The age-herald., 1902-02-03
Washington Day by Day

l proudest victory in their prolonged war fare against the working people of Amer cia; and if the artist could properly pict- ure some monster devouring the women and children of the toilers, whom the monster holds tied hand and foot in bondage. 1t would be in exact represen- tation of the present situation between the accursed Dingleyism and the people
 It is no exaggeration to say that the crime of robbing the people in the name of protection of their interests is now entered upon degree of public debauch- cry utterly unexampled in the whole ex- perience of the nation.
 This Republican Congress seems to be absolutely subordinated to the purposes of public plunderers who oppress the people they claim to protect" blinding them with sand for sugar and feeding them on the water eggs are boiled in.
 In determining to abolish all the war taxes so-called and to deny common jus tice to Cuba and the other islands under American influence, the Republican ma 1 jority of the committee on ways and means for robbing the toilers defies the President, defies the greatest high-tariff journals of this country, and defies the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the American people.
 "President, newspapers and people be damned" is the effect the judgment of l the Republican congressional servants of the freebooting barons of the billions. There is to be no 'tampering with the tariff" for that is forbidden by the few of wealth who are being further enriched l by Dingeyism at the expense of the null titude who are being robbed. Nobody expected any considerable "tampering with that monument of national wicked ness. But all the people have asked for mercy to Cuba and some slight modifi- cations of the tariff: the President has demanded it-even Mckinley the parent l of Dingleyism, in a milder form, advo- 1 cated it; the more respectable newspapers of protection and all independent and Democratic journals have demanded it. the conscience of the nation has been touched by Cuba's pitiable condition.
 Yet the barons of the billions pull the strings and the jacks in the ways and means boy jump and rattle and squeak | yet deeper damnation of the islanders who were better off under the corrupt rule of Spain than they now are with the American flag flying over Moro Cas- tie! Spain did give Cuba a market, though with restrictions; but we give it no market at all and forbid in express words the Cubans to make treaties where by they may secure fairness in trade.
 Talk aborH crimes of the nations-na- tional crime can no lower or more infa- mously fall than our criminal oppression of Cuba.
 Cuba Libre"-What an empty and de- grading farce!
 Remember the Maine"-What a cry of national passion and bloodthirstiness prostituted to vicious oppression!
 "The fleet under my command'-God of battles what villainy underlies that boast of moral cowardice!
 Having freed Cuba, 1t is now our duty to aid her in securing stable self-govern- ment''-the trail of the serpent over it all,
 As Kipling cried vainly, though in pIen- ty of time to have saved England from these two years of shame so it would seem too late for us to cry now.
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
 Lest we forget, lest we forget"
 For we have already forgotten!
 
 'No, am not Dave. You are the four hundreth man who's asked me that ques- tion today. I know Dave intermitly, but l aint him. He's a clever fellow-Dave. I'm his double. He's all right, if he is got a wooden leg. He's my double, only I ain't got no wooden leg. Know Dave well-Dave's good chap-told Dave I was a-mindter lick fellows ever day cause they called me him."
 q beg your pardon! I am sorry I made the mistake; but I really thought you were Speaker Henderson and I ventured to speak to you.''
 "Oh, that's all right. ain't a-goin to lick you. Mistake four hundred times a day. I don't git mad Dayes IS a raly good fellow-Fm his double. Yes, sir; Dave's all right-he's my double. Me and Dave has a-lots O fun over it. Known Dave long time Him and me is almost like boys together"
 "It is very singular
 "It show Is. But don't you mind me it's jes my luck to have my buzzum frien' fer double. S'longr
 This extraordinary conversation took place in the lobby of the Riggs House this afternoon between fat elderly man with white hair and mustache and a rye-face- please spell 1t rye, not wry-and a tract distributing young man with game eye, a Wednesday night t-prayer-meeting voice, and fieeAfrom- birthstone appearance.
 The young man had toptoed in from the deep snow, looked around him, and spied "Dave's double.' Gently approaching the clerk of the newsstand. who is hard of hearing he whispered:
 Isn't that stout gentleman over there the honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives"
 ''I don't know answered the clerk, not hearing the question, and having never seen so much as a newspaper cut of Dave"
 Thereupon' the young man approached and saluted "Daves double" It was all very comical
 But one fact concerning Speaker Hen derson which is not conical is that he is accounted moro of Q T,aar than was the