yMFTi&wrwQ&Jffi 2 trr-yr? Br ' i lr and ft largo part, of tho campaign to waken our pcoplo as a wholo to a lively and effective con demnation of tho low standard of morality im plied in such conduct on tho part of great busi ness concerns. Tho first duty of every man is to provide a livelihood for himself and for thoso dopondont upon him; it is from every standpoint desirable that each of our citizens should ondeavor by hard work and honorablo methods to secure for him and his such a com potonco as will carry with it tho opportunity to enjoy in reasonable fashion tho comforts and re flnomonts, of lifo; and, furthermore, the man of groat business ability who obtains a fortune in upright fashion inovitably in so doing confers a benefit upon tho community as a Whole and Is entitled to reward, to respect, and to ad miration. But among tho many kinds of evil, social, industrial and political, which it is our duty as a nation stonily to combat, there is none at tho same timo moro base and more dangerous than the greed which treats tho plain and simple rules of honesty with cynical con tompt if they intorfero with making a profit; and as a nation wo can not bo hold guiltless if wo condono suph action. Tho man who preaches hatred of wealth honestly acquired, who incul cates envy and jealousy and slanderous ill will toward thoan of ha fnllnwn wTm hv tiirJff nnar.mT j and industry have become men of means, is a xnonaco to the community." Tli la is a splendid illustration of tho man t nor in which tho public is robbed by private monopoly. It Is time that the private monopoly I was exterminated, for its .extermination, Instead ' of destroying business, will revive business and J at tho same time" relievo tho public from one I of its greatest menaces. PLEADING WITH TUB SPEAKER Nowspapor dispatches say that President Roosevolt invited Speaker Cannon to tho White i House, May C, and bluntly told him that unless ho allowed tho houso to do something for tho public intorests he would bo responsible! for . republican dofeat. Tho president particularly wanted tho wood pulp bill passed. Referring to tho conference between tho president and tho speaker, Waltor GlhnanTn. a dispatch printed in tho -ChTcago Record Herald sayo: "Why pass a bill simply because tho -' nowspapor publishers want it? The coun try, will declare wo havo discriminated in ' favor of the newspapers and we will receive tho righteous swatting of the voters be cause wo havo done something for them and not for tho rest of the people." This, in substance, is understood to bo the Cannon argument, or excuse, for not yielding to widespread pressure anent free . listing pulp and paper. It is an excuse. however, that has been readily met by tho . now plan of action at the White House. f r Xou wanJ to d0 something for the ; rest of tho people as well, you havo tho "' 2j!Eoo That was ln wibBtonco tho an ; ewer given to Speaker Cannon todav ''Here's the postal savings Dank propodttoj" It has been urged by tho administration, ?a ,JSnni,?te,?8t 5 th0 wnol PeP10' and the people, having studied tho matter, want tho system established. They want ; that just as much as the publishers want wood pulp ' pi;intPaPr on the free list. You alone ?w!n thL Way of both Propositions. 'Act In both matters, or get off tho lid and lot the house act and then it can not bo. said that congress was discriminating in favor of any single interest." This, must bo interesting reading for re publicans who yet believe that the repubiicat party intends to represent the people. epuDUcan Here the president of tho United States Invites tho speaker to tho White Hour? nm? Pleads with him to give republican publ shers- ?nn C0UrK' Pub8ors generallyi-re o? from tariff imposition And when the speaker 2S that a wood pulp bill would bo a danLS object lesson for voters who yet iraaginf that tho foreigner payB the tax and that "So 15 of the people" will then demLd some reliof tho president says he might give "the S f the people" the postal savings bank "Unc?e Joo" hr right so far as the object lesson is coi cerned. A great many republicans who w" for years patiently submitted to tariff wnnV0 &,,;? ndt tart "Svsssss And why not tariff rovision? If it ia enn for tho newspaper publisher why not give it The Commoner. to tho consumers generally? And how does It happen that this great political organization, whose leaders insist that It is the party of tho people, tho "party of God and morality," can not bo persuaded to legislate in public Interests. It can hardly bo coaxed to give enough in the way of remedial legislation to which tho republican political managers may point as an excuse for tho re-election of their party to the control of tho national government? I&fc IV V v PULP, SOPHISTRY AND PliAIN PACT Our Washington correspondent states' oh high Canadian authority that the Dominion parliament te not expected by any well-informed person to impose an export duty on wood pulp. Such a measure, it is true, has been advocated by certain interests, but it is vigorously opposed by other Important and politically influential in terests,, and no action is at all probable for tho present and immediate future. This disposes of the last refuge of the so phists and artful dodgers who, having deter mined to do nothing that might in any manner or degree affect tho tariff, have been hard put to it to find plausible reasons for their unpopu lar and indefensible position on the wood pulp and print paper question. The whole affair would be farcical If it did not involve a grave and far-reaching assault on' representative government. It is not the inter ests of tho publishers alone that are at stake. Were that the case it would be injudicious for the press to agitate the matter regardless of other injustices in the antiquated tariff act The Stevens bill in relation to wood pulp and paper is earnestly favored by all who realize the need of forest preservation and prudent utilization of our natural resources generally. It embodies an explicit recommendation of the president based solely on that need, and it could and ought to be passed on its own merits strictly, and without reference to the demand for tariff revision. A majority of the republi can members of the house would gladly vote for it on those national and general grounds. The mJnQrltyris anxious to vote for it and would pledge itself to abstain from confusing amend ments "reopening the tariff question," ' ,w ?iut a Bma1 eroup of eminent standpatters defy the majority, flout the president, treat his messages with contempt, refuse to consider or hold hearings on the bill, resort to subterfuge after subterfugeall in order" to avoid straight forward action. That eminent "trust buster" Undo Joe, introduces a resolution for an Ind'e Fn5?nt i1!?1! ry by a commltteo that has nothing flrJLr "i1? w.00,d pulp estlon and whose findings would bind no one and hold out no ?S2? 2egiBlation; and that other eminent trust buster, Congressman Man, is made the inquisitor in chief to put the publishers on thl defensive and obscure the real, the paramount arguments for the wood pulp and pajier pTopo- r,n n?"!m TiU a11 theSG trlcks deceive? Do the individual representatives imagine that their constituents will be terrified by the names of Cannon, Payne and Dalzell and accent as S? ficient the pitiable plea that the house could do nothing against the veto of the triumviratl? The individual representative will have to facl win noUt8"gon" Wn dIStrI' and bwwSK (Tho above is not a Commoner editorial It s not taken from any democratic Sr It appeared as an editorial in that devoted I old republican newspaper, tho Chicago Record. Herald issue of April 28.) decora- "A STRONG TAFT MOVEMENT" Writing from New York to hi t,q t, Chicago Record-Herald, William E CuXJ "Thoro is, a strong Taft movement tSSI Street. You would ho surprised to Vnn That sounds familiar Cnm will remember that du"5 the 2'? tho Taft press bureau, located a? C im1 sent out, according to the Sn!L I umus 0- printed slips hewthSllfS? ' ness Hope Lies on Taft," "AmalnSn i " Candidate," "Big Wall Stf w TaftLls Best Financial' Interests to AVrist i?Sr8e ?ll? on Following are extracts from the TV1" "Mr, T.affs long record llTJZtL1' VOLUME 8, NUMBER i8 Jty, good judgment, and, above all snnfHr i tho great and successful accomplishments of' ht career We must not lose s ght of the far? that there is a temperamental difference in thn two men, Hoosevelt and Taft. By nature by training as a lawyer and as a judge Mr Taft has always manifested a thoughtfuf ' atti tudo in his judgment, and a great deliberation and conservatism in his actions. Neither iB ft conceivable that a man of his force of charactoJ would be controlled, when in tho full power or the presidency, by any outside personally" In its issue of MarcH 9, the Washington Herald prInted an interview with General Kief er. a 'member of congress, in which he saTd ff iih? TlB for Taft nnd dId not believe that retoKatlyis bd T.TX S odmthtnye ft auaL issued by a subordinate at Te IKmbS Office Later the Omaha Bee, a leading Taft or appeared that wi& respect to We Roosevet policies Governor Hughes, Senator KnoVsneai er Canoon, Vice President Fairbanks and the otters were quite as much for aZ f Secretary "NOW LETTEST THOU THY SERVANT" At a dinner given to Senator Knox bv tho Americus Republican club at Pittsbun? Mr S'whf nerro fTLSL t hahd aeVcasef0aghfLa V iSioS furrow " mer who never turned a thPrT?cf Mr- sworth said: "I want to say there is one thing in which I asree with him Mr Bryan has repeatedly and Si? Idvocatod that this government should own abd?malntaln legations and embassies in the various capitols sular:t0abHshmUd Wn and taTncon! suiai establishments in some of th& -nrinMfJhi Ports. In that proposition I am In ahsolute SS cord with Mr. Bryan: in fact, it is 'fS of mine which I am apt to ride upon all occasions ' qnoh1?6 apProval f Mr. Nicholas LoSgworth &&&& 1 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS S?. n01?. commlttee "as at lait reported tho McCall bill providing for publicity as to- nTPJllfnWC?ntrlbutions- The McCall bin is the bill which has been urged by the publicitv or! ganizatiop of which Mr. Perry Belmont 2 r S; This ? one of the measures whichPMr Williams, as leader of the minority, has urfed upon congress and it is to be hoped that h a w?n succeed in forcing action. Refusal of th a ri publican majority to allow thf Mil to come to a vote can be construed only as an l effort !n 1! McCallhoniTsU?ntUSr,f rne "he" McCall bill is intended to compel publicitv as to campaign contributions and pVblicitv te death to tho corrupt methods which have been employed during recent years. If we c Jn com pel the publication of cinWbutton? betora th election, contributions given fir a corraSt rar pose will be very much lessened, for Preda tory corporations cannot make public contribu "onfs t0 a c ampaign fund without huruSg tho' cr'ato b? SUSS emiPt t0 help' The demo! crais Dy favoring this law show that thev ara trying to purify politics; the republicans by on! theco'rruntLTinfl116 lntiTte Association wUh an SSSF SJUGnCea which ave t0 so-large 2L?oWaiLv?S t the private. .. Uv..iS uinuinauons. . ti LlttleneW ?? nnnufaCtUr offers Congressman Action of ti0,v0o ii1!e.wi11 ProVe-to the satls- thaVtftfniS;X? J1!? mn or wornen- American Vo7wnrm A8 Ji S.. thing fpn tlonAifi roonVf , xa congressman 'Llt ueneiu resigned in orrlor n rvA smethods. He has displayed bnOnB-abU- to make 'SSSFSSr pay here 'ls a ?" 5.'-- 2;i & C'ijJ -j. - 1 ' - c -