Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-05-14

evidently thinks 0snerwase, Tor ne
said here the other day after read
ing in the Washington Evening
Star" a defence of A. w. Machen,
Superintendent Of Free Delivery, by
Postmaster General Payne, that
Macben would have 70 go and that
his suspension or discharge had
been ordered by the President be-
fore he left on his western trip; that
If the Postmaster General did not
get rid Of Machen there would be
something doing in the resignation
line in Mr.. Payne's Office. and the
Postmaster General would be forced
out Of the Cabinet. Mr.. Payne is
now between the devil and the deep
blue sea. II he kicks out Bob
Wynne, who started the investiga-
ton, Wynne will pull down the
temple. Machen knows too much.
and IL he is kicked out he will play
the same game, and there you are.
In the meantime the democrats are
holding their noses and watching
the fun.
There are nearly 10000 immi-
grants a week handing in New York.
These men are comRg over 10 en-
joy the great prosperity in this coun-
try. The way they will find it is
by taking the places Of the strikers
now on a strike for higher wages.
In this way they will act as strike
breakers for the trusts and the
trusts thereby experience no dim
mutton in their own prosperity.
How does organized labor like
that?
1t is almost heartrending CD to
view the debris of busted trusts
scattered all over the country,
wrought by the Legislation passed
by the late republican Congress (?)
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The only trust In this country
now in bad way is the anth racite
coal trust. Ii is in hole with the
sides soaped and no ladder in sight,
and it was not deposited in this
cavity by the republican admins
tration, but by a good demrcrat.
viz: William Randolph Hearst.
Mr.. Hearst's attorneys have pro-
we'd every contention before the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
They have backed the trust up in q
corner and the trust refuses to pro-
duce its contracts. The courts will
be asked to compel them to produce
them. Those contracts will prove
them innocent or guilty of an in
fraction OF the law regulating inter-
state commerce. If they were inno-
cent what sane man believes they
would hesitate to produce them and
confound the man who is after them.
Remember, this is not being done
by a republican administration
sworn to execute the laws, but by
a democratic member of Congress
who is doing it in the interest of
law and order and the pockets of
the people.
There seems to be q growing dis
cord in the prosperity chorus. The
most Of the trade and commercial
journals of the country who make
their living of the protected indus
tries have been bowling in one con-
tinuous and harmonious chorus
about the abundant and republican
sent prosperity. Some of them sre
beginning to back pedal" and to
assert that we have already ceased
to be prosperous. The most pessi-
mistic of these is perhaps the Wool
and Cotton Reporter" which ex-
plains the poor sales of wooden goods
this year and the prosperity of the
shoddy industry by saying that the
coal and other trusts have brought
about such high prices that the pur-
chasing power of the people is cur
tailed aud that they cannot afford to |
wear anything but cheap clothes,
which, according to the republican
idea, makes cheap man. Is il pos
sible that the trusts are going to be-
gin making mouths at one another,
that the pot is going to call the ket-
tie black? II so. honest men may
get their dues.
1t is believed that the President
has arrived at an acute period of his
for the republican nomi-
nation. He has got to the baby kis-
sing stage of the game. Next on
the programme will be the trust hug
ging- stunt.
Everybody interested in the adj
ninistration is beginning to shy
rocks at General Miles for his re-
port of the conditions existing in the