence they come. 1 send you a clip
ping from the New York Sun of Jan.
31, which I would be pleased to have
you print right now and in this connec
tion. I notice that you say that Mr.
Bryan has advised that the democratic
party "fall in line behind President
Roosevelt and keep step with the repub
lican party." If Mr. Bryan ever gave
any such advice as that I have never
seen it in print, nor heard it from his
lins. althoueh I have recently been in
communication with him while he was
in Washington, and although we have
had "a heart to heart talk" about dem
ocratic policy and the future of the
democratic party. Y'ou add: "That
advice has now been echoed from an
even more significant quarter. Repre
sentative John Sharp Williams, the
brilliant and acknowledged leader of
the house, has said the same thing on
the floor of congress." I am rather in
timately acquainted with the John
Sharp Williams referred to, and if he
has ever said anything of that sort I
nave never heard him sav it. What hp.
did say is in the Congressional Record
and can be quoted by you word for
word.
.The editorial continues in these
words: "Voicing the sentiment of his
party as regularly expressed in caucus,
he announced to the republicans that
the solid democratic vote would be
given to the '.success of President
Roosevelt's policies and dared the
republicans to emulate him and his fol
lowers in their republicanism." This
statement is still more astonishing to
me, because, being a democrat of the
democrats, as you are yourself, I can
not understand how anybody could
mistake what I really said, which was
not that we should follow Roosevelt's
iiujii;ico, uut mat we wouiu loilow a
specific recommenda.tion in Mr. Roose
velt's messager "not because it was in
his message," but because "he," in
that particular part of his message,
"had adopted Democratic doctrine,"'
and could substitute for that the mean
ing which you put on my remarks
iNeimer Mr. Williams nor the democ
nf Hip T)pmnnr.it.ifi Convention" at St.
Louis, if you have those proceedings
in your possession. I would be glad
to have you quote his remarks in this
same issue if you have the space and
the desire to do so.
Mr. Williams never dared the repub
licans "to emulate him and his follow
ers in their republicanism." He did
dare them to emulate him and his fol
lowers in the maintenance and enforce
ment of a democratic policy which the
president had indorsed, and he said,
in so many words on the floor of the
house, that he welcomed the president
"to the membership of his following"
on that subject, and was glad that the
president had "sufficient American
ism" and a small enough measure of
republican partisanship about him to
indorse that meritorious policy.
You say that "the next thing you ex
pect" will be for the democracy, to in
dorse the president "with regard to the
tariff, or some item of it, or with re
gard to a bill aimed at the trusts or
something else." I respond unhesitat
ingly that if the president wants to
revise the tariff downward he will be
once again occupying a democratic
position, sharing a democratic endeav
or, and that he will be, as he ought to
be, aided by the democrats, if he does
that. I respond with equal lack of
hesitancy that if the president shall
show any unrepublican desire material.
ly to attack the trusts and to lessen
their hold upon American industry, he
will again receive, as he oucht tn'm
ceive, democratic support. We are not
going to be driven from anything dem
ocratic because the president is unre
publican enough to adopt it.
Your editorial says: "The cold fact
is that a party must have a distinct
and definite policy of its own." etc.
That is just exactly what the demo
cratic party has, arid if it be true, why
should it desert a distinct and defi
nite policy of its own because one man
out of eighty millions, who happens to
be seated in the white house by repub
lican votes, chooses to recognize tho
justice and wisdom of that distinct and
definite policy? How can we "hold ten
aciously" to a democratic policy if we
desert it whenever a republican, in or
out of the white house, joins us in its
assertion? You ought not to be de
moralized by defeat, but that they
would be demoralized by surrender."
Why then would you have us surren
der a democratic policy because tho
president happens to endorse it?
Y'ou need not fear any surrender of
democratic policies as long- as I have
anything to do with the guidance of
democratic opinion on the floor of the
house of representatives. I will support
the president whenever he advocates
democratic policies. I will oppose him
Hagerman Pass is one of the crown
ing glories of the Rocky mountains.
The Colorado Midland Railway has is
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UNDER OTHER FLAGS
Mr. Bryan's New Book
Travels, Speeches, Lectures.
Children of this World are Wiser than " Is oolng to Tir? n 1 "
the Children of Linht " "The Art nf incis soing to desert a democrat c
Having Time.'' "Hannlness" L MTh SS??i?.r der ?ratic intention on a
uuuiuuiuuu mioTi, uecause Mr. Roose
, Having Time." "Hannlness" and "Thn
- Meaning of Life," he discourses on tho
everyday problems of the thoughtful
and serious minded. The book de
serves to rank with Wagner's "Simple
Life" and ought to have as wide a
reading. The whole tone of the essays
is stimulating and helpful.
The president Issued a proclamation
convening the senate In special session
at 12 o'clock noon March 4 next, to
"receive such communications as may
be made by the executive."
IF IT'S PAIN
And you are almost ready to give up in despair
try Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, It matters not
where located, or under what conditions, they
will drive it a way-pain is bound to yield to
their soothing influence upon the nerves. Suf
lercrs from Headache. Neiirolla. Dizziness in
digestion. Periodic or other aches and pains
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velt chooses to help them occupy it or
share it. During this entire congress
the democratic floor leader and the
democratic members of the interstate
and foreign commerce committee have
been striving to have that committee
report to congress, in order to mold in
to law, the very principles "which Mr
Roosevelt, belated until after the elec
tion, indorsed and approved in his nies
sage. That sterling democrat, William R
Morrison long ago recommended it the
industrial commission recommended
he interstate commerce commission
VrS hJeSsh's for Jst tlmt power
Mr. Williams, tho minority eader
22: coKirri ?
S1 Jie2wan,K.Earope?n tour a year ag0 h0 lms bocn besieged by requests for copios of lct
ters describing his travels abroad. These letters together with a number of his lectures and
other public addresses, have been gathered together and published In book form. Tho Euro
pean letters contain Mr. Bryan's account of what he saw and learned whllo In Europe, and
present Interesting views of Ireland. England. Scotland. Franco, Switzerland, Germany, Russia,
Holland. Belgium, and the Netherlands, together with a description of his visits with Count
.Tolstoy and Pope Leo. His Thanksgiving address, delivered before tho American Society In
London 1903, is also Included. In this volume appear Mr. Bryan's accounts of his visits to
Cuba and Me.rlcn. nnrt tin nmitoc r..n..ii, .. .. .. ... .
, , j .... '""nwureiMiuiiugiy 01 mo -uirtnor tno uuban liopubiic." no ai-
s so included his lectures nn "A n"nn.,ni,. v. 1 .. . ...... . T ...
t-i.iK , j ,. ,..H..,lUK unuu, nuu "xuo vaiuo or an lacai, uowi ot
which he has delivered a number of times before Chautauquas and other gatherings.
Other nrtloloi; In thn i,,.,, !...., ...?.
,.,. "--". '"'uuiv-urouibjiuuresson "imperialism." dollvorcd on. tho notification
p2 "p1" lna,t.,?lninl900:"Theattract,o of Farming," written for tho Saturday Evening
vIm CaCC,u addrCSS dellvered at the Holland Society dinner In 1901; his 8t. Louis con
ation speech seconding the nomination 0 CockrolL "Nnboth's Vineyard," "British
fonVVrtn? 'headdress at the grave of Phllo Sherman Bennett, and an account of his re
nrttS P Grand nyon entitled "Wonders of tho West." Tho book is illustrated, well
printed on good paper and substantially bound.
tumfrl on Eurpe," written after his re
turn from abroad, and giving m brief form a resume of the many Interesting things ho saw.
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