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The Commoner.
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was placed under arrest. He denies
that ho is In any way responsible
for the hank's loss.
Madrid cablegrams say that gov
ernment reports indicate that the re
volt in Spain has been checked.
The entire Cuban cabinet has resigned.
For ten minutes on July 30 snow
flakes fell in the city of Omaha.
An earthquake occurred July 30,
covering an area of more, than 1,000
square miles in central Mexico. The
towns of Acapulco and Chilpandingo
were partially destroyed.
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AnVAssociated Press dispatch un
der date of Washington, July 31,
says: "Orville Wright traveled
47.431 miles an hour in his flight
today in returning from the Alexan
dria end of the course to Fort
Myer. This is the official report
made by the trial board at the war
department today. His speed to
Alexandria from the Fort Myer end
of the court was 37.735 miles an
hour, making his average 42.583.
The Wright brothers will receive
$30,000 for their aeroplane, $5,000
of which is the bonus for excess in
speed over the contract requirement."
Ten persons were killed and sixty
were injured in a head-on collision
of two electric cars on the Spokane
& Inland railway late Saturday
afternoon. The wreck occurred at
Caldwell, Wash., a station between
Couer d'Alene, Idaho, and Spokane.
No. 20, the westbound train, had
left Couer d'Alene at 4:30 p. m.,
and just reached Caldwell when It
met No. 5, eastbound. Both trains
were going at the "rate of about fif
teen miles an hour. They crashed
together without warning to the
crew or passengers.
An "Associated Press dispatch from
New York says: "Dr. Luk Wing,
Chinese vice consul at New York,
a graduate of Lehigh and Yale uni
versities, and who married an Amer
ican -girl,1 sixteen years old, was
mortally wounded in his office on
the fifth floor of No. 18 Broadway
by a Chinaman who gives contra
dictory reports of himself" in pigeon
English. Dr.k Wing-died tonight in
St. Gregory's hospital, shortly r.fter
8 o'clock. He was shot in the back
with a revolver, and the bullet, en
tering below the shoulder blades,
lodged in the lower lobe of the left
lung. No attempt to probe for it
was made. Mrs. Wing, who is ill
herself, was driven to the hospital
in time to bo at the bedside. Her
husband recognized her and smiled,
but at no time was he strong enough
to make an ante-mortem statement."
Letters from the People
Lewellyn B. Pratt, Presldont Bryan
Club, Coshocton, Ohio. I hasten to
add my word of congratulation to
the many you are doubtless receivinc
upon the unanimous espousal by the
United States senate of the income
tax idea, one of the platform planks
which you and all of us who have
followed you since 1896 have been
called anarchists for suggesting.
Kind regards and best wishes.
G. W. Gorman, Clinton, Mo.
Please allow me to congratulate
your correspondent. Mr.' J. M. Fend
er, Muncie Ind., for having left the
so-called republican party, the party
of trusts and monopolies. Our pro
tected industries having organized
into trusts in order to obtain (among
other things) the full benefit of the
prices fixed by the tariff. Accord
ing to the tariff law in my possession'
it appears that the Standard Oil
trust, the steel trust, the sugar trust,
the coal trust, the lumber trust and
the meat trust, are all protected; in
fact there are several hundred of
them on every conceivable product of
universal use. The census of the
United States shows illiteracy, crime
and insanity to bo increasing three
times as fast as the population, and
having so increased ever since 1860,
ever since we have had protection.
It would therefore appear that pro
tection was filling our land with
poverty, crime and insanity in order
to feed and fatten billionaire trusts.
Indeed, Mr. Editor, why can not the
democrats unite on pushing the wall
of protection down, "down to hell,
and say wo sent it thither?"
F. N. Marquis, Johnson City, Tenn.
In response to the question sub
mitted by Mr. George B. Padget in
your issue of February 5, "How can
it be accomplished?" I beg to sub
mit for the consideration of all who
write in, or read these columns, the
Initiative and referendum ao illus
trated by its application to the
liquor traffic, and as applied in Ore
gon and other states. There is lit
tle, if any, doubt that if ay one
of a h"!f dozen of the planks of the
democratic platform was submitted
to the people of the country at a
referendum election but that It
would be carried by a large major
ity. The trouble with national plat
forms and elections is that there are
so many issues pressing for solution
that voters are almost compelled to
ignore all but ono or two which ap
peals to them. It may bn sutrcroHt-
ed that tho initiative and referendum
is too slow or that it will not work,
but that is just what was said
against local option, but it has, does
and will work if only it is applied.
C. F. Itoark, Greenfield, Iowa. I
have been reading with much inter
est the articles that havo appeared
in your paper concerning tho last
election. From tho drift of it all
thero seems to bo a strong under
current of hope that tho democratic
party is a power not easily elimin
ated from the field of activity. For
the last decado the democratic party
haB been a check to hasty and unre
garded legislation, it has boen and
is today, that secret monitor of tho
nation, and yet an open book of
moral principle to all tho world. Its
principles aro co-extensive with tho
foundation of our government. It
is the party of faith and quiet force.
It is the publicity bureau to the
masses of those things which gloat
in darkness or touch our national
pride in tho weakest point. Com
mercialism has been tho enchanting
song of the sirens calling us into the
shoals of inequality. It has been
the diverging point between tho arti
ficial and individual effort In the
sense of arbitrary limitation. Too
often tho case, organized govern
ment becomes a benefactor to ono
class while a greater burden is
placed upon the other. Ono becomes
a mighty power while tho other
must go on "making bricks without
straw." Wo can not disfranchise
one nor enthrone the other, but it
has been the opportunity of tho dem
ocratic party to bring these unhar
monized classes in all different con
ditions to the public mind. In doing
so it has made a place in American
politics that it can never vacate.
Tho young minds of tho nation have
caught a view from tho leaders of
democracy who, like a towering
mountain catch tho first light of a
new day and reflect its rays back
below. There are men in the dem
ocratic party whose horizon is large
and far-seeing. They are leaving a
moral impress that time will not
efface. These men bring us nearer
to "love thy neighbor as thyself."
Humanity would lose its protecting
caro and tho public wolfaro must
not suffer for tho democratic party
has its duty. Tho rectitude of its
principles can not bo questioned nor
can tho public suffer Its loss. Tho
hopo and aspirations of tho young
men of today will triumph in its
principles. Tho fires of patriotism
still burn as brightly as when
kindled on tho altar of freedom.
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