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THE HARDWOOD RECORD 



Tlius we will get to see the kind of a 

 President Theodore Roosevelt is. 



When he was made President by the 

 unfortunate death of Wm. McKinley he 

 pledged himself to carry out the policy of 

 his predecessor, but now he is President 

 in his own right with both houses of Con- 

 gress in harmony with him. and he has a 

 glorious opportunity to write his name 

 high in the history of his country and deep 

 in the hearts of his countrymen. 



cals. The old democracy is dead, but 

 Roosevelt is good enough for us. 



GOOD BYE : DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 



We guess we will have to say good-bye. 

 We used to be a democrat, but we can- 

 not find any democratic party any more, 

 and it has undoubtedly ceased to exist. 

 We were wont to chase our dreams to the 

 bitter end, but we fear we have reached 

 it. The radical wing tried it twice and 

 the conservative wing tried it once and 

 the two wings refused to flop together, so 

 it looks as if we would have to separate 

 and I. guess we will henceforth ally our- 

 selves with the republican party. 



You can't fool the American people 

 very long. That has been demonstrated 

 in the recent election. This thing of 

 nominating a trust candidate on an anti- 

 trust platform; a gold democrat who says 

 he voted for Bryan; a non-partisan judge 

 who was chairman of the State Central 

 Committee of New York in as corrupt a 

 time as ever was, won't work. Our prin- 

 cipal objection to Parker was that he 

 acknowledged that he voted for Bryan and 

 contributed to the campaign for him. 

 Now, we did nol like to vote for McKinley 

 — it was a pretty bitter dose for a demo- 

 crat to take, but we felt it the duty of 

 every good American citizen to vole 

 against Bryan. And all the lime Parker 

 was killing our vote. Any gold democrat 

 who wo\ild vote for Bryan is a hypocrite, 

 especially if he has a logical mind enough 

 to be a judge of the Supreme Court of 

 New York. 



Let us separate and we will understand 

 one another hereafter. The old demo- 

 cratic party is no more. The name may 

 survive to be used by Bryan and his fol- 

 lowing, but the real democracy is dead 

 and the future contest will be between the 

 radicals composed of Bryan and his fol- 

 lowers advocating government ownership, 

 the income tax and all sorts of things on 

 the one hand and the conservative class 

 of business men on the other. 



The results have shown that neither 

 radicals nor conservatives among the 

 democrats voted for Parker. He was not 

 satisfactory to either wing of the party, 

 being neither fish nor fowl. He was a 

 gold democrat and yet he twice voted for 

 the apostle of free silver, which was never 

 a democralic doctrine. He says he did 

 at least (altlmugh we doubt it), but if he 

 had not the courage to come out and say 

 that he did not vote for him, he is not 

 fit to be i)resid('nt. 



.And the old-liiiie democralic parly is 

 ilead. It was a party of conservatism and 

 li'iii fa|iiMr<(l liv the extreme radi 



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UNITED EUROPE. 



Several years ago the Hardwood Record 

 predicted that one of the first effects of 

 American competition would be that the 

 powers of Europe would be forced to draw 

 closer together. Now the daily papers 

 liave got around to it. and with Andrew 

 Carnegie and a few far-sighted statesmen, 

 they see in the settlement of the North 

 Sea incident between Russia and England, 

 which a few years ago would have caused 

 war, a harbinger of united Europe. They 

 have not got around to the cause as yet. 

 but they will eventually fi.gure it out, 



Europe cannot compete with this rich 

 new country, all divided up as it is into a 

 dozen smaller countries, each fenced in 

 by a tariff wall and each with a big stand- 

 ing army and navy to support. They must 

 get rid of their taxes. 



This country has set the pace and they 

 must keep up or starve, and they must 

 abolish the cumbersome system of every 

 man devoting the l^est years of his life to 

 military service, a custom that is driving 

 her best citizens to this country every 

 year, and it keeps them busy to keep up* 

 the population. 



The mistake is bein.n made in some 

 (iiiarlers of attributing the changed and 

 better conditions to the .good will of the 

 czar or the kaiser. If the czar and the 

 kaiser do anything for the poor people of 

 Europe, they do it because an enlightened 

 public opinion is forcing them to do it. 

 Wars are a device of despotic rulers, 



II is fine to die for one's country, but 

 as a general thing it is finer to live, and 

 more popular. It is a fine thing if you 

 are a prominent general, like General 

 Stoessel, and can send your name rattling 

 down the ages: that is, if you are thirsty 

 for glory. But for every General Stoes- 

 sel's reputation, 50,000 soldiers give up 

 their lives, and for them or their descend- 

 ii!ils is no royal dukedom. Not any. The 

 wife loses her husband, the children lose 

 tlii'ir father, and have to strug.glc through 

 the world without one. That is their only 

 I e ward. 



It is by means of wars that princes keep 

 their peojile poor and ignorant: and only 

 by keeping their people poor and ignorant 

 are princes possible. No; whatever move 

 the czar or kaiser or king make in that 

 direction, it is forced on them by the in- 

 creased enlightenment of their people, and 

 as the people look about them, and as 

 they are more and more enlightened, and. 

 most of all. as American competition 

 pinches them harder and harder, they will 

 realize that they cannot afford an expen- 

 sive government. If they cannot afford it 

 they will abolish ii and set up on a cheaper 

 basis. Maybe they will get so far ad- 

 vanced they will figure that royality is use- 

 loss and cxpi'nsivc ami d(i nway with that, 

 till). 



Anyhow, the appeal to a man's pocket- 

 1 ook is the greatest inlluence in the world. 



and it is not a bad thing it is so. 

 .Many a man is saved from being a rake 

 because he cannot afford it, and that is 

 why the poor boy prevails in every walk 

 of life as against the rich boy In this coun- 

 try to-day. He does not develop evil and 

 unnecessary habits because he cannot af- 

 ford it. Consequently he grows up. trained 

 to habits of industry and frugality, be- 

 cause he has to. and is held up as a shin- 

 , ing example to all, while the rich young 

 man is to be pitied because he can afford 

 so many things. 



Poverty is often a blessing in disguise 

 and eventually it will unite and draw Eu- 

 r(>pe closer together. It has already made 

 the people of Europe study and they are 

 beginning to think. The rest will follow. 

 And when it comes it will not come as 

 a gift from the king, the czar or the 

 kaiser. 



OBITUARY. 



It is with the sincerest regret that we 

 chronicle the death of Mr, Herman Krein- 

 heder, member of the Standard Lumber 

 Company of Buffalo, N. Y.. which occurred 

 at his home, October 19. 1904. 



Mr. Kreinheder was a thorough lumber- 

 man and a nice gentleman, and to show 

 that he was aijpreciated at his true worth, 

 he was deputy excise commissioner In his 

 own city and chairman of the Republican 

 general committee. 



He was buried from his residence, and 

 interment was in Forest Lawn Cemetery. 



At a meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the Republican general committee 

 the followin.g resolutions were unani- 

 mously adopted ; 



The Republican general cmnraitleo of 

 Erie County, deeply regretting the death 

 of .its former chairman, Herman .1. Krein- 

 heder, places on record the following me- 

 morial : 



Resolved, That in the death of Mr. 

 Kreinheder the city of Buffalo has lost a 

 good citizen, and the Rei)uhlican party a 

 zealous, faithful worker, whose services 

 were of the hi.ghest value. From bis youth 

 up he was a Republican by princijile and 

 conviction, and he was always conspicu- 

 ous for loyalty and devotion to the party 

 cause. As a member of the general com- 

 mittee he was noted for good judgment 

 and earnest, honorable effort to jjromote 

 R<'I)ublican success. His advancement to 

 the chairmanship was a well-earned mark 

 of conftdenoe that was fully justified. He 

 discharged Ihe duties of thai position dur- 

 ing the campaigns of 1S98. 1S99 and 1900 

 in a manner that brought honor to him- 

 self and won Ihe commendation, not only 

 of his associates, but of the party at large 

 in the city and county. He was courteous, 

 efficient, untiring, and the victories 

 achieved under his direction brou.ght his 

 active political career to a rcMuarkably 

 noteworthy and successful culmination. 

 We deplore the loss of our esteemed asso- 

 ciate and friend, and we respectfully 

 tender to his family our sincere condolence 

 in their bereavemenl. 



.Mr. Kreinheder was an able business 

 mail and a genial, whole-souled gonlleiiian. 

 and ill his death the Buffalo trade hAs sus- 

 lainod an irreparable loss. 



