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PROSPERITY STILL REIGNS
Democratic Efforts to Breed Distrust Have So
Far Proved Fut.le.
REBUKE FOR THE CALAMITY HOWLERS
Railway Traffic Is Heavy, New Factories Are
Being Erected, and Iron and Steel Mills
Are Crowded with Orders.
There Is an effort on the part of some
Democratic newspapers and a few blat
ant orators to create Tack of confidence
in the public mind by saying the coun
try is going to the bad; that great in
dustries are shutting down; that the
railways are retrenching. Instead of im
proving roadbed and equipment; that
no new factories are being constructed;
that bhoneands of working people are
Idle and that Republican prosperity is
a myth. These statements are so pal
pably false or so greatly exaggerated
that intelligent persons are not misled by
them* but there is danger that when the
canards are restenated by the calamity
howlers a few people who do not keep
closely hi touch with industrial and com
mercial conditions may be led to believe
them.
Any man or newspaper that deliber
ately attemirts to create distrust in the
financial or commercial world is little
lees than criminal. Some States have
punitory laws framed for the purpose
of sending to prison {persons who circu
late untruthful rumors about banks and
trust companies. If the man who causes
a run on a bank by spreading a false
report is a criminal, is not the man or
newspai>er that attempts to make politi
cal capital by destroying public confi
dence also a criminal? And, by the same
reasoning, is not the party that permits
or indorses the utterances of the calam
ity howler and spreader of false rumors
an enemy of the law?
What Is Poasible.
Suppose the Democratic party won a
victory at the polls through destroying
confidence in commercial and industrial
circles, would the administration of that
party have the confidence of ths people?
Would not capital, Which is always timid
in the face of uncertainty, begin to hide?
And when capital i« distrustful what
happens? Industries lag or close, trade
of the retail merchant falls off, ths job
ber and wholesaler suffer, railway traf
fic diminishes. hundreds of thousands of
wage earners are thrown out of work,
distress becomes general, soup bouses
are opened ami cities are compelled to
begin charitable works for the idle.
No political party that countenances
the creation of distrust is worthy of the
I>eople’s confidence. It will be a sorry
day for the country when the calamity
howlers succeed in reversing those benefi
cent policies which the Republican party
hsts py.t into effect and which have re
sulted in an era of the greatest pros
perity any nation has ever known.
That industries and business of all
kinds continue to prosper there can be
no doubt. The few strikes in the build
ing and ot/her trades are not indicative of
depressed conditions. Wage earners do
not strike in times of panic or waning
prosperity. Strikes are generally for
higher wages, and no toiler expects an
increase in wages when work is scarce
and thousands of bis fellows are idle.
There is ample evidence that prosper
ous times are still with us. A glance at
the newwpapH-s, Democratic as well as
Republican, shows that millions of dol
lars are being expended in building new
factories and enlarging old ones, in con
structing new trolley lines and improv
ing the roadbed and equipment of steam
railways.
More persons are employed now than
ever before. As proof of this statement,
take, for instance, the railways, whose
traffic always is a reflex of business
conditions generally. The number of em
ployee on the pay rolls of the railways
in the United States on June 30, 1903,
was 1,312,537, or 639 per 100 miles of
Une. Theoe figures, compared with those
of 1902, allow an increase of 123,222, or
45 per 100 miles of line.
A summary of dispatches taken from
the Boston Evening Transcript, the
Pittsburg Dispatch and other reputable
newspaper* in the last five days is here
given:
Steam and Klectric Railways.
New York.—Two million Is the estimate
of the coat of the steel rails wanted by
the Grand Trunk Pacific sponsors for Wvs
delivery.
KansHs City One million dollars la to
be spent bv the Chicago, Burlington A
Quincy Railroad Conmany In the develop
ment of holdings In Clay County, Mo., op
posite Kansas City.
Jackson, Mlm.— Three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars will be spent by the Coast
Electric Railway In constructing a line
from Henderson Point to Point Cadet.
Pittsburg.-The Baltimore A Ohio will
spend $300,660 In Improving Its passenger
station at Baltimore; the Wabash Pitts
burg Terminal In erecting a $75,000 freight
house at Pittsburg.
Alamogordo. N. M —The El Paso A
Northwestern Railroad h building fifty real
dences at Alamogordo for • tnployea.
Buffalo.— Ten large lo< mnotlves have
bean added to th. rolling stork of the Bos
ton A Maine Railroad equipment.
Slafon. Tex. Work commenced on the
St. Wools, Brownsville A Mexico Railroad,
which la to extend through San Patricio
County.
Pittaburg.—Pittsburg railroads are In
creasing their eoal and cattle car supply.
The Baltimore A Ohio Is in the market for
1.000 gondolas and 250 refrigerator cars;
the Wheeling A Lake Erle has ordered 1,000
wooden and 500 steel care; the Pittsburg
A Lake Erle has put Into service 1,000 new
steel ears.
Burlington, Vt —At a cost of $200,000 the
Central Vermont Hallway will construct n
branch line from Bethel to the newly de
veloped granite quarries three miles from
Bet hel.
Buffs Io. —The Lake Shore Intends to re
aume four tracking the road from Buffalo
to Chicago.
Wichita. Kan.—The Frisco Une Is recon
•tructlug It a track and roadbed between
Wichita and Ellsworth, giving employment
tOiseveral hundred laborers.
Pittsburg The Union Switch and Sig
nal Company reports that ths new orders
booked for August exceed any other month
of the year
Chicago Western railroads brought
to Chicago last wtek 5,203,000 bushels of
Train, showing an Increase of more than
.000,OUO bushels over the grain truffle lu
the corresponding week Innt ye«r
New York. -The manufacturers of ma
chine tools rejmit that there Is s decided
Improvement In the Remand from the rail
roads which ere repairing their rolling
stock*
Now York.—Kight million dollars will be
expended by the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railroad In improving the
service from New York to the Bronx. The
road will Issue $15,000,060 of bonds.
Altoona. Pa. —Twenty five locomotives
are being built for the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company at the Juniata shops.
Derby, Conn -The New York. New Ha
ven and Hartford Railroad Company has
decided upon important improvements on
the Berkshire division at Derb|k^
Memphis.--The projected railroad from
Clarksdale to Friar's Point, In Mississippi,
Is said to be assured; estimated cost of con
struction, sl.">.<MX> per mile.
Jefferson < By.—Railroad officials at Jes
ferson City say they are much encouraged
because of the heavy increase in business
within the past two weeks.
Fitchburg A $7,000,000 deal Involving
the purchase of twenty different trolley
roads In Massachusetts and Northern Con
necticut is under way.
Superior. Wls—The docks are so full of
coal many boats are still compelled to
wait several dnya to unload. This condi
tion Is owing to a scarcity of cars which
are being used in the wheat fields.
Detroit.—Freight traffic officials of the
roads centering In Detroit ail state that
business Is picking up.
Iron and Steal Industry.
Pittsburg.—One hundred and fifty more
men to be given employment In new mills
being erected by the Inter-State Steel Com
pany of Tarentum and the Allegheny Steel
and Iron Works.
Pittsburg—By producing 1.651 cotton
bundle ties In eight hours* work the em
ployes of the Pittsburg Steel Company
break the world's record; previous record,
1,614 bundles.
St. Paul.—One hundred thousand tons of
ore In excess of last year’s product will be
taken out of six working iron mines on the
Iron Range, adding In royalties to the
school fund SOO,OOO.
Ensley, O.—Ensley steel plant running
on double time turning out 80,000 tons of
steel rails for the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company.
Braddock. Pa.—The Edgar Thompson
plant of the United States Steel Corpora
tion has resumed operations, giving employ
ment to 1,000 workmen.
Pittsburg.—Twelve hundred men given
employmgnUby the resumption of work In
Clairton furnace No. 2 of the United States
Steel Corporation and Mills Nos. 8 and 9 of
the American Sheet Steel and Tin Plate
Company.
Pittsburg.—Six hundred and fifty given
employment by resumption of mills in the
Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel
Company.
Pittsburg.—New open hearth furnaces of
the United States Steel Company plant at
Canton started up together with the plate,
sheet, bar and billet mills.
Chicago, Contract for 64,000,000 pounds of
material awarded the American Bridge
Company by the South Side Elevated Rail
road. Jo be used In extending the system;
estimated cost, $5,000,000.
Newport, Ky.—Five hundred men given
employment by a resumption of work in the
sheet, puddle and bar mills.
Braddock, Pa. —One hundred and forty
thousand dollars was paid out by the Ed
gar Thompson Steel Works after the first
week vs resumption of business.
Pittsburg.—The pay roll of the Home
stead Steel Works has been Increased $30,-
000 by the employment of additional men.
Pittsburg.—The large portion of the big
rail order of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was secured by the Carnegie
Steel Company This, with other orders,
will keep the rail mills at Braddock open
atlng for the next six months.
New York.—At a cost of $1,000,000 a new
plant of the Seamless Tube Company 1»
being built at Monessen, Pa.
Bouthera Industries.
Asheville, N. C.—ln the last year 117
buildings have been erected at Asheville
at a cost of $300,600. mid work under way
represents on additional expenditure of
SI7S.(MW).
Chattanooga.—The Government will spend
millions of dollnrs the coming year In near
by Improvements to the benefit of Chat
tanooga wage earners and producers.
Charleston, W. Va.—A $2,600,000 ax fac
tory Is to be established nt Charleston.
Memphis.—More than $4,600,000 has been
spent In building enterprises during the
present year.
Tampa. Fla.—During the year $659,319
has been expended In new buildings and
$50,000 of bends are to be Issued for mu
nicipal Improvements
Rock Hill, 8. C.—A hydro electric plant
recently completed at a cost of $1,100,000
Is furnishing power for machinery and
lighting purposes covering an area of twen
ty-five miles.
Paris. Tex.—More than $1,000,000 Is the
estimate of investments at Paris during the
year 1904.
Han Antonio Building operations now
under way represent an expenditure of
$750,000.
Berkley. Va.—A steel door and blind fac
tory la a new addition to industries of
Berkley.
Dallas, Tex.—There la a demnud for
2.000.000 laborers In the cotton fields and in
the factories of the South.
Memphis. Tenn. -The Menn Coke and
Coni Mining Company of Mena, Ark., has
been chartered with a capitalization of
$200,000.
Columbia, 8. C.—A cotton mill Is to be
established at Columbia by the Mnrlon
Cotton Mills Company, with a capital stock
of SIOO,OOO.
Richmond, Va.—The new Ashby Cotton
Mill, contalnln; 8,000 spindles, will be
started up at Emporia, Sept. 15
Charlotte, N. C.—The remodeled Lorny
Mills of Gastnrln will have over 50.000
spindles and 700 looms In operation by Oc
tober. t
Columbia. R. C— The Drayton Mills of
Spartanburg, operating 12.400 spindles and
।. 60 looms, will double Its plant.
Austin. Tex. The Brazos Vnlley Cotton
Mills Company has been Incorporated with
a < aphid stock of $166,000.
Charlotte, N. C - -The contract has been
awarded for SIOO,OOO for the erecting of
buildings for the Etowah Mills of Greens
boro. The company Is Incorporated for
$1,000,000.
Nashville.—A $506,000 plant for the man
ufacture of carbon paint Is to be erected at
Nashville, Work on the $75,000 stone dam
of the City Mills Company has been
started.
Sandersville, Ga.—More than $246,000
i has been spent In Sandersville In the last
I year in Industrial enterprises and Improve
। luents.
Baltimore. —Three million dollars Is to be
Invested In commercial enterprises upon
the resumption of navigation of the Oc
tiMilgee River between Macon and Hawkins
ville. Ga.
Louisville.—Thq Kentucky Packing and
Provision .Company is a new Industry for
Louisville. The plant has a dally capacity
of l.uno hogs. 100 cattip and 500 sheep.
Memphis At a cost of $25*666 the
Welsh A Lesh Manufacturing Company Is
doubling the capacity of Its spoke factory
at Grenada. Mlaa A $20,000 sand brick
plant Is being erected by the Grenada Cot
ton Oil Company.
Birmingham. Ala.—Universal Equipment
Company organized, capital $60,000.
Hymcagua. Ala. Capital stock of the
Alabama White Marble Cnmpftny Increased
to a quarter million dollars; property to
be developed
M Iscelln neoss.
New York The tnrlrvmt and strike of
1.200 plumbers In Brooklyn has been de
clared off, (be master plumbers granting
•! •« ’•!" from
Ji® o _L° M n * tb» atreement rasa
two yeat■,
it 4—ahow that th*
v r B V*J ® u ®brr ot manufactories in
J? ten •• almost
double that of aey other State, the percent
age being 72.
Kansas City,,l(o.— Among the noteworthy
Improvements at Kanaas City are $1.000,-
OiK) soap factory: SIjOOO.OOO oil refinery and
pipe line; $1,000,000 packing plant; railroad
elevators, additions ts terminal facilities
coating $1,000,000.
Harrisburg.—Four hundred men and
women are to be given employment In new
Industries at Eochlel. near Harrisburg- The
large farm of former United States Senator
J. D. Cameron la to be transferred into an
industrial village.
Canonsburg. Pa.- Employing 3.000 men,
the Standard Tin Plate Company has re
sumed operations.
Minneapolis.—Eastern capitalists are con
templating the establishment of a large
soap factory at Minneapolis.
Salem. Ore.—One hundred thousand dol
lars is to Iw invested In a linen mill at
Salem, giving employment to 100 persons
the first year.
Pittsburg. -The capital stock of the Yel
low Creek Coal Company of Wilkesbarre,
Pa., has been increased to $1,000,000, the
company having purchased 1,600 acres of
coal land in Brush and Saline Townships,
Ohio.
Zanesville, O.—lt Is positively stated that
the mines of the Crooksville district will all
be In operation within a few days.
Pittsburg.—More than 1.000 of the 1,500
men laid off In the lost three months by
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac
turing Company of East Pittsburg have
been taken back. The Westinghouse Ma
chine and Air Brake Companies are rushed
with orders.
H^roit. — A new $550,000 passenger
NteiMwr ordered by the Anchor Line to be
butt by the American Shipbuilding Com
pany.
Toledo.—Marine men are speculating on
an increase of sailors' wages with the open
ing of fall trade. The wages are now $2
per day, or 25 cents higher than in pre
vious seasons.
Fort Collins, Colo. — Fifteen thousand dol
lars has been subscribed for the establish
ment of a canning sac tory at Fort Collins.
The enterprise Is being promoted by the
Fort Collins Beet Growers' Association.
Milwaukee.—Capital stock of the Wiscon
sin Bridge and iron Company Increased
$260,000 to meet expansion of business.
New Bedford. Mass. —Company organised
with capital stock of $600,000; will erect a
50.000 spindle mill.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. The 800 striking miners
at the Barnum Colliery of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, at Pittston, have returned
to work.
Pittsburg.— An unusually heavy move
ment of coal and coke Is reported. At
Youngwood alone 1,400 loaded cars are
awaiting movement.
Detroit.—Six-story addition to plant of
the American Lady Corset Company, giving
employ ment^to 700 more persons.
Ovid. Mich.—Board of Directors elected
for proposed factory.
McPherson, Kan.—The assessor’s report
shows an Increase of 2,167 acres of broom
corn planted this year over last year.
Norwalk, Conn. —Industrial differences
between manufacturers and their employes
In the Norwalk district have been adjusted
satisfactorily to both sides.
New Y’ork.—The new $9,000,000 Hotel
Astor will be opened for business Sept. 10.
DAVIB WILL NOT DO.
Too Old for the Mich Poo it ion to
Which Ha Aspires.
Dr. J. B. McFatrich, editor of the
Third Ward Republican, a Chicago publi
cation, says: r
“It may be that former Senator Henry
Gassaway Davis is planning to have his
money talk for him during the campaign.
It is only on this hypothesis-that his re
ply to the notification address of John
Sharp Williams can be satisfactorily ex
plained. The octogenarian vice presiden
tial candidate of the Democracy at the
White Sulphur Springs function indicat
ed that he is sadly deficient, in so far
as present issues are concerned. He had
nothing to say upon auy of the questions
which interest the voters of both parties,
A careful reading of his address fails
to disclose where he stands on any vital
issue.
“The man who is popularly supposed
to carry the State of West Virginia
around in a shawl strap had not a word
to say regarding the trusts. He omitted
an allusion to labor and capital. So far
as the speech indicates there is no such
thing as the Philippine question. He had
nothing to say about the tariff. He is
certainly old enough to have heard of the
Monroe doctrine, but not a Une of this
important bit of Americanism can be
found in his speech. For all he says
there Is no such thing as the Panama
canal and the closest observer cannot
learn whether he believes in the open
door or reciprocity or any of the things
which men discuss. And has not Uncle
Gassaway heard of the United States
navy?
“For a speech which was looked for
ward to as a sort of keynote essay, the
utterance of the old gentleman with the
barrel is a great disappointment to the
Democrats. To the Republicans it is
merely an evidence of the fact that Mr.
Davis does not possess, at his advanced
age, the necessary mental equipment to
properly appreciate the great public ques
tions which must confront the next pre
siding officer of the Senate.
“Of course. Uncle Gassaway is a thor
oughly respectable old gentleman. He
' is also possessed of much wealth and for
a man who has slipped over the 80 mark
[is well preserved and active. But there
is a vast difference between minding his
I own personal business and attempting
at the sunset of life to take a hand in
the strenuous work of conducting the
great affairs of a big nation. As Vice
President Henry Gassaway Davis will
not do.”
The Lone Fisherman.
It is only one of the curiosities of an
American national campaign the result
of which is foreordained, but it arouses
more than a slight degree of interest.
Where is the Lone Fisherman, the man
who has been twice President of the
United States? Where is he. and what
is he going to do between the present
time and the Bth of November?
What is he thinking about—this Txme
Fisherman, and what are his inclina
tion®? We are all interested in him as
we should be interested in any ex-Presi
dent of the United States, and, beinff
Interested, we have also a curiosity.
What about (’leveland? Is that portly
and forceful old grntlenptn going to have
anything to do with politics this year, or
is he simply intent upon the considera
tion of the subject of lines, bait, and all
that sort of thing?
The impression seems to prevail, and
one apparently justified, that the Sage
of Princeton is not much interested in
the Sage of Esopus. The Sage of
Princeton has at least a certain caliber,
ami the two men do not fit.
Still, we aU want to know what tb<
Lone Fisherman is going to do.
“Tiie Repnblicea party wllj be found
••ponainK those iaeuee aud tboe«
queatlona which make for the ata*
blllty, the hoeor and the welfare of the
Country,”-Senator Fairbanks, at Indian
apolis, Dv*cainber 81, 1900.
Judge Parker Is Mid to h., Te wr | t ten
his financial views so as to not offend
Bryan. Ils rof : that wsy, too, a eoupla
of times.
SOME COMPARISONS
CONDITION OF TREASURY UNDER
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS.
Hew the PabHc Debt Wee Ma.astd
When Democracy Waa In Power and
How the National Finances Were
Conserve* Later by He pa bl leans.
When Grover Cleveland began the first
fiscal year, July 1, 1893. of his second
term, our public debt was $1,345,000,000;
when the fourth fiscal year closed, Juns
30. 18u7, it was $1,817,000,000, an in
crease of $272,000,000, without anything
to show for it.
W hen Benjamin Harrison began his
first fiscal year, July 1, 1889, our public
debt was $1,619,000,000; when his fourth
fiscal year ended, June 30, 1893, it was
$1,545,000,000, a decrease of $74,000,-
000.
When'we add Cleveland’s increase of
$272,000,000 in the 'public debt to Harri
son's decrease of $74,000,000, we have
n bill of indictment amounting to $316,-
000,000 against the Democratic party as
a result of “four years more of Grover.”
When Benjamin Harrison began his
first fiscal year, July 1, 1889, he found
$<143,00,000 cash in the public treasury;
when he closed his fourth fiscal year,
June 30, 1893, the cash balance was
$707,000,000, an increase of $64,000,000,
without selling any bonds to increase the
public debt.
When Grover Cleveland began his first
second-term fiscal year, July 1, 1893, he
found $707,000,000 cash in .the public
treasury; when he closed his fourth fiscal
j ear of that second term, June 30, 1897,
he left only $831,000,000 of a cash bal
ance, though in the meantime he had sold
enough bonds for cash to increase the
public debt by $272,000,000; consequently
he really decreased the treasury cash by
$130,000,000, being the $272,000,000
bonds sold less the $134,000,000 differ
ence between the $831,000,000 and the
$707,000,000 cash balance/
Wlien Benjamin Harrison began his
first fiscal year, July 1, 1889, the net
public debt—that is, the entire debt less
the cash in the treasury—was $975,000,-
000; when he closed his fourth fiscal
year, June 30, 1893, it was only $838,-
000,000, a decrease of $137,000,000 as
the result of four Republican years.
When Grover Cleveland began the first
fiscal year of his disastrous second term.
July 1, 1893, the net public debt was
$838,000,000; when he closed the fourth
fiscal year, June 30, 1897, it was $986,*
000,000, an increase of $148,000,000, as
the result of four Democratic years.
When we add Harrison’s decrease of
$137,000,000 in the net public debt to
Cleveland’s increase of $148,000,000 in
the same, we have another $285,000,000
bill of indictment against the Demo
cratic party for only four years of finan
cial misrule.
When William McKinley began the
first fiscal year of his first term, July 1,
1897, he found only $831,000,000 in the
public treasury; when he closed his
fourth fiscal year, June 30, 1902, the
treasury cash balance was $1,098,000,-
000, an increase of $267,000,000 as the
result of four Republican years of pro
te«lion to American industries and finan
cial ability. And this was in spite of the
fact that $340,000,000 had been paid out
for the cost of the Spanish war for the
freedom of Cuba.
When we add McKinley’s increase of
$267,000,000 treasury cash to Cleveland’s
real decrease of $138,000,000 in the same,
we have $405,000,000 plus the Spanish
war expense, as the true gain to the
country of four years of Republican pros
perity immediately following four years
of Democratic adversity.
When Roosevelt’s first fiscal year be
gan, July 1, 1901. the treasury cash bal
ance was $1,098,000,000; when he closed
his third fiscal year, June 30, 1904, it had
increased to $1,382,000,000, an increase
of $284,000,000, notwithstanding that all
the Spanish war taxes had not been
abolished, but $50,000,000 had been paid
out for the Panama canal property and
rights; and that $5,000,000 had been
given, and nearly $5,000,000 more loaned
to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
When we summarize the treasury cash
transactions from the beginning of
Cleveland’s second-term first fiscal year,
July 1, 1893, to the close of Roosevelt’s
third fiscal year, June 30, 1904, we have
the following:
Cleveland’s loss in treas-
ury cash $138,000,000
McKinley’s gain in treas-
ury cash 267,000,000
Roosevelt’s gain in treas-
ury cash 284.000.000
Paid cost Spanish war... 340.000.000
Paid Spain for Philip-
pines 20,000,000
Paid account Panama
canal * 50,000,000
Gift and loan Louisiana
Purchase Exposition ... . 10,000.000
Total $1,109,000,000
Eleven hundred and nine millions of
dollars betterment less forty-eight mill
ions increase in our interest-bearing debt
between July 1, 1897. and June 30, 1904,
leaving one thousand and sixty-one mill
ions ($1,061,000,000) to the credit of
seven years of Republican control of our
national finances.
WALTER J. BALLARD.
Schenectady, Aug. 25.
SLY OLD DAVID.
Ualqne Position Now Occupied by
Judg« Payker*® Manuaer.
It is not often that a political leader
finds it necessary to promise his party
associates that he will keep out of office
and be unrepresented in the councils of
his friends in case of the success of his
own nominee. This unique performance
has been exemplified by the Mephisto
pheles of the Democratic party, David
Bennett Hill.
The effect is rather grotesque. It is
much as if the king of the nursery rhyme
were to declare that he would not, in
any case, taste of the pie. after the four
and twenty blackbirds had been caught,
plucked and baked in a big diah of pastry.
The reception given to the promise
of Mephistopheies to “be good after
the Ist of next January.” ia rather com
ical. The more outspoken of the Demo
crats say plainly, “Pshaw 1 I don’t be
lieve it!” while the more secretive ones
•imply “wink the other eve” with a
grimace that would make the fortune of
the naan that "Woke the bank at Monte
Carlo.’
It is a sly old David, so it is! Well ha
knows how to draw the ass’s skin over
bin ewsi confideat »•» he that no braying
Will hide from the faithful few his real
nature, while the gullible many, he Im
agines. will joyfully count upon his meek
ly retiring into private life a* soon he
has seen his party triumphant iu the fall
elections.
It is a grotesque position, that of the
Wolfert's Roost politician. To gain his
ends he promises to keep out of all par
ticipation in the results he is working for.
It must have been at some cost in self
respect that this sop was given to the
more respectable wing of the New York
Democracy, men who will not train with
Hill, and who do not scruple to say so,
Birt with those at whom the shot was
aimed Hill’s promise will ntall nothing.
They know the man. He has no friends,
nor has he any enemies wlp believe In
him, except as to his limitless power for
evil politic^ in whatever he undertakes.
It is quite prpbable that he will retire
from politics before the first of January,
1905, but it will be, not by his own voli
tion, but because of the defeat of bis
party at the polls In the preceding No
vember.
MR. HILL’S RETIREMENT.
It la Fortunat^fnr Him, bnt Its Man
ner lavSot the Hast,
David Bennett Hill announces that he
will at the end of his sixty-first year re
tire from 'politics, but that he will take
a part in the present campaign. The mis
take that Mr. Hill makes is that he does
not retire now. This is one of the things
he said in his recent opening campaign
speech at Binghamton, New YoYk:
That vast corruption exists in many de
partments of the Federal Gov^fnment is
virtually conceded. It has been declared
often that more corruption bus been dis
closed during the last four years than dur
ing the whole previous period of our his
tory. Therefore it must exist, or it could
not be disclosed. Convictions for frauds,
however, can be counted on one’s lingers.
The Republican party tends toward social*
ism when it advocates the right to build
up one man's business at the expense of
the communitv. What the American people
demand is a free field and a fair contest In
the race of life.
It is perhaps fortunate for Mr. Hill
that he has decided to disappear from
politics. It is most unfortunate, for his
sake, that In his speech, practically open
ing the campaign on the Democratic
side, he should have been guilty of polit
ical falsehood. That is not the manner
in which a good American should sing
-his swan song.
All men should be fair. Mr. Hall de
clares that enormous corruption exists
under the present Republican administra
tion, and intimates vaguely that the Re
publican party is responsible for any evil
which may have occurred. He refers
especially to frauds of the Postofflce De
partment, afid there were some frauds.
We at least admit this. Into every
great party will necessarily be ingrafted
some thieves. What has happened in
the United States following the discov
ery that some officials of the Postoffice
Department were indirectly stealing?
What has happened is this;
The Republican party punishes its
own thieves aud throws them out of its
ranks. What happened to the men who
stole under the present administration?
They are already wearing striped clothek
and doing the lockstep in various locali
ties. Could there be a better proof of
the soundness and honesty of the present
administration in that it punishes its own
sinners, and, very properly, punishes
them to the utmost.
David Bennett Hill, in intimating that
there has been unpunished crime among
the vassals of the party which is conduct
ing the affairs of this government just
now, is guilty of political trickery and
political falsehood of the baldest kind.
Lt is very earnestly to be regretted
that an exceedingly clever American
should mar the circumstances of hia exit
from political life by expressions of what
are not facts, and of a sort never conu
tenanced by the greatest leaders of great
parties. What Mr. Hill said at Bing
bamtpn cannot mar the outlook of the
Republican party one jot or tittle, but it
can mar the respect which the American
people held, aside from all party lines,
for one of the shrewdest of politician!.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Those Wh« Toted for McKimlsy Prob
ubly Will Support Roosevelt.
(Kanaos City Star, Independent.)
Some allowances must be made, of
course, for the optimistic representations
of politicians at the approach of every
great election. It ie a part of the game
to manifest confidence, even if the policy
of “claiming 1 everything” has been dis
credited by the best political managers.
But the declaration that, according to
more or less careful canvasses, those
young Democrats who bolted Bryan and
voted for McKinley will remain in the
Republican party, is quite plausible.
Those old Democrats in whom the party
spirit is still strong in spite of the trying
alignment of the Democracy four and
eight years ago, may be expected to re
turn to the fold pretty generally this
year; but there is nothing except parti
san feeling to draw them, and this does
not exist to any great extent among the
younger generation, especially among
thqse who have already broken over the
lines to vote for a Republican Presi
dent.
Indeed, President Roosevelt appeals
with especial fore to the young men of
the nation. Considering his achieve
ments, he is still a young man himself.
He is in intimate sympathy with the
spirit of early manhood. He is vigorous
in mind and body, and is active in both.
He is strongly progressive. His leader
ship has been inspiring to all classes,
but mare especially tn those in whom
ambijion is assertive. His policies ap
peal forcefully to those who would make
a stronger and a better nation. He stands
for those reforms that are regarded as
essential -to the perpetuity of personal
liberty aud civic righteousness.
The belief that President Roossvelt, In
his splendid fulfillment of an obligation
assumed as a result of accident, baa earn
ed an election at the hands of the people
he has served, is especially strong in the
hearts of the younger generation of vot
ers.
The Democratic argument this year
should be printed iu the humorous col
umns. It is, iu brief: “You need not be
afraid of us, for if we elect a Presi
dent and the House, the Republican Sen
ate will keep us from doing auy dam
a<e” •
“Growth ia tbs law of our national,
aocial and Industrial balm*. We have
not yet reached the limit of the Divine
purpose. Tomorrow will be greater
and more apleud Id than today.*’—Hanav r
Fairbanks, st Bt. Paul, August 81. I9UB.
Whenever the Democratic party has
had the power it has attacked and de
stroyed the polity of protection for
American industries.
I WHEN HILL WILL QUIT.
[David Bennett Hill says he will aban-
Ldon politic* when Parked dir elected.}
“When POker is elect<*d.” Mr. ; David
Bermqtt Hill
Announces that his speaking voice will
suddenly grow still;
1 He says that for rude politics he really
shall not care,
‘ When I/arker lute been planted in tb>
Presidential chair — -*
O, gentle reader, with alarm do not^
grow cold and stiT;
There’s much of virtue in that “When,*
aa Shakespeake said of “if.”
“When Parker Ir elected”—it’s a strik
ing trait of Dave’s*"*
That always in his statements there’M
a little phrase that saves.
You see, it would have sounded like an
unexpected joke
Had he said he’d retire the day that
Davis said: “I’m broke.”
“WHEN barker Is elected, I shall put
campaigning by,”
Was how he emphasized 11, and he wink
ed the other eye. ,
When Parker Is elected, then the stare
will shine at upon.
And we will shovel snow along about
the month of June,
The birds will put on trousers and the
crocodiles will sing,
The frogs will be electing Mr. Stork te
be their king,
And when these things have happened*
if you think to notice it—
“WHEN Parker Is elected,*’ DavM
Bennett Hill will quit.
“When Parker is elected” — why, he
might as well have said
That he’d be chasing ballots when the
rest of us are dead,
And that we'd hear him talking when
the Last Day’s trumpet called,
Or that he’d drop his scheming when he
ceased from being balled.
When Parker is elected —be will quit*
and also then
We’ll learn that David Bennett Hili
is growing hair again.
ROOSEVELT AS PRESIDENT.
Some of the Prominent Achievement*
of the Administration.
(Chicago Tribune.)
What, positively, has be (Roosevelt)
accomplished?
He has handed over to Cuba the gov
ernment of the Cuban republic.
He settled the anthracite coal strike
which for half a year had demoralized
the industries of the country.
When Great Britain. Germany and
Italy were attacking Venezuela he in
duced them to desist, thus preserving the
inviolability of the Monroe doctrine.
The three commissioners' appointed by
him to discuss Ahe Alaskan boundary
question gained a complete victory for
the American contention.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty, which
had been defeated by one Congress, wae
passed in a subsequent special session,
because Roosevelt insisted.
By the creation of a bureau of com
merce and labor, for which his influ
ence is solely responsible, the President
has taken the first definite steps toward
the solution of the trust problem. Light
will be let. in on the management of th#
trusts. Then, when their evils are defin
itely, not vaguely, ascertained a proper
corrective can be applied.
The door to China’s trade has bee»
kept wide open to our trade.
But the most enduring benefit the
President has brought to the country has
Been the assurance that the Panama
canal would be finished. In the isthmian
imbroglio the* President acted always
within the treaty rights of this natio^
his official conduct was eminently cor
rect. But were it not for his exceptional
adroitness and vigor during the crisis the
prospect of the interoceanic canal would
still be years in the future. For nearly
400 years man has dreamed of piercing
the American isthmus. But it remained
for President Roosevelt to bring these
dreams within sight of realization. His
tory will record his connection with the
Panama canal as the most momentone
feature of his first term.
Thua Theodore Roosevelt has been a»
upright and painstaking, vigorous and
useful, honest and patriotic President.
It seems both wiser aud fairer for the
American people to re-olect him reth«r
than to elevate in his place bjd untried
jurist, who, however exemplary his per
sonal character, has had practically uo
experience whatsoever to fit him for the
most difficult position in the world.
Why Change?
Why shquld there be a change in the
national administration? What’s the
matter with Roosevelt? Has anything
gone wrong? Has it been neewsary to
issue bonds to pay the running expensea
of the government? Is there any moosy
in the treasury? Hai the soup bouse ai*
sorted its supremacy aime the palmy
days of Grover? Ilas Theodore Roose
velt betrayed any tnmt reposed in him,
or has he manifested any symptom* of
spinal affection? Has the so-called Dem
ocratic party advanced any assurance to
the American people that they are any
more proficient In the twentieth century
than they were in the nineteenth? Oan
they satisfy the honest, indnetrious, pro
ducing citizens of America that they seek
for anything but to again graup the sur
plus and again empty the treasury, a*
they have on every previous opportunity?
Far mere Ignored by Democrats.
The Democrats of Kansas, in making
up their State ticket, have entirely ig
nored the farmer. The Republican*
nominated two of the leading farmer* of
the State as Railroad Commissioners.
Seven out of thirteen nominatioiM, in
cluding Governor, on the Democreudc
tickot are lawyers, while the Republican*
only recognized the lawyers Id the aosn
ination of Attorney General, judges of
Supreme Court, and one member o< th*
Railroad Commission. The policy of ig
noring the farmer, which the Democratic
National Committee is reported to have
announced, is carried out with e ven
geance by the Democrats of Kanaes.
Balfour, the prime minister of Bug
land, in a speech delivered at Sheffield,
declared that Cobden, the apostle of free
trade, was "a great man, but be failed
to foresee the developments of the last
half century which bad made free trad*
an empty name and a vain farce.”
The element which leads and domi
nates the Democratic party to-day stand*
not for tariff for revenue, but few ulti
mate free trade. There la no use trying
to dodge that fact. The workingmen of
America must take note ol it.