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The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

mer that Congress must sooner or later pass some such measure.
 His resolutions calling for in vestigation into the conduct of the Panama Canal, was among the most important measures be- fore the last Congress as was likewise the resolution providing for an investigation in the sources and expenditure of campaign funds during the recent national campaigns.
 MT. Robinson's bill relating to the regulation of private cars was endorsed by the caucus of Demo crats. He is leader in the dis cussiOn and advocacy of meas ures lacking to the drainage of the Lower Mississippi Valley, is an active member of the commit tee on Public Land, and believes in protecting the public domain from the avarice of dishonest speculators, and has advocated and supported many measures looking to the accomplishment of this purpose. He was inStru- mental in securing from that committee a favorable report on a measure introduced by a col league, which would add, if enact ed into law, almost five million dollars to the common school fund of Arkansas. He advocates among many other measures of importance. a revision of the tar if so as to place it upon revenue basis and denounce as coWardly the policy of the Republican par 1 ty which advocates waiting until after the next national election before considering legislation on the tariff. He also favors mate rial revisions of the Postal Laws, the extension of the Rural Free Delivery service, the Parcels Post law, the preservation of the right and powers of the states from unconstituti tional enc roachment by the Federal government, the census of railroad values as a ma terial factor in determining fair rates, the election of the United
 States Senators by the people and the adoption and extension of the principle of direct legislation, shorter hours for labOrerS em- ployed in operating Interstate railways and better appliances as
 means of safety to the public and to employees. These are among the questions he has discussed. It would be impossible to under } take a complete review of Mr. Robinson's service here. The [. Democrat believes that faithful efforts and brilliant services in the public interest will merit and receive the appreciation of all, while these evidences of his eff ciency will justify the pride
 which all his friends feel in his achievements in the interest of good government.
 Let Arkansas, following the
 we'll established precedent, re- turn him to another term in Con- gress, where we feel sure he will re double his efforts to serve his ], people with faithfulness and dis tinction. Little, Dinsmore, Terry and MaRae, in fact every efficient representative sent to Congress from Arkansas within the last quarter of a century has been re- } tained from two to five times as l long as Robinson has served and some of them still represent the ! people. He is entitled to rank
 among the strongest and best
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21

lively in the establishment of the rice experiment station, which has demonstrated beyond doubt that Arkansas soil will grow rice as profitably as that of Louisiana or Texas. An earnest believer in waterway improvement, he has fought valiantly for the improve >ment of the rivers of Arkansas, and together with his associates from Arkansas has succeeded in securing more liberal appropria tions for this meritorious pur pose. Every matter of local con cern has been carefully attended to by him, and his constituents appreciate his watchfulneSs and attention to details.
 His speeches have been as fear less on the floor of congress as before audiences in the district, and while he has not discussed any subject except after careful consideration, he has at no time hesitated to stand squarely for the right for honest legislation in the puplic interest and against favored classes. His speech in Congress arraigning the beef trust was pronounced by the press as one of the ablest heard by the House on that subject. while his remarks in advocacy of a measure forbidding corpora tions from contributing to nation al campaign funds was heartily approved by his Democratic asso- ciates. including the Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri, who said:
 I feel absolutely certain that all honest men who read Robin , sons scorching, blistering words will feel that he was boldly saying what millions think"
 On another occasion when the Republican majority had an nounced it's policy of stand pat and was denying statehood to Oklahoma and Indian Territory Mir. Robinson in a ringing ad- dress denounced their policy as cowardly, saying in part:
 Few measures of any impor- tance have been enacted by the 58th and 59th Congresses. The Republican party, entrusted with absolute control in every branch of the government, has totally failed to redeem it's pledges. Ii has withheld statehood from Ok lahoma and Indian Territory suffered defeat of the Philippine tariff bill; mismanaged the affairs of the Panama canal; refused tt revise the tariffs crucifying the Rate Bill in the Senate between Limited and Unlimited Court Review on one, hand and the Jurisdiction and Judicial Power on the other. It has denied the entreaties of organized labor, en riched the viOlators of the anti trust laws and has established 6 record for incompetence unequal ed heretofore in American polit ical history"
 On another occasion he strong ly urged the passage of legisla tion against what is known as Future Deals" and insisted that all the inStrumentalitieS of Inter. state Commerce or colnmunica l tiOn be closed to transactions O1 that nature. He contended that Congress had the right and owed the American farmer the duty to deny the use of agencies within it's control to immoral or dishon est methods of influencing prices and characterized dealings in flu
The Carlisle independent., 1907-11-21
Joe T. Robinson.

lIl6ul Ol SOIlS ftSuldll OOc HUI Sinson for reelection to Congress from tais the Sixth Congress ional District.
 There is no man in Arkansas better known than Mir. Robinson, and anything we could say would not add to his popularity. How ever, we take pleasure in pub fishing the following article taken from the Lonoke Democrat, his home paper:
 Having known the Hon. Joe T. Robinson, the able young con- gressman from this, the sixth congressional district, who IS a candidate for renomination from his youth the editor of the Demo crat takes great pleasure in testi- fying to his worth as a citizen and his ability and effectiveness as an officer. MT. Robinson is a native of this county, having been born on a farm seven miles from this place in 1872. His early manhood was spent in actively tilling the soil and teaching school and when just twenty-one years of age he was chosen to represent Lonoke county in the State leglS- lature. His brilliant service there is matter of pride to all his friends. In 1896 he was chosen by the Democratic state conven- tion as one of it's nominees for presidential elector, canvasslng the state in the interest of the Democratic nominee, MT. Bryan. Notwithstanding the fact that the state central committee of the Democratic party, acting at the request of the national commit tee retired two of it's electors to make room for fusion candidate, Mir. Robinson being one of the two so retired, he continued to canvass the state until the day of the election. Subsequently in 1900 he was again chosen as nom- inee for presidential elector on the Democratic ticket and again at his own expense delivered a large number of addresses in this and in neighboring states in advocacy of the cause of MT. Bryan and the Democratic party.
 Mr. Robinson S term of service as a member of Congress began March 4, 1903, and during the Grief period that he has repre- Srnted the district he has earned, by diligence and close attention to duty, the confidence of his con- stituents and the respect of his colleagues. While questions of national importance have at all times received careful considera- tion from him, he has at no time neglected the rights or disregard ed the interests of his district, his promptness in attending to the requests of his constituents being a matter of common knowl- edge to all who have observed his course. He was a memberof the special committee from the cot ton states that interviewed Pres ident Roosevelt and Secretary Wilson of the Department of Ag riaulture in behalf of an appro pr5ation to exterminate the cotton boil weeyil. An appropriation o1 $25O, 900 was secured through the efforts of this committee. MT Robinson interested himself ac
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION-

The Philippine National Assembly begins
we'll We are not sure but that 1t is setting an
example which other and more pretenhous ana
more powerful parliaments might proftably
initiate Thus its first enacted bill is one appro-
priating S1,000OO0 for the building of schools
throughout the provinces. That Is commend
able measure, and at least equally commendao BILE
was the manner of its enactment. We can
easily imagine the passage of a corresponding
measure in an American state but not in quite
the same way. For here partisan lines would
be drawn, there would be partisan speeches
pro and contra, and in the end some votes
would be cast against it, not on principle, but
just because partisanship dictated such oppo-
sition TO the policy of the n ijority. But in
the Philippines such matters seem to be held
above mere factional considerations. and so
this measure was adopted without single dis
sentinG vote
The second measure equally noteworthy.
The Assembly adopted also without dissent
ing vote or speech. instructions to the Commits
sionerS about TO visit Washington TO work for
better commercial relations between the Islands
and the United States. The Commissioners were
instructed 10 seek not only a repeal Of the re-
strictive shipping laws, but also comprehen-
sive measure of reciprocity They are to ask not
for entirely open door TO the American mar
ket. though they might not appropriately do
that but for the free entry of certain products
and of certain quantity of others. The theory
apparently is that the limited quantity Of sugar.
for example. which they wish 10 have admitted
free will greatly profit them while it will not
impair or disturb the general protective sys-
TEN here: and that the unlimited free entry Of
other things. such as Manila hemp, which are
not produced here, will not cause competition
with any American industries. But even these
moderate requests are not TO be made without
the offer of quid pro quo in the form Of free
entry into the Philippines of some important
American products.
There need be no hesitation In saying that
these thoughtful and judicious proposals of the
Filipinos ought to be received at washington
with the most sympathetic and favorable consid-
Grafton, if indeed they ought not TO cause feel
ing of profound shame and humiliation over
the ungenerous and unjust policy which has
compelled the islanders 10 make them. The
President and the Secretary OF War long ago
urged and repeatedly have urged the desira-
bility. on both ethical and material grounds, Of
revising on a generous scale the tariff rela-
tions between our Asian possessions and our
selves. II is reproach 70 the nation that this
has not been done, and the reproach is intensi-
fed. perhaps unntentionally but none the less
effectively, by the moderation of the requests
which the Filipinos now make Of It is
matter of simple elemental justice for this
country TO give the Philippines market ade-
quate to their commercial needs. 1t is mat
ter of self-interest for it to give them a favor
able opportunity to work out their own eco
nouic salvation.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22

priately is-a guardian or an insurance OF the
mercantile marine il Is obvious that consld-
cradle fleet ought to be maintained in the
waters which are the scene of so great traffc
and in which the practical certainty of almost
unreasonable increase of trade is so assured.
When we were only thirteen states on the
Atlantic littoral feet In these Atlantic waters
was sufficient for orr needs. With the acquisl-
ton of a frontage on the Gulf naval force III
those waters became necessary. When we Sc
cured Pacific coast prudence prescribed the
maintenance OF squadron there with the
extension of our territorial holdings as well as
our commerce, TO remote Pacific lands the heeo
of comparable expansion of our naval establish
ment there is apparent And in taking steps
toward that expansion we shall be pursuing
policy at once of prudence and of peace In so
redistributing tine feet as to have an adequate
force in the Pacific there will be no inhmatloh
of auy expectation of trouble in that region, any
more than the retention of the major part or
the navy in Atlantic waters hitherto has meant
anticipation of war with Europe. The govern
ment will simply be taking advantage OF
time of profound peace to effect normal dis
tribution of its new navy in accordance with
the principles for the sake of which navy ex-
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
UNIVERSITY WEDDING BELLS RING.
Nuptials the First IN St.
Paul's Chapel at Columbia.

ST. Paurs Chapel at Columbia University was
the yesterday morning at II o'clock OF inc
marriage OF Miss Abby White. daughter OF HordOe
White. OF No. IS West seth street. TO John Mead
Howells. of Mr.. and Mrs. William Dean
Howells. 1t the first wedding TO be celeora'ea
In the chapel. of which Mr. HowellS'S nrIi. Ho"
ellis & Stokes. the architects. and whea
was only completed last March Coadjutor Blsnop
David II. Greer ofiiciated at the wedding WhH'I.
was very small. only the immediate members "a
the family and Mr.. HOwells's partner Newton
Stokes. and Mrs Stokes being present
The bride. who given away by her l1thsts
a gown of white satin. trimmed with lace anu
a lace veil fastened with orange blossoms. SH'
carried prayer book.
Miss Elizabeth White her sisters maid U.
honor and only attendant She was in a gown oA
white lace and wore a hat OF ostrich feathels-
Her bouquet consisted Of white carnations 1il.
HoweIls had no best man ushers- Mr. ana 'iis.
HoweIIs after their honeymoon trip will live IN 'hi'
city.
The engagement of the couple was annouhce1
last November and to most OF their friends 'n'
publication of their wedding will come as q sur
prise as IL was not generally known that a ca1o
had been decided Mr.. Howels was sraNN
ated from Harvard in the class OF 81 and IS MEM
ber Of the University and other clubs
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
HOPE EOR HUMANITY.

That gradual reduction in the size of the
earth which has followed invention discovery
and development seems to be not an entirely
unmixed blessing as there is tendency TO
transfer from one land 10 another the unde-
srable as well as the desirable things which
each country produces. In the process of civ
ilizing savage countries, for example, the mis-
sonary is followed so closely by that other adj
junct of the higher life, the whSkey barrel, that
there seems to be some question whether it
would not be better to leave the benighted
heather with neither than to offer him both
and let him exercise his free moral agency and
take his choice. He is likely to experiment
little with both, frequently taking missionary
as we'll as drink internally. with the result that
he doesn't survive the latter long enough for
the former to begin to have an effect upon him.
To the United States, articles of exchange.
in return for harvesting machines, electric bat
teries and dollar watches, have been brought,
along with ivory from Africa and jewels which
may once have rested Oh the brows of Ori-
entail potentates such things as the plague
which visited San Francisco short time ago
and that modern form of inqusitorial torture
known as the grip, which came to us along with
friends from the land Of the Urai and the Don
in the later years of the last century. New
York has usually had the first pick Of these
imDortatons as of all other things brought into
It's port and as q result the Health Department
announces that it is swamped with cases of con-
tagious disease for handling which it has
adequate provision.
Even the mails are accused of bearing on
inoffensive looking packages. without label to
indicate the unusual nature of their contents.
affections which most Of us could be just as
happy without. In Pennsylvania railway mail
clerk was stricken with the smallpox while in
the performance Of his duty, and the opinion
was expressed that he contracted the disease
from handling contaminated mail brought from
Europe. Not long ago considerable consterna-
tion was created In Southern city by the
packed, said to contain enough diphtheria germs
Mason and Dixon's line. The postoffice en-
ployes, and possibly large percentage of the
citizens of the town in which the accident hap
pened had to be fumigated. and some espe-
cially timorous individuals endeavored to drown
the germs with the material popularity supposed
TO he effective In drowning trouble
Within the last generation scientists and
physicians have been SO busy discovering new
ills to which human flesh is or may be heir that
there is danger of giving people the impression
that 1t is perilous TO eat drink or sleep, and
that one is justified in heaving a sigh of relief
at the close of every day when, after taking
careful inventory Of himself. he finds that he is
possessed OF his usual health and faculties; yet
in the face of all this pernicious activity the
part OF germs microbes, scientists and others
it is cheerful TO note that each generation in
creases the average length of the human life
Even the automobile has been unable to raise
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau
v


Washington Dec. H-The italian Ambassador
and Baroness Mayor des Planches are now es'ao-
lished in the embassy in New Hampshire aEehue'
which they have been refurnishng ana rehaplii'dt
ine. to a certain extent after long absence aor ro
They expect to renew their usual hospitaties after
Christmas
The Russian Ambassador and memoers OF hi'
staff who went to New York last week 70 attehu
dinner given in honor OF St Nicholas Day. nave
returned Washington
The delegates to the Central American peace
conference entertained at dinner this evening
in honor OF the Secretary OF state In auuitloil
TO Mr.. Root the guests were Nlce-tresioeilI
Fairbanks. Speaker Cannon. Secretary Garhelo'
Secretary Wilson. Secretary Straus, Senator Cui-
lom Henry B. F. MacFarland. Assistant Secre-
taries Bacon and Wilson, the chief clerk or the
State Department. the secretary or the bureau Oh
American Republics. Andrew Carnegie. William l.
buchanan. the Mexican Ambassador Minister
Godoy Sehor Don Luis RicOy. Senior Don Vic
toriano Saldo Senior Don Julio W. Baz, Senor Don
Eduardo de BesteGui, ". T. S. Doyle Senor Don
Luis Anderson, Sehor Don Joaquin Bernardo
CaIvo. Senor Don Antonio Batres-Jauresui. Senior
Don Victor Sanchez-Ocana. Senor Don Luis Toledo
Herrarte Sefor Don Polcarpo Bona, Senor
Don f Constantine Fiallos. Sehor Don Angel
Ugarte. Sefor Don Luis Felipe Corea, Senor Don
jose Madriz. Senior Don Salvador Gallegos, Sehor
Don Federico Mejia, Sehor Don Salvador Roari-
guez, Senior Don Salvador Gallegos, tr, and Senor
Don Nicolas Velose.
The Mexican Minister to Cuba. acting
first secretary at Washington. and Nine. Godoy
gave A reception this afternoon in honor Of the
delegates TO the Central American peace confer
Nine CreeI. wife Of the Ambassador from
Mexico: Nine Caideron. Nine. de Carbo and Nine
Calvo were among those assisting Mime Godoy.
The Russian naval attache and Nine. Nebosine
entertained at dinner tonight the naval attache OF
the italian Embassy and Nine. Pfster. the third
secretary OF the British Embassy and Mrs. Grant
Watson. the secretary of the Colombian Legation
and Nine. Guzmdn. Nine de Meissner. Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Barker. Lieutenant Commander
and Mrs. White and Prince Koudachef
The naval attache OF the German Embassy and
Nine. Hebbinghaus had with them at dinner this
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson Fahuestock Mr.. and
Mrs. ". A Slater. Mr.. and Mrs. Hennen Jennings
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. James. OF the British
Embassy. and the newly arrived military attachs
Of the German Embassy and Mime. Livonius.
The Viscount de Marte third secretary OF the
French Embassy, and Viscountess de Martel have
their guests for month the viscountess's
parents. NJ. and Nine. Noel Ba-dac, OF France who
arrived In Washington to-day.
Senior Don Luis Pastor. secretary Of the Spanish
Legation. has gone New York for a few davs'
rest and recuperation. He may return to Wash
ington Monday.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
fFrom The Tribune Bureau.I

iFrom The Tribune Bureau.l
Washington, Dec. 2I,-GeneraI and Mrs Fitz-
hugh among the dinner hosts this evening,
entertaining in their home on Scott Circle.
Miss Jackson also entertained a company at
dinner, the guest Of honor being Miss Meyer,
daughter OF the Postmaster General and Mrs.
Never.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Merriam. who have as their
house guests Mrs. Eugene Griffin. widow of Major
Eugene Griffin. and Miss Griffin. entertained at
dinner this evening the counsellor of the French
Embassy and Mime. des Portes de n Fosse. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs Herbert
Wadsworth and others.
The Assistant Secretary OF War and Mrs Robert
Shaw Oliver have issued invitations for after
noon reception December q IN honor OF their
daughter, Mrs. Joseph II. Choate. Jr, of New
York, who is spending the Christmas holidays with
them AZ their home in y street
Senator and Mrs Bulkeley viii be among the
dinner hosts of Wednesday evening. January Is.
who Will take their guests TO the reception TO be
given by the Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks
Mrs Carbough has gone to New York to spend
Christmas but will return to Washington again
for a few days before sailing on January for an
extended visit abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Wadsworth will have a
company at dinner on Thursday evening. January
. Mr. and Mrs Wadsworth have also issued In
vitations for their usual Thursday evening recep-
tions throughout the season.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-22
mortuary records back to the oldtime average
Wherefore let us take courage.
A CIVIC DISGRACE.

The epidemic of typhoid fever which ravaged
the New Jersey State Hospital fore the insane
at Trenton some months ago, and which was
due to absolutely scandalous and ineXcusaDle
nismanagement, has now an equally tragic
sequel The same disease is raging IN the city
of. Trenton itself and Is prevalent at other
points along the Delaware Valley. More than
sixty cases have occurred thus far TINS month
in Trenton alone. which is equivalent, proper
tionately to nearly three thousand cases IN New
York City, and every day the epidemic SHOWS
signs of increasing in both extent and vlruIence'
There is probably little room for doubt as to
the cause of the trouble 1t is in the water
supply. The cities and towns along the Dela-
ware occupy exceptionally beautiful and salu
brious sites and have the benefit of coplous
water supply which is naturally OF marked
purity and sweetness But for years they have
been defiling that supply by pouring all thelr
sewage into it, and now they are paying the
penalty A man would be reckoned crazy who
used the same pit as well and cesspool. 1t is
no less madness for city TO use the same
stream as water main and sewer, or to use for
its water supply a stream which other commu-
mites upstream are using for q sewer.
These facts are so simple and so elemental
that It is amazing to see them so generally ig-
nored 1t is not only amazing. however. but 1t
f. discreditabIe in the highest degree that they
should be ignored The achievements OF science
in the etiology of typhoid fever have made 1t
disgrace to any community to suffer from an
epidemic of that disease. One of these days, we
may hope 1t will also be regarded as disgrace
for any civilized state to permit so supremely
valuable an asset as its potable water supplies
to be impaired and destroyed through needless,
wastefui and slovenly pollution.