The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-10

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes has the courage to say that "guager" shall continue to be spelt in his department with "u.' Hurrah for Yerkes! Yerkes, forever.
 
 President Roosevelt says the best way to have peace is to shoot straight. That will work well, provided the other fellow does not shoot straight and shoot first
 Congress has problem on it's hands It promised to prohibit corporations from making political contributions, and it desires to find a way around those promises.
 We are still keeping our jails in Cuba full of political prisoners. Our justly celebrated amnesty proclama- tion hangs fire-why, no one seems to l know.
 The present Mrs. Thomas c. Platt will stand no Mae Woods or chorus girls. She is on the alert all the time. l She needs be.
 Reed Shoot is not ashamed, news l dispatch reports. He never was ashamed--it was the American moth CTS mostly.
 Tradition and precedent are words that are not found in the Hearst dic- tionary. They are fast becoming ob- solete.
 The President could not phonetize that $13,000,000 spent without author ity on the Harrisburg capitol. Chicago's model theatre offers triple bills and is as flashy, if not trashy, as the everyday old-time sort.
  When passes disappear two-cent- mile rate appears on the horizon at once. It softens the blow. The dumped watch is telling cam paign argument. It explains at a glance the robber tariff.
 
 President Roosevelt avoided all dis cussion of the $13,OOO,OOO capitol when he spoke at Harrisburg.
 Thomas Lipton is over here on the same old mission, with fair prospects of the same old finish.
 
 Stensland had $75,000 anchor to windward in Tangier, but Uncle Sam detected and seized it. ---------.---
 Ex-President Palma was afflicted with cold feet. Otherwise he was sound and sane.
 A disloyal press refuses to print even the Presidents speech in bob tailed English.
 Girls in Nebraska are to be taught boxing as means of defense instead of the hatpin.
 Secretary Taft is determined to get away on time, regardless of the Cuban revolutionists.
 
 Today the elephant and the clown and pink lemonade and peanuts are in cur midst.
 It would be hard to find more un- popular man than West Virginia's leper.
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 Cuban revolutions are not "cir cumstance' to race troubles at home |
 Secretary Taft is good in the pinches. He ranks almost up to a pinch batter. --------.--- ------ W. K. Hearst has tanned the Tam many tiger until 1t is a mere kitten. The late President Palma did not have the courage of his convictions.
 
 The President proposes to check the forces of greed with an income tax.
 
 General Bell carried a horseshoe to Cuba, but he didn't really need it.
 
 The aeronautic fever will be felt soon at the State Fair grounds. The quiet, substantial vote of Cuba favors annexation to man. 1
 The Czar would be all right if he could find any safe place.
 
 Some of the rich people make lot of noise living apart.
 MT. Moran is Massachusetts William Randolph Hearst.
 It is not bit too early for Christ mas shopping.
 Governor Magoon is also large.
 BRYAN IN WICHITA. l Nebraskan More Eager for Principles to Triumph Than for Personl Glory. Wichita, October Civilian J. Bryan made two speeches here today He declared he was more interested in the political ideas he hadt advocated | than in furthering his own advocacy for an office.
 "The people of this country have for generation paid too much homage to men with money" he said, but change is now taking place." As evi- dence of this he cited the controversy | in a missionary council over the ques- | ton of accepting a donation from John