The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-11-16

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
say things about tho Panama Canal
project was something--well, it would
have been awful il 1t hadn't been fun
ny. Mr.. Chairman, ETC., Shonts says of
the knockers on the Panama Canal,
among them Senator Morgan, of Ala
bama, to face whom with a lie would
take brave man, and Representative
Knows more things about everything in
a minute than Mr.. Chairman, etc,
} Shonts knows in year, and several
others too numerous to MENTION but
who are more than in the "also' class:
i You can hear the members of this
band chanting their song, singly and in
lcnorus, wherever men cOngregate, and
wherever a few reporters are gathered
J together. They are rehearSing for their
grand burst of noise when Congress
shall have assembled. When they are
not rehearsing they are putting the
words of their song into bogus inter-
, views and other written forms of news
paper publication, which they are send
ing forth by thousands from their bu-
reaus of publicity in this and other
cities.
LAS one contemplates the output of
this singular industry, this factory of
fiction, he is moved to say of it's guild
ing spirit, as SHAKESPEARE says of Capt.
Dumain He will lie with such volu-
Ibility, sir. that you would think truth
were a fool"
Il Now, maybe Mr. Shonts can bulldoze
Congress, and then again maybe he
can't. Anyhow, that kind of talk won't
build the Canal, nor will 1T convince
anybody that it will be built AS a last
shot, Mr.. Shonts said: 1--WE are build
ing the Theodore Roosevelt Canal" And
that's pretty high and mighty also, amt
1T? 1t seems like we had heard some
thing of canal down in that region
several years ago, even before our very
/ popular young President was born. And
President Hayes, in one of his mes
sages. said that an Isthmian Canal
| would mean the extension of the United
States frontier to that southern point.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, the Ger
man ambassador, has notified Secretary
Root officially that Germany is ready
to proceed to negotiate a new trade
treaty with America. The Baron told
| the Secretary that a change must be
had in the treaty relations between the
two countries and that, realizing the
dangers of a tariff war, Germany was
anxious to effect some arrangement with
the United States that would insure a
continuance of good feeling and make
for the industrial development of both
countries. Therefore he stated that his
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notice that it was ready to enter upon
negotiations for trade treaty. He did
not use the word reciprocity.
| Wouldn't this have sounded funny in
the days before our great war of the
| rebellion, when officers had not yet
learned to expect marble bathtubs and
silver-mounted toilet articles on the
| march? Lieut.. Pope, of the Regular
Army, has had his liberty restricted,
| forfeited $50 and been reduced In rank
| because he abandoned" his command
on q recent move from quarters in Ohio
to others in Atlanta, Ga. Tourist sleep
| ipgcars were provided for the troop
mich was being .transferred-think of
| that, you bluecOat wearers from '61 to
IS, who thought yourselves in pretty
| good luck to get a berth on the floor of
. cattle-car, and only swore a little if
| they transported you I'm coal fats-but
| these young troopers had nice, comfort
| able quarters on new tourist cars Lieut.
Pope however, found tourist car rath-
CT beneath his dignity, SO took a state
| room in the Pullman of an entirely diff
| ferent train, where he rested his weary
bones during the transfer. For little
! thing like this he is charged with
| abandoning" his troop, and now he has
to suffer. Poor lad!
HE is sure plum locoed!" Did you
Agricultural Department Is trying to
| find out the science" of loco, "the in
sane root that takes the reason prison.
err, recognized as such in Shakspere's
day and known since men tended
flocks You can't tell a stockman any,
| thing about it, for they know by ex-
| perience that mighty seldom will hoof
| OF stock that has eaten of 1t ever be
worth shucks for anything but the bone
yard afterward. 1t acts differently on
different creatures, but it kills all in
the end-sometimes a day, sometimes
| week, month or longer. But it kills
| eventually Some skeptics say that it
IL; not q weed which does this, but al
kali in the soil which the stock eats,
and they give all sorts of explanations
which do not explain, for 1t still stands
that when a lot OF stock gets into q
field of loco weed, that stock might as
well be killed and save all further trou-
BILE.
The Agricultural Department is now
experimenting with the juice Of loco
| on rabbits. 1t makes them act like
drunken men. They stagger, grin, and
| seem half-paralyzed, inclined to move
| in circles and to do all sort of very
foolish things Then they die. Just
what the poison Is Is puzzler. II the
knowledge will be boon to stockmen,
| for in some localities in the great West
whole herds OF cattle, horses and sheep
have been wiped out by the dreaded
weed, which is difficult to eradicate.
1t is estimated in the Navy Depart
| ment that the cost of towing the big
| steel dry-dock from Baltimore to its
station in the Philippines will be about
$z50,00O. Three GOLFERS will be used
| In getting the dock to it's distant des-
| tination, and there will be, in addition,
| certain extraordinary expenses in the
way Of buoyage and canal tolls. 1t Is
proposed to take the dock through the
Suez Canal, and that incident will be
| notable, as the dock Is larger than any
structure which has ever gone through
that waterway. The dock will start on
| It's long voyage the middle Of next
month. Capt. w. +. FuIlam, OF the
Navy, will have command Of the expe-
dition.
China, the ancient Of the earth If
| her history is to be believed, is about
| to wake up just as Russia has. The
world do move. Yu Chuan Chang, a
| member Of the Chinese Commission
which is to draft q Constitution for the
Chinese Empire, arrived last week He