'V""flf " R-QfTJ i 2 -p Vff n ;i s- u "WITn EXACTNESS GRINDS HE ALL1 For soveral years Miss Phoebo Couzlns, famous as a lecturer has advocated the restora tion of tho army canteen and other "practical offortB at reform" which appear to bo most acceptable to the liquor interests Many pcoplo wore surprised at Miss Couzlns' activity but tho eocrot is now out and it is told in tho following dispatch, carried by the United Press: . "Washington. Oct. 11. To tho fact that tho United States Browera' association paid her ?3G0 monthly for years until last January, when It was sud denly cut off, Miss Phoebo Couzlns, famous woman lawyer and advocate of tho army canteen, today attributed hor sudden descent from luxury to absolute poverty and threatened starvation. "For many years Mlsa Couzlns maintained an oxpenslvo suite of rooms at tho Riggs house here, but her troubles all camo at onco last January, when her Income was cut off and tho hotel was torn down to make way for a now building. Through hor long occupancy she would have been allowed to retain tho quarters If it had not been razed. " 'Now I am penniless,' sho sobbed, as sho re clined in an Invalid chair in a largo bare room In a local lodging house today. " 'I never saved a cent. I always thought tho United States Brewers' association would continue my annuity as long as I lived and I had every right to oxpect it. T' 'I put in years of work for tho army cantoon traveling all ovor tho country. I learned to livo in luxury and my money went rapidly. I traveled a great deal in my work for wqman's suffrage and never put by any money for tho future. Then camo tho crash and I waa left high and dry.' "Miss Couzlns Is sixty-eight years old. Sho Is feeble and unablo to do any profitable work. 'Of courso the browera' association gavo a reason for cutting off my annuity, but I did not think It was sufficient. I had grown accustomed tp that money and now I am forced to appeal to the board of charities. I had plenty of friends when I had money, but thoy seem to have becomo fewer and fowor since last January and until today I thought thoy had all forgotten mo.' "Arrangements were made today to provide com fortable quarters for her in a local institution for aged persons If her friends do not make other provisions." This revelation may provide the key for the explanation of other similar "mysteries" in various sections of the country. Can it be possible that the United Brewers' association has on its pay roll certain machine , politicians who have suddenly manifested such peculiar devotion to the public interests that they are enabled to abandon their regular business and devote their time and energy to politics? There are several notable cases where there has been general suspicion that somebody has been paying a pretty heavy bill. "It is an ill wind that blows no one good" and the sad plight in which this talented woman lawyer finds herself will operate, through the expose she has made, to the public good. "Though tho mills of God grind slowly, yet thoy grind cxeoeding small; Though with patience Ho stands waiting, with exactness grinds Ho all." MR. BRYANS PEACE IDEA President Taft, with the candor characteristic of him, not only acknowledged in his Lincoln Bpeech the value of Mr. Bryan's general appeals for peace and arbitration, but directed national attention to a feature of the treaties with England and Prance which he directly "owed" to the most distinguished democrat of Nebraska. Mr. Taft stated that it was from Mr. Bryan that he ha'd first heard "tho scheme of appoint ing a commission to make a preliminary Investi gation, prior to the actual submission of a ques tion to a board of arbitration, with the further proviso that the commission should have a year in which to do its work." This is a very important safeguard and pre ventive of rash, angry, demagogical action under the Influence of jingoes or unscrupulous politicians. It is a feature which even the senate committee did not attack. The fact that Mr. Bryan first suggested It in one of his excellent peace speeches was not generally known, and Mr. Bryan himself never claimed his idea. It was handsome in the presi dent to give credit where it was due in so public a manner and at so appropriate a time and place. Chicago Record-Herald. The Commoner. of capitalists, who wish to keep tho economic development of tho country under their own eye and guidance. The great monopoly in this country is tho money monopoly. So long as that exists our old variety and freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question. A groat industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is con centrated. Tho growth of tho nation, there fore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are neces sarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limi tations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. This is the greatest ques tion of all, and to this statesmen must address themselves with an earnest determination to serve the long future and true liberties of men. "I have said that the democratic party is now to attempt constructive statesmanship. There are well known conditions which surround so great a task. In the first place it can not be executed if attempted with inconsiderate haste. That is not constructive which is loosely or hastily put together. Its parts must be sound, and their combination must be true and vital. No man can in a' moment put great policies together and reconstruct a whole order of life. "We must remember that the abuses we seek to remedy have come into existence as incidents of the great structure of industry we have built up. This structure is the work of our own hands; our own lives are involved in It. Reck less attacks upon it, destructive assaults against it would jeopard our own lives and disturb, it might be fatally, the very progress we seek to attain. It would be particularly fatal to any successful programme to admit into our minds, as we pursue it, any spirit of revenge, any pur pose to wreak our displeasure upon the persons and the institutions who now Tepresent the abuses we deprecate and seek to destroy. I do not say these things because I feel that there is danger of vengeful action or of revolutionary haste, but merely because we ought always to recognize that it is of the very essence of constructive statesmanship that we should think and act temperately, wisely, justly, in the spirit of those who reconstruct and amend not in the spirit of those who destroy and seek to build from the foundations again. "The American people is an eminently just and an intensely practical people. They do not wish to lay violent hands upon their own affairs, but they do claim the right to look them over with close and frank and fearless scrutiny from top to bottom; to look at them from within as well as from without, in their most intimate and private details, as well as in their obvious exterior proportions; and they do hold themselves at liberty, attacking one point at a time, to readjust, correct, purify, rearrange; not destroying or even injuring the elements, but filling their altered combination with a new spirit. This is the task of the democratic party. It is the task of all states manship. It is a task which just at this par- " ticular juncture in our affairs looms particularly big." DEMOCRACY'S OPPORTUNITY Governor Woodrow Wilson, at Harrisburg, Pa., said: "Beyond all these, waiting to be solved, lying as yet in the hinterland of party policy, lurks the great question of banking re form. The plain fact is that control of credit at any rate of credit upon any large scale is dangerously concentrated in this country. The large money resources of the country are not at tho command of those who do not submit to tho. direction and domination of small groups VOLUME 11, NUMBER n York financier, lays that this "rule of reason" decision was the republican party's "only vestige of keeping faith with the people" in accordance with Governor Hughes' Youngstown, 0., proraiso that the republican party would amend the anti trust law in harmony with the "rule of reason" theory. WHAT DO ITS READERS THINK Referring to Mr. Bryan's criticism of "the rule of reason," the Chicago Record-Herald con cludes an editorial in this way: "By the way, when and where did the presi dents appointees on the supreme bench 'take tho trust side of the question?' Were the oil and tobacco decisions pro-trust decisions? This would be news, indeed, to Wall street and trust promoters." The editor of the Record-Herald must have a poor opinion of the intelligence of the readers of his newspaper. The immediate decision in these trust cases seemed, on Its face, a victory for the public interests. The trusts were ordered to "dissolve" but it is noticeable that they are doing business at the old stand having been put to some in convenience by way of reorganization. But this decision was vholly insignificant compared with the "rule of reason" opinion which the court went out of its way to declare and which was, in fact, the important feature of the opinion delivered. In this "rule of reason" opinion the court "took the trust side of the question" and it is a pity that bo excellent a newspaper as the Record-Herald would undertake to pull the wool over Its readers' eyes with respect to this point Mr. George W. Perkins, the well known New TO ABOLISH TREATING The Chicago Record-Herald prints the follow ing editorial: "That the treating habft is ono of the causes of excessive drinking of intoxicat ing liquors in this country has long been ap parent to all who are interested in- tho drink question. It is, therefore, a matter of public concern that the National German-American Alliance has adopted a resolution calling upon its executive committee to present to the next biennial convention a practical plan of abolish ing the custom of treating at public bars. "The treating, habit in most cases is born of generosity or a desire to appear generous. It results in several men taking several drinks each because each thinks he can not afford to be thought mean or stingy, Many saloon-keepers encourage the practice, believing it brings revenue, by 'setting up a round of drinks occasionally 'on the bar.' Yet there are men, not teetotalers, who avoid drinking in saloons be cause of the treating habit. "To bririg into use theJDutch treat,' as the alliance proposes, may be "difficult, but it ought to be brought into use if possible. In Europe the custom is for each man to pay for what ho drinks only, and as a result intoxication in public houses is rare." This is a wise move on the -part of the Na tional German-American alliance. More power to that organization's elbow in its practical effort at reform. CALIFORNIA. PROGRESSIVE California prepared a fine greeting for Presi dent Taft in the shape of an overwhelming victory for the initiative and referendum and recall, the later including the judiciary. The vote by which these great Teforms were written into California's organic law was as follows: For the initiative and referendum, 13S,181; against 44,850. For the recall, 148,572; against 46,290. Good for California. She has taken an ad vanced step and posterity will bless her for it. THE CARDINAL IS WRONG Cardinal Gibbons, in celebrating his golden jubilee, took occasion to criticise the direct elec tion of senators and also the campaign for the recall of judges. The cardinal is a great church man and a yery great citizen but his political opinions carry only their own weight and the weight of their author.. In matters of faith and morals those under his spiritual authority must obey the church laws as interpreted by such high authority but on matters political citizen ship comes first and every one must be guided by his own intelligence. Creighton (Neb.) Liberal A DEMOCRATIC DAILY There lies before us a copy of the Norfolk Morning Press, tho new democratic daily recent ly started by our friends, W. H. Weekes and wife. It has the distinction of being the only democratic daily in this congressional district, and surely there should be a field for such a paper. The Press is filled to the brim with tho news of the city it represents and ably written articles upon the affairs of the day, politically and otherwise. It merits success. Howells (Neb.) Journal. g(yi)(2X5)S 800 PER CENT PROFIT Ed C. lASater, president of the Texas Cattle Raisers' association, says that 300 per cent profit disappears somewhere Be tween tho producers and tho consumers of, beef; that prices paid producers are de creasing", while prices extorted from con sumers are Increasing1. ,. Ho and his follows, owning- together some 9,000,000 head of cattle, are going to find out who gets those fat profits. . Wo violate .no confidence in saying tnat they suspect tho packers. Wichita (ivan.; Beacon. m g. i ii -v . i.