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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
FREE TRADE IN LUMBER

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Two principles are automatic in this lumber discussion: Every foot of lum ber brought into the United States from Canada saves a foot of American stand ing timber. And every year that passet gives that much moro chance for gain in reforestation. We must have abou, 40, 900, 100000 feet of lumber. If we can bring some of that lumber in from Canada, we save to that extent our OWL depleted reserves and give time for oui stripped watersheds to grow the trees that will attract and control the rain fall. We directly aid two of tho i'm portant reforms of the day-reforesta ton and conservation of certain natu ral resources other than forests.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
IT WILL BE A LOCK CANAL

Evidently the issue as between a sea level and lock canal is definitely settled in MT. Taft's mind According to his announcement at New Orleans the work is to go on at the isthmus just as it has been proceeding, and there are to be no changes in the fundamentals of the plan. The engineers agree that the lock canal and the Gatun dam are practicable ard safe, though they will recommend some important changes in detail. MT. raft's hope that the canal may be completed during the next four years indicates belief that the work may be expedited. At all events his faith that the canal may be finished by 1915, as Colonel Goethals has ire quently predicted, appears unshaken. Whatever carping critics may say, MT Taft's cheery optimism concerning the ultimate success of this vast enterprise accords better with the American spirit than the gloomy prognostications we have been treated to of late.
 In the nature of the case, the people and, in lesser degree, their representa- tvs in congress must rely upon admin istrative officers and engineer advisers for correct judgment as to the type of canal and for the actual carrying out of the project. The best engineering talent in the country has been concen- trated on the canal problem, 1t has been thoroughly studied from every side, and Mir. Taft himself, to say nothing of the army officers now in direct charge of construction, are familiar With every phase of 1t. These men are risking their personal regulations and their future fame on the successful execution of the project. If they cannot be trusted. if their judgment and professional skill cannot be relied on, 1t is impossible to say on whose judgment and skill we can rely. Certainly there are few mem bers of congress who have given the problem sufficient study to be able to pronounce valuable judgment upon it. Most of them doubtless feel that their own opinions must be guided largely by those of the people directly respon- sible for the completion of the work. They are bound to accept expert ad- vice, provided 1t seems reasonable and malicious. Taking this point of view, congress authorized the lock canal, and it is not called upon to revise it's judg- ment unless very weighty reasons are brought forward for so doing. From present appearance such reasons will not be forthcoming.
 It is interesting to recall, in view of the obvious purpose of canal critics to discredit the decision of the Roose- welt administration favorable to lock
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canal, that both the president and MT. Taft were predisposed to the sea-level project prior to the examination into the question of canal type by the board of engineers appointed in 1905, which reached divided opinion. In an ad- dress to that board, MT. Roosevelt said he felt the sea-level canal to be the best in the end, if feasible, and MT. Taft, in transmitting the report of the board to the president, confessed that he had originally thought the sea-level canal would be much more certain to satisfy the demands of tho worlds com merce, but that he had been converted to the contrary view by the report of the minority. MT. Roosevelt's judg. ment. as stated in his message to con- gress, was affected by the conclusions of Chief Engineer John F. Stevens, who thus summarized the advantages of the lock as compared with the sea-level ca nal:
 Tt will provide as safe and
 quicker passage for ships, and there
 fore will be of greater capacity.
 "It will provide beyond question
 the best solution of the vital prob
 lem of how safely to care for the
 flood waters of the Chagres and
 other streams.
 Provision is made for enlarging
 its capacity to almost any extent at
 very much less expense of time and
 money than can be provided for by
 any sea-level plan.
 ''Its cost of operation, mainte-
 nance, and fixed charges will be
 very much less than any sea-level
 canal
 ''The time and cost of it's con
 struction will be not more than
 one-haf that of canal of the sea
 level type"
 These conclusions, based on those of the five American engineers coustitut- ing the minority of the board of consult ing engineers, were accepted by all but one of the then members of the 18th milan Canal Commission, by Mir. Taft and by the president, and were finally accepted by congress. None of them has been successfully challenged, unless Senator Kittridge was correct in his assertion the other day that sea-level canal would be cheaper than the exist ing project, which ds improbable. If the basis of the original judgment has been proved to be sound, as tho verdict of the engineers with MT. Taft would seem to show, it is not surprising that the decision of the president-elect should be to go ahead on the present plan.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
PANAMA CANAL AND TRADE

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Regarding the Panama canal, into which we are emptying millions of money and years of time as well as international reputation, it is incumben, on the south to remember that the de lay in completing this historic projec, gives us the opportunity to adequately prepare for profting from it. The day that witnesses its opening to commerce should witness also such developmen, of manufacturing in Dixie that ships will be ready-laden with finished goods to invade the markets of the Orient, and of the western coast of South America We have the goods and the men. Have we the initiative and enterprise7
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
CAUSE AND DIRE EFFECT

We sometimes incline to think that were Theodore Roosevelt able to look uneringly into the future, he would be more carefully circumspect in the pro mitigation of some of his executive manifestos-limiting their operations to certain exact conditions, and definite ly disclaiming desire to set precedents in snywise binding outside of his own sphere of influence. to say the least of 1t. And we say this, too, fully mind ful of tho probable righteousness of that feeling with which tho country Is apparently impregnated in respect of MT. Roosevelt; that whatever he says or does is founded on patriotism and good intent, no matter though 1t may be a fair and legitimate object of adverse criticism on occasions.
 case in point, for instance, is found in his recent famous order directing that the various officers of the United States army demonstrate their fitness for service by riding, without a show of unmilitary fatigue, a certain some what strenuous distance on horseback. We do not, and have not, questioned the justness of this test. From the standpoint of true soldier, who may, as matter of cold and precise fact, be called to actual war at any time, this physical perquisite is doubtless in line with common sense and effective neces- sity. It may have seemed harsh and terrifying to some warriors given to erstwhile chair-warming all but exclus lively, but that 1t was a means to most commendable end we shall not dis pute or ever SO slightly question.
 But when, in distinguished emulation Of this illustrious precedent, the gov ernor of Missouri prescribes for his military parallel test of efficiency, we are moved to remark, in the words of Artemus Ward, it is ''too mutchlu We honor the governor in so far as concerns his eminent regard for lofty and worthy example, but we fear he assumes the wrong point of view in the crisis upon him. He is a new gover nor, We believe, and that may account for his action; but he ought to be set right by his friends, nevertheless He should realize that governors g staff is expected to be ornamental entirelv- not useful at all. These gorgeous and glitteripg gentlemen are designed to shine resplendently, of course, but to bght-neverl Their ability to ride ex. haustively a-horseback is neither here nor there. If they are able, all well and good. If not, they may take an automo. bile, and the important records of his tory be 4n no manner disturbed or changed, therefore, True, once upon a time a certain governor elect of Michi- gan fell off his horse while proceeding to his inauguration, but it does not ap pear that he did not make a good gov ernor subsequently. Suppose one of his staff had met like fate7 Would 1t prove anything worth while? We trow notl
 Let us hope other governors through out the union will not be moved to fool ish or unreasonable things, even though apparent sanction of the same may be found in exalted quarters at times.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
Shifting Slugs

Japan is too poor to go to war, say some. "Then why wait until she is- n't?'' ask others Two thousand pampered dogs were ex- hibited in the New York bench show. Nearly that many men can be found in the bread line every night.
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 King Edward and Emperor of Ger many kissed each other several times when they met. Achl
 That big oil well at Dos Bocas, Mex ico, is now spouting rock, as well as other things. This will be gold mine if somebody will devise pipe Line that will carry rocks.
 Ban Johnson. Harry Pulliam and Charley Murphy appear to be organiz- ing an Ananias club of their own.
 Here's another from New Jersey: A Newark man invented a flying machine guaranteed to make 50 miles an hour But it hasn't performed yet.
 Great Britain is to build six new Dreadnaughts. If Great Britain dread ed naught, she would not have to build them.
 The Duke of Abruzz, in order to for get all is going to climb Mt. Karako- rum, 25,0oo feet high. Doubtless if Miss Elkins says the word he will climb down again.
 A word from Josh Wise: ''If VIC tax bachelors, ought we not pension married men7"
 Wireless Hero Binns was welcomed to his homo town of Peterborough, Eng land, by three brass bands and the lord mayor. So far he has been spared the present of house. Whats the use of fishing all day and catching nothing7'
 "Just as much as there is in flirting and always losing out.' The pesSmist says that the reason brides wear long wells is to conceal their satisfaction. ''Is the financial furry over? Yes until somebody drops dime in stree. car full of women and they all lay claim to it, A woman can marry her deceased bus bands brother if she desires, but she seldom does, one experience with the family being sufficient. No one ever knows what a saint de parted benedict was until he marries said bcnedict's widow.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
AN AGGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

J. Edgar Chamberlain, in the New York
 Mail
 As nearly as can be judged from their expressions, to their congressman and in other ways, the people rejoice in Roose- welt as a great aggressive president. They accept him as the aggressive head of an aggressive nation. They are ap- parently as much interested in his pro ceedings as they have ever been.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
MAY SHE BE THE LAST vIo7

MAY SHE BE THE LAST VICTIM
 Horse racing with attendant gambling has been legally stopped in California, The Hughes crusade in New York has swept other states, and it now appears that the ''sport" is doomed in this country.
 The moral sweep is one of the things we, as nation, may we'll boast of. It is, of course blow to August Belmont, John W. Gates, Clarence Mackay and the other millionaire devotees of the game. But they could afford to lose. It is a godsend to the poor fools who loved the game and could not afford to lose. It is a benign blessing to the wives and babies of the fool followers of the sport who imagined that they could beat the game.
 The other day there appeared in Judge Browns court at Oakland, Cal, young woman with her little child. The woman's face was pale, her eyes were red ith weeping, her lips Quivered and her whole form was trembling. She was plainly but neatly dressed, and the way she looked at the child and kept 1t tightly clasped to her side indicated that she was a loving and good mother
 She had loved and married a young man who had a modest position in one of the big stores. The husbands small salary made the wife do her own house work, economize as to her clothing and make other sacrifices, but she kept busy and was very happy in her little home. Some of our women readers maybe know what it is to drudge all day at getting the meals and keeping the house clean, and making over old clothes, time and again, and going without fires to save cn the coal bill. and sacrificing theatre going, calling on friends, and amuse- ments generally in order to make both ends meet.
 
 This woman did these things and yet was cheerful and happy. How she did help her husbandl Finally baby came. It meant more scrimping, more saving, more sacrifice, but how good God had been to send them that little mite of pink flesh, sunny smiles and delicious cooingsl And the woman sang as she saved and slavedl
 What was she doing in Judge Brown s court7 She was there to hear Alfred LeBeuf, her husband, sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for stealing his employers money to support an in- stitution then fostered by the state of California--racetrack gambling.
 What will she do ten years without her husband7
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

A scientist has succeeded in breeding a duck without breastbone. It was worse than a waste of time, we think. Who wants a duck that runs exclusive ly to drumsticks and wings7
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

The instinct of the woman guides her to goodness-and takes the man along, but there are perversions of this instinct in woman. as exceptions exist to prove all rules.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

Now that the gentle are of grating is conceded to have become dangerous even in Pennsylvania, the psychological moment for ushering in the millennium would appear to be very close at hand
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

The Congressional Record may be a little slow, but 1t is accurate. It an nounced Taft and Sherman's election in its Thursday issue and printed the figures to prove it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

A bakers paper states that the first pretzels were made in America in 1910. Some people will refuse to grow opti- ns-stic over the pretzel outlook, how ever, until they learn exactly when the last one is to be made.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
AUTOS FOR ARMY USE

From the Philadelphia Telegraph
 We take it that the automobile is an absolutely necessary part of modern equipment at any military post, and that to deny it is not merely parsimony, but the evidence of discouraging ap- athy in respect to the incentives to army spirit, army discipline and army efficiency.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

Senator ''Jeff" Davis is said to be contemplating the publication of book. This ought to please the octopus, whose enemy the senator certainly is.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
LOOKS LIKE THE WOMEN ARE
 AFTER US
We men folks better wake up.

We men folks better wake up.
 We better get together, hire a good publicity bureau and get out full line of stories for our friendly newspapers to print. These stories ought to tell of the kindhness. generosity. courtesy and gentleness of he-folks.
 We better stop denouncing Wall street; roasting the trusts; jawing about the railroads; fussing about Aldrich and Morgan and cussing congress in general and Cannon in particular.
 That's what a trust does when it sees it is about to be muck-raked, and unless all signs fail the women are going to give us dose that will make T. Lawson's stuff read like an astro- nomical society's year book.
 Roosevelt started the whole business.
 He sent out that "farm commission " outfit to find out what was the matter with farm life. And instead of asking the men folks and letting 1t go at that they asked the women lot of questions enough to get them all stirred up.
 The farmers wives said that the greatest trouble was the men folks, and you and your wives read about it and laughed
 But just wait. Wait till your wife thinks it over bit and then your turn will come. For haven't you been doing by her about as the farmer has done by his wife?
 This is what the farmers women folks have said:
 Father won't let horse work as many hours as he lets mother
 Father has all the new-fangled ma cirtnery and won't let mother have even a carpet sweeper"
 "Fatlier has what hired help he needs in rush times; mother never has any help"
 "I s,lved egg money five years to buy swung A0SAhO a1io my huSooho bought a new fodder cutter instead. '
 1T walked up and down the cellar stairs ten times a day for eleven years. I saved the cost of a dumb waiter and my husband took the money to buy a sulky blow"
 Mot a cent is spent for books or amusements to give my brain some food.'
 My husband never pretends that I am partner in our family, am merely one of the farm animals, am valuable for the work I do.
 My seif-respect would grow if my husband and the boys would show me the respect due a woman. If they would take of their hats in the house; speak often and civilly to me; treat me like an equal instead of a servant
 We men folks read 1t and we said: Just like farmer. They are mean er'n the trusts.
 But are we any better? Change the environment bit and don't we treat our womankind about the same?
 Just now it's funny to see the farmer writhing on the grill, but when our women folks come to appreciate the rich brown crust that Mrs. Farmer is
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

Uncle Sam" Is a game old sport at times, and appears willing to take a chance on any old thing. He is going to raise the weather mans pay s1 ,o0o a year,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

A French professor says "All chil- dren are born hars.'' And the roster of the Ananias club shows that large percentage of them fail to get over 1t as they grow up.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

John L. Sullivan is going to the Pa cihc coast to have heart to heart talk
 with Jeffries. John and Jim have met
 many times face to face but never hand to hand.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

Everybody is rich enough to give away kindness, and this is a precious gift rarely bestowed in this thoughtless world.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
SOME ARE TRYING IT

From the Toledo Blade.
 In view of the high cost of living, this would be good time to test the efficacy of getting up from the table hungry.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

banning upon her husband-and why then our turn will come.
 And it won't be funny when our women folks begin honestly to compare notes on our domestic cussedness.
 We better prepare for the storm, for one is brewing.
 We better hire press agent.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

A picture of Grover Cleveland is to appear on new series of S1o gold cer tificates. We do not suppose there is sixteen-to-one man left in the country, however, who would shy at one of them because of that
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

The late United States Senator Car. mack of Tennessee proved martyr to his cause after all. Tennessee would hardly have voted for prohibition through her legislature so soon had not the tragedy that took of the leading prohibitionist occurred.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

Pity we cannot preserve the peace between this country and Japan by saturating California and Nevada in benzoate of soda, or something equally as bad.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

When you wish to show a person how to use revolver-'' begins tho St, Louis Post Dispatch. Take the said person out and show him the new jail instead.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
HOW IT HAPPENED

From the Philadelphia Record
 The upshot of the Brownsville matter is the apparent belief that the rifles went of automatically, greatly surpris- ing the soldiers, all of whom were asleep at the time.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

"Taft will lean on Knox," says a newspaper headline. Nevertheless, we opine that Knox crushed to earth will rise again.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
IT HAS IT'S DRAWBACKS

From the St. Louis Republic.
 February 12 can never make a very useful holiday. It is too early for base bah and too late for football.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

Some named Mrs. Lenora Lake de clares that bachelors are the worlds greatest evil This is an evil that can be remedied--and feminine crusade to this end is constantly in active cam paigning.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

That spring is close at hand is not to be doubted. Bards sublime through out all the land are beginning to ling of sassafras tea.
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K x x sS S x x x x x THIS MORNINGS GREETING

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 < think of two of your own, and do ,s not add third one by your nasty
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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

"How can cook the fewest number of eggs?" some woman asks. Try cooking lem in cold water, madam.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

The new president of Haiti has been elected for term continuing as long as he can hold on to the job.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
WASTE AND STARVATION

From the New York Evening Post.
 Dreadnoughts and bread noughts go hand in hand.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

The King of Spain is to visit the King of Portugal. Evidently Alfonso is a fiend for excitement.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

The Silver Belt has larger circula- sioa than any daily newspaper in the wsrld published in city with l0,0OO or iess population.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-19

''Is the financial furry over7 Yes until somebody drops dime in stree. car full of women and they all lay claim to it,