Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-03
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since the surtaX was apple" Canadian
imports from Germany haA allen off
half
The truth seems to be that the in
dustrial interests of Canada are so
bound UP with those of the United
States by direct investment of Ameri-
can capital and heavy loans of Ameri-
can credit there that the Dominion can
not escape dependence upon our mar
kets. Almost all the Industrial ma
chinery there comes from the United
States. So long as Canada continues
TO establish new industries our trade
with her must necessarily increase
without regard to tariffs.
There is not much encoura cement In
this for the reciprocity agitators.-
Minneapolis Tribune.
Who Are the ''Muck Rakers."
Many newspapers of The country are
now busy lodging the presidential de-
nunciation of the muck rakers." These
papers have posed as conservative re-
formers" and for months have been
publishing untruthful drivel of sensa-
tional writer's who have made money
by reviling public officials and attack
ing the integrity of the United States
Senate No other motive inspired the
authors of these ISLANDERS than that of
inviting publicity and receiving checks
in return. The newspapers themselves
0hhtta6 This 10 hr
printing journalistic rubbish sent out
from Washington and elsewhere.
The criticism of the muck rakers"
was couched in unequivocal terms.
President Roosevelt struck straight
from the shoulder and the blows hit
some of the very editors who have been
fawning at his feet and lauding him as
a man who could make no mistake
Now these same papers are yowing that
they are not "muckers" but are publ
cations of spotless purity. They have
been catering to a vicious and danger
Gus class prejudice in order to make
money profit, utterly regardless of the
fact that what they printed was, for
the most part, tissue of falSehood
which ruthlessly blackened regulations
and stimulated the spirit Of anarchy.
Who are the "muckers" referred to
by the President? They are not the
legitimate correspondents at Washing
ton who day after day follow the pro-
ceedings of government and who should
know, if anybody does, what wrongs
are being perpetrated. The 'muckers"
are notorious commercial journalists
whose writings have been published by
the so-called respectable newspapers
and magazines which are equally re-
sponsible for the deluge of stuff that
has swept over the country. These
newspapers and their writer's have at
tackled the United States Senate as
an organization of legislative bandits
bent upon public plumber and in league
with mythical corporate interests of
various kinds, v nose tools they are.
The wholesale indictment of the Sen
ate is its own REPUTATION. There are
wrongs to be righted, as pointed out by
the President but they can be righted
without besmirching our entire system
of government The 'muckers" also
find a fertile field for their imagina-
lions in our financial and business sys-
TEN. Because some dishonesty was
found and made public, the ''muckers'
spent their days and nights in con-
demning by wholesale the men who di-
rect banks and other financial organi-
cations. They disregarded the fact
that our financial system is the best on
the globe and our fnanciers are the
highest types of men of principle, hon
or, integrity and experience. 1t is not
hard to tell whom the President re-
ferred to when he raked the ''muckers,"
for as the hit dog bowls so are the
''muck" newspapers making frantic eff
forts to clear their own skirts.-Kan-
sas City Journal.