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THBOlL.v PRRB PA' 8S tttt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt Champ Letter i ' . fSpeclal Washington Letter. TTIIOSB Republican organ grind I era wbo ars yelling "Down 1 I with the ? trusts!" hoping : thereby to deceit the nnwary TOter. but who at . the asms time are so much afraid of what Gov ernor Steele of Indiana denominate 'tariff tinkering" that they are op posed to Cuban reciprocity, would do well to aeriously ponder tbla editorial paragraph from the Washington Post: The Republican party will do nothing ' practical on the trust question as lone as It Is afraid to revise the tariff. To understand thoroughly the force ot that aentence It Is only necessary to recall what the Post la. It la an ex ceedingly brilliant paper. It la doubt ful If any paper In America la more ably edited. It i Independent It la goldbugglau and also a high protective shooter. It was a great admirer ana tench supporter of President Mc Klnley and all his works; but the Post, with the. skill of a great physician makes a correct diagnosis of the trust disease, recognizing Its origin and sug gcstlng the remedy "tariff revision." Everybody with two ideas above mud turtle knows that Mr. Havemeyer, president of the sugar trust, told the : truth when he said, "The high protec tlve tariff la the mother of trusts." The Post wants the Republicans to revise - the tariff, because It knows that unless itba Republicans do It the Democrats .will. Of course each hidebound Re publican organs as the Globe-Democrat will kick like steers fit the Post's sug gestion, but the fact remains that the Independent press of the country, which the Post represents, and the In ; dependent voters of the land, for which it speaks, hold the balance of power at the elections. While the foregoing paragraph front the Post Is a mild bint . to the powers that be, It serves to show Which way the wind la blowing. . Anothss Straw, Hon, Chester I. Long mournfully and : prophetically remarks, "If the Repub- llcaa party confesses that reciprocity Is too great a problem for It to solve, It will matter little who is the candl -date In 1004.", And Chester's head Is leveL Who la he? What is his evi dence worth r lie represents the big Seventh Kansas district, made famous toy Jerry Simpson. He Is a candidate for re-election to the house and for election t succeed Hon. William A. Harris In the senate of the United States. He Is a Republican member of the committee on 'ways and means, tad he Is in favor of Cuban reciprocity : and other bits of reciprocity, deeming it necessary to Republican success. fWhat Is reciprocity? Free trade in pots. "Charge, Chester, Charger OalL - For undiluted, concentrated gall commend us to Senator J. Ralph, Bur ton of Kansas. Certainly if there were a world's fair for gall held anywhere beneath the vaulted skies Burton .would walk away with the blue rib bon In fact, with all the ribbons. lie would . have no competitor. In a speech before the Republican state con vention of Missouri the senator said: tt tt tt tt tt tt Clarlisl Why Urn People Missouri Will Not Put tie Republican La Pow. r A Pair f Able Young Cos-grsismei tt STJ tt tt tt 1 There 1 no capital so valuable in poll tics aa Integrity of purpose, and I would ' Imprest upon the people o( Missouri that :' it la to the advantage of then) all. Demo crats' and Republicans alike, that their : state ebould be Republican. Missouri has . the finest kind ot climate, the greatest amount or raw material, the richest land . and the greatest natural advantages ot any state. It Is a great producing state. Production Is wealth. It Is better and safer than trade. "There is no capital so valuable in i politics as Integrity of purpose." Very true, senator, very true, but even with your gall you will hardly have the face to claim that you have a patent on that opinion or that you originated it The value ot that dictum Ilea in the appli cation. How do you apply ltt By say lag, 'T would impress upon the people of Missouri that it is to the advantage of them ail. Democrats and Repub licans alike, that their state abould be Republican." Indeed! That la a queer ton sequltur. Missouri waa Republican for eight years L e by-frauds un eqnaled in the history of the human race and by wholesale and brutal dis franchisement the Republicans held the offices in Missouri for eight years, and the outlandish manner in which they abused their power and plundered - the people during those eight years is the very reason the state will never go Republican again. The debt piled up - on the state like Pellon upon Ossa by the Republicans during their brief orgy of crime is not quite paid off yet after thirty-two years. During their mis-: rule, no matter how people voted or by how large a majority Democratic can- , dldates were elected, Republicans were counted in. Drake and his gang would not permit Prank P. Blair to vote, .though he created the Republican par ty in Missouri, fought four years as a Union soldier, commanded a corps in Sherman's march to the sea and was pronounced by General Grant to be one of the best two volunteer officers in the army. They swindled General ' James Shields the brave old Irish he ro, a major general in both the Mexican ' and civil wars out of a seat In con gress, giving it to some obscure Re publican whose name I am baify to i say I have forrotten. Shields was shot through tie lnns with a grapeshot In ' I'exlco and fou;;Lt Stonewall Jackson i t th r-J r .:i la the valley of Vir ; ' ' u ITevfrtlu'Its be was robbed of : a j c . - s ty the most heart less set of political freebooters that ever cursed any state la the Union. When the Democrats came Into their own again, they promptly sent Shields, then an old man and broken in health, to the senate of the United States, thereby enabling him to boast that he was the only man In American history ever elected to the senate of the United States, by three 'different states, the three being Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri. ";v ' : ' It would be for the advantage of them all. Democrats and Republicans alike, that their state abould be Re publican." "What fools we mortals be." Missouri Is Democratic, Kansas Republican. During the decade from 1800 to 1900 Kansas barely held ber own in population, while Missouri gained enough in population to entitle ber to an additional congressman, who, thank heaven, will be a1 Democrat While grand old Missouri under Dem ocratic auspices Is rapidly advancing to the first place in the rare and radi ant sisterhood of states comes Senator Burton and advises her to become Re publican, which is the same thing as advising ber to stand stock still while the procession sweeps by. Will she follow bis evil advice? Well, hardly not till people have lost their memory. At one point in bis speech a strange thing happened. The Globe-Democrat says: . A cup' of water waa handed to the speaker; but, with the tragic air of a Kentucklan when offered water to drink, he spurned it, saying bis machine was run by wind, not by water, and his state uses oniy wina ana not water. . Yea, verily; Burton's machine Is run by wind. He did right to say so. An open confession is good for the soul. It remained for Senator Burton to claim that the appropriation made by congress for the St. Louis world's fair was made for political effect by a Re publican congress to Induce Missouri to go Republican at least that ia what the Globe-Democrat reports him as say ing. If he said anything of the sort, be stated what was absolutely false. If the Republicans in congress voted to give $0,000,000 of the public money in order to induce Missouri to go Repub lican, they were badly hoodwinked by somebody and will be sorely disap pointed when the election returns ceme in. Perhaps tbey will repeal the bill making the appropriation for the world's, fair! That is evidently what Burton would advise. ' Perhaps there has been at some time, somewhere, viler statement made by some nonde script and irresponsible Republican pol itician, but Senator Burton of , Kan sas Is certainly the first person holding so high a position to Intimate that the congress of the United States would pass such an ' Important law as the world's fair bill for the purpose of in ducing a state to quit one political party and join another. What other Republicans in congress will think of Burton's bad break remains to be seen. - I colossal fortune that has spread libraries ejk f ail over these United State and baa made its owner almost despair that In spite of bis utmoet endeavors be will yet be dis graced by dying rich and which has final ly culminated in the most stupendous in dustrial combination ever Known to i the United States Steel corporation. But when I looked out of the car win flow on a dreary November morning and caught my first gllmpee of Pennsylvania eou and saw iter bleak and barren bllla, her rocky rail eye, ber stonr farms and ber rivers red from the wash of ber clay and sand, I said to myseli no wonder my father left tbla cheerless region aa eoon aa be was able to travel alone and sought the fruitful and fertile sou of Illinois, and the thought came to me that If I were te bring a steer from the green past urea of beautiful Nebraska and turn him out to fatten noon these 'mountains I would 'never dare to look a steer la the face again. But that was only my provincial lam asserting itaeir. I had judged the emiananrwmra super- FOR BETTER ROADS. Hew asseetatlo Frae4 tmptmru Aaaerlcata' Iligbwaye. Wilii'-' Ever since the automobile became a fashionable fad the forecast has often been made that the sentiment for good roads would st last be given a winning headway in all parts of the country, says the Washington Star. It was felt that some such force was necessary to conrince state legislatures of the ne cessity of passing effective) good roads laws and that the influences behind the anto mobile industry and use would forward, the campaign for. such ends. But for some reason the movement has lagged until now, Recently there was organized in New A Rising Kentucklan. ' The Hon. James M. Kehoe of the Ninth i Kentucky district has been unanimously renominated, an honor worthily bestowed. Kehoe is one of the brightest young men in the house, an Indefatigable worker, a most ex cellent public apeaker and a Democrat without guile. Keboe redeemed the district In 1900, which for several terms had been misrepresented by a Republican. In fact, the ' Republicans have elected more representatives from that district since the; war than tba Democrats. K vvsv v.iy- ';; - Kehoe carried It by the skin of his teeth In 1900. He ought to be re-elect ed by a large majority, for a more faithful representative never sat In the house -In Washington. He looks after tbe Interests of his constituents, Demo crats and Republicans too. He attends faithfully to his duties In the house itself and looks after the wants of bis constituents In the departments. A Brilliant Young Nebraakan. One of tbe most promising young men in tbe bouse of representatives is tbe Hon. A. C. Sballenberger. In addi tion to being a very able man, be Is a very handsome man, in the flower, of his years. His style of delivery and tbe modulation of his voice remind one somewhat of the Hon. William J. Bryan. Sballenberger has a great career before him If be stays in con gress long enough. There never was a more systematic or successful fight made in the congress of the United States than that made by tbe advo cates of the great Irrigation scheme, and no one among the advocates of that great enterprise conducted him self to better advantage than did Sbal lenberger. He bad evidently studied the subject from every conceivable standpoint and took tbe house by storm. In discussing tbe proposition that irri gating the west would be detrimental to tbe eastern farmers, be. delivered himself of tbe following passage, which la well worth reading for many rea sons: ,o ; Vr Let me Illustrate: I remember that when started eastward for thla capital I wait ed with great interest the hour when I should enter the historical conflnea ot the great atate of Pennsylvania, because my ' people had settled there amid ber moun tains almost loO years atro, and I had often heard my father tell of the riches nd glories of that grand old common wealth. I had been told by a gentleman in whom 1 had great confidence that in the southwest corner of that state were centralized more productive capacity and material wealth than in any ether Bpot on earth, that there was built up that , jlr'l 'flu AMrwfA TtnaA TTam i . w , r J Dn of -"America" under the initiative of some of the foremost automobillsts of the metropolis. . The association is composite of all the Interests concerned in the betterment of the American highways," the ' automobolists. the cy clists, the road drivers and tbe truck owners. This combination insures an active campaign not only for better highways In tbe country, but for "good city pavements. The association Is pledged to secure both and to work for the satisfactory regulation of traffic, the erection of street signs and road guldeposts, the proper lighting of streets and high ways, the prohibition: of the obstruc tion of tbe highways with destructive materials or their flooding with water and particularly the strict enforcement of all speed ordinances. The League of American Wheelmen did wonderful work In overcoming the inertia of the rural districts and In stimulating the state legislatures in the good roads movement But It had a long, hard tight ana aia not accom plish all that was to be. done. The country Is so vast the habit of permit tins the roads to remain In semldisre pair Is so fixed, the cost of scientific road making on the great American scale is so enormous,' that the wheel men found themselves only the leaven in the great lump. Their influence, however, was excellent and produced results which have been effectively supplemented by the government's work and by the few associations of automobolists near the large cities. The association1 of the Interests de scribed will permit a great member ship, covering -many states, and good results should soon flow from the or ganization. on tbe leve stretches of Illinois and rear ed on the great plains at tbe foothllla of the Becky mountains, nd when the train soon dashed Into the limits of that great center ot titanlo industries and commer cial activity the city of Pittsburg and then out and acroes the bills and down those bistorio valleys and rushing rivers where great manufacturing cities are strung one after another along ber rail roads like beads upon a string, I began to understand what it was that made all these seeming wortblees and barren lands so valuable and how completely dependent upon these centers of Industry the rest of the people of that great commonwealth are and to know why she is indeed and in truth the Keystone State, second in pop ulation and wealth among, all the states of the Union, and when I think that these distinguished gentlemen who ' represent Pennsylvania upon this floor would tell us that all this Industrial activity, this world of wealth, this great hqme market has been made possible because a kindly government has given a fostering care to her manufacturing industries and know that her products find their chief outlet not to the east, but to the south and west, the thought comes to me that it ill beseemeth a Pennsylvania representative to protest against legislative encourage ment to .western enterprise and develop ment And, Mr. Chairman, what the manufac turing cities along the water courses of Pennsylvania and the east are to that country so will the irrigated valleys and plateaus be to the mountain and plain re s-Ions of the great west ana southwest. They will be the centers of commercial activity and development, both In mate rial wealth and In higher civilization, i which will ultimately make for the ad vancement of that great region and the whole nation as well. : I wish I had room-for all of his speech, which Is a good one "from A to Izzard," but I have only space for bis peroration, which is as follows and contains a great amount of truth: Mr. Chairman, this question is greater than the Philippine question, greater than the Cuban question, greater than the iBth mian canal question, because of ita great benefits and the magnificent opportunities that shall flow from It It means the best markets and the beat homes for the best nation on earth, and all the happiness and the prosperity which shall follow in Its train shall be the common heritage of the American people, and nothing can take it from them. - . ? .- This legislation appeals to mo especial ly because It -is in the interest of our great agricultural population a class of people who receive little enough consul eratlon from the American congress. No matter how much we may boast of our manufacturing and mining wealth, the growth ot our cities and our -financial greatness, yet, in the finality, tbe farmer is tne zounaauon 01 us au. Like Atlas of old. be bean the very business) fabric ot the nation upon-bis back, and. though at times bowed down by weight of woe because of panics or disasters which others bring upon the country, yet after the storms have rolled by If we will but let the farmer get bis broad shoulders underneath our commer cial structure once more - and give him but a moiety of profit In his business, a little of the legislative Justice to whicb be is entitled, he will stand again erect, ana in bis rising be will lift us all. DO YOU AT R BOOF THAT J DON'T WEAK? i TJooro & Parrott f , . , pots them on. DO YOU WANT VBN1X- J LATORS ? ' . - , :. ;.v. ''"."'. "j ,. " t . We make them. - Sky light f I too, water works. 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In a glowing eu logy on General Lord Kitchener tha Post has the hardihood to say: Kitchener, who did the real work of tbe war, is the antithesis ot Chamberlain and Mllner. who provoked It In all probabil ity he had no liking for the task assigned him. We can well believe that be detect ed and accordingly loathed the mean and sordid purpose behind the movement. Un doubtedly it grieved and angered him, is it did so many of England's noblest men and women, to see thousands of brave fellows sacrificed to the avarice of a gang of ruthless pirates. That there was con. stant friction between him. on the one band and Chamberlain and Mllner on. the other everybody knew and almost every body could explain. They stood in the way ot peace last year when Kitchener bad secured for England much better terms than It waa finally compelled to accept They added both difficulty and distaste to the performance or tne duty ne bad undertaken, and it Is easy to under stand that be held them in unqualified contempt. ' After reading that scold what will our anglomaniacs do, poor things t - If some unf rilled Democrat said that, every Republican organ grinder In the land would Jump on him and abuse him as a demagogue seeking to dis turb the entente cordlale now existing between England and the United States; but the Washington Fost says It the Foat, which about two-thirds of the time indorses what our pro-British administration does and says. . Director Dodge o the Inpertaee of Good Roads. In a country aa large as that in which we live, with the 'greater part of its producing regions widely sepa rated from tbe markets' which they serve, the matter of transportations la one of vast importance, writes the Hon. Martin Dodge, director of the of fice of public road inquiry, in the Fo rum. 'This applies particularly to our agricultural products; for, while a great portion both of our manufac tured output and of our farm growth must be moved long distances by rail or water before reaching a market, practically all of the latter must also be transported for greater or less ins tances over the public highways, r The Question of marketing these agricul tural products, amounting in the Unit ed States to 11,000,000.000 annually, on terms that tbe dealer can afford to pay and the grower to accept often reduces Itself to a, question of cheap and quick delivery in other words, to a question of economical transportation. It baa been shown by mathematical demonstration ' that It costs more to move a bushel of wheat or a ton of hay ten miles over the average coun try roads of the United States than to transport the same burden 500 miles by. railway or 2,000 miles by steam ship. It has happened many times In different parts of the country that farmers have let crops go to waste be cause the coat of hauling them to tbe nearest market ! or railway shipping point over wretched and ill kept roads amounted to more than could be real ized for them afterward, whereas 4f good roads on which heavy loads could be hauled bad been at hand the same crops could have been marketed at a small profit to the producer, while the economic gain resulting from their ap plication to useful purposes would have been very considerable. lav Case of Doebt Try Betb. Oldbftche-I suppose you find It very annoying when the baby is fretfuL. , . Nupop It's very annoying. You can't tell whether you ought to give him medicine for the colic or a spanking for his crankiness. Philadelphia. Press. It Woeld Cool Them Off. Ilewitt I tell you. It's too hot to go to the theater. Jewett Oh, come along. The play will be a frost anyway. New York Times. .. . Provide For laapectloa mui Repair. Wherever Improved roads are made there should be provision for their maintenance, and maintenance should mean weekly Inspection of them and Immediate repair of every little break, says the New York Tribune, Where roads are built with state aid, under the present excellent law, such inspec tion and repair are matters of Btate as well as of local concern, and It would be well to have some formal under standing or agreement upon It between the state and the local authorities. This Is the more desirable since the extent of state aided roads is rapidly Increas ing and will doubtless in future in crease still more rapidly. It la true, as the state engineer reports, that the roads which have been built give un qualified satisfaction to tha people who use them and in nearly every case lead to a demand for further extension or the system. Ge-ed Reads Meet Be Paid For. The only way we can ever expect to build and have good roads In this state is by contract and by taxation, and we have advocated this course for some time, says the Newberry (N. C.) II era Id. In fact, we feel sure that even those of or.r citizens who are most afraid of taxation and bold up their hands in boly horror at the snctlon of an Increase In taxntlon would c'as I all opposition after using some g n -1 roads and would become the most ar dent rnd enthusiastic advocates c f taxation for rondbuHdh-.j. The Pride of the Eye... is among tbe sifls of the flesh of which we are all -warned, bat the lover of fine China hopes it doesn't mean her, for she does ' . want to indulge a bit in this feast of beauy. 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