Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
Washington Correspondence.
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER.

Judge Gary, head of the SteeI
Trust, attended banquet in New
York. The food was good; the
lights were bright; the silver
shimmered; the wine sparkled
the cigars added final complete.
ness to the happiness of all pres
eDt. When it came Judge Gary's
turn to speak, his mind was sat-
urated with benevolence, and his
thoughts turned to the welfare OF
the republic, and the sufferings OF
working men. Listen to him:
"Things are being said nova
days that are closely akin to the
things that were said just prior to
the French Revolution. Unless
the great corporations, capitalists,
and men of large wealth and
power take a leading part in the
amelioration of conditions, there
will be changes made later by the
mob"
The newspapers next day told
the story of the banquet, and of
Judge Gary's speech, and the
same newspapers chronicled the
testimony of witnesses before
the Stanley committee. These
witnesses told how the Steel Trust
forces men to work IL hours day,
days a week, for wages which
compels them to live like swine-a
condition which Judge Gary
could ameliorate with few strokes
of his pen.
The banquet hall is dark. The
diners are gone. The tables are
stripped of their linen and viands
And somewhere in that deserted
room, shrunken so small that the
servants failed to see it when they
swept out the crumbs, is Judge
Gary's Beautiful Altruism.
ROOSEVELT AND THE TARIFF.
Just once in his life Theod ore
Roosevelt expressed an opinion on
the tariff, That is. he almost ex-
pressed an opinion. In one Of his
messages he wrote this sentence:
In later message l shall dis
cuss the tariff" !"
A preliminary draft Of this mes
sage fell into the hands of Sena-
tors Aldrich and Lodge and
Speaker Cannon Immediately
they rushed to the White House.
Presto! When the message was
finally submitted to Congress, it
contained no reference to the
tariff.
Aside from that, no living man
can point 10 written or spoken
opinion that Mr. Roosevelt ever
expressed on the tariff question.
A STAND PATTERs VAIL.
The Senate was discussing a
bill for the establishment of a
Children's Bureau in the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor.
| Senator Borah, author of the bill,
had explained how the huge COR
porations were exploiting little
children, crushing them, with hard
toll, while they were yet of tender
years. He explained that the bill
contemplated no inference with
the proper relation of parents to-
ward their own children, and that
its purpose was merely to provide
for the collection of statistics and
Information on which the sepa-
rate states and municipalities
could base a solu tion of the child
welfare problem.
"In the great cities" concluded
Senator Borah, ''little children
tester and swelter and starve and
steal by the thousands. This
bill is designed to aid them"
Then up rose Senator Hepburn,
stand -patter, and for two hours
the Senate listened to his COM
plants about the Demonstrations
ality" of the bill. His final argu-
ment was that Abraham Lincoln
was poor boy.
SOME BALD FACTS.
The Republican campaign fund
in 1908 amounted to St,665, ,51S 81.
The Democratic fund was $780,
644.27. The Republicans had
more than million in excess of
the Democrats.
The number who contributed to
the Republican fund was 1920,
and to the Democratic fund, IA
| 900. In other words, the number
of contributors to the Democratic
fund was six times greater, and
their contributions amounted to
a million dollars less. The con-
tributors to the Republican fund,
as q rule, were interested in legis-
lation, the money coming from
such men as j. Plerpont Morgan,