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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-26
President and The Judiciary
Endorsements Of Senators Not Is Be
Considered Final

Washington, December President
Roosevelt made known his purpose few
weeks ago regarding appointments in the
army, navy, and insular service. TO day be
expressed himself regarding judicial appoint
ments, and while he made no suggestion
that party considerations would be ignored
in these as in the three classes before
named, he did say tast he should insist on
ascertained fitness, and not regard the Sen.
atorial endorsement as tinality. Tue mat
ter came up over the Indiana appointment
yesterday, which is believed to be displeas
ing to Mr.. Fairbanks. When one of the
While House callers questioned him to-day
as to the selection OF Judge Baker, the
President replied that while be should slsays
invite and welcome the information and
advice Of Senators and Representatives as
to the qualifications of candidates in their
respective States for the Federal bench. he
should see to it personally that the appoint.
ments were good. He then gave something
OF his estimate of the importance Of aD
honorable and digniied judiciary.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-26

with the inttntioD, which is good. Nor do
We quarrel with the whole performance.
But Prot. Minsteberg begins with an
error that nobody hut psychologist could
make. A psychologist looks for the causes
of things in something universally true Of
the human brain and nerves, such as be can
investigate in his laboratory.
The professor posits a dislike existing
between Germans and Americans. This is
admitted to be true. 1t is, he says, 4" q hind
OF antpathy, half ethical, haIf-esthetic
aversion". He adds: sIt would be super
fetal and wrong to deny this feeling, and to
maintain that theis dislike means CONNER
cial rivalry; both are fairminded and broad
minded indeed, may say, too idealistic--
to dislike each other on account of wheat
and sugar and polkn The whole of history
proves that Prof. Munsterberg's contention
is false. But psychologists do not care for
history. Aska man in business or polit.
ician In 2ractica! life whatis the source of
the greatest hostility between individuals or
nations and they will tell you that it is be-
cause the practical interests Of the individ
uals or nations are antagonistic. The bread
and butter ques ions, the struggle for life, is
force far stronger than nervous, esthetic
Discrimination. Taste is a comparatively,
superficial matter. If America ever feels
that Germany stands in the way Of lis com.
mercial and material progress Americans
will hate Germans far more deeply than
they now do because of what they deem Il Q
chrome condition of taste in the Fatherland.
Nations, as Individuals, fight to the death to
defend what they deem their material in.
terests. Their esthetic repulsions they take
more lightly.
Aside from "a tendency in our German
professor to rely rather on psychology than On
instructive fact in sizing up situation, the
book is certainly fair-minded, inteligen.
and even readable; though little of it is
noyel-we have had SO many impressions
scritten aboutus by foreigners! But Prof.
MUnsteberg is, of course, unusually grave
aid philosophical in his manner, and what
he said about American women is really a
very good statement OF the German and
Continental ideas on the subject. And we
believe that Americans will learn to see the
undoubted truth of the older point of view,
that women, just as men, must perform
| their economical function in society, and be
good and willing mothers and house. keepers
in the first instance.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-26
YID Unhappy Chamberlain

1fi hillin
While Lord Salisbury amuses / he ma.
tioDs by uttering senile defiance of the
whole world and, incidentally, making
himself an object Of pity, the real govern,
meHt-Teaning Chan anberlaiD-would seem
to be far, far from happy. With 10000
British citizens paradin9 the streets Of
London, hurrahiDg for Butler, and hooting
his prosecutors, and with half of the best
people in England aroused to bitter indig.
nation over the cruel treatment of Miss
HobhoUse by Kitchener and Miner, the
lot OF the ministry is not happy one by
any means. True, ,ke London War Office
is still maintaining military supply depot
at New Orleans. Eight steamships are nos
reported at that port loading with mules
and horses for use against the Beers in
South AFRICA. Equally true, there is nj
visible rupture of the amicable relations
which make this dreadful tragedy possible
For all that, however, it would appear thai
Mr.. Ohamberlain's war upon human liberty
in the Free State and the Transvaal il
threatened by hostile forces within the
citadel itself. All Europe stands by in an
inexplicable silence. The United States is
not troubling itself. But the moral sense
of the English people has been touched
The great English heart, which is not YET
stit1ed by the hand Of the tuckster, still
beats for justice and humanity. Who
knows what may happen within the i'm
mediate future? Who can say with Ger
tainty that England will not reassert hel
better self before the new year emerges
from its swaddling clothes7
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-26
How A German Sees Us.

Prof. Miinsterberg of Harvard is psy.
chologist first, last and all the time. 1t is
possible for a psychologist to make some
errors which men of equal intelligence who
are not psJ biologists would not make. Prof.
Minsterberg has a fair minded attitude
toward AmeFicans-well he might, under
the circumstances land in this collection Of
essays he has the moral purposes of making
the German seem attractive to Americans.
He is about to publish book in German,
he tells us, which will make the Americans
attractive to the Germans. The intention is
universal reconciliation. We do not quarrel
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-26

Quarermaser Dock at San Jua saving the passengers
ense of boat hire and other inconveniences
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-26
To Our Readers

Our columns are open to correspondence
on everything affecting the coffee, sugas
and tobacco plantation and farming generally
and we cordially invite criticism and discus.
sion. Natural History notes viii also be
welcomed, as well as all news Of interest ad
planters. Communications should be to
dressed: The Editor, BoLETIN MER-
0ANTIL. 20 Plaza Alfonso, San Juan
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Finely furnished house, the most desir-
able location in the city whose extra rooms
are paying the rent and family living ex
penses, for sale on account of leaving the
country, Address r. p. o. Box 264
Juan. D
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Be good and you will be happy, prov
ed you get your ICE CREAM SODA
La Margarita
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Oysters Any Style so Gents dozen
Colonia Restaurant. d.
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Take your Sunday girl to ola Margari
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The only placs to get good cocktail ii
izzy's.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
Renewal planting.

The idea of the renewal of plant
ings Of fruits should be kept in
mind by planters, aud it is we'll to
do some of this work every year.
We like to have an orchard SO To-
Gated that an additional row of
trees can be added to it each year,
and where this is done the new
planting should be on good soil
previously well prepared, and it
should receive good cultivation un.
til thoroughly established and
growth ceases to be so much of an
object. The sudden and unexpect-
ell seventies in weather and the
unlocked for dronth exert their
greatest effect upon the older trees.
The young ones are mere virile
and have stronger resisting powers.
They therefore, as a rule, fire.
quentty survive weather conditions
that the older trees cannot with
stand, and then the family fruit
bin is not empty. and one does not
have to do without an orchard un-
til he can re establish a new one.-
Live Stock Indicator.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
The Great Modern Newspaper.

When all that portion of the
United States west of the Missouri
and Kaw rivers was trackless
wilderness, nearly half century
ago, the first issue of one of the
worlds greatest newspapers APP
peared. St. Louis, which was
then a mere overgrown town on
the western frontier of civilization,
has developed into great COM
mercial metropolis, and that great
modern newsgatherer, the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, has kept
pace with the progress of its city
and section. 1t has been, from
its first issue to the present time,
the children's tutor, the youth s
counselor, the woman's companion,
the farmers instructor and friend.
Its circulation extends to every
state and territory of the Union,
to Canada and Mexico, and to
every part of the world where
there are readers of the English
language. 1t ought to be in your
home during the coming year.
See advertisement elsewhere in
this Issue.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

the lobby, bis meaning is sufficient
ly clear. All the things he says
be will do or will not do are an
tagonistic to what the lobby wants
and has heretofore invariably OBJ
tained. The lobby demands spec
ial favors; it is deeply versed in
bringing about legislation by i'm
proper means; and the lobby's
programme is always hostile to the
interests of the people because it
is contrived strictly for private
gain. If Dockery, after his in
auguration as Governor, does what
he has promised, he will be the
target Of one of the worst gangs
Of schemers with which state was
ever cursed; and yet the man who
resolutely maintaines a right posi-
tion comes out on top unless his
grit gives way under the constant
assaults of boodling conspirators.-
Globe Democrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
Senat tor Vest or Democracy.

According to a Washington gos-
si,er, Senator Vest must have a
poor opinion of the Democratic
party. The Senator is quoted as
saying that ''there are no good
Democrats any more,'' and the
way that the Democrats in gener-
al act reminds him of Lafe Him
toms pack of hunting dogs in
Southeast Missouri. ''The last
time l was there,'' he said, "those
dogs were no good. They chased
rabbits, skunks and other var
mints just as if they were game y
The Senator asked Lafe what was
the matter with the dogs, and Lafe
answered disghstedly that he
''mixed the breeds, and the young
ones go chasing after all kinds of
fool things, while the old ones sit
on the trail, aud wont hunt. any
more" And, remarked the Sena-
tor, THAT is the way with the
Democrats since they began to mix
up with the Populists."
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

''My son, follow not in the footsteps
OF the loafer, and make no example of
him who is born tired, for verify l say
unto you, their business is Overstock-
ed, the seats on the corner are all
taken and the whiting places are all
occupied. It is better to saw wood at
two-bits cord than to whittle in a
loafing match and abuse the govern
ment. My son, while thou hast left
10 thy skull the sense of a jay-bird,
break away from the cigarette habit,
for To-! thy breath stinketh like glue
factory and thy whole appearance is
less intelligent than a store dummy.
Yes, thou art a cipher with the rim
knocked Off.''-Bob Burdette.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

Our Democratic contemporary
up the street celebrated its twenty
ninth birthday last week, upon
which it is to be congratulated. In
q self Mandatory article it boasts of
the large amount of (vacant) floor
space it's establishment occupies
and intimates that it will soon be
filed up with new material. We
arc glad to hear it, judging from
the general appearance of the pa
per, it still employees the same ms
teriaf it began with so many years
ago. Asking pardon for the intru-
sion, we suggest that a filing up
of the vacant floor space in the in
tellectnal department of the paper
should be augmented to the con-
templated improvement.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
Dockery's Promise.

In his opening campaign speech
last summer. at Sedalia, Mr..
Dockery placed himself on record
in the following interesting pas
sage: 81 desire to assure the husi-
ness men and the business interests
Of the state that the powers of the
Office of Governor shall be employ
ed, within the limitations of the
law, to secure the enactment of
just laws and to prevent the pas
sage of all laws bestowing special
favors. Any attempt to influence
legislation by improper means, if
such there should be, will be dis
approved by the executive depart
ment. No interest hostile to the
people shall be permitted to domi-
nate the policy of the adninistra-
tion." The people of Missouri be-
lieve that Mr.. Dockery intends to
fulfill the pledges he makes. 1t
would he unjust to challenge his
sincerity without the proof. Re-
publicans doubt if any Democrat
can cope successfully with the ring
and the lobby intrenched at Jeffer-
son City. When the lobby can not
use an official it proceeds to, crush
him, and the more able and up
right he is, the more venomons are
the arts employed 10 break him
down.
But Mr.. Dockery has distinctly
outlined his general policy, and,
! though he makes no mention o1
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

Just Distribution. Not Charity.
Bishop Potter of New York re-
Gently made an appeal to the rich
people of that city to cooperate
with the churches in a plan to re-
lieve the necessities of the great
army of the poor, and meeting
was he'd to raise a fund of $780,
600 to relieve the destitute. One
man, Hon. Abram S. Huitt, alone
subscribed $1,000 to the fund.
While this project is commend
able and a good one so far as it
goes, it possesses none of the essen
tials that would permanently amel-
iorate the condition of the laboring
masses. That end will never be
.attaine,l through the medium of
charitable giving. Mr.. Huitt stat
ed at a meeting held in connection
with this charitable enterprise
that since 1910 the wealth of this
country had increased five times as
fast as the population. If this
is true they masses might we'll ask,
why has not our condition been
improved in the same ratio; to
whom has all this wealth we
have created accrued! The an
swer must inevitably be, to those
to whom the churches now appeal
for charity for those who are
the first creators of riches.
The laboring masses do not want
charity so much as they want
iuster division of the results of
their labor. While one man piles
up his hundreds of millions of dol
lars ten thousand men are creating
the wealth that goes into the pile.
More cooperation in distributing
that pile would make charity I'M
necessary, it would enable the snf-
fering poor to ameliorate their own
condition, it would raise the stan
dard of intelligence of the masses
far above its present plane and it
would bring happiness and con-
tent in every home. Deriding the
improvident poor or railing at the
immensely rich will never solve the
great social problem. There
should be a cooperative restraint
to both rich and poverty.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
The Lobby's First Victory.

The lobby is in the saddle at
Jefferson City. 1t scored several
victories in the Democratic cau-
cuses for the nomination of officers
in the Senate and the House.
No measure passed by the last
Legislature reflected greater dis
credit upon the Democratic major
ity or received more condemnation
from the people than the street
railway trust law. 1t was jammed
through by corrupt lobby in the
most scandalous manner. Yet
Representative Whitecotton, who
supported the measure, was nomi-
mated for the speakership.
In the Senate caucus the hand of
the lobby was shown in the nomi-
nation of Senator Farris, who vot-
ed for the street railway trust and
against franchise taxation, for
president pro tenn. and Cornelius
Roach for secretary.
Thus important offices in each
branch of the Legislature have
been placed in the hands of men
who have been friendly to lobby in
terests in the past. There is spe-
cial danger in giving the great pow
er of the speakership to man who
cannot be trusted to Use it with an
eye singly to The interests of the
people.
The people regard the action of
the Democratic legislators with
profound Disappointment. 1t en-
dangers all legislation for the peo-
pie. 1t gives strong advantage to
the lobby in the work of the Legis-
lature. The legislature may re-
deem itself but the forces ofdecencv
and righteousness are handicap
ped.
The better elements in the admin
istration may take warning from
the opening victory of the lobby
Post Dispatch.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

The hand of the lobby as Usual,
appears in the selection of the rul-
ing officers Of the Forty first Gen
sral Assembly of Missouri. James
H. Whitecotton, of Monroe County,
who made himself conspicuous dur
ing The session of the Fortieth
General Assembly by his friend
ship to the corporations, was elect
ed speaker of the House, while
Frank Farris, of Crawford County,
q ''cow coroner" for the Frisco
Railroad Co., was elected speaker
protein of the Senate. Wedo not
say that the present session will be
entirely dominated by corporate
influences or that it will be unfruit-
ful Of any legislation wherein the
interests of the corporations will
be affected, but the election of
Wl,itecotton and Farris indicates
that the lobby is on hand and act
lively at work. Our Democratic
legislators are more notorious for
rather than against corporation
interests, and if any laws are made
at this session contrary to the die
tates of the lobby it will only be to
protect Democratic party interests
and not out of any special solici-
tude for the interests of the public.
Asthe result Of Republican agita-
ton theeyesof thepeopleof Missouri
snss turned on the General Assembly
I F,da a., unless the party in control Of
she d1lw making body does some
killd % redeem itself fron its Iast
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

Our new Democratic Legislature
voted down resolution to have
the American flag raised over the
capitol building during the session.
However, as it voted down the
Hon. Frank James application for
appointment as doorkeeper of the
House, we may consider it draw.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

Because the Democratic vote
increased in this district some of
our contemporaries ascribe it to
the fact that congressional
primary was held last year. They
forget that Bryan and Dockery
''also ran," in their devotion to
Robb. though no doubt Robb
helped them out.-Current Wave
(Dem.)
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

There is newspaper report that
England is about ready to modify
her demands as to the uncondition-
al surrender of the Beers. If the
latter keep on fighting as they have
been doing lately England may
shortly come TO the conclusion she
doesn't want anything out Of the
Beers Qt all.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

A. Democratic exchange accuses
its Republican contemporaries OF
being so partisan that they endorse
any and everything their party
may advocate. It is, of course,
quite common thing for Demo
cratic papers to bolt their party's
policies, isn't it2
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

The bank towel is a sort of financial
crash.
Many a small man has large heart
and vice versa.
Mending watches and clocks is one
way to improve time.
The man who is aware of his imper-
fections is almost perfect.
About the only thing anger improves
is the arch of cats back.
Soap is one Of the few things that
should be handled without gloves.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

The United States Rubber Co. g.,
a trust, is reducing prices on ac-
count of the competition of inde-
pendent companies. Our Bryanite
contemporaries will see in this
cut Id prices another attempt to
'stiae competition" The consum-
er, however, has no kick coming
over the reduction.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

Col. Bryan expects to make his
paper, 'sThe Commoner," a success
bymakingitan auxiliary ofthe coun-
try newspapers. Herecognizes the
fact that there is nothing like a
country newspaper to make things
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

We have heard a good deal
about the delightful climate of
California, but when recent dis
patches from Yreka, in that state,
tell of o snowfall of y inches in
less than two days, we concluded
that Missouri's climate is good
enough for us.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
Gov. Dockery will be inaugural
ed on January 14th.

Philip D. Armour, head of tho
great packing company that bears
his name, died in Chicago last
Sunday. His wealth was estimated
at from ten to twenty-five millions.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
FARM FOR SALE.

A small farm, eight miles south Of
Pot0si; IS acres; b in cultivation:
good house; some orchard; good spring:
lies between two good lead mines.
Price, $500. Apply to Granville Cole
man, Potosi. Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09

Many people suffer untold tortures from
piles. because of the popular impression
that they can not be cured. TABLER'S
BUCKEYE PILE OINTMENT will cure
them. 1t has met with absolute success.
Price soc in bottles, tubes 75c. For sale
by F. x. Teasdale.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-01-09
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record public censure at the polls
is sure to come to tl.at party at the
first opportunity.