The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-12-14

war department mas been adv tSed ina
the Philippine Commission has decided
that for five years more the Spanish
language shall be the official language
Of the Courts of Justice in the Philip.
pine Islands, by the end of which time
the Commission hopes to be able te
have the English language adopted ir
its stead.
Representative Robert Bonynge, OF
Denver. Colo, has presented Presden,
Roosevelt with a gold heart given by
the people of that State. The money
for the heart, which contains no alloy
of any kind, was raised by popular sub
penny. a total of 5000 pennies was
sent to Denver. These were added to
in other directions. sufficient money be-
Ing gathered to make a total of several
hundred dollars.
The heart was incased in beautiful
box, upon which is this inscription
From the heart of the Rocky Noun
tains this symbol of pure Colorado gold
is sent by men, women and children,
rich and poor sharing alike, to Theo-
dore Roosevelt, President of the United
States, whose great heart brought peace
to the people of Japan and Russia.
Thanksgiving Day. 1905, A. D."
The President received the heart with
expressions of deep pleasure, and asked
that his thanks be conveyed to the peo-
pie who sent 1t to him:
Gen. Chaffee, Chief of Staff, made an
address in Los Angeles the other night.
at a reception given in his honor, and
In discussing war and the work of the
Army said:
Gentlemen. war will come again.
There are plenty of men in this room
who will see our country at war again.
Not on our own soil, perhaps; you must
remember that we have now become
one of the Nations of the earth. We
have great interests to defend.
when that war comes we must be
intelligentIy prepared for it. Modern
war is not what war used to be. No
one is now fitted to command troops
who is not a scientific and well-trained
man. Modern war must be scientifically
treated to save human life.
1.-The Japanese are military people,
but we are not. We do not get on with
military preparations as they do. but
We should be ready for conflicts
In place of being a son of the East
and grandson of the conservative old
South. the President might be of the
West western. instead of having spent
only two or three years there. He has
appointed Western men to responsible
positions whenever he could, particu-
larly his Rough Rider friends, and now
another appointment is imminent This
time it is Bat" Masterson. The Presi-
dent. it is said will appoint Bat Mas
terson Chief of the Secret Service men
at the White House. Masterson is a
different type from the President, al
though they are alike brave. Master
son has a nerve that is castiron. He
can face a loaded gun that brushes his
eye-winkers and not bat an eye. He
has a grasp of steel. a voice as gentle
as a woman's, and is a judge of men,
G a
Service man as any of the other at
tributes He never talks much, he is
quiet in his ways, and as even-tem-
pered as they grow them. 1t was as
Town Marshal of Dodge City, Kan, that
Bat got his reputation as "subduer"
Of men. Dodge was a b-a-a-d town;
that's what 1t was. No one disgraced
himself in that mans town by dying
with his boots off, and yet "Boot-hil
Cemetery's" census augmented gen
tleman'' or two a day, with now and
then a ''lady" 1t was a "cow-town,
q freighting division, where prairie
schooners fitted up. stage station, and
was noted for bad booze. outlaws, and
gamblers. Bat was made Town Mar
shall, and he started in to locate claims
in Boot-hill Cemetery. The rate at
which he accomplished this threatened
race suicide among the "tin-horns'' and
other toughs, and they laid for him.
1t wasn't any use Bat was too much
for them, and they began to consider
other locations on toward the shutdown
seas. Dodge City's reputation began
to improve. and in the course of few
years respectable people could live
there unmolested. The notches on Mas
tersOn's gun are not as thick as some
of his ardent friends would have peo-
pie believe, for ne was never in any
sense q "man-killer" just for the fun
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who by very force of determination and
will make men do the right thing. That
II his attraction for the President, in
all probability. If appointed. Master
son will go with the President every
where. be forever at his heels, and 1t Is
safe to guess that President Roosevelt
will never be able to give Masterson
the slip as he often does the other men
who guard him. Masterson will be
right there, and don't you forget It,
1t Ia stated by Consul Mahin, Of Not
tinghamshire, Eng, that the United
States leads in enormous expenditures
in it's Postal Department and also in
deficit there. Our Postal deficit this
year is $4,239,000. Great Britain runs
her postal affairs with a profit Of $22,-
100000.
In an Executive Order, President
investigation of the sanitary conditions
in Government offices and workshops
throughout the country, with the view
particularly OF aiding in the work
against the spread of the white
plague"-tuberculo Federal
employees. Surgeon-General Robert NJ.
O'Reilly, u. 8. A.; Surgeon-General p.
NJ. Rixey. u. s. N. and Surgeon-General
Walter Wyman. of the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service, form a
committee to prepare and submit to the
President for approval a plan for car
rying out his instructions.
Tardily, now. Congress wants to help
Gen. Porter. formerly ambassador to
France, pay for finding and exhuming
the remains of Paul Jones and sending
them to this country. This little mat
ter cost Gen. Porter about $4,000
Congress simply sat on such paymen,
last session, and Gen. Porter went on
and did the thing himself from sheer
patriotism. Now he says he will not &C.
cept any money. but he suggests that
II Congress is in a giving mood, tina,
e appropriate $4,000 more-what
would naturally come to Gen. Porter
and add II to the sum for building q
permanent tomb for the remains OF
Paul Jones, whose much-troubled dus
now reposes i'm q temporary tomb in
Annapolis