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"WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 10. 1912.
SPEAKRR RYltD'S ADVIOB.
Speaker Byrd demonstrated laet
olght by his speech before the Demo?
cratic caucus his singular und conspic?
uous fltnoso for the office as Speaker of
the House of Delegates. With .such a
summary beforr them of the work that
Virginia has accomplished In the past
and the obligations and dlfllculttsB that
confront It in th? future, the Legisla?
ture could have no valid excuse or ex?
planation for being led into unwise
and ill-considered expenditures.
The Times-Dispatch thoroughly
agi ecs with Speaker Byrd thut the
Dairy mid Food Commission, the Board
of Public Health, tho State lipllepttc
Colony, the Cntnwbn Sanatorium
end the Highway Commission are ex?
cellent and most depirabl? Stole net I v.l.
tlet. The dlfllculty about the erea'.ion
of those depart men ta in the tlrflt In
?tAnoe la tho question whether the Leg?
islature knew at the tlinu that these
lawa were passed that the State did
not have the money then to meet these
added obligations. Now that we aro In?
formed frankly and fully as to our ti
nubclal condition and know exactly to
what extent we may hope to make ap?
propriation* the next two years, it
will be a comparatively easy matter
for the Legislature to wisely und satis?
factorily determine which of the vari?
ous proposals laid before It are
most deserving of State assistance
Yet there is much of comfort and er-i
eouragement in Speaker'? Byrd's ad?
dress. The need for fair dealing, the
crying demand for a recasting of our
State expenses, will bring to the mind
of the Leglalature, os nothing else short
of nomc public cnlumlty could, tho
need of tax reform. It is marvclovs
how Virginia has thriven and pros?
pered under the cruel and unjust bur
den Intd on tho citizens of this State
by tax laws that are little short of
barbaroue. It was under Mr. Byrd s
speakershlp and largely due to his
efforts and to the teachings of thia
paper thui the first tax commission
was created. Mr. Byrd lias shown, both
in the report of the commission and In
his own speech, hie clear and vigorous
understanding of what is Involved tu
our present tax laws. Thorp is much
before the Legislature requiring i . -
fill thought and wise action, but there
Is no proposition before the Stnt. ol
Virginia that Involves the welfare of
?6 many people so vitally und so i '. le.
ly as the reform of our present lax.
exactions. With Richmond paying
more net revenue than all of the 100
counties combined, with ih- black
counties out of th6ir poverty contri?
buting to the Intentional or thriftless
deprcdationa of white counties in the
Southwest, with overasscssmcnt in
?oino parts of the Stute and gross lih
derassessment In others, the people
of Viiginla are b?:ns exposed to a v>l
tein that undci*, -the ,pulse of iqiiul
handed law t? a? tntrlnslcally unjust
as were ever tlv. unreasoning extor?
tions of an Oriental tux satholrcr.
If Mr. Byrd is able to prevail upon
the Legislature to put Into actual prai
lice the principles he bus :=<.. cogently
sul forth. Virginians yet unborn will
huve daily occasion to remember with
thanksgiving the Logi-luture of PI)2.
THAT JACKSON DAY I.UVI2 KI3AST,
Democratic euyueaa, not Democratic
candidates, ?at ilie keynote ot the |
gieat Jackson pu> hamiuci held in
Washington' on Mohduy evening.
It tovk fifteen good nun anil this
from 0:30 in the evening Uli ?luartor
pail S next morning lo tell each oilier
and tho world how deeply all ; list
differences were hurled and now con?
fident the Democratic psi ty ->n.- at
outrcij ?I 1912.
Such a lytilts down tugWliei el Po?
litical lion:; and laniht liai Ijvv h
seen since ttic lira! party eaucui hit
the Garden ?l Eden; The lio|>e <>f
success snioothe intinj rough ,.|
and removes much bit tcrneHs, That
is why Alton B r.irt... William
Jennings Uryan forgot the gold i-1.
Bram at Kansas City mid HtUotl shoul?
der to shoulder >n tin decjanitloti
ihut the only problem before f'tinoc
racy to-day was how Secure foi
all the people the iogisltulon iin<) the
Irccdom whioh only the Dcmcej'iitli
party could give.
Even William K. Ueaist, tin prian
prodigal, was welcome:! to tin fold,
and both gave and received un edi?
tor's blessliiK- Ex-Govemol Folk, of
Missouri. au<i Hpoukc-r t.'i ??:,. i lark
ate at the same table ami loa l<iti
kitine party, a'"i for the moment burled
the hatchet. Ami 77.*? good Democrat
?from nearly every Stale in tin l.'nion
yrdled themselves iioarti i.nr il
slMtement ut thf party.'* < ?/? I made
by a united leader-hil-.
Tiiu tide lias set toward!, restoration
of ilie Democratic jmrtj to power in
every branch of Hie. national govern-'
men't, When .Maine goes D?lhoc'rall
for the. first time in forty years when
Ohio given 100,000 majority for ibu?
tton and cle&U ttlaU and county Dein
ocrntle officers In rlsty-ftvo out of
eighty-seven counties; whon the Re?
publicans of the Central West feel
themselves abandoned and betrayed
by n pnrty that promised turlft re?
vision and revised It?up; when the
progressive Republicans rocall that
Mr. Roosevelt advocated nearly every
progressive principle and never put
through a progressive measure, it is
clear thai the Democrats have already
prepared to their hands the, kind of
opportunity that only conies once in
a generation.
Rut the enduring party Is the one |
whose alms and whose principles alike
tend toward constructive statesman- j
Khlp. If the Democratic party is to
return to power with any secure lense
on n long tenure of office, the Demo- j
cretF. as Judge T'arker paid on Mon?
day evening, must adopt as a cardinal
principle, "in essentials unity; In non
essentials liberty; and in all things
charity." No organization as cath?
olic as the Democratic party, no party
which is based upon a. principle that
is as old 'as self-government and as
wide as the conllnos of this earth,
can ever hope t.j measure all of its
members by the snmc hard and fast
technical rule. Rut there Is one uh- ,
changing and fundamental principle by
which all true Democrats may bo
known. For, an Governor Wilson said,
"Nobody donlos Democratic principles,
init far from everybody practices
I hem." And the one great dominant
note of Democracy Is the belief?a con?
fident, unreserved and cordial belief?
that the peopl'- of il country have a
right to govern themselves, and not
only that the people have a right, but
that tin country Is safer, more pros?
perous, more far-seeing and essen?
tially wiser when II is governed by
all the people and not by a ling or
coterie or class, no matter how Wide
that class may be. and no matter how
much matcriul wealth It may have.
By this test, and by this lest only, is
the true Democrat to be. known. _and
unless all signs fail, nu overwhelm'
lllg majority will answer to the roll
call of Democracy in the presidential
election of it'll' for the purpose of
pul Uns Into power u party whoso
chief object is the restoring of equal
opportunity and the destruction of ,
special privilege.
AN AUSPICIOUS MHBTlNtl PLACK. |
For the sixth time In its history the'
Democratic party will hold its national
convention in Baltimore. The choice
of such it mactinK plucc .Uigurs well
for the Democru'.le liost. for it was In)
that city that the first Democratic eon-!
volition whs held, when Andrew .lack-1
i on was nominated by acclamation !
The past shows that more successful
Demoeratie presidential candidates
have been nominated in Bal'.tmnr'v
than anywhere else. Three out of thoi
live Democratic nominees chosen atl
Baltimore in i tic past carried the cpun-i
try overwhelmingly, und ihc two that]
failed ere defeated by war heroes.
War enthusiasm htid nol subsided, in
; periods of pence, Democrats nominated
at Baltimore have always won. and Soj
the selection or the place at this ^'mej
: is most propitious. It was at Pnlti
niore thai tin Democrats named Jack?
son, it was 'here that they nominated
; Polk, fitly termed the "ideal Prcsl-J
iieht,'( and biter 1i was in Bnltlmor.*'
that Pierce war- made a victorious
j standard-bearer.
That tho convention should me-M in'
Maryland is moit gratifying to *.hc
people of Virginia as well as i? the
people ot the South, it Is the noirost
place to the South to which the <juth
ering could he brought, and at a Mme
>? hi n .Southerners are prominent!]
mentioned for the nomination it i::
most happy thut the choice should be
inudc in .Baltimore. The atmosphere
..1 ih.it city win be friendly, the dale
5n.es will be peculiarly ,>t home, rwul
the National Committee has wisely
clipeun a historic Democratic Mecca
for ttit: convening next spring of an
opoch-marklug gathering for Dcmoe
iae>. Another sien of victory up.;,ears
Mil MOV KM 13XT I int I U.liM) Ml
lllll lilt >l.
Aniuiiy tu-' International gatherings]
announced for the present year Is the
luiel witii a i-iew reaching an agrc>4
men; for reforming the almanac or,
modlfylns the ealen.lnr. Within cer-j
lain Vlreli ? tlii'i idea liHl! been under:
??'tri: t! ? iitlicule in vv hit Ii tt ha* j
(?ci i-HujiNi v;l H'.jni l>y ,-iwU sfltious |
?I'VuiiKltlilS Ii may |,:.v.j evoked.
ill i: |iv<i|ii'ir-'i'tl riiforiiiH Lieem llltlv. '
?i in., i pi ili'iil ' t'li . i.curing upon
tin- i unvi i.i :? i ..r iruiiiy; Interest*, arid
lii'liliui itc iiiiivi'tni jii .iri' not ti few
\ f y c-iirli |i:n:i.|' .??n. woa hnvr.
(lid not 11 ?< !i i conclusion Mnti? ?
? convinced ttinl ilicp? vastly out
tlied ohy t''?' iiH.- disadvantages]
that iiiluli'
Imngiiuitlve und'i.?? il i-uit ?>! thlhd,
iiind eoiulni; down t!i?' prlmnr;- ami
fiiii-lainentiil attn" of the ? reformers,
i these :nav be briefly Stated in fellows:
i . ,
? First, to dsvise a plnn by which ths
months shall be equalised, to the ond
that the same day of the month shall
Invariably fall upon tho same day of
the reeek. That this would save a
greai deal of trouble Is obvloua. Second,
to simplify buslnoss calculations basod
on monthly porlods. a featuro of that
Innovation bring a month of four
weeks. This the simplest calculation
??Hl go to show would mean the crea?
tion or a thlrtoonth month to 1111 out ?
the year, together with a special pro- (
vision for the odd day and tho extra
day necessary for leap year.
The advocates of the thirteen-month
year are numerous, tho most prominent
at tho present tlmo being Charles i
fisher, of San Francisco, and Moses j
Cottsworth, an Englishman now re- j
siding In Canada, and who Is father of
the "International Almanac Reform i
League." Mow to reach the requisite'
thirteen-month adjustment. It will bo |
readily recognized. involves a more '
complicated problem, and small tyondcr i
that even bsurd proposed solutions
have developed In connection there- j
with.
As tu the concrete Idea of reform,
there Is nothing new, novol or startling
in It. Although It look England some
two centuries to accept the Gregorian
modifications, and Russin still adheres
to the old system?with its wide
divergence from the systems of the
rest of the civilised world? the calendar
hns from time to time been frequently
amended, ''tinkered" with or modified.
At the same lime It would be ex
aggernied optimism to expect any Im?
mediate changes as the result of tho
Switzerland conference. There will
doubtless be numerous subsequent eon
fusion before even a workable reform
system shall have been ugreed upon
fiii- presentation to the world, for In?
telligent and serious eonsirtera lion.
Vet, there are so many commendable
factors in the basic principle of tho
scheme that It can hardly be doubted
that the reformers will triumph ulti?
mately. In this generation of tendency
Lo simplify and standardize generally
for the purpose of human convenience
iiid with the object of saving as much
is possible of that tremendously valu?
able ?SBPt, time, It 1? hardly probable
.hat time Itself will long be able to
resist the process?the onslaught. In j
fact.
MAKING LAND IN THIS JUU'Il,
At last the "government is turning-1
from the protitublo Irrlgution or wild
lands in the far West to the drainage,
of large areas of unfruitful land in
tho South.
The population of the country has'
been Increasing at the rate of 1.500,- j
ooo annually and th<- production of
our necessary food supply has not
been keeping the right puce with It. ;
There hna followed a great advance i
in the coat of food supplies. l"or de?
cades the people have reveled in the
wealth of our national resources. The
natural limit has been reached at i
last, and the government will have to I
develop more land in the South. 1
Up to this time the public domain ,
has been so extensive that virgin land
could ha had for the asking. Thcro
are but few farms now to givo away.
Already 600,000,000 acres west of the
95th meridian have been taken up by
settlers and are largely food pro?
ducing- There arc left '?ut 2.500,000
acres, and much of this is wild moun?
tain land.
The Boston Olobc very truly says
that "there are in the South Idle Tands
as rich as the delta lands of the
Nile." They need development by
drainage, The government ought to
take up this work as soon as possible.
Culpoper has lately been the scene
ol much activity on li.e i-art of the
s'lflragist advance guard, and the Cul
peper Enterprise says that the two
Richmond speakers mudc a lasting
impression Not on Senutor Bowers,
however, for the Enterprise says he
opposes votes for women. Delegate
Alden Bell refused to commit himself,
but the suffragists here will gel aftor
him right sway and end his coyness.
AI thr kaiser's New Year's recep- {
lion Ambassador Lelshman wore a j
cocked hali a lone coal embroidered j
with KOld laee. dark irouseta w?th |
gold braid and a sword. This ought
lo b< i nough fuel for a rousing eagle*
?creaming philippic fiom Senator Bai-I
ley. of Te.xus. upon our tendency to
"ape the royalty." j
If the Colonel ever due.-; announce j
'or the presidency, It's a 3,900 10 1
liol !n .Iocs it just in time for Mon- j
Inj morning's paper. j
Whether one likes it or not, it must
l)i recognized lliat tl,< wphioii may not
provi an Inconsiderable factor in tin
next presidential eleelloti- in the six
.?.,u il Huff race States there are 1.000.
000 women who will he privileged to
tote i"i iircslilential electors, mid in
one of tin- six?'?California?Investiga?
tion by tin- Secretary of Htute has
sliov. n tli.it the eligible) vote of tho
two sexes t.s about equal. .\ contem?
porary, which la not at nil Inclined
i.- en, nil suffrage, ????ants to know how
ili" presidential candidates themselves
arc going to Ignore these facts and
conditions. Oh. well ?tint we are not
uhsw erlnsr QftuuiidrU'.ns
ten.i these comparative valuer of auto?
graphs, givsn ;:. .i dealer'* catalogue:
"S Ulli. Vim, Jinn I., pugilist fnnto
R fti pit letter Signed), 1 p, lS^iJ. jjo "S.
Klint. Churles W? ex-president Har?
vard University (autograph leit-r
signed!, 2 vp.i !t;j, Jo. SO."
Thai strnhge. but not much
in vi,en t>i--re 1m uken into account
the fact that thf value of an autograph
depends ((realty on Ii? rarity. jphii
U's literary r-x*" utor win not hnve
much material to work on.
,1 a
Queries and Answers
\amlng tho Boy.
Please ?Ivo me Homo names begin?
ning* with "H" suitable for a boy. R.
You have a wealth of material to
seloot from, an unonding list. Heze-I
klnh is an especially musloai name.
So are Hamau, Hildebrand, Habakkuk,
Haggal and Horod. Henry Is a rather
common name, though some like It.
Harold iH a sweot nemo. Hans and
Hugo are good, stout, names. Hadrian
Is an unusual h?mo, Homer is a grand
old name. If you think he will be a doc?
tor, by all means call him HlppocrateB.
If ho has an ugly disposition, name
him Hercules. Haakon is n name not
orten seen. Herbert and Hubert m'ght
do. If you wish to call him after a
man of note, use Harmon or Hitch?
cock.
Opern.
YVhut opora Is It that has the same
name as an article for domestic use?
B. R. 6.
"Indigo, or All Bn.'?u and tho Forty
Thieves," nn operetta, by Johann
Strauso.
Votes.
Is It true that before the Civil War
a slaveholder was entitled at an elec?
tion to cast ua muny votes In addition
to his own as tho number of slaves he
owned; that Ib, ono vote for every
slave? R. W.
No.
A lislllf h Imn.
What is tho moaning of "absiiithlsm"
In Marie Corelll's "Wormwoorl"? Is
Mario Corelll considered a good au?
thor? A. M.
Ahslnthism is tho cachectic atato
produced by using absinthe. As a
writer Mnrle OoreAli is popular and
many people llnd nor entertaining. I
Probably she will nnvor 1>eromc a clas- 1
''bniuplon.
Wii.h Tom .Sayers. who fought John i
0, lleenan, "the Benlcla Boy." in 1S60, |
aver cihamplon of England? If so, |
??hon did he hold the title? When did |
John Morrlsey win the championship |
of America? SPOTIT.
IU was champion or England from
IS67 to 1S60. In October, 1S5S, John
Morrlsey beat John C. Heenan for a
stake of $5,000 and the championship
of America, but the records obtainable
.-it this time do not show ihow long he
held the title.
Voice of the People |!
Ksnenllnl-. for Democratic Succcaa.
To the Kdttor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?It was my good fortune to liave
read I:: your paper OC the auth ult.. Hie
letter of Professor Dabney, of the Uni?
versity of Virginia, which gave a large
preference to the nomination of Gov?
ernor Woodrow Wilson-. The instruc
tlveness of tho letter for innturc con?
sideration and for guidance of the dele?
gates to the next Democratic National
Convention would make it a timely
manifesto, if Professor Dabney nad
made no reference disfavorable to eith?
er party In tho Bryan-Underwood con
t ro versy.
In 1S?6, Mr. Bryan's popular voto
was 6,602.036; in 1UO0, B,368,183; In 1008.
6,409,101.
In the first Instance. MeKlnley's plu?
rality was 001,Sil; in Hie second in?
stance, his plurality was 849,790, and
In the third Instance. Tafts plurality
was 1,269,804, In 1904. Roosevelt's plu?
rality-. Judge Parker opposing, was
2,645,616.
The. average popular vote of the Re?
publican candidates In the three elec?
tions when Mr. Bryan ran was only
913,816 over the Democratic popular
vote. When Judge Parker ran in 11)01.
the Republican popular vote exceeded
his by ^.543.575.
The average of Mr. Bryan's voto over
that of Judge Parker was 1.345,470.
Judge Parker wus nominated as the
exponent of. and on a platform of.
theoretic safety und sunenes*. but the
rebuke to these generalities implied In
the policies of a Democratic National
Convention, was found In the 6inullo3t1
Democratic electoral vote since (Jen- I
era! Grant was elected, and over 1,300,-1
000 popular votes less than Mr. Bryan]
received at any of the three times,
when ho whb the nominee. The leading
issue of 1S?6 was the restoration of
silver. An unbroken stagnation of
business and constantly falling prices
hud obtained during Harrison's and
Cleveland's list administration: and
this was attributed to the scarcity of:
money. It was only SI7 or $1S Peri
capita. At these prrlods the sole way)
to Increase the quantity of money was1
to remonetlzo silver. The enormous j
outputs of gold in South Africa and!
Alaska, and our proportion of It, and j
removal of restrictions to the Issuance!
of money by our national bunks, have'
given us a circulation per capita of
$34. The quantitative theory of money
ut the bottom of the so-called "silver!
craze" is now nar-ertod to lie, by Its I
former opponents, the cause, the world,
over, of prevailing high prices, due to i
the plontlfulness of gold. These ob-i
servatlons are made In order to ahowl
that the 6.300.0uo Democratic voters of i
15>96 were not a lot of loons, nor now!
impenitent sinner.-- for having 3tood I
together despite the millions- of dol-'
lars that, were used to defent the Dem- ,
ocratlc candidates, and by other means'
of cowardly Intimidation that were,
never at other times so llngrant and
general,
When Professor Dabney speaks of
the New York Sun's attompts to do
popiilarize the tendency for Governor
Wilson, he shows very plulnly that It
is a wise policy lo do the opposite of
what your enemies want, or don't want,
you to do. Ilushnt Insinuated himself
Into Absalom's counsel in the lattcr'a
revolt ngninst David, and tho conse?
quence was Absalom passed over Jor?
dan, and from the back of the mule ills
hair was caught In the thick boughs
of the great oak, and thia v/ns the last
of Absalom. We a ro living at the cul?
minating period of an "Industrial revo?
lution." The Republican party has
tostored the conditions under which
large combinations of capital aro
threatenh g tho liberties of the people
in greater degree than when tho Dec?
laration of Independence was written.
Economic despotism is worse thnn po?
litical despotism. Thomas Cnrlylc real?
ized this when he :-nld, "l.lbertv re?
quire? new definitions." This requisite
is u 11 the more apparent Jf we are
to arrest the Inevitable of the rich
netting rttiliei and fewer, and the poor
getting poolei and more numerous, at
Mm- rate of an a t Ithmcticul progres?
sion towards the two extremes.
If ib.- Democratic party is not whol
aggrcsalve it: their next platform,
and by nominees in perfect accord
Abe Martin
Rvor noflea how chummy oompeti
: tprs In r.u>lnr-? are when .they meet
(jioflsiiv? Sendln' vour folks awuy fe
I a few dayii in ji?t uka. -?qutppln'
t dra^uaUa oompajijfe,
A TRAGEDY OF THE DIVORCE COURT.
By John T. IVicCutchecm._
(CoprrliMi t?l*t! Br/ Jet? T. ItoCMtoJstjoco.]
against the abuses which have cau?cd
such pronounced Insurgency in the Re?
publican party, the necessary number
of converted voters will not be Us
portion. Professor Dabney rightfully
recognizes thai tho revolt from the
Republican ranlts must be In such
numbers added to our customary vote
for an assuranco of Democratic suc?
cess. CHARLES J. SWIFT.
Columbus, Ua.
Wichen u State Garuc CommlrtMloner.
To tin Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,?The severe weather we are '.lav?
ing hiiKgesis the Importance of caring
for birds ?".??norally, and especially tho
game of our State. There are
very few counties In which game can
be hunted aller January 1. Where the
season hits not closed by law or by
order of tiie Board of Supervisors, the
citizens generally should discourage
hunting. It Is useless to gay bow eas?
ily a Hock of blrdu can be destroyed in
the snow. They should also be fed,
especially In the sections of the State
where unow is heavy, and protected as
far as possible from hawks and minks.
By the way, the trapping of minks la
becoming more extensive In the Stale.
The fur Is* valuable and the mink Is
easily trapped. The most satisfactory
set is found to be along branches,
washed out places, log piles, etc.
The Came Association of Virginia, as
far us the funds It commands have
permitted, has kept the subject of
game protection fresh in the minds of
the people. It Is earnestly desired that
the present General Assembly will pro?
vide for a State Commissioner of Game,
with gcnernl supervisory, powers over
all sections of tho State and aid In
the enforcement of our present laws.
With few exceptions our present stat?
ute relating to frame is very good. The
greatest defect Is In tho enforcement.
To support a department us suggested
will, of course, require some money,
and It la proposed to raise sullicleiit
revenue from a resident hunting tux
of SI, States having such a law raise
from $10.1)00 to $100.000. It will, of
course, require a little time to got
the: department properly organized. As
necessity may require, changes can
be made that may bocomc necessary
for taking care of tho entire sub?
ject in all of its details. Then Vir?
ginia will rank with the progresnlve
.StateK in the protection of its game.
?Members of the Game Association
seem a> feel that It can bo run with?
out revenue. The depleted condition
of the treasury scarcely Justitien In
buying postage eiamnj. We will bo
very glad to receive contributions of
any amount from $1 up, which will bo
used to the best advuntage. 1
L. T. CHRISTIAN,
Secretary. 1
The March of Time.
The deep and oarnast cry for earthly
peace
Marks the beginning of a broader
life!
Where nations ahall expand In thought '?
and cease
Hushing In wrath that loads to vi?
cious strife.
The bettor wisdom of the human raco
Is dawning slow but sure in mighty |
souls. I
That see the folly, mingled with dis?
grace.
Wending in beaten -paths to crimson
goals.
What war hats done to educate man?
kind,
But fools and fiends would wrangle
011 the thought:
America, sins, Is groping blind
In olden trails by strangers rudely
fought.
This vain, discordant age and wild
unrest
Are mournful echoen of the Civil ;
War! 1
Resounding In the North. South. East j
and West. 1
Yea, reaching round the world? ;
from door to door.
Weed out the thorns that choke the
growth of good!
Be up and doing In the march of
Time!
Fearless as thoso who at the cannon
stood.
And made our nation peaceful and
sublime.
GEORGE SANDS JOHNSON.
arquise de Fontenoy
SIP. EDWARD CARSON", a martyr to
dyspepsia- and who is the most
sombre and saturnine looking
man In Hiifldh politics, is at the
present moment, perhaps, the most Im?
portant figure therein, by reason of
hi* lendorshlp of the almost fanatical
npooKition, on both sWIob of St. Oeorgo's
Channel, to any form of Irish home
rule to everything, in fact, that can
tend to repeal the union botween Ire
Inad and Great Britain. Indeed, he
is going to the i>ngth of Inciting the
adversaries of home rule in Great
Britain, and more especially 111 Ireland,
to resistance by force If ncrossnryy and
challenged, at n meeting of the Lister
Orangemen's Association, of which ha
is preiident, at Omagh, in Iroland, on
Thursday last, the government of the
<Jny to treat him aa n rebel against the
crown, und to do Its worst against him
in the courts of law.
He Is an Irishman, both on the side
of his fathor and his mother, the lat?
ter having been one of tho Galway
Lamberts. A graduate of Trinity Col?
lege. Dublin, v/horo he won fame nc
an athlete, he npcalcs with a rich and
rather soft Dublin accent. He Is very
tall, of the lanky, willowy order and
Justlge.t the gibe of the clppnnt re?
porter who wrote that Sir Edwurd Car?
son "rose at gieat length to reply."
He Is the embodiment of the popular
Idea of Sherlock Holmes, hnvlng a
thin, hatchet face, an extremely dark,
sallow complexion. Imperturbable calm,
and shares with Joseph Chamberlain
tfie rare gift of making the fone of the
voice and the facial expression In
tenslfy the bitterness of the spoken
word. Ho first made hie name at the
Irish bar, and then camu prominently
before tho public us prosecutor for the
crown In Ireland, under tho so-called
crimes act, when Arthur Balfour was
Irish Secretory.
His experiences in those exciting
times wore of tho most extraordinary
description, and ono of the strangest
wao tho occasion when ho was called ]
upon to prosecute William O'Urlen. .M
P.. 1 think, at Cork. Just a* tho care
was about to open, a telegram from
tho government. In cipher, was put into
his hand, Instructing him to c-t the
cane postponed. In spite of tills,
prompted by some intuition, he de?
cided to tako no notice of the instrnc- j
Hons, and to go on with the trial. His I
course won him no end of kudos, for
tho telegram turned out to bo a
forgery, though how the senders man?
aged to got hold of the government
cipher, and; how they succeeded in
lorging the stamp of the telegraph,
ofllco as they did?for the message1;
never pasBed over tho wlr?s at all?no
one over found out.
Although Sir Edward Caiaon bore the
brunt of the fighting In connection
with tho so-called crimes act. he re?
ceived little or no reward. True, he
was made solicitor-general for Ireland
for a few monthB, but he had to wait!
for ten years or more, until he received I
altogether Inadequate recognition for
his services, as solicitor-general for
England: an oppolntmcnt due rather to
his eminence as a lawyer, than to the
remembrance of his political services,
and there Is no truth in tho story cir?
culated to the effoct that he was offered
a seat In the Cabinot as chlof secretary
for Ireland. In tact, it wae owing to
hl3 exclusion from the Cabinet, and
to the Inck of gratitude of Arthur Bal?
four, who is renowned for his fnllura
to remember his friends, that Carson \
broke with him In tho course of a
particularly memorable scene in the
House of Commons. Baifour. indeed,
who was premier at the time, camo
as near breaking down as ever any
statesman had been In the House, and
seemed unable to realize that Sir Ed?
ward should ever have ontertalned any
unkindly feelings towards hlin.
Sir Edward's most memorable success
at tho English bar was his brllUam
defense of the late Marquis of Queenn
berry. in the action for slander brought
against him by Oscar Wilde, whom ha
virtually drove out of English life.
With a mother^who belonged to one
of the oldest county fnmillos of Gal?
way, and. with a charming Irish wife
who belongs to another of these Galway
clans, It Is only natural that Sir Ed?
ward should be tho champion par ex?
cellence of the Irish landlords.
While there may bo many different
opinions as to tho eventual outcome
of tho fight against that Irish home
rule to which the present government
stands committed, and which hns even
been accopted In principle by a number
of Conservative statesmen, such as.
for Instance, Arthur Balfour. there is
no doubt that tho adversaries of the
reneal of the Union, alike In Ireland and
In Great Britain, have In Sir Edward I
Cnrson, n? their leader, an altogether
remarkable man, very daring, vory I
clever, alternately sombre and gay, In
turn fierce and gentle, Very magnetic,
slightly mysterious, a perfect tanutlr.
!?? some thlngy, broad-minded to the
extreme In others, extraordinarily
quick-witted, and gifted with a thoi -
oughly Hibernian talent of repartee,
as changeable an the Irish sky, and, In
one word, with tho complex tempera?
ment of the true black Celt,
In view of Miss Kilon Stone's an?
nouncement fror.i Chelsea. Maaa., that
having recovered her health, ehe Is
about to rrjlurn to hrr educational
work In Macedonia, where she was
some ten yoara ago cuptured by
hrlgnnds, and carried off Into mountain
fastnesses until the heavy ransom of
Koine 170,000 demanded tor her re?
lease had been paid, llrst by popul?r
subscription, the money being lat^r rl ?
Itnbursod by Congress. It would be well
If the State Department at Washington
were to make public a notification sim?
ilar to tho one Issued In 130S by lln
Knallsh Foreign Olflco, to the effect
that the British government would
from thenceforth decline to pay rau
lora for any British subject who hud
been captured by brigands ,rt Morocco,
or In any other lawless or more or
less barbarous countries.
I"ntil that time, as often as Briton.*
hud been captured by bandits, when
picnicking on the plnine of Marathon,
while enguged In shooting expeditions
In tho Interior of Albania and ot*l?.r
portions of Turkey, In hunting trips
In Morocco, In geographical explora?
tions, in educational or missionary
work In China and other parts of Asl*
and Africa, the English government
had always been required to pay the
ransom, on the very risky chance of
recovering the amount from the poten?
tate in whoso dominions the outrage
lind taken place. In many casts the
British Treasury had been unsuccess?
ful In gottlng back tho money in tliI**
fashion, tho government concerned
arguing that tho people captured had
gone thoro at their own risk, know?
ing full well that It was against the
wishes of the local authorities, who
had warned them that they could not
guarantee their safety. The money,
therefore, hod usually to oome out of
the. pocket of the British taxpayer.
Now there la no earthly reason why
the taxpayers who stay at hotni
bhoulu be called upon to pay ransom
for some compatriot who for his own
amusement, for Ids. own profit, or
through some sense of self-aacrlbed
duty, enters of his own accord a coun?
try Infested by brigands. If ho chooses
to run the risk of capture by bandits,
a risk of which he Is perfectly well
aware, ho should accopt the conse?
quences. Moreover, as long as It was
known that the British government
undertook to ransom any of Its sub?
jects who happened to be captured by
forelan brigands, the latter had a
potent inducement to kidnap and bold
for ransom lieges of the King of Eng?
land. In fact there has been much
less of this kidnapping of English bv
brigands since it has become gen?
erally known that the British govern?
ment would under no ciroumatanom
furnish tho ransom. I may add that
one never hears of any Italian or
Greek, Spaniard or Portuguese, being
captured by Turkish or Moorish hand
Us. who know too well that It would
be hopoless to expoct anything in the
shape of ransom from tho governments
to which their prisoners are subject.
Without In the least deprecating the
sense of duty which leads Miss Stone
to return to the scene of her captui*?
and ransom some ten years ago, she
ought to he glvon thoroughly to Ufc
derstand that she goes at hor own risk,
thnt tho United fitntea govnrnmenr
cannot undertake to protect her In the
wilds of Macedonia, which is In a
state of acknowledged lawlessness ami
rebellion, and that sho must not ex?
pect thnt either the United Slates
Treasury, or the people who put tliei:
hands into their pockets for her a de?
cade ago, can do so again.
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Company.)
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