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sumo undivided responsibility for the administra-
tons acts yet has been without the power OF itself
to give effect to those acts In this exgency 1t has
laid hold of every shameless expedient that occasion
offered
Whether it has the unprincipled audacity to pur-
sue base opportunism to the bitter end remains to
be seen. Judged by past conduct it is organized for
anything and will stop short of no abuses to gain
a broader margin Of majority.
That such overreaching and abuses are short
sighted cannot but be plain to people outside of the
political fray 1t is proverbial opportunism of the
sort which sacrifices all the future for present small
gains 1t tends to stimulate the revolt against Re-
publican rule and hastens the destiny of the most
INSCRIPTIONS organization in political annals.
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the new servce-regulation ordinance was passed. a
third BILL which was then pending, passed the Coun
Gil but failed to pass the House. 1t authorized the
appointment of an official to enforce the regulation
ordinance.
It seemed when the faretax law was passed, and
it. now seems, that the change is generally for the
better. Aside from the question of revenue and
the policy of applying tax solely on cash fares
there is the advantage of giving the city more COM
plete supervision over the business Of the compa-
MES, as the new law is much more thorough and
explicit in this respect
The one-miu tax will not he assessed against
every passenger, against transfers, but only
against cash fares that is, there will be tax OF
one mill every fiye-cent fare received. Whether
all of the desired results will be realized is doubtful
but the principles defined evidently correct and
will be sustained The revenue from the car tax
has been about $24 $50 year, the revenue from the
fare tax is expected to be about $4,000.
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TAX ON OAR FARES.

The new ordinance to regulate the license tax
payable by the railway companies viii become eff
fective January 1. Under the old law tax Of SIS
was paid on each car. The new law provides for
q license tax Of one mill on each fve-cent fare.
Three objects were sought by the change from
car tax to fare tax. In the first place the Mu-
nicipal Assembly assumed that the license tax on
each caused the use of fewer cars than are ne
cessary for furnishing seat to every passenger In
the second place. 1t believed that the city should
receive more revenue In the third place. the tux
:o1 every cash fare was considered better method
for this form Of licensing than the tax every
The now law was enacted at the same time when
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RECENT COMMENT.
Not a POLITICAL EIatter.
Brooklyn Eagle.


Brooklyn Eagle.
Perhaps the surest way to strengthen the hands of
the President candidate for the place he holds
be for the Democrats Illustrate counrys
in the matter Of the canal Nor would such faulty
particle OF service to German asprant for
tonal nomination. He has been credited with the d-
menstons OF statesman. That he is unfamiliar with
recent history with phase ishmian case it
would be ridiculous to suppose-he knows all about It.
He knows exactly what attempted at Bogota. The
Hay-Herran treaty rejected for the simplest of
reasons 1t rejected for just such
when there is holdup in the Board of Aldermen Those
who cannot interpret such statement for themselves
have much to learn.
The Panama canal project is not political matter
1t Is enterprise of character strictly commercial
Its history has, until recently, been anything for
unate, but the thick fog has risen- compare
lively clear track. The obstructonsts Bogota have
lost much and learned little With obstructionists
at Washington the country will have little patience
The Senator from Maryland has something to lose If
not to learn 1t is not difficult with reputation
for sagacity 1t will be than difficult to keep 1t
should he conclude to tcompcate Panama matters for
the administration. Forbearance has its limits
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River! that in silence windest
Through the meadows. bright ana ifee
Till at length thy rest thou findest
In the bosom of the sea!
Four long years of mingled feeling
Half in rest. and half in STRIFE.
I have seen thy waters stealing.
Onward. like the stream Of life.
Thou hast taught me. Silent River!
Many a lesson. deep and long.
Thou hast been a generous Siyer:
can give thee but a song.
OFT in sadness and in Illness.
have watched thy current glide.
TIL the beauty of its stiffness
Overlooked me. like a tide.
And In better hours and brighter,
When / saw thy waters CLEAN.
I have felt my heart beat lighter.
And leap onward with thy stream.
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FooL1sH oppoRruN1sM.

There come significant limitations that Congress
is determined upon a course Of wholesale unseatng
Of Democratic Representatives; the intention doubt
less being crysaliized by Democratic opposition to
current administration policies
Among others, two contested election cases from
South Carolina Will, it is communicated, be made
the basis for busting Democrats and seating their
negro opponents, though the figures in each case
gave the incumbent about four thousand votes
against his opponents less than two hundred. The
allegation attributed to the Committee Elections
is that these results were entirely due to the dis
franchisement of negroes. AS the Atlanta Constitu
ton phrases 1t, the policy is to turn out any Demo-
crat whose election is contested on the plea of the
unlawful elimination of negro voters. And this is
to be done without regard to whether the suffrage
laws Of the States are constitutional and valid, or as
to whether the negroes could have qualified under
any sort Of law In sufficient numbers to overcome
the white voters who would have turned out had the
electoral contest been hot and doubtful"
Congress has shown itself to be full of expedients
during the past year. But for the landwide protest
aroused last January it would have fosted a force
bill upon u.s. giving Federal Courts original jurisdie
ton over violations of State election laws; no
violent distortion Of constitutional power has been
attempted in years.
Fresh In the public mind is the hg1-handed out
rage when Representative James Butler was un-
seated; an exhibition of sheer wantonness of power
and deprivation of the right of representation and
self-government. Every Republican in St Louis
conceded that Wagner was defeated. The COM
bned votes Of the gangsters Of both parties, about
equal in number, and operating together in the
Twelfth District, II subhacted from Buffers actual
majority would have been insufficient to change the
result; and the truth was as patent to Congress Us
to the people OF St Louis. If the intimations given
out do not belle the Republican intention the second
Butler case resting upon identical state Of facts
will go the way Of the first
At the last congressional election the Republicans
instead Of realizing their boastful prediction of
Overwhelming and decisive victory, were cut down
to q bare control in the House; and the exceeding
difficulties of maintaining that control have been
poignantly exemplifed. The Republican party has
been in . position where it was compelled to as
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
DEFEAT TREATY; WHAT THEN?

Almost without exception, the Democratic news
papers of the land especially those of consequence
in the safe Democratic States, oppose Senator Cor
mau,s effort to make party issue Of the Panama
situation. This fact should be seriously weighed
by the Senators. They should hold 1t clearly in
mind that the point in relation to Panama, upon
which the public mind is now centered regardless
Of party, is the construction Of the canal.
The citizen of to-day endeavors to be right be-
fore going ahead; but the matter Of being right does
not involve indefinite argumentative hairspittng
upon details Of diplomacy. Colombia must ever
appear as corrupt and unstable nation which tried
to defeat world enterprise by CRATER tactics. In
the language Of the street. Colombia got what was
coming to her." 1t occurred that by reason Of the
Terms upon which the old Province Of Panama was
annexed to what is now Colombia, by reason Of the
rights and duties Of the United States Government
upon the line Of the Panama Railway and by reason
OF the sudden revolution, the United States were
enabled to make use of situation.
Moreover It is as If the ethics Of the case had
been passed upon by court; it has been settled by
duly constituted suthority. The die is cast; the
deed done which may not be undone. "Going
ahead" has become the chief desideraum before the
American people We must "dig the ditch"
If pettifogging considerations are allowed to en-
face that Democratic advantage would be gained
by formally expressing through the Senate hack
Of confidence in President Roosevelt But this is
shallow reasoning Roosevelts precpitateness can
not be Endorsed but it does not affect the matter
a permanent issue.
Washington dispatches indicate that concerted
effort win be made to defeat the canal treaty. The
treaty defeated; what then? Shall Panama be
handed back to Colombia? Shall we ''unrecognize''
the little Republc7 Shall we go back upon our &C.
cepted obigationl These are manifest absurdities.
THE only effect would be, aside from placing us in
arfdicuous position before the world to Indefinitely
postpone the canal project And this would be play
ing directly Into the hands Of the transcontinentsi
railroads, and directly wreaking damage upon the
interests Of the entire Atlantic Seaboard the Gulf
States the Mississippi Valley territory and the Pa
cine Coast
Senator German is one of the most distinguished
and respected leaders of the Democratic party to-
day. But It Is to be hoped that his influence at this
critical juncture win not control strength in the
Senate sufficient to embarrass much less reject the
canal treaty. The probabilities that, since some
thirteen Democratic Senators are not aligned upon
the question, the treaty win not be defeated Blu,
the risk Of taking an obstructionists position at
time when Democratic opportunities and prospects
never were brighter is to be studied with view
broader than that Of the pettifogger seeking point
little or big, which to turn an argument, little
or big.
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS. :,

y From The Republic, Dec. "a, 1873.
= John F. Walton. Justice of the
= Peace of the Sixth District. refused .
. to surrender the office to Patrick I
D Monahan, who was declared to have 4
. been elected. The latter filed suit. 1
= Students of the Christian Broth 4
= ers' College presented play, Wait 4
q ing for the Verdict" In which the 1
y principal roles were played by John 1
. F. Birmingham, Charles Cartwright, 4
. Eickerman, Amss. James v. I
y Chamberlain, w. Il. Shelly. Albert /.
D Moore, D. i. Stone, Sam Nyerson, 1
. Paul Attaway and Theodore o. Far !.
q reIl. The Reverend Brother Virgil 4
= announced that George H Rhea I
. and John d. Morrison were too Ill i,
= to appear.
. The First Battalion, Missouri I
= State Militia. Was reviewed by 4
. Lieutenant Colonel Leigh o. Knapp. .
= Colonel J. Torrey commanded the .
. troops.
= Choutoau, Harrison & Vale, at
q the Laclede Rolling Mills, paid &c., .
q 600 in gold to their employees. I
D Gustave NJ Baare, bailiff of the
= Public School Board, broke Up a
= gang Of boys who were breaking
. school windows.
= The Sisters of L.oretto decorated
. the little church at Compton and =.
= Sarah street, and a special choir,
= composed Of Misses Mary A. Odal-
. ley, Mary J. Kennedy. A. ". Hold I
= net, Mary Griesbach and Katie I
y Simms and Messrs. Thomas Hold
. nett and James Stolz, rehearsed .
. for the Christmas service.
= Henry A Thompson's house at .
q No. 507 North Sixth street burned.
= Agnes Booth, J. E. whiting and
q company presented The Hurri- .
= canes at the Olympic Theater.
. THE Troubadour appeared at :.
. the Grand Opera-house. Misses
q Nellie McHenry was the soubrette,
= and In the cast were John Gourlay.
y John Webster and Frank Maeder.
= Mrs. Marie E. Lucas, widow Of Z.
= James H: Lucas. died at the family
. home, No. ISIS Lucas place. She
y was formerly Miss Deseusseaux.
. and was 81 years old. She left six ,
y sons and two sons-in-law. the lat
= ter being Judge Trager of California
= and Doctor j.. B. Johnson Of st. +,
= Louis.
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Trade I'm Christmas Trees.

Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The wholesale trade which has developed years
has robbed the Christmas tree of much of its sentiment
The barbarous measures taken this to reduce
the surplus supply recognition that business
been overdone. and this may some future
restraint the wanton destruction of the growing
forests Therein is the only consolation That young
in honor of the Christmas festival will be copceded but
large proportion OF the every year cut off
in their early promise never attain to at all
there remains reason their destruction
No thoughtful 1erson look nyriads trees
displayed The streets without pangit is easy
kill them and hard to make them grow The forests
of Maine vast but they inexhaustible,
the useless destruction OF growing beyond all
sonnble demand, is nothing short of public crime
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FOLK TO SPEAK AT CAMERON.
Democrats Organizing a Club to
Receive Him.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Cameron. Mo-. Dec. 2-Joseph ". Folk
has accepted the invitation Of the Cam
eron Commercial Club to speak here in
January.
A Folk club Is being organized here. and
will be composed of Democrats In Clinton,
Caldwell, Daviess and De Kalb counties
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Not for this alone love thee.
Nor because thy waves of blue
From celestial seas above thee
Take their own celestial hue.
Where yon shadowy woodlands hide thee.
And thy waters disappear.
Friends love have dwelt beside thee.
And have made thy margin dear.
More than this-thy name reminds me
OF three friends. all true and tried;
And that name. like magic. binds mo
Closer, closer to thy side.
Friends my soul with Joy remembers!
How like quivering flames they start.
When fan the living embers
On the hearth-stone of my heart!
It's for this, thou Silent Riveri
That my spirit leans to thee:
Thou hast been generous giver.
Take this idle song from me.
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POEMS WORTH KNOWING.
TO THE CHARLES RIVER.
BY LoNGFELLow.

, Charles River in Iopknton Mass but
first important appearance Pond Milford
to Its mouth in straight
n .ho ,ventv.6ye miles,
oo. !, arrive, at Mount Auburn
49,
might have an OF 1t he bought the intervening
hIo. of
n
ec teacher Of and Charles
Iongiows humaee enc were they the three
eandt
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Deahl, Mrs. NJ. Bristow and Mrs.. Anna
Meatyard, all Of Shipman. Ill.
BRrDE IS ENTERTAINED.

Miss Jennie and Miss Lucy Morton Of
Cabanne entertained last evening at thei-
home in honor OF Mrs. Julian Heller.
bride of Denver, Colo, who was formally
Miss Yctta Rothschild of st. Louis. A Di-
ano and violin duet was rendered by the
Misses Morton: plano solo by Miss Harri-
son: vocal solo by Miss McEvers, and q
recitation by Miss Yost
Among those present were:
Misses
Ivy Williams Eleanor Case
Sally Yost Grac. EcIcver,
Grace Gilmore iona Sebsstian
Libby Harrison,
Messieurs-
Harry Iange, Perxfnx
Clarence Cfow. Turner Morton.
,Robert fost, Doctor Nifong.
Philip Rothschild II 7. ly,rton
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Doing rushing business these days means rush.
ing round the shop counters.
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1t is not 50 much the bar that's wanted es tht
money at the Cabanne Club. But it's all the same
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YALE CLUBS VISIT AFFORDS
MUCH DIVERSION FOR SOCIETY.

Mrs George D. Reynolds Mrs Theodore Meier Give Dinners
for University Men, the Misses Mary Lillian Mitchell En-
terrain at Luncheon and Mrs King Is Hostess at
Tea Pary-Mrs William II. scudders Ball Brilliant Affair
- Personal Mention
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Miss Annie Evans. daughter of Mr.. ara
Mrs. Noble Evans. Of No. 4ol7 De,mar
boulevard, Is at home from vassar COL
lege for the holidays Her sister, Miss
Adelaide Evans, a student at Bryn Mawr.
will ION her later
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Don't stand the Christmas tree next to lace
curtain and then light the candles. Trouble and the
Fire Department have been known to follow such
a procedure.
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Should sub.ide.

Topeka State Journal
Der Teller vot infented der word 'Phanamamn,a" to
be aplicatoned to der Goddess Hberdy. ISIS herpy
warned dot shouldt nodt heard again fer adj
Ieasdt skix veeka He hat used a four-doller und
haluf word, yich iss den he ss entitled to.
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A st. Louis firm sent special trainload of tur>
keys to New York. Missouri produces everything
and-we need the money.
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The Reverend and Mrs. Earl Hewson
are receiving congratulations on the birth
Of daughter.
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Mrs James NJ. Perry OF Columbia place
is spending the winter with relatives in
Florida
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Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Golding of Des
Moines. Ia, are visiting their mother.
Mrs. F. Morrison, Of No. 512 North Whit
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Following the exodus of pugilists let us hope for
an exodus Of thugs. The Police Department can
control the former and should be equally effective in
mastering the other gang The pugilists have gone
to Chicago. AS for the thugs, thieves and toughs
it would be fair to send them there ALSO in retalia
ton for the disreputable bacili that are sent down
upon us.
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An engineer claims to have invented telegraph
ing device which win send 5000 words minute.
Awful! When you escape the bore in person he
will send 1O0,0O0word telegram.
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Engagement Ii Announced.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Maiden, Mass. Dec 2.-Mr. and Mrs NJ.
T. Denham of this city announced to-day
the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Florence Denham. to Mr.. 8. P. Goddard of
st. Louis.
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PERsONAL MENTroN.

Mrs. Ida NJ. Fountain is with a party Of
friends wintering in California. The holt
days will be spent in Los Angeles In the
spring they will go to Honolulu. and later
to Japan. After trip encfrclinS the
world they will return the latter part Of
next summer.
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VISITORS AT ST. LOUIS HOTELS

St S Sie " Holmes Of Boston is registered at the
&C. S. Field. assistant manager OF the Ma
Planters.
p. I. Rouse Of Parsons. Kaa. Is registered
at the Southern.
y. Il Hawthorne Of Kansas CITY IN . guest
John Hail of Crestcn. Ia, is on tho guest
list at the New st. James.
g; Y. McReynolds OF Carthage. No. Is
Lindell. MUNYON'S OF KANSAS e''' 10 at NE
Richard Fletcher. IT.. Of Chicago is xuest
M. Lieblins OF Ottawa. III. 10 registered Mt
the Southern
u NJ schoor OF Waterloo. N. ID euess at
the New ST. James.
r s Brown OF Perry OK. IL guest Il the
IR. Q. Poponoe Of Kansas City IL at the
Baer Of Fert smith. ' AK. have rooms ono at az
the Planters.
Mrs: N; R. Settle of Kansas city Is . guest
Frank Smith Of Denison. Tex. IL registered
at the Moeer.
,.Hsrbert DoSIit.Ie Of Springfield. H. is reg
tstered at the Madison
II n. Tyler Of Memphis. Tsnn.. IN . guest
at the New ST. Jarnes
IT. w. Hockemeyer Of FL Paso. Tex. Is reg
stored at the Laclede.
a B Bursman of Bayette. No.. is . guest
1t the Laclede.
At Chicago Hotels.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Chicago. ILL.,. Dec. 0-St Louis persons
registered at hotels here to-day are;
Auditorium-C- Z. Chapman, o. s. Ball, r. z
Drake. ": j. Coluia1, v. R Edison. V. Jones,
Grand Pacific-W. Purcell. B. N Smith
kAiserhof-L L. Cochran, J. W. Rau, b. C.
StebbIns
Sherman House-C. r Green, s. =. Wilson.
Nictoria-A- j. Simpson. II. T. Yeager.
Brevoort-H. H Hughes, E. g Rawley.
Saratoga-J +. Kelley, W. g. Lewis.
Palmer House-Mrs. {. Drsnck. J. T. Kemp,
T. b. Turner.
Briggs-R, Sanders J. L. Yates
Great Northern-A. B. Huist, W. c. Hutchin-
son. l.. s Jackson d. ]. Mudnane
Morrison-G. NJ. Keatt. D. x. Reeee. N. c.
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Miss Italine Lyle Of No. 75l walton
avenue will spend the holidays in Kan
sas City, Mo.
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STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

Commissioner Varremann has wisely decided not
to interrupt street improvements in 1904 on account
of the Worlds Fair. Work may proceed in parts
of the city without causing any inconvenience what
ever and it should proceed in order that ST Louis
may the sooner have all of its thoroughfares well
paved.
The Board of Public Improvements has conduct
ed public hearing on drafts of bills providing for
reconstruction work in northwestern. southern and
western sections. Among them were included drafts
for the improvement of Demar boulevard west of
Clara avenue Belt avenue between Maple avenue
and Page boulevard, Bartmer avenue between Page
boulevard and Belt avenues, and Walnut street be-
tween Tenth and Twelfth streets; also for the re-
surfacing Of Locust street between Fourth and
Thirteenth streets.
1t Is worthy of note that there are very few
remonstrances against proposed improvements, and
chat, in many cases, property owners petition the
board for better streets. This is in striking con-
trast to conditions which prevailed few years ago,
when protests were frequent and general. The i'm
provements made have created a desire for extern
sion of the work all the city, and this encour
ages the administration in its plans for betterment.
AS a rule, the only remonstrances that are sub
mitted come from some property owners in the
West End, from whom remonstrances were une1-
pected.
Not much work can be done In the central part
Of the city this year. in the centrawestern rest
dence district, that territory will he freely used
during the Worlds Fair. Nor can work be done
near the principal public parks chief buildings and
places of interest. But there is some work which
should be done early in spring, such as the recon
struction Of Lindell boulevard and the resurfacng
Of Locust street with a smooth pavement
The resurfacing of Locust street between Fourth
and Thirteenth streets will provide another central
driveway. This is needed The reconstruction of
Linde boulevard is necessary in order to establish
another good driveway to Forest Park and the
Worlds Fair Pressure should be brought to bear
on the House Of Delegates to pass this bill in the
first or second week of January. 1t would be well
too to reconstruct the streets surrounding the City
Hall.
Although street Improvements cannot be made
next year in the central and central western sec
lions, in the immediate vcinities of places of In
terest, they and should be carried on in north
ern, southern, northwestern and southwestern dis
uicts. There should be no interruption to advance
mept The work should proceed.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1903.
Vol ee. No liz