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The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The gallant Gen. VIM. ]. Palmer
seems destined to encounter perils as
long as he shall live. 1t will be remem-
bered that more than a year ago he
was thrown from horse, sustaining
such an injury to his spine that he has
been kept bedridden ever since. in spite
of all that the ablest specialists of the
world could do. He has had built for
himself a magnificent hospital automo-
bile, in which he goes about the coun-
try. Last week, while entertaining his
comrades of the 18th Pa. Cav, his
chauffeur lost control of the machine as
it was going down a long incline, and
became wildly excited. but the General.
who knew that any severe jolt would
end his life, was the coolest man in the
party, and exerted himself to calm down
the chauffeur. Fortunately the vehicle
was stopped without any severe shock
or injury.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Ey
PRISONERS OF WAR.

At its meeting in Saratoga. the Ma
tional Association of Union Ex-Prison-
ers of War elected the following Off
GERS:
Commander-in-Chief John Kissane
Cincinnati, o.
Senior Vice COMMUNICATIVE Chief
John Lane Fits. New Hampshire.
Junior Vice COmmander-in-C Chief
Walter Dull, New York City
Executive Committee, A. o. Parsons
Pennsylvania; w. A. Emory, Illinois;
Charles Davis, Massachusetts; ]. +
Holliger. Ohio.
Chaplain, j. 7. Ferguson, Keokuk
Iowa.
National Historian, Gen. Harry
White. Pennsylvania
Adjutant and Quartermastcr, ]. D.
Walker, Pennsylvania
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
AUTOMOBILE RACE FROM PEkING TO
PARIS.

most interesting and valuable test
of the powers of the automobile has
been concluded in a long-distance race
of 5000 miles, from Peking to Paris.
June 10onfives vehicles started from
Peking todParis across the exceedingly
rough country of mountains, table,
lands. canyons. morasses and deserts of
central AsiasiH Tho that country has
been Travelled for thousands of years b.
nomads and caravans. there is scarcely
such thing as roads, and the bold
motorists were prepared for any sort
of difficulties, 1t seems that they met
these in profusion. and frequently their
machinesf hadf to be dragged up pre-
cipitons places by ropes pulled by
scores Of natives. It took them 40 days
to cross Asia and enter Europe. and
they reached st. Petersburg Aug. /.
The leading auto was the ITALIA, driven
by Prince Scipio Borghese. From st.
Petersburg the road was far easier to
Berlin, where the Prince had an en-
thusiastic reception, being met about
80 miles out of the city by large con-
course of autos from Berlin The Prince
went across Belgium, and arrived in
Paris Aug. 10, on miserably wet day.
He had encountered weather of all ex-
tremes. from sitting heat in the Chi
nese desert to snow and freezing rain
in Siberia. but arrived in Paris with
himself and machine In fairly good con-
ldition, everything conGis~
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
RUPTURE AMONG THE SOCIALISTS.

The Peoples Parliament of Socialists.
which has been holding it's session at
Stuttgart, adjourned with a very wide
Socialists. Monsieur Herve, who is a
leader of the Internationalists-tha is,
people who deride patriotism as a de-
grading uperstition-came into sharp
conflict with Herr Bebel, the German
leader, who believes that Socialists
should be citizens and patriots. NJ
Herve would not have any man give
the smallest drop of his blood to de-
fend his country. He wanted the Con-
gress to repudate utterly bourgeois
patriotism and to have all Socialists
meet any declaration of war either for
the preservation of internal peace or
to resist an enemy with "a military
strike" That is. the soldiers should be
brought to agree to unanimously dis
obey orders, and if they fired upon any
one to fire upon the officers who gave
them orders to murder their brethren.
NJ. Herve says that he is a Frenchman,
but French patriotism was worse If
anything tndn tHe exHlDltiOn OF an aD-
surd pride in country and Government
by Germans, English, Welch or any
others Herr BebeI resented all this
He was opposed to militairism as it
existed in Germany. where the officers
are an exclusive class of aristocrats
and would have some such system as in
this country or in Switzerland, where
all the people are soldiers and bound
to defend their country. This would
make Herr Bebel more patriotic even
than many of our labor leaders in this
country, who denounce the National
Guard, and try to prevent their mem
bers from joining it. The Parliament
at Stuttgart decided against M. Herve
and in favor of Bebel 1t is likely that
this will result in the International So
cialists drifting entirely apart from the
class which is represented by Herr Be-
bel.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

1t can not be too often reiterated
that the price of our grain is regulated
by the price we can obtain for the sur
plus which we ship abroad The price
OF grain all over this country is abso-
lutely controlled by the price that the
relatively small amount we send abroad
Will bring in England and other mar
kets of the world. Therefore, the au-
thentic report that Russia has a deficit
of fully 200,000,000 bushels is of ex-
treme Importance to our grain grow
ers. OF late years Russia has been our
sharpest competitor, and the enormous
amount of grain that she has been able
to pour into the markets of the world
has been the cause of the low prices
obtained for our grain. Last years
wheat crop in Russia was a very short
one. and famine ravaged over many
great districts. The official report shows
that this years crops will be only &c.
100000 bushels more than last years,
leaving deficit of 200, ,00O,O 900 bushels,
making only II per cent. of an average
crop. AS last years shortage left no
surplus from which to draw, there is
the gloomiest apprehension of another
year of famine and of high prices for
wheat all over the world
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The candy manufacturers are COM
planning bitterly of the injury done
their business by yellow journalism.
The yellow papers have, for want of
something better, been making a cru
sade against candy, and the National
Confectionery Association publishes a
list of cases of poisoning and death
reported to have been caused by candy.
These were carefully examined by ply
sicians. who found that, while some OF
the deaths were imaginary, the others
were caused by blows on the head. eat
ing medical tablets. and acute indiges-
ton from pickles and other forms of
heavy food.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

A study of the trade statistics with
Germany shows that while our COM
merce with that country is rapidly in
creasing, the balance between exports
and imports is kept pretty even. In
July, 1903, we imported s9,697,202
worth and exported s9435,727 worth.
In the same month of this year we i'm
ported $14,672,857 worth and exported
$15.259,011 worth. The main draw
back is that we are exporting raw ma
terial to Germany upon which we make
little and receiving manufactured goods
upon which the Germans make much.
For example. last July we sent 27,202,-
535 pounds of manufactured cotton
to Germany and bought back 100000
yards of cotton cloths, knit goods, laces.
cdgings, etc. Next to cotton our prin-
cipal export was kerosene, of which we
sold during the month 10.579,716 gal
Ions. Next came lard, of which we sold
the astonishing amount of 23,331,S29
pounds. The sale of canned beef had
fallen off to 1913 pounds, and of
salted or picked pork to 1O6,S0O
pounds. The sales of cotton seed
amounted to 13,153,353 pounds.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
The Struggle for Missouri.
New War History OF the Greatest Value.
By JOHN McELROY.

of Missouri with her
by the firing Fort Sumter
vital to the Of
land mil
Lincoln
in Secession
struggle
OIL th city
of
displaced the Secessoni
pochs American history
its
historical
value
On that dateth price W be advance to
orders
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WashinQt0u. C.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The Spanish railroads have instituted
a revenue scheme which our managers
have not yet thought of. They charge
for admission to the platform at the
stations. and the tickets giving admis-
sion sell from five centimos, about one
cent in American money, upward. 1t is
questionable how such a law would
work in this country. 1t might keep
out lot of Objectionable loiterers who
are unpleasantly in evidence around
railroad stations. On the other hand, a
man who had paid the tritiing sum of
money required for admission would
feel as if he owned the station and be
more Objectionable than ever
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

Statistics regarding our rapidly in
creasing pearl fisheries in the Missis-
sippi Valley are not yet obtainabie, but
the United States Fish Commission es-
Inmates that the value of the pearls and
slugs taken from the mussels in the
Western rivers approximates 100000
annually. The American pearls differ
30 greatly as to make il difficult to
match them for necklace but, on the
other hand, they have an tAquisite color
and luster which surpass the pearls
found anywhere else. The value of in
dividual pearls found last year in the
Mississippi Valley ranged all the. way
from 81 to $4,000 each. with from s1.50
to $50 an ounce for the slugs. The
mussel shoals in Tennessee. Wabash
River and upper Mississippi are the
centers of the industry.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The Texas, the locomotive on which
Conductor Fuller and his companions
chased down and captured the engine
thieves during the famous Andrews
Raid, has since the war been running
regularly on one of the little branch
roads between Atlanta and Chatta-
nooga. She is at last worn out and II
is proposed to send her to the scrap
pile, which arouses the sentiment OF
The Atlanta Journal The Ex-Confed-
crates are being stirred up to avert
this and have the Texas placed on a
granite block in one of the parks on
exhibition, the same as the General has
been for years. The General was the
engine which Andrews and his men
captured and upon which they made
their terrible race for life. After being
on exhibition at various places, the
General was taken to Atlanta and
mounted on a granite pedestal at Chat
tanooga, and every year receives a tri-
butte of flowers in honor of the brave
men who sacrificed their lives for the
Union. The Atlanta Journal would
have the Texas similarly put up in
Grant Park at Atlanta.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The Protestant Episcopal Church is
agitated by the question whether negros
shall be eligible to the higher eccle-
siastical offices. This question has been
settled in the Methodist, Presbyterian
Baptist and some other churches by 4
separation of the races and the estab-
lishment of church systems on the
color line There is strong opposition
in the Episcopal Church to doing this,
but there is also opposition to negros
rising to the higher offices of the
Church. The Episcopalian negros, at
the head of whom is Prof Dubois, of
the Atlanta University, protest strong
ly against drawing the color line in
the Church. and insists that every COL
Ored man who enters the ministry shall
have the same inducements in the way
of promotion that are given to white
men similarly trained and laboring in
the same field. The same question is
troubling the Methodist Church, and at
its next General Conference an amend
ment will be voted upon providing for
Bishops of particular races and Ian
guage. The colored Methodists are op-
posing this, advocating the election of
Bishop Scott to the General Super
intendency.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
PAX-AMERICANA.

The new arrangement by which all
of the leaders of the Central American
States have agreed to accept the arbi-
tration of the United States and Mexico
differs very markedly from any other
arbitration so far proposed. in that each
of the powers is apparently able and
quite willing to enforce any judgment
that may be made. The trouble has
been in Europe, with all attempts at a
concert of the powers" arbitration anl
other forms, that at the last pinch no
expensive job of compelling compli-
ance with the verdict. For example,
England and France were gotten to-
sether once to apply the rod TO Rus
sia, which they did very effectively in
the Crimean war. At the conclusion of
that war quite hard terms of peace
were forced upon Russia She stood
them quietly until France was crushed
by Germany, when Russia announced
that she would be no longer governed
by the terms of the treaty. A little
later she resumed her aggressions upon
Turkey, and her troops were within
eight miles of Constantinople when
England undertook the job Of meeting
her single-handed. and the Congress of
Berlin was called to maintain the peace
of Europe. 1t will be entirely different
in Central America. Before any OF
those petty little brawlers can begin n
war it must submit its case to the Unit
ed States and Mexico and receive a
decision. If it dares disregard that de-
cision. either of the countries or both
will take swift action to compel it.
There is no hampering of our action
such as letters the European powers,
where one Nation cannot go TO war
until carefully ascertaining what the
attitude of the others will be. The
United States can go to war any day
without asking leave of anybody, as
can also Mexico. The people of Cen
trail America are confident that the
United States has no designs upon their
interestedly toward them With the
exception of Guatemala they feel the
same towards Mexico. Mexico has al
ways asserted more or less claim upon
Guatemala, and the Guatemalans are
not sure that she will not take favor
able opportunity to annex them, but
they hope that under the new arrange
ment the United States will prevent
such an act.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The fight among the Jews goes on
as to whether Zionism is Incompatible
with true Americanism. Mr. Jacob
Fl. Schiff. the Jewish banker and
philanthropist, stands to his guns
that there is IAN irremediable in
compatibility" between Zionism and
true Americanism. He is supported by
DIR. Isidor Singer. editor of the Jewish
Encyclopedia. who says that Mr.. Schiff
is entirely right in his protest against
the grating of the retrograde and
dreamy principles and hopes of Orien-
tai Iionism upon the liberal-minded and
realistic Jewish Commonwealth of the
United States. among whose nearly
100000 members there can hardly be
found 10000 confessed Zionists, mostly
Russian immigrants of the first decade,
with few pseudo Romantic Yankee
Jews as official leaders, DIR. Harry
Friedenwald, as President of the Amer
lean Zionists, retorts that all except
Reformed Jews pray daily before the
Shema, ''Oh, bring us in peace from
the four corners of the earth. ahd make
us go upright to our land" Thrice
daily they pray in the Amidah, Sound
the great horn for our freedom. lift up
the ensign to gather our exiles, and
gather us from the four corners of the
earth to Jerusalem, Thy city. Return
In mercy and dwell therein as Thou
hast spoken. Rebuild it soon in our
days, and let our eyes behold Thy re-
turn in mercy to Zion" DIR. Frieden-
wald contests that according to Mr..
Shifts standard no man who utters
these prayers can be true American.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

There is an old and persistent belief
that the toad is yenomous. and Shak-
spere mentions this belief several times.
Scientific men have pooh-hoohed it as
superstidous, but recent Investigations
show that it is accurate. "'i4e venom is
a milk-white juice, which is strongly ir-
ritant upon the skin or mucous mem
branes, can kill dog withi0 an ncur,
and produces commissions IN other toads
and frogs when bitten. 1t 6iiters some
what from the venom of snakes, and is
not so active or powerful.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
A Kick From Arkansas.

Editor National Tribune: 1 was a
Union soldier, am a Methodist and get
a little pension from the Government,
and can truthfully say l have never
spent one dollar of my pension money
for whisky. and do not know OF one
old soldier near here that spends any
part of his pension that way. Now,
don't claim that the Methodists put
down the rebellion, but they certainly
did their part, and if 1 am allowed to
guess, my opinion of the editor of the
St. Louis Christian Advocate is that he
is an old mossback, and if he is not a
liar he handles the truth very carele55-
ly, and ought to be prosecuted for
SANDER. 1 will go s5 of my pension
money!. C. Markley, Batavia, Ark.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

Ex-Mayor Seth Low, who is not only
a gentleman and scholar in politics. but
a very practical politician, has framed
a Corrupt Practices Act which the Leg
islature has passed and Gov. Hughes
has signed. 1t is believed that this will
dates and campaign committees are re-
quired to file a statement Of all expend-
itures. and the amount not to be ac-
counted for is reduced from $200 to s5
ANY item in this statement is subject to
judicial inquiry upon the demand of
any voter and the penalties are SO Sc
we're as to be actually deterrent.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The first shovel full of dirt in digging
the canal across Cape Cod, which has
been talked about and urged for more
than 200 years, was thrown Aug. 20
near Sycamore by William Barclay
Parsons, the Chief Engineer. The work
will be rushed to a speedy completion
and when it is done will be instrument
tai in saving annually many lives and
much property in avoiding the dan
gerous passage around Cape Cod. Every
year since settlement of this country
Cape Cod has taken a heavy toll OF hu-
man life and property
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The people of Utah object to being
spoken of as Utahians or Utahans, but
SO far they have not suggested any
better adjective. They are not alone
in their difficulty, however, as there
has never been found an acceptable
adjective for the people of several
States. For example, are those of our
most Northeastern sister Maniacs, or
Mainians2 With all of Boston's cul-
ture, nothing better than Yankee has
been suggested for the people of Mas
sachusetts. The people of Wisconsin
have had to call themselves Badgers"
until they could think of something
better than Wisconsonians. The people
of Wyoming have had too much else to
do SO far to consider the matter of an
adjective, but when it comes up to them
1t will be a puzzler.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

Gen. Fred d. Grant is firm that the
Presidents order regarding horseman-
ship for field officers shall be applied
without fear, favor or affection. and
has ordered 32 Colonels and Lieutenant
Colonels, embracing substantially all of
that rank in his Department to get
ready for a forced horseback ride
which Will test their skill and endur-
ance in the saddle. Only three of the
officers are under so years OF age
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The automobile trade is getting to be
an immense one, with our sending
port. In 1902 we only exported $1,000
900 worth of automobiles and parts
thereof. while last year this reached
$5,500,000 worth. 1t has been only in
the last two years that We have been
importing automobiles enough to JUS
tify the Bureau of Statistics in making
separate item of them. In 1907 We
imported s4.041, 900 worth, with sS01,-
600 worth of parts. Our biggest exports
were TO Great Britain and France.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26
INcITING CLASS HATRED.

INCITING CLASS HATRED.
| The class hatred which is being Sc
sedulously cultivated in this country by
the Socialists and the shallow teachers
of false economic theories is absolutely
un-Am erican. and has no place in our
condition of society. In Europe. where
the people have for centuries been di-
vided by hard lines of stratification be-
tween the Aristocratic land owners and
the middle-c1ass mechanics, there is
reasonsfor class feeling which does not
troduced here by those who are in
capable of ,comprehending the differ
ences on the two sides of the Atlantic.
Most of the Socialistic propaganda
comes from German sources. where the
social conditions are much harder than
in France or England. In France and
England the fight between the classes
was fought out 100 years ago to re-
suits with which the people are gener-
ally satisfied, so that it is difficult to
produce any serious contest between
the people in different walks of life.
The French and English land owners
and nobility have no privileges, no ad-
vantages. over other members of So
ciety. The only superiority they have
is in their own little exclusive sets, the
doings of which are not of much mo-
ment or interest to anybody outside.
On the other hand, German aristocracy
has very much the iron lines that it
had in the Middle Ages. man who
was born an aristocrat has distinct and
very important privileges over those
who were not To be an officer in the
army gives one great advantages over
his fellowmen, and this condition is so
rigid that no amount of worth and no
amount of money can force man thru
the hedge which separates the privi-
legged classes from the common people.
The howl against capital and em-
ployers is merely a senseless echo OF
the clamor from across the ocean, and
the men who indulge in ii are slavsil
imitators without brains enough to COM
prehend how inapplicable it is to this
country. In fact. few American born
workmen pay any attention to the alb
Suru ana dangerous propaganda Oh
class hatred. Substantially all of the
followers of this are Germans, Slavs
and other races who have not been in
the country long enough to compre-
hend that here every man is given an
equal show. There is absolutely no cap
italistic class. any more than there is
a class of carpenters or bricklayers. The
man who is a bricklayer this year may
be millionaire 10 years from now,
and his son or grandson may be back
the trowel and yelling at the
Probably 80 per cent of
the capitalists of America began their
lives as clerks or mechanics, and prob
ably a large. portion of their descend
ants will return to the vocations of
their ancestors. With no entail. no
and none of the restric-
tions which build up classes in the old
world, there can be no permanent
classes IN this country. The riches ac-
by one generation are likely |
to be scattered by the next, and in the
future ii will be as true as in the past |
that it is only three generations from
shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

Our old acquaintance. Ex-Commis-
sioner Lochren, is having the same kind
of States Rights fight in Minnesota
that created such turmoil in North
Carolina. The Minnesota Legislature
passed a Commodity Rate Law, which
the railroads have resisted. Lochren,
who is now on the Federal Circuit
Bench. has enjoined the State officers
from putting the law into operation
until the courts can decide upon its
constitutionalfty.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

The Horticultural Commission of
California has been experimenting with
nitrogen as a preserver OF meats, fish
and fruits. This is not a new idea, for
there was exhibited at the Paris Exposi-
ton of 1900 a number of fish which
have been preserved in nitrogen for
seven years without decay. Commits
sioner Cooper has been putting pears.
grapes, cherries, etc. into steel cans
from which the air had been exhausted
and its place taken by nitrogen, and he
has found that they have retained all
their qualities perfectly for five months.
Those that were not in good condition
when packed were found no worse when
taken out. The nitrogen had arrested
decay. AS nitrogen constitutes four
fffths of the atmosphere we breathe, its
use in preserving fruit cannot have the
slightest deleterious effect.
The National tribune., 1907-09-26

Mark Twain wisely declined to pilot
make his trip on the Mississippi. As the
Mississippi changes her channel about
as often as the moon does her quarters,
and as Mark Twain has scarcely seen
the river for 40 years. he could not
now tell its current from his current
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