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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-05
LOCAL ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Beyersdorfer
spent Tuesday evening in Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Beeny, OF
Rockford, are visiting Mrs. L. N.
Utter.
Mrs. Annie Peterson, of Chicago, is
visiting her neice, Mrs, Arthur
Simons.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Fl. Wells, of Mil
waukee, are spending few days in
Kenosha.
Mrs. t. H. Jacobs, of Wausau, is
spending few days with friends in
Kenosha.
The Rev. Florence Buck has re-
turned home after a months outing
at Ephraim, Wis.
Miss Gretchen Heugen, of Evans
sister, Mrs. w. H. Robinson.
Miss Edna Cosgrove left Tuesday
evening for Minnesota where she has
accepted position as teacher.
A new son and heir arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jake D;sch, 657
Grand avenue, on Friday morning.
Miss Anna Graham left on Friday
evening for Denver, Col, where she
will make her home with her sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Miller, of West
Baden, Ind, are spending week
with friends and relatives in Kenosha.
''Bll1y Moak" owned by Peter Breen
of this city won his race in straight
heats at the Woodstock fair Friday
afternoon.
Henry zeit1er and daughter
Frances have returned from a two
weeks trip to North Michigan and
other points.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
CANNON SAYS 1T

VT ORD has gone forth from the
wv seats Of the mighty in Wash
ington that the tariff on paper
and wood pulp cannot be disturbed"
during the present session of congress,
regardless of the preferences of Pres
ident Roosevelt and the unanswerable
arguments of thousands Of printers and
publishers from Maine to California.
Boss Cannon. the man who knows,
says it, and that settles it-pessibly.
1t may be as we'll that the tariff on
paper is to be let alone 1t may be as
well that Boss Cannon and Boss AID
rich have determined to keep the muz-
zle on congress at all hazards. 1t may
be as well that nothing is to be done
except, as one paper so aptly expressed
it, to mark time" For the result will
be that the crisis in the relations be-
tween the common herd of voters and
the oligarchy at the national capital
will be precipitated just so much the
sooner Heaven knows that the coun-
try is nauseated almost to the point
of prostration by Cannonism. The cup
is on the verge of overflowing.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
WOrld'S Bread Eaters
and the Wheat Supply

| sion, of which this is perhaps the most
remarkable chapter, has been accompa-
MED by a contraction of wheat acreage
| In the older states. In the seven years
between 1880 and 1887 2,29624O acres of the
wheat fields OF Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
| Illinois ard Wisconsin were converted
into meadows, as were 592,065 acres OF the
new land brought into cultivation. the
remainder of the new land, amounting to
4095. .S62 acres. being employed in the pro-
duction of rye, oats, barley, buclkwheat,
potatoes and tobacco. This is merely a
duplication of a process with which the
states farther east had already been
familiar and which first overlook the mid
die west twenty years ago. 1t has adj
vanced considerably beyond that area
since 1887.
When Sir William Crookes directed the
attention of the world to the general
question of wheat consumption and pro-
duction some eight years ago, there was
good deal of discussion as to what con-
tribution, II any, our farmers would be
able to make to the wheat supply OF
other countries when provision came to
be demanded for the requirements OF q
home population of 1870 millions. 1t was
estimated that the census of 1880 would
show figure at least as high as this,
and that such population would require
IOT lIS III1Ileuldlc Wdhto = WhSOs "
of 700 million bushels, without bushel
for export: an oat crop Of 1,25O.0O0,0OO
corn crop Of 8,45O, ,000,0 900 bushels and hay
crop of 100,000000 tons, with cotton and
wool, fruit and vegetables, dairy and
poultry products, meats and innumerable
minor commodities in corresponding pro-
portions. The area necessary for the pro-
duction of the three principal cereals
alone was placed at over 15 per cent
greater than the total acreage devoted IN
1893 to grain, cotton and hay, while the
mere addition of the two last mentioned
products and of the minor cereals would
call for an acreage exceeding the total
area of iTIipr owed lands n farms at that
time, That brought the discussion down
to the question of whether there was any
reasonable prospect of securing the nee
essary extension in farm areas to supply
the needs of our population in 1890. 1t
was pointed out that amazing as had
been the increase in the farm area of the
country during the thirty years preceding
1898, 1t had not been sufficient to keep
pace with the growth of population. The
addition of 1928, 100000 acres, or 31.4S per
cent. to the area in farms between 1870
and 1880 only increased the area per capita
OF population from 1857 to 1863 acres. BY
1890 the area, notwithstanding further
addition of 87,100,000 acres, or 1925 per
cent, amounted to 995 acres per capita,
and the census of 1900 found 1t under nine
acres. The great question Of food supply
is therefore one that is likely to touch
us more nearly in the immediate future
than our people generally realize. The
fact Is one calculated to give new I'M
petus to efforts for increasing the pro-
ductiveness of the farm land of the
country of which a potential enlargement
Is certainly possible in this way.-New
York Journal of Commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

HIH0SE who favor importation of Chi
nese coolies in sufficient number to
Il supply their own needs, to be fol-
lowed by as many moro as may supply
all other needs for cheap, non-assimila-
BILE labor. will do we'll to give heed to
the history of Russia, nation that
stands forth in the light of civilization
convicted of being the great white crim-
inal of the earth. If the experience Of
kindred people may ever light the foot
steps of men, then the experience of
Russia should be a warning to America
to beware how II admits to It's shores
the ever alien Mongol
The Russian people were originally
Aryan. They had the same origin as
the people rof Germany and the low
countries. They were rather short of
stature, strongly limbed, had high cheek
bones, broad, high foreheads. and up to
the dawn of the thirteenth century were
self-governing and free, but loosely con-
nected as to communities, not having
evolved a national life capable Of resist
ing a Mongolian invasion under Genghis
Khan. Early in the thirteenth century
this great Mongolian conqueror, with a
force of 100000 warriors, swept Russia
nearly to the Baltic, destroyed free gov
ernment and left a non-assimilabfe host
ple
There Is wonderful difference between
assimilation and amalgamation. The
Jews, wherever they go, assimilate read
lily with whatever civilization they en-
counter, but amalgamate almost not at
all. The Mongols, on the contrary, ANAL
gamate readily where they go in con-
siderable numbers, acquire property and
become fixed, as they have done in many
parts of the world, and will do here In
process of time but assimilate not at
ALL They failed to assimilate In Russia,
but amalgamated with hideous fecundity
Only .Mongolian men came and not their
women, and SO they made themselves
masters of the women of Russia From
this unholy and unfortunate alliance
sprang the great mass of Russian peas
antry.
II is in the attempt to govern this
amalgamated mass that Russia has ac-
quired the distinction of being the great
white criminal of the civilized world
The governing class is measurably, If
not entirely, free from this contamina-
tion, but 1t has been superior race in
charge of an inferior, made inferior by
amalgamation with a race alien in
thought, spirit t1-antipodal in everything.
The result has been more unfortunate
as 1t always Is, to the, superior than to
the inferior race. The great, hulking
mass of stupid, inert, unimaginative
peasantry is bone of contention to be
fought over by a divided aristocracy-
divided on an issue of human rights
The mongrel Mongolian proletariat looks
on at the Satanical carnival of assas-
sination and repression with blinking
unlntelligent eyes, caring little for con-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Iof the campaign Of education against
the white race inaugurated so stealth
lily it would appear, by the Japanese
perhaps not initiated by them but fos-
tered by them as soon as 1t became
known that their continental neighbors
were rapidly catching on to the Jap
anese propaganda
From the standpoint Of the Ameri-
can this development of spirit of Bit
ter antagonism is not welcome; but
from the standpoint of the Chinese, n
race which has slept through countless
years, the awakening and the dis
coveries following keen self-analysis
ultimately must be beneficial. Not only
may China soon become the theater Of
a great revolution. perhaps a bloody
one, but 1t may engage in struggle
with Japan or Russia. with a bare
possibility that Great Britain or the
United States may be dragged into the
trouble. The first results will not be
received with good grace by the civil
lied world; but If, as the outcome of
the great awakening, China shall take
her place among the progressive ma
tions of the world, the sacrifices other
nations may be called upon to make
will do down in history as having BEEN
worth the making.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

HyHE fact has been obvious for some
years that the number of bread
Il eaters" was rapidly overtaking the
worlds available supply of wheat. The
advance in the average price of the cereal
during the last ten years would be suf-
ficfent to demonstrate that fact IL demon
stration were needed. Ten years ago the
number of bread-eaters was estimated at
$40 millions; today 1t is certainly not less
than $40 millions. When it is announced,
therefore, that the wheat crop of 1907
will fall short of that of 1906 by 100000
600 bushels 1t means that there is three
quarters of a bushel less for each con-
sumer than there was year ago. the
crop of 1906 reckoned at 4l1,OO0,O0O quar-
ters, supplied an average of five and
three-quarter bushels per head to the
bread-eaters of the world. This is three
quarters of bushel less than the average
per capita consumption of wheat in the
United States From the beginning of
last August to the end of next July 1t Is
calculated that the wheat importing coun-
tries of Europe will require 63,00O,000 quar-
ters, whereas II seems probable that the
wheat-exporting countries of the world
will have a surplus of only 6l,6OOo0O quar-
ters, making a deficiency of 100000 quar-
ters. The increase of wheat acreage the
world over has been very slight, IL 1t ex-
lists at all. From the 81 million acres of
six years ago the United States has come
down to 4S millions, and statistics do not
warrant the belief that the newer wheat
growing countries have made up for the
loss In the older countries which are
considerable wheat growers, production
has been at a standstin or has shown an
actual decrease. This lis notably so in the
case of France.
1t is very interesting process, that Of
the displacement Of wheat by other crops
Relatively to population the wheat acre
age and production Of the United States
probably reached their maximum in 1884.
The westward movement Of wheat grow
ing is very well illustrated by the tables
of acreage from 1875 to 1889. In the north
Atlantic group of states there was an in
crease of 80 per cent between 1875 and 1880,
but for the next five years the increase
was hardly perceptible. and for the five
years following there was a decrease Of
121a per cent. The addition to the acreage
in the lake states was so per cent between
1875 and 1880, but by 1889 the area was 20
per cent less than the maximum. In the
states OF the Missouri valley exclusive
of the Dakotas, the enlargement of area
was fully go per cent between 1876 and
1880, slightly higher by 1884, but there was
q shrinRage of SO per cent by 1882 The
southern states, including Arkansas and
Texas, showed an increase of about 20 per
cert between 1875 and 1884, but thereafter
rapidly declined. The, increase in the
Pacific states came before 1884 and cul-
minated in that year. remaining station
ary for the next five years and subse-
quently declining. The Dakotas showed
the extraordinary gain from 10000 acres
devoted to wheat growing in 1875 to 4,5Oo,-
900 acres In 1889. But the western exparl-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
Congress Doing Nothing
but @SMafkir7g Tif11e''

| to be, and the following session Will ap-
parently depend for its character upon the
attitude and popular prestige OF the oc-
cupant of the White House at that time
Federal legislative conditions are fast
growing intolerable in their rigidity. Al
| it shall continue necessary to depend
upon executive prodding in order to get
| legislation on vitally important topics
such as our tariff and colonial systems,
our currency and other like subjects
congressional action will come only
when there happens to be an exceptional
man in the White House-one who can
combine energy and enterprise with abb
solute popular trust in his intentions. IL
is a condition in which the tendency to-
ward executive Capitalization, already so
conspicuous becomes largely intensified.
The disposition to lean more and more
heavily upon the administrative arm
grows, and popular eelf-dependence tends
to deteriorate.
There is only one real remedy for this
condition of affairs. and that Is not found
in lengthening the term or increasing the
power of the president. 1t is to be had
only by restoring to congress its repre-
sentative and legislative character and
demanding that that body live up to Its
duties. This character has been largely
lost during the past few years. An oil
getting into control In either house OF
congress The organization is more pow
erful and autocratio in the lower cham
ber, but it produces much the same re-
suits in the upper, where the minority
party has been reduced to the small pro-
portions of a bare third-ineffective for
opposition under the provisions OF the con-
stitution.
IA breach with the set OF despotic and
unreasonable rules by which the house
of representatives is goverfed and re-
action OF popular sentiment which will
send more men OF Independent temper
to the senate are the only changes that
will permanently restore the Legislative
function to congress- So long as one man
from Illinois and another from Rhode
Island, with possibly q few lieutenants
OF temper like their own. are the sole
arbiters of legislative action, the force
of public opinion upon congress is utterly
ineffective and the chances of useful Leg
islation are infinitely reduced. vigor-
Gus and popular president may counteract
the inertia for a short time, but the
Organization by its permanence. invar-
iab,y neutralizes the movements he sets
on foot"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
The M0ng0liaR Sfoic, the
Great White Criminal

sequences and enduring whatever befalls
with stoicism born of an oriental fatal
ism.
Meanwhile, the internecine conflict
RACES between those who'4have in their
veins some survivals of the free blood
of their Aryan progenitors and those
who, after ZOO years Of dominance over
proletarian inferiority, have come to
believe In that Mongolian absolutism that
made Genghis Khan the terror of europe
and Asia, from Pacific to Baltic, from
Arctic to Ind. The fortunes of this war
sway from extreme of hope to abandon
Of despair. Just now tho reactionaries
are In the ascendancy, and yet so per-
meated is the Russian realm with the
spirit OF freedom that a douma, selected
by the reactionaries themselves, has had
to be purged by executions, banishments
and imprisonments without trial or SEM
blance of trial. The conflict is fratricidal
and therefore waged with an intensity
of bitterness otherwise unparalleled, and,
although it is for and against the uplift
of the great mongrel mass, that mass
lends little aid to It's would-be benefac-
tors and only RACES and ravages when
it is hungry.
This is what amalgamation without as
similation means. The Mongol never as
similates, but always amalgamates. Its
product on this western coast would re-
peat what 1t has accomplished in interior
Russia. The admixtures of blood would
be essentially the same, even though
generations were required for it's ac-
complishment. Whoever acts from inn
pulses other than such as are afforded
by present need will find the life line of
the great white criminal nation terrific
ally illuminating-Sa Sacramento Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

HVHE New York Journal OF Commerce,
in calling attention to the fact that
Il congress is having q vacation until
January OF next year, refers to the IN
activity of that body as follows:
IAN examination of the records thus
far shows that the house of representa-
tives has been in session only a few
hours In all, and that OF this short time
far the larger part has been occupied
with such routine work as the assignment
of seats, offices and the like. Probably
all the business that has been accom-
plished during the month OF December
could be packed into thirty minutes.
The senate has dore more, but 1t too
has minimized it's work and endeavored
to procrastinate. 1t has heard two or
three serious speeches, but its actual ao-
complishn1ent has been OF the smallest.
AS result of the months meeting there
is firmly seated conviction in many
minds that the session will produce 10
results on most subjects, and that even
on topics like the currency where legis-
lation Is imperative, the record of action
will be or the smallest.
1.-THE situation in congress thus far
should vividly impress upon the public
mind one of the peculiarities Of our pres
ent political system. During tine past
two or three sessions congress has been
driven TO accomplish great uedl OI
work under the spur of necessity. This
has been the direct result OF the efforts
Of the president of the United States. No
matter whether the action of congress
on certain points be approved or not,
It is an unquestionable fact that q num-
Der OF subjects that were crying for at
tention have been taken up largely owing
to the energy Of the executive and his
strong hold on the people Of the coun-
try. Such enactments as the pure food
law and the meat inspection service
would not probably have come into being
had 1t not been for the investigations
and representations of the president.
Undoubtedly there Is a more marked
tendency toward inactivity than Is usual
because OF the approach of a presidential
election, but the inoisposition to do any
thing during the present winter is deeper
seated than can be attributed to any
such circumstance 1t is moreover, likely
to continue, since the executive uniformly
grows weaker as the end OF his term ap-
proaches, and Mr.. Roosevelt's definite
renupciation of another nomination has
removed him from the field of presiden-
tial possibilities. Next winter will be as
inactive as the current session promises
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
THE AWAKENING

nY way of Offering partial explain
X alton of late developments in the
H. Chinese empire Lord William
Cecil of England, who has served per-
sonally as missionary In China and who
is reputed to have made thorough
study of political conditions in that
country, states in a contribution in the
National Review that one of the worst
influences in the China of today is the
native press. While the Chinese and
Japanese speak distinct and widely dis
similar languages, their written Ian
guages are practically the same. Both
use the cumbrous system of ideographs.
These characters have no reference to
sound. They are pictures Of ideas.
Centuries ago they were borrowed by
the Japanese from the older people, and
since then they have undergone almost
no change. A Japanese reading aloud
would not be understood by China
man, but the Chinaman could read the
same passage with the greatest ease,
although he would have not the re-
hottest idea of the sound of the words
he was reading. During the recent war
the Japanese officers in Manchuria, who
knew nothing of the Chinese tongue,
conversed fiuently, by means OF writ
ing, with Chinese who were wholly ig-
norant of the language of Nippon.
The similarity between the written OF
printed language Of the two nations
has enabled the Chinese to publish
verbatim, without translation, what
ever they may find in the Japanese
newspapers to the liking OF the Chinese
of the so-called news printed in the
Chinese papers comes from Japanese
sources The complacency of the
Chinese has given way; a vigorous ma
tional pride is developing. All China
is now kept reliably informed of the
worlds doings. and especially of events
in China and Japan. Any slight by q
representative Of European nation tc
the Chinese nation or national charac-
ter awakens fierce resentment in every
city and village throughout the FlowerJ
Kingdom. No longer do the Chinese
conceal their hatred of the foreigner
They desire to learn his mechanical
arts. but they want nothing of his re-
ligion, nothing Of his political theories
And what SO natural as that this senti-
ment should be nurtured by the Jap.
anese authors of the news?
The British authority quoted ex.
presses the conviction that no good car
come of this influence. Not only is Il
driving the Chinese away from theil
old religion and from their old politica
faith, but it is supplying nothing bet
ter, and, worse than all, 1t is resulting
in the rapid development Of spirit
of antagonism against Europe ant
America. The present revolutionary
tendency Of China is another symptom
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
TWO EARTHLY HELLs
Sc A N Alameda county paper be
n walls the t that tn
- Emeryville ra& traclx is +at

Sc Alameda county paper be-
"a walls the At that the
- Emeryville race track is TAX
ing 100000 per, month out of the
legitimate industries of the bay cities,
besides demoralizing the manhood and
womanhood of those cities. Alameda
county has only itself to thank for it,
adds the Sacramento Union. $50 lona
as it sends Frank Leavitt to the state
senate, it can, with much confidence,
expect that iniquity to continue"
Between Emeryville and Arcadia
there appears to be little choice. Both
are earthly hells, breeding grounds of
vice in its worst form. But it is
doubtful if the little suburb of Berkeley
can produce so many criminals of the
most dangerous class as our own lovely
Arcadia, the red-letter stinkpot of
America. Senator Leavitt doubtless
deserves the criticisms that have been
launched in his direction, but his vicious
offspring at Emeryville is, from
all accounts, Sunday school picnic
compared with Arcadia.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
Pointed Paragraphs

What is home without good cook?
Better an ounce of example than a
pound of advice.
Jealousy is vine which produces a
crop of sour grapes.
This world has no love for the lover
who loves only himself.
Some men are born great, but as
rule they soon begin to shrink.
A newly married man protects his wife
by putting his armor round her.
Giving him credit has started many
man on the road to the almshouse.
Beware of the man who is always harp
ing about honesty being the best policy
Chicago News
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Straws show which way the wind
blows. Speaker Cannon has named
Representative Knowland as a member
and foreign commerce. "In these
times of war on transportation lines"
says Senator Perkins in commenting
on the appointment at is easily un-
derstood that the committee before
which bills affecting them come occu-
pies a very responsible position" 1t
is, indeed, very easily understood.
Trust Boss Cannon to see that the
right men get on committees which
pass upon bills affecting the trans
portation companies.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Japan has inaugurated a scheme of
financial retrenchment. She is also
making active preparations for her big
exposition four and a half years hence.
She is likewise building battleships-
for another power. All Of which looks
like the elevation OF her index finger in
the direction of peace.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

A campaign Of mud-slinging is on
desperate struggle between titans.
On one side are arrayed hordes of en-
gineers and laborers; on the other side
nature. A campaign Of mud-slinging is
on--on the 1sthmus of Panama; but
there will be little objection to this
kind of mud-slinging.