The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 27, 1904, Page 12

SUPPLEMENT TO THE TIMES BUTLER, - - - - - - MISSOURI Thursday, Oct. , 1904, ROOSEVELT’ ARRAIGNMENT Severest Indictment of His Pariy by President Kimseli, HE TOLD OF GENERAL CORRUPTION Frauds, Forgeies and Perjuries Offenses His Official Message Finds Among Notorious Vivlations of Law. There is not in existence, nor is there likely to be, a severer indictment of the party in power that that by President Roosevelt himself in bis an- nual message to the second session of the Fifty-eighth Cong s, transmitted on Monaay, Dee, 7, 1003, Has the country forgotten how he referred to the general corruption in the depariments—not merely the Post- otlice Department, but he included all the departments? From the manner in which he referred to the “deplor- able state of affairs” it was thought that there would be a wholesale purg- ing, aud the censequence was that whei message Was promulgated the departments were in a panic, But their fears were unwarranted, Only a few offenders here and there were to be molesicd. jut here is that part of the mes- sige in reference to the prevalent cor- ruption at Washington: “In my last annual message, in con- nection with the subject of the due tion of combinations of capiial +h are or may become injurious to the public, I recommended a special appropriation for the better enforcement of the anti-trust law it now stands, to be extended under the direction of the Attorney-General, Accordingly (by the legislative, executive appr mact of Pebr 1903; » HO, the Congress up- pr printed for the purpose of enfore- ing the various Federal trust and in- terstate-commeree laws the stun of five hundred thousand dollars, to be ex- pended under the direction of the At- torney-General in the employment of special counsel and agents in the De- partinent of Justice to conduct pro- ceedings and prosecutions under said laws in the courts of the United States, 1 now recommend as a matter of the uimost importance aud urgency the ex- tension of the purposes of the appro- priation, so that it may be available under the direction of the Atiorney- General, and until used for the enforce- ment of the laws of the United States in general, and especially of the civil and criminal laws relating to postal crimes and offenses and the subject of naturalization, Recent investigations have shown a DEPLORABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THESE THREE MATTE OF VITAL CONCERN BY VARLO FRAUDS AND BY FORG- ERIES AND PERJURIES, THOU- SANDS OF ACRES OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, embracing lands ofdifferent character and extending through var- ious sections of the country, have been dishonestly acquired. It is hardly nec- essary to urge the importance of re- covering these dishonest acquisitions, stolen from the people,\ and of prompt- ly and duly punishing the offenders. I speak in another part of this message of the wide-spread crimes and offense by which the ed right of citizen- ship is falsely asserted and that ‘in- estimable heritage’ perverted to base ends, By similar means—THROUGH FRAUDS, FORGERIES AND PER- JURIES AND BY SHAMEVULBRIB. ERIES—THE LAWS RELATING TO THE PROPER CONDUCT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN GENER- AL, AND TO SHE DUE ADMINIS- TRATION OF THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT HAVE EN NO- VTORLOUSLY — VIOLATED, AND MANY INDICTMENTS HAVE BEEN FOUND, AND THE CONSEQUE)D PROSECUTIONS ARE IN COURSE OF HEARING, OR ON THE THEREOF, FOR THE REASONS THUS INDICATED AND SO THAT THE GOVERNMENT MAY BE PRE- PARED TO ENFORCE PROMPTLY AND WITH THE GREATEST E FECT THE PENALTIES FOR SUCH VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW, AND TO THIS END MAY BE FUR- NISHED WITH SUFFICIENT IN- STRUMENTALITIES AND COMPE- TE LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE INVESTIG NS AND TRIALS WHICH WILL BE NECES- SARY AT MANY DIFFERENT POINTS OF THE COUNTRY, 1 URGE UPON THE CONGRESS THE NECESSITY OF MAKING THE SAID APPROPRIATION AVAIL- APLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE FOR ALL SUCH PURPOSES, TO BE EX- PENDED UNDER THE DIREC- ae OF THE ATTORNEY-GEN- ORAL.” by nothing is a public man’s charac- tev betier to be judged than by what he has to say to the public. How sLall the people who will vote for President in November better ar- rive at a fair judgment cf the character of Theodore Roosevelt, as he is, than by his ‘st utterances? His supporters and advisers say that he consulted them and discussed with them his most im- portant acts and declarations. But what is left to be said of a Presi- dent. however influencec, who in one breath finds fault with all of his de- partments, saying that by frauds, forg- eries and perjuries they are in a d» plorable condition, and, in the next breath, as in his letter ‘of acceptance, speaking of his administration's record, declares: “A truthful recital would Jeave no room fo* adverse comment?” Was the man who wrote the message to Congress only last December sin- cere? Was his recital “truthful?” Was the same man,yho,wrote a letter aecepting the Repubjican nomination for President sinceré? “THE AMERICAN CONTINENTAL POLICEMAN.” After his territic indictment of cor- ruptionists in his own adminisiration this is what he has just said in his let- ter of acceptance: “We base our ppeal upon what we have done and are doing, upon our rec. ord of administration and legislation during the last seven years in which we have had complete control of the government, WE INTEND IN ‘TLE PUTURE TO CARRY ON THE GOV- ERNMENT IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE HAVE CARRIED TP ON IN THE PAST, How did the administration proceed to cut all the awful, disgraceful, ¢ grading corruption to which the Pre dent pointed the finger of righteou: scorn in the departments? Just two or three offenders were in- dicted, Not a single criminal in the de- partmenis bas gone to any jail, N one of ticm has ever been pun Yet in these departments, according to President Roosevelt himself, were men guilty of “frauds, forgeries. perjuries and shameless bribevies.” He went after these rescals as he did aficr the trusts. He quit as soon as he began, as soon as the pursuit of cality had the appearanee of sue- Was it any quality of merey which caused Mr. Roosevelt to suspend the cause of justice, or t because he Was a candidate for President? If you believe in a tariff that will protect every legitimate indus.-y, without allowing the Trusts to rob and oppress the public, VOTE FOR PARKER! BRYAN PROPHESIES PULPILLED. Tariff and ‘Trusts ‘rusts Wreeked Small Endustrics of Indiana ‘ov ¢ delivered rairin Indiana in eight days, Fifty-two speeche by Mr. B: from Octover 12 to October 20, Alto- gether the Democratic State Commit- tee will get about sixty-tive speeches out of Bryan in Indiana in ten days, if his voice and strengih hold out. Bryan will be hurried over Indiana on a special train, which will be made up at re Haute the morning of Oc- tober 12, Tipton and Alexandria will be amoung the places visited, Mr, Bryan passed Eiwood on the journey from one place to the other when he made a prophetic speech last campaign—that tariff and trusts would wreck its fac- tories. He then said: “Ere another campaign your factor- ies will be idle, your tall chimneys send forth no smoke, and although Ke- publican legislation might be claiming al accomplishment of improved manu- facturing conditions, you will know, and know to your own sorrow, the fal- lacy of such claims.” Since his visit the radiator works have closed, the American Window Glass is a wreek, the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company is closed, the Roderfer Brick Company is in the hands of a receiver, the Elwood Furniture Coim- pany has been sold at receiver's sale, the lawn mower company is moving away and other factory wrecks abound, Parker Picased Him. John RK, Wilson, a leading Democrat of Indianapolis, was in New York re- cently and met Judge Parker...To a reporter, after his return home, Mr. Wilson said: “He is undoubtedly a very impres- sive man. He is a large, well-built, strong man physically, and is intellec- tually on the same large scale. He im- presses you as a man with perfect har- mony of faculties, each highly devel- oped. If manner he reminded tne of Joseph’ K. MacDonald. He is genial and kindly. You cannot think of his being rash in action. There is that self poise that shows that he thinks before he speaks. All in gl, he possesses an exceedingly attractive personality.” Se EXECUTIVE USURPATION. Kot in a Rezubli a Republican Presid ot, tary of Way Willian H, Taft, i ng for che Administration at the U nion League Club meeting on ‘Thurs: frou n Judge Parker's « this, and proceeded Government beyond any » framers of tremendously has become voint coutempl he Constitution, Liew ail this has added to the power of the President! It has develope: il from year to year until it almost equals that of many monarch faft has this com- respect does the Executive to-day exereise any more power than he did in the time of Washington and Jefferson? It may be that the Presi- dent of the United States exercises more power under the + Constitution than many monarchs. If this is true to-day, it is because the Constitution builders put the in But if it were otherwise, if there been an encro: tive on the legislative and i branches of the Government, why does not the Judge point out where these usurpations are, so that he may ise to the people that under hi istration such usurpations will net be continued!” Again continues Secretary Taft: “The possibjlity of improper limita- tion of executive power by ¢ s is real, but the ganger that the Executive will usurp the functions of the Logis- lature is a mere hobgoblin, because the Legislature Las always at its command that which in England won from the most arbitrary kings liberty for the people—the power over the — pubiic purse. Mere inaction by Congress would render the President powerless.” Judge Parker's rtion as to the centralization of power in the Govern- ment is most abundantly warranted by abuses too notoriously patent to need specification, ;Not a few administra- tions have seen this question under dis- cussion in Congress, and before the people on the hustings, It is by no means a new question, It was last most seriously debated du ministration of President Gr: er before has the question of central- ization of power assumed so grave an aspect as under the administration of Mr. Roosevelt, Since the day he took the oath of office, after the death of William McKinley, Theodore Roose- velt has bent every energy of an ex- ceptionally energetic nature to prcmot- ing his own succession, and in the pur- suit of that object he has time and again transgressed the legitimate sphere of his executive functions, Mr. Taft) was in the lippines when Mr. Roosevelt was bossing his Republican Congress, and there were things about Congress he didn't see. There were Republicans in that Con- gress who several times evineed symp- toms of revolt, but the power of the eeutive was quickly brought into play and the would-be party recalei- trants were incontinently whipped into line, It is the veriest idle twaddle to speak in this connection of “the Legisli- ture” having the power to make the Executive powerless, What is the pow- er of the Legislature worth so long as it is unexercised when it most needs to be exercised? Did a Republican Con- gress ever dare to oppose a Republican Execuiive? If it has ever been criti- cised by Republican members, it has been by indirection, with the final re- sult that the vote “of the Republican Legislature has been with the Execu- tive. The Republican Congress has done President Roosevelt's bidding ab- jectly and servilely, the while its in- dividuals in private criticised and evén cursed his fatuous blundering. Congress may, Indeed, under the can Congress 10 Opacse | CORROPTION CAMPAIGN FU Republican National Committee Holding Up Corporations Rizht and Left. The W which th Street Summary, than is not a fairer von-parti- 1 journal in the countr; ting the Republican efforts ruption campa fu ady a number of the largest cor- Porations in this country, popularly. e. in many cases misleadingly, spok- en of as ‘trusts,’ and hence likely to lie under the bax of the Sherman An- ti-Trust law, as interpreted by the Su- preme Court of the United States in the Northern Securities ¢ been approached, yes, tuned, by the managers of the Repub- liean mpaign or their authorized emissaries to contribute to the treas- ury of the National Committee, In some cases ances have been giv- en in the White House, that now that the issue raised by the Government in the Northern Securities case has been sustained by the Supreme Court, rtain aggregations of industrial en- terprises would not be held as comir within the purview of the decision mentioned, “We can state further that the ex- some of the have been approach Ml above, ecutives of that ora ions: MI, as ates D CONSUMERS BILKED have | actually impor- | are not members of the | me 1 party in behalf of which the eubad appeals have been my ey have rd d deemed it good business lement 10] and written by give the matter their favorable consid India ana Repub eration, rhe most flagrant case of this chars | ty miles, was decided upon and ey actor that has come to our Knowledge | provided fo early in the spring of wy is that of the executive of one of our | yyot Gwing to the demand at thaté larger railroad systems, who has vires | steel ia all) fo | AMERICAN Startling Ditlerencs of Cost ia Favor of Foreign Steel Rail Buyers. Of the points made by Tio Joba Sharp Williams, in his powerful ante trust speeches, none is unanswete & able as that which he empha the undisputed fact that manufactured ja this country are sold cheaper to foreign than to Americaa consumers. Here is the way Mr, Williams treat- ed the subject in his Brooklyn speech of October 1: Let me read you a letter from Mre Roaul, President of the Nationa! Rail road Company of Mexico, a road which operates both in Mexico and in Te “In 1 secured bids on stect co from United Sta about $24 delivered at Tampico, the price 1 paid at the same time rails for our road in Tesas was 8: the mills.” Remember that these rails were laid down at Tampico, Mexico, for that the freight to Tampico we that the price at the mills for the shipped to Tampico was tee! steel the writer states, the price at the mills for that part of the order to be used in Texas was S28. fhe extortion in this case was 8S Let me read you part of another let »eXTeHs) and they™ tually decided that it is for the best of an advance in price, itt interests of his corporation that in! to take up the mat othe some way a subs final contribution " rails ate should be mede te the cause represent: rt were atdef et by Chairman Cortelyou, because mal F © lend 1g hae | the Chairman is slated for the position rail vuptacturers in the counell of Postmaster General after Mareh dy | iry, ne for tenders on siviy miles should his efforts to retain, his party }of Seventy pound steel rails delivered In power be successful, Fis corpos | ag savannah Macon, the yt t beer) in common wy all other trar ‘ livery to be tion) with as. Jortation companies, has constant ave ; times coniicting tions with be 3 is ia * hes Ss . + Departines vet that] After cndeavorins in vain to obtain » execu. | better prices than those quo ed, wef tloss will, fimally accepted thy of the Steel With others similarly si ed when | Company, aad placed our order with} they are appealed to for ea them for the S6lS tons ef ralis at s per ton, based upon celivery ac tid ihe hands of a usurping iper is not a political water, ‘Phis would cnable us to at. as the lish Parliament (in any sense of the word, but, as e our own freight rate to Savane i sh kings, but the | readers know, stands for what is hon | mth and ¢ Heel some saving tt the vost Ihave to be anything else; est and upright in the manag of OC the rails, The ¢ declined an Congress, our Governmental atYairs is Pon these terms, the oc RUny in the conduct of commereial and pea to tatke i hs mill, egy oy . inane snetions Pry ye pro. | but ins Vpol « preety ot OF TRANS! ORTATION, tiene «c+... sirens of an independent, non-parti: |) “LT made oue more effort Sonig Monopetics and Trusis Reeeive Ree) san newspaper to refer to such facts | friends of mine were interoscoud int Dates While Other Shippers Suffer. [as they come io its knowledge from railroad project in Central siuerie As a str argument against. the | time to tine s have heen reeited | and T broached the subject the rope irusts, which are fostered under the | above, leaving those Ww ho read thew to) resentative of the -— Ru el Company iniquitous Dingley Tariff bill, a paper draw their own conclusions, Who had come he re to clo x the metter vend by Mr A.B. Hepburn, Pr vent | (eens Was EAN Le a , te ie is S ius iit ck ae Soe ad nade some inquiry of mas te the York, eae ae as Sager | Y HERE IS THE MAYFLOWER? cost of construction in that a untry,. lation, at the Waldorf, in Ne w | one and T should like to Know at + Uprice recently, may Well be considered, | Perunent Inquiry as to the Locallt | lie could sell me steel ry delivered ar, Hepburn has some positive ideas, of the President’s Yacht. at tidewater for shipment to Honduras, among them was this: Emp William likes Mr. Roose- He promptly quoted me aie arving to the initial the | velt sincerely for his imperial ways. : * : : . ge ” the de lity of ‘He likes him for his taking care of | “Allowing a liberal amount for cost busin conditions and uniform cost of transportation, and reasonable uni- form rates for money, we, as bankers, entirely apart from legislative or co- ercive measur ean exercise great ine fluence in- bringing about such condi- tions.”” Uniform cost of transportation means that one shipper must have the same | rate as another, Twenty years ago the men who control the Standard Oi) Company and nearly everything else in the country, saw the advantage of a rebat re the other fellow gn ever ance in production, but they cut his throat in getting a cheaper | his own pleasures, it urous ensconced in Mediterranean waters, the waters of the earth, ment is paying a sum for it—that is, the people are paying the cost. So remarkable has been the display about this Amer’ n republic's im- I] boat that it ha attention of every enterprising news- paper man in the country, even inelnd- jing the p bt lartists, Yet a plr pher of the Deparonent has been freight rate than he could, and the | ordered to SMe! IL the plates and competitor went out of business, piciures sentative of the interior were is a coal trust that controls | of the craft. What is the fear about | every pound of coal « constuped in New] this boat? Is it not a fe that York and New Baer is} Adini ion knows that this sor at ihe Lot thi the open, members got an rates from the rr: but it was enous tors out of b compoiition, amd cond bills per cent. ' £0 | thing i istent with a republican | Ww York Was] form of nment? And ds it not s formed The a patent proposition that advantage in freight | conceal all that troads, Tt wa this imperial hoat? 5 It put the pensive Land mi :, This rebate about this a coal imoncepoy stanily growing in appreciated about fifty pense. It Ss tlong pansion and all whi: incon sit h colow sort of but an example whieh could etched out ad intinitum mal trust that lives geis its life ivilege, and the ma- form of government. If you want a government by the | People itstead cf a government by | Trusts, VOTE FOR PARKER! TO KSEP STANDING PAT. efore, Note 4 Record, aAct. It’s the Trusts againsi the Peopie. Roosevelt :‘ands for the Trusts; Par- ker stands for the Mecple. VOTE FOR PARKER! PROTECTION AND THE FARMER, Agriculture Receives Abs tely No Benefit Out of the Tariff. Mr. Roosevelt, Roesevelt to Go on us Withstanding a The President, in his letter of ae- ceptanee, says: “We intend in the fu- ture to earry on the Government in the same way i pried it on in the 7 y that} in one of his many books, said that “there was no doubt | the Governm “toon in about the fact that the bis rift | the future with t sot reck- against which South Carolina so vigor-|lessness and extr whieh i part of the record of his admi protested. was disevimination agains’ the purely agricultural com-| tion d # the last three years. munities. The w York Evening Post be- So certain is it that a protective tar-|lieves that too much prominence ean- iff cannot help the producer of staple] not be given by the Democratic and in- to this ake the sin- al expenditures, f the a nd in 1885 iess than 1800 | the sun appro- « , long | dependent press and sj to} exiremely bad record, er of nay agricultural producis, that not ago Mr, Lubin, # Congress demanding a hould protect the farmer as well as the manuutacturer, When he was told that ther duties upon In his reply subs man knew it wor called, to the Ai said that @he ¢ rnnent could help the manufactur of certain products by levying import duties, making, of course, the rest of the community pay the price of the help; but the only way in which they could help the farmers was by giving an export bounty, and he demanded that bounty very serions-| necks, and unless there is a sh ly in hearing after hearing before the | change, we shall be over our heads,’ Committee on Agriculture tn the House % a of Representatives, The Tis , under Republican pro- saga eT i eater tection, are driving retailers out of If you wan. your boy to have a|businees. If you wan. fair competi- chance in life and not be < trus: slave, | tion for everybody VOTE FOR PARKER! VOTE FOR PARKER! and in 1 vunt is) me diture since the pig has really warmed nl estab. pin 103 lle with ont 4 to its work, lishment call for & pproprias tion was $98.0005,140, These figures speak for themselves, We have plunged into this busiuess up to our It tickles his Im- 1 Majesty that Theodore Roosevelt acht, the Mayflower, most lux- «appointed, which is somewhere ‘The yacht is somewhere about the The Govern- of lux- tracted the rotten | thing, which is contrary to a republican | of delivery at tidewater, whied, tu particular case would have been ver small, we American citizens paid to this American industry O00 in exe cess of what foreigners would hav been compelled to pay. An would have put up a very ban brary filled with standard books ow protection, “And this was a very tion—only fifty miles ef rai : ments Were cash, and we neither needs ed nor asked any concessions in the jmatter of time, ause we were Ame wis jnteresied in the develope j ment of a stall section of our country, finvolving faith and sacrifices, we were lod to pay out, as a bonus, ia s of $680 per mil Every family pays tricute to the Re- publican Trusts which ccnvol the necessaries of life. If you want w stop that tribute , VOTE FOR PARKER! TEDDY 1S HIMSELE AGAIN, 1 and suning detiaa yan unwonted period of ude, Theodore Roc H , tance of tion for President, which is 4° atlenge to Democrats other citizens who have que: ioned. the wisdom of his administration, He? . proclaims himself infallible when evene many of those of his own party havely openiy admitted le made 1 kes The respectable element of ine dependent voters who have criticise his aets iold to go to the devil, fori © all he As for the Democratspeay themselve they have oye tion enough tc atile of beat i this ou 4 ‘of famou sombreroes (the nomins ta burnt sparing cri predecessors in oftice, y will not forget bis defamation of son , dackson and Polk, nor will they forge! ‘ wl ed for Vie six “te deat his violent abuse of all Dy WOT TAEM ALL. ‘4 : Transcends Alt Oth NY Trust Ques Iss' Iporiances ie. John A, Wiston, of Lansing (Mich.), iii ex-President of the Micl F of the p. has this to ¥ “The trust question is worth all they other issues ten times over. ‘Traveling] }inen are pushing that issue for all ig is worth. is this true inj }New York and Indiana, Judge Pa J ker's decisions are a splendid record against the sts. In the minds otfage. the nitss is the paramount issue gas The best workers outside of the retail * dealers and comme travelers fo! Parker and Davis are the womed They all understand the trust questioi It is not necessary to tell them ho’ the trusts have put up prices of almo everything and jucreased the cost ou living one-third.” Who would have imagined that Co telyou would be so reckless a. chauffe of the Administration auto?: