Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.


exposure, conspicuously among
them that of Senator Bates of
Tennessee has again awakened the
country to the perils of that incle-
ment season. There is no doubt but
that thousands have been slam in
attending the Inauguration cere-
monies in wintry weather. Organic
ed effort is again a foot to change
the day Of the induction into office
of the president-elect from cold,
gusty wet, or freezing March the
fourth to the last Thursday in April,
which latter date from weather
statistics is in Washington usually
warm and balmy and f1owery with
out being heated. Men of national
reputation are engaged in the effort
to have the inaugural day changed
to the more salubrious period and it
is hoped that the next event, when
the new palatial station in Wash
ington shall have been completed
and the new mammoth convention
hall shall be an accomplished fact
the tens of thousands of American
citizens who come to Washington
to witness and honor the induction
of a president may be able to do SO
in vernal weather without peril to
their lives from colds, grippe and
pneumonia.
Among ourselves we differ in
many qualities of body, head and
heart; we are unequally developed,
mentally as we'll as physically. But
each OF us has the right to ask that
he shall be protected from wrong
doing as he does his work and
carries his burden through life. >
Theodore Roosevelt.
There is an adage that has almost
the authority OF an axiom that a
man who talks much does little.
This adage is completely dlsproved
in the example of the president of
the United States. Few men have
done more and he talks and speech
fies and sermonizes necessarily?
Moreover few men preach better
and more effectively. His talk last
Sunday at the church which he
habitually attends was distinguished
for a breadth elevation and an
earnestness coupled with rare
common sense such as has not
been possessed in higher degree by
previous president or ruler in the
worlds history. We need make no
exception Marcus Aurelius, Themis-
tooles, Washington, Lincoln; Roose-
welt is eminent in this list. How
small appears the Vardamans,
Cammacks, Kitchins and that other
member of Congress from Alabama,
1--WE have forgotten his name) but he
is distinguished solely for an
anarchistic remark about Roosevelt
and Booker Washington during the
last campaign.
The new commissioner of pen
sions has notified his clerks that
they will be compelled to take the
vacation of one month year al
lotted them. The Hon. Vespasian
Warner has been in his office little
less than a week. When he has
been there longer he will know that
the government clerk does not have
to be compelled to take vacation.
James H. Eckles declares that it
is all we'll enough for congressman
to make the laws but thew
should leave the management of
railroads to someone who has some
brains. By the time the fifty-ninth
congress assemblies it will have a
reply ready for Mr.. Eckles.
There were no accidents at the
Inauguration not even the presi-
u0uC- 0l0CC.
Presidential booms are already
being planted, but the season is
young yet and any little tender
shoots may be frosted before the
real heat. of the campaign sets in.
Mrs. Chadwick is now in the state
in which she left the banks that
she dealt with. She has collapsed
''The Shoe Dealer" saws women
will wear large, roomy shoes with
broad toes and low heels this sum-
mer. The women have not had
their say yet.
There was nothing startling in
the report sent out from PhiIadel-
phia that here was dearth of sill
yer coins. Almost anyone could
report a similar condition in his
own affairs.
Philadelphia claims that she is