The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-10-12

as 90 retail stores, ard by cutthroat
prices and tho marketing OF inferior
goods drives tho legitimate dealer
whom he sQuets alungside Of out OF
business. This bill was gtrangled, how
ever, in senate committee, and no.
toriously so, for cash, although no
measure in years had been SO stoutly
demanded and so largely petitioned for.
Yes, the Republican party as con-
Quoted by Quay & Co. has great
respect for trusts end no respect at
all for the common people who suffer
from them.
HOW NAPOLEON QUAY AND THE
REAL NAPOLEON DIFFER.
The admirers of Matthew Stanley
Quay love to compare him with Ma
poleon, and like Napoleon he has had
his Waterloo and his St. Helena How
often do we hear Quay exploited by
writer's and speakers as the Napoleon
OF politics, although he has repeatedly
lost his state, which boasts OF 350,000
Republican majority. while his Ma
poleonic genius failed when confront
ed with the task of re-electing himself
In the face of an organized opposition
to the senate of the United States. But
there is one material point wherein
Napoleon Quay differs with Napoleon
Bonaparte, and that is in the matter
OF trusts The commercial trust is not
a new thing under the sun. The East
India company and the Hudson Bay
company were the first trusts Of which
the modern world has knowledge.
Their home was in England. Their
tty 81 hn
worlds financiers. Napoleon, when in
the hey-day OF his civic power in
France, was compelled TO give them
attention. He had founded the great
silk mills OF Lyons and had inaugu-
rated policy for the preservation Of
the forests. which were coveted, while
the government was pressed on all
sides by private capitalists to sur
render franchises. Napoleon summon
ed the greatest lawyers of Europe to
Paris and submitted to them the ques-
tion whether trusts were a blessing to
the people or bane to the state. This
distinguished conclave concluded that
trusts were both dangerous and unlaw-.
full. whereupon Napoleon drove them
out of France, which is one country in
Europe where they have never been
able to obtain a foothold. John Rus
sell Young, the historian OF General
Grants trip around the world, wrote
In the New York Herald OF Quay vot-
ing alone In the United States senate
to save the sugar trust. When by
that act Of Quay this despicable trust
Is saved then 1t is the gravest Of
Tense against Pennsylvania since Dali
las, by his casting vote, passed the tar
iff of the Polk administration. The
trusts have no more servile slave than
Matthew Stanley Quay, the people no
greater enemy.
THE BOSS WON'T VOTE HIS OWN
TICKET.
Colonel Quay, the chief stoker of the
Republican machine, will not even
take the trouble to cast his vote for
the ticket that he has made. When
the November election comes he will
be idling in his bungalow on the In
dian river. Florida. Colonel Quay has
arranged a pair with a well known
Democratic newspaper man Of Phila-
delphia. This indifference of the boss
will not be permitted to pass without
notice, and thousands of disgusted Re-
rublicans will follow his distinguished
example, only they will not put them
selves to the trouble of hunting up
Democrats to pair with them.
THE PROHIBITIONISTS KICK.
The People, of Milton, the state or
gan OF the Prohibitionists, has true
conception of the appalling frauds at
the elections that are committed by
the Quay machine in Philadelphia. 1t
grumbles: "Philadelphia's farcical
registration goes on piling up the
names of voters. The whole proceed
ing Is utterly ridiculous. The returns"
of the assessors show that there are
S1S,15 voters in the city, an increase
of l JOB over the return in May. State
Chairman Jones, of the Prohibition
Iarty, proved that dead men, unknown
men, unnaturalized persons and end
less classes of individuals were put
down simply that their names might be
voted on by repeaters. Yet the as
SCISSORS, who are the products of the
rotten system, go on finding houses
full of voters that have no existence.
The frauds perpetrated in Philadelphia
as result of padded and wrongly
made up assessors lists are greater
tiuh any tity III tuC OAlOu CVCI uIculL-
ed of. Yet when an amendment to
the constitution was proposed in order
to give an honest registration law
Governor Stone vetoed IT,"
WHY DIDN'T THEY GO?
Nearly 200 men of the Tenth regi-
ment declined the invitation of the
Republican state committee extended
Colonel Barnett to visit New
York at its expense and incidentally
act as a political "ad." for Colonel
Barnett. There must be some en-
balmed beef at the bottom of the bar'l
when so big percentage of regi-
ment's membership thus snubs its
IN THE CONTEMPLATING BUSI-
NESS.
The Republican city committee of
Philadelphia some years ago had a
lithographic plate made
from which to print bogus poll tax
receipts. These receipts, which are
sold by the city for so cents each con-
stituted an onerous burden on the Re-
publican campaign fund, so the coun-
terfeiter's art was resorted to. Thou
sands OF these spurious receipts are