BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Have you flisted? How do you like
your new home.
—She may be small but the big stick ap-
parently has no terrors for Venezuela.
—The early bird is picking up an occa-
sional worm in the onion beds these days.
—Tom WATSON is to lead a new party
which will probably be made up of Tom
and himself.
—The weather took a turn colder yes-
terday, probably the overflow of that west-
ern blizzard.
' —If the fignres on the label on your
paper don’t suit you. It will be our pleas—
ure to correct them.
—Chicago undertakers are offering trad-
ing stamps with every funeral, but few
people are really dying to get them.
—The Beef Trust has sent prices up
another notch, but that wouldn't be so bad
during Lent if shad would only come down
a little.
— Most people want a good thing and
that is probably the reason the WarcH-
MAN subsoribers were so prompt in set
sling up.
—King GEORGE, of Greeoe, is the poor-
est of all foreign monarchs. His income is
only seven hundred dollare a day. Poor
GEORGE !
—Mr. BRYAN has been invited to the
JEFFERSON dinner in New York, but not
tospeak. It will be interesting to see
whether he can do it.
—The King of Portugal is so bard up
that he has had to sell some of his horses.
There are lots of things the ordinary man
preters to being a king.
—Senator GORE has declared that La
FOLLETE is the best Democrat in the Unit-
ed States, but Senator GORE has never seen
BRYAN nor DAVE HILL.
—Col. JoHN A. DALEY eays he didn’s
want to be a candidate for the nomination
for Commissioner, but that doesn’t mean
that Col. DALEY wouldn’s like to have it.
—The shadow of TAFT is not growing
soy less, but then we would a great deal
sooner fight TAFT than Senator KNoX or
Governor HUGHES, because be would be so
much easier to lick.
—1It might be all right to exclude Vene-
zuelan coffee and aspbals until Venezuela
learns how to behave herself, but inasmuch
as we need both commodities might we not
be cutting off our nose to spite our face.
—Senator JEFF DAVIS has been outting
capers sure enough in Arkaveas. The
Lord knows it is bad enough for him to be
fighting in the Senate chamber, but this
business of fighting on the streets is awful.
—If it is true thas our friend ‘‘Ghost”
Lroyp has copped out an heiress he will
prohably be able to write a realistio se-
quel to his Chronic Loafer, the book that
first attracted attention to him as an au-
thor.
—These are busy times for the ocavndi-
dates. The vew primaries aot makes a
nomination almost as bard so get ae an
election and as April 11th is drawing nigh
they are all getting into the canvas! with
a hustle.
—The rash to the newly discovered gold
fields of Alaska has begun again. It is es-
_ timated that fifteen thousand miners will
start before July 1st. On the whole they
will spend more money Shan they will
bring back.
—With ANNA GourLp dippy about an-
other one of those French fortune hunters
and ALFRED VANDERBILT being sued for
divorce there onght to be enongh gossip
in New York sooiety these days to keep all
tongues a wagging.
—The KAISER bas decided to forego fur-
ther gourmandizing at the TOWER tables
and accept HILt. Init dyspepsia or diplo-
macy that prompts his change of attitnde
toward the new Ambassadorjwho has been
pamed for the German poet.
—The foot work of Senator JEFF DAVIS
was especially notable during that fight he
had on the streets of Little Rook, Ark., on
Tuesday. In all accounts of his speed in
getting away there is proof thatjthe Senate
is not made up entirely of gouty, eorepid
old men.
—That claim we advertised for so many
months has not been settled yet. It is
still for sale but since so many of the poor-
er readers of the WATOHMAN have been so
prompt in paying up in tall we don’t need
to sell it no badly so the price will be put
up a little when we start to advertising
it again.
~The Boston Transcript says that ‘‘AB-
BEY’S paintings for the dome of the Penn-
eylvania capitol represent the westward
march of religions liberty. The other ap-
pointments of the edifice represents
someing different.” Yes, they represent the
march top the grafters toward the peni-
tentiary.
—Why won't women be seneible ? Here
when times are hard and work scarce they
have to go and adopt bigger bmis tind: ever
for their spring style. The bigger the hat,
the bigger the bunch of flowers on it and
the bigger the milliner’s bill, It seems to
us that a plain little toque or afez would
have been more in keeping with our purses
ust now.
A Dangerous Proportion.
appears to have more faith in
dent than it is safe to indulge.
the President would supply twenty-five
votes for six of the measures pending in
Congress which he professes to cherish, the
else is necessary to secure their passage.
years and some of which have been at oue
time or another most strenuously opposed
danger in making any kind of a proposition
to RoosEvELT is that he will betray his
pledges whenever he imagines thas such
reoreanoy will be to his advantage, politic:
ally or otherwise.
Only two years ago President ROOSE-
VELT entered into an alliance with Sena-
tors BAILEY, of Texas, and TILLMAN, of
South Carolina, to secure the passage of
the railroad rate legislation then pending.
The arrangement had been made through
the mediation of former Senator WILLIAM
E. CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, who
acted for the President, and was complete
and comprehensive. But when the Presi-
dent found that be could get an inferior
measure, through his own party, he in-
stantly repudiated his agreement with the
Southern Senators and promptly put them
into the ANANIAS club when they protest-
ed. CHANDLER testified that it was the
President rather than the Senators who bad
lied about it, but that made no difference
$0 ROOSEVELT, or his worshippers. He bad
po shame and they appear to have had
mighty little conscience.
The danger which Mr. WILLIAMS has to
encounter is that the prevarioator in the
White House will do with him as he did
with the Senators. He has adopted the
policies in question, not becanse they are
just and right, bat for the reason that the
people demand them and he imagines that
they may belp him to establish a dynasty
by selecting his sucoe sor in the office of
President. Bat he has no intention of giv-
ing minority leader WILLIAMS or the Dem-
ooratic membership of the House any part
of the oredit of legislating them into the
statute book. He may use WILLIAMS as
he used BAILEY and TILLMAN to force his
own party into soquiescenoe in his plans
but that is as far as he will go. He is pot
only a deliberate falsifier, but be is ma-
liciouns in his misrepresentations, and such
a man is not a safe ally.
A Fictitions Improvement,
The banks in the inancial centres have
plenty of money in their vaults, according
to recent reports, and their reserves and
other assets indicate the healthiest condi-
tions. Their deposits have almost resumed
the proportions of the period before the
panic and with loans reduced vastly, there
appears to be plenty of money available.
Some of the bauks which failed during the
period of stringency are re-opening their
doors, and occasionally we hear of an in-
dustrial establishment whioh is resuming,
at least in part, its former activity. These
incidents are being used to prove that the
trouble is over and that Republican policies
may be depended upon in the fature.
The reason that there in plenty of money
in the banks, however, is that industrial
activity is in a state of paralysis. Take the
Pennsylvania railroad, for example, which
is the best barometer of business energy ao-
cessible. It has out its improvements
down to the minimum, laid off nearly a
third of its employes and reduced the
wages of those retained from ten to thirty
per cent. The difference between the ex-
penditares of that corporation now and
those before the panic began would absorb
all the surplus money now in the banks of
New York and Philadelphia and that ie
ouly ove of the many important industries
of the country. The others are legion.
The present financial plethora, therefore,
is the result of an industrial paralysis.
There is plenty of money for the reason
that there is little use for money. Pros-
perity is not the result of an abundance
of idle money. It is the fruit of the ac-
tivity of capital and labor. When money
is idle labor is dormant and when mills
are closed and men oat of employment
capital is as useless as a second tail on a
our dog. Republican policies are responsi-
ble for this state of affairs. Other panics
have come as the result of crop failures or
industrial stagnation. But this one come
without such conditions and brought them
in its wake. The remedy is in the re-
moval of the cause.
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——1It is very likely that the Nittany
furnace will be blown out tomorrow or
next day, as the stock they bad on hand
hae all been used up and the condition of
the market at this time bardly justifies
them keeping in blast, inasmuch as the
stook of iron they mow have on hand is
sufficient to supply their trade for some
time to come.
| mlar mind as ‘‘undersirable citizens.”’
Democrats on the floor would do whatever i
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It was a safe proposition, of course, for the | [daho, and though he may have been inno-
measures named really expressed policies | sens of that atrocity, the testimony made
which the Demoorats have been urging for | him appear in anything but a favorable
by RoosEvELT and his party. But the |
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“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION."
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 3, 1908.
Representative JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, |
leader of the Democracy on the floor of the | goward maintaining the surprising and ex-
House of Representatives in Washington, | graordinary popularity of President ROOSE-
the Presi: ygur than the frequent and vehement de-
Ina punciation of him by avarchists and others
speech the other day be declared that if
Ineffectual Denunciation.
Probably nothing contributes more
The Present Duty of Democrats.
We cannot too frequently or too earnest
ly urge the Democrats of Centre county
and the State to vigilance and energy in
perfecting the organization of the party.
The outlook for Demooratic success Was
never as bright as at present. The absard
belief that Republican policies guarautee
industrions and commercial prosperity has
been dispelled by recent bitter experiences.
The foolish notion that the tariff is sacred
has been dissipated by unpleasant facts.
We enter upon the coming campaign,
theretore, free from the superstitions which
bave been potent in confusing the public
mind io the past. It ought to be a ocon-
test of équal chances and like opportuni
ties.
Oar enemy is thoroughly organized.
The cobesive force of public plunder has
been operating in its favor for many years.
Government patronage bas been freely
used to debanch the electorate and stifle
the conscience of the voters. Bat without
these sinister influences the Democrats
have not been idle. Unselfish and gener-
ous party leaders have been constantly at
work urging and encouraging organization
with the result that the State committee
has the nucleus of a splendid force. It is
for the voters to complete this work. It
is the duty of individual Democrats in all
sections of the State to open communica
tion with the leaders, attach themselves to
the organization and contribute to the suo-
cess whioh is impending.
It would be a grave mistake, bowever,
to leave the performance of this important
work until the heat of the campaign bas
inflamed the public mind with prejudices.
Now is the time to work effectively and
well. Disonss the issues with neighbors
when their minds are free and receptive
and show them the folly of voting for can-
didates who represent nothing but selfish
ambitions and sordid corruption. The
arguments are all on the side of Democra-
oy. All that is necessary to make the
policies of that party popular is to keep
them hefore she people. Agitate constant-
ly and tirelessly. Urge your neighbors to
vote for their own interests and if they do
that Democracy will win.
who have come to be regardrd in the pop-
There is W. D. Haywoop, of Colorado,
for example. He recently escaped by a
narrow margin from conviction for the mur-
der of former Governor STENENBERG, of
light. In view of that fact his anathemas
against the President are likely to be
(ninistrated. In other words people are
likely to admire ROOSEVELT on account of
certain enmities he has oreated.
As a matter of fact HAYW00D has abun-
dant reasons for his antipathy toward; the
President. Just as he was about to be put
on trial for his life ROOSEVELT went out of
his way to prejudice public opinion
against him and might have perverted
justice by producing a verdiot contrary Jto
the evidence. Even if Roosevelt bad
been a private citizen that would bave been
a great orime. As the President of the
United States it was an atrocity against
every principle of decency and law. But
the oonstantly inveighing against the
President by the viotim of such an outrage
ander the circumstances as they exist ao-
complishes no good. It simply makes men
of & certain temperament believe that
ROOSEVELT is abborred by bad men and
consequently must be a good man himself.
Bat RoosEvVELT has a babit of offending
in the way that be offended in the Hay-
woop case. Only a few days ago in
Washington he repeated the outrage. A
man had been convioted of violating the
pute food law in the District court. The
Judges and District Attorney of that court
are appointed by the President and inoi-
dentally subjeot to his orders. After the
cou iotion ROOSEVELT sent for the Distriot
Attorney and directed him to insist on a
jail ventence rather shan punishment by
tive. The Distriot Attorney’s term of office
i= ahout so expire avd he knew that if be
tailed to comply with the request he would
fail in reappointment. Under the circom-
stances the request was ao outrage. Bat
the protest of the convict achieves no re-
sult.
Kuox's Credulous Friends.
Sheatz Will be for Pemrose.
The enemies of Senator PENROSE, in his
own party, will not put too much confi-
dence in the recently published statement
that State Treasurer-elect, JOHN O.
SHEATZ, has aligned himself ou their side
of the impending senatorial contest. When
the time for aotion arrives, Mr. SHEATZ
will not be against PENROSE. He may
follow the example of Governor STUART
and assume a measure of independence in
pon-essentials. Bat when it comes to the
real thing, he will be *‘for the old flag and
an appropriation.’ SHEATZ is not exactly
a political *‘brilliant.”” He is not a genius
in statesmanship. But he knows enough to
“he good’? when the boss is looking and
the boss is likely to be looking coustantly
then.
Mr. SHEATZ has not taken us into his
confidence with respect to his policies after
his induction into office. But it is a reason-
ably sale conjecture that he will do pretty
much as be is told not only in the selection
of his official staff bat in the distribution
of the publio funds. He will listen with
apparent iuterest to the suggestions of the
editor of the esteemed Philadelphia North
American but he will appoint to office men
who are for the organization and will put
the money where it will do most good to
the machine. [If Senator PENROSE badn’t
been sure of this Mr. SHEATZ never would
have been nominated and would have been
an unimportant factor in the equation now.
Of course the talk of SHEATZ as the
successor of PENROSE was an absurdity
intended to flatter she Treasurer-elect into
the delusion that his political estate would
be improved by an alliance with the en-
emies of PENROSE. Bat it bardly deceived
Mr. SaEATZ. He knows that Senators in
Congress are not of his olass. His aspira-
tion to the office to which he has been
elected wae about the limit of assurance
and to put senatorial ambitions into hia
head would be preposterous. The enemies
of PENROSE are forced to desperate ex-
tremities, however, and after having oon-
sidered FLINN anything else seemed possi-
ble, even SuEaTz. His oredality wasn’t
equal to the occasion, though.
The cruelty of the real friends of Sena-
tor KNOX, if they actually believe that he
bas even the shadow of a chance for the
presidential nomination, is something
marvelous. Thus far there hasn't been an
intimation of a delegate for him from any
other State.than Pennsylvania, and every
day the leaders of the party io Pennsylva-
nia are quitely assuring the President that
they are really for TAFT. Yet the friends
of KNOX are solacing themselves with the
delusion that something will happen dur-
ing the convention or before it assembles
which will put TAFT out of the runuiog
and make KNOX the legatee of his strength.
We can imagine nothing more improbable.
In the first place TAFT will be nomina-
ted on the first ballot. If KNOX and CAN-
xoN and FAIRBANKS had gotten together
earlier in the fight things might have been
different. There is no doubt that the ele-
ment of the colored voters which is infln-
enced by oonscience is opposed to the
President's choice. It is equally oertain
that such of the labor leaders as are guided
by principle are against TAFT. Taken in
time these foroes might have been orystal-
ized into a formidable opposition and
made the nuoleus of an organization which
would have drawn to iteell all the floating
force of the party. But the opportunity
was neglected until it was too late and
now the flotsom and jetsam are floating
toward TAFT.
It may be doubted, moreover, if any of
the leaders of the Pennsylvania machine
are for KNOX earnestly. The most enthu-
siastio of them could be carried over to
TAFT by the promise of a postoffice in any
third olass city or any other piece of patron-
age equally valuable. The result is that
at the peychological mcment the barter will
be proposed and Kxox’s friends will de-
gers him as rats flee from asinking ship.
This is not a master of conjecture or a scb-
jeot of mental speonlation. It is a substan-
tial fast evolved from the stern logic of
events. Scuator KNOX is nota politician
and the master hands at the game who ron
the Pennsylvania machine bave simply
used him for selfish purposes.
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——The Bellefonte Lumber company is
making some extensive improvements at
their plant in this place, among which is
the erection of an additional building 80x-
Sm : 40 feet in size. A new brick boiler and
——On account of the lack of interest | 0 room will also be built and a pew
shown in the Bellefonte Academy's voting { one hundred horse power boiler installed.
contest for the most ‘popular merchant in | 4 10’ siorage room has been built and
Bellefonte inaugurated two months age for hy are now A erecting a
the purpose of raising a fund to fix up ‘she | jp eng hlook structure 200x40 feet asa
glass works meadow into a first olass ath- | sore house for finished lumber, d
letio grounds, it bas been called off. This | alo ell , doors,
does not mean, however, that the project —
——The Brockerhoff house “equipment
for the improvement of the ground has
been given up, as it has not. Other means | NOW inoludes a nice new red baggage
wagon aud in order to bave everything in
will be taken, to raise the neces-
sary money, and if you are approached in | equal up-to-date style landlord Ray is hav.
ing his bus done over, aleo.
any way, do your par.
sary. One
of the passage
thirteen votes could be mustered
currency
modified form of greenbackism. The mi-
pority bas certainly not gained standing
currenoy bill comes from the Re
side of the senate chamber—{rom
son of Minnesota. On the day
hibited a sharp party division over the our-
sions are additional So the great
an unusual situation for
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evant!
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Clearfield citizens sre jubilant over the
report that a big fire brick plant is to be lo-
cated there in the near future.
~The rafting reason is not yet a thing of
the past. On Friday last three ralts arrived
in Lock Haven from Clearfield after a most
successful voyage.
—Anp individual who advertised for a wife
through the columns of a Pittsburg paper
received 131 replies from women living in
Pittsburg and vicinity.
~The miners and operators of the Central
Pennsylvania bituminous coal field met last
Thursday and signed the old wage scale for
one year. The meeting was harmonious.
—In Colesburg, Potter county, Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Button, were favored last week
with the birth of their twenty-filth child.
All of the other twenty-four children are
well and happy.
—QCouncilman Daniel Springer, of Tamaqua,
who asked for $10,000 damages against the
Tamaqua Courier, because that paper called
him “a robber of the taxpayers’ was on
Wednesday awarded six cents damage by the
jary.
—The State is making head waylin the pur-
chase of forest reserves. Since March 1st
last 54,000 acres have been acquired, the
additions being chiefly in Potter and Clinton
counties. The State now owns 850,000 acres
of forest lands.
—The Sweets steel company, of Newberry,
started its rolling mills with a full quota of
men and is working full time. It is expected
that more men will be given employment at
the plant this summer than were last, as
many new orders are daily coming in.
—Amos Martin, of New Castle, a veteran
of both the Mexican and the Civil wars, is
believed to be the oldest living soldier in the
United States at present. He was born in
Scotland in 1798 and is therefore about 110
years old. He came to America when 6
years old.
—At Saliadasburg, Lycoming county, on
Monday night, the general store of iW. B.
Flook was robbed of half a dozen pairs of
shoes, as many pairs of pantaloons, a dozen
razors, as many pocket knives, ten pocket
books, a large quantity of tobacco and quite
a number of gold rings and other jewelry.
—A young Indian boy, running away from
the Carlisle Indian school, was captured in
the Huntingdon railroad yards Saturday
morning by officer Frank (Ernest, railroad
police. His name was Paulos Lockhouse
and he was attempting to get back to his
bome in Idaho. He is eighteen years of age.
~The reports, of the registrarsiof Indiana
county for 1907 show a total of 1,850 births
and 985 deaths. Glen Campbell shows the
Iargest proportion of births over deaths, there
having been 324 births and ninety-two
deaths ; Cherrytree township comes second
with 363 to 134 and Indiana third with 410
to 220.
~The Monarch coal company, engaged in
putting down an artesian well at the big
shaft southwest of Philipsburg, atja depth of
350 feet struck a good flow of water, and
with this, to the surprise of everybody con-
Leer. Ad, gas was also struck. The flow is not
heavy but sufficient to strengthen the long
existing belief that there is gas in that sec-
tion.
—A Kittanning justice has dismissed the
charges brought against four prominent
residents of that town for using dynamite to
remove the ice in the Allegheny river which
threatened the destruction of their boats.
The charges were instituted by direction of
(he department of fisheries which held that
the men should have obtained permission be.
fore using the dynamite.
—Colonel J. W. Dodds, of Youngstown,
Westmoreland county, says that we may
look for a big crop of fruit this year, one of
the signs deemed invariable by his forefath-
ers having come to pass Wednesday morn=
ing: According to the men of early days, if
the sun should rise clear on the morning of
March 25th, the fruit crop of thejyear would
be an abundant one. The sun Wednesday,
morning came up in fine style.
—The State forestry reservations in Hunt
ingdon county will this spring figure in th®
most extensive seeding ever attempted by the
State authorities. The idea is to raise from
4,000,000 to 5,000,000 young trees and as ar-
ranged by Commissioner Conklin, of the
state forestry commission, it will be carried
out at the three large nurseries at Asaph,
Tioga county : Greenwood Furnace, Hunt-
ingdou conuty, and sfont Alto, Franklin
county. The work will not be experimental
as it Las been conducted very successful at
various points iu the reservations.
—Last Thursday papers were filedlin the
prothonotary’s office in Clearfield through
which action for damages in the amount of
$330,000 is started against the Pennsylvania
railroad company. The Walnut coal com=~
pany complains that it was refused the right
to place individual cars on the road and
claims $100,000. The other cases are for
alleged discrimination iv the distribution of
cars and are brought by the Puritan coal
company, $75,000 ; Steinman coal company,
$60,000 ; Hillman coal and coke company,
$70,000 ; Clark Brother's coal company, $35.
000.
—Forty-nine men have applied at the
recruiting station for the United States army
in Altoona this month, seventeen of whom
have been accepted. The shop suspensions
are responsible for men seeking places in the
army. The cavaliy and hospital service of
for the | the army has been filled up and those ac*
minority substitute, the vital principle of | cepted must either enter the infantry or
which is that the Government should issue | artillery. As a rule men who enter the army
direct to the banks—a rival iD | pecquse of bad industrial conditionsjjdo not
make the best of soldiers, or at least they
are liable to desert if conditions improve,and
the men who apply are closely questioned
by the officer before he accepts them.
—All members who intend participatng in
the ceremonies incident to the erecting of
the battlefield monument of the Third,divi=-
gion, Ninth army corps, at Fort Mahoue,
near Petersburg, Va., in the near fatare,will
communicate their names and addresses to
Lieut. Henry Elway, 2507 Seventh avenue,
Altoona, Ps. Free transportation and ex-
NO.
The Latest Presidential Message.
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From the Johnstown Democrat,
The long-promised presidential message
appears 4s a mere statement of litical and
ethical reforms which have Re urged,
not merely by Mr. Roosevelt, but by his
opponents in his own party and the opposi-
sion party. Isis fine to learn that ohild
labor should be prohibited throughout the
pation. Of course it should, but can con-
gress prohibit it or will itdoso? When
Senator Beveridge suggested that it might
be probibited under the constitution pro-
vision that congress might regulate inter-
state commerce, he bad no word of encour-
agement from Mr. Roosevelt.
The president’s promised radical message
also urges action concerning injunctions in
labor disputes. This is a fine sounding
suggestion. Bus the people who have
suffered from the abuse of the power of in-
junctioz are very apt to thin that the
president also urges—or pretends to urge—
the nomination for the presidencey of one
William H. Taft who, as a United States
judge, was the most notorious proponent
of the anti-labor injunction.
The president goes on to say that noth-
ing sbouid be done to legalize a black list
or a boycott that would be illegal at com-
mon law. This is a beautiful phrase, bus
it means nothing. The black list, or those
who attempt to enforce it, do not eeek any
legalization. The difference between the
black list and the boycott is that the for-
mer is necessarily done secretly. Nobody
ever saw in any publication tained by
manufacturers a list of working men whe
were to be denied employment in fature,
and who were to be practically forced out
of self-supporting industry. The lists
exist, Shey are compiled at a central office
in New York and distributed among the
employers of the class of labor involved.
Bat they do not get general publication.
On the other hand, the very essence of a
boycott or advice that men should deal
with other concerns than any partionlarly
involved in a labor quarrel, is that there
shonld be publicity given to it. The re-
cent decision in the supreme court denying
to the American Federation of Labor the
right to eay that ‘‘we advise our friends
not to buy of such and such firms’ isa
mere incident in the effort of labor to se-
cure its own rights. Such advice is not
illegal. It is difficult to understand why
the Standard Oil Trust or the Tobacco
Trast can advertise urging everybody to
buy its wares and why on the other hand
she people who suffer from the trusts bave
pot a right to urge through the publie
priat their followers to refuse to buy those
wares. If the man baving things to sell
may be permitted to offer them for sale,
why shall not the man who has some in-
flaence with purchasers be allowed to in-
sist that they shall not be bought ?
Before this congress is over this issue
raised by the president is going to receive
material attention and will greatly affect
the action of labor in the coming national
campaign.
Gone Over to the Enemy.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Here are a lew straws to show the way
the wind is blowing just now over the Re-
publican political fields. A few weeks ago
one of Mr. Taft's incantious press bureau
agents disclosed the fact that a specious ap-
peal in his behall was being made to the
reactionary and predatory element of the
party. It was alleged that Taft would be
‘‘different’’ from Roosevelt. And nothing
was said since to explain away this appear-
ance of playing double at the expense of
the people who bave landed Roosevelt in
his appropriation and seeming application
of certain popular Demooratio doctrines.
Now Ohio Republicana find out that
Taft's managers bave sold the State offices
toa sordid bosses’ organization in return
for the electoral vote. In New York State
is appears that Hughes, who wae supposed
to be the best candidate that Wall street
could hope for, bas been dropprd for Taft,
indicating that the administration tactics
against frenzied finance have ended like
Mr. Roosevelt’s stand on tariff reform in
recantation.
These facts and the latest message are
mutoally illuminating. They show that
Teddy and Tals have bartered their politi-
cal manhood to the same odious system
which has been the reliance and financial
backbone of the Republican party ever
since the vicions special privilege of the
protective tariff fastened itself on the
vitals of the country.
No isspe is as important to the Ted-
diocracy now as that of perpetuating itself.
No principle or pledge is safe il its sacrifice
will spell even temporary sncoess for the
aims of the present political regime.
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Greenbackery Dies Hard.
From the Washington Hearld.
The Aldrich bill as it goes to the house
is improved in several minor details, but
nobanged in ite essential Yeatures. Mr.
pilotage of his measure through
characterized b
with the better sentiment of the country
by this weak concession to a false financial
principle.
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A House Divided.
From the Springfield Republican.
The severest attack upon the Aldrich
blican
r. Nel-
that be ex-
banking question, Mr. Dalzell
rency and
! | penses will be allowed by the state to all
jo bs . Bouse i” Juris a members of the Two Hundred and Fifth
division | who will send their address to Mr. Elway.
over Roosevelt and bis policies. It is quite | It is hoped that every surviving member
the grand old | whose health will permit will participate in
party right on the eve of a presidential | these ceremonies, A few Contre countisns
election were members of this regiment and division