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Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
ST. PATRICK'S DAY

MANY a century has come and
N gone since Saint Patrick drove
~ the snakes out of Ireland, and
little shamrock, taught the doctrine of
the Trinity, and still he is first in the
hearts of millions of people, who re-
member his memory faithfully year
by year on the day set apart for a
celebration of his achievements and
his virtues. The claim-all Scots, of
course, assert that he was a Scot who
wandered over to Ireland from the re-
ligious colon.- of I-Colum- Kill, or
Iona, and converted the heather Irish.
The Irish claim that he was an Irish
man and came of dacent people," and
that he converted the Scots. They may
both be right, because when the stu
dent finds that Ireland was once called
and the Irish Scots. he is apt to be-
come brain-fagged. 'Tis a great puz-
gle, surely, and the dispute will never
be settled, and it is really here nor
every child of the Green isle and every
friend of her kindly ould Celtic people
sing the praises of the noble born
Patricius, whose name is associated
with the earliest history of Christian
ity and Christian civilization in the
glorious isle of saints and heroes and
bards. In every quarter of the globe
today bands will play Saint Patrick S
Day in the Morning"
On one matter the Friendly Sons are
to be congratulated. over in the lit
tie green isle. yonder, the reign of ty-
ranny is over. Peasant proprietorship,
or, if you don't like the word peasant,
independent individual small land
as the operation of the law will allow.
The Irish soil is being restored to the
Irish people, and with renewed op-
portunities to express her genius and
live her life the little emerald isle will
again shine like a star of the western
sea. 'Tis a bright and beautiful Saint
Patrick's day, all over this wide world,
and if there's an observer in Mars
taking notes he'll be wondering what
1t all means this sudden outbreak of
the color of vernal spring, and maybe
by a wireless system of telephony he
may catch an echoing note of the tune
with which the world and the welkin
are a-ringing:
fe. Il Fe,.
Than she has ever seen;
Hurrah for Campbell Bannerman,
An the 'Wearin O. the Green"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
Daily Naval Report

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Navy or
ders issued today were:
Commander j. l.. Purcell. from
League Island, Pa, to Eighth light
house district, New Orleans, La.
Commander j. J. Knapp, from WASH
ington, d. c., to Fifteenth lighthouse
district st. Louis, Mo.
Commander G. w. Brown, from
Eighth lighthouse district, New Or
leans, La, to fitting out the North
Carolina and executive officer on board
that vessel when commissioned.
Ensign A. G. Pickens, from bureau
of ordnance, Washington, d. c., to the
Dolphin.
Passed Assistant Surgeon e. NJ.
Brown, when discharged treatment ma
val hosnital, New Fort Lyon, Colo,
granted sick leave three months.
Assistant Surgeon c. l.. Moran to
hospital, Norfolk. Va.
Assistant Surgeon A. c. Stanley to
medical school hospital, Washington,
d. G.
Movements of Navy Vessels
The Nero is at League Island.
The Chicago is at Rio de Janeiro.
The Villa Lobos. from Shanghai for
Hankow.
The Dubuque and the Eagle are at
Guantanamo.
The st. Louis and the Milwaukee
have been ordered placed in reserve at
Puget Sound, Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
ABooMERANG.sNUB A

O ENATOR HALE has thwarted the
IN attempt of President Roosevelt to
~ express and obey the sentiment of
the American nation by giving its IA
vorite admiral rank befitting his i'm
portance; one that would be in accord
ance with the dignity of the United
States and that would not compel our
gallant sea master to follow in the
wake of a German, a Turk or a Dago
at an international review, or to wait
among the lackeys and the ham baro-
nets at a London royal drawing room.
Prestige counts for something. Sim
plicity is all very well until it de-
grades and humiliates the FLAG, and
then it is sheer Uriah Heepishness.
Who but Lilliputian senatorlet would
dream of making a Uriah Heep of
Uncle Sam? We know that the grand
old man is NOT "werry 'umble,' so
why make believe that he is? And
why belittle Evans before the watch
ing world in order to promulgate a
LIE?
We know that Evans is not a can't
ing hypocrite. We realize that he ex-
emplifies a robust and healthy type of
human nature, and that he wants pro-
motion and is expecting it. Why pre-
pare for the admiral studied disap-
pointment at San Francisco, where,
according to the understanding and
belief of him and of his friends, the pur-
- oIoe
by giving Bob his promotion in such a
public manner that all the nations Of
the world might see and might en-
ploy their envious wits in answering
the question "Who dare meddle with
US?" Hale is a doddering old spoil
sport. 1t is not his first appearance
in that unpleasant role. He was stupid
enough to prevent the promotion of
Sampson and Schley after the battle
of Santiago!
Some people enjoy the sensation of
wakening up one fine morning to find
themselves famous. Others, with an
ease that seems to be possessed only
by geniuses and blunderers, make
themselves national targets for just
criticism and ridicule. The practice of
the fleet will illustrate capital marks
manship. but it won't be circum-
stance to the craftsmanship which will
characterize the target practice of an
indignant country, and Hale will be the
target. We sing, with heart and voice:
Hail. Columbia! Happy Land!" but
the citizens have not the slightest in
tention of allowing either Columbia or
Fighting Bob Evans to be Hailed"
The proposed snub to Evans is a BOOM
erang. It will whizz back from Cali
fornia to Washington, and the senate
committee on naval affairs will be pain
fully aware of its return.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
RUSSIA'S MARCH

4 RUSSIAN expedition is exploring
"a Central Asia. At the Yellow
n river the expedition purposes to
establish a central point and a station
for meteorological observations. Japan
will no doubt take a keen interest in
the Russian meteorological reports. In
the expedition are two military COL
onels, four privates of the Moscow
grenadiers and five trans-Baikal Co.'S
sacks. 1t smells more of gunpowder
than of meteorology. 1t is not credible
that Japan permanently checked Rus
sias advance through Asia to the open
sea. Ocean is a necessity for the cars
empire, if it is to continue to exist, and
ir spite Of defeats, checks and rebuffs
il seems to be determined to achieve
its object and carry out the belated
program of Peter the Great.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
TOO ONE-SIDED

N HE American consul general at
Frankfort says: 1.-The emigrants
Il and settlers returning to Europe
Austrians, who are in possession of
considerable means, mostly acquired in
the United States. The large sums ex-
changed in Bremen banking houses
for European currencies represent only
part of their savings, as many carry
with them American gold and other
coin obtained in New York, also drafts
on banks of their native countries.
at has been ascertaned that some of
them have more than $500 each in their
money belts Most of the passengers
will go again to the United States when
economic conditions there have re-
sumed normal shape. The native coun-
tries of these immigrants have good
cause to receive them with great salts
faction because they bring with them
a very large fund of practical knowl-
edge acquired and experience gained in
America"
1t is not only for the re-establish-
ment of tottering dukedoms and en-
barrassed princeships that American
liberty exists. We are generous peo-
pie, but in times of pinch, stress and
poverty, when we cannot even give our
children complete education, we
should remember that charity begins
at home,
We doubt the wisdom of permitting
the usufruct of America to go to
Europe as a sheer benevolence, with
out any return excepting the return of
the emigrant or eXploiter when he is
dead broke wants more and thinks he
can get it without too much trouble!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
MALLOCK'S FALLACY

n English writer named w. IL.
"a Mallock, in book entitled "a
Al Critical Examination of Social
ISM" advances the astonishing propo-
sition that all wealth is not created by
labor. After puzzlng over this asser-
tiop for perhaps a longer time than
il deserves We have reached the con-
clusion that Mi. Mallock must have
in mind hereditary wealth, especially
the great feudal estates of England
Mr.. Mallock probably believes that the
estates take care of themselves. If
the labor that keeps them valuable
were suspended for a single year what
would become of them? If Mr. NAL
locks mind is obscured by the fact
that the estates were inherited and
we're in existence and to a certain ex-
tent FINISHED" when the present gem
Grafton came into possession of them,
lel him remember that the Norman
lord who stole the fat lands from the
Saxon cultiVator and called them "es-
tates" was stealing the products of
else did, namely, the Saxon churl"
OF the romantic writer's And still the
Saxon cEurl may be seen sWarming
all over the estate, apparently and
u the unthinking mind, a parastical
dependent but in reality the wealth
producing agent without which the
estate would become worthless.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

Congress has marked for defeat or
for death from inaction the postal saw
ings bank bill, employers liability bill,
amendment of the Sherman antitrust
law, THE CHILD LABOR LAW Ghis
in spite of smooth words and fine
promises) and the bill TO control the
issue of securities by Interstate cor
porations. President Roosevelt is
threatening a special message. Even if
he does not devote some of his robust
rhetoric to denouncing the renegade
record of this unpatriotic congress the
nation in due time will send ringing
special message" Why, it looks as If
the corporations owned congress!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
Fleet Fashion Note

In about three weeks every really
pretty girl Gall Los Angeles girls are
pretty) in Southern California will be
wearing one of the new-style belts,
They are of black grosgrain ribbon
with the name of a battleship stamped
on them in gilt letters
Each maiden will have a nice little
story, told with coyness and bushes,
which runs like this:
"Oh, no, this isn't the sort the sailors
have. This is the kind the officers
keep for their sweethearts. You see,
this one is real silk and the letters are
in gold. / know where the ships are
going. Fred will be an admiral some
day. Then he will have his own fleet"
etc.
Let the men of the fleet be prepared.
Fifteen thousand apple-cheeked,
bright-eyed and dimpled young persons
want one of those cap ribbon belts.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
AMERICAS HISTORIAN

HNTIL the British took us up, we
poor Americans had no reliable
~ books on America, American his
tory. manners, customs or patriotism.
This is not writ sarcastic" 1t is So
Der. serious, sad fact. Carnegie's "Tri-
umphant Democracy" and Bryce's
american Commonwealth" have been
aptly supplemented by Sir George
Trevelyan's History of the American
Revolution" Trevelyan is member of
parliament for Edinburgh, Scotland,
and is the nephew of Thomas Babing-
ton Macaulay, better known as Lord
Macaulay. who was also member for
Edinburgh, and historian
Trevelyans book, although it is
merely scholarly history and is not
written for fattery, but in spirit of
impartial criticism, is easily the great
est compliment ever paid to the Ameri-
can people by a man not American
born. To those who realize the prodig-
sous amount of work involved in the
preparation of this history, it is evil
dent that Trevelyan has devoted
large part of the best period of his
life to the service of America, and to
those who would insinuate that he
will be amply rewarded by mone-
tary returns from the sale of the book
we would state that it is doubtful
whether any amount OF money could
be regarded as compensation for an en-
during work of this kind If literary
;f. q IA ciG nf services
rendered and reward rendered, it
soon leads to absurdity, because
Shakespeare is still one of the most
faithful and painstaking servants of
the English speaking race. Probably
il would be impossible to estimate the
amount of mere money that the Eng
disappearing world owes him. Yet he
is not missing the money and no one
who uses his work ever thinks of him
as a creditor.
This book of Treveyan's like Shakes
peare's plays and Scotts novels is as
much labor for posterity as for this
generation. Let us be thankful that
the gratitude of the American nation
has been expressed aptly, in man.
ner that far transcends mere cash
payments, by the gift of a beautiful
silver loving cup which has been sent
across the sea. on the cup is this in
scription
Sir George Treyelyan
Historian
Of the
American Revolution,
from his friends,
Theodore Roosevelt
1lihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
PROGRESS IN PALESTINE

A N American motor car created a
n sensation in the streets of Jeru-
IA salem. The first railroad that
disturbed the repose of the Holy Land
is still young. Prosperity will surely
return to the California of Asia if
modern progress continues to invade
Palestine. 1t is not a played-out
country. Returned travellers say that
fJl rags, filth and fieas and tawdry,
picturesque poverty the population is
l.reoualed in all the world. That is
not the fault of Palestine, but Of its
inhabitants, who under Turkish rule
have almost ceased to take an interest
in life. There is no incentive for hard
work or frugality when the worker is
aware that the Turkish X-gatherer,
the successor of the Roman publican
and sinner, is waiting to take heavy
toll of the product of his toll
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
POLITICAL PROPHECY
SHELLEY SUTTONS powerful
allegory, THE Breed of Crime"

IN SHELLEY SUTTON'S powerful
allegory. THE Breed of Crime"
published in Sundays Los An
geles Herald, has added another to the
examples of the new school of poetry
in which a few discerning writer's are
giving voice to a prophetic warning
concerning that which will, if not
checked, ultimately destroy the sys-
TEN OF society that is now deriving il
legitimate strength from it. The mis-
use of toll. the misappropriation of the
mental and physical energies of other
people, and, most damnable fact of
all. the degradation of the enslaved
hireling when she is a weak woman,
form the foundation for a poem that is
in many respects the most telling in
dictment of this System ever penned
Here is system in which the predomi-
nant characteristics are Need and
Greed, and the offspring of Need and
Greed is Crime, which takes a red
revenge on the foolish and irrespon-
sible-and yet sponsible-author of
it's being.
I am the child thou takest from the school;
/ am the child thou drivest to the mill;
I am the soulless vassal-aye the fool
Whom thou hast sought to conquer or to
kill
Behold, thy wealth has vanished, have
piled
The torch to all thy factories Thus viii
crime
Rule red and wild till Greed and Need have
died,
And equal rights make equal lives sublime
We have called this great work an
allegory. In reality, it is an allegori-
cal prophecy, and all students of the
age, it's tendencies and results will ac-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

The reform of King Leopold and his
renunciation of his Congo traffic are at
tributed by European commentators to
the fact that America backed Great
Britain. 1t is reported that during
heated discussion the Belgian prime
minister vented his spleen in an inn
patient exclamation of What's the
use of trying to deny any request that
may be made? Doesn't every Euro
pean country now know that in ques-
tions of this kind it has two powers
TO reckon with, and that America i'm
plies Great Britain, and Great Britain
American" AS matters of this kind
means matters of morality and higher
civilization, neither Britons nor Ameri-
cans will regard the Belgian sputter
as anything but an unintentional COM
pliment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
Need Better instruments

Peck-The art of photomicrography
is growing to be a wonderful thing.
Beck-That so; what are they doing
now?
Peck-One young woman with a mi
croscope and camera makes exquisite
pictures of a butterfiy's tongue, a spi-
der's toe, the head, eye and wing tip
of the most minute insect.
Beck-Thats going some. Maybe il
they keep on some day they'll get it
down fine enough to photograph the
soul of the man who invented the elec-
trio meter.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

The four hundredth anniversary OF
the birth of John Calvin will be cele-
brated by the erection at Geneva of a
large monument symbolizing the re-
undertakings are projected, it is conf
IDENTIFY believed that America will pro-
vide large share of the money neces-
sary. In order that Americans may
contribute in a cheerful spirit of will
ingness they are to be asked to pass
upon the design, and If they do not
like it may veto it. The committee
would have )been even more diplomatic
if it had invited an American sculptor
to execute the monument.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
Not Sold by the Yard

There's one consolation" said the
burned child as he gazed at the bill
for the Easter hat.
Come through quickly. I need it,"
You can get just as big one for
$25 as you can for $780,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
MS PA r M s.,
MN FROra a /N
lNNl1VE WIRE +
May Be Others Later

Crouch-Miss Howard, professor Of
rhetoric at Wellesley college, says
bridge is the last infirmity of empty
minds" Do you think she is right?
Grouch-Not exactly. Why does she
say '1ast?"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

A Frenchman has stolen the cor
respondence cipher of the American
state department. Last year Rus
sian sneaked it. Keys to the secre'
correspondence of the United states
may now be obtained at Paris, st
Petersburg and (of all places) Con-
stantinople. We advise the govern
ment to learn shorthand.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

Whitelaw Reid says that in the fu-
ture there will be permanence as well
as progress in the United States. Prob
ably he regards the New York Tribune
as an apt illustration of permanence
without progress.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

BY a quaint printers error we are
informed that Mayor Harper is an
honorary member of the Arion SHINING
society. We see trouble ahead for his
honor. Wait until the saints get after
kim
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
Reward Offered

Lady, amt eaten a meal in three
days, s'elp me-
THAT so? Well, you step over and
tell our hired man there how you do it
an I'll give we a hot meal"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17
Mares and Riders

Down in Kentucky when a man has a
horrible dream he no longer calls it a
nightmare. It's a night rider.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-17

HOTEL GREEN, European rate
1.5o per day; American rate $3.50 per
day upward.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-22

sonally destroyed them by burning
them In crate in his Office.
Lawrence Mills, reporter for a
New York paper, was called as a wit
ness. He testified that he met the
plaintiff in the latter part of October,
1903, when he went to the Manhattan
hotel at l o'clock in the morning to
interview her regarding the marriage
Of Senator Platt with Mrs. Janeway.
Miss Wood. according to the witness,
said she had no interview to give out
and that she had no interest in Sen
ator Platts ventures. She knew SEN
ator Platt, she said, and had the great
est respect for him. Asked If she
was going to sue the senator for
breach of promise she reiterated that
she had no interest In the senator.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-22
SUFFRAGETTES ARRESTED
Make Demonstration at Residence of
British Premier

London, May ga party of mil
itant women suffragists, dissatisfied
with the reply of Prime Minister AS
quith to an important delegation of
Radical members of the house of COM
mons on the question of claims of
women for enfranchisement, made a
demonstration In front of the pre-
mier's residence in Downing street
and the police reserves had to be
called out to clear the thoroughfare.
They arrested six of the noisiest DEM
onstrators. The women appeared in
Downing street by twos and threes
and sent in to the premier petition
asking that the franchise be granted
at the present session of parliament.
The premier sent word through a con-
stable that he had no reply to make.
The women thereupon mounted the
steps of the house and harangued a
crowd which quickly gathered.
The six women taken into custody
all went to prison for periods of from
one week to one month rather than
give recognizances for their good be-
hayior
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-22
MISS WOOD ARRESTED
Sensational Termination Of Suit
Against Senator Plat.
WOMAN ACCUSED OF PERJURY
That Blanks of Marriage Certificate
Months After Alleged Marriage.

New York, May 22.-The case of
Mae c. Wood, the Omaha woman who
sued United States Senator Thomas
c. Platt for divorce, came to a sudden
and sensational end when Justice
O'Gorman of the supreme court dis
missed the complaint and directed
that the complainant be committed to
the city prison under $4,000 bail on a
charge of perjury. Miss Wood was
taken to the Tombs. The climax came
after the introduction In evidence of
the deposition of a man who manufac-
tured the blanks upon one Of which
the allegeI Wood-Platt marriage GER
tificate had been prepared, In which
he declared that the blank form in
question was not Autographed until
three months after the marriage of
Miss Wood to Platt is alleged to have
occurred.
The senator's son, Frank H. Platt,
also had testified that In his belief no
such letters ever had been written to
Miss Wood by his father as were rep
resented in alleged copies offered n
court by the complainant. The case
has attracted exceptionally wide at
tention on account of the prominence
of the aged senator and the names of
other widely known persons whom
Miss Wood involved in her sensational
charge In support of her complaint.
Miss Wood was at once taken to the
Tombs prison. On the way she chat
ted laughingly with the officers.
The commitment on the perjury
charge was made by Justice O'Gor-
man on his own initiative. He had
personally questioned the complain.
ant, who had been recalled to the
stand, and when she reiterated her
former testimony regarding the mar.
riage the justice said:
The court cannot believe there was
a marriage. Being convinced OF the
plaintiffs guilt in committing perjury
In the case commit her to prison un
less she furnishes $4,000 bail"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-05-22
.FIFTY PERSONS KILLED.
One Hundred Others Injured in
Belgian Railroad Horror.
VICTIMS GROUND TO PIEG S

Engine of Express Train Going FIFTY
Miles an Hour Jumps the Track and
Crashes Into Passenger Train Stand
ing on a Siding.
Antwerp, May 22.-About fifty per
sons were killed and more than 100 in
jured in wreck near Contich, six
miles southeast of Antwerp. 1t is the
worst railroad catastrophe ever record
ed in Belgium and was caused by the
engine of the Antwerp express, run
ming fifty miles an hour, jumping the
track and crashing into train loaded
with pilgrims on a siding.
Three cars of the pilgrim train were
telescoped. The cars were literally
ground to pieces and practically all
the passengers were either killed or
badly injured.
Surgeons, doctors and nurses ar
rived early from Antwerp at the scene
of the wreck. Shrieking and helpless
wounded persons were pinned under
the debris for hours and the scene
was shocking one.
The station at Contich was convert
ed into temporary morgue and hos
pital and rapidly filled up with Il
dead and injured.
All the clergy and physicians of
Contich and the soldiers from the
neighboring barracks took part In the
work. In addition to the surgeons
who hurried from Antwerp an ambu-
lance corps from Amiens also was on
the scene.
The wrecked train was carrying an
excursion of pilgrims to local shrine.
The work of extracting the dead
and wounded from the debris appalled,
even the stoutest of the rescuers.
Many of the bodies had completely
! lost all human shape and were re.
duced to pulp, heads, arms and legs
having been ground off by the wheels
| and scattered through the wreckage.