The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-08-06
(UNN|NS IS THE LEADING
FIGURE IN HOT.A|R COLUMN
Nominally A Republican, in
Reality a Populist of Ex-
treme Type, So Says The
Tenderfoot.
PAYING RESPECTS TO
JOHN .. AND ANDY

Sometimes out of the dust of politi
cal campaign comes "a truth that shines
Us diamond of purcst ray serene. II
isn't often, of course, for the spell
binders are too busy mailing smokers.
nees and exposing somebody or other.
Saying so much. though they occasional.
lv land on something worth while. This
is true OF Senator Cummins, in many
respects the most interesting figure in
tue hot air division this year. Cum.
minis is nominally republican, IN real
ity populst of the most extreme type.
once in n while he puts one over that
smokes. Lately, IN his Chautauqua
10 John ID. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie. II makes good reading at IA day
and age when the "benefactions of
these gentry are eagerly sought all over
the country and their bad.smelling mon
cy is being poured by millions into
schools, colleges. Libraries and such like.
In his speech at Cottonwood Falls, Kan,
the other day Senator Cummins discuss.
ed the two, and said in words that could
not be misunderstood that no amount
0f giving could atone for the many in.
Justices Of these men ~ the people of
the country. solely by which their vast
fortunes had been accumulated, as nei.
ther could have ever gotten more than
II moderate competence. holding TO the
established rules Of honest business.
II are the truth, as a democratic ora.
tor recently said in Roswell speech.
II IN time that the whole country was
looking at it the same way. There has
been far too much toadying to preda
tory wealth, of which both of these gen.
tlemen are shining examples. 1t is time
that they were being considered M such
plain rascals, who are trying their best
tn buy their way out of the hell Of
public sentiment with muniicent gifts
which are proclaimed TO all men. There
has been some illustrious attempts to
argue that 1.-The ends iustiies the
HtHnS, uHu 'HHl uh'fuh WoH'H ~
purified by good use but il dangerous
fallacy, and il can not he brought be.
fore the people too strongly, Perhaps
ii does not make - much difference as
regards the churches and Mr.. Rocke.
fcller Very few Of the real common
people belong to the churches anyhow.
II does make difference where th'
money is usel IN institutions of learn.
ing for there II is sinister for ,hc pur
pose of Is giving is to influence the
siinds ~ the young, 10 corrupt the n
sructors. Thcre are proofs that both
objects are accomplished in some of the
most noted schools of the land. such
being the ease all honor attaches to
our insurgcnt friend for having the
nerve to call spade n spade 50 far
as these men are concerned. II IL good
for the whole country, aud the lesson
should be assimilated.
Tho Man Of Blood and Iron
Saturday, July 3Oth, was the annivcr.
sary of the passing of one Of the most
remarkable men in the history of Cont
mental Europe, aud "A character that will
ha held in deep veneration by every
German the world over. for all time "a
come. Otto Eduard Leopold Bismark
Schonhausen was the real father of the
great German empire of today. As the
great champion Of absolutism, he was q
stern figure. Time and historians have
mellowed the rigor of the earlier and
less friendly chronicles, though in ne
measure softening the austerity of his
character, hard old bat as he was meas
ured by modern standards, His toler
ance was natural for he was horn of the
nobility in 1915 in the province OF
Brandenburg. lie studied at dottingen
Berlin and Griefswald; entered the arm.
aud became a lieutenant in the Land