The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-28

Information comes from a highly
creditable source that the administra-
ton has about decided upon striking
change in its financial policy. The ac-
ton. if taken, will reverse former Sec
rotary Shaw in one particular and may
eliminate certain railroad bonds from
the position they now occupy as gilt
edged securities. There is an impress
sion here that it may have been an in
timatiOn of what was TO come that sent
ahe had time to put the finishing touches
to the conference which he tried to ar
range between President Roosevelt and
leading railroad presidents. Foreign
capital. which is heavily invested in
American railroad enterprises. gives ev-
cry evidence of extreme sensitiveness
over the present agitation. Former Sec
rotary Shaw, in his efforts to establish
an elastic currency. permitted banks to
place with the treasury railroad and
other bonds to the amount they desired
conditional upon the government bonds
so released being made the basis for
increased circulation. 1t is said the
present head of the Treasury Depart
ment considers such a method of
finance is unsatisfactory, not conducive
to financial stability and not in conso-
nance with the general policies Of the
government
Many persons think that the censuses
are compilations of figures for the de-
light of statisticians. But all workers
for special classes and special sorts
of legislation know that good census
is the foundation of work To provide
proper education for the blind and the
deaf it is necessary first to have a full
registry of them. To know how to pre-
vent and punish crime we must list and
classify our criminals. 1t is next to i'm
possible to legislate. even TO think in
diligently, about divorce until we have
divorce statistics. These are examples
of the kind of census that we still lack.
There are only three States in the
Union that have begun to make prop
er registry of the blind. only nine that
publish divorce statistics. In time every
State will have an adequate working
census of every class and kind Of per-
son that needs public help. and the ma
tional census will combine and codify
the State censuses.
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The Board of United States General
Appraisers has many curious and inter
esting questions to decide i'm regard TO
the classification of imported articles,
and the rate of duty which they must
pay One of the latest decisions is that
the flag of the United States is not a
toy. A Japanese firm of importers in
Chicago had brought in consignment
of silk flags, each an inch and a half
long, and asked that they be admitted
at 35 per cent ad valorem. The ap-
praisers, however. decided that the
flags must pay duty of 30 per cent, as
manufactures of silk. ave do not
think" they said, that the American
flag. however diminutive, is CONNER
cially, commonly or nationally regarded
as a plaything for children; and we
find that the flags in dispute are rot
toys"
President Roosevelt issued an order
barring from the United States the
Japanese and Korean laborers, skilled
and unskilled, who had received pass
ports to go to Mexico, Hawaii and Can
ada, and who have heretofore used
that means of entering this country.
Ccincident with this order the Presi-
dent has directed the dismissal of the
two suits FLED in San Francisco with
a view to testing the treaty rights of
Japanese children to enter the white
schools This was in his. pursuance of
his agreement to take such action
when the San Francisco school board
rescinded its original resolution ex-
Guiding children from the schools. This
the board has done.
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The attendance at prayers IN Tie
United States Senate is not large, but
it always includes Senators Platt and
Depew, who usually sit together and
withdraw before the business of the
day begins. Sometimes there are only
five or six who assemble to hear DR.
Hale's invocation. Upon a recent occa-
sion there were seven, and curious
observer made a memorandum of their
names. In addition to the always de
vout Platt and Depew there were Perll.
ins of California, Smoot of Utah. Dick
of Ohio, McCreary of Kentucky, and
Clark of Montana.
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Pursuant to the enactment Of the new
immigration law containing the Japa-
nese exclusion provision Secretary Root
cabled Gov. Carter at Honolulu to no.
| tify agents of steamship companies that
| Japanese laborers in Hawaii, with pass
ports only for the islands, would not be
allowed TO proceed to the United States
mainland.
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The new rules governing the admis-
sibility of post cards to the mails re-
auire conformity in weight and size
to those printed by the government.