The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-29

Entered at the Fostofice at Plymouth, In.
diana as second-class matter.
Plymouth, Ind, March 30, 1906.
1t is a queer notion promulgated by
an eastern newspaper that the quick
est way to reform the tariff is to I
for Democrats" Alas! the majority
OF the people tried that way in 1892
and verify the last state OF that house
was worse than the first.
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AT the recent Canadian forestry
convention a speaker said that all the
matured lumber in the dominion
would not last the United States more
than eleven years. The idea of draw
ing on Canada after GU timber is
wastefully used up will have to be
abandoned.
The firm replies given the labor
committee by President Roosevelt.
and Speaker Cannon hae aroused the
ire of the leaders of the American
Federation of Labor and President
Samuel Gompers reiterates the threat
that the laborites will enter politics
and carry their grievances directly be-
fore the people.
Ohio has set an example in the way
of lawmaking that Indiana should fol-
low when the legislature convenes
next year. The governor has signed
a bill providing that any student or
any university or school, public or
private, found guilty OF hazing, shall
be fined not more than $500 or i'm
prisoned for not more than six months
in Jail, or both.
The South Bend Times is a rock
ribbed Democratic paper but it says:
If every Official would talk as frankly
and as. manly as President Roosevelt
cid to the labor delegation hat laid
its grievances before him on Wednes-
day, a good many misunderstanding
would be eliminated. Roosevelt s. q
pointedly and directly. There W 10
lodging. no cringing, no fawning. in
his talk. The subservient politician
would have pursued precisely the OPP
posite course.
The decision of Judge Humphrey
in the cases of the meat packers is
that the men at the head ut the cor
porations and doing its work, can not
be convicted of violations of the trust
laws, but that the corporations them
selves can be, and, in effect, have
BEEN Mr.. Rockefeller may come out
OF hiding when he hears that there is
a chance for the Standard oil COM
pany to make a vicarious atonement
for him if anybody can find it at
home.
Tom Taggart was scored by Gov
erDor hanly in a speech made at
Franklin the other night in the fol-
lowing words: Talk about Democrats
cleaning housed Who is the head and
leader of the Democratic party that
proposes to do this? Gentlemen, he is
owner of the Monte Carlo in the state
of Indiana Would you expect the
owner of a place where men daily
gamble away money that doesn't be-
long to them to be very industrious
at keeping a house c~lean?"
1t was a plain talk that the Presi-
dent gave to the representatives of the
Federation of Labor, and with some
of the things he said his hearers
doubtless could not agree, but there
can be no doubt that the very plain
ness and outspoken sincerity of his
remarks pleased them and strengthen
ed their belief that he has the interests
OF labor at heart. 1t is this courage
BUSINESS and frank honesty of speech
that goes far to make the Presidents
popularity. The public admires cour-
g and honesty above all things.
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Events in Russia leave but little
room for doubt that the principal rea-
son why practically no progress is
made in the direction OF liberty and
popular participation in government
IS because the minds of the people
had been poisoned by the socialistic
propaganda. Under the influence OF
that poison those of the people who
show much political activity demand
the impossible and because they can
not get it they will not accept any
thing and betake themselves to assas-
sination as a substitute fec redress of
wrongs.