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How Uncle Sam Is Edtae&ting the Filipino
The Ifforrote school boya -?rciir cnp?, jackets nnd gccuiring?. These boys come from Un?ulo.
?It-ln? a Million n lanmin??-. More thanS.OuO Filipino
?ebool tcuclter? jiivc lnn<ru>-tl<>n In KnsUHb. Tlicae arc
fourth gruue telichera from Tnrluc.
Every ncliool line Ks own bmtcbnlj teuni.
Scene tn n Aoriiial School, Munlln. DOrjiieKtlc Science kitchens, where the
teachers lenrn conking.
nv WRAsai ?. carpeater.
Washington, d. c.
Waking up a nation!
That, la what Uncle Sam la doing in
tho Philippines, lie hss started S.uOO -
000 people to thinking, and both the
wild man a.od the civilized aro using
their brains. The ladles with which
ho is stirring this mighty Intellectual
pot arc of man}' kinds, pne is the new
government, another the roads and
public works that axe Iving made
everywhere, a third is the chances for
money-making which ho has opened up
to tho people, and most lmportajtt of
nil is l he schools.
When 1 visited tho Islands In 19?0
education was almost unknown. The
great majority of tho people had no
tiehoollng whatever. Eighty per cent,
of them were densely Ignorant, and not
one man in ten could read or write.
The few schools, such as they were,
iiaii been broken up by the war. and
about the only leaching was that of
the triars, who were Inculcating the
knowledge of the middle ages, and that
largely religious.
Lmriuj; my stay some schools wero
organized b"y the army, and an ox-sol
dler was put at the head of the Bureau
of Education. Then Uncle Sajn began
to bring in the American schooima'am
and to teach the children In, English.
What it Job this was Americans who
have not been to the Philippines will
never know. Only about 7 per cent,
of the population of the islands could
speak Spanish, and the people curried
on their work In a polyglot of lan
guages. Even tho Christian Filipinos
had sixteen different dlaloctK and
th.se were so varied that the better
class man from Mlnando or Negros
could hardly make, himself understood
to the. man of Luzon. There was no
common language, ami English was
comparatively unknown.
(ilvtiig the Filipino a l.niiKUUgc.
To-day the Filipinos have one tougue,
which can be underetoo<l anywhere in
the islands a-id which will carry the
traveler through them from Borneo to
Formosa- This is the English. Thou?
sands of teachers have been teaching
it during the past fifteen years, and
hundreds of thousands of children arc,
now practicing It in every city and!
Village. To-day there arc more than !
h. '">o Filipino school teachers, all of |
whom read English well and most of
whom speak it fairly well. There aro
also about NOO American teachers who
arc working here and there through-1
out :he archipelago, and the younger!
generation Is growing Up with English
as its thought language and book lan?
guage.
This means much tp the Philippines.
It is Unifying the puople and making
them one nation, in the past the Fili?
pinos, or the Christian natives as dis?
tinguished from the wild tribes nnd
the Moros, had eight different types'
of languages. The natives of one prov- i
1 nee could not understand those of the'
ones adjoining them. In Luzon they
spoke seven different tongues, und.
throughout the archipelago there were1
numerous dialects. i
There werV about 1,600,000 who used,
tho Tagalog, 800,000 who conversed In.
the Hoco. and more than half a mil-1
lion who spoke Hie.ol. There wero
KflO.OOO or -lOO.nOO who had the Pan
gaslnam and more than a quarter of
a million who had the Pampnnga. Still
different tongues were spoken by the
3,000,000 of the Vleayan Islands fur?
ther south, and theso had their dia?
lects.
The Moros of Mindanao and Sulu hod
their own language, but it was differ?
ent In different places. The whole
urchlpelago in short was a Babel with
euch a confusion of .ongucs thut It
would have been Impossible to hnve
Inti-oduced modern civilization without
it new language. Uncle Sam has given
the people this new tongue, and it is
the United States English.
Filipino Schools.
It is necessary to undurstiind the
lliove conditions to know what we
are. doing In educating the Is'anda.
My Information comes from lottors and
reports just received by the Bureau
of insular Affairs of the War Depart?
ment, and from talks with Gonern.1
i.'lnrenoc Edwards and from officers'
who have recently returned from the
Philippines.
The story Is one of live progress.
We are ustaljlishing schools every?
where, and that on the American plan.
Many have been instituted among the
wild tribes, and the. Igorrotes. the
ltaKOt>n_s and the IftlgaOS have schools
of thqir own. Some of the wild boys
learn their lessons sitting on the
lloor of their thatched school ' houses,
find in little more than a Kee-strlng.
The Igorrote school boys wear caps
nnd Jackets and uee-Kirings. hut the
Jillle ones speak English, and they aro
acting as interpreters for their fathers!
engaged In the government works.
Wo aro even educating some of the
Negritos, the children of our cave
dwelling pygmies, ojkI our education
of the Filipinos themselves Is going
on everywhere.
As It is now. wo havo altogether
ahout S00.00O children on the school
rolls. This Is for one. year, the month?
ly average being consldera.hly loss on
account of the many absentees during
a part of the time.
The New School HnlldliiK".
New school buildings are going up
throughout the archipelago, and $1,
1100,000 will be spent for those erected
for primary scholars this year. The.
school houses of the Spaniards were
long, low buildings of nun room, with
heavy walls and n Toof of tllos or
thatch. The floor was the ground, and
tho windows were of wooden bars.
Many of tho new buildings are of re?
inforced concrete, and not u few have
two atorios. Tho roofs arc of Iron.
Some of these buildings are after plans
drawn by tho students at Manila. They
are made on the unit system, so that
rooms can be added as the school
grows.
It Is said that many of the school
houses now going up in the country
districts are superior to the samo
class in the United Slates. In many
out-of-the-way places there are school
rooms still walled with bamboo ami
roofed with thatch. All are built to
suit troydoaJ needs. Very few of them
have glass windows, ami all are well
I up from the ground and light and airy.
[ Many of those school buildings have
playgrounds, and others have gardens
and ornamental lawn plots, which arc
kept by tho children. Some have base?
ball and football grounds, and tho
trade schools have shops of various
kinds.
Industrial Education.
T.'ic most Interesting [eatura of this
educational movement is that It is i
everywhere carried on along industrial |
lines. The little Filipinos are being
educated not to become lawyers. ora
tors or clerks, but actual working ,
members of an'industrial nation. They I
are taught the dignity of work, and i
even tho? children o: well-to-do fami?
lies and of H\.: rich now go into man- ,
mil training and work on the farms
ami hi the school gardens.
The manual training begins with the
primary grades, und runs through the
whole course, thO children specializ?
ing, if they wish, as to what they shall
d". At the present lime there are
3S1.000 l.oys and girls who are thus
engaged in learning some kind uf In?
dustry wliica will enable them to live
Independently when their school years
arc closed. In the primary grudes,
which include children up to ten years
of age, they spend from one-half to |
thrccrquarlera of an hour a day in .
Industrial work. The little imca learn I
the hand weaving of the native Iibr?s, j
beginning this study at six. They also i
do a little gardening. At seven they
are taught basketry and woodworking I
and pottery. The girls make doll '
clothes, hem towels. napkins and I
shoots, and begin to mend their own
clothes. They also learn lace making
and embroidery. It is the same in the
next two years, and at ten domestic
Science Is added and further instruc?
tion Is given In the branches already
taken up. This manual training Is
continued throughout the eighth grade,
the children being allowed to special- i
ize as they or i heir parents wish.
Courses In I'linnlnic and (oirdcnlng.
in all of the schools there Is natural
study, and the children learn about
the plants of the islands. Some of,
the schools have farms connected with1
them, and special Instruction iu "Ivon
as to the clii. f crops. There are alto
gether thirty or forty thousand acroa
In auch farms, and on one of them,
consisting of about fifteen aores,
eighty boys worked last year on an
average of about two hours a day.
They maintained fifty-two garden plots
and planted and harvested peanuts, to?
bacco and corn. This was at Batac
Many of the common schools havu
gardens whore vegetables are grown.
They have tree nurseries, and therearo
classes of seed selection and In poultry
raising
In tho eighth grado coursos are
given In housekeeping and tho house?
hold arts. The girls learn domestlo
science, and they pracTico cooking. 'inns
work will eventually make a great
change in the housekeeping and cook?
ing of tho people. Physiology, hygiene
und sanitation arc taught in all the
schools.
The Trade Schools.
In addition to the regular schools
there ar*.? trude sVhuoly and manual
naming schools. There aro many
thousands of students who aro per?
fecting themselves In special Ili?os
with a view to having a trade after
leaving school, and 34,000 are doing
Industrial work In the upper grades.
About 12,000 boys ore learning car?
pentry, and they will Htippiant tho
Cnineae und Japaneso carpeuioru, who
now practicaLly have u monopoly of
the building and cabinet work of the
Islands.
In tho school of arts and trades at
Manila the boys aro tuugnt how to do
ail kinds of muchunlcui work. They
handle machinery, tney repuir automo?
biles, and thuy do all sorts of wood?
working und Iron-working. In addi?
tion to this there ore tniriy-llvo other
trade schools, or one for euen prov?
ince. The most of these are equipped
with inachineiv uulilts, and all uavo
adequate sets of wood-working tools,
in many of them Iron-working gues
on. Thousands of students ate now
studying in tnese schools, und in sumo
cases tho Institutions have developed
into well organized business enter?
prises.
The instruction la along, the Hues
that will ue of value 4o the people.
Take the nsikuig of huts, and oilier
work 111 connection with me Philip?
pine fibres. The little unes IUK?
quickly to weaving, and they are ruuk- |
ing huts, mats, bags aii.i hammocks, '
some ot which are exquisitely beauti?
ful. The line Filipino straw hat now
goes all over the world; 11 rivals the
Panama, and It migni form 011c ot
the great exports of the Island. A
?lealer ut Manila recently received an
order from the United elates lor J.O0O,
000 of these huts, but he hud not the
people to make them. In 1909 mote
than ??O.Oofj were exported; but ot j
these less than 200,u00 went to the I
United States.
This education In weaving and along
other Industrial Tines is not conllncd
10 the trade schools. As 1 have said
before, it is a part of every common
school, and It will eventually mane
the Filipinos u great industrial nation, j
Vn c ?>.m realises this possibility |
and General Edwards Is urging that 1
industrial education be promoted in |
every part of tho islands. It was In j
connection with this that the Depart?
ment, of Agriculture has been alliou I
with the Bureau ol Education, and the
two now work together. A great deal 1
is expected from tne natural Srttll
WhlC.i the children show in embroid?
ery and laco-making. Tlroy arc fully
the equals of the Japanese or Chinese
In all such work, and they may sup?
ply the United Slates markets.
Shi-'.ivhIMm for (he lulled States.
Not Ion;; ago Mr. O'Reilly, of the
Bureau of Education, was sent to the
Unite'' States to nee what market
there might be for Filipino embroid?
ery, lie look back patterns of shirt
waits and other tilings w..ich had been
embroidered in Belgium and Japan.
These Will be copied by the schools
to be sold in our stores, or original
Work of a similar nature be produced.
One dealer says he could use 100,000
such shirtwaists at a price which
would bo very high for the Filipinos.
Tho children In this way work for
their schools, and they will also make
money for themselves. As General
Edwards snys.the two great necessi?
ties of llf-; are good health und an
occupation. Our government Is giving
the first to the Filipinos through its
sanitation methods an." instruction In
hyslt ne, and it is giving the second
through thin iudustrlul work In the
schools.
I In some parts of the islands they
'are leaching the children :o rairio silk.
They grow the mulberry trees In their
schdi gardens. They hutch the eggs
and rear the silkworms and reel the
I silk from the cocoons. This may be
1 made a house Industry, us It is In
China and Japan. Later on tea-rats
, Ing will probably bo taken up.
? The Teachers nuil the Normal Schools.
A gr.>ot work Is going on In edu?
cating tho Filipino teacher. Since wo
I took hold of tho Islands about :!00 of
! the native students have been sent by
our government to tho United States
to be educated, and there are now
large normal schools In tho Philip?
pines. There la one at Manila which
nee nundreds of pupils. It stands on
the old exposition grounds, and is
oujUipped 'With garduua, ituooru-iorles
und ugrlouitural experiment groundt*.
It has domestic sclenoe Kitchens,
where tho touchers learn cooking- It
has a manual training school and a
library. Connected wltn this there W
a corrosponuonee school which is being
used by i,3U0 teacnors scattered heru
and there througnuitt tho archipelago.
The Manila Murin.u Senoul bus ulsu a
summer eeason during April and May.
at which mere are courses In Indus?
trial work, In tho various bronchos of
teaching, and also in music, druwing
and pnyslcul training. That school
was attended by SOO teachers last year,
and they came from every pact ol the
Islands. There are other summer
schools at the provincial capitals, and
thore are vacation classes in the
schools of art and trades.
A vory Important educational force
Is the Teachers' Vacation Association.
This organization holds a ehautatiua
camp on the liaguio nllls, w ue re is
also the summer capital ot the Philip?
pine*. Tho teachers go there and
camp out for several weeks, during
which tlmo they nave classes of va?
rious kinds. Among t t>le branches
studied urc lace making, embroidery,
Span'sh and Philippine history, unu
the science of education. They have
lectures and other entertainments.
They hold conferences and dlscust
their work In the schools. Next year
it is expected tnat men of note (torn
the United Slates will come to ijet,ire
at that conference, in i'jii the csinp
was attended by more than ^00 super?
intendents and teachers.
Tbc Urotvth ?( Athletlea,
In connection with this vacation
camp are extensive athletic grounds,
j there arc tennis courts, baseball dia?
monds and golf Units. The niuumer
school at Manila Is similarly equipped;
and at the normal ucnool there are
I 11 Ye baseball teams, three tennis courts
i and sixty girls In the basketball club's;
Athletics Is now popular In all I lie
common schools, in the baseball tour?
naments of laut year 1,200 games wero
Played by ibO teams, and the people
came from far und wide 10 fee them,
livery school now has Its own baseball
team, and the teams of the various
previous come together and compete,
Indeed, basehall Is almost uu much a
national gam.- |n the rhillppuics as It
Is in the United States. ll Is played
by the soldiers, and It is tuey who
have taught the Filipinos.
The bureau ot Education is now
working out a plan to introduce or?
ganized athletics among all the Stu?
dent? coming under its control. It will
organize a Public School's Athletic
League, which will moke a study ot
i the physical needs of the students and
minister to them. Public playgrounds
will be opened up and gymnastics made
1 a part of every school course. As ll
I Is now, physical training Is carried on
in many of the schools.
! The popularity Of athletics Is to be
seep everywhere. Manila has an iima
| teur athletic federation ol which the
; Oovernor Is president. There is a
basketball league, and there are crlck
| et clubs and polo clues. The Governor
la a crack polo player. Now and then
the city lias a carnival, and at me lust
1 one piiij men were registered a* ama?
teur athletes.
This athletic work Is not coullned to
I the Filipinos. The Igorrotcs now have
a baseball team and other savage
tribes are takln?' up sports. All this is
in striking contract with the condi?
tions when ivfi look possession of the
Philippines. At that ttino there were
practically no athletics, and the bettet
classes had a sort of contempt for
physical exerelae.
Our ,\ctv I ulvemlt y.
There were suvcral colleges at Ma?
nila When We took hold of the Islands,
and each had a long lisl of studies
They were mostly connected With the
I classics and church history, bui as to
practical education uleng modern lines,
.that was unknown. While 1 was in
I Manila 1 visited the University of St.
.Thomas, which was founded about ten
years before our Pilgrim Fathers land?
ed on Plymouth Pock, and also the
I Coliego of St. Joseph, which was es?
tablished by the Jesuits in ltjoi, ana
at that time endowed by the King ot
Spain With three professorships ot $10.
000 each.
Uotll of these liibtilulioas have been
I Of but little value to ua aa fur as cly
| lllzlng the islands was concerned. Some
of their graduates became teachers,
but ihe real workers among the Fili?
pinos were those who had been edu?
cated outside.
It will be different with the Univer?
sity of the Philippines, the act for the
establishment of which was passed by
the Assembly at Manila In 150S. Tills
provides for" an up-to-date university
with colleges of arts, science, medicine,
law and engineering. Tills scnool la
already well under way and plans for
a university building are being pre?
pared. Homo of the collogos liavo al?
ready beon organized. Tho modtoal
schuol was organized In 19U7 and hau.
alreudy had a number of graduates, li
has gathered it? teachers trom tho phy
Bictuns of Manila and thu big hospi?
tals. It gives a course which iu
oludos two years and a half of hos?
pital work. Tho colloges of liberal
urts and engineering were onenod in
1910, and a coiolgo of law has just
buen organized aa an outgrowth of tho
Ihw work give under tho auspices of
the Y. M. C. A. Members of tnu 1'hll
ipplno Commission und Judges of tho
Supremo Court arc leaching In that
I college. There Is also a school of lino
urta affiliated wlih the uuivorsily, und.
this hud 700 students last year. Tho
university will have a courue of four
years und It will in time be one of
the chief institutions of Its kind in tho
Far East.
(Copyright. 11)12, by Krank G. Car?
penter.)
BON AIR
(Special to Tho Times-Dispatch.]
Hon Air. Vn., February ' 3.?Mlsa
Edith Haken was the guest last wook
in Itlehinond of the Misse? Jahnkc.
Withers Miller spent Sunday hero
wllh bis parents.
Miss Jullu Wherry was with Miss
, llazcltlno Watson last week In Rlch
; inoud.
j .Mrs. Meredith spent noveral dayo
recently with Mrs. lialley Davis, In
I Richmond.
I Miss Willie .lohristou is visiting
i friends in Lynchburg.
I George Junken wus the woek-ond
guest oi Mrs. W. M. Withers.
Miis Margaret McCluro spent a few
I days In Kichinond lust week visiting
I friends.
! Miss I {ermine Moore ha? returned
j from Itlrhmond. where ahe was stay
' Ing with Miss Lucy Mason.
I Thomas Armlstead wn.i with the
Misses Armlstead last week.
Mr. ami Mrs. James Winston and
children, of Klngsion-on-the-iiudson,
! arc with Mr. und Mrs. T. M. Ken..erly.
' Mr. and Mrs. Kcnnorly entertained
In honor of their huuBc guests on
Tuesday night at a family reunion.
Mr. and Mrs. Iludglns were with Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Boschcn on Sunday.
Miss Nellie Agloimby, of Englund,
has been tho recent guest of Mrs. T.
M. Kcnnorly, at "Tho Inn.'"
I Miss Hazel lludspeih has been stay?
ing ihla week with Mrs. It. McC. Uull
, ington.
j Mrs. Thomas Peyton, of Richmond,
I spent the latter part of the week with
i the Misses Armlstead.
Miss Carrie Moor? spent several
! days this week with Mrs. Douglas
I Wherry.
WAVERLY
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.]
Wavorly. Va., Kebiuary 3.?Mini
I Cora Howe. of Frcdorlcksburg, is
sp.-nding some time with her sister,
, Mrs B, W. Chappcll, on East Main
' Street.
j Miss Grace AS'. West returned homo
I to-day after a ton days' visit to friends
, in Lexington and Lynchburg. While In
! Lynchbilrg they attended the Harrls
:-'mlth nuptials.
Miss Pauline Cheatnm spent Sunday
'at her home in Wavorly, ami returned
!on Monday to take charge of her
I school in Prime George county.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. West have re?
turned home from a visit of several
I days to friends in Newport News.
c adet T. C. Williams, of the Vit -
i Rtllia Military its litiite. was at lilri
1 home m Waccrly \:i a three days' fur?
lough lam Sundi ? tic. returned tc
the institute on Mfnday.
M. II. West and E. N. Burl spentt WO
days In Itlchuiond ibis week.
Misse? Frances and Helen Broaddu?,
'of Wukelleld. were the guesta of thcit
sister, Mrs. K. B. Butt, In Wavorly,
Ibis week.
Dr. and Mrs. S. II. Ellis, of Wnkc
I hold, attended the WcBt-ElllS nuptials,
on Wednesday.
M.ss Grace Nortis, of llomcvlllo, an.)
I Miss Alma Camp, of Yale, visited then
parental home In Wavi rly this week.
Jesse F. West, Jr., spent la?t Sun?
day wllh friends In Holland.
Miss Etta Wetzlcr has returned te?
ller home In Wavoriy afler a visit of
several daya to friends In Richmond.
Sheriff Joe D. Prince, of Gray, and
Dr. Joel Crawford, of Yale, spent the
ilbv In Wavoriy this week.
Mrs. W. W. Edwards, of Wavorly, Is
visiting friends near Yale this week.
Judge Jesse F. Wdt spent several
days tl-.ls week in Petersburg, whore
he presided over Hie Hustings Court
of the city of Petersburg.
Rev. W. W. Edwards, of Wavcrly,
v. as In Itlehinond this week. _
Penned by
WALLACE IRWIN
Pictured by
EWKEMBLE
Vou wouldn't thin* a fat (ray had ?o much action In ula Krur?. ?,?, would
THIS is a Trust
Can the Trust run?
Run, Trust, run!
Whoops! How that ad-i-pose
L'or-po-ra-tion can hook the
Eray-el !? You wouldn't think a
Fat Guy hsd so much action in
his gears, now would you?
Whaf/s he 'fraid of?
Can't you guess? Ob-serve
the mild-man-nercrl law-yer com
ing a-round the Treas-u-ry Build?
ing with ;t writ of rcp-lcvin in
his right hand and a change of
venue in his left. Sec the way he
ruth-pics up and makes for that
Trust like a brood-ing lien aft-er
a yc!-low dog.
Attorney Gemer?l Wickersham
My dear! Can that be George?
The same. [-ion. George Wood?
ward Wick-cr-sham, At-tor-ncy
Gcn-er-al of the U-nit-cd States
of A-mcr-i-ca.
What will George do to the
Trust, if lie gets it?
He will call the Trust an ''in
jur-i-ous com-bi-na-tion" and
bring suit.
A sort of com-bi-na-tion suit,
as it were.
Yes. as it were.
What lias the Trust cv-cr done
to George?
Noth-ing. George hunts Trusts
from a sense of du-ty, just the
way St. George of yore used to
do the Bwana Tuinbo act on
wick-ed drag-ons.
Is this Trust a very vvick-cd
mon-ster ?
Es-pe-ci-al-ly so. lie is the
Cor-set Trust. Near lv all Trusts
have a way of get-ting a-round
peop-lc and sr|ucez-ing them to
the lim-it. Um the Cor-sct Trust
is a-bout the last word in stran
gu-la-tion. Me is an all-em-brac?
ing c-vii. lie might be truth
tul-lj' cal-led "The First Squeez?
er in the Land.'' Fv-er-y wom
lan in the na-tion pays trib-utc to
him, with the ex-cep-tion of a few
old-tash-ioned Suf-fra-gettes who
boost the Nat-u-ral .Fig-ure.
Has George al-ways tints, en?
joyed the pleas-tires of the chase?
No. and a-gain NO! When lie
was a priv-atc cit-i-zen, tip to the
year 1909, he pcr-mit-tcd the
flab-by Trust to play a-round his
feet. Oc-cas-ion-al-ly he pat-ted
some Kail-way on the head arid
gave no in-ti-tnation of the mur?
der that was in lijs heart. Not
cv-cii when Bill Taft made a place
for George in his cab-i-net tab le
did the trust-ing Timsls sus-pect
the worst. But one dajF there
came a change. It was sub-tic
at first, but toward tc Pres-i-dcnt
i-al year of 1912 George sud-den
ly turned with a sick-cn-ing snarl
and strode forth with a two-;
edged clcav-cr. A thrill of hor?
ror went through cv-cr)r Cor-po-'
ra-tion Law-ycr i" the cdun-try, |
for they saw the hid-e-ous truth
j?George had never rcal-ly loved
ithe Trusts, but had been mcre-ly
fat-tcn-ing them for market!
So George went on a rain
page?
Yes. The first Trust lie met
was the Staud-ard Oil fecd-ing
pcacc-ful-ly ?'ii ilic corpse of a
lit-tlc indus-try it had just slain.
One-two! One-two! arid through
ami through the blade of George
went snick-er-snack! The Stand?
ard Oil turned rc-proach-ful eyes
on its pcr-sc-cu-tor, roared, "Be
reasonable!" and died after
smearing the en-tire landscape
with gore and kcr-o-senc.
Rush-ing from the scene of
car-nagc, George next found the
jol-lv old To-bac-co Trust sit-t.ing
in a stogie field chew-ing cab?
bage stalks. It poured a dead-ly
stream of cig-ar-ettc smoke into
the eyes of our de-tcr-mincd
ll-lefno, but in vain. In a few mo?
ments nought re-maincd of the
Imon-stcr but a long, white ash
and a pile of dam-aged Prc-mi-um
Cou-pons.
His lust for blood, a-rouscd,
Mr. YVick-er-sham raged on till
he came upon the Steel Trust,
who sat. sc-curc among his armor
plate pick-ing his teeth with a
steel rail. This brute was a hard
nut to crack. He cn-gaged George
in con-ver-sa-tion and lold chat?
ty an-ec-dotcs a-bout him sind Ii.
H. Gary and Charlie Schwab and
Ted-dy Roos-c-vclt and the rest
of the boys a-round the Tennes?
see Coal & I-ron of-ficc. George
go so in-ter-cst-cd that he for-got
jto strike, and the Steel Trust, in
the in-tcr-val, crawled be-hind
a Lcg-al Com-pli-ca-lion anil
laughed in bigh-mock-ing ac?
cents. He is a-bid-ing there still,
and George is still hunt-ing him
with a sharp spear.
I Docs George go af-ter the
Trusts vol-un-tar-i-ly, or does
some one sick him on?
Some af-firm that Bill Taft is
an ac-cess-ory after the fact, and
Bill docs not dc-ny this with suf?
ficient force to queer him with
the I'ro-gres-sivc wing of the
Par-ty. It is a well-known fact
that George calls on Bill at the j
White House ev-cry Wed-nes-day I
morn-ing and pre-scnts n long
type-writ-ten sheet con-tain-ing
the names of some of our most
prom-i-nent mal-e-fac-tors. Some?
times George and Bill spend
hours and hours pick-ing- out who
is to be Next.
It is lots of fun for George and
Bill, is it not?
It is some-times more fun for
Bill than for George. All Bill
has to do is to hold the dope
sheet while George gives the fast
pcr-form-anc-cs. It is. oft-en a
pa-thet-ic con-trast to sec Bill
mak-ing pleas-ant speech-cs at an
Au-to-mo-bile Ban-quet while
George is out on some bleak New
Eng-land hill-side, his fing-ers
blue with cold, vainly attempt?
ing to smoke out of his hole some
stub-born Trust who rc-fus-cs to
c-mcrgc and be slain. And then
there's an-othcr sad thing.
And that is?
A Trust, like a cat, has an ir-i
tat-ing way of show-ing up aft-cr
he is dead. If you don't be-licvc
it, go to 26 Broadway and sec
whaf: you sec.
Have we learned the les-son of
this use-fill life?
Sure Mike, we have!
And what is the sub-stance of
this wise max-ini?
"Let George ,lo it.?'
(Copyright, 1912. by Associated LltcrM
Prcit.) t
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