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2 j n, t' in fe f: t v. T r u The Commoner VOL. .14, NO. 4 Simpl - icity Flexibility Ample Power' The Cardinal Virtues of the Cartercar "Tlio Cm- With tho Gcarlcsy Transmission" Model 7, R-MUtHHtmger Price $1250 M j jj jflHil If you chooso a motor car merely because it has a shiny finish and attractivo linos, you aro liable to bo very sorry when you try to negotiate a steep hill or plow through a stretch of deep sand. What you want to look for in a car along with the good looks is ulmpllcity of mechanical parts together with a simpleness of opera tion, extreme flexibility of transmission and engine and ample power under any load or road conditions. Search for these all-important qualifications will lead you to the Cartercar. The famous "goarless transmission" of the Cartercar does away with tho rasping clutch and the noisy gear transmission and makes opera tion easy even for tho inexperienced driver. All speeds, both for ward and reverse, are operated with one lever, by merely moving Bame forwards or backwards. Tho "gearleBB transmission" is responsible, too, for the many speeds of the Cartercar. The ordinary cars have only two, three or at most, Tour spoeds. Tho Cartercar has any number needed. You are able, too, to go from high directly into reverse without injuring the niochanism of tho Cartercar. A powerful four cylinder, bloc typo engine with a long stroke which runs smoothly and silently because its single cam shaft valve action la enclosed, gives amplo power to this Cartercar. Before you buy a new car, investigate the new Model 7 Cartercar. An Ideal All Season Car Cartercar Colonial Coupe Do you dread automobillng in bad weather? You wouldn't if you owned a Cartercar Colonial Coupe. Utmost taste and refinement is found in the appointments of the Coupe. The interior is in leather, broadcloth, mahogany, with silk curtains and seaming laco. Has French plate glass win dows, electric dome light, etc. Price, Fully Equipped, $ 1 900 Cartercar Company Pontiac, Michigan Branches at Nov York, Chicngo, Detroit, Kansas City and Atlanta SOUTHERN IDAHO IRRIGATED LANDS No drouths. No floods. No crop failures. Mild winters Cool summers. Good water rights. Land very fertile and pro ductive. Price $45.00 per acre up for fully paid up water right. For further information write W. B. MILLSON Jeme, Idaho, Box 26fi I hope we will have cause to rejoice In many more. With deep affection And recollection. I often think of the 172 democrats and thirty-odd insurgent republicans who achieved our great victory on March 19, 1009, which started a political revolution. I love those men too well to quarrel with them now. iou ana i, iur. opeuM.oi, Hap pened to be democratic leaders in that historic parliamentary contest, and among house democrats you and I have been chief beneficiaries. You owe the leadership of the house and I owe the speakership to the fact, fortunate to us, that we were the democratic leaders on that memor able occasion, but I have asserted a thousand times, and I do now assert, that every man of the 172 democrats and thirty-odd republicans who fought with us, on that bloody field is entitled to his full share of honor. In the immortal words of Admiral Winfleld Scott Schley, "There was glory enough for all." With such men I will not quarrel. Indeed, the dignity of the high position which I hold by the partiality of the house forbids that I quarrel with any mem ber. I refuse to degrade the speak ership by so doing. I assume that every member will vote honestly the way dictated by his Intellect and his conscience dictates; buy why should I be denied the same privilege? No man here should be a "rubber stamp" congressman I re fuse absolutely to be either a "rubber stamp" representative or a "rubber stamp" speaker. If I did, you would have no respect for me. I regret more than I can tell that all of us democrats cannot vote together, but 'Tis. with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. So, if we must differ, let us differ in kindness, and it will be better, much better, for the party, and therefore better for the country. STUDIED SUBJECT CAREFULLY Truth to tell, I never spent as much time thinking about what my duty was as upon this. I looked at it from every conceivable angle to see if there was any justification for not keeping our platform pledge, for I desired to stand with the president, knowing full well that my motive would be misconstrued by every office seeker in the land; but, to save my life, I could conjure no excuse for bolting the platform. That is the reason why I was so slow in announc ing my conclusion in the matter. Having had so much trouble in com ing to a determination myself, I never asked a single member to vote as I did. I am certain that the en tire membership of the house will bear me out in that statement. On the 19th day of August, 1898, I made my first speech In the house. On that occasion, as on this, a plat form figured in the proceedings. Among other things, I said: "I am a democrat. I stand by the platformby all of it by every jot cwiu time ui ic, oecause I believe in it wun my wnole heart when it was made and I believe in it with my whole heart now. It contains the democratic gospel pure and unde fied. Over no political utterance did I ever rejoice more than over that, because it was not a Janus faced, double meaning, good Lord good devil, all-things-to-all men sort of document, but was a clear, bold honest, manly, masterful comprehen sive declaration of democratic faith From a hundred rostrums, in the presence of high heaven and thou X?S l S&n -abiding, m. Zt i'j u"ieunnB' patriotic peo ple I pledge myself to stand by it here, and come what may, I am going to keep my word. "It is an old saying that all things are fair in love r war, and some people appear to believe that any thing is fair in politics. I dissent in toto from any such immoral doc trine. The people have a right to honest treatment at the hands ot those who aspire to be their agents in public affairs, and to the man who betrays them they will send, the silken bowstring for his own destruc tion. "What is a platform, anyway? Is it an honest declaration of principles which the framers honestly intend to enact into laws if they attain to power, or Is it a dishonest device whereby to entrap the unwary voter? Is it a candid statement of the faith that Is in us, or is it a bait to catch gudgeons? "Is it the plighted word of men of honor to accomplish certain things, or is it only a 'good-eiiough Morgan' till after election, which palters with the people in a double sense which 'keeps the word of promise to the ear and breaks it to the hope?' " STILL KEEPS THE FAITH I have stood by that declaration ever since, now almost twenty-two years. I stand by it now. I will stand by it until I am bereft of my senses. It is the rule of conscience and of patriotic service. No other rule will do to live by or to die by. That statement is in language more bizarre than I would use now, but the idea expressed therein is the same idea I entertain now and will entertain until I am in my grave. There has been much felicitation among the supporters of this bill about their tremendous victory on the adoption 6t the rule. When it is remembered that the majority was only twenty-eight on the rule and that a change of fifteen votes would have defeated it in a house with 144 democratic majority, the grounds for ther self-congratulation are hard to discover. When Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, was walking over a battlefield where on he had won a hard-fought victory and observed the number of dead and wounded among his own soldiers he mournfully exclaimed: "Another such victory and we are undone!" To whom does the Panama canal belong; anyway? To the United States of America. We built it at the enormous cost of $400,000,000. We built it on American soil. We have fortified it; we will control it. In order to get a chance to build it we created a republic. For whose benefit did" we build it? Primarily for our own, secondarily tor the world's benefit. Why did we build it? In order to secure cheap water freight rates. Who fought the building of tho canal for fifteen long, wearisome years? The transcontinental rail roads. ; RAILROADS CHIEF BENEFI CIARIES Who would be the chief benefi ciaries of this repeal bill? The same transcontinental railroads the Can adian Pacific and the Tehuantepec National railway heading the list. It would be many millions of dollars in their capacious pockets annually. To do a thing to enable them to hold up their old rates is altruistic generosity run mad, and an outrage on tho American people. I refuse to indorse any such program. One of the wisest things the fathers did was to distribute the powers of government among three departments .legislative, judicial and executive; and they endeavored to so arrange things that no one de partment should encroach upon the prerogatives .of the others, Under this system of checks and balances certain, duties are devolved " u