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TIIE EVENING STAR,
With Sunday Xoralaf Bdition.
WASHINGTON.
SUNDAY December 29. 1912
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THEODORE W. NOTES Editor
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Two Objections to Mr. Bryan.
The latest reasons offered by his opponents
why Air. Bryan should not be
appointed Secretary of State are f 1 > that
be is not on terms with either Speaker
'lark or Leader Underwood, and CD his
views about the Philippines might precipitate
trouble. Neither is weighty.
It is not likely that either .Mr. Clark
or Mr. Underwood will ever again be on
ordial terms with Mr. Bryan. He has
injured .Mr. Clark deeply. But for him
the Missourian would now he awaiting
naiiguration as President of the United
States. And he has offended Mr. Under- ,
wood deeply. He has in effect charged
tlie Alabamian with being a near-repubtican.
and with shaping his tariff policy
In the House somewhat according to his
personal interests?a charge which Mr. ,
Underwood has resented with well justified
warmth. I
But as Secretary of State Mr. Bryan
would be little If at all thrown with either (
the Speaker or the leader of the House (
about business, and he could meet them
t social functions without embarrass i.
m ..n .ith.T ode Recent ions are large.
>i t ings are formal. They might man ue
it ;.s "ships that pass in the night."
\s fin the Philippines. Congress will
-ettlc whatever question or questions
ina> arise as to them. Not even Presll.-nt
Wilson will of his own motion be
to ilo anything of importance bear ig
nil the present status of the islands.
inure? took them over, the Senate rat\,ng
the treaty with Spain?and Con,
,-ss could block any movement tending
.ow.ird their alienation. Before the flag
.unes down over there, or any material
tiling is done to limit American control,
the people will express themselves
;hrough Congress. The individual views
l the man presiding over the State Department.
whoever he may be. will of
themselves determine nothing.
Is .Mr. Bryan any more committed on
.!:? subject of the Philippines than any
:lor democratic leader? Did not all of
hem accept the declaration of the Baltinore
platform on the subject. So that
. oint is of no value.
But. as a matter of fact, did the voters
who carried the day In November for the
Baltimore platform give the Philippine
aroblem any real consideration? Was it
lot a mere flourish? Was It not ob5.
urcd in the campaign by the demonstrations
about the tariff and the trusts?
irowned out by the tom-tommlng about
predatory wealth and the high cost of
? ;ving? Were not the people stirred up by
lie talk about the dinner pail rather than
?ny thought of the little brown brother
.in the other side of the earth?
'PU. 4 *?.... i? I U..4 sa. 2? 1m
I lit' II'IIHUI > IS IIU(IUHI, UUl II IS gOIIlg '
X) Ix- a mid. not to say an arctic, day '
n the Philippines when Uncle Sam. grow- '
ng indifferent to his obligations, scuttles, s
*nd leaves the islands to a fate resem- '
Dling anarchy.
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The Fine-Taking Maryland Constable
Investigation of the conditions attend
Pi: tin mulcting of District automobilists 1
n Montgomery county, Md., discloses <
tacts tiiat are certainly not conducive to I
-onfidenec in the legitimacy of the pro- s
- dings. It appears that the officer who t
. id up the autoniohlHsts Sunday last and ;
barged them from five to fifteen dollars
'or failure to have their license tags
i .-idly'" fastened to the bodies of their (
-i.achines is not a deputy of the sheriff of ,
county, hut one of the constables ]
ind< i the control of the county commls- |
?o?ners The clerk of the county com- ]
nitsioners lias stated that that body has
.. knowledge of Its offi rr's action, and
tat an investigation is to be Instituted ,
n iIk- next meeting, Tuesday. Under the ]
:>>i?in that prevails In Maryland the con'ablc
may, apparently, get busy on his
on authority and Is under no requirement
to account directly to the county
- iiiniissloners for the fines that he exacts
n sumniarj fashion from the motorists,
ut is supposed to transmit them, through
.In magistrate whom he has selected for 1
ni; purpose, to the state official at An- !
eapolis. Thus, although this officer Is i
md) r our jurisdiction, he can apparently !
i.nore it arid work through a self-selected
!< di Jin, with no direct check upon his
t tivitb-s
In this unsatisfactory state of the law '
't is olrvious that the Washington motor- '
sts are exposed to limitless annoyance.
f"h? sheriff disclaims responsibility, the '
- unty commissioners also disclaim re'ponslbllity,
and the constable is free, It
s ould seem, to work as he wishes without ]
i n \* V. Iurl r-i noo o?*<l iev 1"
tiili"! '?- ?' v, a ji'l IV HIT niv VI 11 ll" 1
trantly dls<riminatory enforcement of the i
aw against the class of motorists from 1
whom tin state already derives a large
? venue. The District has good ground
or ompUint In this matter, and It is to
j? hoi>? l that the <*ommissiouers will ,
iiako vigorous representations to the ,
jovernor of Maryland, In addition to the
nquiry already addressed to him, relative
u the loose system of law enforcement
ind tine collection which exists at least
11 Montgomery eounty.
Mr. Rockefeller's advice, "Save your
jennies," has not brought forth lntignant
protest that he Is plagiarising
rotn Ben Franklin.
It is doubtful whether Monticello was
v.t as great a care to Jefferson as it
uts been to his admirers among later
venerations.
The Clapp Committee.
It is stated that the Clapp Investigates
committee will broaden Its work and
i v to uncover something that will assist
n shaping more effective legislation
caring upon the use of money In political
ampaigns. An excellent idea.
So far. the committee's labors have not
>een very productive. Nothing of great
niportance ha? been developed. None
>r the witnesses has "turned In" anythli?
> a nature sustaining any of the lurid
rarns which called the committee into
>eing. The public knows little more than
t knew before tha committee was aptofnted.
There is no criticism of the committee
n this statement. It has called to the
witness chair the men indicated by the
lature of the inquisition, and others sug;eated
by them, and put questions deggncd
bring out the Information
sought. But the rewards have been
small. Even Mr. Hearst, from Wham
much had been expected, was a disappointment
as a witness. He had already
emptied his sack in his magazine and
newspapers. ?
Too much may have been expected.
The public for years had been fed
on round numbers, until it was gorged
with indignation and curiosity on the
subject of campaign boodle., All estimates
of collections and expenses 'were
large.. Item: Mr. Ifanha in the first McKlnley
campaign had spent' anywhere
from fifteen to twenty-five- rriillion dollars?a
gues'sin* leeway of a little old
ten millions. Item: Mr. Roosevelt had
been floated into office on a tide of
boodle. Item: But for enormous sums
collected in New York. Chicago. Cincinnati
and other centers. Mr. Taft would
have been beaten by Mr. Bryan.
While these assertions were absurd on
their face, they were repeated so often
they at last made a certain Impression
on a portion of the public, and a sentiment
was created for an Investigation of
at least two of the campaigns under
charges. Hehce the Clapp committee.
Publicity is an excellent cry. But *loes
publicity publish? Does the law as it now
stands work the reform desired and designed?
Do we get through the medium
of official reports all the moneys collected
and spent In political campaigns? Not
that officials falsify their, reports, but
that there are many ways of aiding
political campaigns with.money subscriptions
to regular campaign funds.
In this day of congressional investigations
everybody is on the alert for news
and reforms, and the task set for the
Clapp committee. while difficult, is
worthy of the most thorough treatment.
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Time and the Tariff.
August next is the latest date fixed in
popular speculation for supplanting the j
Payne law with the Underwood law. That
will give the new tariff a trial of some
fifteen months before the election when
the people will pass on the measure at
the polls. A new House and a third
of the Senate will be chosen in November.
1014.
A fair trial was considered important in
the case of the Payne law; and the trial
obtained was about the length of that set
for the Underwood law.
But the Payne law was condemned at
the polls. In fact, it went into the conTrpceiftn
n 1 onmnalirn nf Iftlll kandipanno/l
? ' * V VI *V V IIUIIUIV
t>y the divisions it had caused in the republican
party while shaping in Congress.
and it never recovered from their
effects. The republican defeat was
presaged a year before election day, and
would have taken place had the election
icen held in any month between the passage
of the law and November, 1910,
when it did take place.
In that contest, as in that of last fall,
he republicans defeated themselves. Mr.
""lark Is as much Speaker by the grace?
>r folly?of the opposition as Mr. Wilson
s President. Neither could have reached
lis place except through divided repubican
ranks. A united republican party
would have given Mr. Cannon a fifth
erm as Speaker and Mr. Taft a second
is President.
So that while time is an element In
rving out a new tariff law, it is not all
mportant. Of far greater consequence
s it to hold the revisers together in
heir work, and turn out a measure
with a solid party approval behind it.
rhey revise in vain who wrangle over
he task so bitterly as to provide the
jpposition with material for use on the
dump.
I.et the democrats take Warning. Let
Mr. Wilson, now that the campaign is
>ver, take a definite stand. I^t Mr.
1'nderwood and Mr. Bryan it possible
'ompose their differences about wool and
netals. Let such democrats as believe
in protection indicate where in their
iudgnient it shonld apply, and let such
lemocrats as. while decrying protection
is a steal yet want a share while the
dealing continues, state the amount of
he plunder they th!nk is coining to them.
*Cow is the accepted time; now the day
'or agreement. A little while and it may
ie too late.
Confession is good for the soul. Especially
when the truth is already known.
Everybody knows that the democrats are
divided on the tariff, that there are free
radcrs and protectionists in that party,
md all of us have Just seen an illustra:ion
of the fact that a party divided
against itself at the polls cannot stand.
Suspicion hovers densely over the
story that W. J. Bryan tried to buy
two terrapin for a dollar. Mr. Bryan
lias not been eating dollar dinners so
persistently as to fail to distinguish
between terrapin and mock turtle.
A demand for simplicity in afflkirs of
public importance does not imply^demand
for relaxation of standard^^if
taste. To be effectually simple is as
manners as It is in art, the height of '
elegance.
The English suffragettes who are
tampering with railway signals seem
letermined to show reasons why they
should be kept as far as possible from
my responsibilities involving human
safety.
Castro might get some valuable influence
in connection with his hopes
t>f becoming a resident if he could convince
the western agriculturists that
he Is willing to go to work as a farm
hand.
The postal savings bank and a parcel
post will leave no doubt of Mr. Hitchcock's
right to claim that he will leave
the Post Office Department much busier
than he found It.
Even the most sincere patriot is sometimes
compelled by his private circumstances
to look a government office
squarely in the salary envelope.
One great difficulty in regulating a
great stock exchange is that human
nature insists on the right to squander
its money on bad tips.
Every mention of Jack Johnson
awakens a wish in the minds of manv
that old John L. Sullivan were in his
prime.
A Tale of Near-Cannibalism.
Hall to Guy de Villepion. erstwhile correspondent
of the Russo-Japanese war,
onetime teacher in San Francisco, apparently
a general all-around sort of chap
who tires easily of the monotony of conventional
life and seeks excitement in the
out-of-the-way places of the earth. His
latest adventure is certainly of a sort to
satisfy the cravings for the unusual in
any breast. He has just returned to San
FYancisco from South America with a
story of a weird experience while trying
to cross from Ciudad to Buenos
Aires. He tells of encountering a strange
people, half way developed between apehood
and manhood, missing links of a
sort. They were not at all inhospitable
to the traveler. Indeed, they treated him
with great kindness. They gave him
plenty to eat and professed such affection
for Mm that they took precautions
to prevent his premature departure.
After a time he began to grow suspicious
of this hospitality and concluded that his
hosts appreciated him to a decidedly sinister
degree. Consequently he made his
departure secretly, and now he has
turned up In Ban Francisco- with this
thrilling story. One would be loath to
disbelieve so enterprising a narrator. The
plausibility of the tale Is undeniable.
Cannibalism may yet be practiced In outof-the-way
places, and although science
may scoff at the ape-man proposition, its
incredulity is of no Importance. The fact
that this returned traveler has told the
story is quite sufficient, for his immediate
purposes, which probably have to do with
the enlightenment of the public on the
subject at a good space rate.
The Indianapolis Verdict.
The result of the trial at Indianapolis,
in which forty labor union official? were
charged with complicity in the McXamara
dynamite plots. Is doubtless a surprise to
a majority of the people, who have feared
it would result either in a mistrial or a
wholesale acquittal for lack of evidence.
"CTiere has been, of course, no desire to
see any of the defendants convicted on
this charge unless they were in iaet
guilty. The charge itself, however, was
of such a nature as to make a mistrial or
an acquittal quite a possible result. Conspiracy
is one of the most difficult' of
crimes to prove, and it,Is therefore the
more remarkable that with so large a
field of defendants all hut two have been
adjudged guilty.
This verdict ought to have a wholesome
effect. The labor organisations of the
country were seriously shaken by the disclosures
in the MciNamara case at L<os
Angeles:1 and now it appears from the
verdict of the jury at Indianapolis that
the outrage there was only part of a general
policy of destruction and revenge
practiced by one of these organizations.
The trial was conducted with great deliberation.
covering many weeks, with the
defendants ably represented, and with a
wide range of testimony that gave thejury
the fullest possible light upon the
whole matter. Of course, there will be
appeals, and possibly a reversal of the
verdict, but in any case the warnihg to
organized labor , to steer clear of dynamiters
and the policy of violence Is distinct
and pointed.
No March to Washington!
The lamentable spectacle of women
marching to Albany to present a petition
to Gov. Sulzer in behalf of equal
suffrage may. it is now reported, be repeated
in February in the tramp of a
squad of women from New York to
Washington to lay a similar petition before
President Wilson immediately after
his inauguration. Surely wiser counsels
will prevail and this ridiculous plan be
abandoned. A walk t'o Washington
in February would be certain to
be attended with great hardships
and might even endanger the lives
of those engaging in it. The survivors
of such a march, on reaching
Washington, would be objects of pity
rather than sympathy, and it is quite certain
that they would have far less influence
in the way of enlisting the supnort
of the new administration than
though they came here in dignity and
comfort and laid their case before the
President as do other people who have
a cause to advance.
Occasionally Mayor Gaynor is quoted
in a way suggesting doubts whether
some of those old-time celebrities
would have walked into undying fame
so easily if they had been compelled
to meet the difficulties of the New
York mayor's office.
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The proceedings in which Julian
Hawthorne is now involved, relating
to mining enterprises, recall that many
men who have been authorities in literature
were not authorities in finance.
Many democrats believe that Mr.
Bryan's close scrutiny of the subject
of free silver should enable him to
rc-cognize any economic fallacy as far
as he can see it.
Too much simplicity in an inauguration
would show a serious lack of consideration
for the country's great and
growing brass band industry.
SHOOTING STABS.
BY PHIbAN'DKR JOHNSON.
Successful Expedient.
"I tried to sing my youngest boy to
sleep." said Senator Sorghum, "but it
wouldn't work. Then I told him a story.
and that wouldn't work, cither."
"How did you get hirn to sleep?"
"My wife came to the rescue with one
of her clever suggestions. I delivered one
Of my speeches to him."
In Perplexity.
"Jo8iah," exclaimed the anxious mother,
"I wish you'd come here!"
"What's the trouble?"
"I don't know whether Gwendolyn is
having a spasm or practicing one of these
bew dances!"
The Climate.
The fickle climate frets us once again
With irritations that will not depart.
It merely thaws a little now and then
To give another freeze a better start.
Considerate.
"The trouble with Bliggins is that he
takes himself too seriously."
"He doesn't really." replied Alias Cayenne.
"His wife has gotten the impression
that he is a great man and he tries
to avoid dispelling the illusion."
The trouble about keeping a diary is
that when anything genuinely interesting
happens you haven't time to write about
it.
Economics in Miniature.
"I can't help thinkln'," said Farmer
Corntossel, "that things In general is a
good deal like they are down to Joe ;
Struthers' store."
"I have noticed." answered his wife,
"that you most always come back from
there with some ideas."
"Yes. And what struck me this time is .
that the folks that puts in the most time 1
talkln' loud about polities ain't the ones ;
that are doln' the real buyin' and sellln'." '
The Daily Dangle.
They sing about the dear old farm.
And of the leafy lane.
And of the village school whose charm
They cannot quite explain.
And since they wander through the map
While touching strains are sung,
I'll carol of the street car strap.
Where I have often hung!
How I swayed with courage stout.
Like some banner tossed about!
I almost learned to take a i.ttle nap.
With a cultivated twist
Of the muscles of my wrist,
I have dangled dally from the street
car strap!
We strive to view the roof o'erhead
With an expression sweet.
We say "Beg pardon!" as we tread
On one another's feet.
How proudly shines the polished place
Round whtch our hands we wrap,
As in suspension there we grace
The dear old street car strap!
How it helped to keep my nerve
As we went around the curve
And almost fell into somebody's lap.
I enjoy my only chance
At a modern ragtime dance
As I hang upon that dear old street car
strap.
FEDERAL ClILTOl
Fish, being one of the most important
foods, has been the subject of consideration
since the achievement
Beginning . of our national independof
Work ence* But "while several
WOTK. states ha4 fish commissions,
and .the American Fish Cultural Association,
now the American Fisheries Society,
was In existence prior to 1871.. no branch
of the government was charged with
this question until that year. But matters
of importance arising of both a
f Arniorn QnH rl Am oot (o no?n orocc
t vt vipi" uiiu uvmcoiiv uaiuic, wugitao
was influenced .to pass an act creating
the office of commissioner of flsh and
fisheries in 1871. its duties being to prosecute
"investigations and inquiries on the
subject, with a view of ascertaining
whether any and what diminution in the
number of the food fish of the coast and
the lakes of the United States had taken
place: and if so, to wHat causes the sime
is due: and also whether any and what
protective, prohibitory or precautionary
measures should be adopted in the premises."
Although nothing was attached to the
position of commissioner of fish and fisheries
but "honor and glory," a man. regarded
as pre-eminently qualified for the
new position was found, and Spencer Fullerton
Baird, then assistant secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, wgs given the
appointment. Commissioner Baird entered
upon his duties at once and continued as
the head of the commission "until ids
death in 1887. Succeeding him came Dr.
George Brown Goode. eminent as an ichthyologist
and fishery expert, .who had
been Prof. Bairfl's assistant. After less
than .a year's time, however, Dr. Goode
voluntarily gave up the eommissionership
to devote his entire time to the National
Museum, of which he was director. Next
cim'e Commissioner Marshall McDonald,
practical fish culturist and inventor of
important mechanical appliances nowused
in the hatching"of fish all over the
world, who. like Commissioner Baird,
served until his death, in 1895. Commissioner
McDonald was the first salaried
head of the commission. Following him
came Capt. John J. Brioe, a retired naval
officer, who held the office for two years
and was succeeded in 1808 by George
Meade. Bowers, the present commissioner.
Until 1903 the bureau was known as the
"United States commission of fish and
fisheries." and was an independent institution
of the government, responsible directly
to Congress. In that year it was
included in the new Department of Commerce
and Labor, becoming the United
States bureau of fisheries.
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From the outset the work of the bureau
naturally fell under the three general
heads of scientific
Organization investigation, fishery in
. -p....qutry ana nsn culture.
'rlc This same classification,
extended and perfected, enters into the
organization at the present time. Approximately
350 persons form the present
personnel of the bureau, of whom all l>ut
about ninety are at outside stations, laboratories
or on vessels. The land owned
and occupied by the bureau at its fishcultural
and biological stations covers an
aggregate area of 12,0W> acres, with a
value of $240,000. Improvements and
equipments at these stations represent
more thah $1,000,000. while other property
of the bureau includes four seagoing
steam and sail vessels, twenty steam
launches and 150 small sail, power and
row boats, which, with equipment, are
valued at about $300,000. Six fish transportation
cars are worth $45,000. The
aggregate investment of the national government
in property devoted to the fishery
service is thus about $1,585,000. And
in the beginning $5,000 was appropriated
for its work and no salary for its head!
At the time of the formation of the
bureau artificial propagation of fishes
was not contemplated, but was instituted
by an act of Congress a year after its
establishment. The fishes to which attention
was first given were the shad.
Atlantic salmon, and whitefish. The
work proved so popular that it was extended
annually, and soon* overshadowed
all other branches. The policy followed
by the bureau, as enunciated by Dr.
tioode. has been that it is better to expend
a small amount of public money
in making fish so abundant that they can
be caught without restriction and serve
as cheap food for the people, at large
than to expend a much larger sum in
preventing the people from catching the
few fish that still remain after generations
of improvidence.
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The actual work of the bureau has followed
this line, to increase the fish life
of this country instead of deFatemal
voting its time to the enact,
ment and enforcement of
XuiOrt. fij^ry legislation. In this
work the United States government has
a special and unique claim to he styled
"paternal." The stocking of waters with
food fishes is a direct benefit to the public,
not only increasing the very material
that supports an enormous industry.
but providing food itself for the
individual who will but use his hook and
line. After ten years* existence the fishes
being regularly cultivated by the bureau
numbered about ten. Today that number
has been increased almost seven
times, and is still growing. Fish cultural
work is conducted in considerably
more than half the states, about sixty
hatcheries or subhatcheries have been
established and sixty-five field stations.
A peculiar kind of station which is included
in this general class is that devoted
to the collection of fishes of various
kinds obtained from the overflow in tinupper
Mississippi valley. In the lowlands
along the streams in this region
the spring floods receding leave disconnected
sloughs and pools, which either
become dry during the summer, or, if
they remain until the winter, freeze
solid. Immense numbers of fish therein
being lost. By seining these waters the
bureau obtains large numbers of fish
anH rot 11 en u oomo U~ 41..1 '
?' "V"" VI Iiiriu Kicir Ilillive
streams, distributing others to adjacent
waters. In the autumn of a single year
six cars were employed in moving" the
fishes thus rescued.
From 1872 to 1 f>08 the aggregate distribution
from the hatcheries of the
bureau of fisheries was about 22,365,200.000
eggs, fry and fishes, of which
total about 10.341.700.000 represents
the work of the last five years of
that time. For instance, in a single .
year, practically 140.000.000 whitefish
eggs were distributed, while 384.480.000 . j
fry of the same species were also distributed.
Of the pike perch even a
larger number were sent out. there being
218,725,000 eggs and 193.438.000 fry.
For the year there was a total of
4o7,647,0,"? eggs. 2.3118.886,2.->7 fry and 14.1122,968
flngerllngs, yearlinsrs and adults
distributed, or a grand total of 2.871,436,380.
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In the distribution of fishes the first
consideration is to make ample return
to the waters frotr.
Polioy of which the eggs or |
n:-;i. have been colDistnbution.
lected The remainder
of the product is consigned to suitable
public or private waters. All applications
for fish for private waters
and many of those for public streams
and lakes are transmitted through a
senator or representative. The fish
are carried to their destination in railroad
cars or by messengers, who accompany
the shipments in baggage
cars. Fishes are distributed at vaTHE
PEACE PARLEY.
From the New York World.
After provisionally dividing up Turkey
in Europe the Balkan allies adjourned
over Christmas. As for the Turk?well.
Christmas isn't much in his line, anyhow.
From the Pittsburgh Poet.
Turkey is going to reject the peace proposals
and then appeal to the powers for
mediation. Then there will be danger of
the powers disagreeing on the disposition
of the spoils.
From the New York Evening Telegram.
Hope those' peace delegates in Ixmdon
who are represented as imbued with the
Christmas spirit don^t get lost in the fog.
RE OF FISHERIES
rious stages of development, according
to the species, number in hatcheries
and facilities for rearing, and are delivered
free of charge to applicants
at ine rauroau stations nrarrsi uir
point .of deposit. The special cars now
used for thfs part of the work are
the most modern obtainable. Attached
to regular express and local passenger
trains, each car has' twenty or more
large water tanks in which to carry
fish, compartments holding more than
1.000 gallons of reserve wrater. a boiler
room, plant for pumping both water
and air into the tanks, as well as an
office, kitchen. ~antries and sleeping
berths for the crew of five men. including
the cook, who lives on the car
throughout the year. One year's distribution
required travel amounting to
83,810 miles by the cars, and 263.196
.miles by detached messengers, a total
of 34 7,036 miles. Of that number
nearly 100.000 miles were furnihhed by
the railroads free of charge.
In the early part of March, 1911. Congress
established the Alaska fisheries
service, which included the fur seal service.
salmon fisheries and others, and the
fur-bearing animals of Alaska, which latter
must have slipped in by mistake.
This work had previously been under the
charge of the division of inquiry respecting
food fishes, but had never had the
opportunity to spread to the extent necessary
for efficient work. The new division
was formally organized by the first
of July of the same year. The fishing
interests of Alaska, representing an investment
of $9.0no,<K\i and yielding in a
single year a product worth more than
$b?,f*s?.00o, have received the attention
of the government ever since the territory
was acquired in 1K??7. The seal fisheries.
at first considered the most valuable
sources of revenue, were at once
placed under protective legislation, and
later the same need arose in connection
with the salmon fisheries, having now
become many times more valuable than
the seal fisheries.
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Supervision of the salmon fisheries, as
of the seal, was first given to the Treasury
Department, under
Salmon which it remained until
ami Qeal 1903' whpn U was trans"
l'erred to the Department
?f Commerce and Dabor, and by that
3 * ?* ? ! ? <iV?ni>a-A nf thn
uepariineni huu mc v nai?t
bureau of fisheries. The same year in
which the change was made a special
commission was appointed to make an
exhaustive study of the natural history
of the salmons of Alaska and to submit
recommendations for improved regulation
of the fisheries, and as a result a new
code of laws is now in effect. Thus today
both the salmon and seal are protected.
With the addition to this work of the
care of the minor fur-bearing anirtials of
Alaska another line of work was opened
up for the bureau, and one which is
slightly foreign to their general work,
fur-bearing animals such as bear, fox,
ermine, lynx, etc., being somewhat foreign
to the general conception of a
bureau of fisheries. However, the bill
(which placed this work in the charge of
the bureau also provided for the appoint- :
ment of one warden and four deputy
! wardens whose duties should be to see
| that the law and regulations regarding
| these animals are observed, and to make
a study of the habits, abundance and distribution
of the various species which will
be helpful in conducting the work.
Until now there has been 110 way by
which complete statistics of the annual
shipment of furs from Alaska could be
obtained. Available statistics for 19lO.
however, show that the furs shipped
from Alaska during that year, exclusive
of fur seal, amounted to $445,370. As
that does not include the furs shipped
by mail, or those taken out as baggage,
it is believed that the actual output
greatly exceeded $500,000.
Figures are necessary to give an adequate
idea of the real proportions of the
fish industry of this country. Statistics
for IP in. the latest available, show that
4.548 vessels landed at Boston, of which
trips the aggregate of the fish brought
in was 102,0!Hi. 154 pounds, valued at
$2,711,521. At Gloucester 2.011 trips were
j landed, with a total cargo aggregating
79.044.1 is pounds of fish worth 12,121.820.
This makes a total of 10.559 trips. 181.784,272
pounds of fish, with a value of
$4,838,841.
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i Much evidence exists showing that fishI
cultural cmerations of the bureau are nf
direct financial benefit to
Planting the country at large. Take.
! Chad 'or }nst?nre- shad, the
j onaa. leading river fish of the
eastern seaboard. No other anadromous
species has been more extensively cultivated
and none is now so dependent on
artificial measures for its perpetuation.
The extent of the work may be gauged
| when it is stated that more than
! nho.ono of young shad have been planted
J by the bureau in coastal streams,
j Another point is that the eggs from
which these fish were hatched were taken
from fish that had been caught for the
market and would, therefore, have been
totally lost had not the bureau collected
them from the fishermen.
The magnitude of the salmon fisheries
of the Pacific states has required very
extensive artificial measures to keep up
the supply. In combination wit li the
i states, the bureau has gradually extendi
ed the scope of tin- work until it lias now
| attained a. tremendous extent. The quantity
ef Pacific salmon eggs collected by
'the bureau in one year was more than
I :;cn.<x;o.ooo, or the equivalent of 1','JOO
bushels.
A considerable number of old-world
fishes have been introduced into American
waters, and some of them have become
well known in various parts of the
country. Two European trout, the
Asiatic goldfish and the European ide
and trench are now very familiar ornamental
species, while of all the exotic
| tishes, none is so well known as the
carp, which was introduced from ticrniatiy
about thirty years ago. As a commercial
proposition the introduction of
this lish was a success, as it today forms
one of the common foods of America, is
regularly exposed for sale In every large
city, supports special lisheries In fifteen
states and is regularly taken for market
purposes in thirty-five states. The sales
for one year amounted to
pounds, for which the fishermen received
more than $500,000.
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Among the experiments being carried on
by the bureau, and one which it is
thought will become
Transplanting successful, is the transT
, , planting of the lobster
liODB rs. to the Paeitie coast. As
early as ls7."> the bureau made its tirst
move to supply the deficiency and up to
1K80 five attempts to establish the species
were made. No results having appeared,
however, the experiment was renewed in
l'.HH). when a special carload of brood
lobsters numbering more than had ever
been sent, was dispatched to Puget
sound, while the following year an even
larger shipment was made.
Some of the results attained by the
| bureau through the distribution of new
methods concerning catching iish, and
other information, have ??een enormous.
By the introduction of gill nets with
I giass hall floats for taking cod the winter
cod fishery of New England was
revolutionized. In a single season more
than k,'HJOtOOO pounds of large-sized fish
were taken, while as much as $50,000 has
been saved annually in the single item
of bait. By the dissemination'of information
regarding new Ashing grounds important
fisheries have been inaugurated.
Thus, when the abundance of halibut oft
the coast of Iceland was made known by
the bureau a fishery was begun which
yielded from $70,000 to $100,000 annually
to the New England fishermen.
BLEASE AGAIN.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
Really we do not believe that Gov.
Blease of South Carolina is as bad as
he pretends to be. How could lie be and
live?
From the Cincinnati Inquirer.
We gather from the revised remarks
of the Governor of South Carolina that
the time is all too short between drinks.
From the >>w York Tribune.
The only possible excuse which can
be put up for Gov. Cole Blease is that
the people of South Carolina, knowing
what he was and what he had already
done, deliberately re-elected him.
FIFTY HEARS AGO
IN THE STAR
President Lincoln met the demand of
the republican senatorial caucus for a
cabinet reorganization with
Lincoln's a firmness that prevented j
what would pronaoiy nave
?lminCSS. been a disastrous shift in
Uie administrative organization. In The
Star of December 22. 1S?2. is the following
comment on the situation:
"We feel sure that the President, in reply
to the recent tender of their resignations
by the three members of the cabinet who
took that step last week, lias requested
them to continue in the discharge of
their respective ministerial functions,
with an intimation that he entertains no
idea of the severance of their official association.
It is understood that Messrs.
Seward. Chase and Blair only had tendered
their resignations before this action
of the President induced the others to
decline sending in theirs. This course
on the part of President Lincoln was by
no means unexpected to us, inasmuch as
we felt perfectly sure that the investigation
of the possibility of administering
the government under entirely radical
auspices would very speedily convince
him that it could not be done. The
reader will please not understand us as
intimating a belief that the President has
at any time entertained that purpose;
though acceptance of Mr. Seward's resignation
and closer affiliation with the influences
that inaugurated the senatorial
caucus proceedings inducing the course
of Mr. S. would have amounted to nothing
more or 'less than such an attempt.
It was. at least, questionable whether
the withdrawal of Mr. Seward from his
present position would not have precipitated
the administration clearly into a
minority in both houses of Congress upon
every point objectionable to the republican
party conservatives?that is. during
the balance of the life of the present
Congress. After the 4th of March
next, had an attempt been made to place
the affairs of the country wholly in the
keeping of the radicals, their policy
would have been sustained by hardly
more than a corporal's guard in the
lower house."
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Much criticism of the Army of the Potomac
for its failure to carry the Confederate
position at FredPresident's
ericksburg followed the
Praise withdrawal of the Federal
forces across the Rappahannock.
In The Star of December U3,
186U, is the following, which indicates that
this feeling was not, shared in the highest
administrative circles:
"The following touchingly eloquent address
of the President, taken in connection
with Gen. Burnside's report, which
we published yesterday, forms a chapter
in the history of this war hardly less I
creditable, indeed, to human nature than
to the distinguished authors of the two
papers themselves:
" 'To the Army of the Potomac: 1 have
just read your commanding general's preliminary
report of the battle of Fredericksburg.
Although you were not successful.
the attempt was not an error,
nor the failure other than an accident.
The courage with which you, in an open
Held, maintained the contest against an
entrenched foe and the consummate skill
and success with which you crossed and
recrosscd in the face of the enemy show
that you possess all the qualities of a
great army, which will yet give victory to
the cause of the country and of popular
government. Condoling with the mourners
for the dead, and sympathizing with
the severely wounded, I congratulate you
that the number of both is comparatively
so small. I tender to you, officers and
soldiers, the* thanks of the nation.
" ABRAHAM LINCOLN.' "
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As time passed the refusal of the President
to yield to the radicals of the Senate
in the matter of the
Foreign cabinet officers whose res_
ignations were demanded
interest. appeared to have been
iiiOKi iuriunaie 101 me tuumry, espviiiiii)
with reference to the judgment of foreign
powers respecting the prospects of the
Confederacy. In The Star of December 24,
1862, is this comment:
'During the recent cabinet imbroglio we
heard from more than one well informed
source of the serious solicitude felt and
expressed by the ministers of the various
foreign powers as to the future of our
country. The resignation of the Secretary
of State under such circumstances was
generally pronounced to he the beginning
of the disruption of the government?a
disruption which in all revolutions commences
with faction and divided counsels,
and ends in chaotic ruin. When the
gloom was increased by the announcement
of the resignation of the Secretary of the
Treasury, whose services were felt to be
not less indispensable in his department
than those of the Secretary of State in
his, this view of affairs was strongly conHrmed.
That the contemplated change in
11lie cabinet would have been so regarded
at every Kuropean court, there is little
reason to doubt. What new schemes of intervention
would have been built upon
it, and how far they would have been
successful, who can tell? Fortunately,
this additional trial of our national
strength has been averted, and the steamer
of today will take out the intelligence
that the American government, Iti circumstances
under which many another
government has succumbed, has displayed
only new proof of her stability. It is
due to the foreign ministers to say that
we are informed and believe that their
c ongratulations upon the judicious action
of the President are not less sincere than
those of our own citizens?"
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Railroad travel lifty years ago was not
luxurious, especially as there were many
people who failed, in using
Railroad the transportation facili_
f ties, to consider the rights
Kelorm. others. The following ,
paragraph in The Star of December 27.
1S02, indicates, however, that some ad- '
vance was being made toward better con- (
ditions:
"Passengers traveling between this city
and New York are loud in praise of the
Jate arrangements! of lie companies com- (
posing the line of railroads between the
two cities to secure the greater comfort
of their patrons than the latter were ,
heretofore able to enjoy. No passenger is
now permitted to incommode Diss fellows
by monopolizing seats that he or she has
not paid for. while others in the car may
not be accommodated with a rair snare
of space; nor are ladies traveling upon
the roads subject to the insult of rowdy
blackguardism uttered in their presence,
none but ladies and their male attendants
being permitted in the cars devoted to
their accommodation. This sorting and
sifting secures order and quiet during
their whole trip, and for all on the train.-'
THE WEAL AND THE WOE OF IT.
Time, (lie wonder worker, brings
Changes without number.
What owe seemed the proper things
Xow forgotten sluinl>er. I
Always it is something new.
Xow to this we're coasting: .
In another day or two
We'll be parcels posting. :
Dead are works of yesterday,
And today is passing: I
But tomorrow! Who can say
What it Is amassing. ,
What it has in store for us
For our joyous toasting?
Here's one duty more for us. I
Bnter parcels posting.
"Xtx! on suob a song of joy.
Can the gleeful titter!
Cut It! Cut It out, ray hoy. *
Write up something hitter." I
Spake a stranger garbed in gray.
"Turn your pen to roasting, 1
I shall erer curse the day
Men go parcels posting!"
"Why would you my ardor damp? I
This stays, as I've penned it. t
It's a boon to stick a stamp j
On an egg and send it." ,
Said I to the gloomy guy,
"Why do you assail, man?" f
"/list because," be made reply
"I'm the wear/ mail man."
?Detroit Fne Press. I
PEACE CONFERE
The dispatches from London the Jlst announcinK
the adjournment of the eonfcr
ence until Saturday, the :i*th
Signs of instant, indicated plain sailing
Fpac# and peace. The Turks no long*
er objected to the Greek delegales.
110 longer insisted ui>on the reprovlsionment
of their besieged fortresses
Austria no longer threatened Servla hecause
of the port on the Adriatic, and
was disposed to accept apology and punishment
of the authors of the insult to
her consul. Was this peace?
The dispatches from London of the Joth.
notwithstanding the adjournment, affected
to create the impression that there was
disquietude over Russia's and Austria's
failure to demobilize.
That the Turk and the Austrian would
continue the game of bluff they had jointly
undertaken was quite expected. Russia's
firm attitude in favor of the allied
cause is quite sufficient to curb the intrigues
of Austria.. As for the Turk, he
knows very well how he should interpret
the solidarity of his victorious foe. That
there should he no mistake on that head
King Ferdinand addressed an order to the
army- the "1st expressing thanks and appreciation
of the achievements of the
army. With other things he said significantly
:
"You should profit by the present moment
to rest in order to prepare yourselves
for fresh efforts, in which case I
have no doubt you will cover your banners
with new and imperishable glory."
M. Polticare's speech in the chamber of
deputies on the "1st .instant was optimistic.
Albania would be autonomous,
independent and neutral under the control
of the powers. Servia would accept
the suggestion made by the ambassadors
of the powers that she should obtain a
commercial outlet on the Adriatic. Scrvia's
port would he free and neutral and
connected by an international railroad
under the control of the powers.
*
* *
Reviewing the negotiations between the
powers concerning the Balkan war, M.
Polncare referred to the
Poincare's intimate association of
p England, Russia and
comment. France. There was no
ground, he said, for the fears expressed
hy some Frenchmen that England would
pursue an isolated policy, which did not
conform with the policy of France.
Referring to a note of sinister importance
already cited as having appeared in
the Matin of Paris, namely: "The question
of the orient is to be closed at Eondon.
Let them have a care they do not
open a European question." It may be
asked if this is not precisely what lias
happened? The fact has been clearly
stated by M. Polncare that the difficulty
with Austria against Servia had been
settled on the suggestion made by the
ambassadors of the powers. And M. Polncare
expressed the opinion that the agreement
over the Adriatic outlet for Servia
eliminated one of the principal causes of
European discord. This is doubtless true
for the moment, but what if this temporary
elimination should in the end justify
the note in the Matin that the ambassadors
may have closed the question
of tins orient at Condon only to open a
European question?
It was Dr. Danef. the Bulgarian plenipotentiary.
who said most forcibly in
the conference: "Their credentials did not.
authorize them to deal with incidents already
solved or outside the mission which
brought them to Condon." The subject
of the ambassador's suggestion was
clearly outside the mission.
*
* *
Is it possible that the reported dissensions
among the allies themselves have
rendered absolutely necesDissensions
*ary the intervention of
p , , the ambassadors as &
jveportea. sort of court of arj,jtra_
tion on the suggestion of the allies?
Neither M. Danef nor M. Venlzelos, although
unquestionably great diplomats,
may. have been sufficient to arrange
the dissensions of their governments over
the question as to which Saloniki should
belong.
We know pertinently that there was a
grave dispute between Bulgaria and
Greece 011 this question of Saloniki. Have
the ambassadors of the powers been solicited
to arrange it? If so. the intervention
was clearly unavoidable.
The Greek army entered Saloniki first,
but a Bulgarian arnjy of r>o,noo men rejoined
them, and Gen. Theodorof in his
report claims that the Bulgarian army,
under Gen. Pctrof, was entitled to the
honor of forcing the surrender of the
city. Sofia and Athens were greatly excited
over the point as to whether Saloniki
was to he Bulgarian or Greek.
There was a similar strife over Monastir.
where Greece also had pretensions. Fur
a fact the principal difficulty was less
what Turkey would cede to the allies
than how tiie allies would divide what
Turkey would give.
It was not astonishing that the difficulty
arose. The allies by a curious paradox
are victims of their proper success. When
they joined together the allies marked out
the lines of their respective shares of territory.
But their lines did not extend to
those attained h.v their armies. The frontier
between the Bulgarian zone and the
Servian was fixed to I.akc Okhrida. The
question of Saloniki was not mentioned:
neither was Constantinople. The victories
achieved rendered useless their modest
agreement. The booty was far in excess
of their hopes and it was necessary,
therefore, to make other arrangements,
and it is precisely these arrangements
which are the most difficult to make.
is it this difficult impasse which has decided
M. Denef and M. Venezelos to invoke
the judgment of the ambassadors of
the powers? That situation was certainly
not without peril for the union, which it
is necessary to maintain intact, or there
could be no life in the Balkan alliance.
M. Poincare in his speech in the chamber
of deputies- the Iflst instant, after outlining
the suggestions made by the ambassadors
of the powers, as heretofore
cited, added: "If unhappily the ncgotia- I
lions between the delegates to the peace j
ruiiirrruvi* .mmmjiw ut* in un? u oil me ti.urt>pegn
powers would quickly resort to mediation."
V V
This announcement must have proved a
note of warning to Turkey, the powers
having already accepted
Note of the principle that the alWarnino
,io* wer* j,Jstly to
a J g. cjajm the territory on
which their armies were encamped. But
it will prove most interesting and instructive
in this otherwise nebulous affair of
the war of the Balkans to follow M. Poin;are's
remarks before the committee on
[oreign affairs of the French chamber
prior to his speech in the chamber. The
premier made it quite clear that he was
making for France alone. But it is nevertheless
true that the situation portrayed
BARRING CASTRO.
"rout the Detroit News.
In trying to bar Castro from the
I'nited States, the asphalt trust is
scarcely doing more than Castro tried
to do to it in Venezuela.
"rom the St. I?ui? Republic.
In refusing: Oipriano <'astro permis- j
=ion to land, I'nele Sam shows that lie
Knows precisely what to do with exjresidents
of Venezuela.
'rotn the Toledo Blade.
If it can be determined that Cipriano
"astro is a contagious disease he will
tot be permitted to land in this country.
'rom the New York Sun.
Why' not serve ex-President Castro
with a subpoena to testify before the
'ujo committee? That would save all
lie costs and bother of deportation and
nsure his prompt departure from these
shores.
"rom the Baltimore fun.
In the case of Castro, It will be up to
.'nc^e Sam to speed the coming guest.
i
NGE AT LONDON.
> applied, though in m minoi degree. to all
| the nation* of Europe who were more o.
less interested economically utid jx?lit ically
in Turkey.
I'nfortunatejy these economical intetests
of tlie powers of Europe in the ottoman
empire are perhaps tlie leal rnooii
why Europe insists upon maintaining the
Turk in Europe It was Kiamtl Pa*ha.
grand vizier, in the agony of Turkla.i
defeat at l.ule-BtirgA*. who Intimated as
much.
If France would one <1?\ propose nn IIalion
wit It wmc chance of success it ? <*
iirurleut to dvp the allies at the -ante
time the certainty that no great Kuropvan
! powor would seek to attribute t.. It ?? If.
ill whole or in part. the fruit of th?.r
I success
j ftt.c a was tin- simple siguili. ation of t ie
; clause which France in cliw* comniui > <i
tton with Russia ami Flight ml pi ..p..s.-?l
'October '*>. accompanied t?>- an ofl r
I of mediation. W'iif,i Russia s|H>ulan< i - j
|y aubscribed to "<1.s nteivsti .1 ess" sin > il
not tut i'.<l to say d<- 'tlx liat she I... 1
neltln-r politi. ! ..or 11. 1 int. *t m
tlie orient, hut only that she , th I
that she Iim.I no though) of t. t 1
i aggrandize*:;* . * - it ?> " *
without exception, in tact, have ii> .V
attested that th?*> did not foil- \ . >y
design of territorial extension. i"; e
never had any id.-:: of disinter)- <1
in the Italkanlc ?iu< -tie : Itself
France possess. .1 in tin- icgi.c .> !pled
the allied armies intent-. i
varied nature and . .
? Interests of erable. F.ance In tin- I
p. Place was the p in. U
j?ranee. ,.reditor ..r Turke>. .i
the Ottoman debt for its gn-atei pan .s
in the hands of the French. It i- a
principle of common law today recognized
all over the world that in case of tie
dismemberment of a state the annexing
state cannot take possesion of the annexed
territory except that it assume
tlie charges against it and equitably pay
a large part of the public debt contract* I
by the dismembered state. The difficulty
was to determine the contributive shauof
the Balkanic states.
But the debt was not the only object
whic-h solicited public attention in
France. France was deeply interested in
the "regie," or control of tobacco. France
has much capital engaged in a great number
of concessions of public service
Among these the Administration of the
lighthouses of the Ottoman Kmptre. tlie
Society of Ports and Wharves of Saloniki.
the society that exploits the mines of
Cassandra and Seienitza are French enterprises.
and these are only cited as
examples of kindred affairs.
Other societies without being already
recognised as Voncessionnaires" have
signed contracts of the necessary studies
which contain in reality the privilege of
execution, tints the contract for railways
in Albania. Kpirus and Macedonia. Others
still hold concessions snhject to the
approltation of parliaments; thus, for example.
the construction of the ports of
Cavalia and Rodosto. or the drying upreclaiming?of
the flats at the mouth of
the Maritza.
Nor is this all. There are enterprises
having their central headquarters in tieOttoman
capital, hut which In the futuie.
as in the past, will exercise their dictation
over the territory within the Balkan
states; for example, the Ottoman Bank
and the Bank of Saloniki.
*
* *
Besides. France possesses in the Ottoman
empire of yesterday, in addition to
economical. industrial
A Moral and financial interests.
_j , . a certain moral and
Patrimony, traditional patrimony
which M. Poincare had the courage to
claim. This mora) and traditional patrimony
was nothing less than the "defender
of the Christian" in a country
heretofore subject to the rule of the
Moslem.
France has created and maintained at
great cost in Macedonia and Thrace lyceums
and commercial schools, orphan
asylums, dispensaries, hospitals. aux. a> >
schools in which are admitted CatjQeilc,
Orthodox, Mussulman and IflroeTrte children.
France has also secular rights which
were reserved to her by the treaty of
Berlin and which permit her to exercise
in Turkey the Catholic protectorate. The
government of the republic does not wish /
to sacrifice any of these mediums of
friendly Influence. The attention of the |
Balkan states has been already invited
to the exceptional situation occupied by
France In the recently occupied countries,
and there is no doubt but that this
| situation will be promptly recognized and
1 PP WT1 pptml If U-ill Kil 1WICUUU9M
. . *?- r?. ? "III ?" li' I ? final ,? , HI?Wr?T I ,
to take up the questions separately with
the virtors ami enter into negotiations in
orrler to maintain them.
M. Poincare called the attention of the
comtn'sslon to a Franco-Bulgarian convent
Son. signed the lath of April, IP!
which upei-itled that the existing estalilishments
in Bulgaria should he maintained.
It will now be necessary t??
! make out these conventions anew and
;<ause tliem to conform to the new tcrr'i
torial situation. Similar changes W011M
i have to he made with the agreements
luith < I recce, Servia and Monten^sio
These states, as well as Bulgaria, woe
ever ready to recognize that the economical.
intellectual and moral action < :
France in the Balkans had served tie
cause of peace and progress.
*
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| Of the future the premier declared It
'difficult to forecast If new questions had
provoked sonic disscu!
Hard to si?>ns in the coufedera_
, tiou itself, its friends
iropnesy. j1wpri| ,h,,v would i?
promptly dispelled. I'nlon until m>w liad
proved its powerful force. The Balkan"'
states should not allow themselves to l?e
beaten b> regrettable divisions when they
had conquered an admirable place of
honor in Europe.
France lias observed toward Europe in
the Balkanie war, as in the Italian
j war. a. scrupulous neutrality. It was not
| her custom to turn from the unfortuI
nate. France hoped that the Ottoman
empire would rei-over tomorrow lieprosperity
in a reparatory peace, and that
France would maintain with Turkey in
Europe and Asia Minor her traditional
friendly relations. France hoped notably
that Turkey would put in execution the
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in favor of the Lybian popuUlions.
M. Point-are. it will ix- borne in mind,
is pleading in his own house, ills lar- A
guage. besides, is that of the diplomat.
Turkey would not execute reforms in
Macedonia, neither will she reform anything
in Lybia. The vast interests
of France in common with all 1-i tiro
pe, economical and industrial interests I
of their citizens and subjects, in brief,
are the reasons that Europe would maintain
the Turk in Europe. The Turk is
a reckless spender and easily exploits!
When he leaves Europe for Asia he will
be missed. CH. CUATELE-LONXJ.
BRYAN AND WILSON.
I-'roul i lie Readiuit News.
It is said that Col. Bryan looked lumpy
after he left his conference with (iuv.
Wilson. Perhaps the governor told the
Nebraskan to arrange the gifts on the
Christmas tree.
From the .Tai-ksoiivillc- TimesTuion
Wilson and Bryan have met. and still
we are not given a list of cabinet members
for the new administration.
From ibe Atlanta Constitution.
If Bryan was snap-shotted during the
nonfnrAtiOA n-ii !i ^ Iav \\* ? I ami it ii-n ^ n ' I <
v uii*? ? v?iv v ? ii.ii v#w? ?' iiovu 11 n a--u t m
speaking: likeness.
From the Bridfcport Keening Post,
Neither President-elect Wilson nor Wiiliam
J. Bryan will tell what was discussed
at their meeting, but every on? is
entitled to a guess.
I'mm the KnoxriUe Jouin?l Tribuii<It
is a very well settled fact, that if ,
Wilson calls Bryan into the cabinet it
will not he done upon the recommendation
of Champ Clark.
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