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Till OBSEliYEIi. FAYETTEVILLE. N. C THURSDAY. JAN. 28, 1909. i. HALE, Editor ami Proprietor. t J. Hals, Jr, Business Managsr. U B. Hale, City Editor. ' FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN AMERt .. CAN ELECTIONS. When Imperialism enables the par ty in power to perpetuate Itself by making bargains with foreign powers which control American electors, the " end of the republic Is not far oft un less the poison of this evil doctrine be expelled from the body politic We trust that someone who knows the facts referred to la the appended quo tation will state them specifically, The menace to our liberties, whlsh they represent is too awful to permit their further concealment A cor respondent of the Indianapolis 'News (whose name, John T. Campbell at LaFayette, Indiana, is given) saysr. "Since 1878 I have been an inde pendent voter. To-day I care little what party, as a party, is in power. I read and hear much about con tinn ing 'Roosevelt's policies. What are they? To me they are about as defi nite as the cry of the mob at Ephes us, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians.' He has been a "bull in a china shop,' homing and . breaking everything in ' his reach, cheered by thoughtless boys who hear and enjoy the rattle. He roars like a goaded bull about alnuatlng charges in regard to the purchase of the Panama canal, and paws the ground and scatters his vir tuous indignation with the dirt lie slings; yet with almost the same heartbeat he makes insinuating charg es against congress, quite as ill found ed as those made against him. Let , the thieves investigate themselves and expel him' who has stolen the , least . As to the late election. I ask an analysis of the vote and an ex planation why It was that Tail was carried high above the . .wave that drowned nearly all the republican can didates for congress in Indiana. Coun ty option was not an issue in their ease. So tar as the average voter, and average politician could see be fore the election, there was no appar ent reason why the republican candi dates for congress of the state should Lot have run along with Taft Taft was assured of a certain vote, 'by an authority able to deliver It He knew he would be nominated and elected. So did. Roosevelt, Roosevelt was wa der as great political obligations to each of all other republican candidates for the presidential nomination as to Taft, and he should have given equal help to each, or kept hands off. Bat he forced the nomination of Taft -The people' are getting on to the reason why, in spite of their cowardly news papers, who Ignore the real influence. The facts are scattering among the voters like thistle seed carried by the wind. . Very few papers have the coor ' age to declare the truth boldly. The press of both parties is afraid of that . vote or else it, hopes to profit by it Hereafter. 1 am alraia if ft, therefore, I refer to it and describe ft with out naming it It is a dangerous vote and bodes no good to this oountry. l nave no rear of that vote which is cast from Its own. conviction, or even its own prejudice, but I dread that vote which gets Its inspiration and Instruction from a foreign source. Let Mr. Taft carefully read the history or James LL of England if he wants to read his own before it is writ ten." ; . ' " CLEVER HIT BY OHIO'S NEW DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR. In hie Inaugural address, Governor . Harmon said: . ' ' ' . .. "... l r "We must make the state govern ment . more broadly useful . Why stand by and let the general govern ment assume to regulate state corpor ations Because they engage In Inter state commerce T Citizens eneajce that commerce, too, and congress has the same right concerning their per sonal affairs ss with those of state eorpotatlons, no more and no less. congress gets general jurisdiction over na. If we engage in commerce outside the state, we may as well turn over the eapitol to a federal commission and go home.". , , ACTION OF THE RIVERS AND HAR BORS COMMITTEE CONDEMNED. We have received the-appended let ter from the Publicity' Bureau, at Washington, of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. No one de nies the imperative need of the adop tion of a system of Improvement -for our waterways that will put us in the neighborhood of equality with the countries of Western Europe in this respect rand, by so, doing, solve the question of railway freight discrimin ation. The extravagance of Congress bankrupted -the treasury; but that did not prevent that body from voting a bond Issue for a foreign waterway, the humbug Panama Canal What potent Influence restrains Congress and supplies them with backbone sufP clent to defy almost the' whole body tf their constituents? Is it the rail roads? , Very likely; but it is the to fiuence of the railroads . exerted through the "foul-mouthed" Speaker, who controls congress as absolutely as the Shah of Penia recently d.'d that Oriental country. Millions for higher salaries, for holding the Philippines in subjection and for the "gold brick" In Panama, but not a cent for relieving the peo ple from high, useless and discriminat ory freight ratesT ,' . That Is a part of what the people get for allowing the Republican grafts ers to bribe them Into retaining the Republican party In power. ' ' "The letter referred to is as follows: Friends of waterway Improvements in Congress, and they are gaining in number every day, while temporarily sudtalnlng defeat by the recent ac tion of the Committee of Rivers and Harbors of the House, in retiming to report a general Rivers and Harbors bill at the present session, have by no moans lost heart in expeilng a hi ;ij and comprehensive bill at the exini'irdinnry session. In fact the ftd vk tu g of a general River and Harbor liill are redoubling their efforts to brim about greatly needed legislation fit the extra nenslon on the ground that frilly pli-itees should be carried out l t eiiiy so jar as the revision of the tariff is concerned but that generous appropriations should be made for the rivers, harbors and canals of the coun try and that piece-meal appropriations should cease. The chief arguments advanced by the opponents of a general River and Harbor bill was the growing deficiency in the treasury and second, that there was not time enough to consider a large River and Harbor bill. . The first argument was met by the friends of a general bill by demon strating that a deficiency in the treas ury has not heretofore prevented ap propriations for river and harbor im provements. Deficiencies In the treas ury existed in 1894, 189S and 1896. In the last named year a River and Harbor bill carrying $72,000,000 was passed and vetoed by President Cleve land. The veto was over ruled by an overwhelming majority in each House and the bill became a law. , 1897. 1898 and 1899 deficiencies also existed; in the latter year a bill was passed carrying $40,000,000. It should be remembered that a deficiency in the treasury existed for six consecu tive years during which time the leg islation referred to above was enact ed. - The last two Rivers and Harbors bills, 1905 and 1907 became laws dur ing the short session of Congress, the last bill that of 1907, carrying the larg est amount ever appropriated for river and harbor Improvements was framed and enacted into law at the short ses sion of the 59th Congress. The reasons therefore for delaying the consideration and report of a general River and Harbor bill do not, in the light of the tacts, seem well es tablished to the friends of the water highways of the Nation. On the con trary, on every side indignation Is felt not only by the friends on the Rivers and Harbors Committee but by Con gress generally at the methods used to defeat general waterway legislation and in consequence new adherents to the cause of improving the rivers, har bors and canals of the country are constantly declaring themselves. The action of the Rivers and Har bors Committee in deciding to report but a small bill authorising surveys and taking care of some pressing work, the whole appropriation to be less than $10,000,000 has done much toward crystallising a sentiment for a comprehensive policy on the part of the Government toward the waterways of the country and it is confidently be lieved that within a year or two at most Congress must recognise the de mands of the. people for permanent river and harbor improvements. THE ASSAULT ON THE PRESS BY ROOSEVELT. Says ' the Atlanta Journal: 8tar Chamber and the Press. 8o tar the most laborious Investi gations can fathom' and determine. the judicial proceedings which are now going forward in the District of Col umbia, in the prosecution of an Amer ican newspaper tor alleged criminal libel, are baaed upon the proceedings of the infamous court of Star Cham ber: - - - ' - When at first there were dark hints aa to. these criminal proceed ings, to be brought nominally by the government, but, aa everyone knows by the president himself, there was widespread speculation as to where he would find any federal law to cover the case. Since the common law of England has never been ad 30 ted bi the federal government one wonder ed where the president was to -find his authority for the proposed prose cuiions. f - The New Tork Tribune, a stanch Republican paper, came Into the dis cussion with one of the most vigor ous eaiionais yet written upon ult recKiess attempt to stifle the Ubertt of the press and. by the establishment of a precedent In case of conviction. subject every newspaper editor and publisher in the country to the possi- ouar oi oeing a ragged to the District of Columbia to be tried for criminal HbeL We gladly comply with the re quest that this editorial be given the widest possible prominence The attempt furnishes some start ling suggestions to all who are Inter ested in the freedom of the pre. une or tnese is mat the law of sedi tious UbeL which is generally under stood to be practically extinct In this country, still survives and may be capable of enforcement In the most arbitrary and oppressive form again st ue editors ana publishers of every considerable newspaper in the United aiaies. What Is the law of libel In the Dis trict of Columbia? The United States attorney answered that he knew no statute declaring or defining the crime of libel except the act of con gress of February 27, 1801, which con tinued In the district the common law of Maryland as ft then existed. He also conceded that he knew of no statute of Maryland prior to February ii. xsui, wucn declared or deftnarf the crime of libel except the provis ions or ue Marr land conatltnUnn woicn adopted the common law of England as It existed on the 4th nf JUiy, 1778. The law of criminal libel In tha TM. trict of Columbia, then, is the law as n existed in England before the erican revolution- That law received its form from the infamous court of staf chamber, and was the most te-ri- oie oi all engines for the sunnresalnn of a free press at the hands of artri- irary and tyranlcal cower. Tinder it any publication which tended to pro duce an ill opinion of the adminlstra- uon oi ue government was a crime. ine expression oi amnion, critirfam and condemnation of public measures and the 'conduct of . public officers which is permitted by law of evarv state of the union, and by the present mw oi CiUgiana,- would - have been criminal under the law of England in 1776, and Is therefore criminal to-day In the District of Columbia.' No Judge can change the law In the district uecuue m isui congress enacted that it should be continued. It certalni mailer lor serious consideration whether any-administration has the power to enforce such a law thronrh. uui me enure conn try by taJclnr wr- sons charged under it from their homes to Washington, to be tried there be- lore judges and by prosecuting offl- wuum ue administration - atv points, and before Juries selected and arawn ny otner aoDOlntees of the ail. ministration from a population large ly ueiKmueni upon ine administration for its support Liberty is a matter of rfrhf nM of administration. It mutt an mn how harmless may be the action pro posed In any case in which power is asserted, if the power asserted be ar- ourary power, u Its assertion under any circumstances would be inmn. slstent with liberty of the person or of the press, there is no safety but in prompt and uncompromising denial of tiBut io exercise it in any case. Once yielded to and established upon the firm footing of judicial precedent, touuui wen ue lawiuuy disputed. Is liable to be made at anv tlma m instrument of oppression. The assertion now of the nnwor in take the editor of a newspaper from s nome to the District of Columbia try htm for an article In his news. paper which constituted a libel under the laws of that district Is a threat against the liberty of the nress in every state In the union. The estab lishment of tbat poyer would limit, ln fringe upon and reduce the liberty of the press. The time to protest and defend that liberty is now, when the power Is as serted, by a universal and Indignant denial that such power exists In any case whatsoever! ine men wno leu curope 10 escape the oppression, of which the Star Chamber was one of the most odious Instruments, have left us a heritage too rich to be destroyed by the impul sive resentment of one man, though he be the president of the - United States, and we are much mistaken It these very proceedings do not do more than anything within these hundred years to strengthen and confirm the liberty of the press. Says' the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot: None Higher Than the Law. We agree entirely that, if the New York World and Indianapolis News hare abused the freedom of the press to the malicious libeling of Innocent cltiiena, the owners or editors respon-1 sible for the outrage should be sub-1 jecte dto legal penalties. ' But the Federal Government cannot be libelled.. nor the President as Pres-1 Ident. and it is neither lawful nor right that the machinery of the govern-1 ment should be Invoked and the Juris-1 diction of the Courts of the District i-f Columbla be stretched In order to vlndl-1 cate the character of one set of Indi viduals from the assaults of another. Mr. Cromwell, Mr. Robinson. Mr. Charles Taft, nay Mr. Theodore Roose velt himself, are without any status in the premises other than that which would belong to any other person or persons who had been untruthfully charged with wrong doing in the col- umns of a newspaper. Each of the parties claiming to have been. Injured has a plain and simple remedy open to him either by the institution of a civil suit or the Inauguration of crim inal procedlngs, either in the State where the act was committed and the . defendants reside, or that of which the alleged victim is a citi zen. The Attorney-General of the Uni ted States has no legitimate concern in the affair. - The Federal Department cs justice is not, properly interested. No statute of the United States has been violated. Even were suit to be brought or indictment laid in a Feder- a Court in New York or Indiana, it must be In the name or at the instance of the alleged victims of libel and there would be no valid reason wbv the authorities at Washington should iniruue uemseives on the regular pro- gress of Justice. In other words there is no more Justification for the course pursued by Mr. Bonaparte at the In- 3tIgaUon of the President than if the attacks of the World and News had been directed at MicaJah Jones, Peter Brown and Jupiter Tonanans instead of at the brother-in-law of Roosevelt, the brother of Taft, and the man who happens at this particular time to be resident of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt was angry naturally so: not only had his own name been loose- iy, and apparently malicious'y. con-1 nected with a grave scsrdaL but the other per. 3ns accused-were each and ail closely related to him by domestic or political bonds. ' Under the influ- ence of righteous wrath he has fane- ied a crime against himself to eon- titute an outrage upon the govern ment and he has ordered his com plaisant Attorney-General to "find a way or make one" of wreaking exem plary punishment on. the guilty par ties. He has treated the case as one it treason against the United States instead of as one of reckless imputa tion against bis personal character and that of his Intimate, friends. Under the law his person borrows no sanctity bom the pace he holds. He has the ame. claim and no more to the pro tection oi ue law that every other honert man in the country enjoys; and ne is as much bound as any other cit izen to seek that protection in accor- dance with the forma of the law. He U the servant of the law, not its mas- ter; and it Is just there that the Pres I- dent so often challenges hostile criti- cism. .He has yet to learn that the gulf Is broad and deep between his prerogative as an official and ' his I entitlements as a man. Perhaps the I sensational day at the capltol. Read lesson will be Impressed on him before I m his remarks from manuscript, the aa m wrougn wiin ue present attempt I 'euawr wiin aeuoeratlon and calm--o create a system of JurisDrndenca to I ness so unusual for him. rifmnmui ausry ma desire to punish his assail-1 -nu. certainly n were better that a I rong go unredressed than that Hie-1 gal methods of correcting them should I be sanctioned by the Judiciary. A STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION. We are glad to aee that our rep resentative, Mr. Currie has Introduc ed a bill in the House for the creation of a-"State Highway Commission.' Of this the Winston Journal says: The North Carolina rood roads as sociation : will urge the . general assembly to establish a state high- way commission. The commission I shall consist of the state geologist, I the commissioner of gricuuure, I professor of civil engineerine in the university of worth Carolina, profes ror of civil engineering in the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and one member of the geologies! survey board. The highway commission shall ap-1 assistants whose duties shall be to I make surveys and aid the varfous I counties in every way possible. The j wvauuiouh u,u BUKJUCHT 4I1C1 1 r-orpows oi ue commi'Jion are brief-1 '" - uiumucuua or ine i i me capiioi ana Senator Tillman nreentel to legislature: at least has the satisfaction of know - Believing that - public roads arc-1 Ine that ha th m. j dustrial development of. North Carple were turned away unable evento 1. -T, ucucuuem upon me con- structlon of good roads throughout th state, and that they are the common property or an people of the State I the North Carolina flood Rmuit Association, the Greensboro Good Roads Congress, and the North Caro lina geological and economic survey have adopted resolutions recommend ing legislation relating -to the estab lishment of a state hisliwav commit ion ana oi state aid to counties In the construction of good roads. It Is believed by these organizations that 2!? ff the construction of good I roads in North Carolln .than nvH suggested. , , , l Mb i STILL BLIND. The Commoner.) - ine Atchison Globe, In a recent Is sue, coniwnea ue following: "Of course you rememDer when Mr nrf. an boosted for the free and unlimited coinage oi tree silver and made a good race on that Issue. Very likely you were among those who boosted and voted for the same thing. But the Idea did not take very well In thi. country, and Is less popular today uju iv nam erer Been. Ana this rule seems to apply tne world over.' Tha anltm- kt ih mK. i. ' subjects; intelligent man. If he TnJ !S? rg4 can be guilty of such mlsundersian ItttT "d. J!.-rMry mg or Ue subject, it ia not nr. that republicans who are less stunl. should be blind to the facts, JTtKS 22f? ' not the United States alone, but tte world-had been disturbed by the an- preclatloa of gold.. This nmioi- I - i " -"v nuim' of ,old-i9rgeiy . Uw madi Vprepj llou had brought a world wide fall In prices. Three International con' forences were attended by representa tives of all the leading nations. Still the exploitation went on and the mas ses suffered while the owners of money and of fixed investments proflt I ed. John Q. Carlisle pointed out the Injustice; John Sherman admitted It. aud James Q. Blaine declaimed against It. It was a burning Issue for years. The romedy proposed was the restor ation of silver that being regarded as the most practical means of increas ing the volume of money. Sometimes the senate was for free coinage and sometimes the house. The house once passed a free coinage bill, Mr. McKlnloy, then a member, voting for It In 1S88 the republican party de nounced Mr. Cleveland for discrlmin ation against silver, and elected its president; in 1892 both parties de clared for bimetallism and Mr. Cleve land won. In 1893 Mr. Cleveland call- I ed a spocial session of congress and I wrcea inrouga the repeal of the pur- chase clause of the Bherman law, be lnS supported by a larger percentage lot the republican senators and mem- I Den tnan or the democrats. This made the issue acute and the Question I taken up in the democratic, narty. and the democratic convention of 1896 aeciarea lor tne free and unlimited coinage of gold and stiver at the pres- tent ratio or sixteen to one, without waiting for the aid or consent of any otner nation. The republican party did not dare to advocate the gold standard; It only asieo lor the retention of the gold standard Until the other nations would help restore bimetallism and pledged itseu is wort for an international agreement.. The republicans won it I not necessary to discuss the means I employed or the fact that there was I an enormus and still unexplained in ereaase in the vote that year. The first thing that President McKlnley uia was to send a commission to Eu rope to get rid of the gold standard. England opposed doing anything, al though less than a year before parlia ment bad adopted a resolution look ing to the restoration of bimetallism. I Then, and not until then, thq republi I can leaders openly declared the gold I standard as fixed. I Since 1896 we have seen an increase in the production of gold unparalleled in history. This increase has not only checked the fall of prices and 'he appreciation of the dollar, hut it has actually led to a world-wide rise tin prices a world-wide fall in the pur- cnasing power of the dollar. These new discoveries of gold have brought the very thing that democrats were laboring for, namely, an increase iu the volume of money. The Increase has come from an unexpected source, but the Increase has vindicated the oemocrauc position, and yet even nen like the. editor of the Globe will 4 rite as If the democratic contention had been an unsound or foolish one. The democratic party was right; It took the side of the neoDle against the privileges enjoyed by a few. But for the unexDected discoveries nf mM I -the Drosneritv that we ham enwH during the " past decade would have been impossible. If the conditions of 1896 could be restored today; if one- third of the money of the country could be annihilated, we would return to the same kind of a business de pression that we had then, except that it would be more acute because the change would be sudden. Let no democrat be ashamed of the fight made in 1896. It was a fight that saved the democratic party frcm becoming the representative nf th privileged classes. ' - ROOSEVELT'S ASSAULT ON TILL- man: : ' ' The Commoner. " . Senator Tillman replied to the pres- iuent January 11. He declared that h an not been guilty of a bribe, that he had not sought to deceive any one, had broken no laws and is not guilty f immoral conduct The Washlng- ton . correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal says: "The South Carolina senator was the principal in me president for his letter to Senator tia'e, told of the 'elass house- in which the president resides bv munn ' his continued lawless acts, reciting especially the steel trust ahanmtinn of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany, ana reierring to the manner in which Mrs. Minor Morris nt cWi from the White House. In 'addition to this Senator Tillman made the di rect charge that papers of importance to ine penamg controversy had hn stolen from his desk 'probably by some of the secret service sleutha.' He explained the seeming contradic tion hi the speech he made In tha un. ate last February in which he had 'undertaken' to buy no western lanri and his letter spectors of four days earlier bv sav- b uiai everyuing hinged on his use ' " wurs uuaercaKen Ha plained that he meant to convey the idea that he had contrarteit for nn iaou ana had made no preliminary payment on it He admitted the auth enticity oi the letters quoted by the president; he admitted that he soueht grant lands but he stated that when he became satisfied of what he "believed the doubtful nature of the nrODosltion W HI BUU1B OI I IIP Till Itai-V rn. A 1.J he dropped it- The day was a ntlst isev uiaiae me nuildlng. Nearly everr I member wu in. hi. ..., - bers of the house stood behind tho UKS"- oenaior Tillman was on hand early and with the manuscript of hia peecft Bt J1 desk on the centre THEY ALL DEMAND IT. Fiyettevflle, Like Every City and vwii in ine union, , . Receives It, of an aching back, relief U eaeerfv fn ..J . " :Mgrljr Hare la eirldnnoa t yurv t-iiai uva Kidney Pills cure, and the cure Is last ing. ' ' i. F. SDence. Cottrm um m.t.i. Laurlnburg, N. C, says: "For two years I suffered from kidney and blad der trouble. The kidney secretions were frequent and during an Intense, burning sensation caused srrai misery, ny oack would of ten become so lame and sore that I would be obliged to stop work and were was also a ennatant Inln. ... i. "'." " me lrom resting well. I used several remeniaa hut as I stopped taking them, the trouble remrnea. 1 recent V learned hf yUBU wey rills and Dro(rarel LT'. " " '"y conamon. I J'J" Paln "d have .aJr. - "Ber- Detter an for r dealers. Prloa rn NetVk 3. ,T, IV B,"r,l' B!T ' eDl' tot tB Unlted .. tokT n 'ZuT aisle of the senate chamber. He lust no time In beglunlng the show, for as soon as the chaplain had finished his prayer; Mr. Tillman was on his feet and began his speech. Before the seuntor had spoken long the people lu the galleries began to show their dlsappointmout. He did not show the fire or snap of his usual speeches de livered on the spur of the moment. For one hour tq the minute, Senator Tillman continued the reading of hU speech and upon its conclusion a num ber of the democratic, senators came over to congratulate him. Commenting on the assault made by Mr. Roosevelt upon Senator Till man, the Richmond (va.) Times-Dis patch says: "For a United States senator, in his official capacity, to urge the invalidation of certain land grants, expecting himself to acquire a portion of the land thus released, Is doubtless Indiscreet and unwise. But If these lund grants were legal they could not have been invalidated,! and Sen ator Tillman could not have benefited by any suit It, on the other hand, the grants were Illegal, they should have been Invalidated In the public in terest, and the fact that the senator expected to buy a small fraction of the lands released does not turn an essentially moral act Into an essential ly Immoral one. As for the senator's statement that he had not 'undertak en' to buy any -lands, made of his own volition on the floor of the sen ate, the intent in his own mind alone can determine if that was false. It is In no sense a splitting of hairs to point out that the commonest mean ing of 'undertake,' as the dictionary gives It, is to 'take formally or express ly on one's self,' 'to pledge one's self to;' and that in this use of the word the senator spoke the precise and ac curate truth. Senator Tillman's de tractors will have to explain why, if he was conscious of being in a die- honest business, he should have In vited the attention of the senate and the country to that business . and should have himself recommended the investigation of the 'inspectors.' Dis honest men do not usually court the light in this way. But even those who are inclined to criticise the senator most sternly will hardly deny that his general sense of propriety throughout this transaction compares very favor ably with that of the president of the united States. On the same subject the Times-Dispatch says: "The simple fact emer ges from the present episode that the president having used the resources of the government to possess the pri vate letters of his personal enemy, has, without any justification, given me widest publicity to these letters. No suit Is threatened, as obviously no law has been broken. No longer ago than last week the president himself Informed congress: "If I had proof of such corruption affecting any member of the house In any matter as to which the federal government ' has jurisdiction, action -would be at once brought.- He had, then, no actionable 'proof against Senator Tillman. And he added that he did not conceive It to be his duty to report to the house alleged delinquencies' or 'the suppos-1 ed corrupt action of a member.' Pre sumably this latter -theory, also, ap plies equally to the senate. Yet four days' later we find 'alleged dellnouen cies' and 'supposed corrupt action' made the basis of what Is virtually a message to the senate. There was no shadow of excuse for such a message. The senate asked for an account of the activities of the secret service. The men that sleuthed Tillman were postoffice Inspectors. The - Tillman case, in .fact, had noting whatever to do with the senate inquiry, as It had nothing whatever to do with any pro posed action. It is hard to escape the conclusion that the president largely clutched at a pretext to publish matter whose publication could serve no oth-1 er possioie purpose than to hurt a man whom 'he was very anxious to hurt. His official position gives him a tremendous power in carrying out a plan of that sort, but otherwise there i i no reason why such conduct on the part of a president should be- judged b? standards in anywise different from those obtaining among honorable pri vate cltlxens." AN UNEXAMPLED PERFORMANCE I The Commoner. ' The Commoner assumes ( no risk when it declares that the nresldnnt nas coniessea himself guilty of an un exampled performance In his letter to ue senate In reply to the Culberson resolution. " In one of his letters to sir. Bryan durinw the eamnaiam Mr Koosevoit admitted that the steel trust had secured his consent before .nnnu i , . . - i which the president sent the attorney general embodying thi. consent .3 lurm as one oi the strangest public I document to be found in the nation's archives. Here is a president of the United States in conference with t th I manaeera of ana nf tha trusts. They represented to him that I w. .. . De enr?rcea "Knst the they did not care to gobble un thetrK66' ""for to Interpret the law in rival hnt iIZ. J?l D"p.i?! advance as it applied to the .ti rival, but that they were so anxious to protect the business situation that they were-constrained to do thia if me president would permit The pres ident, accepting their renrntAtlnn uu euuuniiDg mem, notions .the at torney general that he does not feel It hfa "niihlln Aittm, tt t i . ... . object" tSu letter . ,Ssh auK. f f ed that the reader may carefuiiv . ?"'re .,nt0. w! faction. The greater ed that the reader may carefully ex- amine ue lahguage: . " Washington. D. d NoramW. L my uear Aitornav nsnm. Judge E. a Gary and Mr. H. C. Prick, on behalf of the steel corporation have just called upon me. " They state mai uere is a certain business firm (the name of which I hava nnt w. told, but which is of real importance in h vi. V yr'r? I - . will undoubtedly fall this week -U heinT Is not rive L . I2S5 " h-el? " xuia uuinffsn nirniAAl whinh I majority of the securities of the Ten- niiTT k "po iron Company. Ap- tha ;t ' tu I -"-" vuiyumuua u purchase this I stock as the only means of avoiding - vuugv uary ana Mr. Frick nformed me that as a mere business transaction thev An not chase the stock, that under ordinary u,Bj wouio -not con sider purchasing tha tk- h.. n..,- benefit will come to tha ttaai . 7ZJ1 'r.um."le Purcha, that they are u a h. 41 . v":"se win De used 7Sa X .1 ""-v1 oa mem on the Sears' L?e? r Ddeavorlng to iirnx. i a ' i neen w decline to acquire more than and a. a mae7Sf f SeaL sixtv 11 1 that It is immensely to their interest panic and general ind'. rial" .'VLl. " at this time and that they ar Twl i ng d ess Dr rrT b?5" t0mn-' Ad" to ia into tbli tn.MtioD' whicj Z'l StoUoi f i 8 0W' Boston Masi would not otherwlue go Into because It seems the opinion of those bust fit ted to express judgment In New York that It wll be an Important factor in preventing a break that might be ruin ous and that had been urged upon thorn hj the combination of the lnuut responsible bankers of New York who re uow thus engaged In endeavoring to save the situation, but they assert ed they did not wish to do this it I stated that it ought not to bedone. I answered that while, of course, I i could not advise them to take the action proposed, I felt It no public duty of mine to interpose an objec tion. s "Sincerely yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, "Attorney General." The president is informed that "a certain business firm" (the name Is withheld from the president- will fall within a week It help ia not given. This business firm (unnamed) holds a majority of the securities of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. Application has been "urgently made" to the steel trust to purchase this controlling Interest in the rival com pany "as the only means of avoiding a failure." : The steel trust magnates assure the president that "as a mere 11 business transaction' 'they did not care to pur chase the stock, that under ordinary circumstances thoy. would not con sider the purchase (perish ' the thoughtl) and that little benefit would, come to the steel' trust from the purchase. They explain to him that the purchase would be made an excuse for attacking them on the ground that they were endeavoring to secure a monopoly and to prevent competition; of course this could not be honestly said, they affirm, but It might be "recklessly and untruthful ly said." They tell the president that It has been their policy not to acquire more than sixty per cent of the steel properties (the reader will remember bow shocked the republican leaders were at the democratic olan of lim iting; a corporation to fifty per cent). tney were a little below sixty . per cent just men, however. Mi were willing to raise their proportion a lit tle because they felt it ."Immensely to their interest" to try and prevent a . panic and a general industrial smashup. They had been advised by "those best fitted to express judg ment in new York (names not given) that the purchase of the rival would be an Important factor In preventing a break, etc., and that the purchase had been urged upon them "by the combination of the most responsible bankers of New York."' The presi dent believed them and the president gave them assurance that they would not be disturbed. What precedent has the president for advising in ad vance In regard to combinations, and thus tying himself up? The president made no investigation, so far as bis letter shows, he simply took the word of . two trust magnates as to what would be the result of the combine: he took their word as to their own intentions and as to pressure brought to bear upon them by unnamed per sons, and substantially agreed that would not be disturbed. He has a bureau for the investigation of cor porations, there Is no letter from It; he has an attorney general whose business it is to report upon the law, but . instead - of asKing advice from the attorney general, he told him what to do. . The attorney general after wards advised him orally that insuf ficient ground existed for legal pro ceedings. We have few trusts so large that they can, if necessary, threaten a panic they can even bring a panic and if by threatening a nan- 10 tney ean prevent an enforcement of the law and coerce a president Into acquiescence In their efforts ..to fur ther control the business In which they are engaged, what remains to complete the subserviency of the gov- ernment to. corporate influence? Bnator Culberson deserves . credit for his part in nroducln this letter. It will stand upon the record aa an evidence of the Influence which the great monopolist combines are able to exert. If they can scare a president, holding his commission from eiehtv minions oi people, is it not time for leg islation that will put a limit, to the greed of monopolies. The message which the president sent alter this letter is Important, be cause it sets forth his views of the executive office. He denies the right oi tne legislature to inquire why the ia was not : enforced.-' He asserts In substance that the- responsibility tor ue eniorcement of the law rests upon the executive, and that no In quiry can properly be made as to bin reasons for not enforcing the law, if ior any reason ne decides to consider the law a dead letter. In his tnesbaee ui vunicress on me secret nprviA ho I . . I Hf free ? 80688 at 016 reM0M which ilTSS1 .1, 7$ . thmtZi Kl . '"u",u Pecedent, the senators may feel !f UTS" Whlcl1 iei Promise In advance that the law wuld not be enforced aealnst the trust- The executive is charms wit ti, eniorcement OI tne lv. an1 imnnu. has, under the constitution, the powar of Impeachment if the president falls to discharge his duties. Certainly a body which has the- power to remove iiI. I , ,nactlon-. The greater includes the less, and it would be a strange interpretation of constitutional law if a body which could executive could not make inquiry into Mr. Hughes In New York. Rev.- I. W. Huehes. reator nf St nhn'a 1. . .. . Vuurcu' .ndlng week -or two in New Tork dtv. an. deavoring to raise a fund for rebuild' ,n Episcopal church "at Red I r4""'" - Cured Sweeney and Removed a Spavin Dr. Bloan's Liniment and Veterin- "r' sememes are well known all ' ""e country. They have savod the lives of many valuable horses and uagu iuui Liii lrnnnr in ai t nm.. mule. This sDavin w.: 7 T pmnMAnp PATRONAGE OF naa a mare with an abcess on hr mill ...iiii1-. aT f0r gMa an4 " OB w" Mn his Treatise on STEDMAN ITEMS. Mrs. John R. Fussel and daughter are stopping with Mrs. L. A. Strick land for awhile. . Miss Royal, of Salomburg, visited -Miss Minnie Bryant Saturday and Sunday. MIbs Maria Sessonu went up to Jonesboro Saturday, with her mother and Alice T. and returned home Sun day afternoon. Her mother and Alice will remain some time with Mis. Joy ner and family. , ' ' " " Miss Cornle Maxwell has returned borne from a visit-to Fayettevllle. . Misses Carrie Sutton and Rena Ged die went up to Mr. Joe Giddle's Sat urday. Miss Rena Geddle remains over to visit there and In Fayeticyllto this week. t Mr. Monroe, of Greensboro, made a short visit here several days ago. Mr. J. K. Bessoms made : a . brief visit here last week. : Miss Blanche Sessoms who has been at St. Luke's Hospital for. treatment Is reported to be doing vejy well. ' ; ? .; Mrs J.R. Besoms will visit Mrs. O. W. Starling this week at Klttrell, near Raleigh, and also at Fuquay. Miss Lula Bessoms will come home this week to spend some time. ; Services were held at Coketburg last Sunday by the Preacher, N. M. McDonald and there will also be ser vices pgalo next Sunday. WADE G083IP. News is rather scarce in this sec tion at preteut. ' Everybody teems to be enjoying the beautlfuL spring days. Miss Elizabeth McCoy, left on' the evening train Friday p. m. to soend a short time in Fayettevllle. Mrs. H. R, McPhall visited at the home of Mr. J. R. Bowden last.Wed nesday. - - s - ;', .; ' Miss Nellie Maxwell spent the day with her siBter, Mrs, H. F. Bain, last CSSQSQSgQaSQaSOZSQSSQSSQSSO' II 1 o 131 o HOGLiESS o i.i o o III Q ( By every test the very best! Why? Because it's refined by our own exclusive .Wesson' process, ensuring the vwhole- r's6meness;; 'of Nature11 with -the "purity of " science, the' satisfactory combination of Nature and art in manufacture. No other copking-fat . is anywhere near so- good,' because none other can contain the best of Nature purified by the Wesson process. All other cooking-fats must be jnferiorv- 'l o III o III o III o II o TP THF - on mTRfi:j.rr.TTA:i.vu m 'W .- uu wrvwxiwxctit o i . SCHOOL School DooKs,. -Slate., . '''HJ UVVMi KC2 JKtn. L Price list of books furnisn'ed upon-application,' - ubstantifll B0K COVER given away with end The New Book Store Company, .Opposite Post Office. Fayettcville, N. C- ' - " His Hands FOURTH IJATIOHAL BAITS CAPITAL 1100,000.00. The Cumbarlantl Cafe. ' - LUNCHES SERVED AT ALL HOURS DURING THE DAY, ' FRESH NORFOLK OYSTERS . - RECEIVED DAILY. LADIES ESPECIALLY SOLICITED. The f.ICiiGili Bakery Company hi Green Strce. Suturday. MIhs Avle May Lovkk was in our town shopping last Monday afternoon Mr.. Curtis Qeddle was a most wl! come visitor In this seotlon laut Bui. day afternoon.. Also Mr. William Sessoms and Mr. Btocle Geddle. Miss Sudle B. Maxwell Is expecting to visit her uncle at" Raeford In the near future. We are sorry to state that Mr, Willi, Maxwell ha gone to Spout Sprlngi and he will be badly missed by his many friends at Wade. GOV. GLENN'S FUTURE. Webster's Weekly. . "Ex-Governor Glenn, without taklni a vacation, has entered actively upon a lecture engagement which will em ploy his time very largely for tot coming two years. He also has an engagement to lecture in the Interest of the layman's movement in the Southern Presbyterian Church, to which he will devote the coming six months. . His enery and . endurance are' simply : marvelous. The wondar Is ihat he has not burned himself out before this, taking Into account the vast amount of nervous energy-ex-' pended In bis strenuous campaigns. "Gov. Glenn's lectures will embrace the following subjects: 1. 'The South; Its ..Problems and Prograss." s ' . J.. "The Race "Problem, Viewed from a Southern Man's Standpoint." 8. "Sowing and Reaping," showing a nation's dangers and the remedies for thorn. ; , . - . His religious subjects are: , 1. "Is the Young Man Safe." ' 2. "The South's Need of Strong Christian Young Men." 1 , 'While Gov. Glenn announces that he will never seek office again, he will And' it hard to keep his resolution, ; Rev. Colin Hughes, of Chocowlnlty, arrived In the city yesterday on s rislt - . ST VUi U5i AJi r BOOKS ! . Crayons. - Tablet. , each book purchased. Are Tied for the lack of a little needed money. A man often misses "excellent oppor tunities In laoklng the needed fundi to secure , them with. If you sav some of your salary and let it accum late you will, have a working capital to assist you to grasp present offe lugs. ' - WE PAY 4 PER CENT. ..INTEREST COMPOUNDED ;,' QUARTERLY ON " ' SAVINGS DEP08IT8. " ' SURPLUS 0,000.1'0. THE Propr'.
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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