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"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.
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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.
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