SUPPLEMENT TO
The Citizen,
HONKSDALE,
FARMERS ID RURAL
FREE DELIVERY
This Atfmlrtbla Feature of tho Postal System
N Is a Creation of the Ropubllcan Party
and to a Groat Degree Explains
Why the Country People Al
ways Vote It Back
In Power.
The Republican principle that the
boncflts of tho public service should,
as fnr as possible, bo extended to all
classes and all communities without
discrimination, Is conspicuously ex
emplified In tho rural free delivery
system Instituted by tho Postofflce
Department during tho administra
tion of President MoKInloy. That
system was established In recognition
of tho plain fact that tho farmer, liv
ing remoto from tho nearest post
office, is entitled to tho free delivery
01 his mall equally with tho business
man rcsldlnft in tho city, and tho
success which has attended its op
eration affords conclusive evidence
of its wiisdotn and utility.
Tho development of the rural free
delivery service is ono of tho most
rcninrkable achievements of tho Post
ofTlco Department. Beginning In
1S97 ns an experiment with deliver
ies on eighty-three routes, it has
noon extended rapidly year by year,
tho service on Juno 30,1 90S, covering
39,270 routes and providing freo de
livery for more than 10,000,000 per
sons. That Is to say, that in tho
short space of eleven years, the free
mail delivery system has boon ex
tended to something like twenty
per cent, of tho total population of
tho United States. Could there be
nny more striking testimony to the
efficiency and practical business
methods of Republican administra
tion? Tho value of this service to tho
farmers is almost Incalculable. It
has not only relieved them of the
discomfort of frequent journeys to
dlstnnt postofilccs, but has placed
them in close reach with market con
ditions, thus enabling them to dis
pose of their products to the best ad
vantage, and done much to promote
tho neighborhood and relievo farm
life of the sense of Isolation which
hns been ono of Its greatest hardships,
Moreover, In scores of farming com
munities tho rural free delivery ser
vice hns given a powerful impetus to
tho "good roads movement," with
tho result that many thousands of
miles of improved highway have been
constructed. Those modern roads,
affording tho farmer easier access
to market, have Increased the value
of his land, thus enabling him to
build better buildings, better fences
nnd purchase better implements. In
every community to which tho rural
freo delivery service has been extend
ed tho farmer has profited by it. Ho
Is more distinctly a business man
than ever before nnd life Is far more
nttractivo and loss laborious for him
self and his family.
Tho farmers know that tho rural
free delivery service Is n creation of
Republican policy. They are per
fectly aware that it was devised by
nnd in accordance with tho Republi
can statesmanship which has provid
ed cheap postage, encouraged the
spread of education and enacted
every measure of existing law to
maintain the dignity am' advance tho
intorests of agricultural industrv.
No single branch of the public service
appeals more strongly to the farmers
of the country in bohnlf of continued
Republican administration thnn this
admirable feature of tho postal sys
tem. BUCKMER BOLTS BRYAN
Veteran Kentucky Democrat
Criticises Nebraskan.
CALLS HIM "JACK 0' LANTERN."
Declares For Taft ns n Man
Qunlincd by Training and
Experience to Discharge
the Duties of the Presi
dency. General Simon Bolivar
Buckner, of Kentucky, tho
nominee of tho sound monov
Democrats in 1S9C, having
been asked by a sound money
Democrat of Missouri for an
expression of opinion on tho
present political situation,
says :
Mr. Bryan's j.latfirm has manv
planks wlin h I'Mireii nn ardent
wish to hoc many things accom
plished, hut it hwms impotent to
miggc.U any policy which will tend
iu iiiiiimuu i lie (ic-iroil ieults. -
It KcoiiiM that in his whole polit- -
mil career lie li.is been llittinK
from place to place. Hashing in J
every directum n sort of jack i' I
lantern, nn u beacon light to nt- I
tract to lus Mipport numerous p0.
lltical baiiilf, wnii'lcriiiK through n
wilderness nl error, each in pursuit
of its own special will o' the wisp, J
each stia mK turllier than the oth- 2
cr I nun the plain highway of J)cm-
ocracx and having Iml one. pm-- 4
pose in common -i ho ovei throw of
the existing oilier of society mid
tho erection upon its ruins of n i
Koeniinental falir ic which, if con-
Mai. tcl must inevitalilv crumble
men ihc mutually repellent lie-
In n . I its own clHconlaiit ele-
mens Icivinn behind onlv a nihj. J
list. - chaos Ironi which it would X
remote l'ctii i-iilt.tn ..I' ....... !:... i ...
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evolo a KUie. mill btable govern
incut. ,
1 !..ltr.vn llini-n tj ntw.n. I. ,.r
. ... - .... . ,-, . . . . . ft I nt it hi;
pill I lulu ill ill nil the patties of our j
lountry to save us from the perils
that threaten the dent met ion of 4i
our institutions. -fc
S. Ji. IiUCKXKIt. t
ORGANIZED
LABORFOR TAFT
All Tbat the Law Abiding Wage-Earner
Asks For is a Square Deal, and He is
Snre o! It From President Tail.
Organized labor has declared itself
for Taft and Sherman and for Impar
tial enforcement of and loyal obe
dience to law. "There Is no doubt
that tho railroad employes of tho
East will support Judgo Taft united
ly," said Benjamin E. Chapln, ot
New York, of tho Order of Railway
Conductors.
"They believe In him. Tho groat
railroad brotherhoods are unalter
ably opposed to Mr. Bryan's personal
views on government ownership of
railroads, and our men nro with
Judge Taft in his opposition to that
theory.
"Wo believe, furthermore, that
.Tudgo Taft was right In his Injunc
tion record. Tho principles ho laid
down in his decisions havo boon In
corporated In tho constitution of tho
Order of Locomotive Engineers and
in tho constitutions of all tho other
largo railroad train serving organi
zations." Mr. Chapin who, with other well
known and estlmablo leaders of union
labor; F. F. Vlckery, also of tho Or
der of Railway Conductors; J. S.
Buckley, of tho Pennsylvania Em
ployers' Association; A. F. Stack
house, of tho Order of Railroad Con
d.f'ors on tho Lackawanna Railroad,
nnl .1. F. Conway, chairman of tho
legislative board of the Order of Lo
comotive Engineers, boarded Mr.
Tnft's train and assured him of tho
support of the organizations they rep
resented, undoubtedly voiced the
judgment ot skilled and intelligent
union labor throughout the United
States.
The great mass of union labor is
with Mr. Taft because its members
recognize him as capable and impar
tial in his administration of the law,
because they feel that ho Is In genu
ine sympathy with labor, and because
they know that Mr. Taft means ex
actly what ho says, and will do just
what he says ho will do. All that
law abiding, self respecting labor
asks for is a square deal within the
law and according to law, and that it
is certain to get at the hands of Pres
ident Taft.
GRATITUDE OF RELIGIOUS
SECTS TO TAFT
John R. Mott, secretary of the In
ternational Committee of the Young
Men's Christian Association, a stanch
Methodist and a worker who, by his
energy and ability, has accomplished
wonders for his association In many
parts of the worlds praised highly
to-day the aid which Judge Taft gave
to religious organizations In the
Philippines. He was aided greatly,
ho said, by a letter of introduction
which Taft, as Secretary of War, gave
him when he went to the Philippines
to raise money with which to help
in constructing a Y. M. C. A. building
in Manila. The committee furnished
more than ? 100,000, while Manila
citizens gave $42,000.
"It is difficult to exaggerate," said
Mr. Mott, "the Importance of the ser
vice rendered by Judge Taft to tho
Y. M. C. A. and to the cause of Chris
tian missions in tho Far East. His
fair-mindedness and his generous
sympathy have won the hearts and
minds of all persons, of all religions
or no religion, who know what he has
accomplished there.
"Anyone who may, like myself,
have questioned the wisdom of the
United States continuing to occupy
the Philippine Islands, would most
certainly entertain an entirely dif
ferent opinion were ho to visit these
islands to-day and note tho changes
which have been wrought as a direct
result of American occupation and
achievement. Within loss than ten
years there has been built up stable
government insular, provincial and
municipal. A body of laws has been
enacted which challenges favorable
comparison with tho statutes of any
country. Ladronlsm, the curse of the
islands, has been suppressed, and
peace, order and Justice prevail.
Sanitary regulations have been In
troduced and enforced to such an ex
tent that Manila bids fair soon to be
come themost healthful city in the
tropics, notwithstanding Its unfav
orable location. Millions of dollars
havo boon invested in substantial ma
terial improvements, especially in
Manila. Improved postal aud tele
graphic communication have been in
troduced, and railway and govern
ment read extension is in progress.
As a result, of tho marvelous educa
tional developments involving the ac
tivities of nearly one thousand Amer
ican toachors, wo are now educating
fully 500,000 of tho youth of the isl
ands, and even more remarkable than
this has been the raising up and
training of over 5000 Filipino teach
ers. Tho Tagalogs, Visayans, Iloca
nos and the many other tribes and
peoples scattered throughout over
1G00 islands aro being unified and
nro developing tho consciousness of
community of raco and tho latent
sense of nationality. Tho dominant
impression made in tho mind of any
one who has visited different Colonial
possessions is that in tho Philippines
tho altruistic motlvo has thus far
had right of way, and that a work
has been accomplished of which we
need not bo ashamed. The Ideal em
phasized by McKinley, Roosevelt,
Root, Schurman, nnd especially Judgo
Tnir, that our purpose in the Phil
ippines is not to exploit them, but to
develop, civilize, educato and train
on unselfish linos, has been kept in
mind nnd Is still tho great motive
power."
Tho American Navy outrode a ty
phoon saft !y and thero Is no doubt
that the Republican Ship of !Unto
will for a third tlmo rldo out safely
tho big wind of Brynnlsin.
nrltlrh trado unionists protest
against the possibility of Intornatlonrtl
war. American trade unionists pro
test ngaliibt n Doniocrntlc war upcm
prosperity
Prom Ciereorriph. Copyright, If 03, j Uadjnrood
Underwood, N. T.
HERE arc ir-c pictures ol two men.
One or the other will, in a few days, be
chosen President of the United States.
He who aspires to that exalted place should
have done much to show hi fitness for the sta
tion he would occupy. By wisdom or by ability
he should have demonstrated his right to that
supreme and priceless honor.
Consider these two pictured countenances I
Compare them in the most minute particular,
and, when you have thus considered and com
pared them, take the life of each, man and set the
two records side by side, as their faces are here
befoic you, side by side.
Scrutinize those two lics1 Measure the cne
by the other, and then judge within.your heart
not impulsively, not with partisan bias, but calmly,
worthily, and as a patriotic citizen which of
these two men is the worthier to be honored by
your ote and to be crowned with the glory of the
greatest gift in the possession of the citizens of
this nation I
Search first the life qf ill ism Jennings
Bryan 1 It lies before you for your inspection.
What has he done to demonstrate his fitness
to occupy that great post to which he now, for
the third time, aspires
Has he in the whole course of his life ever
done one solitary thing to benefit the nation of
which he is a citizen, or to advance the civiliza
tion and enlightenment of mankind?
Search your .memory to its uttermost depths,
and if you find that he has done one single thing,
either by word or deed, that has proved of ever
so little lasting benefit to the world, set that thing
lown to his credit.
Think I Is there one such single, solitary
thing?
Twelve years ago he advocated the free coinage
of siher, urging it upon the nation with all the
strrnuosity of his feverish and vehement nature.
This idea he no longer adocatcs.
But has he abandoned it?
A little more than a year ago he advocated
with equal impetuosity the government ownership
of railways an ownership that would have en
tailed upon the United States a national debt of
more than five thousand million dollars.
This idea, also, he no longer advocates.
But, has he abandoned it?
Twice he has adocatcd and twice he has ceased
to advocate a dangerous and mistaken policy
Vhat assurance ha you that he doe not a third
time advocate a policy equally dangerous to the
welfare of the nation
And ii you elect him to the presidency, what
I
assurance have you that he will not attempt to
put that dangerous policy into a disastrous effect?
mis incompetency ana his inadequacy to till
NEW YORK'S LEADING
SURGEON, A STANCH
Dr. Gcrster, Famous Hungarian, in
Swinging to Tnft, Will Influence
Thousands, of Countrymen Tnft
Clubs Formed by lousiness Men.
New York, Oct. Dr. A. G. Gerstcr,
of 34 East Seventy-fifth street, New
York, ono of the most noted sur
geons in tho country, who has been
a stanch Democrat, will vote for
William H. Taft for President. His
decision, which hitherto has been
known only to the doctor's most in
timate friends, undoubtedly will
cause surprise among tho thousands
in the city and throughout tho coun
try who havo great respect and ad
miration for the surgeon, but at the
same time will influence many other
Democrats to vote for the Republican
nominee.
Dr. Gerstcr, while refusing abso
lutely to mingle in politics, has al
Presidential
Candidates
Compared
any ol the major opportunities that he covets are
known to all the wot Id,
It is notorious that his first nomination to the
presidency came to turn not because of hi ability
in public affairs, but only because he happened
to make a happy phrase in an oratorical outburst,
which swept him into a postion for which he had
never before and has never since proved his fit
ness. In the intervals between Tnmnsuccessful cam
paigns he has sunk into comparative obscurity.
Not one art in all that time gave any indication
to the world that he was really awake to the needs
of the hour.
Consider all this! Are not all the facts here
set down about him incontestably true? If they
are not true, name one thing that has been ta.d
amiss or that has been left uniaid, and let it stand
to his credit.
i If, however, t)ieie things org true, then how
great is their significance! How great Is your rr
sponsibibty if your xote should help to seal thii
honest, erring, incompetrnt man in the presi
dential chatr of this nation 1
Turn now to William Howard Taftl Lay his
life before you as his picture lies before you
here.
His life is known to all men
Consider ill Weigh it in the balance of your
calmest and most candid judgment 1
Think, if you choose, only of those two notable
and splendid performances that stand before the
world to-day as monuments of his wisdom and i,u
ability his civil governorship of the Hnhpp.nes,
and his establishment, as Secretary of War, ol
that vast governmental work now being done
upon the Panama Canal
Say nothing of I. is brilliant diplomatic suc
cesses in the Philippines, l Rome, in Cuba, in
Japan say nothing of Uum-, but dwell only cn
those two monumental performances.
' Consider how ast mmt be the fundamental
abilities of a man who, emirgmg a comparatively
unknown citizen frum a relative cbsatnt), ws
suddenly called upon, first, to reconcile a people
jealous and suspicious of the Unitid Statts, aud
to convert that people from passive enmity to
truMing friendship, next, to build up for a poor
and htlpless nation a government that should
i on t re I but should not harass, and that should
serve as a foundation for future self-government
and advancement' into the aranks of the free and
enlightened nations of the'earth t
'This was a great and momentous task for any
man, however experienced, to undertake. It was
undertaken by a circuit judge from Ohio.
Did that circuit judge make good his undertaking?
DEMOCRAT,
9
ways been a keen student of political
affairs and candidates. Ho not only
stands in the foremost rank of his
profession as a surgeon and an au
thor, but he has culture and is keen
ly sympathetic with tho sufferings
of the people in the poorer sections
of tho city. Dosnite the insistent
I calls upon him from wealthy patients
: who aro willing to pay handsomely
lor his services, ho insists upon de
vHIng a largo part of each day to
hospitals operating upon the poor
who havo not money to pay for deli
cate operations that alone can save
their lives. There aro hundreds of
his countrymen in tho city who speak
gratefully of him as the saver of their
lives and aro ready to do anything in
return at his sliRhtest request. Dr.
Gerstor, however, always has been
content in tho thought of having re
lieved them from suffering.
Dr. Gerster's friends, who are
HEARING THE END,
Photo CopjNtM, 1903, ty MfETei Studio. Chtrt j
His success stands to-day a monument to hit
sagacity, his wisdom, and his foresight.
Louder than any worJs the successful results
of this great work speak to the world. For not
only did he succeed in this, his first great under
taking, but he is also t this moment the man
most honored and best l.vctl by the people of
me i niuppiuc Jttanas.
His tetest achievement is the iMablishmcnl of
the ttnal rone and tin orL-ain7&iun of the .work
on the Panama Canal fur tu him, a Secretary
of War, fell the ultimate rcrpon-.ib.lity for the
execution of this ast project.
Here was an engineering feat so tremendous
that even de Lesscps, proclaimcdly the tr('tCl
cngtnur m the world, with Prance and the people
of Pratue behind him, laded to make even an
adequate begmtnt g
This ex-circuit judge, tins ey-gocrnor of the
Ph'lif rincs, undertook the woik.
To-tlay the grcM task moves tov.ard comple
tion, with cn organization perfected by the man
who shouldered the burden.
Such arc the facts.
Here lie the lives of these two men, side by
side before you
It is yours to judge between them, for one or
the other of the n.n who have lived these lives
must soon become President of the United States
One has added splendid success to splendid
success, establishing governments, conducting
delicate diplumatic negotiations erecting gigantic
engineering works fui the lasting benefit of all
the nations of the earth
'Ihc other has coi.terted himulf with lectur
ing before literary societies and editing a weekly
newspaper.
Think of all thi-' Lay it calmly and dispas
sionately Itcforc uur inte-Uige-mcl Then ask
) ours el I in your huirt ot hearts to which of these
two men you, as n good and patnutic citizen,
should give your vote and thus help to elect hirn
Piesident of tf.ei L'n'ted Mates
We are row passm;; through a transitory ttate
in our fortunes Within the next four years the
Ship of State must be hi'ided itinid the rueks and
ret is of t roubled k-g;slat ion with a sure and
steady hand.
Your vote, and the vote of tuth as you, will
determint the riiemcnfous question at to which
ol these twu men shall bt the not President ol
the United State;. a decision nw movi rapidly
approaching the hiialiiy of irremediable fact.
Your vote, once east, can never be recalled
Think well, there fore I Measure the future and
all that it contains before you take that final step,
the casting of your ballot, that will help decide
whichl these two men shall be the next Presi
I
dent of this nation
From Ltshe'i Weekly,-
J
TAFT
familiar with his political views, say
that ho has admired Judge Taft and
has tho highest admiration for the
candidate's ability and determina
tion to do what is right at all cost.
They think that admiration for Taft
caused him to swing from the Demo
cratic to tho Republican party.
Dr. Gerstcr, who was born in Kas
sa, Austria, fifty years ago, is a grad
uate of the University of Vienna, and
I was assistant surgeon in tho Austrian
i army before he came to this country.
' Ho now is surgeon in the German
i Hospital and tho Mount Sinai
Hospital in this city. Ho is professor
j of surgery in the New York Poly
clinic ana has written several books,
now quoted as authorities on surgery.
His "Antiseptic Surgery" is consulted
by every surgeon. Because of his
services to the surgical science ho
has been made a Knight of tho Order
of St. Joseph.
"TARIFF TAXES" ARE
PAID BY THE RICH
Burden of External Revenue,
Under Protection, Falls Upon
Consumers of Luxuries.
LITTLE DUTY COLLECTED FROM
WAGE EARNERS AND FARMERS
Arthur J. Dodge Demonstrates From
Records of the Treasury Depart
ment That Ninety Per Cent, of
tho Money Collected on Import
is lcvied on Articles Not Classed
as "Necessaries of Life."
Tho so-called "tariff taxes" aro
paid by tho rich. That is the conclu
sion reached by Arthur J. Dodge, a
well known writer on the tivriS. a an
article discussing the various phases
of the -subject,
Mr. Dodgo demonstrates from tho
records of tho Treasury Department
that ninety ler cent, of all tariff du
ties aro paid upon articles classed as
luxuries consumed by tho rich, leav-
, ing little, if any, of thesa duties to
be paid by tho groat mass of peoplo
who aro classed as tho wage earners
' and farmers.
i This information Is particularly In
teresting at this timo when Mr. Bryan
and his followers aro assorting that
"the poor aro oppressed by tho tariff
taes," and "the masses are bowed
down under tho weight of tariff taxes
upon the necessaries ot life."
If these duties arc really paid by
tho American consumer and not by
the foreign exporter, it is thus shown
that the burden, if burden there is,
rests wholly upon tho rich,
The following table compiled from
Government records is presented:
Tariff Facts.
Total value? of goods admitted
freo of dutv ?451,n0O,00O
Total values of dutiable imports 52" ,000,00(1
Total duties collected 257,000,000
Total duties collected on "lux
uries" i 80,000,003
Total values of dutiable luxuries
imported 132,003,000
Average rate of duty on all du
tiable imports 47 per cent.
Average rate of duty on ma
terials ........... ........ ...20 per cent
Average rate of duty on com
pleted manufactures 49 per cent.
Average rate of duty on "lux
uries" GO per cent.
Luxuries admitted free of dutv,
valued at only 11,000,000
Values of all other articles ad
mitted free of duty 443,003,000
In this list tho $80,000,000 of
duties collected on what are officially
classed as luxuries amounts only to
about thirty per cent, of the whole;
external revenue. But the writer
shows that tho finer grades of many
other imports should also be classed
as luxuries, and that the tariff so
recognizes them in putting a higher
rato upon them than upon the lower
grade of the same commodities.
Such classes are fine linen, onyx
and other valuable stones; fine ma
chinery, etc., from which tho revenue
increases the "luxury" budget to
about $230,000,000 that is, ninety
per cent, of the total external rev
enue. Protection, Wages nnd Prosperity.
After all, at the base of this sub
ject of tariff duties levied upon ar
ticles Imported, whether of luxuries,
or necessities, there rest important
principles which the working people,
farmers and general consumers ot
goods in the country should reflect
upon, when considering where a vote
may safely and wisely bo placed in
tho Presidential election, and In the?
election of members of Congress.
While it may be important that tho
rate of duty on "luxuries" shall bet
higher than tho rato of duty on
"nwessities," after all, it is a ques
tion of wages for tho worklngmen,
and prosperity of the industries in
tho United States which produce tho
articles which directly compete with,
the imported goods, whether they
bo "luxuries" or "necessities." Tho
Bryan free-trade idea is to reduce?
the duties on "necessities," no matter
how much labor may bo expended
upon such goods.