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VOLUME XXXVII.
IRONTON, MO., THURSDAY. JULY SO, 1903.
NUMBER 6
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Washington Correspondence.
Washington, D. C, July 25, '03.
Still speaking of the Missouri
delegation in the Congress of the
United States, it will not do to ig
nore the Hon. Macenas E. Benton,
of Neosho, "the little giant of the
southwest." Mr. Benton belongs
to the family of Bentons'of Mis
souri, of which Thomas H. Benton
was the most distinguished. If he
were alive to-day ho would be
proud of the modest little gentle
man who bears his name with
honor and'dignity in the national
House of Representatives. Mr.
Benton is a very poor windjammer
or hot-air merchant. He seldom
gets to his feet, but when ho does
there is some Republican . who
wishes he had kept his seat. He
comes about as nigh knowing what
he is talking about as any man in
the Congress, and is one of the
ablest orators of that body. He
has had very little opportunity to
ndulge in pyrotechnic oratory in
the House, and indeed he does not
care to do so. He knows, as does
every one else familiar with the
situation, that he is going against
the coldest proposition in the
world; that he cannot change a
vote on the Republican side of the
chamber and that the Democrats
who; would vote with him any way
are either in the cloak rooms tell
ing yarns or else writing letters
and will not pay any attention to
his remarks. If that is not enough
to put a crimp in any man with
oratory to unload, what would you
call it? Mr. Benton did, however,
submit a-iew remarks toward the
close of the first session of the 57th
Congress that both sides of the
House listened to with close atten
tion. He is a member of the Ap
propriation Committee and he sub
mitted a report of the expenditures
of the first session of the Republi
can Congress that made some Re
publican eyes become unnaturally
visible. His summary or compil
ation of the extravagance of that
first session proved that the Re
publicans not only were -responsible
for , the first billion-dollar
Congress, but then for the first bil
lion-dollar session of a Congress,
as the appropriations aggregated
over a billion dollars. Mr. Benton
s complimented by having
thousands of his reports printed
and sent out by the Democratic
Congressional Committee as one
of its best documents.
Mr. Benton is the first man who
ever was discharged from office for
"pernicious activity" in politics.
This occurred in. 1886 when he was
United States Attorney in Western
Missouri under the first Cleveland
administration. He was soon re
instated and served in that ca1
oacity until 1889. There never
was a bettor Democrat' on earth
than this original "offensive parti
san," and his constituents compli
ment their own intelligence by re
taining him in Congress.
.
The Littauer glove contract is
still agitating the War Department
and official Washington. On ae
count of the peculiar relationship
existing between President Roose
volt and Congressman Littauer, the
question is on the tip of every man's
tongue, "What will Roosevelt do
about this latest scandal that gets
close to him?" At a Harvard Col
lege dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria
hptel in New York on the 23d of
February, 1900, Roosevelt declared
with pride and emotion that his
closest personal friends and polit
ical adviser was Mr. Lucius N. Lit'
tauer, member of Congress from
New York. To quote his exact
language : "I want to tell you that
it is a Congressman who is my most
intimate personal friend, and who
is my closest political adviser."
"Who is he?" came from all
sides?" :
"Lucius Littauer," said Roose
velt. V
The laws of the United States
forbid a member of Congress to
take any government contract,
Tlie New York Sun, a Republican
newspaper, friendly to Mr. Roose
velt, of course, reveals the fact that
Mr. Littauer, during the Spanish
American war, manufactured some
five hundred thousand dollars
worth of gloves and other supplies
bought by the United States Gov'
ernment. A man named Lyon got
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the contract from the Government,
and Littauer made tho cloves for
Lyon. In a letter to Lyon, Lit
tauer, asks whether he (Littauer)
shall go and see the responsible
War Department official, General
Luddington, "in regard to other
glove contracts." And Littauer's
brother acted as bondsman for
Lyon in the procuring of contracts.
What will Mr. Roosevelt do un
der the circumstances? Will he
instruct the Attorney General to
investigate the matter? He cannot
doubt that his indorsement of Mr.
Littauer would have great weight
with the War Department. Mr.
Littauer may not have known, in
spite of his offer to see a certain
official, that Lyon really got the
contracts on the strength of repre
senting Mr. Roosevelt's intimate
friend.
But what will Mi'. Roosevelt do?
He has not hesitated to give us
his views of official purity. He
has said, "Words are good when
backed up by deeds, ancl only so."
Will his words be backed by deeds
in this case? Or is there a differ-
once between an ordinary- indi
vidual and the Harvard graduate
who happens to be the President's
"closest political friend and ad
viser."
The people would perhaps like
to ask Mr. Roosevelt this question :
What can be expebted of the
Postoffiee people if the intimate
political friend and most trusted
adviser of the President "makes a
profit of some ninety thousand dol
lars on Government contracts, when
the law says that no member of
Congress-shall profit by such a con
tract, directly or indirectly?
Mr. Roosevelt has said that he
proposes to have everything about
him "as clean as a hound's tooth."
Isn't it about time for him to buy a
carload of tooth brushes?
There is another phase of this
glove contract matter that has
never been exploited in the press
of the country. Tho people know
nothing about it and it contains a
whole lot of meat for meditation
upon the ways that are dark and
the tricks that are vain, as pracM
faced. Dy tne astute ana unscrupul
ous Secretary of War, Mr. Root.
Ho is at present making a lot of
fuss about investigating this glove
contract, but he is doing the cuttle
fish act. He is spewing out a lot
of stuff, that darkens' the. waters,
and no one can see his work. Inr
stead of placing tho investigation
of this glove contract in the hands
of the regular army inspector in
charge, and who is thoroughly
familiar with it in every detail, he
sends for a "new man, a Mr. Gar-
To Core -a ..Cold in One Day
TIT ODESTIONS F
Need Shoes?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
Need Clothing?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
Need Underwear, Hose, Etc?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
Need Hats?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
Need Jewelry?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
Need To Save Money?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
Need ANYTHING?
GO TO MULLIN & BROWN.
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lington, who knows nothing about
the true inwardness of it, and gives
him his instructions as to how he
is to carry on the investigation and
what ho is to investigate. He cir
cumscribes ancl limits his discre
tion in the matter. He tells him to
investigate everything except one,
and that one contains the milk in
tho cocoanut. That is the manner
in which tho contract is drawn. It
is drawn in such a manner as to
call for a certain and specific kind
of glove, and that kind of glove is
made only by tho Littauer Broth
ers, glove manufacturers of New
York. Thus, no matter who got
the contract from the War Depart
ment ho would have to go to the
Littauer Brothers to have the gloves
made and they would reap the
profits. Will President Roosevelt
pleaso have that phase of the con
tract investigated? If he does, his
"close political friend and adviser"
is in danger of wearing stripes. It
is up to the President. Let's give
him a chance.
Since the "Iowa idea" has been
knocked over the ropes by the Re
publican party and the American
Protective Tariff League has won a
signal victory for the "standpat
ters" there has arisen a demand
for a sort of tariff revision that
stands a good chance to receive re
spectful attention at the December
session of Congress. It is some
thing radically different from the
"Iowa idea." It emanates from
the sugar trust, and is based upon
assertions that German "cartel"
producers intend to ship enormous
quantities of cheap sugar to the
United States as soon as the aboli
tion of sugar bounties, recently
arranged for at Brussels, goes into
effect on September 1st. The mag
nates of the American Sugar Trust
pretend that this constitutes a grave
danger, and that it is the duty of
Congress to pass legislation pro
viding for an extension of the sys
tem of contrervailing duties. They
devoutely believe in the necessity
and benefits of countervailing du
ties, ever since the United States
Supreme Court upheld the right gf
the Government to levy such duties
on Russian sugar. The Sugar
Trust has presented its demand at
the proper psychological moment;
that is, just when the Republican
party is "in the market" for "dig
nified" campaign contributions.
It is a poor Trust that does not
know its political opportunity.
Considering tho fact that the "Iowa
idea" is as exceeding unpopular,
and protection alongrthodox lines
still the supreme fotish in high Re
publican circles, it is not at all im
probable that tho sugar monopoly's
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request that something be done in
a legislative way to protect it
against European competition will
readily be complied with. As one
of our most promising "infant in
dustries," tho Sugar Trust must be
given all the protection that it
needs, or thinks it . needs.. Its
capitalization is diluted with such
a bit amount of water that a con
tinuance of fat dividends on pre
ferred and common shares would
be made impossible by unre
strained competition. The Trust's
grip upon the domestic sugar mar
ket must not be loosened. Con
sumers are prosperous and do not
mind a little more "bleeding."
And the Trust needs the money,
and the Republican party needs it
still more. Tho Havemeyer idea
of tariff revision should bo and
probably will be given a rousing
reception by the Republican ma
jority in Congress. It is up-to-date
and practicable. The men
who conceived it are neither
"cranks" nor "doctrinaires." They
are just common, every-day thieves
and that class is iust now in fine
fettle and stand high in Republi
can circles. T'ell with tho people.
Charles A. Edwards.
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Grove's signature is on each box.
25c.
The Passing of a Righteous Man.
Pope Leo XIII. is dead and the
civilized world mourns his passing
Sorrow is not confined to Catholi
cism, but extends even beyond the
bounds of Protestantism. The
death of a righteous man is a uni
versal loss and no church nor creed
can monopolize righteousness
There arc many who deny the
doctrine of the infallibility of the
Pope, there are those who dispute
the methods and tenets of Cathol
icity, but there is none who can
deny the object the worship of
God the object of all the churches
of Christendom.
Popo Leo, the man, was hardly
less remarkable than Pope Leo,
the Christian. Reaching the ex
treme ago of 03, he was to tho time
of his death active physically and
mentally. He' gave audiences to
pilgrims, officiated at masses, ancl
wrote with vigor up to the very day
he was stricken. His life was pure
and peaceful ; his ago the fulfill
ment of tho promise: "Let thine
heart' keep My commandments:
For length of days and long life,
and peace shall they add to thee."
It is on such occasions that man
is brought nearer to the light and
can perceive with clearer vision that
righteousness is the only church;
that denominations are but petty,
finite bafriers to a universal
brotherhood in the Creator. And it
is evidenced in the universal sor
row for a righteous man. St. Louis
Clironicle.
Free Speeeh Impregnable.
There may be persons, in judic
'al office or elsewhere, so short-
ighted or un-American as to sup
pose that the constitutional right
jf free speech in this country may
in some, way be abridged by ser
vants of the people, but thus far
the history of the nation and of
the states contains nothing to sup
port the view. Missourians may
safely assume that they are under
no exceptional limitations in this
respect and that no court can ever
successfully dispute their right to
say and publish what they please
outside the few and clearly defined
statutory limits of legal contempt.
If the utterance is a libel there are
legal remedies open to all citizens
alike, subject to the common right
of jury. Two kinds of constitu
tional rights are not existent in
Missouri, one for the state supreme
court, and one for the rest of the
population. In its arraignment of
two Republican editors of Missouri
for alleged contempt the state su
preme court has imposed fines,
with only a few words outlining
the grounds on which the penalty
was adjudged, one of the court an
nouncing that "at a later time, so
that all persons may have warning,
an opinion will be prepared along
these lines." It would have been
fairer and and far more satis
factory to the people to have the
opinion at the same moment they
hear of the punishment.
One of the editors fined says ho
merely copied the article the pub
lication of which, the state su
preme court holds, places the ed- 1
itor responsible for the publication
in content of that court. Tho
article charged the court with a
corrupt decision of the suit of a
citizen of Johnson county against
a railway for personal injuries.
After years of delay and numerous
trials back and forth, the state su
premo court decided in favor of the
railway company. It is reported
that almost tho entire population of
Johnson county were surprised at
the decision and hold it to be un
just. A Warrensburg paper de
nounced it as corrupt, and its ed
itor, cited to Jefferson City, has
been fined $500 for contempt. As
the opinion of the court, beyond a
few words, is withheld, full com
ment and analysis must necess
arily be postponed. Criticism will
be searching when tho court ven
tures to present its full opinion for
publication.
As far as this action of the state
supreme court may be designed to
intimidate the press of the state,
or cover faults or usurption of the
court itself, the result will be con
trary to that intended. Missour
ians, regardless of party, stand by
free speech and will exercise it to
the fullest extent, acknowledging,
at the same time, their responsi
bility for libel, subject to the ver
dict of a jury They make the
constitution and they elect state
supreme judges to act under it.
They will say precisely what they
choose of the completed decisions
of that court and of the porsonal
conduct of its members. They
have, disastrously as we believe,
fixed the term of supreme judges
at ten years. The object was to
remove the court from political in
fluences ; the result seems to have
been the reverse. There is not a
member of the present court who
would not be overwhelmingly and
deservedly defeated if he ever
presents himself at the polls again
for the suffrages of his fellow-citizens.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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A FACT
ABOUT THE "BLUES'
What Is known as the "Blues'
Is seldom occasioned by actual exist
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