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CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
■
This is the season when the editor
of the Congressional Record enjoys his
well earned vacation.
We expected Nicaragua to start up
again right after the Fourth of July,
but it has disappointed us.
The sculptor who is making a marble
bust of Rockefeller should be careful
to get his wIR on straight.
Society note: Among the noted ar
rivals at Long Beach during the past
week was the Hon. Mr. Neptune.
An artist is making a marble bust of
John D. Rockefeller. John has been
doing the public in oil for some time.
We almost dread to have the state
campaign come on because of the cam
paign cigars that inevitably come
with it.
The Oermon boycott on beer will be
about as successful as the American
boycott on beef, or as an Irish boycott
on potatoes.
civil War pensioners are dying at
the rate of 32,000 a year. The old boys
won't much longer bother the oppo
nents of pensions.
The Socialist mayor of Milwaukee is
suppressing disorderly saloons, which
is a kind of Socialism that appeals
to non-Socialists.
Mr. Roosevelt complains of his heavy
mail. Hasn't Brother Abbott shown
him the location of the Outlook's capa
cious editorial waste basket?
New York has dropped out of the
race for the Panama cunal exposition.
We think that leaves only about six
or seven cities in the contest.
Count Zeppelin is undismayed by his
misfortunes. For indomitable persist
ence he almost equals Joseph G. Can
non and Richard A. Ballinger.
"Kill the fly" is the slogan of the
liygienists. That is what the baseball
reporters have been telling the out
ers to do for several years.
The population of Jones county, Tex.,
lias trebled since the last census. Just
What the Jones family lias led us to
expect of it by its past record.
Every time \\.' > m 01 those new
tlght-at-thi ankli "hobble gowns" we
are afraid he may stub her toe, fall
down and not be able to get up.
Having investigated the hi:.:h prices,
tin next thing to do is to investigate
for the I".- to lower 'em. We've
an idea It's through the ballot box.
Just when we were beginning to get
the bad taate out of our moutha Tox
Rlckard hat t< break out again with
a threat to sue Governor Oilku. "A
plapruu i>' both your houses!"
Russia haa ;i law against marrying
more than five times. Now we know
why our li iding theatrical stars who
visit Europi v mally cut the i aar"a
country out o£ their itinerary.
An eastern paper headi rui i"lit r.rial
"Four ITeari More of X>iaz." We
haven't read it, bui he thinkl
tbe -president" or Mexico will ahuffle
off in four years. That is the only
theory on which »uch a hi would
be Justified.
An Oakland Judge refused natural
ization papers to an alien who, when
asked who elected the governor of Cali
fornia, answered, "The Southern Pa
clflo." Any applicant showing: such
superior intelligence ought to get citi
zenship papers for the entire family.
JUSTICE TO EMPLOYES
ONE very striking evidence that, as
a people, we are coming- to more
correctly recognise thD obligations
of society to the individual is found
in the growth of sentiment In favor
of legislation imposing upon employers
liability for Injuries inflicted upon em
ployes while in the discharge of the
duties of their employment. It Is es
timated that our annual record of
maimlngs and killings of employes en
gaged in ttsa various Industries of the
country amounts to about half a mil
lion. In a largo majority of Instances
the maimed employe, or those depen
dent upon the employe whoso life Is
taken in the course of his employment,
receive no compensation whatever, and
they are thrown upon their nwn re
sources, which frequently means upon
the charity of the general public, for
support. And where compensation, is
obtained, it is usually as the result of
legal proceedings which cost so much
of the amount recovered for the ex
penses of prosecuting the suit as to
leave little to the person for whose
benefit they are brought.
The public is gradually being con
vinced thnt this state of affairs is all
wrong, and the conviction has resulted
In some states In legislation intended
to relieve employes as much as they
can be relieved of the terrible danger
always hanging over them and those
dependent upon them, of being killed or
injured In the course of their employ
ment.
The National Association of Manu
facturers, In a meeting held sometime
Ego, appears to have recognized the
gravity of the situation ,by urging its
mfembers to establish "a system of
voluntary, mutually contributory, in
dustrial accident indemnity insurance"
and by offering substantial money
prizes for "the safest plants or the
best safety devices brought to its at
tention each year."
The 1 cent New York legislature,
however, went further than any other
legislative body in this country has
gone in providing for justice to em
ployes by the enactment of two bills
drawn up by a special commission
created last year for that purpose. One
of these bills, which applies only to a
special list of extra hazardous employ
ments, each as railroading, Btructural
work, electrical work, etc., gives to a
workman injured in these employments
the right to draw half wages from his
employer during his disability, up to
eight years. To the dependents of a
workman killed in these employments
it gives the right to get from the em
ployers a sum equnl to the workman's
wages for four years, with a limit of
$3000.
The othir of these bills known as the
permissive bill, applying to all em
ployments, offers to employers and em
ployes a chance to make a contract by
which the emloye gives up his un
certain right to sue for damages in
capes vhere he can prove negligence,
In return for a certainty of compensa
tion for all accidents according to the
rates named.
Concerning these bills, Senator J.
Mayhew Wainwright, chairman of the
commission which drew them, says:
"Our existing legal system for com
pensating those injured in the great
strife of industrial life Is base'? on the
negligence or fault of the employer.
Unless such fault can be shown, there
is no redress. THIS THEORY HAS
BEEN DISCARDED BY PRACTICAL
LY EVERY CIVILIZED COUNTRY
IN THE WORLD, EXCEPT OUR
OWN, THE MODERN ECONOMIC
THEORY BEING THAT THE LOSS
OF LIFE AND LIMB MUST BE
TREATED AS AN ELEMENT IX
THE COST OF PRODUCTION, FOR
WHICH THE INDUSTRY MUST
PAT, AND WHICH MUST BE TA
KEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THE SAME
MANNER AS THE WEAR AND
TEAR ON MACHINERY. This is
worked out in England by imposing the
liability on the employer, leaving him
to protect himself by insurance; in
Germany by a great general system
of insurance, requiring every workman
to be insured by the employer, the cost
of insurance being shared by employ
er and employe, the state guaranteeing
the insurance fund. Our commission
found that our system, was fundament
ally wrong- and unwise. The main ob
jections were:
"1, But a small proportion of work
men received adequate compensation,
and therefore were forced to a lower
standard of living and their dependents
became burdens on private or public
charity.
"2. It was wasteful, being costly to
employers and of small benefit to em
ployes. Of the $25,000,000 paid annual
ly In Insurance premiums In this coun
try, but about 40 per cent reached the
workmen; the rest Is wasted in agency,
legal expenses, and the like.
3. It is slow in operation, the delay
in operation of our legal machinery be
ing so great that roliet', if at all, comes
only after years of litigation.
"4. It breeds antagonism between the
employer and employ.-, and is one of
the most fruitful sources of the
strained relations between capital and
labor. Our evidence shows it i.j satis
factory tv Hon.?, ami tolerable only to
th ■ who disregard their legal rights
and settle, without reference to them.
"It in estimated that th» roll of killed and
wounded In the strife of Industry reaches
annually the. f. Ulitful figure of 600,000. Our
figures would Indicate that less than 30 per
cent of these receive any compematlon for
their Injuries, and that such compensation
Is woefully uncompen«atory. If the princi
ple, of workman's compensation Is adopted,
not only will the great majority of this
casualty roll be compensated, but the in
ducement to employers to safeguard their
machinery and adopt other precaution* will
be no great that the number of accidents will
be greatly diminished.
"After all, tho real desideratum is the
prevention of accident. This is the
next subject our commission is in
structed to consider. We believe,
however, we have already provided a
measure which will operate most ef
f Ively toward that end."
Tr '• is no doubt that if laws of
this kind were enforced, all over the
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country they would result in a very
great decrease in accidents, for they
would appeal to the pocket of the em
ployer to see that the most effective
safety devices were adopted for the
protection of his employes. And In
cases where accidents do occur, they
would put upon the business in which
the accidents occur the burden of
furnishing the relief which must be
furnished by some one and is usually
Imposed as a burden upon the general
community.
We sincerely hoj ■ that the next
California legislature will take up this
matter and adopt legislation along the
lines indicated as correct by the best
thought that has been devoted to the
subject. Should we be so fortunate as
to secure a legislature which will not
take up its time in endeavoring to
promote the welfare of the Southern
Pacific company and other special in
terests, we will no ioubt have some
such result.
"PROTECTION"
OUR local morning contemporary,
which is fondly wedded to the higti
protection idol, gave up a column
of its editorial pag-e to a resume of a
report made by a "immittee of Eng
lishmen who went over to Germany
ostensibly to investigate the relative
plane of living under protection in the
kaiser's country and free trade in
Great Britain.
The report of this committee is ac
cepted as conclusive by the Times, in
asmuch as it is a sweeping vindica
tion of high tariff conditions. ' But
that paper was incautious enough to
print a sentence of the report, "Can
free trade produce evidence of such
prices in England?" which stamps it
as the product of special pleaders who
set out to find just what it is pur
ported they found. It reveals a bias
on the tariff subject that makes its
statements untrustworthy.
There is no country, no city, no class
into which you cannot go and "prove"
anything your bias wants to show.
Let us take a few specimen state
ments of the report. It is intimated
all through that free trade England is
in poor economic condition. The New
York Journal of Commerce of June 10
last says: "British trade is Improving
spectacularly, It is now approaching the
1907 record. Its woolen trade is en
joying record prosperity."
It is pointed out in the report as
wonderful that you can buy in Ger
many forty-three ounces of bread fur
fi cents. Right hero in Los Angeles, in
the greatest wheat growing country,
under "protection," you must pay 5
cents for fourteen ounces of bread.
How will that compiro witli the price
of that commodity in free trmle ICng
land?
It is denied that hone meat is sold
in Germany, when the Investigations
of Lloyd-Georgf have shown that over
600,000 pounds "f horae meat were con
sumed in that country last year, while
in Chemnitz alone there was sold list
year over 15,000 pounds of dog meat!
These figures are from official reports,
The Briton, under free trade, is not
forced to subsist on spavined equine
or mangy canine fl^sh, at lrnst.
And the Times, shocked at the state
ment in the report that the English
workman receives a waf of $10 a
week, ingenuously comments:
Did you catch the significance of
the figure above —"$lO per week?"
Lot us compare conditions in free
trade England with those in i
tected America, not in Germany,
"The Englishman earning $10 per
week." Here in California a few
Japanese may be obtainable under
certain conditions, working about
eight hours a day at that rate, but '
there are none of our own pYoplo
working for any auch pitiful wags,
Bless Its startled soul, does the Tiinr-.;
know what the average in "protected"
America is—that is, glorious, high tar
iffed United States? We quote from
federal census bulletin 93, who.-
lstlcs were gathered in 1905 in a ioun-
try-wlde investigation. The figures
must itartle those who are unfamiliar
with the subject and hear 'frequent
talk of our abounding prosperity. In
a total of 3,297,819 workers it Was found
Putting It on Thick
that 'the weekly wages paid were as
follows: '.. \ . . , '".
Less than $3 192,084 '
$3 to $4 150,403
$1 to 15 194,301 ' •
15 to »1 tOt, 1M
*6 to $7 262,531
$7 to (8 266.012
' $1 to $9 258,458
$9 to $10 378,009
.$lO to $12 433,208
$12 to $15 454,875
$15 to $20 390,367
$20 to $25- 108,700
$25 and over 51,723
That is to say, 38.9 per cent of Amer
ican wage earners receive between $9,
and {15 per week; 44.5 per cent receive i
less than $9 per week, making a total
of 53.4 per cent of the wage earners
who get under 515; while only 1.6 per
cent of these millions get as much as
$25 a week. •
The figures show that in 1904, when
they were gathered, the average wage
in manufacturing establishments was
$10.06 a week.
Here are some other averages:
Iron and steel (highly protected),
$12.56. : . ■
Foundry, and machine shops (also
protected), $11.88. ' .
Lumber and timber products (pro
tected), $9.25. ■::" •] : -;--"■■
Boots and shoes (protected), $11.88.
Tobacco (highly protected), $11.14.
These figures might be extended, but
it is sufficient for present purposes
that in none of the other leading in
dustries given does the average wage
reach $15. The average wage in the
north Atlantic states, supposedly the
greatest beneficiaries of protection in
manufacturing, is $10.11, while in the
south Atlantic It sinks as low as $7.31.
Only two comments remain to be
made on these figure's. The "English
committee professed to find no slums
in Germany. Let them come to highly
protected America and find them a
plenty. The other comment is" that the
fiction of a protective tariff for work-
Ingmen' Is one of the cruellest things
with which people were ever beguiled
under the name of politics.
Mr. Aldrich. the great tariff expert
of the United States senate, could, if
he would speak out honestly, tell who
it is gets the rich bounty from protec
tion, so-called.
BETWEEN FRIENDS
THE other day Alden Anderson re
signed his position as state super
intendent of banking. Almost
simultaneously Governor Gillett In a
public speech indorsed Anderson's can
didacy for governor, to which the lat
ter is now devoting his time. It was
remarked at the time as odd that a
man should quit a $10,000 sure thins
for a doubtful nomination. Perhaps
It Is not such a mystery since friend
Gillett has declined to accept the resig
nation of friend 'Anderson, for,. the
reason, ms he says, that he can't find
a man for the place. The state n'eedd
him, says the governor of his friend.
Thus friend Anderson has antici
pated criticism of his holding an im
portant office at fat salary While giv
ing his time to private Interests by
"resigning," ami friend Gillitt found
occasion to get in another pat for an
official who is so blooming good that
he 'i'u't lie spared. Meantime, unless
orttiokun compels some change in this
you - tickle - meand-I-tteklo-you ar
rangement, Anderson will draw his
$10,000 and go on with his personal
business.
But In paying this fulsome compli
ment to Anderson the governor pays
a rather left-handed one to the bank
en <>r the big state of California, is
it true that the state hasn't a man
able enough to fill Anderson's office by
giving his time to it as well as Ander
son can by giving most or all of his
linn: to his personal campaign?
BMNt'l papers are printing double
.l Japanese war scares over hla
Signature. They arc a reminder of
Heartt'i responsibility far hastening
the war with Spain and then vilifying
the president who conducted it.
Th« German court that is trying the
suit of Francke against Peary demands
that Doc Cook be produced as a wit-.
hubs. Ami that about " cooks Mr.
Francke's goose.*
Merely in Jest
M'FADDEN'S MISTAKE
McFadden (complainingly at board
ing-house table>—This egg must have
been laid by some l.en back in the
nineteenth century.
Mrs. liiealer (with warning whisper)
—Not so loud, Mr. McFadden, the other
boarders will hear you.
McFaddtn (louder)—l want them to
hear me.
•>lrs. Mealer (resignedly)— Very well,
if you want to expose your igrioranco
you may do bo; but you will be laughed
at for not knowing the egg was laid
by a duck.—Chicago News.
LATE HOURS
"I understand that you recently
stayed out till after midnight," said
the friend in a shocked tone.
"Yes," replied Mr. Meekton.
"When uid you spend all your
time?"
'•Out on the front step waiting for
Henrietta to relent and let me in."—
Washington Star.
SUBSTITUTE SUGGESTED
, "I .Bay, me good man," queried Al
gernon Perceval Montmorency as he
entered - c drug emporium, "have you
—aw—a good hair wenewah that I
could —aw —use on me mustache, don
cher know?"
"Yes," replied the druggist, "but we
have something still better for your
purpose. It is called 'Blank's Hair
Originator.' "
THE RECOUNT
"The census didn't give Plunkville
enough pop lation. Our congressman
oughter git us n recount."
"H- : vys It can't be did."
"It must be did. He gpt himself a
recount when lip was running for the
job." -Kansas City Journal.
WINNING A DERBY
Miss Yangkio—And what has Lord
Chlchetter done that you think so in
teresting?
Lord de Fendus—He won a Derby,
know.
"liss Yangkie—How lovely; On an
election bet? —Cleveland Leader.
Far and Wide
HERO WORSHIPPERS
Every man who praises a hero more
thnn the hero deserves will abuse his
neighbors more than his neighbors
deserve. Every mnn who will march
In a torchlight procession anil cheer
his head off for a candidate he knows
almost nothing about will accept gos
sip on testimony he knows to be un
true.—AtchiEon Globe.
AN END TO ONE PLANT
Anyway, the aeroplane has put an
end to the plaint of the mollycoddle
who w^is always slghin™ for the wings
of a dove. —Chicago News.
| RIVALS.
The' speed with which a roof and his
money are parted Is rivaled by ' the
congressional alacrity in separating
the people from theirs.
SOME GROCERS' SCALES
A good many grocers, it appears, use
nmbush scales—the kind that lie In
weight.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
ONE EDITOR'S TRIALS
Every time we buy a new suit the
coat Is too short and the vest too long.
—Atchison Globe.
THE FIRST RAW DEAL
Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the
serpent and the serpent hadn't a leg
to sand on.—Life.
ALWAYS BOTH
New York always would rather be
the metropolis than be right—Wash
ington Post
THE COMEDIENNE
She passed our vineyard through one winter
day. *
And with her magl-j laughter summoned
spring,—
Whereat a thousand birds began to sins.
And tarry flower* sprang to light her way.
And now, where once she paused to smile and
star-
A little while, the Autumn comes to bring
The days of festival and harvesting,—
The wine-press waits for dancing feet at play.
But In the vineyard that she calls her own ,
No purple grapes hang heavy on th« vine.
No laughter lingers on her listless lips.
She stands within a mist, far-off, alone,—
N.i maidens sing to tread the dripping wine —
And .'rum her hand a faded garland slips.
■ . ■ , -Zoe Atkins, in The Theater.
Crack of Doom Sounds for Flea
The crack of doom is sounding for
the California flea.
lie lihr bitten his way through the
Golden state until at lust his timo has
come. He has had hU Innings, and ho
must go.
For several -weeks there have been
rumors afloat to the effect that tha
state board of health was planning a
campaign of extermination. Dr. Guy
Manning of the city health board has
declared that the • subject had
been generally discussed in medical
circles' and that the state board was
accredited with having made tentative
plans looking toward the total extinc
tion of the flea.
The California flea, which in years
agone established itself as a distinct
Institution in the Golden state, has
caused the Incoming tourist and some
times even the native son a world of
worry.
When he invited to the California
shore his brethren from the Orient ho
sounded his own death knell. The
Oriental flea brought disease, and to
stamp this out was begun tlie first
flea crusade. Under Dr. Blue the rat
and the rat flea we.ro placed under the
ban.
The campaign to drive the fleas out
of California will be baaed upon the
same principles which have been suc
cessful in the wars on flies and mos
quitoes. First, the board of health
will determine just where the flea
Isn't This Just Awful?
If the people of tho United States
should -wake up some morning to find
the other side of the Great Divide de
tached, they cannot blame the Hon
orable James McLachlan, member of
congress from California.
He has warned them. The warning
was sounded, too, fully a month ago,
and although as yet the American
Eagle still continues to scream unfet
tered to the Pacific coast, there is no
telling what will happen at any mo
ment, so imminent is the peril, so land
hungry are the Japanese hordes, and
so unconcerned Is the population of
this country, which is about to see its
liberties confined to the sunriso side of
Pike's peak.
"I may go so far as to say that I be
lieve a war possible, the result of which
might be that tho Pacific coast states
will become foreign territory." This is
the opinion as well as the syntax of the
Honorable James, and a copy of the
speech which fairly bristles with such
prognostications has, after some de
lay, found its way to th» Evening
Telegraph office.
The Evening Telegraph, however, re
fuses to become excited. It has re
ceived marked copies before; It has ere
this encountered the individual who
"views with alarm." It will take some
thing more than a Japanese scare to
quicken its pulse at a time of pro
found peace like this, although, gen-
"Stand Patters" Deserve No Credit
(San Kranclsco Bulletin)
"Standpat" congressmen who seek
another term are now pointing with
pride to the legislation enacted at the
i session of congress which recently
I came to an end. Whatever credit is
due for the new railroad regulation
law, the postal savings bank law and
other measures mure or less beneficial
to the nation they take to themselves
and say, in effect, "For what we have
done our party owcii us a renomlna-
As a matter of "fact, the Republican
party Is not In debt to the "stand
' patten" for whatever is valuable in
its present supply of campaign ammu
nition, fiut for the "Insurgents" the
railroad regulation law, which is not
what it should be, would have been
no Improvement over Its predecessor.
But for the "Insurgents" the postal
savings bank law would have been
| nothing more nor less than a device
Ito place a larger proportion of the
i people's money within ivuch of those
captains of industry "ho do all tb,eir
battling in Wall street. Tho record
shows that, through the efforts of the
"insurgent*" a better postal savings
bank bill passed tho senute, only to
be torn to pieces by Sprnikor Cannon's
band at "stand-patters" and recon
structed in a way that would enable
I the Standard Oil interests to dispose
of their two per cent government
A Stern Rebuke to New Orleans
It Is almost unbelievable that the
desperation of the New Orleans expo
sition boosters should drive them to
filthy defamation of another city be
cause that other city offers to the
world all the prerequisites for a great
world's fair that can not be afforded
by New Orlwd or any other city of
New Orleans' class.
Such foul tactics never availed any
contestant. No contestant with even
the remotest Chance of victory would
Itoop to employ them. The Panama-
Pacific exposition tomes to San Fran
cisco. There was never a genuine
doubt of that from tlie tlmo that the
field was narrowed down to San Fran
ciaco and Now Orleans. San Francis-
OO'i tight ha? liern marie In tho open,
fairly and above board. Han Francisco
went to congress free of debt and with
! millions in her -tiands. New Orleans
I went to.congress a whining and Incom
petent debtor, asking tho nation to
snddle itself with another debt for the
privilege of proving again that New
Orleans is a. failure as an exposition
city.
Scandalous misrepresentation will
The Rich as a Peril
(John D, Works In the July Twentieth Century.)
It is growing more and more appar
ent that the greatest peril to the na
tion is the very rich and not its poor
or dependent class. The peril is not so
much that the masses of the people, or
that portion of the people that subsist
by manual labor, are growing poorer,
as it is that they are reduced to
greater povert- to enrich the unjust
and ' despotic employer. So the fact
that a small number of the people are
becoming immensely rich does not give
so much concern as the means by
which they have amassed their wealth.
The despotic and unjust means by
which a citizen has gained vast riche3
makes him a despot in politics and his
dealings with all the affairs of the
government. He has grown despotic
and tyrannical In business. He finds
it necessary, in his estimation, to pro
tect his 111-gotten wealth by entering
politics, and he rules in politics with
the same ruthless disregard of the
rights of others that he used in busi
ness, and with the added power and
influence that riches give him.
Some of the immensely rich some
times attempt to make restitution by
breeds. Then instructions will bo
Issued to the people and to'municipal
health boards and to medical (societies
directing the manner of the -warfare. I
It is realised that the fight against
fleas will be harder than that against
flies or mosquito*, for they are hardy
/.•reatures. Their breeding places,are
found In the • sand and the dust,' and
housewives will be Instructed to keep
their floors well swept and' ellminato
the crevices. They will be instructed to
substitute rugs for the carpets that pro
nailed to the floJr, accumulating dint
and >' dust and " furnishing;, wooellent
homes for the pesky ■ creature .of the
night. ' . :■■>"•■' ■ »"■-'■■
The main reason Tor the campaign is
found in the fact that the flea ha« been
found capable of carrying almost any
dangerous disease. .■■.-. - •.
The flea feeds on flesh, and although
many are accumulated in the sands, it
is held that by carefully guarding and
cleansing animals, by removing wastb
meat and properly cleaning the house
hold they can In the end; be . extermi
nated. Water is another good preven
tive, for the flea hates water. A good
sprinkling of the yard every day. or
twice a day will drive them off. >-»»>'• ««
The four families of flea most to bo
found here are the pulex lrritans or
human flea, the pulex cheopls or , rat.
flea, the pulex fells or cat flea and the
pulex ceratophyllus or. northern Eu
ropean rat flea. v- . . ,
(Philadelphia Telegraph.)
erally speaking, It believes in making
every provision for the safety of tho
republic, including liberal appropria
tions for battleships. Appropriations
are not likely to be obtained, however,
by reading the people a lecture upon
their own decadence, by proclaiming
lustily the deterioration of the argo
nauts.
However, by way of encouraifement
and to convince Mr. McLachlan that
the country as a wholn has a better
opinion of his constituency than ho
himself has, he is hereby informed that
If the Japanese undertake to effect a
landing they will be driven back, if
not by his fellow citizens, then by vol
unteers from the east and middle west,
where the people are inclined to look
upon the "yellow peril" as a Joke,
where the rational spirit feels strong
in its own conceit, and where tho peo
ple see no inconsistency in a proper
preparation for emergencies and a
calm repose that refuses to flinch, at
least until the firing begins.
As a matter of cold, hard fact, tho
Japanese are a little bit arrogant, and
it may be necessary to spank them
some day, but the chastisement will no
administered in the Pacific sea and tho
Eustern archipelago, not upon the Pa
cific coast.
Mr. McLachlan, M. C should take a
strong bromide and more open-air rec
reation. Then he would sleep better.
bonds. When the bill camp back to
the senate the Aldrkh "stand-patters"
Jammed It through. Now the wholn
"stand-pat" aggregation smirks anrt
smiles and has the face to say that
congress gave the people the beat pos
tal savings bank law that It was pos
sible for statesmen to frame.
On the "insurgents" the .Republican
party must rest Us hopes of success.
It was the "stand-patters," not thn
•'insurgents," who put the Republican
party on the defensive in the present
campaign. If tho "insurgents" hart
controlled congress the new tariff law
would have fulfilled the pledge of tho
platform, on which President Taft won.
his election. The revision would have
been downward instead of upward, and
the party would havo gone Into tho
congressional campaign assured of a
sweeping victory.
As matters now stand the only
chance of a Republican congress lies
In the repudiation of tho "stand-pat"
idea in primaries and convention. If.
this is done in the great majority of
the congressional districts throughout
the country the next congress will bo
one to which the people as a whole.
us well as the Republican party, can
point with pride. If that Is not done,
the next congress will be Democratic
and the responsibility for the defeat
will rest solely with the "standpatters''
and their misguided followers.
not alter the facts for the comfort of
New Orleans. The city of the delta Is
physically and financially unable to
hold a great world's fair New Orleans'
first plea to congress Is an open con
fession of her financial weakness and
irresponsibility. She has not the money
to promote a great fair. Her proximity
to Newfoundland and the west coast of
Africa are her chlefest claims for rec
ognition as ina,ugrural sponsor for tho
opening of the world's trade with th»
Pacific coast. New Orleans Is the Ramra
kind of a seaport as Detroit and Pitts
burg except as to tonnage. In that
particular both Ptttsburg and Detroit
are so much greater ports that there Is
no fair basis of comparison with New
Orleans.
New Orleans can not promote a hip?
fair. She can not accomodate tho
crowds necessary to make a world's
fair successful. She has proved to tho
entire conviction of the nation that rlk>
is not an exposition city. Vile abuse
of a more fortunate and more aggres
sive city, a city that can do all th«
things too big for New Orleans, will
serve only further to discredit New
Orleans in the eyes of the world.
magnificent charities, usually In tho
endowment of colleges, erection of
libraries and other such beneficences.
Still others become roal and earnest
humanitarians, giving of their surplus
riches to better tho condition of tho
poor and dependent classes. All this is
to be commended. But it comes too
late to remove the hatred and discon
tent engendered by the manner at
gaining the wealth they are now giving
away. The unhappiness thfelr greed
has brought to thousands of homes,
the lives it has sacrificed, the criminals
it has made, cannot bo compensated for
by the surrender of a part of tho use
less and burdensome wealth thus ob-
talned. It would have been more to
the purposp, If they had shared their
wealth, Justly, with their employes
while thoy were amasHlngr these Im
mense fortunps. Justice thon would
have been true charity and brotherly
love. The very means by which they
have secured their wealth takeß aVvay
all just claim of true charity In their
later giving, however munificent their
clißiitable bequeata.
When will men learn to be Just, that
charity may be unnecessary?