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The Springfield herald., 1904-10-21

classes; that the army and navy are too
big; that the nation has been run extrav-
agantly and that the expenditures for the
army. navy. pension list. panama canal,
rural free delivery service. irrigation
schemes and other grand purposes of ma
tional development must be reduced; that
the beneficent despotism" of the Re-
publican party estu blished and maintain
eI by the people must give way to that
Democracy of which he is the leader, and
which proposes to stand the country on
its head as beginning of the reform.
The judge would have ''hard row to
hoe" IL he began to talk in public and
tell the Westerner he must do as the
Fastener does. and to assure the laborer
in shop and field that reformatory legis-
lation must at first be for the relief Of
the wealthy.
He recognizes his weakness in these
matters-knows that he could not speci-
fy as to his accusations. could not con-
vince as to his proposed reforms; could
not successfully defend the revolutions
which his party proposes to inaugurate
in public affairs.
He is wise to recognize thus early In
the campaign that "silence is golden"
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DEMOCRATS w,TA THE TRUSTS.
Tho Showing Made When n Vote was
Taken In the House.

Tho Showing Made When Vote Was
Taken In the House.
The present laws which place whole
some restrictions on the trusts were put
on the statutes by the Republican party
and not by the Democratic party. Loud
ly as the Democrats have always talked
against the trusts, and seriously as they
have from time to time awakened appre-
hension in all business circles by their
threats that they would destroy all large
corporations whether good or bad, yet
never once have the Democrats accom-
plished or even aided in the accomplish
ment of. any salutary effort to control
the trusts along lines of public safety.
The rulings of the Supreme Court hav-
ing shown that as the constitution now
stands, Congress can only regulate trusts
engaged in interstate commerce, the fol-
lowing amendment was introduced in
the House of Representatives and press
ed to a vote on June 1, 1900:
Section !: All powers conferred by this
article shall extend to the several States,
and all territory under the sovereignty and
subject to the Jurisdiction Of the United
States.
Section 2. Congress shall have power
to define, regulate. control, prohibit. or dis
solve trusts monopolies or combinations.
whether existing in h the form Of eom6na
continue to exercise such power In any man
ncr not III conflict with the laws OF the
United States.
Section 3. Congress shall have power to
enforce the provisions of this article by
appropriate legislation.
The clause saving all rights of States
was inserted in the hope of inducing
State-rights Democrats to support the
amendment. Nevertheless, the vote stood
14S Republicans for and 100 Democrats
against, and the measure failed of the
necessary two-thrds majority.
LOUDLY AS THE DEMOCRATS
TALKED. WHEN 1T CAME TO 4
VOTE THEY WERE FOR THE
TRUSTS, NOT AGAINST THEM.
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WAS DEMOCRACY INSANE 2
II So, Bryan Was a Lunatic, According
to Mr.. Cleveland.


Democracy has returned to sanity"
snid Grover Cleveland recently, in an in
terview
This statement, made with all the sol
emn ponderosity of which Mr.. Cleveland
Is capable, would imply that the Demo-
cratic party has been insane and its lead
ers set of lunatics. In previous inter-
views Mr.. Cleveland contented himself
with merely saying that Democracy had
strayed from the right path after
strange gods" when it embraced Bryan
ism, but since the defeat of the Bryan
faction at st. Louis he has been secretly
rejoicing over the apparent downfall Of
his most bitter political enemy, and on
Oct. 2, at Buzzard's Bay, he virtually
declared that Mr.. Bryan was n madman.
How do the friends OF Mr.. Bryan in
Indiana, Illinois. Nebraska and other
States relish having their leader called
lunatic? Insanity is lunacy. or mad
ness, and il the Democratic party "has
returned to sanity" it must first have
been insane, and. by the same reasoning,
il the party was insane because Bryan
was its leader, Mr.. Bryan himself must
have been the chief lunatic.
Candidate Parker is generally admitted
to be nonentity in his party-a tool Of
Hill, Sheehan and others-and what he
says counts for little, but it is different
when Mr.. Cleveland talks. He is the
oracle of the Eastern Democracy, and
il he says Bryan is insane it is certain
he voices the sentiments Of "sane" Dem
ocracy.
How can the Bryanites indorse such
slnnder on their leader by supporting
Parker? Mr.. Cleveland declined to vote
for Bryan on the ground that the Ne
braskau was insane, but lie will vote for
Parker. because he leads the sane"
Democracy ticket.
An important point seems to have been
forgotten by Mr.. Cleveland. Parker vot-
ed twice for the Nebraska "lunatic" and
was therefore one Of the host of madmen
who composed insane" Democracy. Does
Mr.. Cleveland improve his position by
now supporting one of the madmen who
voted for the leader OF "insane" Dem
ocracy?
Mr.. Cleveland's thrust at Bryan was
uncalled for, and will, no doubt, be re-
scented at the polls. for the friends of Mr..
Bryan do not think he should be put
in the straitjacket class.
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Connecticut Church Endowed.

According to the provision Of will
OF Ex-Gov. George l.. Lounsbury of
Ridgefeld, Conn, the Methodist
church of that place, where the gov
ernor's father and mother were mem
bers. is to receive $4,000, under con-
ditions that the society keep up re-
hgious services in the schoolhouse at
Farmingville, the district where the
governor lived, at least twice each
month, keep the schoolhouse In good
repair and painted. and in case it is
burned or otherwise destroyed. to put
up new one of similar proportions.
or this amount $4,000 Is to be
known as the Nathan and Della Louns-
bury fund, in honor of the testator's
father and mother. $4,000 to be known,
as the Frances Josephine Lounsbury'
fund, in honor of his wife.
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FACTS. ABOUT THE COINAGE.
Director Of the Mint Gives informa-
tion az to Old and New Issues.

Director Of the Mint Gives informa-
tion as to Old and New Issues.
The director OF the mint is called
on to answer such wide range or
questions concerning the values of
old and new coins and medals that
he has found 1t necessary to issue
circulars covering matters OF this
sort. 1t tells some interesting facts.
II appears that the mint does not buy
old coins or paper money except some
rare colonial coins in fine condition.
which are desired for the mint cabi-
net.
Mutilated or uncurrent United
States gold and silver coin is pur-
chased as bullion. The mint has no
pattern pieces for sale. The govern
ment pays no premium for the returL
of any of its coins or paper money.
New coins cannot be struck until au-
thorized by an act OF congress. The
mint supplies United States coins on
ly and not of any past date. The $50
gold piece and the half-dollar and
quarter.dollar pieces iu gold were
struck by private parties on the Cali
fornia coast during the 1S49 period
and not by the United States gov
ernment.
The coinage of the following coins
ceased in the years named: Half and
I-cent, copper, in 1857; 1-cent, nickel.
1864; half-dime and cents, silver.
and 2 cents bronze, in 1873; 20 cents.
silver, 1878; trade dollars, 1883; 81
and So. gold, and cents, nickel, 1889.
The Columbian halfdollar was coined
in 1893. The Lafayette dollar was
struck In 1899. the date on the coin
$4,000 being that OF the unveiling of
the memorial.
There are certain markings on ev-
cry United States coin that enable
the place of Its coinage to be located.
Those struck at the Philadelphia mint
have no mint mark, but those struck
at all other mints are distinguished by
a small letter on the reverse, near the
bottom. These letters are: c for
Charlotte, N. c., discontinued in 1861;
&C for Carson City, New, discontinued
in 1893; d for Dahlonega. Ca, discon-
tinued in 1861; o for New Orleans
and 8 for San Francisco.
The coins of the United States now
authorized by law are: In gold. dou-
BILE eagle. eagle, half eagle and quar-
ter eagle; in silver, half-dollar, quar-
ter-dollar and dime; minor. scent.
nickel and / cent bronze. A person
may buy a proof set OF gold coins
from the mint for $3.50 and a proof
set of silver and minor coins for
$15O. When the business Of the
mints is slack medals may be struck
from dies furnished by individuals.
public institutions and incorporated
societies, at a charge sufficient to COW
er the cost OF the operation and the
value Of the metal.
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conservative estimate OF the amount
that will accrue to this fund from the
sale of public lands during the next
twenty-five years is based at between
$GO, 100000 and S75,OOO,OOO.
Father of National Irrigation.
Under the caption, Roosevelt Is 1t,
the Garland Guard, published ut Gar
land, Big Horn County, Wyoming. among
other things says:
although Mr.. Mondell. Senator War
rem and Senator Newlands and others de-
serve credit for what they did in Con-
gress, all their efforts in behalf of the
National Irrigation Act would have
failed had it not been for the fact that
President Roosevelt championed legisla-
ton of this kind for the benefit of the
arid region. He recommended in his
first message to Congress the enactment
of such a law. and it was his indorse-
ment more than anything else which Sc
cured approval for it among the SEN
atOrs and Representatives from the East.
what chance can any Democrat think
this measure would have had if MIR.
Cleveland, instead of President Roose-
welt. had been in the White House Mt
the time it was pending in Congress! 1t
was Mr.. Cleveland who spoke of come
/ communities and it is well known that
with this part of the country he had no
sympathy. 1t was the influence of Pres
ident Roosevelt, who lived in the West
and knew its needs, that secured IL ia
vornble hearing for the proposition and
resulted at last in the passage of the bill
under which national reclamation work
is now progressing. Therefore President
Roosevelt is the father of the National
Irrigation Law"
IrriRation's Part In Civilization.
In some parts of the country politi-
clans have stated to the people that the
question of irrigation is comparatively
new. This statement is wholly untrue.
Irrigation is as old as the human race.
Agriculture is the most ancient art OF
which we have any record. 1t was the
beginning of civilization. The first ngri-
culture was accomplished through irriga-
tion. 1t was commenced, according to
scientists who have sought the records
of primitive man, under conditions of
great nridity, and the civilized cities of
the ancients were either on the edge of,
or in, the desert. The earliest civiliza-
ton of America has indelibly stamped
it's impress on Arizona and New Mexi-
co, where to-day are to be found the
remains of the cities and great irrigation
works which fourished thousands of
years before Columbus discovered Amer
lea. Almost all the ancient civilizations
which history records were based upon
irrigation, and irrigation is to-day prac-
ticed by more than half the people in the
world. Under the workings of the Ma
tional Irrigation Act it is estimated that
what is now the arid West can be made
to support $1,000, 600 of people.
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Contrasting coronations.

In strong contrast to the ceremony
OF King Peters coronation at Belgrade
recently was the simple amounting of
the ill-fated King Alexander when he
ascended the throne. The latter cere-
mony took place in the half-ruined old
church, built by King Stephen of Ser
via, who himself was crowned there
IN the thirteenth century and declared
that In future all Servian kings should
be accursed who dared to be crowned
elsewhere. The curse can be seen to
his day inscribed over the church
door.
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WHAT THE KING CANNOT DO.
Royal Preroeative In England Has
Its Limitations.

itS LIHlISdIIOH6.
1t is a prevalent and popular notion
that the power possessed by the mon.
arch is absolute and almost without
Limitation, says the Hour Glass. This
is a fallacy, as the following facts
will attest. The privileges and pow
ers relegated to royalty are manifold
and peculiar, but there are certain
things that king may not do.
While it is quite within the prov
ince of the royal preroga.ive to dis.
poSe of the entire army or navy and
also to declare war without consulting
anybody. yet our king could not util-
ize a penny of the public funds with
out permission from parliament. How
ever excellent and benefcent his mo-
tive may be for SO doing the king is
debarred from communicating with
any of his loyal subjects and the same
limitation prohibits him from accept
ing gifts from any of his people eX-
cept in cases where the offerings are
presented through the medium of an
officer of the state or an intimate
friend of his majesty. After an in
dividual has been elected by his con-
stituents to take his seat in the Brit
ish senate at Westminster it is not in
the power of the king himself to pre-
vent the member from occupying his
place in that august assembly.
OF his own royal prerogative King
Edward possesses full power to par
don murderer even after he bas
been found guilty and sentenced-to
death by the representatives of the
law. Yet, by curious statute of one
of the Georges, tho king is prevented
from exhibiting mercy or grace to
willful sabbath-breaker. To render ev-
cry new law absolute and irrevocahle
the royal autograph must be inyaria-
bly, attached thereto. nor is his ma
jesty ever permitted to perform his
duty by proxy. Even the salaries of
the kings servants are fixed by state
and he cannot raise the salary of his
own butler except by permission or
out of his own private purse. That
the king can do no wrong is obviously
the view taken by his counselors, for
by the laws that hedge the throne no
person can take action against his
majesty and he cannot he arrested by
the emissaries of the law on any pre-
text whatever
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in any manner affecting the comfort
or convenience of women and children.
Soult, during the peinsular war, hear
ing that there were many wounded
English in an adjacent village, sent
forwith to their assistance; and all the
times Charles Napier was prisoner
he was treated as an honored guest,
particularly by Baron Clouet, Neys
aid-de-camp. When. after three
months uncertainty. the British gov
ernment sent to ascertain what had
become of Napier. Ney. learning for
the first time that his gallant opponent
had a blind and widowed mother,
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Rttouetre In Warfare.

That now-famous offer of the mika-
do to allow the noncombatants to
leave Port Arthur Is one of those
amenities Of which warfare between
civilized powers furnishes many ex-
amples. The duke OF Wellington was
a stickler for etiquette in this connec-
ton. 1t is on record how, after giving
Junot "a good beating" he sent to in
quire concerning his health, the friend
ly message being accompanied with
present of vegetables, which were said
to be scarce in Junot's camp. The
great duke was especially punctillious
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H..pr..ideut Cleveland. Failure.

Ex-President Cleveland is an unimng-
inative man. and for this. and other good
reasons, his recent magazine article en-
titled "Why Young Man Should Vote
the Democratic Ticket" is short, point
less and unconvincing.
1t takes a good deal of fervid fancy
and a knack for invention, to construct
an argument upon theme like that. Mr.
Cleveland was evidently ill at ease with
his subject. Probably few young men
will read the article. anyway, and no one
will be influenced by it.
The young men OF America live in the
present, and hope for the future. They
do not care to be even holding post
mortems on dead issues. nor to spend
their days holding back the wheels of ac-
tion and progress.
The young men of the United States
are alive. And they will vote the Repub-
lican ticket this fall.
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The Work. of Demo

"By their works shall We know them"
By what single work are the American
people to know that the Democratic
party can be safely intrusted with pow
er? There is not a single distinctive
policy of the party that, put to the test
ever worked without creating damage.
The Democratic party has favored slay
cry, free silver and free trade, but never
n single principle has it ever favored that
meant greater happiness and prosperity
for the American people. The Republi
can party freed the slaves, it has stood
and still stands for sound money and
protection to American industries. 1t is
the party of construction, not the party
OF destruction.
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pARkeR's SILENCE.
If He Speaks, Unplca.ant Questions
Might He Asked.

1t is announced, presumably by author
ity, that the Democratic candidate for
President will make no speeches, but re-
strict his oratorical explosiveness to the
compilation of forecasts as to what he
will do il elected. He will save him
self an incalcuable amount of trouble by
this turtle-like reserve. Were he to take
the stump he would be compelled to make
specific the general charges he has writ
ten against the Republicans. He would
have to show to be true his utterances
that his opponents have assumed unlaw-
full authority; that the President, fired
with the lust of power" is usurping ma
tional strength with the view of becom-
ing dictator; that imperialism is the ten
dency of Republcanism: that the tariff
which lifted business out of the slouIa
of despond is crushing the working
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"sMlnE LoM.u

"Swing Low. Sweet Chariot" Swing
low over New York and New Jersey and
Rhode Island. We know you will swing
low enough to brush the clover blossoms,
but we want just to remind you that it
is your business-for the good of the
United States and for the good of the
world-that you swing low enough to in
sure n Republican success in the States
just named: "Swing low, Sweet Chariot.'
And we know you will swing.
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When this particular tree was about
a year and half old it measured four
inches in diameter In order to get it
safely to the fair the whole tree was
carefully packed in MOSES and soaked
cloths.
One of the most interesting features
of the work of the station is importing
trees from foreign countries and try
ing them in California soil and eli.
matte conditions. First one soil and
then another is tried until congenial
one is found.
One Of the additions to the Cali
fornia tree family thus made Is one Of
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outpo.t. Around Mukdeu.

They are getting close in New York.
There is no question about that, and on
which ever side the outposts are, they
have got in, politically. That's all right
They are past the underbrush and they
arc close together. The political grapple
will be fierce one. but it can go but
one way. The vote on Manhattan Island
cannot overcome the vote of the farm
ers and thinkers upstate. New York
will go Republican.
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InoaIIs' Opinion Of Hoar.

ingalls, was one of those who had
been SO often raped by Senator Hoar
that he took keen delight in saying
sharp things at his expense. When
the Conkling-Garfield episode came up
Hoar was so disgusted with the man
agement Of the affair that 1t was said
that he threatened to resign his seat.
The question was under discussion In
The Springfield herald., 1904-10-21

"If eur opponents come into power
they can revoke this order Pension
order No. 7Sl and announce that they
will treat the veterana of sixty-two to
seventy as presum ably in full bodily
viEor and not entitled to pensions.
VIII they now authoritntivsty state
that they intend to do thisf If so, we
accept tho issue. II not, then we have
tho right to ask why they raise an
issue which, when raised, they do not
venture to meet."-Roosevelt's letter Of ac-
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Where Trees Grow Fast.

A tree which grew nearly twenty
feet in year and half has been
taken from the experiment station in
Santa Monica canyon to the worlds
fair to show what California can do
In a hurry for place in the shade.
It Is a variety of the eucalyptus. A
small grove of these trees was planted
on shaggy cliff back of the expert
ment station, where it seemed as
though no tree could grow at all.
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ceptance.

Having "monkeyed" with Roosevelt
ism" until they found the buzz saw, the
Democrats are now tempting the fool
killer by reviving the cry that "Protec-
ton is robbery" Eight years ago the
workingmen of this country decided that
protection is blessing. and they have
not changed their minds.
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the cloak room, and some one com.
mented on the probability of Hoar s
resignation.
"Hoar resign!" laughed ingalls,.
you don't know him. Whenever his
resentment at anything reaches that
pitch he will rise in his seat and hand
in the resignation Of Dawes, his col
league"
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In Full EruptIon.

Mont Pelee is again in full eruption,
and so is Senator Tillman of South Caro-
lima.
"And the world goes round and round
And the sun sinks into the sea-"
And whether Mont Peee, or Tillman,
bursts,
1t matters little to mel
The Springfield herald., 1904-10-21

A Democratic national victory is in
vnriably followed by distrust and con-
fusion III business. and by policies that
cripple tile great industries on which
workingmen depend Tor support. No
such party should be entrusted with
power.
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The Melancholy Da,,.

The melancholy days have come, the
snddest of the year,
When d. B. Hills machinery is sadly out
of gear,
When Parker finds that Esopus is where
he'll have to stay
And when no longer they will let Une
Henry Gnssnwny.
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1t looks as if the croakers who are
foretelling ruin to the Republican ticket
i'll New York State We're badly scared
without being able to tell what scared
them New York will go for Roosevelt,
and with no uncertainty will its verdict
be given. Roosevelt is New York's "fav-
,r;ta SON
The Springfield herald., 1904-10-21

If there is a citizen of the United
States anywhere who has too much bust
ness and too much employment, and
longs for the stagnation that prevailed
from 1898 to 1895. he can contribute to
that end by voting the Democratic ticket
this year.
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Ensy to Own n Home.

the most beautiful trees in the world
"a jacaranda, covered with immense
lilac flowers. The whole makes an ef-
feet of bewildering beauty.
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said: 'Let him go and tell her him
self that he is alive"
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eoIna the Full Limit.

Wigg-Bjones does everything in
his power to make his wife happy.
Wagg-Yes; he even argues with
her,