Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-06-20
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Referring to existing political unrest

Referring to existing political unrest
Judge Gaynor said: these agitations
for municipal ownership and to some
extent for municipal management have.
i'll my judgment, arisen not out Of any
hostility to capital or to the private
management of public service corpora
tons. The community cannot look
without feeling, without regret, with
out deep resentment, and finally with
out action, to the doubling up of cap
ital, the trebling of capital put into
these public franchises, representing
nothing but perpetual tax on the
community"
A Sample Tarin Argument.
Representative Charles Beary Lam
dis made speech on the tariff the
other day, and used probably the only
argument that could win vote In
favor of the standpatters and protec-
ZIONIST Bourbons. But 1t did not relate
at all to the question Of revising the
tariff. He exclaimed with great
declamatory effect: -Four members Of
the Lands family met their death on
Southern battle fields"
YES" said John Sharp Williams,
'.but four Of them remain to serve their
country In offices of public trust"
And everybody laughed. for two Ian
discs are members Of Congress. one is
Federal Judge in Chicago, and one
is Director of Posts in Porto Rico.
Moreover Charles Beary Lands has
just appointed his son to West Point.
Political Potpourri.
The President constantly talks of
square DEAL" but most of his tine
seems to have been occupied in des.-
Ing poor hands to the Democrats.
1t was always wunder how thoM
railroad officials found the money to
bull the stock market, but since tie
exposure of the Pennsylvania Railroad
grafters 1t Is more easy OF compreheA-
sion.
Who will say the standpatters have
not controlled this Congress when 80
far 1t refuses to pass any tarin revi-
sion legislation, even the bill to reduce
the tariff on products Of the Philip
pines?
Uneasy rests the head of the trust
magnate these days, for it daily be-
comes more dangerous to purchase pro.
lection from Republican politicians ana
plan rebating with tie railroad cor
porations.
1t makes most of the Republicas
politicians feel green with envy wheA
they think Of how mW they
could have bled the railroads, II thet
had only known about the grating OF
the officials.
All honest Americans were shocked
at the embalmed beef scandal during
the Spanish war and demanded pure
food for our soldier boys. Now 1t Is
discovered that all Of us who eat the
products of the Beef Trust have been
fed on the same vile stun.
There is only the pork bill" to keep
the Republican majority in Washing.
ton, and that will be held back to the
last minute 30 as to try and not at
tract attention. 1t will be interesting
to note who gets the plums and then
speculate on the votes given to earn
the reward.
The estimates for the Panama Canal
for the next fiscal year will require an
appropriation of S26, 34S, 2s1.4O This
is ON the basis Of lock canal, for our
procrastinating Republican Congress
has arrived at no decision on what
type of canal shall be constructed.
Prosperity breeds tyrants," said
Abraham Lincoln. 1t also through Re
publican politics breeds Cassatts, Nc
Curdys, McCalls and Hamiltons, Rookie
fellers. Morgans, Schiffs and cloud
of marauders Of the same kind. Pros
perity that centralizes wealth Is q
worse curse than adversely. But pros
perity in which all participate accord
Ing to their natural abilities unfet-
tered by vicious laws. produces neither
tyrants nor plunderers.
Rear Admiral Mason has sent out a
fire alarm call for more money for
the navy; but whether he had tin
from Private Secretary Loeb, or had
been playing tennis with the President.
Is matter of conjecture. Yet the last
two Congresses spent for the navy
S3SS, 1O7 900, and this year the amount
will probably be larger than usual.
There must be enormous extravaganza
or waste in the administration Of the
Navy Department when we are told
these vast sums are not sufficient.
French Noblcmen and Their Wealth.
Recent statistics show that, while at
the time of the French revolution the
number of princes and dukes in France