Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-11-27

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resolve npon q course Of conduct that shall
promise Individual happiness and public we'll
being.
this eighth day Of November in the year Of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and six and
OF the Independence Of the United States Of
America the one hundred and thirty aTst ION,
By the Governor. with the advice and consent Of
BYRON BOYD.
Secretary Of State.
Here and There.
The Blaine House at Augusta has been engag
ed for the legislative session by q number OF
gentlemen including Mr.. Bass. They say they
are unable TO get comfortable and satisfactory
accommodations at the local hotels.
Bass? Bass? Who's Bass? The list Of
members-elect of the next legislature
doesn't disclose any one by the name OF
Bass. Private secretary or something,
probably.
1t is worth noting that Oklahoma has
gone Democratic and is also to have pro-
hibition in the constitution. Evidently
Democratic views in Oklahoma are not
the same as in Maine.
While the saloons were closed in San
Francisco, after the earthquake and fire,
the city was apparently very quiet and
orderly town; but since things got back
so near their normal condition as to
allow of reopening the saloons, it is get
ting to be almost as wicked al Pitts
burg.
1t is the act merely of carping critic
to say, as some few are saying, that
President Roosevelt's trip to Panama
has amounted to nothing-that he knows
nothing about the canal that he could
not have learned in his Office in Wash
ington. Every man who has eyes that
can see knows that the president has
learned much about Panama that be
could not possibly have learned in any
other way. Why, even Poultney Bige-
low had to 60 to the isthmus and spend
twenty-eight hours there before be knew
all about it.
A man blind from birth may learn
that mixing blue and yellow pigments
will produce green, until he knows it as
we'll as he knows anything that he can
not see, but what does his knowledge
amount to as long as be doesn't know
what blue and yellow and green are?
The Democrat was in error last week
in stating that the last Revolutionary
pensioner had died. Ii was the last
Revolutionary widow. Four daughters
L. sk; ho
list, and it may be years yet that We
shall be paying Revolutionary pensions.
On that basis It will be we'll toward the
middle of the twenty-first century before
We get through paying Spanish war
pensions.
It is somewhat amusing-almost re-
freshing-to see the solicitude some Of
our Democratic brethren are manifest
ing in behalf Of the colored brother be-
cause three companies Of colored troops
have been discharged in disgrace from
the United States army on account of an
intolerable breach of discipline. 1t is
good that something, even II it Is moth
ing more than opposition to President
Roosevelt, should occasionally bring the
brethereu to realize that the colored
man has rights equal to those Of the
white man.
A peculiar state of affairs has arisen
in Massachusetts,, where it is discovered
that counterfeit meat inspection stamp
has been used on meat which has not
been inspected by the state inspection
department. II is said that while there
are heavy penalties for the sale Of I'M
stamped meat, there is no statute pro-
viding for the punishment of those who
use a duplicate" stamp. To the lay
mind the defect seems hardly serious
enough to let any guilty man escape, as
it appears reasonable that the presence
of q counterfeit stamp on the meat
should be prima ytacie evidence that the
meat was uninspected.
Ii is an interesting item of news that a
Japanese squadron will visit Honolulu
and San Francisco in the near future.
Merely a friendly, complimentary call,
OF course, without connection with the
anti-Japanese trouble in San Francisco.
And equally Of course it isn't intended
to remind us that In case of war, Japan
could have her feet at Manila and the
Philippines under her thumb almost be-
fore we knew it.
President Joseph Smith of the Nor
mon Church few days since pleaded
guilty In court to the charge brought
against him on account of the birth to
his fifth wife Of his forty-third child, and
paid his fine. In addressing the court
before the fine was imposed he stated
that he had always desired to be law
abiding citizen" Somehow that has
familiar sound. 1t IL nothing unusual
for violators of the law, especially the |
LIQUOR law, to assure the court that they |
only wanted to "make an honest living"
This Francis business Is the funniest |
thing that has happened in Maine In .
generation. The story would make-but |
further comment is useless. That's |
about all you can say about it-that it's
the funniest ever.
The Maine Central Railroad il about
to reduce Ito local fares to rate Of 2 1-2 |
cents . mile. In all probability receipts
will increase under the reduced ratas.