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Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23

Everyday Business Principles Apply
Fully to Government.

The common sense and the common
information of the people OF the United
States will furnish no sort OF reason
able doubt that Of necessity, with the
natural growth of this great repub-
lie, there must be a natural increase
of the expenditure OF its maintenance.
No sensible man Is going to object to
the magnitude OF business that in
creases his chance of bread-winning.
no matter how large the figures may
be, but surely what would indeed con-
Germ him would be whether he was
cheated in what he had to pay and
whether he was swindled In what he
had 10 buy. He being an honest eth
zen and business man, would want to
know whether he was getting gold
brick when he bought or whether be
was fairly paid for what he sold. He
would want TO see his books kept
straight, not merely In appearance and
the regularity Of attendance to business
of his bookkeeper, but that what was
set down in black and white repre-
| sented the facts In every case.
Is there anybody who has kept or
binary track of what has been going on
| for many years liz the administration o.
| the Federal Government who viii SAY
| in his faith that the books OF the
| Government have been kept In accord
ance with the facts and that the facfoi
| themselves are jusiifiable? Ii thtr&|
any such who will say that the figure~<
| of the recent Government boUkkeefRF'
| ing represented honesty and economy
| in the administration OF the G0verus5
mentt Is this an idle question: ~
1t not one which would immediately
concern every man in the conduct Qf)
his own business who, In all eom1nG
sense, wished and worked for succe61S
aud was jealous OF his good name Will
| his neighbors? Is Is not time In The
affairs OF the Government to have a
honest, accounting to see whether IN
common reports of carelcssness, ~
| travagance and corruption have an1
foundation In fact? All the verbs
racket In the world about decency q
citizenship and civic righteousness WI
not avail to convincs people that
| IL well when they NOW that they h6%
been needlessiy taxed and the taxaft9
thus wrongfully wrung from theu
| applied to extravagant, corrupt 9
shameless uses both In the manner
their auditing and In the ways Of tn
| disbursement.
1 luese are some OF Tue lucas VIII
| have been sought to be conveyed
Democratic National platforms
many years, which our friends
enemy have secuted and scorned
mere generalization. People do
| need TO be told that ii Is mere gefee
| ization to be advised that II II he41
be honest and prudent In business
! IL singular that when II comes to
/ plying simple principles OK honest n
ness to Government affairs that
tain politicians will be on hand
laugh such assertions to scorn.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
SCANDAL OF A LEAK.

The scandal In the Agricultural De-
partTnent of the leak OF the cotton crop
report il explained by Secretary VIII
SON as merely coincidence OF figures.
and that any person being in possession
OF the Government cotton figures ahead
of their publication ''is absolutely
false Yet the fact remains that the
Government report was known in New
York some time ahead of its publica-
ton, and the cotton spectators made
trades on the advance information. II
Secretary Wilson would pay as much
attention TO overseeing this department
as he does to making stump speeches
he would easily discover the leak aud
could stop ii II he wanted 10. The sim
pie business way to test the matter
would be to suspend Mr.. Hyde. who
has for some time been in charge Of
the statistics, and try new man and
new assistants. 1t is quite probable
that for some time, or at least, until
the spectators could get at them,
these new brooms would sweep clean.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE !?

rang true and struck home to the
hearts and minds of all who heard
him.
OF all the hundreds--there were 653
Of them-who journeyed to Kosemount,
none came away but well pleased
not one but felt the better and the
stronger in his devotion to his party
and its candidate for having been
there.
Said one griZzled veteran, straight
from the firing line in Indiana, Il
came 1900 miles to look Judge Parker
in the face and l am going back to
my people with the message that we
have not had his equal as d Presiden-
tial candidate since the days OF Sam
Tilden. If my county does not give
the ticket 500 majority in place OF the
400 it gave Mckinley in 1900, III get
off the tripod and try my hand at
something else
And the spirit which animates this
Indiana editor will move every one
of his contemporaries who looked
Judge Parker in the eye, listened to his
stirring words and felt the friendly
grasp of his hand.
The editorial conference and a visit
VI Tie cdllOls " ItoStlooht main al
epoch in the great contest now ON be
tween Democracy, as represented by
Alton b. Parker, and Republicanism,
as illustrated by Theodore Roosevelt
This interchange of ideas and this per
sonal contact with the Democratic
standard bearer means that the 5l0O
Democratic and independent journals
which are now supporting Parker and
Davis will henceforth work together
along identical lines for common pur-
pose and with redoubled energy. Ii
will 60 far toward assuring complete
and convincing presentation to the
country Of the vital issues of the cam
paign and triumphant victory for
Parker and Davis and the great, his
toric party whose leaders for the time
being they are. This, at least, is the
opinion voiced by prominent editors
who were at Rosemount and echoed
by all their fellows.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
CAMPAIGN NOT HARMFUL TO BUSINESS

The Dry Goods Economist has made
a canvass of its subscribers In all parts
of the country for the purpose of learn
ing the exact situation In the dry goods
trade, and the prospect for the imme-
date future. In summing up its con-
illusions based on reports from almost
every State l.. the Union. the Econo-
mist says frankly that while the sit
uation is by no means alarming. ii is
not as good as ii might be-is not now
nor likely TO be later on, up to that of
last year. To the fact that Presiden-
tial campaign is pending, it attributes
little. If any. of the present quietness
in trade and prospective falling OFF in
the volume thereof in the fall and win
ter, as compared with the correspond
ing seasons last year. Labor troubles.
it says. play prominent part in the
somewhat unfavorable outlook. and the
strikes in Illinois, Massachusetts, and
elsewhere emphasize this fact. OF sew
eral hundred merchants who replied
to the Economists queries, only one
elected to class himself as a fool or a
knave. He was country trader in a
Western State, who said that he had
ordered about the usual quantity Of
goods, subject to revocation in case OF
Parker's election" The ignorance or
mendacity of this fellow is in marked
contrast 10 the fair and businesslike
reports fro ali the otherA
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
WILL THEY STILL
STAND PAT ?

VIII the Roosevelt administration go
on as it has! Does the President mean
what he says?
highly important branch of the
Federal executive service at Wash
ington, small though 1t be in the num-
Der of persons employed, Is the steam
boat inspection. The employment OF
honest and competent inspectors who
will insist upon the strictest compli-
ance with the law is all essential for
the preservation of many lives that are
risked on the crafts that ply our wat
ers.
The General Slocum horror Is not to
be forgotten. Inspector General Uh-
Ter, who was first under Secretary
Shaw, Of the Treasury Department,
and was thence transferred to the De-
partment OF Commerce and Labor. of
which Chairman Cortelyou was the
head, complained of inefiiciency of the
service, it should be remembered. He
held that the trouble lay in the conniv-
ance of inspectors with rich steamboat
corporations.
Said the Brooklyn Eagle on the sub
tect:
las the logical and inevitable result
of corruption and negligence in sut,or-
dinates, due to the corrupt conditions
described by his own Supervising In
spector General, President ROOSEVELT
administration became morally re-
sponsible for the loss of seventy times
as many likes as were lost by his regi-
ment in the Iauded performance at
Kettle Hill. While Secretaries Shaw
and Cortelyou were playing politics for
Roosevelt, their service, upon which
human lives depended, was sunken in
inefficiency and corruption. When the
inevitable catastrophe came, with its
burning and drowning OF over 1900
women and children, Cortelyou sternly
ordered general reinspection. The
inspection officers sneeringly dehed
him, and the weeks passed without in
spectim. The steamboat owners, for
merry let of easy at the Treasury and
Commerce and Labor Departments,
may find 1t to their advantage TO re-
member who Is running Candidate
Roosevelts campaign.
And the people should remember
that according to the testimony of SUI
pervising Inspector-General Uhier, the
corruption and inefficiency of the
smallfry political inspectors, which
cost 1000 lives, was due to corrupt po-
litical favoritism higher up In Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration. To
punish the insignificant subordinates,
and leave unscathed and unrebuked
those who sit in the seats OF the
mighty would be a ravesty of jus
tice."
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
GAG LAW OBSERVER.

Speaking Of the Presidents now IA
nous "muzzling" order to bureau
chiefs In Washington the correspond
ent at the National Capital of the New
York Herald writes his paper:
Every well disciplined bureau or d.
vision chief, in addition to keeping his
mouth closed about Government ex-
penditures, tests each piece of business
to see If it contains political dynamite.
II 1t does he softly pigeonholes it, or
Y the demand for immediate action is
imperative. carries 1t to the head of the
department for consulta ton.
"All indications are that the State
Department will get extremely busy
with foreign policies Immediately after
election. None is being pressed now.
Although the American warships de-
spatched to Smyrna were withdrawn
and the statement made that demands
Tor better treatment of American citi-
sens and institutions within the Otto
man empire would be complied with it
Is known that the situation is not final
" nor satisfactorily settled The State
department is making no radical eff
forts at this time"
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
THE YOUNG MAN IN POLITICS.

The young man who will cast his
first vote for President at the coming
election must regard himself as nm
important factor in the results. The
committees of all parties In his neigh
borhood are calling upon him to save
the country and urging him 10 join the
local clubs, and IL he shows signs OF
independence the workers of the par
ties are paying special attention to his
case with tracts and speeches. to prove
that protection Is the only political
salvation for the country. and he will
be sure to profit by it. The fact that
the protected trusts are furnishing the
money to buy the ammunition that the
Protective Tariff League IL firing, has
probably attracted the attention OF first
voters and made them wary OF cast
ing their political lot with the monopo-
lists. Under the present reign Of the
trusts the young man has found his
opportunities hainpered and the
chances for entering upon business
career Oh his own account so few and
far between that 1t is not one in
thousand. The concentration Of bust
ness in the hands of the few, with the
great majority working for them at
Tue prices the tTustS anu cOfpOrhu0Uk
dictate, is an entirely different outlook
than presented itself TO the father OF
the present young man. But a few
years ago there was an opening for
any young man OF honesty and ability.
Now anything more than d clerkship
hardly presents itself Older and more
experienced men are competing for
the jobs that boys should be doing.
and the struggle for existence with
many Is severe one. This has all
come about since the reign OF the
trusts commenced and the ingenious
young man will naturally be enquiring
into the cause OF IL, and when he has
investigated and arrived at decision,
Will vote accordingly.
High prices for everything do not af-
feet him like the man with a family
TO provide for, but every young man Is
looking forward TO the time, with hope
and courage, when he will shoulder
the added burden OF at least one more
to provide for.
III the trust reign continues distance
will lend enchantment to the view OF
a home and wife for the young man
an enchantIDent which will prove a
bitter mockery.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
GRAFT AND EXTKAvAGASCE

One OF the scandals Of this admins.
tration is the continued payment of
rent for the old Custom House in New
York. The book of estimates this year.
prepared by the Treasury Department
called for an appropriation of $13O 600
Tor that purpose, and the subseryient
and exrayagant Republican majority
voted to appropriate the money al
though the Democratic members oh
Jected. When it is remembered that
the National City Bank. controlled nv
the Rockefellers bought the Custom
House some five years ago, agreeing to
pay $3,2OO.OO0 for the property. Not a
dollar was ever paid, the Republican
administration allowing the whole
amount to remain on deposit with the
bank and charging no interest. and vet
this profigate Republican adminisfra-
ton pays the bank that enormous rent
Tor the building. To add further To
the crime against the taxpayers the
title to the Custom House not having
passed from the United States the CITY
of New York cannot assess taxes
against it, being still, as far as the rec
ords are concerned, Government pron-
erty. President Roosevelt signed the
bill appropriating the rent money AL
though fully advised of the stea, in ali
Its enormity.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
MIR. RoOsEyELTS FOOLERY.
Bold.Faced Attempt to Deceive the
People With Talk Of Economy.

1t has come to be a kind Of common
agreement that nobody has q keener
appreciation of the homely wit OF +.
Z. Barnum's saying about the Amer
lean people liking TO be humbugged
than Theodore Roosevelt His letter OF
acceptance is the most blatant hum
buggery that has appeared in any Of
his public utterances. Mr.. Roosevelt
evidently thinks it applies to politics
as well as to an alleged dogfaced man
among his freaks.
In that wonderful letter Of accept
ance, he says:
1.-The expenditures of the Nation have
been managed in a spirit of economy
as far removed from waste as from
niggardliness; and in the future every
effort will be continued TO secure an
economy as strict as is consistent with
efficiency"
His promise to continue the same
kind of Roosevelt economy, with a
long unbroken record of notorious ex-
travagance with deficits constantly i'm
pending, will not fool the American
people. This is no dog-faced man freak
of the Barnum sort; it is merely one Of
the most characteristic of Roosevelt s
bluffs.
Representative Burton, of Ohio, made
q speech last spring in which he SOL
emily warned the House of Represen-
tatives of useless expenditures and OF
the alarming growth Of the tendency to
extravaganza. 1t was applauded by
Republicans as well as Democrats. 1t
was delivered at time when the riot
of extravaganza in the Postoffice De-
partment had provoked corruption
which scandalized the administration.
1t is idle for Mr.. Roosevelt to attempt
to recite the various great enterprises
of the Government requiring the ex-
penditure of money. Appropriations
always increasing have been made for
these objects, but it is notorious that
the Government has not only been de-
frauded in numerous instances, but
that in many cases officers Of the Gov
eminent in authority have been in
COLLISION with swindlers. 1t cannot
be denied either that after a brief
abortive effort to punish the wrong
doors the work Of the official sleuths
and those whose duty it was to admin
lister the punishment slackened and a
policy of silence and denial of publicity
was adopted. Only the other day Pres
ident Roosevelt gave out an order that
the departments must cease to give out
estimates. Is 1t possible Judge Parker's
thrust went home? If not, what was
the matter?
Why should Mr.. Roosevelt by this
order, suppressing the publicity Of esti-
mates Of expenditures for and in the
departments deny to the people the
privilege Of proving his word, he would
continue to secure economy"
1t is the first time such an executive
order was ever issued, and coming as it
does with the very echo Of the shot
from Judge Parker. at Esopus, it looks
as though there's something still "rot-
ten in Denmark"
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
LODGES DILEMMA.

The business men OF Boef61
seem determined to force fhe
ity issue regardless Of party Z
feet upon the Republican orr
Having eoerced Senator Led
that he fayors reciprocity 81
effectuaily killed the reciproEl
Use In the Senate. these U(1s0
men, mostly Republicans, axl&
tent on forcing the coming
vention Of their party to tAlr
out reciprocity with Canadf
it Injuries some petty industry
Senator Lodge will now N
or cut bait, for although Re
In defeating the adoption oe
ity plank by the conventions
ed delegates to the national
he seems to have closed {
such a position at this tn
factional fights In MasGae1
other States between the
will surely aid the Democr1
Republican machine evcry
the speakers Of that party
Ing a do-nothing policy.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
POVERTY STILL ABIDEs.

1t Is distressing 10 note the re-
OF the Boards OF Health In tile T.
cities and to see the dIstresn thifE
walls amongst the laboring people
artisans are not 50 much anect4
though there Is consIderah Bile at1lI
where strikes prevail. In New
the death rate ~ reported higher
In any other year since the CONN.,
fion OF Manhattan, brought chm
the hard winter, many being
and poorly clothed. The hfx1
OF the necessaries of life and IN
wages paid In many industries
TO lack Of proper nutrition, and
poor are now unable to resist thf
the III health contracted III the
cold last winter. The public cil4
are overtaxed, and much exfrofn
erty IL prevalent. The generat
OF the Society for Improving fbx
ditiou Of the Poor says that ~
the people they are brought fu
with are self.respecting hardsW
duced to want by sickness NJ
circumstances over which tley
control. This class never cof1
until their last resource hn1
hausted." Many other xiniiInk
Ing facts are given, the most e.
Of which Is what the manager
Municipal Lodging House say
Our increase il due to TIL
times"
And yet the Republican leade
as Secretaries shaw and Will
on the stump proclaiming th&
people were never so pr0spero
the protective tariff and hf
prices are the cause Of pr0sp4f
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
DINNER PAIL NOT ]

The New York Irish ~
discussing in a recent is1tI4
makes this observation:
The dinner pail is not 81
of making it so being too
but partly filed, and in the
men who are crowding la1Q
times empty. The pin&lq
shut out the products o. f6
labor, but neither 1t nor all'
eral law has shut out fVrel
Dor itself. The truth aboy
is that it protects the few
ers at the cost Of the many
consumers. and has been q
whatever to the workers q
try.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23
PATIENT, GENEROUS TEDDY.

THE administration vaunts Mr.
Roosevelt in his letter of acceptance
referring to the Panama deal. "be.
haved throughout with extraordinary
patience and generosity toward those
with whom IL dealt
How patient and how generous the
administration was nobody but the ad-
ministration, Mr.. Cromwell, the attor-
ney for the scheme, and Mr.. j. p. Nor
gan, who carried the financial part Of
1t, win ever know.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1904-09-23

If the protective tariff increases
wages so much as the Republicans try
to make out how is it that wages in
free trade England are so much higher
than in protected France and Ger
many, and why are wages lower in the
Southern States than in the Northern
States, and why are wages higher in
the Western States than in the Eastern
states? There is 10 protection wall
between the States to protect labor or
anything else.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-16

Mrs. A. Wayne is convalescent
after an extended illness with eri-
tonitis.
Frank Smith has our thanks
for an imported cigar that was
manufactured in the Philippines.
He received a box of them from his
brother, J. W., who is surgeon
general in Uncle SANS service
in that far-off cline.
The Rough Rider Mfg. Co. at
a meeting Wednesday evening
voted to purchase the building the
company has fitted up as factory,
formerly occupied by the Ideal
laundry in the fourth ward. The
price paid for it is $1,000. 1t
was owned by JOS. Book and H.
w. Brown and these gentlemen
took stock in the concern to this
amount.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-16

MR. BowsER WALKED UP AND DOWN,
~ FOLLOWED BY THE CAT.
to the sitting room, 'let us sit down for
an old fashioned chat. l was thinking
today what a good looking girl you
were when l came counting. You are
girl no longer, but l don't mean to
intimate that you are falling off in
looks-no, not by joyful"
But | have got to be forty years
DID, replied Mrs Bowser, with blush
and a sigh.
"Forty nothings. You may be forty
as the years go, but no one would take
you for a day over twenty-five. In
fact, often wonder that people don't
take you for my daughter. Not day
over twenty five, my DEAR and growing
better looking all the time"
Chats awfully sweet of you, but
You must not make me vain. l thought
[ heard the newsboys crying out some
thing about an attempted asSasSlna-
ton. Has any one been seeking the
presidents life again?"
Don't attempt to switch me off,
laughed Mr.. Bowser as he shook his
finger playfulIy at her. y know what
you are afraid of, but you needn't be.
This will be a permanent reform. |
made up my mind to that today, and
from this date you will find me a differ
ent man. We will let the president
take care of his own life, while we con-
tinue our old fashioned chat. l want to
tO n a hlpSf n
ner."
But for what, dear man.? she ask
ed. ''Surely you have done nothing to
apologize for
Nothing +sbut million different
things. Mrs. BOwser, l haven't been
the husband to you that | ought to
have been, and l realize it and want to
boot myself
ooh, but you have been a good hus-
band. At times you are a little eccen-
trio, but that is nothing to apologize
for. l haven't a single complaint to
make"
"That shows what q dear, darling,
precious wife you are and what a bull
doing old buzzard l am. l spent two
hours this afternoon going over our
past, and when [ got through / wanted
some one to kick me. We hadn't been
married four weeks when | began to
blow and boss around, and I've kept it
up ever since No wonder your good
old mother says that if I'd had some
women to live with they would
have broken my neck inside of three
MONTHS
But she didn't mean it, of course"
smiled Mrs. Bowser 'She's also bit
eccentric. You have a way of your
own, as we all have, but there isn't a
better hearted man living. Is it too
late to 60 to the theater tonight"
I'D go to the theater with you forty
times over replied Mr.. Bowser, but
tonight 1 feel like talking. l want you
to be assured that / have reformed.
There will be no further coming home
TO raise a row on my part because the
front gate happens to be standing
open.''
Mrs. Bowser realized that she could
not get away from the position ana
that she would have to see it through
and abide by the consequences, and
she made up her mind to face them