Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 21, 1906, Page 4

Minn ta, as Second-Class Matter, IF rr is true that the President has hedged on bis railroad rate views so strenuously expressed in his speeches and message, and a bill is passed that allows a court’review before the rates fixed by the commissian can go into effect, it will not only be regretted: by the friends of the origiaal bill in his own party, but will cause the demo- crats who would have stoed by him to lose faith in him. —_——— THE republican party in this state is making a great bubbub about a candidate for governor. What have they in the way ofa principle to ap- peal to the voters? Only a record that is a stench in the nostrils of all good citizens. Vansant was the only republican governor that showed any disposition in the exercise of his executive power to protect the peo- ple from the dominating infiuence of the plutocrat. pommatan tS Bar : Tok CLApe made an able speech on the rate bill. In taking he did he manifestly places in accord with the wishes and desires of the majority of the peopie of the state. Senator Nelson also deserves credit for the stand is taking in support of the measure—unlike Foraker, of Ohio, who is lending the greatest effort of nis life to defeat the bill, in disregard of the demands of the people of the state tbat has so many times honored the position himself he Four times he was made the candidate for governor and twice elected. He has been twice elected United States senator, and still he openly defies the majority f the people that so signally elevated va. One would naturally think that the people of the Buckeye state, or any otber state, would, after years of boss rule and open deflance of their rights and demands, relegate such a character to private life. Boss Cox has been the side partner of Foraker for the last eighteen years and the people seem to enjoy the combina- him. republican tion, but last fall’s election was a sort of Vesuyius to the Foraker-Cox gang, op eee Senator Beveridge made a speech recently before the republican state convention of Indiana in which he proclaims the future policy of his party to be that of conservative pro- gression. But has there ever been auy progress in this country through conservatism. The radicals won in 1776 over the o'd rock-ribbed English conservatives who believed in the divine right of kings. The conserva- tives fought against the war of 1812; they said it would injure. business. The Hartford conyention of conserva- tives passed a resolution of secession oa account of the embargo act that > government thought necessary as warmeasure. If Mr. Beveridge will go back in history he will find that ism oever solved any great problem nor settled any question; but, on the other hand, that principle stood in the way of real progress and development. For fifty years prior to 1860 the republican- democratic party and the whig party stood on conservative grounds and doctrines; and any legislation tending alw toward the abolition of slavery or de- g its limits, or in any was abridg- no. the slaveholders’ rights to hold slaves and to extcud the slave terri+ tory, and to have laws in the free siutes to capture and return a fugi- tive Slave Lo its owner the same as a reg uded as radi- cow OF a berse, caiism, anarchy, aud unconstitution- al. The republican party was ‘an- ized by the radical men who*hated slayery and had always fought against its being extended into the terrtories. Che voices of Wendell Phillips, the Uovejuys, John Albion Andrews, Meary Ward Beecher, Charles Sum- ner, Stevens, Wade, Seward, Chase and Lineoln were to the old demo- cratic and whig parties the voices of and disloyalty,.but- proved to ve the voice of truth, human liberty and the progress of civilization, The ery of “Don’t disturb existing con— ditions” had been preached frofn the ease hilltops uotil the American pevple found themselves up against a probe lem the A dhatiied in the Postoffice at Grand Rapid| whether the nation itself could long ‘ gS EEE tea ERS a SESE i a i oc IR ep RA en RU ara SE LEE sc et a, re ee Se Un Pa Sa ne Re EE SPE RAY saregryreenr cr ee er rr) ae > solution of which was to test the foundatiun of our pational super- structure. It was now no longera question of the suppression or ex-|, tension of slavery into the territories —the all absorbing problem was endure. What had brought us to this point but conservatism? And now, after sucht an experience of the past. such men as Beveridge come up and say we are the party of conserva- tive action. He meantinaction. The platform adopted at the Indiana con- yention endorses Roosevelt and at the samme time lauds the g. o. p., when it is a fact that not one reform measure that the president stands for has ever been nor is it today advocated or endorsed by the republican party. The president stands for railroad rate regulation. Can anyone find an en- dorsement of that in the republican platform? He stands for tariff re- form. Is that a republican doctrine? He stands for the enforcement of the anti-trust law.,,Is that republican- ism? He stands opposed to the ac- ceptance of unlawful campaign fuads. Is that idea born of republicanism? In other words, the president is a radical, standing on the doctrinal platform built by the greatevt con- structor of this or any other country —William Jennings Bryan. The re- publican party thinks it gaius pres+ tige by endorsing Roosevelt; but every time it dves so 1t endorses Bryan and the democratic party. AMMUNITION FOR THE PASTOR. Sinners Alone Need Have Feared Con- tents of This Box. The Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones, a Manchester, England, minister, tells a story of his experience in Fenian days. He was traveling from a Welsh village to Brecon, and had with him a strong wooden box filled with heavy theological’ Looks. © At Shrewsbury the detectiver who were on the look- out for explosive machines and the like suspected this heavy box and word was sent on to Brecon. When the young minister stepped out of the train he was astonished to find a sergeant and several constables awaiting him. “I think you have a box with you,” said the sergeant. “Quite right,” said the preacher, who began to scent ~ joke. Out came the box and its weight excited fresh sus- picion about its contents. “This is your box?” ‘Yes.” “It contains am- munition?” “It does.” “Very well, consider yourself in charge. Open the box.”” The company stood away while the sergeant found it contained noth- ing more explosive than Adam Clarke’s “Theology” he expressed his indignation freely to the minister. All that he got back was the soft ans- wer: “Why; bless my soul, man, you asked if the box contained ammuni- tion. That is.my ammunition., I am a Methodist parson, and that's what I shoot with.” JUST MAKING A FRESH START. Boy Well Knew Bishop Wasn’t Near End of Sermon, The late Bishop Eastburn of Massa- chusetts was a man of very imposing appearance, and when robed in his big- sleeved canonicals gave the impres- sion of sailing under full canvas. In the pulpit he had a habit of drawing himself up at intervals, with chest raised and head thrown back, which gave him a very pompous air. A little bey of Newburyport, not fully inured to long sermons, and wearying under his heavy periods, mildly suggested to his mother that he would like to “cut the rest of it,” but she tried to beguile him with the as- surance that the good man was just ready to stop, when he eagerly re- plied: .“Oh, no, mamma, he isn’t, ‘cause he’s just blowed hisself up again.” Why Wesley Gave Up Tea. John Wesley wrote in 1748: by | eould not imagine what should occa- sion the shaking of my hand till I ob- served it was always worst after breakfast, and that if I intermitted tea drinking for two or three days it did not shake at all. Upon inquiry I found tea had the same effect on other persons of my acquaintance, and therefore saw that this was one of its natural effects, as several physicians have often remarked.” After a daily practice of tea drinking for twenty- seven years Wesley left it off. The effects of relinquishing it fully an- swered his expectations. “My para- lytic complaints are all gone, my hané, is as steady as it was at 15, and I save up 50 pounds ($250) a year.” Dagonet. The night King Arthur climbed the dismal stair At Camelot (forsaken by his queen And by his knights, without a hope to lean His grief upon or comfort his despair), About, his feet within the dariteenstinies A Voice clung with low words and between— “Lo! Dagonet, thy fool, weeps here un- “seen, * ‘Who nevermore a smile shall make thee wear!” Alas for him who climbs the dismal steep Of life alone—who must endure the pain Of an bakin heart whose trust was va 0 whem a Voice comes from the shad- ows dee; » thy poor fool, and I “Lo! Tam Li weep "er shall make thee smile Bi ites pe = a Because I. again!” a wo ETS ONE WITTICISM. GREAT PO Wordsworth Seemingly Unduly Proud of Simple Joke. A rare old book, called The Living Authors of England, published in 1849, commences with a study of Words- worth, in which is recorded what is said to be the only joke the poet ever made. At a friend’s house, after din- ner, it appears, the conversation turn- ed upon wit and humor. Thomas Moore, who was present, told some anecdotes of Sheridan, whereupon Wordsworth observed that he did not consider himself a witty poet—“in- deed,” he said, “I do not think I was ever witty but once in my life.” Being pressed to tell the company what this special drollery was, the poet said, with some hesitation: “Well I will tell you. I was standing some time ago at the entrance of my cot- { tage at Rydal Mount, when a man ac- costed me with the question, ‘Pray, sir, have you seen my wife pass by?’ whereupon I answered, Why my good friend, I didn’t know till this moment that you had a wife!’” ‘The company stared and upon realiz- ing that this was all there was to the poet’s joke, burst into a roar of laugh- ter, which Wordsworth smilingly ac- cepted as a genuine compliment to the brilliancy of his wit. REMARKABLE FEAT OF MEMORY. Children Learn and Recite Thousands of Bible Verses. The pastor of a church in a Jersey town wished to stimulate the memo- ries of the children in his Sunday school. To this end he offered two prizes, the first to pupils over and the other to pupils under twelve who during an interval of three months would learn to recite the greatest number of verses from the Bible. A committee was appointed to hear the contestants for the prize and register the number of verses memorized. The first prize was taken by a young girl of sixteen who had com- mitted to memory during this interval of ninety days 12,236 verses of Scrip- ture. These passages covered the en- tire New Testament with the excep- tion of two genealogies and included liberal selections from Psalms, Gene- sis and other parts of the Old Testa- ment. The winner of the second prize was a little sister of the other prize winner, a child of eleven years. She had learned 715 verses. During the contest some 19,000 verses were mem- orized. Husband's Best Points. A happily married woman writing to one of the household magazines says that the qualities she most admires in her husband are these, says the Philadelphia Bulletin: “A readiness to be pleased is one of his traits whith brings much quiet happiness into our married life. In the management of the home he trusts me entirely, and, though he may suggest, he never dic- tates. He is seldom too busy or tired to listen interestedly to all I may haye to tell him. Though he tells me his business vexations, he does not make me_ suffer on account of them, and is always ready to do the helpful lit- tle things that mean so much to a woman. In money matters he takes me into his full confidence and part- nership.” — > Phenomena of Lightning. Alt the phenomena of lighting and all its forms are determined, doubt- less, by the kind and amount of resis- tance it encounters. Its light is due to the resistance of the atmosphere. Its noisy and often terrifying but quite harmless, accompaniment of thunder, is due to the sudden separ ation and reunion of bodies of air from sudden heating and cooling, and perhaps in part to the explosion of gases into which watery vapor is de- composed by the intense heat of elec- trical flashes, the result of such ex- plosion being thefr recombination in the proportions of water. Stage Tears. The true heroine, of the accepted type, must know the secret of weep- ing for hours at a time, without in any way blemishing her beauty. Further, in moments of deep emotion she must be prepared to bite her lips till they bleed, and yet exhibit no subsequent sign of swelling or disfigurement. The tears of the heroine who would be pop- ular must be controlled by the ordin- ary laws of gravity, so that they hang indefinitely on the ends of her long lashes, and give rise to the well-worn simile of “Violets washed in dew.”— Daily Dispatch. Failures and Successes. Men have two kinds of ambition— one for dollar-making, the other for life-making. Some turn all their abil- ity, education, health and energy toward the first of these—dollar- making—and call the result success Others turn them toward the second— into character, usefulness, helpful- ness—life-making—and the — world sometimes calls them failures; but history calls them successes. No price is too great to pay for an untar- nished name.—O. S. Marden in Suc- cess Magazine. Songs That Have Won Favor. The intensely popular song is not the only one which it is very profita- ble to write. Among the most suc- cessful of better-class songs may be mentioned “Violets” and Those T ” The manuscript of the former was offered to and rejected by nearly all the principal publiszers in London before it was eventually accepted and printed. It speedily won its way to favor, and its sale has been beth large and regular ever since. “Oh Dry | TE ‘THE COMFORTABLE. WAY, * Loca Time Table. West East. Bound Bouad Train Train 35 | 88 Bt | 86 )-m.|.m. m.Ja.m. Fou5| 0:30|Ly. :30) 7:10 9:48} 112] 6:52 $10] 11 ;10] 256) 5:20 p.m. % { 41:14)12:14) 50] 4:10 12:46) ..-Swan River...) 3:19] 3:38 1:25]. Grand Raplds..| 2:48] 2:58 [| 35] ..... Cohasset 80) 2:47 05| 1 H ‘m.| Pp. 6:25) 7:15|....Crookston....| 9:05] 9: 8:35! 8:15/Ar.Grand Fks. Ly! 8:10] 8 Cc. L. FRYE, Agent, Grand R2pids, Minn. 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