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mo farther shalt thou go.'' It's a
great pity that England was not made |
to keep her hands off and let Russia
have her way. Recently Il Russian
consul was murdered by Turks. More
recently an attempt was made by them
to assassinate an American consul. The
United States should join Russia in an
appeal to the other civilized nations of
the earth to drive the Turks back to
Asia, where they belong. They are a
blot on the face of Europe. Their
butchery of men, women and children
indiscriminately in Macedonia causes
the gorge of every decent man in Amer
lea to rise. If Napoleon and Car
Alexander could have agreed on their
Tilslt raft as to which should have
Constantinople the Turks would have
been expelled from Europe century
ago. Great pity that they could not
agree. The Turk must go!
The Root of the Trouble.
Under the above caption the New
York World prints the following edi-
torial:
currency systems have the same cause
q redundant revenue.
Bills are already preparing for introduce
ton at the extra session of congress pro-
viding way in which the banks can get
a regular and larger share of the govern
ment's surplus revenue-of course with
out interest
But why should there be surplus rev.
enue of $5O,O00,0OO a year? Is there any
better place for all the money not needed
by the government than in the pockets of
the men who earned it?
Again, we hear of the movement to
pass service pension bill which would
wipe out the surplus at one fell swoop. If
not spent in pensions the excessive rev.
enue Is certain to be temptation to
grafters and grabbers of some other kind.
An "overfowing treasury is perpetual
Indictment to extravaganza. Would any
Of the surplus lending or surplus spending
schemes now in contemplation have the
ghost of chance II money to pay for
them had to be raised by new taxes?
Still again, our tariff protected monopo-
lies. though the stocks of some Of them
have been badly squeezed in Wall street
are still working on full time to supply
the home market with goods at from 10 to
so per cent above their prices in foreign
countries 1t Is the maintenance OF these
high duties which shelter monopoly"
that produces the redundant revenue,
premium on congressional extravaganza.
Rooted evils require radical remedies.
The first duty of congress Is to reduce the
taxes and return to rigid economy IN
public expenditures. Unnecessary taxa
ton Is unjust taxation" and unjust taxa
ton is robbery.
"cheap Wheat john"
II the Nebraska Republicans persist
in pressing the claims" Of Hon. John
L. Webster for the Republican nomina.
ton for vice president and should sue
coed in their endeavors they will fur
nish the Republicans with a heavy
load to carry, for Hon. John LIS sobrt-
| quet in Nebraska is "Cheap Wheat
john" which would undoubtedly cause
| the farmers to whoop 1t up for HMM
| horn.
Indefinitely Postponed.
That Republican supremacy in Mis-
souri, is indefinitely postponed is dem.
onstrated by the following editorial
paragraph from the Missouri State Re
publican, written by its brilliant editor
| E. G. Brockmeyer:
II Missouri Republicans can find men OF
intelligence and integrity and plenty OF
backbone to lead them. factionalism will
cease. Then, and not until then. Will
Missouri go Republican.
Brockmeyer also lets in food Of
light upon the much Wanted Repub
lican Harmony, with big, big 81
when he says:
A deserving Republican cannot be found
in Missouri who did not belong to one o.
the other Of the party factions. II he DID
| not openly fight the party boodlers tina
represented the Kerens faction and thu
strive to maintain the supremacy of thu
party's integrity, he has no claims fo
party honors. He has failed to render hi
party service when most needed.
ct Tu, lowal
i The st. Louis Globe Democrat set
4 up an ear splitting howl because, as
alleges, Major Vardeman. the newt.
/ nominated Democratic candidate TO
governor, favors the repeal of the four
4 teenth and fifteenth amendments. Won
der If the CD. ever heard Of the Scrip
4 tural injunction about removing tn
beam from ones own eye before making
objection to the mote in the optic o
somebody else? Why does not tn
CD. jump on those Iowans up ut Wa
terloo for ordering all the colored PEG
pie to leave town? What is sauce TO
the southern goose ought to be sauct
for the northern gander. Why shoult
Iowa Republicans be permitted t
abuse Sambo and order him to NOV
"a? The Globe-Democrat's denuncia
ton of yardeman and its dense ed
torial silence as to the Republican ne
gro haters of Waterloo, Ia, can be &C
counted for only on the great principle
enunciated by Josh Billings that 9TH
best place to have boil is on some
body else's back"
Amazingly Indefinite.
/ Certain Missouri Republican scribes
having nothing else with which t
amuse their readers and themselves
have been writing up this and tina
Missouri Republican as possible vic
presidential nominee. OF course til
thing has been simply ridiculous iron
the beginning. Now, Colonel Richar'
G. Kerens, who has been furnishing
the sinews of war to the Missouri Re
publicans for some years. has been in
terviewed on the subject by Tact,
brand new newspaper. The interview
displays the colonel's faculty for sar
casm:
After a conference in the east with Sen
ator Hanna, and numerous party leader
Richard c. Kerens, Republican nationa
committeeman from Missouri. returned t
his home in st. Louis very much i'm
pressed with the idea that Missouri ma
should be nominated with Roosevelt o.