Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — Page 2

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AN UNEXPEGTED GELEBRATION

By Candice A. Bramble.

«f AGK and Nelli* F oster and their j Jl three young neighbors, the Rlakes, d vm holding a consultation beneath elm tree which stood just upon I ghe Mm between the two dooryarde. **| tell you, I call it a shame that we go In to the city, as we always hare AeCeeer* said Jack Poster, dilcoutent•Wsfl, yeu know we can’t, So what’s MO of scolding all the time about it, JatkT* replied his sister Nellie. «Of course father isn't to blame for fefeg sick, and I suppose your father is •bant as sorry as we that his business tofe hi»» away just now," said Gladys La her gentle rolce. -gist on the Fourth of July," intergaptod her brother Tom, impetuously. Ift toe bad for anything. It wouldn’t he gslts so mean If we bad a few fireaeii to let oft at night; but here we ant, at most dimd-broke, with hardly CMMgch money between us to buy a desupply of firecrackers, let alone anytota* else.” “WsU» never mind,” answered Jack, •MHmturecfty. ‘'Firecrackers will make a dreadful lot of noise if they’re property handled, and what fun to be had Ami amiss is bound to be oura next Bsartiy. Eh, Tom!" and he gave hie irisart a poke which tumbled him over spaa his baok in the grass, where he aharttlad a delighted “You bet It is, old “Oh, hat we’ve forgotten all about poor aid Mr. Norris!" cried Gladys, remorseflalif. **VV cant go to-shooting off crackmrn sad making a whole' lot of noise, beaa—s. you iknow, it will hurt his head smd sank* him ever so much worse. We •utfL indeed.” ' "Well, l like that!” shouted Toni, as la glared wrathfully at the big brick Aewae Just across the way. “What ia Tooth of July for if people are not to •ale any noise? and, besides, what do me care if we do hurt his old head? I’m •arc he was never so careful about hurttog- our feelings.’’ “Yea," chimed In Nellie, “he’s a dreadful mran v cross-patchy old thing, Gladys jaa know yourself he is—and I don’t ■are if hia head does ache a little, and 1 don’t think you ought to, either, as many times be has set bis horrid dog on our- eatot and you know he never will Ah ua atep inside Ills yard, even to look far a ball or anything.” “Y«a.” chimed in little 3-year-old RobUa gravely, “an’ he said If I peeked tote ugh the fence any more to see the •eanacks he’d turn out an' spank me; an’ } han’t like him, too." , •*?*v Robbie!” returned Gladys, with • reproachful look. “It’s a shame for won to aay so. Only just think, poor Mr. Ifairta hasn’t any little boya and girla to bo goad to him, or any one to love kto, and he’s old and lame and tick, ml It’s a« wonder he's cross. I’m aura -w* would be If wc had half his troubles to fret ua.” “Well, then. Miss," Tom said, hia tone ■ little less wrathful than before, for he, ma wall as little Robbie, had been lmguuaaad by his sister’s remonstrance, "if urafto not to fire off crackers, and are to •a walking around on our tiptoes all day Jtoht, ao’s not to make any noise, perAapa you’ll tell us what we can do next Sfcuißday, if it wouldn’t trouble yon too

“Yes, I win,” returned Gladys brigtatgaU» unruffled by Tom’s sarcasm, *%)‘i take our dinner and go ore r on fflte Wand and stay all day long. Then WIfWL bo so far away that oar noise Wk trouble Mr. Norris, and I'm sure matt bare lots more fan than we coaid Tbo children aU realised the truth of fflMi statement. Oat Tom felt that he m—t net yield the point too easily, and ■» objected. ‘‘Bat how do you know ft— will let as go?" nonsense, Tom!” cat in Jack, Mbb- “Of coarse she will, an» what’s Gladys is right, sod yon know it, S»Wrt rate any more objection*” ■» It was settled, and from that mo■aamt fseparatioos for a very delightful li'm the island went steadily on. Ths fef esscted a fort and fortifications too

the bloodless battles which were to be waged with firecrackers and popguna, and the girls busied themselves making ready the banquet, which was to be an elaborate affair, while little Robbie impartially gave his aid to every one, helping and hindering aa only an active small boy can. At last the morning dawned, bright and beautiful as a Fourth of July should be, and every one was so busy that no one noticed when Robbie stole out into the yard and stood looking wistfully across the road. “Poor old man!” he said, softly, “I’m sorry he isn't got any little boys an’ girls to love him, an’ I fink I’ll take him some posies an’ two booful firecrackers to make him a good Forf o' July. I don’t fink he’ll be cross to me.” A few moments later Mr. Norris, fretting upon his softly cushioned couch in the dim library of his great, lonely home, was surprised to hear the tap, tap of tiny

“EAGERLT GATHEBED ABOUT THE LITTLE FEAST.”

boot heela in the hall, and then to see Robbie's face smiling upon him from the doorway. “I bringed yon some flowers,” he said, aoftly, “and two nice firecrackers, too. I couldn’t spare any more, ’cause we hasn’t got very many. I’pa awful sorry you’s sick, an’ we’re all going away off to shoot our firecrackers, ao the bangs won’t make your head be worse. Goodby." So strangely and silently had Robbie come, and so abruptly had he departed, that Mr. Norris would have thought it all a dream had he not had tangible evidence of its truth In the bunch of gaudy flowers and the two brilliant firecrackers

BOY’S DREAM OF AN IDEAL FOURTH.

which Robbie had left upon the stand at his side. By 12 o’clock the merry little company on the island was ready for something to eat, and gathered eagerly about the little feast apread out upon the ground. “Dh, Robbie!” cried Gladys in a dismayed tone, in the very midst of the banquet, “what have yon done? You careless boy to step in our beautiful lemon pie!” Sure enough, to their great dismay the children discovered that Robbie had sue* ceeded in planting one dusty little' foot right iu the very center of the tempting pie which waa considered the crowning dainty of the apread. “Never &ind,” answered Robbie, gravely, inspecting hia foot with Interest. “I don’t fink it will hart my shoe very much. I guess it will all wipe off.’* Robbie was so solemn and so utterly unconscious of the mischief he had done that the children all bunt into laughter, and in the midst of the merriment Mr. “Norris’ good-natured coachman appeared before them with an immense banket upon hia arm. “There,” he eaid, setting It down with a thump in their midst, “Mr. Norris sends this, with his compliments, to Master Robbie, and he hopes you’ll enjoy U; and I’m to tell you that If you’ll come over on the lawn to-night there’s be a few fireworks which perhaps you’ll like to see,” and with a kindly nod at hia delighted and astounded hearers, Hiram was gone. “What does it mean? Somebody pinch me, so I’ll be quite sure it’e not all a dream!” gasped Nellie, after a moment of breathless silence. “No, it isn’t a dream, because here’s the basket, and do let's see what ia in it,” returned Jack, seizing the heavy basket and eagerly tearing away the paper covering. If I should try, I could not tell yon all the goodies which that basket contained. Nor could I describe the beauty and brilliancy of the fireworks upon the lawn that evening. But every one of the children declared, when tired and happy they separated for the night, that Mr. Norris was a moat delightful person and that this Fourth of July had been by far the best they ever yet had known.—Detroit Free Press.

The eating of snakes, lizards, scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas and othei reptiles is now prohibited by statute in Kansas.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Boats looHTilt History. Some very shrewd, if unscrupulous, newspaper work is being done by the press agents, who are booming President Roosevelt for the 1004 nomination. They are portraying him as a heavy-weight trust fighter, who is smashing the trusts right and left They tell the people that Wall street Is dead against Roosevelt and is hatching all kinds of schemes to prevent his renomination. They are even inventing Ingenious stories about the postoffice frauds, scandals and corruptions, which they hope will not only divert well-deserved blame for this state of affairs from the President, who has permitted it to go on for two years, but will make political capital out of it for him. They say some of the principal rascals of the many who were plundering the postofflce were conspiring to prevent the President’s renomination next year. In these simple and absurd ways they expect to beguile the voting population of this country and, according to their own assurances, they are succeeding. Thus the Philadelphia Ledger says: “Unless all signs of the times be unreliable no Democratic candidate for the Presidency can defeat Roosevelt, and similarly no Democrat can carry New York against him. The representatives of the trusts, of any arid all “vested Interests,” are financially powerful, and could swell to great proportions an anti-Roosevelt campaign fund, but in any contest fought out to a conclusion at the polls between them and "the plain people” of the country, they and their cam-, paign fund would cut but a sorry figure. The plain people have the votes, and they do not forget nor fail to appreciate that in fighting his winning fight against the trusts and “vested interests” President Roosevelt fought the plain people's battles, and they love him for doing it and for the enemies he made by doing it” If these statements be true it is certainly useless and foolish to hold political conventions or elections next year, and, as Mr. Roosevelt will be entitled to two full terms on his own account the country can take a political vacation until 1912. In fact, we might as well make up our minds to accept the rough-rider as the “man-on-horse-back,” who will become the dictator of the empire, which he was Instrumental in substituting for our late, Republic. But are the statements true? What “winning fight against the trusts” has the President made that have in any way benefitted the “plain people?”

The President’s reputation as a smasher of trusts rests largely upon two court decisions obtained last year. The beef trust was enjoined by the courts, and the Northern Securities Company, a railroad combination, was declared illegal In the United States Circuit Court. In neither case can any benefit to the “plain people” be detected, even by the aid of the most powerful microscope. Both of these trusts are continuing to fix prices and rates that the people must pay and It may be Bald, right here, that no decision under the Sherman law has in permanent benefit to the people. The net result has been that the trusts have changed their form but not their substance. No court decision has permanently lowered prices or rates or taken the hands of the trusts out of the pockets of the people. Nor Is it probable that court decisions will ever remedy the evils of trust while we have high tariffs and other ipecial privileges which give monopoly power and encourage combinations and trusts. We must somehow overcome these monopoly privileges before we can hope to get rid of the evils of trusts. But the President has set his face against any change in the trustfattening tariff. He even stopped off, on his recent stumping tour, to help strangle the poor little “lowa Idea,” which feebly declared that tariffs which shelter trusts should come off.

To be perfectly fair we should state both sides of the case—“ The President vs. the Trusts.” The President not only withdrew his endorsement of the somewhat drastic Ldttlefield anti-trust bill, last winter, and transferred his good-will to the amendment to the Department of Commerce bill, which promises nothing but uncertain publicity, but he endorsed and approved the Elkins bill, which abolished the criminal clause of the Interstate Commerce Act and leaves the great railroad trust conspirators subject only to small fines. With the penitentiary no longer staring these criminals In the face the railroads' will continue to fix rates and pay any occasional fines, as did the beef trust in Missouri, after which It proceeded to put up the price of meats. Nor Is it certain that no Democrat eaa carry New York against Roosevelt. The voters in New York know Mr. Roosevelt’s history. They have frequently been tricked by him. The independent voters there, including many Democrats, elected him to the legislature to fight the bosses and bos slsm. He began all right, but soon “found himself very lonely, politically,” u big friend Mr. Poultre Bigelow »„n. U 8) and deserted hiu reform frtsads and became a part and parcel of the Boee-Platt machine and an attendant at "Platt’s Sunday School.”

Many New York voters knew him as a member of the New York Free Trade Club and heard him make red hot speeches there, once declaring that he was ready to “die for free trade.” When Lodge and other great Republicans began to crawl over from freetrade to protection, Mr. Roosevelt decided to crawl, too. He resigned on August 20, 1885, saying: “I am a Republican first; a free trader afterwards."

Again New York voters saw Governor Roosevelt (who, by the way, was elected governor by only 17,786 plurality in 1898, although McKinley received a plurality of 268,409 in 1896, and of 143,606 in 1900), while,pretending to be for the Ford franchise bill, which was very popular in the State, call a special session of the legislature at the urgent solicitation of the corporations, to amend the bill so as to weaken or kill it. On this point Senator Ford, a staunch Republican, said in interviews in the New York World of April 29, and May 3, 1903: “I used to make daily visits to Gov. Roosevelt about the bill and while he professed to favor it ha kept suggesting that changes be made. The governor suggested some other form of taxing franchises. The corporations became alarmed, and Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., avid Senator Platt were in Albany most of the time. Senator Platt became the quest of Gov. Roosevelt There was an attempt to sidetrack the bill. . . . There was no doubt in my mind at the time nor in the mind of any other senator or newspaper man with whom I talked, that the special message was intended to kill the Franchise Tax bill. . . . Although the governor had solemnly assured me that he was going to sign the original bill, be was induced to call the session. ... I urged the governor to sign the original bill, which lay on his desk, and then make the pending bill an amendment of the new law, in order that if any feature of his proposed amendments should prove to be unconstitutional it could not affect the validity es the original law. This the governor declined to do." These are only a few of the old scores against Mr. Roosevelt, which New York voters will have to settle when the President asks for voters there in 1904. He said in January. 1900, that "under no circumstances” would he accept a nomination for the Vice Presidency. Had he felt certain of re-election as governor be probably would not have broken this pledge made to leading Republicans, and would not have been called a “brilliant, erratic and curious sort of man,” by that old wheel-horse Republican, Gen. Grosvenor. There are others in New York besides the Wall street element who will not vote for Roosevelt. In fact, it is safe to say, that Wall street will not only support him in 1904, but will furnish the dough for his campaign. Mark the prediction!

BYRON W. HOLT.

The Tariff a Double Tax.

The country is reminded again of she extravagant appropriations by the last Congress by the publication of the volume which the law requires to be published at the end of each session giving in detail all the items. The tqjai amount for the two sessions is. $1,583,683,002.57, which is far greater than any other Congress ever appropriaied except during the Civil War, whan the amount waa Increased enormously by the premium on gold. As the vast sum is paid in taxes by the people and the railroad corporations and trusts pay but a very small share of the tax, the need for retrenchment for the taxpayer Is apparent. The theory that the foreigner pays the tariff tat, which the protectionists are so fond of preaching, is proven to be an exaggeration, as nearly one-half of the vast amount appropriated is raised by the tariff tax. The price of all Imported goods Is added to from 40 to 100 per cent when the custom house hv taken its toll and the price of our hc-me productions are advanced by tb/s trusts accordingly. So the constoner not only pays the tax on any fcrelgn goods he may purchase, but also pays a similar tax to the home manufacturer who is protected by the tariff.

Far-Seeing Protectionists.

•The Chicago Evening Post, a staunch Republican paper, has no trouble in seeing “protection” in foreign countries in its true light, but Is blind as a bat when looking at short range at the same plundering system. It says: “Of all the peurile and silly comments on tte Chamberlain proposal to revive the hifamous corn laws and starve the masses for the benefit of a few landlords and decaying industries, the silliest is that which represents it as a tribute to the United States and a ‘vindication’ of our *protective policy.’ I*: hardly needs saying that intelligent protectionists are not guilty of any sach childish twaddle. It la well known that staunch American protectionists have fully recognised the economic Impossibility of a protective system under the material, climatic, Industrial and commercial conditions prevailing in the United Kingdom.**

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