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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Aldrlch,. untenable po,,tIon.


It us certainly true that the position
occupied by Senator Aldrich during
the work of tariff revision is repug-
nant to nice sense of honor. The
statesman who gives his name to tar
ms cannot afford toygive 1t at the same
time for the use Of business that is
to be helped by the tariff, even indi-
rectly. He cannot afford to be known
as an investor whose dividends may
be swelled by tariff increases. He
cannot afford to be known as the bust
ness agent of other men in congress.
To say this is to say that sacrifices
are demanded of him, since the tariff
reaches far, but to keep their charac-
tiers above suspicion our public men
must be prepared to make sacrifices.
And such abstention from business af-
fairs as is demanded is surely not too
great a price to pay for leadership.
Senator Aldrich. however. has never
been the leader of the people. AS
the leader of the senate he has been
the servant or the ally of the inter
ests. He has not scrupled to repre-
sent the interests when he should
have represented the people. AS die
tator of tariff schedules he has pre-
scented trayesty of popular govern
ment and done what man more
sensitive to the calls of honor and
duty would have shrunk from doing.
1t is for this reason that insurgency
will continue to make Roadway against
him, though 1t may fail to make good
of some particular indictment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Wage Farmers and the Tariff,

Wage Farmers and the Tariff.
The Republican party gives three
reasons for Its support of the protec.
tive tariff tax-infant industries
higher wages and difference in the cost
of production, as compared with other
countries.
The first is a deception and fraud
There are no industries in our land
that need protection now, for those
industries that cannot stand alone
never will sit upright unaided and II
is financial folly to subsidize them.
AS to protection enabling US to give
q higher wage than we could other
wise do. the men who purchase this
protection tax. do 1t for themselves
alone and will keep every cent OF
1t to spend on their passions or to
add to the colossal money power.
There is no real difference in the
cost of production. The proof is that
our manufacturers now sell their pro
ducts in foreign markets while com
peting with foreign cost of production
and could sell even more cheaply Il
freed Of the SO per cent tariff tax SO
benevolently levied in their favor by
our national lawmakers.
Labor is cheaper in Europe only
seemingly. In dollars and cents 1t
appears cheaper. but in substance.
in the necessities of life, there is nc
difference. For labor in all lands
must be fed and clothed or 1t cannot
work. Labor in Europe is as well
fed and clothed as 1t is here.
How long will government of the
people. for the people and by the PEG.
Pile" be defrauded, deceived. hum.
plugged?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
AldrIch Now in the Fire.

Clearly Senator Aldrich did not
make things more comfortable for
himself when he jumped out of the
frying pan. The first apology of his
life has aggravated his plight.
Aldrich's elastic explanation about
rubber has not satisfied the country,
and he has made no answer at all con-
corning lead and cotton When man
is assailed silence is better than un-
convincing utterance.
The country knows that the rubber
interests are closely allied. 1t be-
lieves that movement was under
way when the Bristow sensation was
sprung to form a gigantic trust for
the encompassing of all the rubber
business-production and manufac.
turing, on the solid foundation of the
Aldrich tariff. It knows that this com
bination already had attained such
magnitude that prices. fostered by a
wholly superfuous tariff. which had
been increased by Aldrich, had great
ly advanced. 1t believes that Aldrich,
his son and his financial associates
profited by this general stimulation of
the rubber business. The essential
facts underlying this public knowledge
and this public belief are admitted
by the Rhode Islander.
The public has not ceased what
Mr.. Aldrich calls "prating about the
moral aspects of the tariff"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
INTERESTS ARE WIDE AWAKE
Wall Streets Hand Seen in Proposed
N Merger Of GuatemaIan
Railways.

The merger of Guatemalan railways
into a consolidation controlled by the
Guatemala Central is alluded to by
financial organs in the east as IAN
other step in the Pan-American sys-
tenn which is to bind South America
more closely to the United States
and open up to us the great Latin
American market"
Thoughtful Americans, however, are
apparently justified in regarding the
new move not SO much a precursor of
greater trade with South America as
foreshadowing the execution of plans
of American railroad magnates to pre-
vent any possible rate competition by
the Panama canal.
With Wall street in control of
South American railroads leading to
the coast, steamship rates will not be
a factor in through freights to or
from the United States by way Of the
big ditch.
Even under federal government
ownership of the Panama railway,
Its rates have been fixed by the Pa.
cif1c Mail Steamship company. which
is owned by American railroad inter
ests. Unless some means be found
to prevent American rail kings from
controlling South American railroad
and steamship lines, the Panama
canal will hardly prove strong i'm
pulse to trade development.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
CHAPTER XVII.

Mr.. Vancourt Henniker was not
greatly surprised when Tom Gordon
asked for a private Interview on the
morning following the final closing
down of all the industries at Gordonia.
Without being In Gordons conf
dence. or In that of American Aque-
duct, the banker had been shrewdly
putting two and two together and ap-
plying the result as healing plaster
to the stock he had taken as security
for the final loan to Colonel Dubbury.
Il thought. perhaps. you might wish
to buy this stock, Mr.. Gordon" he said
when Tom had stated his business. "Of
course. 1t can be arranged. with Mr.
Farley's consent to our anticipating the
maturity of hjs notes. But with q
genial smile and glance over his eye
glasses-"I'm not sure that we care to
part with It Perhaps some of us would
like to hold 1t and bid 1t In
II reckon you don't want it. Mr.. Hem
mixer. You'll understand that 1t isn't
worth the paper it is printed on when
Il tell you that have sold my pipe-pit
patents to American Aqueduct."
Then the plant doesn't carry the
patents? You've kept this mighty
quiet. among you'll"
Haven't wei" said Tom. fatuously,
ly. Il know Just how you feel-like =
man who has been looking over the
edge Of the bottomless pit without
knowing 1t. You'll let me have tina
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
TARIFF LAW TRICK
SAMPLE OF HOW CONSUMERS
ARE ROBBED.
Women Especially Interested In This
Case, Which Has So vitality AZ
(, fected the Cost Of Their
Dress Goods.

Not long after the present tariff law
became effective man ordered some
new shirts. He had been paying
$2.25 apiece. but the shirt maker told
him he would have to pay SO, because
the goods he wanted had few strips
OF mercerized cloth in it. All his
shifting material. he said, cost him
80 1-3 per cent. more than the previ-
GUS year If 1t had any mercerized
threads in it. Where there were any
figures woven in the piece the ad-
vance in price was greater. When
women buy dress goods which have
been mercerized or have mercerized
threads in them-threads which have
been dipped in solution of caustic
soda-they have to pay more than
they did year ago.
Who did this, and why, and how
was 1t brought about? These ques-
lions are fully answered in an article
by Samuel M. Evans In the Worlds
Work. Senator Aldrich was the mas
ter workman But for his adroit man.
agement in the senate and in con-
ference commlttee the changes in
schedule THE cotton schedule
which have so plagued consumers.
would not have been made.
Senator Aldrich did not do all this
of his own motion. He acted at the
instigation of two of the leading
Rhode Island cotton goods manufac-
turers. One Of them was the author
of the cotton schedule of the Dingley
law, and was on the whole satisfied
with it. But there were some para
graphs which the Supreme court had
interpreted more literally than he had
meant they should be. He viewed
with alarm the slightly increased i'm
portations of some kinds of goods. So
he and his associate. wrote the
amendments they wanted adopted
Slight additional changes simply de-
signed to meet legal questions" II 1t
had not been for the vigilance and
tenacity of the senate Insurgents all
the Slight changes" suggested would
have been Struggled or bulled through.
Most of them were.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
BRANDED WITHOUT A PAIN


In April the coats of cattle become
dull and dead. and will rub off easily.
disclosing the close new coat under
meath. In Farming It." Judge Henry
A. Shute describes how he discovered
this fact. One morning, In rubbing
down his Jersey COW. he found that
with his fingers he could pull the old
coat on in tufts, and that sho appar-
emily enjoyed having 1t pulled.
Without really thinking Of what I
was doing, I wrote my initials, H. A.
s., on her back by pulling out the dead
hair. Seeing how easily could do
this, drew, or rather pulled, on her
side near the curve of the belly, gro
tesque figure of small boy, then a
circular brand on her shoulder, and
three KS on her flank. Then quietly
led her to the hitching post at the side
of the house and awaited develop
ments.
In moment my wife came to the
door with wide-open eyes. For gra-
cious sake. what have you been doing
to that cow" she demanded.
ooh, nothing" replied That's the
way range cattle are branded. This
COW had good many owners. and EVIL.
IDENTIFY each one branded her."
Its no such thing!" she retorted
holly. you did it yourself. That ex-
plains why she beloved 30 this win
ter"
She had beloved good deal when
I took away her calf, but did not
say so, for l always like to get rise
out of my wife.
II think 1t is Just horrid in you, and
about the cruelest thing I ever heard
of, and you have Just spoiled her
looks"
Now out Of the corner of my eye
could see old Cyrus, the neighborhood
nuisance. peering over the fenco and
listening to the conversation. After
giving him time to satisfy himself
thoroughly, led the COW back to the
barn. followed by my wife. and there
illustrated the matter by drawing on
the off side of the animal serpent
and circular brand, while the delight
ed animal stood with eyes half-closed
in ecstasy.
T Much relieved and amused. my wife
went back to the house. laughing over
the ridiculously decorated animal.
But the affair did not end there. Old
Cyrus brought charge for Cruelty
in burning. cutting. branding and 9TH
erwise torturing certain Jersey cow"
and was arrested and brought to
trial.
At the close OF the trial assured
the court that the COW was then and
there in transitu. and that should
call her as my first witness. and asked
the court to adjourn to the square.
stripped of the blanket. and there
in plain sight we're the various marks
on the cows hide. At my request the
court and the attorney ran their hands
over her and found no scars.
Now to show your honor how these
marks were made
ut is unnecessary" said the court.
81 have owned COWS myself. and per-
haps can illustrate as well as you;"
and stepping forward, with rapid
hands he fashioned upon her side the
word "Stung." at which there was a
roar of delight from the crowd.
Respondent discharged" he contin-
ued, land court Is adjourned"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Another Taft ECONOMY

Every plank in the Taft platform
has meant an increase of government
expense. new laws, new commissions,
new courts. always something to add
to the taxpayers burden. His latest
proposal is an extension and supple
menting of the consular service to Sc
cure foreign markets.
No power can force foreign trade on
American manufacturers as long as
they can pile up extortionate profits
at home under high tariff that H.
censes them to rob the American con-
sumer.
The daily consular reports never
mention any American effort to secure
foreign trade. On the contrary, they
are replete with complaints that
American houses make no attempt to
enter foreign fields. Mr.. Taft's plan
to force export trade would be funny,
If 1t did not entail loading more tax
eaters onto the shoulders of the Amer
lean taxpayer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Presidents Comment Unjust.

President Taft goes out Of his way
to, intimate that If Democratic ma
tority were elected in the house it
would have no use for the findings
of the tariff commission, as we may
certainly infer from the solid Demo
cratic vote in the present congress
against the necessary appropriation
for the commissions work" He MIST
know that Democratic opposition to
the appropriation rested on the con-
viction that his tariff board would not
go far enough. and on the knowledge
that 1t was to report to the president
and not to congress. Certainly If he
ever gets any support for tariff reduc.
ton based on his boards reports. it
will be from the Insurgents he recent
ly SO severely criticized and from
the Democrats.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
WASTING THE PUBLIC MONEY
Figures Show Burdens Upon the
Country by Republican Ex-
travagance.

Since 1860 the population of the
United States has increased 1876 per
cent. while the expenses of national
government have increased $50 per
cent.
During Democratic administration
the appropriations for two years dur
ing the Fifty-third congress amounted
to $917.013,52s.34; a Republican ad-
ministration during the Sixtieth con-
gress appropriated $2,O52, 799, 4O0.6S for
1909-191O.
Since 1896 the war department ap-
preparation has grown 335 per cent.
and the navy appropriation 3G5 per
cent,
Large additions to the salaries of
public officials, from the president
down. expensive new bureaus, COM
missions, and courts, have enormous
ly Increased the general expenses Of
government. The whole history Of Re-
publican administration has been one
orgy of frightful extravaganza.
The Sixtieth congress, and the Taft
administration, pledged to economy.
has already put 26,944 tax-eaters on
the public pay roll at an annual total
cost for salaries of s24,943,276.10. The
White House expenses this year are
$135.S58 more than they were in 1894
under Cleveland. and three vessels are
detailed from the navy to serve as
yachts for the president, while eight
government aNfomohiloc oro OF hio
disposal.
Republican extravaganza is piling
the burden Of taxation higher and
higher. The great part of this burden
falls on the farmer, the workingman,
the small home owner. The only SAL
walton is return to Jeffersonian sim
plicity, and retrenchment of expenses
by Democratic congress, which alone
can, and will, tighten the burden.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
stock for the face of tn. loan. won.

stock for the face OF the loan. won't
you?"
But the president was already press.
ing the button of the electric bell that
summoned the cashier There was no
time like the present when the fate OF
considerable bank asset hung on the
notion Of smiling young man whose
mind might change In the wink!ng Of
an eye.
With the Farley stock in his pocket
Tom took a room at the Marlboro and
spent the remainder OF that day, and
all the days of the fortnight following.
wrestling nightly with the lawyers IN
winding up the tangled skein Of CHA
wassee affairs. Propped in his bed at
Warwick Lodge, the bed he had not
left since the night of violence. Dux-
bury Farley signed everything that
was offered to him, and the obstacles
to settlement were vanquished. ono
by one.
When 1t was all over. Tom began 20
draw checks on the small fortune real
ICED from the sale of the patents. One
was to Major Dabney. redeeming his
two hundred shares of Chiawassee
Limited at par. Another was to the
order Of Ardea Dabney. covering the
Farley shares at valuation based on
the prosperout period before the crash
of '93. With this check in his pocket
he went home-for the first time in
two weeks.
Ito be continually
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
OH, DEARl

She took course of First Aid to the
Wounded. and. after long and anxious
waiting. the street accident she had
earnestly wished for took place. 1t
was bicycle picnic; the man had
broken his leg; she Gonfiscated the
walking stick of passerby, and broke
1t in three pieces for splints; she
blushingly took off her underskirt for
bandages. and she was enthusiastical-
ly chered by the crowd. When all
was completed. she summoned cab
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Won't Economlze on paylloh.

A year ago quite furore was made
over the proposed plan. which If not
to prolong our lives was literally ia
lengthen our days by setting the
clock hands an hour ahead in early
summer and back again to first prin.
ciples when the sun resumed getting
up late mornings. The daylight.sa.
wing bill was seriously considered in
parliament. but failed to become law,
although Birmingham, England, and
Cincinnati. o.. actually passed ordi-
nances. Both cities after futile at.
tempt to inforce the undesirable meas.
ure. repealed it. The idea. which like
most fads. was not without its good
features, was given the widest posi-.
BILE publicity in the press, but public
opinion was against it. The interest.
ing thing is how soon the pendulum
swings to the other extreme, for in
the space of IL months most talked.
of incident has become the most for.
gotten.-Popular Mechanics.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Defining an Art Patron.
Ia your husband SO very fond

art?"
art! He doesn't. know Raphael
from a hair cut"
why. understood him to say that
he was an art patron"
Patron! That man wouldn't trade
a club sandwich for Bougueaureau!
What does he mean by calling himself
an art patrons"
"Why, he says it costs him ten thou
sand year to pay for the bogus mas
tiers the smooth dealers coax you to
buy. and that makes him an art pa.
tron."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
A. . Rule.

"I've noticed one thing willie jour.
neying through the vale of life"
and what is that, Mr.. Binkins?"
"As rule the man who can quote
Shakespeare by the yard can also
make a list of all his real and per-
sonal property In the correspondence
section of souvenir postal card
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

Perhaps Senator Aldrich will now
come forth from his elastic retirement
and explain how the shutting down Of
still more cotton mills is wholly for
the benefit of the American workman's
American standard of living.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

Apropos of the enmity, now happily
buried. that used to exist between
Minneapolis and st. Paul, Senator
Clapp said at dinner in the former
city:
i remember an address on careless
building that once heard in Mime
apolis.,
Why said the speaker in the
course of this address. one inhabitant
Of st. Paul is killed by accident in the
streets every 4S hours
"A bitter voice from the rear OF
the hall interrupted:
We'll. 1t amt enough 1t said"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

Just SO the burglar might say:
What the Lord permits he ordains.
All that can get away with is mine
by divine right" President Baer of
the Reading claimed divine right to
mulct coal consumers. Probably SEN
ator Lodge claims to rule Massachu-
sets by right divine. AS for Aldrich
in Rhode Island-just look at the
state!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
MERCHANT PRlMcE7

Observation-Disclosures bit Of
II, for most Of the merchant
princes have started In right
down at the bottom-Just how
your boy, by becoming a mes.
senser or a parcel wrapper, In
a big department store, can
travel along the allttering road
to head buyer or general man.
ager Of great retail business
Also, how he may improve his
education and get healthful
recreation while he Is going
upward, step by step.
BY c. w. JENNINGS.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
siberian Camels.

The native camcls of Siberia are a
source of constant wonder to travel
ers. On the Monaghan plateaus, for
instance, the thermometer often reg
listers temperature of 40 degrees be-
low zero, but the camels do not mind
1t at all. walking about as blithely as
II the weather were as balmy as
spring. On the other hand. the tenn
perature on the Gold desert in sum-
mer Is sometimes 140 degrees above
zero, and the beasts mind the heat
Just as little as they do the extreme
cold.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Taft and the rarIn.

Mr. Taft started off with the wrong
foot on the tariff revision, writes e.
G. Lowry in Harper's Weekly. He
backed the wrong Jockey in the race
between the Protected Beneficiary,
Mr.. Aldrich up, and the Ultimate Con-
sumner. ridden by political appren
tice boy named Insurgent. The Pro.
tected Beneficiary W n. as he always
has won, but the crowd was the loser.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

Robert Lincoln o'Brien, editor Of the
Boston Transcript. is great admirer
of the thrift of the vermonters, but
thinks sometimes they carry it too
far.
O'Bren was up in Vermont last sum-
mer and went to dinner with a friend
who had some political aspirations. AS
they came in the door he heard the
lady Of the house say to the hired
girl: II see Mr.. Jones has somebody
with him for dinner. Take these two
big potatoes down to the cellar and
bring up three small ones"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

ment failed to help. When in despair
I began with Doan's Kidney Pills and
soon improved. Continued use cured
me and at present my health is ex.
cellent."
Remember the name-Doan,s.
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

Passenger say. conductor, does
your bus ever go faster than this?
Conductor-If yer amt satisfied you
can git aht and walk.
Passenger with sweet sm1le)--
Oh, I'm not in such terrible hurry as
that, you know.-Exchange.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
Not That MeanIno.

1.-The doctor said that Bill was
drunk when we took the poor fellow
10 have his head attended to last
night after he FELL"
Doctor never said anything OF the
kind!"
Didn't hear him? Said it was
jagged cut"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21
/ will cinch the crooks.-Theodor,

I will cinch the crooks.-Theodore
Roosevelt.
But the sugar trust was protected
against prosecution under the Sher-
man antitrust law by Mr.. Roosevelt
when president and by his attorney
general. Mr.. Bonaparte. 1t was neces-
sary Tor them to leave office before
It could be indicted.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

developed and for a
whole year, l was un-
able to work. / suf-
fered agonizing pains
In my back and the
kidney secretions
were in terrible con-
dition. MY vitality
gradually diminished
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

st. Peters Retains Supremacy.
st. Peters. at Rome, reared centur.
les before the age of steam and cleo.
trtcity began, is still the biggest of
churches. the most colossal of I'LL
places Of worship.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-09-21

Wall street may be little nervous
about possible tariff revisions, but 1t
probably isn't any more nervous than
the old guard, which fears a siege in
the citadel of protection.