The Bourbon news., 1907-04-23
Political Pick-Ups.


The Peace Congress has commenced
with a serious disagreement between
AndrewmmCarnegie and Mr.. Roosevelt,
Let Us have peace, if we have to fight
for 1t.
The railroad slaughter still keeps UP
the pace Tor the March reports inform
US Of fifty-three wrecks and ninety
two deaths. This comes of Wall Stree
managing railroads.
/ Senator Scott says Taft is not can
didate for President Then why is his
brother making such a fuss in Ohio
and why is Senator Foraker ringing in
fire alarms to arouse his machine to
action.
The King OF Belgium has been polit-
icaIly buncoed out Of an immense con
cessiOn in the Congo Free State to q
Wall Street syndicate, hoping to win
favor with Americans in the investiga-
tion Of the Congo scandals.
That vociferous Republican organ
] the New York Press thinks President
Roosevelt should keep his hands off
the next national convention and that
nothing could be more unfortunate than
that he intends to nam his successor. +"
/
| We can all agree with President
| Roosevelt upon his advice to the chill
dren to plant trees on Arbor Day ;even
Foraker and Taft will say ''amen" to
! that, for this country will eventually
be desert unless tree planting is at
/ tended to.
Secretary Boanaprte and President
Roosevelt have come to the conclusion,
long held by some other people, that
all whisky is good, but somel whisky
/ is better than other whisky. Under
the new Pure Food law whisky is to
be branded accCr lingly. -
The Constitution is not to follow the
flag into Porto Rico, if Republican
statesmen can have their way, for
Secretary Taft tells the people of that
island that they must be satisfied with
free trade with me United States and
not expect self-government.
If we grant Germany the right to
appraise the value of the goods she ey-
ports to Is, What will the other coun-
tries think when the value Of their ex
ports are arbitrarily raised? Under AZ
ad valorem duty, advancing the value
/ Of the goods Increases the tariff tax.
The railroads are threatening to
abolish communication tickets in In
diana. Ohio and Pennsylvania because
those states have enacted laws for two
cent passenger fare. To do so Will only
hasten the building of more trolley
lines, which will carry commuters for
about one cent mile.
Somehow the state legislatures Of
the great Republican states don't seem
to endorse the President as he expect
ed. The factiOnal fight in the Repuh-
lican party is getting as wide as a barn
door.
The President is getting very vindic-
tive with his old friend: my Dear
Hartman" by urging the Interstate
Commerce Commission ''tO put him in
jail" He does Tot deserve it anv
more now than ne did when President
Roosevelt was writing him almost daily
to come and see him and save New
York.
The man who recently printed so
ways of curing cold. did not exhaust
the list. There are as many ways Of
curing a cold as person has friends.
Ever notice how every friend you
meet, when your nose is stuffed up and
you are wheeling like broken down
locomotive on an up grade, is ready
| to undertake the cure of your cold with
a guaranteed remedy that will knock
it sky high?
| A few days ago friend accused me
of hila"ity every time preacher was
charged IN public with breaking one of
the Ten Commandments, but | pleaded
in return that it was merely human
nature breaking out-not in the
preacher, but in myself. Every body
is tickled when preacher goes wrong
including the preacher, who feels
better over it than anybody else. We