The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1911, Page 4

Gratien THE SEATTLE You Cheered Too Soon cheered too soon, Gentle Reader. pular election of United States senators has not passed com he Borah resolution passed the senate and it passed the house 5 but it did not pass Vice President James 8, Sher ofr man You see, there was a alight difference in the bill as tt passed the house and as {t pass senate. This required a conference be tween the house and senate to adjust the difference in the two bills. A committee had to be appointed for this purpose. But rman bad the appointment of that committee, He ts op posed to ction of senators by the people. So he appointed sen @torlal o who would do ta thelr power NOT to adjust the senate and house bills, but to deadlock and bury the Borah resolution fa conference, and that is what happ The senate conferees appointed | Wyoming and Bacon, The house cou Coury Nelson fought the Borah resolution in committee and did all he could publicly and to defeat the general proposition. Clark of Wyoming is a notorious opponent of popular government. He fought) Borah in and out of the judiciary committee, and his speeches and) votes leave no doubt as to where he stands. Bacon of Georg! standpat democrat Olmstead is one of the old Tawney-Cannon clique Rucker ot Missouri was ready to oppose the Bristow amendment, even at the cost of defeating the resolution. In the hands of this loaded conference committee the f lution is buried, and is to remain buried. If they “get away” with this program, the fight for popular elec tion of senators will probably have to be waged all over agalo Will the people remain quiet while they are being tricked in this fashion? erman are Nelson, Clark of pes are Ob ad, Rucker and ah reso ONE FOR YOUR WIFE ONLY. “T have a terrible toothache and want something to cure it” “Now, you don't need any medicine. I had a toothache yee terday, and I went home and my loving wife kissed me and #0 consoled me that the pain soon passed away, Why don’t you try the same?” “I think I will, Is your wife at home now?" —Everybody's. GOOD EVENING! What's the matter with THIS brand of weather? Beattio’s air is like wine, and her skies of deepest blue. We've got @ regular health resort in the midet of @ great commercial city. Have Mercy, If Not Sens Estimated value of Alaska coal, fifteen billion dollars. “Worth getting,” think the Guggenhetme. “Worth saving,” think the American ought to. Why, that coal pile would make fifteen Rockefeller fortunes! Really, fellow-citizens, would you deliberately pile fifteen more Rockefellers on the backs of your children? Can't you have some mercy for the babies? WARN MAMMA ABOUT THIS. A child of strict parents, whose greatest joy had hitherto been the weekly prayer-meeting, was taken by fts nurse to the circus for the first time. Wher he came bome, be exclaimed “Oh, mamma! If you once went to the cireus, you'd never, pever go to prayer-meeting again tm all your life.”—Tit-Bits, A GOAT was arrested for burglary in thie city yesterday. We have heard of goats eating bill boards and tin cans, but thie particular ani- mai leads his class in novelty. Observations EAS™, Dr. Wiley, easy! When you go for to undermine our pre cious brewery interests, be sure to lay a long fuse to your explosive. o 6 @ HUMAN EARTHQUAKE” is the new name for Gor. Bass of New He certainly has stirred up some extensive old frauds. o o ° STOREKEEPERS around Harvard college say students are get- every year. Just listen’ Bet you can’t find 26 eo eye MARGARET ANGLIN, says the press agent, will open the season “Green Stockings.” Say, if that’s all, Mary Garden bad better be to ber laurels. o ° ° “BEEF supremacy lost to United States—gone to South America,” gays Armour. All right, Ogden! Beef got so bigh some time ago that ‘We cut it out, except as a juicy memory. o 6 © MARTINEZ, “the hermit of Broadway,” who wanted to escape & Yeligions atmosphere, died at 88 years, after 20 years in a hotel. Ha @ecaped that atmosphere in Broadway, all right. o o °o AND now Paris says the reason she discarded the harem skirt was Decause it was “improper.~ Ob, you Patee! If you're going to spring @is propriety game, we're going to quit right now. oO o o PENNSYLVANIA railroad manager asks his men to be kind to act- ors, theatrical managers and theatrical agents. How do they pick them out? By their dogs, long hair or soiled collars? oO ° ° LATEST auto kink is a company which issues bulletins telling you where you can speed, where to expect the police and just how to Break the law most safely. Talk about the luxury of travel! o o oe SAN DIEGO man cave his prospective mother-in-law a beating and then at once married her daughter. Maybe he's the fellow who invented the notion about “taking time by the forelock.’ : ——— SST == = In the Editor’sM 1 take my | Would be nothing less than © high- bat off to The Star for up-to-date- | handed outrage. ess along practical lines of pro-| We all know that there is enough ve reform of all kinds. Next/|coal in Alaska to flood this country want to say that while I helped for a century. If this ts presented recall {and would do so or leased to individuals shall mn under similar circumstances) hear of one company after another now under the new and unex- Organized with millions of watered conditions I join The Star's | stock sold to widows and orphans. stop it for the following | Then, on account of the superabund- ance of coal, one concern after an- other will fail and in the en@ there will be one big company in the hiditor Seattle Star: reasons: 1—We had a right to expect the hearty support of the great body) of former recallers which we have not had. 2—With the quick action that should have given us, we would have been ready for the cor- ing special election September 5. 8—No one then knew of the new law requiring recall candidates to get 5 per cent of the votes on a pe tition of nomination. 4—The absolute refusal of proper available candidates to run under) the handicap imposed by the oner- ous conditions. 6—Pailure of the recall, if car- red to the point of election, would so muddle and confuse the mind of the public that it would make suc- lof watered stock will be sold to widows and orphans, and even even if the government ever should attempt to regulate prices it will be expected to keep them high enough to pay dividends on all of this water. Let us give fair warning to all widows and orphans that this coal fa the bounty of nature which be- longs to all the people and !f the) powers that be proceed to take it) away from us we shall just as cer- tainly tax {t back to ourselves, or roe gre with our own mines if we goss tn the election of March, 1912, aeons, nn, arin fy peel impossible. 1 Wi t Rambss that the thventor sete] wang soon etarg aed grr up and pulls down a good many ©x | must look after themselves, so let periments before he succeeds. them take heed. : Yours truly, G, N. HODGDON Editor Star: find petition in regard to Alaska coal iands. If the government builds a rail road to the coal fields and turus the) fields over to private ers tt! REAL ESTAT | An. old established office, fully equipped in every department of real estate. Racos at Madison park, five days, starting Tuesday, August 16. A clean meet. eee ALBERT B.LORD NORTHERM BANK BLOG. THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1911. a TS ETD Supposing a fly cackled every me she laid an egg? No, Gerald, !t ts not proper to woar high wireedged collar at an aviation meet. The newspapers say Hetty Green's son is to marry, but hasn't chosen his bride. Next they will print some of the million letters he'll get, Greece imports “every pound of coal that {t consumes, What Do We Care? Canned peas will be 60 per cent higher this year, But we never have them at our boarding house, A New Version. ~- The called an A. D. T., “Heck, take this pardon, boy,” sald he; “Go fast to the gallows yard,” he' wala. ba (right). undred vlaee 60 on hands and knees, accumulating @ fine collection of dust and cobwebs, and maybe no opium. Just happened te Inepector Benninger, when this picture wae taken. But between now and January 1,| mediately taken al 912, greater efforts than ever Xtil ime boat which Bevery =, ro be made to ship big quantities of| days later the price of oplum drop Ba, pd ah Farge 4 Se customs|ped. The mattress had o cers of the Pacific Const ports.|the drug. Special belts raising must stop.| Teday the opium ring of Hong Kong) dozen or oo of tins of oan Uncle to help China in ite | 19 planning a smuggling campaign reform, branded lum as qontra-\on a far greater scale than ever band and ordered {t confiscated! before, for with opium poppy grow- and destroyed wherever found in| ing stopped, it means the death of this country. smugeling,@ad the end of the huge On January 1, 1912, opium poppy| profits. The ring must make its in China will be entirely big cleanup between now and Jan- hed. The intervening twojuary 1. This is the word that has @ half years has given the) reached the customs officers at the differeat Pacific Coast ports. The smuggling bas been going on for two years and a half. At first, | using the coolies employed on the | trans-Pacifie liners as agents, the ring smuggled successfully without much effort. Tighter and tighter qe Uncle Sam drew.the guards until 4 cu smuggling became an art, As Uncle i. Sam got onto bis pom ha China skinning his on the left) what been found on men who canned his hired hands, ; He didn't point bis compass for the bright and happy lands; He merely drifted with the tide and let the lions roar, And when the Ark went on the beach he knew he struck the shore. When Barnum launched his greatest; show he owned a crippled are proving fine stamping for them. 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