gress, and the old democratic irreconcilables, mostly in the south, want to keep up the partisan spirit. But independent American citizenship is getting too intelligent for that. Organized labor is doing the intelli gent thing. What do the Federation members care for ancient party history, and the old cries that used to thrill the partisan hosts? The people who do the work and produce the wealth in this country are learning that arch schemers have kept the people divided so long into partisan camps, in order to get the opportunity to rob the masses, and they have thus piled up great wealth, and establisht extensiv "vested interests." The awakening has begun to come, and it should not stop until our eyes are wide open to existing evils, and also to our opportunities. We can serve our own interests best by ignoring old party "buncombe," and combining against the enemies of the masses of the people. When that is done, the inherent rights of the people will have a better chance than the "vested interests" of those who have been exploiting the people so long.

No Hatred of Honest Wealth.

That excellent and widely circulated paper, The Saturday Evening Post, in its issue for July 7th, publishes a long interview with Judge Gaynor, of Brooklyn. I wish to present here a few brief extracts:

"You ask if these great corporations influence legislation. Think of a state where the chairman of the legislativ committees on railroads, on insurance, on any or every thing that have to do directly with these corporations, and after the chairman, the influential members are paid salaries by those particular interests which the committees have in charge! Think of the railroads paying their committee so much a year-the chairman, $25,000; the insurance companies paying their chairman a similar sum; and so on! Their committees,' I said. Certainly, they pay them, altho the people elect them."

There is a deal being printed and said," I observed, "about the public being educated to hate wealth. What is your opinion of the public feeling toward wealth and those who possess it?"

ROBBERS THAT CRY "ANARCHIST!"

It is

"There is no popular hatred of wealth-honest wealth," replied Judge Gaynor. "The public honors a man who by honesty and industry piles up a fortune. The public has been just in every age. It seeks the injury of no man, no company. It robs no one, pillages no one. It opposes none, makes war on none, save the criminal man or criminal corporation found plundering the people. I have been both angered and amused at the brazen tactics of these criminals. They pillage and loot and rob and plunder, and take the public into their villain laps and pluck it as a Dutch woman plucks a goose. Then, when the pillaged goose protests, they cry 'Anarchist! they, robbing the people in the teeth of law and justice, who are the anarchists. They fill their thievish pockets and fly to Europe with the swag. If an investigation is ordered, they secrete themselves from the officers of the people. What would an honest man do if he heard that an officer of justice was looking for him to subpena him to give testimony? Would he hide in his house and have his wife and children and servants lie and say they did not know where he was? And yet all this was done by an eminent personage who has lately put the ocean between this country and himself. [This is well known to to be John D. Rockefeller.-ED.] Would an honest man, knowing his testimony was wanted, hurry aboard ship and put to sea, or skulk to another state to escape service of a subpena? Is such a man fit to mingle with law-abiding people? No; he is dishonest, disreputable. No amount of church or Sunday-school teaching can make him respectable. And it is such as he who cry 'Anarchist!' against honest men. I say that it is he and such as he who are the anarchists; and they will destroy our Government unless checkt in their criminal career.'

"The public is paying, not only dividends to the companies which constructed the roads, but dividends to the several successiv companies. In brief, if the actual investment be considered, the public is paying in fares somewhere near an annual 40 percent. How long do you suppose the public will put up with these conditions? For 999 years? No; nor for nine years perhaps. The traction story I have told you is the story, with slight changes, of what has gone on and is going on in railways, gas companies, telefone companies, electric light companies, and the whole long list of public service corporations, with but few exceptions, thruout the land. And yet these men cry 'Anarchist!

There is a public prejudice against rebates, and the wealth
that flows from them. There is no prejudice against hon-
estly acquired wealth. There is prejudice against wealth
acquired by trick and device, by the favoritism of laws,
by the misuse of public franchises. That wealth and its
acquirement is under the ban of every honest man. It is
predatory wealth, as ravenous as a wolf and as much
without a conscience, against which the people protest
and wage war. They will continue to protest; their war
will grow and may go even to excess. Should it do so
our wolfish capitalists will have themselves to thank.
There be those who cry out against investigations and
disclosures where great corporations are concerned. They
deplore them as 'injurious to commerce.'
I have to say

to these good, timid, deprecatory folk that a business
which cannot survive the truth is a bad wretched busi-
ness. That which the truth will kill should die and be
destroyed."

The present Congress, by its recent acts, takes a farther step than was ever before taken in the direction of the extension of Federal authority; particularly is this true in the pure food law, and the meat inspection part of the agricultural bill. This extension of authority is absolutely necessary, if we are going to make real progress. To continue to leave such matters (and other matters, also) exclusivly to the states allows powerful interests to locate in the worst states, and from such a vantage ground play on all the other states. It can be readily seen that uniformity is necessary to any real progress, and that can come only thru Congress. But Congress can regulate only interstate commerce-that is, products that are produced in one state and shipt to another state for consumption; Congress cannot reach products that are produced and consumed entirely within the borders of a single state. Here the state legislatures must be relied on. In this connection, the following news item, written July 15th, will be of interest:

MUCH EXPECTED FROM PURE FOOD
MEETING.

CONFERENCE IN HARTFORD WILL BE ASKT TO URGE A UNIFORM LAW IN THE VARIOUS STATES. Manufacturers in all parts of the country have been invited to attend the tenth annual convention of the National Association of State Dairy and Food Departments, which will open tomorrow in Hartford, Conn., and continue until Friday evening. The conference promises to be one of the most important of its kind ever held, following, as it does, immediately upon the passage of the first Federal pure food law.

The general impression among food manufacturers is that a decision will be reached at the conference as to whether the spirit of the Federal law is to be incorporated into the administration of the various state food departments. On this decision, it is asserted, the real service of the national legislation will depend. Packers and wholesalers, as well as importers, have complained for years of the lack of uniformity in state laws governing the sale and distribution of food products, and it is expected that their strongest plea to the commissioners at the Hartford meeting will be for legislation uniform in character which will allow goods to be sold in the different states without change of labels, size of package, or other minor characteristics. At present, manufacturers complain, it is almost an impossibility to comply with all the laws of all the states, and, as a result, no matter what the quality of a manufacturer's goods or the amount of his capital, he can do business only in a restricted territory.

Only Scracht the Surface.

While the present Congress, during the session just closed, made a remarkable record (in comparison with the past) in progressiv legislation, this work is only begun. In many directions, progressiv legislation was not toucht. For example, our monetary laws are very unsatisfactory, and they will have to be fixt some time. Private institutions (banks) should not have the power to issue money. The trust question is not really toucht. A few local ice trust officials have been arrested in some localities, but the oil trust, sugar trust, steel trust go merrily on monopolizing and taxing the people. And nearly all the trusts are protected from foreign competition by a high tarif. It was long ago suggested that the tarif be taken off the products of trusts, particularly from the products of trusts that sell said products at a lower price in foreign countries than to home consumers, but it has not been done, and we don't hear anything about it any more. Will our present Congress have nerve enuf to do this next

winter? I fear not. In this connection, read the following, from the Philadelphia Ledger:

NEW ZEALAND CURBS TRUSTS.

PREMIER TELLS OF HOW GOVERNMENT BECOMES COM-
PETITOR OF COMBINATIONS.

New York, July 5.-Sir Joseph George Ward, who is
to succeed the late Richard John Seddon as Premier of
New Zealand, reacht this city today on the Majestic.
Sir Joseph is on his way home.

Evidently he does not altogether have faith in the
efficiency of the methods now adopted in the United
States for dealing with the trusts, altho he carefully re-
frained from criticism.

"Many methods," he said, "have been suggested for the control of these large corporations which in any country must become a danger to the purity of government if allowed to grow too big and powerful. One method is publicity. Another is regulation of prices by legislativ enactment.

We have not adopted either of these methods. The Government of New Zealand would not, and I do not think any government should assume the responsibility, when a corporation has cornered a product and is charging an exorbitant price, to enact a law fixing the rate at which the product must be sold.

"We had in New Zealand several years ago a milling trust. The heads of the flour combines were notified that unless the prices came down a law would be enacted removing the duty on flour. The price did come down and we have no milling trust in New Zealand today.

"A man askt me today what we would do in New Zealand if an ice trust attempted to put up the price of ice beyond the bounds of reason. I replied that the Government would build ice factories and enter into competition with the trusts, selling ice at a fair profit. That is the only method we know of in New Zealand to secure absolute fairness in the distribution of public necessities." Sir Joseph also cited instances of how the New Zealand Government brought down coal prices and insurance rates in the same way.

Sir Joseph will dine with the President tomorrow. While we are now elated over the bold, progressiv work which our Congress has done, if the future is anything like what it ought to be, we will see that the present Congress has only scracht the surface. No really radical work has yet been done. Radical comes from radix; root; and means going to the root of things. The beginning made by Congress will lead to the root of our evils if followed up; but it will be necessary to follow up. The Food Law comes nearer being radical, in its way, than anything yet done; but we have many evils; therefore, many roots; let us find them all.

The democratic party in Pennsylvania is trying to be very good this year. It is fusing with the independent (Lincoln) republicans in an effort which both are making to defeat the "Organization" republicans, who have misruled this state so long. Here is one plank of the democratic platform:

We, therefore, repeat the declaration of our aims and purposes when we again affirm that we stand as ever for the rule of the people, in county, state and nation, as against the federated tyranny of organized greed and corrupt political and commercial manipulators.

But, bless them, they say nothing at all about how they are to get "rule of the people." Wonder if they ever heard of the referendum? They ought to know that the only way for the people to really rule is by means of the initiativ and referendum. That is radical; but you see they have missed the root.

The voice of organized labor rings out clearly on many public questions, and it is radical-that is, rootical-goes to the root. The following platform for political action has been submitted to the New York Central Federated Union, and I suppose that it, or an equally radical one, will be adopted:

Enforcement of the eight-hour and prevailing rate of wages law, the child-labor law, the compulsory-education law and the law relating to contract prison labor.

Prohibition of the introduction of prison-made goods from other states.

Public operation of public utilities; legalization of a
municipal ice plant and slaughter-houses.

The establishment of postal savings banks.
A postal express (parcels post).

A law prohibiting the use of the injunction process in
labor disputes.

A national eight-hour law.

Direct nomination and election of President, Vice-President, United States Senators, Judges.

Extension of the provisions of the employers' liability law to include all classes of employment.

Ballot reform to prevent corruption, insure a fair count and punish bribe-givers and bribe-takers.

Adoption of direct legislation thru the initiativ and referendum.

In this connection, let us ask, what are the farmers doing? They are, or should be, as deeply interested in this country being governed in the interest of the masses of the people as organized labor is. Postal savings banks and a parcels post would serve farmers more than organized labor, for obvious reasons; yet have farmers made a united demand for these and other things? Farmers should be more wide awake and more determined-and so should doctors. All citizens should interest themselves deeply and activly in the above and other far-reaching principles that affect the interests of the masses of the people, tending to diffuse wealth justly, serve the people, purify government, and favor comfortable homes for the many instead of immense fortunes for the few. And I will never be satisfied until I see in this country, as in New Zealand, a union for political action between organized labor and the farmers. They could combine upon most or probably all of the above platform; particularly on postal savings banks, parcels post, and direct legislation thru the initiativ and the referendum. And let me propose another-one which I proposed over ten years ago: a national inheritance law applying only to millionaires. Let them enjoy their millions while they live (if they really do enjoy them), but make it impossible for a man to transmit by will at death (or give away during life) more than one million dollars. Wouldn't that be a curb to the accumulation of millions? Wouldn't that cause millionaires to give others a chance? Wouldn't that stop the corruption and oppression now common among millionaires? Wouldn't that cause them to turn their attention to useful service to the country instead of plundering the country? and wouldn't that be better, also, for the millionaires themselves than their present course? Shouldn't that simple, direct platform command 99 percent of the votes of this country?

Gentlemen:-Should bills introduced by Senator Wingate and Representative Smith become laws they will force us to discontinue advertising in your state. Your prompt attention regarding these bills we believe would be of mutual benefit.

We would respectfully call attention to contract which we have with you at present. Respectfully,

CHENEY MEDICIN COMPANY. DES MOINES, Iowa, May 23, 1906. EDITOR OF NEWS, MONROE, LA.

Dear Sir:-We learn that there are two bad bills before your General Assembly, viz.: Senate Bill No. 8 by Mr. Wingate, and a bill in the House of Representatives by Mr. Smith.

Each of these bills requires the full formula on every bottle of patent medicin. If the manufacturers should publish their full formulas any druggist could then make and sell their preparations, not only in Louisiana, but wherever the medicin was known and used.

You will see at once that the purpose of these bills is to kill the sale of all patent medicin in that state, as manufacturers will not publish their formulas

These bills are the rankest class legislation and intended for the sole benefit of the medical profession, We are confident that you will object to their enactment, and if so kindly write the senator from your parish and ask him to oppose the enactment of Senate Bill No. 8 by Wingate. You should also write to your representative to oppose the patent-medicin bill by Mr. Smith. Yours truly. CHAMBERLAIN MEDICIN COMPANY. By L. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary.

THE EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Nay, Pauline, not if The News loses every patent medicin advertising contract it now has and never gets an

PRACTICAL POINTS

The Allison Table will give you any surgical position you want, and is an attractiv addition to any physician's office. Do not buy a chair without first examining the many conveniences of this table. See adv. on page 7.

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Respectfully, CHAS. A. JOHNSON, M.D.

A properly conducted maternity home can do much good; and we have reason to believe that the Union Park Maternity Home is properly conducted. See adv. on page 23.

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"Hand-I-Hold" babe mitts will commend themselves to physicians on sight. Being made of polished aluminum, they are attractiv to the child, and they serve their purpose absolutely. See adv. on page 4.

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