The daily sentinel., 1910-05-30
ANu-KIss1NG CLUB FORMED.
Especial to The Sentinel. ]
BY CLYDE H. Tayenner.) }


upward,
1t was upward by approximately
LII per cent,
IL has ALREADY resulted in in
creased prices all along the line,
Thus did Champ Clark of Missouri
leader OF the democrats in the house
of representatives. thunder his reply
to the speeches of President Taft and
other republican leaders who have at
tempted to feed the public on the as
sertion that the Payne-Aldrich bill
was the best tariff bill' ever passed.
Mr.. Clarke's speech had been care
fully prepared. 1t was a complete
and effective answer to the countless
bald Misrepresentation that have
been manufactured by the republi-
cans. who are desperately in need OF
campaign material Of any sort for use
in the approaching congressional
elections.
The minority leader denounced the
proposed appropriation of S250,000
of the peoples money for the purpose
Oh enabling the republicans to gather
data with which TO prove that the new
tariff law il God-send to the coun-
try.
He denounced the joker in the su-
gar schedule He deplored a condi-
ton which permits the steel trust and
other mOnopolies to sell their manu-
featured products cheaper to foreign
ers than to Americans. In short, Mr.
Clark's speech will go down as one
of the great democratic keynotes of
this session of congress
1t is true" admitted Mr Clark.
that We reduced the duty on lum-
ber and that the lumber trust mark
ed up the price of lumber 81 per
thousand feet before the last of us got
out of Washington. And if the de-
partment of justice had done its duty
ii would by this time have filled the
iails so full of lumber trust magnates
that their arms and legs would stick
out at the windows and the doors.
Mr.. Payne, the republican leader.
says that he and his cohorts will meet
us in November. Glory be, glory bel
| never looked forward to any day
with such joy as do to the first
Tuesday after the first Monday of
November except to my wedding day
and the days on which my children
were born.
My democratic brethren, at last,
after hard trials and great tribula-
tions, thank God We stand here shoul-
der TO shoulder, heart to heart, solid
as a stone wall, inspired by the hopes
of coming victory. Democrats are
getting together everywhere, while
the republican. party presents to the
astonished gaze of men the appear
ance of a dissolying view.
"Oh, yes. my republican friends;
you will meet us in November, be-
cause you can not help yourselves.
And when you do meet us in Novem-
Der you will receive the bloodiest lick
ing you have had since 1892. Up,
guards, and at them
Although the colossal sum of So
100000 is carried by the sundry
civil appropriation bill for the main
tenance of soldiers homes, the re-
publicans are forcing the old soldiers
of the nation to subsist on from IL to
IA cents worth of food per day.
An inspector of the war depart
ment reported that the food in the
soldiers homes was no more in
quantity than that supplied to pris-
oners in the federal penitentiaries.
An idea of the wasteful methods
Employed in conducting the homes
may be had from the fact that al
though the cost of maintenance more
than doubled in the l 0 years between
1898 and 1908, the number of sold
iers cared for had increased but 7
per cent.
Let your imagination spread this
outlay of IA cents over a days food
supply, suggested Representative
Cox OF Ohio, and you have an accur-
ate picture of how the nations heroes
are being fed. Observe the evening
meal, and you will appreciate what it
was that moved Inspector Brewster to
pity. and inspired his recommends
uon that there be at least a bowl of
milk added to the scant evening
fare"
Frederick NJ. Kerby, the young in
terror department stenographer who
was dismissed because he admitted
that Oscar Lawler, an appointee of
Ballinger, had practically dictated
President Taft's letter exonerating
Balltnger, was the sole support of a
mother. wife and babe. He had
worked hard and conscientiously for
five years to reach the position he oc-
cupied when dismissed.
herby was positive he would be
discharged If he told his story. He
thought the matter over carefully for
several weeks.
II concluded that any allegiance |
may have owed Mr.. Ballinger," said
kerby. was cancelled absolutely
when, by his silence, he became a
party to an attempt to smother the
truth
By making his exposures Kirby
was probably treacherous to Ballin-
ger and Ballinger's plans for turning
over Alaska coal lands to the Morgan
Guggenheim syndicate. But it is diff
ficult to see how he was treacherous
to the public In whose service he was
employed