Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 126, 14 March 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIUM AND SUN-TEUEGRAM, SUXDAT, MARCH 14, 1900.

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Ha-tol . Ieda. . . .Mnagtag SeMer. Caarlea M. Morgw Mif W. R. Pouadatoae. . . . . . .Kw KdMa. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year (In ad- - vance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year1. In- advance . .n ....... . .85.00 Six months, in advance .......... 2-60 One month. In advance .......... . 45 ", RURAL ROUTES. One year. Irr advance ........... .$2.00 Six months, in advance l-'f One month, Jn advance . -25 X A At run chansred as often as desired; Tpoth new and old addresses must be 4Tlven. r ... ' ' ftiihscrlbers will lease remit with order, which should be given for a peclfied term; name will not be enter ed until payment is received. ' , ; "Entered at Richmond, Indiana, postefflce as. second class mail matter. The Association at lAaWtissrs (New York City) has 4 examlaed sad certified to tkc circulatios J el tail paslicatioa. Only the fdignrei at I etrealatioa etratslaed in Its report are 1 . at a m - J No. 16t sja-Tma ABOUT THE TARIFF. ' The discussion provoked by the announcement that Taft has no intention f opposing Cannon as yet, on the ground that to do, so would endanger tariff revision so much desired by the citizens of this republic is a matter to Jbe left entirely to the future to work tout. No one can ever be sure of what Vill or will not happen. It is undoubtedly true that the fight against Speaker Cannon would have entirely muddled the situation in Washington so 'that nothing would have been done. Hut now that Cannon has a cinch on the job and the rules are to. be as 'they have been ever since the days of Tom Reed, the thing we have to worry about is whether we are to have the real thing In tariff revision or whether we ; are to have a little ' symposium on the matter and then adjourn with ) the congressional travelling expenses paid to and from the city of Washington by a people prodigal and grr"ious and careless to a last 'degree. It would seem - provable that real tariff revision will not go through without -a fight. Nothing has ever gone through congress these, latter years without a fight, which Is worthy of consideration. , . - Just now there is some discussion as to whether in the event of Taft . being brought face to face with the question he would or would not sign a tariff bill which did not meet with his approval or would he let It go without a signature as did Cleveland denouncing it as "perfidy." What Taft will or will not do, is a matter purely of speculation and opinion. It is our opinion that Taft is an entirely honest man and will act as he has in, all other matters of any importance which have come up. Past experience would lead one to believe that when the time comes there lie will stand firm and will not let the people be swindled on the matter of tariff revision. It la said that if he vetoes the bill he) will also break up the republican party. It it not also true that if the people are not satisfied in the matter of tariff revision that they will lose faith In the party too? In such a contingency Taft can rely on the whole people as Roosevelt always did. Taft perhaps has not the facility in gaining the backing of the people but of this It is not only too soon to tell. Entirely opposed Is a theory that seams plausible that whatever may be the clamor , Taft will do as he thinks is best for the people and al- . low the question to straighten itself out afterward. This in turn brings us to another contingency. The tariff in all probability cannot" satisfy any one class of people. - There will as we have said ' before . be a howl of protest all oyer the ' country which will come from many sources. This will be because the tariff is a question which cannot actually satisfy anyone. Either the producers- or the consumers will find Bome fault and there you .are. ' ;..y"':'; -' ,v '' ' It is not altogether fair to jump on even the Ways and Means committee because of their stand on any of the hundreds of schedules. . And this tor ' one. important ' reason. There are hundreds of schedules. Moreover the price of various commodities a t home and abroad has to be considered on .these same "hundreds and hundreds of schedules and there is no data which is really available on all this. On the question of wood pulp alone al- , though evidence was entirely insuffident to fix .even an approximately correct schedule the evidence was so great that 'it took the committee months to look it over. If this is the . case on one schedule what will it be n. the hundreds 'and hundreds of

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This state of things, tearing aside the fact that the plan of the schedules is some twenty-five years out of date and that pins are still listed with automobiles, calls attention to the fact that it the committees of congress cannot handle the information there should be some other agency which can handle it. It will not be possible in all probability at the special session of congress which is called to consider the revision of tariff to provide for a tarif commission or bureau. 4 This plan is the one hope for a real tariff In this country if we are to successfully compete with the nations (Germany, England, Japan and France) which have a tariff based on scientific principles. ' " Vv Until we, too, have a tariff based on facts and not on pull and insufficient knowledge we shall strive after the world's trade with a handicap. The people of this congressional district have the assurance of their representative about to be Judge Barnard that he will vote for real tariff revision and a tariff commission. If he keeps his promises when the chance comes, that Is all that the people In this section of the country need worry about. Taft will do his part

IN THE MATTER OF THE JUDICIARY AND POLITICS. Montana is struggling with the prob lem of how. to keep separate the Judlcary and party politics. To do this they are going to try? to make it impossible for any party to have the power of nominating or offering for election a judge on the party ticket. Just how far this will prevent any connection between party and candidate is a matter of speculation. Is it possible in a country where the whole plan of government is based on the party system to divorce even, the Judiciary from its operations? It is to be hoped so. The theory 1 ' what should be hoped for" In this country. Whether the state of Montana can do it is a thing that other states should be interested in finding out. In the smaller courts the matter of politics often enters into direct corruption as has been- proved in New York and Chicago time and time again. It has been one of the fundamentals of a machine in getting the support of the lawless element. In- the higher courts it has been generally supposed.1 that the matter of party J was more or less a blind in many cases for obvious steals through the courts irl the corporation cases. Would: this be changed if politics, or rather if party. were eliminated? It is to be hoped, but the wiles of the corporations are many. - -j THE ANDER.80NVILL.E MONU MENT. The United Daughters of the Confedcracy in convention asembled have decided to erect a monument to Captain Wira of Andersonville, who was commandant of the prison at , that place during the civil-war. It had been bet ter, in our opinion, if the United Daughters of the Confederacy had. contented themselves with monuments to the men that they have been proud of such men as Lee and Stonewall Jackson. But to raise a monument to the man who was the commandant of the worst hell-hole of a prison in the south is not altogether a matter of congratulation. That prison and its commandant are the worst things of the bloody struggle. It is true that the prisons of the south were ill kept and provisioned because not even- the armies of the south had enough to keep them in food. But the condition of prisoners in the Andersonville prifon was no alone a question of supplies. It was a question of bad treatment and the record of Wirs is not spotless. The southern prisons are the last thing which should be a matter of memorial except as a record of horror. The women in the south have no cause to better by raising a monument to this man at the prison of blood, starvation and pestilence. FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 t Words. The Identity of Alt Contributors Must Be Known to the ; Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in ; the Order Receivkd. Editor Palladium: ; Permit the undersigned to heartily thank you for your bold, manly standup for a square-deal administrative mayorality. The advertised announcements of . the. various candidates and their policies already in the field afford an interesting study for the thinking voter, and portend an interesting campaign 'when the cauldron-poHtical Is at full boil and bubble. For instance, one warns us that if elected he will "hand us out" a waterworkslemon, and himself a customary graft, of course. Another informs us that although he voted "dry,' now that we are wet (andt the country roads are dryi, he will 'cooperate with the saloons, which as we take it, he will help them open with a BacchanitiC prayer, and close with a phi tonic doxology. And Doc" says nothing; "but saws wood." Seems to me, Mr. Editor, that inasmuch as the dear "people will have to pay for these columns at adTertisement in .the last Analysis, these would-be selMmmolaters on the

mayorality funeral pile could save the

(people expense by saying candidly in. a single sentence,"! want to be mayor to get 'fixed- " Judging from the ways our doctoring mayors and " mayor-doctrinals have "feathered their nests," Richmond has been "playing a benefit" for her mayors long enough, " Why not have a change and make the mayor "play a benefit" for Richmond? But I undertake to say that, in its present condition, nov man can play a benefit for Richmond and play doctor-mayor, editor-mayor, realestato-mayor, butchermayor, undertaker-mayor, underwritermayor, nest maker-mayor shoemakermayor, baker-mayor or candlestick -maker-mayor. Just for once let , us elect a man who will make a business of the Richmond mayorality,- and give us a strictly BUSINESS administra tion, eke why not? I JUST A VOTER. Editor Palladium: I note that "The Quaker City Printing and Publishing 'company," through its mouth piece, "The Morning News," advises the temperance people to form a night rider brigade and hang Prof. TrueWood to a tree! Verily, verily, from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh! This is precisely what the "Interests" would do with the ring leaders of the probis, were it not for the law and their inherent cowardice. When ' such suggestions, and such misinformation as that "Wayne county voted wet," when in fact only Richmond was "carpet-bag edg" wet, no other township in the whale caunty voted- wet, when our pubHe press dole out to the world such "stuff" for news, is it any wonder that the earnest good people of the county boycotted Richmond? If one of our prominent saloonista and strenuous advocates of a thoroughly wet Richmond with all that the term stands for, had, during election day, walked up to the polls voted "dry," and openly boasted of it, wonder what kind of boycott the "Interests" would have given him? Again, suppose one of our most popular ministers had voted "wet" and some obscure laboring man had voted "dry," both were conscientious and voted according to their honest convictions, wonder which would be most talked about? , As ye sow, ye shall reap; the majority urast rule In a free country, although the writer is convinced from personal observation and study of the situation- that Richmond was "carpet bagged"wet, yet he is willing to meet and make the best of all boycotts and other evils that may come of it, for when it grows too bad for his comfort, he believes that he can "swap" localities with some "wet:., citizen, at New Castle, or, some other dry town. By thus putting in practice the old truism that "'birds of a feather flock together," why can't we peacefully settle v this j matter, and an ' live happy ever after? : . : ' j. m. t. . Editor Palladium: I read with much interest your report of Dr. Lyon's sermon, big type headlines and all in which be persecutes the persecutors. - "Now why cant the Quaker church and Prof. ,Trueblood be allowed to settle' their own affairs without outside interference. . If they find they' must have help then let them call on the Dr. and Dudley Foulke, if he isn't off to Washington, coaching the presi dent. But who can tell what a day may bring forth. The Palladium enters the role of the persecutors and says Gordon has no right to vote and act as his conscience dictates without being called on to step down and out. What's the matter with Gordon any way. Look at the multitude of good things he promises us and 'look what he has done. Didn't he fight and die to save us the municipal light plant and wasn't it Gordon that kept us from joining those misguided counties who voted dry and don't he promise us a hose bouse and isn't be going to have evening meetings and part of them a school for mothers with diplomas conferred when they show acquired mother wit sufficient to raise their girls and boys right. Don't you suppose we voters know who's who. So stop your persecuting and let Gordons conscience have free play, that is if he has even a rubberneck one. NOT A QUAKER EITHER. Items Gathered in From Far and Near And Always on a Good JobBirmingham Age-Herald. Mr. Loeb, Jr.. the pet cat of his party, always lights on his feet The Impossible Has Happened. Baltimore Sun. Will wonders never cease? Mr. T. Roosevelt Is chopping wood and saying nothing. His Work is Done. Atlanta Journal. Standard Oil har king gone scot free. Mr. Rockefeller will probably stop further work on his memoirs. . . , The Country is Saved Again. , Washington Post. Despite the automobile incident, amicable relations have been restored between Senator Bailey and the white house. Outlook is Bad for Chance. New York World. With nobody nagging the malefactors of great wealth, Chancellor Day looks in vain for an opportunity to break into consoling speech. , ' Looks Good to Them.1 St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Republican papers are already booming Bryan as the democratic candidate in 191Z. They show even more enthusiasm than the Nebraskma has evinced. , One of the Common People Again. k New York Herald. -On his first trip to New - York in t many years as a "private citizen" : Colonel Roosevelt had to hang onto a strap in a crowded cross-town car. . Now he is in the ranks with the rest of us. Worse Than He Havs Got In. Philadelphia Nartt American. A

Pittsburg dispatch says it is hard for Oliver to believe that he is at last to be elected United States senator. He needn't be so skeptical. Penrose has been elected and he's no better than Oliver.

TWINKLES Described. "Pa, what is a gentleman of the old school?" ' "A man who has been married more than two years and still loves his wife." Detroit Free Press. Sparring for Time. "Hubby, you promised me a spring dress." T know I did. But first let's see If we are going to have a spring." Pittsburg Post. She Was Modest. Into the butcher shop there came A maiden, modest and prim; - She wanted a leg of lamb, it seemed, ' And so she asked for a limb. Economy. Son What is the meaning of economy? Mother Economy, my son, is going without something you do want in case some day you should want something which you probably won't want. Life. (Atchison (Kan.). Globe.) No girl's switch ever matches the color of her hair. Every man is punished for growing old, as though it were his fault. How long may a man properly "go" with a girl without marrying her? - The birds are beginning to hunt up their steadies. Praise a man and somebody will tell you something "on" him. We want time to fly until spring comes and then we hope Time will break a leg. ;, The Lurid Glow Of Doom was seen in the red face, hands and body of the little son of H. M. Adams, of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight from eczema had, for five years, defied all remedies and baffled the best doctors, who said the poisoned blood had affected his lungs and nothing could save him. "But," writes his mother, seven bottles of Electric Bitters completely cured him." For Eruptions, "Eczema, Salt Rheum, Sores and all. Blood Disorders and Rheumatism Electric Bitters is supreme. Only 50c. Guaranteed by A. G. Luken & Co. ' k GREaT RUNNER. One of His Feats of Which He Had ta "Be Reminded. - Tm the real thing as a runner, said Howard James majestically as he seated himself at the first home dinner since his return from college. His mother , and sister looked at him in sheer admiration. t "Yes, mother, I wish yon could have been at the university to see me run. During the football season I ran away from every one on the team. They were not in it for a minute. In the classes I took the lead, leaving them In the larch, I always stood highest In my lectures. 'And then when it came to selecting a president tor the class I made the race.- When the voting started I ran second, but at the last, well, I ran ahead of all of the other candidates.There's no doubt about it, I'm a runner. Of course, when the baseball season opened the crowd wanted me to get on the team. At first I hesitated because I realized my superiority, but persuasion succeeded. I went on the team, and the way I ran bases was a positive shame. Then I went Into the track meet. I ran ten yards In ten seconds, almost equaling the world's record. Yes; I am a runner. Then" "Then you ran into debt," Interrupted Old Man James, with a distinctive grunt, "and I have to pay you out. St. Paul Pioneer Press. There was some cold pudding on the luncheon table, and mamma divided it between Willie and Elsie. Willie looked at his pudding, then at his mother's empty plate. "Mamma,' he said earnestly, T can't enjoy my pudding when you haven't any. Take Elsie's!" Wrjrrmro: Gold Medal Flour Is best for pastry. Bbatsics Special Notice. All accounts due J. Will Mount & 6on are payable now and are due not later than Jan. 9, 1909, after which they will be placed In the hands of an attorney to collect with costs, Mr. Mount, Sr., having sold out to Paul A. Mount, we desire to close all accounts by the above date. J. WID r.!onnt & Son Fertile . Fannars We are now ready to contract for corn and tomatoes for Back 1909, and we would like for everybdy that is thinking , about growing the two above crops to call at our office er phone us so we can have all of our acreage tn by the first of April. LL C LIercfc & Sea.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

To the Republicans of the City

In making my announcement recently, as a candidate for Mayer, subject to the next republican Primary Election, I briefly outlined my position and the kind of administration I would give in the event of my election to this office. . It was my intention then to supplement that statement at a little later date so that all voters might know my position upon all questions

pertaining to this office. I was born in this city, where I have ever since resided, where I have reared my family, and my entire life is an open book. For more than S4 : years I have been actively engaged in business and am deeply and sincerely interested as a citizen, business man and tax payer in the future growth, progress and development of this city. It has been my earnest desire both in private and. public life to do my full duty toward my fellow man under all circumstances. As a member of the Common Council for several years and a member of the Board of Public Improvement for over two years, I have always put forth my best endeavors In the interest of the individual citlsen concerned, without regard to their influence er station, their wealth er poverty, and without awarding special privileges to any, but granting equal and Just rights to all alike so fsr ss within my power. I have net been able in many things to accomplish what I desired, but have deemed it best and for the public good to yield to the wishes of other officials who were equal or higher in authority than myself and in this manner take some steps forward toward the building of a better, a greater and a mere beautiful city. That I have made mistakes, I am willing to concede, but I have always acted conscientiously, guided by the knowledge then peeeeeeed, and by these years of public experience I feel much better qualified to fill the office of mayor than I would without such experience. I favor the honest, just and Impartial enforcement of the taws, believe the city should adopt a modern and accurate system of keeping its record and accounts, Including those of the Municipal Light Plant, and that these records and accounts shewing receipts and disbursements shall at all times be open to the public Inspection, and that the accounts of all officers and departments should be audited annually by competent accountants, and that the next public Improvement should be the erection of a hose house west of the river. If elected I will devote all my time and best energies to the duties ef the office and the business of the city. Will establish an efnee In the City Building and be at such office st regular hours during each business day, and will render the people an honest, economical. Just and business like administration, characterized by fairness in all departments with the most efficient servants obtainable, and WITHOUT FRIENDS TO REWARD OR ENEMIES TO PUNISH. Municipal affairs are too intricate to receive attention In detail in an article of this kind, and so many different and complex questions arias from time to time as to render It Impossible in advance to determine their proper solution, and I can. only submit my record as an official and my life and character as a citizen as evidence of the manner and method by which such matters will be determined- if I am made your public servant. HENRY W. DEUKER.

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