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MARCH, 1014
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SENATOR GORE'S VINDICATION"
CONGRATULATIONS, SENATOR.
"We congratulate Senator Gore on
the verdict which has bo emphati
cally given the lie to the trumped-up
charges against him. He performed
a fine public service in refusing to
make terms with the blackmailers
and fighting them in the open. It re
quired no small amount of moral
courage to do this pn the part of a
public man like Senator Gore. The
first impulse of many men, no mat
ter how innocent, would have been
to avoid the scandal and to hush the
matter up. But Senator Gore was
brave enough to face them before the
world and to show them in their true
colors. He has not only vindicated
his own honor and his own good
name by this manly course, but he
has set an example that will have a
deterrent effect on other blackmail
ers and disreputable schemers.
Baltimore Sun.
SENATOR GORE'S ORDEAL
The prompt rejection of the claim
brought against the blind senator
from Oklahoma was almost a fore
gone conclusion from the flimsiness
of the evidence brought against him.
All decent citizens will rejoice that a
United States senator under a serious
charge was able to clear himself so
easily and completely.
It looked like an attempt at black
mail from the beginning and the un
contradicted testimony of the plain
tiff and her witnesses did not remove
that impression even before the de
fense had said a word. Senator Gore
bore himself with great dignity and
good sense throughout his unpleasant
ordeal and, supported as he was by
the unshakable faith of his wife, he
has every reason to regard the un
pleasant episode with gratification
since he received a complete vindica
tion and found out just who were his
true friends and who were his
enemies.
The event has a national interest
since it reveals the kind of pressure
a. United States senator may be sub
jected to when the spoils system is
in full operation. One of the reasons
given by congressmen and senators in
the past for supporting civil service
reform is that they had found out
from experience that the distribution
of offices on the old ground of re
warding political favors made them
more enemies than friends, for when
they got one man a position they had
disappointed a half dozen other aspi
rants for the same place and the dis
appointed ones immediately became
their political enemies and worked
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against them when the opportunity
offered. This opposition of disap
pointed office seekers in Senator
Gore's case went so far as a malicious
attempt upon his good name and
fame, a most cowardly kind of as
sault which they doubtless felt en
couraged in making in his case owing
to his physical infirmity and com
parative helplessness. Philadelphia
Press.
SENATOR GORE'S EXONERATION
All men in public life will feel re
assured by the outcome of the sensa
tional trial in Oklahoma, in which
Senator Thomas P. Gore was the de
fendant. He was promptly exonerat
ed by a jury, and the verdict stated
that the jury would liave voted to
exonerate him, even if he had put in
no defense. Evidently the charge
against Senator Gore was not only
baseless, but was surrounded by cir
cumstances which caused the jury to
make its verdict most emphatic in
his favor.
Any public official is liable to be
confronted with a situation like that
which Senator Gore faced with such
courage. He is entitled to the grati
tude of all public men in having
fought to the end a case which
aroused intense feeling and for the
time being clouded his good name
;among those who do not know him
personally. Men of less moral cour
age might have tried to compromise
the case, for the sake of hushing up
scandalous talk.
The Gore trial ought to serve as a
warning to the public not to be too
quick to think evil of men in public
office. Men who wield power and in
fluence are under heavy responsi
bility, and have before them con
stantly the incentive to act discreet
ly. But they are also the targets of
designing persons who, either for
purposes of revenge or gain, threaten
them with scandalous charges, or
even go to the extent of trying to
make such charges gopd. It is un
fortunately only too easy to convince
a portion of tho public of the truth
of such infamous charges; but it is
not so easy to convince a jury, which
has in its possession all the facts.
The collapse of the charges against
Senator Gore shows how a public
man must run the risk of having his
good name besmirched. If the case
will have the effect of causing the
public to suspend judgment when it
hears similar scandalous stories
against public men, some good will
have come out of the ordeal through
which the blind senator has just
passed. Washington Post.
HINDU STUDENT OBJECTS TO
BAKER BILL
To the Editor of The Commoner:'
It sounds strange that tho Baker
bill has found favor in tho house of
representatives. But there is time
yet to reconsider the matter and view
the situation from different aspects.
Tho long and short of the whole
thing is that a few hundred of the
Hindus have come here (U. S.) as
laborers, mostly in California, and
have, as is alleged, set up something
like a competition in the labor mar
ket. These people are strictly Aryan,
stalwart in .figure, sober by nature,
and generally more enlightened than
many immigrants from some Euro
pean countries. Though not intellec
tually very high, they are, as I have
known them in my country, polite,
obliging and God-fearing; diligent,
honest and quick in adapting them
selves to their changed conditions. I
have met here men of different Euro
pean nationalities, who in spite of
their stay in this country for a decade
and more have not learned to talk or
write in English; but I am confident
a charge like tbat cannot be laid at
our doors. The United States is a
rich country with immense possibili
ties ,and some of our laborers, an
absolutely negligible element, have
BhaTed their-bread with tho American
wage-earner.
On tho other side of tho scale
is poverty-stricken, plague-infested,
over-populated India, struggling for
a bare existence. The American
merchants, traders, professors, physi
cians, missionaries qnd others have
been there in hundreds and thou
sands. American' trado Is dally
growing in importance thera; on tho
continent of Asia, tho largest number
of Americans are in India. The
American insurance companies have
done exteiiBlvo business with my
country in tho past hut they hope to
do more In tho near future. Pro
fessional men have been making
their living there without a word
from my countrymen. To crown all,
the Panama canal is going to be
ready for tho realization of un
thought of possibilities ere long. At
this juncture you aro considering a
bill which concerns a nation which
has a glorious past and whose heart
is throbbing today with the feeling
of a new life. India no more sleeps
today.
International complications start
ing with boycotting of American
goods and services up to any length
will, I am afraid, be the inevitable
consequence of such a measure. We
have enough complications at" home
already and we do not want any
more. I have been told by some of
your enlightened and thoughtful
countrymen that "the heart of
America has gone out to India times
without number," and let it once
more do so without being uncharit
able at home.
I have no objection to your re
stricting Hindu immigration in a
general way, on a par with some of
the European nations, but I have
serious objections to your "exclud
ing" them in the way proposed in
the bill. Moreover, no restrictions
should be imposed upon any students
provided they come into this country
with money enough to meet all ex
penses for one university year, i. e.,
nine months; and this sum may be
conveniently fixed at from two hun
dred to two hundred and fifty dollars.
The Hindu student, like all other
students, should not be deprived of
his right to earn some money here,
not only because it teaches self-help
but because it Is a part of his educa
tion whose value can haTdly be ex
aggerated. He should not be re
quired to produce certificates from
British officials to prove his ability to
meet his expenses, since that will
practically prevent his coming out to
America. Whether or not the student
has with him one year's expenses
may be ascertained by the immigra
tion officers in the several ports of
entrance.
.1 have laid bare before you the
whole thing in a nutshell, and hope
it will have your kind consideration.
No country under the sun has given
such a sacred promise as you have,
and the time has come when an in
tensely religious people is waiting
tiptoe at your gates to see whether
you are capable of demonstrating
that "trust in God" which has been
your watchword before the whole
civilized world. Respectfully yours,
INDU PRAKAS BANERJI,
Calcutta, India.
Student in Nebraska State University,
Lincoln, Neb.
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An evangelist says there are thir
teen roads to hell. This statement
makes the Bangor Independent man
want to bet that every one .of them
is choked with men who let their
horses stand out In the cold un
blanketed. Monroe Democrat.
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