Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-09
Washlnot Ton letter

the law Of the country such a. ours
commits . Grim not only Of infamy
but Of insanity" -. -: ~:>
The opinion exists here that the
above comes with rather poor grace
from Gov. Durbin, who has refused
to honor the reputation of the state
Of Kentucky for one Of the men accused
Of the murder Of Gov. Goebel when
the law and the constitution requires
the perpetrators Of such crimes to be
delivered up to justice. La he hardly
a st man to read lectures on what Ia
right and wrong2 It is admitted that
to violently assail . law that is rob-
bling the people Of the United States
such as the Dingley tariff law, is a
crime to the trust magnates who pro-
it by 1t. To denounce the laws in
several states that tax the small home
and the little personal property of the
poor man on it's value, and let the
corporations and the millions of with
only paying 30 to 80 per cent, is in
sanity according to Hanna and the re-
publican leaders in Ohio. To all such
the law is TOO sacred to be tempered
with, and Gov. Durbin only echoes
the crv of the trusts and corporations,
who In most cases have paid for the
unrighteous laws passed recently have
been passed by republicans, and the
shoe is beginning to pinch when the
people are beginning to cry out against
them, and hence the howl by the gov.
ernor of Indiana, who stands for every
thing the trusts demand. If the people
Of Indiana like that sort Of thing and
that sort Of governor, they may con.
tinue to worship their own fetish, and
the thinking people Of this country
will draw their own conclusions con.
corning the mental condition Of Indi.
ans's population.
There seem to be gradually intensi-
flying desire on the partof many people
in the country and especially the men
Of prominence who visit this city, to
know exactly what it was happened
to Mr.. Magelssen. our vice consul 70
Beireut. Thus far not morsel of in
formation has been vouchsafed from
any quarter. Our feet was ordered to
Syrian port on the strength Of report
by Minister Leishman, at Constanti-
nople, to the effect that Mr.. Megalssen
had been assassinated. Admiral Cot
ton reached Beireut some days after
only to find Magelssen was alive and
we'll. It is transpired, moreover. that,
up to the time the assassination
roorbapk was sent by Minister Liesh-
man, there had been no HUSTLE de-
monstrations by the Mohammedan
population Of the city or its immedi-
ate neigh borhood. There have been
since, We are told, but that is intelli-
gent enough. We are told what would
occur in any Of our seaport towns were
a foreign government to send q blust-
ering fleet there on false report,
and without stopping to ask for explain
atoms. What bothers folks, however,
is the fact that after all this time not
q single ray Of light has been shed
upon the mystery. Here we are jump
ing on the collar of nation with
which we are supposed to be an amio-
able terms. yet no one seems to know
why the denomination was made, still
less why 1t was persisted in. There
seems to be chen on" some place
but no man can locate it.
You can cut the silence of the admin.
istration with a knife at this time,
but there was no hesitation, no state
craft, no deep, dark, willy reticence
when it came to giving out the news
Of the assassination, or making pub
lie the prompt and vigorous action of
the government in ordering the fleet
to the scene of the tragedy in buck
ram. Can 1t be possible that our ad-
of the government is
garrulous for effect upon the public
mind, and that it becomes majestic
ally reserved only when there are
blunders to conceal? Think it over.
The recent action of the prominent
Of the country make it
clear that all the talk INDUCED by some
Of their leaders anent tariff reform
and revision is the merest "'guff. 1.-The
Iowa idea was rampant some time
ago, and Governor Cummins of that
state was standing upon his hind legs
and wildly. waving his ears and howl
ing for some relief from the exac-
tions Of the tariff wall, and demand
ing 1t at once. He now is cooling like
q sucking dove, as mild as q May
morn, and he says that q revision
should not be made In the face of a
national campaign. but that We should
wait until 1905 before attempting any,
thing like q tariff revision. This