The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-30
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Senator IL Arizona was taken n as
STATE said L. s. Williams. OF Williams,
Ariz. who is at the Raleigh Mr. VIII
Jams is 6 native Of Kentucky, and went
to Arizona for his health When ne left
Kentucky ne weighed 20 pounds and now
weighs 142 pounds. Mr.. Williams is q
sheep and cattle raiser and a former
Of the Arizona Legislature
we are going 10 be admitted IS q
State this time said NJ. Williams, and
know what I am talking about. And.
furthermore. there is no good reason
why we should be kept out Of the Union.
There are some Eastern Senator's, I'M
derstand, who vii oppose Us, but the
question Is. Have they good reasons for
doing so2
"Arizona's first Senators VIII be Mark
Smith and Gov. KIbbey-a Republican
and a Democrat. And II Foraker lived
out in our country he would be sent 70
the Senate you bet We owe him a debt
OF gratitude. II was due 70 him that We
weren't punched up with New Mexico IN
this Statehood business
But, let me tel YOU. Mark Smith is
a statesman, an orator, a DemOsthenes,
a gentleman. and scholar who's got
them all beaten 10 a frazzle; that's the
word. isn't IL?
arizona is the finest part Of the world.
Take for instance. the San Carlos stone
quarry. That in Itself Is enough 70
make anybody sit I'D az night and take
notice. Why. my dear boy, you can take
A butter knife and cut that stone Just
as you ike, any shape or form and Pile
Il I'd one on top Of the other, Ike bricks.
and the next day It viii be as hard as
adanant. an artistic gray color The
United States government has drawn
ring around IT; 10 public settlers wanted
there: reserved for the Indians. SO they
can put I'D their nuts out OF that soft
putty stuff
Albert Halstead. United States consul
at Birmingham. arrived here last night
and IS a guest at the Shoreham-
The commercial relations between the
United States and Germany are most sat
isfactory, according TO Werner Hagen.
imperial German consul az Philadelphia,
who was seen at the New Willard last
night Mr Hagen was accompanied by
Mrs. Hagen. and he said he was going 10
paw his respects to Count Won Bernstorf.
the German Ambassador. here to-day
Il cannot discuss politics relating %
Germany OF the United States have
nothing to co with politics" said Consul
/ Hagen.
IT is my duty 70 cultivate friendly
commercial relations between the United
States and Germany. and We are getting
along in a most satisfactory style Bust
ness between the two countries is growing
more intimate every day and IS increasing
/ in volume as well as IN value We natr-
rally understand that Nr- Taft as Presi-
dent Of the United States viii first last
and All the tine take care OF the inter
eSrs Of the United States. but We also
/ know that he IS faiT-minded, and VII
/ give everybody a square deal"
Capt. PolIsk. OF the kaiser Wilhelm der
( Crosse. OF the North German Lloyd, IS
at the New Willard The German sea
dog said he was here ''on a sightseeing
tour. and that's all" Being asked Eheth-
/ er he would call On President Roosevelt
he said he probably would L the honor
( OF an audience was granted him.
/ Kansas peopie sre OF a peculiar turn
of-nind according 10 James ". Robinson.
I Of Columbus. Kans-, who Is ar the Ma
tionaL Mr. Robinson is a farmer and =
/ lawyer. and Is here for pleasure and
/ business combined
You know. sometimes even Kansas
people viii be taken in by some shrewd
stranger" he said. -'and every tine they
/ find out somebody got the best OF them
they squeal and want the state leglsla-
ture 10 protect them. Now here's case
let me tell you.
a Hiawatha, girl recently eloped with
a worthless fellow and married him. She
belonged 10 one Of the best families Of
the town" continued the Kansan, and
the people there were greatly wrought up
over IT, Representative Ryan who halls
from the town. has introduced a bill IN
i the Kansas legislature requiring al per
sons contemplating marriage 10 publish
a notice for one week IN advance, II the
official county paper, Of their intention
10 apply for marriage license. naming
4 the dsv the application VIII be made
Judge J. J Buck, OF Emp0ria, went
fishing last fall with a party Of lawyers.
n All OF them caught fne string Of bass
except the judge SO he came TO the leg
L islature and had put IN a bin making il
a crime for people TO catch bass
-Emporia also has a professor Of the
4 State Normal School. as mayor He Is
a candidate fer reelection Judge Buck
is against him. so the judge has intro
duced 4 bin prohibiting any person OF
the State pay roll from running for
mayor"
THE Dutch have fought for what they
own, and they have been among the
greatest fighters that the world has ever
seen" thus spake Jan Kerkman. OF AM
sterdam. Holland, who is al the Airing
ton. Mynheer Kerkman IS g fnancier.
and is travelling in this country partly for
pleasure and partly 10 look over the in
vestmsnts his house has made IN this
country.
When the proves Of the Dutch in
the past is considered. continued the
Dutchman, cit seems ike a humane duty
10 drop a word OF warning upon the BEL
Iigerent attitude OF the Venezuelan
government. lest by some strange resur-
rectiOn the spirit should reappear that
ionce made the greatest armies and navies
Of Europe tremble.
For a thousand years the Dutch
fought the sea waves and the river
floods. and they dyked their land. which
is lower than the ocean During this
time also they were fighting the hardly
less persistent and pitiless human enc
mics that asssiIed them And yet the
whole kingdom OF the Netherlands. with
Its eleven provinces, which is more than
a third as large again as the original
Dutch United States Of the sixteenth cen
tury. is less than half the size Of South
Carolina.
In scme respects our people were the
; strangest people that Europe ever knew.
for while displaying 8 most astonishing
( capacity for war on land and sea. they
were converting 4 mudhole into a garden.
and their inventions Of useful means TO
. heaIthful and abundant living from the