The National tribune., 1908-08-13
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~ defined. The trouble is believed to
be brewed on Amrican soil. The little
band of Mexican revolutionists who
were apprehended in Los Angeles about
a year ago while publishing and dis
tributing infiammatory newspapers and
documents and are now under indict-
ment and awaiting trial are believed to
be at the bottom of all the trouble. That
there is regular propaganda. well sup
piled with money, operating on Amerl-
can soil against Mexico is well known
to the American authorities.
President Roosevelt has been admir-
ing a new addition to the Sycamore
Hill poultry yard. 1t is a handsome
cockerel. which arrived by express.
The bird, which is of very large size.
came from George w. Tracey, of HAITI
boro, Pa, where it had been on exhibit
ton at the County fair BY vote it was
awarded to the most popular man in
the United States, and this man was
Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is proud
rooster, and rules the Presidents farm
yard without dispute from the older in
habitants.
The President is still ''after EN-" He
has ordered Maj. Morrow. the Engineer
Commissioner of the District. to take
the 80 miles ride. Maj. Morrow will
look almost as pretty on a horses back
as a twobushel sack of meal with a
string tied in the middle, and will weigh
about $50 pounds if not more. Maj
Morrow says he can do the riding all
right if somebody will find a horse that
can carry him at the rate of 80 miles
a day.
Now you see it, or think you do, and
now you don't-the President assisting
hazing cadets to get back into West
Point after they have been dismissed
by the commanding officer. The reckon
ing seems to be wrong some way. Sec
rotary Loeb is again charged with max
ing misstatement; Secretary OF War
Wright, who is taking his first biff at
West Point affairs, is said by the Presi-
dent to have-well, yes-to have-well
now, don't you know. Secretary Wright
doesn't know just exactly where he is
at with the President But the Presi-
dent knows. Yes, indeedy.
Canada has issued orders that all re-
lief goods sent to the forest fire suffer-
ers from the United States shall be ad-
mitted free of duty.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
awarded the contract for furnishing 800
box cars to the American Car and Foun-
dry Company at 1898 each. The Du
Pont Powder Company was also given
a contract for supplying $4,000
pounds of dynamite and a large amount
of dynamite electric fuses, to cost in all
$9T7,525.
The American Red Cross Society has
turned over to the State Department a
balance of $4,000 which remained TO
the credit of the Chinese famine fund
requesting that 1t be applied to the inn
mediate relief of the flood sufferers in
the vicinity of Canton. The Acting
Secretary of State cabled the amount
to the United States Consul-General at
Canton, with directions that it be ap-
piled for relief of the sufferers from
the typhoons and floods.
They are telling a story on Mrs. Alice
acknowledgements which bears all
the earmarks of not being so. They
are telling that she settled strike
among the "help" in a Yellowstone
Canyon hotel by saying to the proprie-
tor that she was sure that the servants
would go back if she asked them. and
that she then said she would pay them
each So day as long as she remained.
Just like that, the story goes. Sweetly
fairylike.
King Edward of England is the pa
iron and the Prince of Wales is the
President bf the British Association for
the Prevention of Consumption and
Other Forms of tuberculosis, the Or
ganization that is arranging for the
participation of Great Britain and Ire
land in the International Congress on
tuberculosis, to be held in Washington
in September.
A large consignment of exhibits from
the German National Committee has ar
rived here. Exhibits also have come
from Switzerland, Argentina, Uruguay,
France, Russia and England.
The tuberculosis Congress met in
Paris in 1898, in Berlin in 1899, in Ma
pies in 1900, in London in 1901, and
again in Paris in 1905. In London it
was under the patronage of the Govern
ment and of the royal family; in Paris
1t was the guest of the French Republic,
and President Loubet presided at the
initial meeting When the National As
ISOLATION for the Prevention of Con-
sumption asked the congress to come to
Washington, Austria and Japan were
competitors for 1t. 1t was rumored at
the time that Japan was willing to send
ships to Europe to bring delegates to
her shores.
The cost of the Congress will be
about 100000, most of which has been
raised elsewhere, and much of which,
it is estimated. will be expended here.
There will be several thousand dele
gates sojourning here for the three
weeks of the congress, and excursions
have been planned to bring others TO
the city to hear the transactions and to
study the exhibits.
And now the Japanese newspapers
are beginning to come back at Repre-
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson
for his war" talk. AS is well known
Mr. Hobson has been bitterer than ever
against the Japanese since his visit to
Kobe. The Japan Chronicle says:
what did they do to Mr.. Hobson
that made him so censorious of Japan
so determined to believe that Japan had
her eye on the United States, and some
fine day would be found in possession
of Washington? Can IT be possible that
the members of the Y. NJ c. A. fell
asleep when Mr.. Hobson lectured them
| on the duty of loving ones enemies ?
We are afraid to speculate further on
what may have occurred, but IL is GER
tainIy very curious that Mr.. Hobson's
strong antipathy to Japan dates from
about the period he was entertained b,
Japanese Christians in Kobe"
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The citizens of the District a few
years ago began subscribing for &
bronze statue of the late Gov. Shepherd
to whose energy and heroic actor
Washington to-day owes much of hel
beauty and cleanliness. The statue /,
now about to be erected, and the cues.
ton comes, Where in the city shall Il
be put?" The District Commissioner