Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-22

throttle of the Democratic party. An
drew Jackson became political dc
tator and was recognized leader oil
the Democracy until hs death. Van
Buren, succeeded him and elected Polk
and defeated Cass for the presidency
President Roosevelt can find plenty
of other examples among his prede-
cessors.
Rnt 1t would be very much more
dignihed for man who has been
president TO enter the senate as a
right and an inheritance instead OF
being elected after a political con
test. Somebody ought to Introduce
an amendment to the Constitution
The subject has been discussed ire
quently. Everybody Is in favor OF II,
Just as everybody is in favor OF post
poning Inauguration day to pleasant
weather but. somehow or other the
change is not made.
On the last day of the year 1900
General Harrison made a speech at
the Columbia club of Indianapolis, in
which he referred to that frequently
discussed topic. What Shall Be Done
With Ex-Presidents? and he said In
a semi-jocular way:
THE decapitation of the ex-presi-
dent, when the oath OF office has been
administered to the successor. would
greatly vivify somewhat tiresome
ceremonial. And we may some time
solve the newspaper problem, what
TO do with our eX-presidents, in that
conclusive way. Until then | hope an
eX-president may be permitted to live
somewhere midway between the house
of gossip and the crypt of the mum
my. He will know. perhaps, in an es-
pecial way, how to show the highest
honor to the presidential office and the
most courteous Difference to the pres
ident. Upon great questions however,
especially upon questions of constitu-
tiona law, You must give an ex-presi-
dent his freedom or the AK, and 1t Is
too late TO give me the AK"
The official statistics show that 177.-
0S5 strangers stopped at the hotels
and boarding houses of Geneva be
tween May 10 and October. 1905. OF
Swiss, 2G569 were Germans, 14.177
were from the United States and 9.G1S
were Englishmen. This does not in
clude all of the tourists who visited
Switzerland, but only those who
stopped at Geneva.
During the same time 10,103 tour.
lists visited the Yosemite valley and
2G,1SS the Yellowstone Park. The lat
ter number is double the highest pre-
vions record and was the result OF
low rates and large excursions to the
Portland exposition. In 1904. which
had the highest record up to that date.
there were only a few more than 49,
600 visitors to the Yellowstone and
about 5000 to the Yosemite. The
number of Americans in Switzerland
is always more than double and some
times four or five times as great as
may be found in any year at any of
our summer resorts. They are more
numerous than the English and are
almost as numerous as the Germans
and the French, who have only to
cross the border with one days or
one nights ride. In the figures have
given of the visitors at Geneva the
Americans are all tourists. persons of
leisure seeking health and recreation
ana spending their money freely. The
German, French and English figures
include large numbers of commercial
travellers and others who went to Ge-
neva on business.
The German government . provides
schools for its subjects in foreign
countries. The purpose Is to keep
them in touch with the fatherland and
TO educate their children in the Ger
man language and methods of Thought
ana make them familiar with German
history. These schools may be found
all over the world, in Syria. in Africa
IN China. Central and South America
ana Wherever the settlements are not
sufficiently large to provide their own
educational facilities. Among other
things they teach patriotism and the
obligations due from German subjects
to the empire. The imperial budget
Tor 1906 contains an appropriation of
49, 49, INV Shppoil Vi IHeSe
schools for the current year.
The German government maintains
permanent trade experts at New
YORK, Buenos Ayres, Calcutta Con
siantlnople. st. Petersburg, Pretoria.
shanghai, Sidney, Valparaiso and Yo.
kohama for the purpose of keeping
tne merchants and manufacturers of
tne empire informed as to the condi.
tons OF foreign markets and the ON.
portunities for the Introduction of
German goods. The United States
government sent out several special
commissioners last year to perform
the same duty, and mas received mapy
valuable reports from them, which
have been published in the regular
daily bulletin of the bureau oil mann.
facturers.
Ihese communications contain many |
useful suggestions to the manufactnr-
ers OF the United States, but the trou.
BILE has always been that SUN hints
nave been adopted only when the
nome market was duh o. overcrowded |
win goods. In a few lines OF mer-
chahdise our people have made con