The National tribune., 1908-07-09

After partaking for some months o
Specially prepared Government foo
containing saltpeter, to determine VIVA
effect this chemical product has on thu
human system, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
famous poison squad completed it
course at the Bureau of Chemistry las
week.
This class is one of several formed
to determine what effect, If any, certain
substances have when taken into thu
human body A mass of data is being
collected by DR.. Wiley showing the eff
fects of these articles on classes who
have undergone the treatment"
The experiments conducted by DR.
Wiley are the first of the sort conducted
on large scale. The classes. which
were started in the Fail of 1902, have
already gone thru variety of expert,
ments. BoraX and boric acid were the
first to receive attention. Sulphuric
acid, benzoate, formaldehyde and copper
salts have also been fully tested as tC
their effect on the human system when
taken with food
The class was in charge of a subor-
dinate of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try, and when formally dismissed the
men said they felt in perfect health,
and had not experienced any injury
from the chemically-treated food prod
ucts..
Seattle is the kind of city to live in.
She Is going to have an exposition
1.-THE ska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition"
is the official title of this particular ex-
position. Some time ago the people up
there said that they would not ask the
Government for money, but they did.
The Government said to them, Raise
$1,000,000, and then we will talk to you
about giving you 100000" which will
reaEy be for a Government display.
Seattle has raised the sum, and when
Congress convenes will apply for the
Government money. Secretary Cortel-
you has been-iAformed that the S1,000,-
009 is raised, and he will now send a
Government official to examine the ex-
position securities so as to be able to
make report to Congress when it asks
him about the ACCESSIBILITY of making
the exposition the present.
Baron ambassador Takahira is get
ting facetious in his old age. He has
got to talking American slang, and is
learning how to use his knowledge of
this country and its customs so as to
slam US very effectively. He talked to
some reporters in Chicago one night
last week after the following fashion:
America hasn't enough historic ira
dftfons," he declared. Americans look
too lightly on the attempt to blot out
the beautiful tradition of Betsy Ross and
the fiag..a-Americans know only three
things, namely. business, baseball and
politics.
You are a new country" he con-
tinued. reverting to his former theme.
"You haven't enough historic tradition
to--how is it those Congressman say
oh, yes-to wad gun. Yet you take
one of your finest fables and tear it limb !
from limb.
1.-The Miss Ross who, your thin little
history books say, first sewed the great
Stars and Stripes fiag-now why is she |
not permitted to rest in peace In Japan
IL would be harakiri for anyone to deny
the traditions of Japan. That is the
spirit which makes Japan great"
Now, what American dare deny that
ambassador Takahira is right? 1t is
true that We have not much historic
tradition. and we do not care a rap. as
q Nation, for the little we have. When
the fever of patriotism runs high we
get ratified and shout and sing and
wave the flag. and declare we are the
greatest Nation on earth, and our flag
the most beautiful. the most powerful.
All of which is distinctly true; but how
long does the fever last? A year, a
week, day. Tomorrow we are too
busy to attend exercises in honor of the
birth of that beautiful, that powerful
flag, and next day we decide that it
smacks of jingoism to rise when the
National anthem is sung; and then we
want to lick the foreigner who does
rise when he hears it. and who jeers US
for a cold-blooded lot. As matter of
fact, We have our patriotism buried too
deep. It takes so long to get it to the
top, and it drops back with a thud when
we let go of it. 1t isn't real patriotism
to blow about cur flag one or two days
in the year and forget IL for the other
1863. 1t isn't real patriotism to lick the
stuffing out of poor foreigner for using
Our flag below his native flag in honor
of his King or Queen, and then go into
a saloon and order glass of beer from
a bottle that is covered with flags and
wears the name of German brewer.
or to ask for "Our Flag whisky
1t isn't patriotism to arrest a
20 clean windows. and then spread
that flag on your floor as a rug for your
dirty shoes TO rest upon rather than the
carpet. II isn't patriotism to name prize
bulls. fighting cocks. breakfast food,
brands of coffee. toilet paper soap, race
horses, or anything else after the flag.
In any other country on earth, as Baron ,
Takahira has said, II Is criminal act ;
to misuse the flag of that country, and
in most of them 1t means sudden. and
awful. death to mistreat the ,
nag We make great blow about pro-
tecting our flag. when, as a matter of s
fact we treat IL as we would the mean
est thing we have any knowledge of ,
until somebody turns over n clod that !
has little mite of our sentiment lurk-
Ing under it, and then w-h-o-o-p-e-el !
how we do howl for nearly half hour :
In the coming campaingn you will !
see the flag used most dispitefully by i
They will lie awake nights ,
to find some new twist they can put on {
it to express derision of some political
sentiment. The patriotic thing to do
would be to say to the editor of such
a paper, keep your disloyal sheet until |
you can learn to respect the flag which
protects your home and mine, emblem
OF a world power. the National banner 1
But you won't. You will look at those !
cartoons and laugh your
self black in the face in glee. Baron
Takahira is right to dot. What we I
need, and need bad. is education I'm love
and reverence for those things which !
''made and preserved us a Nation I
I
Percival Gassett. of Massachusetts &
who has been appointed United States ,
Consul at Jeres de la Frontera, SPAIN is
another former Rough Rider, who has ]
made his way to the front in the Gov I
eminent service.
Since entering the service as Spanish S
translator in the Insular Bureau of the =,
War Department, in 1902. he has been
confidential secretary to the Third AS
sistant Secretary of State, and he acted I