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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1009.
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Entered at tha Postufflco at San Antonio,
Texas, iih Second-duns Matter.
By The Express Publishing Company.
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field doea ty>t surpass, or the anxiety reform become r travesty and a
of sacrifice to beneficial art or prac- ; sham,
Ural science within the domain of \ No, brother, Governor Campbell
society can not equal. Surely of such should rather be pralaed than ccn-
stuff veritable heroes are made—the demited on the basis which you ad
manly, Intrepid substance that counts j vance.
no Buffering against the acquisition j
of one new fact of htnnnn knowledge.
Governor Is Wrongly Criticised.
Some Cotton Talk.
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The Value of Cook's Achievement.
Granting the accuracy of the more
or less uncertain reports concerning
the attainment of the North Pole, and
indulging the confidence that th>>
enrlgn of the Republic, still "full high
aloft," ucfurls its stars and stripes
to the rigorous winds of tho Arctla
zone—the solo symbol of civilization
in the whole of that vast and frigid
area—America, through the patient
perseverance of Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, has gained an achievement un-
equaled in the domain of science or
art.
The religion of an artist is to suffer
for art. Through the anguish of tho
oppressors wrong, tho contumely of
the proud and "the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune" the final transi-
tion from obscurity to fame is accom-
plished. The apotheosis of genius is
made upon .the medium o:' sacrifice,
buffering and self-abnegation.
Poets have drunk the bitter dregs
of disappointment, scorn nnd despair
for their art; novelists have surren-
dered the substantial Joys of life for
the exploitation of truih, and have
been content to die unrecompensed,
unwept and unknown, confident in the
knowledge which loyal pursuit of art
brings, that their deeds would outlive
them.
Inventors, inspired with a stupendous
theory of practical value to mankind,
have endured the privations of poverty
and the supercilious scoffings of the
skeptical, and, persevering, have be-
queathed to posterity the valuable as-
sets of their thought aud genius.
Physicians have bnvi.d the censure
of ignorance and superstition, and
have persisted, undaunted, in research
whose culmination in facts of positive
science and art has benefited the
world.
And on, ad infinitum, the histories of
the world's great followers of art and
science unfold into stories of suffer-
ing, misfortune and woe unparalleled
in the realm of fiction. But reward,
substantial and enduring, has eventual-
ly come. The poet, whoso thought has
calmed a troubled heart; tho painter,
•whose conception has opened a way
for tho incoming of light to the doubt-
ing soul; the inventor, whose idea has
brau the saving of life, limb and prop-
erty, although obscure in life and en-
vironed by poverty, skepticism and
ecorn, obtain their reward in the con-
crete blessing which their heroism has
conferred upon their race. Their suf-
fering and sacrifice were not in vain;
some great good has come of it all.
They lmew this, and were sustained
by the thought, and they saw upon
the dim horizon of time the coming
of that sufficient compensation
against which they counted not t'ae
troubles and trials of uusuccessful and
misunderstood careers on earth.
But to what may the intrepid ex-
plorer of the vast and icy unknown
look as the reward of his persistent
following of a thought? Nothing but
the perpetuation of his name as tho
idiBcoverer of an unfamiliar land. The
achievement ceases with its accom-
plishment. The discovery Is conceded
to be valueless as a practical benefit to
the human race further than the mere
Intrinsic worth of a new and inconse-
quential fact of science. The practical
value to science of the discovery will,
in the opinion of scientists, be hut to
afford a moanB of determining trie
weight of the earth and the force of
the earth's attraction for other bodies
of the universe, and vice versa. The
world would progress and develop
without that knowledge just as rapidly
as It would with It Yet scores of
men have Jeopardized life and limb
and undergone suffering and misery
that the environment of tno heroic
poet, physician, philosopher or painter
prevented. The acquisition of one
little fact, coupled with the glory of
demonstrating mans supremacy over
tfea rigorous assaults of nature's ex-
treme aggressiveness, is the sum
total of compensation that the heroes
of Arctic explorations could imagine.
Truly, therefore, Dr. Cook's accom-
nt ia essentially on artistic
eirt. It Is appraised at
*MaaHr nothing In the realm or prac-
tical or beneflcl*} science, yet it rep-
A rcccnt lssuo of the HUlsboro
Mirror contains an article adversely
criticising Governor Campbell for
pardoning a convict who bad served
ten years of a life-time sentence for
murder, and largely bases Its arraign-
ment upon the Idea expressed In the
following quoted paragraph:
The murder wns ono of the fouloHt ever
committ..i in inn County, and those (a*
miliar with tho clrctimHtatmes will not he
vimlly convinced that tho act In granting:
the murderer a pardon was in any meas-
ure justifiable, units* the condition of his
health Im decidedly worse than the state-
ment of the officer who naw him and
talked with him would Indicate it is.
The Mirror should attend to tha
beam in its own eye before it begins
to search for the mote in lis broth-
er's. While it can not be said that
Governor Campbell, or any other Gov-
ernor of Texas, has manifested suf'
tielent Interest in tho penal Institu-
tions, and has been, perhaps, too dis-
posed to ignore applications for par-
Tho average condition of the cot-
ton crop of the United States August
25, as given out by tho crop report-
ing board of tho United States De-
partment of Agriculture, was 63.7 pel-
cent normal ar.d, perhaps, records as
poor a condition as that of July 25 of
71.9.
The figures given out yesterday
compare with 7(».■ 1 a year ago nnd
72.7 two years ago, when the total
yield was 11,325,882 bales. The aver-
age condition of tho crop for tho ten
years preceding was 73.6.
The effect of the report on the
market was not. so marked as it
would have been, perhaps, had it not
been on the eve of a three days' holi-
day.
Government reports have been
much more reliable during the hst
few years, since all opportunities for
gralt have been eliminated by vigorous
action of the Dopartnfent of Justice
IN MODERN CHINA
XIII.—Chinese as Railroad Builders.
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
BUT HIS FINISH CAN BE SEEN.
son.e years ago, and conservative
don, it. Is tho height of injustice to | traders are ready to admit, that t»:e
criticise him upon the basis which crop will bo a small one this year.
tho Mirror advances as a predicate
for Its disagreement. Not only Ik
such criticism unjust, but It is a
harking back to the Mosaic dicta
of "an eye for an eye and a tootii
for a tooth," which was eternally
bla.-ited by the gospel of him whoso
A few figures from tho record will
bo of inte rest Just here. Tlld smallest
crop since 1901 was in .1905, when
10,72.r>.f!02 hales were raised; still the
condition on August 25 that, year was
72.1, or 8.4 better than t.his year. The
crop was late this year, especially
life was a poem of forgiveness nnd In Texas, and as this State raises
mercy and an everlasting exemplifi-
cation of tho divine doctrine which
teaches the reward of repentance and
reformation. Upon this latter law
of Hfo our penal agencies are founded.
The penal code prescribes the pur-
poses of a penitentiary. The first is
to protect society from the ravages of
criminals, and the second, the real,
primary and ultimato purpose, Is fo
reform the offender. This is a matter
of law; not a matter of opinion, and
the Mirror nor the sympathizers
with the theory which It enunciates
can evade Its force.
Now. if the chief purpose of a peni-
tentiary is to reform the criminal,
can anyone rationally defend the
preposterous doctrine of perpetuating
tho criminal's confinement after the
penitentiary has fulfilled its function?
Reform the criminal, but prolong his
Imprisonment until the Inexorable
decree of the law shall have been
satisfied. Is that the Mirror's idea
of a penitentiary? If so, it involves
a doctrine of inconsistency that
could not withstand tho forensic at-
tack of a school boy.
Simply, forsooth, because "tho
murder was one of the foulest ever
committed In Hill County" the Mirror
thinks that "those familiar with the
circur1 iances will not be easily con-
vinced" that the pardon was Justi-
fiable, and for that reason adversely
criticises the Governor for bestow-
ing clemency, 'ihe Mirror should
not forget that In a penitentiary one
deais with crime, nnd that, all crinis
is foul. It is ridiculous to talk of
pardoning a man on Jhe record of
his crime. All who are In the peni-
tentiary have presumably committed
some criminal act. They were crimi-
nals when they went there, and it is
tho State's business to eliminate
their criminal tendencies. If the
atrocity of a man's crime is to gov-
ern the exercise of the pardoning
power, it would be better to change
the law of the land and the penal
code and send to the penitentiary
only the men guilty of crimes in view
of the enormity of which clemency
should not Issue. Why retain a
travesty on the reformative idea that
inspires the code? Better _ far1 to
enunciate the principle of retributive
Justice, the inexorable law of "an
eye for an eye," than to Bend a man
to tho penitentiary to reform him,
then after he has achieved that con-
dition to deprive him of what is
rightfully his because o" the atrocity
of a crime committed ten years ago.
Now, here is another thought for
the Mirror. The people of Hill Coun-
ty have no more to do with the Is-
suance of a pardon to tho convict
in question than have the people of
Bexar County. It was not Hill Coun-
ty that was outraged by the crime;
it was the law of Texas. The State
did not punish the prisoner because
he had Injured citizens of Hill Coun-
ty; It sent him to prison to eliminate
from his moral makeup those ten-
dencies that prompted him to Ignore
the majesty of State law. That is
the situation in a nutshell, and if the
Mirror will refject upon it briefly It
will see (hat Its criticism of the Gov-
ernor is not well founded.
Moreover, It Is wrong for Influences
on the outside of the prison walls to
protest at. the Issuance of a pardon.
The worthiness of a convict should
be determined by the officials who
have custody of him. They are the
only ones competent to Judge of his
merit or who can Judge of It, and
when they endorse an application for
pardon, if the whole world should
protest, the pardon should Issue if
the spirit of the penal code is to be
one-fourth the crop of the country, the
late start and the continued dry
weather will quite likely reveal the
fact that less cotton has been ginned
to September 1 than for many years.
In 1905 Texas raised 2,490j120 bales
of the 10,725,602-balo crop, and plant-
ed 6,945,500 acres. In 1907, when the
total crop was 11,325,882 bales, Texas
produced 2,267,293 bales, though her
acreage had increased to 9,156,000
acres. With the acreage estimated
at 9,500,000 acres, Texas may raise
2,500,000 bales this year, but of
course the bears will not believe it.
The past, year has been the great-
est in point of consumption in his-
tory, and if the demaLd is to con-
tinue, and we are assured that it
will, the producer seems to be on
the eve of a prosperous year if he
is in a position to avail himself of
the opportunity.
"The boss is back; everybody get
to work." That was the tip that
went the rounds of the City Hall yes-
terday. San Antonio welcomes His
Honor, the Mayor, and hopes his va-
cation lias been beneficial.
Help along the Post chapel fund.
That presentation is going to be a
big thing that everybody will be In-
terested in. Don't fail to be a con-
tributor to its success.
Harriman is coming to San Antonio
again. He couldn't stay away. Sau
Antonio is the Blyslan Fields for all
whom the care of the world has op-
pressed.
There Is big game on the way to
the North Pole. T. R will likely
make an extreme transition If tho
Smithsonion needs the specimens.
That $29,000,COO, if it had been col-
lected, would ^erve the Government
almost as well now as that $1,800,000
is serving Texas.
The Express' relief fund for Mon-
terey was timely. The cauBe was
commendable. The donors are chari-
table persons.
Pr. Brumby won't luterfera over
here. Wise decision. It's the best
way to insure success.
able
else.
There are precious few of us who
wouldn't rather do a little thing and be
• toroim that th. battle-J-preeerved. OtherwiM iutltottou <tfjJSgSSggS**"*
Wright's Respects to Lstham.
This Jackdaw of Rhelms who la busily
trying
To rob us of glory which nobly was
gained,
Who hops, skips and Jumps and pretends
It is flying,
Should somehow be quickly and firmly
restrained;
Why should he be suffered to go aero-
planing?
Our wings have been patented forty-six
tUnes;
Our brains have been used for the fame
lie Is gaining;
It 1* time to sit down on the Jackdaw
of Rhelms.
Withhold for a while from this base
Imitator
The cheers that he craves, the applause
he demands;
If you wish to behold a first-class aviator
Here I am and there my good brother
Orr stands.
Who heard of a monoplane or of a bi-
plane
Before we'd been spilled and bruised
up those first times?
If flying Is ever to be on a high plane,
We must frown on the claims of this
Jackdaw of Rhelms.
As soon as we care to we'll stop this
frog-eater
Who thinks he is doing such wonderful
things;
Our newest contrivance will be a world-
beater,
At least It will outclass whatever has
wings;
Pouf! Why should there be all thts fool-
ish commotion
Because he has flown to and fro a few
tlmeB?
In a year we'll be flying across the wldo
ocean,
And the world will forget this poor
Jackdaw of Rhelms.
—S. E. Klser In Chicago Rtecord-Herald.
O
Reflections of a Bachelor.
Before a man asks a girl to marry him
she asks htm to ask her.
What makes a man Interesting to a
woman is she Just pretends he Is.
The deeper a man is In debt tha still
deeper he would go If anybody would let
him.
A man seems to thtnk home Is a place
to go and get even for all the dlsagrea-
thlngs that happened somewhere
Peking.
I.OS1*; upon the heols of the recent
^ British lulluro to control the lian-
kow-Sse-Chuan Railway loan, u cam-
paign was begun In tile newspapers aud
In other quarters to discredit tho Chinese
ability to construct railways. Thts In-
stantly precipitated a sharp controversy
in which opponents went to remarkable
lengths. For Instance, the new Hiianghal-
Nlngpo Hallway Is a line built by the
Chinese without foreign aid. The British
forced the government to float a loan on
the road, on the basis of an old promise,
luit none of tho foreign money was used
and the road was constructed by t'hlncso
engineers.
An English newspaper In Shungliai pub-
lished a story that a bridge on the Ning-
po Itullroiid had eollapsed. The story
wasn't true, but the Kngll; h newspaper
declined to retrart It on tho ground that
"It wasn't wise to open a controversy,"
Keen the l/indon Times look part 111 the
affair mid published accounts of the col-
l,ipse or the bridge and other calamities
along the line. Two expert American
elvll engineers visited the bridge tho
day after tho report of the collapse was
published, and they declare that the
bridge was absolutely safe. Further-
more, trains ran not run over collapsed
bridges, ami the traffic on the line did
riot slop n minute
Then came the other side The Chinese
press asserted, for the sake of compari-
son, that the Nlngpo Railroad was good
enough, aUhough |t admitted that It
wasn't quite so good as the Nanking
road, which the British built at three
times Its necessary cost In order to make
the Iohii bigger and the audit-control
longer.
Compared to ordinary first-close roads
In America, both the British-built and
the Chlnes°-bullt lines are far above the
average. The British-built line In ques-
tion Is laid upon a foundation of solid
concrete; It Is rock ballasted above that;
its fills and cuts are protected by ma-
sonry. and It cost several times as much
per mile as a first-class American road.
The Chinese line is rock ballasted, but
lacks the solid concrete foundation, us
cuts and fills are also protected by ma-
sonry, Its smallest culverts guarded by
rip-rapning, and It also cost more per
mile than most American-built roads, al-
though It was much cheaper than Its
Britlsh-bnilt neighbor. An American en-
gineer who has devoted his llfe-tltne to
railroad building went over the road, and
after a careful examination declared that
It was superior In almost every respect
to what are known as high-grade roads
In America, and the equal of even the
best American roads.
The British have no idea, of the char-
acter of the pioneering roads which
pushed out through the American west-
ern wilderness; they count any road bad
that does not come up to tho highest
standard of English construction, regard-
less of the difference In the demands
made upon (he road by Its traffic. It Is
to be feared that many American rail-
road men would think money Is being
wasted In masonry and rip-rap work out
here.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Chinese engineers do some queer
things In railroad building, nnd these
queer things invite adverse criticism from
foreign engineers, who think tl.elr way
is better. For Instance, when a foreign
engineer builds a bridge lie selects a fa-
vorable place on the river, constructs his
piers and throws tho bridge across the
water. The under-watcr work on the
piers Is frequently the heaviest Item of
expense. A Chinese engineer, moved by
a peculiar sense of economy and perhaps
by an Instinctive dlsiike of the wattr. se-
lects a favorable placo near tho river,
builds Ills bridge completely upon dry
land, digs a trench under tho bridge and
turns the liver Into It. Then ae throws
a fill, with Inclined walls of masonry,
acrosa the old bed of the river and pro-
ceeds. Me has saved the high cost of
I lie under-watcr construction, How lils
system will work when the river god gets
homesick for his old banks, only time can
tell.
Despite captious criticism and caustic
controversy, the Chinese, have proved be-
yond the question of a doubt, that they
can build railroads, and high-clnss rail-
roads, without foreign help. The Nlngpo
road and the Kalgan road are monu-
ments to Chinese engineers. Tho Kalgnn
Pass Railroad runs from Peking north-
west through the Nankou Pass In the
Great Wall to Kaigan on the Mongolian
frontier. Eventually It Is proposed to
extend the line to connect with the Trans-
Siberian road, cutting down the time
from Peking to London by three days.
The opinion of experts is that this road,
largely through the mountains. Is the
equal of any railroad In existence In
construction work, although a false no-
tion Of economy lias Introduced too many
curves and steep grades to save tunnel
driving.
♦ ♦ ♦
The chief fault of the ('lilneno in r*-
upect to railroad* In a fault which In u
im t loi in I characteristic—the ruinous econ-
omy that prevents expenditure^ for main-
tenance. A Chlnete hulliin iu liouxo, lnv-
l«hes money upon carving?! and paint and
K"l'l leaf, wp.ms no exp n to make It
the handflomcst houwe that he can af-
ford. And then he Never a^aln Is
the paint brufih brought. Into use. Never
again dw* tho wood carver come with
his chlnel. Finally the house tumbles
down about tho old msn'a earn, and he
comments that It laated a long time.
He never haw thought of repair* to make
It last longer. The Chinese appear to
think that money spent for up-k^ep Is
money lost. The railroad Is built and put
In working order. Let It work until It
w(>arH out and let us make all the money
we ean. Our ehlldren can build another
road. Of course there are Chinese men
who realise tho fatality of sueh economy,
nnd doubtless they will bo eventually
successful In their struggle against the
ehlef economic falling of their remark-
able ra^e.
The Kaigan Railroad, built by Chines*
engineers with Chinese capital, equipped
with Chinese engines made In Chinese
shops by Chinese designers and laborers
of Chinese Iron and steel, drawing Chl-
neae-btillt cars In trains manned by Chi-
nese crews, Is quite as much of a college
as It la a railroad. It has b##n 00111s
plated only a fiw months, and it has
been used as a. school for the instruction
of young Chinese men in every depart-
ment of railroad work.
♦ ♦ ♦
The chief engineer, Mr. Jeme, was ed-
ucated in the t'nlted States. taking his
•bachelor's degree at Yale and his tech-
nical training at Sheffield Scientific
School, He is naturally Inclined much
towards American methods. The actual
construction of tho road was directly
undor the supervision of Yen Te-chlng.
who was educated at the l.nlverslty of
Virginia and I<ehigh University, and who
Is a member of the American Society of
Engineers, lie Is now in the distant
western provinces of Hzc-cluinn preparing
for tho railroad development In that Iso-
lated country. lender these two men
many young Chinese are receiving prac-
tical training In railroad work, while
other Chinese students abroad are study-
ing sciences and technics with a view to
assisting In tho development ot their
country at home. The Kaigan Railway,
however. Is a university and a technical
school in Itself.
The Chinese government at this time Is
anxious to make as rapid progress In
railroad building as possible, without
permitting other nations to selzo practical
control of Its territory In the process.
Tho development of tho resources of the
country and the Impetus to trado Is, of
course, the prime consideration, but there
aro other Important reasons why the gov-
ernment Is so earnest In pushing rail-
road building.
The desire to provide for national de-
fense Is one of these, as China under-
stands that a comparatively small army
which may be quickly transported from
one point to another in better than a
much larger Immobile force. The rail-
roads aro necessary to the scheme of In-
ternal defense. Hut tho greatest consid-
eration Is political—the absolute necessity
of bringing the disjointed provinces of
China Into a closer relation with the Im-
perial government. Hapld communica-
tion, increased commercial relations and
the Interchange of visits means the closer
knitting of the divided factions of the
race. The Chinese like to travel and lack
only the opportunity to get about and see
their country. The moral effect and the
physical convenience of the railroad has
hiore to do with "awakening China" than
any other one thing. The extension of
the railroads Is absolutely necessary to a.
successful development of government
under tho constitution, upon which the
heart of Prince Chun Is fondly set.
Through the next generation It will not
be surprising If the Chinese are the
greatest railroad builders of the world.
Tomorrow: In Modem China.
XIV—Railroad Travel In Cathay.
&
V
On account of the heavy storms recently some of our leading citizens have been
driven to the tall timbers. Weather Bureau reports a further rise In the river, and
then there will be nothing left but to get In and swim.—Denver Post.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
PRODDING THE RANGER FORCE. THOSE WASHINGTON ROWS.
Wouldn't It be competent for n dis-
trict judge to order the Hangers to de-
sist? And if such a thing should happen,
what could our chief executive do but
grin and bear it?—Waco Times-Herald.
State Rangers seized another big lot of
whiskey that was stored away In Ama-
rillo last Friday night. Amarillo(ls get-
ting to be good since the advent of the
Rangers.—San Angclo Standard.
Tha Idea of sending tho Rangers Into
cities like Galveston and San Antonio is
repulsive. These men were originally or-
ganized, as the Herald understands It, to
protect the portions of the State which
were thinly populated and in many cases
without organization, where there were
no officers. It was never contemplated
that they should be used to do police duty
In organized cities where both municipal
and county officers woro available.—Den-
lson Herald. Hut tho Rangers seem to
be finding plenty to do, even In the larger
cities.—Torrell Transcript.
C*
FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(San Antonio Daily Express, Sept. 3, 186?.)
Leonard Garza has opene fla neat retail
store on the corner of Bolcdad and Paseo
Street 9.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Brenham Banner of Friday says
cotton picking Is In full blast, and tells
Houston and Galveston to look out for
20,000 bales from Washington.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Waco papers state that John C.
Sneed. late Sheriff of Hill County, was
shot and mortally wounded a few days
since at Mount <!alm. Limestone County,
by a man named Hell. No particulars.
♦ ♦
Some time since we suggested the iilea
of a wooden railroad to the coast. The
Scientific American describes a wooden
railway which is now in successful op-
eration In Canada. The rails are of ma-
ple, fourteen feet long, and six by four
inches in thickness, laid edgewise. The
engines weigh from ten to twenty tons,
the wheels a little wider than on Iron
roads, and the flanges a little beveled so
that in pressing against the rails the
wood may not be cut. What do our cit-
lens say to a wooden railway.
<2y-
Mr. Faddlethwalta Found Out.
For two months Mrs. Faddlethwalte
had said at least eight times & day to
her husband: "I am going to take the
children and go away somewhere. I thtnk
they need a change, and I'm sure I do."
Mr. Faddlethwalte never made any re-
ply when this declaration wa» launched.
He merely looked unconcerned and
changed the subject as soon as he could
without appearing to do so deliberately.
At last one morning Mrs. Faddlethwalte,
who had, owing to the heat, been unable
to sleep much the night before, wearily
said:
"Henry, I'm going to tsdee the children
and go away somewhere. I Just can't
stand it any longer."
"Very well. Where do you wish to go?
I'll eee about your tickets If you wish.1'
"Oh! You will, will youT It'a very kind
of you, Indeed! But you needn't bother.
You're too anxtoUs to get rid of us. I
have known all along that yoti were
dying to have us go away. Henry, tell
me the truth. Are you leading a double
life r'-Chicago JUoor4-Her»>-
What the forest thlevps are doing to
I'lnchot, tho food adulterators are grad-
ually handing out to Doc Wiley. The
day has "done came" when the famous
nnd proverbial flpa of the Irishman can't
dodge tho blow with half the ability the
predatory can duck a law or down a law-
cnforcer.—San Angelo Press-News.
The legacy of the Roosevelt regime to
the Taft regime seems to be a lot of gen-
tlemen with the "exaggerated ego" for
which Thaw went back to Matteawan as
a dangerous paranoiac. The internal war
has progressed from a mere shindy to
regular Donnybrook Fair proportions and
the head ot McHarg Is by no means the
only one to be broken before the fighting
Is over.—Austin Statesman.
Plnchot Is for Roosevelt and Roosevelt
policies. Plnchot is a mujtimjllionaire
who believes in the people and is fighting
the battles of the people. He is an Inspira-
tion, this young man who was cradled in
the lap of luxury and entered the public
service seven years ago for the good he
could do. Plnchot may lose his office in
his fight with Ballinger, but Plnchot
will come again. When Ballinger goes it
will be to return no more.—Dallas Times-
Herald.
Ormsby McHarg has resigned his job as
assistant secretary of Commerce and La-
bor, all on account of a row. Well, when
a man named Ormsby can kick up a row
It would appear that the mollycoddles
and the loblollies are again coming to
their own in old Washington. D. C. Next
thing we know a Percival and an Alger-
non will reach a state of Importance big
enough to pull off a rowing stunt. Oh,
piffle! and then some.—San Angelo
Press-News.
MILD JOLTS FOR BRYAN.
Bryan says he Is tired of talking. This
makes It unanimous.—Port Arthur News.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota Is say-
ing that he was closer to tho Presidency
last year than he ever will be again, but
one does not see anything of that kind
presented as a saying of Col. William
Jennings Bryan.—Austin Statesman.
"The only victory we have won on the
tariff In recent years was the victory of
1S92." says Mr. Bryan. And we threw It
away to go rainbow chasing, Bland,
Bryan and Bailey taking the lead. Let's
keep the record straight, Mr. Brvan.—
Waco Times-Herald.
Why 'Not the Livery Dairy?
It Is a marvel that the livery dairy has
not come to pass. It would deal not in
milk, but In milch cows, supplying fresh
ones at a monthly or weekly hire, taking
them back at need and substituting an-
other. The livery dairyman might well
keep a pasture and take his hlred-out
cows to and from It for a small consid-
eration. He might likewise do a thriv-
ing business In feedstuff*, to say noth-
ing of profit on the calves raised to the
age of veal. He could keep stoek of alt
sorts—Jerseys for uppish folk who ltko
the look of one on the lawn; big deep
uddered Holstelns for, big families; pert,
small Kerry cows for customers with tiny
places, and merely cows for the general
customer in want ot milk.—Martha H<-
Cniioch WUlivns to ColBorfc
Enter Taft.
President Taft lias decided to Investi-
gate the Pinchot-Balllnger Imbroglio.
Tills Is good news any way you ta.ko It.
Mr. PlnehoP needs Investigation In or-
der that tho really valuable qualities of
the man may not lie lost to the public
service through his defects. He is a man
with a hobby, but back ot tho hobby is a
driving impulse we are bound to respect,
a passion for the conservation of the
growing trees of the National domain. He
will achieve results where your mere con-
scientious bureaucrat would waste his
days In meticulous quibbling.
Hut th • regulative side of Mr. Plnchot
is 111 developed In comparison with the
dynamic. The Nation needs his work, but
ho is liko the tincup miner s explosive:
"Joint tglant) powder Improves to he sot
on." A commission to "sit on" him and
set forth his roally great achievements,
tinohscrued by his engineering heresies
and his short cuts in practice, is much to
be desired.
Secretary Ballinger needs Investigating
also. If he is a man who cares little for
anything except the letter of the law he
needs to understand that, whllo President
and country believe In the rules, they ex-
pect the custodian of the virgin resources
of the National domain to play the game;
and the game Is conservation, In no nar-
row and negative and technical sense, of
the vast resources under his hand to the
needs of the coming days. We need to
know whether the secretary has bi«"n
negligent or whether the Chief Forester
has mistaken a blanket hung against the
canon wall for a real demon of tho gorge.
—St. Louis Republic. '
THE VOTE ON~THE TARIFF.
A Compilation Shows Record of Sen-
ators in 129 Ballots.
Thero were In all 129 roll calls In the
Senate on the tariff. This table shows
how often each Republican Senator voted
against Aldrlch, how often with Aldrlch
and how often they did not vote at all.
The list is printed in tho order of tho
number of times they voted against Al-
drlch—in the order of their relative in-
surgency. so to speak, (l-orlmer was not
ejected until late In the session, and par-
ticipated in only sixty roll calls.)
Voted Voted Not
Against With Vot-
rVldrich. Aldrlch. ing.
LaFollette, Wis. .
Hristow, Kan. ...
Clapp, Minn
Cummins, Iowa ..
Dolllver, Iowa ...
Nelson, Minn
Brown, Neb
Burkett, Neb
Beveridge, Ind. ..
Crawford. S. D. ..
Gamble, P. D
Borah, Idaho
Curtis, Kan
Burton, Ohio
Johnson, N. D. ...
McCumber, N. D.
Jones, Wash
Smith, Mich
Du Pont, Del. ...
Bulkeley, Conn. .
Piles, Wash
Root, N. Y
Carter, Mont
Dick, Ohio 4
Heyburn, Idaho 4
Page, Vt
Frye, Malno
Galllnger, N. H
106
101
PI
S9
7.1
65
58
Dixon, Mont 3
Crane. Mass a
Burnham, N. H 3
Brandegee, Conn 3
Bourne, Ore 2
Bradley, Ky 2
Clark, Wyo 2
Cullom, 111 2
Perkins, Cal 2
Scott, W. Va. 2
Wetmore, R. 1 2
Briggs, N. J 1
Burrows. Mich 1
Dcpew, N. |Y 1
Dillingham, Vt 1
Klklns. W. Vt 1
Guggenheim, Colo. ... 1
Hale, Maine 1
Lodge, Mass 1
Oliver. IJa 1
Penrose, Pa 1
Nixon, Nev.
Richardson, Del.
Stephenson, Wis.
Warner, Mo
Warren, Wyo. ...
Lorlmer, 111
Sutherland. Utah
Bmoot, Utah
Kean, N. J
Flint. Cal
Aldrlch, R. I
18
27
20
31
45
53
56
70
34
70
82
84
82
114
110
78
S9
58
in«
102
103
101
121
123
124
125
88
121
105
113
123
121
52
82
108
97
112
110
117
107
12fi
97
94
83
%
82
102
102
121
57
5
81
117
97
35
117
129
125
111
129
5
1
18
9
11
7
8
1
40
7
15
20
23
1
8
40
30
61
15
20
19
18
3
2
1
0
38
5
21
13
3
5
75
45
19
30
15
17
10
21
9
it
31
34
45
32
46
26
26
7
41
123
47
11
SPIRIT OF THE TEXA& PRESS
- II
This list of Democratic Senators is
printed In the order in which they voted
against Aldrlch. The number oil votes
cast with Aldrlch is, of cour'e, In the
case of a Democratic Senator, eaually
significant:
Voted Voted Not
Against With Vot-
Aldrlch. Aldrlch. Ing.
Gore, Okla
Bacon, Ga
Fletcher, Fla
Overman, N. C.
Johnston, Ala. .
Hughes, Colo. .
Stone, Mo
Frailer, Tenn 97
Blmmons, N. C. ..
Taliaferro, Fla. ...
Newlands, .NeV. ..
Martin. Va
Chamberlain, Ore.
Culberson, Tex. ...
Clay, Ga
Bankhead. Ala. ..
Paynter, Ky
Money. Miss
Bailey, Tex
McLaurln, Miss. ..
Tillman. S, C
Taylor, Tenn.
Rayner, Md
Foster, La
Davis, Ark
Bhlvely, Ind.
Owen, Okla
... 118
...111
... 1)17
... 106
... 103
... 101
97
Smith. Md.
Smith. 8. C.
Daniel. Va.
McEnery. La
Clarte. Ark.
5
11
12
8
7
a
7
8
14
14
7
18
1«
6
6
10
s
11
11
5
8
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61
06
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3*
111
-Comer's Weekly.
< 'nlone! Roosevelt predicts a bright
future for Africa. Evidently he believes
the Dark Continent will be lighted by tho
sun of prosperity.-Johnson city Enter-
prise.
♦ ♦ ♦
Kvery new sidewalk built makes Sher-
man a prettier and more permanent clly
for liiose who come later. Nothing adds
to the good looks of a town as much a*
cement and brick sidewalks—Sherman
Democrat.
♦ ♦♦-
King Edward of England is said to b»
"good for many years to come." Of
course. When a man gets old he Is bound
to he good. He may be a sound old
wagon, but his wheels are broken.—Dal-
las Times-Herald.
-e- ♦ ♦
It In our notion that the fellow who is
writing "The Meditations of u Married
Man" for one of the newspaper syndi-
cates is hi reality a bachelor. No married
man we ever knew hail Htiy tlmo to
meditate.—Austin Tribune.
Two brothers who were crossing a
Texas farm the other night were shot in
the watermelon patch, so advices say.
In Texas, where the finest melons grow,
the watermelon patch is the most promi-
nent part of a man's anutomy.—Houston
Post.
The Emperor of dermany made a show
of Ills nuval strength to bluff England.
England builds Dreadnaughts to scare
France. Russia, Japan, etc., do some-
thing to boo-boo others. And so you sea
that after all it is Just a game of bluff.—
Lufkln News.
♦ ♦
Cotton Is going to command a good
price this fall and winter, owing to tho
fact that the crop is short all over tho
cotton producing country. The good
prices received will in some degree make
amends for the shortness of the yield.—
Weatherford Herald.
♦ ♦ ♦
With Citizen Gates promoting the pay
roll o mile long down Port Arthur way
and Mr. Schwab Inspecting Iron ore re-
sources In Northeast Texas, the big de-
velopment dollar should be welcomed
"In our midst." I^t Texas grow.—Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
♦ ♦ ♦
If a camel can go eight days without
taking a drink." asks the Nashville Ten-
nessean. "as report has it, and It takes
u camel ten days to cross the State of
Alabama—well, what's the, answer?" Tho
answer Is that unless he can find a blind
tiger a camel prefers to cross the desert
of Sahara.—Houston Chronicle.
♦ ♦ ♦
The tremendous floods at Monterey.
Mexico, which destroyed 1200 lives and
an Incomputable amount of property,
may rightfully he listed as another evi-
dence of the Irony of fate. That such a
.rain should have fallen in what is called
a semiarid country is one of those sur-
prises tliat Nature frequently perpe-
trates.—Galveston News.
If the Government has at last suc-
ceeded in finding a cure for hog cholera
it will mean millions of dollars to both
the farmers and the consumers. Hog
cholera has been an awful menace to tho
hog raising people, and anything in that
direction that promises to make a suc-
cess will be hailed with exclamations of
delight.—Velasco World.
♦ » ♦
It is far more agreeable to compose
poems on rain and symphonies on pie
than it is to "agitate" Hell's Half Acra
and bombard free raw materials; but
we've got to fight the devil whllo we sing
and convert the heathen while we eat.
These are busy times for the great relig-
ious and Democratic daily.—Fort Worth
Record.
* ♦ ♦
Let grand old East Texas look to her
laurels: the land of milk and honey is aa
changeable as the saridHars. and It 18
quite possible for the honey pond and
fritter tree to move their habitat from
one side of the State, to the other. It ta
said that the Westerners talk a great
deal with their mouths, and maybe they
do; but don't forget that they are "show-
ing" ail comers.—Dallas News.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Thirty-first Legislature was too big
a thing to play cheap politics as the Gov-
ernor seemed to want it lo do. Texae
must have more railroads, especially In
West Texas, to develop Its vast resources,
and the Thirty-first rose to the emerg-
ency with commendable foresight In sptta
of the slow-go policy of his excellency.
Another Legislature will be apt to let
Texas grow all right.—Fort Worth Star-
Telegram.
♦ ♦ ♦
A brick famine in Sfcn Angelo"! This
ta not passing strange. San Anfcelo la
making forward strides that even tha
natives cannot realise. Can you appreci-
ate that not less than 50 per cent of tha
people now here have be&n here as long
aa four years? Can you realise that this
same ratio will hold good four years
from now? Catch the step. Listen to
the music and then join in the chorus.
By nil pulling together we can make
rapid progress toward the manifest dae-
tlny of this imperial place.—San Angelo
Press News.
♦ ♦ ♦
Allison Mayfteia refused to be bull-
dozed Into making an order as a member
of the Texas Railroad Commission that
he did not think Wai right or Just. He
was threatened with a loss of votes as a
punishment and he had the manhood to
make a declaration according to the
dictates of an honest conscience guided
by the evidence In his possession. Well,
Texas needs men of the Mayfleld stripe
In office. A public servant who will
pander to this element «r that element at
the sacrifice gf all else to keep himself
in office Is not worthy of tha confidence
of a free people. Allison Mayfleld re-
fused to be a puppet, an office-holding
Jelly flab, and men wha are .governed ky
reason and justice wlllremamber him for
his American manhood and kla Texas dis-
play of fearlessness. A political fish la
the sorriest shrimp In <he pond. May*
field Isn't a fish. He Is an offlceliotder
with a backbone and a conscience and A
just conception of the rtghte of capital
and tha right* of labor.-3Dallaa IIMt
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