Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-01-21

HIM a petition from a majority of
the Members of the House, regard
less of politics, and he was met
with the answer that he would
better bring with him a copy of
the Lords Prayer. In other
words. he was turned down fiat
and cold and no Juggling of words
and no appeals from a Democratic
source would bulge the Republi-
can chairman who had charge of
the fate of the freezing people.
Then the Senate, through Senator
Vest, of Missouri, took up the
matter and was pressing it home
to the Republicans i'm such manner
that the champion of the protected
interests in the Senate. Mr.. AID
rich, of Rhode Island. saw that
something had TO be done or he
would lose control of his Republi-
can cohorts in the Senate and give
the Democrats some good campaign
material by allowing Democratic
measure for the relief of the peo-
pie to 90 through the Senate which
the House could not afford to turn
down. He asked for time and
said that there would be some
thing doing in this regard from a
Republican quarter and argued
that all measures ofecting the rev
enueS OF the Government should
originate in the House. Sure
enough the Senate. playing the
game of politics while the people
freeze. refused To consider the
Vest mea>re and allow the House
Committee on Ways and Means to
bring in bill taking the tariff
off coal for the period of one wear.
thus making. ostcnsibIy. q great
show OF interest for the welfare of
the people. The bill passing the
House by practically UNANIMOUS
vote. every Democrat In the House
voting for it and the only six votes
against the measure were from
hide bound ProtcctioniSt Republi-
cans. The bill was Immediately
rushed To the Senate and there il
met Snag a the Republicans had
become alarmed and when it came
up ii was amended 80 that the tar
i'll on anthracite coal alone was
completely eliminated without
reference 10 time. much 10 the
aStoniShment and chagrin of the
ultra protcctioniSts like Aldrich.
II was rushed back TO the House
and the Senate amendment was
concurred in amid the cheers and
jeerS of the Democrats. They had
compelled the Republicans To swal-
low a dose of good Democratic
doctrine by knocking one hole i'm
the protective tariff wall and they
had yell coming TO them. This
Is the beginning of the end. The
people have compelled this conccs-
sion from the tariff barons and il
has been wrung from them hy
Democratic contention and when
the people start on the Democratic
road once they will not stop until
they have gone father than this.
Mark the prediction.
Another phase of this coal bust
ness has been the exposition of the
fake promises on the part of this
administration to deal with the
trust question. Loud and lone
were the promises made by the
President of the United States i'm
the campaign last fall that the
trusts must be controlled and must
obey the law of the land. How
have those promises been kept.
With the exception of couple of
bluffs made At the beef trust and
the Northern Pacific Railroad mer-
gers, not one thing has been done.
and Yet the evidence of the exiS-
tence of trusts have been thrust AT
the Attorney-General of the United
States only To be utterly ignored
by that truSt-controlled official.
At his own expense Mr.. William
Randolph Hearst. the editor and
proprietor of the New York Amer
lean, the Chicago American and
the San Francisco Examiner.
through his attorneys. gathered
ample evidence of the exiStance of
the anthracite coal trust and the
combination Of the coal roads OF
Pennsylvania To convict them un-
der the Sherman antitrust law
both civillY and criminallN. Al
this evidence was placed in the
hands of the District Attorney in
New York and he was about tc