The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-07-09
Common: of Leading Newspapers on
aVariety of Topics
Record for Economy.

Record for Economy.
Philadelphia Press. An illuminating
exhibit of the contemp of the present
Congress for the economy plank in
the Baltimore platform of 1912 is fur
nlshed in the present River and Harbor
appropriation Bill now before the Sen
ate. The Democratic party in its latest
appeal to the people denounced 1.-The
profigate waste of money through the
lavish appropriations of recent Republi-
can Congress" and demanded "a re-
turn to that simplicity and economy
which BELTS Democratic government. !"
But what are party platforms between
friends? The present River and Har-
Dor bill is the largest in the history of
the country and it fairly reeks with the
odor of the pork barrel.
In 1875 Congress appropriated
S.. 218, 600 for river and harbor i'm
provements. In 1904 the appropria-
ton was $40, 223, $50. = In 1913 the sum
had grown to S51, 113, 1856. To that
amount the Democratic majority in
the House had this year added half as
much again and additions made in the
Senate have increased it to the out
rageous total of 1913, 529, 475.
From Charleston Gazette: The
funeral of Major General John Jim
(Jam) Barleycorn will take place from
his late residence in West Virginia.
Wednesday morning at 1901 o'clock
Kindly omit flowers, but demon plants
will be acceptable.
The deceased was in his fiftieth year
and had always enjoyed the best of
health until about two years ago, when
the props of activity were knocked
from under his frame and the spurs
of enterprise twisted from his boots and
he was given bis passport to that bourne
whence no traveller returns. effective
June 30, at midnight
The funeral dirge will be played on
empty bottles and muffled beer kegs by
the band led by Prof. o. B. Sorrowful,
while Miss Cream de Mint will sing a
solo, entitled The Kanawha River is
Wide and It's Deep, Disturb not Dear
John B. He's Taking His Last Sleep. "
Interment will be made in the pot
ter's field, where General Barleycorn
will rest beside the countless thousands
who sang his glory in the hours of
prosperity and cursed his soul in the
days of adversely.
The Indianapolis Star says: If words
could save. then these eloquent ad-
/ dresses and marvellous pictures of pros
perity framed by President Wilson
would undoubtedly set the nation at
once on the high road of happiness.
j According to his latest landscape
masterpiece. the tariff law lit all the
factory fires and started all the wheels;
the currency law put the financial
world at once in condition of safety
and prosperity.
Now our benign psychological ruler
is about to wave his hand over the
trusts and they will all become changed
in the twinkling Of an eye The devils OF
uncertainty and malignity that have
oppressed them will all run down a
steep place into the sea and be drowned.
/ If words could save, then there will
/ be nothing the matter with US tomor-
row, nothing is the matter with US, in
fact, today. Whoever doubts or fan
cies that his business is bad or that he
is out of a job, should read over
these lovely essays of the professor
and be comforted. They can't be beat.
/ Twenty years ago, ConneIlsville coke
was selling at one dollar ton. two
( thirds of the coke ovens were idle and
CoXey'S army was marching through
the region on its way to Washington.
/ This was not psychological condition;
it was an actual physical, undesirable
situation. brought about by a Demo
cratic revision of the tariff along free
trade lines, eliminating the principle OF
Protection to Home Industries.
After twenty years of retirement,
due to this mistaken craftsmanship
one would think the Democratic party
had gained some wisdom, at least that
it had acquired enough experience WITH
tariff legislation not to make a second
blunder like this.
But the Democratic party, it seems
never learns anything. 1t has again
revised the tariff on the lines of q
years ago, and as result one-half the
ovens in the Connellsville coke region
are idle and coke is down to rockbottom
prices.
The ascension of Democracy was not
the deliberate will of majority of the