The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-15

crowned king, and the demand has
been granted Wall streets god the
golden calf, is to be set up as fetch
for the nation to worship. Great is the
power of mammon. Supreme at last
is the will of Wall street.
Who says that monopoly doesn't
=? The Pullman Car company has
IN declaring per cent dividends on
100000 of stock, and in addition q
esent of $1S,000,000 in stock has been
made to the stockholders. The stock
has been watered over and over again
until it is now many times the amount
paid in, yet the public must pay big
div dends on the whole $54, 1000, 900.
Since the Wagner nd Pullman COM
panies have united the last hope of
anything better from the Pullman
company has disappeared. If this were
a government of the people, by the
people and for the people, something
would be done, and that right speedily
Mark Hanna is annoyed by the many
suggestive cartoons in which he is
made to appear as the leading man.
With an air of injured innocence he
declares that the position of United
States senator should be one of dignity
Marcus is quite right, but unfortunate
ly in this world, populated chiefly by
sinners, Of whom Mark is not the least,
and what should be is not permitted
to be. Senators who get their seats
by bribery should be ousted and con-
signed to political oblivion, but in
stead of that they are sometimes
placed at the head of their party. 1t is
the man and not the position from
which dignity must come. Some men
would dignity a prison CELL while
others would disgrace throne Mar
Gus Aurelius Hanna doesn't belong to
the first class.
The independents have been making
much ado over Beveridge's speech in
the senate. He was selected to go over
to the Philippines because of his spout
ing ability and not because ne is a man
likely to say anything against his en-
ployer. His speech was the effort of
special pleader. and to a great extent
squarely contradicts Prof. Schurman,
the head of McKinley's Philippine
commission. Analysed, Beveridges
speech simply means that because the
Philippines offer a good opening for
American spectators and office hold
Nrs and has abundant room on which
10 plant the American flag we should
take the islands by force. All this, of
course, in the name of God and des-
tiny. Beveridge had spent months in
preparing his speech and repeated it
verbatim as written, yet Senator Hoar
2unctured his bubble in a ten minute
Ipeech.
The man who looks for the Republi-
fan party to kill the trusts might as
reasonably expect father to murder
his own offspring. The leaders of the
party are sharers in the plunder of the
trusts, and the policy of the party for
years has been indicated by men prom
inent in trusts, syndicates, combina-
tions and monopolies. The party that
imposes high protective tariff to en-
able the manufacturer 20 sell goods to
his countrymen at higher price than
he sells them abroad will never lay a
straw in the way of trusts. The G. o.
P. will, of course, threaten them with
dreadful things in its platform to fool
the rank and file, as it has done for q
generation on the silver question, but
do anything to curb the trusts! Never
Why the senate a few days ago killed
an amendment to the census bill which
proposed that the census should in
clude information regarding trusts
Dictator Mckinley and his advisers are
sorry that the people know as much
about trusts as they do, and he will
take good care that the census doesn't
add anything to their information.
Prof. Jacob G. Schurman, presiden;
Of Cornell university and chairman OF
the United States commission to the
Philippine Islands, Is of course an ad
vocate of McKinley's policy of benevo
lent assimilation. II he hadn't beer
he would not have found a place on the
commission. It's a bitter dose, how
ever, judging from the wry faces hi
makes when giving out information fol
McKinley's benefit on the Philippin,
question. In a recent article in The
Independent he says that he considers
Aguinaldo an honest man, animated
by the highest idea Of loyalty to inde
pendence. This was about all thai
could be said Of our revolutionary fore
fathers. He says that the Filipinos
knew the white man by one specimep
and they will not trust any of them. From
what the Filipinos have seen Of thu
Spanish and of our soldiers woul,
Schurman ask them to trust them
Mr.. Schurman says the sight of {
drunken man creates disgust in tn,
mind of the Filipino. and this argues
that the Filipino is in this respect a
least considerably in advance of thu
average white man. He declares tha
he never saw Filipino drunk. TAXI
1t all In all, 1t Is hard to see wher,
Mr.. Mckinley ia to find my comfor
In Prof. Schurman's article. Towart
the close Mr.. Schurman says: "Bu
one thing ! wish to emphasize NOR,
than any other one point l have dwell
upon. We must make an honest civi
service a permanent institution on tn,
islands" Prof. Schurman we'll knows
that Mckinley needs scoring on thi
matter, for how could we expect tn,
president to have an honest civil ser
vice in the Philippines when he ha
incurred tho contempt of all homes
intsiligent civil service reformers b,
bio cortraa bomao Cchurp,au Zeal