The age-herald., 1902-01-28
Washington Day By Day


 Washington, January 26.-(Speciai)- Having thundered up and thundered down and thundered all aFound-stage thunder, you know-Brother Oxnard of the beet sugar trust has subsided into a low, nut tering, storm-expiring rumble and the foundations of the capitol are no longer shaken. although within these four and twenty hours the tread of Brother James Hamilton Lewis of that same 'in- fant' industry has echoed through the tassellated corridors and his necktie, re- fiected in his polished boots, has flashed an inspiring oriflamme to lead us on to battle against the poor and oppressed islanders whom Brother Oxnard would call the vicious" cubans. Aye! vicious is the word Brother Oxnard applied to Cuba's plea for mercy from the nation that freed her from the King of Spain in order to subject her to King Trusts.
 Be 1t known, then, that Brother James Hamilton Lewis, ''an officer in the Idaho Beet Sugar Company" flashed his prec- ious jewels and fine clothes upon Brother Oxnard, highcockalorum at-large of the Beet Sugar Trust, and upon the House committee on ways and means for the further advancement of rich men; looked upon the hall of the House, the scene of his former forensic triumphs; deigned to bend his majesty upon a favored few, and then withdrew and hurried on to New York to preside over a meeting of his match company, also of a trust, leaving a large streak of glory in his wake as if from the milky baldric of the skies and hurled through this unquiet realm of lob- bydom.
 Yes, sir; moreover, however and so on, that's what's what And Brother James Hamilton Lewis. who wore the best gress, a damn -the-trusts Democratic howler of the howlers.
 o mastery of moneybags, how these antitrust magnates do dearly love the dollar! Brother Towne Is the highly-paid attorney for a New York corporation; Brother Hogg is a millionaire; Brother Bailey owns big ranch and sports thor oughbred horses; Brother Stone is doin' mighty well an hopin' to do better, thank ye; Brother Web Davis is adver- Using his $1S5,0 900 book In the Commoner which journal of enlightment is clearing $4OOoo a year; Brother Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont pays about thousand dollars a month for sumpem t eat an place t sleep; and even Coxey, the we'll beloved leader of the hoboes, is rolling in riches.
 Oxnard would seem, after all, to be merely in the swim, and poor, pleading praying Cuba simply vicious" This word is going to prick the conscience of the American people; it is going to stick and we are going to hear a great deal of it between now and November 1904. Ac- cordng to the doctrine of Oxnard, every American who asks for some small meas ure of relief from the iniquity of Ding leyism is vicious-it is vice for the toil- CTS to demand a share of the vast profits which a few rich men derive from Ding leyism. Oxnard but echoes the notorious sentence of the richest of the rich upon the people-'the public be damned!'
 
 A vigorous conflict of influences in Ala bama that are very powerful on both sides has been stirred by the proposed Congressional legislation to aid schools of mines and mining in the various states and 1t would seem that Alabamians are taking deeper interest in the question than are the people of any other state in the Union. Memorials, resolutions, let ters and telegrams are pouring in upon the Alabama Congressmen. Some favor the University some Auburn; and the conflict of views and purposes is between the respective adherents of the States two great schools.
 Auburn demands that the proposed act shall be as the principal bills provide, flor the establishment and maintenance of schools or departments of mines and mining in connection with the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established" and so on. while the University demands some- thing dlfferent-in effect to be given a fair showing for the proposed appropria- ton.
 Some friends of Auburn write about discrimination" against that college. Discrimination is scarcely the word for Auburns supporters to employ in this instance; for the principal bills. those of Senator Tillman and Representative Grosvenor, very clearly and in express terms discriminate in favor of Auburn. The other side in the controversy merely
 
 asks that the law shall discriminate in favor of no institution, but shall be fair to all such as are fitted to share the pro- posed appropriation.
 In other words, some of the pleading in behalf of Auburn is for clearly ex- pressed discrimination in it's favor.
 The Auburn Society of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the statutory name of the noble college in Eastern Alabama, has presented to the Alabama delegation in Congress a m emorial eminently worthy of one of the greatest and best of all Southern seats of learning a presenta- tion of that side of the question that is altogether praiseworthy. It recites briefly the great and enduring work of the college for nearly thirty years; facts
 
 PETTuS AT SUNRISE.
 From the Washington Post.
 Every morning as regularly as the sun comes up over the hills to the east Sem ator Pettus emerges from his residence