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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1909-11-18
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Industrial Demolition.

Our neighbour. the Outlook. In. an,
nouncing the relation Mr.. Roosevelt Is
about to assume to that publication.
says that ''the beginning of the TWEEN
tieth century has been characterized
by movement toward industrial de-
mocracy." whatever that may mean
and that in this movement Theodore
Roosevelt has been recognized as a
world leader" Some men are of the
opinion that the characteristic move
ment Of this century so far has been
one Of Industrial demolition. Men
who are close observers of passing
events and are accustomed to think
about what they see have been saying
lately that change has come over the
minds and the mood of the people
They see in this psychologist change
the promise Of a prompt arrest OF
tendencies which Mr.. Roosevelt has
immensely encouraged, even il he die
not initiate and set them In notion
New York Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Louis Law school and then went to
the University of Berlin. where he took
a special course In law and political
economy. Returning to st. Louis In
1878, he was admitted to the bar and
soon had an active part in municipal
affairs. He was for four years presi-
dent of the city council of St Louis.
If Secretary james Wilson continues
to hold the agricultural portfolio until
next November he will have broken
the record for continuous cabinet serv-
ice, which is now held by Albert Gal
latin. once secretary of the treasury,
who served twelve years. eight months
and twenty-five days. Secretary Will
son was appointed at the outset Of the
Mckinley administration. He was
oorn In Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1885.
and at the age of seventeen was
brought to this country by his parents.
He was educated in the public schools
OF Iowa and at Iowa college. He en-
gagged In farming and. entering state
politics, was member Of the twelfth,
thirteenth and fourteenth assemblies
Of Iowa, being elected speaker of the
assembly in his last term. He served
three terms in congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

tial TO free Institutions And the effort
to set up the doctrine OF leza majesty
Is characteristic Of the reacticnary
progress that has invited condemna-
tion wherever the principles upon
which cur government and institutions
rest are understood
The Roosevelt conception of efficient
government is essentially autocratic.
and in his desire to do things lie has
little patience with constitutional or
other restraints. His theory is that
the ends justify the means, and he is
so constituted that whatever ends he
has in view are deemed by him to jus
tify any means that he may employ.
The good that he has worked has
shrunk UNNECESSARILY when placed In
the balance with the evils that he has
Observation-Disclosures News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
BY JAMES A. EDGERToN.

By JAMES A. EDGERTON.
|" HE cabinet8 is not provided for
by the constitution, but neither
is the fIng. The constitution
could pot look after every
thing. The csbinet is purely an adj
yisory board and sometimes scarcely
that. 1t depends on the president.
Some of our chief executives would
listen to advice by the yard and then
go ahead and do as they pleased.
Others would not even listen and still
do as they pleased. Yet cabinets are
useful institutions. They are handy
to have around as foils when the boss
Is trying to find out what he wants to
do and as goats to take the blame if
things go wrong. Every president has
had at least one cabinet and some of
them two or three. Roosevelt has had
his official cabinet, his tennis cabinet
and General Leonard Wood.
After March the country will have
only one living ex-president, but no.
body knows how many eX-cabinet Off
GERS. Moreover, nobody cares. The
average cabinet officer is an impor-
tdHl uidH the JOD, DuI not ne
fore-nor after. He is like the Scrip
tural wind-we hear tue sound there
of. but know not whence he cometh
nor whittier he goeth. And. again. we
do not care. So far as the national
consciousness is concerned, very many
OF our cabinet members have emerged
from oblivion and to oblivion have re-
turned. OF the cabinet given out,
though unofficially, as that TO be Sc
letted by President Taft, only four
members. Knox. Meyer, Hitchcock
and Wilson, have what might be prop
erly called national regulations. The
other five are known only in spots.
Great Constitutional Lawyer.
Philander Chase Knox the new sec
rotary of state, is a Mckinley find and
Roosevelt development. Mckinley and
Knox were in college together. At the
time of his selection as attorney general
Mr.. KnOX's appointment was widely
criticised for the reason that he had
been corporation lawyer. Yet his
chief fame i'm that office was gained in
prosecuting the trusts. He proved
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
]. Meg. Dickinson.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

that he could be as loyal to the gov
eminent at $4,000 year as he had
been to private concerns at 100000 or
more. Knox served but a short time
with Mckinley, his great work as at
torney general occurring under Theo-
dore Roosevelt. His most notable
achievements were galyanizing the
antitrust law into life, dissolving the
Northern Securities merger and nego-
tiating the purchase Of the Panama
canal from France. On the death Of
Matthew Stanley Quay he was ap-
pointed senator from Pennsylvania
and was afterward elected by the leg
islature. In the senate, contrary to
custom, he Immediately became lead
er and took rank as one of the great
constitutional lawyers of that body.
He was born in 1853 at Brownsville,
Pa. the little city ON the Monongahela
that gave rise to James G. Blaine
Knox was educated at Mount Union
college, Ohio; admitted to the bar at
twenty-five, began practice at Pitts
burg. was United States district attor-
uCW IL rbuI iNoiSLSo " 4Oi Ill
the firm of Knox & Reed, which was
long n leader at the Pittsburg bar. In
appearance he is short. dapper, well
dressed and polished. he talks quick
ly and smoothly. He is bright with.
out levity and able without solemnity.
The chief impression he gives is one
of dry intellect. His recreations are
driving good horses and reading books,
books, books.
Classic Scholar and Multimillionaire
Franklin Macveagh, chosen to be
the new secretary of the treasury. is
brother of Wayne MacVeagh, Gar
fields attorney general. and has gen.
orally been classed as mugwump in
politics. Like Senator Knox, he was
born in Pennsylvania, but is now q
citizen Of Chicago. He is nearly sew.
enty years Of age, is the son Of a
farmer, a graduate Of Yale and was
educated for the law, spending yea,
in the practice In New York city
where he helped Judge Edmunds to re
wise the New York statutes A break
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
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down in health forced him to abandon
the law. and he embarked in the gro.
Gerry business in Chicago. Burned out
in the great fire. he rebuilt and be-
came president of a citizens commit
tee that revised the government of
Chicago and practically made the pres
ent fire department. a Republican in
politics, he bolted Blaine in 1884 and
afterward worked with the Demo-
Gratis. He declined a nomination for
mayor, but afterward accepted that
for United States senator and can
vassed the state, but his party was
minority in the succeeding legislature.
He has been at the head of various
civil service, charitable and literary
bodies in Chicago and served as a
member of the National Civic fedora
ton. In the last campaign he aban-
doned Bryan and returned to the Re-
publican party. Mr.. MacVeagh is tall,
spare. rather reserved, but with q
ready wit. He Is a combination of
classic scholar and multimillionaire.
He married the daughter of bank
president and has been himself chair
man of the board of directors of ma
tional bank.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, selected
by Mr.. Taft as his secretary of war. is
| the attorney for the Illinois Central
railroad Like Mr.. MacNeagh, Judge
| Dickinson is n Democrat who bolted
| Bryan. and, like MacVeagh also. he is
resident Of Chicago. though accredit-
| ed to Tennessee. The new war sec
| rotary is the grandson of Felix Grun-
| dy, former attorney general of the
| United States, and has been himself
assistant attorney general. He has
also been judge of the supreme court
| Of Tennessee. counsel of the United
| States before the Alaskan boundary
| commission and n professor of law in
Vanderbilt university. He is about
| fifty-fve years of age, served for
| three months in the Confederate ar
my. graduated from the University OF
| Tennessee and afterward studied al
Leipzig and Paris. He belongs to the
| best of southern families.
Showed Into Politics by Car.
George Won Lengerke Meyer. chosen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

for secretary of the navy, is the for
mer postmaster general In that posi-
ton he shook things up by his per-
sistent advocacy of postal savings
banks and the parcels post. He was
also minister to Italy and ambassador
to Russia. where he took high rank
socially and hobnobbed with royalty.
In our present Washington society
that sort of thing cuts ice. Mr.. Meyer
was born in Boston In 1858 and, of
course, was graduated from Harvard.
He was rich mans son and is yet
richer himself, being connected with
many corporations. He was showed
into politics by street car. There
was a threat of a trolley line on his
/ aristocratic street, and young Meyer
started out to defeat the heinous
thing. He fought to such good pur-
pose that before he realized the depths
| to which he was sinking he found
| himself member of the common
council. He then went. to the legisla-
! ture and for three terms was speaker
Of the house. He wanted to go to
congress, but Henry Cabot Lodge
could not see it that way and gave
Meyer the post Of minister to Italy as
consolation prize. From that this
young man went up step by step I'M
| til now he is to sit In swivel chair
and watch the navy bureaucrats run
| Uncle Sans big ships.
Uncle Sans Chief Postmaster.
| Massachusetts Is TO have two cab.
met positions, the other one going to
Frank II. Hitchcock, chairman of the
Republican national committee. Hitch.
cock acquired Massachusetts, however
having been born in Ohio, like other
| great men. He went to the Bay State
because his father was preacher and
was called there. Then he (the boy
went to Harvard. Next he went tc
Washington as clerk for contractor
he knew, got into the agricultural de
partment as birdologist- that Is mo-
the official title, but 1t will do-tool
TO studying law at nights. ran int,
George b. Cortelyou, who was dom,
the same thing. and. 10, he was made
= Cortelyou began to rise and tool
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
cause of stomach 1rouhles.

When man has trouble with his
stomach you may know that he is eat
ing more than he should or of soma
article of food or drink not suited &c
his age or occupation, or that his bow
els are habitually constipated. Take
Chamberlaip's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets to regulate the bowels and i'm
prove tNe digestion and see if tn
trouble GOES not disappear. Ask 70,
a free sample. Sold by all druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

Hitchcock with him, first into the de
partment Of commerce ard labor, which
the two of them organized. then into
Republican national headquarters In
the campaign of 1904, next into the
postoffice department. with Cortelyou
at the head and Hitchcock as his first
assistant Now he returns to it as the
head During the recent campaign
Frank Hitchcock was called 1.-THE hui
man card index" 1.-The tower of ST
lence'' and other names that should
not be printed in moral newspaper.
He is forty-two years old. well groom
ed, is both tall and heavy and looks
like an athlete He is no longer a
bird expert, his chief study now being
politicians. He has them all classi-
fed as a naturalist classiiies bugs.
George w Wickersham. the new at
torney general. is the Wall street law
partner of Henry w. Taft. the presi-
dent elects brother. He halls from
Pennsylvania, has been an attorney
for the Ryan and Belmont interests ii
New York, helped to put The suspend
ed Knickerbocker Trust company bacb
on its feet and Is highly recommended
by Senator Knox He is known as al
office lawyer, has practiced i'll New
York for twenty years, belongs to the
old school and has the highest rating
In his profession as an attorney OF bls
financial interests. With such prece
dents and training he may be expected
not to run amuck."
Authority on Law.
Richard A. Ballinger Mr.. Tafts sec
retary of the interior. was class
mate of James r. Garfield, the presen
| holder of that portfolio. AS resui
| Garfield tried to get him to be commits
sioner of the general land office, bu
Ballinger declined Garfield insisted
and Mr.. ballinger at last reluctant.
consented. He held the Office on
year and in that time reorganized i
| from top to bottom. He then resiSne,
| and returned to his law practice
When appointing Ballinger. Roosevelt
remarked that they We're getting
$4,000 man for $1,000. The new SEE
rotary of the interior was born in low
in 1858. his father having studied laN
| with Abraham Lincoln. The son wen
| to Kansas and embarked In the Gait,
| business at the age of seventeen. ii
got preparatory education in til
| University of Kansas and Washbur
college and graduated from William
college in 1884. He practiced law fo
| a time at Boonesboro H., then wen
| south and was prosecuting attoI
ney of Il county In Alabama, returnc
to Chicago, where he practiced tw
years. then went to Seattle. Wash. hi
, present home. There Ire was judc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
inauguration cour.esies,

Ex-President Roosevelt went directly
from the Inauguration ceremonies to
the railway station for the purpose of
taking a train bound northward, but
not, we may add, because he had any
fear that he might have been unwel-
come if he had returned to the White
House to get his valise.-Chicago Rec.
ord-Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Fighter of Bosses.

Charles Nagel of Missouri, new sec
rotary of commerce and labor, Is a
fighter of bosses, a devotee of art and
high class lawyer. He Is better
known among lawyers and educators
than to the public at large, although
he served as member of the Mis-
souri, house Of representatives and is
a member of the Republican national
committee. He is a native westerner,
having been born In Colorado county,
Tex, in 1910. In the height of the
civil war the pronounced Union senti-
ments of his father, DR.. Herman Ma
gel, compelled him to remove from
Texas to st. Louis. Here Charles Ma
gel soon entered the ST. Louis high
school. Graduating from there. he
took two years course in the St
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Reaetipnary .Proaress.p

Frequently we have observed the re.
dictionary doctrines and measures that
have been urged or commended for by
Mr. Roosevelt and have been hailed by
the thougftless ard the sycophantie
as s.progressiye' while. in fact, If they
could be given force they would be de-
strrctiye OF rights and liberties essen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
A DIPLOMAT,

Landlord-How did you manage to
rent that microscopic fiat to Mrs.
Hunter? Agent-Dead easy. When
showed her the little rooms l told her
they We're all closets, and she was so
pleased that she forgot to look for
rooms.-Exchange.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Effect on the Country.

r How will the country feel now that
Colonel Roosevelt is no longer presi
dent? One answer is that it will fee
like the city man who went to the
country to gain perfect rest and
couldn't sleep because there was nc
noise!New York American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Rebuked.

Large Lady Cbeamingly)-Could / get
a seat near the stage, please? Box
Office (surveyingly) = Why. certainly.
What row did you want? Large Lady
Acknowledgment get fresh, young
man.-Judge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Mental MASSAGE,

California is ut it again in the mat
ter of Asiatic exclusion. What shall
we do with her now that we no longer
have Roosevelt to- give her mental
massageT-New York World.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Last of a Noted Paragraph.

We do not expect to see hereafter
in the news from Washington the Gus
tomary paragraph reading. 1.-THE presi-
dent took an eight mile walk in the
pouring rain this afternoon, accom-
panied by two secret service men,
Boston Globe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
viii Still Be In Demand.

Ex-President Roosevelts likeness
will no doubt some day, adorn our
bank notes. But that won't deter
malefactors of great wealth from ac-
cumulating them. = Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Strenuous Work.

BY making an excursion into the
Willis of Africa Mr.. Roosevelt will be
cutting out some strenuous work for
the clipping bureaus.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
No Hard FEELINGS.

An escort of 1000 New Workers for
the retiring president was a convinc-
ing assurance that the big city cher.
ishes no hard feelings toward the
Roosevelt policy Washington
Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
QU|PS ON ROOSEVELT
Diversified Comment on the Re.
tirement of the President.

There are those scornful persons wn1
would have liked to see the Ash OF
March set apart as holiday for ma
tional rejoicing.-Bos Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
"Silcnt Theodore"

The humorist who gave Admiral
Evans, the nickname of Fighting Bob"
would probably suggest calling Roose-
Welt "Silent Theodore. st. Louis Post
Dispatch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Relief For Loeb.

Secretary Loeb laid down the bur
dens of official life March 4. Those
who imagine that Loeb did not lay
down much miss it by thousands of
tons.-Kansas City Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
Nav Be a Reality,

The "head of the universe" job for
ex-President Roosevelt that was start
ed as q joke bids fair to become a
reality.-Los Angeles Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Of the superior court. United States
court commissioner and mayor of Seat
tie. He is author of several lawbooks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
President Taft'S Cabinet Officials

Snappy Side Lights on the Men Who
Will Help the Chief Executive to Steer
the Ship of State. n 81 81 -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
100000 Housewives Converted

figure that 300 900 women this soap every
it for laundering in the kitchen for cleaning
and dish washing. All these who used merely
good soap all their lives, before.
All were converted-at once, and for all time.
Cocoanut oil is reason.
go l0, $40 niles-to Ceylon-for this oil.
Others won't use it because it's expensive.
Then merely good soaps can be made without II.
Yet it's immensely effective.
1t labor and time. You need not boil clothes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-12
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Let thank you this way for buying and trying
cake of Galvanic Soap, for the kitchen and laundry
price Sc. When you buy, simply hand the grocer this
coupon. He'll then hand you as present from
fusized cake of Pamove Soap for the toilet and bath
a soap never sold for less than 1Oc
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The Washington herald., 1909-02-27
DIRECTORS.

CHARLES B. BAILEY,
WM."E. BARKER.
JOHN R. CARMODY
AUGUSTUS CRANE, Jr..
JOSEPH ]. DARLINGTON
JAMES Y. DUBOIS,
JOHN JOY EDISON,
A. p, PARDON,
JOHN A. HAMILTON.
PHILIP HICHBORN,
JOHN A. JOHNSTON,
MARTIN A. KNAPP,
GEORGE a. KING,
WILLIAM KING,
JOHN b. LARNER,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-10
B. & o. CUTS RATES.
New Tariffs Will Be Filed in a Few
DAYS.

BALTIMORE. Md, February 10.-Dis-
patches received from Washington state
that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will
file tariffs with the interstate commerce
commission within the next few days,
meeting the recent cuts in rate of the
Boston and Maine railroad and the Bos-
ton and Albany railroad on import traffic
from Boston and other New England
coast points to Chicago and middle west
ern points. Cnofficia. but reliable infor-
nation to this effect has been received
at the commission. the statement being
made that the Baltimore and Ohio was
having its tariffs. printed.
THE two New England roads reduced
their rates to become effective March 4
next. The rates were reduced so as to
bring them down to rates from Balti-
more to Chicago and other western points
rates. These reductions were. in class
rates. in classes one and Two, cents per
100 pounds. and In classes three. four,
five and six, ; cents per 1G1 pounds. Com
modify rates were also reduced.
To what extent the Baltimore and Ohio
will reduce its rates is awaited with con-
siderable interest. 1t is believed that the
reduction will re-establish the differential
existing between Boston and Baltimore
before action was taken by the New Eng
land carriers. The reductions by the New
England roads and the forthcoming re-
ductiOn of the Baltimore and Ohio may
mean rate war that may ultimately in
volve all eastern carriers. If the cut had
not been met by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, an immense amount of import
business would have been diverted from
Baltimore and other south Atlantic ports
to New England coast ports.
It is predicted in some quarters that
the New England roads will meet the cut
Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad by a
further cut In rates to the west.