Milk River Valley news. [volume], October 12, 1904, Image 8

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NEW ERA FORBREATWEST
President Roosevelt’s National Irrigation Act to
Be a Wonder-Worker.
MILLIONS OF CHEERFUL, HAPPY HOMES
Avenue of Relief to Congested Cities—Health,
Prosperity and Patriotism Fostered by
Contact with Soil —Republican
Party Leads the Way.
Even the Democrats am beginning to
realize something of.the possibilities for
good which are to conn' to., the whole
United States through th. 1 national irri
gation act passed by a Republican Con
gress, and signed by Pre-' I' m Roosevelt
• June 7, 1902. The Dei ’Ms ” r ‘‘
claiming that they ‘Mid ” Still, the
Diets remain thit Prr^i'h-nt Roosevelt,
by the force of his own identity, put the
nfehxurv through (Mngrrs* and made it
the law of the land with his official sig
' nature as President.
It is not a dream, but a fact, that the
present population of the United States
can be duplicated on the arid public do
• main in the W est. This can be done
•without making new competitors for
those already engaged in agricultural
pursuits in the East and in the South.
On the oUht hand, this wonderful act
Of planting a new nation in what is now
oil but an unbroken desert will confer
enormous benefits on those sections
which are already covered with farms,
factories and towns.
Big Internal Problems.
In our great West, a population of
100.000,000 might live in protqwrous con
tentment; There is everything to inspire
and reward -their industry—the charm of
climate and of scenery, the fertility of
ooil, Uie unimaginable wealth of water,
forest and mine. and. across the Pacific,
new worlds to conquer. Our biggest iu
ttrnal question to-day is the preparation
-And colonization of this productive area.
This nation must keep on with its his- j
Coric work of civilization. It must con--
tinue UH! liTdTVehmw Teriprorai process
4»y which it has so rapidly risen to im- *
■ measurable heights of ^ennoinir power— ,
(he .making of new communities* to feed
the old. -the enlargement of old communi
ties t«M"ed the new. The longest step
yet taken to this end is adoption of the
plan of national irrigation—chiefly
.through the instrumentality of President
Roosevelt. It is a new policy. only at
present in its experimental stage, but j
those who know most about it believe it
is a measure big with national fate.
Momentous New Era.
We are entering upon a new and mo
mentous era that calls for the highest ,
qualities of constrmdive statesmanship. ;
The'movement must be broadly founded
end firmly and intelligently managed. We
ere planning, not for ourselves but for
future generations, for we are the fore
fathers of a mighty future in a mighty
land. If we are equal to our duty and
our opportunities, we shall make homes
for a hundred million of the freest men
who ever walked the earth.
We are living in an age of mighty
achievement. Engineering works which
the last generation would have thought
an impossibility will be the completed
task of this generation. The New York
aubwvy, the great tunnel of the Penn
ayivania railroad, the Isthmian canal and
<h« Salt River reservoir in Arizona ami
other mammoth irrigation projects will
anon stand as completed monuments, to
the constructive genius of our people and
this age. The future is potent with still
grander undertakings which will, in a
few brief years, also stand as accom
p'dahed facta. Egypt was for centuries
the granary of the world. That land of
mystery and romance was the cradle of
our civilization. For countless ages the
Nile has riaen annually, to fertilize the ।
lan‘d which has yielded, from year to
year, the sustenance of teeming millions.
Greatewt Question of the Age,
The question of irrigation which now
confronts the people of the United States
is one of the most important of the age.
It is of more importance than the Isth
mian canal or a deep waterway to the
•»ea. It involves the solution of the for
est and flood problem. It embraces the
future Interna! development of the Unit
ed Rtatea. It will require years of work
to perfect the system of national irriga
tion, but it will be the greatest benefit
ever conferred on the western people.
Men may be cruel and unfair, but na
ture is generous and utterly impartial.
The earth, the sun and the waters are
as kind to the poor ns to the rich. The
rosea do not atop to look up a man’s
financial standing before consenting to
bloom for him. They grow wherever
planted. They cover the poor man’s cot
tage as gladly as they do the rich man’s
villa.
Huabnndry Makes Patriots.
Nations may spring into being, gener
ated by the force of ideas alone, but
the‘Vigorous manhood, the mature growth
of a Blate can only be nurtured and
built tip upon the abundant and mani
fold productlona of tha earth. The very
cxi<euoe».and advance of civilization are
firmly' grounded on material resources.
Nations become great and Independent
an they develop a g&niua for grasping the
forces abd • materials of nature within
their reach and converting them into a
steady flowing atreatu of wealth and com
fort.
To hold a people in industrious, pro
ductive, omitented habits, habits of vir
tue and of patriotism, it is needful to
give them an interest, in the cultivation
of land. This fact Is seen along the
abort* of historic time. Wherever gov
ernment has made laws which have giv
en the people of the Laud its occupancy
on fair itarms, then content and plenty
have bAen on every hand. Whenever it
has been hanl for the masses to obtain
the use of the land, then discontent and
difficulties have been rampant on every
hand, awl frequently national ruin has
been the result. The noblest uae to which
«ny man or people can put history is to
take it either as warning or wise in
strueUon. In t-be United States we have
ia quality, quantity and variety such sup-
plies ami resource* as no one govern
ment in the world ever had before.
Danger in Congested Cities.
It is not without serious meaning that
so many of our people are massing in
cities, that Ml cities rents are going high
er, and hence people are living in fewer
rooms or smaller ones, and that the at
tendant and consequent evils, moral, phy
sical, industrial, intellectual £ind national,
are seen on every hand. We are to-day
passing through a period of prosperity in
the United States without parallel in
the world's history. Judging from the
history, of all nations, this may not con
tinue indefinitely. Our leaders must know
that they have to do. not with supine
men who have been trained to submis
sive ol>edience—a people who stand ready
to shut their eyes, open their mouths and
take whatever is given and be contented
therewith. Adversity will bring commo
tion in our cities as "cold engenders
hail.”
Remedy in Irrigated Farms.
In contemplating the dangers of the
future that may come to this republic,
। the wise citizen should reach out and
seize whatever remedy may be within
his reach and apply it so that all the
years Co come may be free from fear and
disturbing forces such as are always at
work in every nation. That remedy ap
pears to be, to,put the IxaJance of our
population back on the land and keep it
there. There seems to be no other rem
edy. The man who has his home upon
mother earth, the man who*draws his
living straight from nature's granary, the
m7iiT~who~is free Trom"dll the niiCeftiflH
ties of a wage earner’s employment, tin
man who gathers his wife ami children
around his own hearthstone and gets his
living by his own labor from his own
land, is the anchorage of this country. It
l.ehoov, < 3W stt<» Hi® C 3 tile
occasion and imbue the American people
with a patriotic determination to turn
the balance of our isipulation back to
the land ami plant it there with homes
that no social upheaval can ever disturb.
This will safeguard, this nation for all
years to come. «
All Can Have Homes.
The nation has land for every man
who will make his home upon it in good
faith—who will break the sod, plant
crops, build a house and settle down to
sup|M>rt his family from the soil, but the
nation has no land—at lea>»t, it ought to
have none—for the man who merely
seeks to forestall the actual settler and
sell out to him at a profit, or become a
landlord, collecting income from his ten
ant.
Land monopoly robs men of a large
portion of the products of their labor. It
nullifies the spirit of constitutional guar
antees which seeks to give assurance of
political freedom. No man is free in
the true sense of the term who is be
holden to another for the means of his
existence, and land monopoly makes
reliels instead of patriots. In the case of
Ireland it drove more than half the popu
lation away from its native soil. It filled
their hearts with bitterness and even
sent some of her children into the ranks
of England's enemies in the hour of her
great trouble.
Will Help the Kant.
The subjugation ami settlement of the
great empire of public lands means that
every factory wheel in the United States
must whirl faster, that every banking
house must handle more money, and that
every railroad must transport more pas
sengers and freight. This, in turn, means
n large and busier population in every
eastern and southern Mown, and that of
course will quicken and enlarge the de
mand for all the products of the soil in
the older aections of the country. In the
meantime that which is grown from the
soil, to be conquered by irrigation in the
West, will go almost exclusively to the
feeding of new home markets to be erect
ed within the arid region itself and to
the satisfying of unlimited demands in
the Orient and in the frozen north.
Limitless Oriental Trade.
Visible increase in American tonnage
in trade between the Asiatic East and
the Pacific coast is beyond the concep
tion of the ordinary citizen. This trans
portation issue concerns the merchant,
the manufacturer and the mechanic of
the Atlantic States, the Middle States
and the far West as well as the Pacific
coast. These merchants, manufacturers
and mechanics have the same interest in
the Asiatic trade that they have in the
irrigation development of our arid and
semi-arid land. The larger that trade,
thf greater the demand for the industrial
products of the vast region east of the
Rocky mountains, the greater the effi
ciency cd trans-Pacific transportations,
the greater our trade with Asia.
In a way the merchants, manufactur
ers and mechanic* east of the Rocky
mountains have more at stake than have
the Pacific coast States. Increased trade
with Asia, especially an increased de
mand for American food stuffs, means In
creased agrictllturgl, commercial and in
dustrial activity on the Pacific coast, a
larger population on the Pacific, and
finally, the most important of all, a
larger home market for what the people
of the Pacific coast call the American
East.
Improved Transportation.
The transportation issue Is settling
Itself. The trans-continental railway
companies face a globe circling competi
tion that forces them to raise the effi
deucy of their systems, west of Chi
cago. The steam lines of the Pacific
ocean are meeting the transportation de
mands, thus the American commerce
with the Asiatic East is insured by that
W| IHISO I
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UNCLE SAM- ,, rm sorry, bat I can't ase anything with a string tied to IL”
great promoter of trade known as swift
and regular transportation.
The complement of this transportation
is a steady and reliable flow of freight.
Here irrigation gomes into play. Irri
gation insures regular crops and there
fore a fixed volume of freight; even as
a reliable transportation insures regular
trade. These phases of national life are
part ami parcel of the evolutionary pro
cess that has made the United States the
trade leader of the world. The activi
ties of the country are rising to the new
economic standard. He who fails to see
this should seek a new perspective.
To the ordinary man the term Asiatic’
trade lacks special significance. He
knows it relates to trade with Asia,
and that wo are constantly exporting to
ami importing from Asia. He.does not
realize that all the leading countries of
the earth are competing for the trade of
several hundred million Asiatics, and that
this trade is really the greatest commer
cial prize of the day. He does not realize
that this trade may be the making of his
own trade, calling or business.
Your I'erannal Intereat*
Farmers, ranchers, miners, lumbermen,
merchants, laborers of the West, do not
vote against your own interests, that of
your family and yours and their future.
Vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. They
have brought you glad tidings in the na
tional irrigation act. Its workings have
already begun. Undeb its operation there
will be a tendency to balance interests
and thus help in a powerful way to keep
the government steady. It will settle the
beef question, every acre irrigated would
produce more than thirty times as much
as is now produced on any of our wild
arid lands. It will produce new towns
of moderate size, where all the vocations
of trade, of learning, literature and re
ligion will flourish. It will change the
face of the earth. It will change the
face of the sky. It will modify the at
mosphere. It will change the climate.
It will give life, health, joy and pros
perity to the people.
Work for Republican Party,
When we come to contemplate the
whole field of natural western re
sources, available for food, for industry
and for commerce, when we attempt to
grasp in one act of thought the length
and breadth and depth of the riches with
which Providence has loaded this sec
tion; when we try to realize how every
jwissible want, every material aspiration
of man can be bountifully provided for;
when we consider how’ measureless are
the values which will spring into being
at the touch of modern industry, ami
how these values, when once created,
are solid and real and become incorpo
rated into the enduring structure of hu
man society, we may begin to es
timate properly the measure of re
sponsibility which rests U|hm this na
tion and its chosen rulers. Tpis is not
merely to preserve unharmed the price
les^boom of civil liberty which leaves
t^e individual citizen free to do his share
in work of development, but to adopt
such measures as will prevent the waste
of natural resources, clear the way of
progress and promote the triumph of civ
ilization. The record of the Republican
party shows it to be a party of prograss.
A Bl<n of Prosperity.
There Is do better criterion of general
prosperity than the postal business.
When times are good the postal revenue
increases, and vice versa. The report of
the Postmaster General shows that for
the year ending July 1. 1805, the receipts
from postal revenu^ were $76,171,000.
For the year ending July 1, 1902, they
were $119,058,229. an increase of 57 per
cent during seven years of continuous
Republican rule. During the year ending
July 1. 1895, the receipts from the money
order business were $812,038; for the
year ending July 1, 1002, they were sl,-
889,817. an increase of 133 per cent dur
ing seven years of Republican prosperity.
The Postmaster General in his annual'
report for 1902 said: “The increase in
the postal revenues attests the wonder
ful pros[>erity of the people and the ac
tivity of business interests throughout
the country.” It would not have been
proper for -the Postmaster General in an
official report to attribute this wonder
ful prosperity in 1902 to the operation of
the Dingley tariff law and other Repub
lican measures, but such was the fact.
WHAT IS TO BE WILL BE
Growth of the Asiatic Demand for
Products of the United States.
The Asiactic nations haveMived upon
rice—stating things in a general way—
and the Teutonic races have for some
generations lived upon flour. It has
become standard within the last year or
two, that at least one of the Asiactic
nations has come to live upon flour A
Those desperate little fighters, the Jap
anese, have taken to hard tack, as did
our own American fighters during the
Civil War, as a part of their subsistence,
and the same regard as to whatever is
made from our wheat has already ex
tended, in a measure, to the more vast
Asiatic empire of China. That clever
correspondent, William E. Curtis, speak
ing of the extent to which our flour is
already used by Japan, says:
While the Imports of flour within the
last year or so hnve been much greater
than ever before on account of the prepa
ra t lona for war, nevertheless there Is rea
son to exp*ct n continued expansion of the
market. Japanese families generally are
beginning to use wheat flour for various
purposes. Nearly everv household Is now
using It to make the little cakes and sweet
meats which they use- with their tea sev
eral times a day in large quantities. A
still larger amount of a cheaper quality Is
used for paste by the manufacturers of
screens, umbrellas, fans and other articles
of (hat kind. Since the war began hard
bread has been introduced into the army as
an alternate ration with rice. The soldlera
relish the variety; hard tack is (?asy to
handle and carry, the nutritive value of a
pound of flour Is equal to that of a pound
of rice, and it costs less. The Japanese
ex|s»rt their t><*st rice to France, England
and China, where It brings big prices, being
of the very highest grade. They hnisirt
vast quantities of cheaper rice for the con
sumption of the coolies and the laboring
class from Korea, Burmah, China, Slngn
fore and other parts of the East Indies,
t Is entirely practicable to sulistitutc
cheap brands of flour for this low-grade
rice, and it will be easy to do so when
tiw soldiers come home with their appe
tites for bard tack and wheat bread.
Could there be, uuder any circum
stances or conditions, expressed a vaster
idea of the enormous trade relations that
must henceforth exist between America
and the Asiatic countries! America
produces bread. The Asiatics have learn
ed to eat bread with the rest of the
world. We are going to* supply them
with it. We have to ship it across the
Pacific Ocean over the commercial path
way which we have made and beneath
which underlies our cable system. There
is nothing in the world that can stop
the Asiatic demand for the wheat prod
ucts of the United States, and the wheat
products of the United States have made
this country, to a great extent, the tre
mendous power it is.
They talk about “Imperialism!” There
Is no “Imperialism!” This continent is
producing what the rest of the world
needs, and the inhabitants of this con
tinent, under the rule of Republican ad
ministration, associated with other intel
ligent govenrments on either side, pro
pose to supply Asia with these prod
ucts that Asia needs. The fact that
the United States has completed its
pathway across the vast ocean and has
its intermediate stations, and its posses
sions close to the Asiatic coasts, is but
an incident of events which are part
of the. industrial history of the world.
Does anyone imagine that the present
majority of the American people are go
ing to neglect their osteusiUle duty, not
merely to themselves but to another por
tion of the human race? They will
hardly do it.
Thia is but talking of the products of
the wheat fields that Asia now demands.
It has nothing to do with iron and steel
and the thousand and one other prod
ucts of *ll ° ur fields and all our facto
yfea which they will otherwise demand.
This I" but referring to the simple af
fair of one single product, but it is
•sough to afford an illustration.
And yet they talk about “Imperlal-
ism!” There is no "Imperialism.” We
are *but brothers who are going to as
sist in feeding the rest of our brothers
of the world; to give them the benefits of
it all and to reap ourselves the benefits
of it all. To submit to anything else
would be silly. It is but a problem of
common sense.
Export of Mauiifacturea.
Figures recently issued by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor at Wash
ington show that during the month of
July last our exports of manufactures
amounted to $40,000,000, against $31.-
000.000 of agricultural products. During
June the exports of manufactures were
nearly $42,000,000. against $37,500,000,
of agricultural products. This is the first
time in the history of the country that
the exports of manufactures have ex
ceeded those of the farm. This does not
mean that the ex|»orts of farm products
are falling off. but that those of manu
factures hnve greatly increased. This is
due to a protective tariff which, While it
benefits American manufactures, also in
creases the home demand for American
farm products.
Democracj*B Had Record.
When the veterans of the Civil War
were with Gen. Grant before Richmond
or with Sherman marching to the sen, n
Democratic national convention declared
the war n failure and demanded a dis
honorable peace. When the business
men, the wage-earners and honest men
of al) classes were battling for sound
money ami the gold standard the Demo
cratic party, as nn organization, was
clamoring for free silver at 16 to 1.
When the Republican piwty was contend
ing for protection to American manufac
turers and workmen, its opponents were
advocating a policy destructive to l»oth.
What good tiling has the * Democratic
party ever done, anyhow?
Not the Only Important Question.
Admitting that the gold standard is “ir
revocably fixed,” ns Judge Parker says,
though he did not help fix it. that is otdy
one of many important, financial queK,
tions that may come up in relation to
financial matters. The question of the
preservation and extension of our sys
tem of banking and currency; the refund
ing of our national debt as it may, from
time to time, become due, and many oth
er questions of like importance may
arise. To place the settlement of these
questions in unfriendly hands might re
sult in such a disturbance of business as
would shock the whole country.
Personal Abuse Will Not Win.
The Democratic party has been so
long in the opposition and its every day
work bas so long been criticism, that it
forgets that no battle was ever won
by swearing at the enemy. Abuse of
Mr. Roosevelt will make votes for him.
He is a very popular man. Personal
criticism will not draw away from him
any man who admires him, but it will
stir his admirers to the more earnest sup
port of him.
According to the Banker’s Monthly for
August there are 7305.228 individual
depositors in the savings banks of the
United States, and it is safe to aay that
7305,000 will vote for the Republican
ticket, at least all who are legal voters
will.
“No more Important questioa can «n
--■a«« our attention, and nona ahoald
receive mnra earneat and thon<htfnl
cone idem t ion, then one which aeeke to
■ward and preMrve the hlirh standard
of oar popnlation and citiaenehip.’*—
Senator Fairbanks in Un Senate, January 11,1896.
The psssHge <»f the National lrngati.ni
Act marked a new era for the West.
Its effect upon actual settlement may not
unfairly be compared to that of the
Homestead law, signed by Presideut
Lincoln in 1862.
Under the Wilson low tariff exports in
creaoed $94,000,000; in three years un
der tbe Dingley tariff they increased
$165,000,000.
PARKER’S FAVORITE POEM.
(Alton B. I’arkor Is very fond of the po
etry of Jtinii-s Wlitirouih Itlhy. Current
Note.)
Uncle David Bennett Hill's at Parker’o
house to stay.
To help him fix Iris fences an’ to tell him
what to sa^;
David says: "Be keerful, now you are a
candidate.
Or else they’ll git the best of yon—that’s
jest as sure as fate;
Now don't send any telegrams, creatin’
further doubt.
Or RooseveT ’ll beat you.
es you
don't watch
out!
“Wunst they was a candidate ’at thought
he’d hnve a chance
If he’d tell the jieople what be knew
about finance;
Went about th’ country with a holler an’
a whoop—
When the votes was counte<l he w:ls un
derneath the soup.
Stick to what I tell you, or you'll amble
up the spout,
Fer Roosevelt ’ll beat you,
es you
don’t watch
out!
“Wunst I wore a feather plume: ‘I Am
a DeiiHM’nit.’
Till a cyclone from th’ west jest blew
away my hat—
When they ast me what I was, I an
swered cool an’ ca'm.
With another feather plume which read:
‘I Guess I Am.’
Bet your life that Ihivid knows jest
what he is alsmt—
An’ Roosevelt ’ll beat you,
es you
don’t watch
out!
“Best be purty keerful bow you talk
about th* trusts —
If you want to roast one, better wait
until it busts.
An* th’ money question—don’t have very
much to say
As to plutycrats—remember Henry Gas
saway!
Stick right to a whisper, don’t you never
dare to shout,
Or xioosevelt ’ll beat you,
es you
don’t watch
out!
“Have your picture taken—out Im? keerful
what yo» wear—
Put on all th' overalls an’ look like
‘county fair;’
Take your little.plunge into the Hudson
every day.
Keep below the water when you’ve any
thing to say.
Mind your I ncle David—his suggestion*
never flout—
For Roosevelt ’ll beat you,
EF YOU ... 4
DON’T WATCH
OUT!**
TRIBULATIONS OF A GREAT
GRANDFATHER.
(Over Teddy's letter.)
Elkins, W. Va., Sept. 15, IfMM.
Dear Sonny—l’w just finished rendin’
Teddy’s letter and haven't hud so much
fun since 1 was toss'd in a blanket the
year that grand old rough rider. Andy Jack
son. was elect cd for a second term. It
tosses us up so high that It setons as If
we’d never come down.
1 never did see a paper so full of in
terrogation jioints as that letter, and every
denied one of them like a jolt on the solar
plexus that Steve is so fond of talkin'
ulsmt.
"Nunky," said Steve, as 1 hobbled Into
breakfast this mornin', the tirst time since
I posed As Methuselah pickin' the shoe
strings out of his* eyes. "Nunky." says he,
“why does Teddy’s letter remind you of a
corduroy road?”
"Because It’s so full of bumps," says I,
guessin* his conundrum the first crack.
There’s nothin’ like a few sharp lolts on
the spine to sharpen an old man r s intel
lectuals.
No wonder you thought It a mile long.
A short piece of road like that goes a long
^way when your wagon hasn't any springs
or straw on the l>ottom, an’ your old hams
lack fat like mine.
I tell you, Alton, that's the matter with
us. The Democratic band wagon hasn't
got any springs nor straw for cushions, and
I'm gettln' all fired tired furnlshln' all ths
axle grease.
This letter of Teddy’s doesn’t ran on
rubber tires. He may mean well, but what
right has he pryln’ Into our convictions?
What business is it of his If we are llks
the man stealin’ a ride on the end of a
train who never sees anything until It’s
passed? If he was ns old as 1 am. he’d
bless his stars If he could see anything,
behind or before.
This havin' foresight is ail a Republican
gift. We Democrats haven’t got It. We'rs
always suckin' the hind teat.
We never saw anything In Infant Indus
tries till the Republicans adopted the
foundlln’ and brought it up on Protection
milk. i
We never saw that the Union had to be
preserved. If there were to be enough
'offices to go round, until the Republicans
saved It and filled the offices for nigh onte
forty yea in.
We never saw that two things could not
occupy the snme place at the same time
until the Republicans adopted the gold
standard and loft us holding the ling be
tween bimetallism and free and unlimited
silver.
I tell you. we’ve no faculty for fore
sight—and. as far ns I can see. mighty
little for hind sight, either. No wonder ths
donkey is our party emblem. Do you
know. I’ve been lokfn' In mother’s lookin’
glass lately, and I swan, if my chin whis
kers ain't grown like a goat’s and my ears
are gettln’ so long they droop. Steve says
it’s only nn option! hnllm Inatlon, superin
duced by too much brooding over Repub
lican cartoons.
But. say. Alton on the quiet— have yos
consulted your glass since you made that
speech to Charlie Knapp and the other
Charlie horses?
Donkeys have this advantage over men:
they can get their ears to the ground with
out crawlin’ on their bellies.
Waitin’ to see you put Teddy on the gridr
Iron, your old uncle.
HENRY GABBOWAY.
Party Records.
In every national campaign for forty
years past the Republican party has
stood upon Rs record of things done, of
laws enacted, of policies established un
der which the country has .progressed
and prospered. Ths record of the Deso
ocratic party made in two administra
tions wa»< so full of disaster, of commer
cial shipwreck, of industrial paralysis
and business failures that its chief busi
ness in recent years has been to get as
far away from its record as possible.
Parker Woald Ba Uaaafc.
Without questioning the sincerity es
Judge Parker's expressions on the
money question he was, by his own etate
ments, more devoted to bis party, in
1896. than ho was to his sincere con
victions of right. That being the case,
we have a right to assume that be might,
at an extreme moment, again surrender
his principles for the sake of his party.
Such n man cannot be held up as a safe
candidate Cor the highest position In the
government