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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
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sylvania, and thus the Grant crowd was reduced to 306- In Livy. you will read of the exploits of another 306- an army of that number, every member of the name of Fabius, ana all ot the family of Fabii. In battle all were slain save one cadet scarce past his third lustrum, and he was an ance5ter of Fabius Maximus. who saved Rome from the conquering arms of Hannibal. It Is a striking coincidence-306,- rep resenting the pagan commonwealth of old Rome and the Christian republic of new America.
 And now. more than a quarter of century later, Washington is again en- gagged in the delightful work of per sonal political speculation. Will the next President be Taft, or Hughes. or spooner. or Knox, or Fairbanks. or Cannon. or Cummins. or Shaw, or For will Theodore Roosevelt get another term?s- Time alone will tell. A bad crop season would throw the thing into an awful muddie. A business depres- sion would make the Republican nomi- nation something of much smaller value.
 On the Democratic side of tho hedge there is a dictatorship. William J: Bryan is every man himself. He will take the nomination if he shall think there Is fair chance of election, and he will send another to the slaughter if he shall conclude that it Is a help less case. He will have a year to make up his mind on that question. and that is ample time for a resourceful pollti- clan to try dozen or more other fads on the dog. So 1t is not necessary to say anything of and concerning the Democratic situation until MT. Bryan gets ready to tell what his wishes are in the premises.
 With Roosevelt out of the calcula- tion Taft Is the leading man for the Republican nomination. whether there shall be a fire In his rear in Ohio or not. They say the colored troops in that State are opposed to him. The professional negroes are against him. That is evident; but on the day of cleo tion Taft or Roosevelt or anybody else bearing the standard of the G. O. F. will poll more than 90 per cent of the negro vote of Ohio and of every other State The professional negroes who are resoluting against Taft will swell his ranks with two white voters where they take from him one colored voter. White human nature In Ohio Is exactly what white human nature is in Missis- sippi, and intended to run the politics of Ohio. e..-.--..
 Salmon P. Chase, Allen G. Thurman,
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Tn Prisident has ordered tn lady to marry tn Chink.' 'Th' Hoop-la Theay- the was closed last night on complaint iv tn Jap'nese ambassadure that tn Fluff opry Comp'ny was givin' rip risintation iv Jap'nese charackters In pink robes instead iv tn seemly black derby hats, a size too large, Prince Albert coats, pear-colored pants, but ton shoes. stirring neckties an spec tacles which is tn well-known uny- form fT tn gloryous race. As token iv their grief tn Cabinet Nwaited on tn Japnese embassy at dinner tonight an Admiral Bob Evans has been or dhered to sink tn battle ship Loosy- amy an carry Gin'ral Kroky's hat box to tn deepo.'
 An so it goes. I'm in a state iv alarum all tn time. In tn good old days we wudden't have thought life was worth livin' if we cudden't insult foreigner That's what they ere fir Whin I as sthrong, befure old age deprived me iv most iv me pathritism an other infantile disordhers, I niver saw A Swede, Hun, an Eyetallan, a Boohlgaryan, a German, a Fr-rinch- man that I didn't give him tn should her. If twas an Englishman I give him tn foot, too. Threaty rights, says ye? We give him tn same threaty rights he'd give us, a dhrink an a whack on th' head. It seemed proper to us. If twas right to belong to wan naytionality, twas wrong to belong 10 another If twas a mans proud boast to be an American it was a disgrace to be a German an joke to be Fr-rinchman. An that goes now. Ye can bump amy foreigner ye meet but Jap Don't touch him. He's a live wire. Don't think ye can pull his i'm peeryal hat down on his bold up curved nose Tn first thing ye know yell be what Hogan calls Casey's Bellows, an nanny a peaceful village in Indyannyn be desthroyed fir ye'er folly. Why. be hivens, it won't be long till we'll have to be threatin' tn Cinese dacint. Think iv that will ye. I Tread in tn pa-aper tn other day that tn Chinese army had been reorganized an re- armed. Hincefoorth, instead iv tn old fashioned petticoats they will wear tn more warlike short skirt. Tn palm leafs have been cast aside fir modhren quick-firin' fans an complete new assortment iv gongs, bows an arrows stink-pots an charms against tn evil eye has been ordhered firm we'll known German firm. Be careful tn next time ye think iv kickin' an empty ash-barl down yeer frind Lip Hung laundhry. Rash, foolish man, beware
 Its hard f'r me to think iv tn Japs
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in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will curse me fir me wickedness instead iv blissin' tn mimry iv man that done so much to keep their fathers firm hurryin home at night. So I stayed away. FIT moment tn peril Is over.
 But 1t won't be f'r long. Ivry nor nin' pick up me pa-aper with fear an thrembltn'. War with Japan is immy- hint. Tokyo, June five-Th' whole nation is wild with excitement over tn misthreatment iv a Jap nese in Los Angeles, an unless an apology IS fortn- comin' 1t will be difficult fir tn gov ernmint to prevint tn navy firm shoot in few things at ye. Tn people iv America shud know that they ar-re at tn brink iv war. correspondent iv tn Daily Saky. who wurruks in an old porcylain facthry in Maine, writes that this famous subjick iv tn McAdoo, wnese name has escaped him but who had a good job in livery stable in Tokyo befure he was sint on a mis- sion to tn American people to see what he cud get, wint into an all night res- thrant an demanded his threaty rights. which ar-re that tn waitre was to tuck his napkin into his collar an tn bar finder must play, Nippon, tn gloryous' on mouth organ. Onforchinitely tn proprietor iv tn place, a man be tn name iv' Scully, got hold iv a copy iv tn theaty with Sweden with tn sad result that he give tn subjick iv tn McAdoo tn wrong threaty rights. He hit him over tn head with bung- start er There Is some relief in tn sit uation tonight based on tn report that tn Prisidint has sint an apology an has ordhered out tn army to subjoo Scul- ly The Impror held meetin' iv tn Elder Statesmen tonight to discuss sindin a fleet to San Francisco to pun ish tn neglect iv threaty rights tv tn Japnese be sthreet car con- ductor, who wudden't let subjick of the, McAdoo ride on tn Thirty-first Sthreet line with an ogden Avnoo thransfer dated August eighteen hundred an siventy-two.' Tn Prisident has ordhered tn arrest an Imprisonment iv a dentist In Al bany who hurt a Jap'nese whose tooth he was fillin'. He has requested tn McAdoo to give us another chance be- fure layin waste our land.' Follow in tn advice iv tn Japnese ambassa- dure fir poor young Japs to marry rich American girls, Jap'nese com bynation theological student an cook applied fir tn hand if tn daughter iv tn boordin' house keeper where he was employed. He was able to limp to tn Japnese Consups house, where he made complaint to tn 1mpror. who was an old frind iv his father.
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and John Sherman were much greater men than Rutherford B. Hayes. James A. Garfield and William Mckinley. No one of the first three attained to the Presidency, and for the reason that no one of them was fortunate enough to have a solid Ohio for him in conven- ton. Of the last three. each had a solid Ohio behind him in convention If prosperity holds he may. be able to knock the plum, even if the Senator's should be sufficiently influential to put on the delegation eight or ten anti Taft delegates. There Is no unit rule in Republican conventions. and the rule only holds in Democratic conventions because 1t smacks of State sovereignty.
 I do not believe that William H. Taft Is as great a man as Grover Cleveland or anything like 1t: but he Is more like Grover Cleveland than any other public man now on the political carpet If Cleveland had had the tact that McKin- ley had or Taft has, the success Of his equal to its merits. In wise states manship, in virile Americanism. it was all that could be desired, In a party sense 1t failed solely because MT. Cleve- land did not know how to conciliate, He forgot, or never learned. this truth: "Manv full sack comes from crook ed row, and he that will captain none but honest men will have small hire to pay" The President of the United States ought to have the tact to, make use of every instrument h can Ia hands on. That Is a secret of Roose- velts success
 MT. Taft shows us how 1t is in the case of a Mr. Cox out wonder In Ohio. Something over a year ago MT. Taft made a speech in MT. Dicks town of Akron, and roasted MT. Cox like he-- ring; but MT Cox Is now becomes a rillar of the Taft household In Ohio. The Akron speech was exceedingly Clevelandish: the enlistment of Cox Is eminently McKinleyish. A man with the stern virtue of Cleveland and the eymnastic virtue of Mckinley ought to give the country a very satisfac- tory administration.
 The father of William H. Taft was an eminent lawyer of the Cfncinnati bar. He was of New England stock and had served the Republic as Attor- ney-General and Secretary of War In General Grants Cabinet The son was born in Cincinnati fifty years ago, where he attended the public schools in his early youth and mingled with the boys and girls of that community. and thus he early contracted that dem ocratic deportment that makes him so immensely popular with all sorts of people At IT years he entered Yale College, and there he was marked man-consplcuous for his grand pres ence manly character. splendid intel lect and sturdy manhood. He was graduated In the class of 1878, and re- turned to Cincinnati to enter its famous law school After his admission to the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
PROFITS OF TRAVEL.
What It CostA the American Tourist to
 See the World.

What It Costs the American Tourist" to
 See the World.
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 Outgoing steamers to Europe are now filled with eager American tourists, and probably $1o0. 100000 to s2oo, ,o0o.00 of tourists money will be spent abroad this summer.
 Travel in its real character is a mental not physical recreation. The fashion now Is to save our physical selves os much effort as possible. throwing the burden upon the senses. Hearing. seeing, tasting. smell ing and touching are our ways of doing the world We travel that we may enjoy the sensations of the distant country well as the modes of getting there. It is not so much for the enlargement of mind that people go to and fro over the earth as it is for the change and diversion which the strain and monotonv Of business and social life bring to most of
 Tn the balance sheet of nations the ex- penditures for travel forms part of the in visible claims of other countries against The question comes up every year and whether it pays. and the answer is both yes and no.
 It does pay to travel if one is prepared for it. It is true that we seldom get much more out of anything than what we put into it. The man or woman of an empty mind or heart is not likely to see much that is worth while in the pyramids ot Egypt where American travel in a single season spends no less than SC 900. 900 for climate riding donkeys and looking at these monu- ments of ancient empire. In other words 1t takes thought and common sense to trav- el profitably. The mental capacity must be there or the meaning of things will be lost on the one who is not prepared for them. It pays to travel if one has a pur- pose which is reasonable and helpful and in harmony with the conditions of the pIasns and people he vists. But if their customs and methods annoy him he rohs himself hecause of nerves.
 IL doesn't pay to travel if one is too self conscious to feel something of the hospital fly which almost any peope entertain to- ward strangers Most people are disposed to go out of their way to make the stranger within their gates feel at ease among them proper regard for this disposition devel- ops friendlness which Is among the prea+ est benefits of getting away from one's own land and people, It is the sense Of free dom from care, exemptinS ones thought from responsibility and diverting 1t by th- pleasure of change and novelty of life that helps man to come hack tn his business with something of the freshness that ho ought 10 get from wandering away from a comfortable home
 Self-forgetfulness and respect for tho ways and dongs of other people are amone the conditions of making travel gain and not a loss to the one who engages in it. to make inquiries in an appreciative manner In short. never to forget one's good breeH : ing when he goes abroad. is the best way to make certain that you have had A really good time, and to be sure that vour norav has not been spent upon an unworthy sub- feet.
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this way. But 'tis tn part iv prudence. A few years ago didn't think amy more about a Jap thin about amy other man thatd been kept in tn oven too long. They were all alike to me. But to-day whiniver see wan I turn pale an take off me hat an make a low bow. A few years ago an I'd bet l was good fir dozen iv thim. But didn't know how tur-rible a people they are. Their ships are tn best in tn wurruld. We think we've got good ships. Tn Lord knows I'm told they cost us enough, though I don't raxmimber iver payin' a cent fir wan. pieces tn whole. Atlantic squadron. 1t cud so. They're marvellous sailors. They use guns that shoot around tn corner. They fire these here injines iv desthruction with a mystecryous powdher made iv a substance on'y known to thim. It is called saltpether These guns hurl projyctiles weighin eighty tons two thousand miles. On land they ar-re even more tur-rible. Jap'nese sojer can march three hun- dhred miles day an subsist on a small piece fv chewin' gum Their army have arrived at such a perfection at tn diffycult manoover known as tn goose step that they have made this awful instrument iv carnage tn ter Aoi " LII " LuIopc. Ao cavlrymen they ar-re unexcelled There is on'y wan horse in Japan, but -fvry Japanese sojer has larned to ride him. To see wan iv their magnificent cav'lry rijiments goin into action mounted on Joko is a sight long to be raymimbered. Above all, tn Japnese is most to be feared because iv his love iv home an his almost akel love iv death. He is so happy in Japan that he wud rather die somewhere's else. Most sojers don't like to be kilt. A Jap'nese sojer prefers 1t. It was hard to convince tn nation that they hadn't lost th'> war with Rooshya be- cause not so many Rooshyans had been kilt as Japs. Faith we ought to be scared iv thim. niver see wan without wondhrin' whether me cellar Is bomb- proof.
 An sigh fir tn good old days be- lure we- become what Hogan calls a wurruld power. In thim days our favorite spoort was playin' solytare. winnin' money firm each other an no wan tn worse off Ivrybody was in- vious iy us. We didn't care fr tn big game goin' on in tn corner. Whin 1t broke up in row we said: Gentle men, gentlemen! an maybe wint over an grabbed somebody's stake. But we cudden't stand 1t any longer. We
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tcopyrssht. 1907. by H. H. Mcclure ssDid ye 70 to see tn Japs whtn they wore herer. asked MT. Dooley.
 sT did not" said MT. Hennessy.
 s'Nor l." said MT. Dooley T was afraid to- They're a divvle iv sin alive people thim Japs. Look cross eyed at thim an thy're into ye'er hair Fl stayed away firm tn stock yards whin me frind Gin'ral Armour Was showin' Gin'ral Kroky some rale slaughter. I didn't dare to go down there rr fear I'd involve this fair land fv ours in war. Supposin' tn naughty little fellow was to see me grinnin at him. A smile don't seem tn same thing to an Oryental that 1t Is to us Cowcassians. He might think I was insuitin' him. Look at that fellow , makin' faces at me- says he. He ain't rnakin. faces at ye,' says tn Mayor. That's tn way he always looks Thin he must have his face planed down. says Kroky If he don't I'll appeal to in McAdoo an he'll divastate tnts boasted raypublic iv yeers, he says, firm sea to sea- he says.
 "Well, whats to be done apout IT! can't change me face an there's no legal way iv removin' 1t. Tn Prisi- dfnt writes to tn Govnor, tn Gov'nor requests th.- Sheriff, tn Sheriff speaks to tn Mayor, tn Mayor desires tn Chief tv Polls. tn Chief iv Polls ordhers tn polisman on tn beat an tn polisman on tn beat commands me to take me nlarmin' visage out iv tn public view. Suppose I go down to see me counsel, Barrister Hogan. He tells me that undher tn rights guaranteed to me be th' Constitution which God dehnd an help in these here days, an me liquor license, I'm entitled to stick me tongue in me cheek, wink. roll up me nose wisgle me hands firm me ears. bite me thumb or say Pooh to any black an'-tan I meet.
 "Thin what happens? Tn first thing know a shell loaded with dynnynite dhrops into tn lap iv some frind " mine in San Francisco "a party iv Jap snese land in Boston an sc alp lh' wigs or John Hancock a n Sam Adams; JRp'nese polisman gives me compan- yons tn joo- -jitsoo as they toll up tn Arrchey road iv a Saturdhay night and Tfddy Rosenfelt Is discovered undher bed with a small language book thryin to larn to say Spare me in tn Jap spese tongue And me name 6 pes boun- cin' down to histhry as .man that brought room to his counthry. an two hundherd years firm now little chill der atin' their milk with chop sticks
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bar he edited a newspaper. and later was made assistant prosecuting attor- Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Ohio District, one of the heavi- est taxpaying divisions of the whole country. He resigned a year later to enter upon the general practice of his profession. Soon thereafter he was appointed to the State judicial bench by Governor Foraker. and in 1890. General Of the United States. In 1892 he was appointed to the Circuit bench of the United States. He was then dean of the law department of the university Gs aby mistake in the Federal Constitution by neglecting to provide that man to be President should first have -prac- tice from the bench, for the period of at least ten years before he. was 35 years old. What a power, for good that would have added to the qualifl- cations of the man who is now Presi- dent!
 When the Mckinley Hanna regime to make a medieval tariff chock full of privileges. There had just been com pleted liquidation that was univer- 1 and with the An pe0gs ne1sr heard of anywhere. within the last ten years more gold has been mined than was produced in any two or three
 
 prosperity tarried under the Dingley law as it would have done under any tariff ever made, or as 1t would nave done had we had no tariff at all.
 The Cubans were in revolt ana ger tain yellow statesmen and yellow journalists determined to make this country enter upon an inglorious war with poor old bed-ridden and decrepit Spain If Tom Reed had been Presi- dent, there would have been no war. We would have bought Cuban indePen- dence and 1t would have cost about one tenth what the war cost. Dewey and Schley showed to the nations that the American navy was just as ugly customer in a fight as 1t ever was, and after poor old Spain was licked licked was cajoled into furnishing enough votes to the Republicans to acquire the Philippine Archipelago, MT. Mckinley sought some leading Republican 10 make satrap of the Philippine Islands.
 His choice fell on William H. Taft, and perhaps 1t was the most fortunate that could have been made. Taft went over there and his views of the people we had bought was the view of a Burke, and not of a Hastings. He interpreted his mission to be q work of planting American civilization on the other side of the world rather than exploiting their sugar, hemp, t1mper, and other resources for the money that was in them for American adventures I do not remember to have read any passage in the Federal Constitution on our government authority to go up and down the earth clviliz.ng
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people less fortunate than ourselves, but that Is honester work than rohbing them would be; and as constitutional. people He " was f their mta triend it and their guardian. He believes they have the foundation for the erection of an en- Many of them are his personal friends, for whom he has as much affection and Ohio or in Washington. He strove edvantage. Never was there a min ister of flock or a teacher of a class that discovered more solicitude for his charge than did Big Bill Taft for that
 And that is why Big Bill Taft wants to be President of the United States And there must be something good in If he regarded them as children, they looked up to him as a father. They trust him more than any other Ameri. and if the hand of Goa IS in the thing the divine Instrument to eiyiiize the< s not ony the iosea nsmnes Of Republican Party, but the logi- cal candidate of the American people. Nobody knows what the outcome will be. Unlese civili- zation has learned some new stunts. the sword will play the lead
 
 will insist on getting on the stage is as certain as that the Japanese are warlike people. A time will come whom Our occupation of the Philippine archi- pelago will be as intolerable to Japan as Spain's occupancy of Cuba was to the United States. However, that is meat for another generation than ours.
 Taft Is big. strong, healthy, good natured man,zbut there is all the bull dog in him as there is in Cleveland. and fl he shall get the Presidency he will be President. His Akron speech and his tudicisl decisions to which professional 1aboring men object show the metal of the man: Both will cost that both will earn him even more sup port than they will cost him. The same may be said Of the Brownsville episode.
 If MT. Taft shall be the Republican nominee, I predict MT. Bryan will send Judge Gray or Mir. Harmon to the slaughter.
 washington. June 3, 1907.
 Copyrighted by E. W. Newman.)