Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — POLITICS OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POLITICS OF THE DAY

HI “i a Empire building always bas a jagged road to travel, even when guided by the slruug arm us despotlgiH;"and constant care and a stern rule is necessary to kjgep subjects In subjection. Under h republic the governed arc opt to ape the governors and want more freedom t|tan il ls convenient to glye them. In this age of newspapers and telegraphing. -when knowledge runs, to and. fro sb that even the semi-clvtltzed peoples have heard of or read that '‘all men prfy created j equal,. With inalienable rights,” they are pretty sure to want rights to ,a 11 and special privllegeslo hone, or stir up trouble If they are denied those fundamental democratic propositions. Thus York World, noticing events its they occur, says: ‘‘President- Boppayalt-- Is wanted in Washington. The steeds of empire are taking the bits between their , teeth, and a strong hand is needed on the j Vw-rr 7RT V • bur subjects In Porto Rico have been Infected by the singular Idea that the laws of the United States are as binding upon their rulers as upon ...\Y(ieji n . Porto I{jj<j;iu officers have been doing the same thing, and they were indicted the government ordered the abandonment of their prosecution. The Chief , procmllag against . thesa,, amnggtera., "was eompelled so resign. ThifTorto' «lcaps>te| hotly jpdjJnfeit. and ask what ktffij-of gorernriiem ft Is that allows its own officers to violate its laws. ' ‘ - Let us ask. In our turn, what is the use of haring an empire if you are not to have any of its privileges? if you are going to be tied down by laws all the time you might as well stick to the old republic, What Is the constitution, between expansionists? It doesn't follow the flag, anyway.

If you land at New York with three suits of clothes and a box of cigars In your trunk your belongings will be dumped on the wharf and you will be held there like a convicted criminal while the taxgatherers are turning the Diugley screws on your suffering pocketbook. But that is buslnegp. It is not the government that squeezes you, but protection.

In Porto Rico she tariff la merely a matter of public revenue, and, moreover, that revenue da used for the benefit of the Porto Ricans, not of Americans. So if our officers choose to smuggle liquors by the hundred cases, whose business is It? Neither Araerlntoreett #re pln.bed. It Is time for May 8, a new one In France sailed nlpe t mites and baek-te-a- brisk wind -end performed many aerial evolutions, such |MspircliiKja»Ujpk tftjg ONtliadßßl spire; iMs no’Minkfli jjjtjmf galabs will sOon be mldMi jjob Jojaiof I# f>r more “tmn thit llpxr Blight In graft value will soon be transported through the aiC, • -jj inr |>9 4 -- - "THLr ls sad news to the “stand-pat-ters,” who believe It Is a sin to trade across national boundary lines and that every country should be surrounded by a wall of fire, as one of them put It.- With airships crossing and . recrossing national -boundary lines at ail hours of the day aud night and regardless of euktom houses and .officers. what horrible nightmares- some of our protectionist friends will have. Whaft'kiiid es 'fits win not she Proteclawless airship begins to dump down In our midst cheapforeign; Utat Is goads of opr own manufacture, probably sold abroad at one-half the home price—minus the high tariff duty, Which all good protectionists are anxCstls to pay? We shudder at the consequences. If airship# are allowed to roam unmolested and are not absolutely Restrained It Is easy', to prophesy more smuggling, in the near, future, than was ever breamed of by our officers In Porto Rico, hr their, palmiest “rough-house” days. No, airships must never be permitted Jt£sail in our boundless etherial main and disturb our protection and prosperity—for the trusts.; The people must never know the taste*of freetrade' goods—if the trusts can help* ltr Gently, but firmly, as Senator -Allison ’ls doing with the “lowa Idea,” ,ws must suppress the airship before it punctures -more holea-ixL-tha Dingier t tariff than was ever conceived by all [of the *flowa Meg’’. Republicans. The airship is un-American. 'lt Is a foreign »*art?hi*t, tnjnflgretioa [officials should permit never permit it to 'Htffcili 1; f ; ,fA 'J tSr «1 Trade and Wa Sto l*wa. r There have been many Interferences with the natural law es wages Ad ttMfiy Mb mot Jeem wfiWThile tofthlnk rnuffih wWot th#nt? Tbl tnUt IS artP , fioial, /he corporation Is artificial, pat- | feat* are sftlfidal, and. above all, pro-

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tc<£lke jtafilfii’ are artificial—and 81l these agencies obstruct the free I ty of natural' law. So Mr. Parry thl Its that the workers should leave tl rlr wages to be adjusted by natural 1 w, although the employers d*?dg» nati al law whenever they can.—lndianap lis News. ’ .■ \ ■/ '■ ■ Versatile Hanna. Marcus A. Hanna is beating the t ntmnfor organized labor- A few w« ks ago be was introducing bills in lie Senate to pension the, negroes, an a little while before that Ire was try ig to force the ship subsidy steal throi jh Congress. Verily, Marcus (s' about as busy an old boy as the country e er produced.—Paulding (Ohio) Democ it Tariff Reform by Its Friends. The plan for letting the tariff be eformed by Its “friends”—which me ns by the beneficiaries of governmei al copartnership apd special privilege -is about as reasonable asl ft'would b< to appoint a committee of fgjxes to deffise plans for Hie relief and seegri* ty of the geese.—Albaj|y § Political Potpourri. If there is to be no more trust-bist-iingrr Jjßr wey of whetting lur A Ith pistl a smell of she im bread. Judge Thayer, who wrote the meafcer decision. Is a,Democrat, wheiLthe Ase gets tq M Mwrfc llcan majority tliefe may reverse She dpelainn and give Wall street another lease of life far Its railroad eomWnatlenai —.— j Secretory Hay had to take the back track and express regret to Russia over his “temporary" misconception” of that country’s purpose relative to Manchuria. ~ ~our Stath Department does not seem to have much conception of what diplomacy really is—a struggle for spoils.

The astronomers tell qs that the weather is governed by spots on the sun and that these spots were the cause of the panic of 1802-3. As spots are again appearing and the weather In consequence is very unseasonable, another panic is probable unless the astronomers are mistaken. President Roosevelt did not care to tackle the'T'lowa Idea” when. In the Hawkeye State, though It was the paramount question that the people were Interested In. There la a vast difference between the President sleeking a renomlnatlon and trying to propitiate ail" tactions of ihe*Republican party and the strenuous Rough Rider. The supercilious Senator Lodge, who suppressed the Senate Investigation of frapd and cruelties In the Philippines Is much exasperated at Gen. Miles for exposing the true conditions In the Islands. Lodge Is an aristocrat and an Imperialist and believes in the Hamlltonlarr theory dftfcd rule of the few. In erimtnal aggression and the mailed hand and unfortunately the President takes counsel with him.

The Land Department at Washington was Intent a few montha ago on wiping out the monopoly of the public lands in she West by the cattle barons. £©l. Mosby was? ssfit ofit t£«re to; cut the barbed wire fences and allow the settlers a Chance. But suddenly Col. Mosby was ordered to Washington and the cattle barons are holding the fort Another scandal will be uncovered when the matter is investigated. Everything seems to depend on Wall street Industrially and ipolltically, yet Wall street .depends upon the crops to furnish freight lor .the. rail roads and the trusts fveirdppegdtupon the farmers and the workingmen to consume tbehr products. The farmers are entirely at the mercy of the .elements so that the weather this summer may be safd to rule the stock market and a drouth may upset all political calculations. . . > : ’/ z Ex-Congressman Loud, who was chairman of the Postofflcs- Committee for ’ many • years, says the postoffice scandal has been brewing for some time. As Mr.* Loud Ik a Republican and from bis position well qualified to ictfow what was going on, his evidence' is conclusive that ‘the administration knew of the rottenness In the department long before It took any steps to investigate and is responsible far tha unfortunate conditions that prevail.

If the pole should break?