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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. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. I I h' mp I' 1 mW \ wmn. wlk W’ I ’■ ’• » I) i f- y \ ■ . -- ....... ~ L ~ x -‘ - ■ .jsf *?“ • : Q. • 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. 7