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Especial Washington Letter.1
WY debating with Senator JonaN
than Prentiss Dolliver Of Iowa,
Senator J. Ralph Burton Of
Kansas, Representative Charles
b. Lands Of Indiana and Representa-
tive @. 81. Grosvenor of Ohio have not
only been leading strenuous life, but
have discovered the argument by which
the Republicans hope to win this year
and in 1904. It is the old and falla-
ctous argument, Cum hoe, ergo prop
tor hoe" ('Because two things exist to-
Sether one necessarily produces tho
other'')~ OF course 1t is preposterous,
but the late Phineas T. Barnum, pro-
'prietor Of the greatest show on earth,
always maintained that the American
people love to be humbugged, and he
grew vastly rich and prospered might
lily by living up to and acting on that
cynical theory. He was also author Of
the famous dictnm that "a sucker Is
born every minute" Most assuredly
Republican orators have pondered Bar
NUNS words in their hearts and pro-
pose to make them the rule and guide
lfor their faith and practice.
Talk to them of the criminal folly of
our proconsular government in the
philippines and they yell at the top
OF their voices, Corn was selling at
20 cents q bushel in 1896; now it
brings 35!' That's their yell in farm
ling communities. They try to reverse
1t In the cities. Tell them that tariff
law which enables an American manu-
facturer to sell his wares abroad to
foreigners for two-thlrds Of what he
sells them to Americans for is an out
rage and ought to be repealed and they
shout, There is $500, 100000 more Of
gold in the United States than there
was in 1896" They then claim that
THE Republicans raised the price Of
corn and made the gold which has been
mined in Alaska, coolly ignoring the
fact that four lean years in Europe put
up the price of our food products and
that Democrats had fully as much to
do in digging that Alaskan gold as Re-
publicans had. Tell them that our
gold supply has been increased because
the balance Of trade has been in our
favor and they at once below them
selves hoarse asserting that Repub-
llicans caused the balance Of trade to
come our way, thereby virtually claim
ing that Republicans raised every
ibushel Of wheat, oats, corn rye, barley
and potatoes, every pound of beef,
pork, mutton and hay, which we have
shipped abroad to feed hungry Euro
peans in the last I'VE OF six years, and
that the millions Of Democrats IN the
land have sat sucking their thumbs all
that time and have contributed nothing
whatsoever to creating the surplus
products of farm, mine, shop, riyel
and forest which have enriched oul
people. And they expect to win by
dumping such monstrous fables. sucf
Ipreposterous canards, into the ears o,
sane citizens. 1t is written, Render
Therefore unto Caesar the things which
be Caesars and unto God the thing!
which be Gods" precept which Re
publican stumpers blasphemously VIC
late by claiming that Republican,
cause the sun to shine and the rains K
fall, simply because they happen to b,
i'm power.
Following voltaire's Advice.
In our debate at the Chautauqua Sen
ator Burton glorifed the Republican
party because more boots and shoes ar
made and worn by the American PEG
pie now than before the civil war. jus
las II 100000 Americans would no
make and wear more shoes than woult
SO, 900 900 Americans under any sort o
administration whatsoever. A maj
wild uses such an argument as tina
must necessarily assume that. his audi
'ence is largely composed Of fools.
Tell them that God grew the tree!
for the use Of his children and that the
tariff on lumber Is q tax on a prime
necessity of life and retards home
building and the answer is that people
ought to vote the Republican ticket be
cause the Republicans saved the I'm
iona self evident lie, because it was
all that the Republicans, aided by mil
lions Of war Democrats" could do to
put down the rebellion; but Yoltaira
knew what he was doing when he
cynically declared, keep on lying and
some of 1t will stick
Tell them that trusts should be throt.
tied, and they solemniy and vociferous.
ly asseyerate that John Sherman, whom
they would never nominate for presi
dent, but whom they now apotheosize
was the author OF the Sherman anti
trust law, when every intelligent mar
betwixt the two oceans knows thai
John Sherman, who was not much OF
a lawyer, never wrote q word Of the
DO called Sherman antitrust law except
hbe enact1ag clause. What John did dc
was to introduce a rambling, mean.
tngless antitrust law to afford him a
prete1t for making q vituperative
speech against General Russell A. AL.
ger, whom he accused Of buying his
southern delegates away from him at
the Chicago national Republican con-
'vention Of 1883 and whom he hated
worse than be hated Old Nick. Sher-
mans bill was referred to the judiciary
committee of the senate, composed of
great lawyers like George of Mississip.
pi. Vest Of Missouri and Hoar of Mas
sachusetts, who could not have been
Induced to report such a poorly con
structed bill. So these illustrious dis.
Iciples of Blackstone and Kent laid
their heads together and constructed