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"Our Country! In her intercourse
with foreign nations may she always
be in the right; but our country
right or. wrong." Stephen Decatur.
A CHANNEL BOAS SYSTEM.
W are assured that the city of Houston
is ready to pave that part of the Harrisburt;
road that lies within the city limits and in
addition to that the members ot the com-
missioners' court have (rone over the road
from the city limits to Harrisburg to con-
sider the project or that part of it that lies
within their Jurisdiction.
Now It seems to The Post that a joint
session of the city and county commission-
ers is in order to discuss the character and
quality of pavement and in this session the
members of the harbor board might likewise
participate to good advantage.
It seems to The Post that the Harrisburg
road permanently and adequately con-
structed has such a vital bearing upon the
hip channel that it can not longer be ig-
nored without detriment to the most .-iCal
interests of the city and county even of the
State.
Obviously the Harrisburg road is a funda-
mental unit ot the permanent road system
that is essential to the economisal use of
the channel and in time it mast be extended
down the channel to the San Jacinto estuary.
Colonel Riche has told us that one of the
surest supports of the ship channel would
be a fringe of industries on either side from
Houston to the bay.
If there is not at least one great main
line with which shorter roads from the
channel may connect we shall look in vain
for years to come tor that industrial develop-
ment which the shores of the channel so
persistently Invite.
Therefore the Harrisburg road is not only
essential to the welfare of the. city and
county now but it is the first great step in
making the shores ot the channel available
lor great industries that no matter upon
what part of the channel banks tjhey may be
located will be linked with the industrial
progress and prosperity of the city itself.
It is about time that those who serve
ns In public station as well as those who
year by year bear the tax burdens which the
structure of our civilization requires should
look a little beyond immediate requirements.
If we take no thought of the future and if
we make no plans or provision for the fu-
ture it will mean little for posterity. We
have absolutely by common consent agreed
that the harbor and channel comprise the
basis of the great development to which we
aspire. That being true nothing must be
omitted on the part ot the people and those
who serve the people to bring the harbor
and channel to the highest position of use-
fulness and profit at the earliest moment
possible.
The Harrisburg road is the first step that
ought not to b delayed and that step once
taken Oa&Lt to be followed by an extension
that wiii quickly develop every sector and
unit of the channel road system that must
Iv the initial step in the unfolding of our
preat channel industrial interests.
THE CHANGE OF FBONT. . '
It is not important that some of the re-
publican newspapers and poflticians and
some democrats too are stressing the nresi-
dent's so-called change of front on the ques-
tion of stronger national defenses.
The republicans of course commend the
policy as a rule but their partisanship can
not be concealed and they seek to extract
ssome satisfaction out of the circumstance
that the president was formerly opposed to
larger defensive equipment
But suppose that be true and It is In
What respect does the circumstance help the
republicans?
From all the reliable testimony available
the republicans are far more responsible for
oi;r lack of defensive strength than the dem
ocraU are. Between Cleveland's retirement
on March 4. 187 and Wilson's inauguration
on March 4 1913 sixteen years elapsed and
tn.all that time the army and navy as well
as coast defenses end other elements of mili-
tary power were In control of the repub-
licans. Even if public sentiment had been ag-
gressively in favor of stronger armaments
surely Mr. Wilson could not In less than
.three years repair the neglect of sixteen
years of republican indifference
f So altogether The Post sees no occasion
tor republican pots to be calling democratic
kettles black.
It ia ertalnly to Mr. Wilton's credit that
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when menacing conditions became apparent.
he gave sober thought to the situation and
came out promptly and masterfully for the
now policy which new world-conditions con
vinced htm wis Ids per five and ho did so
rather upon the lofty ground ot Americanism
than upon the nor narrow' and sordid
ground of party expediency. . 1
Granting that opposition in his own party
would ha.ve made Bwcees doubtful or im-
possible and that hs was compelled to wel-
come republican assistance or fail we must
still credil him with patriotic intent for he
was prompt to sacrifice a party advantage
to what he conceived to be the national wet-
fan. Changing front in the face of plain duty
or high necessity is not to be criticised. The
republican party has itself changed front
many times as has the democratic party.
And we may expect to see such things hap
pen many times in the future. But the ordi
nary change of front by party leaders or
parties is not infrequently brought about by
mere political expediency because politicians
are keen to sense the popular side and they
want to maintain popular confidence. That
is natural enough.
But Mr. Wilson's course in the matter of
defense was not pitched upon considerations
of popular sentiment. It was established
upon a profound conviction of urgent neces
sity. And the president's tour Is not to
appeal to jingo enthusiasm but to tell the
people the reason of the faith that is in
him. so that their timorous representatives
in Washington all eagerly seeking a renewal
of their favor and confidence this year may
be convinced that at this time and on this
Issue the best statesmanship is not only the
highest patriotism but the best politics as
well.
It is needless to speak at length upon the
tone and exalted spirit of the president's ad-
dresses. His characteristic felicity as well
as facility of expression and his convincing
locic are quite as easily grasped as his
i haste eloquence. No president since Lin-
coln has equaled him In this respect and It Is
a tribute to the people of the country that so
quiet and serious a man has been the re-
cipient of so cordial and generous a welcome
as they have given him
He has won the battle that busy marplots
have conspired to defeat by .appealing for
reinforcement in the way of a militant na-
tional conscience aroused and determined.
There will be some little haggling In
Washington but the president's change of
front has appealed to the country and there
v.ill be other changes of front in Washing-
ton before long.
ON A CASH BASIS.
An Austin dispatch makes the announce-
ment that the State treasury' went on a
cash basis on the last day of January for
the first time since last October and that al!
general warrants special warrants and pen-
sion warrants are being paid upon presenta-
tion. This is a very gratifying announcement
not only t the holders of these warrants
but to the citiienry as a whole as Texans
are prood of their State and they don't like
to see it forced to "stand off" its bills as
so many States of the Union have to do.
They are aware of the State's taxable re
sources and in order that Its institutions
might We properly supported they have not
very generally protested the increased tax
rate upon which present collections are
based but have come and are coming for-
ward manfully and with promptitude to meet
their tax obligations being enabled' to do so
by general improvement In the prosperity
conditions of the State as compared with
the previous year. Let us hope that further
collections will be maintained on a scale tbjpt
will keep the treasury on a cash basis
throughout the fiscal year.
COTTON AND MUNITIONS.
Representative Heflin of Alabama is au-
thor of a bill pending in the lower house or
congress requiring the gathering and pub-
lication of statistics of cotton used for war
purposes.
He is supposed to have himself gathered
valuable information on the subject that will
stand the test of rigid analysis. He ap-
pared before the house census committee
Monday to urge favorable action on his
bill.
He told the committee that n.Ono.OOO bales
of cotton have been consumed In making
Sun powder during the last year 2000.000
bales In Europe and lono000 bales in the
United States.
Those figures represent a large increase
in the consumption of cotton for war pur-
poses and for defensive preparedness over
previous years. If the South could have got-
ten its cotton through to Austria and Ger-
many the increased consumption for war
purposes would have been much greater and
the price of the staple would have been cor-
respondingly higher.
The present democratic administration at
Washington is using its best effbrts to main-
tain the rights of neutral nations In the
trade of the world. If these rights as they
exist d the equities of International law are
once battered down It will be difficult to re-
establish them. Therefore the necessity for
rreparedness as now being so eloquently
and patriotically urged by President Wilson.
Representative Brltton of Illinois has
intro-
duced a resolution in the house authorizing the
president to negotate with the Carranza govern-
ment for the purchase of Lower California. Why
not trade Carrajiza that American white elephant
possession for which we paid $30000000 in cold
cash ihe Philippine Islands for Lower Cali-
forna? We imagine he is about as capable of
ruling the Philippines successfully as he is of
permanently establishing orderly government in
the Mexican rrpublc.
The Waco newspapers are having a time try-
ing to satisfy each .is to whom the others are
supporting in the Texas senatorial race.
This from the Bryan Eagle is worthy of past-
ing around the publicity circle; "The Umer who
ParagrQpkGrisms
Br Gtoftsa. If. Baiuy.
. It is said that Secretary McAdoo will ate tmly
in Dallas and Fort Worth wbiW in Texas. He
selected these tw towns to visit mat because they
were moat attractive but he probably wanted the
world to understand he had will power enough
to resist the temptation to note to Houston
We suppose sneer packing is Chicago's principal
industry but if burglary last next what is
We ask those congressmen who do not believe
in defense to consider this: "If we "prepare"
and events happen to prove they are -right ia their
position we will be out only a little money; if we
dont prepare and events should prove they are
wrong we shall be in a hell of a fix. .
The latest German "offensive" lacks as much
of being agreeable as any which has precided h.
Dr. Dyer of Eva'nsviHe InL states that he
found fifty school children of that city whose
underwear had been sewed on them for the win
ter. That reminds us of old times ia North Caro
Una when the boys had their' winter trousers
lined and wore no underwear at all.
Arkansaw is getting just about as much water
as its most enthusiastic water advocates could
want.
There are 100000 votes in the five leading
counties of Texas and they can roll up a demo-
csatic majority of 80000 at the drop of the hat
or the batting of an eye lash. And next Novem
bcr we propose to drop the hat and bat the
lash.
"I made a man of him" testified Mrs. Mohr
charged with the murder of her husband. Not a
cry live one. however.
1 ne inquisitive subscriber ot. Wharton wants
10 know if we believe Mr. Bryan will really be
come a member of Ford s peace propaganda. A
member of it.' If Henry doesn't get cold feet
on financing it Bryan will grow to it.
It is said the kaiser intends to make Prince
Eitel Frederick king of Serbia. What grudge
has the kaiser against his son?
We thin it is all right for a woman to smash
the street lounger who stares at her provided
of course that she is modestly dressed. Almost
any of us fail to make our eyes behave if her
clothes compel attention.
Jerome says it is easy to get into debt. For
some people it is but about 300 panhandlers a
year try to get into ours and fail.
A New Jersey suff is moving to Kansas to es
tablish a legal residence so she can get the ballot.
Now there is a suggestion. Why not make Kan-
sas the great suff commonwealth and give the
other States some peace?
1 ne longer tne war continues tne more cer-
lam are the entente allies that Germany does
ict regard war as a pink tea or a dansant.
blind representative from Minnesota has a
;aj;e especially as&igned to guide him about the
capitol. Some of those who are not so blind in
a visual sense might do well to be guided by
pages.
We enjoy reading Mr. Hearst's advice to the
goernment. and we also enjoy witnessing how
well the country thrives by not accepting it.
As a rule the man who knows nothing at all
about good music is so anx-ious to give himself
away that he hikes to Ihe vaudeville or eat shop
and wildly applauds every ragtime number.
The carrying power of th president's voice is
fine. Today for instance he will speak in To
peka and yet Washington will hear distinctly.
And again the appointment of Mr. Brandeis
to the supreme bench' may also serve as the
president's notice to congress that this is not
going to be a good session for pork.
Estimating the country exemptions that do not
have to be certificated Harris county has in round
numbers 25.000 qualified voters and is ready for
a fish fight or a frolic.
ine trinity river is tailing. It seems to us
Dallas has been sleeping on her opportunity. The
rivers and habors committee ought to have been
brought down to see the water.
There are congressmen in Washington who are
frobably amazed at the whiskers that are adorn-
ing the presidential speeches. They had better
be amazed.
Of course it is a small thing to complain Si
but it does seem to us as if "bandit" is too
euphonious and respectable a term to apply to a
low-browed murderous thief.
John D. Rockefeller says there is something
about Billy Sunday lie likes. There is also some
thing about John D. Rockefeller that Billy Sun
day likes and it's his money.
POINTED PABAOBAPHS.
lazy nira distribute a lot of worthless ad-
vice. Motto of the confidence man: "Watch and
prey. "
Many a man who seeks fame finds nothing but
infamy.
Too many men pray for things tbey are too
lazy to work tor.
A slip of the'tongue is often more serious than
a slip of the foot.
Any man whose wi
name is to be pitied.
power is all in his wife's
Home is a bower of bins to some men only.
wnen it s tne leit nower.
But an heiress never has cause to doubt her
husband's love for her money.
Most people would rather listen to undeserved
praise than to merited criticism.
No Claud a man isn't necessarily a simpleton
merely because he lives the simple life.
Our idea of a mean man is one who waits un-
til Saturday night to have his hair amputated.
Fortune knocks once at every man s door but
misfortune usually crawls in at the open window.
The difference between stealing and embezzling
depends altogether on the size of the pile that the
thief gets away with.
frobably there is nothing so meaningless as
the kiss one woman bestows upon another un-
less ft is the large expansive smile of a W.l
clerk. '
had on display at the fair in Bryan last week
a tine lot ot sraonea' sausage sold it au at
cents a pound and the people begged for more.
He says he could easily have told a thousand
pounds at that 'price and yet there are lots of
people who do not believe the farmers can make
a dollar except by raising cotton."
Has His Hands mil.
. ' (From Ikt'Pitttburi Dispatch.)
The president ia said to be planning an ex-
planation of one of his much-auoted toeeches. hut
won't be have enough to do without trying to
elucidate the old rn&
The Struggle for Riches
Jon A SiXicxta is Lasus's. -
The hunger for richaea ia .these days ef lux-
urious living is lamentable. It is found among
all ranks 'of life. " . ' ; - -
It is the struggle of the poor who have noth-
ing of the thrifty who have something and ef
the wealthy who have muck.
In this fierce contest for filthy lucre honesty
in business it sacrificed the hoaor of tnea forgot
ten and the virtue ot women. made a commodity.
It is no longer auftcieat to be comfortable ia
life to have an abundance of necessities 4or the
table a good horns and the joys of -the simple
life. It is the age of luxury and gayety of din-
ing wining and dancing.
No one has enough. Every one wants more'.
Comforts of life are ia the discard. We must all
eat drink and be merry but we forget that to-
morrow we die.
There is a pathos in the struggle of the un
fortunate to put bread upon his table shoes upon
his children's feet and provide an education for
his boys and girls and a good home for his
family.
It is still more pathetic to find one who has
accumulated riches thinking of nothing except a
greater accumulation of wealth and length of days
to walk the primrose path of dalliance.
Such at these plead with the doctor to prolong
their feverish life while they flit from health
resort to health retort to find the fabled spring
of perennial youth the while retaining ther grasp
on accumulated treasures.
The world despises the miser and it despises
still more the utterly selfish rich who turn away
from the suffering and poverty that have always
existeo and must always exist as long as the
world lasts.
But it is a mistake to believe that the people
cf this great country are divided into only two
classes the suffering poor and the insufferable
rich.
In this land of golden opportunity the toiler
who it satisfied with the conditions of smple
living and who it not twept off his feet by the
eager pursuit of a luxurious life can look forwrd
hopefully to the day when he shall have achieved
a competence have educated his children and
provded satisfactorily for his declining wears. It
is for him to win or lose. 1
In this Republc so highly favored of God the
miserly rich and the struggling poor are excep-
tions not the rule. On every side great institu-
tions of learning hospitals for the care of the
sick establishments for scientific develonment.
foundations for promoting the public welfare and
libraries for free instruction are provided wth a
nand so generous that we are the envy of the
Old World.
This is the substantial and recognized fact. Il
should make the nation grateful and appreciative
not only of the bounty of Providence but also of
the ntelligence the high-mindedness and noble
purposes that animate the American people and
that make wretched poverty and still more
wretched miserliness the exception and not the
rule.
COMMENTING ON CULBERSON.
With Culberson and Colquitt 'splitting the anti
vole and Campbell and Brooks splitting the pro
vote where will Henry and Riddle come in?-
Waxahachie Light.
Senator Culberson's entry into the senatorial
rjee is liable to cause a shaking up among the
other candidates and cause some new alignments.
Some of them had not figured on the senior sen-
ator standing for re-election. .If exia Amm.
With the announcement that Charles A. Cul
berson is in the field for re-election to the
United States senate the hopes of a number of
aspiring Texans have- dropped as rapidly as the
mercury in the tube when a buzzard suddenly
comes up out ot the northwest. Prortmsville Her
aid.
The democrats of Texas will want to know
ow all candidates for the United States senate
stand on the woman suffrage and nationwide pro
hibition question. This includes Senator Culbcr-
3pn. notwithstanding his past good record. Legis
laton of most nterest to the people is that which
is to come not that which is oast. Yoakum
Herald.
Senator C. A. Culberson has announced the
fact that he will be in the race to succeed him
self for the United States senate which will
doubtless rearrange the senatorial program among
tne candidates. 1 ne man mat defeats Lharley
Culberson will be the senator. It makes no differ
ence whether he takes the stump or not or even
comes to Texas during the campaign. Palo Pinto
United States Senator Culberson announced his
determination to stand for re-election. The sen-
ator's health precluded-the announcement at an
earlier date lexas is thus promised an inter
esting campaign. Witm Brooks Culberson Col
quitt Campbell. Davis Henry Riddle and oth-
ers in the race the woods will be scientifically
shelled until primary day. Its a shell game
anyway. Delta Courier.
Senator Culberson has thrown his hat into the
ring again and is asking the people of Texas to
rci-eiect nim to the United States senate. Cut
herson is a smart man and has represented Texas
with considerable ability yet the state of his
health makes ut doubtful as to the wisdom of the
voters of Texas again selecting him to represent
them. It seems to the Reporter that a more
vigorous man is needed. Abilene Reporter.
Several senatorial booms have been punctured
by the announcement of Senator Charles A. Cul-
lierson that he will be a candidate to succeed
himself for the United States senate. Senator
Culberson has been in very poor health for th:
last tew years and it has been a matter of con
siderable speculation as to whether he would
offer for the position again. This has finally been
settled. by the senator announcing to the people
of Teas that he was still in the ring. It is not
thought anyone will have the termcrity to oppose
senator luioerson. ihsiih rorum.
At last Senator Charles A. Culberson has an
nounced himself a candiJatc for re-election to
the senate for the term beginning March 4 1917.
On account of the condition of his health which
for a long time has been far from good there
nas Deen some ooud: whether Mr. Culberson
would become a candidate for another term. His
announcement means we are inclined to think.
that former Senator J. W. Bailey will not be a
candidate tni summer hut will hold bit ambition
in leash for the space of two more years. There
is now a full assortment of candidates for the
coming race. The man who' likes a good lively
campaign ought to begin smiling on both sides
of hit countenance. Dallas Times Herald.
Added zest it given thr race for the d rmnrrntir
nomination for United Slates senator by the an-
nouncement that the present incumbent Charles
A. .Culberson will seek re-election. Srnainr r.il-
berson gave out a statement to the voters of the
State to the effect that he would be unable to
campaign the State and would therefore be com-
pelled to leave his campaign largely to his friends.
Both Oscar B. Colquitt and Judge Riddle of Dal-
las have already announced that they will stay
in. the race notwithstanding the Culberson an-
nouncement. This meant that Texas will wit-
nctin of the hottest senatorial campaigns that
the State hat seen in many yeart-a fight too
which wilt not be along the lines of the prohibi-
tion issue. Friends of former Senator Bailey
who had intended to make the race thit year'
il Is said now tay that he will wait untl 1918'
when he will run against Morri. :i.tt..j
Greenville Herald.
s
. Not Popular In Texas.
(From the Hamilton Herald.)
The men who vote for 'free wml.Vm ki..
and protected manufactured goodt may be able to
pat muster in the Eastern Stales but a demo-
crat who does that can hardly .sustain himself
before .the average Texas m'rfimr Th.
crats.oMhis State are for fair treatment of all
industries wnoout any discrimination.
Shepparct-Hobson Plan
' '- By W B. Paw.
'Government by Federal judiciary is. the aim
and the end ef the Shtppard-Hobaoa amendment
to the Federal restitutio. Government by Fed-
eral judiciary is what they want is what they are
striving for. ' '- - j -
. Stats government ia any and aU forms especial-
ly the State judiciary b just what the Sheppard
Hohsoa amendment seeks to read to cripple to
destroy. ;
The authors the abettors the ' promoters of
the Skeppard-Hobsoa amendnjeat have discov-
ered that they can not rely oa a State judiciary
elected by the ' people to execute in its fullest
measure and intent their unholy program of over
riding the rights of the people and the rights of
the States. Administration of the law be it pro-
hibition or what not by the Stat courts can not
be trusted. The schemers and plotters against
popular government against individual liberty
against the principle of self- government must
get the State courts out of the way and to do
this they beam dieting at the bottom.
The Skeppard-Hobson amendment assails the
fundamental part of the old fabric and oeekt to
rip the Bill of Rights into slithers In order that
they may Insutrurate their revolutionary plan of
government by Federal Judiciary.
To demairion with State government. Stat
legislatioo. State rights State courts is the
motto their ambition their hone their all-and-aJl
The enforcement of the code of lawt which
Senator Sheppard and hit eo-workers in- the plot
propose to 'enact is too slow and uncertain too
lax .and indulgent through the machinery of the
State eoarts. Their whole aim it to substitute
the Federal courts for the State eirtt and Fed
end marshals for sheriffs and soon for the others.
The Sheppard amendment it a revival a re
c iridescence of Federalism a return to the Ham
ilton .theory of a strong consolidated centralized
form of government. 'Senator Sheppard and those
in the plot with him are not satisfied to see cn
croachmrnt on the rights of the States on the
liberty of the citizen which we have witness
for half a century'; they are not content to see
power gradually slipping away from the States
and usurped by the Federal government by judi
cial construction and otherwise.
Instead of opposing all attempts to take from
the States and the people rights guaranteed them
by the constitution we witness the amazing spec
tacle of a represents! ive of the people of a man
who claims to be a democrat of a man who in
hit official capacity elaims to. represent a demo-
cratic constituency who as a democrat ought to
stand for and by the good old democratic gospel
of the rights of the States and of the peopl
such a man we have presenting the shocking
paradox the historic antithesis of advocating the
very doctrine the identical dogma politically
which the party he claims to represent and the
section he claims to hail from have always com
hatted as the very essence of Federalism and the
idea! form of government which Alexander Ham
ilton taughf.
Perish the idea that Texas should have a repre
sentative in congress who favors enlarging the
powers of the Federal government and limitin
ine powers of tne Slates.
Scarcely a day passes that the country does not
witness some fresh inroad by the Federal govern
ment on the rights of the States. Today it is an
invasion of the State sovereignty along quarantine
lines tomorrow the Federal government assumes
to dictate to the medical profession how they
shall prescribe for their patients; and the next
day it is an usurpation of sdme other right and
so on to the end of the humiliating chapter.
Time was when the people took pride in State
sovereignty and their State government and re
joiced to know that State government came first
and the Federal government was a secondary af
fair. Time was when the man who claimed to bt
a democrat had his measure taken and his stand
ing tested by his squaring with the doctrine of
Slate rights. Time was when the man who pro
posed to 'amend the Federal constitution and to
surrender a part of the bill of rights to amend
the Federal constitution and to abandon soide of
the rights of the States and the liberties of the
people to amend the Federal constitution that we
may have Federal courts to supplant State courts
time was we repeat it. when a man claiming to
be a democrat and hailing from the South and
advocating all these incongruities would have
been drummed out of the party as false to It.
How can any voter proud of the history of his
party loyal to its principles of government and
its glorious traditions vote for any candidate for
tne State senate or house or for either house in
congress who would vote for the Sheppard amend
mtnt to the Federal constitution which means as
oiten stated government by Federal judiciary
Space forbids any lengthy historical review
But we can not refrain from calling attention to
the - long long cry from John Jay as chief jus
ticc of the supreme court to Judge Burns as Fed-
eral district judge at Corpus Christi. - The period
that intervenes bristles and throbs with the tumult
of conflicting dogmas.
The Republic had just been organized and ihe
people were intensely jealous of their rights and
prone to resent any infringement of same. Real-
izing that the people would not stand for any
act that trenched on the rights of the States or
f the people Jay resigned and accepted the pi
tion of governor of New York. His reason for
so doing was that he believed the people would
not support him in enforcing the decision of
his court. The young Republic was rent with
party strife Federalism is expounded by Adams
aud Hamilton on one side and democracy by Jcf-
lerson on the other.
The Federalists did not believe that the peo
pic were capable of self-government and favored
just such a strong consolidated governrnent as
the people want who are favoring the Sheppard
Hobson amendment to the Federal constitution
Old John Adams was president and liked the job
so well that he would not spit out the taste. A
candidate for re-election he was defeated hy
Jefferson. His defeat caused him to tay that if
he had his life to live over that he would spend
il as a cobbler. Jn his political' exile on his New
England farm he enjoyed tome compensation for
his defeat in the reflection that his great friend
and political ally John Marshall was chief jus
tice and that henceforth the constitution would
be expounded from the Federalists' standpoint
that 11 in favor of a strong; centralized govern
ment jast such at the Sheppard-Hobson amend
ment aims to make.
There was no love spilled in the personal rein
tiont of Marshall and Jefferson. Marshall could
not tolerate Jefferson or Jefferson's theory of
government or Jefferson's administration. Some
living then affect to believe that MarshaH's antip-
athy for Jefferson was of such a degree as to c
reflected in the acquittal of Aaron Burr on
charge of treason. However ghat may have been?
Marina 11 was a federalist alter the straighten
sect. He was of thote in the Virginia convention
whs favored the adoption of the Federal constitu-
tion Without a pledge to incorporate the Bill of
Right! and favored a strona consolid
tralized fbrm of government such as those favor
who are supporting the Sheppard-Hobson amend
ment .
Marshall had no faith in the capacity of man to
govern himself just at thote have no faith in
sucn telt-govemment . who favor the Sheppard-
liooion imcnumeni . v
Marthtll was chief justice for thirtv-four voir.
and during his incumbency fifty-one cases in-
volving the constrnction of the constitution were
passed oh by the tupreme court. In all but one
of these 'Marshal's' views In favor of a liberal
and broad interpretation of the constitution in
favor of Federal government . were supreme and
conclusive. The democratic'party was in despair
over John Marshall's exposition of the powers of
the Federal aovemment SS StSDreme to and nun.
ruling soy construction In favor of the Statei.
Tampering With Trifles
Br Jew Mosrmia tawis. .
: USELESS .BUT INTERCSTING.
I love the gentle agents who sell various kinds ;
of books; they slide iat my rosewood den and
fix tne with their looks; and I rise with s gen-
tie sanilc a gestle smile snd sweet and warmly
shake their proffered hand and wave them to at test
and say "I'm glad to taeet you. sir snd took ; -yo
ia the eye ; bat I am very sad to say P do
not care to buy." But they waive that remark
aside my voice is so refined snd ray smile is .
to big and wide and I'm so fat and kind. They
know as they cling to my band and fix me with
their books that they have only got to try to
sell m loads of hooks. And so the while thr J.
day declines sod shadows grow more long thej
tit there in my rosewood den and ting their siren
song.' The set of books they have to sell is
cheap beyond compare and if they passed me
up with them I'd shriek and tear their hair: be-
cause I am a public man my virtues widely
known and their whole firm it anxiout that I
make thote books my .own. And so they tpresd .
their soothing salve and shoot me full of dope- i
and still I smile my frentle smile and fill their JT
hearts with hope. And I look at five feet of
backs with letters done in gold and cling to ene
end of the string the while I'm glibly told that
those books are oh. very rare will ne'er be sold
again : that the originals were lost in burned and
wrecked Louvain. And then they pull an order
blank and sty "Sign here this way" and still
1 smile my gentle smile and tell them "Not today."
CHEER UP.
Cheer up ye who have been to blue
Regain your sunny smile;
For Bryan we would My to you
Will be here quite a while.
He says his game is politics
As it has been of yore
And here he is and here he stick's
For twenty years or more.
If you thought he was apt to quit
And close his open face
Leave a hole in the air and sit .
All silent in his place
Let this news dribbling in your ears
And keep your joy alive
He says he's good for twenty years
Or maybe twenty-five!
For twenty years beat on the drums
And spread the news around
Till "silence like a poultice comes
To heal the blows of sound"
Our William Jennings Bryan will
Pour words Into your ear
The air with argument will fill.
And stir the atmosphere.
He will tell you it makes him chafe
To hear men cheer and whoop
Preparedness. We would be as safe
At pullets in a coop
If we had neither ships nor guns-
Invading foes to stop-
As safe as nice fat gentle ones
Cooped in a butcher shop.
Preparedness brings on war; the wall
Brought Galveston the storm !
We don't need lightning rods at all
And sea walls are bad form.
Let ua but spend our dough to hear
Him talk of unarmed peace
He says' that 'twill be twenty year
Ere such buncomb shall cease !
ANOTHER ONE.
One of the late laconics read
"Rody's hair
Ain't there."
WHO SAYS THIS IS NOT WISE?
I have almost always noticed
W'hen an auto and a car
Seek to pass each other in the space
The car is there's a jar;
And the auto is turned turtle
And wrecked like the one-horse shay;
So I have resolved to always
Give the car the right of way.
PURCHASED SMILES.
Every winter paragraphers make rifVnnra tn
the coal man's smile. Yet it's our notion th a
coal man who smiles is a rare flower. Jack War-
uicr in I oleio blade.
Those references are probably made bv oara-
graphert who pay their coal bills.
OR DON'T YOUf
An exchsnge hopes that W. T. Brvan m re
tne grip. He's had it about twenty years. Dix
Merrxtt in Nashville Tennesstan.
Don't you mean the "pip"?
JOHN'S WAY.
The efforts of the Detroit turner tn tr.. u
Henry Ford and his recent enterprise with the
utmost seriousness are somewhat rtivrtin. k...
..v.ittp UH
we shall never be entirely satisfied until Mr
John N. Willys gathers Mme. Schwimmer .t If'
ne rest about him and goes over to get the boys
ut of the trenches on or hefnr r.rn..rA u-
Day and we see what our nenial frirnH f k-
Toledo Blade says about it. Ohio State lournal.
John wont need to watch out for nfrienn
for he'll go Overland Hey 1 Who you chtmkin'?
IF THEY HAVE CREDIT.
Starfish can grow new arms lnhf .1
and lizards new tails. OA10 State Journal.
And humans new bills.
THE JINGO SENATOR.
IMMike to clean up Mexico
And put Carranza on the shelf;
But I have no desire to go
And do the dirty work myself.
Kee Maxwell in Peoria Journal.
THE JINGO EDITOR.
I'd like to clean up Mexico
And execute the Villa clan.
Rut I have not the time to go ;
I am a very busy man. '
WHO KNOWS.
And now a correspondent want. in . i.
Texas gives a Judd 'Mortimer Lewis Day will
it be ' anything like a Willys-Knight ?" Not know-
ing Mr. Willys we are" in doubt.
THE REASON.
No Leap Year Girl has vet rrnnn..i ( t
Mcrritt of (he Nashville Tennessean nH n; ; '
an expert cook rbo ; but he hasn't got an auto
not even a flivver.NEVER TOUCHED US.
The norther came down
Like the wolf in the nioht
But he met the south wind
And the world is all right.
HE DID NOT.
And "one young lady entrusted ib 1.
which would undoubtedly have won first prize
to a man to deliver to us last Friday'. And he
reported that he did deliver it and that he at the
same time gave us a cigar. The lady regrett that
we did not get the laconic and we regret that
we did not get the cigar.
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Democratic! leaders agreed that he was playing
havoc with the nghtt of the Ws. But M?!
hall and hit court ran against a snag jn the
person and administration o? Old Hickory lack..
son who a president defied the tupreme court'
and ret used to enforce th
mandamusing the sovereign. State of Georsia. '
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