The Citizen An Independent Family Ntwspip Fublfshrt every Thunder at Bcrci Ky nc EREA PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 E TOPPER Editor end Mer Subscription RatosrA- TAKLX IX ADVANCt One rear flM- Olxmontbi yt- breo months rb e send money by Post oairo Money Order Kx crew Money Order Check Dralt RrtUlcnx Letter or onu and two cent tumps The date after your tune shows to what date four subscription li paid If It ti not changed Within three week titer tending ui mosey Kotlfy nt- Eabtcrlben wttblng Tttt Cimr stoppe- dsstt notify ui at the expiration of sub lerlptlon paylnc all arrean we ihil nilder hit they with It continued adireeahIDC llditnK nnmben due to wrappers coming of Jh the mulls or otbenriw will be sup- plied If we are notified Igenta wanted In every locality write for linn Anyone tending ui four yearly rod MrlptioM w receive TUB CrtiiN free for one I Ethics of Spending The popular notion that the waste ful extravagance of the rich Is a good thing for the community because It puts money Into circulation and that the spendthrift thus becomes a public benefactor Is combated by Rev Wash ¬ ington Gladden who says in a paper an Tho Ethics of Luxurious Expendi ¬ ture that spending money is setting people at work and that the spender always chooses what kind of work the people who receive his money shall employed about If that work Is beI the community Is benflted but If jurious the more money he puts Ircuatlon the greater the damage toI the community He who spends money Becomes a consumer of and of services and commoditiesI spendthrift is to a great sumer of services If the services for which his money calls are those Ip the I rendering of which men and women are ennobled he Is a public benefactor but If they are those by which men and women are corrupted and de- graded he is u malefactor The money that goes Into circulation through tho debauching of men and women had better be kept out of circulation It Is not the most common thing for a man to co suddenly down from mil llonairlsm to beggary without inflict ¬ log some serious moral injury on other people In the process If he has spent a million dollars on reckless and sen ¬ sual Indulgences he has done a vast amount of harm to the boon compan ¬ ions he has gathered about him and to the multitude he has employed wlU his money to minister to his appe ¬ tites and follies One million of dol ¬ lays put where it will do the mot misIrhlef The conditions of the case have in ¬ deed evolved a peculiar sort of one I manpower in public affairs and have drawn Into political life a familiar type of the masterful man Such is the party boss who enjoys power and a certain measure of distinction The mechanism of government says a writer in Atlantic is so unwleldly that those who are within cannot control it henco there has developed the boss who manages the apparatus from with ¬ out This cannot be done without skill shrewdness enterprise and other such qualities needed for any career of lead ¬ ershlp But it calls also for methods distasteful to straightforward and hlgh minded men Your boss is indeed not always so black as he Is painted there are political machinists entitled to our respect But the role Is after all an underhand one a circumventing of the avowed plan and Intent of the general will It attracts the unscru pulous and even the wellintentioned man who essays li finds himself almost Inevitably impelled to fight the devil with fire Not Infrequently a man I who has achieved success as a leader of industry turns to political activity Ho then usually becomes the manipu lator and master of the party machine following almost of necessity the fa ¬ mlllar methods of Intrigue bargain omco mongering bribery The able man of tbo higher type is not drawn to such doings while on the other band the competition In the unsavory work has a demoralizing effect on those who strive for political power fVAtnington was crossing the Dela ¬ ware He stood Better sit downs sir suggested an Aide Sit down I re ¬ sponded lustily the Father of Ills Country And pray what sort of a picture would that mako Blushing under the rebuke the aide resolved to monkey BO more with art j Whereas when Iho Salvation sky began Its work it was pelted witbnaud and woeae now Gen Booth aa > he tours about Great Britain in his auto car Is pelted with fivepound notes An English scientist asserts that as touch dust as can be placed on a point yields DO ftswer than 3000 PinI onies of living terms The majority- of tbtwo germs arc representative ot disease What chance have we1 Upto date cookery Is now said to have a bad effect on the complexion The averagd man would like more to Jcaow how it affects the digestion STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE What Has Become of the Iowa IdeA and Its Twin Free Trade with Canada Where has Its twin brother free trade with Canada gone toT Whore Is our old friend the tariff is the mother of trusts Ta Only a short tlmo ago these footlight favorites occupied the flrst row In the chorus Tho Iowa farmc was told that If the DIngley tariff was not revised and revamped and reduce there would be no demand for his prod ucts abroad and tho octopus would get him Ho was assured says the Des Moines Capital that unless we allowe the Canadian farmer to lug his stul across the border into Iowa without paying his duty the Canadians woul get so mad that they wouldnt buy yearI mina pet theories and how true they were Is shown by the fact that our sales to foreign countries Includln Canada are constantly increasing and that our exports of agricultural prod ucts during the present fiscal year have been greater than during any similar period in our history But what has become of these vagaries upon whIch the governor staked a state campalgi and his reputation as a statesman Nothing is heard of them any more They are not in the mouths of the Dem ocratic press even dear as they were to their hearts a couplo of years ago What has become of them t If candor is wanted the answer Is that having lost a fleeting and purely factitious popularity the Issues pressed with such vigor only a few months ago by the governor and his suppliant fol lowing have been thrown Into the dis card For the purposes of this cam pain they would not do at all The first great essential In the oftlce hunters equipment is an alarm gong Two years ago it was the tariff and the trusts which were impoverishing the people especially those of Iowa Now it Is th railroads which are grinding us all especially the plain people under the iron huel of oppression The creation of new issues to far prejudice and arouse animosity is not altogether an enviable task The sIn- cere reformer sUcks to his text IK does not desert a cause In which he hAs enlisted simply because it receiveS t setback If he is really sincere he stay with It The reformer who is simply nr alarmist for what there Is in It for him self and Ills crowd is not an inspiring figure After awhile the people get tired of being alarmed They weary of the shouting and the clamor They refused to see the sword of Damocles or feel the iron hand of oppression about their necks In other words they are onto the curves of the terrorists They see through their little game Just as they dId through the freetradewlthCanadn scheme two years ago and refuse to wear the blinders He that pltleth another remember cth himself ays the Spanish proverb This allconsuming anxiety for the sal ¬ vation of the state Is too transparent a proposition even for common people whom It Is hoped to play for suckers This Is going to J > e a poor year for that kind of fishingI THERE IS A DIFFERENCE merican Labor Fares Much Better Than Where Free Trade Prevails detyJng sted when we had n Democratic tariff with Its free raw material provisIon rom 1893 to 1897 rehearse the old old story that the tariff Is a tax on the consumer They forget says the Trenton Ga ette that the tariff tax is paid In 10 small degree by foreign sales ti this country below the foreign price pint as the steel trust sells cheaper In England than In America They for- get that domestic competition is so keen that except when trust consplra iles arise as they arise in free trade countries ar well as in protectionist Countries the Americas consumer gets heap wealth For example when we Were forced to buy all our tin plate broad we were at the mercy of a foreign trust In a free trade country We put a duty on foreign tin plate and within a remarkably short time American tin plate works were com- peting with one another and giving ui our tin plate at a far lower price than had previously been maintained Now when trust conspiracies enter tho field and artificially boost the price of any article whether in Eng- land or In America we of the United States can remedy conspiracy not by degradIng the standard of American wages as we did under the last Demo- cratic tariff but by taking the Ftoose nit clew of enforcing the law against rtistf conspiracy To give force to this argument let It be noted that American labor was lever BO prosperous as toddy that he only danger to our industries lies In conspiracies such as those of life niurance wholly detached from the arlff lease and other trusts where the ranchlse Is perverted Today there fs a crisis In free trade England vhere the beautiful free raw material irid free cook material prevails i notedthat the cnt will be sudden ppearance of a great coldness all over- lie country was coincident with the mergence of AltonB Parker from hl- lhoJeN Y Mall OThe larmers Should remember hat Cummins wants to put the rall 6adK out of business and trifle with the tariff In true Democratic style They should remember too that both the railroads and tariff are direct Jy responsible Jqr theprosperltywhich the farmer enjoys WI shall not Jell he goose that lays the olden egg edar Fails Gazette L i raring irf sgrljttal fOBwtnrl an 1ithtiatL4iB- y SIR OLIVER LODGE = During a recent visit to France I was impressed by the psychical or metaphysical activity that is displayed by the leading men of that country and by the development of some of the phenomena in the direction of the more elusive physical concomi ¬ tants such as movements without contact and luminous appearances Some people seem tb an ¬ ticipate that in this country also these occurrences are going shortly to attract more public attention i than usual If this anticipation turns out correct then there is a se- quel ¬ which may certainly be expected namely a temporary recru ¬ descence of superstItionsuperstition of both kinds the negative kind which refuses to examine but dogmatically denies the possibility of everything to which they are not accustomed and the equally ob ¬ jectionable positive superstition which while accepting the truth of the phenomena sees jn them the operations of evil spirits and the lawless extravagance of supernature It is or should be almost a platitude to say that the whole idea of the supernatural whatever that might mean is to be avoided in dealing with these things which ought to be regarded simply as proeternormal or perhaps supernor ¬ mal or at any rate unusual What is really wanted in the presence of these exceptional and puzzling occurrences is in the literal sense of the word skepticismthat is to say stringent examination and in ¬ quiry Dogmatism at the present stage whether of the positive or of the negative variety is useless Hasty acceptance is as much to be deprecated as hasty rejection Private information may accelerate the progress of individuals but the general advance to knowledge must be gradual Premature belief without knowledge is found to be the I nature superstition and is more damaging to the cause of enlight- enment ¬ and progress than any amount even of dogmatic skepticism severely damaging though that is too Better let things remain in the hands of an initiated sect or priesthood than submit them to the intemperate judgmcrif the unbalanced and the illeducated on either side It is not mere belief or disbelief that they should strive to se ¬ cure but straightforward opcnmindcdncss and an altitude of sound and healthy common sense But the way to achieve this stage toward progress is not to as ¬ sume at one leap the capricious and the miraculous on the contrary it is to follow the general trend of scientific thought and procedure to make the usual hypothesis of the uniformity of nature and of the su- premacy ¬ I i of the reign of law to assume the intelligibility and harmony of the universe and to endeavor to bind new knowledge of every kind on to the old links by rational theory and working hypothesis To accept facts without evidence is manifestly injudicious but to reject facts with evidence is equally though not so dangerously un ¬ wise Choice is not an open question it can not be altogether def- erred Life is apt to demand from them belief one way or another I They may believe yes or they may believe no one belief U no more scientific than the other Enlarged views of the universe enlarged that is far beyond the conception of the middle ageare already common property and the still further widenings and higher perceptions which are already loom ¬ ing in the future if ever made generally accessible in a sane and sober manner must surely awaken in man some sense of his hope or destiny even on this planet must arouse in him some effort toward the at tainment of so bright an ideal and thus must lead him into the outer precincts of the temple of religion io1t null 3111 of i Hwjtalaitii Sn bby By HON GEORGE A SCHOF1ELD i Senator In Mimchuittti Legislature I To answer your question one must first consider another ques ¬ tion and that is What is meant ba legislative lobby Webster de ¬ fines lobbying as fol ¬ lows To address or solicit members ofa legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere away from the house with a view to influence their votes Whether or not lobbying is a necessity or whether the influ ¬ ence of the lobby is for good or for evil must of course dependupon- the motive which governs the lobbyist If men enter the lobby with the full intention and with the ability to place facts and arguments before the members of the legislature which are intended to and which will help the members to come to a decision on pending matters and such arguments and decisions arc for the interests of the people no one will attempt to deny that that class of lobbying is to be commended If such arguments can best be pre- sented when the matters are before legislative bodies it would seem that in these cases at least what is termed lobbying is necessary for it stands to reason that in order to get the best laws it is necessary to have all the facts and arguments presented If on the other hand by lobbying is meant the offering of money or other considerations calculated to be of benefit not to the people as a whole but to the member of the legislature who has a vote one must come at once to the opinion that lobbying is not only not neces ¬ sary but that it should be driven not only from the halls of legislation but should be throttled at an earlier stage when it seems to exert an influence in the nomination and election ofmen who are practically pledged to be tools of the lobbyist While recognizing that there is an evil lobby as well as a good one it seems to me that on the whole the right of the people to lobby or to seek to influence the votes of their representatives is a necessity I would not like to see the representatives of labor of morality of tem ¬ perance and of many otter laudable objects denied the right to cScrt their influence for the causes they favor It seems to me that the right to advocate good measures must not be denied and as a consequence the opportunity for the corrupt lobbying cannot be wholly wiped out In regard to the question What are the limits to the legitimate uses of a legislative lobby it seems to me that there can be but one answer and that is that a lobbyist hasUthe right to do right Any other use of the privilege is wrong Just what can be done to bring I about a condition of affairs under which he will not be1 allowed to do anything else I cannot say but it seems to me that a long step would be taken in the right direction if the voters would insist on candidates and public officials who cannot be influenced to do wrong Elect men who still give those who place their trust imtheni a squire deal and the Hobby question will be settled without J urtheHcgisIation AS TO THE JOLO AFFAIR I Facts Which Give the Lie to the AntiImperial Wind- Jammers ¬ Whoever originated the maxim to the erect that it is well to bo sur ono is right before going ahead put forth an apt and forceful saying The point of it says the Troy TUnes should be appreciated by certain hasty critics who have gone ahead not only without being sure they were right but at such a pace as to make It very awkward for them to retrace their I steps when it should be shown that they were altogether wrong And wrong they surely have been For days the columns of the nntllm portal press have teemed with nor rifled comments upon tho massacre of Moros by American troops In the recent fight in Jolo one of the Philip- pIne Islands What were the facts A desperate and murderous band of outlaws tha terror of the country and of peace- able people who sought to carry on their vocations held a mountain fast ¬ neaR from which it was their practice to descend upon the adjacent terri- tory ¬ Every means had been employed to Induce them to abandon their ban- dit life but In vain and it was found necessary to employ sterner measures The work was dono by the American forces with characteristic thorough ¬ ness The outlaws wero overpowered In their fortress and so thoroughly punished that tbo country will be free from their Intimidation and the peo pie may now settle down to tho pur suits of peace In tho battle the sol Here conducted themselves with hUe inanity as well u bravery The brief official reports told the story just as the fight occurred But some sensa ¬ tional correspondents at Manila hun- dreds ¬ of miles from the scene of act- ion added a lot of details supplied by their Imagination to the erect that tho troops had killed women and chil ¬ dren as well as the men who fought with tho fanaticism and savagery characteristic of their kind Gen Wood who was in command in Jolo cables that there has been snce In any cable from Min ¬ dannoSt the killing of women and children showing that what has been said In the news dispatches from Manila has been Invented and added there Those who have to hastily assumed that American sol diers would needlessly kill a help lees foe even one so Implacable as an outlaw Mere and that they lruU erlm ¬ inately butchered women and chil ¬ dren may take shame to themselves If they are capable of feeling such ac emotion TO DEFRAUD THE REVENUE Administrative Act Provides Ma ¬ chinery to Prevent Greedy Roguery When the New York Times dls cusses the tariff It becomes positively brilliant It remarked a few days ago apropos of the discriminating Gorman tariff which It predicted would most certainly be enforced against tho United States teat we made trade with Germany unnecessarily hard by our administration of the customs laws It says that tho administrative act should be changed because tho Merchants as ¬ sociation of Now York urges certain changes That those are reasonable it assorts clearly appears from the Indisputable fact that the present reg¬ I ulatlons are unreasonable That is to say remarks the Ban Francisco Chron ¬ icle they are unreasonable because I New York merchants who have a per- t ¬ sonal and pecuniary Interest in having thorn changed say they are But the rest of tho country which believes In fair play does not sympathize with the attitude of the New York Import- ers who would cheerfully avail them ¬ selves of tho disposition shown by Ger man exporters to defraud the revenue by systematic undervaluation The ad ¬ ministrative act provides the ma- chinery ¬ I to prevent roguery of this kind and tho American people Insist on keeping It In motion What the New York Importers really deslro U an unobstructed opportunity to de ¬ fraud the revenue but they wont get It OPINIONS OF EDITORS 7Tho party to stick to Is tho one that makes gooll8t Louis Globe Democrat 1 Judge Parker still thinks well of tho Democratic party Ho has a most forgiving spirit Washington Star crNor has the railroad rate regula ¬ tion bill tho slightest tendency to re ¬ duce tho number of varieties of Demo ¬ crats Indianapolis News lad cTJudge Parker has been down to Mississippi to deliver an address on Democracy before tho legislature of that state Now will the Mltnlsslpplans engage Mr Bryan to tell them about the other brand Troy Times cT Judge Alton B Parker Is con ¬ vinced that the president Is seeking a third term The people for good and sufficient reasons are convinced that the judge is not the man to prevent him from getting ItWashIngton Post crTbe opponents of protection who invented tho charge that the Dlngley tariff would put a chinese wall about the country aro respectfully advised that the foreign trade of the United States hu more than doubled since the act went Into effect Ban Francisco Chronicle C7Gov Folk takes the stump to talk about the robber tariff If there Is thing that he knows less about than any other It is tariff It Is the making of Missouri in a business sense yet the governor reviles protcctlotu A good district attorney Is not always a states ¬ man of tans Buffalo News I jLJP ffiffi1t WJ = r u u u NEW HAND AT BELLOWS I 1 WarTime Incident Concerning a Faithful Nurse and a Tip ¬ pling Doctor r Two soldiers In hospital were talking quietly I say Jim theres a new handat thon Bellows In this shop we never hail I things BO nice before Thats sotho old un Is a captain I tell you she drills them When she fust came an I heard her drcssln down the nusses I thought wed trot a tartar butbless horn when slut owes to the sick uns shes ten moth Irs rolled Into onee Tills Is the first time anything hasp r 1 tasted good wince I came In hero sighed a weak skeleton of a man on the next y couch The new matron stood very litr Ho upon ceremony she expressed her opinion upon persons us unhesitatingly as upon things She rebuked the assist ant surgeons when they neglected their proper duties and became such a thorn In their sides that they determined to oust her One morning the surgeon In charge was sleeping off his drunkenness after a spree of tho night before At II oclock when ho did come the ma iron confronted him with a few terri ¬ ble sentences All thcKo Hick men left without at ¬ tendance or food that you might Indulge a brutal appetite she said with coW emphasisA fiis over a very little mat ¬ torsaid the Mirgean angrily know my own IMI IHOMI and I shant tolerate your meddllut 1 know my business tooH said the matron and your shall find that out Within a week came a now matron with an order from headquarter super ¬ seding the other Mm Bissell saw Out the woman teamed both sensible and kindly so ithesald quietly I wish you would withhold this mat ter till the afternoon Certainty madam if It will make s difference to you Mrs BlMMll Immediately put OB her bonnet and shawl and started far the White house where alto made one of 1C or SO people waiting A doorkeeper stood at the first door en the right M she entered She approached him and asked Is the president tara Yes maam Let rao have youreard please Within half an hour she was admitted Tho room was large and ftirnUhed JIM a country lawyers office At a gmSt liaise table freer the window sat a sang lean roan running hU hand stiff Week pair stroeJc through wtU1I Ray Well maam What tan I do for your You can do nothing for me the MI a s respettfHllr bttt you an do a good deal f4I for the soldier She briefly narrated her experience to which tie president listened alien ¬ tively 1 wish Mr President thatyou would Iud tho chief inedleal director here t > look Into this matter with his own eye and not take his opinions front drunken underlings who while soldiery slot down In battle ern lingering and dying before him ts lying beastly drunk Gall then would turn out ot charge those who rebuke him Madam I will give you a note to the doctor and do you go and talk with him Just as you have talked to me I He vat dowu and took an unglated vlq Itlng wrote with a pencil Dr Pease hear this womans state meat and make Inquiry In person nUll If Ills true put her back and pray for AbrahntuLln = t 20 more eucU women coini There you go yourself If anything turns up and dont go right you come to me again Armed with this the matron soot l found the medical duet It required but little time to satisfy him Shewn reinstated the eMlstrntsutgeofl wUni dismissed the service and great feet Ml upon all who MIl to do with Agatey BtMoll National Advocate 11 J + TEMPERANCE NOTES Putting shutdown the throat takes the stuff out of the pocket Dr II W Wilt > of tho bureau of chemistry declines to retract KUnager Uon that 86 per cent of all t aver the bars of the United StatesVty adulterated 1 1 The use of strong drink produces mor Idle 1ees crime dlnease want misery jLondon Tile Chicago HecordHerala1 Jsrespon y Bible for the statement that th follow lug idgn hmiRB over the door of a saloon Ore Drinks of all kind A J iIs If the saloons of this country should all be wiped from the face of the earthln a plnglc day the question Is asked f iWell school They would surely sing l t11uf God from whom nil blessings flow Want Canteen Abolished In apanJ Martthnl Oyama haa been petitioned by lIon Turo Ando to adopt the American IIslen and abolish tho canteen In the Japanese army It appears that the regulctlons of the sale of liquor to Ja ant eo soldiers Is not sufficiently strloti to do away with the many grave tILt naturally growing out of such salt