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big bore statesmen in Washington. He
has introduced bill into the Missouri
senate appropriating money enough to
start state binder twine factory.
Senator Biggs, who has investigated
the twine subject thoroughly, declares
that his plan will save to the farmers
from to 5 cents per pound on binder
twine, which means vast saving to
Missouri farmers in the aggregate.
They will rise up and call Senator
Biggs blessed. If the binder twine
project is successful and from the fig
ures collated by Senator Biggs it must
be so-the same plan can be extended
to other articles. and in this way, one
by one, the trusts will be starved out,
which is perhaps the easiest and most
expeditions way of getting rid of them.
Senator Biggs is a great public bene-
factor. am glad to be one of his con-
stituents; am proud that he is one of
mine.
Remarkable.
"What is bred in the bone will never
come out of the flesh is an old saying
worthy of acceptance. early impress
sions are never effaced" is another of
the same sort Very much depends on
whose OK is gored" is another ancient
proverb full of wisdom. All these
wise dicta have been recalled to mind
by a vigorous outbreak of "state
rights fever in Massachusetts, Mas
sachusetts, which during the last half
Ioe irrJ,&
on being par excellence the foe of the
''heresy of state rights" She has
lately done an act which if performed
down south in Dixie would have been
denounced as treason, or at least as
miSprision of treason, by all the super
loyal editors within the bailiwick of
the north star and the aurora borealis.
The old Bay State has had the nerve
to arrest, convict and fine DR.. Thomp-
son, a federal inspector of cattle, for
alleged cruelty in killing cattle suffer
| ing from the foot and mouth disease!
OF course Massachusetts was not OBJ
| jecting to the killing of the cattle, for
the federal government is paying for
all killed, and probably paying two or
but the federal doctor was fined for not
administering an9sthetics = that is
! what we are led to believe from the
press dispatches at any rate. And it
was in the town of Concord, where
s'the embattled farmers picked off the
British regulars and where Ralph
| Waldo Emerson lived and moved and
spouted philosophy, that this late day
assertion of state rights was made by
Massachusetts. 1t will be remembered
however, by those who have paid any
| attention to our early history that in
! the beginning Massachusetts was
much greater stickler for state rights
| than was South Carolina and proposed
more amendments to the constitution
of the United States at the time of its
adoption In the Concord case she was
merely giving evidence that she is re-
turning to her first love. Henry Cabot
Lodge must bestir himself.
PIucky.
Miss Rebecca J. Taylor, spinster and
ex-clerk in the war department, has
| the courage of her convictions. Miss
| Taylor has instituted suit against Hon.
Elihu Root to ascertain through judi
! cial decisions whether this is really ''the
i land of the free or a satrapy or des-
potism in which freedom of speech is
not permitted She was some time last
spring unceremoriously fired" from
her position i'll the war department for
criticising the administrations policy
in the Philippines. She evidently la
| bored under the delusion that since the
sedition laws passed in the administra-
ton of old John Adams were repealed
| the denizens of this country have bad
and still have the right to wag their
tongues ad libitum. That is precisely
/ where Rebecca came to grief. She
should have known that it is leze maj
esty to criticise anything the Republic
ans do They have one syllogism by
| which they prove that they own this
| country. 1t runs in this wise: "The
| earth belongs to the saints; we are the
| saints; therefore the earth belongs to
u.s." And, being by their own logic
lords of all, they have right to pun
ish anybody or everybody that calls
| into question the purity, wisdom, patri-
otism and eXpediency of what they do.
/ Rebecca went into court to discover
| why Elihu ousted her. In the crisis Of
her affairs litigant her counsel with
| drew from the case and left her alone.
| Did she quit? Not much! She pro-
/ poses to try her own case, and let US
hope that the old saw which tells US
~, III low
yer has fool for client does not ap-
ply to a woman similarly situated. Re-
becca has justice on her side, but she
may not have the court, as federal
courts are appointed by federal admin
istrations and may lean toward the
appointing power. All decent folks
will wish Rebecca well.
Made Sensation.
The chief sensation in official circles
recently III Washington has been the
scandal growing out of the Holland
submarine boat controversy. All the
persons mixed up in this malodorous
transaction are Republicans. Much
will never be known, but this much is
known-tbat two out of three eminent
Republicans who swore before the
committee swore falsely, and one of
the two who swore falsely is either a
Republican congressman or a Repub-
lican ex- congressman. Swearing as
they did, both could not be swearing to
the truth. The Washington Star, a
redhot Republican paper, contains the
following editorial:
NATIONAL SCANDAL.
Scandal more disgusting has seldom be-
fore been caused by the conduct of ma
/. tional legislation than that which marks
the bribery charges now being investigat-
ed by the house committee on naval af
fairs. Startling at the outset, the case
has daily grown more nauseating until
yesterdays session produced what it is
hoped will prove to be the climax of the
surprises. The testimony of Doblin re-
tracing that previously given by him in
corroboration of Representative l4essler
not only shocks the public, but 1t puts the
whole case in a deplorable condition as re-
CARDS the chances of learning the truth.
Doblin now stands without credence, and
inasmuch as he appears to have been the