The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Washington Day by Day

Washington, April 27.-(special. )-Poli- although it frequently leads to disasters that are the tragedies of the people. The demagogues who are the actors some times take themselves seriously; they al ways assume the people to be fools; and between the deception of the one side and the gullibility of the other there is laughter for a horse.
 But when the plot in this first of con- edies or any comedy is not partially con- cealed there is not much fun to be had out of the performance.
 The latest performance of politics on the White House stage under the direc- tion of the Two Dromios. Roosevelt and Knox, is too weak to be funny. Not only Is there no horse-laugh in it, there is not even a good broad grin.
 Attorney General Knox began the other day to make frequent and hurried visits to the White House, carrying back and l like our old friend "The Private Secre- tary'' carried his bottle of milk and his orange when he had nothing to eat all day" It is now understood that MT. 1 Knox's papers related to the Beef Trust. and that he and the President were en- gagged in planning the downfall of the Beef Trust.
 How the President and his Attorney oeneral must have laughed over those papersl
 In the night MT. Knox called in his assistant, MT. Day. and the two of them worked out the vast scheme for circum- venting the Beef Trust and relieving the hungry poor by means of the general plan of Republican party salvation and Mir. Roosevelt's renomination. Then MT. Knox, Mir Day and Mir Roosevelt con- suited one another behind the throne. It is not too much to say they laughed over their own plan for fooling the peo- pie; and maybe one of them repeated the dictum of a mighty millionaire Re- publican now gone whither the poor man goeth-"the public be damnedi' Maybe so maybe not. Is it always fair or just to give the benefit of doubt to all persons who place themselves under suspicion?
 Behold the thickenng of the sickening plot! Orders were Cor were not sent to two United States district attorneys in Chicago directing them to obtain infor- nation upon which to base legal action against the Beef Trust-information by the way which any Washington police man could have secured in the Center Market within thirty minutes.
 Seemingly without waiting for de- tailed statement from the two at torneys in Chicago, who were probably selected by trust lawyers, MT. Knox and MT. Day rushed over to the White House, each with bottle of milk and an orange in the way of papers under his arm, and according to one of the servile local organs which yawps every time it hears the bell of the White House tee- phone, Knox and Day were closeted with the President a considerable time" Now, now, nowl
 | "The President expressed himself as gratifed that the department had been
 
 him of all the steps that had been taken, gave him general idea of the evidence that had been collected, and pointed out the laws that it was claimed had been violated. The President commended the work of the Attorney General, and with out any hesitancy requested him to pro- ceed in any way his judgement might influence to suppress the combination"
 Rubbsh-intolerable tommyrotl All that is part of the game which the Roosevelt administration is trying to play on the public be damned.''
 The arbitrary increase in the prices of all meats brought about by the beef trust is working the greatest political revolution of our time. Even MT. Roose- welt, who is entirely without political skill and without the power of common political observation has been made to realize this.
 The full dinner pair now contains no neat
 The American workingman. accustom- ed to eating meat three times a day, now falls in behind his foreign brother | week.
 Do you know what that means? It means the most disastrous defeat to the party of Dingleyism, the vulgar and coarse parent of all the trusts!
 The quickest way to reach a mans goodwill leads through his stomach; the swiftest method of arousing his animos- ity is by touching his pocket.
 It is barely possible that the Roosevelt administration will pursue the open and perfectly plain statutory way and check the monstrous avarice of the Beef Trust will in this manner rescue the people from the insufferable tyranny of the porkbutchers and cowkillers whose dol lars are their votes. But If the million aire butchers are made to suffer the loss of taxes wrung from the people in all likelihood the other protected ba- rons of Dingleyism will unite in making good such loss.
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