The Detroit times. [volume], February 10, 1912, LAST EDITION, Image 10

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£ V MSH rattier h«v« ttie good wffT and aid or a newspaper
Kullb 0 ptnMlattOff of 30 000 that ta taken home and read In
#lO family, than to hova that of ana with a circulation of a
rHfftin that la only looked at and thrown Into the gutter.—
t MAYOR OAYNOR. OF NEW YORK.
ENERGY WASTED
K
I Secretary of the Treasury Fisher came back from Alaska with a nng-
Kng declaration in favor of “the construction by the federal government
Ika central trunk liae railroad from tidewater to th*- Tanana and Yukon
I Thera was a great deal of speculation indulged in at the time as to
Htaf president Taft would look upon this recommendation.
I Thoae who knew Secretary Fisher advanced the opinion that if the
Kugasidant refused to coincide, there would be a break in his cabinet which
■ wouldn’t have to be forced by public opinion.
lE* - ” •
President Taft pondered long upon the subject and finally brought
Birth this idea in his Alaska message :
“THE CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILROAD AND OWNERSHIP IN FEE
iBO HOT NECESSITATE GOVERNMENT OPERATION/’
I . President Taft opines that we can lease “the railroad on terms which
Epay be Aimed and changed to meet the growing prosperity and develop
|Mrt of the territory.”
I Got the president, please.
E, It is this way:
The people advance millions of good, hard American dollars, send out
Ejßgteeen end construction crews into the frozen mountains in this region,
pmd create a great trank line to open the riches there to the energies of
THE PEOPLE FURNISH ALL OF THE MONEY.
THE PEOPLE DO ALL OF THE WORK.
I TEE PEOPLE ASSUME ALL OF THE RISK.
THE PEOPLE BORE AND SHOVEL, BUILD BRIDGES, DIG TUN
IIELS, LAY TRACK AND DRIVE SPIKES, AND ALL THAT.
K And then the railroad IS TURNED OVER TO A WALL-ST. SYNDI
|GATR, which will have the benefit of the people's money and the people's
■work in its endeavors from that time on, which endeavors will consist
hutilT of robbing the people, by first taking out of the earth that whicn
I belongs to the people and next by selling it to the people at the highest
Kpnible price it can squeeze out of them.
I „ , How does it sound to you ?
Ptnef
I We think HOT!
How the Guggenheim* should love Taft!
He has shown them how their own methods of exploiting Alaska may
Be beatea to a frassle.
■T. * —-
Heretofore they have thought it necessary to dig up the money them-
Kgelves to build railroads and get access to the rich mines of the interior.
p, r jnt Taft would have Uncle Sam build the railroads and then turn
Etipea over to corporations to operate “ON TERMS THAT MAY BE VARIED
ahd changed to meet the growing Prosperity and DE
VELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY.” j
r Something may perhaps be said in favor of a policy that should give
|b rich reward to private capital in return for risks incurred in opening a
*ynw country to development, but ABSOLUTELY NOTHING can be said in
ibvor of a policy that should make the government assume the risks while
private capital gets the rich reward.
The Fisher policy as originally announced commanded the confidence
of the oountry.
The Fisher policy, after having been turned over in the Taft mind.
[%pQl shook the oountry as either a piece of monumental stupidity or a
wretched betrayal of public interests.
B?f To Secretary Fisher himself, however, it presents a supreme oppor-
Butt?-
Let him fight for the opening of Alaska by means of railroads built,
|OWHED and OPERATED at COST by the government FOR THE BENEFIT
Lg 4T.T. THE PEOPLE, or let him tell President Taft that as secretary of
Khi interior the way he has suggested is his way, and that if it doesn't suit,
EL had better get another man.
Secretary Fiiher shows himself to be a thinker far in advance of the
| Taft thoughts, and entertains a respect for the popular will that is sadly
Kgßt of place in the present administration, and he does himself an in
| justice by remaining a part of it if his efforts to solve the Alaskan sitna-
Ebb SIGHT and in the best interests of the MANY, have received all the
- xaoognition they are to receive in the Tatt turn-down.
Berger, the Socialist
f The one Socialist member of con
gross. Victor Berger, of Milwaukee,
Mace be first came to Washington a
BSeT ago. has grown continuously in
tbe favorable opinion of those who
observed his official career.
Ilfeiabera who apprehended that be-
Bpnae be was a Socialist be would be
Karecsonable, and impoasibty radical,
f have been disappointed. Mr. Berger
I rarely takes extreme ground. During
t the consideration of the tariff on steel
[ be said *
rwe have built entire Industrie* tip
Adolf Will Have to Adopt More Effective Measures Mr. --- Bv Condo
\ If" ,1
picc *AQHiNc*r. \ . Snooping ifjjl rill ( 1 I>ON * D ,acc /
SVTTJZSL2? J ■ yi il it \\sks./
on the tariff. They cannot stand a
i quick and total reduction. That would
I unsettle conditions, close workshops
: and deprive thousands of wage darn
,erc of their Jcbs.
But Mr. Berger permitted no doubt
that he would vote for present Demo
cratic reduction:
j I am going to vote with the Demo
{ because they. are -taking off
some of the duty on iron and steel,
and because the working class does
not get any benefit from the tariff
as It is. ,
| There is not a Demceral -or a Re
publican In either the house or senate
who considers himself sufficiently
free from Ms party ties to take a
stand on the tariff as fair and reason
able as Mr Berger’s.—Mark Sullivan.
| in Collier’s.
Editorial Page of The betroit Times
DIANA DILLPICKLES.
There are those who nee symbolism
In the Diary of Diana Dillpickles.
They interpret It as typifying the
feminine unrest in this that It repre
sents women groping through her
ever-enlarging sphere modern era of
complex activity—of opportunity for
something to hold onto when she be
ccmes dizzy. These people may be
more profound than the rest of us. All
we can see in Diana Dillpickles Is a
girl who is bitterly stung every time
she strays out of the humdrum of life.
And still she isn’t satisfied. "Ah. me,’’
she sighs, "existence Is a prune.’’
The question also arises: Why
doesn’t Diana ever marry? Huh. why
doesn’t she! Because her destiny has
been more kind than her judgment
was admirable. She has had some
narrow escapes, but they were on the
side of good luck. Once ahe was en
gaged to a mild form of poet, but
they took him away In time, else she
would be supporting him at the walrtr
tub right now. Another flame of hers
shone by reason of a l>ogus title of
nobility, and when that was exposed
he flickered out. There was also - a
very nice young man who was her
steady company for a while and was
a g'»od spender. Too good, in fact,
for plana had to dismiss him. Her
verdict was: “Mr. Swath plunged too
recklessly for a fellow who has to
From Another Point of View
Thirteen below? Guess that groundhog Isn’t a wise old owl.
• • • •
A Des Moines man by the name of Longfellow’ advertises for a domestic.
Why doesn't he Hiawatha?
_ • • • •
Anyhow this has been a good seasou for the man who takes a drop
just because the mercury does.
« • • •
There is a political question soon to betome an issue in these dlg
ein's. to this effect: "Why is a county auditor?’’
■ a a a •
On the other hand the case of Auditor Charles Buhrer reminds us that
there are "watchdogs,’’ also, which bark but never bite.
• • • •
A plea of res adjudlcata has been entered by Lorlmer. Somehow we
had an Idea all along that the proceedings would run up against something
of the sort, whatever it is.
$ f g i
We know aom# things about Auditor Charles Buhrer. dean of public
Jobholders, which make us wish wo didn’t have a cra< ked lip when we find
him posing,as the watchdog of taxpayers’ interests. _____
A barber, called as an expert witness In the Kimmel case for the pur
pose of identification, swore that « man’s whiskers never change their di
rection. Now the other side ought to call someone like Charley Hughes
and bav* him relate his experiences In a wind storm.
#■> a<• a •
Will the judge kindly put Chauncey Hammond place where we
won’t have to read how cool and collected he was and how nattily he was
dressed as he entered court. Were tired of this for breakfast: "Ham
mond Cool," "Hammond. Debonair and Smiling." "Hammond Confident."—
We are wlillng to trade for Hammond eggs.
Who’s Who In The Comics
Hy FRFO SCHAEFER.
Winter Sports—Bowling
punch a time clock.” Evidently Diana
does not care to exchange her prune
for a lemon. But some day she will
find the right man. although It may
be the result of accident.
Miss Dillpickles has had her fling
at being
a sleuthess a housemaid
a forelady a clerk
, ~ ~ a chauffeuse
a bridesmaid tt lady
an avlatrix a blcycliste
a near-heiress a physical In
a stenog. strurtress
a suffragette • a promoter-iu*
Etc. Etc. Etc.
What will she try next?
Duun. She Is still young and vigor
ous and is pulsing along, watching
the Want Ads. and avoiding worry.
As she annexes new adventures she
promptly Inscribes them In her diary,
and by the time she is a silvery-haired
old lad*\ sunning herself on the piaz
za of the Old Folks’ Home, she will
rfiave a rare volume of experiences to
pore over. She doesn’t think she will
I over write too much. “Nobody wants
ito gag a cackling hen. - she says, and
1 she considers her adventures some
! thing worth cackling about,
i You may have missed it. but Diana
Dillpickles has been dramatized in the
moving pTcTUTBi; —One of her adven
tures had a long run under the title
of "The Saleslady's Matinee Hero.”
—From I hlcago Journal.
His stage name was Tremayne Mar
blebrow and she worshiped him from
afar as a bird of Paradises. One day
she chanced upon him in his barnyard
or domesticated state, and the bubble
burst. Diana herself never cared
much for that film. The gist of the
.■ , ' *
Dillpickles
story had been pretty faithfully appro
priated. but with the had taste that
too often prevails in the moving pic
ture studios so much rough-house
comedy had been Interpolated in her
shattered romance that she consid
-ered the omission of all credit to her
pen the most redeeming feature.
The Venom of Interest-
Owned Newspapers
The more the Detroit publications
excoriate Gov. Osborn, if they can as
sign no better reasons than they have
heretofore, the more us humble back
country citizens will respect him.
And. be it noted, that Gov. Osborn
has *otten into no single controversy
durirg his incumbency of the gov
ernor f office, except it has been with
parties to or relics of a former poli
tical era, that became a stench in the
nostrils of the whole state. —Ann Ar
bor Tlmes-News.
i *
Drllntf C.rouad.
••What candidate do /on intend to
support?'’ /
"I can't say,” replied the eminent
editor. "Os course, f have made up my
mind whom I prefer. Hut I haven't
yet obtained the gentleman's consent,
to publlclv » v r"v favorable
.. r .inl.-n —Washington Star. ' ~ ,
Andrew t'erncsie Is dunning
Uncle Sam for $28.70 witness fees
for telling the Stanley committee
that he doesn’t know anything about
the steel business.
E. C. Dunkirk, a Kansas City car
penter, paid his last $1.50 for a
license for the dog that saved his
child's life.
The situation iu the Republican party 1m u ' very complex one and no
matter how wise the leaders may prove to be and no matter who Is nora
mated, it looka at tHa Juncture na thtmgfi the nexTipreeldent of tfa* ttultad
s.atea would be a democrat—Juit that, a little **d" democrat.
If President Taft should win at Chicago It seems palpably Improbable
that he would be able to capture a majority of the electoral vote in spite
of the opposition of the real progressives ui the party, who would logical
ly and fneviti.bly throw their support to a progressive Democratic candi
date, if the Jeffersonians name the right tnwn.
if Theodore Rbosevelt should chance to be the nominee of the Chicago
convention he w/>ul 1 be up against the formidable Taft forces who would,
with tho instincts of the human, rejolco lu his defeat.
He wntlTd be u p against the antagonism of the ardent friends of La-
Follette, who consider the Badger state senator the logical candidate of
insurgency.
He would be up agalust the powerful public sentiment which frowns
on a third term.
He would be uty against the quite general feeling that the ex-presl
dent has not given his own candidate, President Taft, a ‘square deal,”
and It is a fact to conjure with that the American people love fair play.
He would be up ngainst the memory of the 1907 panic with Its steel
trust merger and his consent to that ewullowing of the Tennessee com
pany by the Morgan-Rockefeller octopus. *
He would be up against his opposition to the Taft administration
peace treaty, and in these days of ultra progression, that word “peace” la
melody to the common ear.
And lastly In enumeration, but not In Importance, he might be up
against Woodrow Wilson who, in addition to his great ability and tidal
wave popularity, seems to have a luck not even second In goodnees to tho
onetime famous Roosevelt bland.
With such a muchness of “up-agalnstness” to contend with, there is
evidently ground for a reasonable doubt as to the ahlitty of the one-time,
and In a measure, yet, Idol of the populace, to land.
If loiFollette should be nominated and Wilson should be nominated,
it would be the woods for the reactionaries who are some in numbers, and
probably the presidency for the Jersey governor, for nearly all Demo
crats could and would presumably unite on their man, while many Kepub»
beans who view LaFollettelsm with*a certain amount of apprehension be
cause of its supposed excessive radicalism, would support the democratic
nominee.
And, anyway, we guess that there are more progressives In the Demo
cratic party, than in the Republican party.
Or, if Wilson and l,aFollette should both happen to win in the party
conventions, it wouldn’t be at all surprising If the believers til “safe and
saneness” would put up a dignified ticket, which might afTord salve for poli
tical soreness, but wouldn’t make any serious alterations In the political
map of the I'nlted States.
It is evident from a conference of leading progressives recently held in
New York, that they are up In the air in the matter of a candidate.
They have practically rejected LaFollette and are not sure that Roosevelt
will make the run. This conference was participated iu by such big onea
as Medlll McCormick, the Pinchot Brothers, Governor Johnson and Ex-
Senator Beveridge. •
These men are stranded in a drift of “lfs.”
In the meantime, Taft and his followers are taking on new hope, and
political signs point to an easy Taft victory in the "windy city.”
And. again, in the meantime, the Wilson sentiment in thp Democratic
party and throughout the nation is assuming the proportions of a steam
roller and seems destined to decide the result before the date of a battleless
buttle at Baltimore and without even the delight of a friendly fight.
But, anyway, there will be plenty of fireworks after June.
Linfcoln as a Humorist
The Ignoring of Abraham Lincoln a 3
a humorist is doubtless due to the fact
that he has been taßen at his word,
for he used to say emphatically. "I
am not a manufacturer, but a retailer
o! stories.” Yet as a retailer and Job
ber of jokes he unconsciously became
a merchant -flhlnce in literature, after
the order of Shakespeare, who took
the cold, dead works of those who
had gone before and gave them
warmth and life unending. In his
keen admiration of the would-be hu
morous writings that were then the
fad. Lincoln never dreamed that the
stories he was telling to ease the fric
tion and amuse th# people he met
daily would be told over and over
long after the skits of the scribblers
of the hour were forgotten.
Another factor has entered into the
neglect of Lincoln as a wit and humor
ist. Many of the stories attributed t#
Lincoln —some of them Impure anl
wanting In wit—were never told by
him. 'Hiis false tradition has werred
to obscure the wit of the emancipator.
Abraham Lincoln could uot have
moved the world with his long story
lever," prying over human nature as
a fulcrum. If he had not been "Honest
\be” In his fun as well as in his sober
dealings of life. His stories were as
illustrative and sib with nature as the
fables of Aeson.
Colonel Silas W. Burt and several
military friends called on President
Lincoln on business for Governor
Seymour, of New York, late one even
lng In the summer of ’t»3. As they
A POEM A DAY.
VI9IO*.
Give me a breadth of vision which
Will see my littleness —
The petty limits of this soul—
And raise me from the stress
Os self-distrust, of cramping fear.
Os somber bitterness
Glvt me the depth of vision, too.
To look far. far within
This self that Is at war with self.
Help me to discipline
Imagination, and to rule . .
The realm where thought* begin.
G*e me the height of vision which
\\ 111 raise me from desponu.
To see whereto I may ascend
When I have hurst the bond
That holds me. striving struggling for
The Freedom of Beyond.
Muriel K. Wind ram. In the lump*
ton Magazine.
Saturday, February 10,
1912
The Situation
H>- UKOftUIC .V. KKKHiI.
were about to leave, one of the men.
a certain major under the Influence
of liquor, leered at Mr. Llucoln and,
slapping him on the leg, said:
"Mr. President, tell us one of your
good stories”—with significant em
phasis on the "good.” Colonel Burt
thus refers to the mortification:
"If the floor had opened and drop
ped me out of sight I should have been
happy. The president drew himself
up, and turning his back as far as
possible upon the major, with great
dignity addressed the rest of us, say
ing:
“ I believe I have the popular repu
tation of being a story-teller, bat I do
rot deserve the name in Its general
cense, for it Is not the story itself,
but Its purpose or effect that interests
me. I often avoid a long and useless
discussion by others, or a laborious
explanation on my own part, by a '
short story that Illustrate* my point
of view. So, too. the sharpness of a
refusal or the edge of a rebuke fMV
be blunted by an appropriate story so
as to save wounded feelings and yet
serve the purpose. No. I am not sim
ply a story-teller, but story-telling na
an emollient saves me much friction
end distress.* ’* —Wayne Whipple, in
the February Hampton.
One of the moat popular of the ma
trons in Oreek official society at
Athens i» Mme.
Coromllas, t h e
daughter of former
Senator Cockrell
of Missouri. She
married the pres
ent Grecian minis
ter of finance wheo
he was at Wash
iagton as the rep
resentatlve of th«
king of Greece. Sh*
Is one of fe*
American girl ß wtat
have made good a
foreign capitals.
• • •
Such a spend
thrift Is John D
Archbold. Stand
ard Oil multi-mil
lionaire. He gave
the chifrch of his
na’lve village a
SIOO organ.
About. People.
I Bjfa» •• H
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Mme. Coromllas