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OCTOBER 29, 1009
,i ?oa1' whoro mass meetings wore held at
midnight. Enrouto the thousands of curious'
spectators thronged the sidewalks. It was an
orderly crowd and the churchmen and women
were unmolested as they walked, praying and
singing. Before the parado thousands of per
sons filled the Seventh regiment armory and
many thousands, denied admission to the audi
torium, listened to exhorters in the streets. The
procession, led by a detachment of police start
ed on its journey about 10 o'clock tonight The
route was well guarded by police, and when the
destination of the crusaders was reached, hun
dreds of officers of the law wore present to see
that orders of the authorities against any dem
onstration were enforced. As the marchers,
singing I am praying for you 'Onward Chris
tian Sojdiors,' 'Rescue the Perishing,' and a
score of other -Bongs-, filed through the forbidden
streets, throngs of curious people watched silent
ly. lor more than an hour the parado contin
ued? and then in two large auditoriums, one at
a theater and the othor at a church, the crowds
listened to an earnest appeal from Gypsy Smith
and other preachers. Many clergymen in Chi
cago had protested against the invasion, urging
that it Would do no good. The men and women
behind tho movement declared, however, that
daring as was their mission, it was a mission
which will arouse Chicago to tho necessity of
cleaning up its underworld. Until long past
mwnight the public meetings were conducted,
and many men and women yielded to the en
treaties of the exhorters to -come forward and
promise to lead better lives."
THE MLXICAN government is anxious tp get
hold of L. Gutlierrez de Lara, a socialist
speaker, who is held by the United States au
thorities at Los Angeles. De Lara says that if
the Uhited States government allows him to be
2i'??ed;,t0u?8I,C0 tho Mexlca government
.J r1, hI? 1If0 A Los Angeles dispatch car
ried hy tho Associated Press says; Fearing this
fate, do Lara has retained counsel to fight to
the limit any effort to fore him back into the
hands of President Diax. 'De Lara was arrested
ere .H? . d.a.3f fre3ident Taft visited Los
BSS ??iT bu?ed at that time of hav
ing uttered threats against Presidents Taft and
Diaz. De Lara declares he U a 'marked man' In
Mexico and that if the Mexican authorities ever
got their hands on him in their own territory
he would live very few hours. He has been
driven across the Mexican border into the United
States five times. De Lara was appointed by the
Chicago socialists as an organizer for the party
and the national party Is expected to make a
strong effort to keep him out of Diaz's hands.
Friends of de Lara today launched a campaign
to raise $5,000 to be used as bail for the pris
oner. While no specific bail lias been set, they
bellevo that this amount will suffice. A mass
meeting will be h.eld this week to protest against
the deportation of the prisoner. De Lara's wife
declared today that if her husband was returned
to Mexico he would be assassinated by his ene
mies. ,The carpenters' union here last night
adopted a resolution protesting against 'the
Russian methods used by the enemies of de
Lara,' and offering the services of tho union,
which has 158 members, in opposition to 'meth
ods that would shame the czar, and are a dis
grace to any civilized community.' The resolu
tion also declares that the exposure of alleged
frightful conditions among the' Mexican working
claBses 'has aroused in thetr despotic ruler an
unrelenting hatred against de Lara causing our
government to be used as a tool with which to
convey him to a Mexican dungeon or be served
as was Professor Ferrer at" Barcelona."
CHARLES N. FOWLER, congressman from
the Fifth New Jersey district, the gentle
man who wrote recently a stirring letter to
Speaker CannOn, has written a letter to Senator
Aldrich relating to the proposed central bank.
Mr. Fowler's letter to Senator Aldrich follows:
Just before you started for Europe in August,
it was stated in the press uf tho country that as
a result of & meeting of the monetary commis
sion of which you are chairman, a central bank
was to be advocated by your commission, and
that upon your return from Europe you would
proceed with a view of instructing the people
upon the financial and currency needs, and
recommend as1 a 'cure-all' a central bank. After
your departure there was an1 evidently inspired
and well organized propaganda in favor of a
central bank, conceived and carried on for the
purpose of preparing the way for your home
coming, and your arrangements to 'swing around
l he Commoner.
nfti oUio mysteries of your central bank
n i,i n,mch am convinced that the
one thing above all others that this country
m.!0twnnt 1S conlral bank bpcauro It will
not affect nor accomplish the necessary rororms,
hut, in the end, will inako a bad condition im
measurably worse, therefore In order that the
American people (which I know will decide this
most Important question now pending beforo
tiioni for consideration and determination right
as they did that of the gold standard, if only
they can pc given an opportunity of having both
sides of it fully presontod and thoroughly dis
cussed) may be informed as early as possible
I now challenge you to a joint debate upon tho
following propositions: First, A contral bank
will not effect nor accomplish tho necessary re
forms of our finances and currency; is unsuitcd
to our conditions; will accentuate many of our
present evils, and precipitato and develop other
evils of a most serious nature. Second, Our
financial and currency problems must be solved
upon economic linos of an entirely different
character. I assort that you can not successfully
and beneficially suporlmposo a monarchical form
of banking upon nearly 25,000 Individual Inde
pendent, free banking Institutions which have
grown up and developed in harmony with the
principles of our republican form of govommont,
and are themselves republican in form and char
acter, To establish a central bank in this coun
try under existing conditions, would bo undemo
cratic, unrepublican,, un-American and inimical
to the general welfare of tho people, because
with a'.central bank will come a most discourag
ing and disheartening favoritism, tho gradual
breaking down and ultimate destruction of our
purely individual and independent form of bank
ing. I will meet you in joint debato upon tho
above propositions, at ono or more of our lead-,
ing cities up to 100 or more of thorn if you
choose, at such times and upon such conditions
or terms as may be agrood upon by us hereafter,"
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Practical Tariff Talks'
If any student of the tariff desires an Illumin
ating illustration of how boldly these schedules
arc often mnde in tho Intprests of the trusts, let
him "pursue the hiBtory of tho tobacco schedule.
The tobacco growers of tho south have long been
engaged in a deadly conflict with tho trust be
cause it assumes to say at all times what they
shall receive for their product. At tho request
of southern congressmen the house adopted a
paragraph expressly stated to bo drawn in the
interest of the growers of bright tobacco. It
provided an increase in the tariff of 40 cents a
pound on Turkish tobacco, and the amendment
was intended as a retaliatory measure in part.
It was also a tax upon an imported luxury, but
the real reason was that it compelled the trust,
which imports this Turkish tobacco, to either
pay more for it or buy at home. Thus, it would
have been putting a weapon in the hands of
the men who were fighting tho American Tobacco
company.
Its revenue feature, its incidental protection
" and its" being a tariff on a. luxury didn't appeal
to Aldrich, when he got hold of that paragraph.
In the house and before the hearing in the
ways and means committee arguments were
made" on behalf of the taTiff, and nowhere was
there any opposition. When the senate financo
committee took up and struck out this para
graph a. paragraph that had passed the house
unanimously they ' called in no witnesses to
testify, asfced none of the tobacco men's repre
sentatives about the schedule, did not call upon
the southern congressmen who had championed
it in the house, and did not even give Senator
Daniel, a member of tho committee and repre
senting the tobacco growing state most interest
ed, information when it was considered or an
opportunity to protest. Under these circum
stances, it might well be asked, what force waB
it so powerful as to secretly defeat these plant
ers of the south? Who really did it?
This was not all, however. Tho senate
'stopped the tariff debate long enough to in
crease the revenue tax on manufactured tobacco
from 6 to 8 .cents a pound, and put a large
Increase on cigars and cigarettes; As the trust
'manufactures tobacco, at first glance this
looks like a thrust at that combination.
Investigation discloses that it is nothing of tho
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fiort, Tho trust Jinn opposition; thorcWo'fn
, dependont manufacturers who control nbouMb
Ln0!10 tra,,!o- Thoy have boon ITaflli .
tSZ i fi,t loillnnlnn tholr position compet
ing u llh n combination controlling tliroo-fourftuj.
I i. ,,iU8lnowi nd therefore, in a position to
absolutely malco prices. Thte means that ihS '
truat can and It will paH3 tho tax on to t"ht
confining public or olso doproBH tho prlco It -pays
the grower and make him pay it. In '
pro ably will U biK and K,Vn lho 0,inil0 U '
It Is ostimatod that this Incronso In the rev-'
Sy'eJ WM Elvo the government about S10,
000 000 moro a year. If the trust actually paid
It, doing 80 per cent of tho manufacturing It
would havo to pay $8,000,000 moro a year. U
is significant that, while tho small Independent
concerns were vociferous In opposing It, assort
ing It was burdensome and (hat the government
was thereby arming the trust with a weapon
that would bo used to tholr disadvantage tho
American lobacco company at no time protested
against tho increase. Which is good proof that
it knew the advantage the Increase gave to It
i ins amendment was mado in tho sonato, wher
tho increase in tho Turkish tobneco tariff wan
, ci led. In both cases tho legislation was In th-9
interest of tho trust, and it is most significant,
mat In ono cuso itu power was oxorted tp. kill',
and In tho othor to create, making impossible
any coincidence or action and making plain how
far its influence, when opposed by either tho
Interest of the grower, tho government or tho
consumer, can reach with conclusive ofToct.
C. Q. D.
AhVHKU OMiNDOUF
Again Death has called. This time ho Mn
summoned one of tho most loyal of democrats
Ono of tho. most upright of citizens, ono of tho
most kindly of men, Alfred Orondorf of Spring
field, Illinois. During tho months covorod by
falling hoalth he had abundant evidenco of tho
affectionate regard In which ho was hold and
what sweeter compensation Is there for a well
spent life? True to every duty, faithful ln
every position and useful nlways he illustrated
tho best in all things. His multitude of frienda
mourn, but minglod with tholr mourning there
is grateful appreciation ot tho good tho de
ceased has done, and memory assungos grief.
FOK THIS, MANY THANKS
1 nolo with great Interest and satisfaction
that radium has been placed upon tho freo list.
The poor man can now sit down to his morning,
paper with a Carolina pcrfoclo between his liris". '
securo intho happy thought that his dail sup
ply or radium has not been lessoned by a cruel
government. Morton A. Mergenthelm In Chi
cago Democratic Bulletin. ' '
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NOTHING IN JAW.
Nothing in Jlfe? Ah say not so.
On a thousand hills there are dreams aglow, v
In a thousand valleys tho gold mist lies , . 4rt
'Neath the ambient gleam of tho autumn skioa; '
In a 'million cities tho thunder boats , -
Of life Jn tho thronged and throbbing streets;,
There are homes to build and hearts topheer,
And a joy where the sweetheart lips lean near, ,
Nothing in life? It is running over
With hills ol blossoms and dales of clover,
With simple duties and noblo toil , ,
Where the plowshares loosen the fallow soil, ,
Where tho spindles hum and the shuttles fly ,
And over us always the sweet blue sky, , ;
With little gray songsters of God a-wlng
Whero the world turns ba'k to an April thing.
Nothing in life? It Is full and flno
For the hearts that trust and the eyes that shino
With bo)o and courage and forthright zeal
In tho comrade spirit that all should feel; ' ..
Ii is bright and bounding and brimmed with .
chance
For honest effort-r-wlth song and dance, '".
With rosy faces and Uj.b of gleam
And the frugal board, and the sweetheart dream,
Nothing in life? Oh, trust its care, . -f ;
Tho sun Uj shining for all somewhere, r:.-
The clouds will lift and tho shadows flee r vi
And tho green world ring with tho song bird'p
glee. , -'.
Go on with courage; tho clouds will clear,, i
Tho green hills glow and the blooms bend;rieac;i
A thousand valleys aro fair and sweet ni e?
For ono dull loom In a city street.
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