The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-05
Barry and Paul Jones.

The one branch of our government in
which all our people take pride and Of
which no American citizen is jealous
is the navy. We have set our faces
like flint against large standing army,
but public opinion is practically unani-
nous in favor of a strong navy. The
reasons for this difference of the feeling
as to the two arms of the military serv-
ice are not far to seek. In the first
place, the navy does not NEEDLE with
affairs on land. Even in the worst
were never asked to overawe voters at
the polls. Carpetbag rascals frequent
~ were backed up by the army, but
never by the navy. In the second place,
navy cannot be improvised as can
an army, especially since the invention
Of the modern battleship, torpedo boat
and torpedo boat destroyer. These are
complicated, delicate and costly ma
Chimes which require years, not months.
in the building and which none but
trained men can manipulate. On the
other hand, an army, even a great
army, can be speedily created. By rea-
son of his high intelligence the Amer
lean citizen is the easiest of all NOR
tails to transform into q soldier. This
was demonstrated On a gigantic scale
Id 1861 and on smaller scale during
the Hispano-American war. As mat
ter Of fact, we have never depended OIL
the regular soldier to do our fighting.
but upon the volunteer, and we have
not relied upon him in vain. He has
met every requirement and has given
US the victory in every war. =.
By reason of the foregoing facts the
bulk of our people will indorse the
project to bring the remains of John
Paul Jones, our first great naval hero,
home for. reburial and to erect statues
in the national capital to him and Com
modore Barry. This duty has already
been too long deferred.
The Harlan family is one Of the few
In this country in which great talents
are hereditary. Mr.. Justice John Mar
shall Harlan of the supreme court of
the United States is a great law
his son, john NJ, Jr., who has just been
nominated as the Republican candidate
for mayor of Chicago, appears to be
chip off the old block. The most re-
markable instance in America of great
talents descending from generation to
generation is that of the Adams family
in Massachusetts.
The extreme youthfulness of the
United States as a nation is forcibly
illustrated by the fact that at Syracuse
N. Y, lives a daughter of one of Wash
ington's colonies. She is Mrs. Levi p.
Dodge. Her father was Colonel James
G. Wilson, who lived in Philadelphia to
the great age of 103.
II the senate keeps on in its rantan-
kerous opposition to President Roosevelt
he will be as glad to get congress of
his hands as was Grover Cleveland.
Indeed, occasionally some oyerzealous
but underWise friend of the president
is heard to wish that congress would
not meet again in five years, but, If not
In nye years, then why meet at all!
Has anybody observed any fall In
the price Of dressed beef since the
supreme court rendered it's opinion
Hardly. Everybody in anywise con-
cerned should read the story in the
back of Webster's old blue back speller.
As long as the man hurled bits of sod
at the boy in the apple tree the young
ster only laughed him to seorn, but as
soon as the man substituted rocks for |
turf the urchin hurried down. The
application? Plain as the nose on your
face. Give up civil procedure and |
prosecute the trusts criminaIIy That |
viii bring them to time.
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