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JEFFERSON'S DAY.
and State; freedom of thought and
speech; local self-government; econ-
omy in government; a policy of peace;
political equality and universal suf-
frage. He wrote the terms of Ameri-
can political freedom and impressed
religious liberty on the State he loved.
And, to cap a career that is without
parallel, he founded the University of
Virginia.
The ideas he released and the truths
he garnished with a force that gains
with the passing of time, stamp him
the most colossal figure that ever
waged fight for the rights of human-
kind. He was born 171 years ago, but
the world does not forget the thir-
teenth of April, or minimize what it
means to the masses.
By the common people of a world
through whose darkened paths he
threw a ray that searches for the
wrong and canonizes right, Jefferson
cannot be forgotten. For he is little
less than their patron saint.
POETRY MARKET BRISKER.
Though it has been nearly eighty-
eight years since Thomas Jetferson
was laid away under the Virginia soil,
the principles of government which he
vitalized are more potent with the en-
tire human race today than at any hour
since he began breathing life into doc-
trines that long ago put his name
among those of the immortals. "Great-
est of the world's schoolmasters," peo-
ples everywhere unconsciously do
homage to the mighty intellect and
the generous heart he utilized to the
full.
Since Jefferson penned the words
that, far more than any other act, gave
birth to a new Nation and dedicated
that Nation to liberty, the gospel he
taught with all the fire and force of
-genius has spread to the ends of the
earth. Empires have/ crumbled and
emperors have fled, kingdoms have
"come down and kings have frowned,
but the opposition to the privileged or-
der is resistless. Over monarchy's
ruins republics are rising while the
sovereignty of the people illuminates
the hearts and the consciences of men
and women of every race.
Since the hour, fifty years to the
day after the promulgation of the
I)eelaration of Independence, that Jef-
ferson's course was run, the world he
helped to enlighten has witnessed
-more startling innovations in matters
of government than it had known in
-all the ten centuries preceding. Con- j
-stitutional government has come to
Italy. France and Portugal are repub-
lics. Protests of the natives of India
with respect. The Czar rec-
he need of a Douma. China
ng the example Jefferson set
:nt by Shogunate has been
by a limited authority on the
ie throne in Japan. Ireland
to joy in home rule. The
es not fail to heed the popu-
and so many republics have
ght on the western continent
-X must have a 1914 almanac
h to enumerate them.
derSble stride, we must con-
the upward traveling is just
In the thought that the
fire at Concord was "heard
world" Emerson was not in-
etic license. But the sound
the embattled farmers made was a
puling whisper compared with the
whirlwind voices that chorused through
the words of tl^e Declaration and the
statute for religious liberty for Vir-
ginia. That rifle shot in Massachusetts
started a storm, but Jefferson's writ-
ings inaugurated a gale that still
sweeps every mountain top and fans
every valley.
If the spirit of the man who slum-
bers at Monticello could appear today
it would rejoice with all those millions
whose lives have been bettered because
of his life, who have learned to re-
spect their fellows and, what is more,
^ respect themselves. ?omt have
quite overlooked one great principle
he espoused. Sixty years before the
struggle that put constitutional gov-
ernment in the balance, Jefferson
urged that the slaves be freed and then
deported. Had his advice been fol-
lowed the Civil Vi'ar would not have
been and the South would not be fur-
nishing even an excuse for disserta-
tions on the "race problem."
Mr. Jefferson stood for a republican
government and the sovereignty of 'he
people: opposition to privileged orders
rf nobility and the entail system: uni-
versal education and local circulating
libraries j "eternal separation of church
Pessimism stands abashed by state-
ments, supported by figures, showing
books of poetry are on the ticket with
other "best sellers." Not only has
this declaration been made by pub-
lishers on this side the Atlantic, but
Sir Francis Macmillan gives statistics
to prove the accuracy of such asser-
tions. And both readers and writers
will be willing to accept Macmillan's
estimate of any phase of the business
of marketing literature.
These reviews of the publishers are
interesting. We are informed often
that the age is so wedded to material-
ism that "higher thoughts" find cold
reception, that art is vanishing and
literature feebly gasping. Comes the
head of a firm that knows better to
ask the world to say not so—to assert
boldly that the Pegasus of Rabindra-
nath Tagore has found solid ground
■and plenty of gold.
We can easily account for the popu-
larity and the prosperity of Kipling.
He writes for red-blooded men and
there are millions of them in every
clime. But Rabindranath Tagore!
Pallid aesthete, you have come into
your own.
Noyes is another whose reputation
and finances are treading flowery
vales. And in his case there are many
thousands of readers who appear to
have for him personally a respect and
an admiration not usually accounted a
poet's assets.
These be healthful signs. All those
named, and others as well, seem des-
tined to leave to ages yet to come
something to sigh about, to laugh
about, to think about, and for which
to be better. And in the case of Ta-
gore, particularly, there is a reaction
against the materialism before men-
tioned. He does not come with an
etiolated aestheticism garbed in mysti-
cism, but with that simple charm that
has been the kernel of true poetry
since Virgil found inspiration in the
meadows, or Burns caught genius'
glint from Afton's lilting flow.
Happy is the augury. Some poets
merit bank accounts.
any of the regional reserve cities save
desirable report. San Antonio and
Houston did not lose nearly so much
as New Orleans seems to think she
lost. In airing her grievance, New
Orleans is adding to the wealth of the
advertising her rivals have gained. It
there was ever a case where ten
thoughts should have preceded one
speech, it is presented by New Orleans
residents now.
CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG.
AN ANSWER THAT COUNTS.
Those residents of New Orleans
who have complained loudly and long
because their city did not triumph in
the location of regional reserve banks,
arc pisibably sorry they spoke. It is
j the calm, uninfluenced judgment of
; most outsiders that they ought to be.
In refuting the claims of the New
i Orleans critics. Secretaries McAdoo
| and Houston and Comptroller of the
i Currencv Williams have made answer
j in crushing fashion. Taking the pro-
| posed district in which New Orleans
! desired to be located as a whole, it is
j shown that twenty-five banks in Loui-
i fiana and nineteen in Mississippi were
1 the only ones that desired to be in the
combination New Orleans business
men soueht to effect. On the other
hand. 232 banks expressed a first
choice for Dallas.
There are other ficures that grip the
attention of the country. It is d'S-
olaved in statistics, lareelv furnished
bv New Orleans bankers themselves,
that the loans and discounts and in-
dividual denosits of New Orleans
banks actually decreased during the
decade between IM4 and 1014. while
the increase of loans and discounts in
Atlanta was 152 Per cent, and in Dal-
las. 143 per cent. During the same
perod individual deposits of New
Orleans banks decreased 13 per cent,
while those of Atlanta increased 145
per cent .-nd those of Dallas 1^0 per
rent. Capital and surplus of the
Crescer* C'tv ba"ks increased R per
cent. Atlanta added 152 per cent to
hanks' stock and surplus and Dallas
did nearlv as well with 1?0 per cenl.
, Before thev chareed the reserve
j committee wi'b favoritism. New Or-
' leans folk shouM have studied these
• comparisons. PnbPcation of the fie-
, ures is answer enoueh. No further
arrurnent as t0 reasons whv Atlanta
and Dallas were designated need he
made. I:n!e« Vx Orleans wants to
rve wider publicity to her own com-
parative commercial weaknesses, the
■ssne should N? closed forever.
Again; it oueht to be pointed out,
there is little advantage gained by
It is nearly two months since the
daily press began to receive brief items
concerning dinner parties given by
California communities to the Charles
Kelley band of professional visitors.
It is almost as long since the State
of New York, and, more especially, the
metropolis, communicated to the coun-
try the discovery that the concerted
movement of "unemployed" in the
East had its base in the latest method
of agitation hit upoa by the Industrial
Workers of the World to interfere with
quiet industrial work in the world.
It is sufficiently long since the
country received determinate proof
that not honest employment, but free
food, free lodging and no labor is the
desire of the larger bulk of these mov-
ing bands, for the authorities to have
decided that charity has suffered over-
long and has been too kind at the
western and, in lesser degree, the
eastern ends of the States.
The motives and movements of the
Kelleyites in the West and of the
Tannenbaumers in the East are no
longer the subject of guesswork on the
part of officialdom. The former troop
has advanced as far as Colorado—de-
spite the fact that secret investigators
on the west coast had left no doubt of
the unworthiness of its loafers, va-
grants and disturbers—in its campaign
of forcing the public to feed it. The
I. W. W. irregulars in the East, hav-
ing demonstrated, in reply to the ef-
forts of Governor Glynn, that sincerc
wage-earning is not to their liking,
have largely been taken care of by
the police.
This last development is an example
the guardians of the peace west of
the Mississippi would do well to fol-
low in the case of the Kelleyites. It
still is evident—from Colorado—that
the march is a costly and needless
nuisance to every town along its line.
It is a deplorable vicious inroad on the
peaceful pursuit of neighborhood and
industrial affairs; and the fact that it
is now in a stage that makes easy
handling by the authorities possible,
should prompt stringent and decisive
action to check the advance.
When able-bodied men force the
public to support them, the public
usually gets some return in the shape
of rocks broken and roads mended.
These disturbers of the peace are caus-
ing an heavy expenditure of the pub-
lic's funds in the mere task of punish-
ing them for their disturbings. Each
of them demands a separate trial—it
is a wily part of their plan of coercion
to obtain something for nothing. It
would seem to be no more than com-
mon sense to get this unpleasant busi-
ness over with in one fell swoop, and
reduce the cost to the public of this
anabasis to Washington by refusing
to add the expense of community feed-
ing to the expense of court trials.
Colorado cities, like to those of
every other State, have their vagrancy
laws. And Colorado roads would be
greatly improved by the labors of sev-
eral score habitual vagrants and mis-
chief makers. The pith of this situa-
tion, for the public to consider, is that
there has been not the least indication
that these marches and rackets are due
to any industrial stagnation, anywhere.
In New York, the leader of the des-
pisers of work has been sent to serve
a year in prison for inciting to riot.
New York, Missouri and Coast States
farms offered work a-plenty—and the
offer was ignored. The Governor of
California offered road work at $2.50
a day—and the offer was refused. The
Western public should now try com-
pulsory education in the building of
highways, and that form of charity
which consists in inculcating a sense
of the dignity of labor.
Why not draft a song for the Fed-
eral League from "Robin Hood"?
We're merry, merry, merry Tink'ring
men.
WHAT EXPRESS FILES
TELL OF YEARS AGO
Thirty-five Years Ago Today—1879.
Officer Gleason bagged another horse-
thief yestrday.
At Austin tho Senate passed the bill
amending the Sun Antonio charter and it
uow goes to the Governor.
Deputy United States Marshals and oth-
ers arrested throo oi' the gang of stage
robbers on the Fort Worth «St Fort Yuma
Stage line, ill Fort Worth yesterday.
.New York—General Richard Taylor of
Louisiana, well-known general in the Con-
federate service and only sou of the late
President Taylor, died of dropsy this
morning.
4- ♦ ♦
Under the new bill for the encournge-
inent of artesian well digging the State
will give a section of land for every 100
feet of artesian well, beginning with G(M)
feet, down to 2,000 feet, If water is not
struck before.
At Austin, In the House, the motion
granting .$100,000 for frontier defense was
lost. The motion to appropriate $40,000
Jo be used by the Governor in suppressing
'lawlessness and crime, was lost by a tie
vote, the Speaker voting Nay.
The first social gathering of the mem-
bers and friends of Trinity Methodist
Church was held in Odd Fellows' Hall
last evening. There was nearly $50 added
to the building fund of the new church,
now in course of construction.
♦ ♦ ♦
Austin is crowded with visitors to the
great Saeugerfest celebration. Grand tri-
umphal arches were erected tit two points
on the avenue. A Prussian band, the fin-
est in the country, is iu attendance. Three
hundred singers from ail parts of the
State join in the great concert. A grand
picnic, ball and banquet are among the
attractions. The principal buildings on
I he line of march will blaze with gas
lights. Five thousand visitors are ex-
pected.
4 ♦ 4
A fashion note says: Dark iuner tTim-
ings and light outside garniture seeui to
be the rule for the new bonnet. Hand
some embroidered mantles of slellUenoe
and camel's hair, jetted elaborately and
trimmed with fringe and lace, are tempt
ingly displayed. Fans are no longer at-
tached to the waistband, but are carried
in the hand. Buttons will form a very
prominent feature on dresses this season,
and thev are presented iu an endless vari
etv. The handsomest styles are engraved
steel, pointed steel, engraved metal with
jardiniere effect, turquoise engraved and
inlaid pearl.
♦ ♦ ♦
San Antonio market quotations: Hides,
deer, 1H to 15 cents: goat, 18 to L'l^cents;
furs, raccoon, 5 to 15 cents; lobo, -o to in
rents; leopard, $2 to $.1: bear, 50 cents to
$1.50; skunk, 10 to 25 cents; beef, 4 to 5
rents a pound; veal, 7 to D cents; mutton,
(i cents; pork, S cents; tripe, 10 cents;
turkey, 40 to M cents apiece: wild tur-
keys, liens, 20 to 30 cents; wild turkeys,
gobblers, 35 to 45 cents; chickms, 10 to
is cents; ducks, 25 to 30 cents; venison,
hind quarters, per pound, cents; venl-
smii, forequarters, 3 cents; quail, per dozen,
00 cents: grain, wheat, 00 to i) ('^uts;
corn, 57>- to 05 cents; oats, 42to oO
rents; live stock, cows, per head, $8; milch
cows per head, $1S to .*522; - .yea'J.'V'(l
steers and heifers, per head. $S to *i.o(),
horses, unbroken. lJiVa hands high, .>l.> to
$20; stock horses, $7; groceries, sugar,
pt.j cents per pound; coffee, lO1,* cents per
pi/o cents per pounu; coiiee, aov4
pound; oysters, one-pound cans, per doz-
en, 75 cents to $1; rice, per pound, li'itn
IP cents; chickens, per dozen, sj>- to ->_..»o,
eggs, 7 to 10 rents; butter, Northern, per
nound. 20 to 30 cents; bntter, Texas, 2.» to
cents; Texas lard. 10 cents a pound;
Irish potatoes, per pound, 2% to 3 cents:
flour, per barrel, $0.75.
Fifteen Years Ago Today—1899.
The annual concatenation of the Hoo
1 h.os' meeting here gave a parade
of unusual features, witnessed by crowned
streets.
♦ ♦ ♦
The prospect that I be Missouri, Kansas
& Texas Hallway Company "111 extend
n-i line to Sail Antonio frotn San Marcos
is one C.f tho bosi pieces of news this city
lias heard in a long while.
The automobiles which are rapiillv Lik-
ing the place of all sorts of vehicles pulled
In horses in New York and Chicago will
never become popular in flic smaller cities
until the streets are better prepared by
good pavements to accommodate them.
♦ ♦ ♦
III his decision, setting nside the indict-
ment of ltoland li. Mollneaxix, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Katharine .1.
Ad: ins by sending her a box of poisoned
candv, Judge Parker Williams, in New
York', savs the evidence Is not. legally silt'
1'iciont. The ease will be resubmitted to
the grand jury and Mollneaux will be
held.
♦ ♦ ♦
Austin—The Lewis hilt creating an ad
ilicional court of llexar County was passed
by the House and will go immediately to
I lie Covernor for tils approval. According
hi the best information available here
•lohu II. Clark of San Antonio will prob
ably be named for the position by <>ov
crnor Sayers. Among the other candidates
for the appointment are Ed 1 iwyer, S. ,t.
ltrooks, 1!. 11. Minor.
♦ ♦ ♦
Washington, April 1'_\ The following
dispatch from Admiral Kaulz. has been re
eeived from Auckland. N. /..: "t tn April
1 while the combined forces of the British
and I lilted States, under Lieutenant, free-
man, liritish Navy, were reconnoitcring
near Apia they were ambushed. 1 deeply
regret to announce the death of Lieutenant
l'hillp It Lonsdale, l'.nsign John It. Moll
aglian. Coxswain James sutler, Ordinary
Seaman Norman Hdsal and five men
wounded, belonging to the Philadelphia.
The Hritish loss iu killert is two men and
Lieutenant Freeman." In the party were
lie, sailors. Thev were forced to retreat
to the beach after having been caught in
ambush on a German plantation. The na-
tives engaged were SOO Mataafa's warriors.
Thev severed the heads of the officers
killed I'riests of the French mission aft
erwards brought the heads into Apia. The
manager of the plantation lias been arrest
ed and is detained on tue liritish cruiser
Tauranga.
THE RACTIME MUSE.
TKopit'AL rrnsriT.
Tli- re. ntlrifi below the line.
N.iir the fitir manana land.
In si ship with sails that shine,
Products of banana laud,
[ b< hold the idle «-rew,
I By no need of labor vexed.
Wondering w hat they cau do
Next!
In that corgeous tropic rlime
r.ifl in plenty grows on trees.
One ne«-d srareely sj>end a dime
Fur . lothes if one does not please,
What t" do then? One may dauee,
• ramble, sing, to seek delight—
Hut one*S foriune to advance*
right:
Well, a revolution then'.
Let us beat ba< k to the shore
And acquit ourselves iike men—
l>oing nothing's such a bore!
Ilark. thr singing bugle s eall! ,
From the flg'it let no man shirk.
W<- will not, whate'er befall.
Work:
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
,4rn.*f aff«»rd it' i< a stingy man's ex
eu*« . but it sHdom leads to bankruptcy.
\nd most of our iiuatlc asylums are
..... f . ,i filled with knockers.
not slight this opportunity to remark To k««-p • «'oi wh**n yon find yourself be
that*requires nerve.
. ....... <*ome and shoes uiay go, but
| mrn kick on forever.
Th*» louder a man talks the easier It is
Thanks to Representative Oglesby,
the barbers of Congress are getting
the closest shave of their cinch-loving
lives.
Mr. Asquith has a more interesting
subject for his parliamentary campaign
than the home rule bill. "Politics and
the army" always gets the crowd.
Kansas City's troubles are none of '
our business, of course, but we can-
not slight this opportuni _________
that graft is graft under any form of j 'Vil.'U'nl/vo
government.
put
Alabama's political campaign is so
heated that "fossiliferous" is one of
the most ladylike terms the rival man-
agers are flinging about. To date,
though, the listeners have been spared I so blind a* tho^ who refuse an eyr-oprner
, r . Itut he Is prejudiced.
the sounds of "olcafiinous" • - - ■ - --
phaloui" ■*"
to discredit everything he says.
Stone women. l«»ok as if tliey had
thoir «onipWi<»n« on wrong Hide out.
OpfH'rtnnitv has l»e«-n kr^own t«» look a
mail up for thr purpose downing him.
C^ntl^rnrn are ne.»ooiire'ted In-
caiis»* a gentleman never forgets hinis«-lf.
A bartender inform* us that non»» an*
and "»ce-
Our cities nre full of eminent lawyers,
bnt tbcr'» still room in lie pre-eminent
d»M>
NINETY-SIX YEARS AGO TODAY
THEN
INETY-SIX years ago today, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, the
first United States flag of the pres-
ent design was hoisted over the
House of Representatives at Wash-
ington. It had twenty stars and thir-
teen stripes. The flag had been
made in New York by the wife of
Captain S. C. Reid, famous as the
commander of the privateer General
Armstrong. Mrs. Reid sent it by
mail to Congressman Wendover.
who had been sponsor for the new
act by which the law of 1794, pro-
viding a new stripe and a new star
for east State, was changcd to re-
quire only a new star for each State.
Thirteen stripes were to be pre-
served to represent the original col-
onies.
The law making the new banner
the official flag of the United States
became effective July 4, 1818.
N
NOW
EARLY a hundred million peo-
ple live beneath that flag to-
day as compared with less than 10,-
000,000 ninety-six years ago, and it
waves over a combined area several
times greater than that represented
by its twenty States in 1818. Its
westernmost recognition was then
along ihe Mississippi River. Today
the forty-eight States sweep unbrok-
enly across the continent. The flap
has also been planted over the Phil,
ippine Islands, over numerous strat-
egic islands in the Pacific, over the
enormous area of Alaska and at the
new gateway of oceans at Panama.
Several years ago if was carried
around the world by a fleet of Amer-
ican battleships, and Just five year?
ago it was planted at the North Pole
by Commander Peary.
LAUGH WITH
US AWHILE
Chinese Republic Faces Grave Crisis;
Foreign Financial Control Predicted
PEKING, April 12. —"That Yuan Shi-
kai's government is faced with a serious
financial crisis is the opinion of a sub-
stantial body of foreigners In Peking and
the Treaty Ports of China. These men
predb% foreign financial control or a
toreign public debt .commission. The dif-
ficulty of the situation is that the Presi-
dent and his supporters are. up to the
present, unable to obtain money from
the provinces for tlie administrative re-
quirements of the central government. A
letter to the President from the Tutuh
(military governor! of ilunan, accom-
pauylng a remittance of contains
an interesting statement of tue rase from
a practical Chinese point of view. Tang
Hslaug-nilng, the Tutuh, says:
"Of late tue country lias beeu in a tur-
moil of civil strife and frontier troubles,
and scarcely a day has passed without
some military operations. After your ex-
cellency suppressed the internal troubles
and made peaceful settlements with the
powers, the first thing that attracted your
attention was the financial administra-
tion. Foreign loans have been resorted
to to relieve the country's financial em-
barrassment. but. owing to the fact that
the terms of the foreign syndicates were
too harsh, some patriotic people have sug-
gested ways of collecting taxes, while
others proposed a retrenchment policy, lint
ail these specious words and theories can
do not real good to the country.
"During this critical period there) seems
to be hardly any remedy for tn</ coun-
try's financial troubles. When I read
the documents from the central govern-
ment stating it- financial difficulties and
the orders your excellency, I gave vent
to my grief in sobs and tears, like every-
one else who has the sense »,1 patriot-
ism.
"We are in duty bound to relieve the
emburrassment. of the government. If the
provinces do not help, national bankruptcy
will result, and the nation will lose its
independence. And if the nation is oblit-
erated how could the province of Hunan
exist alone? 1 hereby remit the sum of
$400,000 (Mexican) to the government.
"It should be borne in mind that the
financial condition of ilunan Is quite dif-
ferent from that of other provinces. It
would be easy for other provinces to raise
double the amount. Our remittance,
though not. large, is sufficient to display
our patriotism and anxiety over ihe situa-
tion. (Signed) TAN(t 1ISIAN-MI N<i."
This gilt, as it might be railed, from the
province of Ilunan, small as it is, is ex-
ceptional. As a rule little or nothing
can be got from the provinces. They are,
on the contrary, coutinually calling upon
the central government for assistance, the
Tutuhs threatrnlng that rebellion or
brigandage and looting that will implicate
the government with foreigners will re-
sult unless the assistance is forthcoming.
The President and his suporters, by
employing the army, succeeded in sup-
pressing the rebellion of last summer, but
they have not bren able to stamp out
the elements of disorder. Indeed, in order
to do ihis they would have to abolish
the army itself a mercenary situation, as
the frontier fighting and the rccent re-
bellions have shown, lacking discipline
and not yet developed tibove the idea
that the privilege of soldiers is the right
to plunder. Yet the President has not
the power to disband several hundred
thousand men iu arms.
Disorganization throughout the country
prevents the government fTom collecting
taxes on western lines from the provinces
as a whole, while active opposition, which
will last, it is said, us long as } nan fclii-
kal remains President, would otherwise
prevent, in the southern provinces, the in-
stitution of a new western system. But
the greatest difficulty is believed by for-
eigners here in Peking to be the lack
throughout the nation of capable men, pos-
sessing the character and intelligence
necessary to build up a modern system
out of the corrupt and antiquated eastern
one which the country knows.
Yuan Shi-kai's government has fallen
back on the old Manchu system of giving
the governor (formerly the viceroy) orders
to send to the canital certain definite
amounts, leaving the governor to collert
as lie can sufficient above the required sum
to pay his province's expenses, including
the cost of his provincial army, and what
sums he chooses to take as his own per-
sonal compensation. But even this plan
hitherto has failed, for the central gov-
ernment has not been able to recover
the prestige and power which the Man-
chus held, feeble as they were. The Asso-
ciated Press correspondence from Peking
has shown how the so-called modern army
refused to fight the Mongol tribesmen
within the province of the capital, Chill,
itself, and how. when disbanded, th#
troops join brigand bands, one of which,
in the province immediately south _ of
Chill, numbers, it is calculated, over 5,000
men.
Except where foreigners are given con-
trol or :i measure of it as in the case of
the extensive salt tax, the Salt Uabelle—
the government is able to collect little in
the way of revenues. Yuan Shl-kal might
employ more foreigners and put them
in authority, but the men immediately
around hi in. as well as himself, have given
continued proofs of their unwillingness to
give authority to foreigners.
The men in high positions around the
President are all of the old school, al-
most everyone having been high officials
under the Manchus. and It is generally un-
derstood in China that it was the Chinese,
and not the Manchus, who most opposed
the entry of the foreigner. The oppo-
sition to foreigners, however, exists not
only in the President's palace. Whenever
the presidential government negotiates
with foreigners in making loans, granting
concessions or any other business in which
there might be a "squeeze" or the sur-
render of authority in any form, a noisy
opposition rises. And in view of the
feebleness of the government and the
danger of employing the army, such ex-
citements have to be curbed and con-
trolled by diplomacy. The danger of them
has been shown in very recent years, the
Szechuan outbreak, which was the begin-
ning of the anti-Manchu rebellion, having
been created on the outcry against the
Hnkwan Hallway contract.
Iu desperation the government is now
endeavoring to obtain another large loan
from the quintuple group of bankers, com-
posed of French. German. British, Russian
and Japanese banks, supported by their
respective governments, ft. will be remem-
bered that last year's loan of £2r,u00.000
was the cause of a considerable outbreak
among parliamentary members against
Yuan Shl-kal and was one of the proml-
neut causes of the rebellion of last sum-
mer. Feeling that Vuan's government is
I too disorganized and unstable to trust
with another large loan, the quintuple
legations are requiring the banks to stip-
ulate what amounts to foreign control of
China's finances for a period of. it is
stated, fifty years, as a condition of any
further extensive borrowing.
1'p to the present the government has
refused this condition, and is setting along
as best it can with small loans at high
interest, parts of which are sometimes
taken out in arms, ammunition and other
necessities of the ministries. Sometimes
railway and other concessions are granted
for such uncontrolled loans. But It is
believed the day of reckoning will soon
arrive.
Twenty-five Million Dollars and an
Apology Canal Balm for Colombia?
A DISPATCH from Washington says:
Washington, April s. A salve of
$25,000,000 offered to Colombia to lie3l the
smart which the South American Republic
has felt ever sluer the Panama ''anal Zone
was sib ed out of her is the principal fea-
ture of Secretary Bryan's latest essay at
treaty making.
Apparently the I'nited States gets noth-
ing iu return for this heavy indemnity c.\
eept the Colombian gratitude. It is not
believed that the treaty award will be
ratified by Congress without vigorous op-
position. indeed, a pretty light is likely.
"A friendly expression of regret" on the
part of the I'nited States for the manner
In which the present Republic of Panama
was created is reported to be contained iu
the treaty.
This clause was I user ted at the insistence
of Colombia, and is reported to imply that
the taking over of the Panama Caual Zone
was "unjustifiable internationally," if not
a crime.
If it proves to be true that the I'nited
States has apologized b\ a "friendly ex-
pression of regret," it will, of course, Ik* a
politiral sensation.
Robert I^mslng. 'ounselor ««f the State
Departm nt. who is A-'fiiig Seerotary of
State during the illness «>f s»'er»>tar.\ Bryan,
was asked tonight If ti>" treats contained
anything that rould lie eoiistrued as an
apology. "That is something 1 cannot talk
about, be said, hesitatingly.
The question of accompanying the f-eaty
with a statement of some sort to palliate the
Colombians was disenssed by the American
negotiators, it was learned from a seem-
ingly reliable source. A Washington man
who' Iihs intimate knowledge of the situa
tion. says he believes something of that
kind was inserted in tho treaty, or in a
letter a<- ompanying it.
Colombia until recently rejected all pro-
posals by the I'nited States for a settle-
ment. She declared that a stigma had been
cast on her by the alleged part of the
Roosevelt Administration in the revolt of
the then Provim % of Panama.
Thrt following i; from Theodore Roose-
velt' \ autobiography recently published
by the Macmillan Company. New York:
From the begiunhm to the end our
course with Colombia was straightfor-
ward and In absolute a-cord with the
morality Criti-i^in of it ■an com»» only
from mi-information, or • ls« from a senti
mentality which represent* both mental
weakness and a moral twist. To have j
acted otherwi*»o than I did would have
been inv part betrayal ««f the interests
of the I niter! States, indifferent t<- the
interest4, of Panama, and recreancy to the
interest- of the world at larg»\ Colombia
had forfeited everv claim to consideration;
indeed, this is n«»t stating the ea«c string
!y enough: -he had *•» a'ted that yb'ldirnj
to her woiiPl hav«- meant oil our part lint
culpable form of w^ikr-^s whi«!i -tands
on a l«-»ve| with wHkctlncss. As for me
personally, if I had hesitated t«» a«t. and
had not in advance di««*ount*'d the - lftmor
of those Amerieans who have made a
fetish of disloyalty to their countty. I
should have esteemed mynelf a* desetving
a plac* in I>ant*»'s inferno be«i«V» the faint-
" cleric who was gnilty of -ITgran
rifiuto." The facts show that, from the
beginning there had been acceptance of
our right to Insist on free transit, In what-
ever lorm was best, across the Isthmus;
aud that towards the cud there had been
a no less universal feeling that it was our
duty to the world to provide this trausit
in the shape of a canal the resolution of
the Pan-American Congress waa practical-
ly a mandate t<» this edict. Colombia waa
then under a one man government, a die
tatorship. founded on usurpation of ab-
solute and irresponsible power. She eag
erly pressed us to enter into an agreement
with her. as loug as there was any chance
of our going to the alternative route
through Nicaragua. When she thought
we were committed, she refused to fulfill
the agreement, with the avowed hope of
seizing the French company's property for
nothing aud thereby holding us up. This
was a bit of pure bandit moralitv. It
would have achieved its purpose had I
possessed as weak moral fiber as those of
my critics who announced that I ought
to have confined my action to feeble scold
lug and temporizing until the opportunity
for action passed. I did tiot lift my finger
to incite the revolutionists. The right
simile to use is totally different. I simply
• •eased to stamp out the different rcvolti
tionary fuses that were already burning.
When Colombia committed flagrant wrong
against us. 1 considered it no p:irt of my
duty to aid and abet her in her wrongdo-
ing at our e\ pen sr. and also at the el
pen so of Panama, of the l'reurh company,
and of thr world generally. There had
been fifty years of continuous bloodshed
uud civil strife in Panama : because of my
action Panama has now known teu years
of such peace and prosperity as she never
before saw during the four centuries of
her existence—for in Panama, as in Cuba
and Santo Domingo, it was the action of
the American people against the outcries
of the professed apostles of peace, which
alone brought pca<-e. We gave the people
of Panama self government, and freed them
from subjection to alien oppressors. We
did our best to get Colombia to let us
treat her with a more than generous jus
tice; we exercised patient to beyond the
verge of proper forbearance. When we
did act and recognised Panama. When we
at onre acknowledged her own guilt by
promptly offering to do what we had de-
mand«il, and what she had protested It was
not iu her power to do. But the offer came
too late. What we w<*tild gladlv have done
bciore. it had by that time necome im-
possible for us honorably to do: for it
would have ue<-egsitated our abandoning
the people of Panama, our friends, and
turning them over to their and our foes,
who would have wreaked vengeance on
them precisely because they had shown
friendship to us. Colombia was solely re-
sponsible for her own humiliation; and
she had not then, and lias not now. one
-had«»w of claim upon us. moral or legal;
all the wrong that whs done by her. If,
a- r<ire*ont!ne the American people. I
hrd not acted precisely a : I did. ! would
have bevn an unfaithful or incompetent
representative: and Inaction at that crisis
mot.Id l.*ve meant not only indefinite delay
in bnilding the canal, bnt ale* prtctl-al
a^miFuon on onr part that «• frera not
Sylvia, supple, aud slender, and Aunt
Belle, bulky and benign, had returned
from a shopping tour. Each had been try-
ing to buy u ready-made suit.
When they returned home Sylvia was
asked what success each had in her ef-
forts to be fitted. "Well," said Sylvia, "I
got along pretty well, but Aunt Belle is
getting so fac that about all she can get
ready made is an umbrella,"—YoutVs
Companion.
"It savs here: 'One of the idols most
revered by the Coreans is the figure of a
woman, seated, resting her chin in her
hand,' " said Mrs. Chatterley, /'ending from
the newspaper.
"Which proves that the Coreans are
about the wisest nation on earth," suggest-
ed her husband.
"Ilow'i that, Joshua V"
"Well," said Mr. Chatterley, with dis-
tinct emphasis, "simply because they make
a specialty of n woman who Uas aenso
enough to give her chii* a rest***
Tho colonel of a certain regiment, who
was very strict with his young officers,
was continually inspecting their rooms to
see if everything was tidy. One day ho
Inspected the room of an officer who was
noted for his wit. He had nearly Mulshed
his inspection when he noticed a cobweb
in one of the corners and thought to him-
self: "Now I have got him.
"What d<pes this mean?" asked the
colonel.
The young officer cooly replied: "Wo
always keep one in case a man cuts Ilia
linger."
Mrs. Smith was an ardent worker in tha
cause of the prevention of cruelty to ani-
mals, and, when Mrs. Brown came to tea,
told her a pathetic tale of a donkey that
she had rescued from a cruel master the
day before.
The visitor was very interested, and
when she rose to go said : j
"1 am glad you have told me all thosd
fascinating things about animals., dear
Mrs. Smith. J shall never see a donkeyi
again without thinking of you."
After all, the train was only forty win*
utes behind time, so the station 'maatefll
was perfectly justified in feeling pleased;
with himself, the railway and the wc|lii'.
in general. )
A solitary wailing passenger was morbij
idly weighing himself on an automatic
machine, and wheii he stepped off it tha1
jovial official proceeded to talk te him.
"Wonderful thing the railway system,
sir" he chirped. "I do really believe that
even the general public is at last beginning-
to realize the marvelous improvements that
have taken place on the line in recent
years." J
"That's true," answered the morbid one*?
"I know of no line that has so many thiug.1!
constantly in the public eyes as this one."
The station master was delighted. "I
am more than glad to hear you say so,
sir," he chuckled, rubbing his hands to
gether. "And would you mind namln
them ?"
The waiting jfassenger looked penslvel/J
down the platform. '
"Cinders said he. J
-O j
si
THE INNER
PARLIAMENT
I Copyright, 191-t, by Dr. Frank Crane)
TNSIDE Ibe human breast is a parlia-
* raent.
When j-ou consider whether or not you
will <io ii certain thiug there is alway,
an inward discussion, sometimes orderly,
sometimes turbulent.
Joan nt Arc thought she. heard voice, in
her childhood ut Doinremy. But the deci-
sion iu the case of everyone of us is ac-
companied by many voices.
.The will is the judge upon the bench,
hach vpice tries to influence, t6 persuade
him.
The question arises: "Shall I do a cer-
tain thing?"
Desire sneaks up. It has but one word,
but that is a tremendous one. It is "I
want to."' It speaks loudly. Its tones
echo. The whole body trembles, applauds,
lor desire is its spokesman.
Then comes conscience. It speaks for
the spirit, as desire for the body: It says
"I ought, I ought not." Desire and con-
si ceil eo argue hotly.
Here enters a third voice, that of rea-
son. Sometimes it. is the bribed lawyer
of desire. Sometimes if is the attorney
of the soul. It talks volubly, subtly, giv-
iug excuses, citing examples, adducing pal-
liations.
Now perhaps fear steps forward. It
presents consequence of pain, of humilia-
tion. It warns the body against results
of yielding to desire; it warns the spirit
against the high price of nobleness.
Imagination takes the floor. It does not
reason. It presents pictures, now beauti-
ful. enticing, as it. .sides with desire; now
appalling as It sides with fear.
Love rises to speak. It takes the argu-
ment. out of self and pleads the we If am
of another. How will the issue affect, tho
beloved? Will it hurt or please him or
her? The will must hear that. plea. too.
Another speaker Is tho community, a
voice which represents your fellow men.
What will they think of you? Will they
praise or blame, reward or condemn? No
one is wholly indifferent to the judgment
of others.
Other voices take part. Pride has its
say. Dull obstinacy asserts itself. Adven-
ture makes its bold and seducing propo-
sals. Caution shakes its warning finger.
Love or case bus a tone that it. strongly
persuasive. And pure mischief is not al-
ways silent.
Besides, there is that voice which Victor
Hugo so graphically depicts in the scene
in "Los Mlserables, * where Jean Valjeau
is arguing with himself whether to be
base or noble. He speaks of it as a deep
voice, thuuderous as the sea. It is God.
I nfortunate afe those human ereaturea
whose inner parliament is but a riotous
mob. iu whom decisions are reached by
clamor, panic, stampede.
And tortunate they whose inward de-
bates are orderly, whose will is a sober
and upright iuclge. whose decisions are
based upon full and fearful debate and
whose judgment stands.
fit to play the part on the Isthmas whicli
w had arranged to ourselves. I acted on
n:v own lesnonsibllity in the Panama Mat-
ter. ,I< tin Hay spoke of this action as fol-
:.-w< : "The actlou of the President in the
Panama matter is not only in the strictest
a<eord«rc. with the principles of Justice
and eqilHy, aud In line with all tho best
pnwdentis of our public policy, but it wn
tl'.e rnly course he could have taken ill
coii\plhiuce with our treaty rights end ob-
ligations. '
I <.frcpty regretted, and now deeply re-
gret. the f: ct that the Colombian <Jovern-
men» rendered it, imperative for me to tako
the action I took: but I had no alternative,
consistent with the full performance of
my duty to my own people, and to ihe na-
tions o*' mankind. 1 am well a wire that
the Cob u.blan people have many fine
traits, that there la among them .1 eirc?<«
of i.iirh bred men and women which would
refln-t honor to the social life o? an,*
country; end that there ha* been aft in-
tellect nil and literary development within
this suihll circle which partially atone* for
the >tntru.ition and illiteracy of th* inns*
of ;he people; and I also know that even
the i'luerate mass possesses many sterl-
ing .fualitie*. But unfortunate in Inter-
national matters every nation mas: be
judged by the action of its Government".
The good* people Iu Colorable, aporrmtlr
iradc n" effort, certainly no successful
effort, to caune the Government to acr with
reasonable good faith towards the **nited
States; Colombia had to take The eon-
scqucnccF. If Braeil. or the Argentine, or
Chile, tfcd been In possession of TIia Isth-
mus, d jubtless the canal would ha^e teen
built vnder the governmental contr>l of
the mtSon thus controlling the Is'.nmn*.
with the hearty acquiescence of the VnlbMl
States and of all other jtowers. Bnt In the
actual fa« t the canal would not Ifve been
built at all save for the action I took. If
men chon«e to say that it would hnre b*en
bettor not to build it. than to build It n*
the re«ult of such action, their position,
although foolish. eompatable with be-
lief In tlieir wrongheaded sincerity. Bnt
it Is hypoerlsy, alik* odious and contempt-
ible for any man to say both that wa
ought to have built the «-anal and that wo
ought not to have acted In the way ttt
act _
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