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Netos and Vie Ips From All Around
BRYAN AND BEVERIDGE ON
TRUSTS.
(The Columbia State.)
In the whirligig debate in the pages
of The Reader magazine, William Jen
nings Bryan and Senator Albert J.
Beveridge have got around to the
trusts. But recent events and ten
dencies have robbed Mr. Beveridge of
much of his ammunition, and he car
ries on his guerrilla warfare at some
disadvantage. He can no longer fall
back upon the ancient defense that
“there are no trusts,” or upon that
other antiquary, “If there are trusts,
the protective tariff is not responsible
for them”; or upon that other hoary
decoy, “The so-called trusts are noth
ing more than a manifestation of mod
ern business methods, and it is idle to
talk of checking the process of evo
lution.” All these darts and bombs
have been removed from the armory
of the stalwart Republican. The par
ty that made it possible and profitable
for these parasites of the public to
develop has been forced to acknowl
edge their offspring, and to admit,
also, the necessity of curbing the pred
atory instincts of its progeny. All
this it has been driven into by the
assaults of the Democracy.
BACON FOR THE NATIONS.
(The Boston Globe.)
From Birmingham, England, the Ca
nadian government has received from
its commercial agent an interesting
reoprt of a description of the world’s
bacon supply, in which it is shown
that the nations are dependent on
America to a very large extent for
their supply of this product. Only two
countries in Europe today, Ireland and
Denmark, export hogs and bacon. If
the Canadian population goes on in
creasing at its present rate, Canada’s
export of bacon to England will cease
in a few years, because she will have
only enough to supply her own re
quirements.
To the United States alone then, im
porting nations will look for their ba
con. Some countries supply their own
requirements, but how long that condi
tion will last is uncertain. Meanwhile,
this country regulates the price of
bacon in the world’s market, and if
it happened that, for any cause, there
should be a shortage here, millions of
people, to a greater or less extent,
would have to give up animal food.
THE WRONG LABEL.
(The Washington Herald.)
A Washingtonian, recently returned
from a visit to relatives in rural Geor
gia, brings back a strange story. He
visited a country school in the Goober
state, and was astonished to see a
large-sized photograph of President
Roosevelt labeled “Hon. Hoke Smith.”
There is no more resemblance between
the president and Georgia’s governor
elect than there is between George
Bruce Cortelyou and William Jennings
Bryan, and how the mistake was made
is not known. Inquiry by the Washing
tonian developed the fact that some of
the school children found the photo
graph in the road, and realizing it
to be the picture of some mighty man,
and Hoke Smith about that time just
having been elected governor, his
name was written under the counter
feit presentment of the president.
Neither man has ever been seen by
anybody living in that part of Georgia.
The Washingtonian, with rare delica
cy, did not destroy the happy illusion
of the children or their teacher.
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THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED, NEW PASTOR OF “ROCKEFEL
LER’S CHURCH.”
REV. CHARLES F. AKED, the athletic young Englishman who has arriv
ed in America to become the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church,
a New York Institution popularly known as “Rockefeller’s church” because
John D. Rockefeller is a prominent member, objects to this characterization
because he says the church is not a millionaires’ church. “I want the shop
girl and the workingman to come to the Fifth Avenue Baptist church,” he
declares. “It isn’t fair to the church to have Mr. Rockefeller’s name asso
ciated with it all the time. It is a powerful church without Mr. Rockefel
ler. My mission here is the ministry of reconciliation, not exclusiveness.”
HISTORY OF JERRY SIMPSON.
(The Washington Herald.)
The widow of the late Jerry Simpson
is preparing for early publication a
history of the life of Kansas’ famous
“sockless statesman.” She is being
aided in the work by Mrs. Annie L.
Diggs, who followed the example set
by Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease and other
Kansas women statesmen a few years
ago. It is believed that a biography of
Jerry Simpson, properly treated, will
have a large sale. His public career
more nearly typified Populism than
that of any of the hosts of exponents
of that peculiar and frenzied political
cult. Hia life during the several years
in which he held public attention was
full of stirring incidents. Mr. Simp
son had hard, common sense, as well
as brilliant wit. No man of his day
entertained Washington more than he.
He made few set speeches while in
congress, but whenever it was known
that he was to participate in debate
the house galleries were invariably
crowded.
SENATOR TILLMAN.
(The Birmingham News.)
The editor of the Mobile Register
has just had a close look at Senator
Tillman, has heard him deliver his
famous race problem lecture, and has
talked with him and concludes that
the South Carolina senator is not as
“wild and woolly” as he is painted.
He says that Tillman’s words sound
worse in print than they do fresh from
his lips, but he concludes that the
senator is honest and deeply in ear
nest. Many others who have come to
know Tillman better have modified, if
not completely changed, their views
regarding him. He is a man of force
and conviction and is certainly beyond
the reach of grafters. And he “speaks
out in the meeting,” too.
COST OF EUROPEAN ARMIES.
(The Review of Reviews.)
Europe spent in round numbers
£200,000,000 on its army and £BO,-
000,000 on its navy in 1906, as against
£146,000,000 and £60,000,000 respect
ively in 1898. That is to say, Europe
spends today £280,000,000 on its army
and navy as against £206,000,000 in
1898, a total increase of £74,000,000,
or, say, 26 per cent. Seventy-four mil
lions a year is equivalent to 4 per cent
interest upon a capital sum of £l,-
850,000,000. That is the fine in which
the governments have mulcted their
peoples by their refusal to act upon
the standstill proposition of the Czar
in 1899, and to adopt the peace-making
methods recommended by The Hague
convention.
GREAT DAY FOR SAMBO.
(The Chattanooga Times.)
“It’s going to be a great day in
Ohio for the negro,” says the Philadel
phia Press, “when Foraker and Taft
get going in earnest.” Let us all hope
the Press is right. The only regret
there is in the situation is that there
are not more negroes up there to en
joy it. If, for instance, Ohio had Geor
gia’s negro population how long after
the coming campaign would it take
the legislature to get busy with a
“grandfather clauses.”?
BRYAN’S CURE FOR TRUSTS.
(The Reader for June.)
The states exercise the right to
create corporations, but the federal
government is supreme in the sphere
of interstate commerce. A federal
statute of a few lines will provide for
an interstate license and forbid a
State corporation to do business out
side of the State of its origin without
securing such a license. A few more
lines will set forth the conditions upon
which the license may be secured —
conditions which will make a private
monopoly impossible. If congress can
withdraw from a lottery company the
right to use the mails or forbid ex
press lines from carrying lottery tick
ets, it can withdraw from a would-be
monopoly the right to employ the rail
roads, the mails, or the telegraph lines
to aid its conspiracy against the peo
ple.
ONE CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES.
(The New York Evening Post.)
It may be treason to say it, but the
fact seems to be that in the English
market, which is open to the competi
tion of the world, prices cannot ad
vance so rapidly as In our own favored
land of tariffs and trusts. Our pres
ent method of manufacturing pros
perity is to have the Federal govern
ment, through the Dingley tariff, bind
the consumer hand and foot, and then
invite the trusts to rifle the victim’s
pockets, not overlooking his scarf pin
and other valuables. Meanwhile, our
President extols the square deal, and
proves to you that there is no possible
connection between the tariff and the
trusts. The result is prosperity—for
the trusts and the campaign committee
—but the process is undeniably expen
sive.
A CANADIAN WARNING.
(The Toronto Globe.)
The authorities of the United
States would not be justified in mak
ing light of the alleged plot to murder
President Roosevelt. He would not
be justified in ignoring it himself.
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