The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-04
BY Andrew j. Palm.

n SnOuI0 nave tne leClaraIlOn OF lnue-
pendence revised so as to read: "All
governments derive their just powers
n from the consent of the governors"
Mark Hanna. John Bull Rnd Wall
street are the trinity which Mr. McKin-
ley now swears by. Though Metho-
dist I'm theory. he hasn't been practicing
at 1t to any great extent since he as
cended the throne.
At the close of the fiscal year Treas
urer Beacon finds 100000 more in
the state treasury than was taken in
last year. When the people of the state
take time to think about 1t they will
naturally ask. What excuse had Gov
ernor Stone for cutting out million
dollars Of the school appropriations"
The public school Is the last institution
that should suffer by the financial
pruning knife, and no excuse except
that Of absolute inability to pay will be
accepted as reason to Justify either
legislature or rexecutive in cutting short
the appropriation Governor Stone has
no such excuse to plead
The last legislature passed an act
providing that the appointment of
county commissioners clerk shall be
for a period OF three years unless he
this act the clerks in Crawford, Mer-
Ger and Lackawanna counties resigned
recently and were reappointed, hoping
thereby TO hold over for three years
from the time of appointment. As
there are several gentlemen hungering
and thirsting for these positions, many
OF whom were promised them before
the election, If things went their way.
1t Is almost certain that the legality
OF such appointments will be. tested in
court
What n shock It must have been to
he'Republican members of the house
and their eleven Democratic allies to
learn that during the very hour they
were railroading the sound currency
measure through panic was occurring
in New York which, according to Re-
publican authorities, caused the loss
OF 100000, 900 and the ruin OF thou
sands of men. This law that is to es-
tablish honesty. stability. soundness,
confidence and everything else neces-
sary or desirable in our financial sys-
tenn! Twas really too bad, for 1t look
ed so very like judgment sent from
Heaven to rebuke Wall street and It's
representatives at Washington.
The dividing line between the Demo-
cratic and the Republican parties is no
wavering uncertain boundary, but has
clear and well defined limits. The
Democratic party is unateraby ar
rayed against trusts, against imperial
ism, against the single gold standard
against robbery by tariff, and favors the
imposition Of graded income tax
There are other minor points Of differ
ence between the parties, but these are
nnt 10 hx-, =, ,t.l.
Judged. The man who ina gines him
self a Democrat, but finds himself out
of harmony with his party on any of
these questions, may we'll begin to
doubt the soundness Of his Democracy
and should not ask to represent his
party In any official capacity which has
to do with party policies.
No antediluvian high priest ever had
more reverence for his soothsayers and
sorcerers than have our secretaries of
the treasury held for the Morgans and
other Wall street usurers. 1t was an
nounced a day or two before the late
panic in New York that Mr.. Gage and
Mr.. Morgan had long conference. 1t
will be remembered that this same Mr..
Morgan came up the day of the panic
and saved matters from utter demoral-
ization by offering a million dollars at
6 per cent, while money at the same
time within few feet was bringing so
per cent. Possibly the million was
from Uncle Sans strong box. If Nor
gan sold his own money at per cent
when he might have had more for the
asking. the millennium may be looked
for speedily. Grover Cleveland had
some bond business with this same
Mr.. Morgan which put him, president
as he was, under grave suspicion,
The imperialists are anxious to pro-
woke the Cubans into some overt act
as an excuse to seize upon the island
and forcibly annex It. Our govern
ment has all through the contest acted
more like an overgrown bully than an
honorable gentleman. The administra-
tion has steadily refused all concilia-
tory measures in dealing with the Fill
ipinos. Their envoy on mission of
peace was driven from Washington
without recognition in spite of the
fact that our soldiers had saluted the
Filipino nag and welcomed the Fill
pino soldier as an ally against Spain.
We provoked them into firing on our
nag by first firing at them, and then
like a bully strutting around with a
chip on his shoulder We take that
as a reason for exterminating them or
compelling them to accept us as their
masters. Some flimsy pretext will
sooner or later be trumped up as an
excuse for holding Cuba Twill give
sufficient expansion to afford a few po-
litical spoilsmen good fat places, and
that is what expansion really means
and all it means, to those who are
most ardent in urging It,
Republican leaders, especially those
who have brotherly feeling for trusts
do not like Hon. William ]. Bryans
proposition that trusts should be dealt
with by the general government. They
say that the states should look after
them, and they declare that Bryan Is
undemocratic when he would invoke
the aid of congress. This is all very
fine for when a state passes law
with a view to curbing the trust evil II
is easy to get a decision from the su-