Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1909 — THE DEMOCRATIC WAY. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMOCRATIC WAY.

The steel trust and the so-called Independent steel men have entered into a "gentlemen’s agreement" to pick the pockets of the American people. The Aldrlch-Cannon-Taft tariff law prevents outside interference and this "gentlemen’s agreement" heads off home competition. And the same thing is true in all other lines controlled by the big trusts and big interests. Is it any wonder that the cost of living is mounting higher all the tijpe and that the common people are being reduced to a condition of serfdom?

Robert J. Aley the present superintendent of Public Instruction is a Democrat. He has just turned into the state treasury $ 1,200, the net earnings of the manuscript department in his office. That is the first time this was ever done. Mr. Aley’s predecessors, it is said, regarded the examination feeß as their private property and paid none of them Into the treasury. It should also be remembered that Mr. Aley has been in office less than a year.

William R. Hearst has again become an independent candidate for mayor of New York, this time for the purpose of trying to elect Bannard, the Republican candidate. The Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, Judge William J. Gaynor, is a clean, able man. He has done more to bring about municipal reform than any other one man in the big city. But Hearst, since he abandoned the Democratic party, has made It his business to help the Republicans In every way possible. Strip Hearst of his mother’s money and there is not much left of him except a grouch and a large stock of malice.

Robert J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruction, will, on December 1, turn into the state treasury approximately $1,200 as net earnings of the manuscript department in the office. This is the first time in the history of the office, according to the governor, that the state treasury has benefited by the deportment, and the announcement that the office had been among the revenue-producing offices of the state occasioned considerable surprise about the state-house. The money conies from a fee of SI.OO which is collected from every applicant for state teacher’s license. The money collected is allowed by an act of the general assembly for the purpose of defraying the cost of employing clerks to grade the manuscripts- No law' requires that any balance resulting from the fund shall be turned into the treasnry and it has been the practice in the past to consider any balance accruing -Jn the department as a perquisite of the office, and as the property of the state superintendent.—lndianapolis News-