The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-07-05
yuBLIC OPINION.
o,,n,ous From various sources on
o,cstions of Public Interest.

PUBLIC OPINION.
,.,o,s From various Sources on
questions of Public Interest.
:, remained for Mr.. Grosvenor to
Int ont the inconsistency OF the gem
sron,nn who declined to change their
.ninds on the Porto Rican question:
washington POST
co,ator Pettigrew Is branded as n
,raitor for asking in behalf of the
Tgipinos what Washington and JET
icon demanded for the American col
nnists-Kansas City Times.
with Mr.. Mckinley a candidate for
reelection, the question is to be asked
a. be has been a dignified, consistent,
,tatesmanlike, self reliant president in
NE first term of office.-Boston Herald.
The Hanna ship subsidy steal will
TAX the people of the United States
about 100000 a year for 30 years.
WHY should such outrageous thefts as
tbts be allowed memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal.
Mr.. Mckinley should by all means
have attended Cleveland's lecture on
sTbe independence of the Executive"
II might possibly have injected some
thing of the kind into his own spinal
Montgomery (Ala) Adver-
tser.
- aIA
HEADINGS against the new imperial and
empirical politics of Mckinley 1t Is
once more in order to quote LowelPs
famous line, Massachusetts,, God for
give her, she's a-kneeling with the
rest."-New York World.
II the high officials of the present ad-
nlnstration ever knew anything about
the Monroe doctrine they have prob
ably become so muddled on the subject
that 1t Is all dream to them. They
have been trying to teach Monroe doc
trine in the Orient and neglecting the
uueducated people at home.
With 12,200 men thrown out OF work
BY the steel and wire trust, 5000
thrown out of work by the tobacco
trust and 1000 thrown out of work by
the sugar trust recently, John Arch
holds assertion that trusts insure men
wages all the year round smacks Of
irony-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Pennsylvania Republican plat
form is long. 1t contains nearly 1000
pttt fhpra 10 mr. word in
it with reference to the presidents
colonial policy. Cuba, Puerto Rico and
the Philippines are all unmentioned.
Is this a case where Silence gives con-
sent?" Or does it mean that silence
was the price of harmony?LN. Y.
World.
The men who, like Paul, have
gone TO heather lands with the mes
sage, I'VE seek not yours but you,
have been hindered by those who, COM
ing after, have reversed the message.
Rum and other corrupting agencies
come with our boasted civilization,
and the feeble races wither before the
hot breath of the white mans vices
Ex-President Harrison.
Cruel, barbarous Spain placed duty
OF 10 per cent on Porto Rican goods
and granted the island representation
on population basis in the Spanish
cortes. The enlightened, merciful Uni
ted States places duty Of 20 per cent
of the Dingley rates-say so per cent
ad valorem--on Porto Rican goods, and
declares that the island shall have no
COMMUNICATIVE Democrat.
The Quayites claimed Dan Hastings
went out of the executive chair at Har-
risburg the most despised governor
Pennsylvania ever had. But Dan won't
be in it with Weary Willie Stone when
time forces him to wear the "ex" before
his name. For low-down subserviency
and general all-around mediocrity
Stone is the champion Of the day and
generation. May there never be an
other Of his kind.-Clearfield Republi-
can.
If men lack bread, it is not that Goo
has not done his part in providing it
IL men willing to labor are cursed with
poverty, it is not that the storehoust
God owes men has fealed, that the daily
God owes men has failed, that the daily
wants of his children is not here ir
abundance. Our trouble lies in thai
we have given into the exclusive own
ership of the few the provision that {
bountiful father has made for all
Henry George.
Our tariff is for the protection" o
foreign consumers, the fleeing o
American consumers and the benefi
OF the home trust grabbers. Just lool
at 1t. You can buy American SEWING
machines for less money in LondoI
than in Pittsburg. American lead sell
IN London for $3.50 per cwt.; in Pitts
burg it sells for $40 per cwt.-yet w
Keep up tariff on lead. We expor
copper and undersell the world on cop
per yet we put tariff on II in orde
10 skin Americans who have to use il
-Venango Spectator.
Ihere is no good reason why maj
should stick to a political party jus