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The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
That Is What Will Follow Our Control
ofthe Pacific.

Laying aside the other questions to
be affected by locality, is it possible
that any sensible human being, living
west of the Rocky Mountains, could do
anything but support what those who
are fumbling for objections to the exist
ing administration call imperialism?
This attitude is not confined to those
west of the Rockies alone-far from it.
because, with new means of trade COM
munication, We are as one people in our
handling facilities across this continent
but to the people Of all the Pacific
Coast States especially must appeal the
fact that much of their future welfare
must depend upon the new and extra
ordinary pathway the United States has
made across the greatest OF all the oceans
and has 80 connected itself, for all COM
mercial purposes, with the greatest of all
the old nations of the Orient.
Business is business. We have taken
into our hands the management of the
Pacific Ocean and we are quite capable
of retaining that management under any
circumstances. Upon our retention of it
depends. to an extent, our commercial
welfare. We are the great producers
of n new land--a vast continent yet in
its infancy, and our welfare must year
ly depend to n great extent upon what
we export We have exported to Europe
md the East and exploited the Atlantic
almost to its utmost: now we purpose
to export across the Pacific and supply
with whatever they may need the teem-
ing millions of the Asiatic continent.
Upon the realization of this great indus
trial dream, which has become a fact,
must largely depend, in the future, the
commercial welfare of the American peo-
pie Does any group of fatuists, oppos-
ing whatever has become an absolute es-
sential. think that by raising the cry
of imperialism" the course of demands
of great lines of trade of great nation
can be deviated for moment1 Non
sense,
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
PLAIN ENGLISH.
II csnes from oyster Rny and Applies
to the New York World,

Sept. ]. according to a newspaper dis
patch of that date. Secretary Loeb gave
out typewriter statement denying n
story printed in the New York World
TO the effect to J. Pierpont Morgan has
recently held conferences with Mr..
Roosevelt concerning the campaign. 1t
is as follows:
The story In the World about the visit of
Mr.. Morgan to the President Mt Oyster Bay
is lie from beginning to end. Neither
Mr.. Morgan nor the New York representa-
tive of Mr.. Morgan has seen the President
or communicated with him directly or indi-
rectly at Oyster Bny anywhere else. As
far as the President or anyone around him
knows, Mr.. Morgan has been nowhere near
Oyster Bay In yacht or otherwise.
One paper comments upon the unusual
use of the word lie" in statements given
out by the President. There are times
when only one word in the English Ian
guage will serve, and President Roose-
welt is an authority on English. There
is only one word to titly and accurately
characterize certain statements-such
statements as that of The World which
the President was contradicting.
A lie, according to Webster. is "a
criminal falsehood: A FALSEHOOD
UTTERED FOR PURPOSES OF DE-
CEPTION; AN INTENTIONAL vIO-
LATION OF TRUTH"
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

White Sulphur Springs function indicat-
ed that he is sadly deficient, in 30 far
as present issues are concerned. He had
nothing to say upon any of the questions
which interest the voters of both parties.
A careful reading of his address fails
to disclose where he stands on any vital
issue.
"The man who is popularly supposed
to carry the State of West Virginia
around in shawl strap had not a word
to say regarding the trusts. He omitted
an allusion to labor and capital. So far
ms the speech indicates there Is no such
thing as the Philippine question. He had
nothing to say about the tariff. He is
certainly old enough to have heard of the
Monroe doctrine, but not line OF this
important bit of Amercanism can be
found in his speech. For all he says
there is no such thing as the Panama
canal and the closest observer cannot
learn whether he believes in the open
door or reciprocity or any of the things
| which men discuss. And has not Uncle
| Gassaway heard of the United States
uavy?
For speech which was looked for
ward to as n sort of keynote essay, the
utterance of the old gentleman with the
barrel is great disappointment to the
Democrats. To the Republicans it is
merely an evidence OF the fact that Mr.
Davis does not possess, Mt his advanced
age, the necessary mental equipment to
properly appreciate the great public ques-
tons which must confront the next pre-
siding officer of the Senate.
"Of course, Uncle Gnssaway is thor
, oughly respectable old gentleman. He
Is also possessed of much wealth and for
a man who has slipped over the 80 mark
Is well preserved and active. But there
Is vast difference between minding his
own personal business and attempting
at the sunset OF life to take hand in
the strenuous work of conducting the
great affairs of big nation. As Vice
President Henry Gassaway Davis will
not do"
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
ROOSEVELT As PREsIDEET.
Some of the Prominent Achievement
of the eAdministrntion.


What, positively, has he Qtoosevciu
accomplished?
He has handed over to Cuba the gov
ernment of the Cuban republic.
He settled the anthracite coal strike
which for half year had iciuoralizcd
the industries of the country.
When Great Britain. Germany and
Italy were attacking Venezuela he in
duced them to desist, thus preserving the
inviolability OF the Monroe doctrine.
The three commissioners appointed by
him to discuss the Alaskan boundary
question gained complete victory for
the American contention.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty, which
had been defeated by one Congress, was
passed in a subsequent special session,
because Roosevelt insisted.
BY the creation OF 4 bureau OF COM
merce and labor, for which his inau-
ence is solely responsible. the President
has taken the first definite steps toward
the solution of the trust problem. Light
will be let in on the management Of the
trusts. Then. when their evils are deiin-
itely, not vaguely, ascertained q proper
corrective can be applied.
The door to China's trade has been
kept wide open to our trade.
But the most enduring benefit the
President has brought to the country has
been the assurance that the Panama
canal would be finished. In the isthmian
imbroglio the President acted always
within the treaty rights of this nation
his official conduct was eminently cor
rect. But were it not for his exceptional
adroitness and visor during the crisis the
prospect OF the interoceanic canal would
still be years in the future. For nearly
400 years man has dreamed of piercing
the American istlimus. But it remained
for President Roosevelt to bring these
dreams within sight of realization. His
tory will record his connection with the
Panama canal as the most momentous
feature of his first term.
Thus Theodore Roosevelt has been an
upright and painstaking, vigorous and
useful, honest and patriotic President.
1t seems both wiser and fairer for the
American people to re-elect him rather
than to elevate in his place an untried
jurist, who, however exemplary his per-
sonal character, has had practically no
experience whatsoever to fit him for the
most difficult position in the world.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
Ultimate Success Sure.
Senator Stewart of Nevada secs the
Great Light.

Senator Stewart of Nevada, the last
of the Silverites, has seen the great
white light. His visions are those of
Joseph and the seven fat years. His talk
is of minerals and Nevada, and the bless
inss of the Dingley tariff on borax and
wool. He said:
President Roosevelt is very popular
in the mountain States of the West.
Through his influence the irrigation law
was passed. The Dingley tariff is II
great blessing to the far West The
tariff on lead, borax, wool and hides is
especially beneficial to the interior noun
tain States. The people of Nevada nre
beginning to realize that the silver ques-
ton has been relegated to the rear as
result OF the enormous output of gold
during the last eight years. Those voters
who left the party on account of the
silver issue are returning and, with the
Democrats who desire practical good, are
uniting In support of the administration.
My information is that Nevada will go
Republican,"
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
The Century Dictionary thus defines

The Century Dictionary thus defines
the word:
MADE WITH THE PURPOSE OF
DECEIVING! an intentional untruth; a
falsehood; the utterance by speech or
act of that which is false WITH IN
TENT TO OR DELUDE
2. THAT WHICH is INTENDED OR
SERVES TO DECEIVE OR MIS-
LEAD; ANYTHING DESIGNED OR
ADAPTED TO PRODUCE FALSE
CONCLUSIONS OR EXPECTA-
TIONS."
There can be no doubt that the Presi-
dent used exactly the right word.
1t would be like carrying Goals to New
castle to explain to our friends the Dem
ocrats the meaning and inner cussedness
of the word lie" Past grand masters
in the art, they need no definitions or
fine drawn distinctions. But Republi-
cans and independents are not so well
up in this branch of human activity, and
SO it is well, perhaps, to call their atten-
ton to the latest proper and desira BILE
use of the small English monosyllable
which Is just now under discussion.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
Per six months

1t will be perceived that the average
rate paid in the United States in 1902
for six months is within SLIGO of the
maximum rate paid to the best farm
hands in Great Britain in May, 1904, and
almost double the minimum paid second
class men.
The figures of our Department of Ag-
riculture, moreover. apply only to those
laborers hired by the year or season, the
rates where the engagement is by the
day are very much higher, being 50
cents per day, with board, and $1.13
without, in 1902, against 63 cents with,
and 81 cents without board, in 1894.
This would make the pay, with board.
In 1894, average $3.50 for half year
of $50 days, while the average compen-
sation of the American farm laborer paid
by the day in 1902 would be $133.50
for the six months with board.
But statistical averages. valuable as
they are in rejecting the general condi-
tions, are elusive and tantalizing things
when they attempt to cover the rate of
wages in an occupation like agriculture
which, including employers and employ
ed, numbers at least 100000 persons
over 10 years of age and upwards of ev-
cry age, color and sex. The American
farm laborer knows what wages he re-
ceives. and he can compnre,it with what
Is paid in England, and greatly to his
own satisfaction.
He also knows that the above aver
nses in the United States for 1894 and
1902 fairly though family reflect the
difference between his industrial cond1-
tion during the last Democratic national
administration and now. And in Novem-
Der he will not vote for any party whose
success would foreshadow return to
the conditions of 1894 and 1895.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
Farm and Factory Reciprocity.
llNn


frotectionist sentiment is growing in
Canada, and appeals are made to the
farmers to support that policy on the
theory OF the mutual helpfulness of fac
tory and farm. American experience is.
OF course, appealed to. The facts that
our farmers find their hest customers in
great manufacturing centers built up by
protection, and that our manufacturing
states and section are also the area OF
hlSh farm land values and agricultural
prosperity form an object lesson that
must appeal powerfully to Canadian
farmers who are handicapped by the
lack of near home market for their
produce. The people OF our manufac-
turing States receive in wages and sal
aries $2,194,o36,6 ,6S3, large proportion
or which passes eventually to the farm
ers. 1t is system OF close mutual in
'erchnngc and support. of domestic farm
and factory reciprocity, which, with our
great natural advantages, has made
america synonym for prosperity the
world over.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
FARM WAGES.
vigurss as to Rates Paid In England
and the Unitei States.

The August Labor Gazette, a govern
ment publication issued monthly by the
British Board of Trade, gives an inter
esting account of the half-yearly agri-
cultural hirings at Whitsuntide, 1904, for
the counties of Cumberland. Westmore-
tand and North Lanca shire, which affords
an instructive view of the rates paid
farm hands in England. The official re-
port prepared for the department states
that 1.-THE supply of male farm servants
was fairly plentiful, owing partly to
slackness of employment in other indus
tries" but that wages showed a down
ward tendency in the case of men. but
women were scarce and their wages
were well maintained"
The following were the rates generally
agreed upon for the half year:
Per six months
with board.
Best men .$75. 90 to 500 90
Second class men........... 5000 to 1900
Youths and boys .......... 2O.OO to 5000
Hest women ............... $500 to 1910
Second class women and
girls .......... .......... 2o.OO TO Oo.Oo
These rates have been slightly increas-
ed in the transcription from English
money into dollars and cents at the ratio
of $5 per pound, but they afford a clear
and authoritative exhibit of what British
farm hands are receiving by which every
intelligent American farm hand can COM
part the wages lie receives.
Without, knowing the number of men
employed in each class and at varying
rates therein it is, of course, impossible
to arrive at an average rate of compensa-
ton. But with 500 per half year for
the highest and $50 for the lowest of the
second-class men it is evident that the
yearly average for male farm hands ex
elusive of youths and boys in Great
Britain cannot be much, if any, above
$50 year, while the average for wom
en- would be somewhere around 500.
We have no similar figures for the
United States, but in recent bulletin
entitled wages of Farm Labor in the
United States" issued by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, the figures of the
average monthly wages of farm laborers
in this country are given. Multiplied by
six, to arrive at the half yearly rate,
they furnish the following:
Average wages of farm laborers In the
United States.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
ain the order,, ndmln..tr.t,o. .,

"ln the orderly nd m In iatration of
affairs of the Govern it 10 neces-
sary that each of the three depart
Inents shou1d repose trust and conf
dence In the acts Of the other,
performed within their proper sphere
of actiou. We must proceed upon the
sssun, ptios that the executive depart
meat, within Its constitutional prero.
Entives, 10 actuated by proper m otives,
ana that II 10 aa rsRardfui of the good
name OF the country as either the
legislative or the judicial depart-
ments. From Senator FAirbankss speech on
Panama, February 4 1904.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
Farmer. Ignored n, Democrats.

The Democrats OF Kansas, in making
up their State ticket have entirely ig-
nored the farmer. The Republicans
nominated two of the leading farmers of
the State as Railroad Commissioners.
Seven out of thirteen nominations, in
cluding Governor, on the Democratic
ticket are lawyers, while the Republicans
only recognized the lawyers in the NOM
ination of Attorney General, judges of
Supreme Court. and one member Of the
Railroad Commission. The policy of ig-
noring the farmer. which the Democratic
National Committee is reported 10 have
announced. is carried out with a ven.
geance by the Democrats of Kansas.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
steel1ndu.trx Doc, Not Lag

A director of the United States Steel
refutes one of the state
ments made by calamity -howling Demo-
Gratis by saying that business is so good
there will be no cut in prices of steel,
adding: "All our plants will be running
at full capacity in month or two, and
by that time the demand for steel OF all
kinds will be greater than at any time
during the past year"
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
Parker Is the Hope OF Trusts.
New York Tribune !

N.Ne" ioih iAipuhe.J
James j. Hills selection of Judge
Parker as his candidate is significant.
He is angry with President Roosevelt
simply and solely for interfering with
his lawless schemes to monopolize the
railway traffic OF the Northwest. He
turns to Democracy and Judge Parker
because he sees in them license to work
his sovereign and imperious will in thu
domain of business without restraint on
the part OF the government. And Mr..
]. ]. Hill is an able, experienced, hard
headed man, who knows what he is
about. He is not in the habit of buying
gold bricks.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
Expausien . Blessing.

United States Consul General Guen-
ther, at Frankfort, Germany, quotes a
noted German professor as saying that
expansion does not lessen n nations in
herent compactness and strength. On
the contrary. a nation can only become
great, he says, by having space in which
to expand. Great Britain is cited as an
example of what expansion has done for
n nation that originally had little terri
tory.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

The general prosperity the country has
enjoyed under Republican administration
during the last seven years has protited
the farmer rs much il not more than amy
other one class. The farmers know it.,
and should and undoubtedly will vote to
continue conditions as they are and have
been.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
IN THE DAYS OF OLD EsoPus
A Song of 1904.
In the days OF old Esopus,
Are you on?

Song OF IOO4.
In the days OF old Esopus,
Are you on?
In the days OF old Esopus.
Are you on?
In the days of old Esopus
Hill tried very hard to rope US,
Are you on, are you on. are you on7
Hill said, "Boys, I'll leave the town when
we arrive,
II to win the race for my man you'll but
strive.
But he never did get there,
And we really didn't care
Are you on, are you OH, are you onf
In the days of old Esopus.
Are you onf
In the days OF old Esopus,
Are you on?
In the days of old Esopus
What n foolish way to dope us,
Are you on, are you on, are you on1
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
DAVIS WILL NOT DO.
Too Old for the High Position to

Too Old for the Nigh Position to
Which He Aspires.
DR.. ]. b. McFatrich, editor of the
Third Ward Republican, Chicago publi-
cation, says:
at may be that former Senator Henry
Gassaway Davis is planning to have his
money talk for him during the campaign.
1t is only on this hypothesis that his re-
ply to the notification address Of John
Sharp Williams can be satisfactorily eI-
planned. The octogenarian vice presiden-
tial candidate of the Democracy at the
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

Ba1four, the prime minister OF Eng
land, in a speech delivered at Shefneld,
declared that Golden, the apostle Of free
trade, was "a great man, but he failed
10 foresee the developments Of the last
half century which had made free, trade
al empty name and vain farce"
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

No reservoir or canal should ever ne
built to satisfy selfish, personal or local
interests, but only in accordance with
the advice of trained experts, after long
investigation has shown the locality
where all the conditions combine to make
the work most needed, and fraught with
the greatest usefulness to the commu-
nifty as whole.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
(Sentences from President RooseveIa
Utterances on Irrigation)
Successful home making is but another
name for the upbuilding of the Nation.

The products OF irrigation will Tor
time be consumed chiefly in upbuiidihs
local centers Of mining and other indus-
tries, which would otherwise not come
into existence at all.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

The believers in the need Of irrigation
will most benefit their cause by seeing to
it that it is free from the least taint
of excessive or reckless expenditure OF
the public moneys.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

Whatever the nation does for the ex-
tension of irrigation, should harmonize
with and tend to improve the condition OF
those now living on irrigated lands.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

Whoever controls a stream practically
controls the land it renders productive.
and the doctrine of private ownership OF
water, apart from land, cannot prevail
without causing enduring wrong.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

The passage of the National 1rriga-
ton Law was one OF the greatest steps,
not only in the forward progress OF the
States, but to that OF all mankind.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16
REcLAImING THE ARID WEST


(Sentences from President Roosevelti
Utterances on Irrigation)
Successful home making is but another
name for the upbuilding of the Nation.
The products of irrigatio will for
time be consumed chiefly in upbuildinS
local centers of mining and other INDUS
tries, which would otherwise not come
into existence at all.
No reservoir or canal should ever ne
built to satisfy selfish, personal or local
interests, but only in accordance with
the advice of trained experts, after long
investigation has shown the LOCALITY
where all the conditions combine to make
the work most needed, and fraught with
the greatest usefulness to the commu-
nifty as whole.
The believers in the need of irrigation
will most benefit their cause by seeing TO
it that it is free from the least taint
of excessive or reckless expenditure OF
the public moneys.
. Whatever the nation does for the eN-
tension of irrigation, should harmonlze
with and tend to improve the condition OF
those now living on irrigated lands.
Whoever controls stream practically
controls the land it renders productive.
and the doctrine of private ownership OF
water, apart from land, cannot prevail
without causing enduring wrong.
The passage of the National 1rriga-
ton Law was one of the greatest steps,
not only in the forward progress OF the
States, but to that OF all mankind.
The benefits which have followed un-
aided development in the past, JUSTIFY
the nations aid and cooperation in the
more difficult and important work yet TO
be accomplished.
The larger development which national
aid insures should, however, awaken in
every arid State the determination to
make its irrigation system equal in JUS
tice md effectiveness to that Of any
country in the civilized world. Nothing
could be more unwise than for isolated
communities to continue to learn every
thing experimentally, instead of profit
ing by what is known elsewhere.
A careful study should be made, both
by the Nation and the States. of the irri-
cation laws and conditions here and else
where.
1t is as right for the national govern
ment to make the streams and rivers OF
the arid region useful by engineering
works for water storage as to make use
ful the rivers and harbors of the humid
region by engineering works of another
kind.
In his second message to Congress
! December, 1902. President Roosevelt
said: Few subjects of more importance
have been taken up by Congress in recent
years than the Inauguration of the sys-
TEN of nationally aided irrigation Of the
arid regions of the far West. A good
beginning therein has been made.
So far as they are available for agricul-
ture, and to whatever extent they may
be reclaimed under the National Irriga-
tion Law, the remaining public lands
should be held rigidly for the home
builder-the settler who lives on his land
and no one else
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

The benefits which have followed un-
aided development in the past, JUSTIFY
the nations aid and cooperation in the
more difficult and important work yet TO
be accomplished.
The Springfield herald., 1904-09-16

1t is as right for the national govern
ment to make the streams and rivers OF
the arid region useful by engineering
works for water storage as to make use
ful the rivers and harbors of the humid
region by engineering works of another
kind.