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The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
The MolIvcnddle.

a member Of the British Parliament
who commanded a company of Imperial
YeomaEry in the South African war as
serts that 1t was the general experience
that married soldiers were more courage
Gus than unmarried ones. The same
characteristic, he says, was admittedly
developed in the Russo-Japanese war.
Here We have the most rational reason
ever advanced for the bachelor. Through
the ages he has been called coward and
other things not complimentary to him.
but never before has his courage been &C
tually weighed alongside that of his mar
ried brother and found wanting It ac-
counts for his state. He is too cowardly
10 relieve his hapless situation in life.
Even should a woman take pity on him
and reverse the order OF things by pop
ping the question herself. he would either
fee in caitiff flight or he so struck dumb
by fear that be could not accept
The discovery Of the English statesman
only aggravates the growing problem in
respect Of the bachelor. In nearly every
State Of the Union there is a disposition
TO tax him out of existence: and only the
other day Grover Cleveland advocated
the adoption of d suffrage qualification
that would deny the ballot to him. Now
it appears that the celibate is unfit for
war; that he quaiIs in the presence Of
the enemy; that the roar of the cannon
the thunder of the captains. and the
shouting are more than he can stand
What, then, is to be done with the bach
elor? If in peace he is a failure and in
war coward. how shall the body polite
make use of him? It goes without saying.
of course, that his apologists-he has no
defenders-will advance the cynical doe
trine that the reason the married man is
Drawer In war than the bachelor is that
the former has lost the keen edge of in
terest in life by experience at home: that
he would rather flee 10 ills he knows not
of than bear those that beset him at his
freside; that the clamor OF battle is less
nerve-racking than the curtain lecture.
and the peril of the firing line is not TO be
half so dreaded as the reproving voice
that greets the husband late to dinner.
But even accepting this absurd theory.
Il cannot be claimed that it acqults
the bachelor Of the proved charge
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
PERFECTLY POSSIBLE.

The best friend that he'd ever had he
treated as a foe.
A pretty girl DER him was mad, but,
Dshaw he didn't know,
You think that such things cannot be?
Impossible, you say
Oh, not at al. my friend; you see, this
happened IN a play.
Into his home he asked a crook, the
greatest scamp unhung;
And when his ma exception took, he babe
her hold her tongue
He loaded got on naught but tea, and
signed the farm away.
1t sounds absurd but then, you see. this
happened ia a play.
He trusted every rogue he met, and TO his
friends was cool.
He walked into the plainest net and was
perfect fool
Yet won queen and gold, b'gee, enough
20 load a dray!
It foolish seems, but then, you see, this
happened in a play.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
WHERE TARIFF WAS BORN.
Mr. Watferson Revisits the shrine OF
the Protective system.

Henry WstteFson. 10 Louisville CourieF-JournsL
Spain. both on land and water, has
made a deal of history TO the square mile
and the round cycle, and the region about
Cadiz-particularly the seafront betwixt
Gibraltar and the Isle OF San Fernando,
embracing Tangier on one side Of the
Straits and Tarifa. on the ether, Cape
Trafalgar. where Nelson fought the ia
nous battle, midway up the coast-has
had IT'S share.
Tarifa, Does the name not sound d
trifie familiar? In Che oiden and golden
days IF primitive man. before corporation
lawyers had learned how 10 frame pnlag-
ing statutes and slick politicians to bam-
boOzle cOnhding OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES they
cen took who had the power and they
cen kept who could-the gentle pirates Of
Tarifa laid broad and deep the founda-
tons for the protective system in the
United States
To take by law from one man what IS
his and give it 70 another man who has
not earned il and has no right TO it, was
an invention Of the Moors. copied By the
Spaniards, and elevated thence into pO-
Htical economy by the Americans. Tarifa
took IT'S name from Tariff Malik, the
boss rob5er baron Of his day, and thus the
lords Of Tarifa were the prOgenitOrs OF the
rObber barons Of the Rhine and OF Penn
sylvania Tribute was the name they
gave the robbery, which was open and
aboveboard. The coal kings. the steel
kings. and the oil kings OF the modern
world have COntriVed to hide the process
Of their stealing. but in Cadiz and In Sc
vile The palaces OF their fOrefathers rise
in lonely and solemn grandeur just as a
thousand years hence the palaces upon
the Fifth avenue side Of Central Park and
along Riverside Drive may become but
roosts for bats and owls, and the chrOni-
cler Of the anthropophagi. whose heads
do reach the skies" may tell how the peO-
pie OF the great Eenublic were bought and
sold with their own money, until heaven
released the legiOns north OF the north
pole, and they swooped down and crushed
the putrid mass beneath their avenging
suOWshOesE"
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
The south Side Of the Avenue.

Everybody favors the Identification Of
Washington. If Congress now assents to
the purchase of the property on the south
side of the Avenue. between the Treasury
and the Capitol-and we trust It viii as
sent-it viii mean the fulhllmeut of our
fondest dream. The pride Of the whole
country i'm the National Capital. the
greatest capital on earth. Will thus be
greatly enhanced.
But summary action is not necessary
70 reach this ideal consummaton. In
adopting the amendment to the sundry
civil biu Congress, OF the conferees, or
both, we respectfully suggest, should fix
a reasonable time limit for the conversion
Of the squares involved into public park
ing. We not only suggest il, but urge it
earnestly.
The south side Of Pennsylvania avenue
is not now an attractive part Of the city;
it is the custom we know. To speak
sl1gnt,.:Gsly Of it, but the fact remains
nevertheless, that that territory figures
largely in the business equation Of Wash
iugton. In the gross. its business aggre-
gates millions annually. Now, to SUM
marily bring about a change. TO force the
precipitate transfer Of this business into
other quarters, would. as all must see.
impose Eardships incalculablc. not alone
upon the business interests directly con-
cerned, but upon the city itself.
However, il ought safely to be assumed.
and The Herald does assume, that I'm
carrying out this magnificent enterprise
the government through Congress. will
not be SO shOrtsighted as to overlook the
important point here presented. A time
limit proviSO is absolutely essential 10 the
proper carrying out of the plan
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
SELECTING THE JURY.
No Good Reason for HairsplittinE
Examinations of TaIesmen.

examinations OF Taiesmen.
Judge Frederick II. House. in Hsrper's Weekly.
There is really no justification for hair
splitting examinations Of talesmen Of the
kind with which the criminal courts of
to-day are familiar. The selection OF a
jury is after all, mere matter of
chance. Let it be understood that the
man summoned is a talesman until he is
accepted by counsel for both sides as a
juror. The late James T. Brady, who, in
his day, was deemed by many the great
est trial lawyer at the bar. believed in
taking the first twelve men called, pro-
vided they were intelligent and had no
particular knowledge or opinion Of the
case 10 be tried and provided they de-
claTed that they would be governed by
the evidence and follow The instructions
of the court as to matters OF law. Mr.
Brady claimed that a prolonged and minute
examination made for the purpose Of de-
termining how each talesman might be
impressed with reference TO the particu-
lar case on trial SO taxed the vitality Of
the lawyer that he had not sufficient
stamina left for the actual trial of the
case. The late John r. Brady, who. as
Supreme Court justice. presided at many
important criminal trials, was Of the opin-
ion that his brothers method Of selecting
a jury was the best
Apart from the effect upon counsel. the
practice Of rigidly inspecting the motives
and anteCedents of talesmen has another
disadvantage, it is Of vast expense to
the community. I dc not mean with ref
erence to the matter of dollars and cents.
but to the retarding Of the great ma
chinery Of the law by cases that DO not
Justify it-cases that engage public in
terest only through the great wealth or
The high social position OF the persons
involved
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
Where Bahie. arc we1come.

From the World To-day
The Usage country IS a land where baby
may always be sure OF a large welcome
For one reason. he has an earning ca
pacity from the day he is born. which IS
often quite as great as his fathers One
OF the next things after naming the little
papoose is to so to Pawhuska. the capital
of their nation. and have its name put
upon the pay roll. Once every three
months Uncle Sam pays Up the interest
on the money which he holds In trust for
them. and the amount paid 10 each In
dian varies from time TO time according
to how many have gone 70 the happy
hunting grounds and how many wee
ones have come TO take the places since
last pay day. The latest little arrival at
the newly built wigwam receives Just as
much as does the Oldest grandfather or
the most athletic warrior. So that when
Chief Lookout not long ago had the hap
piness- 10 be blessed with twins he was
not only eligible to the usual congratI-
lations due new father. but AZ the same
time unlike most new fathers. he found
his estate increased by the snug sum OF
$4,000. For until the children reach tn.
age of eighteen their incomes are paid
to their parents,
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
FRIDAY, MARCH ], 1907
Progress on the panama CanaI.

We are making some progress in the
actual construction of the Panama Canal,
after all. in spite of the confirmed resig-
nation habit Of the higher canal officials.
Mr. Mann laid before the House on
Wednesday some figures prepared by
Chief Engineer Stevens showing the
amount Of excavation in the Culebra
cut during the past few months. MI
Mann summarized the chief engineer
statement thus
Late last year this excavation in the Culeb1
cut running at the rate q little over 10 0l0
cIbic Yards Per month. For the month If JAM iry
IL something over 800 coo cubic yards It is esi-
mated that for the month Of February t. wil be
something 10000 cubic Yards and that tor the
month Of March. over 10000 cubic yards. In the
best DAYS Of the French company. while they were
excayatng total amount q more than I,3o0o o9
cubic yards upon the entire stretch q the canal
at no time did they excavate in the Culehra cut
more than two or three hundred Thousand cubic
Yards per month; So that now, with our present
organization we are excaTating two or three times
as much as the French ever cxcavated in the
Culehra cut
Mr.. Mann characterized these figures
as indicating the tremendous success"
~ tlA iANnEl4A N-AlAef4 20 sllilAc-AlDli- bAL Il
dash OF cold water was thrown on his
optimism by Mr.. Towne. who pointed
out that there are about 125,000,oo0 cubic
yards in all 10 be excavated and that
much better showing would have to be
made by the canal workers i'm order to
construct the waterway in eight and one
third years. as is expected. At the rate
of $4,000 cubic yards a month it would
take something over thirteen years 10
complete the excavation. But at the pres
ent rate OF increase in the amount of
work actually done il is quite within the
bounds of possibility that the job viii
be cleaned up on schedule time. Its com
pletion is largely a matter of men and
machinery
The important thing is. as the Presi-
dent said last December. that "the work
on the isthmus is progressing steadily
and without any let-up." and viii con-
tinue To do so, regardless Of administra-
tive changes or the whims, foibles and
fatgues Of chief engineers.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01


Mr.. Hartman confesses that if he were
able to DO so. and If he were not afraid
the government would intervene to pre-
vent, lie would take over the Santa Fe.
the Northern Pacific, and the Great
Northern, and after completing his con-
quest OF the transportation interests on
the Pacific Coast would proceed To the
sUbjugation Of the Eastern transporta-
zion territory Questioned by members Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr.. Hartman could see nothing in this
truly Napoieonic programme that ought
20 be restrained by the law. His view
was that railway managers ought 10 be
allowed 10 use the capital and surplus
Of their roads In the acquisition OF other
lines under proper regulation He
favored a law permitting the combination
Of railroads under the supervision Of the
commission, and also permitting them to
make permanent rate agreements in
order to reduce the cost of operation
lie WAS not sure whether the commission
ought 80 De empowered to regulate the
issue of railway securities. He thought
such a power might lead 20 complica-
lions, which it surely would-complica-
tions fov the buccaneers OF railroad
finance
What figure is the public supposed 70
cut IN these outlines Of a Napoleonic
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
At the Door of the House.

A curious gathering was seen at the
main door Of the House yesterday after
noon. on one side of the messengers stood
three big Sioux Indians. their features as
expressionlcss and stoid as the statues
in Statuary Hall Facing them. in
all the glory of a bright colored silk
kimona. her little feet resting in sandals.
with head bare and her artistically
coiffured raven locks set off with one
large pink and one large red carnation.
stood dininutive, pretty, red-cheeked
japanese maiden. Between the Indians
and the japanese lady stood William J..
Vernon. perhaps as black d negro as can
be found in the United States Persons
hurrying past invariably stopped for an
instant to size up the little group and
then went on their way smiling Mes
senger boys and older people TOO. gath
cred about TO admire the little japanese
beauty without rudely staring. and she
did not seem to mind at all the attention
she was attracting. Besides the nation
alities mentioned, there were in the
crowd about the door people from half
the States Of the Union. who were wait
ing to see members from their home dis
tricts
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
ST0CK-WATERING JOBS.
High Finance Founded on the Posi-
biIities of OvercapftaIizatiou.

High Finance Founded on the Posi-
biIities of OvercapitaIizatiou.
From the New York Journal Of Commerce.
you sell 70 me and III sell back 20 you
at a profit, and Wen both sell to the pub
lie seems 10 be the maxim Of high
finance. OF course. the compliment is re-
turned, and so the game goes On round a
circle, each component part of which
profits enormously at the uninitiateds ex-
pense. Commodore Vanderbilts teTse cpl
gram regarding the public has evidently
become engraved upon the heart cit would
be unsafe to say conscience Of our mod
ern NapOleons Of finance The facts dis
closed naturally divert attention to the
possibility of instituting laws making
episodes Of this kind illegal. Captaliza-
ton, or Republication. of corporations
lies at the root Of the whole situation, for
it is by this means that the public are al
iured into buying securities that look
cheap. but which, in reality, represent
water plus the ingenuity of manipulators,
President R0osevelt's reported intention
10 inquire into this vitality important mat
ter becomes, in the light Of recent events.
not altogether ridiculous
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
FLEEING FANCIES.

Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel
Getting Yours:
Storage eggs hot
Storage eggs cold.
Storage eggs ia the pot
Two years old.
TOrturOus.
'Tompkins is wondering who was mean
enough TO send him an Internal machine"
what kind was it,"
'PhOuOgraph
His Idea of II.
Say, paw, what is an exaggerated
ego@'
I'm not sure. son; but think it's that
new hat your mother IS wearing
Sensitive.
What's the matter. old chap, you look
hurte"
You'd feel hurt if you had been struck
as ] was"
What the tr5uble2"
'Jimpkius just struck me for a 70 I've
owed him for three years
Useful in One Way.
''Dr Wiley says the only safe whisky
is the kind that is allowed to rellain in
bottles"
Il differ. The bottled kind is always
handy 10 throw
Toast.
Here's 60 the man whose hand
Is firm when hc clasps your own
Like a grip Of steel,
That makes you feel
You're not ia the world alone
Here's 20 the man whose laugh
Puts the somber clouds 10 rOut-
The man who's fair.
And kind. and square
To the one that's down and OUT
Strange Combination.
what q swanlike neck Mabel has"
True But it's too bad"
"What?"
shes such a perfect goose"
Danger.
do you think there Is safety in num-
bers?'
7 should say not"
Why"
We've had eight cooks in two weeks.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
NeedIessnes. of Ship subsidy.

From the Portland Oregouiau.
The fleets Of Great Britain. Germany,
and ali other maritime powers are at
our ports cIamoring for freight.
Wherein. then, lies the objection to the
cheap foreign freights when the for
eigner instead of our own people. Is
paying the subsidy? Our shippers do not
ask for q subsidy as their facilities for
reaching the foreign markets are better
to-day than they have ever been. Our
foreign commerce is growing more rapid
" than ever before in our history. and
We are to-day enjoying lower freight
rates to Africa. South America. and the
Orient than are granted any OF the Euro
pean shippers engaged in the trade.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
California stiu Defiant.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
We have not discussed the meaning Of
the treaty because we refuse 10 consider
it. in respect to the school question, as
OF any Importance. We fatty deny the
jurisdiction Of the treaty-making power
over the subiect-matter We declare thar
the attempt OF one branch Of the treaty
making power 10 assume this jurisdiction
is an attempt to subvert certain liberties
which the people of the United States
have guaranteed to ali States by the
same instrument whereby they endowed
the treaty-mal1ing power with jurisdiction
over certain other matters. That is our
main contention
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01


The race Of man is. The wind in Autumn strews
The earth with old leaves then the Spring the woods
with new endoWs.
Homer
His was a race well run. To speak of
him recalls Athens. lie was Athens;
Athens he. No drawer soul from that
fair city e'er came out. Renown he gave
her The most pacific Of men, his reign
was not free from turbulence, due to ag-
gressions of a restless foe on the extreme
left For two decades or more uninter-
ruptedly ne underwent the hardships OF
public life with unninching fortitude. In
every combat he acquitted himself with
honor. Athens shOne in his reflected
glory. In his clemency toward all impli-
Gated in assaults upon his cherished
causes. IN his forbearance once he had
conquered them. ne revealed the magma
uimity of his generous nature. And so ali
opponents lived to love this noble
Athenian. Although his earlier studies
We're chiefly confined 10 rhetoric, he de-
veloped in later life decided prediction
for economic lore. He read extensively.
To mathematics he gave thought Moth
ing could stay the flow of his philosophy.
An abstract Of the principles and maxims
of the great political movements Of his
day. written in his leisure moments and
put I'm the form of forecasts" is the
work by which ne Is best remembered.
This looking into the future through
mathematical processes served to console
and uphold him in his hours Of trial To
the gods he rendered thanks for the
wisdom thus given him.
But we are such stuff as dreams are
made Of" It is true of this noble
Athenian, as Marcus Aurelius Antonius
wrote so long before him. THE wheel Of
the world hath ever the same motion, up
ward and downward. from genera tion to
generation. All things are now as they
were in the days of our buried ancestors
all things s0rdid i'm their elements, trits
by long usage and yet ephemeraL How
ridiculous, then, how like a countryman
in town, is he. who wonders at aUghti
The sameness. the repetition of the public
show. doth weary thee? Even SO doth that
likeness of events make the spectacle Of
the world a vapid one. All things vanish
away"
And thus passeth our noble Athenian
from the public stage. Crafty. fattering,
suspicious ones waited upon his going.
There was muTmUring at things as then
they were. Inconsistency possessed Athens.
She turned from age to youth. In
twinkling the accumulated Iuster disap-
peared, and the name OF fair Athens was
all but wiped from the map.
Closing the chapter-writing of him and
Of Athens-oue could say with that other
Athenian, Lucian pluto to Mercury.
Il wish. HeTmes. that 20 the ninety years he has
already lived you would. If possible deal him out
ninety more and upward But 10 those parasites
young Clarinus. Damon, and the rest-dispatch them
quickly 20 us, one after the ether"
II is Of Athens, Ohio. and that noble
Athenian. Gen. Charles II. Grosvenor,
that these lines are written, gentle reader.
1t is just as we'll to get the Thaw case,
the Santo Domingo mess, the Panama
Canal and other problems out Of the way.
The baseball season opens soon. and then
we will not have tin, . to bother
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01

railroad programme? Very little. One Of
the commissioners asked him where he
would fix the limit OF dividends on a
railroads capitalization. "One hundred
per cent, if you like" said Mr. Hartman.
'as long as 1t is properly conducted and
gives proper facilities for the proper
transportation of its business, and no
higher rate than is relatively charged by
any other railroad. What are you going
to do with earnings. anyway? Are you
going to donate them to the govern
ment?' 1t was suggested that the ship
pers might be permitted TO keep some Of
the earnings. Mr. Hartman, however.
didn't think II made any difference to the
shippers as long as they got the same
rates on all the roads.
we now see clearly enough what the
Hartman idea OF railway management
is. 1t includes high rates maintained by
railway combinations and agreements-in
other words. by railway monopoly; in
creased stock issues based on earning
capacity. and consequently more melons
90 cut. II excludes the use of surplus
revenues either I'm betterments or in re-
ducing the cost of service to the public.
II ignores the public functions of a rail
way corporation, and seems TO regard the
earnings Of a railroad as a purely pri
vate concern. Primitive conceptions are
these Of the duties Of a common carrier
and of the obligations OF a railway man
agcr 10 the public. The necessity Of gov
eTnmental regulation Of railways could
not he more strongly presented than it
has been by Mr.. Harriman's cynical dis
sertation on how 20 run the railroads in
the interest of Wall street spectators.
They are still at it. rowing about that
I'll. sro., -s,-r- VIZ brf,str sIr,
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
CAPITOL GOSSIP.
Mr.. NewIands' Speech.

The types played hob several days ago
with speech delivered by Mr. Newlands
IN the Senate on a grave question Of
state. The Nevada statesmans home pa
per displayed commendable enterprise in
securing a fun report Of the speech. which
occupied many columns II appears that
the Thaw trial is being followed with
some interest among the gold seekers Of
the Sagebrush State, and the editor OF
Senator Newlands home paper is display
ing another sort Of enterprise in publish
ing the fun details Of that affair When
the paper containing the speech came out
II carried over the Senator's effusiOn the
big scare headlines intended for the re-
port Of the Thaw trial, and the headlines
intended for the speech We're over the
other important story of the day. The
Senator has received many inquiries from
his admiring constituents as 10 how the
mistake occurred.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-01
Pntrsntic Insistence ON state RIGHTS.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel
Undoubtedly there is much truth in
what the President says Of the bad or
selfish material motive that has often
aCtuated fnsistence on State rights.
from slavery days to our own. But that
there is a good deal of perfectly honest
and patriotic insistenCe on state rights
was Illustrated in the well-nigh univer-
sal support Of CALIFORNIA; recent stand
for the right to run and regulate its own
public school system