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FOLK'S ASSATJMV v oh, shades of Aristides andthem xaortal Plato ! Oh, all rye 2 mighty BDirits that have gone before ! - i Sit tight on your coftlns and grip ypur j tombstones, for uov. JfoiK, or miss ouri, -will disturb" yp;;;.;!;;" Speaking of the tariff In a speech: at Nashville recently, he faath lowing to say, among -manybther; things: viS-Sfl . "Masked in the guise ;bf protection to American industry disseniblingfas B friend to American 4 labor, j the pro tective tariff operates as -a' cloak tot cunning, as t a shield for- monop Sly, a tax upon industry, a; fine upon la bor, and, finally,' in its last -analysis, it is a graft ancTa false ; preteiise, conceived in gregii and brought Ic rth In avarice. ;;;::r:-: Pt, Say, spirits oiT William McKinley and James G. Blaine, and hundreds of others who went down ! to your, graves fighting for this principle dear io every nepuuucan s did you catch those words?. heart, What think you of your llvs misspent? What infinite labors were those you put forth for such: an avaricious cause ? Did you hear that ribald Hot of words spewed upon the great work that you did for your country? p Yes, the mighty Folk ; H sets you down as hypocrits , and cormorants. What a monster of machination H im ilton must have been when he set the running-gear of this governn ent in motion, and7 how blind Wash ng ton was to become accessory; to the greed, cunning and graft jj of his matchless secretary. According to the world-renowned Missourian, tA merican history is chock full of, b rds of prey in the guise of statesmen, and" evil men have used the tariff from time immemorial to - further tceir wicked ends." Theyv have robbed the people mercilessly, and scourged the nation's honor almost to' death, j Let us look at this popin-jay rho deigns . to wollow around 1 on the graves of the mightiest statfes nen that have ever graced all tha'mijrhty tide of time. Who is he ? What ex perience has he in legislation? Pjrom a chfcken-court lawyer he rose to be 'Attorney; General of Missouri, , and then became Governor because' of the notoriety he gained by prosecutii g a lot of grafters in the city of St. Lcuis. His tame is not that of a. statesman, but rather that of a dare-devil sensational politics. He would i in not for be where he is, had it not -been blind luck. And yet he is the Jug gernaut that would grind into dis dain even the names of our greatest and grandest men. He is a fair sam ple of the modern tribe of Demo crats. - . "J -. A little further on in his senseless ribald he says: j - - "All the great factories of America now sell in competition with the en tire world abroad. The-law of sup ply and demand .regulates the price of labor. The protective tariff can not be for the benefit of the working man."' j - A statement like that is a. dandy, isn't it? Everybody outside pf the asylunv knows that'the Dingley tariff puts an impqrt duty upon most Jffcr eign manufactured goods, so as to protect our own majouf acturers. were it not for this law, our manufactories could not operate. America cannot cumpeie witn the world on . a free trade basis. The cost of labor here and abroad is so different. . Arner can the labor is the most expensive in world. It costs something to a man to do a day's work i in country, whereas in some coun hire this ries abroad you can hire labor for a spng: The law of supply and demand does not regnlate the price of labor, tootion does in this country. Pro- American workingmen are proud tlla-t they get more for their labor tban any other workingmen in orld. They appreciate thef act the .that .ployment and' opportunities are so abundant in this countryi ; JHow dif ferent it was under the Democ atic tariff of a dozen ' years ago ! The change for the better is no acci ent. There can be no other reason iven under the sun for thejpresent status of American .wages than pr otec Son. And when Folk or - any: other v ind jammer attempts to give any c ther reason, he is talking through his nat. Remove the tariff and J see how long it will be until our- shores-will b6"t3 i riumping-ground'othe rldJ "jyith duties wiped:-out, .11 t, Jshopyrorn rubbish of ETarope; would he dumped pon our marked nd'aejicajr enj terprise would die deaoV laTsTx months: The bombast of - a" ,wdrdy vschool boy isabotitasfrktiale,ao O-'ttelfie. fftnejmii who wori foraf ial this MB fiaiOOnATio ROOIJlteji AKfrfw H,i steppio the elge of the Z?;va iSli? 'PVt S 3 ";(rM-iT-:r:c.:i":: 'M--4 ???n? ft tftpenctnre bf j"ha.PPnsf jnVmanyJSt community along 'about e Has jt ATOr,;, ;i, - . - Vv r "r-'Tcu. a Tour-. lOCai- J ity? , ; v ? nf;-, Jr. T , - i . . -r - , : Judge Tabor ' and- rpvptaT : riwflii -r r aLlu , Bererai Canal- dates . f or ccountyofflcei "iiad a nlght to address; Jthe negro voters in theirj little dirty school : house xjn the outskirts of the' town. ; The Judge' W not a, candidate himself; but he was i a. rounder, and had a eat in? fluence over: the negroes. f- He was an ex-jndge of ; the District Court, -and' ownedinueh property in and around" the place, and three; fourths of the negro population had y worked for him, off T and .on. In fact, r many of them looked to him for' their bera,d and meat. He would give a negro picnic 'once , a f year on his place out about a mile: from town,: and the ne groes for miles around would come to eat "de . Judge's barbecued ? meat This he did to win them,' of co.urse. : -On the night - in question about a hundred , and fifty, negroes had gath ered to hear, him tell them i how to4p!ace that night. The other negroes vote He took the floor "and began : "My colored -friends, : I need' noti ask you who your friends are. They are these people right here amonJ whom you have been raised. There! is no reason for you to vote the Re publican ticket. The Democrats love Abraham Lincoln just as good as you do, but - this ' does' no t ' lead them - to act the fool and vote the Republican ticket. ;These candidates sitting a iround here are all .my friends, and, of course, they are your j friend. You have known them from boyhood. You have confidence in" them. You. know me, my colored friends. I have been watching over your interests here for about forty . years. - "You know I would not advise you wrong." . The colored . school teacher, who had drifted into the place from an other 'state the year before, and who Tiad- not come under, the Judge's In , fluence like the other negroes,- took the floor . when the judge sat . down and got permission to ask a question. "I do ;not wish to appear as a leader among my people,' or to antag onize the honorable Chairman of this meeting, but I want to know what the Democrats, meant in the last leg islature by trying to 'disfranchise "the negro voters of this state?"! "You are mistaken,"-spoke up the Judge. "The Democrats attempted no fluch thing." T ? i . i "Well," the teacher made response,' "I have a pamphlet here in my handl' which was sent me from the office of the Secretary of State, and It tells me that such a bill was introduced, but failed to become .a law." : "Say," roared the; Judge, "you have no vjoice in: this meeting. We called it for our colored friends." . "But I'm a vpterin this county," replied the teacher, "and I jsupposed your invitation 'for the" negro voter to meet you and the candidates here included life." - - . i 'i say: you have no voice," retort ed the Judge. , i "I say I have." came the' reply. coolly. - ' '; . At thi& the Judge sprang downj from the rostrum with' his cane and drew it back to hit "the. teacher. The candidates present interfered. : The negroes In the audience Jbegan to get excited. The Judge sobn regained, control of himself and said: ; - I swear that - every nigger that votes against these candidates that are the regular nominees ofjthe Dem ocratic party, shairneverjg another lick of work from me and f shall see that this town and the! surrounding country gives" them the, cold shoulder in the future, f DTyou ;hear?" - The old colored' parson; took the floor to pour oil "on the' -troubled' waters;-'-, : . ' : " r "."' - "Da Jiidee am fight," said he. "You niggers owe him. er -whole lot. If it 1 hadn't .been for him -some of you wouldn't have bedn here. CoseJ you'se gwine ter vote de Dimmlcrauc ticket jes de same as you alwus has. What - business' have ; you Southern niggers vbtin de BSpRean ticket, J anyhow? Doan ; you 'know, dat : you makes dese good ; : Southern white foaxes mad every- tSoe 'you do . it? De brudder, er er. de ? rrofe6r,.I m-ean;doan: kntfwdese iwhltef oaxes lak we idoes.!' ' i V- TZ Theis fpandidates . thoa v .presented their respectivjer clainw Some ofthem CTew very eioqueuv .m una. v oftiii isro ae eSKec6l that, DOrtion of it that la that . . , i - : f " . . -- - TCethinnishe rostrum- and asked; : .; -',...-"' . rHow many: colored' voters in-the audience will Jvote the ; DeiTaUc ,tlcket -to-niorrpw? -Jhose ifip have T,1 dK??l? iS4ld: uur nanus. ;Tery.ros nana in the house twent up, except the teacher's hand. rt. T v '- 1 ttsr . : r -v f Thiv Jnrlp-o ravn h m n n(Q.Un iwO The-Judge gave him a piercing look.. 3 . "Weil Continued lle Ju5ge,: "i have the; tickets alreacfy ;made out" and I will, deliver them to you. Ev- ery one pirinese Danmust betvoted to-morrow-just as i hand them out, or you know the conseg,uences.', 7 ;He handed" the bailois.put Vnd the negroes f ol.dd them ri'd putthem in. their pockets.. Then, "he turned to the' leacner- ana -saia: 3.11) :'.' .-. "I guess it would not be best to let' the sun rfserbn7yoii( in this town. Do you understand ? , Tou are 'not fit I to teach this school. My colored friends, I'll see that you have a teach er that will not teach you to hate your friends." . The meeting broke up and the ner gro teacher walked out with bowed head, went direct to his boarding place and got his valise, and left the went to the noils next dav and voted fthe Democratic ticket as they had been Instructed. The ticket was elected, of course, by an overwhelm- ing majority.". THE BLACK PERIL. Now as politics are getting lively all over the country, listen for negro depredations. The Democrats will take up every little mole-hill and make a mountain of it. Negro crimes will be exploited to the coun- . - , , - - try for political effect. The Dem ocracy of. the South especially xgrows wild-eyed in political campaigns over the "Black Peril, as they call it. They, paint the bad nigger as a veritable beast that roams the coun try but to kill and to ravage. ; We beleive in a negro staying in his place,, and it is far from us to defend a single negro for a dastard ly crime. But.it seems to us that it is time to drop this negro "business out of American politics. It only serves to suggest the crimes that the bad negroes commit to the peace able negroes. To agitate the negro question in political campaigns , tends to disturb the efforts of those who are endeavoring to work out the ne gro problem. But as we have said often, elimi nate the negro from Southern poli tics and you take the winning issue of the Democratic party in that sec tion. The Republicans have long since given up the idea of getting a square deal in the South for years to come. Because the Republican party advocates treating the negroes as a race fairly and squarely it has been accused of being a negro party. It is often called "the black Repub lican party." V . - When it comes to the negro's Tote, it doesn't cut any ice in our national elections. In that section where the negro votes the Republi- can ticket, his oano is not counrea. Take Mississippi and Louisiana, for instance." If every negro was allowed- to vote his sentiments in those states, what would go with their Democratic majorities?. Our idea is to. let the negro alone. Don't put foolish notions in his head by dragging him as a bone of conten tion into political campaigns. . Let him go about his business so long as he obeys the laws, but so soon as he violates them, jerk him up and make him pay the penalty. .. We ad vocate the same kind; of treatment toward white law-breakers.- r Xs'Z- r ' Such men as. Tillman and Varde man do incalculable harm by.' riinf r Ining around over the; country and. continually rshooung. on: tneir beads about the negro.' The masses of the l.erica people are 'tired if it. Over in California the. other, day they wouldfi'V let Mr. Tillman;. hold out on his favorite . negro theme.-; They told him- plainly,' thathe. had to" talk about something worth while, or he couldn't get offT his" bazoo in their midst. .Well, that's business.; The people all ver the country ought to do the samething. Let it be under stood that; thUnepo" q is a threadbare ;q'uestibn,-vone - that you have heard discussed: from your ear- liest childhood up, and that you have 1 heard it a-plenty, c i - -. . v . , r " , -The price J. the co eonferenco par-4was:l;30O.00O; trMci was mighty A J - vnl ffvrt TYT rvn rtTT - 'With f . The Democratic press" is frantical ly beating thealr and wildly-scream-(ng aDotii" a little incident 'that hap "p en'e'df.- onu an east-boiind tranjarcohti- nelitaiAin'from Los Angeles, Cal., to Cincinnatti, Ohio; Mr. and: Mrs. Nicholas .Longworth were returning tneir rlioliie ?.in : clncinnatti the pther day. from a trip o the Orient. It: appears Jtiaat'Yhey 'desired a draw ing rdcmln a-Pullman coach. The right sort or people will -be. apt to laud their desire' to shun the gaping curiosity which loves ,to lionize the daughter and son-in-law of the Pres ident of the UnltedTsfates; The de sire for privacy is commendable In such fblkv under; such? circumstances As -bad uck would" have it, however, there was but one drawing room -.in all 'the' Pullman cars hitched to the train upon which the Longworths we're traveling, and this had been pre-empted by two Russians," who were occupying it.. "Nick" appears to have used the long leather string of his prominence" to, displace the foreigners, who vacated the apart ment under protest, and after hav ing their money refunded to them, "Nick" and Alice toook possession. -. The Democratic press has taken up the Incident as a" monumental piece of imperialism.. Upon what sort of meat, they ask: in a heaven filling chorus, has this" our national son-in-law fed that he has grown so great? Is no man hereafter to be safe- in his Pullman berth, they shriek, if "Nick" and Alice are : aboard the same train? Must the traveller's sweet dreams be disturb Art hv nn nrnor frnm MirV tr fpt out and let him in?- Where are our ancient rights and boasted liberties, theyr.ask in thunder tones, If a puppy royal couple can travel abroad and make other people bow. to their will In sweet humility and get out of bed in the middle of the night and let the blooded pair snug in where common people have no right to snooze? One editor, especially, who is rooting a little deeper, tnan the rest for a par amount issue in the coming cam paign, paraphrases Patrick Henry's outburst of eloquenct and mounts the. stairs himself and ascends into the empyrean In " the following lan guage: "Is prosperity, then, so so dear, or, peace so sweet, as to be purchased with the price of Pullman tickets ? Forbid It, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take, but as for me" give me liberty or give me death!" . . Suppose the displaced passengers had been Japanese instead of Rus- "... - slan, oh, Rod of Moses, wouldn't the Democrats have shrieked" and paw ed? But as the Russians were , first to arrive and first, to leave Mukden, there will be no diplomatic exchang es touching the incident. The little occurrence wno Knows t may oe driven athwart the" political , sky T)y Democratic winds) and a paramount issue made out of it in the 1903 campaign. Imperialism means king ly power. And the Dem editors say emphatically that "Nick" acted just like a king. So the great question that now overshadows this" mighty land is imperialism. Let all loyal Republicans be getting their boots and saddles together for the' Impend ing fray, while the Democrats are currying their jackass. , POT-SHOTS AT THE CONSTITU TION. '"':': . What was that you said, Mr. Bry an? Do you.actually believe that the constitution of the new state of Oklahoma is better than that of the nation? What is the matter with you, anyhow ? . We had the idea con cealed fibout oar, old clothes' that the - national constitution was about thd best yet." Things have come to a pretty pass when our great, funda mental law looks . like thirty, cents to a man whoB is dy ing to be President of the United States: A man actu ated by due appreciation qf constitu tional government Is " not going off half .cocked; touching; our fundamen tal law. - Did. you -heaf; that? '-The constitution needs' no defense7 in. an axgumcntive way at any man's hands. ; It is bigger than' any man's opinions. ; - V - - The peculiarity of. our" national constitution . is vry noUeable. ir Its power' grows lesjjorgreafja will of the majority is Jot orTagalnst It. From ; the : standpoint of 'tho .In dlviduaihoeHeVes ltf It" strongly, and: wher ii willing tojgiyelnla W e "In Its .defense, it " is almost perfects From tho " standpoint . "of . . him "who r tiooJfcs' upon.Ijasavbndle.ot date :nnceSit?'f ate'shVrt-;:.The constitution of ." the TJ. S ytzjz never meant for a court room docu ment. . It was meant to be a guldo for the enactment of statutory law. There Is an element in" this coun try who. know-very little -of the con stitution, and" yet they are having a very great deal to say about it. JTho present administration has . .been criticised because It did, things that were -not-expressly stipulated in the constitution. Those who -have thps criticised the Rooseveltian . policies forget, or have never learned, that there. a.re implied powers In the in strument. ' - . . . - The; Republican party stands fast, by the national constitution. Jt went to war for it. when ; its power wa3 scoffecfand disputed, and It is pledg ed to enforce it to the last: . It ha3 raised, the instrument to the highest point or zenith of political achieve-. Pment. It-made-a -glorious "consti tution. : It has put it far ahead ot every" other political instrument ,.in the world. It has made it to shino like a glittering star." . It is not a partizan instrument but a great party has championed it. A blow. dealt it Is a blow" to that party that ias for its chief object its protection. . Those Dem'ocratic statesmen who so delight to take pot shots at tho constitution are going to wake up one of these days and wonder who hit- Billy Patterson. They are attack ing one of the -most sacred instru ments that has been written since the Mosaic law was traced on tables of stone. CARRIE, THE JIARTYR. Carrie Nation, of hatchet fame, has been-arrested several times lately for making curbstone talks against the deadly cigarette and the rum demon. The authorities have her taken into custody because, she blocks the side walks and disturbs the peace. In Washington, notably, has she been thus interfered with in her temper ance crusade. The officers, if they but knew it, are pursuing the right . course to martyrize her. Even anar chists have been allowed in most of . the large cities to expound their per nicious doctrine without further molestation than to be warned that they must not preach violence or treason.. But who has had the bold ness to accuse Carrie Nation of being an anarchist? No one has yet had aught to. say against her sincerity. All agree that she is "nothing more nor less than an erratic temperance "reformer. v - Deluded she maybe, but there are a great many people in the United States who think with her that the saloon and cigarette are corrod ing the very heart of the country. She may be a fanatic and a star per former of a sensational role, but no one can deny her earnestness.' Her method of campaigning may be a lit tle too strenuous to receive the sanc tion of public opinion, but she Is get ting attention. 'Everywhere she goes the peoplo give' her a hearing, until she is ; jerked up by the police, ram med into a hoodlum wagon and rush ed off to the calaboose. - 1 ' ' ; writ must not be forgotten that Car rie i3-' from Kansas. ' She Is from a strenifous state. When people ask, "What is the matter with Carrie?" they must expect the same answer to be returned ""as Is vouchsafed when that other question is asked, 'What is the matter with Kansas?" It cannot be denied that the en emies of Carrie Nation are her best advertisersT-her hustling press a- gents. She is beginning to loom up before" the nation as a martyr. The people where she is arrested take - up a collection to pay. her fines. Her humiliation at. tho hands "of the of ficers serves only to boost her for tho - - - . next town. Upon one occasion when she was being rushed off to a city tribunal for trial, she said to her con ductors, "This makes me think ot how they treated my" Lord and Mas ter . about two thousand years ago - In the wicked city of . Jerusalem-." She. says she is -willing to sacrifice ' herself jipon the altar of temperance, and sobriety." Her "zeal is like unto (that of . the Christian ; mar tyrs of the dark ages. It xappears tnat, sue is weterned-totOTP'herid"cnUty up on- the great i temperance xaaveinciii that Is now sweeping tiie comitry1 jThe American people, pay no ratten tion. to the talk: of a : panic? by' th stock gamblers. :-bt. Wall .Street. Wliat - do "the: great masses care 11 that whole robblng-'outfit goes to tha Lall? .The stability of this, nation Eiies in ther. brain' ancLtrairn. ol C: miUtons who so wv anilreap. J bevnjiarStobncQ' and for all.
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