The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-07

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 The Presidents Language.
 of tariff law has on the whole worked we'll, and if business has pros pered under 1t and is prospering, 1t may be better to endure some inconvenienees and inequalities for time than by mak- ing changes, to risk causing disturb ance and perhaps paralysis in the indus tries and business of the country
 fact that the change In a given rate or duty may be thought desirable does not settle the question whether it is aa- visable to make khe change immediately. Every tariff deals with the duties on thousands of articles arranged in nun dreds of paragraphs, and in many sehea- ules. These duties affect vast number of interests which are often eonnletlhs If necessary for our welfare, then or course congress must consider the ques- tion of changing the law as a whole, or changing any given rates of duty, but we must remember that whenever even a single schedule Is considered, some in- terests will appear to demand a change 1 in almost every schedule in the law and when it comes to upsetting the sched- ules generally. the effect upon the coun- try would be ruinous.
 ''Verily. Two souls with but single l thought. Two speeches that read like one.
 1 And that single thought so harmoni- i ously expressed is not to force a single special interest to take it's lips from the | public breast for fear the public finding ! them unnecessary might shake them all off.
 Tt is not, therefore, to be wondered at that the peroration of the greatest of these was a sort of defication of him who had dubbed him greatest of these IL I was almost as natural as self apprecia- tion. It was only alter-egoism after all. What a magnificent piece of humor Is this unbounded adulaton of our fellow citizen in the White House. by the chief 1 of these How humorous to praise so 1 highly our fellow citizen in the White House who in the long line of great men who have filled the seat he now occupies i has himself found only about three in his opinion worthy of anything like unstint- | ed praise? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and himself. Verify. the other i humorists will have to retire from bus l iness
 "'The chief of these is MT. Root "The temporary chairman said, speak ing of the republican party:
 | Speaking of Republican Party.
 Through 1t more than any other party the moral sentiment of the American people finds expression.
 God save us. Where? Going back to ancient history in the credit moblier in l the long saturnal of southern reccnstruc- ton, or in recent history, in the post office department? In the public lands bureau? In the full sway of bosses formerly cursed so bitterly and now taken so fondly to his bosom by the pres ident? In the pitiable telegram inqulring 1 just what the patriotic and unassisted l revolution of fifty or one hundred men l was stated to come off unexpectedly in | Panama? In the celebrated order of 1 'Hell-roaring Jake Smith, prescribing ten as the age above which children were to I be killed in one of the islands in the Philippines? In the universal honey combng of our national life with the i corruption of legislation- bought special privileges? Time fails me to ask where. What has ancient history to do with present iniquities anyhow?
 MT. Root says, Offenders have been relentlessly prosecuted anc sternly pun ished. Isn't this remarkable laundering | in the, index for you when confronted with actual republican parchments. espe- 1 cially when compared with the refusal of q republican house of representatives to make culprits face even so much as a congressional Investigation; when com pared with the absolute and constant re- fusal of the republican speaker to recog- nize anybody for the purpose of making a motion even of that character? If there ever was a long determination fully en- tertained and finally carried out, 1t was the determinatio of the republican ad- l ministration and the republican execu- tive body to see to it that nobody should investigate the alleged culprits in the postoffice department except their col leagues in the executive prancn or the government.
 The Per Capita Circulation.
 There follows something however, which will be taken seriously. The sec retary boasts that the per capita of cir culation of money among the people in the United States increased from S23.14 in March, 1897, to $3l.02 in May last, and that the credit for that and the consequent prosperity following 1t, was due to the re- publican party. W.--. d curious boast this is for those to make at the same time strenuously denying that money had any thing to do with the value of money, of the price of other things as measured in money, or with an ascending scale of prices or with national prosperity This was<all denied but yesterday. Now it is asserted that the volume of metallic money has been immensely increased, that 1t has brought prosperity, and that it has all been due to republican legsla- tion. Due to what act of congress passed by them? Was republican legis- lation operative in South Africa and the Klondike, and did it cause the discover ies of gold there? Did it cause the new l inventions for the more profitable ex- traction of gold from gold ore? Did re- publican legislation add two billions of gold to the worlds stock of money metals in the last eight years? Was it repub- lcan legislation which made the immense | crops of cotton, wheat. corn, etc. which enabled these United States to draw more 1 than their pro rata share of the world S stock of money metals, thereby increas- ing their own stock of gold by s7O0, GOO, 900 What partnership is this between God human industry and ingenuity, and the republican party. of which the republican party is the self-assertive senior mem Der? What monumental effrontry is this 1 which enables them to boasts of the ben efts of the increased volume of standard metallic money and consequent prosper ity by the operation of the quanitative theory of money which theory they found no lag strong enough to deny and ridicule, but yet the temporary chairman next boasted that the republican party had by manipulation which he described of the currency and certificate nomina-
 ton made it so difficult to get gold out
 of the treasury in exchange for other
 forms of money, that practically 1t can
 not be done at all to any large extent
 chain thereby produced has ended