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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21

it as a natural consequence an i'm
provement of the channels of the Mis-
souri, Hundreds of millions of dol
lars are spent upon our Atlantic and
Pacific seacoasts. Why should not some
of these millions be speLt upon the
Mississippi? The States bordering on
the Mississippi pay relatively as much
in national taxes as do those tributary
to the Atlantic or the Pacific seacOasts.
The time will come when men from
AtchisOn county can take ship from
their own county ard go from there
to China, as can men from Clay and
Clark The price of every pound Of
beef, of every bale Of cotton, and of
every bushel of wheat and corn pro-
duced in the State of Missouri, will be
increased, if the work is undertaken,
and believe that 1t can be accomplished
by a united movement. headed by Mis-
souri,. l would like 10 see ships built
of Missouri lumber, the two Missouri
bears at every PROV, carrying good
food, good men and good Democracy
to all parts of the world.
GOOD ROADS.
Missouri must have good roads. Good
roads mean good horses and good
stock. They mean the cheapening to
farmers of the costs of transportation
of their products from the farm 20 the
railroads or to the rivers. What good
streets are to the city, good roads are
to the country. Advocating good roads
will not do, building them is what is
necessary.
UNION LABOR.
The laboring classes would ultimate
ly be driven into condition OF serVl-
tude, did they not protect themselves
by organization. They would become
inefficient and servile in their rela-
lions with their employers. The short
ening of the hours of labor gives men
an opportunity to educate themselves,
and in this way become better citizens
Time and spirit are both essential in
raising men to the standard of good
American citizens. Time and spirit
come through unionism.
Children must not be permitted to
work in factories lest their little
bodies may become deformed, their
health ruined, and that they may not
grow up IN ignorance. Good citizenship
in America demands that our children
should be sent to school, and not
forced into competition with grown
men and women. We have laws pro-
viding against the use of unsafe and
adulterated food. Why have we not
laws protecting workmen against un-
safe scaffolding in the erection or
painting of buildings, and for their
protection during hours of labor? Men
provide safe and healthy places for
their horses and cattle. Why should
tI.ey not be compelled to provide
healthy and safe places for laboring
men to work in? Labor must be paid
for its service in lawful money Of the
United States, not in orders issued by
employers. Shortened hours give oppor-
tunitys foSs recreation; good wages give
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21

souri, when citizens having contro-
versy would seek for and pay lawyer
to advise them in their litigation. But
recently men totally unacQuainted with
the rules of evidence, or the require
ments of Law, are ready to brush aside
as "technicalities" precious rights and
privileges that the AnglO-Saxon race
battles and bloody conflicts with tyran-
nical rulers.
They would in the heat of their pas
sion put aside those safeguards of the
law which in time of oppression will
be their main reliance. Il appeal from
the Supreme Court tc the people. l
am right and the law is wrongi" cries
my friend who wears the red cap and
the many-colored coat This was done
during the French Revolution. More
victims for the guillotine!" was the
cry. ITO hell with the laws delays!
Cut off his head, and we will find out
whether he is guilty or not after
wards!" Those judges who sent the
most victims and sent them the quick
est on their way to the scaffold in
bloody tumbrels were the popular
judges. Those judges who did not
move fast enough, and did not send
forth enough victims had their heads
cut off. My friend with the red cap,
do you want to cut off the heads of our
judges that popular clamor may call
you leader? Or is it because their
knowledge of law has shown your ig-
norance of it?
In 1896 Democrats criticised the Su-
preme Court of the United States for
its decision in 4 matter that related
solely to the rights of property. The
Democratic party generally was assail-
ed by the Globe-Democrat, Republican
papers and Republican speakers for the
criticism. To-day they do not hesitate
to go as far and farther than did the
Democrats of sc in their criticism of
the Supreme Court of Missouri, not
because of decisions relating to prop
erty, but because of decisions relating
to personal liberty. Do Republican
papers draw a distinction between
property rights and the rights of per-
sonal liberty?
To the Republican mind are the
rights of property greater and more
sacred that the rights OF lib
erty and fair trial? In
your eagerness to dictate TO the party
of Democracy, have you lost all sense
of justice? If it was anarchy in SO.
is it anarchy in 1904? Would you
trample on the law dignif1ed by CEN
turtles that your man with the red cap
may win? No true friend of the people
will fill their minds with suspicious
of our institutions, especially the
courts of law, and when this is done
for the sole purpose of promoting a
private ambition, it becomes most
despicable.
Viewing the Courts decisions from a
political standpoint, no sane man will
say that, in the present temper of pub
lie opjlien, the judges would Roth have
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21
Ger the grafters:


I tx evident that those who ars
now beating about the bushes in the eff
fort to locate and run down a CRATER
are not familiar with the appearance
and characteristics of the game they
seek. AS the schOolbOy says in his es-
say: There are many kinds of graft
ers.' There is, of course, the common
or garden CRATER, which is apt to be
found anywhere. But for exciting
sport it is worth while to chase the
rarer species Of CRATER. The follow
ing varieties will be found to furnish
much excitement when cornered:
'Phonografter-A CRATER who tells
everybody the same thing and keeps
all the money.
"Telegrafter-A CRATER who depends
upon his knowledge of the wires, and
rarely takes anything collect
"Paragrafter-A CRATER who con.
fines himself to two or three lines.
"Cinematografter-A CRATER who
works with screen, and gives you q
poor explanation of the thingshe shows
you.
Autografter-A CRATER who thinks
you ought to come to the center az
soon as you hear his name.
"Aerografter-A CRATER who uses
lots Of air-hot air.
"Monografter-A CRATER who sticks
to one graft.
'Skigrafter-A CRATER who depends
upon the X raise.
'Mimeografter-A CRATER who cop
les the work of other grafters and
claims his graft is just as good.
Radiagrafter-A CRATER who ap-
plies high scientific principles to his
work. You can not understand how he
loes it, but he goes through you.
Photographer CRATER who haais.
OTIS of face and doesn't mind an ex-
'osure. Chicago Tribune.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21

other occupations from trying crimi-
nal causes, Immediately raises the
question of whether honesty and good
citizenship are to be conditioned by the
vocations of men. Jefferson said:
Were called upon to decide whether
| the people had best be omitted in the
legislature or judiciary department,
would say it is best to have them out
of the legislature" Again he said:
I'VE think in America that it is neces-
sary to introduce the people into every
department of government as far as
they are capable of exercising it, and
that the institution of the jury is the
only way to insure a long, continued
and honest administration of it's pow
ers."
If our State trusts its juries with the
execution of its laws and its legislature
with their making, would it not be JUS!
as proper and equally as wise to pick
our legislature from n certain class Of
society as to pick our juries from a
certain class? What shall We call these
classes, and how shall they be divided?
Shall we say that men who per-
form certain kinds of work,
that is, work with their hands,
are not honest and can not be trusted
to act as Jurors, and men who earn
their living in other ways are capa-
BILE? Do certain occupations so affect
mems morals that they can not give
justice? Having once taken this step,
and admitted that citizens are to be
divided into classes, how long will II
be before someone will ask to again
divide our community into other
classes; those who wear cleaner
clothes, have more wealth and greater
virtue-they shall vote; the remainder
must not be permitted to do so? Some
one will say: 1.-THE right of suffrage
and the right to act as juror can not be
compared in their importance" Is the
right of suffrage any dearer than the
right of trial by Jury by a mans
peers? IN securing which privilege has
the Anglo-Saxon race spilled the most
blood? The jury is one of the best
means of making the people rule, and II
teaches them how to rule.
All forms of labor in this country
have been held 20 be honorable, where
carried on with honor. No form Of
labor has heretofore been held to be
dishonorable. Every man in Ameri-
ca" as someone has said, works, has
worked, or his parents have worked
for him" Superior intelligence is not
prerequisite of honesty. 1t may be
that the use of special juries COM
posed of men of a certain class may
be necessary in the administration of
justice, but if this be true we will have
to radically change some of our estab-
lished beliefs in the equality of men.
CONCLUSION.
When elected president of the JET
ferson Club, six years ago, that organl-
zation had less than five hundred
members; at the present. time it has
almost eight thousand 1Absrs, No.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21

view with apprehension his rough
rider appeals first 70 the extremes III
capital and then to the extremes in
labor, and with his explanations and
apologies to both. Nor will they be
satisfied to make Mark Hanna presi-
dent. His claims to popularity seem to
rest solely Upon his ability to manlpu-
late and control the gigantic trusts
which are a menace to society.
Nor are the American people salts
fed with The ever-iIcreasing tendency
of the Republican party towards CEN
tralization of power. The interference
in foreign affairs is Tepugnant TO our
established ideas of government. The
rascalities and frauds disclosed in the
public service thus far have been pun
ished only by platitudes and resolu-
lions. l 90 not believe in civil service
reform which is not sincere. The presl-
dent of the United States has had time
to shoot the government game In
Yellowstone Park, he has had time TO
interfere il Democratic politics in Mis-
souri,, but when an American girl III
the City of st. Louis-MisS Anna
Dreyer-was discharged from her posi-
ton because she protested against
assaults made upon her character and
virtue, he has not had the time to
order that she be given a fair and i'm
partial hearing.
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
In municipal politics shall advocate
in the future as have in the past the
nomination of competent and honest
men for office.
take some credit to myself for the
good government which St Louis is
now receiving. 1 have voted in all the
Democratic primaries for men who
would go to conventions and vote for
good men and oppose the nomination
of bad men. / have spoken not once
but many times in each ward in the
City of st. Louis. have contributed
my time and what little money l had
in the cause of civic reform. ! be-
lieve that what practical reform has
taken place in the City of st. Louis L.
due largely to the Jefferson Club. The
first battle in twelve years for reform
was won in 1900, when the Democratic
party was given a majority of $500;
in 1901 the Democratic plurality was
5000; in 1902 the Democratic party in
creased it's majority to 1880 votes;
and in 1903 again gave an increased
majority of 1880 votes. These vic
tories were all in the interest of good
municipal government. Some there
were who did not help in these reforms.
There were those who coquetted with
and found more satisfaction in Re
publican newspaper praise than in
Democratic victories, but they were
s.,,- ood %b-nap1oarouuku,ns O. .0uic In.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21
SUPREME COURT.

Renewing their campaign of SANDER
Republican newspapers have been re
Gently assailing the Supreme Court, tn,
highest judicial tribunal in this State
and are now being ably assisted in theil
attacks by the candidate for governor
who recently informed our chief mag
istrate that 'if he was governor he
would see to it that corruption at the
state Capital vas exposed and pun
ished and not concealed"
A man who will attack the supreme
judicial tribunal of his State for poIiti-
cal purposes is not q safe man to be
governor. If the attack is by in
direction ii is all the more reprehen-
sible, for cowardice will not mitigate
the crime of anarchy. A man who will
assail the established courts of law
should seek leadership not of the
Democratic party but Of a whitecap
society.
An officer of the law, sworn to I'D.
hold the law, who appeals from the
Supreme Court on question of law. to
a political primary, is a greater
offender than a private citizen. Dis
closure Of incompetency is notifying.
but modification alone will not instifv
euch an assault. Adulation Inighs
cause man to think he was greater
than four OF his party's conventions.
but ignorance alone would cause him 10
believe that he was greater than the
law.
Miss Anthony on one occasion an
peared before the Supreme Court of
the United States to personally ad-
vocate the rights of equal suffrage
When informed that her cause was not |
properly presented, she asked one of
the judges, What then do 1 require?" |
The kindly judge replied: "T .hink |
you require the services of a LAWYER"
man who appeals from the decision
OF a Supreme Court to a political
primary seems to have even a worse
case than that of Miss Anthony. II
would appear that he not only REQUIRED,
the services of a lawyer, but also a
mob.
The circuit judges and the best law
yers in this State uphold our highest
liberties. it saves them not only from
their enemies, it saves them from Them
selves. 1t should be beyond the reach
OF popular clamor, an institution indie
pendent OF public feeling and invulner-
able to the attacks Of ignorance. {
Among the great lawyers of this COM |
munity l have yet to find one who has
for the regent decisions of the !
Supreme Court, men who have given I
their entire lives to the study of law. r
10 the equities and justice. On the c
1ther hand, we read each day in Re-
newspapers, and hear from {
he mouths of public scolds learned 6
dissertations on the Supreme Court. h
coming from men who know as must r
u law as demagogue does of honesty. q
Each day comes some new Justinian #
o eypound the law who does not know n
law book from an almanac. Men n
ave been accustomed in the past when Fl
eeding medicine or the attention of is
surgeon TO employ Il doctor who has in
wen long years of study to his pro- th
'SSioA TIE time las been in Mis- az
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21
Eye-strain and Nervousness.

In some cities the nervous child is
moving parents and physicians to ap-
peal for fewer hours in the schools and
less pressure. We do not much believe
in the intellect, the morals, or the
pedagogics of the colt-breakers or the
boy-breakers. There are better ways
to break a horse or a child than to
break its will, and the teacher that en-
tertains such diabolic theories should
be broken" The noteworthy fact
about the whole discussion is the ut
ter omission from a hundred papers
and editorials and discussions of the
most important element of the entire
matter. There are, it is true, many
other factors; there is really overstudy
and overpressure, but the one cause Of
The nervous child which is ignored, but
which is as prolific a source of evil as
perhaps all others combined, is eye
Medicine.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21

I the law, but bsG-Sa6lis sentiment
When courts yield to passion, Srej1
dice and public clamor, there will b
an end of law and government.
POLICE.
The issue Of police in politics ha.
been farorite one with Republican.
during the last eight years. Durins
my entire term as president OF the
Police Board l remember of but one
case where charges were filed by citi-
zens against officers for improper con-
duct at elections. Republican papers
were filled with charges of police in
timidation" and Interference at The
polls" but it is fact that none of
these Republican papers or none of the
Republican politicians making these
charges were ever willing to submit
them to a judicial hearing.
1 am opposed to Police interference
In politics, and believe that the police
ought to stay out of politics, just as 1
believe that the circuit attorneys
ONCE ought to be kept out of politics.
A policeman has no more right to drag
a man away from TIE polls for noliti-
cal purposes than has the circuit at
torney the right to drag a man across
the State of Missouri for political pur-
poses. l do not believe that a police
man should promote his political
aspirations through his position. nor
do l believe that the circuit attorney's
once should be used for a like DUR
pose. The vote secured by a policeman
through intimidation is a bad vote,
just as a vote secured by a circuit at
torney by intimidation would be a bad
vote. If there is any question of moral
turpitude in such conduct it would he
In favor of the policeman, who occu-
pies humble Office and receives s.. 900 |
year, while The circuit attorney oc- |
cupies high office with an income of |
over $1,000 year.
am one of those who believe that
a policeman has all the rights of an
American citizen. He has the right to
join what political association he de-
Sires, to vote for the candidates Of mis-
choice, and, when not in the discharge
ot his duties, to participate in those
organizations which advocate the poll
teal doctrines in which he believes.
A policeman may become a tyrant IN a
small way, and grand jury, under the
of a candidate for Office,
nay become an inquisition. Some
II the best: bravest and most useful
'ublic officials and citizens of the whole
'tate of Missouri are members of the
'olice Department of st. Louis. was
heir friend while in Office. and I will
emain their friend now that I am ont :
f office. :
The present police law governing the n
'ity of st. Louis was put upon the =
tatute books in 1861. 1t was reviewed =
y special committee appointed bv a c
epublican president of the senate, and 4
imposed of three Republican senator's -
hey investigated its workings an =,
rOVed of its plan, and while in mower >,
ade no effort to change its provisions ~
its essential features the police law 90
in nOwise changed from what # was \,
its original passage in 1861. except n
at the police force has been enlarged
ID some of the salaries increased. in of
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-01-21


OF St Louis is in the hands of Demo
Gratis, not one of whom has had the
finger Of suspicion pointed at him. My
crime has been that of fighting Dem
ocrat. / am proud Of the charge.
II the price of Missouri's governor
ship depends upon making the people
believe that Democracy means dish3n-
esty, then for one find the price too
| high. Between the man who corrupts
a legislature to secure a franchise and
a man who corrupts public opinion to
secure an Office, find but little differ
ence. To be governor of Missouri is
enc OF the highest honors which can
fail to the lot OF any man, but my am
bition is not so great that 1 will seek
ID rise to that height by stepping on
the Bonded backs and the humiliation
CT my brother Democrats. My ambi-
ton is not so vautling that I desire TO
crush down the rest of the Democracy
as l advance. If the honor can rot
como to me through the free will of the
people love, respect and honor, then
L do not want It. If elevated it must
&c by the strong aims of stalwart DEM
2crats who love their party and fight
It's enemies. l will not appeal to the
Leople as al anti-machine man and
secretly coquette with party leaders
and solicit their support. Nor Will l |
abuse systems and men in public and |
apologize in private for my public
statements; nor will l denounca NV
own people and at the same time ask
faV1Is al their bands; nor will go 10
war followed by Republican soldier
On my right and a Democrat on my
eft.
would not put 4 scar upon the brow
Or tear in the eye of any man as 1
90 forward, except UPON the brow and
rom the eye of the man who ISLANDERS
Missouri. My blows shall be for the
'nemy. But if l should by chance strike
N old leader who has been the recipi-
Mt OF innumerable favors at his party's
lands and now quietly submits to the
lander OF his State, his party and his Z
rlendS without word of protest, it will I
e only because my contempt at his |
ngratitude has overmastered my pity i
Or his cowardice. Let no beneficiary D
the honors Of his party believe that b
e like the ostrich may hide his head t
ntil the battle has passed by and raise b
again with honor. The fight now OF t,
for the fair name of Missouri and b
fssouri's honest SONS. a
l shall make my canvass in an omen Il
way. Without claiming a,
reat virtue, l shall rot preach against m
Orruptlon in public and form political m
finances with it in private l shall not OF
lth hypocritical cant solicit the sun Al
1rt OF the minister of the GOSPEL, and III
zen leaving Uniform political alliances W
I'm the pr0prIatorS of disreDurabIe Nc
looms. If assistance does not come to st
c l shall make the fight alone. But
Relieve that it will come, and from
cry quarter where men love their
ate. honor its traditions and are not 10,
or dismayed by the grea,
'tropolitan organs Of Islander.
Jut in the State Of Missouri there
many brave. honest men who have
N Gcce!Fed. The deception will not
|. Fur these mcn have the greatest IN,