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The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

its accounts of the meetings read. The more truthfully and accurately it pre- sents to the reader the picture as each meeting sketches it the better report ing it is. The making of the picture is not in the hands of the reporter. At best he is but a copyist and if in giv- ing an accurate report of what he sees and hears he offers unintentional- ly an affront to the more critical, the fault lies with others, not with him. We have never wholly subscribed to the contention, but nevertheless one of the most brilliant and successful nt Ws- paper men we ever knew argued that when an individual con es into wiling contact with the instruments of pub licity he is responsible for the inn press'or made if the newspaper work CT is worth his salt He denied that it was any part of newspaper to ere ate an atmosphere foy his story an, more than it is part of his duty to c,ir rect the English of another, The mo, tive of The Journal-C Courier has beer
 from the first to accurately picture the progress of the movemt mt and it ha,
 done so admirably and wholly withca
 prejudice.
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THE MPOssIBILITIEs.

One of the many difficulties in the way of tariff revision is the great amount of work that will have to be done if there is a thorough revision. There are nearly four thousand items included in about six hundred para graphs in more than thirteen sched- ules. This situation moves Senator Beveridge to remark. No matter how able. industrious and experienced the committees of the House and Senate which have to do with the framing of our tariff may be (and no one has a higher admiration for those commit- tees than l haveD, 1t appears to me all most physical lmpossibility for them to find out the facts concerning each of these items, then adjust duties has- ed on such facts, consider the effect of those duties on foreign markets and the effect of foreign markets on our tariff, draft a bill on all this, and en- act the same in the brief space of a single session of Congress
 Guess that's SO Just now the phy- sical impossihilities in the way of a revision of the tariff seem to be many Add to these the mental, the business and the political impossibilities, and the outlook for speedy revision doesn' seem to be blooming bright
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CREEps AND FAITH.

am wearyt Let mo slumber! And a sleep all dreamless bring! seem lost upon an ocean, Without rudder sail or wrg. Once the green shores of the mainland Held my bark with clasp so strong, That I rocked upon the water With buoyancy and song. On the fair banks rose the towers Of the soul homes anchored where Ever silently they poinred Heavenward for faith and prayer How l watched the mornings sunshine Pencil spires with gleaming light And the evenings shadows wrap them Softly through the chill or night Thinking how each earnest l2iler Blessed his spire. bright or dim For the faith and strength and glory That it's creed had given him. But, now somehow, sounds from
 ishoreward Breathe confusion's base alloy, For the worlds unrest has touched
 creeds
 Till they seem contentious toy. Where has faith unouestioned wand
 cred
 That each gave its follower here? Faith that sire and grandsire fostered, From their cradle to their bier. Why should any see failure, proop or falter near the goal When that creed's pure light should
 glitter
 Still with glory as years roll Let me drift with sleep unbrokcn Let the shore lights fade away, Till I reach the still deep waters, Fountain source of song and day So, when all the gloom seemed deepest And l grieved that gloom should be Upon earth through creeds' contention sweet song came back to me. And a calmness came in fullness, Then my bark returned from sea, From the mainland floating outward That sweet music greeted me Yes, I heard above the pillows Angry. surging pillows wild, This one strain that lured me home
 ward There's no sect in heaven. child So, I'm rocking close to mainland What if glittering spires I see. 1 am comfortad while rings that Shannon bell in memory
 -Rarberrv Bittersweet.
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THE YELLOW PERIL.

Look out for the Yellow Peril. It is being better fed than it used to be Formerly the Chinamen ate their bread without butter Now the better class of Chinese are becoming large consumers of butter, reports Consul Gracey from Tsingtau He adds that in the interior of the empire French butter is the favorite, and that in the ports and Yangtze cities Australian butter is slowly displacing American butter. Cheese is imported only for the use of the European. residents he says. "1t does not yet appeal 10 the pe- culiar palate of the Chinese race"
 Awhile ago, it may be remembered when the famine was at its height ir China lot of good cheese was sent from this country for the relief of the | hungry They werc not hungry enough to eat it. and cheese was cheap enough for awhile in the famine district The Chinese who are now eating butter may soon find that they can ea cheese, and may become proportion ately more warlke and dangerous tC the cheese-eating races.
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MORE WEALTH IN SIGHT.

When this country is fully irrigated, drained and reforested it viE be more "punkins" than it is now, and it is sclne now. The paternal government of the United States is hard at work showing how the reforesting can and should be carried on. It is now admin istering on a scientific basis l50 6OO,- 000 acres of forests. Though but re- gently begun. this work is already self-sustainins The cost of the For- est service last year was about & . 800 900; the receipts. double those of .le year previous, were st,5S1.0 GOO. In h;s recent report Secretary Garfield Iolnted out that France spends annu- ally upon state forests less than one fftieth the area of our owr over s2.- 5Go.too. and realizes S4220, ,00a; Prus- sia spends upon 1000 GOO acres over S11, ,000, 00o. and realizes S17.054.144. Saxony spends upon only 400 .o00 acres over Seao.ooo and realizes Sl. 651Ss2 If the United States snent q, much per acre upon its forests as Prussia does upon hers. they would cost each year S25O.0OOo0O. If they brought in as much per acre, the gross revenue which they would yield would amount to s650.ooO. 900. and the net revenue to s4o0. 900. 0oo.
 ' By the time cur big canal Is done
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Urban md Rural Employment.
(The New York Times !

tl0e New 1ork Times,
 Just because a man happens to know a maiden lady up in Maine who can't get anybody to run her farm for her, even at high wages, he Is hardly jus tifed in giving the unemployed in cit les such q savage scolding as they re- ceived yesterday N letter.
 Tn the very first place there be maid en ladies-not this one, of course whose peculiarities of temper and logic are such as to make moderately pro- | longed starvation distinctly preferable to subjection to their rule. Again, the height of wages is a good deal mat ter of opinion, and sometimes sums which impress an employer as threat ening the clouds make the employed 1 hunt for his spcctacles for fear he may overlook them entirely.
 To consider the subject with the se- to us that there is much rashness in | asuming that country people come rl | the city for any other or worse req son than that they can live there more easily. and, on the whole, more hap pilS or that the city people stay where l they are for any other or worse reason | than that, partly for personal and part ! ly for economic conditions. the country does not offer them as much as the city does Much of the complaint about lack of labor that comes from ] farmers is made by men who want a lot of help during a few weeks and lit tie or none for the rest of the year No argument will make employment of that sort desirable, snd it is no wonder that thousands prefer the steady wage which the urban factories offer in what are called good times
 What is too often forgotten or ignor- cd is the fact that agricultural methods have vastly changed in recent years and that the crop which formerly took a dozen men 10 raise is now produced by two or three. plus machinery. That being the case. the displaced laborers need something besides the beauties of nature to support them. and they go where they can find them. The steady Increase of all crops shows that the work of the farm is getting done now and always, and that all whom the country really calls obey the sum mons.
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\ STIR N RHODE ISLAND.

Our little neighbor Rhode Island is making some effort to keep up with the procession Her legislature, which
 has just come together, is to be ask ed to consider a plan for reapportion- ment of members of the House of Representatives The plan provides for a House with 3 maximum member ship of one hundred. on the basis of population, but limiting the represent ation from any one city to fourth of the whole This restricts Provi- dence with population of almost two hundred thousand. to twenty-five members. which will leave the other seventy-hre to be divided among the
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THE MORNING COURIER JANUARY 15 1908

2S1,OO0 remaining. Each town is en- titled to one representative. By this arrangement Providence would have twenty-five representatives against twelve at the present time, but these are now elected at large, and under the proposed plan they would be elect cd by district, so no very marked par ty advantage would he likely to result. Pawtucket would gain three repre-
 entatives, Newport four and Woon- socket two, while several others would gain one or more.
 As it will require an amendment of the constitution to make the proposed change, it, or anything of the kind, will not come very soon. Any such measure that passes this legislature would have to again pass the General Assembly of 1909 and be approved by three-fifths of the electors of the State | thereafter.
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EMERGENCY CURRENCY.

The medicines proposed by our financial doctors have one radical de- feet. They are palliative and not radi- cal. Their quality is accurately set forth by the sound old Journal of Commerce in it's comments on the AL drich bill. It says: It may not be the deliberate purpose of the emergency currency bill introduced by Senator Aldrich merely to stave off action on any measure of real currency reform but that will be it's principal effect. What we need is legislation to give us a currency that will not produce emer- geneies, but will enable the banks tc avoid them or overcome them by theii own action The Aldrich bill. if il should unfortunately become a law would do nothing whatever to give elasticity to our bank currency. bu would tend to fasten upon us more firmly the hond-secured circulation There are some minor provisions ir the bill which it would be useful tc enact but they can be easily separated from the others-in fact, they have nc logical relation to them. These minoi provisions, which are the only good features of the bill, could be easih embodied in separate measure ant perhaps improved upon, but they can not in the slightest degree redeem tn, character of the provisions for tn, ''emergencv currency" which are bas ed upon a wrong. principle and are cal culated to make bad system wors and render more difficult the task O replacing it with good one.
 That describes the situation It f a situation which should he dealt witt more thoroughly than it is dealt witt by any of the devices which have beer devised But, sad to say, there is noth ing in sight which indicates that i will be.
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A LITTLE HIGH, BUT MUST HAVE TT

And now we are toh that because of the changed conditions from those existing two years ago, when the ma- iority of the board of consulting en- gineers of the Panama canal submit ted it's report, the estimated cost of a little below s14O,oO0, 900 is fully s9O,- O00,000 less than the real cost of the inter- oceanic waterway will be.
 Well, that is the frequent, not to say the usual thing in the history of such enterprises The French spent all the money they dared to and then gave up. We have spent much money. and we have no disposition to give up. On the contrary, there is a grow ing confidence and pride in our ability to do the work and to pay for it. whatever it costs. If now it costs only S250,000, 900 that wont be much. That is. it wont be much compared with some other things which are much more-our resources. We've got or car get the money, and we want the canal
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sfRUrTLnTs.

50 Nelson is dead What killed him 2' You know he had one foot in tha grave ?" Yes Well some enc pulled his leg Harper's Weekly.
 What do you cali the man that drives an automobiles
 well it depends largely upon ones religious scruples and command of lan guage Judge
 Master of the House-"You might tell Maggie that this steak isn't done enough
 Mietress-sYou are three girls be- hind John This ones name is Norah. Chips
 What n the deuce made you ever propose to that woman?
 Well. ws talked about books till we were tired. and then we got to the weather. and then there didn't seem to he anything else tc keep up the con- versation Cleveland Leader
 My sighed the pauper, how rich he is. I wish I wa him Your wish. said the genii suddenly
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appearing, shall be granted Do you

appearing, E. shall be granted. Do you No, no!' hastily cried the pauper "just let me be me, with his money."-- Philadelphia Press
 Fuddy--Under certain conditions it is not considered cannibalism to eat a human being.
 Duddy-When is that?
 Fuddy-If the man in question is a mnt spy.-Exchange.
 What's this?" yelled the star. Green snow? I won't stand for it."
 You'll have to-, retorted the mana ger. White paper is so high that told the property man to tear up a few stock certificates. .''-Pittsburg Post
 One more question, pa" began little Willie
 Now. see herer' fumed his pa.
 Pa" Willie hastened to ask, what kind O. glass are glass eyes made pf?'
 Why-er-looking glass, I suppose Now go to bed Philadelphia Press.
 wayside William (the tramp)- thousan's of men was going back tc work?
 Weary wiggles-Well, that'll be a good thng for our bizness.
 How so?'
 Tt reduces comr etition. n."-Illustrate Mail.
 It was indeed beautiful night The gentle zephyrs played musically amid the delicate fronds of the turniptops and waited from far distant fields tht subtle perfume of the luscious oniol and the fragrance of decaying cab bages. Betsy" he whispered, as the, sat together on the fence surrounding Mrs. Filligan's pig stye. Tow beauuti ful' you be! Jes' think of it.. Betsy When us be married us will have { pig of our own, Think of that, Betsy
 SJan." she whispered, a note of re sentiment in her voice what do I car, for pigs, I shan't want no pig whei I've got you3
 Then ail was silent once more. saw for the musical frolic of the zephyrs al ready mentioned.-Punch.
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A Good Friend ot Labor.

Washington Post)
 The friend of the laboring man is he who will tell him the plain, blunt truth. Judged by that test, and 1t is the only test, there is not a better friend of what is called American la bor in all the Unon than William Howard Taft MT. Taft tells labor that 1t Is wrong to boycott, and he then warns capital that if is wrong to blacklist. He approves and ap- plauds the combinations of labor, and asserts it's right to strike when 1t feels that 1t Is oppressed but he declares that unorganized labor has as much right to work as organized. and we 1o not believe this generation of the American electorate will choose any man to the great place of President who teaches anything else. This paper Is not the organ of MT Taft or of anybody else, but it indorses his Cooper Union speech, and such senti. ments as he there uttered would add strength to any candidate of either party for President of the United States, This Is yet government oi justice IS well as of law, of common sense al well as of patriotism.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Convincing andf Winning Personalit.
(New York World.l

(New York World.)
 The World doubts if Mir Roosevelt shot so very wide of the mark when he predicted the nomination of Judge Taft on the first ballot Since the secretary of war returned from the Orient his candidacy has shown a remarkable gain in strength. This gain is likely to be continuous Taft is the most convincing Gnd winning personality among all the sspirants for the Repub- lican nomination. The demonstration at Cooper Union shows the kind of i'm pression he can make cn an unfriendly audience when he devotes himself to the practical side of politics. More over, he has tho whole strength of the Roosevelt administration behind him; he represents Mir. Roosevelt's policies more ably, sagely and judicially than MT. Roosevelt himself represents them. and unless the Republican party is pre- pared to emancipate itself from Mir. Roosevelt, Judge Taft is the logical candidate" in every sense of that much abused expression.
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SAVINGS AND DoINGs.

The curious fac is noticed by Pro lessor Iamd7in of Breslau. that care ful r1ea suren,ants of the intensity ot gravitation n different parts of the globe show this to he greater on is lands than on continents
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

The statement that t'n of ocal will produce sixty-five thousand feet of gas is likely to make some of he campaign orators envious.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

The Mexican who has written a dl- vorce march modelled after Mendels- sohns Wedding March is all right if his music is as good as his idea.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

The German Emperor has issued or dsrs that all of the numerous imperial automobiles are to be driver slower hereafter than has been the se in the past. This action is said to be due to
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

perhaps it will he found that our pis forests will be a great help toWalP paying for it.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

Ever since the panic the demand for more solidity laas been growing 4 doughnut without hole is the lalvs' expression of it.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

The hen is perhaps not rated very high in the moral world, but all me, know that when she cackles strictly fresh" that's what it Is.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

A New Jersey millionaire has pro posed to telephone girl. and the line is busy hauling him in.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

It is estimated that the cutting of the Cullinan diamond, which has been presented to King Edward VII by his subjects in the Transvaal. will cost be- tween S25,000 and S50.005. and will re- quire something like two years work. An extra expense will be insurance for the Journey to Holland and back, a matter of sl2,500.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

The salt deposits of Chili are the greatest in the world. The Salar Grande mine, in the province of Tara pacs, about sixty miles south and east of Iquique, covers an area of 80O0C acres to the depth of twenty five feet This body of salt is nearly pure, and contains more than l4000,0 900 tons, or enough to supply the worlds demands for many decades. There are severa other deposits in the interior that GOV CT two or three times the area of the above.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

There is big farming in Missouri, One Missouri farmer. D ]. Field of Rich ards, Vernon county. has grown so much hay this season that he has found it profitable to have it hauled 10 town for marketing with traction engine. This engine hauls five wagon loads of hay, each wagon with over two tons of hay a total of eleven tons.
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the large number of accidents caused py speeding automobiles.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15

Thus sings the Chicago News which is not published i'll New England: How dear to rly heart Is the old yellow pumpkin. when orchards are barren of stuffing for pies; when peaches and ap- ples have both been failure, and ber- ries no longer dazzle my eyes. How fondly I turn to the fruit of the corn field-~the fruit country kids are taugh to despise-- the old yellow pumpkin. tho mud covered pumpkin. the pot belliec pumpkin that makes such good pies.
 After five years work Australia great transcontinental rabbit proc fence has been completed Its lengtl | is 2,036 miles end the cost of it's erec tion has been very nearly s1.250000 I | is furnished at intervals of five mile with systems of traps in which hun dreds of rabbits are captured and de | stroyed daily. On the eastern side O the, fence the rodents are teeming an vegetation is almost completely abseu
 Inside the barrier there appears as ye no trace of their presence.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-15
IDLE FUNDS.

Corner Chapel and State Streets.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-07-09

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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-07-09

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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-07-09

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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1908-07-09

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bers : fobulb man Jpn unitdnbie
bebanbelt = ipirb er frs9!"