Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-19
WHAT THEY SAY
Extracts From Various Sources, lndI.
eating Democratic Opinion On
Questions of the Day.

Hanna is a friend of labor-Chinese
cheap labor We always thought he
was, Notwithstanding some of his re-
cent demagogic vaporings. A few
days ago when his pet ship subsidy
bill was under consideration he showed
his love for American laborers by vot-
ing against the Patterson amendment,
which provided that no bounty could
be paid to vessels carrying Chinese
crews. Mr.. Hanna still knows his
business, but there is great big COB
of American workmen who don't know
theirs.-Celina CO., Democrat.
The poor man is called Socialist
if he believes that the wealth of the
rich should be divided among the
poor, but the rich man is called a
fnancier if he devises a plan by which
the pittance of the poor can be con-
verted to his use. The poor man who
takes property by force is called a
thief, but the creditor who can by
legislation make a debtor pay a dollar
twice as large as he borrowed, is laud-
ed. The man who wants the people to
destroy the government is an Anar.
chist, but the man who wants govern
ment to destroy the people is patriot.
William j. Bryan.
ut has been, indeed, a trying hour
for the republic; but see in the future
crisis approaching that unnerves me
and causes me to tremble for the safe
ty of my country. AS result of war,
corporations have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of
the country will attempt to prolong its
reign by working on the prejudice of
the people until all wealth is aggre-
gated in few hands, and the republic
destroyed. | feel at this moment more
anxious for the safety of my country
than ever before; even in the midst
of war. God grant that my suspicious
may be- groundless. ss."-Abraham Lin
coin.
The Philadelphia Inquirer furnishes
very amusing reading these days. 1t
has always contended that Quay was
not boss; it has always resented any
charge that there was machine rule in
this state, and it has always given it's
undivided support to whatever Quay
demanded. Now, since Quay has been
compelled to throw Elzin overheard
on account of the bad repute he has
fallen into for obeying Quays behests,
the Inquirer just as vehemently insists
that Elkin shall not retire at the "dic-
tation of Quay" Notwithstanding its
former claims that there was no such
thing q hncc in hn oykx
it completely fiops around by insinuat-
ing ingratitude on the part of Quay,
and resents the effort of the mailed
hand clutching the convention and
squeezing the liberty of action out of
it." and other like expressions.-Lock
Haven Democrat
President Roosevelts boasted back
bone seems to have deserted him and
he has yielded to the demand of the
pension attorneys and leaders of the
Grand Army of the Republic He has
disgraced his administration by per
mitting these pension sharks to drive
Hon. H. Clay Evans out of office.
Evans stood for decency and economy
in the pension office, and while he de-
MED no man a pension that could
claim it rightfully or legally, he did
deny pensions to those not entitled to
them, and in this way incurred the dis
pleasure of the pension sharks They
have succeeded in making things so
unpleasant that he has resigned No
matter what honors may be conferred
on Mr.. Evans by President Roosevelt
he cannot escape the shame and hui
initiation of yielding to a greedy gang
of pension ooters.-Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal (Dem.).
Senator Quays friends and organs
are now taking care to declare, at his
instance, that no one who was re-
sponsible for the legislature of 1901
should be considered in connection
with place on the Republican state
ticket, and that Attorney General Ell
kin's connection with the legislature
as a sponsor and adviser is a fatal
weakness. We do not dispute the cor
rectness of this. The legislature of
1901 has gone into history as the worst
in the annals of Pennsylvania or of
any other state, for that matter But
what degraded it? Was it the power
and ascendancy of the senior senator
was it not Quayism? Elkin, of
course, failed in his duty, but he did
SO in his devotion to Quay. He had
charge of the senator's campaign for
reelection. 1t is a cool proceeding for
Quay to unload his sins on the devoted
head of Eliin. and that is precisely
what he is doing.-Pittsburg Post.
But the last defense, and the worst
of all is this-that it is inevitable that
you cannot conquer those people any
other way, and that if the work is to
be done, there is only one thing to do,
and that is what has been done, and
| could read it to you, namely: Enter
a village, surround it, take every house
there and set it on fire; let the wretch
ed people escape with what they have
upon their backs. Are there women
in childbed? Send some soldiers in
and it has been done-to take them