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- WtmWli '', ' l"J(P I.; (9! "" The Commoner. MARCH 29, 1912 15 TUB rOROING-OUT OF DR. WIIiBY The retirement from the govern ment sorvice of LV. Harvey W. Wiley, since 1883 chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agri culture, signalizes a national calam ity. That calamity consists not of the loss of America's most useful public servant from administrative place; nor does the calamity lie in the gain of a decisive victory by the forces forming a persistent and un scrupulous conspiracy against the health and the lives of the American people. The calamity is the prolonged sanc tioning of and partfcipancy in that conspiracy by the national adminis tration. We have no need to write any eulogy of Harvey Wiley today. All the tory editors even the least scru pulous eulogists of special privilege are saving us that trouble. In inability to find a flaw in the thirty year career of the big, brave, un selfish fighter for human rights they are telling, despite their habits, the truth about why Wiley is honored and why hated and by whom. They "are lying, by expression and suppres sion, only in regard to the forcing out of Wiley from the service of his splendid devotion. No other public servant in our day has been so harassed, humiliated, maligned and abused. Doctor Wiley's friends and confidants know from his own lips how well he has understood that he was making a losing fight against the merciless power of mer cenary forces, backed by all the in fluence of the national administra tion. Long before he wrote his resig nation he knew the law had been so emasculated and himself and all loyal America's Host Famous S How often have you wished for a Vinnlr rnntnlnlntr the old. Old SOngS! for after all, the songs nearest to our hearts are tne ones wo kmuw u children and the ones our children are singing iouay. . . , . "Wo have just examined a music folio entitled American Most Pn inoiiN Songs; these comprise tho best known songs, including patri otic, home, love, southern and folk songs. Songs like the following: Alice, Where Art Thou? . Ilatllc Cry of Freedom, Den Dolt, Dixie Land, Gipsy's Warning;, Heart Bowed Down, Kathleen Mnvournccn, Last Rose of Summer, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep, When You and I Were Young, Maggie, and GO other universal songs of America with music and piano ac companiment, in largo clear print and on 'good paper. Wo have been so favorably im pressed with this splendid collec tion of songs, and feel so certain that nine out of every ten readers of The American Homestead Will bo anxious to own tho book that wo havo made arrangements with tho publisher in Now York to reserve a liberal supply for our readers. Each subscriber to The American Homestead who sends us twenty flvo cents to pay for a years sub scription to tho paper, and ten cents to pay for wrapping and postage on the book of songs will receive a copy with our compliments. This offer will hold good as long as tho present edition f tho books lasts, and requests for the book will bo filled in tho order that they reach this office. We caution everyone to bo prompt in sending for the book. If your subscription is already paid in advance, tho 25 cents remitted will still further advanco your ex piration date for ono year. The American Homestead Lincoln, Nebraska associates so muzzled from all chance to warn the people for their good, by words or acts, that he felt, while his life work had won the fight for a pure food law, he had lost the fight to save the law, and he felt that his use fulness in office has ended. But, hoping against hope, ho stayed on, feeling, as he must havo felt, that in sheer shame President Taft would make at least a pretense of keeping the directly intimated promise, forced from him by an un precedented public protest six months ago, of a prompt and thorough re organization of the department. Philadelphia North American. A PUZZLE there. The demonstration in the old Pike county box is great. Its ontry's not a winner yet, but he has hig na tive state. They all have that, of course, but still, it may bo said for his, that very few states are as big as old Missouri is. If he is beaten, like as not, the hound dog sons will do it. It's been identified with Clark, and there is nothing to it. The chorus has some funny lines, which have a sort of craze, but the man who wrote the tuno should get no loss than 30 days. The Wilson mount's a funny thing. It makes but little dust, but tho way it runs has flllod its foes with terror and diagUHt. You see it ono day loitering, as if it wero a wreck, and the next day going liko 'the wind, with its cars back on its neck. It nolthor gains nor losoo much, nor oven over tries to run so everybody says, except for exercise. Tho presidential race is on, with many certain wrecks, and tho trusts all puzzled whom to send the custo mary checks. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This letter from Mr. J. Bayles of Kansas City is typical of many com munications that reach this office: "Please inform me of the princi pal issues on which the republicans and democrats of the United States differ." Such inquiries as these are addi tional evidence of the vanishing of party lines. Very many persons are really puzzled to know tho difference between republicans and democrats. It is possible, of course, to give the old conventional answers; to quote the principles of Jefferson and Jack son against those of Lincoln. But such answers no longer satis fy. People see that there is a much wider gulf between progressive and reactionary democrats than there is between progressive democrats and progressive republicans, or reaction ary democrats and reactionary repub licans. So far as results are concerned, so far as really important political pro grams go, there are only two national parties in this country the progres sive and the reactionary. One stands for the control of government by the people in the interest of progressive legislation, tariff revision, trust regu lation, the parcels post, working men's compensation acts, and the like. The other is for a do-nothing policy dr frankly for special in terests. Republicans and democrats are in both these parties. Kansas City Star. WHY INCUBATOR CHICKS DIE The book, entitled, "The IIInory or While Diarrhoea or Why Iiicuhnlor CIiIcIcm Die," will bo sent absolutely free by return mall to any one sending uh tho namon of 5 to 8 of their friends that use incubators. This book can save you $100 thiH summer, it describes "Whito Diarrhoea, or bowel trouble, tho cause, and tells of a cure. Book absolutely freo for tlu names. RAISALL REMEDY CO., BLACKWELL, OKLA. SPECIAL LOW-PRICE CLUB OFFERS ON STANDARD PUBLICATIONS FOR 1912 For tho convenience of our rcadcro tho following combination offers havo been arranged. Write us for best prices on any combination of periodicals Tho Commoner must always be Included. We will save you 20 per cent In most cases and In somo cases 50 per cent from tho regular prlco of such periodicals. RUINED AGAIN During the house debate on the free-sugar bill, representatives from the beet and cane sugar states and stand-patters from other states rose one after another and solemnly pre dicted the ruin of the industry if the bill was enacted. This will be news to the country. The industry was already supposed to have been ruined. It was ruined when Porto Rico sugar was admitted free and imports increased seven fold. It was ruined when Philippine sugar was admitted free and imports increased fivefold. It was ruined when Cuban sugar was admitted at lower than the regular duties. Nevertheless, during this time of ruin the country's cane-sugar pro duction has continued to increase and its beet-sugar production has more than doubled. At this rate the industry can stand some more ruin. It should demand more ruin. New York World. TUB RACE IS ON The presidential race is on, with Teddy after Bill, and the man who looks like Bonaparte persisting in it still. He isn't running very fast, and hasn't any show, but he says he's in it all the same, so therefore be it so BaFollette, Theodore and Bill, and on the other side another hope ful trio still as gravely occupied. 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