Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-11
Political POtpOurri.

| Inc big Republican majority in Pitts
burg does not seem to help for law and
order there.
The trusts having raised the cost of
living nearly 90 per cent are now tax
ing great credit for raising wages 10
per cent.
No wonder Pittsburg is overrun with
thugs and thieves when the majority of
its voters endorse the plundering DO
litical machine that has been robbing
the State of millions
VIII their new promise be any more
faithfully kept than former promises,
and will the protected trusts and cor
porations be any more willing to see
their profits cut q wn after 1908 than
now?
| Some of the Republican leaders take
very pessimistic view of the political
future, but how can they expect the
people to forever submit to being plum
dered by their stand-pat plan of pro-
tecting the trusts?
The Wireless trust" appears TO be
the latest octopus that will charge all
the traffic will bear and with its multi
pick improvements will be able to send
or receive from one station simulta-
neously as many messages as there are
| operators. There will be no trouble
Gen. Grosvenor Is evidently deter.
mined to continue reminding President
| Roosevelt that he has been repudiated
by an unthankful constituency ana is
open to something equally as good"
for he announces as his firm conviction
that it is the duty of an American to
accept any public Office.
Some of the railroads have at last
agreed to raise the wages of their en-
ployes 10 per cent, but the cost Of llv-
ing Is increasing, by reason Of tariff
protection to the trusts, much faster
than the corporations have advanced
wages. Trust products have been In
creased in price nearly 90 per cent
while wages have advanced on the av-
erage about 20 per cent.
ut ldllll TtIOIlQ is LurD-
ing a good many hairs gray on the
heads of the Republican stand-patters.
To revise the tariff would evidently
split the party and lose the campaign
contributions from the tariff protected
trusts that have been the breath Of
life to the Republican leaders To again
postpone revision will force the issue
and aid The Democrats, so the dilemma
is a delicate one.
The Pullman Car Company, accord
ing to available records, found the
United States Senate 200 expensive" to
prevent the amendment to add the Pull
man company to the railroad rate bill
from passing. The too expensive" at
fitude of the Senate sometimes works
to the advantage of the people, and the
scorn of a Pullman pass as a bride was
evidently not equal to the occasion.
What a piker this Pullman corporation
must be.
Secretary Taft declared that PouIt-
ney Bigelow could not have found out
mUcN abbuL tOliulllOlS ut IdHdIud his
four days visit, but expects President
Roosevelt in three days to have every
thing about the canal at his fingers
ends. This endeavor to create faith In
the omniscience Of Teddy and denuncia-
ton of others who have honestly ex-
posed the mistakes in Panama manage
ment can hardly be considered as
craftsmanship.
Silver has increased in price so rap
idly that the treasury officials refused
to purchase at the price offered The
government Of Peru has been forced TO
impose an export duty OF 80 per cent
TO prevent silver from being exported.
with gold decreased in purchasing pow
err nearly 80 per cent and silver increas-
ing in value and Wall street yelling for
more money and currency legislation Of
the wild cat order demanded By the
frenzied financiers. whittier are we
drifting under Republican policies?
Austrian army suicides are equal to
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