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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16

When It Is announced that the Chi!
nese will require about a dozen years
to frame a suitable constitution, the
tendency of the reader Is to give a
knowing smile "They do everything
slowly in China" he says. The Chi
nese are, indeed, cautious and conserv-
alive, and will not consent to throw
away the wisdom of 1000 years with
out supplying its place with something
betters. On the other hand. 1t is well
to remember that the American consti-
tuition required years in its making
The first experiment was the Articles
Of Federation. quickly found to be I'M
suited, and then, after years OF popu-
lar demand, the constitution as we
know that document was framed and,
after more delay, adopted. About ten
years elapsed between the framing of
the Articles Of Federation and the
adoption Of the Federal Constitution.
Less than 100000 persons had to be
satisfied. In China there are about
4350O0,000. The United States then
comprised thirteen states; in China
there are eighteen provinces, CORE
spending to our commonwealth
Persia I'm sad Plight.
Not long after the announcement the
Dowager Empress Of China, who is the
actual ruler of the empire, had decided
TO give the reformers a constitution,
word was received that the shah Of
Persia had finally granted the demands
Of his people Few countries stand so
much in need OF reform as Persia. The
state Is on the verge of collapse; prov
inces are in a state of anarchy; the
treasury is empty; all available secu-
rites are mortgaged, and the army.
unpaid for months, is in open mutiny.
Instructions against the government
occur daily, and the only trustworthy
troops in Teheran, the capital, are the
Russian Cossack brigade. The cause
Of the disorder is. in part, the wish Of
the mullahs to initiate the example set
by the Russian revolutionaries; In part,
the stirring OF the Pan-Moslem spirit.
and the desire to give allegiance to the
Sultan as the supreme head of Islam.
Truly, the moment for granting a con-
stitution is as inopportune as was that
selected for granting representative
assembly to Russia. II the meantime
European powers are jockeying for po-
sition to catch the prize as 1t falls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
4 Republican aunndary.

The Republican machine in Ohio by
indorsing President Roosevelt and Sen
ators Dick and Foraker co-equally has
produced a political dilemma. The
Ohio Republican voter who believes
that railroad rate regulation is for his
own and the public good must vote
against his own ticket to indorse such
sentiments The voter who believes
with Senator Foraker that the rail
roads have vested interests that should
net be disturbed. and with the same
sentiments OF the lukewarm Dick. can
vote the Republican machine ticket, but
at the same time such voter win yirtu-
ally aout the President for being In
such company. The Dick and Foraker
political machines have joined forces
in their emergency and have forced tn
quandary on the Ohio Republican vot-
ers by forcing their co-equal indorse-
ment with the President All the cor
rllpt elements Of the Republican party
Of Ohio are enthusiastic for @the tick
~. which alone should be signal Of
warning TO honest voters that they
must defeat it II they do not want 10
perpetuate the Foraker-Dick combine
for ring rule.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16

constitution win be ready. For that
reason, and for others more obvious to
the student of international politics
there need be little fear that China will
be a larger gamer from reform than
Russia appears to be. So far as Per
STA is concerned. a case very different
from that either of Russia or China is
presented. At the present moment few
persons would care to hazard guess
on the outcome of the proposed prom
ised reform In the Shah's empire.
In Persia the inquirer finds chaotic
state of affairs. far more hopeless than
the anarchy spreading throughout Rus
STA, and so inextricably confused with
religious disorders as to be incompre-
hensible to one unacquainted with the
conflicting agencies in the East and the
oriental character. Only master mind
can restore order In Persia, and the
question Is, Does the empire of Alex
ander the Great possess such a genius?
With Russia, China and Persia adopt
ing the western system of government,
the world may be said to have become
possessed of the idea OF popular rule,
for the few remaining States have a to-
tai population of no more than 65,0OO,-
600, rather Insignificant part Of the
total number of earth's inhabitants, ap-
proXimately set down as 1900, 600 900.
In addition TO the cour tries mentioned,
representative government is still I'M
known in Abyssinia, which clings to
the feudal system; Afghanistan, which
has feudal local government; Morocco,
which is an autocracy; Nepaul, which
is a military oligarrhy. and Siam,
which is ruled by legislative council.
A commission from China for a year
or two has been studying the various
national constitutions, and it Is not
Improbable that the new Chinese sys-
tenn will be patterned on that of the
United States and that of Germany.
both OF which contain portions which
might. without violence of national
prejudices be naturalized in the Celes-
tial kingdom. Like the United States
and the German empire, the Chinese
empire is composed of a number of
states, or, as they are called, provinces
Each has customs and laws peculiar
to itself, although there are national
laws (edicts in China) which are uni
versally applicable throughout the en-
pire.
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and rifle fire, kept doggedly on until
the stone wall was reached.
4 little further on is the monument
erected TO the memory of the brave
handful of MnnesotanS who charged
the thousands of advancing Confeder-
ates when il was found that there was
a gap in the line ana there was Il dan
ger of the Federal army being broken.
They were asked to make the charge in
order to allow time for the bringing up
Of reinforcements to stop the gap, and
they did so. knowing that they were
going TO certain death. Such deeds are
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16

civil War he was one of the first TO
enlist in the Tenth New York Heavy
Artillery and after he had rendered
material assistance 10 recruiting the
regiment TO ITS full strength he was
made iirst lieutenant Within a year
bravery in action had gained for him
commission as captain At Ream's Sta
ton, in Virginia, be was captured and
was confined in prison at Salisbury.
Andersonville. Macon. Charleston and
Columbia, escaping from the latter after
being confined eight months While in
prison the presidential election of 1861
MAS held. A black bean meant vote
for Lincoln, but the prisoners were as
Sured that ir they cast such vote il
would mean longer Imprisonment Tor
them and perhaps grave on the hill
side. Nevertheless Bliss voted the
black bean. After making His escape
he wandered for eight days before
reaching the Union lines at Savannah
and he was nearly starved
In 1865 Captain Bliss located in Sag
NAV. Mich. and started lumber bust,
ness in 4 small way. 1t grew until he
became the owner of extensive timber
lands. of salt mines, of bank, merca2-
tile establishment and several farms
He was enormously wealthy. He was
elected to local offices in Saginaw, then
became a State Senator, next sat in
Congress and in 1900 was elected Gov
ernor OF Michigan by the largest ma
jerity ever given candidate there and
was reelected in 1902
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
THE DYING HAWAIIAN RACE.
Intermarriase is the Only Hope 70

Intermarriage Is the Only Hope for
the Brown Men of the Pacific.
A very dark shadow mas been felt to
Hawaiians. 1t comes from the early
and obstinate depopulation which be-
gan with Cooks discovery in 177S.
The most reliable estimates place the
then population at not less than $780,
000 At the arrival of the missionar-
les in 1920 not more than 100000 re-
NAMED, and the multitude of aban-
doned village sites gave the old mis-
sionaries an impression that fully two
thirds Of the people had disappeared.
The causes of that enormous NOR
tality were not obscure. They were
The introduction among the long-isolat-
ed "nature-race," wholly lacking the
Immunity enjoyed of Continental peo-
pies, of new and virulent diseases,
which swept them off. Chief among
these diseases was one which Cocks
ship brought, and which speedily in
fected the entire population. Tuber-
.ulosis contributed.
Added to these hostile influences
were the depopulating wars of Kane
hameha, and the destructive collection
Of sandalwood, while whaleships con-
verted every seaport into a public
brothel.
Mitigating and remedial influences
have since then operated favorably
under increasing moral culture and in
telligence, but the depopulation is not
yet wholly checked Estimating from
the later census figures there are now
remaining less than 10000 pure
Hawaiians. and not more than 10000
part Hawaiians. The total racial dim
mutton has been about one-half in
the last half century, although part
Hawaiians have rapidly increased dur
ing that time. The excess of deaths
over births still remains, with a great
mortality among the pure Hawaiian
children.
What are their prospects for the
future? We should answer measurably
hopeful. There is manifest improve
ment. Especially is this the case
among the mixed breed, who are rap
idly gaining in numbers, due to their
superior energy and intelligence, and
to their wiser care of offspring. I'm
Ter present outlook, the mixed Ha-
waiians are likely in very few gen.
srations greatly to exceed the pure
native breed in numbers. The pre-
gailing language of both classes will
have become entirely English, due to
the vigorous teaching of English in
The common schools, where Portu-
guese and Asiatic youth, alike with
Hawaiian, are learning good United
States" which will displace the out
landish tongues, as it does on our con-
inent
The future commingling of Hawaii
an blood with the other races will not
be an unwholesome one. The Ha-
waiian nature is courageous and gen.
erous, and peculiarly, receptive to new
light. The Japanese race anciently
received a very large infusion of cog
nate Oceanic blood, which loosened
up their ancient Monaghan stiffness
and made them versatile and recep-
tive. We may thus look forward to
the future descendants of the Ha-
waiians with hopefulness and pride.
The future composite result will make
the coming Hawaiian civilization
bright one under the presiding power
Of American InStitutions-St Louis
Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16

Although constitutional government
was known TO the world before the
United States, after its break with the
mother country, tried the experiment
the system adopted here undoubtedly
eas been the model upon which many
OF the later constitutions have been
founded. The comparative smoothnesS
OF the working Of the Federal ConstltG-
tion has shown its peculiar advantages
FOR a sovereign people who have decided
TO govern themselves, While 1t is too
radical for some countries where class
distinctions exist, the simplicity and
comprehensiveness of the United States
system recommend it in part. at least,
to all people seeking popular govern
ment.
In Europe the only countries without
representative rulers are Turkey and
tie tiny State of Monaco, both of which
are autocracies More than one-half
the Inhabitants of the globe are ruled
under ancient systems, but recent an
nouncements show that within few
years the whole world will have ac-
cepted the idea Of representative gov
eminent.
Last year the Car OF Russia gave the
order for the election of representatives
to the great national council, the Dou-
ma. While the experiment showed con-
cIusively that the step was ill-timed,
and while the Emperor found it neces-
sary to dissolve this Parliament, 1t NAV
be asserted that bona fide constitutional
government will be the Russian peoples
portion in the near future.
Shah Follows Czar.
The establishment and surprise with
which the rest Of the world greeted the
Cars proclamat ton for constitutional
government was only little less than
that which saluted the announcement
that China is to have a constitution and
a representative government. and that
the Shah of Persia had agreed to do as
much for his people.
The Significance of a change in the
form OF government so radical as the
substitution of system of popular rule
for an autocracy demands that the re-
form be achieved with consideration
rather than with dispatch. China, be-
Ing large ody, follows the axiom and
moves SLOW :. The wise men of the
Central Ell ire have said that twelve
years will ! 60 required before suitable
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
ON BL- oDY GETTYSBURG.
Reunion of Blue and Gray on Ground
Where They Fought.

Reunion of Blue and Gray on Ground
Where They Fought.
The winged dove of peace which now
hovers over the bloody field OF Gettys-
burg recently witnessed the unusual
spectacle of veterans Of the war from
both North and South shaking hands
across the famous stone wall over
which Picketts men made their glori-
Gus but useless charge. Gradually the
government is acquiring all the proper
~ over which the great three days
struggle was fought, and in time the
ground will be entirely the nations
own, to be preserved forever intact as
1t was when Lee reached the limit of
his Northern march.
Monument after monument has been
erected on the field until the entire
ground is dotted with mementos of the
stirring Incidents of the great battle.
Among the most interesting is the mon
umeut of Gen. Warren. on Little Round
Top. The general is represented look
ing toward the spot where he noticed
the flash of bayonets on the second day
bf battle, and rightly guessed that the
enemy were advancing through the
woods back of the Devils Den with the
object of seizins Little Round Top.
Warren hustled around and gathered
together sufficient troops in the vicin-
ity to save this key to the position. The
statue of the famous general was
placed on the very bowlder on which
he stood when the discovery OF the
Confederate attempt on Little Round
Top was made.
/ No one could have stood where the
Warren statue stands now and have
lived a second during tue progress of
the battle. for In the attack on Little
Round TOP confederate sharpshooters
were thickly Sprinkled in the Devils
Den. mass OF rocks in the valley be-
low. and these marksmen, retiring into
the cave beneath a big bowlder to load.
would fire and retire again, so that a
constant rain of bullets was kept on the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
Horses, value Increasing.

Government statistics show that the
value of horses has increased surpris-
ingly the last nine years. On January
/, 1897, there were. 14,364.667 horses
in the United States, and their estimat-
ed value then was $452, 649,396, the
average value at this estimate being
about $3.50 per head. On January /.
1906. the total number of horses was
1S,71S.57S, and their estimated value
was $3.50, $50, 906, which is about
$S075. head, or more than two and
a half times as much head as was
their estimated value nine years ago.
This does not indicate that the horse
less carriage has seriously injured the
horse-breeding industry, at least so far
as values are concerned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16

railroad and industrial stocks and MN
ing stocks must remember that those
who sell probably know more about
the actual value than those who buy,
and unless full information of earn
ings and management is procurable the
buyer Is buying in the dark.
There is no doubt that the enormous
imitation of the circulating medium
through the constantly increasing out
put of gold is resulting in an advance
in values, measured in gold, the world
over, but this increase in prices does
not apply to cotton, wheat, corn and
much other farm products, the price of
which Is governed by supply and de-
mand, depending upon the favorable or
unfavorable seasons for growing and
gathering the crops. The present low
price Of wheat, cotton and corn, meas
dred by the advancing price of other
commodities, Is proof that the law of
supply and demand is more potent than
the other law of the quantity of money
initiating prices.
The present tariff policy of protect
Ing our manufacturing trusts and CON-
bines from foreign competition has been
a great factor in increasing the price
of the products of those corporations.
so that consumers, whether on the
farm or in the city. are not only pay
ing the natural increase of prices from
gold imitation, but the greater imitation
of prices by the unnatural conditions
created by the tariff protection to the
industrial corporations called trusts
The tariff and trust issue, being en-
tirely political, can be made to assist
rather than to retard the natural
growth Of the country if the voters will
investigate and insist on reform that
will benefit them instead Of continuing
the present system that plunders them
for the benefit Of corporations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
Wages and Cost of Living.

Inc SHAW CarlH speech that he Is de-
livering to Republicans in Southern
States follows so slosely the standpat
arguments of the inspired Republican
campaign book that one is forced to
believe that the expert" who is re-
puted to have been the author Of that
claims everything compilation must
also have written Shaw's speech. But
whoever wrote the Shaw speech ex-
posed the fallacy of the whole argu-
ment of the advantage of selling abroad
cheaper than here by assuming that the
producer and the consumer belong to
two separate and distinct classes, In
stead of being the same mass of people.
Mr. Shaw says that IF it was ueceS-
Sary to pay more for his clothes, his
shoes, his sewing machine, his type
writer and his barbed WIRE" he was
willing, so long as the products of
American looms clothe and the prod
ucts of American labor generally supply
every need of those who produce these
things thus sold abroad at reduced
p4tNCS' olldN tuuS SdCTluC-
ing himself ON the altar of his country
for the benefit of the balance of us Is
a species of altruism only exhibited
when the eXigencies Of Republican cam
paigns require such sacrifices. These
workingmen for whom Mr.. Shaw is so
willing to impoverish himself, who re-
ceiye American wages, also pay Ameri-
can prices, and the value of their
wages is determined by what their
wages will buy. Under the trust-breed-
ing era of the present tariff law the
average price of all commodities has
risen AZ per cent since 1897. If wages
or incomes have not kept pace wiz
that extraordinary imitation, then the
consumer, whether workingman, or
tradesman, or professional man, is los
ing by the trust-fostering system that
compels him to pay higher prices for
many of the necessities of life than the
trusts sell the same necessities to the
foreigner for.
Can anyone but the trust magnates
or the Republican politicians of the
Shaw stripe say that protectionism Is
a square deal, when workingmen and
others have to pay higher domestic
prices in order that foreigners may
get the benefit of their labor at lower
prices? If our nimble workmen had
raw materials, free of tariff tax, with
which to produce for the home and for
eign market. and if freer interchange
Of products under n tariff for revenue
made the general range of prices lower,
they could not only supply our own
needs. but produce enough more at
those lower prices to vastly increase
our foreign trade. Under that system
of freer trade lower prices would in
duce greater consumption at hone and
greater demand from abroad.
Wages would be lower in dollars and
cents. but they would he vastly higher
in purchasing power, md the standard
Of living would improve more and more
Whereas, it now requires S1.47 to buy
what did cost 81 before the present tar
iff law was enacted, with reduced cost
Of living through the tariff restric-
tons being reformed and revised.
wages. salaries and incomes would be
actually greater. because a dollar would
go as far rs nearly $50 does to-day
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
Pr..er,inr shinglea Roof..

Many dollars may be saved by max
ing your roof last five or more years
longer than Is usual before reshingling
Take some alr-slaked lime and when
the shingles are damp sprinkle II upon
the upper part Of the roof 1t VIII
gradually wash over the whole OF II
and preserve It wonderfully, A bushel
OF lime will be sufficient fee l6OO
square feet If you don't believe this,
examine your roof and notice the DIFF
ference in that part where the lime
has washed from the chimney.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
Rest Stock PROFITABLE.

Successful dairying has proved that
the greater profit comes from the best
cows, whatever their kind. This is as
true OF pure bred or registered stock
as of common cows. 1t is better to pay
$500 for three excellent cows than to
pay the same for four cows or I'VE
which are only fair. A really Superior
dairy COW OF superior family, with
pedigree which gives assurance OF
calves equal to the dam, If not better.
Is always worth a large price. Such
an animal adds much to the average
value of any dairy herd. In buying
registered dairy cattle deal only with
men of reputation as breeders and Of
strict integrity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
@O@ ~>~

between work and play. Life insnr-
ance is all right so long as the com
pany is properly managed, but the best
form Of life insurance is a good system
of daily exercise, a system that uses
muscles that are not used in the rou-
tine of daily life and system that
will drive the blood coursing through
the little veins that would remain idle
only for this especial effort Most
breeders having thoroughbred stock
realize the value Of exercising the an
imals, but those same breeders never
think OF exercising themselves.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16

Comparatively few people understand
the value Of systematic exercise. Farm
ers are in the habit Of thinking that
they get exercise enough. Some Of the
r.uscies certainly get used enough and
too much, but this Is not exercise In
the proper sense Of the word I. Is
WORK: there Is Just as much difference
b~eweeu work and exercise 30 thsrs b
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-16
Points on Prniric Soil.

All who have taken up prairie farms
will recognize the truth OF the follow
ing statement Of Professor Ten Eyck.
Of Kansas, in regard to them:
When the wild prairie is first broken
the soil is mellow, moist and rich, pro
ducing abundant crops. After few
years OF continuous grain cropping and
cultivation, the physical condition Of
the soil changes-the soil grains be
come finer; the soil becomes more COM
pact and heavier to handle; 1t dries
out quicker than it used to and often
turns over In hard clods and Jumps
when plowed. The perfect filth and
freedom from clods, so characteristic
Of virgin soils, is always more or less
completely restored whenever land has
been laid down to grass for sufficient
length of time.
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ed resident. Aaron
T. Bliss was born
in Smithtield, Mad
ison County. New
York, May -,
1887, and spent
his boyhood on a
farm there. At II
he left home and
was employed in a
store in a neighbo-
ing village. At the
breaking ont of the
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Popular Dog.

jack, dog at the Palace theater,
London. known 10 theateE people all
over the world, died the other day and
his death was announced with an OH
eiai eulOgium- He watched the stage
door when the doorkeeper was away
Snd ran and got him il the bell rang.
and had been trained to fall on and ex-
tinsulsh any burning substance he saw,
such as piece of paper. He was
ehoked TO death by a piece Of money
he was taking 70 restaurant to buy
bis dsuner with
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50 commonly recorded on the monu-
ments on this battlefield that il would
Ne necessary only To copy the inserip
tons TO obtain string OF stirring In
cidents in which brave men who count
cd life as nothing compared With the
winning Of the day figured rs the prin-
cinAlS.