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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
NEW SCHEDULE TO PULL
TRAFFIC TO LOS ANGELES

The Tonopah & Tidewater railroad
has just announced new freight
schedule between Los Angeles and
points on that line. The new schedule,
which reduces time, is expected to di-
vert traffic of the mining camps from
San Francisco to Los Angeles. Rates
remain unchanged
The service will be tri-weekly, trains
leaving Los Angeles on Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at $3.50 o'clock
in the evening. The new time will be
thirty-eight and one-half hours be-
tween Los Angeles and Goldfield, thir-
ty-three and one-half hours to Rhyo-
lite and thirty-four hours to Beatty.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, Aug 2O-The wheat market
opened active and strong but quieted down
considerable before the middle of the session,
while at ths same time sentiment in the pit
became less bullish. Shorts in the September
delivery were eager bidders early in the day
owing to small offerings of cash winter wheat
in the interior and to the brisk demand by ex-
porters and eastern millers. Elevator con-
Germs continued to dodge the possibility OF be-
ing compelled to deliver their wheat In store
On September contracts by covering their short
sales in that month and reselling for Decem-
Der at a further shrinkage in the price for the
latter. A local mill paid $1.34 per bushel
for 1000 bushels Of No. / hard, which is new
high price for the crop. The foreign situation
market. Weather conditions In the northwest,
which were ideal for harvesting, seemed to
have little influence today. The market closed
firm for September and December, barely
steady for May. September wheat was up Nc.
The market was strong at the start.
During the last half Of the day sentiment be-
came better The close was higher. Septem-
Ter opened 7s@hc higher at 771hQTssc, adj
vanced to 7s1sc and closed at 77sse.
Traders in oats were chiefly interested in the
September delivery, which advanced nearly
1c early in the day on lively covering by
shorts. The close firm September opened
A@1kc higher at 4s9s@4s7sc, advanced to 49Ac
and closed at 4S%c.
Provisions were firm. At the close septem-
Der pork was up TIC; lard was up 21hc and
RIBS were 21k%5c higher.
Market Ranges
wheat-sept 9sM994c; Dec. 947kc; May, ss%.
Corn-sept 77ssc; Dec. 651kc; May. ss%964c.
Cats-sept. 4s%c; Dec. 4S7sc; May, 501sc
Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour, steady; No. Spring wheat, 9Sc@$1. 10;
No red. 95196c No. 2 corn, 4914 @4s1sc; No.
yellow. s01sO1hc No. 8 white oats 4si5G50Ae;
No rye. TIC; fair to choice mailing barley,
64n6sc; No / northwestern f1axseed. s1.32 short
ribs, sides loose, 50. e2tk@s s2M; mess pork per
bbl s14 s0G14 90; short clear sides, boxed. IS 7t
as; whisky. basis Of high wines, s1.30.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
Dried Fruit Prices

NEW YORK, Aug. 2o-The market for
evaporated apples is slight yeasier in tone
and offers of prime fruit for November de-
livery are reported at &c, fancy are quoted at
1e@1Olsc; choice. S@9c; prime 6AD7c; COM
mon to fair 5kG161ac
Prunes are quiet with buyers evidently dis
posed to hold Off. although there is no sign
of weakening on the present coast holders.
Quotations range from 4014c for California and
from 6is6D71kc for Oregon fruit.
Apricots are in moderate demand on spot;
choice are quoted at s%@9e: extra choice. Ga
6510c and fancy, 10h1f1c.
Peaches are quiet and unchanged, with
choice quoted at s9sAc: extra choice. 919tkc;
fancy. 9lk@10&c: extra fancy 10111c'
Raisins are in jobblng demand with loose
muscate1s quoted at 4&@6hc; seeded. 6@7%c;
seedless. 5@6e; london LAYERS 81. Goal. Co.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
STREET TRADING MARKED
BY EXCEPTIONAL QUIET
CIRCULAR LETTER MAILED TO
NORTHERN PACKERS
Produce Exchange Officials Discuss
the Matter of Refused Shipments
with Wells-Fareo, but Reach
No Conclusions

Street trading was dead yesterday morn
ing and there was surplus in many lines
The interest OF the day was conferred around
the work Of the produce exchange, which
authorized the sending Of circular letter
TO all the apple and fruit packers in the
north declaring it impossible to handle
worfny fruit OF any description, on account
Of ofders from the local health department
The matter of refused shipments and the
loss e1ftailed thereby through adverse ac-
ton Of Wells, Fargo q Co., was ols.
cussed with officials Of that company, but
no definite conclusions were arrived at ana
the matter was left In the hands OF COM
mittee of produce exchange members TO tol-
low I'D.
Trading on change was light and the
only recorded sale was five cases OF local
case count eggs. few eastern eggs were
offered Butter was light in receipts ana
little in demand, while there was nothing
doing In cheese. Potatoes moved slowly
and prices were fair with the late small
arrivals. Onions were not mentioned and
beans ware also out OF call.
Fresh fruit was plentiful, with the ex-
ception OF a few varieties OF plums, which
arc about off the market. Hungarian prunes
and Kelsey plums were the best sellers
Peaches remained unchanged and apples
were plentiful, while nectarines advanced
fractionaily.
Vegetables held weaker in most lines ana
tomatoes were reported selling lower. Fisn
were scarce and the only variety wnlcn
was able to supply the demand was barra-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21

DOUGLAS, Aug. 2O.-At the Copper
Queen smelter new ore pit Is being
constructed near the sampling works,
This will make the fifth ore pit at the
Queen. The pit is being substantially
constructed with tufa stone for side
walks. Seven furnaces are in operation
at the Queen, and the product here Tor
August will be about what it was for
July, when it reached S,50O,000 pounds.
While the custom ore receipts at the
Queen have declined to the extreme
minimum, still there is an occasional
car brought from some Of the outlying
precincts This week a car was re-
ceived from the Kendall Ore and Re-
duction company in the vicinity OF ella
Bend.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
Metal Market.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2O.--There was decline
Of about Is Cd in the London tin market to-
day with spot quoted at f132 IT'S Cd and fu-
torres at e1sS 12s Cd. Locally the market
was weak with spot quoted at s29I2950.
Copper was lower in London. Spot closed at
ESQ 18s Cd and futures at ego los. Locally the
market was dull and unchanged: lake, $13 500
10 62tk; eleetrolytic. s13s7ik913.50; casting,
$la. 121k613. 20.
Lead was higher IN London at Ella IS Cd.
Locally no change was reported. but the mar
ket continued dull. with spot quoted at s4.6TiA
G4.62h.
Shelter was IS lower at e19 5s in London.
The local market was dull at $4.55@46O
Locally no change was reported In the iron
uiar<et
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CHICAGO Live Stock

CHICAGO, Aug. zO,-Cattle-Receipts about
4JoO: market steady to higher; beeves, 50. 75Q
Il 60: Texans ss.5oa5 20; westerns. $s.5006
stockers ana feeders, g. e5@4.b0; COWS and heif-
ers, 1906; calves. s55o@575.
Hogs-Recepts about 1900; market steady;
lights. ST. 15667B; mixed. s6156e.s5: heavy, s6.15
So: rough $o15a645; good to choice heavy
So 4eGe.s5; pigs. s515Gs; bulk Of sales, $4,000
z Co.,
81 25al rs; westerns $276@i2s; yearlings, si.25
as; lambs. ts,bo@e.s5 westerns. sS.759e.lo.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
CARLOAD SHIPMENTS
OF CITRUS FRUITS

@ Shipments of oranges and lemons
o from Los Angeles Tuesday, Aug, is, s:
8 were FL carloads of oranges and car g
@ loads of lemons. Total to date there 6
8 were shipped 27005 carloads, of which e
8 1884 were lemons. Last season to 9
8 date there were shipped 26,691 car &
t3 loads, of which 3143 were lemons. &
&AN&~1@3SSs% %SY139 8@S3s2.s$34 9
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
SAN PEDRO SHIPPING

SAN PEDRO. Aug. 2o--The steamer santa
Barbara. Capt. zaddart. ana the steamer
Claremont, Capt. Waivig. sailed yesterday from
Hoquiam via San Francisco. lumber laden for
San Pedro
The steamer Mann Smith, Capt. Nelson. ar
irving three and a half days from Coos Bay
will discharge 100000 feet Of lumber In the
Southern Pacific slip for eastern shipment.
The North Pacific company's steamship
Roanoke, Capt. Durham. cleared tonight for
Portland via San Francisco and Eureka with
freight and passengers
Departures today include steamer Doris.
Capt. Nelson, for Willapa harbor via san
Francisco; steamer Tamalpais. Capt. Ander-
son. for Eureka steamer San Gabriel, Capt
Green, for Umpuua river, and the steamer
shasta, Capt. Hansen, for Belifngham.
The steamer Harold Dollar. Capt. johnson,
Is scheduled to clear tomorrow for Port Har-
ford with 100000 feet OF lumber thence for
Sn Francisco for orders
The steamer Northland Is due tomorrow from
Astoria via San Francisco with passengers
and 800. 900 feet OF lumber.
The Pacific Coast companys steamer Cura-
Gao, Capt. Paulsen. Will hereafter make San
Pedro port OF call between San Francisco
and west Mexican coast ports.
The stesmer Bowdoin e out two days from
Aberdeen, lumber laden, for San Pedro via
San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 1o.--Arrived--Sleaui.
ars Santa Rosa from san Dieeos Helen r.
Drew from Redondo; Carmel from Redon6o
sailed-steamer George w. FcnWick foe San
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
San Francisco Mining Stocks
IAN FRANCISCO, Aug 20,-Foliowing were
-y-.f,.,- ~,,oko ffona tndav.
SUGAR and Coffee

NEW YORK Aug. 2o.-coffee futures closed
STEADY net unchanged to points higher;
August at 5.70n5. TIC: Sept. 5.65@5. Toe; Oct.
555c; Dec. ssOc: March, 5.e5c; May. 5.sb@
5'7Bc: June. s zoe; July 5.7o95. 75c; spot coffee.
MIA MID, coffee duIl: cordova. s%@12kc.
NEW YORK. Aug so,--Raw sugar, dull; fair
refining. s.501s Sc; centrifugal, % test. 40
4.cec molasses sugar s2ogs.2si refined. quiet;
crashed. 5000; powdered. b2oc; granulated'
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butter, Eaas and cheese

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-On the produce exchange
today the butter market was steady; creamer-
les, 19Q221zc; diaries, 17a20c. Eggs, steady at
prime irsts, zoe. Cheese. steady, 11h@13c.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2o.-Fancy cream
cries, 25l5c; seconds, 23hc; fancy dairy, 2sc;
America, 12h@1sc. Ranch eggs, 36lkc; store,
321hc
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FRUIT MARKET

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 2O.-Fancy apples.
ST. common, 4Oc; Strawberries. $66S; black
berries, $2@s; huckleberries 10q12lsc; 'raspber-
res, s407; muscat grapes. 506D75c; Fontain-
hieau, 40De5c; common pears, 35c; fancy, 75c;
common peaches. s5c; fancy Toe; common
piums 25c: fancy. 75c; Valencia oranges. So SO
al; Mexican lines, 1905; common California
lemons, s111 80: good to choice, $Sd4 rs; fancy,
s505.5O; watermeions, s125q2; nutmegs, $50
nc; fancy cantaloupes, 80; common 75c; ba-
nanas, $1@S.5O; pineapples, sl5O@s; Smyrna
figs 256175c.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
MEAL AND M p CEREAL Al GOODS cper 100 Iba.,:

Wheat, No. ] 600 Ibs.) s1.s5; wheat, doo-ih.
corn (1oo ibs.) s205 feed meal 400 lbs.) 81 10;
relied barley 600 ibs) s1.55; oil cake meal (1oo
lbs) $3.50; shorts 600 ibs.) s1.so; bran, heavy
200 lbs.) 81 68
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
cntton and Wool

NEW York, Aug 2o-spot cotton quiet; p
p,fnfs decline middling uplands, loioc; dc
euiA 10 s5c; sales 2fs bales.
~. louis. Aug. 2O-wooI. nrm; medium
grades combing and clothing. 10000; lighi
Ine. 16@16sko; heavy nne. n@l2c; tub washed
2oQ27c,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
Traasnrv Statement

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2e.-Today's statement
Of the condition OF the treasury shows avail
able cash balance, 1892, 445 996; gold coin and
bullion $751; 81 $685. gold certificates, S31 661 500
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21
Morning Sales
SAN FRANCISCO QUOTATIONS

Exclusive dispatch to the Los Angeles Herali
by L. A. Crisler & Co.. members Los Angeles
Nevada Mining Stock exchange. s05 San Fer
nando building. Los Angeles
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-Following were
Closing quotations Of the Bush street ex-
change today;
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Afternoon Sales

AFTERNOON SdleS
100 Fraction at s1sS 200 Great Bend at CSC;
5000 Florence Elk at 16Mc; 100 Jumbo Elk. at
sic; 100 at SOC cash; 200 at 452c (B 800; 100
Yellow Tiger at lac. 1000 Midtown Fraction at
2%c; 10000 at 21sci 500 Cons Mines at 2hc; 5000
Johnnie at SOM 1000 at s9.5OM; 1900 Florence
at $3.421S.
Morning Sales
1000 Atlanta at SOc; 5000 Baby Florence at
lie B. BOZ 1000 Bonnie Glare at 10c; POO Com
bsnation Fraction at 1877; 100 at s1.3O; 200 at
81 .3S; 100 at s1.39; 200 Consolidated at s5.52;
4co0 Cen Mines at 21tc; 1000 Daisy at rec; 1000
riamondleld at 1Sc; 10000 Eureka at $s.50M;
renee Elk at Ice; 1000 Great Bend Annex at DC;
5000 Midtown Fraction at 2hc; 800 Mohawk
Elk. at &c; 100 Mohawk Ledge at 6hc; 11,ooo
at &c; 1000 Red Hills at soc; 10 Associated OIL
at S29.75.
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Los ANGELES STOCK EXCHANGE

Official sales-1OOO Columbia OIL at s7%c; 1000
do at sskci 1000 do at sc; 100 Home Tel. pfd
at $3.50; 10 do at s45; 10 Associated Oil at
$40 rs; 10 do at s29.121s.
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PRICES or METALS
IN NEW YORK MARKET

o NEW YORK. Aug. 2O.--Copper-- 9
3 Lake, efs.50@ 13621x; eiectrolytic, e
5 &f3.871x @I3.5Oi castings S1S1S1z@ g
3 1925. g
B Lead, s4571z 946211. g
3 Tin, $29.00@20.50. g
3 Silver b11s. 9
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FINANCIAL

Los ANGELES, Aug. 2O.--Bank clearings
wore 81, 1858, .26, against s1;761 o5 for the
corresponding date last year, a decrease Of
S4s1552 Following is a comparative state
f11en
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OIL Stocks
DAILY MINING CALL


Official sales-s000 Con. Mines at 2Mc 5000 do
at 2Ac; 5000 do B. 800 at 2ssc; 1900 at 2Ac.
Listed Stocks
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21

SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 2o.-wheat, FIRM
no trading Barley, easy; Dec. H.36.
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FLOUR AND FEED PRICES
AT LOS ANGELES MILLS

The following quotations prevail at the Capt.
'0i ME MEALS. PER 100 LBS IN SACKS.
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MINING QUOTATIONS

Yesterdays quotations at the sLos Angeles
Nevada Mining Stock exchange were;
California
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New York stocI<s

NEW YORK. Aug. 2O.-Following were
the closing quotations today:
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21

Rolled wheat in bbls. net W.T.. l25 lbs. Dbl. 81 ::
Rolled wheat in sacks net w. ~ IDS, sk.. ~
Buckwheat flour. pure (bulk seamless
sacs) 100 lbs ,rs, ,rs -
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New York Bonds

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O-The following were
official closing quotations today: a,,,
rna. as wv
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24
Applauds his Own Creation.

The moment President Roosevelt
was informed of Mr.. Taft's nomina-
tion he gave out the following pre-
pared statement:
Il feel that the country is indeed to
be congratulated upon the nomination
of Mr.. Taft. I have known him init
mately for many years, and | have
peculiar feeling for him because
throughout that time we worked for
the same object with the same purpo-
ses and ideals. / do not believe there
could be found in all the country a
man so well fitted to be president. He
is not only absolutely fearless, abso-
lutely disinterested and upright, but
he has the widest acquaintance with
the nations needs without and within
and the broadest sympathies with all
our citizens.
He would be as phatically a
president of the plain people as Lin
coin, yet not Lincoln himself would
be freer from the least faint of demo-
gogy, the least tendency to arouse or
appeal to class hatred Of any kind.
He has peculiar and intimate know
ledge of and sympathy with the needs
Of all our people-of the farmer, of
the wageworker, Of the business man.
OF the property owners. No mat
ter what a mans occupation or
social position, no matter what his
creed, his color or the section of the
country from which he comes, if he
is an honest, Woodworking man, who
tries to do his duty toward his neigh
Dor and toward the country, he can
rest assured that he will have in Mr..
Taft the most upright of representa-
tiyes and the most fearless of cham
pions.
"Mr. Taft stands against privilege
and he stands pre-eminently for the
broad principles OF American citizen
ship which lie at the foundation Of
our national well being
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24

William Jennings Bryan has made
the following statement regarding his
attitude on the question of prohibition:
81 have received many letters from
prohibitionists and many from oppo-
nents of prohibition, and [ have an
swered them all in the same way. I
have told them I did not regard the
question as a national question.
While it is an issue in number of
states, do not expect it to be made
an issue by either the republican or
democratic national conventions. I
have made it rule not to discuss
questions outside the platform, be-
cause the candidate has no right to
inject issues which his platform ex-
clndes.
IT have refused to give advice on the
question in other states because [ am
not sufficiently informed as to the con-
ditions in the various states, and I
have refused to discuss it as nation
al question because, as I have said, I
do not expect it to be an issue in the
campaign"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24

Places more or less similar to these
grow up in secret under the shadow Of
prohibition everywhere. Whether they
are worse or better than the licensed
saloons depends upon the public senti-
ment of the community and the vigor
with which order is enforced.
It is probable that licensed saloons
are least menace in communities
where temperate drinking is the general
rule, and that the blind pigs are most
dangerous in communities made up in
whatever proportion of total abstain
ers and persons incapable of decent
restraint The latter class are best
managed by the continual oversight of
the police in orderly and responsible
licensed drinking places.
Here is the real danger of strict pro-
hibition legislation in the South. The
persons it is intended to reach are an
ignorant and degraded class of ne
groes and poor whites, to whom pub
lie drinking places have been given up
in the main while the ruling class
drank temperately in their own houses
at their convenience. Probably they
will continue to do this under prohibi-
ton, leaving the law to execute itself
and taking little pains to suppress the
evil of secret traffic.
Almost worse than the secret grog-
geries sure to grow up under these
conditions are the open places for the
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24
A Political Virtuoso.

'sWhy shouldn't all admirers of the
piano rally with uproar to Roose-
yelt," asks the New York Evening
Post.
ssWhat other master of the queen
of instruments has succeeded in COM
pelling such convincing harmony from
mere complex of wires, hammers,
pedals and keys? Not to Chopin's
touch, not to Rubinstein's or Pader-
ewski's, has the piano answered as
this country to the supple hands OF
the master. He lets his fingers wander
dPeamily over the board, and America
sings in minor key of the virtues OF
home and good citizenship. The
hands fall with a crash, and the
country thunders out its wrath against
the wealthy malefactor and the unde-
sirable citizen. Now the mood rises
to hooking scherZo, in which the
ear almost discerns the nature-faker,
hiding his 5lushing head beneath
piles of rustling leaves, and the patter
of the mollycoddle's tears into the
waves of the loud-sounding ocean.
Again swirl of the. fingers, and in a
cresendo of noise we hear the muck
raker filling the teeth of his rake, the
impact of soft hands against hard
faces, the stroke of millions of ham,
mers on thousands of battleships, the
aged senator moaning with pain as
the 10000 words of the latest measure
reverberate through his poor sweet
breads. And then the 6nal andante
OF nation that has reached the mil
lennium, every citizen under his own
conserved hemIock tree and by his
own little waterway, while IN the
White House there is Taft and silence,
and from the banks of the Zambesi
comes the occasional sharp crack of
a rifle.''
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24
A Sigh Of Relief.

The New York World finds comfort
in the nomination of William H. Taft
as putting an end to what it is pleased
to term the Roosevelt reign of ter
ror.'' The World says:
civilian 81. Taft will be the next
president of the United States-proyi-
ded the democratic national conven :
ton dominates William j. Bryan.
1t is an Office for which Mr.. Taft
has conspicuous qualifications. But,
best Of all, his nomination means an
end to Roosevelt and Rooseveltism.
It means the end of personal govern
ment, autocratic regime, of militarlsm,
of jingoism, of rough riderism, OF ad-
ministration by shouting and clamor,
tumult and denunciation. 1t means,
the end of the Roosevelt reign of ter
ror and the restoration of the presi-
dency to its historical dignity under
the constitution.
ssEyen Andrew Jackson, in his peri
DDS of sobriety, had more innate re-
spect for.the Office itself, for its tradi-
tions and for appearances than Mr..
Roosevelt has shown. Never before
was there such a lawless president.
Never before was the presidency SO de-
iberately lowered to crafty a love for
studied, sensational theatricalism.
'sMr. Taft's nomination means the
end of the most shocking extravaganza
known in the history of the country,
the most extraordinary contempt for
economy and retrenchment that any
executive ever displayed; the most ir-
responsible clamor for bigger navies
by absurd appeals to the war spirit
and absurd threats of foreign enemies;
the most reckless disregard of consti-
tutional limitations and constitutional
checks and balances. Every serious,
thoughtful citizen can now breathe
more freely and feel that the republic
is safer, having withstood another
searching test as to its right to endure.
cdr. Taft may be pledged to Mr..
Roosevelt's policies, but he certainly
is not pledged to Mr.. Roosevelt's meth
OBS. He was reared in the school of
constitutional government. His father
before him was distinguished jurist.
who served both as secretary of war
and attorney general in Grants cabi-
net.
aMr. Taft ought to make better
president than Mr.. Roosevelt. He is
better balanced, he is better poised.
The doubtful question relates to his
future independence as an executive.
Will he be bound by self-interest, by
party policy, by personal obligation
to defend Roosevelt S mistakes? Is he
bound to represent all his policies?
Can he conscientiously disavow any
thing Mr.. Roosevelt chooses to impose
upon a man of his type?
''If Mr., Taft follows his own con-
science and Judgment, prompted by his
long training as a judge and lawyer,
he will respect the constitution, con-
gress, and the courts far more than
Mr.. Roosevelt has done. The shadow
Of the big stick will cease to hang over
every department of the government, y