The National tribune., 1904-08-11
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United States Senator-elect from Mary
land. onto the stump together. That seems
such useless waste of material: sort OF
Pathological. redundant, and all that. don't
you know. One of ems enough mt any
one time. They each have vocabulary
equal to Mr.. Noah Webster or DIR. John
son. with lung power that would silence
Niagara. and rs for pictureQueness ut
metaphor and brilliancy of oratory, the
straws would have to he exactly even that
they drew. for they have not their equals
on any platform. 1t really does seem a
pity to perpetrate the two of them on one
audience when timber of their quality is so
scarce. 1t is unfair to the people. too. to
preciptate both Cochran and Rayner upon
them in n single day. The human brain
is only just so big. and the average re-
ceptive faculty is not too generous. so it
would be a positive cruelty TO animals to
give double doses of campaign logic after
this fashion. Then think of the success
i've splittingS of the circumambient 1t
wouldn't stand it, it really wouldn't.
Once on time johnson. of Indiana.
then Il Republican member of the House,
and Tom Reed. then Speaker of the House,
We're precipitated on d banquet of imam
cierS on the same evening. Johnson was
accounted the most rapid talker that ever
made Il speech on the floor of Congress.
lie Just started his mouth and the words
came like rain on the roof, except that his
enTnciatiOn was remarkably clear and dis
tnct. He was Il cogent reaSOner and, with
out being a brilliant orator. was yet the
kind of a talker that people liked To listen
TO, because he always said things that
walked up even the stupideSt. AS for Tom
Reed. big. brainy Tom. with not the first
element of the oratorical elOcutioniSt, he
could hold an audience Spell-bound just as
long he cared to go on. an hour, two
-
day-a womanS bread mi ght rise and fall
and rise and sour: a mans wheat might
he rusting in the field for need of cutting.
the doctors patients might be dying for
his attention: as long as Tom Reed spoke
business. far that audience was con-
cerned was going to stand still till he had
delivered the very last word of the last
sentence. A man who attended the ban
qnet, where there were five glasses to the
plate. declared that he went home "as
drunk as billed OWL on oratOry only,
for he declared he hadn't touched a drop
of anything stronger than ginger ale.
Sudden changes i'm the Cabinet some
times produce funny Incidents For in
stance. who. three months ago, knew any
thing about Mr.. Morton. anymore than he
was one of the officials of the Santa Fe
Railroad, the son of his father, and very
good all-around man! Suddenly President
the Navy, and he promises to make an ex
cellcnt one: but no one, not even himself,
had ever considered an appointment to a
Cabinet position until the emergency ap-
peared. Well. off at the Asiatic Station,
Rear--tdmiral Yates Sterling, Commander
in-Chef of the Fleet. got some instructions
of an imperative nature. and they were
signed Morton" Rear-Admiral cabled
back instructions received. Will be car
ried out. Who is MOrtOn:" Secretary of
.l~oI
any one when he got that cablegram.
Colombia has concluded to come back
and play on our cellar door. At the time
of the Panama incident. Colombia with
drew her Envoy from the United States,
and some dire things We're threatened But
little Colombia found out that it does not
do TO stand in the way of advancement,
and that to bark at the heels of progress
Is poor-paying business; so. like a good
little girl, she has come back to be repre-
sented in the Court" of the greatest ma
tion on earth. DIR. Thomas Herran. who
was for many years Secretary of the Lega-
t0n here. and after the hurried exit of
Minister Concha. Charge dAfairs until
the Legation was closed, is now made
resentative of his people. and will always
be welcome in whatever capacity he comes.
Nine post offices have been established
In the canal zone. They are: Crystobal,
Gatun. BOeao. GOrgona, Bas Obispo. En-
pire, Culebra, La Boca and Ancon. Crys-
tobal and Ancon are money order Offices.
Secretary Taft has also directed that the
territory of the canal zone of the Isthmus
of Panama be declared open to the COM
merce of all friendly nations and the Ding
ley tariff rates are made applicable to the
zone. Goods or merchandise entering the
canal zone from ports of the United
States or insuiar possessions of the United
States are TO be admitted on the same
terms as at the ports of the States of the
Union.
While the order undoubtedly permits
The free importation into the canal zone of
goods from the United States, the Treas
ury tariff experts are of the opinion that
goods from the canal strip must pay duty
on entering the United States. They base
this view on the provisions of the treaty
with Panama. under which that Republic
retained sufficient sovereignty. they think,
TO prevent the removal of the tariff on
goods entering the United States without
SPECIFIC action by Congress. 1t may. how
ever require a decision by the Supreme
Court to settle the question.
Writing Fang. former Minister of
China at "The Court of Washington :"
has retired from public life to 1 that of Of .
country gentleman. Minister WI was
made Fice-President of the Foreign BOARD
at Pekin, after he retired as Minister to
the United States, an Office which he is
said to have filled to the satisfaction of all
concerned He left his son. Wu-C -Chao- Chu
In this country to attend school-in fact,
to complete his education, but has cabled
him to return to Pekin..
Minister WI was a very likable man.
He had keen wit, fine sense of humor.
and was absolute master of the English
as well as several other languages. He
was much in demand to speak at notable
gatherings, and always responded with a
courteous graciousness quite different from
some OF the upstarts with which foreign
countries often disgrace themselves and us.
His manners were always affably gracious.
and everybody liked him.
His wife was sure a sight when she ap-
peared in public, and il was simply inn
possible to keep from making remarks
about her. She was very slender and had
feet about the size of a month-oId baby
that had been kept alive i'm an incubator.
She used powder like il might be a CAL
cimine put on with a broom. and rouge
like roof paint. She wore just behind her
two ears two punches of artificial flowers.
red roses and green leaves they were
which cost about 10 cents a bunch. In
those Slp of