Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — POLITICS OF THE DAY [ARTICLE]

POLITICS OF THE DAY

National Crime Bearing Fruit. “Anarchy or annexation." That, says General Fitzhugh Lee, is the early fate in store for the Cuban Republic, over whose birth, only the other day, we all were rejoicing with pride. The treasury Is empty, for the commerce of the Island is paralyzed, and the receipts of the custom houses, which are relied on for revenue, have fallen far below the needs of the government. The school system established by tlie Americans cannot be kept up and the methods of sanitation which we introduced- will have to be abandoned. The soldiers who fought in the patriot army are*demanding their pay, and there is no money to give them. Planters cannot sell their produce, merchants cannot find customers, and labor is idle. Poverty, idleness and want threaten public order, ltlots and uprisings may at any time throw Cuba into the anarchy which former Consul General Leo predicts. Where rests the responsibility for Cuba's distress and peril? Upon the Republican party of tin* United States. Without access to our markets Cuba must suffer as she is suffering. It was known when we hauled down the American flag in Havana and left Cuba .to govern liersclf that nil now happening there would happen were reciprocity refused her. Yet the Republican party, indifferent alike to the demands of national honor and tin* claims of humanity, deliberately inflicted upon the new republic the poverty out of which anarchy looms. The American people want to do justice to Cuba, but the hands of tin* American people are tied. The Republican party is in power, and It refuses to act for Culm's relief. Why? Because tlie Republican party does not dare to touch the trust-breeding and . trust shielding protect lye tariff.

“Meddle with the duty on raw sugar,” said the sugar beet crowd to Congress, “and you must then take off the doty on refined sugar, or we will fight you.” “That cannot lie allowed; there must he no meddling with the differential.” commanded the Sugar Trust. So, in obedience to these two “protected interests,” the American Congress, with tlie Republican party in fail control of both Houses, turned Ha hack on Cuba, and disgraced tlie United States before the civilized world. What is to be done? The President ran call an extra session of Congress—but It la the same House that took orders from the sugar beet lobby. The President can negotiate a reciprocity treaty and submit it to tlie Senate for ratification— but it is the same Senate that condemned Cuba to misery and danger rather than offend the Sugar Trust.

By voting to deny justice to Cuba, the Republican party in Congress, with full knowledge of what It was doing, voted to drive the new-born republic upon the rocks of destruction. What are the American people going to do about It? Their hands nre tied, for the time being, as to Cuba, but tin* hands •f the American people are free to siulte the Republican party, which lias committed this crime.—Chicago American.

A Deficit for July. The official reports of receipts and expenditures by the federal government for the month of July are of exceptional interest because that was-the •ret month since tlie repeal of the “w-ar taxes" went into effect. The receipts were about $49,300,000 and the expenditures $50,800,000, leaving a deficit of $7,500,000. Secretary Kim w is cheerful in spite of tills deficit, lie explains that tin* expenditures at the beginning of a new fiscal year are alwaye very heavy. He cites ns an example of the extraordinary expenditures In July the item of $3,000,000 paid to Illinois and other states for the equipment of troops during the civil war. This item does not serve at all to expiuiu why expenditures are always heavy In July. It Is rather an Indication that Congress appropriated money with extraordinary freedom daring the late session. And such was the fact. The total was enormous and there will be extraordinary outgo duriot (lie remaining eleven months of the fiscal year as there was during the ■rat month. The falling off in receipts last month. «a compared with July last year, was In Internnl revenue, of course, as the Internal revenue taxes were tlie only ones repealed. The decrease on tills account was from $28,3:18.190 to $21,•18,124. a loss of $6,720,03(1. The customs receipts Increased from $21,203.9(53 to $24,430,743, an increase •f $3,100,780. It qppears, therefore, that the receipts from other than miseella neous sources were only $3,553,JTvti loss last mouth than for the same month Inst year, while tlie deficit was, aa above stated, $7,500,000. This means, of course, that the expenditures were very much greater. This Is the fact that the reports disclose, and it is n fact whlcli I* likely to reappear In tlie monthly statements, mm the appropriations for the whole joar were far beyond those for Inst jaar. Probably there will be no deficit or aoty a small one, but we can not be ■■re of that. There will be a surplus mmlj in case the receipts from customs

are much larger than they were last year. For the first month they were about $3,200,000 greater, as above stated, than for the same month last year, tnjt there Is no certainty that the Increase for July will he maintained proportionately for tho year. A collapse Is coming, and it may come tills year. Probably, however, it will not. Probably there will lie a small surplus this year, but Congress will have to stop going on the assumption that the boom is everlasting and that there is no bottom to the pile in the treasury, or it will have something harder than a surplus to deal with. It will be liest, perhaps, for the Democratic party and the country to let tlie Republican party stay In power until the crash comes. Then the guilty | party will have to take the consej quences and a party of rational eeon- | omy in expenditures and of general I ooundness in both economic and pollt* ! leal policy can come in with a good I chance of staying in until the national ! sanity is rc-establlslicd. Chicago j Chronicle. i Government by Injunction Must ,Go. There can be only one outcome to the battle between enjoining Judges and the labor unions. Tills being a free country, government by manhood suffrage, the people are sure in the end to conquer every form of tyranny that attempts to set itself up. The writ of injunction is a useful writ in its proper place, but it cannot be allowed to displace statutes and trial by jury. That would tie to substitute the will of judges—who are only men, and often neither the wisest nor liest of men -for a government of law. The tyrannical Judge may lie quite sincere in ids belief that be is aiming at good ends when lie plays tlie despot, but excellence of motive does not justify violation of the fundamental principles of ordered liberty. Every wellintentioned Judge who resorts recklessly to tlie writ of injunction sets a precedent which keeps in countenance tlie judicial rogue who prostitutes the power of tlie bench to the service of capital when it finds itself in conflict with labor. There is no probability at all that the courts will succeed In destroying labor unions, but every probability that the courts, by their abuse of tlie writ of injunction, will bring about an irresistible movement for severely defining and abridging tlie power of courts in relation to this writ. Labor unions cannot be destroyed without at tlie same time destroying the liberty of the citizen. Government by Injunction is un-American, and therefore government by injunction must go.—New York Journal.

Portentous Revolt in lowa. Probably the most portentous cloud on the Republican horizon at the present time is the menacing movement for tariff headed by Governor Cummings in lowa. lowa is one of the Ynost unyielding and reliable of Republican strongholds. Defection there counts for much. The action of tlie Republican State Convention assembled at lies Moines yesterday reaffirming the opposition of the party to trusts and the desire for “any modification of the tariff schedules that may be required to prevent their affording shelter to monopoly” is a distinct indorsement of Governor Cummins and a rebuke for Senator Allison nml the do-nothings who sit in Congress and twiddle their thumbs while the people are plundered. —Philadelphia Record. Attacking a Policy, Not the Army. It Is evident that the Republicans In the pending campaign intend to answer all references to atrocities in the Philippines by tlie counter charge that the Democrats are abusing the army. It is not the army as an organization that is attacked, but certain offices* that have Issued illegal orders and men who have committed crimes without orders. But in addition to tills, and of more *mportance, Is the general policy pursued by tlie administration in regard to the Philippines, which was felt to be so Inexcusable that desperate efforts were made to keep the facts from the American people. The army Is only an incident. It is the policy pursued at Washington that is really up for review by tlie American people.—Louisville Cur-rier-Journal. ' Circumstunccs Alter Cuhch. When President Cleveland used a fourth-rate old government tub to go on a fishing excursion liow our dear Republican contemporaries did howl nbout. It! But now when President Roosevelt uses the magnificent Mayflower as a family yacht and employs the Sylph as n dispatch boat to bring Senator Platt and Colonel Dunn lo bis home for a political confab, those whilom guardians of the public treasury nml foes of privilege are ns mum as the oldest bivalve in Oyster Bay. Why Is this thus? —New York World.

Does Not Prove Them Right. The sending of a few miners to jail does not prove that those who have their liberty are well up id or that tlie operators and coal roads arc not systematically robbing the miners and the public. The conditions in the world'of labor nre such that even the hanging of an advocate of fair piny would not settle everything in favor of the monopolies.—Cedar Rapids Gazette.