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The Commoner.
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Letters from the People
J. Sharp Maxwell, Cleveland, 0.
'A fight for true ideas and humane
principles is never lost. Mr. Bryan,
you are traveling in the right direc
tion. No democrat expects you to
trim sails to catch the favorable
breeze, which will pilot the demo
cratic Bhip towards a base, commer
cial and a bigoted haven.
A. F. Parker, Grangeville, Idaho,
i In reference to the charges that
the Catholic vote was largely respon
sible for the defeat of Bryan in the
late campaign, I will state that we
have seven Catholic churches in this
(Idaho) county, and there was cer
tainly no disaffection here, and if it
had been general I would certainly
have known of it. In one of our
Catholic and normally democratic
precincts some of the influential men
held stock in a small local bank and
the guaranty of bank deposits scared
them into voting the republican na
tional, state and legislative tickets.
There was no other defection in this
county. In 1904 the Catholic vote
here was cast for Roosevelt as
against Parker with practical unan
imity. The expose of Taft's affilia
tions with the church was given pub
licity through socialist sources, and
there are reasons for suspecting that
it was inspired, if not paid for, by
the republican national committee in
the hope that it would prove a boom
erang. It was a very neat and effec
tive way of getting Taft's good work
for the Catholic church in the Phil
ippines before the Catholics of the
country. No better way could havo
been devised. Undoubtedly it car
ried for Taft such close states as
Missouri, Maryland and Delaware,
just as the Mormon vote carried sev
eral of these Rocky Mountain states
on an alliance of republicanism and
polygamy. The defeat of Bryan can
be charged up asainst the hordes of
igAorant pauper labor votes which
have been imported (free of duty)
Into this country at the rate of a mil
lion a year in defiance of the alien
labor contract law. Let no demo
crat be discouraged. The paTty of
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crisis where it has to pander to every
vile and illegal element in order to
retain power. The alliance of repub
licanism, Mormonism and trustJsm is
so complete that the sober sense of
Christianity is bound to revolt
against such domination. Time will
tell the tale.
J. A. Morris, Bridgeport, Ohio.
The enclosed clipping is from the
Bellaire items of the Wheeling Reg
ister of March 28. I thought it
would be a very good prosperity item
for The Commoner. It will also give
you a good idea as to the way coal
mines are working in Belmont
county: "A story comes from Glen
coe bf a distressing case of destitu
tion that demands prompt investiga
tion by the proper authorities. It is
said Jules Chazel, a' Frenchman, was
arrested several days ago and taken
before a justice of the peace for
neglecting to send his nine-year-old
daughter to school. At the hearing
the man claimed he was anxious to
have his daughter attend school, but
was unable to buy even a pair of
shoes, which she needed badly to
keep her feet from touching the
ground. He said that slack work in
the mines where he was employed
was the cause of his destitute condi
tion, and although he had worked at
intervals he had not drawn any mon
ey for five or six months on account
of the check system In vogue at the
mine at which he Is employed. He
said he was unable to earn enough
,, money to keep himself, wife and two"
children in the bare necessities of;
life. Notwithstanding this distress
ing plight, it is said the justice im
posed a fine and in default of pay
ment committed the man to jail,
thereby taking away from the wife
and two children their only support,
miserable and meagro aa it is said
to be. It is also stated that the man
was told he would be given his lib
erty for $2.50, but ho rejected this
offer by saying that if he had that
sum he would buy shoes for his
daughter so she could go to school."
A. C. Doster, Niles, Mich. I de
sire to outline a plan regarding sep
aration of the race, which is as fol
lows: If suitable territory can bo
procured let our government estab
lish a line of free transportation
from the United States to their ter
ritory where they can or shall form
an independent government of their
own. L.et our government provide a
law that all child bearing people of
the negro race, who marry shall go
to their government. Hence you can
readily see the increase here would
be cut off and only a matter of time
when a complete separation would
be made, the only compulsory act
in the plan, and without danger of
any industrial upheaval on account
of the gradual separation; of course
any or all of their race would be at
liberty to go at any time who might
be so inclined but none are, com
pelled to go other than child bear
ing people who marry as Btated
above. Some of the features to be
overcome: To procure territory;
forming their government; constitu
tional laws; expense to our govern
ment; reluctance to go to their gov
ernment; lax marriage laws as ex
ists among negroes; family ties;
mixed blood; property rights; visit
ing to and fro of friends and rela
tives. No doubt there would be some
inharmonious things arise and should
bo expected, but as it seems to me
nothing could arise that could not
be overcome if properly managed.
The ball pnce rolling there would bo
no need of its stopping till the work
is done. This plan should be
brought about mutually with no
feeling of hostilities and made to ap
pear, to have originated from their
race. If the people of the United
States are the government they Bure
ly can have what they want and in
my judgment a large majority would
favor a plan of this kind.
N. J. B. Btheridge, Princess Anne,
Va. Now for the future good of the
party, let me say that the democratic
party lacks organization; the repub
lican party is organized all the time,
while the democratic party is not;
I may also say that the common peo
ple must be reached, the old time
politician, with his jokes, is a thing
of the past, the people must be made
to see that your election will benefit
them, and not merely put some lead
ing man in office. The democrats
must do missionary work; let each
convert a1 republican, and then the
republicans will ask, as you do now,
how it happened. The whole field
should be organized, from district
and voting precinct, tr state wide or
ganization, never until then can the
democratic party hope to win.
NOT SYMPATHETIC
"Yes," remarked the fat man on
the rear platform, "I once refused
to buy the site of Chicago for four
clam shells and a quart of rum."
The tall passenger was silent.
"I could have bought the original
telephone patents for eleven Mexican
dollars and a brass watch," contin
ued the fat man, "but I turned 'em
down."
No response.
"You are not interested in my
reminlscenses, friend?"
"I am not," answered the tall man,
candidly. "I'm selling airship stock.
You don't want any." Washington
Herald.
REAL AND FAKE
CREAM
Separator
Improvements
A year ago, in keeping with its policy of ALWAYS
HOLDING A POSITION FAR IN ADVANCE OF ALL
ATTEMPTED COMPETITION, the DE LAVAL Company
put on the market an entire new line of Improved Farm and
Dairy sizes of cream separators.
They were brand new in every part, from the supply can
at the very top to the shape of the base at the very bottom,
and reflected the result of three years of study, experiment
and test by the DE LAVAL engineers and experts through
out the world, based on thirty years of experience in cream
separator invention, development and use.
Every good feature of previous DE LAVAL machines
was bettered and many new and novel ones added, accom
plishing greater simplicity of construction, ease of cleaning
and replacement of parts ; less cost of repairs where neces
sary; easier hand operation; more complete separation un
der hard conditions ; greater capacity, and a material reduc
tion of prices in proportion to capacity.
A year of practical experience in the actual sale and use
of 100,000 of the new machines in 1908 but served to sug
gest still greater refinement of manufacture and a few fin
ishing touches of perfection in the details of construction of
the new line of machines as they are now offered to 1909
buyers.
The 1908-1909 changes in the DE LAVAL machines on
the whole have been SO COMPLETE AND REMARKABLE
that the man who hasn't seen and used an Improved DE
LAVAL really cannot know what the perfect, up-to-date
cream separator is TODAY.
The new DE LAVAL machines literally "SWEPT THE
FIELD" in 1908 and competition was driven to such desper
ate extremity that THIS YEAR most of them have come
out with all kinds of CLAIMED advertising and catalogue
"improvements." Nearly everybody has an "IMPROVED"
1909 machine and is making a PLAY for business on that
But we make the POSITIVE STATEMENT that there is
not A SINGLE NEW OR ACTUAL IMPROVEMENT in
any of them, and while some features have been bettered it
has been merely through the appropriation of DE LAVAL
ideas from TWO TO TWENTY YEARS OLD and in most
cases long since discarded in DE LAVAL construction.
That's a PLAIN STATEMENT, made in plain words that
no one can fail to understand. It has the knowledge, ex
perience, reptuation and capital of the DE LAVAL Company
behind it. Some people won't heed it; some people won't
believe it. That will be their loss. Those who do will profit
and benefit by it.
We stand ready to PROVE IT to any one desirous of buy
ing a separator for the first time or of trading in an old and
out-of-date machine for a new one.
The De Laval Separator Co.
42 E. Macisoh Street
CHICAGO
1213 & 1216 Filbert St.
PHILADELPHIA
DnuMM & Sacramento Sts.
SAN FRANCISCO
General Offices:
165 Broadway,
NEW YORK.
173-177 Viliiam Street
MONTREAL
14&16 PniHCE6s Street
WINNIPEG
107 First Street
PORTLAND, OREG.
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