The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-08-01

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Of the program is usually omitted
when white men would have to suf-
fer.-Columbus Citizen.
The RoDber Tariff.
It is probably the demoralizing inau-
ence of our pauperizing tariff TO which
should be attributed the tendency of
men In business to beg of Uncle Sam.
1t has always been accepted as a suf-
ficient reason why manufacturer
should have more protection that he
was nor making money or was not
making the profit he thought he ought
to be making. The meanness ana VI
ciousness of the whole wretched busi-
ness have Just been exhibited for the
disgust and instruction of the American
people by the shameless greed of OK
nard and his fellow workers. who have
prevented the country from doing its
plain duty by Cuba. Such showing
ought to make an end of the whole
rotten systen,.-New York Times.
A Poor Prospect.
Just what difference 1t will make to
the American eaters of mea. whether
they are swindled by one big lawful
company or by an illegal conlbinatio on
of six concerns has not yet clearly ap-
peared in the columns of the trust de-
tenders. The people of this country
don't care rap whether the prices of
the necessaries of life are artifc ally
enhanced by verbal or written agree
ments, outside of the law, between
firms that are natural competitors or
by formal legal consolidation Of these
natural competitors. What they want
is freedom from extorion and 1t Is be-
coming, We think, more and more
clear to them that that is something
that they will never get from the Re-
publican party as at present controlled
Rochester Herald.
CanonIzing Hanna.
1t is amusing to note that imme di-
ately following Mark Hanna's an
nouncement that he would not be a
candidate for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, and the announcement
of his friends that he would be a can
didate, there appear numerous fiatter-
ing articles about the big boss in Re-
publican papers Newspaper CORES
pondents are suddenly struck by the
fact that he has been misjudged, and
that really he is very good man. We
are told that the charge that he is cor
rupt and unscrupulous in politics is
no longer believed. Why not? He
never denied it-Indanapolis Sentinel.
Easy Money.
Jeffries got $13,3S9 and Fitzsimmons
ss,926 out of the championship fight at
San Francisco. Yet neither one of
them could probably earn more than
50 a day at honest labor.-Ohio State
One q Sr' View v.s o,,t ~ ~ .tr>tr.
Five regiments of regular infantry
that took part in the battles at San
tiago and lost 604 men in killed,
wounded and missing have furnished
764 applicants for pensions. From FIVE
regiments Of volunteers that did not
lose man in any of the battles came
1887 claims for pensions. AS We are
forbidden to assume that the volun-
teers were any less unselfish in their
patriotic devotion than the regulars.
the only possible inference from this
contrast is that the volunteers were
sadly unfit to withstand exposure,
since more than half of them repre-
sent themselves as permanently dis
abled by their service.-Philadelph
Times.
A RspaclOus Trust.
Admissions of men prominent in the
coal trust show clearly that that COM
bination is the most grasping, insolent
and dangerous monopoly in the United
States. A combination which delib-
erately forces strike in order to rob
the public by advancing prices, caus-
ing misery and distress to hundreds
of thousands of miners and their de-
pendents at the same time, is a public
enemy. If the public officers charged
with dealing with such abuses fail
of their duty it is certain that they
will be replaced by others who will
act. The question is not one Of poll
tics, but of public safety.-Chicago