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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1908)
: -x IjiM . - , . vclt .savs he will not reply t > Bryan's List it'lter , because it is a per sonal .ita ( < k : tid In. " will not tt ign to noli- * * iK'rsoasil attacks. "A personal attack" forsooth. Since \vhcn ilid lu g-'t so "touchy" about por- Hiul attacks ? Tlx-ro lias never beim a man in the White House \vlio IMS rt ruthlessly jumped onto overy- iKvly ainl everything , regard k'.Sh ' * f facts awl i nlitiou * > as this same Tlieo- dor Roosevelt , lie sentenced men to th An.ini'i.s dub with as little ado as y > u v/iiuhl take a chew of tobacco. * He caJU'tl a man an "undesirable ciii * ' zen" just the. same as he would imite a. man to dinner. And now he is touched t ed because Bryan makes a personal : it- ( tuck on him. But a.s.suming for the sake of argu- * incut th.ir it is a personal attack , \vliy , did ! i ' d > > itV Did not Roosevelt invite * ' It ? Hid he not brag that when he got \ to Washington he would put some giu- ' ; .ger in the campaign : and if Bryan has f -yul A little i > f the ginger into Teddy's cyo. > . JLJ- , lie any kick coining ? We decid"flly think not. 5 Bui a * a matter of fact. Bryan did aot in any way make .1 personal attack ft oa Koo.-veveU. Far from it. he dis- S ! the issueof the campaign and < vl to him on Tmir-cljy by the people o lop'ka and the surrounding count r.v Mr Bryan has been in Topeka on scv eral other occasions , but at no tim | have so many people turned out to liea him or have they cheered him so entlui Mast it-ally. Topeka Journal. As a proposed compromise the "Tuft Stevenson Club" incorporated at Spring field may be part of shrewd but futil plan to hold in check the independen Republican voters , whose protest : against the Deiu'en administration nov threaten Republicanism in Illinois will the results of 1SH2. Against any snrh attempt. Stevensm is as squarely Democratic now ns In was in 18or ! ) as when be presided ii the Senate as Vice President of tin Tnited States , from IS ! ) . " , to 1807. The issues thus piescnted are as well dc fined now as then. He has supported Democracy without flinching or compro mising from his beginnings in Illinois politics to 1000 and since. When Illi nois g.ive him its indorsement , will many who had been Republicans votinj for him. it was on the issues of nationa control through Democr.itic principles as be was known and as be is stil known to represent them. * ' SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE ? r , s : f NOT WHILE I/if ? pir " - Detroit Times. nothing el.se. Xo political letter could Iiav been fair1or more to the pointer or more free fr < m personal rancor and abuse than this < amc letter of Bryan to tlie President. Uur. one thing , anybody can see with Half an eye- and that is thai Bryan got the best of Roo-evelt. He was too zmich i"or him I i the end. At fir.st we thought P.ryan was hurting his cause , we think he laid it all over li. The cfiliVrence , too. is this : Bryan wields a lawyer's pen while IVddy writes a < ? n layman and we want 2o tell you that we know just enough about it to be abl io tell you that the lawyer gets the long end of the string every time. Bryan tied Teddy into a double bowknot. lie locked the door wJtli Teddy on the inside and Bryan Uirvw the key into the well. We tin not pretend to know enough to s.jy what the effect of the corre- sp'Hitlcnco will be and we do not know tli.it we care very much. It will not zii.ike much ( inference in the tinal re sult , we feel sure , but in the last analysis - sis it must be admitted that Teddy 8Tt his nose punched in the last tilt with Bryan. And what a pity that T * 1 ly is so sensitive. Washington { Iv.va ) Democrat. . " > Jr. JJryimV I iiiir < > \ cd Oratory. Twelve year.s of campaigning have .iftVcted the vigor of the Nebraska n it lias been to increase it. He H rtj.illyji more forceful orator to-day than he wa > when be first entered the li. ls for the presidency of the United St-Jles. This is .s ( because his remarks ! and arguments are presented in far nmr. ' conservative language th.in he wji > ont to tse at t'ie ' Ivginning of his j career. It is for * this reason. ) g other4- , perlia'p4. tJiat Mr. Bryan j Js n stronger man with the people of j tills 'ountry now than he has ever been j fwi'yrt. That is admitted on all sides , end was nhiinly evidenced by the really reception which was accord- After having been an Illinois Vice President of the United States he is not running for ( loiernor of the Stale nufiely against De.ne.cn. To run for ( lovornor merely to evict Deneen from ollice ; to turn out the Deneen men with whom the public institutions of Illinois have been overloaded at the cost of the taxpayers : to malcc a campaign merely to get ollice and the spoils of ollice , is not what any intelligent voter in Illi nois , Republican or Demoeiat , expects from Stevenson. No one needs to be told that as a candidate for Governor of Illinoishe is running in support oC the principles lu has alwaj's represent ed and that necessarily he is running against Taft and Deneen , not against Deneen only. Republicans e.-rnnot vote for him intelligently on any other basis lie will be ready to tell any honest Re publican , if any honest Repuhlicu : could need to be told , that he car repre sent no one who \\isbes the pnblk- busi ness of Illinois ami of the United StaVs to be administered as it has been during the last year , the last four years , the last ten years. He is as much opposed to Cannon as Jo Taft. to Taft as lo Deneen. His candidacy squares issues in IllinoisSt. . Louis Republic. \Viimt KoM-r When the Chicago plarf.orm declares "once more -ind without reservation for the onlorc. menl in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fif teenth Amendments to the Constitu tion" it prefaces tbi.s by demanding "equal justice for all men without re- tird to race or color. " The ni'.sl spu-c-hing ; question of the cimpaiirn was put at Ilarrisbun : , 111. , v. ben it was asked \\lint equal justice l < all men is to mean when the protect ed income' of -.inirle stockholder from his privileges in a giant corporation amounts to 97. i.OJH > a day. Te ! siver.ige income of the employes of the- giant corporation system as it controls what is left of our infant In dustrle amounts , as officially reported t to $10.0(5 ( a week , on which , without re gard to race or color , as is now perti nently remarked in Illinois , they find no difficulty in dying poor. As the Chicago platform states the total wealth of the country at a hun dred and ten thousand million dollars , the gospel ot wealth as it is proclaimed from the basis of the protected income of $70,000 a day makes dying poor a test of patriotism in its beneficiaries , a proof of the gratitude they feel for the unequaled opportunities they have for living rich. If they are to lune equal justice , without regard to race or color , an average ( ? erage income of ? IO.OG a week iroin i- government privileges , supported by taxation on other incomes , would not force them to die poor. It would leave them all they have now of their giant t- abilities , with all business income pos sible from these , plus ? 10.00 weekly as < the average on which each of 3.207,80 workers protected during sixty hours of hard labor weekly now subsists un der the system. If this would not be satisfactory , the question on the Chica go platform , as it was suggested from Harrisbnrg , III. , is what equal justice for all men without regard = to race or color means when it is rv question of beinjust to " protected giants , "with out reservation. " St. Louis Republic. The Siiuaro r > e : l. Nothing to parallel last week' ? out break from President Roosevelt can be s f < " . : nd in the : ini , ils of An orica'i poli- rhat is a strong statement to make , but one entirely warranted by facts. It is undignified for the Presi dent to actively participate in political campaigning , but it is something infin itely worse when the nation's Chief Ex ecutive stoops to deliberate misrepre sentation to give his partisan polemics the requisite sting. Since Mr. Roosevelt is not himself a candidate for otlice the serious import ance "of his unseemly exhibition lies iu the significant fact that what he says has The implied approval and In some respects the direct indorsement of Mr. Taft , who is a candidate. The judicial temperament and the character of fair ness which the Republican nominee for Piosident admittedly possesses are not proof against the influences that come from his environment. lie cannot be what his own instincts would make him. but is compelled to become what his po litical creator would have him. This extraneous issue , thrust unex pectedly into the presidential campaign , has become .it once the question of parmount importance. It is a question of the "square deal" for which Mr. Rc i\se\elt has so frequently. > o obfru- .shely , so blatanily appealed both in of- licial and unofficial utterances. lie has nade an isbue his party must meet. It is not the question of the guilt or In nocence of Ilaskcll. It is the greater quest ion of fair play and about that I lie American people are united and unanimous in their sentiment. They would have no man held guilty until he i- : fairly convicted in court or before the bar of public sentiment That is what they understand by the square deal and to that sort of square deal i they are unalterably committed.si. . Louis Republic. ilo rwutor. In the midst of the storm of protest aroused all over the country by Con gressman Longworth's assertion that after eight years of Taft .Air. Roosevelt proposed to become President again come.s a bright smile from Omaha. Some editors believe in adhering to certain principles no matter by whom those principles are laid down. Others believe in adherence to party with a blind fatuousness that sees nothing but good in its own party and nothing but bad in the others. p y some strange fatality the tariff plank of the Rqmb- lican platform strayed into the office of ihe Omaha Bee under false pretenses. Lnder the impression that it was a dic tum of Mr. Bryan , Editor liosewater handled it without gloves on the gen eral principle that anything emanating from Bryan was had. When he discovered that his pains taking controvcrsion had been directed against the platform of his own party the Omaha editor wa t surprised. Such things are always likely to happen where blind devotion to party takes the place of reason , and 5 newspaper fol lows the candidate without regard to right or wrong. , Congressman Loiigwcrth's statement continues to evoke strong opposition , and is quite th" feature of the cam paign. Republicans and Democrats alike condemn any plnn to make the presidency of the United States an as set of the Roosevelt family. Long- worth's bold statement will cost Taft thousands of votes. Republican leaders and Republican newspapers are avoiding all mention of it. but the Democratic national commit tee will see that every voter in the country is informed fully , and many Republicans will vote for Bryan to put a stop to the Roosevelt ambitious. At the lowest official estimate the expenditure involved in the purchase and conquest of the Philippines was .SI7. .000/HJO. The revenues of the isl ands fall short by $ l . ( KU.OOO ) yearly of pacing the co > l OL the military estab lishment. As a business enterprise the investment of public funds in the Philippines has proved a dismal failure. Xo one in authority ventures to predict Avhen the islands will be self-sustaining. We have derived no appreciable benefit from them as a "commercial outpost" tor our commerce with the Orient. The Philippines arc a luxury , and the tax- pjryers of the United States foot thff bills. Baltimore Sun. I FROM THE OOJVIMONBR MR. The First Voter. Young uian. great responsibilit.v at taches to jour first vote. As you begin , so you are likely to continue. The mo mentum tliat carries you into a parry at the beginning of your political life is apt to keep you in that party unless some convulsion shakes you out of it. Start right , and in order that you may start right , examine the principles of the par ties and the policies which they advo cate. cate.There There are two great party organiza tions in the United States , one fifty years old , and the other more than a century old. Tihe Republican party has been in power almost uninterruptedly for more than half a century and under its reign abuses have grown up which threaten the perpetuity of the government and endan ger our civilization. So great are these j abuses that Republican reformers are now pointing out that something must be done and what can be done ? The first thing is to undo the things tliat have i been done , and the party to undo these abuses is not the party -which has done them , but the party which has protested against these abuses and pointed out rem edies. The Republican party has turned the taxing power over to private individuals ; it has allowed monopolies to grow up and assume control of the industries of the country by granting privileges by law and by giving immunity to the large violators lators of the law ; the Republican party has permitted the fortunes of the preda tory rich to become so large that govern ment is corrupted , politics debauched ant ] business polluted. The Democratic party proposes to withdraw the taxing power from private hands , to so legislate as to make a pri vate monopoly impossible , and to enforce the law without discrimination. It pro poses to protect legitimate wealth and punish those who attempt to plunder the public for jivate j gain. On which side do you stand , young man ? Are you with th masses in their effort to restore the government to its old foundation and make it a government of the people , for the people and by the people , or are you with tihe Republican leaders in their ef- publican managers hnve sought to recover some lost ground. They print the iiamos of two contributor ? , Andrew Carnegie and Airs. Russell Sage , and they announce that they will make other contributions public AFTER TUB ELECTION. An Associated Press dispatch tolls the story in this waj : "Xew York. Oct. 0. The fact that An drew Carnegie has contributed ? 'JO. < XX > to the campaign fund of the Republican cause was announced to-day by State Chairman Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff al.so announced that Mrs. Russell Sage has contributed SI,000 to the same fund. There have been no other large contri butions from individual4Mr. . Woodruff said , but small sums are coming in from \arious sources. George R. Sheldon , treasurer of the national committee , when asked about the contributions , declined to discuss them , saying that he would pub lish a LIST OP ALL THE CONTRI BUTIONS MADE TO THE REPUBLI CAN COMMITTEE AFTER ELEC TION. " If the Republican managers are willing .o make Carnegie's contribution public , why not give the names of other heavy contributors ? The explanation is that Mr. Carnegie has given away so many libraries out of the money which he has obtained through "undue favoritism" the hands of the government thar the Republican managers rely upon his ' 'pop ularity' ' among the people to prevent the fact of his contribution doing injury. But let it be remembered that Andrew Carnegie has good reason to contribute to Republican campaign fund and we need go uo farther than to a Republic.n news paper for proof. Several years ago it was reported ( hat Andrew Carnegie had offered to piy : $ liO.- 000.000 for the Philippine Islands , pro vided he was permitted to assure the Filipinos pines that they would be given their in dependence. Commenting upon this story , the Chicago cage Tribune said that the steel mag nate "has tried the patience of his friend- * severely in some of his late bids for no toriety. ' * It expressed the opinion that Mr. Carnegie is constantly posing , and said "he scattered libraries throughout "Afraid of the Light" fort to perpetuate the party in power by selling immunity in return for campaign contributions ? There are always two parties in the country , and one is necessarily nearer to the people than the other. In this coun try the Democratic party is nearer to the people than th Republican party. It leaders bare moie faith in the people and are more anxious to keep the go\ em inent under the control of the people. rake the election of United States Sena tors by the people ns a test. The Demo- crate want to give to the voters a chance to elect and to control their representa tives in the United States Senne. The Democratic party in the House of Repre sentatives passed the first resolution for the submission of the necessary constitu tional amendment. They did this eight pears before any Republican Congress lid it. The Democratic party has thrice temanded this reform in its national platform. Thr Republican party has not 3one so. Why do Democratic leaders insist upon this reform and Republican leaders oppose it ? There can be but one inswer the Democratic party is nearer to the people than the Republican party. JToung nvin. will yon stand with the people ple or against them ? The answer to this question affects 7our country. If you are with the people ple your influence , be it great or small , s-ill hasten their victory. If you are igainst the people your influence may re- ardhat victory. But while in the first nstance it is your country that may gain r lose bV your action , you must remem- ier that in the long run your own posi- ion in politics will depend upon your ouduct. You can not fool the people al- vays. You may lead them astray if you lare , but they will punisli you when they ind you out. You may work for the eople without their recognizing it at irst , but you can trust them to discover he character of your work and to reward on accordingly. Afraid ot the Anticipating the publication by the Democrats of their campaign fund , Be- the country , all of which are to be called ' cc for him , and every one of them is * a con P. tribution to the conscience fund. ' " nt Then the Tribune said : " .Mr. Carnegie la made his money in a magnificent way. sa but he should ne\er forget that he made tit it through the undue favoritism of the sovernment of the United States. Owing cu to the discrimination practiced in his- Pi favor by the tariff , he as enabled to le amass a fortune of § 200..000.000 or more. bn most of which came out of the pockets of ye his countrymen througii the operation of su unequal laws. Much has been said of pr the benefit arising to the workingmeu ur from the establishment of the Carne-rie works. The beneficent tariff system per pi mitted the works to .survive and flourish. til but there are some people who Lave not to > forgotten the Homestead strike , nor tiie in outrageous manner in which the workingmen - is ispn ingmen were treated at the time by em pn ployers whose brutality has seldom been exceeded in the history of labor agitations lui tions/ ' The Republican party has , in every 1 presidential campaign and congressional die campaign , been financed by the men to th whom they have granted what the Chicago thi cage Tribune calls "undue favoritism. " fo Does any one imagine that the tariff me barons and trust magnates will withhold th. contributions from the Republican cam paign fund this year ? Does any one be lieve that the Republican party will ever revise the tariff in the interest of the Li consumers so long ns it obtains its cam ca paign funds from the tariff barons ? lit Is anyone surprised tiiat the Repub lican managers are afraid of the light ? no . Tlio Tiix Is Still There. pa There's a tender reminiscence that Is foi surging through my soul iss As I gaze upon the doughnut with a thin ring 'round the hole : "Jus a memory abiding of the halcyon tie > of days yore " " and demanded tie When I hollered for "protection" manded "four years more , " cai And kept up a campaign singing in a very na icstv tone do ; That just what the countrj needed wa * "let well enough alone. ' Now the captains have departed , hushed the loud , tumultuous dm ' but the And the dinner pali _ * empty tax is on the tin. is empty , but the Yes , the dinner pail tax is on the tin : clothing , and cne And a tax upon my clothing v.-enriug thin. ' the cradle of the babe There's a tax upon of which I'm proud : ' table-there 11 bone There's a tax upon ray one upon my shroud. " " till my Ye > , I cried out for "protection" throat was raw and lioarser _ And I got it , O I got itbut 'twas in th * neck , of cour-e. Yes , the promise was as empty as tn argaincnt was thin. An-I the dinner pail is empty but the tax is on the tin. " shouted i "Four years more" we gaily "we'll let well enough alone ! was gobbled by the Tint the tariff soup bone. trusts we get the "Workingmen must have protection , vraa our rousing battlecry , And the tariff barons cheered us as wo marched so proudly by. Now the barons have departed to gay scenes in Paris. France. And the badge of our' protection is tha patch upon our pants , And \\e lift the lid and ponder a * TVS sadly gaze within. That although the pail is empty , still the tax is on the tin. Rockefeller has his millions that he grabbed through tariff graft ; Carnegie has just as many , and they're x - both of them for Taft. Morgan. Ilaemvert Dnpont , and tha whole protection bunch Li\e in fntness while yours truly only gets hot air for lunch. Once a pail filled to repletion , now a. dc " h'iut with a hole , And "in -iion" that's as scanty as a tariff giafter's soul. O. they fooled us good and plenty just aa > eon as they got in , For the dinner pail i empty but the tar is 0:1 the tin. W. M. M. Th % . < imcuKciit : ot Prosperity. . * * inir is an extract from the As- Press report concerning Mr. Bryan's Strratov. III. , speech : "Addressing . / cheering crowd at the bar.qrot here to-day , where he spoke for an hour. W. .1. P.rjan declared that at > \ A'M tf \ v osroi / * * * l " * Jr i vJ * / fK f ' s r * ic to the lode of the Republican arty his election this year can be de- uuiderl. Lie was discussing the panic oft ! -t fall. 'According to their logic , ' he iid. 'it is n Republican panic and I am ic advance agent of prosperity. My ectioTi can be demanded as tie only lie for the haul times from which the uiple are sufiVriuiT. ' lie quoted some cent statistics showintr the number of isiue'.s failures during the nast few \-irs and declared that the number of ich failurein tlie nine months of the esont 3ear was greater than the fail- : e- for fheanv period in 1S93. 'It is ss than n week. " be said , 'that the Re- ihlican ! papers of Chicago were telling int fifteen thousand children were going school hunjrry every morning , and that , y ; frieuds is not a past condition. It ihnt condition which , according to Re- iblicnn papery exists today. Tftie R&- iblican party. ' he asserted , 'was abso- tely helpless to proiw e a remedy. ' He minded business men that they were to governed 'not by prophesies and pre- etions of interested parties , whether ey be Democrats or Republicans , bat at they are to work the question out r : themselves , and not to accept on argu- ent unless that argument appeals to eir . common sense. " " "I speak for myself , as well as for ittle Willie , " said 3Ir. Sherman , at Chi- ; ; ro. But why doesn't "Willie" do t tie more speaking for himself , Tames ? It seems that the cabinet officers are .t given much opportunity to males cam- .ign speeches. They must be on hami r consultation before the Preaidsat can ue campaign letters. If all the men guilty of trust csmnee- ns are retired from active pariicipa- m in the management of the g. o. p. mpaign , the rooms of the Reirablican .tional committee would resemble * n air me resort in Januarv.
