The age-herald., 1902-02-12
Congressional Waste Baskets Mute Warning to Circular Letter Writers.

ehtertaihmenl duflng the princess entire stay in this country, have decided and formally ordered that only six newspaper men will be permitted to travel on the special railroad train which will bear him on his various journeys One of these six will represent the Associated Press. and there will be one representative of each of two other news associations not specified. In all probability one of these is Reuters Telegram Agency of London which is the most reliable and most DOW erful news association in the world from the international viewpoint, since it serves all the leading journals printed in the various languages of the world, outside of America, and probably has a news work ing agreement with our Associated Press. In volume, the Associated Press gathers and publishes more real news than any other three news agencies in existence. True it sometimes quotes the leading purely British agency, the Central News, which is unreliable, and the former news service of one American newspaper that is notoriously untrustworthy. But In this the public understands that the Asso- oiated Press merely quotes and does not in any sense vouch for the accuracy of the quotations as news. The matter is given for what it is worth.
 The three remaining places for newspa- pers have been reserved for the special representatives of newspapers of Germa- ny, the particular newspapers to be se- lected by the German ambassador to this country
 Thus the saffron sheets will have no opportunity to disgust the American peo- pie and outrage their sense of decorum and hospitality; though 1t is dollars to peanuts that at least one of these sheets will on the morning after Prince Henrys arrival in New York print a signed statement" from the prince himself" declaring that the most amazing thing about America is the vast enterprise and the three-times-the-la argest-circulation-in e-whole-world' of that particular saf- iron sheet, accompanied by a photograph especially Autographed exclusively for said sheet, and followed by detaileds and tabulated particulars of what the prince had for breakfast every morning of his voyage and how many breakfasts he was good enough sailor to keep down, together with an opinion as to the rela- tive value of eggs-and-sausage and souer- kraut-and-pork in the great merit of be, ing kept down after being eaten at sea. And on that first day this
 From day to day during Prince Hen- rvs stay in this country we shall print statement, signed by his highness in person, certifying to the enterprise and absolutely uncountable, the positively fab ulous circulation of the only Twentieth Century American newspaper for the American people,"
 But there won't be any yellow Journal ist on the princes railroad trainl o joy, O rapture
 The great Congressman Bartholdt of Missouri, who is trying to out Crumpack Crumpacker in the attempted black guardly legislation against the South, re- presents in Congress a St. Louis district, and St. Louis Is crying to the South for state exhibits in it's worlds fair of 19OS,' which may not be opened before 1904.
 Politics Is politics and business is busi ness; but there is no wisdom or proprie ty in any man or men doing business with enemies.
 This man Bartholdt was elected to Con- gress by St. Louis voters, mainly busi- ness men. He may be therefore accept ed as representative of St. Louis political and business sentiments, and in that ca pacity he is now doing everything in his power to degrade the South by the en- actment of a force bill quite as abhorrent and repulsve to the Southern people as was that infamous measure of the past which the great Blainej braved the wrath of his party to'defeat. There is unhappily no Blaine now to rebuke the BarthoIdts, the Crompackers and the Gibson's in their revolutionary hostility to the South. The revolutionists are in the saddle, and the saddle is made up of the three branches of the government
 St. Louis, in the person of Bartholdt, is seeking to outrage the honor and dis honor the integrity of the South. St. Louis is at the same time pleading for Southern trade and Southern money to make successful an exhibition which is foredoomed to financial disaster. The bulldlO eAHlDlllOH, WHICH cost America the life of the President was financially disastrous, though it was within twelve hours of twelve millions of people. Chicago Is just now passing from under the black cloud of ruin that arose from its gigantic and unequalled worlds fair. What IS St. Louis, a third-rate town in an agricultural region, to expect?
 In that romantic and altogether unioue book the Congressional Directory, which Is famous alike for what it contains and what it doesn't contain, Bartholdt de- clares that he was born in Germany for ty-six years three months and nine days ago. coming to this country when a boy" that he uster vas a. newspaper man. probably journalist and that at the time his genius was chosen to illuminate the House of Representatives he was "editor-in-chief'' of-a newspaper never heard of outside the Directory. Like wise he uster vas the president of the public school board of St. Louis.
 Cott en himmel!
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.