The river press., 1904-11-02
eress voted $500, 600 in the deficiency

sIess Vote0 $I.oVV,OUU IN the Oehclency
bill for last year. Steve tells me that
$1,41O.O0O has been covered back into
the treasury as the unexpended balance
OF that constitutional appropriation.
Catch Democrat coverin' anything back
into the treasury, once he got it appro.
priated.
Alt, my boy, fear you have been
lambastin4 a mares nest filled with hor-
nets. as you will find out when the old
soldiers are aroused.
l see that in our foreign relations you
favor sort of spineless Monroe doctrine
that would invite every European power
to annex American territory without any
real opposition from Uncle Sam. Steve
says the sturdy miners of West VirginiA
wont stand for any such pusillanimous
policy. They believe with Dick Olney
that on this continent the will of the
American people is sovereign and its fat
law, without consent of English King,
German Kaiser or Russian Garland
they don't care who knows it.
see you are kickin' because the ma
tional expenditures We're $592, 100000 in
1904, against S274, 100000 in 1875, the
year before Tilden was not elected to re!
form them, though you seem to think he
was. You appear to have forgotten that
this country has nearly doubled in popu-
lation and trebled in wealth, business
and national Importance since 1875. In
my "Liniment for Man and Beast AL
these:
1878. 1904.
Population 43.957 600 S2,OoO.OOO
Wealth -. S36,tUo. $4,000 S1o6. 600 600. 900
Farm prop'y. 1O.O03,OOO,OOO 22.OO0, 100000
Savgs dep's 924,037, ,3O4 1885,, ,2O4 $40
Natal bank
deposits :. CSC, 6,47s,6so a 3,312, ,43o, ,s41
Money in cir
:, citation :. 754,1o1,e47 o,5o1,151, ,527
', enues .... 26,791,s6 143224, 44a
Pensions -. 3O,2J3,1OO 14l 751S7O
n 1908.
Panama cal $4,000, 600
Navy cxpen-
diturcs -. q, ,497, ,6o6 1O2 056, ,1O2
Army expen-
ditures 49,. 41.1oO,646 115Os5.4
Where are you goin' to begin cuttin' ?
business associate on the Democratic
in the sacred name of Sammy J. Tilden
you expect to run Il billion dollar country
OH a million dollar scale? | tell you,
Alton. my boy. the American nation is
out of knickerbockers, and it amt no
use tryin' to jam the healthy number IL
foot Of 1904 into Sammy Tildcn No. 4
prunella of 1876.
l notice you ignore the repeal of wal
taxation as accountin' for the reduction
in government receipts. This is slyness
worthy of the sainted Sammy himself,
who was something of juggler in ci
piers. as YOU may remember now
perceive that you are not altogether too
good to achieve the presidenc, by sup
pressing the truth.
Believe me, shed tears over yonl
peroration, in which you speak so feel
ingly Of putin aside the congenial work
Of lifetime to assume the responsible
ties the convention thrust upon you. My
eyes are hleared yet-Steve says it's
old age-over this confession of self
sacrifice for which you and Dave Hill
and Bill Sheehan and Pat McCarrcn
have been pulling wires for two years
When shut my eyes 1 think of you as
Ajax defying the lightnin' with one hand
on the electric sparker and one foot
workin' the sheet iron thunder.
'That's right, partner" says I, defy
the presidential lightnin' bug. @. thou
sage Of Esopus Don't be afraid; it'll
never strike either Of us"
It's after oclock and I've been yawn.
bed.
So good night from Uncle
HENRY GASSAWAY.