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"whose good judgment he relies upon as be does
upon that of few public men."
If the president relies on "Uncle Joe" in this
particular it is "all up" with the tariff revisionists
in the republican party. There will be no special
session. But it must be plain to everyone that
"tariff reform" is in the air today. For instance
ten of the' eleven republican representatives from,
Wisconsin have declared themselves in favor of'
revision. Senator Spooner has declared that he is
now in favor of icvislon and on this point at least
LaFollette and Spooner are agreed. The Massa
chusetts petition to the president was signed by
Guild, the republican governor, and 222 out of 280
members of the Massachusetts legislature. Only
75 of these are democrats. Even the New York
Tribune editorially confesses "he Dingley tariff
undoubtedly needs revision, and revision, while
not practicable immediately, should not long -bo
delayed." And wonder of wonders, Secretary
ShaW in his Springfield, Massachusetts, speech,
said: "Though a strong protectionist myself, I
concede that there is much force in free trade
arguments. Undoubtedly the American people In
the swing of years would be prosperous were this
a free trade country."
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"MERELY A PAWN"
The New York Tribune has made a compila
tion showing the number of and result-in railroad
wrecks during the past six months. The Tribune's
list does not include the wreck which recently
occured on the New York Central. According to
the Tribune's list forty-nine wrecks occurred dur
ing the last six months in which 851 persons were
killed and 474 injured. According to the New
York World the Central's wreck increases the total
number of dead to 375 and the number of injured
to more than GOO. The Tribune's list follows:
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Date. Railroad.. Killed, jured.
Aug. 10 Pennsylvania 7 7
Aug. 25 Maine Central 1 3
Sept. 12 Canadian Pacific 12 10
Sept. 18 Rock Island 2 9
Sept. 18 St. Louis & San Franciso... 2 0
Oct. 4 Boston and Albany ;... 5 20
Oct 28 Pennsylvania 57 20
Nov. 12 Baltimore and Ohio 47 88
Nov. 29 Southern 7 11
Dec. 23 "Soo" Line . . . i 10. 31
Dec. 30 Baltimore and Ohio .V. . 59 GO
Jan. 1 Oregon Short Line -.... 1 2
Jan. 2 Rock Island 35 40
Jan. 3 Union Pacific 1 1
Jan. 5 Southern Pacific 2 0
Jan. 12 Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts.. 1 0
Jan. 12 Central New England 1 4
Jan. 13 Rock Island 5 , 8
Jan. 15 Rock Island 4 3
Jan. 15 Nickel Pfare 1 2
Jan. 16 Seaboard Air Line 0 1
Jan. 1G Reading 5 ' 0
Jan. 18 Lake Shore 0 13
Jan. 19 Rock Island 0 7
Jan. 19 "Big Four" 20 10
Jan. 19 "Big Four" 32 35
Jan. 19 Indiana Harbor 0 2
Jan. 19 Great Northern 0 G
Jan. 19 Atlantic Coast Line 0 2
Jan. 19 Atchison 3 0
Jan. 19 New Orleans & Northwestern 1 4
Jan. 20 Reading 3 0
Jan. 20 Baltimore and Ohio 0 3
Jan. 20 Nickel Plate 0 20
Jan. 21 Lake Shore 1 4
Jan. 21 Atlantic Coast Line 1 5
Jan. 22 Southern Pacific 0 4
Jan. 22 New York Central 7 15
Jan. 24 Baltimore and Ohio 3 1
Jan. 27 Erie 0 8
Jan. 28 Northern Pacific 1 4
Jan. 29 Boston and Maine :7 G 13
Feb. 2 Baltimore and Ohio 0 4
Feb. 2 Pennsylvania 0 15
Feb. 7 Chicago Great Western 3 4
Feb. 8 New York Central 2 7
Feb. 10 Boston and Maine 0 3
Feb. 12 Lehigh Valley 0 4
Feb. 13 Ontario and Western .- 3 ; 10
Total - ' 351 474
Referring to this appalling showing the New
York World says: "There can be neither defense
nor excuse for such a record of homicidal negli
gence and incompetency, yet the list of killed and
wounded is certain to grow by leaps and bounds
as long as the American 'captain of industry is
allowed to regard the American railroad as inerdly
a pawn in the game of high finance. No other
comment on the Wall street conception of a rail-'
road's functions is so damning as this blood
' stained record of the dead and maimed."
Yet what remedy will the World suggest?
While the railway rate bill was pending the World
objected to legist ion on -that ne and then when
The Commoner.
government ownership was suggested the World
called that an Impossible plan.
The American captain of industry does "re
gard the American railroad as merely a pawn in
the game of higli finance." What will the Ameri
can people do about it?
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WHY NOT IN OHIO ?
Washington dispatches say that Mr. Roosevelt
.has reconsidered his determination to appoint a
negro to one of the most lucrative offices within
the president's control in the state, of Ohio. Ac
cording to these reports Representative Nicholas
Longworlh, Mr. Roosevelt's son-in-law, urged the
president not to appoint the negro.
Recently a Columbus, Ohio, dispatch to the
New York Sun said: "It is said that every white
man in the Cincinnati ofiices will 'resign the mo
ment that Tyler (the negro) is appointed." The
-Washington correspondent for the New York
Times said:
"Meanwhile the republicans of Cincinnati,
who are in all kinds of trouble politically and
have been ever since a celebrated speecli by
Secretary Tart, are begging the president not
to send Tyler there. They are urging him to
send Tyler up to Cleveland, where the people
are all abolitionists. and won't mind. Cincin
nati is too close to the Kentucky border to
care much about William Lloyd Garrison."
But why should these republicans object to the
appointment of a negro to a high federal office?
We heard no such protests from that quarter when
any of the many appointments were made giving
to negroes important offices in the south.
What has become of that "door of hope?"
What about the "door of opportunity?" Why not
open It as wide to the Tylers of Ohio as to the
Cruras of South Carolina?
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SIMILARITY
Colonel Bryan's message to the Iowa legisla
ture was not materiallyuifferent from the one
delivered by Governor Cummins at the beginning
of the session.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There is, also, marked resemblance between
the reforms recommended in democratic national
platforms and those urged by the president
elected as a republican. There is, also, a distinct
"populistic flavor" about; some of the laws now
being placed upon the statute books by the re
publican legislatures of various states.
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AND THE CONSUMER!
In an editorial entitled "Railroad Rates" the
Wall Street Journal says: "There are three
parties to be considered in the making of railroad
rates: The investor who supplies the capital.
The employe who supplies the labor. The shipper
who supplies the traffic."
And last, but by no means least, there is the
consumer who pays the freight.
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DEFEAT?
Some republican papers point to the defeat of
John F. Dryden of New Jersey as "a blow to the
corporation in politics." It cannot be forgotten,
however, that Mr. Dryden selected the successful
candidate, a man who appears to be entirely sat
isfactory to "the corporation in politics."
OOOO
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THE DAWN OF PEACE
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Put off, put oft your mail, O kings,
And beat your brands to dust!
Your hands must learn a surer grasp,
Your hearts a better trust.
Oh, bend aback the lance's point,
And break the helmet bar;
A noise is in the morning wind ;
But not the note of war.
Upon the grassy mountain paths
The glittering hosts increase
They come! They come!- How fair their feet!
They come who publish peace.
And victory, fair victory,
Our enemies are ours!
For all the clouds are clasped in light,
And all the earth with flowers. i;
Aye, still depressed and dim. with dew;
But wait a little while,
And with the radiant deathless rose .
The wilderness shall smile.
And every tender, llvine tlilncr
Shall feed by streams of rest;
Nor lamb shall from the flock be lost,
Nor nursling from the nest
John Ruskln.
WHERE THE WAYS END
What is the sorrow? A little space
The cry of the fallen In the race
The dying cry which the world heeds not-
111 remembered, or soon forgot.
Joy or sorrow will end in rest
Dust, and a rose on a dreamless breast.
What is the sighing? It is not long;
One in the end are the sigh and song,
One the faith, and one the doubt
The cry of the vanquished the victor's shout
Victor and vanquished must creep for rest
When the dust is blown o'er the dreamless breast
And what in the transient gloom and glow
Is the beautiful love that we cling to so.
The rose red lip, and the sparkling eye?
A gracious greeting a sad good-by!
With pallid faces and lips grief prest
The lovers creep to the rose for rest.
So we smile at the dark on the pathway rough;
There shall be sunshine and rest enough
After the stormy ways are past,
Rest shall be sweeter at last at last!
Joy and sorrow will end in rest
Dust, and a rose on a dreamless breast.
Atlanta Constitution,
MY DAD
Huh! Mebbe I don't know all 'at is,
. An' mebbe I ain't so tall,
An' mebbe I ain't but eight years old
En goin' to be nex fall
But what's the dlffer'nce, I don't see,
Ef I'm jes' but a lad,
A-while I'm growin' I hev got
My dad.
E suthin' comes 'at I can't do.
Why that don't hatter mean
That It ain't going ter be did
Ef it had oughter been.
Ef I am scared, er ef I'm lrtirt,
Er ef I'm feelin' sad, ' '
I reck'n it's all right; fer thar's
gMy Dad.
Why ma's a womern, I'm er boy,
An' ef we was alone
We might feel sorter scared ter live
Though I ain't squeechin' none. :".
But now, why mo an' ma jes' sings . ' ,',..
An' smiles 'cause we're so glad
'At God knowed what we'd need, an sent
My Dad.
Truman Roberts Andrews, in the American
Magazine.
WHEN THE TOYS WAKE UP
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When father and mother are fast asleep,
And there Isn't a noise In the house,
Except the sound of the wind outside
Or the squeak of some little gray mouse,
There's a sudden stir in the Baby's room,
And it's lit witli a wonderful light,
And wouldn't the nurse be surprised if she 8an5
How the Toys all change in the night!
The little brown horse with the broken leg
Who is sleeping by Baby's side,
Grows well again, and prances 'round
For the baby to take a ride.
And the Bowwow, too, who's lost ears and tall,
He grows a most wonderful coat,
And you never saw such magnificent horns
NAs are grown by Billy the Goat.
And then in a t winkle Jhe Soldierman
Steps down from his round wooden stand,
And he and the doll with pretty blue eyes
Start off for the Fairies' Land.
There are other Babies to meet of course, r
- And other Geegees to ride on;
And though they go fast and jump over high walls,
The babies don't have to be tied on.
And when they are tired, they ride back to bed;
And the Soldier mounts guard once more;
And the Geegee nestles by Baby's side,
And the Bowwow stands by the door.
And no one knows when the morning comes
What keeps Baby so well and bright.
It's because of the wonderful things he did
When he played with the 'Coys by night.
W. H. G. Martyn in Pearson's.
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