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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30
MIR. nRyAN,s ATTITUDE.

Mr.. Bryan is logically and sentiment
ally correct in his attitude of refusing
to give way to another candidate until
he has teen assured beyond doubt that
such is the wish of the party. At a
luncheon given him in Washington last
Sunday evening he talked quite freely
and summed up with:
IF any man or set of men come to
me, protesting to be the guardians of
the Democratic Party, they must show
their credentials before ! shall be will
ing to have any conference with
them"
Mr. Bryan believes. and has every
reason to believe, that vote of his
party taken to-day would put him far
ahead of any other possible candidate.
Believing this, he is entirely right in
standing pat until he has further and
contrary information. 1t marks a new
era in the history of the Democratic
Party. Heretofore the Democracy has
been ruled by a little clique of politi-
clans who have manufactured public
sentiment made issues and set up OF
pulled down aspirants. Mr.. Bryan broke
this custom in 1896, when by his ora
tory he took the convention away from
the clique of governing politicians, and
compelled his own nomination. In 1904
the leaders of the party had their way
again, and nominated Alton B. Parker,
with results that Bryan has not failed
to point out Now these politicians are
trying to "sidetrack" Mr.. Bryan in ia
vor of Johnson, of Minnesota; Gray, of
Delaware; Harmon, of Ohio; Daniel, Of
Virginia, or some others who they think
more available. Mr.. Bryan definitely
informs them that they will not be al
lowed to do this unless they can show
that it is the undeniable wish of the
and let some other man take his place.
On the face of things Mr.. Bryan has the
better of the argument, and it brings
the question squarely before the Demo-
cratic voters in the country whether
they will prefer Bryan to lead them
again to defeat or take another man
who is thought to have better chances
of success. If those opposed to Bryan
persist, it will bring on fight in every
State and every Congressional District,
with Bryan against the field and against
these Democrats who are opposed to
his Populistic tendencies.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

Jacob Riis comes out with a PROPOSE
ton Of startling novelty 1t is that the
President, after his term expires, should
be elected Mayor of New York City.
The idea has much in 1t that is tempt
ing. New York City has more popuIa-
ton than many European Kingdoms
and a far bigger revenue than any of
them. except the first-class powers The
right kind of Mayor in New York
would far outrank such potentates as
the Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark
and Portugal or the Princes of Rou-
mania, Bulgaria, Servia and Montene-
gro. There is lettering memory. how
ever. that when Mr.. Roosevelt ran for
Mayor in 1885 he came in third, with
Abraham Hewitt and Henry George
ahead of him. Against this 1t must be
admitted that Mr.. Roosevelt has grown
remarkably in the 81 years since then.
On the other hand. New York is solidly
Democratic on every issue but Bryan,
whom it will have none of.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

1t would seem that the Standard Oil
Company is not so throttling as it has
been made to appear. When on the
stand Mr.. Walter Tarbell, who is the
brother of Ida Tarbell, the lady who
gained much reputation by her expos
ure of Standard Oil methods. testified
that he is treasurer of the Pure Oil
Company of Philadelphia. This COM
pany was organized by the Independent
oil producers to fight the Standard Oil
Company and maintain the price OF oil.
1t has been in active competition with
the Standard Oil, and its business has
prospered SO that while it started few
years ago with a capital of $1,000, 600
it has found it advisable to increase this
to 100000 upon which it is paying
dividend. There are not many BUSH
nesses in the country which can show
tenfold increase in a few years.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

To those of the present generation
who have long memory there were
some amusing repetitions of bank his
tory in the events of the recent crisis.
1t was the same old story of the bank
er's Discrimination to meet OBLIGATIONS
in actual money. Before the war one
of the first things when a town of great
expectations was started was to estab-
lish a bank and issue some very beau
tifully engraved notes. The redemp-
ton of these was quite different proc
ess from their issuing. AS rule, every
bank tried to send its money away as
| far as possible. SO that il would be
bothered the least with redeeming it.
While there was pretense of redeem
ing the money in silver and gold, this
was merely a pretense with the great
mass of the banks, and they would try
to put off the man who presented their
notes with those of other banks, gener-
ally charging a sharp discount, so as .
make a profit both ways. Occasionally
man would gather up considerable
number of these notes and come to the
tOWh " pay tiiCh Go
treated as an enemy to the community
and occasionally made to feel that the
sooner he got out of town with his
notes and desisted from his attempt to
bring ruin upon the banks and the de-
velopment of the town, the better. In
the recent stringency many of the banks
thru the country treated their deposit
tors who wanted their money in much
the same way; in place of recognizing
the money, placed with them in trust
as the property of the depositor and
| to be returned to him on call. they re-
tain his money in the vaults. He was
allowed to draw only a certain percent
age of his deposits. and was catechized
as to what he wanted to use the money
for. If it was for local payment he
was put off with clearing house certifi-
Gates or some other substitute for his
money.
The old milk ticket story. which did
such good service in the Grsenback
campaigns, has been brought out and
revamped to suit modern conditions.
1t will be remembered that during the
hot Greenback discussion of a quarter
of century ago Greenbackers steadily
insisted that the paper promises to pay
of the Government were actual money,
and had to be considered as precisely
| the same as gold and silver. An an
swer to this was found in making the
inquiry, rs milk ticket precisely the
same as a quart of milk 2" The new
story runs to the effect that German
farmer who had a considerable sum
in bank called for it, and the paying
teller explained to him that under the
present conditions they could not give
him the money, but would give a clear
ing-house certificate. The German SEEM
ed dull of understanding, and could not
be made TO see how this would answer
his purpose as well as his money would
The teller having failed to make it
clear, the cashier was called in to rea-
son with him laboriously, but to as little
effect. Then he was turned over to the
President of the bank, who used all
his eloquence. Finally glimmer of
understanding came into the Germans
mind, and he said, Eyes, understand at
last, and wen de baby wakes up in de
night and cries for milk you can satisfy
him by giving him a milk ticket
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

1t has not been OFTEN that We have
had occasion to say words of praise for
Gov. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, but now
there is reason for it. He has refused
to pardon man who killed woman
out of Jealousy, altho no less a person
than Thomas Watson, who represents
a great number of the people of Geor-
gia, has appealed to him for mercy. OF
all the crimes that a man can commit
there is none that has less of merclful
consideration for the criminal than that
of killing a woman. There may be ex-
cuses for one man killing another, but
there can be no defense of man STAY
ing woman. Nothing that she can
possibly do will justify this extreme
violence to her, and the men who kill
thru jealousy are despicable villains,
deserving of no lenity whatever.
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Total mining contributions. s2SS, Zoo
Total Democratic National
Committees fund. 49,. 321,OOC

Committees fund. ..... 321, 900
AS this startling fact has only devel-
oped II years after the campaign, the
question that will naturally arise in
most peoples minds is as to what trust
or combination is at present behind
Bryan pushing his campaign. Unless
this exposure can be successfully con-
troverted, and it will require much evil
dence to do SO, most people will regard
his thrasonics against the trusts as mere
beating of tomtoms and tinkling OF
cymbals to conceal his real thoughts
and purposes. In the light of this de-
velopment how hollow and hypocritical
sounds his speeches in New York and
elsewhere, when he said:
Our legislative assemblies-city,
State and National-are becoming auc-
ton rooms in which government is
knocked down to the highest bidder.
1.-The trouble with our Government
to-day is that it is too much Influenced
in its operations by men whose only
loyalty is loyalty to the money bags.
How many men have you in this city
New York;, either in the Democratic
Party or in the Republican Party, who
are brave enough to defy the influence
OF the money bag or place restrictions
upon it?"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

The year 1907 passed into history as
UNNECESSARILY the most charitable in
our annals. Counting only the larger
public gifts, nearly s149,000,000 was
given for education. art, libraries, char
tiles and other public objects, or about
SO per cent more than ever before in
any one year. Those contributing to
the smaller charities were no less act
i've, and if. these could be tabulated
would show a most surprising advance
in the observation-disclosures of the men who
have money
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

The st. Petersburg pa pers favor US
with the highly important news that
part of Secretary Taft's mission to
Russia was to secure a naval base on
the Pacific shores of Russia. If Rus
STA had any Pacific port that was not
ice-locked six months in the year this
report might have more appearance of
authenticity. Russia brought on the
war with Japan by trying to- secure a
section of the Pacific that would be
accessible to her fleet at all times in
the year. If We were seeking naval
base in the Orient We should probably
make advances to China orfJapan and
not to Russia
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

1t developed last week in the Custom
House in New York that the cheese
makers in the central part of New York
are importing boxes and labels and
filling them with homemade cheeses
which initiate the foreign brands SO
well that even an expert cannot tell the
difference. 1t is said that the same
thing is being done by the winemakers
Both of these are making a great mis-
take in not putting their goods upon
sile market with honest labes and Sc
curing legitimate demand for them on
their own merits, which could be easily
done
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

our railroads last year, an amount I'M
expectedly large, and the development
does not come in places more or less
anticipated. Texas, with her imperial
breadth of territory, who led all the
other States in 1906. was only third in
the list last year, her total being 3S1
miles, while Louisiana forged to the
head of the column with 422 miles.
South Dakota comes second, with 3S5
miles
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

Talk about graft and the use Of
money in politics, the Democrats in the
Oklahoma Legislature have hit upon a
scheme to use the taxpayers money to
fasten the party permanently upon the
State. They are discussing, and will
probably pass law, giving a pension
soldier in the State. This is q bid for
the ex-Confederates all over the South
to flock to Oklahoma, and make it sols
idly Democratic as long as they live
and can draw their pensions. OF course,
with such an influx as this the bill can
any considerable number of ex-Confed-
crates alive.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

The new jet:ies at the mouth of the
Mississippi upon which the Government
engineers have been at work for four
years are now complete. and their sue
cess is beyond expectation. They con-
sist of two parallel walls. one about
three and the other four miles long. ly-
ing about half mile apart and built
upon the shoals of the South Pass. AT
the beginning of the work the depth OF
the water was scarcely over mans
head. but the great force of the cur
rent has secured out channel of from
60 to IS feet in depth, making another
Gne opening to the deep water of the
Mississippi River above the shoals al
its mouth.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

The manager of a New York apart
ment house has tried an experiment
with the happiest result. Instead OF
making up his staff of pert youngsters
he has selected the whole force from
white-haired men of grave, respectful,
manner who give the establishment the
appearance of an old ducal mansion
with servants inherited for generations
The manager sought for his help in the
old mems homes, and found them Sc
grateful for the light easy work thai
they make model servants
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

1t naturally occurs TO those who are
thinking seriously on the deep water.
ways problem that the Missouri River
may be reconverted into a great high,
way by making il use its energy il
securing out a deep channel for itse II
precisely as the Mississippi River has a
Its outlet into the Gulf. When the en-.
gineers shall turn their attention to the
Missouri and begin upon it improve.
ments like those on the Mississippi the,
will have little difficulty III securing &
fairly straight channel from st. Louis
to the Yellowstone country. There il
water enough for it at all seasons of the
year, and all that is required is that L
should be kept within bounds and moi
allowed to d;ib5le all over the adjacent
country.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

William Nelson Cromwell, who seems
to maintain himself most astonishingiy
in spite of the periodical and vicious
attacks upon him, has reason to feel
the financial stringency quite acutely.
The arbitrator have knocked a ragged
hole in his bill for $724,16O.77 for SELL
ing the Panama Canal. They will only
allow him beggarly s125,0 900. or more
than riany prosperous lawyers receive
for lifetime of work for their clients.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

Suits have been begun under the
Pennsylvania Pure Food Law against
Best Cereal on the ground of misbrand-
ing 1t is claimed that the labels make
representations which are necessarily
untrue
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30
KNOWING TREES.

1t will strike the older generation
with amusing wonder that the Forestry
Bureau has established a laboratory in
| Washington to teach students to iden-
tify different kinds of trees and their
lumber. In the older days every man,
woman and child knew the different
trees and the wood from them as well
as they knew the difference between a
chicken and a turkey. In fact, most of
them rarely used the word tree" but
| usually spoke of the kind of a tree, just
as practical horseman only occasion
ally says horse, but speaks of the ami
mails as bay mare" a "roan," a
chestnut fly" etc. If traveller called
| at house after directions as to his
! road, the woman or child probably
told him to go down the road about
a half mile, till he came to a couple
of white oaks, when he was to turn
to the left, and go till he reached a
black ash, when he was to turn to the
right until he came to a dead chest
nut, and SO on. The old-time deeds
itdu tlt SetHlt way ~
ran from red cedar to yellow locust
and then turned to run to a burr oak,
and so on.
| Any competent housewife looking out
of the window at load of wood Of
fered for sale would at once tell
| oak, hickory or beech, or whether the
| cunning seller was trying to palm off
| on her elm, Eastwood and other inferior
fuel.
The new laboratory is for the benefit
of architects, builders and other wood
to identify the trees themselves, and
then the lumber made from them in
all its different forms. In the state
ment of the objects the Bureau says:
| as certain wood gum or elm? Is
another cucumber, linn or poplar? Is
| a stick sugar maple or red maple i?
Doubts may arise whether a piece is
hemlock or spruce or whether it is
| lodgepole pine or fir, or whether a
single is cypress or cedar. A dealer
may buy red oak and suspect that he is
getting something else. There are 80
VI more Important species OIL OAK. Inc
best lumber dealer might not know
which is which in the lumber pile or if
he knows he might not know how to
prove it"
This will seem decidedly funny to
the older generation. A boy who could
not tell the difference between gum and
elm and between red oak and white
oak would be considered SO dumb as
to be hopeless of any development.
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WASHINGTON. D. c.. JAN. so, 1908
NOTICE.

When you send in your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another posi-
office give former address as well.
When change of address is desired be
sure to give former address.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

The Prime Minister Of Japan admits
the best reason in the world why his
people should not be allowed to Cock
to this country and Canada. They are
badly needed in Manchuria and Korea
Every able-bodied laborer that comes
development on the Asiat;c mainland
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

Aeronaut enthusiasts predict that it
will be only a short time until airships
are used for Transporting the mails
They will be a necessity if the rural
free delivery system is extended over
the abominable roads of the South.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

The probability of the five Central
into one bed together raises the hopes
of the patrons of the street fruit stands
that soon two bananas will be made to
grow where only one has been growing
hitherto.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

these. since the reports in the Office OF
the CorHmissa}y-G General of Prisoners
only included the deaths at Anderson
leaving out of the question some Is or
II other places at which Union prison.
ers were held in great numbers. There
are to-day in round numbers 10000
graves Of Union prisoners In the three
cemeteries alone of Ande-sonville. Flor
ence ana Salisbury. which leaves out of
account the many thousand prisoners
who must have died at Richmond, Dan
vile, Raleigh. Goldsboro. Columbia,
Charleston, Savannah, Blackshear. Ma
con, Atlanta, Jackson. Vicksburg AMI
Tyler Tex. There is every reason to
believe that fully 10000 Union soldiers
died in Confederate hands or imme-
diately after their delivery to our lines.
1t will also be seen that the inscription
reverses the proportions of prisoners
held North and South. Gen. Hitchcock s
statement, which is the basis of the
Stanton report, shows that there were
100000 Confederates held prisoners
against about 126,950 Union soldiers in
the South. 1t, however. seems a waste
of time to attempt to controvert statis-
| tics which are made in absolute defiance
of the records they pretend to quote.
On the fourth tablet will appear:
I have often felt with poignant regret
| that the Southern public have never
done justice to the martyr, Maj WirZ.
He was tempted by the offer of a par
don if he would incriminate me and
thus exonerate himself from charges of
which he was innocent and with which
| l had no connection.
Respectfully and truly yours,
jefferson Davis.
Oct. 5, 1885,
This may be dismissed by saying that
it is one of the very many absolute
falsehoods which Jefferson Davis at
tempted to palm off on history with
regard to the war. AS we have said
before, Wirz was too Insignificant a tool
to have his evidence of any value in fix
ing the guilt upon Jefferson Davis. We
might as well go to a Captain in the
Confederate Army of Northern Viz
ginia for evidence as to what were
Lees plans and intentions when he
started for Gettysburg. The assertion
that Wirz was offered pardon rests
solely upon Jefferson Davis's personal
statement, unsupported by scintilla OF
evidence from any source. All who
know anything. of Jefferson Davis know
that he was absolutely INSCRIPTIONS
when it came to statements to justify
himself or throw the blame upon an
Army and as Secretary of War, and it
was exhibited to the fullest in his at
tempts to write the history of the war.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

Most people only think of ex-Gov.
Frank S. Black, of New York, as pub
lie speaker with a remarkable talent
for epigrams, but he seems to be also
a baseball player of no mean ability,
being first-class pitcher and shortstop.
His most cherished recreation is to
gather his friends about him for a game.
Such man ought to be sent to Con-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30

There is but one figure in the Thaw
trial in which one can have the least
sympathy. That is the poor old moth
err Think of all she has had to endure
since the degenerate was born.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-01-30
BRYAN AS A TRUST AGENT.

The most damaging development in
regard to Bryan that has ever been
made appears in the New York World,
a Democratic paper, which produces
the evidence to show that Bryan, whose
sole stock in trade is that of a trust
buster, was in 1896 the agent and rep
resentative of the greatest trust in the
country, the owners of silver mines.
They raised for him the enormous sum
of s2SS,00G, cr 80 per cent of the cam
paign fund for that year. The World
publishes the following schedule of the
contributions to the campaign fund of
1895:
Marcus DAILY, for himself and
OtnerS Sl59,UUO
w. A. Clarks personal contri-
buttons ........ $4,000
Colorado mining combination
ID. H. Moffat. SIS, 900
w. S. Stratton. ..... 1900
D. NJ. Hyman. ..... $500
Dennis Sheedy ...... 1900
Smaller donations 3. 5000
$1,000
Utah silver fund. $4,000
Charles d. Lane, California. 5000
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The Frank Cheatham Bivouac, q. C.
", Nashville, Tenn, has adopted a reso-
luton asking Southern representatives
to do all they can to defeat the proposed
pensioning of Confederate soldiers by
the Government. The Bivouae says that
the paternity of the Government is not
needed, but it is the duty of the respec-
tive States to take care of needy Con-
federate soldiers, and many of them
are doing this with the greatest LIBERAL
ity. The position of the Bivouac is alb
solutely logical. There can be no ground
legally for any claim of Confederate
soldier upon the Government he tried
to destroy, but he has claim upon the
States the machinery of which was
used to force him into the army. I'm
doubtedly the State Governments owe a
duty to the men who were dragooned
into fighting against the Government by
the combinations which had seized the
State Governments and used the power
for their own ambitious purposes.