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and smoke-as was intended in most
cases no doubt. While all these high
and mighty functionaries have been
Fostering their puissant and august
heads in Matching schemes and in keep
ing up deafening racket as to what
dreadful things they were meditating
against the trusts plain, level head
ed Missouri farmer, Hon. NJ. r. X.
, Biggs, who is one Of my constituents
and the state senator from the senate
rial district in which 1 live, has done
more to throttle the trusts than all the
big bore statesmen in Washington. He
has introduced bill into the Missouri
senate appropriating money enough to
start state binder Irvine factory.
Senator Biggs, who has investigated
the Irvine subject thoroughly, declares
that his plan will save to tile farmers
from to 5 cents per pound on binder
Irvine, which means IL vast saving to
Missouri farmers in the aggregate.
They will rise up and call Senator
Biggs blessed. If the binder Irvine
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 III this way, one
by one, the trusts will lie starved out,
which is perhaps the easiest and most
expeditions way of getting rid of them.
Senator Biggs is a great public bene-
factor. I am glad to be one of his con-
stituents; am proud that lie 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. Every 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
century has plumed herself nightly
on being par excellence the foe of the
'sheresy 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, federal inspector of cattle, for
alleged cruelty in killing cattle suffer.
ing from the foot and mouth disease!
OF course Massachusetts, was not OBJ
tecting to the killing Of the cattle, for
the federal government Is paying for
all killed, and probably paying two or
three times as much as they are worth,
but the federal doctor was fined for not
administering anmsthetics = that is
what we are led to believe from the
press dispatches at any rate. And ii
was in the town of Concord, where
1.-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,
Il
attention to our early history that in
the beginning Massachusetts was a
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.
Plucky.
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
land of the free" or a satrapy or des-
potisnl in which freedom of speech is
not permitted. She was some time last
spring unceremoniously fired" from
her position in the war department for
| criticising the administrators 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 had
and still have the right to wag their
tongues nd 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: 1.-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, ana let us
hope that the old saw which tells us
that man who acts as his own law
yer has fool for client does not ap-
ply to 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 we'll.
Made Sensation.