The National tribune., 1908-04-30
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sary to secure the peace and welfare II
the Republic in the event of interna-
tional complications.
"The very liberty OF speech and ac-
ton, which We so prize and guard. rem
ders it possible that at times uneXpect-
ed causes of friction with foreign powers
may suddenly develop.
'It is idle to assume, and. from the
standpoint of National interest ana
honor it is mischievous folly for any
statesman to assume that this world
has yet reached the stage when a proud
Nation, jealous of its honor, and con-
scious of its great mission in the world.
can be content to rely for peace upon
the forbearance of other powers.
l "To any public man who knows OF
the complaints continually made to the
State Department there is an element
of grim tragedy in the claim that the
time has gone by when weak Nations
or peoples can be oppressed by those
who are stronger without arousing ef-
fective protest from other strong inter-
ests. Events still fresh in the mind of
every thinking man show that neither
arbitration nor any other device can as
vet be invoked to prevent the gravest
and most terrible wrongdoing to peo-
pies who are either few in numbers or
who, if numerous, have lost the first
and most important of National vir-
tues-the capacity for self-defense."
Ex-senator John NJ Camden, of West
Virginia, died last week at the age of
so. He was considered the richest man
in West Virginia While he was Unit
ed States Senator the sugar inquiry
came on, and he was implicated. He
declared that he had never handled
sugar stock, but kilograms were pro-
duced bearing his signature. in which
he ordered some one to buy sugar.
He looked at them, said it looked like
his signature. but he had no recollec-
ton of giving such an order. and the
Senate let it go at that. Senator Cam
den retired from that body at the end
of his term. He will be remembered
for the long and short haul clause
of the original interstate commerce act
Senator Camden is not known to have
fostered any charitable schemes or TO
have endowed any institutions. He was
just money maker.
Rear-Admiral Robley d. Evans is
again able to walk. and will take COM
mand of the fleet in a few days, so
there, There's just one foe can knock
Evans clear out, and everybody is hop
ing that the Grim Reaper will keep his
distance for many long years.
daughter of the South. who left her
good manners at, home, attended the
National Congress of the ID. A. r. last
week, and Incidentally the reception
given by the President at the White
House. She wore good clothes, very
handsome ones, in fact, and her badge
was set with 13 clear water diamonds,
htIt har nd hrppdinO
crooked, very crooked. 'I despise Roose-
velt," she said, as the line of Daughters
moved along toward the President to
shake hands. "Ive come here simply
out of curiosity, because I've always
wanted to see him. I wouldn't shake
hands with him for the world, but l do
want tG see him.
About that time 'meh lady was as
tonished to find a heavy hand laid or
her shoulder. and she was gently but
firmly forced out of the line. Then the
detective, who was rounding her up and
cutting her out, SO to speak. told he-
she would better go home. She pointed
to her D. A. r. badge, and remarked in
her haughtiest manner that she was a
Daughter and had right there.
NO, madam" insisted the Secret Ser
vice man, mo one who speaks in that
manner of the President of the United
States has any right in this building.
and / must ask you again TO leave"
And she left. She certainly did, and
she was the very maddest woman you
ever saw, but she was helpless The
trouble? oh, just the Booker Washing
ton incident. .-a'-- s--- hgr-
And now the pretty little Patterson
girl, who used to be so much admired
here in Washington. after four years of
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thing or other. has come back to her
fathers house. and her husband, a
"Prince'-the Lord knows not of The
House OF David" but a miserable little
bit of principaIity in Austria-is suing
for divorce. Robert Patterson. father
of the pretty little Princess of Gizycki-
no, her husband Is just good-for-noth-
ing Count. and she is therefore only
styled a "Ceuntess"-is a very wealthy
newspaper man of Chicago. He retired
from business and came to Washington,
where the Pattersons built magnificent
home and were going to entertain mag
lnificently, when this Ho-ase0unt Count
came along and captured the mother of
the Patterson girl, and straightway we
all heard that marriage was on. Mr..
Patterson objected bitterly, adamantine-
ly. and refused to give his daughter any
of his money if she married the no
wanted to be mother-in-law to a Count,
even If he was a worthless customer.
and il is stated that she settled some
thing like $4,000 year on her daugh-
ter from her own private fortune. 9th
erwise she would not have secured the
Count Gizycki. The Count hoped to get
the money settled on the daughter his
wife, but 1t seems that she preferred to
spend 1t herself, and that so displeased
the Count that he abandoned his wife
and baby and went to live by himself
well, not entirely, perhap aps-at a hotel
in Vienna, and his wife went to her
father with the baby. This is just a
case of too much mother, or at least an
un-American desire to get into the
ranks of the rotten nobility. Take the
whole bilin' of foreign fortune hunters
and they wouldn't make good wadding
| for shotgun. And the pity Of it is tina,
mothers are largely 10 blame for 1t all
] Iniudicions rearing will turn a really
sensible girl into a fool This make
married abroad to their hurt in the las
| 10 years.
Mrs Hit. wife of former Representa-.
tive Hit. of Illinois, is going TO kuild g
| fine home here in Washington, and
spend at least the Winters in the Ma
| tionaI Capital Mrs. Hitt II n very ricf
woman, and one of the handsomest en-
i tertainers in Washington. She *
| beautiful woman with a crown oil snow
white hair. and when she was wearing
colors gowned herself exquisiteiy.
Il Senator Bulkeley. of Connecticnt. CAV,
notice in the Senate on Saturday tina