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The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
PRESIDENTS PROPHETIC WARN

Yesterday the Presiden. vetoed a bill
authorizing the building of dam
across little river in Missouri He
said that the bill granted valuable
franchie in water power, without
properly safeguarding the rights of the
people.
The veto message was sensational in
the picture that it drew of future So
cial slavery threatened by the monop'
oily of water power.
Says Mr.. Roosevelt: "a single gen
Grafton will see the exhaustion of our
natural resources of oil and gus, and
such rise in the price of coal as will
make the price of electrically transmit
ted water power controlling factor in
transportation, in manuft csuring and IN
household lighting and beating"
The dsa thus presented will come
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
PANAMA CANAL FACTS

Here are some pertinent facts relat'
ing to the Panama canal thas are in
teresting. The emitting of the canal is
the greato5t engineering feat ever un-
lertaken
Width of Is.hmus-37 miles.
Length of canaI-49 miles.
Cost OF eanaI-$4OO,OOO,OOO.
Estimated time of completion-i9l2.
Number OF government employees
$4,000.
Number of American employees
5000.
Other employes-Natives of Barba-
does, Trinidad, Jamaica, Spain and 1t
ally 10000.
Number of train crews engaged in
hauling waste-176.
Number of days in the year in which
i. rains-240.
Size of the made lake at Guton Dam
-ll6 square miles.
Rock used to build Guton Dam--20,-
100000 cubic yards. =.
Number of locomotives used by gov
ernment-196.
Number of trains of waste hauled per
day-53l from Culebra cut alone.
Care of. waste hauled in one day
4 4,425 from Culebra cut alone.
One days work of the steam shovels
$4,000 cubic yards AT Culebra cut
alone.
Maximum height of land on the 18TH
mus-320 feet.
Greatest depth of canal below height
of land-2SO feet.
Width of canal-200 feet.
Lock-; on Atlantic slope-Two
Locks on Pacific slope-Three.
Amount of solid rock 20 be taken
from Culebra eut-39 100000 cubic
yards.
Highest level of canal bottom above
the sea-40 feet
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
TWO MARvELs OF SCIENCE

Two marvellous achievements of sci
ence were recorded in the news of last
Saturday. In one INSTANCE nearly
1000 lives were saved by means OF
wireless telegraphy. In the other the
occurrence of great earthquake was
noted with almost uniform approxi-.
nations, by seismograpiis in dozen cit
les of the world. Inasmnch as no land
destruction has vet been reported, 1t
is probable that it was submarine, but
the fact of its occurrence denoting the
continued disturbance in parts of the
earth's surface, may be of great I'M
portance to the scientific world.
But human interest in the wireless
telegraphy has been vastly intensified
by the service this invention has rem
dered in the case of the wrecked ocean
liners, the Republic and the Florida.
To the lay mind few of the marvels OF
science are so mystifying as this new
means of communication, without tanS-
ible Transmission. 1t has the aspects of
thought transference reduced to visible
records. BY means of it the passen-
gers and crews of two great vessels
were able to call to their rescue in
stanssy. every other craft in reach that
was equipped with receiving inztrl-
meuts. The spectacle of the mammoth
Baltic, responding to this call and com
ing along ide the foundered ships just
when the less disabled of the two-to
which the passengers had been tran7fer'
red-realized that its burden must 60
to the bottom unless aid came soon, is
one of the most remarkable incidents
IN the eventful and tragic history OF
the sea.
The mighty deep still has lbs terrors
but they are neither so many nor SC
great since science has put travellers OF
the ocean into constant communication
Kansas City Star.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
HARTMAN TO COLLEGE MEN

Z. II. Hartman, in reply to the ques-
tion of the Yale News. whether a col.
lege education is n valuable prepara-
tiou for railroading, makes these re-
marks, indicative of keen observation:
A college education will be great
help if the man has kept the founda-
tions of high school learning firmly
fixed. If he has neg;eo.ed his hand
writing and forgotten his arithmetic
in higher mathematics, nothing could
be worse for him.
The high school boy has the advan,
tage in that all the first essentials of
GOOD railroading are at his finger ends
For instance, take the making of a
simple statement. A statememt should
be like picture, something that can
be taken in at a glance.
A high school boy will draw such a
statement with perfect accuracy, while
Young college graduate will draw it in
such a way that it is puzzling
scrawl.
l have found that in every case the
high school boy does better work than
the college man for the first few years
However, as soon as the college man
has overcome these habits and has got
hack to first principles he will go
ahead much faster than his less educat
I'd rival On the other hand,
the high school boy, as being younger,
s more adaptable and has not in most
cases the irregular habits of the col
lege man.
In many other occupations besides
"ailroading- course excersing the
learned professions-wh Mr.. HART
man says is the cold truth. The boy
Who begins young gets the better start.
The college man must 90 faster to over
take him. If he has the right stuff in
him he can usually do it.
To turn to example, most great Amer
lean organizers and managers, from
Commodore Vanderbilt down, have be,
gun work as poor young boys. Mr..
Horriman himielf did not Messrs. Hill
and Yoakum did. Mr. Morgan was not
only a college graduate, but a student in
German university, and a Theoretical
mathematician of fine natural ability.
Of arithmetic he at least remembers ad-
iition.-New York World.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30

with !. shock of surprise to most peo-
that the electrical transmission of water
power is an important factor in certain
parts of the world We have hearu
much of the engineering feats that have
harnessed the energy OF turbulent
streams in the Sierras of California to
the street cars of Oakland and San
Jose. And the development of long
di,tant water power white coal. y as
the Italians call it's the most striking
aspect of modern industralism in north
ern Italy. But the pople in general are
hardly prepared for the the statement
of the President that within a genera
ton this matter of generating electric
itv out of the flow and fall of the
streams will be the principal considera-
ton of industrial and domestic econ
omy.
The remarkable veto-message goes on
to warn us not to let this staple com
modify of the future fall into the hands
of csonolidated money power. If we
do not now iealously guard the public
interest in the streams, he says, "our
children will find themselves face to
face with powerful interests intrenched
behind the doctrine of vested rights, "
and the administration of electrical
water power twill have become con
soidated interest, controlled from the
great financial centers, debating the
terms upon which the citizen can con-
duet his business, of earn his liveli-
hood
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
DEMOCRATS AND THE TARIFF

Prior to the presidential election of
the year just closed, democrats in this
section We're making wild demands for
the removal of the protective tariff.
They set up the silly claim that the
republicans permitted the few to take
money at the expense of the many.
What change since the election and
the assurance of n republican President
and congress for the next few years
According to the returns Colorado vot
ed for the removal of the sugar tariff
and this in the fact of the fact that
Colorado is the leading sugar producing
state of the country. For a time it
looked as if her evident wishes would
he respected and the tariff committee
would recommend removal of the sugar
duty. What was the effect of these
reports on the Colorado democrats ?
Messages and messengers were hurried
cas-. that the committee might be in
duced to let the tariff alone.
In the southern states the cotton
men spoke as one man and demanded
that the tariff be raised, if bothered at
all. The southern states give the dem.
ocratic party handsome majority. In
sheep raising sections, the men asked
and even insisted, tha, the wool duty
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
HELM IN TAFT's CABINET

Some of the leading politicians If the
state have t'an quoted "a eaying the
appointment Judge joseph c. Helm
4, member ,f Taft's ca',inet is with
out doubt very remote So remote they
would have us iclieve. that there is no
pc, sibility OF !, receiving tie honpr.
Granting that they are right in their
view of the affair, it is no less
source of great satisfaction TO the peo-
pie of Colorado regardless of political
have his name mention
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
WHY NOT INVESTIGATE FIRST

While Governor Shafroth, Attorney
General Barnett and :he legislature are
con idcring the matter of bringing an
action IN the courts TO test the eonsti-
rutionality of the forest service. why
not make an investigation and find ont
definitely wha is wrong with that serv-
ice g?
Sensible men do not bring suits to OBJ
ain redress for injuries unless they
laye something more than prejudice to
appeal to and some more substantial
grounds than rumor upon which to- base
.e allegation that injuries have been
Ifiictod. Before bringing suit the
tate should be able to show facts, suf
tic'ent to con titute a cause of action;
lul if the men responsible for .he in
stitution Of proceedings are wise they
win make sure of being able to sustain
such allegations by competent evidence.
Are the gcutlement advancing the
roposed litigation prepared to take a
pei ION antagonis-ic to all forest pres
l- iou1 Tt can hardly be that they
Will voluntarily handicap themselves by
sn aTtiol TO that effect. To go into
soa. wih the declaration, either ex,
pressed or implied, that the people of
Colorado ase opposed to preservation of
He forests. would be both unwisc as a
matter of policy and untrue as a mat
ter of fact.
Do they propose that the state shall
take upon itself the burden of preserv-
ing The forests on land belonging to the
federal government as well as on that
belonging to the state? Assuming this
Ito be their purpose, what showing are
they prepared to make of ability as well
as of intention to carry policy of
that kind into eject?
Should they reject the assumption
that they are indifferent to forest pres
ervation, and be unable to outline a
policy of conservation to be adopted by
the state, what choice would be left
them but to approve some form of fed
eral supervision?
Forced to acknowledge the need of
care by the federal government, they
would be reduced in their litigation to
complaints on account of defects in the
service. Evidently the proper place to
apply for redress in that direction is
congress. in case none can be obtained
by direct appeal to the forestry service.
But. if determined not to adopt what
so clearly is the proper course, then by
all means, let diligent inquiry be made
into the real character of the serv ice be-
fore authorizing expenditures of the
rHople s money, in costly AMI what
may prove to he ridiculous litigation
Republican.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
IMPROVE THE WATERWAYS

In 1863. when the population of the
United States was 34,000,O0O persons,
the bonded debt was $500, 100000 rep
resensing part of the expenditures in a
great war for the preservation of the
Union of states. Property worth many
hundreds of millions more than the pub
of thousands of lives -Tere sacrificed in
this contest. No one believes that the
cost was too great TO pay for the per
petuation of a strong free government.
Today, with population of $4,000,
GOO persons, bonded debt of $900,000,-
900, and aggregate wealth FIVE times
THAT of A years ago, the proposal is
made to issue $500,O0O,0O0 in bonds for
improving the waterways of the coun-
try, and some tiinid persons are shocked
by the " extravaganza of the project
Five hundred million dollars. or even
81 200 100000, spent in improving the
waterways would be for constructive
purposes; would add to the wealth of
the country by cheapening all sorts of
transportation; would open new chan
nels for the employment of labor and
capital; would strengthen the ties that
bind the states together under the ma
tional government.
Having spent billions of wealth de-
structively in saving the country dur
ing the War of the Rebellion, the time
has arrived when the United States
government should invest billions of
wealth constructively in Strengthening
the tics of national well being by i'm
proving the waterways so that they
may carry a vast traffic at low cost
Kansas City Times.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30

be let alone. or raised a notch or two.
Some o fthese same wool men aay have
voted for Bryan and tariff removal.
The question was asked II few days ago
by leading Glenwood democrat, "Is
the time coming when the democratic
party will insert protective plank in
its platform" 1t certainly looks that
way now.
Democrats vote for free trade, and
howl long and loud if the republicans
give the slightest sign of giving what
they vote for. With democrats and So
JUS give us the offices, we need the
coin. -
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
sLENwooD BAol-3
SHOULD TAKE NOTICE

Over in Russia where the people are
ruled by the iron hand of the Gar
and where they are frightened into
submission by threats of banishment,
and Imprisonment in Siberia, the women
are advocating trial marriages.
Under the plans, if adopted, man
and woman may live together for n
stated period. If the biscuits lay heavy
on the stomach or the leather pie crus.s
cause other ailments the man is at lii
erty to vacate the trial home and seek
another cook.
If the trial hubby squirts tobacco
iuice on the polished floor, or stove leg'
and objects to his trial wife taking ad-
vantage of every sale, where S. ladies'
ids are going for forr n;uety-eight or
he does other things that an ideal hub
by would not do, the trial wife may
pack her doll rags and return to her
parents roof and there wal. for an
otber male homeseeker.
in how the plan viii work is to be
proved when tried, but if any Of. our old
bachelors are fearful of the result Of
marriage they might eros the briny
deep and "try or..' in Rnssia. But
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30

Tripoli. Abdul Hamid KEPT on exiting
so many dangerous Young Turks to
Tripoli, that, long before the peaceful
revolution in Constantinople, the prov
inee with its population of nearly one
and half million. was practically in
the hands of the reformers. The gov
ernor general of the province was an
A Albanian. whose appointments came as
a disguised form of banishment. He
took his revenge by assuming the lead
ership of the Young Turk movement in
the villaye.. For his subordinates he
chose exiles. like himself. As governor
of Murzuk he appointed man who has
been professor at Brussa and inspector
of public instruction at Erzum and
whose brother was a member of the
Young Turk central committee in
France. Diami, a captain in the army,
who was banshed to Trpoli on the
ground of "atheism and libera ism.
had his name changed TO Abed el kader
by the resolute governor general, who
made him lieutenant governor of Chat.
The province was without industries,
and the exiled Turks set to work TO
create them, with marked rcsu'ts.-New
York Post.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
SIBERIA AND TRIPoLI

1t has been said of Siberia that in
the course of time its people will occa-
Ply the first place among the civilized
nations of the earth, This will be
brought about by the policy of the Rue
sian government, which for hundred
years kept exiling the best and noblest
of her blood to the region beyond the
Urals. Nature never selected her fit-
test as remorselessly as the czars have
done in supplying Siberia with a popu
lation. The results are evident already.
Siberia s scientists and teachers are in
large part, or We're at one time, exiles
country it was revealed in the cleo
tions for the first and second Russian
parliaments, when Siberia returned sol.
id or nearly solid, Socialist delegations.
Later Russian policy is awake to the
situation. The czar s government finds
It safer, as well as cheaper, to shoot
it5 political prisoners on the spot, than
TO send them to Siberia. Instead it has
begun to foster the migration of peas
ant eolouists, who may be depended on
to labor obey.
Now comes n curious parallel to Si-
IBERIA in Turkeys African province in
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
d seeretary oi the interior.

ed for secretary OF the interior.
Judge Helm, recently justice of the
Colorado Supreme Court, and reeogniz-
ed as being one of the most prominent
iurists in the west, is in every way
qualified for the place, and we believe
we are but voicing the sentiment of his
friends in every section of the state,
and neighboring states when we wish
Mr. Taft to select him.
As man he is known as lasting
friend TO everyone, as jurist he has few
equals in the west, and if a vote of the
people could be taken he would get the
lion Is share of those cast In speaking
of Mr.. Helm the Colorado Springs Gaz-
e.te says in part;
".Tustice Helm is well fitted to dis
charge the duties of Secretary of the
Interior, and every possible pressure
should be brought to bear on Mr.. Taft
to appoint him to that office. A
nudge whose decisions have never been
influenced by any question of personal
interest; citizen who has always
placed the public welfare above private
gain; a man with mind of clarity and
strength and fiber-this is wha. the
name of Joseph C. Helm stands for in
Colorado Springs and the state at
large"
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
Saturday, January 80, 1909.
1908 PREDICTIONS;
1909 FULFILLMENTS

ga bird 's-eye view of the country,
pieced together from the news columns
of last week papers, affords pic
ture which is altogether inspiring, even
tho ITS outline here and there may waver
with a suspicion of mirage. 1t is
picture of all industries shaking off
their lethargy of the past year, OF fac
tories reopening, of half time giving
way to full time, of new enterprise
springing into life, of capital casting
eff its burden of fear, and of the un-
employed trooping to employment. Re
publican papers point triumphantly 10
the fact that within twentyfour hours
of the closing of the polls, this picture
began to take form, thus apparently
confirming Mr.. Taft's predictions that
a business revival would tread upon the
heels of Mr.. Bryan's defeat. Accord
ing to a canvass made by the National
Association of Manufacturers. the i'm
portant manufacturing interests OF this
country are about to put to work at
least 1000 idle men. Literary Di-
gest of November IA, 1908.
Form the above it will be seen that
prosperity predictions were coming in
from all sections of the country. The
Atlanta Constitution, (Dem.), said at
this same time that Since it was upon
the issue of prosperity that the repub-
licans won, it rests with them to make
performance square with promise-to belt
up the wheels of industry and to pro
vide work for the unemployed.
And have the republicans male
goods
Hardly had the echoes of the first
republican yell of triumph died away on
the night of election when the thread
mills of New Jersey announced re-
sumption of full time; announcement
came of 20 per cent. wage-increase of
several Pittsburg factories; increased
ordens were given for steel rails; stimu
lated activity in building, dry-goods
and grocery trades; restoration of high
wages in southern cotton mills; rail
roads showing increased activity by or
ering new engines and cars; thirty eight
steamboat companies rescinded orders
to cut wages, and rosy statements of
promised prosperity flashed across the
country, from every state.
The builders have taken the election
CT Mr.. Taft as a pledge of prosperous
times ahead. In our own state, Denver,
Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Grand June
tion, and scores of smaller towns are
today heralding the erection of hand
some business houses; railroad builders
are planning to increase their mileage
and reach out and take in the undevel-
oped coal and agricultural areas; power
companies are harnessing our mountain
streams, and thus laying the foundation
for new factories in Colorado; the pro
ducts of the farms are commanding
profit giving prices; eastern investors
are seeking places for their capital in
our mineral filled mountains and Colo
RADIO marble is in greater demand. We
could name score of evidences of re-
publican prosperity as enjoyed by Col
orado people, but it is not necessary.
The people are learning that a republic
an president, republican congress and
prosperity go hand in hand and that
democracy of the Bryan type and hard
times are twin brothers.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
CHEAP POSTAGE vs.. WAR

Last October two-cent postage be-
tween Great Britain ard the United
States was establiheH. = similar rate
has recently been put into eject with
Germany in the case of letters sent
,hcre direct and NOT by way of France
or England.
Now loud protests are helri in France
against officials who have permitted
Germany to precede the republic in in
reducing cheap postage with the Unit
ed States. Yet for a little time at
least the reform is likely to linger
where it is. France will hardly heed
the call for cheaper postage TO the
United States before making similar
arrangement with her ally, Great Brit
ain; and Britain has practically decided
that she capnct afford any more lower
ing of postage rates when she is about
to raise and spend 1925 100000 more
each year largely upon new warships.
The. foremost nations in culture and
intelligence are still more ready to
spend ten millions upon killing ma
chimes than one million upon peaceful
communications. York World
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
p1zzcr P6uIAzz COST

IF the .egi are as-eta direct phi
t4ry Jaw, tle .l=1-y is oi oolarodo
.dl fiaI s--a. r5i-ta- in,-e5sAi iuiy
5-00,GuO f-f ,a-- PY-,.iea- eimpaiel'
-or it will cost taa- aueh 10 hold
primary e.cg,-on La e1eh election dis->
.riet OF the s.a.c.
vii the ta.qayars gain anything in
eturu for tais args ONT ay! The odds
are thousand to one against it. The
o-etieany tbe people sia be given full
Il opportunity 10 uomiua.e candidates
Tor office, bat practically the men who
make business OF politics will make
be tickets and the voters will hold the
bag. Under any primary shat can be
framed the leading political parties will
still maintain control of their organ
'zations, and these. ,yil control direct
primaries, about as easily and as GER
aatuy as they lo-t4o Bind we have
now.
OF course the leE's a.ua b1. po~or
20 try the experiment Ipt if wislom
control the deliberation of that body
.be undertaking wiz q. .orst Dr. Post
ooned rnei' the poonla aye heirer IN
cormcd regarding the merits and demer-
'ts.-Rcpublican.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
KING EDWARD INDIGNANT

According to W. T. Hawthorne, King
Edward OF England is rasher indig
nant because parliament ref'sed to
make donation coward assisting the
relief work for the italian sufferers.
1t must be u source of chagrin to this
monarch, who has never been accused
Of being tight-wod, But no less hate
fulis it to him than to the general
English speaking people
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
THE DEMOCRATS gnined control d

THE DEMOCRATS gained control of
the Indiana legislature the last election.
The fight was nalo on the county local
option law previously passed by the re.
publicans. Now the demolegislators
are lnging. plons-+o repeat the law; and
some great flights of oratory are prom
ised ii is saSI this came Indiana. leg
Stature wonld have chosen John w.
Kern for United States senator, but the
whiskey men Of the STATE said ".no,"
and the solf.ps bowed to the commands
of their bosses.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30
JOHN W. -. Of Indiana. tv

JOHN W. KEEN, OF Indiana, twice
defeated for governor Of the Hoesicl
$ ate, once for viee-president of tn,
United States and more recently for
the senatorial toga Of his political
tamping ground auaolnees that he is
sore. He might follow the example of
the thrice defeated Nebraskan and
seek relief in the soothing brcezes of
Mexico.
The Glenwood post., 1909-01-30

for the sake of old times don It all go
1T once.