Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-01-02


time.
President Roosevelt does not approve
of the Oregon scheme for an SoOO,OO0
wedding present for Miss Roosevelt, to
be contributed by popular subscription,
He couldn't be expected TO. The spon-
sors of the scheme may be entirely well
meaning, but the plan is not in good
taste.
But the car load of coal, which the
anthracite miners will present Miss Roose-
welt in appreciation of her fathers ser
vices in settling the strike, will probably
be accepted with please. And it will be
very useful in the family.
These are The days when the years accounts
are being balanced. Does yours show surplus
or a Embellishments Journal
Say, didn't it ever occur to you that
that was rather an impertinent question:
Or at least one calculated to hurt the
feelings of some of your readers?
A Frenchman has perfected an ap-
paratus, so it is said, that transmits the
peculiarities of a mans handwriting,
s'enabling him to sign checks 100 miles
away." As if men didn't have checks
enough to sign right at home!
William W. Astor is to build model
apartment house in New York near
Central Park. No apartment in IL will
rent for less than $1,000 year. 1t will
be twelve stories high and accommodate
600 people-600 adults, of course; 1t
isn't to be expected that children will be
allowed in a house of that grade.
President Eliot says that his city,
Cambridge, does not contain rich man.
Which suggests that rich, like many
other adjeetives, is relative term.
Colombia is the latest country to
abandon silver and establish the gold
standard. Doesn't il seem difficult to
believe that less than ten years ago
the Democratic party in this country was
shouting for silver, and the Republican
party was almost-not quite-afraid to
lot the word ''gold" 60 into its platform?
District Attorney Moran, true to his
ante-election promise, is enforcing the
law TO the letter in Boston, and as one
consequence four of the leading hotels
of that city are having truly awful
time because, in the opinion of Mr..
Moran, they have forfeited their liquor
- licenses by violation of the screen law.
Nothing that has happened in the Hub
in many moons has created so much stir
in that centre of the intellectual life. AT
first thought the affair may suggest that
the difficulty of enforcing all the pro-
visions of a well-ordered license law is
somewhat akin to that found in enforc-
ing straight prohibitory law. But here
come in the Boston papers, which assure
us that the liquor law of Massachusetts,
is great over bulky mass, loaded down
with utterly absurd restrictions and
qualifications of the right to sell liquor,
and that all these sbsurdities were foisted
upon the people, not by those who favor
a reasonable license law, but by the
prohibitionists, mostly from the country
towns, who, because they could not
have prohibition for the state, have been
bound to get as near it as possible, and
SO have forced upon the cities a law
which, taken as a whole, is distssteful.
II correctly stated, the argument is a
compliment to the prohibition advocates,
as it shows that they, and not the license
advocates, are the ones who have added
to the law those provisions which tend
to lessen in some degree the evils of the
liquor traffic.