Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.

my Jul. 1udU 10 dUOuU DIS D0luO-
cratic as anything ever attributed
to Thomas jefferson.
When William j. Bryan tells the
Democrats that their party needs
no reorganization he tells the truth.
What the Democratic party needs
is votes.
When the American board of
Congregational Foreign Missions de-
cided to accept the 100000 con-
tributation of Mr.. Rockefeller, of
Standard Oil notoriety, one in
dignant member of the board arose
and said. the initials of the organiza-
ton should henceforth be translat-
ed ANY Boodler Can Finance Me-"
With five foreign nations sitting
around the Moroccan poker table
there is very little chance of the
Sultan's Saving his stakes"
Any man who will follow the
moral teachings of Theodore Roose-
welt will make a good citizen, a
good husband and good father. And
Theodore Roosevelt practices what
he breaches.
Everything is quiet in Santo
Domingo, thanks to the presidents
acceptance of the modus vivendi.
This is strange condition for
Santo Domingo and one that would
have been impossible but for the
assistance of the United States.
When the Dominican treaty
comes up in the Senate next fall
the Democratic Senators will be
asked to remember that the pl esi-
dent who negotiated it is president
of the whole people and not of the
republican party, and to remember
that they are senators of the United
States and not of the democratic
party.
Senator Scott of West Virginia is
afraid the poor railroads will not be
given "a square deal" by the presi-
dent and the congress.
The Department of Justice has
gone after the Beef Trustin dead
earnest and only the most extensive
perjury or radical defects in the
laws can save the big packers.
The marriage of young Thaw
promised to be a freezing affair, but
the presence of Mother Thaw at the
wedding softened it.
The profits of Japan's national
tobacco monopoly amounted last
year to $4,000, 900 yen and European
money lenders are outvieing each
other to lend to the Island King
dom. But then the taxes on liquor
and tobacco paid the entire ex-
penses of the United States military
establishment, last year.
Judge Dunno, the newly elected
mayor of Chicago, will have hard
time running a profitable municipal
railroad with such men as mike"
Sullivan and ''Hinky Dlnk" as his
most prom1nent-and importunate
advisers.
Secretary Hay has long been
known as ''shirt sleeve diplomat
ist." An effort is now being made
to fix on Secretary Taft, acting
secretary of state in Mr.. Hays alb
sence, the sobriquet of diplomat in
overalls."
The president has promised Ok
lahoma to exert his influence to Sc
cure statehood for that territory.
The president will probably be able
to fulfil his promise, even if New
Mexico and Arizona are left out in
the cold.
Minister Legere, the affable color
ed men who represents Haiti at
Washing IN, has protested vigor-
ously against Minister Powell's re-
port that there was a riot in the
Haitien capital. When Secretary
Taft asked the minister what harm
was done as long as the riot failed to
materialize, the native minister re-
piled, 1T do hurt the effort of our
financiers to borrow monee." 'Then
you should be very grateful to
Powell" was Secretary Taft's
prompt response.
Reports from Madagascar are to
the effect that the Russian fleet has
been engaged in extensive target
practice. AS there are few tele-
graph lines in Africa reports as to
the number of African fishermen
killed have not yet reached here.
A dispatch from London declares
that the only battle in which Ro-
jesventsky's fleet has ever engaged
was the Dogger bank affair.
Prince Henry Of Prussia made a
good impression when he was in
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