The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-12
MODERN
FABLES.
C=BY GEORGE ADE.@
Author of the Girl Proposition.
Author of the Girl Proposition.

@BY GEORGE ABE.

Headway. In fact she seemed TO have
the Bunch with her.
The Wise Girl figured that they were
tolerating her u of Mere P~oliteness.
Later On, in the Drawing Room. the
continued to Tolerate her the best they
* w how.
The Girl with the Book Of Rules play
ed a sad little Opus on the Piano. aft.r
which the Steepie-Chaser in Red leaped
on top Of the Instrument and tore cut
Coon Stuff with eight men turning the
Music for her.
And these were the Eight who tod
the Girl back in the Corner all about thu
Qualities in Woman that would help to
attract Men.
She went home thinking it over and
the next time she started for a Winner
- added a Dash and a few Bril1iants
to the COstUre and cut loose up to a
reasonable Limit.
She got along frst-rate, even though
sra was doing a lot of Things that none
of the Men approve but somehow love >
put up with.
MORAL TO con always pick OUT
= Right Kind for the {
Cleveland and the Trusts Live.
HarDer's Weekly has an apprecia tive
and eXcellently analytical editorial re-
view of ox-President Cleveland's speech
at MOrristOwn, n. J., the following eX-
tract from which is we'll worth read
ing. Promising that it has heard ex-
Governor Hill and President Roosevelt
on the same subject, it continues:
When now we turn to Mr.. Cleveland.
We find that he neither shirks,. nor
skulks. nor wanders far afield in the
chase of a chimera, but strik IS ct the
root of the matter; and against tha OPP
preston suffered or apprehended from
the trusts. propounds a defensive meas
mr. that would be at once prompt AMI
practicable. Sweep away the high pro-
tective tariff, he says, and replace II
with q tariff for revenue, and you will
paralyZe the trusts. so far as their pow
err for mischief is concerned. Subjected
to the check of foreign competition.
American manufacturers and American
producers of fuel and meat would no
longer be able to wiring from consumers
eXtortiOnate prices for the necesSari4S
of life. Mr. Cleveland did not pretend
that the abolition of the protective tar.
if would be followed by the annihila-
ton OF the trusts: neither did he affirm
that such extinction was desirable TN
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in the twentieth century. He is war
that trusts exist, even in free trade
England, and that they are needed fO-
the purpose OF compromising the econo-
mics a~ttainable only through manufac-
ture on a vast scale. He perceives, how
ever. that in free rade England, while
trusts are powerful for good, thew ara
imDotent for evil. 1t is impossible in
England to wiring from the consumed
al extortionate price for any of the nee
essaries of life. That is the state ~
things which Mr.. Cleveland aims ID
bring about in the United States: not
of course, by free trade. which, at pres
ent, is impracticable for this countdy,
but by means of a tariff on imports.
framed with a single eye to the produce
ton of the revenue needed for the gov
ernment's expenditures.
We have said that the remedy pro-
posed by Mr.. Cleveland would be at
once prompt and practicable. No con-
stitutional amendment wouldba needar
no invocation of a visionary RICH,
eminent domain.
And more to the same II
worth while observing that by this II
depreciation Mr.. Cleveland must regard
the trusts of free trade England as ben
efcent-"powerful for good and impo-
tent for evil'-since, under the English
system of control lit is impossible t.
wiring from the consumer an extOrtion-
ate price for any Of the neceSSaries 1T
life" Any system of law which ac-
composites these results robs the trusts
of their terrOrs and is to be prefer"
before Mr.. ROOseVelt'S Intellectual meth
Od of constitutional amendment or Mr..
Hills mischieVOus scheme of social
ism.-CharlOtte Observer.