Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-26

core today?" The lads laughingly
Jumped to their feet to prepare for
their regular morning romp with the
well known banker, and there was the
usual scramble when he threw the core
high UP in the air.
you want to know" he began, after
the frolic was over. what L think of
the suggestion that Mr.. Roosevelt go
to the Philippines as proconsul. He
would go first cabin, Of course"
Assured of this, he continued:
II can't tell you what I think.
would like to. But the idea overcomes
me. 1t would beat all the bumper
crops of ell the, years. I am suffused
with joy.
''why can't our artists paint ideas?
Why can't our sculptors embody them
in the living stone? / shall have
statue of the proconsul in my Metro
politan Museum, of course. and a pic
ture of him crossing the Sierra de
| Tagatay to make the Batangas reform
their spelling; but who can paint for
us the idea of his going? Who can
| perpetuate on canvas our joy in 1907
at the prospectl of 1908? My museum
awaits such an artist"
whats the Filipino word for 1iar'?"
asked II. M. Whitney. rather crustily,
when the proconsul plan was unfolded
to him. He seemed to miss the larger
view the broader conception, of the
thing altogether.
So did DR.. Long, who at the present
time Is all wrapped up in his studies OF
Wall street fauna. In the opening
chapters of brochure on that subject
he has boldly taken the ground that
the dividendsis trafficus should be
classed among the extinct animals, and
he defies the president to contradict
him.
Heaven help the Tagalogs," was all
that the Bellamy Storers would say
Like Caesar, Says John D.
Caesar was a proconsul, too," re-
marked John D. Rockefeller, a well
known classical scholar darkness
First Reader for Beginners, with notes
and vocabulary Caesar was a pro-
consul and he reformed the calendar
somewhere What will Theodore re-
form first? What shall 1t be?" He
repeated the question musfngly.
"There's the spelling. I never can re-
member to put two 'p's' In Philippine
and only one Il in Manila. He'll attend
to that first He'll declare war If any
other nation puts in two rs or leaves
out one p.'
why shouldn't he force an interna-
tiopal agreement called the Manila de-
cree, substituting 90 for our famous Is
Twenty-nine for yours from any Lands
would be as bitter. AS proconsui he'll be
able to attend to all those things. Then
he'll cross the Alps and the Rubicon and
the Delaware He'll be great man
some day.
"Oh, yes, personally I'm glad he's going
Hope he'll have a good time"
"Ill lend him my yacht Kanawha as
soon as he wants to CO." said H. H.
Rogers. shes the fastest boat in the
world. He can Keep her over there as
the nucleus of great navy IL he'll only
go now. She's a grand yacht, but I'll
give her up as transport for just one
person. I am ready to make this sac
rifice for my country's good. for the mar
ket's larger welfare. Steam's up all
ready"
Hes got to use tact with those people
over there" remarked Thomas F. Ryan.
Hell have to amuse them and put up a
bluff that he takes an interest in their
cockfighting and wants to reform and
regulate 1t on a sound and conservative
basis He must eliminate the molly
coddles from the cockpits and he'll need
help. The best one know to take care
of this sporting end of his administration
in the far east is Belmont. I'll lend him
and the proconsul needn't ever send him
back. This offer is based on the one
condition that they will both go at once'