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The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
The North Commission.

Presumably the business interests of the
country that for two years have been Sc
riously menaced by Germany's threat of
tariff war viii soon be relieved in a meas
ure by learning something of the results
achieved by the commission of experts
sent 10 Berlin 10 study the situation and
report 10 the Secretary of State Dr.
North and his two associates have MAIN
tainod a strange silence since their re-
turn, though that they have acquainted
Secretary Root in detail with their OBJ
servations and conclusions there can, Of
course, be no doubt.
Mr.. Root twice has saved the agricuI-
tural interests OF the West from losing
a valuable and growing market in Ger
many for meats and other foodstuffs by
inducing the President to cause a modif-
cation Of customs regulations in the mat
ter OF certain German imports. in return
for which the German authorities have
suspended the application of the new
maximum rates to American Imports.
Under these successive arrangements our
profitable commercial relations with Ger
many have been maintained substantially
on the old basis though under a condl-
tion OF armed neutrality which bodies no
good for the future. With the expiration
on July / of the last modus vivendi nego-
tiated by Secretary Root, he will be COM
PEELED again TO renew the temporary ar
rangement or else permit "a costly tariff
war to begin. thanks TO the fatuous folly
of the myopic standpatters who controlled
the last Congress.
The executive authority in Germany is
quite as helpless as is that in the United
States TO afford permanent relief to a sit
uation that is rapidly growing more tense.
With the defeat in the last election of the
Social Democratic party and the triumph
OF agrarianism, the Kaiser is faced by a
force Of standpatters every whit as stub
born and shortsighted as are those on
this side of the Atlantic The Agrarians
stand in the German Parliament a solid
phalanx against any policy calculated to
diminish the advantage bestowed upon them
by the new maximum and minimum tariff
law. In the United States the standpat-
ters are the protected manufacturers.
while in Germany they are the old aristo-
cratic landowners. Modern industrial
Germany would like a change. It wants
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
MEN AND THINGS.
nrsaa In New EnsIaaa.

1ESFf4 IN new En- Alsssas
William Jennings Bryan has accepted
an invitation Of Alexander Troup. Demo-
cratic national committeeman for Con
nectieut. TO make speaking tour OF New
England from April IS to 30. The tour
Will be made under the auspices OF the
Democratic Progressive League, an or
ganization formed several months ego
to checkmate the Independence League
movement, The Hearst followers in New
England. conspicuous among whom is
District Attorney Moran. OF Boston, have
maintained ,heIr organization in fighting
trim since the close OF the last campaign,
and il Is said that 1t Is even more aggres-
sive and militant to-day than It was when
the Hearst idea first took root tn that
part of the country. Mr.. Bryan viii come
East about April y. His first speech Will
be made at the Jefferson dinner in Brook
Iiyn on the evening of the 14th. II Is ex-
pected that his presence at the Brooklyn
/ celebration will detract notably from the
attendance at the two or three Jefferson
dinners In New York the same evening
| He may make a visit TO Washington be-
/ fore proceeding to Connecticut to begin
| his speeeh-making tour Of the Northeast
/ eFn States.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
strenuous Days Ahead.

Mr.. William Randolph Hearst, of the
United States at large, was born to make
people sit up and take notice. This he
fully realizes, and. in consequence, acts
upon it. The President of this land re
Gently advised a BODY of Harvard stu
dents TO be robust and strenuous, not
alone in physical makeup, but in vigof
and virility of thought. DO not be mol
Iycoddles," said Mr.. Roosevelt.
AIr. Hearst has filed libel suits against
the Chicago Tribune for s. $4,000 dam
ages The = reason assigned for Mr..
Hearst's grievance against the Tribune is
that the paper IN question printed ex-
tracts from Secretary Roots famous
speech. made upon the very eve of the
late New York State election. This speech
admittedly turned the tide which finally
overwhelmed Mr.. Hearst at the polls
Moreover, il was frankly acknowledged
to be an inspired utteranee and made
upon the authority Of and with the con-
sent and approval of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Thus. then. is the country presented
with the novel spectacle of a libel suit
for an enormous sum based upon state
ments of the Chief Magistrate of the
land. We do not believe that history fur
nishes "a parallel incident. 1t is practi-
caIly carrying TO court the case of
William Randolph Hearst VS.. Theodore
Roosevelt
Mr.. Roosevelt is believed to hate dull
time as cordially as any man alive. He is
naturaI-born fighter and the present
prospect ahead may bring considerable
/ Joy 10 his soul. Cannon to the right of
him, cannon to the left of him. cannon
all around hlm-volley and thunder The
Foraker defiance is the big fight, but
there are good many smaller ones that
affect the general situation. Mr.. Hearst
wields a tremendous power in this coun-
/ try, and if. through the courts and his
newspapers. he can make out plausible
/ case against Mr.. Roosevelt, it viii mean
/ something. There is no doubt about that,
I Mr. Hearst was defeated in New York.
but the balance of his ticket went in with
/ wh0op If Mr.. Hearst convinces the
people that he was martyred in their
Icause. the New York victory that was
enthusiastically put down as a Roosevelt
victory may prove to have been more OF
a boomerang than anything else
1t has been said Of Mr.. Roosevelt that
he is very, very fortunate in the enemies
he makes. If it be fortunate to make an
lenemy at ALL perhaps this is. in A meas
ure, true. At ali events. the immediate
future seems pregnant with opportunity
for the strenuous apostle of modern and
progressive Republicanism.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
A Political peacemaker.

We confess TO great interest in this
theory of metempsychosis. if not 10 absO-
lutte belief in it. There is something vastly
fascinating in the process of considering
the possible form, or forms. which the
souls of our friends occupied generations.
or centuries. or aeons ago. and even moro
attractive is the study, along the same
lines. of our public men.
There is Senator Winthrop Murray
Crane, of Massachusetts, for example.
Who can doubt that, first of all, his spirit
dwelt in the gentle. pure-white body of
one OF the two doves that sailed with
Capt. Noah-the one which, when the
rains ceased, spread its wings and went
about the wet world with an olive branch
in its beak?
We mean no disrespect TO Senatory Crane
of course. We merely wish to call atten-
tion once more to the fact that as a me
diator. "a pacifcatOr. a disciple of amity
and concord, he has all the others who
try to shine in that class beaten three
ways from the ace-or had. Successfully,
we believe, his spiritual self has dwelt
within the corporeal shells of all the great
peacemakers whose names have been en-
balmed in the pages of deathless history
And as none Of those entities, we venture
10 assert. has his prediction for concilia-
tion been more marked than in his present
existence-up TO recently. at least A
week ago we would have said that his
transmogrifcations had enhanced. rather
than detraeted from, tie original peaceful
proclivlties of that dove of the oliv,
branch.
Considering all these things. giving du,
weight TO all the many reconciliation
effected by the great harmonizer since j,
came to Washington as a member of tn,
Senate. it is quite natural that we shoul,
be disturbed-shaken TO our very f0unda
tions in a worldly the flash in th
pan Of his latest efforts to keep the dog
of war in leash. We refer. as every on
should know. TO the lamentable lack o
result from his attempt 10 make William
Howard Taft and Joseph Benson Fora
ker-coIcerning the previous Cxistences @
neither of whom We shall attempt L
cOgitate-see the error Of their Joint de
termination TO make Ohio a bloody bat
tleheld.
Frankly. we are worried. Was the fail
ure to make peace due to any attenuation
Of the powers Of the transmigrated dove
Or does it mean that this prospective con
flict is TO be so much bitterer. so mucl
more sanguinaTy than any the world ha
yet known, as TO make it quite unsuscepti
bic Of prevention?
We pass the problem along to the man!
who are wiser than we; and we do no
hesitate to say that our disappointment
viii be monumental if definite and sat
isfactory answer is not forthcoming soon
Obviously. the future usefulness of "a ma
OF mark hangs in the balance, and for hi
sake. as well as our own we wish to know
the truth
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Confscation Not the Aim.

From the Richmond News-Leader.
Nothing can be more absurd than the
continual shrek that fear of the President
and Of hostile legislation by the States
against railroad corporations causes the
fall in stocks How could any honest
management be disturbed or any actual
values unsettled by President, Congress,
or State powers. 50 long aa the Constitu-
tion exists? That instrument guards care
fully the rights Of property and the citi-
zen. The assumption that the Federal or
State governments can or viii eonhscate
or destroy or force ruiz upon any corpora
ton shows either pitiable ignorance of the
laws and cd Editions Of the country or a
determined effort 10 fFighteR and deIude
regardless Of facts.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
The congress of ,Io.hera.

From the Boston Transcript.
When the National Congress of Moth
ers meets at Los Angeles in May. IL Will
celebrate its tenth anniversary. This or
ganization has worked in a quiet yet
enectual way for the development of q
better parenthood. and its success in so
many other directions has been OF such a
satisfactory and durable character that
the members Of the congress may well
congratulate themselves on the wisdom
and foresight which led them 10 organize
il. AS a congress, they have been able to
cooperate with other bodies in protect
ing the children driven to labor when too
young at the same time that they have
been actively interested in solving many
problems through the study of household
economies. The juvenile court and pro-
baton work have ever had In the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers a helpful
backing. and every measure TO be prop
erly cassed under civic betterment' has
always had place in the heart Of the
congress,
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
La Toilette III.

The breakdown Of Senator La Toilette
at almost the beginning of his lecture
tour has caused regret. but no surprise
to his friends in Washington. The Wis
consin statesman was i'll when he left
here a week or so ago TO start on his
tour, and his physicians tried to dissuade
him from going, insisting that his re-
duced strength, caused by a stubborn
siege OF the grip would not sustain him
through so arduous an EFFORT as that in
volved in his programme for the lecture
season. For years Mr.. La Toilette has
abstained from meats of all kind, sub
sisting almost wholly upon cereal foods,
with eggs occasionally for breakfast. OF
none toe robust a constitution naturally,
he was forced To adopt vegetable diet
some time before he became governor OF
Wisconsin, and by a strict observance of
1 rigid dietary habits he succeeded in
bringing his physical strength up to the
requirements of his restless, Untirins.
mental energy 1t is now thought that
his physicians will keep him from the lee
/ Iture platform a month or more. and COM
/ pei him against his viii to seek rest at d
santariuHl.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30


and the position taken BY Mr.. Yoakum
and other railway managers sh1ws that
they are not pressing for any alteration
in the Rooseveitian programme, 50 far as
it has assumed tangible form. In fact.
the relatively moderate policy of the ad-
lstration-moderate that is to say, by
comparison with plans for government
ownership. or the reckless talk OF squeez-
ing water out of railroad stocks-is the
nucleus about which public sentiment and
railroad sentiment Is harmoaiously form
ling; so that a workable basis for the CO.
operation OF the government and the rail-
ways Is perhaps not far distant, or at any
rate not so far distant as ii appeared a
month or so ago. Tt is conceivable that a
word from President Roosevelt might
serve TO hasten the crystahization of the
saner opinion which we think is in process
Of formation. but how can he be- expected
to take less advanced ground than Dir.
Yoakum, himself the manager Of an im-
portant railway system? The pressure for
a modification Of the present Federal pol
icy, we are confident. comes from sources
other than the working railroad managers
Of the country.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Jan ImmIgration Into Mexico.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mexico, according to recent advices, is
beginning TO feel the drawbacks of unre-
stricted japanese immigration. Emigrants
from the island empire are finding their
way into the sister republic in increasing
numbers and they are beginning to dis
place men from positions which they
imagined they were filing aceeptably. So
long as the coolie simply came into COLI
sion with the peon the Mexieans were
serenely Indifferent. but when they found
that the japanese are, as a rule. disposed
to branch out and strike for better things
they began TO take alarm.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Great Inventors.

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, one of
the worlds greatest scientists and inven-
tors. is seen frequently in the fashionable
throngs of pedestrians on Connecticut ave
nue. during these bright spring afternoons.
His snow white hair and beard, framing a
ruddy face betokening vigorous health and
virile strength, are conspicuous features
on the fashionable promenade. A few
days ago a journalist friend Joined Prof.
Bell IN his afternoon STROLL and asked
the great inventor his opinion of news
paper men.
But for US. you know, facetiously sug-
gested the newspaper man, you great in
vent0rs would not be so widely known
Throughout the world
That's So" assented Prof. Bell. "and.
do YOU know he added, that I regard
newspaper men as the greatest inventors
in the world -
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Curious notion of Innoeence.

From the Providence Journal
For all the findings of the Penrose
court-martial, reached after exhaustive
and uniinchingly fair efforts to get at
the facts and the truth they tell. it is too
much TO hope that Senator Foraker viii
abandon his own investigation into the
Brownsville affair so long as he can find
in any part of the land one more dis
charged soldier 10 repeat a stereotyped
story of innocence. Apparently. he holds
to the curious idea that guilty men may
be expected to furnish the only reliable
evidence of their own guilt; il they fail
to do that, then they cannot be guilty.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
what Reaction would Mean.

Ffom Golfers Weekly.
The hnanciers must rid themselves of
frenzied methods. but not less must the
public learn to attack only railroad evils
and not the vitals of the railroad business.
A railroad. in itself, is benehcent fact,
not a calamity. Force publicity, prevent
watering and looting enterprises like the
Alton disgrace, insist on safety, comfort
and adequacy, and then allow the rail-
regulation, but not 10 exact dictatiOn.
Unless such distinctions are made, there
will be depression and a conservative re-
action, perhaps expressed in a President
like Fairbanks. a House fun of CannOns,
and a Senate entirely satisfactory to Mr.
Aidrfch
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
MIR. Cannon and the Presidencv.

Mr.. Jonn CalIan OLaughlin, of the
Chicago Tribune's Washington stan, has
an article in the current issue of the Out
look on THE Next President" He dis
eusses all the candidates, declaring that
under no combination of circumstances
can Mr.. Roosevelt be induced TO rur
again, and expresses the belief that
Speaker Cannon, who will be presented
by Illinois, is daily becoming more i'm
portant factor in the Presidential equa-
ton. It is a timely, well-written article
that viii attract attention.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Fhst to Enlist.

Who was the first 10 enlist OF the 2,77s,-
30l men who first and last composed the
triumphant armies that saved the Union?
The question has been. bobbing up at
Irregular intervals for forty years. The
last claimants to this distinction are VIII
tam NJ De Hart. Of Logansport, Ind, and
Dr. Charles FRANKLIN Rand, a New York
veteran. who now holds position in the
Dead Letter Office Division of the Post
Office Department in Washington De
Hart asserts that he volunteered on April
l3, 1861, two days before Mr.. Lincoln's call
for q. 600 troops His enlistment. he claims.
took place AZ o'clock on the morning Of
that day. Dr. Rand, according To the
asseveratiOns OF the De Hart partisans,
did not enlist until April IS, 1861. Gen.
f. G. AinswoTth, adjutant general Of the
army. who has systematized the records
OF the civil war, has had this question put
to him 50 often that ne finally has de-
SPARED % ever answering 1t satisfactorily.
The records Of his Office show that many
soldiers volunteered prior 10 the dates
mentioned IN support Of the claims Of De
Hart and Rand. As far back as January
4, 1861, the services Of the Washington
Artillery of Pennsylvania were offered TO
the government. On the same day IL ap-
pears that the Governors Grays Of Iowa
volunteered. In a letter 70 the Secretary
of War under date Of April g. 1851. the
adjutant general of Massachusetts, wrote:
we have 1900 infantTymen now armed
and equipped and properly differed.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Enster FInuers.

From the New York World.
If the demand for Easter flowers equals
the supply in sight it seems that New
York, already credited with spending 81
00e000 a year for buds and blossoms, is
about to advance its record. The floral
item in the annual budget OF the whole
country calls for 500, 200, 900. This sum is
almost twice the aggregate bonded debt
of the New England States. What New
York City pays for flowers is approx
mately l,000 per day.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
state halfway ReEuIation.

From the Omaha Bee.
Paul Morton declares that more than
50 per cent of the business of the railroads
is interstate traffic. That explains why
they resisted so strenuously President
Roosevelt's proposal TO give the rate-mak-
ing power TO the Interstate Commerce
Commission. but it does not explain why
they should make such a fuss over hav-
ing the other % per cent Of the business
subjected to regulation by State railway
commissions.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
a Fine Point ID Law.

From tie Florida Times-Union.
Secretary Bonaparte admits that q State
may pay the passage of immigrants with
its own funds. but not with the funds
contributed. Now il the contributors
give the money to the State for this pur-
pose, does not that money become the
property OF the State as much as If it
had been appropriated by the legislature
from the treasury? a different view must
hold that the money contributed TO the
campaign fund remained the property OF
the insurance associations.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
The secret of II.

From the Catholic Standard and Times.
MY husband, said Mrs. Gadabout, SIS
so careless about his clothes. His but
tons are forever coming on
Perhaps, suggested Mrs. Knox.
they're not sewed on very well IN the
first place
That's just IT, He's dreadfully slip
shod about his sewing"
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
! ART ANp ApvERFIsING.

/ watched an artist man at work
Depicting cans Of beans and pork.
How can you give
Your art to such task?h asked /.
And straightaway ne did make reply:
Il gotta live
That Is the way with men who carve.
Or write or paint. We cannot staryel
Your stove or sieve
Wen help you on the market put.
We may not love the labor. but
We gotta live.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Bacon as Adviser.

It Is noteworthy that at nearly every
conference at the White House on the
railroad question within the past week
or so the Hon. Robert Bacon. Assistant
Secretary Of State. has been present by
invitation of the President. Mr.. Bacon is
the only Assistant Secretary who is thus
called upon by the President for advice
and counsel on the larger and more per-
picking affairs Of the administration.
When Secretary Garfield was Commission
er Of the Bureau of Corporations he used
frequently 10 be consulted by the Executive
on questions affecting general policies of
the administration. but no instance is re-
called where even so close a friend as Mr.
Garfield was called into consultation with
( Cabinet officers. The signal distinction
conferred upon Mr., Bacon is understood
/ TO be due TO the circumstance that as the
( partner for many years Of J. PieTpOnt Nor
( gan he familiarized himself in detail with
railroad finance. and necessarily acquired
much information as to the practical oper-
ations Of railroads. It is assumed, there
/ fore, that it is for the purpose of ayailing
/ himself of Mr. Bacon's expert knowledge
/ on these questions that the President has
constituted him what is coming to be
known as the railroad cabinet.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Competition.

How about taking our magazine? We
give plug Of tobacco with years sub
scription."
That's no offer. A dealer down the
street gives a years subscription with a
plug of tobacco"
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Guild Hns q Rnon,.

The Vice Presidential boom Of the Hon
Curtis Guild, jr.. governor Of Massachu-
sets, is rolling and reverberating through
the land. Il viii doubtless be heard from
in a more direct way in Washington
within month. Governor Guild is ex-
pected to come here April % 10 attend the
annual dinner at Rauschers OF the
Society Of the Seventh Army Corps, Span
ish War Veterans. He was attached to
that CORPS from its organization as Gen.
Fitzhugh Lees inspector general, and no
officer Of the corps, not even excepting its
famous commander himself. was more
popular than Col Guild lie has twice
been elected governor OF his State, and in
each campaign he took advanced ground
for tariff revision, In spite of the refusal
Of the Republican State conventions
which nominated him to adopt a revision
plank in their platforms. OF ali the Re
publicans of the country in places Of
power. Gov. Guild is the most persistent
and outspOken tariff reformer While De
and President Roosevelt are intimate per
sonal friends. the governor has criticised
the President freely for not having recon-
mended tariff revision to Congress. As il
has been more than thirty years since the
Republicans have gone TO New England
for a Vice Presidential candidate. It is be-
lieved that Gov Guilds nomination next
year IS already virtually assured, pro-
vided, OF course, that he has authorized
/ the boom recently started for himself and
also provided his candidacy meets with
the approval of the head OF the ticket
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Never Heard of Missouri.

From HaTpTs Weekly.
Ii Is told Of the Right Rev. Daniel S.
futile, D. D.. LII. D., who had been at
tending an important conference at Lam
beth Palace. London. that during a very
formal function he and his wife were
loudly announced as The Bishop of
Misery and Mrs. Tuttlel"
The Washington herald., 1907-03-30
Frnm the clsr.land Leader.


Mr.. Foraker does not mean 10 sub
ject himself TO the risks Of a direct
popular vote test of his popularity meas
ured against that OF William Howard
Taft. as a candidate Tor the Presidential
nomination next year He does not in
tend that Ohio shall be forced 10 make
such a choice between two distinguished
leaders OF Buckeye Republicans. The
Senator is maneuvering for position. He
is striving 10 put himself in a favorable
position for trading. He hopes 10 save
his seat in the Senate by stepping grace
fully out OF Secretary Taft's way 10 the
White House
And any other theory Of Senator Fora
ker's call for a popular vote test of the
feeling of Ohio Republicans does injustice
70 his shrewdness and foresight. 1t is
the only explanation consistent with his
well-established reputation as a political
general