Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-02-12
Henry C. Payne's record now stands

clearly before President Roosevelt:
'First-A corruptionist, an exponent
of the commercial politics of craft and
chicane in his own state and in the
Republican national machine.
'Second-A lobbyist at Washington
and at the capital of Wisconsin and in
his own city-a lobbyist for the tele-
phone monopoly, for the northwestern
railways, for the Armour Meat Trust
for the Milwaukee street railways. And
a lobbyist working frankly and with
out the usual disguise of the legal pro-
fesson, to keep up appearances.
Such is the man whom President
Roosevelt has invited into his cabinet,
invited to the -generalship
of all places, the post where the eXer-
else of the talents by which he has
become notorious will be most scandal
Uus, most detrimental to the public in
terest-and most useful in building up
a second-term machine.
If, in face of the Payne disclosures,
Payne does not find that his health
forbids him to accept Mr. Roosevelt
will have struck blow at himself from
which he will not easily recover. BY
adopting the kind of politics he pro-
fesses to abhor and disdain Mr. Roose-
felt will have served notice upon the
people that he fundamentally has con-
fidence only in chicane, and not in
character and its effect upon the peo-
pie. And if Mr.. Roosevelt shows the
people that he does not trust them,
how can he expect them to continue
20 trust him New York World
Roosevelt seems to think he can
atone for his brutal criticism of Gen
eral Miles and it's implied hostility to
Schley by calling Schley to his room
and giving him some taffy in private.
His attack on Miles was made as pub
lie as possible and his animus against
Schley was also shown publicly Now,
If he knows any good reason for up
holding Schley let him come out like d
man and tell the public what it is. If
Schley will quietly submit to all the
lies that have been told on him, and
now turn in to help save the naval
ring from the public indignation which
1t so well deserves, simply because
Roosevelt would like to have it that
way, he will dsappoint his best friends
and please his worst enemies. Men
whose good opinions are worth hav-
ing do not like toady, and Schley can
well afford to stand like man for his
rights, even before President Roose-
welt.
The Iron Age, a paper that cannot
be accused of being Democratic, as
serts that some of the protected manu-
facturers are selling goods in the Ha-
waiian Islands so much cheaper than
at home that some of the articles sold
at the export prices have been sent
back to the United States and sold
again after paying the duty and freight
at less than the manufacturers charge
their ellow-countrymen. This but
confirms the many similar stories of
like transactions. Protecting infant
industries like the Steel Trust with its
billion and quarter capital, is SO out
rageous that no sensible man can think
of it without feeling of disgust and
pity for the poor dupes who are will
ing to pay this trust millions every
year under the name of protection. If
the great body of American people
who have been used for generations
and are still being used as the stupid
tools of the protected few, would come
to their senses for a single month the
protection humbug would be wiped out
forever, root and branch.