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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Gov. Hogg's Advice to Parker.

Gov. Hogg of Texas. a big rosy. hearty
man. who has the faculty of inspiring a
crowd. and is himself in turn inspired by
one, has been advising Judge Parker to
come out and show himself to the people.
This conversation between the two men is
reported as taking place on Friday last:
What the democrats of this city want
more than anything else, just now" said
MT. Hogg, lis a chance to get acquainted
with their candidate. IL you would let the
people know that you were going to be
there. and would stand in Madison Square
Garden for specified hours during the day,
you would shake hands with million peo-
pie"
What you say may be true. governor
replied Mr. Parker, but would 1 have any
hand left?'
You might lose your hand" said ex-tiov.
Eogg, but you would win the election"
The genial Texan does not know New
York The big town is indifferent to indi-
vidual greatness. 1t is great itself. and
that is enough. Men of national fame
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
j. Pierpont Morgan.

1t is as difficult to imagine the retirement
of j. Pierpont Morgan from the business
world as it is that of David B. Hill from
the political world. Each man is a master
in the sphere of his activity Neither is an
old man. The business world, with its new
devices and its manifold opportunities. was
never more inviting than 1t is today. while
the political world is all but Irresistible to
those who have shifted it's atmosphere.
Maybe Mr. Morgan intends merely to be
less strenuous in future. Maybe his pur-
pose Is TO bring into greater prominence
the son he has trained to succeed him. and
who has shown the qualities of his tribe for
management. Mr.. Morgan is probably not
going on the shelf as that word is used
He has too much life left too much prom
erty at stake, too many reasons for keeping
In sight of the field and in close touch with
the players.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Naturally any infractiOn of the laws or
constitutional provisions granting immunity
from arrest to diplomats on duty in the
United States will be properly attended to
by the State Department and the whole
federal power, If necessary to preserve the
peace between this country and England.
The humiliation visited upon an attache of
the British embassy in Massachusetts can
not be defended by the government at
Washington, even If the young Briton in
question was in fact guilty of smashing
the speed records and the municipal ordi-
nances of Lee The policeman who
arrested him and the judge who fined him
may even, under the statutes. be punished
for their heinous crime of OBTAINING a rep
resentative of his august majesty, King
Edward 1t may be accepted at the outset
that no British warship will appear off our
coasts with loaded guns punctuating de-
mand for immediate apologies and sub
stantial indemnity.
But when this incident has closed the
question will remain to be answered what
Is to be done with the foreigners IN the
diplomatic service who persist in running
amuck against the laws and the ordinances
of the United States? Are they to go IN
scorching, with special tags on their whiz
wagons. gally denying the painting police
men who overhaul them only to fall back
In awesome respect? Or are these exempt
young men likely to receive admonitlons
from their superiors that their immunity
from arrest is too rare and beautiful a
privilege to be invoked? 1t would seem
that the diplomatic prestige of any en-
bassy or legation would in time be some
what affected by the conduct of it's mem
bers. Even the butler to an ambassador
however lordly in the servants quarters,
cannot too recklessly get into trouble with
the police without rejecting in some degree
upon the sovereign whom he so zealousIy
and valuably serves by attending to the
diplomatic digestions.
Heretofore the foreign ministers here
resident have shown a commendable anx-
iety to restrain the impetuous natures of
the members of their suites 1t need not
be doubted now that this Massachusetts
incident will bring good results in a gen
eral tightening of the disciplinary precau-
lions which to a most satisfactory degree
have heretofore kept within bounds those
connected with or employed by the foreign
legations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

a calmer era in our partisan manifestations.
We should not, and are not likely to. grow
too calm. But for some years we have
been increasing our political spectacularity.
until our national conventions have become
delirious and uncomfortable mobs. and our
campaigns riots of red fire and wind-jam-
r.ers. The appeal has been as much. and
as strongly. to the women and children as
to the voters. Instead of discussing In
sober manner the great questions of the
day, we have been giving series of free
entertainments, of which the blare OF bands
and the antics of phrasemakers have been
the leading features.
But we may warm up this year. even
after so cold a beginning. The campaign
is really just opening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
The Real Fiends.
From the Chicago Record Herald.

1t is not often that the police arrest three
tramps In bunch, all of them showing
evidences of being slaves to the cocaine
habit. but hardly a day passes when the
police courts do not have to pass sentence
for one offense or another on men and
women whose lives have been wrecked by
that drug. Much good work has been &C
complished of late in tracing down drug
gists who make practice of supplying the
wants of the unfortunates. and several OF
these men have recently been given lines
under the new state law. The good work
should continue. The poor victims of the
drug are usually called cocaine fiends The
real fiends are, however. the druggists
whom they patronize. Drive them out OF
business,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Need of Public Spirit.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

FROM the Brooklyn Eagle.
We need an awakening of public spirit.
If half the time that is wasted in twad-
ding over ward politics were given to ac-
ton in the public interest we should have
clean, progressive orderly community in
every city. We should not be turning our
children into the streets for lack of schools.
rior submit to be thwarted in our travel and
our trade, for years at a time, by the
dawdl1ng and bungling of political con-
tractors. We should be treated with re-
spect by our own police and served prompt
ty by our commissioners and clerks. we
should hold all companies enjoying pub
lie franchise to the letter of their contracts.
Have we become so eager for our own dol
lar that We have ceased to care how the
public dollar is spent? If SO. the case Is
hopeless. We rise as one man to defend
the nation when it is assailed by any for
eign power; but when the domestic foe APP
pears We are blandy indifferent and let
him have his way with US. Where is the
publicist or statesman who can revive or
create that higher patriotism which is not
flambOyant, which is not menacng to the
welfare of others, but which stands for
right and nsures our own?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
The Price of Egoism.


There's a fellow who's missing a lot, seems
to me-
He lives in a worrisome style;
He's always as busy as busy can be,
And seldom has time for smile.
He isn't content with the credit that comes
To life that is quietly fit.
He's out for the banners an trumpets an
drums;
The fellow that wants to be IT.
He turns from the worlds simple joys with
a sheer.
'Gainst pleasure he closes his heart.
He quenches the source of the generous
tear
And yearns for the conqueror's part.
But whether he's crowned with the splen-
doris of fame
Or compelled with the vanquished to sit
The sweetness Of Life he'll oft miss lust the
same
The fellow who wants to be 1T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Trade Conditions.

From the San Francisco Call.
II is safe to say that, bright as trade
conditions have been during the last FIVE
or six years, they are even now on as
sound and encouraging foundations as at
any time during this period, though the
activity may be characterized by less fever
than during the preceding two or three
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
SHOOTING STARS.
An Unfavorable Estimate.

"You do not approve of oratory in po-
litical campaign
mo" answered Senator Sorghum; tine
most you can hope for from the average
political orator nowadays is that he Will
avoid saying something that gives the other
side good argument
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Mr.. watterson advises people to read
President Roosevelt's books in order to
form an estimate of him. Mr.. Watterson
Is not afraid of helping along pubilshng
house whether it advertises in his columns
Or not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Off With the Old.

From the Terre Haute Tribune.
The shirt waist days will soon be over,
like the days of the straw hat. But there
are other days with other waists and hats
that go with them. Off with the cd and on
with the new is as good in style as in love.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
An Assertion Scrutinized.

"Wiggs says he would share his last dol
lar with friend"
"Yes But Wigs is too prudent ever to
be caught with his last dollar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Senator Platt will not deny himself the
pleasure of saying Il told you So if any,
thing goes wrong with the republican marty
In New York this fall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
The Time for Thanks.

They knew the art of living.
These men who came before.
They did not hold Thanksgiving
Till election day was DER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Ex-senator PETER can never make
speeches enough to cause people to remem-
Der him as anything but the man behind
the WhiSkers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

1t is one of the traditions of this govern
ment that the acceptance of nomination
fer the presidency requires great deal OF
explanation by the candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

In view of these reports of meager cam
paign funds the man who always claims
that an election was bought may as well
look forward to rather cherries winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

The lack of excitement in the presidential
Campaign is tribute to the qualities of
both candidates. There is nothing to get
seriously apprehensive about. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
A Place of Safety.

Don't you feel a little nervous in your
new automobile?'
NO." answered the man whose clothes
smell of gasoline, when 1 am in that ma
chine sense of perfect security comes
over me- know I can't be run over"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

hurcpatkin will probably have no obJec-
ton to dividing the record of Russian de-
feat with another general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Banjo players are expected to join the
musical union in New York. Perhaps a
union could control the banjo player. Moth
ing else can.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Cold blooded China is possibly envylne
Japan this opportunity to dispose OF any
surplus population.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Get a Fire Engine!

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Apostle Dowie would win more converts
II he would go round in chariot of fire,
instead of an ordinary automobile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Peeling Them Off.

From the Chicago Tribune
Port Arthur seems to have as many de-
tachable outer defenses as the heart of an
onion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

David B. Hill would like to be one of the
people who gather few laurels before re-
firing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

Many a man wishes he could take as
roseate a view of his circumstances as the
assessor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Washington Now is "It.'

FTom the Chicago News
oyster Bay may now resume its normal
proportions as minute dot on the map
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

General Corbin will never succeed in turn
Ing the army into a bachelors club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

"Mebbe de world owes you Twin" said
Uncle Eben, but 1t ain gwine to run no
delivery wagon to save you de trouble of
collection"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27
Italy's Smoke Nuisanc

From the indianapolis News
Vesuvius Is once more demonstrating new
ideas for summer night spectacle effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-27

DIn order to avoid delays on account OF
personal absence, letters to THE STAB
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the once. but simply 20
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or 4usi-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01

The excitement is an indication of the
sensitiveness of statesmen at the capitol
just now to any development which
might seem to connect them, even re-
motely, with the irregularities in the
post office department. 1t is due largely
to the ofhciousness of somebody in the
government printing Office who for the
lack of any other headline manufac-
tured for the document the title
Charges Concerning Members of Con-
gress," when, in fact, there were no
charges whatever and the document con-
sisted simply Of compilation of routine
letters, such as any congressman is
writing daily to department officials, on
all sorts of matters affecting his dis
trict
In the entire list of congressman
whose names were published there is
not one who is properly open to criti-
cism for anything that he did, for there
Is no tntimation that any one of them
proflted directly or indirectly through
the advances they secured in the allow
ances for post Offices in: their districts.
In almost all the cases the sums in
volved were small, amounting in only
two or three instances to more than
500 a year, and in almost every in
stance all that the congressman did was
to forward with his Endorsement the
local pOstmasters request for an ad-
vance.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01

high rate OF inter-
est upon the landlords money at that.
The same disparity between rent and
income worries the poor man that brings
Fuckers into the brows of the $4,000 a
year family trying to live beyond it's
means. New York people habitually ex-
pend from rs to 80 per cent. of their in
come upon rent. AS you approach the
very poor the proportion increases. In
fairly new tenement in the heart of the
slums, surely not pleasant place to live,
rents range from five dollars to seven
dollars per month for each tiny room.
A suit of four apartments would cost $50
to $50 per month"; much more than that
if there was bath or an exceptionally
endurable outlook. That sum would hire
a whole house in the outer parts of
Brooklyn. New York affords the cheap
est as we'll as the dearest of everything.
The outer wards afford rentals of alb
surdly low proportions not to be sur
passed even in Philadelphia.
This perpetual drift of people to the
outskirts has it's political meaning. 1t is
really half the secret of some of New
York's surprising political overturns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01

Smith docs not look like either q
prophet or 9 preacher;1he does not even.
have the appearance of a hard-h eaded
business man which Mormon leader is
very apt to be-; in his face and bearing
he is more on the order of a pedagogue
who has been accustomed to give in
struction on elementary subjects with
out having his; statements called in ques-
ton by anybody While he was seated
at. the head of the committee table, re-:
plying to the questions shoWered on
him by the investigating senator's one
might have imagined that he was an
old-fashioned college professor deliv-
ering lecture on the rudiments of the
Mormon religion and looking down from
a superior height upon the ignorance of
the pupils who were unfortunate enough
not to understand >elearly all the in
tricacies Of the subject of which he was
an easy master.
The question: of the eligibility of Reed
Smoot to seat in the senate has be-
come so complicated with religion, poll
tics and morals that the committee on
privileges and elections are going to
nave a hard time in coming to a con-
cluslon and the senate may have an
equally hard time in acting upon the
committees report. The far western
senator's, both republican and democrat,
are very much stirred up about the bust
ness. They say that if Smoot is permit
tea to retain his seat it will not: be many
years before every one Of the Rocky
mountain states will be represented
there bya Mormon, so great is the spread
OF Mormonism through all that part of
the country.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01


was once occupied by Dawes and
Conkling and Sumner. It is the
most desirable seat in the senate.
Next in order are Allison. of Iowa:
Proctor; of Vermont: Hale, of Maine;
Hoar and Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
and Burrows, of Michigan. German,
of Maryland, occupies the conspicuous
seat in the king row on the demo-
cratic side. Aldrich, who is usually
regarded as the floor manager for the
republicans, has never chosen a seat
in the king row, but has a place Just
behind, and Hanna's place adjoined
that of Aldrich. Frye, of Maine, and
Plat, of Connecticut, are in the very
front row, although Frye's place is
usually occupied now by John Kean,
of New Jersey, while the Maine SEN
ator presides over the senate.
So long as the republicans have so
pronounced majority in the senate
it will be the fortune of some of them
to be isolated in the corner of the
democratic section of the chamber.
Just now there are enough republicans
over there to form quite a respectable
group-Dryden and Kean, of New Jer-
sey; Long, of Kansas; Ball and Allen,
of Delaware, and Dick, of Ohio.
The section corresponds to what is
known in the house as the Cherokee
strip" where in past congresses some
of the leading republicans have been
forced to choose seats-Hitt, of ILL.,
nois, and Hepburn among the others.
The Cherokee strip received it's name
away back in the Fifty-secopd con-.
gress, when the democrats had SO big
a majority that many, of them had to
go over on the republican side. That
was when the Cherokee strip in Okla
homa was being opened to settlement
...s*5 /. s LOUIS a. CooLIDGH. ].
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01

Where is the New Yorker who will
not say that he knows a good thing
when he sees it? Well, there were a
few who fell far short Of this estimate
the other day, when a man stood on
the sidewalk in front of the Hoffman
house offering to sell twenty dollar
gold piece for dollar. The expert.
ment is an old one, but despite the
peddler-like opportunities of the
money merchant, he didn't make a
sale, and he was twice threatened with
arrest in the bargain
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01

NA0<0s III. d NJ
bursts church, DR.. Rainford's and DR..
Greer's, now Dr. Parks, are exceptions.
The two latter are institutional churches
of vast activities, to which the neighbor-
hood of the tenements is a. necessity of
usefulness. The former is now almost
the only political pulpit in New York.
1t is not so far downtown as the others
either; the point in its case is that
it succeeded in selling it's old site with
out taking that opportunity of moving
north. Instead, it is to erect new
church right across the street from the
old one, which is soon to be replaced by
a section of what will be the largest Of
flee building in New York, the great
Metropolitan, which is growing piece by
piece upon the ruins of two churches, of
the beautiful old Academy of Art and Of
several of Americas famous historic
homes. For neighbors besides this
enormous two-acre structure, the Park
hurst church will have the beautiful ap-
pellate courts, one Of the many scattered
buildings which in New York compare
favorably with the best Of Paris.
DR.. Parkhurst is almost alone among
conspicuous c1ergymen in delivering po-
litical prophecies with the old-time zest
which made Beecher's public utterance
so piquant. It was DR.. Parkhurst who
predicted that two weeks after Tam
many's gaining possession Of the munfc-
ipaI departments New York would be
Hell With the Lid on It isn't true.
Except perhaps locally and furtiyely nm
til the lively young Mr.. McC 1ellan hears
q #
OWEN IANGDON.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-01

Lots OF nenznoWsl iyingcanSrememher
the beginnings Of the big store develop.
s1nentsin New York. IN my first years In
the city I heard from the lips Of james
Ridley himself how he started in busi-
ness on the corner of Grand street and
Allen in shop about 20 feet by 40, tended
only by himself and his wife and by
their sons as they grew big enough. Upon
the same site he had then-20 years ago
raised mammoth structure with 1000
employees Nor was he an old man at the
time e-~,S = @~~,>~5-
Neither Ridley shop nor Ridley name
Is now in evidence upon Grand street,
which for all it's Understanding name has
become the main thoroughfare of the
great East side Ghetto Upon the site
are half dozen enterprising stores kept
by Hebrews. The big stores are all with
the single exception of Wanamaker,
whom the Stewart tradition keeps to the
ancient site, moving uptown. Even the
Big Store" of the Siegel- Cooper Co. no
longer the property of the original own
ers, is now rather far downtown, al
though only few years built Wanna
maker alone is within two miles of
Bowling Green and the ancient city. -
The most curious movement Tn shop
dom now in New York is it's centrifugal
tendency. 1t is not now mere thread
and needle shops alone-that cling to the
outskirts of the city, but great depart
ment stores are springing up, or growing
by degrees as "Ridley's" grew, in the
heart of the outer wards, ten miles, 1t
may be, from the city's center. The chief
shops in Harlem to-day would have been
colossal in the heart of town ten years
ago. Women will not travel an hour and
a half from Jamaica, for instance, to do
a trif1e of shopping that can be arranged
for at an enterprising place near home.
Perhaps that fact is at once the answer
to the question why there is no shopping
trust, and the reason why young men to-
day have bright opportunities in re-
retail trade.