Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 March 1901 — Page 3
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NORTON'S BARN. It w .1 loriR .-ii ! ' 4rk - I w Hi 1 1 i - flight And ili old roof arched to u lofty Belnet i .ike tawny Hb the rsf tars loosssl In III' high ulti lop where the a!lu 1 1 1 1 in ii , rub tlown below w l- tin ni" iiiul bay, In miii. nur v U1 . Inn Mliil wlili buy In ü (he CBIH) I.im 4il the wiiitrflt The wtatec days that wi s Tb ciliare old b. ims with tl.tir co.itsof dust. The Kiy bum doOTI with their riddUh rust On ti !-p ami h'riK'--, Quaintly wrought By tin- viiiiiK smith Irom Iron in ought la nets Hah anlae i tin' in g iiBui l i you ran mnee how we'd km To Norton's l;irn OD B rSlO) il i.v Aad talea tad Mik iii i iii tons of huff We walked lh- In mil In Hie flufsy loft. or jumped in ti depths oi itu baymoe oft. And burrowed deep In the yielding; itraw TU1 tin trifhteni j sttls thought tbej m 'j' in- root n com front their iveros Seep, And phantom Klio.its from the root -tree leap! U iIuk u holes In (he ru.-1 lit-.K 'my When the hired men Uli In .- id ui may. And the fUSSlng hin who hid h r ti st i.d thought m .i bothering childish pestl Jlow proud -h' wjs wlun at last sdie lotirul A nest that 'souped our M uri hlnfc round! The I. inn oh! BOfM w ith the hungry maw, Wo f t d him to iits when BO OOS s-aw lluw we piok d the lock on the grain box tight Ai d all It "ll.'libli g at d ad o r.lght!" 0 NortOB'S barn' I MM tine Ft III, 1 lomel) und u it in t mi the side of the bill. with area tin r stains, and knot höh bot. A rleki ly, cranky. iueer old lot tiu1 to m boj lata nth 41 al old A caatla tit tor a baron boldl And the boys iind girl, wh i used to play At hid and seek: Oh. win r' ure they? -J ot.x Swllt, in Spilnghelil ija.i Ite-pubiican.
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LAMSOJV'S Dancing Lesson
By Raymond Haswdl
(Ojiigiit. 1 11. l asUwMsSi sates,)
coon t'd 1 1 1 . Mary Ellen 1 ri f to r.a many dancing parties that Least I cuuic the conclusion that I e must either learn to üani' or l every Mem of marrying kr. 1 1 . - rmdhmi tu leern tu dance, and then surprise
11. Willi Ills IMotoiclle V.
Bo Laaiaoa began t take priente
lessons from Mis-, Arabella Dsj Vcro, who guaranteed la taaaa the nralta ami two step "to nny person not a cripple or deficient la meatal powere,
tor live dollars. Miss De Wie gave her dancing lessons in u large, bars room over steamship uftloO. Sin whs a fadodl, patient little woman, with slender, twinkling feet that seenn-,1 inan.v yeara younger than her limd fad ami thin hands. She had taught so many people to dance that lung ftgfl her pupil., ceased to be nnvthin inure to her than moving shadows of
different degrees of awkwardneaa. Her dancing ncademy was near I.Mmson's office, and he urranged with ln r to tuke a lesson on every week day between one and half past one o'clock. He nte a hurried Iundevery day, and then stoh up to Mis? De Vcrc's with his pumps in his overcoat pocket. She began teaching the wait, first, for she anid that when one hud mastered that, all other dances w eranaay. Each day she would draw a diamond on the floor wit!) chalk and set Lamson to revolvitiL' around it to her monotonous: "One two, three." Larnaon revolved until he though I Ometimna that his brain was clnirtn-' to an omelette. When he had Mi around for the PCO POT length of time li-s De Vert would take a firm holt i.f him and put aim through bht poset around the room, meanwhile hum minf H8woet Bnnel of Dalai a,n foi lle employed no niuslc'.im during hei Private lessons.
Every day for many weeks thu per formaaea went on. Lamson reroired perspired, and rctrolred again in lh touching belief that BO0AC day wt would auddenly be inspired to walti with great grace and tii vterity. Thet ana day he asked a question which woke his dancing mistress from her
dream that he was only a moving, walking shadow. 'When am 1 going
THE STORM GATHERING. Concentration of Power In (he Hands of UonooolUla Will Haalrn all'I mil l.raUlal lou.
A PPOBABLE PREDICTION.
Trad of Ihr laanatrlal ms. olle I i'aru aierlt-a Into a Hntnlr.
NATURE had never Intended that Lanaaon should dance. By every raw of grace and anatoinay, he ahould luivt withheld himself from tfae festive wall and tWO step; yet La HI BOB had a wild desire in learn to dance. Worst of all, this longing came upon hÜBt .'ifier be was '."i years old, and the person who learns to dance well after -5 is rarer than a white black bird. The rea soa for I. mason's sudden Intereal in daaeiag was becauae he iM'lievcd that as a dancer he would he on the air Ihm to Mary EHen'ai hear;. Hary Ellen Anatruther conld dance aa lightly as thlatle down in a -out h breeae, and young Perkina, deteatahle youth, who won- plaid vesta and giggled behind fawn mustache, was ber favorite partner. Tha lirst time Lamaoa ever aaw Mary Ellen she was dam intr. and he was smitten With a Vfl at hoe for her. ami a eorreapondlng great hate for her partner, Perkins. I.amsoa himself was toaaglag In n doorway, disconsolate lad al "ie. He was not a dancing man, and in- lud cmne to the party under prote-t. Bui Hre. Baj bad .ne day deaiäended on him in his offlci nod said thai if he did not come -he would never forgive him to the Ittel day of her life. So he had gone. ind waa spend lag a li-tiess evenfaag, trying to ke p out of the way of the laneace. riei- 1 :iw Mat v Ellen he be !'
to take an interest in things. He skated around the djT of the ballroom until ha found Mrs. pay. He i U-l her to introduce him to the pretty girl who was dancing with the pigeon toed, blond younir man." Perkins was not pigeon-toed that was a gratuitous insult invented by Lamaon n the spur Of the moment. T. am-, hi was introduced to Mary ElleB. On eloaer view he decided that she wns even prettier than he bad thought at first. No one could ImoW how long and curh-d her eyelaahea Were vho dil not see her close, nor how fine ami sat inlike was her akin, nor could be fully appreciate the mints 4 turn of her under lin as it
merged into her chin. Lamson talked to her for five short minutes, then a gawky youth bora Ii.r awa fur a wait. La IB MOB spent the remainder of the evening following Mary I'llcn about so he could Batch a few moments with her between dances. .Inst when he began U) enjoy himself she was always whirled away from him. He suggested that she sit down and ret. she laughed and show ed him her card, which was scrawled all oxer with hieroglyphics. "I Wieb you weren't so popular," Lamson said; "then yon would have time to talk to me." Mary Kllen held up her hands in horror. "Oh. a wall flower! That would be horrid. I could never hold up my head again if . im. 1 na a
my card wasn t niicn up. nui, Mr. Lamson." she added. "if Von really want to talk to me, you might come over to our house some day nnd call. I don't dance then, and I'm sure you'd soon get tired of hearing me talk." Lamson learned her address just as she was joining the cotillion, lie allesj on her the very nct evening but one. Lamson found Mini In- did not tire of hearing Mary Ellen talk. Afterwards he ; ehiotn remembered just what she had talked of. but he was apt to watch the dimple in her riglll cheek as it came and went, and M lost much of the drift of her con vernation. Lamson wouUi have been piite content to spend eery evening 11 the Barlo' of Mary Kllen' father. bat she had many engage meata. Lamson oould go to theater and concerts and rani porttert, hut when it cuOie to dancing he had ta lac
to begin to learn the two-step? ha Baked, as he stepped up tu his chalked diamond and took the lirst portion. Mi s DeVere stared, and it suddenly dawned on her that this mature pupil had been coming to her for a long time. "You aren't gating along very fast, arc you?" she said, in a natura!, human way. It was the first lime she had ever addressed him save as a spinning top that must he commanded to Mirn in a certain path. "No." Lamson confessed. "but 1 thought perhaps the watt would
I he trade papers are beginning to realise thai the oooaolidat lona ami rontbinatioaa which an bow absorbing most of the great industries of the Country are hastening t he day of antitrust legislation. The Metal Worker. winie making a defenae of tha new steel trust, yet m-iH the pohsibilitj of legislation wimdi will make auch oosa biaatiOBS impossible. It suggests that the undertaking was "forced by the desire to pruteit existing interest s, seriously t hreateiied as t hey w ore by DOB Bible warfare, rather than by a desire to unload the properties upon the public at inflated prices." It thinks it sees an udvaiitace in the trust in
that "the concentration of power in the hands of one large consolidation is expected to bring about a decided stead Log of the market s." It speaks in a coiimioiiphn o wnyo one of tha ureat evils of the trust. say I ng! "As a competitor! so huge an organisation could develop very dan geroua atreagth by waging war in aha territory and draw lag the sinews therefor from unconteated markets. The Metal Worker evidently understamls the met bods employed by the trusts methods which sonic, strange to aay( seam tu regard as legitimate business. n, vet the Datier quoted
cannot refrain from a prophecy of trouble, It says: "It will take 1 lever mnruiKi mer.t on the r-irt of the consolidation lo ästet and brenk the force of urousiil public opinion. Irnarlr:ntlon U .uro to l.- Inflamed by the enlossi.l unoV-rti.kln .r now about to be COBMimmateii. and tb re will be many wh are1 eager to fan the finnn s " And again: "it is eertaia that the new eonsalMstlsa
will I1r.1l mm h Kiippurt to the uiitl-trust SKltatlun ar.i! will be Its hlnlnK m irk K. 1 1 1 y will watch very move, anil u!:scrupnloua deansaTBgaea and an nabfidM yellew press will dlitort evaa the most trivial lncldi nt." It will be seen that even the defenders of monopoly are conscious thai
j the storm is gathering. Although they 1 consider it "unscrupulous" and "de ma
gogic lot" anyone 10 conuemn n uii yet they nil aide to measure the force of public opinion when once it is 1 a M m 1 1 . .1..
1 armiseii iinii ttii-y are learun icsi i n-
relgn 'f monopoly may. after all. be short lived. The Commoner. FINDS PLACES FOR ALL. I'leuty of I'liiiMM for It epiib 1 1 en n Ofllef BSrekeeB I mler nur Uli' ! rexlil.'ii t .
"We shall have un emperor in Wle-h-iagtOD v it 1 1 i 1 1 years unless we can create a public aentimeal which vill regulate tha trusts," said President Arthur 1 llaslb j . f Yale uaiearaityi in an address delivered in the Old South church i" BoatOS recently. The assertion is not wo fantastic aa It BHIJf Bl in. ulthough little attention mighl be paid to it, did it come from a lese thoughtful und less scholarl) member nt aoah tj t ban Presaient Hadhrjr. I be em pel or may not BOOM w 1 1 bin 25 yeurn; hut Iiis ultimate oaainaj is by no means impossible, or von improbable. When the great industrial -
nopoliea are oaoe t 1 suy eatabliMied, it will not be dirli. ult for the Bsea that control t hem to w ork their will In polltics und government. The complaint ie already made that presidential elections disturb business, uiul the question of extending the terns ofof rice of the president is seriously ngitated. This diaturbance will become more and nmre pronounced SB industry ami eoanmsrea become more and more centralized. Fundamental dif-
PASSION FOR POWER. It Is Directly Responsible for Congressional Profligacy.
AdSlna turn ilncn Is ta l.l 1 1 n ml e Bin tkr gaaaalsa atetswa at l.awuiakrra af Srrariag IM" far I'rrassal I aa.
SpisotaJ Wsahlnaton LatUr.
the
'nrlll'. paaaiaa f r pelf and
power of public plunder were uever so web illustrated iu the history of our republic as during the closing days of the recent short suasion of the eongrens. The individ uals comprising the senate and house of representatives were exceedingly nonpartisan in their fforts to get their hands into the treasury away up above the elbows. kVtatesmeo of both political parties wexe equally culpable. There is nothing in the eonstitu tion, nothing in statutory or common law, to authorise tha expenditure of the public moneys for expositions, for river and harbor steals, for fraudulent claims, nor for any one of ihe mv thincs which were nut to the
thoae who haves only sei nah
interests to advance. In the house of -epccsrntatis Mr. De A rmond, of Missouri, caustically nnd bitterly referred to these facta, 'aying: "There has never tieen a lay fuller of fate for freedom and liberty than this; and here, with the iepreentativesof the people shackled with trade and bargains and connivanisf, with Bringing and crooking of the knee that thrift may follow fawning, the rights of the people are being frittered away, their constitution is being disregarded; and, shame upon shame, this is to 1m done here in what is auppoaed to be the house of representatives of the American pe pic. which is really the house of reprcsentat i vesof the bosses and tradersand traffickers wh,ohave no respect
I .... .jituls will ioiTi-use
the uncertalntj growing out of preal- ! 'ore by the. p.ilifcians in the national
Hi: MEETS MA
V BXiLBM. in a flash
me to me some uav in a uasii use
an inspiration. I'm not acrippie. and 1 don't believe that I'm mentally deficient, ho 1 OUgkt to learn to dancr." Miss DsVere Mslied and looked at Lamson with a kindly scrutiny. "I wonder if yoa'II understand if 1 tell
you the truth'.'" ahe asked. ' Will you promise not to tatak I tell you things to get ril of teaching you any more'.'" "I promise you." Lamson replied. 'W.ü. I am afraid that you will never learn to dance vor mach I can see how hard you try, but somehow it isn't in you. Them are people that way about dancing just as there re people thai can- never learn colors that are color blind." She saw
the disappointment in his face. "Bul you keep right on coming, and 111 help you all 1 can. Only I'm afraid
yon won't learn much more. Would yon mind if I asked you a question?" "So, fire away." Lamson returned. "Are yOB trying to learn to dance on SCCOUnl Of of some young lady that you like?" the daBCtng teacher asked, delicately. Yes," Lamson said. "Since you are so kind, 1 don't mind telling you that I am." And he sat down and told the little woman Ihe whole story of his love for Mary K'.len. "I suppose I'm a fool for my pains," he emhil. dismal'y. Tired. little Miss DeVere shook her head, and a very pleasant smile was on her lips. '"No, I don't think so. Hut now I'm going to give you a piece of good advice. If that girl cures anything for you and is worth all your loa she will merry you just as quick if you can t dance as if you can. I'm a woman and I know. You'd better go and ask her right away, instead of wasting your time here. If she loe mi. she'll tnke you. and if she don't ill the dancing in the world won't help you. Mow, that's good, sound Sdfief And some time you mast let me aee her if you get married." Lamsoa followed the sdvtee af hia dancing tencner, and last week Misa trsbclla DeVeri had a large cream-
colored I a vl tat Ion to the enures wedding of Vlxrl Duhea Lamson and t,i ry Kllen last rather. IVbee sheie eelrcd It, Ihe little dancing teacher nodded her be I efely. "I told you
be -aid aie.nl. although sne was
t he bare rootn
At the tinSt of President McKinley second Inauguration, a few days sine Kiime surmise was occasioned by th
multitudes who thronged to Washington, it was remarked that a BCCondterm president was an old story; his personality! his character, and bis policy are know n. Moreover it was supposed that the most powerful laceB five the nope of federal office did not exist: for the reason that a reelect inn of the preaideat usually means flint the bthees Will, In the main, conti to be filled by the same incumbents as during the Brat term. It appears, however, thai theerowds knew
their business, and that there will be ofttcea enough for sll, to paraphrase Schley's famous remark after the Santiago victory. A Washington newspaper thus explains the situation, and shows its differences from the ordinary accond -t rm opening: "President McKinley Is busy, in his n'.fabl. way. NCelViRS the many Bpptk IM for DfScc who ate In Waenükrvon with a view to oi.e or another remunerative ap
pointment. Fortunatel for the dispenser
of honor ai d p4ae . he has a I ire number at hH Atspoeak The executlvi govemment of the PhUlpntnes alone win 4-
trat.'! a Utlali at my of plae. met v. hnwj.l
have ixce'l n pay, In cause the nioeev conn I "ut of the Filipino, Htid many opportunities to turn a penny also nt th'' cost of the natives I'uim ind Parte itu r IT r ither uO' tilnn.-'. and It Is prnbuK that many hanm.s will he made In tht diplomatic an.i enrs .iar m rviee. Terr.o-
erat r- belna t urti' .! out m h sale rrmn
the euetoas feouaea, auatresaurlsa, and aa on. Ahojfether thers ar- slmost as many
plums for the faithful as there ware four
vi ir uro. All toe omc--s -k r n.is in no Is to prov." his work iu the late fi - Id t . -
Hal campaign, at'.'l to be patient, but t
termlned, Hordes r,r diservinK striker
and See ten in the past ha- gom away
from the oHpltal sorrowInK srd blttr
nn r l ttee.iuse th hfol not the vrllor.i
or coiir iire to r fuse to take 'no' for an
i.swer."
The army bill will also make places
for a birgt r retinue of needy repub
lican civilians, although ihe patronagi
in that line is supposed to I' largely
bespoken in iKM.inee liv I ailed Males
senator and repreaentativea In eon
grcss. hi consideration of votes ea-t
in aocordance with the McKinley pol
icy. -Albany Argus.
dential contests and consequent!) the
bttsiaesa uncertainty of the country. Anything thai disturbs baslnesa la popularly ragsrdsd as objeetioashle, and th dispos it ion of the trusts will he to minaimlae tiiis dlatutbance as
much as poasible, The first step fro
.. -.onlilie towards an ! tnpiro won
., . ,. .. - - . probably come in the reelection of a safe" president to a third term A crisis might easily arise in w b ich this
third term would ! considered nec
essary for the preservation d the commercial Interests f the country. (lut oft his t bird term might as naturaly come a qtiasi-dictatorship. nnd out if this dictatorship empire. It a not impossible no more impossible than was the transformation of Napoleon 111. from a president loan mp rot under the belief that "Use empire is peace.1 The experiment with a republican reoverntnent la the United States Is toy no means conclusive, although BBOBl of us fancy Hint it i-. The IUBT nsatsah .f a republic i- yet to ' undertaken. It has not yet been proved that a republic can perform its functions satisfactorily in the midst of a highly complicated civilisation exvendiag over a large area, with diverse and often eon Dieting interests. The machinery is very cumbersome ami operaU I clumsily. We have seen n brillinnt llluatrstion . r tiiis in ttte miniature imitT war that
congress, at the instigation of their constitaeaciea and eosanton wealths. ThS people should kfl)W the truth and deal with their scrvaats accordiag to their merits or demerits. Dom oc.rj and republicans alike have sinned, and the truth may be told
I j without partisan eling or partisan
statement. There were senators ami represeatatives who desired an extra session of tlw congress in order that coii-il-eration might bo given to Chinese, Philippine ami Gaben affair- Borne
of them w r' so much in earnest ihat
HATCHING A S' llKME
thee declared that
for the const it ut ion. thoae who have n respect for their constituencies, those who have no respect for th'ir own manhood, those who serrender away
all legislation their every right, those who grovel
should be blacked la order that an extra session might be compelled. The reason Wh they all f-ll down and prostrated their sincere opin ions was given by t ongresaman Hep hum. of Iowa, the acknowledged leading debater Of 'lie house of representatives, when he said to the
in the .lust and sc. 'in to rejoice that they may so crawl, instead of standing erect, as dod probably intended they ahould do." That sounds like a part of a po litical speech, but it was riot. It .;is timed at men of both political
parties who wen- giving sp their in-
v. ritet : 'It was the greed of public dividual opinions in order that they
money. The legislation Which WOUM might g't at the "pie" bills, so that. prevent an extra se salon waa placed political thrift should follow for their
upon the army appropriation bill, in own selfish purposes
so.
finite alone in
the steamship oflice.
-Midas, Croesus and the othr
rich fellows of BUtiquitj look small In
comparison with the new ste-l crm Boltdation, Wltn its capital of over l billion. The "dreams of avarice" Wll
have to be expanded to fake in th
vast amount of capital now brought
under one manager a control in a sin gle line of business. If large btlsi
nesses can confer on an Industry and
Its workers, together with eonanm
era, Ihe larc,.' beneftta thai some per
sous have predicted, this monster
tttecl trust ought to prove if very
quickly. One benefit it will almost
certainly bring at SB earl date tariff
reform. Ball Isaore Sun.
In the fight for markets cen
trnlint ion in government inu-t soon
count foras much as centralisation
in Indnatrv. and when thai eentrell
zation uecoinea necessary lo the men that control the great trusts, have we anv ranees to belleee thai Ihej will not exert themselves to the utmost to obtain it? It is well SOOUgh to be nfrtlmlatte, bnl it is fooliah to close our eyes to the fact that the supreme test of a republican fofri of gorern inetit in Ike Lniten States must in all probability b made during the next three r feat desadeev" Detreii Free Pre Hi
h- adminiatratlon la conducting with I Pr
1 1 , form of smendmenta. Then the
armv appropriation bill was
on the calendar, in advance of tne sundry civil and the river nnd harbor appropriation bills. Those bills contained the pic. or Krk.' fr which many were contending. "Those bills could not be taken up ami considered until Ike srmy u)iro-
i. it ion bill was disposed of. Coase
liiere should Ih some remedy for
placed ,,iiS condition of affairs in the con
gress, an I the remedy lies with the people. Every man In the republic should div.-st himself of partisan fneling in the matter. It i- useless to blame either party, as a party, for their representatives are bunten and in 1hat respect are al! alike. The people should gtva their senators nnd
representatives to understand
that
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they wn'.bl tie er consent consienrcu. and" voted f-r the bill which they hud
sworn to kill.
teresta of favorite localities are un
constitutional; and that appropriations for rivers and harbors must be
"The sundry civil appropriation bill made on the plane of statesmanship.
sontaiaed th provision of 15,000,000 nnd not n the plane of the partisan
nth. in order to get at MM -pes
ill was passed, and tb- se,
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the treasury only recently got aroutm
to construe a obtuse rinti- to tb-
iitivs on sugar. This clause was conti ,) to meet the demands of esr- ... .. . A. mm A-
taill Illtcr-s1s-. itlll l lie .eerei.ov sil
led back in hi - hair w Ith the eotiv u- . . i . . ir l . .
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lis.,.,,,, ,,'f the matter BS th. ! pleaacd. appropHaUoa bill in order to get at appropriations, and Senator Cock
Ihe Ink on the paper was rtararyary i " p r a .
before M. de Witte, tb Russian minis- smo conia.n.o w w "i" ;
5J.iii.tasi lor vii- nai n-sioii e " -so .!, : and they also were obliged to rote for tin' army appropriation MIL The river ami harbor appropriation bill
for the Kt. Louis exposition; nnd all of the supporters of that approprin-
or politician.
Senator Allison, of Iowa (rep.), chairman of the senate committee
tor of lirance. mil isnneii un on in in
creasing the dut y n American import
ol agriculture. The retaliation i
.liiiosl instantaneous. M. de Witte as not obliged ijoeontrene a congreaa n session and wait until a taiilT 1 ill
discriminating ngainsi ftttu 'ean it:i-
portS was lobbied through. lie was
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i miii li ' r N t l nil u LT u ru i e ancn a iou mmt
than it required ntinuten in Rrtasla, and
consequently Bnssla is in a far better
position -.ban the 1 Bit.ee Mates to meet the deniniids of ber growing iiidnst rie f rum day to day .
i II. of Missouri (dem. I. former chalrassn of the committee on sppra 1 i iations; the two men of different parties who know most about national appropriations, frepicntiy snokc with earnestness, with words
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contained aggregate sum- amounting warning, and with pleading, that
to $.".0,00O.'nn. In that bill almost every member of the senate and house of representatives had an interest. They w. re obliged to vote for the nnny np-
the expenditure might I' cut ilnwn; but those honest and painstaking lenders were powerless. The regular sulscrilers and readers of this paper must have noticed
nie' in thai bill. Consequently they , t, ..rresooinlent has dealt in
all fell down and surrendered.
kindlv manner with public nur, Bad
The anny appropriation lull was tj1(.v w;u understand that it is with
In the fight for markets eentrausation hi government must soon count j for n attach as eentrehl Kation in Industry, anil when that een'rnliulion becomes necessary lo the men timt cont rol the great t rusts, have w e any reason to believe that they will riot eet t I he in selves to t be IttlUOSl to obtain it ? it must be remembered, too, thai money is everything la politics and government, it la the lever that mcrrea the gov eminent . and t he men that have this lever in their hmnls arc the men that can make over the form of a goi rutin nt to suit themselves. Detroit Free Press. PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. The president is still confident that the Cubans will yield promptly and gracefully, but all ef the news advices read to Ihe contrary. Manchester L'nion. it was William McKinley who told congress that it was our plain duty to grant Porta BiCO frei trade and it was William MidvnilcV also eim a fen weeka later used nil the power Sttd patronage of the executive to force through eanajreaa a Porte lii-an tariff. N. Y. Post. Presldeat lladley, of Yale, aays there will be an etnperor on a throne in Washington within II year unless the power of tl o trusts is controlled. There is no need to WOfry, however. Some day the American people will Wake tip. and then th S ' I ! do a lot of correcting of nhucs in a very short time, t leveland Leader. Now that llanna disclaims any intention of forcing htcKinley en the people for a third tittle, we Hjtual wait in patience until fite great s;ndieate boss res fit to announce bis choice as McKinley' successor in Ihe white house. Von may be sitre it will he, some man equally plinhle. siaiilarly Inclined ta Sccept the orders nf the trusts as "manifest destlay,1 full.- as Indifferent ta the ere Iters of the comtiiun people. Nnd it Is just ns certain that the millions of the combine will be at llannn's disposal for the election of this man. St. Louis Hrpul c
nna f the beat measures of the kind
that has ever passed th' lions.' of representatives, it was the senate amendments an foreign affairs which
sensed the bot opposition to it; but
the senate amendment s w er- a I towed by tin1 opponents of
a very keen regret that these trutns are told concerning them. Every man. including the politicians, des.r. s to better bis condition. Representatives de-ire to become senators.
s,Aa'" .-nd senators desire to become presi-
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AN ARvil AIENT FOK "I'IK." amendments, in irder that th. y might get at the 'pic' appropriation '' ThS Iowa slutesinau has alvvavsconsistently opposed the river and hat bor appropriation bills; and rightly, tOO, for they always contain point 1 1 la nk steals from the treasury. Moneys are annually appropria t ed in that bill for the improvement of streams Which are, ami always will be, useless for navigable purposes; but the con grcssnien seek and secure appropria tions in th' river and harbor bills in order that public moneys may 1- SI pended in their listricts for their "w n poMtrffal interests. The m n who u p resent eonsi it inneies and state containing navigable htreams. or con
t IgUOUB to ocean and lnke coa ll a, prop
erly praseat tin ir honest interests for the national w lfare. Put in order to get what public spirited and national pride should ch.erfiiiiy gtre thej are obliged to allow all sorts of nnworthv spproprbltiOBS to ht made, else they might be defeated in their Inndabhl puriose by th voles of
dents. Like menansnta ana mecnaac ics who seek their indivitlu.il betterment these public servants sometimes subordinate public interest to talf-tntereat, sad they are going too for in that direction. Although there are many politicians who believe thai he did ned fulfill the requisites t his own declaration in all respeete, Braver Cleveland sertalnlj penned an axiom which all public nu n OUght to know and understand When he said: Public office is a public trust." The representatives oi the people and the senators of the sovereign states ought to realize that fact lietter than they have recently done. In the house of representatives the speaker has absolute power over the appointment of chairmen and members of commit tees; and every speaker selects the best men for those poaitions nSBSttSS it is to his own interest, as well as to the public interest, to do so. Put during the session which nas recently closed the speaker was powerless to prevent the universal demand for appn.pt i, it ions of almost every description lb could shut off special bills; but the representatives who failed to have their way in the house would -o to theis senators nnd Indnes them ta place amendments upon MMsaS bills where by their results were to be accomplished. so von see, you cannot blame individual leaders nor political parries, but the individuals thamssivt -. who are seeking to accomplish their own ambitions. The sooner the people understand these conditions, nnd brine their moral aaa liOB sad influ
ence to bear upon the men whom they choose to i pr. ent them in the federal government, the better it will e for all the people In every way; and the better it will he for aar ytem of government. '.n h ;s not, as it ought to be, a governirrM "of the people, by the aejspli and for ths peooie." mir pB