Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1909, Page 4

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Subscribers leaving the eity tem- porarily ahowld have The Bee Address will be nged as often as reque B i The tariff on pumice stone has been saved. Who says Nebraska will not get its share? As interpreted by Mr. Bailey of Texas senatorial courtesy 18 not broad enough to take in the press gallery. The Dahlman Democracy will hold a pienic. We can name at least six so- called democrats who will not be in- vited. Editor Stead's latest 18 the tels graph line to the spirit world. He hi not yet announced whether he will put in a distance tariff or a flat rate. Seventeen pairs ‘df"shoes have been ordered for the royal babe of Holland. Evidently the pleasures of running around barefoot are not for royalty. Mayor “Jim" has reduced his list ot councilmanic traltors from four to three, but the suspicion lurks that the fourth is still kept on his suspect list. Admiral Dewey is on record as say- ing that the American navy is the best on earth. Is the admiral trying to make John Bull have another fit? The World-Herald wants it distinctly understood while it is opposed to any republican getting any office, it is op- posed to some republicans more than to others. Between hunting and denouncing fake correspondents Theodore Roose- velt is finding time to write a book. That African climate is not so bad it is painted. One of the big New York hotels has provided a tennis court on the roof for the benefit of its guests. A golf course in the basement would com- plete the job. The Brooklyn Eagle laments that the time was when the governor ot the state of New York had respect for the legislature. Luckily the governor is not blamed for the changed condi- tion, Becretary of War Dickinson says that on his recent trip he saw Cuba only through the porthole of the ship. That {s not an uncommon experience for people taking their first ocean voyage. The Presbyterian assembly settled one thing at least that a person may play tennis and be a good church mem- ber. A few years more and all these fine doctrinal points will be dis- posed of. y If the usual experience in suck cases is repeated some -of the ariounts en- closed in those stolen registared letters will have fncreased wonderfally from the time they were mailed to the time of making the claim for reimburse- ‘ment. The Charleston Post says that ‘“‘a democrat belleves in cortain estab- lished principles of government.” In view .of the late developments it might belp some in apswering the query, “‘What {8 a democrat?” if the Post would clearly define those principles. The legislative sponsor. of the de- posit’ guaranty law appears to be sur- prised that Nebraska bankers of the state are pot more prompt in seading in contributions to contest the ex- pected attack upon the law's validity Perhaps the bankers would not feel sorry if the law were lost in the shuf- | put | trom Tariff and Trusts. The persistently cultivated Bryan- ‘te doctrine th the tariff is the mother of trusts and that all that is necessary to kill off the trusts is to trust-made products on the free Jist & being rudely jolteda in the de- velopments of the tariif revision in ¢rugress in Washington | We hear so much of a sugar trust that it 1= » fair assumption that by | far the larger part of the sugar tinde | in this country Is controlled by one hig | corporation, And vet the developm=nt | of thé beet sugar industry in the west and the protection of the cane grow- ing Interests In the south are respon- | sible for the demand for the retention of safelr protective duties in the sugar schedule. Thev insist that put- | ting sugar on the free list would not | only fafl to extinguish the sugar trust | but by leaving its competitors unpro- tected would weaken them, if not kill them off, and without their rivalry | the sugar trust would be more firmly | entrenched than ever. | In the matter of the ofl schedule, a similar situation is presented, the clamorous objections to removing the tariff from crude and refined oil com- ing not from the Standard Oil, but the independents who declare | that such a course would be ruinous to them. It has been charged that these | independent producers are merely | masked agents of the Standard on.j but the refutation comes from a source that will hardly be questioned. A let- ter written by Ida M. Tarbell is quoted in Collier's as follows: There 18 né question in my mind of the entire Independence of the oil producers and the ofl refiners who are now In Wash- Ington petitioning congress for & duty on crude ofl. 1 have known many of them | all my 1ifé and am more or less familiar | with their business careers. As to their | contention that free crude ofl would be a | serfous handicap to them in their competi- tion with the Standard Ofi company and an advantage to the Standard, they are up doubtédly right. If Mexico turns out the tremendous oil producer that oil men are predicting. If the fleld does not develop as they séem to think it will, there is nothing in the world for them to fear from crude ofl. As you know, I am, myself, a thor- ough bellever in free raw materials, In- cludin= ofl, and I wish that the independent ofl men felt that they were in a strong enough position to risk free crude ofl. The oil trust, like the sugar trust, is plainly less concerned with tariff charges than are the independent pro- ducers, who now have ali they can do to hold their own and with free ofl would have to meet a still cheaper source of supply. The democratic platform promise of free trade In trust controlled pro- ducts is plainly demonstrated to be in- adequate as a remedy for trust evils, and it is not to be wondered that the democrats in congress have not even proposed to apply it. As Collier's in- timates, in its comment on the Tarbell letter, ‘‘there should be some more direct means of dealing with monopoly than through the tariff.” It must be remembered, too, that enormous trade combines operate in flelds that have nothing whatever to do with tariff du- ties. The problems of the trust are not to be solved simply by tearing down all tariff barriers. A Broadguage President. It is nothing strange that President Taft in an address in a Jewish syna- gogue in Pittsburg should take occas- lon to express his views on religious tolerance and bigotry. The president has been a broadguage man with ideas reaching beyond the horizon of little- ness. Some of his political opponents have not been of this mould and his words can be taken to have particular application. The president said: 1 am not a preacher and not In the habit of appearing in pulpits. I never had done so until 1 went to the Philippines where 1 stood first in a Presbyterian pulpit and then in an Episcopalian. Re- turning to this country I have appeared in the pulpit of my own church, the Unitarian, and now 1 am In a Jewish tabernacle. That is a round which I think justifies me in saying that 1 hope to be the president of all the people and hope to have your support, as you have given It to my predecessors, without stint and with every desire to make this a truly good and great country Both in his words and in his pres- ence at the Jewlsh synagogue Mr. Taft cautioned those who would have this a government of class or sect. He recognizes the fact that our citizenship is cosmopolitan and that all who comport themselves in obedience to law are entitled alike to the rights, immunities and privileges of American citizenship, {irrespective of religious belief. It is the true ideal of Ameri- canism that no man has the right to challenge his neighbor because he attends a different church or springs from a different race As a candidate before the people Mr. Taft made no appeal to class, race or creed and he I8 proceeding to demonstrate that he is the chief execu- tive of the whole country and all its inhabitants. A Good Job. The apprehension of three men strongly suspected of being the bandits who held up the Overland Limited on the ou' kirts of Omaha a week ago, and the recovery of a large part of the stolen plunder will be applauded as a good job. The fact that the most im- portant clues by which the holdup men were trapped were uncovered acci- deutally by bright school boys does not | “obedience to peace,” and he is proceeding to demon- | THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1909. cated in a series of train robberfes of the same daring kind as that of the Overland, their apprehension s of much more than local importance and will probably interrupt a career of crime on the part of the gang sure to have cost human life. It goes without saying that it the prisoners shall be duly convicted by the evidence, the community will con- | ster no punishment too severe. When at his work the train holdup must be ready to kill all the time, and it is only a chance that murder is not laid at his door. Our laws have been properly lature injected into the new charter without making provision for raising the money to pay them. the departments will be enabled to go along with undiminished numbers This Is the right spirit and the men | should have credit for taking the com- | mon-sense view of the situation. | aipp——— | After all his hiding behind technicali- ‘HF! Governor Haskell of Oklahoma | w11l have an opportunity to face his cusers in court. Whether he will again seek vindication by the demurrer rout: is not vet disclosed made to define train robbery as a fel- | ony secondary only to homicide and the best preventive will he the swift and sure limit of the law Prosecuting Land Frauds. Attorney General Wickersham re- cently declared in a public speech that law 1&g the strate that these were not idle words The prosecution of land frauds, com- menced under the Roosevelt adminis- tration Is being continuned without in- terruption. Another bunch of coal lahd grabbers were not long ago indicted in Wyoming and now a number of the same class in Colorado are being are not poor settlers, but men of standing charged with illegally appro- priating valuable coal deposits. While the question of gullty re- mains for the court the fact that in- dictments have been brought proves that the government will not permit such questionable transactions to go unchallenged. That the public do- main has been ruthlessly plundered in the past is patent to all familiar with the history of the west. A part of what has been done cannot be undone, but what remains of the public domain can be saved by those who are en- the western states these coal deposfts will become a material factor to their prosperity, It would be a calamity if a few unscrupulous speculators were permitted to selze them and use them to pile up immense fortunes, at the expense of other industries. Whatever may be lawfully accomplished in this direction depends on the legislation, but the administration will meet its responsibilities by seeing that no fraud is perpetrated to evade the law. Hindrances to Economy, It is a condition and not a theory which confronts the national adminis- tration in f{ts desire to institute affairs. Habit is one of the most diffi- cult things to combat; it {s not amen- ing. The means by which the estimates of government expenditures are ar- rived at are tortuous and the totals &0 up through a chain of bureau chiefe and subordinates. Necessarily the cabinet officers cannot know of the in- finite details of the various bureaus of their departments and likewise the bureau chiefs are in turn dependent upon their subordinates. Much of the work is beyond the personal knowl- edge of any single individual. Through a long series of years it has been the practice of everyone In the federal service to secure as large an appropriation as possible for the work in which he was personally in- terested. permitted to lapse if the officlals in charge can prevent it, for such a con- dition might result in cutting down future appropriations. Added to the pressure of officials in the executive branch of the government is the log- rolling of congressmen and senators to secure something for their constituen- cles and the appropriations pile up in spite of the best intentions of the pres- ident and it requires courage and per- sistence for department heads to send back estimates and insist on reduction. It is a_great task which the adminis- tration has set for itself in holding down the scale of expenditures which has obtained during the years of trea! ury surpluses, but the high officials are going about it in a manner which promises at least a fair measure of success. The will of the late H. H. Rogers provides that the cost of any litigation over it shall be deducted from the be- quest made to the person starting the suit. If there were a clause like this in every will several Omaha lawyers who ride in autos would still be walk- ing. Another American invasion of Eng- land Is imperding. An American firm proposes to introduce the 10-cent store idea into that country. can department store has made good and if the invasion keeps up Brother John will have to wake up or retaliate. to be unusually large this year. While there have been no great disasters, al- most every day chronicles some in which a few lives are lost. Human in- | genuity has not yet been able to cope with the giant forces of nature. Finding that its meeting dates con- flict with Ak-Sar-Ben's initiations the police board is figuring on changing |the time for its sessions. As between King Ak-Sei-Hen and any mere eity official thera ik no question which s detract fromr the promptness with which they were followed up by the officers. it is alw amazing that criminals clever enough to plan out and execute a train robbery should bungle what is to them still more important, namely, the means of getting away with the lcot and their own successful escape. If, as now seems probable, the bandits caught here ve been making a pro- fle of the courta paramount. If our amiable democratic contempo- rary, the World-Herald, cannot dic. tate the appointments of the demo- cratic mayor whom it helped to elect, it still wants to dictate to the repub- lican councilmen whom it tried its best to beat. All the members of the fire and po- lice department have agreed to forego price of forced to answer in court, These men | titled to it. With the development of | economical reforms into government able to ordinary processes of reason- | The money secured is not | The Ameri- | The storm harvest of death appears | Of Lincoln's new chief of police it is |said that “it has been vears since he has tasted liquor.” If he has to fur- nish the evidence himselt against all |the blind pigs he will not be able to | keep up this record. Information Rubbed In. ew York World The director of the census bureau thought he whs not responsible to the secretary of commerce and labor, He knows better now Sympathy with o Cla Baltimore American. The middie west has been shaken by earthquake shock. It serves that section right for the warm waves it manufactures and country. Chicago Record-Herald Governor Hughes of New York has suc- ceeded in cutting more than $4,000,000 out of the state's expense budget. That man seems to have absolutely no mercy for the political grafters. A Crusnde Worth While. San Francisco Chronicle. Los Angeles' crusade against billboards, which, under the terms of an anti-billboard law that has just become effective, is now | being carried on by tearing down paintel #lgns along the streets and highways, should be emulated by other citles prevalence of billboards, with their offense against art and usually also against the English language, is a public nulsance which &/ould be abated. Light on Swahill L Philadelphia Record. It is explained by one who claims to be versed in Swahill nomenclature that the name “Bwano Tumbo,” given to our faunal naturalist by the natives of east Africa, would be correctly translated ‘Mister Stomach.” Swahili names alwi | have reterence to some striking personal | characteristic, and the rotund front of the American “mister” seems to have hit the native fancy. “Bwano Tumbo" would pos- sibly sound more polite in French, as “Monsieur Embonpoin ngo. Doings in a Wircleas Way. St. Paul Ploneer Press. With a hall at Omaha actually lighted up by 4,000 ‘ncandescent lamps, kept in a bril- liant, steady glow by a wireless current from a plant five miles away; with elec- triclans prodding the Navy department for permission to install a wireless apparatus which shall propel its warships, anywhere on the Atlantic, by currents produced in Washington; and with others offering to run railroad trains in the same manner without wires—surely we are on the eve of tremendous doings fn the “‘wireless” wa: What must be the effect of these inventions on the development of the water-power of the country? If that power can be trans- mitted for long distances without wires, it | would seem that the cost of utilizing it | must be very considerably reduced. | A BETRAYED PARTY. Democratic . Senators Repudiate Denver Platform. New York World (dem.). The democratic national platform Jast year contained these sentences: “We welcome the belated promise of tariff reform now affected by the repub- HNean party, * * * but the people cannot | sately trust the execution of this important work to a party which is so deeply obll- |gated to the highly protected Interests. |+ ¢ ¢ We favor immediate revision of the tarltf by the reduction of import dutles. Articles entering Into competition with trust-controlled products should he placed upon the free list. * * * We demand the immediate repeal of the tariff on pulp, print paper. lumber, timber and logs." In the house of representatives a month ago forty democrats voted against free lumber. in the senate this week seventeen |democrats did the same. Thus a specitic demand of the demceratic platform was defeated by democratlc votes. Democratic votes also defeated free hides and free iron. For the first time In-fifty years democrats this spring have had an opportunity, with the ald of progressive republicans, to give effect to their pretense of principle. This shameful record shows how basely they | have acquitted tnemselves HARD WORK. the Basis of Success in Every Line of Human Endeavor, Washington Post. When somebody asked Henry H. Rogers, just dead in New York, to what he at- |tributed his immense success in the busi- ness world, he answered, “I have worked as hard as any man ever worked," and that Is the secret of good fortune In more than nine prosperous careers of every ten But there Is such a thing as luck, as one may be convinced who will read Thackeray's admirable chapter on chance In one of his most engaging novels, Catherine,” where he accounts it pure chance that the apple fell on Newion's nose and Napoleon ate too much mut- ton at Leipsic. | Tt is related that soon after the discov- ery of gold in California a miner, without a cent and very hungry, asked credit for breakfast at @ tent “hotel” in the tented camp of Coloma.and was refused. He took his pick and shovel and entered a ciaim |abandoned in despair by its recent owner and after a dozen strokes brought to the surface a nugget that vielded him $2,000 a few moments later. That was success, and it may be claimed that it was due to labor, for had he not |delved he would have gone breakfastioss that day and perhaps many subsequent days, but of us unthinking will continue to ascribe that man's ‘‘success” |to luck rather than to labor. The dews of |heaven fall on the worthy and the um- worthy allke, and the element of cha iv the biggest sort of a factor In the ai |fairs of men. All the work in the world will not grow & erop of corn in parched Sahara. But we must admit that labor Is the antecedent of success. as will is the an- tecedent of labor “All the wishes that men can fancy will not fill the Arno, nor turn a plum into an prange. ‘Thomas Jef- ferson was a successful man, and his con- fidential agent of forty years declared that never but twice had he seen Mr. | Jefferson when he was not at work Happy is he that his job and whom hard woik s & luxury as well most loves fession of crime and bave been impii- | the increased salagies which the legis- |a necessity | then gets rid of to the rest of the The | (0‘ ‘ on Life Pl By #0 dolng | | p 1!"‘ Billlken attitude, his face | in smiles, his eves twinkling with Joyous satisfaction, and his empty quiver slung | recklessly over the corner of his throne, is the masterpiece to the book of reminls- | cences prepared by the men and women who, In his secretarial days, followed Wil- llam Howard Taft half way around the globe. Prostrate before him, making obeisance for their marital happiness, ure Representative and Mrs. Longworth, Mr. and Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran, and Repre- sentative and Mrg. Swager Sherley, whose | courtship and marriage were a direct out- come of the famous tour of the Taft party | to the Philippines. The unique volume, says the Washing- | ton Herald, consists of a collection of con- | gratulatory sketches, inscription ‘rsen | and epigrams contributed by nilip- | pines on the occasion of the dinner they gave for the president last March on the eve of his inauguration. The text, In- soribed on post octavo vellum of exquisite quality, 1s hand written and signed by the several members of the party, to each of whom at least one leat is devoted. The book 1s hand bound, and the full crushed |levant cover of dark red {s beautifully tooled in a speclal design worked out by Mrs. Ward Brown, to whom the work was intrusted. Following the title page is ihe leaf given over to the signatures of Representative and Mrs. Longworth, Representaiive and Mrs. Sherley, and Mr. and Mrs. Bourke Cockran. At the top of the page is the sentiment evolved by Bourke Cockran: “The happiness of the matrimonial un- |ions he has promoted argues boundless happiness for the political union he is to maintain.” For additional decoration the page has a border drawn by Mrs. Cockran. A noticeable coincidence is the similarity of the signatures of Mr. and Mrs. Long- | worth, Mr. ana Mrs. Sherley, and Mr. and Mrs. Cockran, respectively—with a ¢hirog- raphy so similar, one to the other, as to leave no doubt of thefr being “‘soul mates.” Among the inscriptions, which ranged from a mere autograph to ambitious ex- amples of verse, is Senator Warren's parody on “Evangeline,”” dubbed “The Tafters,” which winds up with— And we who know well of his patience, his kind and cheerful forbearance, Who know that his heart is attuned to his country's welfare, Confident, look to the future and there A happy and prosperous nation of 80,000,000 of Tafters. The sentiment, “Reflect how mortitied we Fillpinos would have been had we allowed him to take the veil and be burled in the supreme court,”” bears the imperial signature “Edwards."” Fred H. Gillette sings: We were Tafters; Some sald grafters; Some sald missionaries to the Philippines. We lived in palacel Made love to Alice: Our business was in matrimonial lines. “What, need have women folk to vote when men can choose so well? is a contribution from Mary Hopkins Clark, of Hartford, Conn. The book, which has several hundred pages, concludes with a poem, “L'Envol," written by Miss Boardman, under whose direction the work of binding and illu- minating was conduoted. “One of the bravest men I ever saw In battle,” sald a retired colonel in the United States army, quoted by the Philadelphia Record, ““was a natve of Ireland who had | served in the British army and was cap- taln of the United States volunteers dur- |ing the war with Spain. After that scrim- mage he settled down to business In Washington, D. C. That this man, whose name I will not mention, could be brave on all occasions was proved by an episode in a leading restaurant on F street, at the capital, one day. “There was a big bully, an ex-prize fighter, as big ac Jim Jeffries, who, when in his cups. had the cheerful habit of shaking hands with & man in a friendly way, and, at the same time, smashing him in the jaw with his left. He pulled off this trick one afternoon upon a friend of my army acquaintance—Captain Smith, we'll call him—and the bully's victim, on the way to the hospital, ran into Smith. A few minutes later Smith entered the restaurant. Nodding to some acquain- tances, he pushed his way through the crowd and walked straight up to Mr. Bully, who weighed 100 pounds more than Smith, ** ‘Hello, Smith, big man. ‘“‘Yes, I'll shake hands with you,' re- plied Smith, his steély eyes glittering dan- gerously, ‘but if you try that stunt that you did to a friend of mine a while ago I'll go home and get my big gun and T'll kill you. You wouldn't be here when I came back, because you are a coward, a cur and a bully, but I'd get any- how.' “Declining to drink with the pug, Smith nonchalantly walked to the other end of the bar to join a party of friends, while the alleged terror of F street, who al- ways went armed, humiliated by this call- down before about thirty men, slunk out of the place and wasn't seen In Washing- ton for about three months." see shake hands' said the you, The senate has a mystery, tinged with romance, Nearly every day & smartly dressed woman walks into the diplomatic gallery and takes a seat In the first row. There she sits, gazing with absorbing {n- terest upon the statesmen below. It is, in- deed, a dull, dreary debate which drives the falr listener away. She is the most falthful attendant the senate has. She rarely misses a day and always obeuples the same seat Many a curlous glance has been sent from the floor to the diplomatic gallery with the mental query of what it Is that is responsible for the daily visits of the stylish, g0od looking woman. Efforts have been made to locate the object of her interest by a close watch upon her eyes. Thus far she has baffled the watchful sleuths. Her Interest 18 general, while intense. “President Taft has a mighty persistent fashion of getting his own way In spite of that calm, obligating disposition of hi said a republican United States senator quoted by the Brooklyn Eegle correspond- ent. “He listens very patiently to what you have to say about appointments. He will smile and nod his nead and appar- ently agree with you that your man is just the fellow for the job. Just as you think It 1s all fixed up he will suggest a man you didn't think he had ever heard about He generally makes up his mind about the |type of man he wants to fill a certain of- |tice and will keep hunting unt!l he finds the fellow he is after. In spite of his calm, |Judiclal temperament, he sticks to his own |ideas with almost as mueh pertinacity as aid his strenuous predecessor.” e —— w Fatrview Tel Washington Post Was there a brick concealed in the bou- quet which Senator Stone tossed to the | Peerless Nebraskan? sident Taft, as & Jolly Cupld posed in | wreathed | “GODLESS" UNIVERSITI RS, | Reflections of n Preacher Shown Be Baseless. Kansas City Journal Matters relating to the Presbyterian Board of Bducation seems to he in a bad way if one may fudge by the remarks of Dr. Joseph W. Cochran. sect ry of the boatd, who addressed the cen tral assembly of the Presbyterian church at Denver upen the subject instruetion. Dr. his chuich couldn't study for the ministry his 6wn query as to the cause he asked ‘Does the boy go in for education In a Christian school? A Presbyterian school? No. He goes 10 a Godless Staté univer- sity, and when he returns to his home town he puts religion at low ebb." 1t 18 a regrettable fact, no doubt, from the standpoint of Dr. Cechran, that the state universities do not teach Preshy- terfan theology, but the minister has taken an extreme view when he refeis (o them “Godless state universities.' FPer haps in his own experience he has ro. had the opportunity of an intimate ac quaintance with state universities, and the |tact that so few voung men are prepar- ing for the Presbyterian ministry may have irritated him to Yy things that in a quieter moment he would not have said There 18 probably not a single “Godless state university in the United States. We are a Christian people, but the church and the state are separated in this country Probabiy 9 per cent of the heads of our great state universities are professed Christians and it would be a libel upon them to say that they would lend ald to promote the interests of a “Godless” institution of learning. It is quite true that state universities do not teach theology, for the very googd and sufficient reason that such schools are for people of all de- nominations. The s‘ate university recog- nizes no religlous creed, caste or class. It is as ideal a democracy as the state itself. But sities not only recognize the Fatherhood of God, but they have chapel exercises of worship, and exert all proper influences to secure the attendance of the students State universities encourage the formation of religious socleties in the student body of representatives of all denominations. to Ather g6t young men to rule, are worthy examples of manly Christianity and lose no appropriate op- portunity to Instill in the minds of the students the dignity and the beauty of re- liglon. In view of these facts, Dr. Coch- Tan’s arraignment of state universities as being “Godless” s highly improper and does a grave injustice to many devout and conscientious Christian instructors. —— “AMERICANS ARE JUST LOVELY" War-Searred Britons Tossin, Across the Sea. Baitimore American. A wAve of enthusiasm for America seems to be sweeping over England. It is borne In the shadow of the malled hand. For some time the nervous Britons have been disturbed with nightmare apparitions of German airships skirting the British coast It would not have surprised the nervous element of the population If they had awiuk- ened to read a scare-head in the most se- date of their newspapkrs to the effect that the Teutons were raining bombs upon the coast cities. In the House of Commons dis- cussions involving the budget involve also the country’s policy toward the United States. Some of our nervous cousins in the Britlsh statesman class aeciare that the Germanic wave threatens to sweep over England and break itself upon the Ameri- can continent. In this bit of allegory is hidden a warning that German aggression centemplates nothing short of gobbling up a few tasty morsels in the shape of some of the South American republics. Emperor William is looked upon the bogy man by these timid folk. It is to he hoped, However, that the epidemic of ter- ror that seems to have England In its grip will not be communicated to the United Statés. As a matter of fact, Germany is now making every effort to strengthen re- lations with this country. It has no more design_upon South America than It has upon the north pole. Consequently, there Is no reason for the United States to enter- taln the picturesque, though not novel, sug- gestion to have England unite with it in | the ratification of the Monroe doctrine, :o be thrown Into the teeth of the kalser. It is amusing to find advocates of the plan for England to observe an America In return for this compliment the United States would be expected to observe Empire day, thus showing to the world that Anglo-Saxon blood is thicker than water. Nevertheless, water does count in any such fraternal pl There are some thousands of miles of water between the United States and England, and this ex- panse makes all the difference in the world between a friendly sentiment for a people having a common derivity and the pursuit of a common policy and common antago- nisms. “The United States is commercially healthy, has maritime vigor, its resources are ample for every crisis, its traditional position represented by the Monroe doc- trine is generally respected, so that it has reason to be nervous over anything. “LET US REASON TOGETHER.” Bouqets A Time for Action by Genuine Friend of World Peace. New York Bvening Post. This year's peace conference at Mohonk took a higher tone than the last one on the folly and peril of great and needless armaments. The swift development of the big navy mania, with its inevitable accom- paniments of suspicion, jealousy and hate, Aduring the past twelvemonth, fairly com- pelled this. Genulne friends of peace can- | not kit by in silence when the air Is filled | with clamors about the need of Christian nations taxing themselves to the point of exhaustion in order to hecome each an armed camp against the other. Never did the argument that great navies are the surest guaranty of peace appear more hol- low than in this present year of grace and | madness. 1f something is not done to fore- |stall this wicked craze, an explosion will tollow that will shake the world. The Mo- | honk conference appealed to President Taft to take the initiative in calling an interna. tional congress to work for general dis- armament. Our neutral position certainly would enable us to make such advances | without exposing ourselves to the charge of selfish motives. Mr. Taft must person- | ally sympathize with the objects almed at by the Mohonk delégates, though it will take time, and be a matter of delicacy. to make the diplomatic approaches necessary. But the need of applying reason to a wholly Irrational state of affairs is urgent. A move for disarmament now would be on a par with President Roosevelt’s intervention in order to bring about peace between Japan and Russia, and would be as heart- tly applauded by civilized nations. We greatly hope, therefore, that President Taft may soon undertake negetiations. One English speaker at Mohonk expresssd the desire that the United States government might give Germany a good scolding! That 1s & fine illustration of the precise disease o be cured—a biind antagonism and un- | willingness to see that anybody is at fault | except forelgners. The movement for con- cillation and for laying down srms and cutting down war taxes must be taken up, if at all, only in the broadest spirit. and with the taeit confession by all concerned that they have been miserable sinners. of religious | Cochran complained that | And in answer to | their | the majority of the state univer- | Members of stato university faculties, as a | | “Volunteers | PERSONAL NOTES. | A German inventor announces the com- | pletion of a phonograph which can be | heard for several miles. Here i= another item to add to the terrors of the English war scare. | 1t that linotype operator who refused to be married unless the wedding certificate bore the union label will insist that his wite work no more than elght hours & day for six days, with a Saturday half-hollday and overtime for Sunday work. the country will be content An ardent f equal suffiage the late Charles . Melior 3,000 to the Carnegie library of Plisburg. ‘The provision attached to this begquest I that the annual income from (h hall be used purchase boc o women considered phy icall and historically Edwin A. Brown Deu is devoting his time and for Investigation of the condittons says Washington lodging house in the has just returncd ho where he spent sey« the conditions of the “dumi ment Kansas advocate relating tellectually A rich er man whe the o poor, nfcipal He dral, e to has the w. United States fre n the s Iquirin and-. Fannle, a A will of her mistreess. Mis. a of North Tonawanda By ihe conditiog of the instrument the whole astate | n trust to Nora Robinson and Mar \ of Buffalo, provided thes care of her dog and =pend a the animal. The two heire agree Lo this before the suriogate Former Senator A. W. Clatk of does some good (hings with . He has been foremost in pronot ternational Conservatory of M has been opened In | ploes of the most emiment siclans. The list of t one, and the artistic dircctor I Pro: | Dessert, an American. nerc | scholarships tor Americans and thiec (or other nationalities. Wi ot sel IFh(DI Aare guaranteed énga, ent ¢ « in Germany or ltaly, the leadin. 1n managers of those countrics he to this program. pet dog, is benc Dler n agree e lavge n will Lave to . which nie e nuge Eu shers s a opean .u- ipctent ¥ ank Will be i ee tare [CRT: | Mentul s, ton Some Churches Leslie's W eekly Psychotherapy, or mental healing, has become nuG modern times (hat some brarel . Christian church have take: it practicing t. The “Emmanuel o ne: which aims 1o certaln dseast through mental sugaestion [with Rev. Dr. Worcester |vector in Boston. It i persons suifering from have been benefited by tne [torded them by this method | however, plenty of duubters of 1l |and the wisdom of this form « h ac- |tivity. AU the recenc N i congress In Boston the ko > ment was thoroughiy discussed, among the speakers being tint b level-headed physician, Dr. Thom lington, commissioner of health in York City. Dr. Darlington pointed out danger to the church in this He declared that Dr. Worce assoclutes were practicing a medicine. and while physiclans tors might well he co-workers fessions should forever renain While gihing due welght to the fect of optimism and persuasion to faith in God by a pastor In the sick room, he held that the pastor who has not studied medicine wouid do wrong to attempt ex- tended practicé as a healer. The chutch, he said, had at many in the past sutfered from quackery. He maintain:d that if psychotherapy should become a function of the church the opportunities of deceivers would be multiplied. Eveiy Intelligent person who has looked at all into. the subject of mental and spiritual healing fully realizes that the daocioi's warning Is timely POINTED PLEASANTRIES “He s a lovely judge! “Tll bet 1 know the answer “Well 7 ‘He did not ask you how old Yes he did, too; he asked ~Houston Post a a a e re i nnd cure had an claimed that m ne Piscopal vous trou by atm s There ars, Cicae prom ent and 1 N he movement. ter mud his branel of and o helr pros eparate. good ef- times 2 ““The old man told me if | marry his daughter, | to work." “‘Weli, did you work? “You bet I did. 1 worked ¢ more American. would <0ld boy, that oration of peach.” “It wasn't 5o bad. 1 had—er—piuned it down till it was just about the right size.’ —Chicago Tribune. yours ‘Ted—1 hear he's giving a lecture on “How to Live on Fifteen Cents & Day."" Is he doing well with it? Ned—Fine. 1 met him after the lecture and he dinner.—Puck. In & restaurant was ecating a §2 “I don't know how to refuse him “Accept him, start a flirtatfon with othar fellow and when your flance ge break off the engagement.”—Lu Courler-Journal mad i e “I have a theory that their choice of tlowers plants are indications of pe #ons’ characters. What do you think of it ? t may be. There is Mrs. Gadding. who I8 Intensely curfous about her neighbors business. Well, her house is full of rubber plants.”—Baltimore American Mrs. Ferguson—George, you neadn’t 80 suspiciously at that cold meat needs is a little garnishing. Mr. Ferguson—Great Peter. [aniu leghl process necessary in ordc | off the table!— 0 Tribune OUR VOLUNTEERS William Everett Jillsor Leaving home and peace and pless Father, mother, brother, friend Maiching to the drumbeat's meys Onward to the bloody énd, Al s a Y in name and fctio Ready ever, brave and true Fearing no_ rebelllous faction Southward moved the boys in b Four long years of warfare weal Years of pain and deadly strife In the swamps and thicke(s dreary Fought they for the nation's Iif Many fell on field of battie Faces set against the foe. Requiem sad the musket's rattic Boom of cannon deep and low Others died from forced starvation Died from sickness, prison-crime, Volunteers, they gave the nation All of life, a gift sublime. Others still, the warfare ended As the years have since gone by, “Mustered out,”” have homeward wended, Joined the G. A. R. on high On the hilisides they are sleeping In the city of the dead, Past the suff'ri; d ' the weeping Angel guards and God o'erhead. Oft Is found some headstone nameleas, “Unknown" is the title mere Yet the hero lies not fameless Known to all-a volunteer Let us cull a floral off'ring Lay it on their resting place, Well-won tribute gently proffring To the noblest of our race. Gloried be these heroes loyal, Well the battle they have fought Privileged we with task most royal Honoring thus what they have wrought [ -