The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-08-17
Editorial Notes.

The deposits in the National Banks, upon
which they pay no interest, amounted on July
23d to S83, 790, 681, and Secretary Shaw has
nromised the banks to let them have most OF
the $50. DOC, 900 which will be forthcoming
from the sale of Panama bonds on the same
terms. This is soft snap for the banks, they
subscribe for the bonds and still keep the
money, but draw the interest which the bonds
call for. It's great fnanciering for the banks,
but rather expensive for the tax payer.
Gas in Nottingham, England, is 60 cents
per !, 900 feet and at Widnes in Lancashire,
with population of only about 10000, 1t is
80 cents and large consumers will pay from Y
to &c cents This is undoubtedly the cheapest
gas in the world, but the profit on the gas
works TO the municipality that owns them was
So, ss7.I5. This information is official and
is reported by our Consul F. W. Mahin to the
State Department. What must most OF our
gas companies be making that charge from 80
cents to $3.50 per 1000 feet?
Secretary Shaw has left Washington for
Iowa to try and down Gov. Cummins and IN
cidentally to nurse his presidential boom that
has had rather sickly existence. The Treas
ury Department seems to run quite as well
without Shaw's attention with it, for II is
the exception to find him at his desk attend
ing to business. He pops over to Wall Street
about every week and never makes move
that will affect the financial world, but the
Rockefeller banks get tip in advance.
David NJ. Parry, the Indianapolis manutae'
turer and railroad official, who has been
fighting the Labor Unions for years as presi'
dent Of the National Association of Manutac-
turers, is much opposed to laboring men re-
curing pledges of candidates for Congress or
the legislatures. Parry is ardently for man
ufacturers organizing to protect their inter-
ests, but bitterly opposed to labor organiza-
tons for the protection of the interest OF the
workiugman. He subscribes money to elect
a Republican Congress that viii stand pat
and give special favors to his class and derides
labor for pledging candidates to stand for
what the workingmen desire for their interest.
As is now, the Republicans have carried
out the Parry program and the manufacturers
have the INSIDE track, W1iie IaooF uolue 1uS
little end of the horn
So john d. Rockefeller is not 10 go to Jail,
or even to be prosecuted eriminally by the
federal authorities, but if the administration
can screw up It's courage, be may be fined and
she farce of prosecuting the Standard OIL
Trust will be another nine days wonder.
Senator Aukeuey of the State Of Washing
ton thinks the Republicans viii have hard
task to win in 1908, whoever they nominate.
This shows the way the wind is blowing in The
extreme Northwestern States, where the
farmers have discovered that they are no,
protected by the tariff on wheat and other
agricultural products, but very much plum
dered by the tariff on what they buy.
When a reporter asked Speaker Cannon If
there was any thought of considering tarih
revision at the conference at Oyster Bay be
piously exclaimed Great Father ia Heav.
en- and the balance Of his calculations would
not look well in print.