Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-05-01

past ten years exposing the fallacies
Of high protection, the farmers Of the
country who suffer most from this.
game, would today be al
most unanimous in their opposi tion to
protection. We have no fountain of
wealth flohed from the pockets OF the
people from which to draw and there
fore the people do not get the truth
They get only the honied sophistries
from an organized band of public
plunderers and 60 letting we'll enough
alone" until the band is bursting with
Doodle. When the members are gorged
and get to quarreling am ong them
selves as they are now doing then the
people will begin to get a glimpse of
the truth. It remains to be seen how
much longer the people will stand for
this sort Of thing and be beguiled by
this American Protective Tariff
League. It got them to pass the Nc
Kinley and the Dingley bills with
which to abstract money from their
pockets, it defeated the Cuban reci-
procity IN easure and now it has scared
the President of the United States by
threatening to defeat him unless he
abandoned he"Iowa" idea and stands
for all they desire in the way OF high
protection. The people can stop it,
but the probability is they won't
until their bellies become empty.
Bellairs, the swi ndler and convict,
who is an Associated Press representa-
tive, sent the news of General Leonard
Woods marvellous success as an
administrator in Santiago first, subse-
quently In Havana as Governor Gener-
al, has been exposed. He is nowknown
Is man named Ballsntine from Nor
folk county, England. He is in the
New York Rogues' Gallery. He is de-
scribed by Byrnes ss the most success
full confidence man of the world. He
was convicted Of forgery in Florida
and three years after the expiration
Of his term he was, under the name of
Bellairs. informing the American pub
lie Of Cuban affairs. He was Woods
guide, counsellor and friend. He was
on, 1t Is seriously asserted, three dis
tinct Cuban psyrolls. He then, after
making Wood, twas sent to the Phil
ippines and for two years the Philip
pine news came to this country fl
tered through this moral sewer.
Exposure came to him through his
book, In which he denounced Gov.
Taft and extolled Wood and declared
that Wood should be sent to replace
Taft. Taft's friends exposed Bellairs.
It the republican ''grafters fight fire.
quently enough we may learn ALL
the truth about this administration,
but they are not likely to. Common
cause will assert its influence. Bel
lairs, however brilliant as a swindler
he may be. is only an incident.
What Of Wood, the Presidents greatest
frlend?, What Of the charges against
Wood 80 lightly dismissed by secre-
tary Root? Did..Wood know of BEL
lairs' real name, record and character ?
Did not some army officers denounoe
Bellatrs to Wood, and did not the lat
ter, despite that fact, continue his asso-
citation with Bellairs9 Why was the
administration Of Cuba 10 expensive
under Wood9 Palma has governed more
firmly; more quietly and much less
expensively. How about the: gam
bling monopoly Wood fastened for ten
years on Havana3 We do know
that he did get from the stockholders
Of this gambling monopoly q $500
service, and It is said that he admit
ted the service into Cuba free of duty
four days before its presentation. How
about the contracts let and franchises
granted by Woods And yet Wood ia
slated by Roosevelt to be the head of
the army-the Lieutenant General,
According to Dun's table of prices,
the cost of living is 40 per cent higher
now than in 1897. When the working