Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — Still Playing Politics. [ARTICLE]

Still Playing Politics.

The fourth trial of Caleb Powers tn Kentucky ended before It fairly began, the Judge vacating the bench following the charge of prejudice, gnd as the attorneys could not agree on a judge the tri til must awaft the appointment of a new judge by Governor Becfcha-fl, whose party in all the trials for the assassination of Goebel has schemed entirely for political effects TJetnocratic politicians have avoided the identification of the assassin or assassins in order to smirch the Republican State officials who were driven from office after that event, and who Would have been expelled anyway under the workings of the Goebel election law that reduced returns to a sure thing for the Democratic ring manipulators; Recently they-lost 2JIOO offices in Louisville and Jefferson County on account of similar frauds on the* ballot, the State courts deciding that they vitiated the election. Towers, the State attorney general, has been In jail seven years. Taylor, the Governor, has been a resident of Indiana for the same period. Indiana’s governors have refused to comply with the demand that he be returned to Kentucky on the ground, which is -self-evident, that he could not get a fair trial there. The Supreme Court of the United States deified Powers a hearing asked, but remarked in its decision that “the trials of the accused make an exhibition of misconduct on the part of administrative. officers connected with these trials which may well shock all who love just ireand recognize the right of every human being accused ofcrime to be tried according to law.” What are called the assassination trials In Kentucky have been merely a venomous political pursuit of Republican State officials and an attempted arraignment for murder of the whole Republican party of Kentucky. But for this Democratic policy the assassin of Goebel would have been singled out and punished long ago.—St. Louis Gloflte-Demos crat. The Crops for 1907. Translated Into terms which the wayfaring man understands, the government’s report of crop acreage and condition, which has just been made, means this: The aggregate yield of wheat! winter and spring, will be about 634,000,000 bushels, as compared with 735,000,000 for 1006. Corn will furnish us with 2,560,000,000 bushels this year, as against 2,027,000,000 last year. There will be 973,000,000 bushels of oats, while 1906 giave us 964,000,000, and barley will furnish us 163,000,000 bushels, as against 178,000,000 last year. This is the outlook for 1907, as figured from the code published by the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Therefore, there is a falling off in all the Important cereal crops except oats, which will show a slight Increase. It is altogether possible that the present forecast may be different from what the actual harvest will show. Changes may occur between now and the gathering of the crops which will make the present estimates too high or too lbw. Guesses about the corn crop which are made at the opening of July are especially liable to diverge from the aggregate revealed at the general round-up of the reapers in October. The weather of the next two or three months may plan fantastic tricks with the estimates of Secretary Wilson’s experts. There are chances, however, that the harvest will be better than the present outlook, and these give the country some hope. In case the present forecast turne out to be correct, the wheat crop of 1907 will be below those of 1898, 1901 and every year since then except 1904. The corn yield will exceed any previous crop except for 1905 and 1906. Oats will beat all the. records except for 1902, and barley will break all the records save that of 1906. The situation at the end of the harvest will, consequently, be better than was foreshadowed a month ago. As the general average of prices is somewhat higher than it was last year at this time, the grain growers are likely to lose little in the aggregate, but the consumer will be compelled to pay somewhat more for his food. On the whole, the outlook is favorable for the continuation of the country’s prosperity, for a large part of the good times still depends on the record which the farms make. Would Be Suicidal. To build a new tariff law would be the most difficult task the next Congress could possibly undertake. It would invite the opposition of every section of the country. New England wants certain schedules lowered, while the West wants the same schedules left as they are. The South and West will naturally want- other schedules lowered to which the East will strenuously object. It is obvious, therefore, that no general revision can be had without a long struggle and only after a multitude of compromises, the result of which no one can foretell. Why, then, should the party enter upon a proceeding of so doubtful propriety when there Is no general demand for It?,, When business conditions warrant a change of certain there will be no objection to changing them, but, until that time arrives, It would be suicidal for Republicans to rush headlong into a laborious and prolonged effort to do something for which there is no demand.—St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.

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