X WARDING FACTIONS.
BIG BATTLE GOING ON IN REPU3-
LIOAN PARTY.
Xcadcra Are Working at Cross Itir-
poscs The Honest Element , the Dis
honest Element and tho Ignorant Ele
ment to Struggle for Mastery.
Will President Roosevelt rule Con
gress or will the , legislative department
of the government be Independent of
the .executive.
This Is an Important question as
the outcome of much momentous leg
islation depends upon the answer. The
revision of the tariff is at stake , for
President Roosevelt having declared
.for a continuance of the policy of the
late executive which includes recip
rocity In Its full meaning , not only the
reciprocity of the French and other
treaties , but a general lowering of the
"tariff or even free trade upon trust
production that are sold cheaper to
the foreigners than they are to our
own people.
Nearly all the Republican leaders in
Congress have declared against tariff
revision , but this was before President
McKinley made his notable speech at
Buffalo advising the opposite course.
If he had not been stricken down by
the bullet of the assassin he would
doubtless have brought the majority
of his party to this reform. Can Pres
ident Roosevelt do as much , will he
ever attempt it ? That a large element ,
probably the majority of the repub
lican party , are opposed to any med
dling with the tariff , even to the ratifi
cation of the reciprocity treaties is cer
tain , this same faction are controlled
"by the trusts and nothing but the fear
of defeat by the people will change
their trust prepossession and Inclina
tion. The leader of this trust faction
is Mark Hanna and his declarations on
trusts and the tariff are well known.
The New York Commercial speaking
for this element of the republican
party says : "We are inclined to a be
lief that it is not easy not practical
anyway to get at a consensus of re
publican sentiment in this subject be
fore another Congressional election. If
it were to be precipitated In Congress
next December , the result would be in
our opinion that an acrimonious de-
"bate would be stretched over the en
tire session with no settlement , of the
question at the end , but a most deplor
able unsettling of business for the bet
ter part of a year.
Let the republican Congressional
conventions In 1902 determine approx
imately how the republican masses feel
on this question of "tinkering in the
tariff" then republican law-makers
could proceed more intelligently in the
matter. This procrastination of course
means that the trusts think that with
a united effort they can control the
eleclon next year of a majority of the
: fifty-eighth Congress and in any event
as that Congress will not meet until
December , 1903 , and any legislation of
this character would not be possible
until the summer of 1904 , they would
liave a long pull at the tariff that they
are so loath to let loose from.
THE REAL AIDS TO ANARCHY.
It is well to note that in all this
rampant rubbish that some of the re
publican newspapers are using to
prove that so-called "yellow journal
ism" is responsible for anarchism in
the country , that those that are the
loudest and most blatant have the
most unsavory reputations and are the
outspoken organs of organized polit
ical robbery. Some of these are con
trolled by the trusts and all are con
trolled by the plutocrats who thus
hope to throw discredit on every news
paper that has dared to say one word
against their monopolies. Others have
been worsted In the keen business
competition with the so-called "yellow
journals" and in trying to inflame pub
lic opinion against them they hope to
get even. Of these the New York Sun
is the most striking example and that
most conservative of newspapers the
Staats Zeitung says : "If the question ,
must be discussed what causes and
elements are working into the hands
of anarchism we do not hesitate a mo
ment to denounce the Sun and its fol
lowers as the most dangerous of these
elements. Their nauseating cynicism ,
their derision of all nobler sentiments ,
their support of all most corrupted
elements , now on this side and now
on the other , their continuous perform
ance in villifying workingmen on the
one hand and their unlimited advo
cacy of capitalism based on the prin
ciple of "might is right" on the other
these are methods of warfare which al
lied to calumny , distortion of the truth ,
aye , even barefaced untruthfulness ,
breed hatred among the classes , act as
irritants and conjure up blind fury
against their own pompous insolence.
We are convinced that a single one of
these contemptible articles on the
problems of labor , as they are to be
found frequently in the Sun does more
mischief than all the stuff thus sharp
ly criticised by the Sun , that other
papers are emitting for the "benefit of
anarchism. "
-CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
The Boxer uprising completely upset
all the carefully laid plans for the ex
ploiting of the Chinese Empire. The
buildings of railroads and the opening
of .coal and iron mines will have to be
deferred to another generation. This
opens up another question that will
soon have to be settled , namely , the
continued occupation of the Philip
pines. These islands were supposed to
be the key to China and the proposed
exploiters of that Empire were the
power that forced the extraordinary
change of front on the part of the late
administration in its final dealings
with Spain. As the protocol shows
there was no intention of annexing the
Philippineshen that instrument was
signed. Their purchase was an after
thought There being but small hope
that th Chinese will allow our ex
ploiting syndicate to invest its money"
in China , will the continued occupation
of the Philippine Islands pay for the
great cost it now is and will be In the
future ? Are the people of the United
States willing to be taxed nearly | 100-
000,000 a year for the sake of holding
on to these islands.
The proposed civil government will
more than eat up-all the revenues of
the j.slands and if the same extrava
gance is continued in the future , and
there can hardly help being more of
it , as in the past , the people of the
country will have to pay a large part
of the bill for even the civil govern
ment. Then there is the army of oc
cupation to be provided for ; at the
lowest estimate this will cost $50,000-
000 a year. The building of dock
yards and the increased navy will
largely increase the above amount.
The Islands must be fortified to pro
tect the navy yard and arsenal and
these bills will be a continuous drain
on the United States. Will it pay ,
even looking years into the future ?
ARE THEY FRIGHTENED ?
Nearly the whole of the daily press
of the country have seemed 10 be unit
ed In suppressing the facts about the
trusts , combines , and monopolies , but
under the stress of the election this
fall the Columbus , Ohio , State Journal
appears to have become frightened at
the unanimity of the people in wish
ing the trusts controlled and says in
an editorial : "The public is witness
to another deluge of watered stock
whose only hoe of dividend lies in the
ability of the manipulators to maintain
a monopoly In all iron and steel pro
ducts with all that monopoly makes
possible.
"The new company swells the total
capitalization of its constituent com
panies from about $757,000,000 to ? ! , -
100,000,000 , or over 45 per cent This
would be monstrous enough if it came
at the first flood of water , but it Is
water upon water.
"Nobody pretends to believe that the
Carnegie company was worth ? 320- ,
000,000 and yet it went into the com
bine at $510,000,000. It is notorious
that the other seven companies whose
aggregate capitalization is about $437-
000,000 , represented an actual invest
ment of not to exceed one-third that
amount Even with the high price of
their product during the last two years
they were unable to earn enough to
give their stock a market value in the
aggregate of 75 per cent of its * aggre
gate par valuation. Yet about $100-
000,000 more water is poured into the
outrageous over capitalization that al
ready existed. "
This coming from a leading repub
lican newspaper of the state where
Hanna rules the roost shows that they
see the retribution that Is sure to
come and that the trust load is even
too heavy for the well greased Ohio
machine.
The republicans of Kentucky cer
tainly do take the cake , if this tale
that the Nebraska Independent tells
about them is a true one : "When a
republican gets a federal office there is
no stopping him. Down in Kentucky
one of 'them wanted a postoffice that
was held by a woman whose dead hus
band had been a prominent democrat.
All the patrons ofthe office , both re
publicans and democrats , were in favor
of the woman retaining it Not one of
them would sign a petition for the
applicant One would suppose that the
office seeker would have given up , but
he did no such thing. He finally mar
ried the woman and then she resigned
and he got the office.
United States Senator Clark of Mon
tana , the only democrat that is a
multi-millionaire , is having a tussle
with the railroad trust or that part of
it represented by Harrison , Gould and
their clique. He is trying to build an
independent line from Salt Lake City
to the Pacific , this would afford great
relief to the people of that territory
from the almost unbearable extortions
of the railroad trust The"whole rail
road trust is fighting him wherever he
has interests in Montana , In Wall
street and elsewhere , but Clark Is a
persistent fighter and the prospect
seems favorable that he will succeed
in getting his railroad completed.
One of the doctors who attended the
late President , when asked about the
deceptive bulletins , said : "We are un
der martial law and have to do as we
are told , " and the facts are that Sec
retary Root , who was in full control ,
had these bulletins issued in the In
terest of the Wall street financiers who
were afraid if the whole truth about
the condition of the President was
known , that a financial panic would be
precipitated , which with a little time
they hoped to avert As it was the
banks had to call on the United States
treasury for help.
With new oil wells in Texas , Cali
fornia , Tennessee and Wyoming the
price of oil would naturally decline ,
tor we have J. Pierpont Morgan's word
f-7r it that supply and demand regu
late prices. Perhaps it may with the
steel trust and would with the oil
trust if rebates and special privileges
were abolished.
The high protective tariff breeds
frauds and smuggling and the enor
mous robbery of the .government by
the silk Importations in New York ar
doubtless but one of a hundred , if the
whole business was investigated.
Some of the gibbering idiots who the
trusts employ to edit their newspapers
are claiming that to criticise or car
toon the trusts'Is breeding anarchy.
BEPUBLICAN fiULE.
HAS BOUGHT A COSTLY BRAND OF
PROSPERITY.
The Good Times Being Enjoyed aialnly
by the People Who TP > re Never In
Want Wage Earners No Better Off
Than They Were Under Clevelandisin.
' The Republican party has so many
sins of commission and omission to
answer for that it is hardly possible
to enumerate them all , but it is well to
bear in mind some of them , especially
as It is constantly with Pharisaical
airs denouncing others in platforms
and on the stump.
It has defied and violated the anti
trust law and has allowed capital to
combine and its chosen servant , the
attorney general of the United States ,
whose duty it is to see that such laws
are executed , has taken no steps to do
so.
Through the protective tariff it has
given the trusts a monopoly , thus al
lowing wealth to accumulate in the
hands of the few until the power that
accompanies money is greater than
the power of the people.
By the lack of enforcement of laws ,
both federal and state , those vast mo
nopolies called trusts and corporations
generally refuse and do not pay their
share of the taxes , either state or fed
eral , thus throwing the burden of pro
tecting those immense interests upon
the middle class , the farmer and the
wage-working and poor.
Under its fostering care the banks
and trust companies have grown so
great and their profits so enormous
that even more than one hundred per
cent dividend has been paid by some
of them , and this was in a great meas
ure made possible by the manipula
tion of United States bonds and the
use without interest of the money
loaned to them by the United States
treasury. * "
Under Republican rule the striking
wage-worker has been denied a trial by
jury , by introducing a system of is
suing injunctions by which the courts
forbid them to do what the law does
not prohibit and when they have ig
nored the injunctions have imprisoned
them for no crime. If a thing can be
legally done by a workman , the judge
has no right to forbid by injunction.
If he has committed a crime , he should
be arrested and given a trial by jury.
Under Republican rule railroads have
been allowed to violate law and go into
combinations that leave whole cities ,
communities and states at their mercy.
One can be favored and "another de
pressed.
Under Republican rule the nation
has been forced to abandon the foun
dation principles upon which the gov
ernment was founded , and an empire
has been made out of a free republic ,
in which class distinction are more ,
clearly marked than in any monarchy
of the old world. These are part of
the things and only part that the Re
publican party has done , and has left
undone.
OUR BOASTED PROSPERITY.
That vast wealth is being accumu
lated by banks , trusts and individuals
is apparent to every one , that the rail
roads and corporations are paying
large dividends and laying up reserves
is evident from the statements they
issue and the great advance in the
price of their stocks. The newspapers
and public men are loud in their boasts
of this class prosperity , and those of
the Republican persuasion are trying
to make us all believe we are equally
prosperous.
An article in the Pilgrim Magazine ,
after noting this , says : In the face of
such a clamorous celebration of the
national wealth it has been difficult for
individuals to secure a hearing long
enough to say they are not getting
their share of it. If a Kansas or Ne
braska farmer sees his corn shriveling
under the hot winds , he has only to
pick up the paper to read that Secre
tary Wilson , ex-Secretary Vanderlip
every officeholder and supporter of the
administration says that the damage
to corn has been greatly exaggerated.
If a farmer in Ohio , Michigan , or the
far northwest notes that the operations
of the woolen trust have forced down
the price of wool to a point at which it
is scarce worth clipping , he can still
read in the newspapers of farmers buy
ing automobiles with their surplus
gains and deserting populism as all
rich men should. The emblematic full
dinner pail looms so big that it makes
many a man ashamed to speak of his
empty cupboard , while with tlfe biggest
per capita circulation of money the
country has ever seen , a man is ob
viously himself alone to blame if his
share has not correspondingly in
creased. It is so "flattering to know
that Mr. Rockefeller and you made
over $10,000,600 last year , you natural
ly hesitate to identify your share as
the ? 600.
Probably never in the history of the
world has so much money been made
by a few men as in the last year. .
Perhaps never did the men who made
so much money give so little useful
service in return.
In earlier ages of our industrial life
a man has worked a lifetime to create
a business , adding a little to his plant
as events justified it , extending his
trade , and heartily content if after en
joying a comfortable income as the
fruits of his industry himself , he was
able to leave a sound , remunerative
business to his family. But that is not
the ideal of business life today ; the
men who are making the most money
and notoriety out of the steel business ,
for example , never saw the inside of a
mill. Where the old-time manufacturer
built up his own mill or factory , work
ing in it and understanding its every
detail , these men by juggling slips of
paper called stock and bonds , consoli
date a number of mills and elect them-
selves to position of enormous profit
and power.
FREE TRADE IS DEATH TO TRUSTS.
The Protective Tariff League has
taken a groat deal of pleasure in try
ing to magnify ttie number and 1m- .
portance of trade combinations in frea
trade England , thus trying to snoWj
that it is not the protection given the
trusts In the United States that Is one
of the main causes of their monopoly. '
as in free trade England trusts arc
likewise numerous. Even this prop of
the League has now tumbled down , lor
the few combines that have been
formed in England havewith one ex-j
ception all failed or are practically
bankrupt.
Commenting on this state of affairs
the Boston Transcript says : "The
cause of this decline is not far to seek.
In the first place the free-trade policy
of the United Kingdom subjects these
combines to the competition of the
whole world , and now that over-pro
duction in the textile industries Is se
riously threatened , even if it has not
actually arrived , they can no longer
maintain monopoly prices. When many-
of the younger men associated with
the private firms as junior partners or
simply as salaried managers and ser
vants , have been cast adrift in the ef
forts of the combines tosecureeconomy
and have started business on their
own account , only as a rule , in a mod
erate way , but with the most modern
machinery and careful attention to
every detail which more than coun
terbalances any supposed cheapening
of production on an immense scale ,
and their competition is already being
keenly felt. "
This shows that if our trusts here
are shorn o the protection they en
joy under the present tariff , many of
them would find it impossible to main
tain the enormous profits they are now
making , for competition would com
pel them to sell as cheaply as the for
eign product could be sold here. It is
also possible that in some lines of
production similar competition will
start up , as in England , from those
who have been let out of business
when the trusts were organized and
again give them a chance to earn a
living at work they have been used to.
As the tariff is so high on most of
these trusts productions that it has
been prohibitive in nearly every case ,
there will be no loss of revenue to
the government as there is none now
paid , as the trusts is protected from
competition by the 50 or 60 per cent
or even higher duty that the custom
house would demand.
ANARCHIST AND ARCHISTS.
There are some newspapers in the
United States that would be greatly
offended if they were styled anarchists
and yet they are attempting to destroy
all that they do not believe in and that
is as much the teachings of anarchy
as the miserable fulminations of Herr
Most. The Inter Ocean and the Brook-
lyn Eagle are examples of this , one
styling itself Republican and the latter
calling itself Democratic God save the
mark.
The Eagle says : "We are glad we
never wrote a yellow editorial to the
effect that law is a bloody shame , that
a man who works with his hands
should rightly be killed by a man who
works with his mouth , that sweat of
jaw is better than sweat of brow. "
Commenting on this the Nebraska
Independent says it is glad that it
never had any sympathy with a man
like the one , who under the present
circumstances would write like that.
He is one of those who never did a
day's work causing the "sweat of the
brow" in all , his life , and he never saw
an editorial of the kind that he de
precates. What is more probable he
is a patronizer of such papers as Heir
Most publishes. It was there , and there
only , that such writings have appeared ,
that this journalistic skunk would have
his readers believe that such doctrines
have been taught by all those who
have not believed in the gold standard
banks running this government , and
hides his venom behind such state
ments as the above. He rightfully be
longs to the same class of degenerates
as the one who assassinated the presi
dent.
NO RULER IN THIS COUNTRY.
In speaking of the President of the
United States many newspapers and
nearly all -preachers call him the
ruler of the country. This is a great
mistake. Under our Democratic Re
publican form of government there
can be no rulers , the officers elected
are the servants of the people and not
their ruler , or are we advanced so far
towards imperialism that our officials
have in a measure usurped power that
the constitution does not give and as
sume to rule ? Under our new colonial
government in the Philippines the
army is the ruler , though the farce is
being enacted of a civil government ,
and the governor-general' is a ruler
with despotic power , which the mili
tary execute , the power being derived
from the President. That is imperial
ism. Ruling other people in that way
may accustom the people of the United
States to a despotic form of govern
ment that in the end they may sub
mit themselves to be ruled , but as long
as grass grows and water runs there
will be a Democracy to resist sucn
usurpation. We want no ruler in this
country , we must have honest ser
vants of the people to carry out the
work , for the time , for which they
have been elected.
Sheriff North of Alabama , who de
fended his negro prisoner at the risk
of his life , has done the noblest deed
for the South and is entitled to the
thanks of the people of the whole
country. Lynching Is a remnant of
barbarism and must be stayed.
'
Commoner Comment
Extracts From W. J. Bryan's Paper. 4 ,
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Dolllver on Anarchy.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa made a
speech at the Memorial Services held in
Chicago on Sunday , September 22d. In
the course of his remarks he took occas
ion to discuss two phases of the ques
tion of anarchy , or rather two remedies.
Some seem to think that anarchy can
not be suppressed without limitingthe
freedom of speech and the freedom of
the press. It is refreshing- find one
so eminent in the republican party as
Mr. Dolliver challenging this dangerous
doctrine. He says :
"A government like ours is always
slow to move , and often awkward in its
motions , but it can be trusted to find
effective remedies for conditions like
these , at least after they become intoler
able. But these remedies , in order to
become effective , must not evade the
sense of justice which is universal , nor
the traditions of civil liberty , which we
have inherited from our fathers. The
bill of rights written in the English
language , stands for too many centuries
of sacrifice , too many battlefields satis
fied by blood , too many hopes of man
kind reaching toward the ages to come ,
to be mutilated in the least in order to
meet the case of a handful of miscreants
whose names nobody can pronounce. "
Anarchy can be overcome witbout im
pairing the liberties of the people or
trenching upon those rights which are
essential to the republic. His sugges
tions go further than temporary sup
pression of anarchy. He deals with
some of the causes which lead up to and
develop the spirit of anarchy. He says :
"It ought not to be forgotten that
conspirators , working out their nefar
ious plans in secret , in the dens and
caves of the earth , enjoy an unconscious
co-operation and side partnership with
every lawless influence abroad in the
world. Legislatures who betray the
commonwealth , judges who poison the
fountains of justice , city governments
which come to terms with crime all
these are regular contributors to the
campaign fund of anarchy. "
There is food for thought in what
Senator Dolliver says. Lawlessness in
high places breeds lawlessness among
less conspicuous individuals , and it will
be difficult to teach the humbler mem
bers of society respect for law and gov
ernment if there are men or corpora
tions so great that they can with im
punity defy the law and the authority
of the government.
The senator also refers to the burn
ings which have taken place in several
sections of the union and declares that
they do not contribute to the safety of
society. Lynch law is either a reflec
tion upon the government or it is an in
dication of unrestrained passion upon
the part of the mob. If the government
is efficiently administered there is no
occasion to resort to lynch law , and if
it is not efficiently administered it is
better to reform the government than
to set aside its authority.
But when the mob , not satisfied with
taking the life of the victim , adds tor
ture , it betrays a brutality that shames
our civilization. The assaults upon
women which have been the cause of
most of the burnings , are indescribably
wicked , but it is enough that the guilty
party should atone for the deed with
his life. The taking of a human life ,
even in the enforcement of the laws of
society , is a grave and serious thing.
To torture a human being to death
amid shouts of revenge is debasing and
cannot but result injuriously to society.
The assassination of the president
will bring about a discussion of law
lessness and lead to an investigation of
the influences which lead to lawless
ness.
Senator Dolliver has gone deeper into
the subject than many of the republi
can editors who have .sought to hide
their own responsibility behind col
umns of partisan abuse. He is to be
congratulated upon the courage which
he has manifested and the breadth of
view he has shown.
There is much talk now about so
amending the immigration laws as to
exclude anarchists , and it is hoped
that this will be done. The law should
be strict on this point and the immi
grant should be compelled to assert
his belief , not only in some form of
government , but his belief in our form
of government. And , while he is
swearing , it would not hurt him to de
clare that he accepts the Declaration
of Independence as his political creed.
Mr. Hearst's papers the New York
Journal , the Chicago American , and
the San Francisco Examiner have ,
since the assassination been made ob
jects of attack by all the republican
papers. From the manner in which
Mr. Hearst is returning the fire it is
evident that he intends to continue his
crusade against monopolistic wealth
and entrenched privilege.
The men who advocated lynch law
in the case of Czolgosz should ponder
well on the outcome of the assassin's
trial. The assassin was given a fair trial
and the spectacle is one calculated to
increase respect for law and order. A
lynching would have been an incentive
to anarchy.
"It seems utterly impossible for the
republican papers to tell the truth
about Mr.t Bryan. " Fulton , ( Mo. , )
Telegraph.
No , not impossible ; only highly im
probable. '
The fact that , Kitchener always
dwells at length on the Boer casualties
is no sign there are DO British casual
ties.
The attention of one Philander Knox
IB called to the Labor Day speech of
President Theodore Boosevelt.
Senator Cockrell'a '
Position , .
Senator Cockrell of Missouri is ona
of the many democrats whose ] X > sitiori
on public questions has been misrepre
sented by the republican and gold
democratic papers which attempt so
persistently to create the impression ;
that the gold standard has teen ac
cepted by the American people. The
senator takes occasion to connect cer
tain statements that were attributed
to him , and says :
"I never said the silver question was
dead. On the contrary , I said I believed
in bimetallism as firmly as ever , but it
was nOwimpossiblein a practical sense ,
to make it a vital or living issue , as
long as we were having a constant in
crease in the volume of money , the
main object we had in advocating bij
metallisra , and which increase had es
tablished our principle , that an increase *
in the volume of money would tend to
restore prosperity and revive business , ?
and proved we were right. Notwith
standing the increased production of
gold , still I do not believe that gold
will prove sufficient in production and
volume to meet the demands of the
world's business. When that time cornea
bimetallism will again by a practical
issue , and I shall be for it r.t 10 to 1 ,
the only practical ratioin my judgment.
I shall oppose in the f utue , as I have
in the past , all attempts to demonetize
the silver dollar , or to take away its
legal tender , or to transfer the issue of
our paper currency to the national
banks , or to cancel the greenbacks. "
President Roosevelt on Trusts.
In his speech at Minneapolis on Labor
Day , President Boosevelt said :
"More and more it is evident that the
state , and if necessary the nation , has
got to possess the right of supervision
and control as regards the great cor
porations which are its creatures , par
ticularly as regards the great business
combinations which derive a portion of
their importance from the existence of
some monopolistic tendency. "
Mr. Boosevelt was then vice-presi
dent and as such had little influence in
shaping the policy of his party. He is
now president and in a position to give
force and effect to his views on the
trust question. As the chief executive
it is his duty to enforce the law as he
finds it. If the present attorney-gen
eral is not willing to carry out his inr
structions he can demand his resigpj >
tion and appoint a new attorney-gen
eral. He can give no excuse for a fail
ure to enforce the law. "When he was
exercising authority in New York City
he took the position that a lav/j
ought either to be enforced or repealed. '
It is to be hoped that he will take the
same position now. . N
Not only is he in control of the ex
ecutive branch of the government , butt
he has a senate , house and supremo
court in political harmony with himJ
If existing laws are not sufficient , hd
has the power of recommendation and
can propose measures sufficiently se-j
vere to give the people the protection' '
which he admits to be needed. It will1
be interesting to watch the new presi
dent and see whether the hostility td
trusts manifested by him when he was'
laying his plans to capture the next ?
republican convention is increased or
lessened by the responsibilities of
office to which he aspired.
The London Daily Mail says that J.
Pierpont Morgan is finding some diffi
culty in getting the famous painting ,
' ' " into the
'Duchess of Devonshire ,
United States. As the reputed price >
paid was one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars , the tariff on it would be
about thirty thousand. Mr. Morgan'
ought not to be afraid of a little taxlike
that. He did what he could to elect
the republican ticket in ' 96 and 1900 , ;
and double that rate is collected on the
clothing and food used by the people. ;
The Kansas City Journal says : "It is
nevertheless true that the kind of
speeches Mr. Bryan and many other'
orators have been making about the
country for the last four or five years
have a tendency to promote anarchist
tic thought and sentiment. " Accord
ing to the Journal it is all right for
the republicans to commit a wrong but )
improper for the democrats to call at- >
tention to it. \
Tne republican papers that were so
quick to spread reports misrepresent
ing Chancellor Andrews' views on ly
ing and anarchy are slow to publish
his denials. Instead of excusing 01
defending either ; he denounced both.
After Czolgosz is condemned and ex
ecuted ( the sooner thebetter ) it might
be proper to ask the governor of Indi
ana to surrender the man who is under
indictment for aiding in the assassin
ation of Gov. Goebel. '
Miss Anthony says Mrs. Nation
should have tried other and better
ways of putting down whiskey. Miss
Anthony , however , did not mean that
as it sounds.
Admiral Howison might have saved
himself a great deal of trouble by
learning before hand the difference be-j
tween Hackett and public opinion.
If an effort is made to prevent the
criticisms o'f public officials Mr. Quay ,
would seem to be the proper person to
champion the measure in the senate , j
Many rules for the pronunciation of
the name of the president's assassin
are going the rounds. The final
nunciation will be "d-e-a-d. "
In discussing ways and means f or tha
eradication of anarchy due attention
should be given the causes which tend
to promote anjchy , J
