Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-02


Ills further order that the Govern
ment Printing Office and all other
Of government labor
should have an open door, and that
be no man Disseminated |
against on account Of the fact that he |
did not belong to come labor union. |
I also said that time that 1t was up to
the labor unions to make the next
move. Well, they have made the move,
and now the president is requested to
move. It is up to him In such shape
that he must either fish, cut bait or
get oat Of the boat. Some Of the
commentators on current events In
this city are trying to make the people
believe that this is move on the
part of Mark Hanna to get Roosevelt
embroiled with the labor unions of
the country and "do him" out of the
nomination. Well, mov be it is but If
so you can wager your life that the
Hon. Markus Alonzo Hanna will offer
a strenuous deniol of the same, for he
is now engaged in the struggle of
his life TO get back to the Senate.
and if it came to the ears of Roose-
welt in an authoritative way that
Hanna was putting the knife into him
in any such way he would forthwith
Announce that the Federal patronage
of the state Of Ohio would be under
the control of one Senator Foraker, amp
that would eternally cruelty Hanna,
and he knows it better that anybody.
Whoever put up the job on Roosevelt,
1t is a "corker. He must either fire
Miller and take back water on his or
der knocking union labor or go
under; mEst either crawtish or be
cruciied. If he refuses the unions that
now occupy q high seat in the Offices
of the government will say nothing.
but they will saw wood, and their
confreres on..the outside will begin
whetting their knives for the gentle
man in the White House to be put In
at the election next year, provided the
democrats have sense enough to nomin-
q to man who is acceptable to the Ia
Dor interest of the country. It is folly
for labor or Hanna to talk of defeating
Roosevelt for the nomination. Hen ow
practically has enough votes pledged
to nominate him, and nominate no
matter how much the senatorial cabal
against him desire to see him defeat
ed for the nomination, he will, never
theless and notwithstanding, be the
republican standard bearer in the
campaign next year. If the democratic
party will nominate some man in
whom labor has confidence the game
is won, for no matter what action is
taken by the President now, in this
case in the Government Printing
Office, labor is done with him good
and hard. Verbum sap.
The "Iowa idea'an the blast
against the high tariff wall made from
the bugle of tho Hon. Joseph Weeks
Babock. of Wisconsin, which be swal-
lowed In the last campaign, are not
the only notes Of discomfort we her
nowadays from some of the faithful of
the protection propaganda. Congress-
man Lowering. of Massachusetts. is
out in statement that Sin case Of
all articles used in the manufacture of
goods which are exported he would
remove the duty. altogether He said
in an interview. not long ago, that
there is growing demand for relief
from the tariff br1den and it will
make itself. .felt::before, long," He also
said that be believed that "President
Roosevelt ment to do the right thing,
but he is surrounded by all kinds of
advisers who oppose tariff changes and
is influenced by them. It seems to be
no policy revision.'' So the President
is struggling, poor man 'to do the
right thing but the bad men srof the
trusts have control Of him and his pol
icy. He now Is to smother all agita-
tion for tariff reform. That means
that he has joined Hanna and his
standpatters, and for the political
reasons is content to "let we'll enough
alone. " It Is we'll enough for the
trusts and the combines of high prices
and ext tion to the American peo-
pie.
This picture of the control of the re-
publican party and the coercion of the
President by the trust magnates and
the monopolists, should open the eyes
Of the voters everywhere to the hard
game they are now up against. It ia