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The age-herald., 1901-03-31
PRESIDENTIAL
 POSSIBILITIES
Root, Roosevelt and 0deI| as Candidates for RepubIi-
 can Nomination

Washington, March 30.-Is Elihu Root a candidate for the next Republican nom- ination for the Presidency? Will Presi- dent Mckinley throw his influence on the side of his present Secretary of War as his successor when the time comes?
 Republican politicians lingering here af- ter the adjournment of Congress, with the object of doing, or endeavoring to do, business of one kind or another with the executive departments, are freely asking these questions. Possibly there is noth- ing in them; in other words, that they are part of the game the shrewd politi- cal bone-hunters are playing, In order to attain the ends they have in view.
 In the carrying out of the policy of the administration in the Philippines, the pat ronage is enormous, and 1t is patent to every one that Secretary Root is, next to the President himself, the most potent factor in it's distribution. In the Porto Rican, Cuban and Philippine affairs, Root is the one man on whom the President leans. The other members of the cabinet are of little or no account. If Mckinley had for his Secretary of State a man like Blaine, the situation would be, of course widely different. The President enter tains a sincere friendship for his nominal premier but he Is too good a politician himself not to see that MT. Hay Is woful- ly lacking In the positive qualities essen- tial to broad and successful administra- tion. Admirably fitted in many ways to represent the country in diplomatic ca- pacity, he Is out of his element as the chief of the foreign department of a gov ernment of nearly eighty millions of peo- pie, with international complications far greater in their ultimate solution than are those in which either Great Britain France, Germany or even Russia is inter- ested. Events have made the United States world power. and, as a world power, it must deal with the world. Sec retary John Hay has conclusively shown that he Is not the man to meet this new situation in American history, and 1t is not surprising that MT. Root is named to fill a cabinet vacancy the creation of which, on one ground or another, cannot be long postponed.
 If MT. Root shall become the successor of MT. Hay in the state department, as every one in Washington seems to be- lieve, he will be the most conspicuous Republican In the country for the time being. It will be a tremendous stride In the direction of the nomination in 1904, but can 1t win the prize? MT. Root may become strong nationally, but what of his own State? It is almost an axiom of Presidential politics that no candidate can succeed who is not strongly backed
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at home. That Is the weakness of the Secretary of War, and it is hardly pos sible that he can succeed in overcoming it. The State machinery of his party is antagonistic to him and Is almost certain to remain so. That was made apparent in the case of the appointment of Colonel Sanger to be Assistant Secretary of War. Root won, but his victory has left behind it wounds that will not heal soon-fres that can be famed into consuming flames when the time comes.
 Vice President Roosevelt. buried away in the Senate, has a strength in his own State greater than MT. Root can succeed in acquiring no matter how brilliant may be his service in the executive branch of the government. Whether that strength has the strenuous qualities which will carry him through three years and half of waiting is another question The shrewdest political opinion here is against that supposition, but 1t Is not in fallible. In the military soft hat of The odore Roosevelt the Presidential bee keeps up an active humming, and the greatest of modern Nimrods is not easily turned from the trail either in the hunt ing field or in a political convention.
 Behind Root and Roosevelt, and tower ing above them in the New York field of Presidential politics, rtses the present Governor of the Empire State. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr Root may have the national administration, but Odell Is the man who Is certain to have his own State in the nominating convention, and in battles of that kind 1t is the State that counts. Fed eral dictaton Is a potent war cry, and the candidates against whom an attack is made with that as the slogan, have, as a rule gone down in defeat in every politi- cal contest which has been fought dur ing a century and more. Again, as po- litical manager, Odell is infinitely the su- perior of either Root or Roosevelt The former is really too intellectual and too reserved to practice those arts of con ciliation which attract and hold fast the great bosses and smaller leaders of political machine. As to Roosevelt. he is too eccentric. As a political force he was dead when the Spanish war came along. Inc dramatic and picturesque part he played in that conflict made him Gov ernor and Vice-President Fortune. rare ly bestows favors of that kind more than once. w. T, MANNING,
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The Canal BIunder Confessed.
From a Washington Dispatch to the New
 Xarlr Com ercial Aduertiser

From a washington Dispatch to the New
 York Commercial Advertiser.
 Senator Stewart of Nevada is outspok- en in his criticism of the action of the Senate
 'I regard the amendment of the Hay Pauncefote treaty by the United States Senate as the worst political blunder of the times" he says. "In my opinion that treaty was the greatest diplomatic achievement by this country during the present generation. With or without the Clayton-Bulwer convention it was just such a treaty as the United States ought to have been anxious to make, got only with England but with all civilized na- tions. The consent of the whole world that tho United States might build the canal, to be used by the commercial world on the payment of such tolls or charges as would pay interest on the in vestment. coupled with the pledge of all commercial nations to maintain the neu- trality of the canal. both in peace and war would have been the best and only available guarantee for the uninterrupted use of the same by the United States in common with all other nations.
 "The fortifcation of the canal by the United States would have involved enor nous expense and invited the hostility of the world. It would be the central point of any war in which the United States might be engaged, and. therefore, utterly useless at the very time when its use would be most important and desirable. The blunder In amending the treaty has involved the Senate as well as the admin istration in diplomatic controversy with Great Britain. which has postponed the commencement of the canal for two years, and may result in the indefinite delay of the most important project that has been contemplated by our govern ment since it's foundation
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the England of today had she been a republic when the American colonies, in tury, declared their independence of the most incompetent of monarchies. The stupid perversity of George III cost Eng land the loss of the most extensive ter ritory of which any nation in all history has been deprived. The revolutionary fathers did not desire total separation from England. They were eager to make every reasonable concession in the inter- est of union, but all their overtures were spurned, and at last came the terrific indictment of the foolish monarch in the declaration of independence and the end of British rule in the colonies, now de- veloped into the foremost of all the na- tions of the earth.
 This is no republic" King Edward is frank. He declares, in as many words. that a republic England shall not be. Perhaps he can succeed in pursuading the English people to allow him and his de- cendants through all time to address them as so many chattels-'my people,s my army" ''my navy" It may, how ever, be well for the king to remember that the unmaking of the monarchies was one of the most benehcent works of monar EA SBOI CMHFW CMFw .CM the eighteenth century, and that several contracts in the same line will be com- pleted by the people long before the new century comes to an end.
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in prestige and in sales Happily the adulteration of butter has stopped, and the rigid inspection of it insures it's qual- ity Slowly we are recovering lost ground and before long we will head the world with butter and cheese. So badly hit was American butter that Danish butter, which is about equal to our ordinary dai- ny product, is preferred in England, and fetches five cents pound more.
 Some people talk about our cattle in- dustry falling off in consequence of ranch ranges disappearing before the approach of farms. I will say in this connection that the experience Is to the contrary. Better, finer and more numerous cattle are produced by farms than by ranches. Our cattle trade Is in its infancy.
 With great people, having a record for ability and energy, with a land fa- vored by all climates, with a soil rich for agriculture and abounding with mineral wealth, with every section knit together, with transportation facilities, the United States is the nation with the greatest fu- ture.
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UR internal and foreign trade, nN as reported by the chiefs of bu- N " reaus, must be agreeable to our 0 pride as citizens of the great republic and gratifying to us as producers and traders. When we stop for mo- ment to compare the conditions prevailing a little more than one hundred years ago with those of today, we cannot resist some exclamation indicative of amaze ment, and if we are inclined to entertain speculative thoughts as to the future, to what end are we tending, if we continue to repeat the experience of the past cen tury? Prior to the revolution of '76 states men in the British Parliament foretold that the colonies fringing the Atlantic seaooast would some day rival England's commercial supremacy None dared be- lieve that the 5000, 600 of coonists, in less than a century of national life, would wrest the sceptre of commercial sover- eighty from the grasp of Great Britain. Such, however, is the case In the great race for commercial supremacy the United States in 1898, with exports of do- mestic produce and merchandise exceed ing $, 200, ,000, 900, for the first time in its
 
 dom scoring exports to the value of S, 100, ,000, 900.
 During the year 1900 the United States sent abroad exports to the value of $1, 456, ,000, 900, flooding the world with it's food and manufactured products. These figures are interesting outside of the com petition of nations. We hold the place of honor, the ranking place among produ- cers and traders, a fact pleasing in it. self, but more important and gratifying as 1t indicates the prosperity of the American people.
 When we pride ourselves upon our pros perity we must not look enviously upon the prosperity of other nations. We should remember that nations are in the great scale of commerce as individuals in a community. When we are sellers we want healthy customers. Our best cus- toner is England. Germany next. Eng land has become frightened. She realizes the significance of trading relations when the balance Is steadily, rapidly growing against her. Germany, too, scents dan ger, and endeavors by restrictive methods and unfair practices to diminish her debit balance. A problem confronts the United Kingdom. Germany France, Austria, Holland, Spain and Italy. England and Russia seek its solution in colonial de- velopment and privileges in commerce with colonies Russia alone is exempt. Her own enormous territory natural re- sources and wide diversity of climatic conditions allow her to confront and to solove the problem by internal develop ment.
 A rapid survey of. our export trade is interesting to the American farmer and manufacturer. In round figures agricul- tural products exported were valued at SS50, 1000, and mining and industrial products at $6OO.o00.0O0. Our greatest in crease has been made within the last ten years. During this period the most
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indifferent observer has been impressed with the great evidences of our develop ment, which challenge his attention wher- ment everywhere. It is by reason of this internal improvement in railroading, min ing, agriculture and manufactures our supremacy abroad has been achieved
 Take, for instance, the question of transportation. Next to Russia we stand foremost for internal waterways. Rus sia has 60,0O0 miles of internal navigation. Our system is rapidly developing, The importance of internal transportation is best illustrated by stating that before the Erie canal was built two horses could draw one ton two miles in one hour. Mud was the great impeachment. When the canal was built the same two horses could draw 150 tons four miles in one hour. Then the railroad came. Before Bessemer rails were made in this country a wooden car weighed sixteen tons and paying load twenty-five tons. thirty-ton engine could draw on q level thirty cars, pull an aggregate load of 1230 tons Rails cost $175 per ton. Today the steel car weighs no more than the wooden car, carries paying load of fifty tons, and the largest engines draw fifty cars. In one case the paying load was 750 tons; now it Is 2500. Rails today cost S26 per ton. The dimin- ished cost of placing on the seacoast the produce from farm and mine and factory is what has made the United States so formidable.
 England and Germany do not pay the working classes the wages we pay, and they cannot buy coal iron and ores, or produce agricultural commodities at our prices. We possess great advantages, and they are developed with energy and sa- gacity.
 Of all our agricultural products export ed from 1894 to 1898, measured in value, Great Britain got 55 per cent. Germany 13 per cent, France 66 per cent, Neither lands 4.3 per cent, Belgium 36 per cent. Japan and China are becoming great con sumers of cotton. In 1898 we exported to these countries 119,000, 900 pounds of cot ton, and 1120,00O barrels of flour.
 We exported in 1899 beef to the value of $24, ,000. .0G0 Most of our beef goes to Great Britain. Germany shallow pretexts excludes it. Our new methods of inspec- ton, rigidly enforced, have greatly bene- fited the cattle trade. In 1870 we exported corn to the value of sl, ,0O00 GOO; in 1899, SO,- 100000. Our efforts to introduce corn on the continent of Europe have proved sue cessful against governmental opposition. Of wheat flour we exported in 1870 to the value of $20, 900, 900; in 1899 $73, 900. The contrast between wheat and corn is in teresting.
 The American hog comes in for honors. In 1S99 we exported hams to the value of $21 ,00O, 000 bacon to the value of $42, 900 GOO and lard $42, ,000. .O00 So we can credit hogs with s105, 100000.
 During period of five years England took of beef 95 per cent, of Indian corn 43 per cent, of wheat flour 5S per cent, of lard 36 per cent, of bacon IT per cent, of ham 81 per cent
 Our butter and cheese exports are enor- nous, but in consequence of farmers not keepeing up tn standard of excellence our trade received heavy rebuff and we lost
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NNH cussing the other day the
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 El - perial functions, made the sneering remark, This is no republic" there flashed out the old autocratic spirit of the Third George, whose fortunate in- capacity for governing has, directly and indirectly, resulted in making more than half the nations of the world republican. If Edwards nephew. the very absurd Kaiser, had given expression to the sem timent no one would have been surprised, for on almost every occasion that he has spoken since his accession to the throne of the great German Empire, he has as- serted the divine right of making him self grotesquely ridiculous. Coming from the mature and fast aging imperial un- cle the idea jars. The world gave King Edward credit for the possession of very great tact, a certain saving common sense and it has had a kindly leaning to- wards him because it believed that not withstanding his environment, he was abreast of his generation Instead of that he seems to be a century behind it.
 
 not. Nine-tenths of the people of Eng land are sorrowfully aware of the fact. Therefore, it is they are ground down under the burden of the largest of na- tional debts and that the annual ex- penses of the monarchy are mounting into figures which excite grave alarm for the solvency of the nation. Were Eng land a republic it's people would not be forced to support an aristocratic State church in the doctrines and tenets of which the great majority of them do not believe. Were she republic it would be impossible for the few to revel in lux ury at the expense of the many; to main- tain in the twentieth century the absurd ity of an hereditary body of legislators whose single object Is to maintain their own order and block the governmental progress of millions and millions of the human race.
 This is not republic" No: but when England was a republic, under Oliver Cromwell she swayed the councils of all the cabinets of Europe. No king that ever sat on the English throne was more feared by the sovereigns of Europe than was the stern Puritan leader. Under his rule England first became supreme on the ocean, and the slightest aggression upon the rights of Englishmen in the remotest part of the earth was answered with fierce reprisal. Is England feared or respected as much in Europe today as she was then? What one of all the crowned Edwards and Richards and Hen rvs and Georges was his equal as sol- dier or as a statesman? Not one of them; no. not all of them combined.
 This is no republic" Well indeed for
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Dreams Realized.

From the Indianapolis Press.
 The two graybeards met again for the first time in years.
 Remember" said one ''your young ambition to live the life of a hermit?
 Well" said the other, '1 aiu ns from it. My wife is a member o . a dozen womans clubs.
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Cruel Girl.
the Philadelphia Press,

From the Philadelphia Press.
 "Ah. Mirabelle!' he sighed. May not hope that you will be mine forever and forever?"
 If you wish to hope that long, Mir Sophtie," she replied, T don't suppose I could stop you"
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Trying to Break Him of Smoking.

From the Ohio State Journal
 Gayboy-Whats wrong with this to- bacco7
 Slippers-To tell the truth, old man, its adulterated. I've discovered that my wife has been emptying the dustpan in my to- bacco jar for the past few mornings.
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Art Limitations.

From the Chicago Record.
 What kind of pictures would you hang in a dining room?"
 Well. I'd draw the line on paintings of beef on the hoof and still-life studies in canned truck"
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Having 0utgrown the two buildings which we now OCCu- py, we Will remove June I to fhiS hand some Seven-SfOry granite block, which will be devoted en- fireIy to our buSi- ness, If we did n0t treat all our contest ants fairly, do you think we would have achieved the great est success made by any firm or indi- ViduaI in the goth century?
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-04
BY
j. E. Gilbert, DID
Secretary OF American
Society OF Religion;
Education.

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the apostles gcnciaiiN, and on that account was
curious to know what would hc the late OF the
beloved John, whether the portion ot omc would
be more favorable than that OF the other,
whether in tact his own lot was to he pccnii"r.
1y fortunate.
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may have prompted the question il was alto.
gcihcr improper. revealed disposition too
common among men to NEEDLE with the Affairs
OF Others and neglect their own This habit
units ono for rcsoI,tc and NcndrcCtcd effort.
1t blinds to tho duty ot the hour. and weak.
ems the energy needed to achieve success.
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Lords service. lie must know that every man
has his peculiar outfit for certain station
which he must I'LL regardless Of all Others (Acts,