The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-01

TIA: report and then answer ihsse
questions:
DO yen believe the man thus vouch.
u Cor ay SIX OF the best citizens u
this country Which Is likely 20 re
p.esudiced? The man having no mo-
tive but % learn the truth. or the gov
ernor who MAJ be in some measure r.
snonsssle for unfortunate conditions
rs the governor a representative 90
srca a character as TO justify an ex~
pendisure % the government Of sew
eral hundred ollar 10 cable a part OF
my speech to Manila and 10 receive his
reply by cable. Il was not govern
ment business. II was political husi-
ness.
IF a few hundred dollars msy be
taken out from the public funds 20 thus
assist the prosecution o. 4 political
campaign why may not the money in
treasury Be employed for any purpose
that VIII help the campaign? How do
We know but IL is? This Is one Of
public building to be announced later.
the evidences Of the growth OF Impe--
.al,sm.
The head of the government can
DO no wrong An assault upon his
PSA~- - go @@1-AAAN AE1AA $50 -
and hence the peoples money can DC
legit'mately used for his vlndlca;ion.
My speech charging administrative
| ex~travagances seems also - nave
|! created some excitement. And to this
the administration puts forward Hor-
ace A. Taylor. He makes a statement
after a call on the President.
'tNow you Will observe that he no
l y-Ia-- rh Han a. .Aa a~r~a1 vF-an hy
me. They cannot be questioned. They
show that after taking the fifty mil
| ions paid for the Panama cana! and
rights. the government spent one hum
dred and sixty millions more last year
than IL did seven years ago under 4
Democratic administration. The de-
felt for the present fiscal year 20 Oc-
tober 25th is over twenty-one millions
as against s1.141. 2O4 for ideH;ically the
same period last year.
Returning 10 Acting Secretary Tay-
lor's interview: Il would seem as IL
its purpose-if 1t had any beyond hat
OF creating a mist-was 70 deny my
assertion that there were ~administra-
tive orders forbiddIng government Of
fcers from making public any state
ments OF estimates upon which future
app OPERATIONS are based. Ny answer
is that the treasury department issued
his order:
Treasury department. Office Of the
Secretary September eth 1904. OF the
heads of bureaus md chiefs Of d.vis-
ions:
Gentlemen:
1T is requested tina ne information
bearing upon the estimates OF this de-
partment fer the fiscal year ending
June goth 1906 be made public until the
estimates shall have been approved by
the honorable secretary OF the treasury.
by direction of the secretary.
CSignedD Wv. H. HILLS.
"'Chief Clerk"
Il have copies of orders issued 10
other departments which I took the
precaution 10 obtain before making
public the statement now challenged"
Judge Parker then took up the tariff
question which he discussed at some
length from the standpoint OF the for
mer. saying he has suffered even more
possibly than the wage Garner by ex-
cessive tariff duties. Judge Parker re-
ferred to the higher prices under pro-
lection Is an assessment or the con-
sumner and asked:
- pNA NAAN A~N "
compel you 10 continue TO pay an as
sessment every time you o. the menu
bers Of your family buy an article OF
clothing or buy anything to use? That
is precisely what we have been doing
until We ave concentrated the wealth
and power in this country IN compara-
lively few hands. There are said to
be 453 combinations, or trusts. in this
country.
I'm order 10 make many OF these
combinations pay good dividend on the
~~atered stock. the tariff taxes. Hey
say. must be kept III And 50 these
combinations are trying to give sue
cess TO the Republican party. because
that party and its President have no.
tilted the country that they stand pat.
as they call IL. on the tariff. which
means that they VIII not interfere
with il"