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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
.ruE HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVE
RETAINS IT'S DESKS.

"ThanlS God! the House is no iens
or a deliberative body is one Oh 'iie
best examples of the late Thomas ..
Peed,s sardonic humor. Whether MI.
Reed was sincere in his thanksgiving
may be doubted, but that his state
nent of fact was true is indisputa Die.
Nor has the House of Representatives
hecome more of deliberative body
since MIR. Reeds memorable speaker
ship. In fact, it has become less SO.
The rules of the House and Its or
ranization combine to make tho speak
CIR not only the most autocratic OF pre-
siding officers, but, next to the Presi-.
dent the most powerful parsonage In
the entire government. With the aid
of the chairmen of the principal COM
mittees. whom he appoints, his control
over legislation is paramount lie
practically determines what shall be
considered, the time allotted to its
discussion, and who shall discuss 1t.
Under such regime bills of great
Importance do not receive that open,
{ulI O1SCuSSlOH anu SiltiIiSiii ~
public interest requires. This Is due
but in part to the pressure of business;
St is due also to the method OF doing
that business and to the enormous size
of the hall. And this size of the hall
IS a serious obstacle to satisfactory dis
cussion.
Mr., Mccall. Of Massachusetts,. In
Produced resolution to remedy this
Aefect by decreasing the present pro-
portions of the chamber and by remov-
ing the desks of the members. The
debate which followed was not parti-
,cularly Illuminating. The members
Ieplored the difficulty OF being heard,
the noise and confusion under which
.he work of the House was done: but
seemed to agree nevertheless that they
were the greatest legislative body In
the world. Whether this conviction
was the cause of the resolution being
defeated. OF whether the belief thai
his adoption would not materially helI
In making the House a more service
able assembly, Is unknown.
But the closeness of the vote wa
evidence that many Congressman arr
aware of the extent to which the House
OF Representatives has lost its char
acter as u deliberate body, and o!
how that loss has lowered its weight
in the government. They wanted
therefore at least to create physical
conditions that would enable the House
actually to deliberate and take one
noedful step in the restoration of its
FORMER prestige.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
DOOM OF THE boss.
Seeming Elimination OF Worst Feature
of Politics.


Leslie NJ. Shaw. former Secretary Of
the Treasury, makes huge mistake
in thinking that the trend of the times
Is toward political hossism.
There never was a time when the
American people We're more thorough
~ aroused against this pernicious AMI
dangerous form Of political control.
This temper Of the people has, dur
ing the last few years. manifested IT
self In many forms OF action. In Penn
sylvania. In Ohio and In other States
1T has defeated politicians and bosses
who deemed themselves mpregnable.
In nearly all OF the Southern States
It has resulted in the enactment Of
laws. or the adoption of party rules.
which take control OF politics out OF
the hands of the bosses and place 1t
in the hands. OF the people in direct
In this. Missouri has followed the
example of her Southern neishbors
determined that tlJe people. not the
politicians. shall contro! party nomina-
tons. and choose in open primary
elections the Men who are to write
In Illinois, under Republican rule,
the worst boss-ridden State in the
Union. unanimous demand by the vot-
ers OF all parties has forced boss
ridden Legislature reluctantly to enact
a primary law, which. II 1t does not
the Supreme Court OF the state pro-
nounced the two previous acts on the
subject to be, will deal stunning
blow to the power of the bosses. gang
sters and machine men OF both the
Deneen and the Federal officeholders'
machines.
The Republican party is not the
country. II it were. Mr.. Shaw would
need ne only to point to Mr.. Speaker Can
non and a dozen Republican lead
ers' in the two houses OF Congress- ms
well as to the Cullom- Hopkins Cannon
machine in illinois, to prove that he Is
right in saying that the drift of the
country Is all in the direction OF poll.
teal bossism
But among the American people who
DO the voting and ultimately control
this country, the drift Is all the other
way. The drift is so strong that
VIII submerge and annihilate the Re.
publican party IL 1t does not re-
form and quit betraying the people
who have been electing Republican
candidates to office.-St. Louis Repub.
lie. go
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
THE VOICE OF THE BUTLER.
Interesting and Interested Views OF
the rTipplpr Habit,


1t is the privilege OF every English
man to write to the London Times. He
seldom fails to take advantage of 1t
when he. feels peeved. II II were not
Square the Times would be, one long
wall. AS it is, however. the CORE
spondence page is one of Its most
interesting features
up to the Abuse of Tipping a.sub-
ject which usually shares with the
sea serpent the honor of providing
copy during dog days. when an Lon Lon,
and real news Is scarce. Possibly the
Times was induced to rush the sea
son when talk on tipping Is due be
respondent who first started this new
crusade.
Alarmed at the great progress tip
ping has made OF late years. TINS VIC
tim sought the aid OF Britain's great
est newspaper in an attempt to force
slump. The bptter class restaurants
particularly came under the ban OF
MIS- displeasure. Ten years ago , ne re-
| sufficient to awaken the waters
smile: to-day anything from 10 to 20
lper cent. on the amount OF your phi
the correspondent causes the man y OF u
! the napkin to cast on you that look
from Which the b6ldest finch. intend.
ed to imply that YOU are a seht
i
\ Bit If the waiter arouses the ire
| of this victim the greed OF servants
lin country houses causes him positive
disgust. He relates that when he ten
dered head gamekeeper f2 the latter
most emphatically refused the Sl1t, anu
said significantly: This is a paper
house" That was to say nothing less less
| dignitary The Times correspondent
| unmercifully belabors the servants
nam" from head cook to bottle washer
land finally remarks that the pest mem,
cd of securing reform Is 70 iolo'u
After number Of other Englishnen
/, more or less distinguished. had aired
4 their views and their grievances, the
/ Times devoted a learned editorial &c
! the subject. Then the voice OF the
butler was heard in the land. IN 9
modest letter of a dozen lines or SC
4 he begged the pardon of the Times foi
taking lp its valuable time--he sale
4 nothing about space-but remarked
that, being a butler, he was natural
lily Interested" in the correspondence
i He pointedly added that his expert
ence had been that II visitors to conn'
did so, and If they didn't. we'll they
simply didn't He clinched his state
ment by remarking with true. British
gravity: II have known shooting par
tty of seven guns. which Included twt
dukes go away and have !, only on ,,1 bee,
The sadness of that word only. II
conjunction with dukes, should mel
the hardest heart that ever pumped
blood within an antitipster. =.
But the logic of that butter is IN
vincibe. II man wants to Up ~
, there's an end of it-Los Angelo
ei'rimeS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28

worked two years as the Chief prose.
cu,or OF the graft cases without pay
The serviees nope Of Heney and
are not mentioned in those financial
circles where business" is sacred
all these things would result. He pre-
dicted that when the prosecution fail
ed to stop with the labor union Gull
Would lind men Of wealth and social
position arraycd against them. that
ennity would be cngendered. th1 as
sassnatlon itself was to be feared.
Sprecklcs did not turn back. lie had
tried to form . committee Of wealthy
men to back the prosecution. but he
was unsuccessful. SO he put up the first
100000 himself. Heney went to work,
William j. Burns, a secret service de-
stective. went out and got the evidence.
The guilt OF the grafters and the
bribers has been proved over and over
again. but the convictions are not to
be had.
The situation in San Francisco to-
day is fraught with great danger TO
the city and 10 other municipaiities IN
brought to light men said: Look what
a labor union set OF officials did But
now the thing has changed. The ma
the guilty ought TO be punished who
ever they are. and they have said SO
at the polls. But II the guilty are not
punished IL the grafters and bribers
go free, whose fault will 1t be? Not
that OF the labor unions, not that OF
the people. It will be the fault OF
men in high standing in the comnlu-
nifty, men OF wealth men who believe
themselves to be honest. 1t will be
the fault OF business men who think
1t is a crime for city official to force
saloon to buy whiskey from the con :
Germ In which that ofticiaiEis Interest,"
ed but who see no wrong in trans
action BY which business" man gets
A valuable franchise by bribing those
same corrupt officials. OF course. not
all of San r'rancisco's business men
arc engaged in this campaign to defea u
iustice--but practically all the men IN
the conspiracy are business men.
II San Francisco's conscience is
stiled to sleep by the campaign now
being waged by the criminal rich and
their defenders. II the prosecution OF
the grating criminals fails because OF
this paign-then the cause OF mu-
nicipal honesty in America Will be
given a blow from which 1t cannot re-
| cover In years. But IL the people OF
| San francisco listen to that conscience
| which Is still speaking. II they VIII
send a few criminal politicians and a
| few criminal business men to prison
/ then American cities will look to San
| francisco as a leader. 1t is for San
| Franciscans to say
Copyright, 1908, by Frederic J.
Haskin,)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
THE DANGER. AND COST OF UNMUZ-
ZLED DOGS.

We note that Superintendent Coin is
engaged in killing stray dogs, which
leads us again TO call attention to the
statistics on hydrophoba In England
and Males. which n correspondent OF
the New York Sun states thus:
From 1915 to 1885 no less than 93o
persons-an average Of about twenty
five a year-per!shed from this dis
ease. In 1874 the number o, deaths
rose TO sl&ty-one. and In 1877 the
deaths from rabies We're seyenty-nne--
the highest number ON record for any
pne year
In 1898 the muzzling law, which had
been repealed, was again enacted, and
an 1897 there We're six deaths from
lnydrophobia in England and Wales;
In 1898 there were but two, and for
the last eight years. or from January
& $. 1899, to December 81, 1906. but two
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

The Nile contains n greater variety OF
fish than any other body OF water.
The railroad bridge connecting Venice
with the mainland is 1880 feet long.
In the course of month caterpillar
will eat food weighing 5000 times the
weight of its body.
There are upward OF seventy species OF
edible seaweeds growing on the coasts OF
Hawaii. and about forty OF these are in
common use by the natives
The government of Colombia spends
s1os.s12 per annum in American gold Tor
the maintenance of night schools in the
principal cities OF the republic.
1t is reported that in the untain lre-
Eions OF the Sierra Nevada. in the DE
partment OF Magdalena, extensive forests
of rubber have been discovered.
There are in Europe 10000 women and
girls who earn a living as artists models.
1t is strange to say that there not ten
among them who possess q perfect face
and figure.
The Industry. Of tlintmaklns still thrves
In Brandon, England. The :lints are sent
guns of 100 years ago are still In active
service.
The total number OF publications handled
by the Roumanian post office In 1906 was
l31,2lS,322. One newspaper sent out during
! the year $4,000, 900 copies No other daily
newspaper sent out more than 100000.
In 1878 there 1900 acres under
hop cultivation In Kent county, England
! ina the past year 202,S 0+ hundred weigh,
of hops were imported. OF which America
sent l26,l22 hundredweight.
Snake venom, valued by weight. fetches
more per ounce than any OF, the preclout
| metals. At the present time the narke
! price in England is from twenty to twenty
| five shilings grain, which reaches Tho
seemingly fabulous sum of $4,000 per poun,
| troy, or, to use American values, $4,000
! for single pound of the vepom.
| 1t would be hard 10 make many peopl,
| believe that the wood In the pencil or pen
FOLDER they daily use has served for Mt.
and perhaps 100 years as part OF a raj
fence, but TO grent extent this Is true
l When split open the most aged and dry
rot eaten cedar rail divulges an interior o
4 as white and well-seasoned wood as ca,
possibly be procured by long and careful
| sen <.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
A sane View.

An expert on insanity now declares
that Harry Thaw is perfectly sane.
Thaw was sent to the asylum, aiteI
that he was dangerously Insane. lie
says: IF was ever insane IN my
life the attack began the minute, pc
fore shot White and ended hait q
minute later" According to THESE
ANYTHING against your fellow-cttizen
and desire to murder him Just go
crazy for minute and recoYer a.
soon as you have committed the deco.
Then escape punishment by getl!ns
that YOU were unbalanced. As soon
as asylum life becomes uncomfortaple
or dsagreeable get some more eN.
perts to express the view that your
mental machinery Is worklns a.!
more ways than one to Kill DOG
Birmingham News.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
Hcarst,s Parting blessing.

On the eve of his departure tor Eu-
rope Mr.. Hearst renews his kindly
assurances that the Republicans are
to have his@help this year in defeating
Mr.. Bryan provided Mr.. BRYAN shall
be nominated at Denver. Mr.. Hearst
but that is what It amounts to. Mr..
T3ryan's failure to advocate Mr.. Hearsts
nomination for the presidency by the
Democratic National, Convention at st,
Louis in 1904 evidently weighs more
heavily on tile mind Of the proprletor
of the Independence League than the
unfattering speech about him which
Elihu Root made at Utica. N. ". in that
year, speaking on behalf OF the Hon,
Theodore osevelt-Harttord Times.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
RHYMES for To-Day
@v,,,,nE ruE nl,AINs ARE.
TO DOUBT the stories they offer US
III are as fine as fine can be,
No doubt the article-stuff they
= print should look most good

\ No doubt the article-stuft thcy
print should look most good
to me-
No doubt tho front os their stage Is
great--but look behind the
soonest
Aye, look! Aren't the ads tho bright
est things you find in the maya
zines?
I spose the poems are awfully good
the prose is remarkably cute,
I haven't doubt that tho opening
drool is an old-line regular
beaut,
I'm sure there Is sense in 'The Editors
Chat" and thought in "Thc Caro-
OF Young Beans"-
But what lave you seen that's as good
ns the ads in the monthly maya.
zines?
1 like the cover-design in blue and the
frontispiece in pink,
I like the look OF the neat clean tyne
and the grade of the paper and
ink,
I know there's a laugh In "Hubbards
Mule-Calf." and sob in Just
from Her Teens
But 1-never read a thing but the ads
In the blooming magazines.
II s. H
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28

persons died from this disease. The
disease would seem to have been alb
solutely "s,amped out" OF England by
the most simple method OF prevention
Imaginable.
This suggestion OF muzzles for all
dogs is further strengthened by the
argument that sheep.killing dogs levy
an enormous tax on this country. Ia
England and Germany, whore dogs are
regarded as dangerous, and where an
horde OF unmuzzled dogs would no
more be tolerable than packs OF wolves.
this contrast is emphasized by tho
statistics of the wool clips In the
United Kingdom anA the United States.
With an area Of 3,025,600 square miles
the United states produces about soo,-
100000 pounds OF grease wool, or %
pounds to the square mile. Gre1t
Britain and Ireland, on tho other
hand. with an area OF 10000 square
miles, have a wool clip OF 100000, oGo
pounds. or 1853 pounds to the square
mile. At tho English rate OF produc-
llun Il STUART lnlle Tie OIllSu
would produce 3.5o0,0oo,0oO pounds Il
year, or so per cent. moro than the
present production of wool in the whole
world. and instead OF importing wool
We should have large surplus avail
able for export.
Yet SO firmly cntrcnched docs the
unmuzzled dog seem to be in Amer
lea that high official in the national
administration recently said:
The forest service and the Bureau
of Biological Survey OF this department
are using their best efforts to destroy
wild animals, but I doubt whether we
could NEEDLE with dogs inside the
States. The solution of the sheep and
dog problem will be found by putting
up, woven wire fences, which will keep
the dog out and the sheep In"
The Virginia law makes no require
mcnt for muzzling dogs, but sets tax
on all dogs, proceeds OF which are to
be held as special fund "for re-
munerating the inhabitants OF the said
counties for any loss they may sustain
from dogs killing or crippling their
sheep, lambs or other live stock" The
law also provides that II the fund
raised by the tax is not sufficient to
meet the damage done by the dog,
then the sufferers must share their
losses proportionately. Would it not
be better to make the losses impossible
by muzzling the dogs, for sheep
wantonly destroyed are as much loss
to the community as the destruction OF
property by fire or earthquake? Re
pairing the loss of property by taxes
may shift the burden. but does not
regain the wealth DESTROYED
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
STATE PRESS
Freak ,fron,,e.v.

believes That william j. Bryan. afisT having
demonstrated &c !, his power to control the Den
other person" II is e said that ATT faith viii
move hsN. an,,a and Mr.. Kohsaat may y
axa S sho Of The sort that tn.
from tho Democratic leadership. except
under under compulson OF n visitation Of Provi i,
a 1e. or OF the interpretation OF physical
shall believe that the tn Ethiopian can change
MS nis skin ana the Leopard his spots.-Nor-
Convention Forecasts.
Y is understood that the four delcsates-
A., large from Virginia will be Senator;
ex- Governor Tyler. but in that event all
he delegates Will be pledged to Bryan.
r;or 81 ,,, at-large Is generally ae1
Mytne; q native OF Pittsylvanla, ana HON
Samuel J.. Kelley, OF Richmond city. VIII be
sIa1 Both gentlemen arc forcefnl and
cloquent speakers and Will make stirring
canvass of the Statc.-Danvillc Bee
Must Get 1t Somehow.
Enough Republicans Joined with solid
Democratic minority in the lower House
OF Congress few days since to defeat the
od aI'' provision looking TO ship subsidy d.,
two-thrds of the people OF this country.
II may be truly said that this scheme is
condemned almost unanimously by the
"ho wis.,, anu u lB nOtHiHS iuoIS iioi
less than another method adopted by the
Republican leaders for securing huge cnm-
paisn NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. star.
100 Hard.
There Is no reason why person pos
sessed OF Typewriter and tho ability 10
operate It should be out OF work. Oil
magazines may be purchased in any sec,
ond- hand book shop, stories may be copied
with no mental exertion, except to change
names and titles, and the easy marks
who preside over the editorial department.
of some OF the big magazines will do the
rest.-Staunton Leader.
Ia the WoodpfIe.
Senator Foraker calls upon the 10000. 900
colored people OF this country to WELD the
ballot In showing their resentment TO Pres
iGent Roosevelt's action in reference to the
Brownsville affair. The Senator Is prob
ably more anxious to use the negro as a
bludgeon>against Mr.. Roosevelt than he :s
to right any imaginary wrong the black
man has Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
Tall Senator's May Grow.
Senator Tillman says a Governor doesn't
amount to anything anyway II that is the
case. they are raising a lot OF russ down
IN North Carolina over nothing.-Lyncn-
burg Advance
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
TIE PENSIONS AND THE rAupEns.

TIE PENSIONS AND THE PAUpERs.
Mr.. Asquiths old-age pensions are
not to be net additional expense to
the British government, after all. II
develops that OF the 100000 persons
who will presumably share in the PEN
sions distributions, a great many
possibly almost all--will be drawn
from those who are now receiving
relief from the poor rates. POOR relief
will stop where the pension legislation
help from the local authorities, there
are no less than 100000 in the United
Kingdom to- day.
| 1t is this fact, of course, which has
to the aged poor OF such moment in
Great Britain. The enormous paupcr-
ism is rot due to chronic and general
shiftlessness. On his weekly WACO Of
some ST. 1t Is almost impossible for
the British agricultural laborer, for in
stance. to save money. His situation
is direct and positive discoura cement
to thcift, as competence for his old
age is plainly beyond him, at the hest.
OF the whole population above the age
OF sixty-hve. almost one-third are in
almshouses or in receipt Of outdoor
relief.
Germany's 'contributory" pension
plan has worked magnihcentiy, but
England threw it aside as .'upwork-
Fable" The labor unions would not
hear OF 1t. and, in particular, Mr.
Charles Booth had other schen that
gathered an overwhelming following
Mr. Booths principle of pensions to
everybody, regardless of Income, has
not yet been adopted, but his argu-
ments for it are not to be comeatted
save on the ground OF expense. The
| Asgulth system. by fixing an income
basis for participation. not only puts
the mark of pauperism on It's nsnea
carries, but also inevitably paves the
way for juggling and cheating In The
matter OF incomes.
The immediate indication, however
, is that the proposed system may event
ually drive out and replace all othe
forms OF pauper relief.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
illcYclnnd'n Double.

EVery prominent man las his doub!e.
Judge James Keith, president of the
Virginia Supreme Court, Is the double
OF eX-Presldent Cleveland. The re-
markable Resemblance has caused enl-
bbarrassment to both on more than one
occasion, The simultaneous illness OF
the two adds an interest to the sit
uatlon Judge Keilh is now recuper-
nting at the Mecklenburg Hotel, where
ton and SO greeted when he ajighted
from his tran.-New York preus,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
c:o,dv,u smith,. vn.t learning.

All, now we know tho real differs
once between a Democrat and Res
nbltcan. Professor Goodwin Smith
directs attention to the fact that ono
is derived from the Greek and tho
other from the Latin, and that they
both mean the same thing IN the
orisinal.-B Boston Herald.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28

The Richmond ball team is richly
iustifying an ante-season conNdcnce in
Its ability to lose out. No finer hiking
toward the taiiend reservation WAS put
up in any league In America than was
delivered by the Richmond aggrcsatlon
last week.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28

sayshthe Washington Herald: "a New
Jersey man killed himself because
three women claimed him as h.eir bus,
hand This Is what comes Of living in
New Jersey. A man would think him
self a demigod and give millions 70 the
poor, If he found himself clnimcd as
consore by three OF the little star.nycl
blondes of Richmond
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Most of ,rhcn, Work Wall.

The new law of Oklahoma under
which bank deposits nre insured works
Well Tha International Bank of Coal
gate was closed, and forty minutes
later a resolution was adopted inviting
depositors 10 come forward and get
their money,-Dallas News.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28

1t is barely possible that the street
car company in Cleveluli, in lowering
It's rate to cents. has resolved to
give its patrons that Kind OF ride