Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-12-17

out first serving an apprenticeship in
the cabinet,
Tom Taggert doesn't believe in
carrying joke too far. He announces
that he will not push his candidacy for
the Senatorsnip from Indiana. Here is
a clear road for John w. Kern as good
man as Indiana can send.
If there are any considerable num-
Der of Democrats who are opposed TO
BRYAN making another race, it is
none too early for them to be making
their objections known.
AS we understand it, golf is to sue
coed tennis and hurdle-jumping as the
official Administration pastime after
March next.
Appreciation is something woman
ALWAYS expects and seldom gets.
Although the report that the Kaiser
made an ascent in Count Zeppelin S
balloon proved incorrect, there is good
reason to believe that he has been "up
in the air. several times during the
past few days.
Although turkeys are usually plenti-
full this year, the price will be as
high as heretofore higher. The law
of supply and demand is all right
when it works.
Mr.. Taft thinks horses are good to
look at, but when it comes to travel
ing, automobiles for his. And the
horses are satisfied.
France is not nearly so anxious to
90 to war with Germany as it might be
if the French people did not have such
good memories.
Secretary Root has approached a
little nearer to the Senatorial question
in saying that while he is willing to
accept the position the mere wish of a
man to fill a given Office is no suffi-
cient reason why his wish should not
be gratifed. On that ground the Hon.
Timothy D. Woodruff would be left
out of the race.
Philadelphia has now entered defin-
1tely into the two-opera company class
of cities.
The Republicans in the house will
now show whether Joe Cannon was
telling the truth when he said that he
was no worse than his party.
There has been a recent naval review
in japanese waters when the Mikado
stood beside Admiral Togo while ITO
battleships passed before them in line.
CAPTAIN Hobson and other alarmists
will probably point to this naval pro-
cession as an argument for the increase
of the naval strength of the United
States.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, des-
cendant of Presidents, designates all
the high tariff men as "hogs and
thieves" and classes himself in the
latter category because he enjoys the
benefits of the high tariff which he
SAYS however, he would like to give
up. He describes the tariff investiga-
ton now going on before the Ways
and Means Committee in Washington,
as congregation of squealing and
pushing hogs all trying to get their
four feet into the trough at once. -
Senator Elkins is not distinguished
for wit, but he said the other day
that we were all anxious to revise the
other fellows tariff. This is the whole
story. The beet and cane sugar men
in Louisiana and the northwest want
the tariff on sugar sustained or in
creased. American millionaires who
own Cuban sugar plantations want q
reduction of the tariff; and so it is
all over the country. Massachusetts,
with her hundreds of shoe machines,
wants free Importation of leather
and hides from Brazil. Argentine
and Mexico, but the western people,
a thousand times more numerous than
the operatives in the shoe shops OF
Massachusetts, want the tariff or
shoes removed so that they and their
children NAV have cheaper foot wear.