The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-09-05
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
w ASHINGTON.
(Communicated).
Sept. 1st., 1902.

sept. lSt., lJOZ.
President Roosevelt's sermoniz-
ing is causing much amusement
to the Democratic leaders in
Washington They say that it
will do little harm and probably
much good, that men who may
never have been to church will
receive large installments of moral
and ethical instruction from the
vigorous young man who happens
to occupy the Presidential chair.
Another beauty of these little
homilies, as pointed out by the
Democrats, is that they are so
-commital. The people, with
a certain natural curiosity. desire
to learn something of the Presi.
dents views in regard to the
trusts, the tariff, the Philippines,
etc., but. in the large majority of
instances, that curiosity is not
gratified and instead. Mr.. Roose-
velt'S audiences receive neatly
formed little curtain lectures on
their duty to their wives and chill
dren. Some of the more Ort hodoX
may criticize the fact that the
President fails to cite his text
before beginning his little SER
mOnetteS. but then, it must be re-
membered that he has to please
all hearers, even those who reject
the Scriptures and to whom bib
lical text might prove offensive.
Generally speaking, say the gen
tlemen referred to, the Presidents
little lectures will make excellent
subjects for printing in the chill
dren'S Sunday school papers, and
will doubtless win the party the
support of the hard worked edit
ors Of those edifying little sheets.
The sublime eQuanimity with
which Mr.. Roosevelt sees fit to
ignore the appeals made to him
by the starving miners of the an
thracite regions is appalling
The leaders of his party are known
to oppose his interference in the
roll of an arbitrator for they re
gard it as impossible to take any
steps looking to an ending of the
strike without mourning the dis
pleasure of the operators and the
great capitalists whose pocket
books are involved. 1t is we'll
recognized that the position of
the coal operators is based on
their determination to accomplish
the defeat of all attempts at Or
ganiZation on the part of their
employees. Under these circum-
stances anything in the form of
arbitration would defeat their
ends and leave them in the same
position they were in before the
strike commenced. OF course,
the fact that hundreds of miners
families are suffering aud that
many lives will be lost counts as
nothing by comparison with the
risk of FORGETTING the support of
the coal barons and the railway
presidents for TIE Republican
party. Under the circumstances,
say leading Democrats, Mr.. Roose.
velt's words about men that edo
things" must come back to him
with unpleasant significance in
these days of his own mastery
inactivity.
Statesmen and politicians are
watching with a good deal of in
terest the experiment which has
just been inaugarated by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury in inviting
the banks, which in the past have
been in the habit of calling ON
the Treasury to help them out of
every difficulty, to help them
selves. The New York banks
have notified the Secretary of the
Treasury that there is a growing
tightness of the money market as
result of large shipments of
currency to the west to meet the
necessity of moving a large crop.
They expected, of course, that
Mr.. Shaw, as his predecessor
would have done, would immedi-
ately deposit large sums of Gov
eminent funds in their hands.
On the contrary, the Secretary
has pointed out to them their
ability to meet the deficiency in
currency by issuing their own.
Under the law, national banks
can issue bills to the amount of
their capital stock and, as the ag-
gregate stock of the national
banks amounts to 500, 900, 900,
bills to that amount could be is
sued by them. AS a matter of
fact, the outstanding bank notes
amount to but 1858, 900, 900 so
that there is margin of $342,-
O00,O00 to draw on. 1t is not
known how the bankers will rel
ish this invitation to rely on their
own resources and the outcome is
being awaited with interest.
Representative Hepburn of
Iowa was in Washington recently
and reiterated his firm conviction