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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-10-08
FOR PRESIDENT!

all possibility for conjecture, l now
state that | am in hearty accord with
that plank in our platform that favorS
doing for the Filipinos what we have
already done for the CubanS; and /
favor making the promise to them now
that we shall take such action as soon
as they are reasonably prepared for it.
If independence, such as the Cubans
enjoy, cannot be prudently granted to
the Filipinos at this time, the promise
that it shall come the moment they
are capable of receiving it will tend to
stimulate rather than hinder their de-
velopment. And this should be done
not only in justice to the FilipinoS,
but to preserve our own rights; for a
free people cannot withhold freedom
from another people and themselves
remain free. The federation of tyranny
over others will soon breed contempt
for freedom and lf-government, and
weaken our power of resistance to in
SidiouS usurpation of our constitutional
rights.
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.
The pledge of the platform to secure
TO our citizens, without distinction of
race or creed, whether native born or
IaIur1llZeQ, 1T nome ana JDrOlu, InP
equal protection of the laws and the
enjoyment of all the rights and privi-
leges open to them under tile covenants
of our treaties, as their just due, should
be made good to them. In the accom-
plishment of that result it is essential
that a passport issued by the Govern
ment of the United States to an Amer
lean citizen shall be accepted the world
over as proof of citizenship.
TO ENFORCECIyIL SERVICE LAW
The statute relating to Civil Service
is the outcome of the efforts of thought
full, unselfish and public spirited citi-
zens. Operation under it has frequent
ly been of such character rs to Of
fend against the spirit of the statute,
but the results achieved, even unGpr q
partial enforcement of the law, have
been such as TO both deserve and COM
mand the utterance of the Democratic
party that it stands committed to the
principle of Civil Service reform and
demands its just and impartial en-
forcenlent.
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try, as manifested in its statutes,
makes it necessary that tariff reform
should be prudently and sagaciously
undertaken, Oh scientific principles, to
the end that there should not be an
immediate revolution i'll existing con-
ditions.
In the words of our platform we de-
mand "a revision and gradual reduc-
ton of the tariff by the friends OF the
masses, and for the common veal, and
not by the friends of its abuses, its
extortions and determinations"
In my response to your committee l
pointed out the method under which
a gradual reduction of customs duties
may be accomplished without disturb
ing business conditions. l desire again
to express the opinion that this method
should be followed.
1t is true that the Republicans, who
do not admit in their platform that the
Dingley tariff needs the slightest alter
alton, are likely to retain majority
of the Federal Senate throughout the
next Presidential term, and could,
therefore, if they chose, block every
attempt at legislative relief. But it
should be remembered that the Re
publican party includes many revision
lists, and / believe it will shrink from
defting the popular will expressed IN
mistakably and peremptorily at the
ballot box.
The people demand reform of exist
ing conditions. Since the last Demo
cratic administration the cost of living
has grievously increased. Those hav-
ing fixed incomes have suffered keenly
those living on wages, if there has been
any increase, know that such increase
has not kept pace with the advance in
cost of living. including rent and the
necessaries of life. Many to-day are
out of work, unable to secure any
wages at all. To alleviate these eondi-
lions, in so far as is in our power,
should be our earnest endeavor.
COMMON LAW AND THE TRUSTS.
| pointed out in my earlier response
the remedy, which in my judgment,
can effectually be applied against mo-
nopolies, and the assurance was then
given that 3f existing laws, including
both status and common law, proved
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-10-08

men and securing to them and to the
manufacturer the profits accruing from
increased production, other markets
must be found. Furthermore, when
our manufacturers are dependent on
raw materials in whole or in part i'm
ported, it is vital to the extension of
their markets abroad that they secure
their materials on the most favorable
terms.
Our martyred President, William
Mckinley, appreciated this situation.
He pointed out in his last address to
the people that we must make sensible
trade arrangements. if I'VE shall extend
the outlets for our increasing surplus"
He said, "a system which provides a
mutual Exchange of commodities is
manifestly essential to the continued
and healthful growth of our export
trade. :. . The period of exclusive
ness is past. The expansion of our
trade and commerce is the pressing
problem. Commercial wars are I'M
profitable. A policy of good will and
friendly relations will prevent re-
prisals. Reciprocity treaties are in
harmony with the spirit of the times;
measures of retaliation are not"
This argument was made in the in
terests of our manufacturers, whose
products, he urged, have SO multi
piled, that the problem of more mar
kets requires our urgent and immediate
attention" He had come to realize
that the so-called "stand pat' policy
must give way-that there must be a
reduction of duties to enable our manu-
facturers to cultivate foreign markets.
McKINLEY'S LAST WORDS.
The last words of this President-who
had won the affection of his country
men-ought to be studied by every
man who has any doubt of the neces-
sity of reduction in tariff rates in
the interest of the manufacturer. They
present with clearness a situation and
"a proposed remedy that prompted the
provision in our platform which de-
cIares that I'VE favor liberal trade ar
engagements with Canada and with peo-
pies of other countries where they can
be entered into with benefit to Ameri-
can agriculture. manufactures. mining
or commerce"
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rho nnrsistent refusal of the RepuD-
1;oon majority in the Federal Senate
- ratifv the reciprocity treaties nego-
tioted in pursuance of the policy advo-
cotad alike by Mr.. Blaine and MT. NC
ISinlev and expressly sanctioned In
+ha fourth section of the Dingley act,
10 discouraging exhibition OF pau
faith. AS already mentioned Dy me,
the exorbitant duty imposed on MANY
on imnorted article by the Dlngley
tariff was ayowedly intended by Its
author not to be permanent, Out 10
serve temporarily as maximum, lroln
which the Federal Government was
empowered to offer reduction, IN re-
turn for an equivalent concession Oh
tho mart of a foreign country. Presl-
don't Mckinley undertook honestly 10
carry ont the purpose of TINS sectloh
of the act. A number OF RECIPROCITY
agreements were negotiated wltnln
tha prescribed limit of two years,
which. if ratified. would have mad
tbe tWo-fold result of cheapenlnS
MANY imported products for Amer
lean consumers. and OF opening
and enIarging foreign markets u
American producers. Not one or those
agreements has met with the appfoVai
of the Republican masters OF the Sen.
ate. Indeed they did not even permit
their consideration. In view or the
attitude of the present Executive no
new agreement under the general
treaty poyer need be expected from
him. Nor does the Republican plat
form contain favorable reference to
one of the suspended treaties. inns
section of the Dingley act stands forth
as a monument of legislative cozenage
and political bad faith.
NO TYRANNY OVER OTHERS.
In some quarters it has been assumed
that in the discussion Of the Philippine
question in my response, the phrase
'self-government," was intended TO
mean something less than independ-
ence. 1t was not intended that it
should be understood to mean,. nor do
think as used it Ioes mean less than
independence. However, to eliminate
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-10-08
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American products continue to be sold
in foreign parts cheaper than at home.
Even sewing machines, distinctivcly an
American production, far surprising in
merit and cheapness of cost OF manu-
facture any like machine of foreign orr
gin. costs the home buyer nearly 100
per cent. more than the foreigner has
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-30
When the Year Begins
There Is No Reason Why 1t Should Be
on January First.

TT is common saying that there is
reason for everything, and usually
good one;" yet no one has yet
found any sensible ground for begin
ming the New Year with the first day of
January. If it were made to occur in
March, as the old Romans placed it.,
there might be sense in it. 1t would be
the more reasonable if it began March
%, the vernal equinox, or at the autumn
no-vernal equinox (September 22); or
June %, or December %. Excellent astro-
nomical reasons could be assigned for
sIch a reckoning.
Higher civilization Is in the northern
Hemisphere; yet January in this part
of the world is season of cold and snow
or chill and rain. 1t Is a season when
moving is not only inconvenient, but
next to impossible. 1t is time of the
beginning of nothing, coming ten days
after the winter solstice and 10 days be-
fore the spring equinox.
The day was chosen, probably. upon
the assumption that any time is good
enough for general starting point, pro-
vided everybody agrees to it, and 1t will
probably have to go at that. 1t Is queer,
though, that In setting back the begin
ming of the year two months, the names
September, October, November and De-
cember should have been suffered to re-
main. These were, as their origin i'm
plies, the seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth months when the year began with
March, but now that January Is first,
tha, i,,fh 81 nd
twelfth months. respectively. Conse-
quently they are decided misnomers.
Yet there is no use of finding fault,
where no amount of it will correct the
blunder complained Of 1t has been made
and stuck down a mile-post of time by
all the civilized nations, and no profane
hand will be suffered to pull it up and set
1t forward. 1t has been hallowed by
usage, and must be and abide until the
coming of another civilization.
Whatever its origin or causes, the day
brings in with 1t thoughts and associa-
tions that should prove serious to the
reflective mind. Unerringly as the clock
records the passing minutes and hours,
the New Year writes down the passage
of the years as they come and go. The
birth of the new is the death of the old
year. 1t proclaims that the past is gone
and cannot be resurrected. That time
which was lost In II can never be re-
gained; that follies committed, that sins
indulged, that vices practiced, while
past, have left their impress upon mind
and character 1t tells of good deeds
that will never die, of manly actions, of
heroic suffering for the right. All OF
these are In the dead past. irrevocable,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-30

make a good beginning for the year?
He refused at first to listen, but finally
said he'd do it. 1t would be a good
chance, he said, to show his strength OF
will, and, anyhow, 1t was only an ideal!'
"Of course, you applauded that!"
Il did, and he went off, delighted tc
count up how much he would save dur
ing the year by not smoking. AS for me
l improved the time by making notes
of the bargains advertised in the papers
and mapping out shopping tour for
the next day which would keep me until
six o'clock and bring me home ex-
hausted. Mr.. Smithson didn't come
back for two hours and when he did, he
was cross. l tried to interest him in the
advertisements, when he suddenly
turned on me, saying that spent more
time and money, as we'll as wasting
more health, on bargain hunting than
he did on tobacco, and If he could give
up the one, he thought l could give up
the other!"
"Oh. but that was different"
Indeed it was, and so told him, but
he wouldn't listen. He said was in the
habit of spending five dollars worth of
time to save five cents in money. He
reminded me that l had a quantity of
things put away upstairs which | had
bought because they were cheap and
which | could never use; he proved that
many bargains had shown themselves
dear and said could save more money
by remaining at home and seeing to the
house. When demurred, he quoted my
own arguments in regard to smoking,
until l got mad, said | had as much
strength of mind as he had and ]
wouldn't buy bargain for year,"
"Oh, gracious, but how can you"
well, everything went wrong that
day. Mr.. Smithson was cross and criti-
cised the dinner until the girl got mad.
Mrs. Trotter came in and told me that
Blank was to have a bargain sale in cur
tains-I needed curtains for the bed
rooms. My sister came in with a new
boa. bought at a bargain, and told me |
could get its mate. Going into the par
lor for one more peep at Blanks adver-
tisement found Mr.. Smithson chewing
the stem Of his empty pipe!"
TITS too bad; I'm on my way to rib
bon sale now, and l thought you"
wait till l get my wraps. You see,
the next morning thought I'd just run
downtown to merely look at the sales,
and went into the parlor before break
fast to tell Mr.. Smithson. found him
smoking. He looked foolish for mo-
ment, then gave me $40 and asked me if
didn't want to go shopping. Where
did you say the ribbon sale is?"
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and useful only as the good done has
made better and stronger the character,
and evil done has made one less fitted to
meet the duties and responsibilities of
the hour.
The New Year suggests the beginning
of things. 1t is a time of good remorse
or sorrow for the past, and of good reso-
lutions for the future. The trouble is
that too many good resolutions are made
in this first day of the year and too many
of them are broken. 1t may be we'll to
purpose to do; but it is far better to do
and to hold fast. Broken promises, wheth-
er made to self or to others, tend to
lower character and render one more
fertile in pledges to do, because of the
very case of breaking them.
The New Year is time with busi-
ness men for casting up accounts. They
hgure out losses and gains for the year
that is past, and upon the result lay
plans for the year just begun. Here is
serious work in which there can be no
self-deception, no false hopes and no
false pledges. Business is made up of
fact, of work, of energy, of will. 1t will
stand no false estimates and will not
delude itself with idle fancies.
THE king is dead; live the king"
The year is dead; live the year. The
old year Is gone; the new year is on.
And SO go on our lives, made up OF
years, or many or few, as the case may
be, each one bringing US nearer to the
shores of that sea which is shoreless and
that country in which time is not reck-
oned.
With the saddening and subduing re-
hections come those of cheer and good
feeling, and we greet our friends with
Happy New Year"-happy, 1t may
prove, if past errors and follies are cor
rected and each one lives, with brave
heart, in the light that is given him.
WILLIAM ROSSER COBRE.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-30
Two Surprises
BY Eliza B. William

tt-TNHE last day OF the Old Year
makes a fellow feel sort OF
n reminiscent, dosent it?" said
the man at the roll top desk. "The worst
case of homesickness l ever had was
brought on by encouraging that feeling.
81 lived in Chicago then, and for
some reason or other hadn't visited the
old farm for five years, though the old
folks made an annual visit to me, and
made them enjoy it Well, when the
clock announced the last day of '98,
was sitting in hotel lobby with a lot
of travelling men. Every one of them
had been farmers boy, and we fell to
telling stories. We spoke of skating and
swimming, forgetting frosted ears,
chores, and the interview with ma when
we came home late for supper and she
felt our hair to see If 1t was wet. We
lived over orchard raids-never refer
ring to the painful memory of how pa
waited in the dark, when we climbed in
at the window. We remembered the
sweetness of stolen melons, overlooking
what happened when old Thompson
complained of US next day. BY and by
We were all homesick.
Then a fellow from North Dakota
spoke of the holidays on the old farm;
thought of the old folks with a lump in
my throat the size of prize pumpkin.
Why, hadn't written home for month.
and hadn't spent New Years day there
since l came to the city. Suddenly re-
solved to go home and surprise ticm.
The man from North Dakota saidyor
two cents he'd go with me; he diIa't
know my mother, but he knew his own.
and he'd risk his welcome. l offered
him two cents.
I'VE could make it If we took the seven
o'clock train in the morning, and that
would bring us home when the lamps
were lit and the smell of supper met you
at the back door. The man from North
Dakota hoped they'd have sausage, dried
apple sauce and hot biscuits! lie said
it cured his dyspepsia to think of it.
Before l slept l wired my brother
Jim, who lived three miles from the old
place, to meet us at the station, not let
ting the old folks know.
1T was showing when we started, but
that only made it seem more like New
Years. 1t showed all day and our train
kept losing time; but | only pitied j.. q
waiting at the station. We gave x{l
the home supper and ate in the dining
car. 1t was nine when we arrived, and
the station master, a stranger, hadn't
seen JIM There was no hotel, but
travelling man offered us a lift to the
cross roads. The man from North Da-
kota hoped the old folks hadn't gone to
bed; | knew they had. 1t was further
from the cross roads than thought We
stopped talking, as we foundered
through the snow. But, anyhow, was
going home for New Years!
There was no light when we turned
in, and hoped pa had not covered the
fire too carefully. | meant to tell Jim
few things next day, but tonight
was at home! knocked and waited for
the window to go up and to hear pas
voice when l shouted, but no sound
came. l knocked again; then we took
turns knocking.
'It seemed. an hour before a surly
voice above told us its owner was armed,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-30

dow in the brown stone cottage as Miss
Farnsworth fairly flew out into the
street; carelessly glancing at first, then
scrutinizing the supple figure In gray
The next minute he was out on the
pavement, but the tailor-made gown had
vanished around the corner.
Quickening his pace he saw the girl
ascending the steps Of humble cottage,
third from the angle.
Making New Year calls?" he cogitat-
ed, ''but she did not ring at the Druers'.
No wonder; poor little grill"
Instead of waiting to be received,
however, he noticed that she went right
in and closed the door behind her un-
tremendously. Miss Farnsworth was
at home.
Aunt Roxy was snoozing in her easy
chair near the fire, when Belle peeped
into the parlor, so retreating on tip
toe she went upstairs with a far-away
look in her shining eyes.
II believe am alive!" she exclaimed,
triumphantly, to the dimples in the mir
ror, "and am sure he has the image
still intact"
Removing her wraps the new old
Miss Farnsworth settled herself before
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the CHEEKY CRATE in a contented little
heap to dream over again those first
treasured chapters before the misunder-
standing folded them in.
Turn backward, turn backward, O,
Time, in your flight"
Writing material and a heap of un-
answered greetings lay on the desk at
her elbow, and the pen bristled in it's
rack with impatient waiting; still Miss
Belle dreamed on.
Here's a letter for you, Niece Farms
worth" Aunt Roxy had toiled upstairs
and pushed open the door as she spoke.
There were no preliminaries with the
blunt old lady and she omitted the COM
mon courtesy of tapping on the panel,
as useless, seeing it was only Belle"
Not by the Lostman," queried the
girl, rose color suffusing her anxious
face; but luckily the old auntie did not
notice the signal of the heart.
No; boy brought it moment ago.
Some business of the society, pre-
sume," and Aunt Roxy waddled down.
stairs to her cozy corner again without
even a suspicion of the purport of the
message that could not wait to put in its
appearance in the conventional way.
Hurriedly opening the cream-tinted
envelope with its gold and blue mono
gram on the corner, Belle thanked Heav-
en- for once that her aunt's eyesight
was none of the best; then she read:
Dearest, l saw you to-day. The old
love is warm in my heart; and want
your forgiveness, and the old-time con-
tidence. Am hungry for your presence
would have starved to death long ago
had 1t not been for the image. Am COM
ing to see you this evening; going to
make a New Years CALL Allan"
Things are better than they have
seemed for a long time," again modified
Miss Farnsworth, folding The gold and
blue monogram over her delighted heart.
and people aren't so bad after ALL"
That night as the happy stars looked
down over the rim of the new cycle and
winked at some millions of crisp resolu-
tions going up to the Recording Angel.
Belle Farnsworth, very much alive,
watched her lover out of sight around
the corner, humming softly in her old
fashioned way.
"One is not obliged to be hypocritlcal
after all, l find" she whispered to the
beaming cupid lowering near, "and my
New Year calls turned out lovely In
spite of everything"
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also that the dog was loose. The dog
arrived just then; he was a stranger
and seemed to have double set of teeth.
The man was new hired hand. He
said l wasn't Ed, because the old folk.
had gone to Chicago to spend New
Years with him. He backed up his
opinion with gun which looked as big
as a howitzer in the starlight.
''The man from North Dakota sug-
gested We go to Jim's. 1t was the long
est three miles l ever walked. Jim
was at home; he hadn't got my tele-
gram. His wife had gone with the old
folks to surprise me. There was nothing
to eat in the house except some cold
potatoes and jug of molasses, and the
fire was out.
The next time go home for New.
Years I'll wait till pa writes; he'll mee,N
me at the station!" NJ