Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26

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stands for homogeneous nation
Ono Nation. Is, among the achieve 81 i,a e.
lnents of President:
/ Roosevelt, one Of tho greatest and
/ the ono which most depends on tho
/ accident OF his personality. II has
4 como about through his abound d
Ing vitality, the strength !, a %
! Quite apart from personal con-
/ tact with him. BY reason, Of
/ his public utterances on morals, man
! ners, and n wide extent Of subjects
! far apart from the business Of the
Presidency, many kinds Of people
. have felt the strength Of his encour-
I agenent and the stimulus Of his tn-
| terest. More than any other man, he
has loosed the collar OF partizan
Loyalty. II he had been the recent
| candidate for President, the Solld
| South would have ceased to exist. He
| has made q Confederate soldier Sec
rotary of War His letter about Tafts
religion contained nothing new for
| the broad -ninded; but thousands who
believe in him will accept his message
| that biBotry Is wrong, and ten years
hence the amount of suspicion ana
harsh feeling among men will be less
by reason Of one episode in Roose-
velt's administration. The sort OF
service. in its broadcast aspects, Is
t4GSpeClttli uSe'Als4 III u tOutie' y W A.Ds~
national character must finally be
determined by a fusion of different
races and creeds Golfers for Dec
ember s.. Is
Tree Doctor duct Of modern condi-
At His Work tlons. In pioneer days,
when the country was
covered with original forests, there
was no thought Of him; but now, when
the entire countryis becoming alarmed
over the rapid disappearance of our
trees, he has become an important
parsonage. The profession, however,
Is not overcrowded; in fact. there are
vet many sections OF the country where
he is unknown. Not infrequently the
professional tree doctor Is called upon
to treat cases In which the cavity 10
large enough to allow one or even
two men to stand upright in 1t. The
quantity OF filling In such case some-
times amounts to several barrels. For
tunatey, however, the filling used for
trees is not as expensive as the gold
and amalgam used by tho dentist for
filling teeth. That In tho most FREE
quent use is cement, although, in ex-s
IRENE cases, where a large hollow Is
to be filled rocks, brickbats, and sand
and cement MY be used as a bed for
the top layerNbf filing. It Is only
recently that ten tons OF such filling
were 'e required for the preeservat ton or
n giant tree in New Jersey, and the
famous Washington elm in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, now consists mainly OF
cement. 1t is not, however, always
necessary to call In a professional tree
surgeon. as most of the ordinary cases
can be successfully treated by an
amateur after little experience In
properly cleaning out cavities and the
correct mixing Of the cement filing
When a tree is already rotten or dis
eased special treatment Is required. Alb
solutely all diseased or decayjng tissue
must be cut out, no matter how large
wound is made. because IL any decay
is left it would be as bad practice
as IL a dentist failed to cleanse thor
oughly a decayed tooth before putting
in the filing, and the work would have
to be done over again in order to save
the tree.--Newton Forest Russell, In
Harper's Weekly.
Rights Of The organized laborers Of
American America demand no spe-A
Laborers. cial favors; no old age
pensions; no socialistic
Legislation. They want only Justice,
They ask the American people for pro-
lection against medieval conspiracy
laws, under which they are iInpris-
oned, fined, and continually intimidated
for doing, in combination, acts which
every citizen of the United States has
a constitutional right to do as an ndi-
| vidual. English laborers have been
| given this protection by acts OF par
| lament. American laborers have
F.. sought 1t in vain from Congress- for
| 10 years. Until they secure 1t, Their.
can never be said to be really free
! labor in America. "A combination OF
laborers Is not like any other econorlic
| combination. For this reason; a labor
! combination does not sell iron. steel,
cloth-inanimate things: 1t sells the
| power to labor, end that power can
never be divorced from the lahorer--
living flesh and blood. which suffers
from heat and cold and accident. a hu-
man being, with all the qualities and
! rights and privileges of the
| Individual citizen. This Is a free coun-
1 try; and every citizen has certain in
alienable rights OF freemen None Of
| these are more fundamental than the
| rights of association, of free speech.
and a third right-less often considered
the right to work for whom you
| please, for any reason you please, or
! for no reason. If a citizen could not
( do this It would mean that some one
| else has Il right of property in his la
Dor, which would mean slavery.--Com-
: pers in McClures.