Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 23, 1899, Page 7

| q \ , | ' ; 5 "gai aud all Wane world? > i # friend documents by which, if he vill | I nf ) When Babylon fell, 2 per cent of her ‘WHEN BABYLON. FELL PORTENTOUS SIGNS OF THE POLIT- ICAL TIMES. National Absorption of Wealth and Po- litical Power, Like That in the Fall of Babylon, Persia, Egypt and Rome. Even Republicans Sounding the Alarm, Senator Washburn’s Appeal—Melanze of National and State Politics—Recep- tion for Mr. Towne—Is the Thirteenth Reception a Goppite Blow Out?—Gaod Results in the State Grain Depart- ment—Farewell to Elevator Steals, Hold on His Holt—Hero Tew on the Philippine Shame—Other Houlton’s Note and Comment of the Week. Reform Press Bureau. Sr. Paut,Sept. 18, 1899. Occasionally we come in contact with aman ofthe best of parts, one who loves his country, who is patriotic -enough to vote whenever the election comes round, but who with all his in- telligence, education and refinement, se he is himself in comfortable circumstances whether the country is really prosperous or not, will not inves- tigate or has not investigated, the finan- cial question as 1t is presented in poli- tics. Such a God-fearing and well- meaning man, a Republican, wrote to us the other day: “I agree with you in some things po- litical, especially numbers (so and so, referring to the platform on which Governor Lind was elected) but I should disagree with you if you advocated free coinage of silver at 16 to1, or if you proposed to interfere with our protect- ive tariff.” On the one point, we have sent,_the religiously read, he will be convinced that free coinage is absolutely the only road by which our producers can be ved from the ruinous competition | silver using countries, and which | nid, at least, in checking that ab- sorption of the wealth of the country in the hands ef the few, which is rapidly impoverishing the masses and destroy- ing the small dealers, rapidly produc- ing the two classes of the Old Country, the very rich and the very poor; that this ruinous foreign policy of the past two decades is the cause of trusts and combines, against which warning after warning is given daily by our ablest public men, as threatening the very besom of destruction. As to the cherished tariff, it is not wholly responsible for the threatening conditions, as witness the fact that the trust exists in free trade England. But mark this point, that the trust flour- ishes only or best in the lands of the gold standard and absolute sway of the money power. Still it meaus much that old time extreme pro- tectionists like ex-Senator Washburn recognize that those trusts flourish most where most ‘*protected,” hence his re- cent earnest appeal to his party to pre- pare to attack the monster evil so por- tentous of disaster, immediately the congress meets, his remedy being to re- move the tariff from those trusts con- trolled articles! What means it that the pulpit thun- Jers that sin, insanity, suicide, poverty, forms of wretchedness, are constantly on the increase in be- | loved America. where with our intelli- and opportunity we should be the est and most prosperous people of It means that we are reap- ng the fruits of the wicked financial y the chief feature of which is oncentration of wealth in the hands of he few, while degradation and enslave- nt are the inevitable portion for the 2s. Senator Washburn has shown in his own individual case, in the changes he has seen. ‘‘As a young man,” said he, ‘‘all the world was open to me for a fair field, for a fair fight.” Now such avenues to individual suc- cess are closed, being in the grip of r:o- nopoly, trusts and gold! 5 It is impossible to express the enor- Pes concentration, under the spe ial wivileges due to wicked legislation - ad ion-enforcement oflaw. In 1860, w..en ‘ur population was 35,000,000, and our wealth $16,000,000,000, our producers wned 46 per cent of the total wealth, d the non-producers 54 per cent. Five ars later, when no great increase in ative ownership had occurred, Lin- 1 delivered his famous warning of danger of concentration of wealth \ political power. That danger in- wed faster than Lincoin ever imed might be the case. By the sus of 1890, when our population bad wn to 12,500,000 families, and our th to $60,000,000,000, TWO PER CENT he total population owned THREE- RTHS of all our wealth. But in 1898 non-producers of the country, who » only 2 per cent of our 75,000,090 pulation, owned 83 per cent of all our salth, while the’prodncers of wealth, ho are 98 per cent of all the popule- .on, owned but 14 per cent of the total ealth, people owned practically all her wealth. ‘When old Egypt fell, similar conditions obtained, and when Persia fell, 1 per cent of her people owned all her lands, And he can well afford to leave that to Roosevelt, Depew and the rest, who will do Hanna’s bidding next year. Appropos, the Minneapolis prepara- tions, for instance, seem more lke ar- ranging for a big Republican conven- tion. The people remark that commit- tees are made up almost exclusively of prominent Republicans. The managers have asked for and received Democratic money, but keep affairs exclusively in goppite hands. Selah. Mr. Towne will return to America better equipped than ever for the great battle in which he will be so valiant a knight. It may possibly be exposing a secret, but in view of the great work before him, both in the campaigns this fall and his own next year, there is talk of a great reception to him on his re- turn to the state, an ovation from his congressional district. There is, these days, a large amount of ‘‘Remembering of the grades,” mean- ing the state grain department. The manifest improvement of the depart- ment, with the installing of the ‘‘re- form” officials gives encouragement to all. The farmer is really taking new hope, while the buyers universally tes- tify to a feeling of relief, for they know that it is not necessary to ‘‘watch” any- body. Speaking with a Minneapolis buyer the other day, he said that all who have come in contact with the new head of the weighing department, Hon. John O'Brien, are convinced that Governor Lind landed the right man in. the right place in his appointment. ‘*We are be- ginning to get a let-up,” said he, *‘from the constant friction of varying weights, and ‘overs and shorts’ are not requiring any such amount of attention as for- merly.” What a nasty lot of scandals have fol- lowed that department, for years past. As far back as 1892 these were brought out quite fully in the Moore investiga- tion, the report of which, smothered in the Republican legislature, was made to Governor Merriam, and is on file. In a single case there disclosed, there was a shortage of 15,000 bushels: That was the C. C. Wolcott case. To test the rea- son of the shortage, Mr. Wolcott caused 40 cars of wheat to be loaded out ofa Minneapolis elevator, as if to be shipped out of the city, and managed to have the same 40 cars immediately weighed into another elevator in Minneapolis, all the weighing being done by the state officers. The weight in was short $1,000 worth of wheat, and the parties interested were paid the money, and the matter was kept still until brought out in sworn testimony in the Alliance investigation. Ifmuch has been recently accom- plished by political success of the re- form forces, we must recollect that pri- marily more was done, in agitation and struggle by the pioneers of the reform movement. The report above referred to, if not to be found in the legislative files, can be seen in the files of the Henning Ad- vocate of July 7, 1892, then conducted by Frank Hoskins. Mr. H. paid the penalty of his aggressiveness and cour- age, but has lived to see substantial results. All that the goppite press have found to criticise recently, was the alleged fact that he ‘forgot” to appoint dele- gates to the Chicago Republican trust convention, Governor Lind is not one of the “forgot” kind. He well knows the cause of the trusts and the irue remedy, and that if it were possible for the creature to be greater than the creator, the Republican party might possibly overthrow the trusts. How- ever, having whole control of the gov- ernment at the coming session of con- gress, it is only decent to give thema chance to see what the creature can Co with the maker in this case. Once more the St. Cloud reformatory board has met and Houlton still hangs on, in spite of the rottenness proven even by Republicans themselves. And the band plays on. The state board of equalization has materially raised the valuation of farmers’ sheep, now let us hear from corporation franchises. Why all this anxiety and trouble, such as affected Senator Washburn so deeply? Will there not be in Decem- ber an administration Republican in every branch, with powers to legislate allthe way from premiums for dead Filipinos, to the total destruction of the trusts? Whatare you afraid of any- how? Writes Martin E. Tew of the Thir- teenth, one of the heroes of that fight- ing regiment, of the feeling of the regi- ment on the Filipino question: “If we were in the places of the Filipi- nos we would consider ourselves cowards and ignominious knavesif we did not fight. I presume there are those who will call mea “traitor” for saying this, but no one can accuse me of failure to do my duty as a soldier. Nearly all the soldiers feel just as I do in regard to this war, and there will be a good many broken heads if the imperialists attempt to label these men as “traitors” when they return home.” When the political kissing bug has | got in his work on Your Uncle Loren | Fletcher’s third term ambition, the ! congressman will look very like thirty cents. Relatively we are making giant strides toward the fate of Babylon, Egypt, and Rome. And yet well meaning ountry-loving men say do not touch 1e system, either the financial or the prt, under which this condition has * -en produced. There is every prospect that the Thir- onth’s reception will bea successful i happy affair, except for the appar- determination of partisan cliques in h the Twin Cities, to reap Repub- n advantage through the presence >resident McKinley. The president come without the slightest impro- sty, provided the coming is properly aged, and provided the president s not, as on recent occasions, do any wp speaking on bis own account, And by the way, in the Hennepin county district the talk is that P. B, Winston will run against Fletcher, | That would settle it. And speaking of Governor Lind’s hav- ing sent no official representative to the trust-excusing convention, was not Pro- fessor Folwell, professor of gold stand- ard economics in the university, there, and was not also Brother Hanley of the grain growers association? This week all eyes are again Chicago- ; ward, in the meetings of the Demo- cratic National Sub-Committees, Min- nesota represented by Hon. Thomas D., O'Brien of the Executive Committee. _ —— WaBO | ee THAT CARTER CASE. BIG REPUBLICANS INVOLVED, NO DOUBT. That is the Reason Why the Convicted Army Officer Still Draws His Pay and Does Not Go to Prison— Cause of “Better” Times. The people of the United States must read with wonder and incredulity the statement of Attorney-General Griggs concerning the present status of the Carter case, says the Atlanta Consti- tution. Over eighteen months ago this man, who has been trusted by his government and advanced to high place in its service, was found guilty of having defrauded it of over $1,600,- 000. In the evidence which developed the facts upon his trial it was shown that from first to last he leagued with men whose purpose was to rob the government through his connivance. The verdict of guilty which was won from an unwilling court—uawilling in the sense that its members were re- luctant to see a brother officer’s rec- ord smirched because it would be a re- flection upon the service—was reaf- firmed in every channel through which it went on its way to the president, and then came a mysterious halt, dur- ing which time a convicted thief has walked forth brazenly in the full uni- form of the United States military service and has drawn his pay from the treasury on an equality with hon- est men now in the service, as well as those who have laid their lives down upon the field of duty. Since the date of that trial, humble privates, without powerful influences, have been rail- roaded through the various meshes of court-martial and have been forgotten. Officers of rank have been rushed out of the service, and everywhere has been found celerity except in the one case of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter. What great and powerful influence is it that stands behind this man which should make a president hesitate in the en- forcement of a just verdict? Why should he have opportunities of revi- sion and reconsideration which are not equally open to other men? In speak- ing thus plainly the Constitution do2s so from the standpoint of perfect friendliness for the president of the United States. Coming into office as he did, when great international ques- tions were to be decided, it was no time for partisan contention, which might have been allowable in time of peace. Therefore the Constitution has uniformly upheld the hand of the pres- ident, because, in the face of the foe, there should be no division in our ranks. The words which we employ regarding Capt. Carter are no stronger than those which have been hurled at him by the leading Republican news- papers of the country;. but we have a special right to insist upon justice to him which does not belong to other states. In the distribution of the pub- lic funds for public improvement Georgia is entitled to her equal share. As developed upon the trial of Capt. Carter, he engaged deliberately in the theft of over $1,600,000 of money ap- propriated to the state of Georgia. He has abused the confidence of the gen- eral government which sent him into Georgia. He has robbed this state of the money which was appropriated to its betterment, and the loss of which we must suffer for all time. His offense, therefore, was a crime against the state of Georgia, for which we have a right to demand, now that he has been convicted by every legal channel, that sentence shall be en- forced. What is the president going ot do about it? Is he going to permit the influences which are ever ready to rob the government to shield the icriminal, and thus smirch the admin- listration? The president might as well ‘understand that such talk as that en- gaged in by Attorney-General Griggs will not be relished by the people. ‘They are in no humor to have a crim- inal given his freedom because a dila- tory lawyer wants to take a trip to Europe. If that lawyer wants to do business, let him get to his post. If not, some one else can take his place. ‘The public will hold the president to responsibility for the acts of his agents unless he intervenes at once and shows by decision that he is uninfluenced by the unworthy element which would smirch his name and character. POLITICS AND PROSPERITY. Here is what the Paints, Oils and Drug Review has to say about pros- perity: In the minds of not a few people their particular brand of politics and business prosperity are connected with an indissoluble link. It cannot be suc- cessfully maintained that sound states- manship crystallized into wise legisla- tive measures is not conducive of busi- ness activity and industrial growth from which springs a diffused and widespread prosperity. On the other hand, there are economic conditions and processes that eventuate in alter- nate periods of commercial depression and business prosperity, these periods not being the product of special legis- lation to which such results may be directly traced. The prosperity we are now enjoying is not national, but world-wide in its scope, and, as was pointed out in a Review editorial in the early part of 1896, would come about—and did—as the inevitable sequence of the mer- chandise and industrial situation then extant. Wise statesmanship has had nothing to do with it, because no par- ticularly effective legislation has been enacted by which the “hard times” of 1893-6 could have been, or was, meta- morphosed into the “prosperity” of 1897-9. Overproduction—a popular word in the vernacular of commerce, but rejected as a misnomer by stu- dents of social science—brought an ac- cumulation of supplies, suspended pro- duction and a period of waiting for consumpticn to catch up. The merchandise surplus was later cleared away, productive activity re- turned, the employment of labor be- came general, prices and wages began to rise; in short, the white-winged dove of industrial peace and exhuber- ant prosperity stretched its feathery arms of protetcion over much of the earth—and America and Europe has since smiled the smile of contentment. The Review cannot trace the marvel- ous change that has come about dur- ing the past two years to any legis- lative specific prepared by the Ameri- can congress or the administration at Washington, nor to any legislative magic exerted by ministerial manipu- lators. of government machinery in England, France, Germany or other commercial countries. The measure of prosperity which now pervades the business world exists doubtless im spite of legislative handicaps, class laws, a lax enforcement of wise statutes and some measure of governmental ex- travagance, It will be remembered that the po- litical campaign of 1896 was fought’ ou: cn the money question, one party be- ing for a gold standard, the other for the concurrent use of gold and silver as standard money. Gold won, but no change in our laws has occurred; hence prosperity could not have come from effective statesmanship along this line. While high or low tariff was not an issue in that contest, the well- known views of the successful pres- idential candidate. were construed by many as a verdict in favor of in- creased duties, and accordingly the president was urged to, and did, call a special session of congress to revise the tariff. The then existing law was not effective as a revenue producer, owing to the failure of one important section of the measure to stand a Su- preme court test. - The present tariff law was then en- acted; it also proved inefficient as a revenue producer, but after being sup- plemented by the war revenue act and the proceeds of a bond sale, it provided the government with sufficient funds for its needs up until quite recently, treasury department utterances fore- shadowing another bond issue or higher taxes, or both. But it would b2 a travesty on logic to affirm that high taxation has brought us our prosper- ity. There are those, however, who urge that the “protective feature” of high duties on imports is a most ef- fective prosperity-breeder. If this con- tention be granted, the prosperity thus bred would be largely, if not wholly, confined to the protected country. That this is not the case in the pres- ent instance is graphically shown in a statement by the distinguished pro- tectionist and friend of the present ad- ministration, the Hon. Robert P. Por- ter, who has just returned from a trip abroad. Mr. Porter says he “was struck with the air of general pros- perity” that prevails throughout Eu- rope. Work is plentiful and there is nowhere an appearance of want. In the continental cities, including Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Amsterdam, vast numbers of buildings are under con- struction. The demand for iron work is greater than European manufactur- ers can supply, and contracts are be- ing awarded to American manufactur- ers. Europeans are buying large quan- tities of American machinery with which they manufacture articles that come in competition all over the world with similar articles of American man- ufacture. Russian capital is building vast lines of railroad, is tnable to construct as many locomotives as required, and so buys in the United States, because it cannot buy in other countries of Eu- rope. So it appears that the sale of American manufactures in Europe, ac- cording to Mr. Porter, is not so much because we can compete with the pau- per labor abroad as because of Eu- rope’s unbounded prosperity, which is so great that it cannot supply its own people with a sufficiency of wares, merchandise, machinery and other products. They are, therefore, com- pelled to purchase from Americans whose government erects barriers against their trade. All this goes to show that the Re- view’s classification of our prosperity is correct, that it is not due to tariff tinkering, to monetary legislation, or to anything logically traceable to poli- tics. Improved “confidence” is much talked of, but this will-o/-the-wisp is a camp-follower of better business con- ditions and not the procurator of them. Any rational improvement of confi- dence is based on a change of facts related to or constituting the business situation. A demand for merchandise ané@ con- fidence as cause and effect are insep- arable; destroy the former and the latter disappears. When there is lit- tle or no demand for the products of labor and capital, there is little confi- dence; and this little is misplaced. There is such a thing as too much confidence—for corroboration of this statement consult the “longs” in the stock and grain market who perchance have been caught in a squeeze. In the present heyday of our pros- perity a word of warning may reach ears attuned to sweeter music, but the warning is nevertheless opportune and needful. In times of prosperity pre- pare for adversity—i. e., in our pros- perity we should discover the defects in our commercial system and remedy | they do that counts, _ them, thus removing the causes of periodical adversity axd depression. This is an cge of research and of deep thinking, out of which will come a co-ordinatid6a of princizles and facts, and the science of industry, commerce and human relations in every phase ot existence will thus be discerned and formulated. The world’s current pros- perity is built upon the sands of in- congruity and unwisdom, to be swept away by the momentum of its own almost illimitable productive power and richness. : (Look at free-silver Mexico, too. There is twice as much activity there to population as there is in any other country. Had Bryan been elected we would be just twice as well off as we are now.—Ed.) Vietory in Eighth Missouri. Influences are at work with a view of demonstrating that the election of Judge Shackleford in the Eighth Mis- souri congressional district is # vindi- cation of some new-found Democratic gospel and its sponsors. Asa matter of fact, the campaign was fought out on the old lines. Here is the full text of the official eampaign letter sent to each voter in the district—Democratic, Republican and Populist. It is signed by the chairmen of the congresstonal and state committees: “The result of the election to be held in this district Aug. 29 is made doubly important by the fact that it is re- carded by both the great parties as the opening engagement of the great battle of 1900. The contest rises above all personal considerations. The nom- inee of the Democratic party stands for the restoration of silver coinage,against | the further increase of the national | debt by the substitution of national ' bank currency for the present green- | back circulation; against a big standing | army, which the imperialistic policy of the present Republican administration \ makes necessary, and against the dan- gerous aggregation of trusts which | have reached such startling propor- ! tions under the protecting influence of Hannaism. The Republican nominee in | this contest is the avowed advocate of | the single gold standard, and if elected to congress will vote with his party not only against restoring silver to its coinage rights, but also to wipe out the present greenback circulation and substitute for it national bank cur- | rency by which am interest-bearing | debt will be substituted for a popular | currency which entails no burden upon | the people. The Republica nominee | also stands for the imperialistic: policy o? President McKinley, which has for its purpose the establishment of coio- nial dependencies similar to those of Great Britain,.a policy whict entails a constantly increasing standing army and completely reverses the principles © upon which the American republic was founded,” The above should settle the comtro- versy over the lines on which the bat- , tle was fought and the victery won. | All the speakers followed the instruc- | tions to keep the money issue to the | front. The so-called Populist candi- date was what we call a middle-of-the- roader. That brand of Populists are | against silver. They bear no relation to the Kansas-Nebraska Populists, The regular Populists of the Eighth district | made no nomination and supported Shackleford. It was a victory for sil- ver and fusion, and nobody can make anything else out of it.—Press Bulletin, ' Monopolies Ridden. Of all the corporation-ridden coun- ties in California, I am persuaded that Kern county is the worst. One com- pany owns all the water and the major portion of the land upon which the people are living. The company has 400,000 acres, and a larger portion of all that is: under cultivation. When the péople want water a conversation something like the following ensues: People—Whose water is this? Company—This is our water. P:—What! All the water river? C.—Yes, of course; this is all ours. P.—How came it all to be yours? C—wWhy,, we claim it! P.—But you do not need it all, and we do.. How cam we get it? C.—By working on the land and growing grain and raising live stock with which to pay for it. P.—Well, then, we will go to work; and what will you charge us for water on this piece of land? —Ah, but. this is our land! P.—wWhat! All this land where the ditches are? C.—Yes, certaitly. Why should we run our ditches and our water off our own land? P.—To be sure. Well, how did you get all this land? C.—Why, we bought it, of course. You do not think that a respectable company would steal it, do you? P.—Well, no, we did not think so; but how did you get the money? C.—We sold the water which we claimed and bought it. P.—But you cannot use ull of it; nor do you need it all. Cannot we have some land upon which to grow the grain with which to buy water? C.—Yes, indeed, you can have all you want. We will rent it te you sell to you the water and take grain and the live stock which yeu raise and buy more land to rent amd puild more ditches to carry water which we will sell to other farmers who will go and do as these faithful farmers are doing. Why, if it were not for the company the farmers would have no water and no land and would starve. Blessed be the name of the company!—Class Struggle, It isn’t what people say, but what in the WE Theirselves anda Tiemselves. “Professor.” said the young mai who was struggling to get an educa- tion, “shall I speak of the pecple not liking to hear the truth about their foolish selves, or should it be ‘thenr foolish selves?”—Indianapolis Journal. Still More Counterfeiting. The Secret Service has just un- earthed another band of counterfeiters and secured a quantity of bogus bills, which are very cleverly executed. Things of great value are always se- lected for imitation, notably Hostet- ter’s Stomach Bitters, which has many imitators but no equals for disorders like indigestion, dyspepsia and ccasti- pation. Easy. “I understand Johnkins, who has the farm where I boarded, is in easy eit- cumstances?” said the summer board- er. “One of the easiest men in the coun- try,” answered the village grocer. “Air you in the gold-brick line?’—Indianap- olis Journal, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention.” It was the necessity for a reliable blood purifier and tonic that brought into exist- ence Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It is a highly concentrated extract prepared by a: com- bination, proportion and process peculiar to itself and giving to Hood's Sarsapa- rilla unequalled curative power: Origin of the Elevator: The elevator originated in Central Burope. The earliest mention of the elevator is made in a letter of Napole- on I, addressed to his wife, the Arch- duchess Marie Louisa. He writes to: her that when in Schoenbrunn, then the summer residence of the Austrian emperor, near Vienna, he used the “chaise volante” (flying chair) in that | castle, which had been constructed for Empress Maria Theresa. It consisted of a small, square room, sumntuously furnished with hangings of red silk, suspended by strong ropes with count- er weights. so that it could be pulled up or let down with great ease, in a shaft built for the purpose about 1760. PROGRESS. With time, comes progress and ad- vancement in all lines of successfully conducted enterprises. Success comes to those only who have goods with superior merit and a reputation. In the manufacture of laundry starch for the last quarter of a century J. C. Hubinger has been the peer of all others and today is placing on the market the finest laundry starch ever offered the public under our new and original method. 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