Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — DON’T DIE AT 45. [ARTICLE]

DON’T DIE AT 45.

The Republican editors when they get together to pass resolutions complimenting their Great Men somehow forget Governor Hanly.

The satisfaction that some of the Republican papers profess to feel over the work of the late legislature is not shared by the taxpayers who have to foot the bills.

Now that Marion Butler, once a national leader of the Populist party, is whooping things up for Roosevelt, why isn’t it in order for the Republican editors to say something about the “Poporeps” or the “Repopops”?

Senator Hemenway is going to /stay in Washington indefinitely, the Indianapolis Star announces. Somehow, Hemenway is always finding an excuse for staying away from Boonville these days. That town is hardly lively enough for him since be became senator, with a private yacht at his disposal.

Governor Hanly denounced the late Republican legislature for failing to carry out platform pledges, but the Republican editors indorse the legislature. And the question is, where does this leave Hanly, and where does it leave the editors? It is easy to see where it leaves the Republican party—split wide open.

Just as long as the voters of the state will keep them in power, just so long will the Republican politicians take it for granted that they can be guilty of no extravagance which the people will disapprove by their votes. This fact is illustrated by th« reckless manner in which the late legislature spent the tax-payers’ money. The Republican theory seems to be that if the people like that sort of thing they ought to have a-plenty of it.

Mr. Bryan is entirely right in saying that all of President Roosevelt's popularity in the country is due to his acceptance of certain Democratic contentions and that most of the criticism heaped upon him ia doe to his failure to accept other policies for which the Democratic party stands, and to his insistence upon things that the democratic party denounces. AU o ! which shews that the people are only waiting for a chance to put a real Democratic president in the White House,

THE “CONFUSED” ANTITRUST LAW. It lias been discovered that a oOmma has been omitted from the

new anti-trust law, and that as the law reads in the printed acts it is practically meaningless. - Before it can be made effective the courts will have to insert the comma in its proper place. The first section of the law, to be found on page 490 of the 1907 statutes, reads as follows: “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Indiana that every scheme, design, understanding, contract, combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce * • • is hereby declared illegal,” etc. The comma that is omitted in this clause as printed, should come after the word “conspiracy,” and before the clause “in restraint of trade.” As the punctuation stands now the clause “in restraint of trade” modifies the word “conspiracy” only, whereas the author of the bill says it should modify “scheme” and all the other prohibited things. It was pretty certain that something would happen to the lawsomething that would “confuse” it but no one supposed that the fault would be laid at the door of a poor little comma.

SPEAKING ABOUT NERVE. The auditor of the Clover Leaf railroad, W. D. Tnoker, made revelations before the state tax board the other day that perhaps he had not expected to make when he appeared to ask for a redaction in the assessment of his road. He was telling the board about what a hard time the railroads were having to get along, and complained about the general depression of the railroad business under present conditions.

In response to questions put to Tim by Parks Martin, the Democratic member of the board, Mr. T ucker ad mi tted that the railroads jad contributed to the election of the Republican administrations in state and nation. In answering he inquiries of Mr. McArdle, another member of the board, Mr. Tucker stated that T. P. Shouts continues to serve as president of lis road at a big salary while acting as chairman of the Panama canal commission at a still bigger salary. Mr. Tucker related how lis company had raised the wages of its shopmen 15 per cent; that if negotiations under way were successful, enginemen would “probably get $40,000 a year more”; and that the trackmen “were restless :or an increase of 10 or 15 per cent.”

Truly, Mr. Tucker told a pathetic tale. The road had helped the Republicans, had paid a big salary to a president who was drawing a bigger salary from the United States treasury on another job, and either had or “probably” would increase the wages of certain employes. For all of these lardships it wanted compensation ! rom the people of Indiana in the way of a reduction in Cits taxes. In other words it asked the taxpaying public to pity it for its woes and shoulder expenses which it should pay out of its own revenues.

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