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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
The Jew in American Politics.

Jews are beginning to form such a
large element in the American popu-
lation, and SO many OF them have
figured prominently in all sorts OF
activities in the United States, that
it seems odd that Oscar S. Straus, of
New York City, whom President
Roosevelt has recently selected for
secretary of commerce and labor,
should be the first to enter the cab
met. Mr.. Straus himself has been in
the diplomatic service, having been
minister to Turkey. Many Jews
have been in each branch of Con.
gress. Several of them, including
Maryland's senior senator, Isador
Rayner, are in Congress now. Some
of them have been on the federal
bench. But Mr.. Straus will be the,
first member of presidents official
family. 1t is a notable distinction
most worthily bestowed
In American journalism. from the
days of Mordecai M. Noah, Ut the
old Courier ind Enquirer, of New
York, down to those of Joseph Pull
itzer, of the New York World, Adolf
S. Ochs, of the New York Times
and Philadelphia Ledger, and Ed
ward Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee.
who died few weeks ago, Jews have
beer prominent Jacob H. Schiff,
Isaac N. Seligman, Edward Lauter-
bach, Henry Siegel, Walter Dam
rosch and Felix Adler are among the
scores of Jews who have national
prominence in their various fields oil
work. Moreover, the relative con-
spicuousness of the Jews is increas-
ing. For one reason this is because
the Jewish ingredient is growing
faster than any other element of the
American population. Of the 11,0oo,-
600 Jews in .he world, Russia has
10000 Austria Hungary, 1900, 900,
and the United States, 100000. And
while the number is decreasing in
Russia and is stationary in Austria
Hungary, it is increasing in the Unit
ed States with great rapidity Be-
fore 1910 we will pass Austria Hun
gary in Jewish population, and by
1925 we will beat Russia and take
the leading place among the worlds
communities as a residence of the
descendants of Abraham.
New York City has 100000 Jews,
which is half the aggregate for the
United States; which is more than
there is in any entire country in the
world except Russia, Austria Hun
gary and the United States, which is
ssven times as many as are In Lon
don, and which is 30 times as many
as are in Jerusalem. New York has
20 times as many Jews today as were
in Jerusalem during the height of
Jewish power, when that city was
one of the worlds great capitals. Ev-
cry fifth person met on the streets
of New York City today is Jew.
And the Jews social and business
importance exceeds even his numeri-
Cal strength.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Office Greater Than the Man.

Once when Gov Douglas occupied
the executive chambers on Beacon
hill he went to Provincetown for a
week end visit, says the Boston Her
aid. Saturday afternoon the deacons
of the Methodist church learned that
he was to attend that place OF wor-
ship, and hung glaring poster to
that effect on the outer walls. The
next day the church was packed, and
as the chief executive Of the COM
monwealth entered everybody arose
and stood in respectful silence until
he was seated.
The next year he was again a visi-
tor to the Cape town, and attended
the same church. Only half The seats
were occupied when he came in, and
not a soul stood up. TITS the Office
rather than the man that receives at
tention in Proyincetown," said Mr..
Douglas to friend after the SER
vices.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Keep Going.

Nothing in nature stands still. If
It isn't dying it is growing; if it isn't
growing it is dying. This is as true
of men as of plants. A creature
equ pped with muscle and mind must
use both every day or the muscle
will soften and mind will shrivel
More than that-when body and
brain fail to grow, the spirit, with
all its power over life and usefulness
and happiness, is the first element of
man to signal distress,
So it is with old Franklin Farrell,
the head of foundry and machine
company in Ansonia, Conn. He is
simply guarding his own happiness
by griming his hands in his mill in
spite of his seventy-eight years. By
the measure of money he has earned
retirement, for he is said to be mil
lionaire several times over. By the
measure of hard work, he has surely
earned it. But he keeps to overalls
and his machine shop just the same
He has found out that work and
work alone will keep him young and
we'll
A news item in recent paper says
that Mr. Farrell tried once TO retire
Rheumatism seized him Immediately
If he had not found instant other oc
cupation for both his mind and his
body, the disease would have made
him its own until he died. Instead.
he jumped back to his work, got wei.
and has kept well.
Many men and women who hasc
done a serious work faithfully may
reasonably hope for rest when they
get as far as this foundryman Bet
they won't rest in idlencss. Neither
will they find happiness. The only
things they will find are stagnation
and hypochondria
Rest is kind of work which uses
the faculties in a new way. If you
can't find that kind of work the only
thing that remains to do is to follow
old Franklin Farrell and keep to- your
bench.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06

A good one came to US recently in
the form of dialogue between IN
Gle Leonard Altman and Louie Hess
after this fashion. Mr.. Altman said
about election time-"Wen Louie
campaigning a'int as it used to be
when we were down at Argos taking
the wavering brethren back IN cne al
ley and letting them look up into
our bottles, and the fellow that had
the biggest bottle and ret them look
last was the one that got the vote.
But they do things different up here;
l don't understand it quite, and the
game is most too fast and furious for
you too, amt it Louie. About all
you can do is to make it unanimous +"
Then Uncle Leonard smiled and Lou
IL frowned, and each went different
direction.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06

In a letter to friends in South Bend
James A. Cooper, jr., prosecutor of
Vigo county, this state, resident of
Terre Haute, defines the prosecutors
office as follows:
''The Office of prosecuting attorney
is one of narrow powers, if the in
cumbent seeks to keep himself within
a narrow scope. 1t is an Office of very
wide powers, searching into every
element of the life of the community,
if. the incumbent strikes out in all
directions and is willing to come
again and again after being beaten
back have merely kept hammerine
away wherever | felt good could be
accomplished and have been guided
by the one consideration of what
would best serve the whole people of
Vigo county. There nave been sue
cesses and failures, praise and criti-
cism, and at the end of it all | be-
lieve | see some good to the public.
There is the kind of man for pros
ecutor; a man who rs not a CRATER:
man who is not afraid to do his
duty; a man who does not split hairs
as to just what that duty is; man
who desires to cater to the best ele-
ments of citizenship instead of to the
worst; a man who respects his oath
of office instead of dishonoring it; a
man who has the courage to take
the initiative; a man who does not
hide behind the lamentable excuse,
File an affidavit and / will prose
CUTE" man who makes the prose-
cutor's Office broad and not narrow;
man with common sense; man
who is good example for every
prosecutor in Indiana.
When some of the milk and water
prosecutors of this state read about
James Cooper it must give them a
twinge of conscience if they realize
their miserable weakness and their
frightful shortcomings.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
The Dying Statesman.

The death of Joseph Chamberlain,
which is said to be near at hand, will
mark an epoch in the political his.
tory OF England Not since Gladstone
has the British empire boosted of as
profound statesman Four months
ago he was confined TO his house
with gout Since he has suffered a
paralytic stroke SO severe that the
end cannot long be delayed, says the
Kansas City Star
AS picturesque as Disraeli and
more able than either Salisbury or
Balfeur, he leaves remarkable inn
press upon the history of England.
From the day he left his fathers
shoe shop to seek his fortune he has
been restless, impatient and am
bilious. He was member of Glad
stones cabinet, but broke with him
over the Irish issue.
He sits today a pathetic, aged man
in garden of orchids, his brain all
but numb and the sun of life swiftly
sinking into the dark waters. Al
though the sum total of his life was
success beyond his fellows he never
became prime minister. This failure
only demonstrated his strength oil
character, for he at all times sacri-
feed personal ambition to stand for
reforms which ne conceived to be fol-
his country's best interest. 1t has
been said truthfully of him that he
knew better than any ueher man the
strength and weakness of his coun-
try.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06

Distribution of more than $500, 0Oo
left by the will of Marshall FieId to
twenty-five faithful employees. who
had seen long service in the great
house which he had established, was
practically completed Monday. Mr.
Field left 100000 to employees whose
names and the amounts were men,
toned. In addition he bequeathed
100000 in lump sum to be distrib-
uted among others who had been in
service twenty-five to forty-one years
Almost year of hard work on the
part of astute business men was con-
sumed in apportioning the lump sum
equitably among the employees
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Governor Johnson of Minnesota.

While Governor Johnson, of Min
nesota, may never be the Democratic
candidate for the presidency, we still
think that the Boston Traveller is
right in suggesting that he may be a
man with future For some unac-
couMable reason he has attracted
comparatively little attention. 1t may
be because he is not an advertiser.
1t is possible that he is man OF
the Hitchcock type, who does things
without getting into the limelight
But he must have good, and even re-
markable qualities, or he could never
have been twice elected Governor in
so strong a Republican State as Min
nesota Two years ago, when, the
State gave Mr.. Roosevelt a plurality
of 161 900, Mr. Johnson was elected
by plurality of $3.50 And this year
he was reelected, his plurality being
more than 10000.
Johnson's mother and father are
both Swedes, though he was born in
this country The only Office he ever
held prior to his election as Cover
nor was that of State Senator He
always seems to have done his duty
in every relation of life The Boston
paper says that in his first campaign
his opponents resorted to personal
tiles of the nastiest Sort" charging
that his father was a drunken Swed-
ish immigrant, and his mother a
washerwoman. He paid no attention
to these foolish attacks, but made "a
clean aggressive campaign" and was
elected in the great Roosevelt year
Here is a page out of his record dur
ing his first term: o.
When Johnson became governor
he was he same old Johnson. Didn't
make much noise, but he did things.
He made the Railroad Commission
take action that gave the farmers and
shippers of the State better rates on
their freight He stopped the fraud
in the timber land leases, and saw
to it that the State got its due from
the steel corporations and others
who leased the States land, and was
prominent in the insurance reform
agitation. He picked out good men
for office, regardless of whether they
were with him or against him before
election, and his administration was
so clean and aggressive that instead
of his plurality of 5000 two years
ago, he had more than 10000 this
year. 1t is A great thing for the Dem
ocratic party that it has been grow
ing such men as Governor Johnson,
OF Minnesota. A second generation
Swede, he has all the virility of the
newer races, tempered with what is
best in American character. Democ-
racy can afford to put a mark against
the name of Governor John A John
son, of Minnesota.-Chicago Tribune
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06

With Uncle Joe" Canon in hap
piest vein, and Vice President Fair
banks in dignifed attitude. both ses-
SONS of the house of congress began
Monday. After both bodies had or
gained the clerk called the roll. Nine
Smiths answered in the house.
"Once." said ~Uncse joe" every
body's name was Smith. Whenever
any one committed a crime he
changed his name. What band of
rascals we must be. I'm mighty glad
there are few Smiths left" There
were eight new members in the
house. Afterward both houses APP
pointed committees to wait on the
president. Tuesday afternoon the
presidents message went to con-
gress.
The opening of the senate was
marked by unexpected introduction
by Mr.. Penrose of a resolution call
ing upon the president for informa-
ton concerning his recent order dis
missing three negroes companies
from the army. The chair called at
tention to the custom that no BUSH
ness should be transacted until the
president had been officially heard
from, but Penrose insisted. Senator
Foraker was on his feet in an in
slant, calling for the records in the
case from the secretary of war. Spec
tators looked at each other in mild
surprise, realizing that the president
had been outwitted in breaking pre-
eedsnts, and protests were heard
Penrose finally based his plea on
unanimous consent, request seldom
denied, several senators striving for
recognition. Tension was high for
time but Vice President Fairbanks
announced that the resolution would
go over.
The President also smashed all
precedent by sending in mis- new cab
met nominations before he had been
notified tka' congress was in session.
Both houses, however, adjourned
until Tuesday afternoon to receive
the Presidents message.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Elks Are Defendants.

The prosecuting attorney has be-
gun proceedings against the EIkhar'
and Goshen lodges of Elks asking for
forfeiture of their charters as organi-
cations.
The action is based upon indict-
nents recently returned by the grand
jury of Elkhart county. The pro-
ceedings are identical with those
which were brought against Tom
Taggart. proprietor of the French
Lick Springs hotel, where large
gambling casinos have been in oper-
alton some time. The Elkhart lodge
is known as No. 425 and the Goshen
lodge as No. 79s.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06


The other day a civil service exam
nation for postofice clerks was held
in Chicago. The examiners were anx-
ious to get large list of eligibles
and hoped for 600 applicants. Just
thirty-nine men, however, presented
themselves. Perhaps half of these
will qualify, but they will be only
a drop in the bucket compared with
the need, for positions are waiting
for 200 men right now. So great is
the pressure that it was reported
from Washington day or two ago
that the civil service commission
was talking of making the examina-
ton less stringent While this would
cause deterioration in the quality of
the new clerks it would at least pro-
vide some of the men who are need
ed.
1t is not hard to find the cause
for this shortage of men. The pay
offered is entirely inadequate In
some branches of the service it is just
what IT was thirty years ago, despite
the great increase in the cost of liv-
ing. Postoffice clerks begin at $500
and increase slowly. The positions
that pay above $1,000 are few, and
are really in the executive staff rath
er than in the staff of clerks. Letter
carriers in large cities begin at 5000
and may reach $1,000 Railway pos
tai clerks receive from $500 OF $500
but hundreds of them with excep-
tioeally short runs receive less than
the minimum of the schedule
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Thanks by Everybody.
e meat that Gamma eat,

Some hae meat that Gamma eat.
And some would eat that want it;
But we haze meat, and we can eat
Sac let the Lord be thankit.
So sang Burns, and he voiced an
almost universal sentiment. There
is no discrimination of race, or ma
ton, or religion in thanksgiving. The
only unfortunate who is barred from
IT'S satisfaction is the atheist He has
nobody to whom he can be thankful
and yet, on pinch, even he might
return thanks to nature for its be-
nehcence. Of course it would be
rather an abstract proposition-as sort
of address ito all whom it may con-
cern"-but it is perhaps better than
nothing.
= The rest of the world can unite in
thanksgiving for all that they eonsid-
er blessings, or good fortune, or
whatever one may be pleased to call
it. And they all address the same
Source of Blessings
Father of all! in every age,
In every cline adored,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove or Lord.
The call of Thanksgiving day IS to
all, Christian or Hebrew, Catholic
or Protestant, and likewise the pa
gan who is within Our gates, the
Chinaman who has managed to es-
cape immigration laws, and the In
dian who still holds to his primitive
worship of the Great Spirit There is
no recognition of the Divine Being
in the national Constitution, but the
Declaration of Independence refers
to Natures Cod" and the vast ma
jority of Americas people accept a
Deity.
And all who have that faith realize
the duty of giving thanks. 1t has al
ways been so. That fine old pagan.
Seneca, rebuked the ungrateful thus:
We can be thankful to a friend for
a few acres, or a little money; and
yet for the freedom and command of
the whole earth, and for the great
benefits of our being; our life, health
and reason, we look upon ourselves
as under no obligation"
Surely there are few in this land
who have not something to be thank
full for, and those who have cause
for thanksgiving should see that
those who have not are as few as
possible. Nothing adds more to ones
happiness than making others happy,
and he who finds opportunity to do a
good deed has cause for special
thanksgiving. That opportunity is
worth seeking. 1t can usually be
found by those who are seeking for
indianapolis Star
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06

The Iowa legislature turing its last
session authorized the governor Of
that state to invite the other states to
send five delegates each to confer
ence in Des Moines TO consider the
subject of amending the national con-
stitution SO as to provide for the
election of United States senators by
popular vote
The governors of more than thirty
states have accepted the. invitation
and the delegates meet in conference
Wednesday. All the New England
governors and the governor of New
York have declined to send delegates,
all, or nearly all, on the ground that
they have no statutory authority to
do SO. 1t may be warranted infer
ence that the governors of those
states are not favoraoly disposed
toward the popular election of ma
tional senator's.
The understanding is that the OBJ
ject of the conference is not to con-
slider whether it would be wise to
amend the constitution IS proposed
but how the amendment can best be
secured. Such being the case, COVER
nors opposed to the change would
be unlikely to appoint delegates.
They would, of course, be unwilling
to appoint men who were in favor of
the change and they would hardly
feel at liberty to appoint men who
were opposed to it.
Of the two prescribed ways of
amending the national constitution
the one to which alone resort has
hitherto been had looks rather un-'
promising. The amendment must be
formulated and proposed to the
states by congress and it must be pro-
posed by a two-thirds vote of both
houses, and the presumption is pretty
strong that it will be difficult to in
duce two-thirds of the senators to
vote for the measure.
The proposal to change the mode
OF choosing senators is not compli-
mentary to the present senator's. It
implies that the legislatures do not
choose good senator's and that the
people think they can do better by
choosing them at the ballot box. SEN
ators can hardly be expected to ex-
press their acquiescence in this view
by voting to change the method If
they are as bad as the demand for
the change implies they almost GER
tainly will not vote for it. If they are
good senators there is very strong
reason why they should vote for it.
The Des Moines conference results
from recognition of the difficulty
of inducing two-thirds of the sena
tors to admit that they are not as
good as they ought to be and that
the people ought to have chance
to drop them and put better men in
their places.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Job Goes Begging.

A job which pays $4,000 year is
going begging in Washington. The
secretaryship of the Smithsonian in
stftution, which is considered the
most exalted scientific POSITION in
America, was offered last sp~,ng to
David Starr Jordan, but he has de-
clined it because he draws $4,000 a
years as president of Leland Stanford
University Other eminent scientific
men have turned a deaf ear to the
proffered vacancy at the Smithsonian
Institution and the Board of Regents
will have perplexing task before it
in December, when it will meet to
elect successor to the late Prof.
Samuel P. Langley.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Dies of a Broken Heart.

"Died of a broken heart" is the
attending physicians verdict as to
the cause of death of Mrs. Catherine
B. Shafer of Washington, d. c., sis
ter Of Mrs. Anna Haslanger of Ply
mouth. Mrs. Skaters only daughter
and her son-in-law died a few days
previously and were buried side by
side. and Mrs. Shafer could not live
under her load of grief.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
St. Boniface Elects officers.

AT the regular meeting of ST. Bon
face Benevolent Society Sunday ev-
ening the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, w. G. Hendricks; Vice Presi-
dent, ]. E. Bergman; Secretary, Ed
ward Wade, Assistant Secretary,
Peter t. Hendricks; Treasurer,
Adam Ball; Trustee, Conrad Berg
man; Marshall, w. T. Clay; Color
bearer, Louis F. Mickey, Assistant,
Joe Huba and George Bergman.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06
Rather Late in Starting.

On behalf OF the wife and daughter
of Isaac N. Rodegeb Nappanee citi-
zens have asked the Elkhart county
authorities to institute search for
him. After disposing of real estate
agency interests in Nappanee last
April Rodegeb worked in Elkhart for
awhile as a carpenter for S. c. kindly,
then disappeared with 1000 of his
savings. The authorities think the
relatives have waited too long be-
fore giving publicity to his disap-
pearance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-12-06

The Lake Erie trains Saturday
commenced running into the Lake
Shore station. The coming of the
trains down town Is proving a decid-
ed convenience to the people 1t ais,
means that the Lake Erie will Gu,
into the business of the street CT.
company on Laporte- Michigan City
bus mess for the rate on the Lake
Fri. is less than on the interurban.-
Lap rte Herald.