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Things Done and Doing Along the Line
SPOTS ON “THE SUN.”
Where It Stood in 1884 and Where It
Stands Now.
(Long Branch Record.)
The New York Sun’s recent violent
attacks upon President Roosevelt’s
railroad policy have led the Sun’s
contemporary, the World, to examine
its neighbor’s files. And a deeply in
teresting discovery has been made.
The World has learned nothing less
than that in 1884 the now ultra-con
servative Sun supported Benjamin F.
Butler for president of the United
States on a platform containing the
following radical planks:
“We denounce as dangerous to our
Republican institutions those methods
and policies of the Democratic and
Republican parties which have sanc
tioned or permitted establishment of
land, railroad, money and other gigan
tic monopolies; and we demand such
governmental action as may be neces
sary to take from such monopolies the
powers they have so corruptly usurp
ed and restore them to the people to
whom they belong.
“We demand congressional regula
tion of interstate commerce; we de
nounce pooling, stock-watering and dis
criminations in rates and charges, and
demand that congress shall correct
these abuses, even if necessary by the
construction of national railroads. We
also demand the establishment of a
government postal-telegraph system.”
The Sun’s inconsistency is a gem.
It is positively cruel of the World
to expose it. Even a paper has feel
ings.
And certainly any paper has the
inalienable right to change its opin
ions—even to completely reverse it
self —in a period of twenty-three
years.
Particularly should allowances be
made for the Sun. It was not owned
by a railway magnate twenty-three
years ago.
CORTELYOU STAKES THEM!
The Dublin Times says: “Cortelyou
knows where the friends of the admin
istration are to be found. He decided
Monday to add $64,000,000 to the $30,-
000,000 Shaw had placed with the New
York banks, making $94,000,000 to re
lieve the depression threatened by the
fight of the bulls and bears last Fri
day. Cortelyou may not be much of a
business man, but he knows where the
sinews of war come from.”
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WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
FREAK LEGISLATION.
The output of freak legislation this
year promises to be unusually abun
dant. The Arkansas legislature is se
riously considering a bill prohibiting
nonresidents of the state from acquir
ing title to real estate within its ju
risdiction. The Texas lawmakers are
debating a bill making it unlawful for
a wage earner to work more than twen
ty-six days in any month, under a
heavy penalty. In Oklahoma a con
stitutional provision has been propos
ed in good faith providing for the
election of United States senators by
the people, and compelling the legis
lature to ratify such election or expel
members voting against it, and anoth
er providing that all persons of good
moral character may be admitted to
practice law without examination, and
allowing persons not lawyers to serve
as county law judges. The licensing
of piano tuners is a pet measure of a
Missouri legislator. In the legislature
of that state a bill has been introduced,
and gravely urged, prohibiting any one
from playing baseball except within
an inclosure surrounded by an eight
foot fence, under a severe penalty.—
Public Ledger.
FIVE EX-ES IN EACH.
The Washington Herald recently
printed a paragraph directing atten
tion to the fact that five of Missouri’s
ex-governors are living and that this
was probably a greater number of liv
ing ex-governors than could be claimed
by any other state, but it has developed
the circumstance that Alabama also
has five former governors still alive.
They are Rufus W. Cobb, elected in
1878 and 1880; Thomas G. Jones, elect
ed in 1890 and 1892; William C. Oates,
elected in 1894; Joseph F. Johnston,
elected in 1896 and 1898, and William
D. Jelks, who succeeded to the office
on the death of William F. Stamford
and was elected to a full term in
1902.
VALUABLE WHISKERS.
Whiskers, though not a marketable
commodity, have reached a quotation
of slOl in Wellston, Ohio, the high
est value known ever to have been
placed on them. The figure was es
tablished by an award in the circuit
court of damages to Samuel Beatty,
76 years old, who possessed a luxuri
ant growth until two years ago. Then
a gasolene explosion destroyed them,
rendering the Southern Ohio Gas Com
pany responsible for loss.
RYAN ON THE RAILROADS.
(Louisville Herald.)
Thomas F. Ryan, of New York and
Virginia, railroad magnate, has laid
down some important points concern
ing the railroad situation. These points
are well worthy of consideration:
The railroads are, says Mr. Ryan,
really owned by the people and not by
Wall street brokers.
They should be taken out of Wall
street and stock quotation tickers
should be taken out of the railroad,
offices.
The railroad offices and the practical
railroad men charged with the re
sponsibility of operating the railroads
should be in absolute control.
They should welcome every opportu
nity to confer with the president, aid
ing him in his efforts to reach a solu
tion that will be fair and just to the
country and to the corporations and
insure strict obedience to the law.
As to the taking of the railroads out
of Wall street the railway corporations
can at any moment effect it. Let them
do so and they will certainly achieve
a gain in public estimation, won by
a notable public service. About the
absolute control of railways by railroad
offices and practical railroad men no
objection can be taken provided that
the so-called absolute control does not
interfere with the public weal. The
president wants justice for the masses.
All that the railroads and other corpo
rations are entitled to is a fair return
on their actual investments. The wa
tering of stocks is a dishonest prac
tice and a menace to the nation’s finan
cial security. It should be put down
inexorably.
The president wants nothing but the
enforcement of law. The law is above
everybody and not to be used by any
one class to the detriment of anoth
er. The railroads are powerful. They
have rights that ought to be and that
shall be respected, but their very worst
enemy is he who seeks to array the
railroad interest against the people’s
cause. Railroads prosper when the
people prosper. All real prosperity is
based on jusice.
NEW FIND FOR FARMERS.
Michigan farmers received $4,500,000
for the sugar beets they raised in
1906. Ten years ago there was not a
beet-root sugar factory in that state.
Now there are sixteen, with a yearly
output of 95,000 tons of sugar, worth
nearly $9,000,000. Os this vast sum the
farmers get half.
ROMANCE OF THE BIBLE HOUSE.
From this huge building, in Astor
place, New York city, authority radi
ates to the uttermost ends of the earth.
Let the directors say the word, says
“The Chronicle,” and cargoes of Bi
bles, marvelously printed in the quaint
est and most barberous of tongues, will
go on camels or elephants crashing
through the jungles of Africa and Si
am; on queer little llamas over the
great passes of the Andes between
Bolivia and Peru; on the heads of the
cannibal coolies round about the base
of the mountains of the Moon, near
the source of old Father Nile; on cam
elback across the burning deserts of
Nubia and Arabia the Stony, or in
flat-bottomed boats towed by man with
bamboo cables through the deep gorges
of the Yangtze river.
TILLMAN DENIES.
In a letter to a friend in Washington,
says the Herald, Senator Tillman de
nies outright the report that after
his recent lecture at Martinsburg, W.
Va., he was embroiled in a sensational
dispute at the Berkeley Club of that
city. He states that he was never more
hospitably entertained than by the
members of this club, and that he is
utterly at a loss to know how the
widespread report gained currency
that the members set upon him vehe
mently for his more or less harsh
criticism of President Roosevelt.
MARRIAGE FAILS THERE.
A Chicago woman says 95 per cent
of the women of that city would sell
their husbands for $50,000. The troub
le about that is that not 1 per cent of
the population would be willing to pay
the price.—Washington Herald.
GEORGIA LOCAL PRESIDENTS.
Have you received a letter from me
about the auditing of the local secre
tary’s books? If not write me for it,
telling me the name of the local union
to which youu belong. Don’t fail to
give your postoffice address. Write
plainly.
This letter is very important and
should be read to each local union.
Yours in the work,
R. F. DUCKWORTH.
SEVENTH DISTRICT MEETING.
The Farmers Unions of the counties
in the Seventh congressional district
of Georgia will meet in Dallas, Ga., on
the 11th day of April, at 10 a. m. A
great meeting is desired and expected.
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