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If THE JAPs LOSE.

London Mail.-Despite the lesson of
the Boer war, the Japanese did very
little open order and extended forma-
ton work in their last maneuvers, but
operated in solid masses as trim and
right angled as though shaped with a
spirit level. When Field Marshal Mar
quiS Yamagata was asked IL Japan
would not change it's field tactics to
suit the conditions Of modern fighting,
he replied:
Japan will reveal its tactics in bat
tie. Be sure that they will be those
necessary to insure victory"
This was not the self-confidence of
the unbeaten warrior, but the express
sion of the only spirit Japan knows,
for it never considers defeat a remote
possibility.
On the sea officers and men are
spelling for fight. From the crews
of the huge Mikasa and its sister bat
tleships down to the men on such as
the White-naped Crane and the ORA
CONS Lamp-torpedo destroyers-they
are swearing by every, ancestor that
If let loose they will sink or capture
each consonantly named Russian war
ship on the Pacific. And do they con-
capture no. Never will a Japan
csc ship, high or low, go into port a
prize.
When the turrets are damned and
the big guns dumb, when the screws
are still and all defense is dead and
done, the men chosen by lot before
the beginning of the action will from
their station in the heart of the ship
perform the last full measure of de-
yotion," in exploding the magazine, and
the sixteen-petaled chrysanthemum on
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WHEN TO QUIT WORKING.

st. Louis Globe4Democrat.- Very
many men In active and energetic bus
mess life promise themselves that at
60 or thereabout they will quit work
and rest the remainder of their days.
A Chicago resident whose name is fa-
miliar has just closed his roll top
desk, put on his hat and walked out
into the open air of freedom from bus
mess cares; but he. may not like 1T.
Hardly ever, is the business or pro-
fessional. man contented when he I'M
dertakes to quit work and just loaf
after he is go. Doing nothing as q
steady occupation is q desperate I'M
dertaking.
Then. too, why should any man in
good health cease work at 60, when lat
that period in most men, their mental
powers have reached their highest
training; they can accomplish more
with less exertion than at any other
period in their lives? They do not
work SO hard as at 40, because they have
learned to produce the same results
without friction; experiences has taxi
en- the place of youthful, sometimes
blind, enthusiasm and energy, part
of which Is wasted in making mis-
takes.
What we wish to propose is that the
vacation be taken in the middle of
life, instead Of at the end. 1t seems
much more charming to simply not do
anything in particular between 40 and
SO. say, and then take your hand at
the wheel, after you have exhausted
your yearning for leisure and found
that it is not altogether the paradise
painted by the imagination. Much
more terrifying is it to look forward
to an old age of sitting about shifted
into the lean and slippered pantaloon
with nothing to do but yawn and wait
for dinner, than to have ones daily
task even at 80 years of age to keep
one interested and in touch with 9th
er men. But with ten years en-
forced loaf in the middle of ones ca
reer some Very persistent and now
ineradicable notions about having no
work to do might receive a permanent
c11re
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but just be yourself and write what is
really in you" AS result of this adj
vice one little boy turned in the fol-
lowing composition: II amt going to
attempt no fits of fancy; Pm Just going
to write about what's really In me, and
l got hart, liver two lungs and
some other things like that then got
a stummick, and 1t holds pickle, a
piece of pie, two sticks of peppermint
candy, an all-day sucker-that's cam
dy-and my dinner. This is what is
really and truely in me-"
Washington Post.-Senator Allison's
wariness of direct statements is pro-
verbal among the public men in
Washington. The anecdote about a
friend winning a wager of a cigar from
an Iowan that the senator would not
state in SO many words that a flock of
sheep approaching had been sheared
has become familiar.
They seem to be sheared on this
side" the senator is quoted as having
said.
Yesterday in the senate this anec-
dote was duplicated after fashion.
There had been discussion about wis
dom of appropriating lump sum an
nually for keeping the sidewalks and
streets of Washington free from snow
and ice. Mr.. Allison was drawn into
the discussion.
Snow has been falling on the
streets and sidewalks of Washington
for many years past" observed Mr.. AL
lison.
And will for many years to come,''
interposed Senator Spooner.
AS Ito that replied Senator Alli-
son, II will not prophesy"
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WHERE THE PARTY is LAME.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.-The DEM
ocratic opponents of Bryan propose to
assault American industries instead of
public and private credit through a
deprecated currency. One is about as
bad as the other. 1t will be remem-
bered that when the wilson Gorman
bill paralyzed American industries
and caused widespread Bankruptcy
the free silver movement came quickly
to the front and made it possible for
Bryan to dictate the policy of the
democratic party Anti-Bryan dem
ocrats do not hesitate to announce
that they will revive the tariff issue in
the convention, and radically change
the law if they can get hold of con-
gress. 1t is the intention of the leaders
to swing away from Bryan's free sill
yer theories and get back to the doc
trines the party advocated in the cam
paign of 1892. To do this it will be
necessary to practically eliminate
Organism.
Beyond doubt the democratic par
ty is shaping itself to make a vigor-
GUS attack on the present tariff law.
1t seems strange that the party per-
sistently fights prosperity. The New
York Commercial points out the fact
that the people of this republic will
never again take kindly to a free trade
tariff. AS the Commercial says, "they
have no use for cheap money, but they
understand perfectly that the single
gold standard is of small value if bus
mess is paralyzed, workingmen are
idle and no money is in circulation.
Gold is the standard in Great Britain,
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SERMONS IN SHORT METER.
Faint heart is famlshed heart.

RANT hearI is famlSned heart.
Promptitude is the life of praise.
Love never boasts Of it's sacrifice
He who waits on fate wins fall
lure. Isl
Spiritual growth is never spasmod-
.ic. M
The truth: that hits Is the truth we
hate.
Faith is never developed by finding
fault.
The best kind of love is love Of our
Kind.
There is no service where there is
servility.
There are no rights without respon-3
sibilities.
Men who are downcast are easily
cast down.
The high livers do not reach the
heights of life.
Y The devil would have no dupes If
he had no decoys.
He who gives the world most all.
ways finds he owes it most.
& The world needs broad sympathy
more than broad sentiments.
There is more health in happiness
than there is happiness in health.
has good show in the heavenly
race.
There is no virtue in hearing two.
sermons If you do not practice either
of them.
When money can secure your COM
.plaisance with wrong more money Will
secure your cooperation.
/ The gate of heaven may be narrow,
but many will find that it takes more
than narrowness to enter there.-Chi-
,cago Tribune.
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NO FREE TRADE IN 1T.

Osceola Sentinel.-Let the republic
cans of Iowa-the republicans-settle
their difficulties in their own ranks
and not enter into a fight. These diff
ficulties should be easily settled by re-
ferring to the national platform of
1900 and standing squarely on it.
Don't get down from it onto a demo-
cratic plank and fight over it. There
is only one kind of republicanisn, and
that is the true blue without any
mixture of democracy. populism or any
other ism. No need to look farther
than the platform of 1900 as guild
ing star for Iowa republicans. If any
republicans desire to repudiate it and
grasp at some false democratic doc
trine, let him go and don't worry about
him. When the national convention of
1904 adopts a new platform, it will be
the republican platform for republicans
to stand upon. Dollars to doughnuts,
though, there won't be any free trade
in
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"HANDY ANDY" GoRMAN,

Sioux City Journal.-Certainly this
is Senator Germans hoodoo wear
When his Panama issue evaporated
under the warmth of popular opinion
the Maryland senator groped around
for something new, and thought he
found it in what he alleged to be the
extravaganza naval expenditures advo-
Gated by the administration. Where
upon Senator German evolved what
he believed to be the popular slogan of
Fewer, useless ships and more inter-
nal improvements" The senator
urged that our navy had reached cred
liable proportions, and the time had
come to put stop to what was de-
veloping into a senseless and expen-
sive fad. 1t was a rather delicate sub
ject, for the country has not vet for
gotten the glories achieved by our
navy during the Spanish American
panding our power in that direction.
But there is always a chance to argue
against extravaganza and the demo-
cratic leader in the senate seemed
pretty well convinced he had struck
the psychological moment for calling
halt on naval expenditures.
Alas for the foresight of great poll
ticians!
The oriental war clouds which had
been alternating between high and
low for 10 these many years suddenly
reached the precipitating point. The
Japs, with their trim and taut little
navy, modelled upon our own in every
point, commenced operations by win
ming an important series of victories
on the water. and Russia, with all
her vast military resources, Is left
temporarily at the mercy of the enc
my. The weakness of Russia in naval
resources has left her unable to cope
with the bantam of the nations, whose
only strong point is her navy. The i'm
portance of the object lesson has been
Immediately recognized throughout the
world. Nowhere will it sink in more
emphatically than in the United
States.
1t is idle to speculate on what sue
cess Mr. German might have had in
his anti-expansion propaganda if the
new object lesson had not been forced
upon public attention. The fact is that
the public has been impressed anew
with the wisdom of preparing in peace
for war emergency. and with the fur
Their fact that naval preparation is the
most effective that can be made in
this line. Senator German will sim
ply have to retire to the rear and be
seated again. Like the Russian war
ships, his new issue was put out of
commission by the Japanese guns and
torpedo boats in the Port Arthur and
Chemulpo engagements.
Senator German ought to get a rab-
bits foot
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WEAVER WANTS! 70 GO.

st. Louis Globe-D emocrat.-G eneral
James B. Weaver advises William j.
Bryan to- give up free silver. Ac-l
cording to the general, the 16 to L
idea has been knocked out by two
republican victories for President by
several republican trimphs for con-
gress, by the republican gold standard
act, and by the big gain in gold pro-
duction. This is right, Of course, and
the democrats of the generals state
seem to take this view also. But what
will Bryan say about 1t? He has stuck
to silver along to this time, and is
not likely to give 1t up until his party
gets it's 1904 beating. There is
no certainty that he will surrender,
even then.
But General Weaver ought to have
considerable influence with the de-
nocracy himself. Like his friend Bry-
an, he was a presidential candidate in
two canvasses. In 1880 he was the
nominee of the greenbackers and poll
ed the biggest vote in his party's his
tory. A dozen years later he was the
populists' standard bearer, and that
year his poll beat that Of all the rest
the country's annals. Bryan was on
the stump for Weaver in 1892. Theo-
retically, Weaver. as has been said,
was populist in 1892 and green
hacker in 1880. He was democrat
in both years, according to the deffni-
tion of democratcy which was current
in Bryan's two national canvasses.
The detection of Weaver Is a sefi-
GUS loss to the silver forces. He was
on the firing line for his old friend in
1896 and 1900. Nobody talked more
eloquently for Bryan in those two
canvasses than did the ex-greenback-
err ex-populist and thorough democrat,
James b. Weaver. It(would seem that
when this old paladin Of bogus money
gives up the fight 1t is time for all
the recruits like Bryan to surrender.
But General Weaver says that Bryan,
whether he continues to advocate sill
Yer or not, will be a large force in the
st. Louis convention. And in this he
is undoubtedly correct. Although old
silverites all over the country are. CIV
ing up that hobby, Bryans adhesion to
it is not apparently taking away from
him many of his admirers. The Me-
braskan is able to fill the biggest halls
yet. The reorganizers are planning
his extirpation, but he is living and
prospecting The persistence of Bry-
ans power through evil and good re-
port is one Of the psychological things
that nobody can satisfactorily ex-
plain,
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AS TO THE TERM cHEAPNEss.

The cry of the democratic party in
the campaign of 1892 was for cheap
products for the working people of the
United States While in that year
this point was especially emphasized
this has been the chief argument urg-
ed against the republican policy OF
protection since the foundation of this
republic was laid. Today indications
point to. the revival Of this argument
by the democrats in the approaching
contest. Whether this is done or not
it is probable that the allurments Of
the term "cheapness" will be as potent
as in the campaign Of 1892.
The question for decision among the
people of the United States on the
verge of the presidential campaign is
to determine what there is in this ar
gument of cheap supplies. Cheapness
is a delusion. This is as true when
applied TO the economics of a nation
as to the individual purchases. When
person buys any article of food,
clothing, ETC., because it is cheap he
naturally expects to get an article of
inferior quality. So it is in the bust
ness of a nation. The country in
which cheapness is the most striking
feature is the most degraded on the
globe.
The basis of cheapness is the deg
radiation of the manual worker. Cheap
labor is necessary to produce a cheap
finished product. In the country
where the toiler puts just estimate
on the value of his work there will be
always found a comparative dearness.
True cheapness can only be measur-
ed satisfactorily by finding out the
standard Of living of peoples. Upon
cheapness be made. When interpreted
by price lists cheapness and dearness
are meaningless terms.
If the people of nation have plen-
ty to eat and wear, if they have the
wherewithal with which to crafty
some of their aesthetic tastes, these
people are living cheaply no matter
what may be the nominal cost of the
things they consume. These
are the conditions that prevail
today in the United States. The
working people of the country
are steadily employed. They are
being paid wages sufficient to live
well and crafty many Of the desires
that were once considered as Injuries,
yet they are living cheaply. This is
why the republican party will ask in
the campaign this year to be given a
new lease of authority to manage the
affairs Of the country. This is why
the people will grant this request by
electing to the presidency Theodore
Roosevelt.
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A CHANGE OF HEART.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Dur
buque Telegraph seems to have ex-
perienced a change of heart In the
trust question. In a late issue the
Telegraph says: Although the glass
industry in the United States Is pro-
tected by tariff schedules aggregating
go per cent on the value of the prod-
uct, the National Glass Trust was un-9
able last year to make any money be-
cause Of the competition offered by a
rival trust, the United States Glass
company, and smaller competitors all
engaged in making table glassware.
The National Glass company, whose
finances were in better shape, has
too WELL" Then, according to the
reasoning of the Telegraph, protec-
tive tariff is not the parent Of trusts,
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BISHOP sPAULDlNG's ADVICE TO
LABORERS.

Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria, is a
pronounced friend Of the workingman.
He believes in the possibility of set
thing all questions that arise between
capital and labor by peaceable and
conciliatory methods. His opinions
naturally carry weight with them. His
utterances on the labor questions of
the day are worthy the careful at
tention of every laboring man and
every man with money to invest. Re
Gently Bishop Spaulding delivered an
address charged with sound advice He
advised against extreme views or rad
ical action In speaking of the labor
ing nan he said:
LET them beware of those who SOW
the seeds of dissension, who foster
distrust and hatred of employers, who
advocate strikes for slight and frivo-
lous causes, or. when there is no reas-
enable hope of gaining the points in
dispute, the only outcome being loss
and suffering for the worlingmen and
their families Radical advocates are
foes of organized labor. Their pur-
/ pose is revolution not reform. They
exaggerate the evil and hardships
which the actual and industrial con-
ditions involve, and ignore or deny the
very real progress which has been
made.
Were socialism to gain control of
the labor unions, the public opinion of
the country would become antagonis-
tic to them, and they would in conse-
quence grow feeble and lead to dis
cline in national prosperity and for
this organized labor would be held re-
sponsible.
'"The workingmen are not the coun-
try; they are but part of the Ameri-
can people, and the people is greater
than any of it's parts. The union can
render greater and more vital service
to it's members by educating them in
the love of justice, moderation and
honest work than by maintaining or
increasing wages. Money is a curse to
those who spend it in debauchery and
riotols living, not less then to those
who hoard it in a misery spirit. The
remedies for the evils from which we
suffer are to be found not in sudden
violent re-adjustments. but in grad
ual processes of reform, to promote
which laborers as well as all who be-
lieve in democracy and love of country
should strive. earnestly and patiently. "
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alton lawyer would have been. AS
soon as it was announced about two
months ago, that Mr.. Root would
leave the war department letters be-
gan to pour in. asking for his legal
services. Retaining fees were forced
on him even before he had an oppor-
unity to talk with the persons who
sought to engage him. This thing
kept up to the day he left the war
department. He was obliged to turn
down many offers he received and it
is safe to say that he could have taken
on enough work that came unsolicit-
ed to keep him busy for the next two
or three years.
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Senator hanna was one of the no.
blest characters l ever knew. AS a
business man he was very successful;
as a politician he ranked with the
most potent; as a statesman he was
broad-minded, far-seeing and intensely
patriotic, and as friend he was the
truest of the true. Not by luck nor by
circumstance did he work his way
from position quite generally misun-
derstood to universal respect and conf
dence 1t was real character, real pa
triotism and real worth. His loss is
national and in the sad bereavement
the humblest will participate."-Se
rotary Shaw.
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craft now building. In submitting his
report the chairman Of the committee
pointed out that the United States
would make a serious mistake were
the sea fighting arm Of the nations
defense to be neglected.
In giving utterance to these senti-
ments, expression was given to the be-
lief. of the citizens of the United States
on this subject. A powerful navy is
recognized as one of the most indis-
pensab1e parts of the nations defense
II American interests everywhere are
to be protected. The value of such a
navy, demonstrated in the Spanish
American war, is being further shown
in the struggle now in 4 progress be-
tween Russia and Japan. Had Japan
at the close of the Japanese Chinese
war failed to adopt a policy of enlarg-
ing its navy. that country would now
find itself helpless to defend its rights
before the aggression of the Russians.
Today, as never before, the world
powers are carefully watching their
naval interests and continuously en-
-larging the same, both as to number of
vessels and equipment. 1t would most
certainly be a short sighted policy for
the United States to become neglect
full in this connection. The vast sums
spent on the navy previous to the
Spanish-American was, were shown to
have been wisely expended by the al
most unparalleled work of those ships
in that struggle. The same will be
found true in the future. The Ameri-
can people believe in the policy of
gradually increasing the navy and
have committed themselves thereto.
Congress has but taken a step to car
ry out this belief.
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AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.

america Tor Americans" is the broad
doctrine to which every patriotic citi-
zen Of the United States regardless Of
party affiliations, can subscribe. This
was the conviction that inspired our
forefathers to the heroic deeds that
gave to US a free nation. It is the
spirit which moved them to resent and
rebuke the English in the war of 1912
for the indignities and insult given our
american seamen. 1t is the essence Of
the now famous and potent doctrine
enunciated by President Monroe In
truth 1t is the foundation principle
upon which has been reared our en-
tire political, commercial and industri-
al structure. 1t has been factor in
deciding the questions of national
nom ent in each succeeding year since
the organization of our government.
Hear what William Mckinley had to
say on this subject:
Let England take care of herself;
let France look after her interests;
let Germany take care of her own peo-
pie, but in Gods name let Americans
look after America!
This advice of the martyred Presi-
dent loses none of its force when 1t
Z 10 lClhCluUCtSu CadC 1llS uIlGlCu IllSS0
words before the Home Market club
of Boston in discussing the problem of
American protection Mr.. Mckinley
also gave at this time forceful utter
ance as to how he would accomplish
this work when he said:
would secure the American mar
ket to the Am erican producer, and l
would not hesitate to raise the duties
whenever necessary to secure this pa
triotic end. would not have an idle
spindle in this country, if, by holding
exclusively the American market we
could keep them employed and run
ming. Every yard of cloth imported
here makes a demand for one yard less
Of American fabrication.
How faithfully does this correspond
with the principle referred to above,
America for Americans. is apparent
to the most casual reader. No won
der that William Mckinley came to
hold such high place in the hearts
of his countrymen.. No wonder that
his memory is cherished by one and
all who enjoy the, blessings of Ameri-
can citizenship, when it is remembered
that his entire lifeswas inspired by this
chief desire, the betterment of the con-
ditions of life for the people of the
United States. The success of his
plan has been amply demonstrated.
the people believe in it, and propose
TO hold fast to the doctrine, America
for Americans"