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TAG TWO. ALBTTQtrEKQTTE CITIZCT TITtmSDAr, AUGUST 21, 1908. THE ALBUQUERQUE CITIZEN PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY By the Citizen Publishing Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico. W S. STRICKLEK PRESIDENT WILLIAM F. BROGAN MANAGING EDITOR I AROUND NEW MEXICO Union county town are thinking of Installing a wireless telephone system. fcl llM KirriON hates. Om year by ntall In advance t $5.00 un niui ny mail Me) I south by rarrfc-r within eitj limits 80 Entered an wvotitl-rtn-w matter at Hie IVmtofflce of Albuquerque, N. M.. mmmrw .in ui U)njns oi .Marcli 3, 1879. The only Illustrate,! dally nrwftpaxr In Xew Mexico and the beat ad r Uidng murium of the Southwest. HJC AliUVQl-EHQl E CITIZKN IS: tte lending Republican dally and weekly neioper nf the Southwewt. The advocate of Republican principles and the "Square Deal." THU ALnrQlERQl E CITIZEN HAS: The fluent equipped Job department In New Mexico. The latent remrts by A.nciated Ires and Auxiliary News Service. "WE GET THE NEWS FIRST." STATEHOOD FOR NEW MEXICO" We favor the Immediate admission of the territories of New Mexico and olsona as separate states In the Union. Republican National Platform. ITlr. Bryan as a Pftrasemafter The phrase "let the people rule," which Mr. Bryan In his speech of ac ceptance so fervently quotes from the Democratic platform where he doubt, less put it for the purpose of quoting was evidently intended by him to be the Democratic campaign "slogan" for this year. It has been very generally discussed by the Republican Journals on the assumption that it was to be the war cry of "the enemy," but so far as we have observed the expression has fallen absolutely flat among the hosts of the Democracy. It has not "caught on." It Is not likely that any phrase deliberately forged to serve aa a catch word ever "caught" with the people. Some of Napoleon Bonaparte's work of that kind may have had that effect. It usually caught with the soldiers, for whom hi phrases were contrived, and the people may have seized upon the catch words. But Napoleon was a genius. Catch words which stick are intellectual flashes struck oft in the heat of composition or oratory. We have bad many such from notable Americans. As we write we recall General Grant's expressions "I propose to move immediately on your works," "Let us have peace," "Let no guilty man escape." which for years formed part of the common speech of the people. The "innocuous desuetude" and "We are con. fronting a condition and not a theory" of President Cleveland are still In com tnon use. President Roosevelt has let fly some scintillations which are con tantly repeated, as witness:: "Malefactors of great wealth" applied to those who buy votes, and "undesirable citizens" as applied to those who sell them. There is also, of course, the "speak softly and carry a big stick" the first part, however, having fail into "Innocuous desuetude." A phrase which "catches on" must perfectly describe In very few words a condition which all recognize as existing and also be applicable to conditions constantly arising with respect to other matters. All the phrases above quoted meet both these conditions. Mr. Bryan's first "phrase" "You shall not crucify these people upon a cross of gold" stampeded a convention and got him his first nomination for the presidency because it met the first require ment It did vividly suggest rather than describe a condition which did then exist, although It soon ceased to exist. ' This last coinage "Let the people rule" has nothing In it to fire the Imagination. The people do rule in this country and always have ruled. The governments we have are not always what the people desire, but they have not cared enough for any change to exert themselves. And everybody under stands that. More than that, our governments in the main are good gov ernments. The people have prospered under them and are prospering. AU talk of the "oppression" of the people by "the trusts" or anybody else Is po litical rot The phrase "Let the people rule," implying that they do not rule, will not catch on because Its insincerity is self evident. Mr. Bryan will never be successful phrasemaker. Gndrews and Stateftood The Raton Range says: The Democratic newspapers of the territory are already aligning themselves against statehood. There la no other way to ecure statehood for the territory of New Mexico at the coming session of Congress than that of electing Hon. William H. Andrews as our delegate to Congress. Every thinking person knowa that Mr. Larrazolo cannot secure statehood for the territory of New Mexico. The great common classes favor statehood for the territory upon the most favorable terms on which It can be secured. These same people, the great mass of them, through their delegate to the Republican territorial convention have chosen Delegate William H. Andrews as the standard bearer for their party during the present campaign. Mr. Andrews' influence and achieve ments In Congress which cannot be doubted have won for him the esteem of the rank and file of the Republican ticket. Mr. Andrews will be elected this fall by the largest majority ever given any Republican delegate in the territory because the people of the territory want statehood and they know that the election of Mr. Andrews Is the only possible way in whloh statehood can come to them. A vote for the Republican candidate this year is a direct vote for statehood. The election of Mr. Larrazolo, however, remote it may be, would mean the sending to Washington of an obscure man without pres tige or Influence. ' Denmark Is a little tongue of land hanging onto the north edge of things by Its eyebrows. It is a great breeding ground for klnga A flock of prin ces and princesses turned loose in Denmark double their numbers every two years, and are healthy. Most of the kings and queens of Europe are of Dan. Ish blood. Other animals do well there, too. The kingdom la Just about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The soil Is good; but almost any of our agricultural states has better soil naturally. The Danes used to be poor as skimmed milk poorer, In fact, for skim milk Is rather rich. If you only realize it Now Denmark, on that patch of land, has 1,000.000 people, more than half of whom are farmers. Think of more than a million people sup ported by farming on the area of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and reckon the size of their farms, and you will be astonished. Yet, these Danish farm, ers were never so prosperous as now. They sell the other half of the Danes what butter and milk they, consume, and ship the rest to England. And England pays these Danish dairymen $2,000,000 a week fur It. Every man, woman and child on a Danish farm thus gets on the average 11 a week from one country for one product Denmark produces 170.000,000 pounds of but. ter every year. The nation Is as contented as any people ought to be, and as prosperous as any nation in the world perhaps. Their profits In cattle make up for the loss on king. Now how did this happy state of things cume about? Simplicity luelf. It was education. The people of Denmark are a race of scientific farmers and dairymen. They are getting all the grass from their soil that the soil will produce. It has been farmed for a thousand yeaj-B, and is better now than it wan 10 years ao. In 10 years hencfe It will be better yet. Tiny have no Roosevelt there to preach conservation of na tional resources, but it has been preached all the same. A Danish farmer is taught his business in school. Experiment stations are scattered all over the toy kingdom. They know all about bacteria an 1 ferment and nitrates and legumes. They have solved the problem of "A Little Land ajid a Living For years t!;c railroads have contended that Congress Is not empowered to make them exercise, greater precautions in the operat on of trains than are exacted under the common law requirement of "reasonable care," an elastic term under the application of which Justice has often miscarried. Two decisions by the United flutes court "f appeals n St. Iyouia yesterday seem to determine, j far as this Inter mediate court has the power to define and make permanent the construction of the law. that Congress has the authority to enforce specific piecautlon. even to the kind of coupl.ng that shall be used between cars. These dec sinus are the more Important because they reverse verdicts reached In the lower courts under the old railroad plea. This ruling will greatly strengthen the efforts of the government to enforce reliable safety Appliances an in the long run should greatly reduce the number of railway atccidenis. It would ye cm also that the railway corporations themselves hould, on the r on motion, employ every consistent precaution to prevent Occidents, not only because of the liabllitiet they ure always under to injured jiassengers, but also because of the Kie.ter responsibility they will encounter in the larger scope of the Employeis' l.iabii ty law. The shah of I'eiHia, observant of recent events In the realm of hU broth er of Turkey, ha made on ifj'n to the revolutionists. These are trying days for autocrats who lay too grot tieM on the tradition of their divine right to rule as they please. A flow of good artesian water has been found at a depth of 62 feet near Las Cruccs. A cook with a guilty conscience dis appeared at San Marclal last week and left $73 worth of debts behind him. The Gallup Electric Light com pnny is paying $50 a month for water now, having been raised from $10 a month by the council recently. Latest reports from the front indi cate that the Hon. Larrazolo hasn't been having any enthusiastic recep tions recently. Nine acres of wheat on the A. B. McKinley ranch west of Eatancla was threshed recently and yielded 21 bushels to the acre. Nara Visa is planning a big barbe cue In the near future and will have a program, of sports, including two ball games, in connection. The Bloomer Girls' baseball team, which Is now in Colorado, has sched uled several games in New Mexico, and the whole territory Is greatly ex cited over the approaching games. According to a veterinarian afalfa Is good food for the human family nd can be made up Into attractive form. An alfalfa breakfast food fac tuty in New Mexico ought to pay big money. Colorado capitalists are figuring on build ng a power plant at Raton for the Southern Colorado Power com pany, and If the plan materializes Raton wlil have a first-class electric plant with the probability of street car and interurban system. A man from Missouri who had to be shown when told that alfalfa grows four and a half feet high around Estancla, was fully convinced when taken out and shown a bunch that measured five feet, nine and a half Inches. At a mass meeting of citizens held at Karmington recently steps were taken to improve the appearance of Un V.. . 1 . I I .1 trees. The whole town is interested and the plan will probably be carried out on a large scale. Agricultural note from the Kenna Record: J. U. Greaves, the printer farmer of Antelope valley, was ,n tow n again yesterday and reports that his crop forms are "Justified" and ready to "lock up." He brought us in a couple of galleys of vegetables, set solid, from his truck patch, among which were some Whip-poor-will peas the pods of which were about 36 point body and 60 ems long. He called them "beans," but then the average printer "don't know beans" even' "when the bag's untied." DAILY.SHORI STORIES I THE PllOST KING'S CONQUEST. By Harold Carter. "A dollar twenty-five; and that's my limit to you." "For heaven's sake, consider, ' pleaded the old man, catching the packer by the arm as he turned to mount his horse. "Smith offered me as much, and you paid the colonel one forty for his own oranges." "A better crop, Mr. Lee," replied the packer impatiently. "Come air. it's yours to take or leave." The packer tapped his boot impat iently with his riding crop. The old planter put his pride behind him once again. "Mr. Carvalho, you are a wealthy man," he pleaded. "You hold the mortgage on my farm. Your profits are large. Pay me ten cents a box more for my oranges and I can keep up the interest My God, man, you're driving me out of my home, and all for a paltry 10 cents on the box." "Mr. Lee, I am not in business for my health," Carvalho replied. "It's a matter of business. If you can't af ford to take my price look around elsewhere. I don't 'want your orang es. As for the mortgage well, why shouldn't I foreclose? Unless," i.e added craftily, " you have any further Inducement to offer me." "You mean " "Well, I mean Hilda," "The girl has given you her answer. What can I do?" "Do!" shouted Carvalho. "You can turn out that miserable, penniless low white fellow that she's .thrown me over for. Yon can " "That's quite enough," interrupted the old planter. "If I were a younger man I would show you how we used to treat men of your stamp In Florida. Take yourself off, adr, to the devil.'' The packer smiled evilly as he mounted his horse. "You'll come to me very differently next month to plead for an extension of time," he sneered. "But out you a;o, Mr. Lee, and you can take your daughter" He stopped, frightened by the old man's appearance, and, spurring 'his horse, cantered away dawn the sandy road. The planter walked back sadly toward his home. All around hint. acre upon acre, the orange trees hung low with golden fruit And this, his life's work, was to be swept aay. A girl and a young man came slo ly toward him through the garden. Tears came into his eyes as he thought of what the future held for them. "How cold It's turned," said the girl, coming up to kUs him. "Do you know they've sent out frost signals from Tampa? What la the thermom eter?" The old man went up to a mimosa tree where the thermometer hung; then started back with an exclama tion, it had fallen to 39. The young man read his consternation. "Sam!" he cried to the negro coach man, hitch up the mare, quick; bring the pine logs into the furroughs." Ho pointed to the great store of logs that fciy, for Just such an emergency, piled h gh behind the stable. But be fore the cart was ready the girl came running to him. The temperature had gone down one more degree. The sun had fet and a cold wind blew from the northwest. After that everything was forgot ten save the urgency of saving the ! trees. With desperate haste they - loaded the logs into the cart and car rled them to the furrows between the rows of trees, where they were soaked ' with oil and a fire started. Hour after hour they labored, while the tempera ture dropped slowly. Their hands were torn and bleeding, their faces black with Bmoke, while the sweat dripped from their bodies. Load after load until the whole orchard was hidden under a wreath of smoke that stung and blinded them, until the tall flames shot up between the trees, illuminating the figures and the work ers. That night will never be forgotten In central Florida, When the wind dropped at morning and the warm sun thawed the frozen ponds thous ands of acres of the best orange coun try were ruined; millions of trees stood, slowly shedding their leaves, killed by the frost But the golden fruit still hung from the trees of Che Lee orchard. That afternoon Carvalho rode up to the homestead. His Jaunty air had departed. "Mr. Lee. I hear you have saved your orchard," he said. "Well sir, conditions have changed -and the luck's with yo. 'I will buy all you can let me have at $5 a box." HOTEL AIUUVALS. Alvarado. H. E. Adams, Datll; A. L. Roaed, Kansas City; S. O. Small, C. H. Small, Oklahoma; F. E. Chase, Dallas; J. W. Benham, Chicago; Mrs. A. Jarrett, Los Angeles; Mrs. H. S. Laughlln and son, Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Seymour, Los Angeles; H. E. Mooker, Chicago; J. A. Sutherland and fam ily, Roswell; A. S. Rankin, Topeka; P. Marsh, Topeka; A. M. Helneman, El Paso; John Kerr, Magdalena; J. E. Cooper, Kansas City; L. Weinberg, Chicago; L. F. Klmmell, Kansas City; Henry Krusley, Tombstone, Am.; H. K. Clark, Chicago; J. V. Yard, iil i'aso; A. Isaacu, Los Angeles, Calif. lit urges. Chas. Atchldon, Denver; J. E. Nel son, Clovls; Jose Zomellera, S. Ortiz, Cuba, N. M.; R. L. Cook. Kansas City; A. L. Morgan, San Diego, Calif.; S. S. Berchfield, W. W. Lorhoen, Deming; B. Havell, Navajo; A. M. Donop, New York; W. R. Ellis, Ama rillo; L. E. Dlaune, Wlllard; H. W. Kelly, Rochester, N. Y.; A. C. Ogden, Columbus. Ohio; Myrtle Marfield, sun Diego, Calif.; Harvey Vohs, Berna lillo; Jos. Merkin, Kansas City. Mo.; F. A. Manzamans, Mr. and Mrs. Gon zales, Fort Sumner. Grand Central. Mrs. M. E. Savage, Guam; M. F. Qulnn, Las Vegas; V. A. Johnston, St. Louis; J. A. Osborne, El Paso. Cralge. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Smith and son, Denver; P. A. Woodling, Kansas City; J. E. Mantonya, Pittsburg, Pa. Savoy. 11. B. Smith. Topeka; R. W. Hull, U. 8. B. A. I.; P. W. Mergor, Cleveland. Site Like Ootid Thing. Mrs. Chas. E. Smith of Weet Franklin, Maine, says: "I Itks aood thtngs and hare adopted Dr. King' New Life Pills as our family laxative medicine, because they arc good and an their work without making fuss about It" These painless purifiers ol.j at all dealers. 26c. Becoming The ktandlng of the sultan's mil tary household has been coaslderably cut down, a dispatch from ConsUi.tinuple announces. The number of his ald-4e-camp has been reduced from 1U0 to 130. A curious and gossipy world wlil wonder it an equal number of wive have been dbotiarged. A MOTHER Is an ordeal which all women approach with dread, for nothing compares to the pain of child-birth. The thought of the suffering in store for her robs the expectant mother of pleasant anticipations. Thousands cf women have found the use of Mother's Friend robs confinement of much pain and insures safety to life of mother and child. This liniment is a God-send to women at the critical time. Not only does Mother's Friind carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, rut it prepares the system for the coming event, relieves "morning sickness," and either dis rom forts S"M 1,y ,,n ' 00 lion neille1 fr,. lllE 11KADKIFLD REGUXATOR CO. AtUnta, Via. oss Kelly & Co (Incorporated) Wholesale Grocers Wool Hide and Pelt Dealers Albuquerque and Las Vegas Gi?oss Kelly & Co, (Incorporated) THIS FICKLE, FICKLE WORLD HE HITS IT HC MAY SET THIS - AND TH3 OR THIS- chock it k (SWEET ANfc) A. "'" T WE KNOW ftE Will GET THIS IPHfc FANS Co Mivr fviaoCI if-. jL $ J ANT MOW or THAT - AN TOO to BACK THf SAW Mitt AM" HOO-'I I t I BANK IIS SHOW LARGE IE INCREAS Statements of National Banks Indicate Business Condl- Hons Are Improving Washington, Aug. 27. Treasury of f cials are greatly encouraged In their belief that the business conditions arc gradually but certainly Improv ing, not on:y by the Increase In re ceipts from cusioms and internal rev enue, but by tne ravoraDie snowing made by tire nat.otial banks through out the country. A comparison of the last summary of condition of the national banks made by the comptroller of the cur rency July II, 1908. with the corre sponding period for 1907. shows n Increase In specie and legal tender held by the banks of $147,395,117. There also has been an increase in the surplus of $11,741,420. and in circulation of $81,714,100, notwith standing the activity which has been displayed in the reduction of circula tion since the panic of la-st fall. Individual deposits have been In creased by $18,111,805. and the total resources of the banks by $21,735,937. Since May, 1907, the date with which this comparison Is made, not withstanding the fact that the banks have passed through a serious finan cial disturbance and were obliged o resort to the issuing to a considerable extent of scrip and clearing bouse certificates in order to meet the needs of their respective communities, the borrowing liabilities of the banks have been reduced $16,848,441 below the liabilities of that character of a year ago, and the following Items of re sources show increases by amounts given over the same ltenia held in May, 1907: Specie and legal tenders. $157,527,801 Capital stock 27,499.983 Surplus 29,250,393 Hank circulation 65,746,270 Individual deposits ... . 1,671,067 Total resources $237,562,966 These figures show the largest gain for any one year In the cash holdings of the banks in the history of the na tional banking system. The percentage of cash held to de posits is now 15.63 per cent, as against 13.34 per cent in 1907 and 12.70 per cent in 1906. This percent age was exceeded only once before in 1904, when the proportionate cash to deposits amounted 10 19.13 per cent. The individual deposits on July 15, 1908. aggregated $4,3 74,651,208. the highest in the history of the system. Theso figures, It Is stated, indicate that the banks are strong in reserve and prepared to meet any normal de mands that may be made upon them the coming fall. Considering the se vere strain to which the banks were subjected during the financial strin gency this Bhowlng Is very gratifying to the oflWlals and signifies a steady and reasonably progressive improve ment in banking conditions and a re turn to confidence in their stability. NOTICE. Road Tax Now Due. The law requires every able-bodied man between the ages of SI and 19 years to annually pay a road tax of $1 or. In lieu of sum sum, to labor on the public road three days. See 8. Chapter II. Acts of th 87th Legis lative Assembly. The supervisor of road district No. 8. comprising precincts No. 11 and 26, which precincts Include th city of Albuquerque, accepts the office) without compensation and Is devoting time and energy to th discharge of the duties of the office to the and that proper use be made of the road fund and that we have good roads. The character of roads to be built and the line of work are determined by the Good Roads association. Mr. 8. M. Porterfleld Is authorized to receive payment of the road tax, and for the convenience of the publle will make calls when he can do so or payment can be made at Porter nek; and Co.'s, 216 West Oold avenue. Tup law will be strictly enforced. W. H. GILLETWATER, Su perrlsor. If you want the best stockings oi the market buy our Black Sat Style 15 for boys and Style 10 for girls. They are 2 Be a pair. We also have a tplenalu tsrude of the same make at lac. Colors are absolutely fast. C. May's til ie ftore, 314 West Centrul avenue. Granulated Sore Fjr Ckirerl. "For twenty years I suffered from a bad case of granulated sore eyes, says Martin Boyd of Henrietta. Ky. "In February, 1903. a gentleman ask. ed me to try Chamberlain's Salve. I bought one box and used about two thirds of It and my eyes have not given me any trouble since." This salve la for sale by all druggists. Srscrlbe for The Evening CUlsea and ?et tbe news. I make a stM-cliilty of Jobbing la I rick work or plantering. It. AngWo Onrdotte, brick matton and plasterer, l'lume 1491. FEK'8 GOOD ICR CREAM AXD ICK CHKAM 60DA. WAIVTO.V8 l imce store. Should you fall to receive The Evening Cltlsen, call tap the Postal Telegraph Co., telephone No. 21, and your paper will be delivered by special messenger.