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BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 17.-lSpecial. III
the Populists, who assembled at Ocala
Fla, in 1890 and afterward nominated
q ticket at Omaha in 1892, could have
stayed together they might have been
putting the principles they then enunci
ated into law instead Of seeing Repub
lican and Democratic parties putting
their theories into practice. President
Taft, in an effort to do something for
the farmers, has suggested farm loans
at low rate Of interest Congress
man Bathrick formulates the sugges-
ton into bill which provides for a
bureau to arrange loans on the credit
Of the government.
The plan differs little from the sub
treasury proposition Of the Populists.
simply in this, however-that the gov
eminent is to secure itself upon farm
loans instead Of having the collateral.
farm products, stored in so called sub
treasures. OF course it will be some
time before the farm loan plan is put
into effect, but it is observed that a
Republican president encourages and
a Democratic congressman formulates
a scheme for loaning farmers govern
ment money at low rate of interest.
coxey Too Previous.
Those who recall General Coxey and
lit hi 10
derision which his project for issuing
bonds to the amount Of $5OO,OOO,OO0
and applying the proceeds to the
building of roads caused up and down
the country. And yet If the plans OF
the advocates of good roads should be
carried out that half billion will be
only drop in the bucket. Once there
is a project put on foot to build roads
for the whole country by the govern
ment there is no end to the expendi
lures. Estimates go into the billions
and beyond, for, as one man said, THE
wind will blow away billion dollars OF
the roads every year after they are
constructed"
New Kind Of Republican.
Congressman Carter was discussing
the good qualities of an officeholder in
Oklahoma and concluded by saying
that the only objection that might be
found to him was that he was a rabid
Republican.
81 never heard of rabid Republi
can" said Miller of Minnesota.
'Then you don't know the Oklahoma
brand" said Carter.
Shearing the Lambs.
Curiously enough, congressman are
amazed to find that stock exchanges
are engaged in manipulating stocks or
that stocks are manipulated SO that
certain people, small in number, make
large profits and that other people.
very numerOuS, contribute 10 the
wealth of those few. Amusement sits
upon her brow" remarked Hamlet.
speaking Of the queen. That was when
she found out what she had known all
the time. only it was being made pub
lie. So with our congressman. They
are amazed when they are told about
the big profits Of big banks. They are
astounded when they learn that manip
ulations on stock exchanges net big
money, and occasionally a congress
man will introduce a resolution, with a
series of whereases attached, and de-
mand an inquiry
And yet the facts are all there and
have been for years, just as they We're
twenty years ago when the Washburn
Hatch antt-option bill was before con
gress. That measure was intended to
stop stock gambling. but after a year
or two it died.
Effect Of Appropriations.
Congressman Kinkaid of Nebraska
was discoursing on the decadence of
state rights and the tendency toward
Capitalization He had been talking of
the former ideas which Slayden of Tex
as interrupted to call the good old
days." to which Kinkaid assented and
added. 1.-The change in the sentiment
has been accelerated, perhaps, by self
ish interests and motives or by appro-
priations which might have been Sc
cured"
Like Mark Twain's suggestion of
the old flag and an appropriation" re-
marked Slayden.
"And by the improvement of rivers
and harbors and things like that" said
Kfnkaid. Il think they have helped
to bring the north and the south to-
gether again.
"In one grand raid" said Sayden.
And we all join hands," continued
Kinkaid. respectfully when an omnibus
public building bill comes up. We are
all brothers then. and we are all state
rights men then, and are especially for
the national government at that time.
Gives Them Lockjaw.
1T looks as If Woodrow Wilson had
kicked case of lockjaw into Hoke
Smith and those other Democrats who
have been making the pilgrimage to
Trenton" remarked Charlie Carlin of
Virginia. ut is noticeable that they
have nothing to say when they return"
Governor Wilson not only seems able
to keep his own counsel. but he makes
the other people respect his condolences
The Return.
Il believe" said the CHEEKY philoSo
pher. that for every single thing you