Show MUNCH MUNCHAUSEN A US SEN EN MULHALL OLO LONEL LI U M. M l confes I COrONEL stop sion furnishes in entertainment an and interest and probable tru truth h. h what it loci lacks ni in importance an l himself as formerly general field lobbyist for the lt X National Association oll of Manufacturers Colo- Colo ir lIel Mulhall hitherto to fortune and to fame farao unknown n declares that association has for ten years maint maintained ain e d a lobby to obtain legislation favorable to its m members and names nearly fifty prominent politicians whom he found no difficulty in loin reaching and influencing for Inasmuch ch chas business or s sympathetic reasons such President Taft V VIce ice as this is list includes men as President Pre ident Sherman Senator I and others equally as ns prominent and reputable tho the conclusion is is ines inescapable ines- ines capable that Colonel Mulhall is of the common or garden garden gar gar- den variety of Ananias who vho to be a mast master r liar but lacks the intelligence to render rendor his product plans plaus- ible The American people are ara at least enst logical they will willbe willbe ill be only amazed at the tho charge that Republican senators and congressmen wore influenced to favor or a ft Prot protective tariff Inasmuch as ns that principle has been the tho underlying underlying underlying under under- lying basis of the Republican party for many years year and loyalty to it was tho supreme te test t of Republic Republic- Republicanism aniam the falsity of the accusation is ia eRsil easily apparent One might as well confess to bribing a It starving manto man manto to cat eat a It meal or a fish to swim or a Democrat to accept a public office with a large salary and no work If tho the National Association of Manufacturers wished t to bu buy votes for a n. protective e tariff legislation ordinary intelligence would suggest that it buy the opponents of sue a measure If agents of that organization organization organ organ- organization influence lAWmakers lawmakers lawmakers law lAW- were equipped with money to makers into favoring a protective tariff one ma may safely r assume that they bought only what they needed The congressman who already favored fa a n protective e duty I would obviously ob be the friend and ally of the association association association tion ho he would scarcely need bo be bribed into doing something that party loyalty and discipline had bad aready already al 01 a- a ready provided for If Colonel Mulhall whom we suspect to be a n lineal descendant of the original Munchausen although not quite so gifted a liar has been purchasing votes TOtes for protection we wo mu must mast t sadly reach the conclusion that he has been buying Democrats FURTHER GYMNASTICS T TIlE THE public will di discern no menace to its liberties in inthe the transfer of the Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- chic stock to the tha Pennsylvania uni Railroad in exchange for that corporations corporation's 5 Baltimore k Ohio stock Since several thousands of miles intervene intel between tho the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania's Penn Penn- sylvania's anios western terminus and the tho Southern Pacific's eastern and southern terminal the lines can scarcely be regarded cd as parallel and competing It is self evident that the transfer is not unlawful yet Attorney General in approving it announces an intention to secure legislation that will in future prevent that which he now endorses before the tho United States Circuit Court of Appeals One discovers dis- dis covers ers that familiarity with tho the attorney generals general's mental gymnastics is immediately advisable if one is isto isto isto to havo a nuiet summer Either the exchange of this stock is improper or it itis itis itis is not if the former the attorney general should not approve it even if there is as yet no statute to prevent if the tho latter he lie should not follow folIo his approval with an announcement of his intention to procuro procure legislation that will in future render such transaction unlawful All legislation should hould be based on principle and logic it should prevent ent nothing that is roper proper If the attorney fey ney general regards ono one railroad s ownership o of stock in another as inimical to the public interest he ho is failing failing failing fail fail- ing of his duty and aud betraying tho the people when he approves approves ap ap- ap- ap pro proves cs in this instance that which he could prevent l President resident Wilsons Wilson's ons on's approval al of the sundry civil bill while coincidentally expressing his liis quarrel with its provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions is of a 1 piece picco with th Mr fr j endorsement of this Southern Pacific e stock transfer with the accompanying accompanying pan in announcement that he plans t to urge a statute that will brand as unlawful unla the ownership of stock in ina a railroad b by another railroad These two instances are arc typical of the administration its members feign to todo todo todo do one thing while doing its opposite In the administration administration admin admin- eagerness to hold with the haro and run with the hound it shares the fate of the tho mis misguided individual who ho essayed to sit upon two widely separated stools AN EXPENSIVE TUTOR E of credit and safeguarded inflation of currency should be the object of remedial currency legislation at this time There are arc many evidences c in inthe inthe inthe the Owen-Glass Owen bill that Mr Bryan had the above e twofold twofold twofold two two- fold object in mind when he drew the measure there herc arc also evidences in the suggested legislation that Mr Bryan knew very ery little of the tho subject in hand Ilis His willingness to institute government go control of the Federa Federal Federal Fed Fed- era eral Reserve Reser e whose assets are entirely private in unjust is no greater than his readiness to attempt an experiment of whoso whose ultimate result neither ho he nor or any other can be at all nIl certain The reserve requirements are aro unsatisfactory to the bankers of cf the country They believe e that they will greatly disarrange conditions and in truth foment the very condition which the tho bill is presumably drawn to avoid The Tho so government socks seeks to enter eIter the banking business with Avith private capital so thoroughly changing the tho character of that business that a financial disturbance disturbance disturbance dis dis- is naturally to be expected We Ve have hae no objection to Mr r. r Bryan learning a great deal about tho the currency question but wo we object to his acquiring this knowledge at public expense A few months' months experience with the Owen Glass bill hill would undoubtedly ly teach the tho Secretary of State a n. great many things he does not know and equip him to write some legi legislation lation that might prove beneficial But while he heis heis heis is getting gotting knowledge the country will win be getting experience experience ex ex- ex- ex it does not desire I THE PROMISED LAND PROPER ROPER regret that scores of fellow-Americans fellow are arc dying dying- from the tho heat in the humid east cast is not incompatible incompatible incompatible in in- compatible with thanksgiving that our lines havo been cast in iii more mono pleasant places The shadows of the eternal mountains that mitigate the severities of winter win win- tor ter and cool the fevered brow of summer are arc over beckoning the unhappy sufferer to this clime climo that offers a superlative happiness in merely being alive It would not be at all un surprising if the seven thousand teachers W ee we expect ct this week should decide dedde to remain here They Thoy could do nothing more sane or 01 satisfying Moreover genuine genuino J Jeffersonian simplicity requires require Secretary Br Bryan an to carry his hia white radishes and grape juice juice done up tip in a newspaper Presumably lv that maiden Mrs firs rs of Chicago who is going to pay IHlY her back taxes as soon as she gets the then ot n join the militia J 1 f been decided whether yet corn or rye shall shally ay 0 y V York City's farm for inebriates |