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has carefully picked out of their set
tings the twenty most hellcose. alb
solntist, imperiaistic sayings of which
President Roosevelt has ever delivered
himself. These are the quintessence OF
his bloodthirsty expressions. Nothing
that he has said has ever gone farther
on the road to military despotism than
these twenty-six things.
Ex Parte Argument.
Of course, as every reasonable be-
ing knows, such ex parte argument is
not fair. 1t We're easy by choosing out
all of Jefferson's sayings on one side to
prove him an ardent expansionist. or by
picking out of all his writings on the
other side to prove him a higoted con
tractionist. He could he shown up as
protectonist if all that he said in
favor Of that principle were collected to-
gether, while all that he said against it
were omitted. Or by reversing the pro-
cess it could readily be demonstrated
that he was an absolute and perpetual
free trader. 1t could he shown that
he was practical anarchist, advocating
revolution every twenty years, that
The tree Of liberty might be kept well
watered with blood. Or by Omitting this
class Of his writings and combining the
opposite class he could be represented
as constantly enjoining implicit obedi-
ence to the law.
1t is useless to multiply examples. BY
such narrow scheme of special plead
ing the wise man could he shown fool.
because wise men sometimes are fool
ish. The most foolish man could be
shown a sage. because foolish men some
times are sensible. The gutter drunk
ard could be proved teetotaler. for he
has occasional periods of complete So
briefly. Such method is wholly false.
The World knows it and resorted to il
only because it's case was weak.
1t you would judge what kind Of a
President Roosevelt would make the
fairest method is to consider what kind
of President he has made. But if you
for some reason which it is not easy
to conceive, refuse this test, and pre-
fer to judge him on what he has said
do not read merely stray words and
| sentences gathered and arranged by his
enemies. In all fairness read these
words in their proper conteXts. Read as
much OF Roosevelt's writings as you have
! time for. You will find them the express
sions not Of bloody and despotic intel
lect but Of a clean, strong, honest mind
| instinct with patriotism.
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Tina iron and steel industry 10 often
,.,erred to as the barometer Of gen
.r.l hnsiness" 1t reflects conditions Of
Ispression or prosperity throughout the
.ountry in a remarkably sensitive way
for there is no business nor industry
l., tho country which does not share
closely in the various conditions which
make steel either king" or "pauper,"
and as Andrew Carnegie once said.
".teel is always either king or pauper"
When times were hard. as during the
o.riod of the last Democratic admins
tration, 1893-1S96, there was indeed an
open door into the palace Of King Steel
for the wolf of poverty to enter and
make Steel a Pauper.
1t was shown then that when panic
and depression visit the country, steel
feels the effects the most sharply and
the most quickly of almost any COM
modify.
THE RESULT OF DEMOCRATIC
POLICIES WAS NOT ONLY TO
HEAVILY CURTAIL THE AMERI-
CAN CONSUMPTION OF IRON AND
STEEL, BUT TO GIVE AN OPEN
DOOR TO THE FOREIGNER TO
SUPPLY WHAT DEMAND THERE
WAS LEFT. In two years. from 1892
to 1894, represented by the change from
Republican to Democratic rule, the pro-
duction of pig iron in the United States
dropped from 8, 157 600 tons to 1888
tons.
The financial depression that existed
through the Cleveland administration
made 1t difficult for railroads to float
the issues Of bonds that were needed to
raise money for new rails, bridges, cars
and other equipment involving large
consumption of iron and steel. The same
was true of the building trades, and
other industries which can use iron and
steel only as their business can expand.
and, whose business instead of expanding
during the last Democratic administra-
ton, was forced to contract.
Remarkable Change Occurs.
After the election of President Nc
Kinley the enormous gains both in our
consumption and our production of iron
and steel attracted the attention Of bust
ness interests throughout the world.
Steel, which was Pauper under the
Democratic administration, once again
VAS King, and like King Cotton and
King Corn, the growth OF his worldwide
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the exception Of Russia, show produc-
ton by countries as follows:
Republican Policy IL in Line with
Territorial Prscedents.

-Four years ago the Democratic par
" denounced the acquisition of the Phil
1ppine Islands by the United States as
a dangerous form of national expansion
and their retention as an application Of
mllitarism. The only logical conclusion
OF this position was our immediate re-
tlrement from the Islands, leaving them
to shift for themselves. In his letter ac-
cepting the nomination for Vice Presi-
dent in 1900 Mr.. Roosevelt commented
OH this position as follows:
The simple truth is that there is moth
Ing even remotely resembling imperial
ism or militarism involved in the present
development Of that policy of expansion,
which has been part of the history of
America from the day when she became
a nation. The words mean absolutely
nothing as applied to our present policy
in the Philippines, for this policy is only
imperiahstic in the sense that Jeffersons $
policy in Louisiana vas imperialistic; /;
only military in the sense that jackson s
policy towards the Semnoles or Clusters
towards the Sioux embodied mlitarism. !.
and there is no more danger of it's pro-
ducing evil results at home now than
there was OF it's interfering with free
dom under Jefferson or Jackson, or in
the days of the Indian wars on the
plains.
"The only certain way Of rendering
it necessary for our Republic to enter
on career of 'niitarism' would be to
abandon the Philippines to their own
tribes, and at the same time either to
guarantee stable government among
these tribes or to guarantee them against
outside interference. A far larger army
would be required to carry out any such
| policy than will be required to secure
| order under the American flag; while
| the presence of this flag on the Islands
is really the only possible security against
outside aggression. Properly
| speaking, the question is now not wheth-
er we shall eXpand-for we have already
| expanded-but whether we shall con-
| tract"
That was the issue four years ago.
Now the Democratic platform says:
I'VE believe with Jefferson and John
Adams, that no government has a right
to make one set of laws for those at
home and another and different set of
laws, absolute in their character, for
those in the colonies We insist
that we ought to do for the Filipinos
what we have already done for the
Cubans."
| There has never been a time since
the formation of the government that
Congress has not made one set of laws
| for the States and another set for the
territories. The laws enacted by Con
gress for the government of the Philip.
pines are no more absolute than those
which have been enacted during the last
hundred years for our various territories
The demand that the United States
shall do for the Filpinos what it has
done for the Cubans is unrea asonable. We
never claimed to own Cuba. but we pos
sess the Philippines by an undisputed
title. A Republican administration die
entire justice to Cuba as demanded by
the circumstances of the case. and the
Republican party can be depended upoI
to do entire justice to the Philippines.
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Price Placed on Repentance.

Gold Democrats who bolted the Bryan
party will be permitted to joan the Hill
Belmont-P Parker organization, provided
they pay big entrance fee. The Demo
cratic State Committee of Indiana 10
preparing to levy a heavy assessment on
gold Democrats who wish TO vote for
Parker. In other words, the men who
have been reviled SO bitterly by MI.
Bryan for supporting Palmer or McKD-
ley at the last two elections must open
their pocketbooks if they wish to at
humbly in the Parker baDdwagon.
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Latest Republican Outrage.

On Aug. % fall of snow. the first
of the season. occurred in Minnesota,
and it cannot be denied that it occurred
under the Roosevelt administration.
Crops. flowers and garden produce were
damaged, and there was the dickens to
pay generally.
The Republican party cannot deny
that this thing has happened under a
Republican administration. but it can do
this 1t can promise another snowfall
On Nov s, so vast that the memory Of
all preceding snowstorms will be lost
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1--WE want no laws inspired by pas
sion, nor do we want them adminfs'
tered by sci 1fish meas or incapacity. The
best laws, wisely nd administered, are
what we demand, and they can be Sc
cured If we but do our duty, a duty
oumanded by the sacrifice Of those
who sleep on this field, and by our swn
interests and the interests OF those
who shall follow us."-Senator Fairbanks
At Freehold, N. j., June q, 1908
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President Roosevelt said in his speech
OF acceptance: "A party is of worth
only in SO far as it promotes the national
interest" Measured by this standard,
what is the Democratic party WORTH
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The country is indebted to the Repub.
lican party for the national bank sys-
tenn, the resumption of specie payments
and the establishment of the gold stand
ard. 1t can well afford to point with
pride to these and other achievements
opposed and denounced by the Democ-
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In 1901 the %, ,SSi 40 tons Oh ore pro-
duced by the United States exceeded by
42,O23 tons the combined output OF Great
Britain and Germany, which amounted
only to 2S,S45, ,456 tons.
The high record of production in this
country was reached in 1902, when the
total was 35,554, ,135, in combined
world output of about 100000 tons.
Germany reached its highest record In
1900 with 1S,964,294 tons, and Great
Britain its maximum in 1889, when its
total was 1886, 1O3 tons.
In 1901, the year when this country
for the first time produced more ore
than Great Britain and Germany COM
bined. the total world output of ore was
70 9s1 1856 tons, leaving only 51,O94, ,456
for the entire world outside the United
States. whose production was 2S'SS7'479
tons.
For that year the oficial figures, with
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1t is sometimes well to consider what
might have been. Where would our gov
ernment finances. our revenues, our do
mestic industries and our foreign trade
be now if the Democracy had succeeded
in 1896 or 1900!
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The average weekly rate of wages In
the United States is 1I9 per cent and In
Great Britain 100 per cent 1t marks
the difference between protection and
free trade.
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Consumption,
Production,

Conquest Of Foreign Markets.
With the vast increase in the domes-
&c production Of iron and steel under
Republican rule it became possible 20
conduct the industry at a relatively far
srsater perfection and lesser cost than
when the work was done on only one
snlrd the scale. THIS CAUSED THE
United STATES, BY ITS SUPE-
hloR METHODS, ABILITY IO
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WAITER OMAN Wall
THIS TIME IT'S r OSEVEl THAT
HE'S AFRAID OF.

The Cassandra of American Pclittct
Utters Dismal HOwis and Direful
Predictions About Roosevelt and
Republicans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
COTTON BELT TIME TABLE.

North, No. 2, Arrive Pine BlIft a,
1:10 p. M; arrive st. Louis 1912
a. m.
North, No. 4, Arrive Pine Bluff q
1855 a. M; arrive at St. Louis 6:56
p. N.
North, No. 80, Leave Pine Bluff at
$3.50 p. M; arrive at Little Rock $40
p. m.
South, No. 1, Leave st. Louis at
9:45 p. M; leave Pine Bluff at 3:15
p. m.
South, No. 8, Leave st. Louis at
1856 a. m.; leave Pine Bluff 2:05 a. N.
South, Nc. 81, Leave Little Rock
At sos a. M: arrive at Pine Blum
l0:25 a. m.
S. N. DICKEY. Agent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
A TWO EDGED SWORD.
How the Packers Trust Robs the
Stock Raiser and the Consumer.

Stock Raiser and the Consumer.
Nearly every one in the United
States has felt the extortion Of the beef
trust. and many family only has
meat once or twice week in conse.
quence OF TIE high prices exacted. The
poor in the towns and cities thus suffer
whether in eastern or western states
If the farmers and stock growers were
the beneficiaries of this high price of
meat there would be an indirect COM
pensatior to the workers Of the cities.
for agriculture being unusually pros
porous the increased purchase Of ne
cesSities of life and luXuries by the
farmers brings more demand for labor
in the business and manufacturing cen.
ters and hence better wages and living.
But the farmers and stock growers are
grumbling that the price of cattle and
hogs Is lower, while the packers COM
b1ne is charging more for its prod
ucts. A letter in the Mitchell (Neb.) In
dex from former Senator II. G. Stew.
art says:
"By glancing at the market reports
we notice that about the middle of Oc-
tober the price of hogs was $3.50 and
that the price at the same date a year
ago was $7.2O, or loss to the producer
Of $3.50 per hundredweight. Retail
dealers who handle Omaha meats in
the larger cities Of the state report that
its packers are charging 10 to 10 per
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18

Of manufacturers II liiJi
each group forluu: an illegal tru
met and instead of reducing prices. Il
was expect d. decided 10 stand pat
Of hillets. structural shapes and plate,
The tariff protected trusts are mere
less in their extortion. And why should
they reduce prices? The people VOTE
for high prices at every opportunity
and put themselves at the mercy of
trusts by putting a tariff wall around
themselves to prevent them by an
possibility from getting cheap foreign
goods. Certainly the trusts should
stand pat" on prices.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18

cent more for dressed pork now ;i!a,l
year ago Result the packers by CON
trolling both the buying and selling
prices are able this year to buy hogs Il;
4C per cent less and sell meat at ~ pc.
cent more making q profit of - pei,
cent over and above their profits of one
year ago.
Now. how about cattle? About the
same date in October this year good
beef steers weighing ZOO pounds = Id
for 81 -. Sa:"jo date a year ago the
same quality Of steers sold for $ti23. or
$l.50 more than this year Dressed
meat IS Is per cent higher this year SC
they are buying cattle on foot at 80 per
cent less a,i selling the meat at * per
cent more. making a net profit OF 41
per cent owe and above their profits of
q year ago
Without doubt this state Of facts ex-
lists in other western states and in the
other packing centers. Kansas City and
Chicago.
Attorney General Knox has ample
funds and legal aid to investigate these
extortions of the packers combine, but
he will have to change bis tactics from
the gloved hand to the mailed fist by
prosecuting this unlawful combination
under the criminal section Of the inter
state commerce law instead Of injunc-
ton proceedings under the civil section.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
REPUBLICAN, PROSPERITY.
Optimism OF Party Leaders Versns
Pesaim imfsm of Facts.

! Oh c0CtS
t The Hon. j. G. Cannon said the day
the Republicans nominated him for
speaker of the house. The people never
were so well and perfectly employed
as now. That great Republican lead
er. Congressman Hepburn Of Iowa.
who when he is speaking will not brook
Interruption by any new member. said
on Dec. !. To-day every nan in the
Caiied States who wants work finds
employment in the great labor fields Of
the United states and at eompensating
wages"
How do the facts bear out these
strong optimistic assertions: On Oct
% the Boston Transcript. leading Re
publican paper, said:
'Organized labor Is facing the great.
est wage crisis since the panic of 1893
- 1t has been estimated that be-
fore the close Of the year the big en-
plOytng concerns Of the country will
have discharged nearly 100000 men"
On Nov. II the New York journal of
Commerce and Commercial Bulletin.
the greatest journal of this class In this
country. said:
1T would be folly to shut our eyes to
the fact that industrial and in turn
commercial depression are following
right along In the wake of financial
collapse Mills are shutting down; min.
Ing Is being restricted
The National Labor Tribune of Pitts.
burg said Nov. p:
There are still more idle mills
throughout the country than seemed
possible during the flush times of a
year or more ago What is still more
unpleasant to contemplate. a number
OF the shutdowns appear to be for good
or at least for an indefinite time"
The 1nternat ational Mercantile agency,
Of which eX-Director of the Census
Merriam is the head. said about Dec 5:
'"The week is characterized by fur
ther slackening industry. The wages of
100000 industrial employees have been
reduced 10 per cent or more, and prep
arations are making to effect q similar
reduction with respect to 100000 others
In various lines on or about Jan. TO-"
AS indicating the slackening in in
dustry we may note the falling off in
the production of pig iron. The Iron
Age OF Dec 10 says that the prodnc-
! ton fell from an average Of l.GN.OOO
| tons month for July. August and
September to 1.074.O0O tons for Novem-
Der and that "such drop within the
short space OF two months is altogether
unprecedented in the American iron in.
dustry." Yet It says that not only did
the stock Of unaold iron greatly in
crease during November. but that for
the first week In December there was
still further falling OF In production.
II, as has heretofore been supposed.
the iron and steel industry is the ba-
rometer Of business. then great indus
! trial storm will soon be upon us.
i or course those who choose to do SO
can accept the interested optimistic va
porings Of their Republican statesmen
and discard the dis!nterested warnings
Of our great trade and labor journals
and of our financial and commercial
authorities. This is free country. and
man need not put a roof on his house
If he does not think there will be any
more rain. Time will tell who are
| right. BYRON w HOLT.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
J. 0. KS Restaurant
MOUED
TO 1928 MAIN STREET.

On or about January f8 I will have
my restaurant and bar moved to 1913
Main Street.
/ am desirous to have my old pa
irons remain with me and have made
this change in order that | may give
my trade better accommodations and
better service. My new plant will be
fully equipped with all modern conven-
fences for the quickest service.
l will continue to give the well
11nown Csc Merchants Lunch. All
delicacies of the culinary art will be
kept in stock day and night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
Omaha World-Herald.
Manufacturer, .stand Pat"

PRESIDENT Roosevelt and the Repub
hcan party having decided to stand
pat' on the tariff question, at least un-
nl after the presidential election. the
trusts have decided to stand pat'' on
Their high prices regardless OF the fact
tnat the buying power Of the people is
nearly exhausted and that hundreds of
thousands Of workers have had their
wages reduced radically, while other
hundreds Of thousands are out of work.
around Christmas time seyeeal groups
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
READY FOR THE GRocERs

The local committee of the retail
grocers' association announce that ev-
erything is in readiness for the en-
tertainment of the Retail Grocers' con-
vention which meets tomorrow. About
100 delegates are expected.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
RYAN'S CATARRHlINE

Is Gods gift to man. 1t is a positive
cure for catarrh OF the head and nose,
hay fever, asthma, headache, and will
cure a cold In sone nights time. For
sale at all drug stores.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18

Rev. Father Bandini of Tontitown is
in receipt of a letter from w. B. Ste
vens, secretary cf the ST. Louis world S
of Tonti had been placed upuon the
list for one of the principal bridges
across the lagoon on the fair grounds
General Tonti was an Italian explorer
who visits Arkansas in the early
days, and Tontitown, the Italian settle
ment west of Springdale, was named IN
his homer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-18
ARKANSAS IN BRIEF

The Fayetteville city council has ap-
pointed committee to inspect the op-
era house in that city.
The Singer Manufacturing company
is buying walnut logs at Pocahontas,
paying from $40 to SIS per thousane
feet.
Mrs. Laura Woodbridge of Cherokee
City was tried before United States
Commissioner Petty at Sloan Springs
recently on the charge of taking money
from letter belonging to her sister-in-
law. She was bound over to the feder-
al court in the sum of $3.50.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-09
Captain Cameron, OF the Life Saving
Crew, Discovers Strange Under
ground Home South Of City.
HAS BEEN RECENTLY TENANTED
Large Cave Dug in the Sand Bank and
Hidden Beneath Protecting willows of
the Butcher Farm

Captain B. G.. Cameron yesterday
made strange discovery which may
prove valuable aid to the police of
the city in tracing some of the stolen
property which has been taken by
robbers in Kenosha during the last
few months.
Captain Cameron was roaming
along the lake shore half a mile south
of the limits of the city when he hap
pened to run on to large cave which
had been dug in the sand bank on the
Butcher property. The cave was so
cleyerly hid by bushes and willows
that it is completely shut off from the
outside world. The dugout is stu
ated in the center of large bunch of
willows along the lake shore. It is
about three hundred feet from the
lake and a half mile from the limits
of the city. The captain entered the
place wholly by accident and was sur
prised to find himself in room ten
feet square dug out of the sand.
There was no approach to the cave
from the lake side and the approach
from the road leading south from
Durkee avenue was from a labyrinth
of paths so that the wanderer along
the lake shore could not have found it
save by the merest chance.
The entrance to the cave was by a
door some four feet in height and the
doorway was c1ever1y hidden by a
mass of willows SO that it would have
been passed by many an observer
without notice. Captain Cameron re-
ported the find to the police this
morning and Chief Reino1d has or
dered the men to investigate it and
see what can be found concerning it.
The cave had been recently occu-
pied, as was shown by the fact that a
fire had been laid in the improvised
fire place and an old bunk over in the
corner of the room, had recently been
slept in. It is possible that the cave
was built as a hang out for tramps,
but the captain seems to think that it
had been used as a fence for the hid
ing of stolen property. The people
owning the land and the people resid-
ing in the neighborhood, had no
knowledge of the existence of this
strange under ground room and it is
asserted that it was not built by boys
The work on the under ground cham
Der shows that it was built after a
great deal of planning. The cave is
large enough to house dozen men if
necessary, and once inside of it they
would be absolutely safe from mo1es-
tation.
People residing in the neighbor-
hood claim that several times during
the last winter, unknown men have
been seen to enter the willows and
when watched it was observed that
the men did not go through to the
lake shore. The cave is ideally stu
ated for a robbers nest and the cap
tain of the Life Saving Crew, says
that he has no doubt but that this is
the use to which the cave has been
put.