The Harrison times., 1911-02-04
Spelling the Apples.

been enough OF rotteneness shown IN
the course Of the investigation of his
election to Justify our taking that par
ticular apple out Of the box"
Senatorial elections for some reason
seem fraught with scandal and In
trigue. Most Of the men who are elect
ed to the United States senate are
men to whom the salary Is trivial
Sometimes one wonders whether 1t Is
the mere honor or the opportunities"
that attract them. In the case OF
.Pomerene Of Ohio, just elected, 1t Is
clearly enough the honor, for he Is
the type Of man who could not, and
would not, seize an opportunity for
money making that might come to him
as United States senator There are
men Of that type in the senate, plenty
of them. But there are men who are
there to protect certain interests and
to advance their own.
Two Billion Dollar Congress-.
Lincoln once said that God
must have loved the common
people because he made, so many
Of them. But that divine inter
est seems not to proceed to the pro
lection of the common people as Lin
coin would have protected them IN his
time. In the last two congresses moth
ing has been done in the direction OF
reducing governmental expenditures
everything possible has been done
to increase them. Probably not one
half, not one.quarter of the voters OF
| the United States pay any serious at
tention to the appropriation bills Of
congress. Yet when you have a two
| billion dollar congress, as we had last
year, It means a direct cost to every
head Of a family Of five of not less
than $400 the year. The Indirect cost
through the increase in price of the
| domestic goods he may buy, woolens,
shoes, carpets, etc. | must leave to
Mr.. Tafts tariff commission to esti'
mate
! 1t IS absolutely amazing chat the
average voter, particularly when he Is
the head of family, does not under.
stand that when a 2S,000ton battle
| ship costing some $3,000,000 Is
launched, or when the resident de-
mands, as he did the other day, some
| S16,0000O0 for guns to fortify the
| Panama canal, 1t Is the plain ordinary
common citizen who has to pay the
| bill.
Huge Military Expenditure.
It cannot be too often repeated
that today nearly 73 per cent. Of all
| appropriations made by congress are
expended in paying the cost Of past
wars or in preparing for new ones.
! We think ourselves q peace-loving
people, end for that matter we are.
! But Great Britain, on whi2h we look
as a warlike nation, SPENDS this year
on its army and navy $S4l 100000;
Germany, $313,OOO000; France, $780,
100000; Italy, about SSl,000,GOO and
| Russia about s25000O,OOO We OF
the peaceful United States, unvexed
by hostile neighbors, appropriated for
the army last year s10O,3301Sl, which
| does not include any OF the expense
! laid upon the several states for the
| maintenance Of the national guard,
| For the navy this year the estimates
| are s2O3, 1892 900. In addition we pay
| to pensioners OF past wars $l59,964,'
| 900, and the further the wars recede
! into the dim and distant past the
| larger seems to be the pension roll
For a peace,loving people, we Amer
leans surely seem to be paying high
price for martial glory
West Virginia Senatorial Tangle'
The senatorial situation In West
Virginia will be hailed by the advo'
Gates Of the election Of senators by
! direct vote Of the people as strong
| argument in behalf Of their cause
And certainly It Is At the moment
of writing The legislature Of West
Virginia has swinging Democratic
! majority The state election was
fought very largely on the senatorial
issue and as a result the people voted
! into power a party pledged to elect
| a Democratic senator. That senator
might be Watson, Chiffon or McGraw,
! but he was to be a Democrat. Marx
what happened Although the legls
lature in Joint session had Demo
cratic maJority-the state senate was
evenly dIvided-15 Democrats and Is
! Republcans-the Republicans absont
ed themselves from tho senate halt
! Those who were newly elected re.
Trained from qualifying, All was done
for the purpose Of preventing poo
rum and avoiding n senatorial cleo
ton The Democratic leaders IN the
state senate declared their purpose OF
sending the sergeantatarms to ar
rest absentees and bring them to
the capitol. The Republican governor
has announced that he viii call out
the militia to prevent any such ac'
ton Perhaps In the end West Vir'
ginia may be left without any sena'
torial representatlon Whatsoever,
(Copyrsht. 1911, BY Joseph II Bowles)
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