The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-09-05
Gomn1oner Comment.
Extracts from ". ). Bryan's Paper.
But WAS IN A REBUKE?

BUT WAS IT A REBUKE?
The New York World compliments
i President Roosevelt because Of the
I Oliver Wendell Holmes appointment
/ to the United States supreme bench.
/ and says that II the president viii ap-
I point the same kind Of a man to sue
/ coed Justice Shiras, who is about to
I retire, that appointment would still
more rebuke Mr.. Bryan's demoralizing
I philippics against that august tribunal,
/ and still more Findicate the consistent
/ insistence Of the World during the
Bryan campaign Of 1896 that Mr.
! Bryan's attack upon the supreme
court was a moral crime
In the same editorial the World SAYS
/ that the appointment Of Justice Holmes
was a wise step toward restoring the
prestige OF one branch Of our national
| government. perhaps more important
than any other"
If Justice Holmes. appointment was
"a step toward restoring the prestige
I OF the supreme court" how is il posi-
/ bic to interpret that step as a rebuke
/ to Mr.. Bryan2 How is il possible 70
( interpret that appointment as an in
/ dOrsement Of the Worlds claim that
Y criticism Of the supreme court was a
moral crime" in the presence Of the
/ Worlds present-day admission that
! the prestige Of the court was in need
I Of restoration
President Baer. Of the Philadelphia
/ & Reading railroad. is applying TO do
I nestle industry the same theory that
/ the president applies 10 the Philippine
I question Our strenuous executive
\ thinks that our nation has been provi-
| dentiaIly entrusted with the care, dis
! cipline and exploitation of the Fill
p5nos and Mr. Baer thinks that the
/ rights and interests Of the labOring
\ man viii be protected and cared for,
I not by the labor agitatOrs. but by the
i Christian men to whom God in His in
/ finite wisdom has given control Of the
| property interests Of the country This
/ eOmplaeent philosophy seems 10 per
| wade all republican policies A carpet
/ bag government will look after helpless
| subjects in the Orient, the trust mag
/ mates will look after the small indus
/ tries which are being forced to the
| WALL the inanciers will look after
| railroad rates and the manufacturers
viii attend 70 the tariff lawsuits is
/ the plan. and according to the self
/ appointed guardians il is a Divine pl-n.
I but what do the wards think about II?
/ paper. says: But the fact that pro-
| lection has done so much is as far as
! possible from justifying the abuse Of it
by what may be called the hog ele-
ment in trade. IL is a perfectly fair
game for the opposition TO show up
/ trusts that. entrenched behind prOtec-
/ tive laws. either tariff or patents. sell
| their goods abroad at lower figures
than they sell them at to the very ma
/ ton whose people give them the pro-
/ lection that is their life II is robbery
/ The man who said he was selling goods
below cost. and so could only main
/ tain himself by doing a very large bust
ness at il. is q by-wOrd for idiOcy. No
/ successful concern sells its products at
| less than cost and if goods can be
/ sold at a certain figure in London or
South Africa. when made in America,
/ then they can be sold for more profit
right where they are made, and the
man who denies that seriously needs
| a CONSERVATION. The protection given
to trusts that sell abroad cheaper than
at home should be taken OF at once"
Those republican organs and orators
who protest against tariff revision
might employ their spare moments dur
ing the campaign in framing a reply
to this republican newspapers inter
esting statement
No more justifiable arraignment was
ever made OF a political party than
that made Of the republican party when
the St. Paul Globe said: Day by day
the trusts tighten their grip upon the
throat OF the republican party and ne
is a dull one indeed who believes for
q moment that the party can ever ex-
tricate itself from the clutches Of the
monopOIies it has created In fact. II
has no desire to if the trusts viii keep
producing the campaign Doodle
The officers Of a labor union have
been Jailed for contempt because they
refused to bring the unions books into
court when ordered 10 do So The meat
trust officials refused 20 obey a similar
order. but up 20 date no meat trust
officials have been sent to jail
If any Of the reOrganizers who were
frightened out Of the democratic party
in 1886 by the fear OF a silver panic
will read Secretary Shaw's interview
they viii find tariff reform viii, accord
ing 70 this eminent authority, cause
much worse panic
While Mr.. Rnox's attention was
called TO the men at the other table.
a lot OF thTesher manufacturers got
together and formed a trust without
paying any attention 10 the jingling Of
shackles along the shores Of Oyster
Bay
The 10000 employees let out by the
formation OF the harvester trust might
prodtably employ their time for the
next week or two recalling the siren
song Of the "let well enough alone"
vOcalists in 1900.
According to Secretary Shaw's logic,
millions Of people must endure with
our murmuring a continuance Of tariff
exaction because revision Of the tariff
might injure a handful OF tariff pro-
tected monopOlists-
When a cabinet officer defends a
trust he ought to state how much that
particular trust contributed 70 the
campaign fund The mutually Of the
transaction would thc1 be understood.