The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-02-26

When President Roosevelt read Hon.
Henry Cabot Lodges remarks in the
senate about upholding the dignity of
that august body against assaults from
the White House and observed his vote
on the burning question as to whether
the word treaty" should be substitute
ed for the word agreement in the ar
bitration treaties he must have felt as
did Caesar when he fell at the foot of
Pompeys statue exclaiming, EFT tn,
Bruter except that he would have sub
stituted for that famous ejaculation
the words, ''Et tn, Henry Cabot!' for
it has been grated about now for about
three and a half years that the senior
senator from Massachusetts is the
fidus Achates of the president. The
ungodly did for long time insinuate
that he even took lessons in equestrian
ism in order that he might ride out
with the president, who, if not half
horse and half alligator, as certain
backwoodsman vaunted himself, at
least sits horse as though he had
been born in the saddle. It has been
said that Senator Lodge is the most
frequent of White House visitors, hav-
ing the entree into, that famous and
garish mansion at all hours Of the
day or night. He has been supposed to
be what in General Jackson's day
would have been denominated chief of
the kitchen cabinet and to have great
er influence over Colonel Roosevelt
than any other living man. They are
both Harvard men, authors and Of
scholarly tastes. All official Washing
ton therefore gasped for breath when
the newspapers stated the fact that in
case in which the president evidently
has his heart much set on having his
own way Senator Lodge has spoken
and voted to uphold the dignity Of the
senate as against the president.
If the departed spirits Of the mighty
dead take any interest in mundane af-
fairs, Louis Kossuth. who once aroused
intense furore in the world, must be de-
lighted with the performances Of the
younger Kossuth, present leader of the
Hungarian Independence party, who is
demanding feasible things for his peo-
pie and who has recently had a long
and most important audience with the
venerable Emperor Francis Joseph.
What Kossuth is now aiming at is not
a dynastic separation from the empire,
but legislative independence.
It seems that Kansas, with her pro-
verbal pluck, proposes to put crimp
in the tail of the Standard Oil octopus
by establishing an oil refinery of her
own despite the threats Of John D.
Rockefeller She succeeded splendidly
in her experiment of making her own
binder Irvine. The world will watch
with bated breath her venture into oil.
wishing her safe deliverance.
OF all the CHASTITY forces in this
world surely congressional funeral
heads the list. Reference is not here
made to what is termed estate tuner
al" such as was accorded the late Gov
ernor Dingley, for instance. when the
president and his cabinet, the supreme
court, the diplomatic corps and the
chiefs of the army and navy crowd
into the hall of the house. but to Kle
ordinary funeral service in the house.
Sunday. the 10Th, the house had sery-
ices In honor of Senator Hoar. Twelve
representatives delivered speeches. Not
to exceed score of representatives.
with few gallery attendants, listened
to them. Such is famei
Smart Alees may now cease to poke
fun at the theory of that great Nilsson
rian, Mark Twain, that a sure test for
identifying person is by the thumb
print since the stealer of $1,000 ex-
press package at Pittsburg has been de.
tected and brought to justice in that
| way. Mark Twain has great head
He is the prince of humorists. but he is
also great philosopher. Vive lie grand
Missourian,
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