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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

It is going to sit as a grand jury to scrutnize the crime of its own brat. Cabot Lodge is the foreman of the grand jury, and only the other day he said the tariff was innocent, and last summer he made labored argument to show that there was no such person as consumer. He declares the tariff has nothing to do with the price of beef. Then what is the use of tariff on beef? It brings no revenue and If 1t does not work to pro- tect, why not wipe it out? And why not wipe out the tariff on shoes and other things made of leather? Shoes made in Massachusetts are sold abroad cheaper than the same shoes are sold at home. Watches made in Massa chusetts are sold to the foreigner cheaper than to the American, and the list of tariff protected at home would fill columns of news paper. Thus 1t would seem that the chief benefit, or rather the whole benefit. con ferred by the American tariff is upon the foreigner.
 I'll bet 90 cents the Lodge whitewash committee brings in the tariff not guilty. That is what it is there for, and all 1t is there for; but the people will not pay one bit of attention to it.
 There died some days ago in Mas sachusetts William Everett. youngest and favorite son of Edward Everett. No more scholarly man ever sat in the American Congress than this son of an
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The Southern Cross was directly ahead, not far above the horizon. Higher and higher rose the moon, and brighter the flood of her light. At intervals the bark ing call of zebras was heard on either hand. It was after midnight when we again halted. The porters were tired, and did not sing as they came up; the air was cool, almost nipping, and they at once huddled down on their blankets some of them building fires. We the white men, after seeing our horses staked out, each lay down on his overcoat or jacket and sicker, with his head on his saddle and his rifle beside him, and had little over two hours sleep. At we were off again, the shivering porters making no sound as they started but once under way the more irrepressibe spirits speedily began a kind of inter mittent chant, and most of the rest by degrees joined in the occasional grunt or hum that served as chorus.
 For four hours we travelled steadily, first through the moonlight. and then through the reddening dawn. Jackals shrieked, and the plains blower walled and scolded as they circled round us.
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pertinent The powers delegated to the federal government. and the rights re- served to the states, and to the people. are so fitted and adjusted by checks and balances as to provide the best guarantees for civil and religious liberty that have ever been devised by the wisdom of man.
 It is not my purpose here to enter upon the wide and troublous domain of what usually goes by the name of politics" for l am no partisan, and even If were this is neither the occasion nor the med ium for-ventilating my views. There is, however an important sense in which every American citizen who knows his rights and his duties is. and must be, a .politician;" and in this sense I will not disclaim the title. Nor is it my intention here to undertake the task of interpreting "the course of Providence" The task Is one for which I have no qualifications; nor am I at all sure that any man but an inspired prophet Is capable of wisely trac- ing the hand of Providence in human events
 GOD AND THE CONSTITUTION
 So far as my knOWleQSe CALCULUS, tHC American citizen is the only human be- ing upon the face of the earth who has the undisputed right to think and to act as he pleases in matters of re- ligion. How did we secure this inesti- mable boon? The history Is a very re- markable one At the time when our federal constitution was in making, very few thinkers in all this world were so bold as to believe that the average man could be trusted to choose his own religion, absolutely untram- melled by the state. Even John Locke, from whom many of the statesmen of i7s7 drew much of their inspiration, never went so far as to advocate this. Even today we find, now and then, a man who mourns over the fact that our fathers failed to put God into the constitution" Such theorists, who in- sist upon ticketing and labelling their religion everywhere, and under all cir cumstances, do most certainly fall to see the true functions and the right limits of human government. The framers of our constitution were not acting as theologians. but as states- men. They were not undertaking to guide men to heaven, but to govern them on earth. They were founding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

"HE c. o. P. is preparing to prac-
 tice another deception, to open an-
 ! other package of cant. The whole country Is aroused to protest against the high cost of livins-the highest in the world, Christian or pagan. That is ad- ritted all hands round, clothing and shelter cost the American more than any them. You can buy American meats cheaper in London than in Chicago, cheaper in Liverpool than in Kansas City. Ycu can buy a suit of clothes in London for one-half the price you are charged for the same suit in New York. You can rent for A shillings, or ss month better house in Manchester, Old England, than you can get for $25 a month in Bos- ton, New England. The foreign farmer buys American made reapers, thrashers, mowers, blows, harrows and other ma chinery and implements of husbandry cheaper than the same sold to the American farmer. And for the last count of farm machinery the tariff is directly and absolutely responsible. You see those things are made of wood and steel. If the implement is made for export. the manufacturer gets his steel and wood free of duty; but if the thing Is made for, and sold to, an Iowa or Tennessee farm CT, the manufacturer must use protect ed' wood and steel
 We'll, the republican Senate is going to investigate the thing, or pretent to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

would be satisfied with $1Oo,OOo and others would call for millions. But suppose that the omnipotent government could make us all milionaires alike. how long would we remain so? Just long enough for the improvident to spend their money fool ishly and for the prudent to invest theirs wisely. An uncomfortable proportion of the complaints made against the ''ine- qualities of condition In this country are, at bottom, not against our govern ment, but against God Almighty's. Why does not He make and keep everybody equal to everybody else? I don't pre- tend to know; but if He should do this, I feel pretty certain that should go over to the Schopenhauer camp and say that life is not worth living"
 "The blessing of religious freedom is sometimes sadly abused and yet we count 1t precious boon, and thank God for 1t. Even so the legal right of every citizen
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having no educational advantages, merely because he has not learned Latin and Greek! For a few cents you can buy Macaulay's Essays, and Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of Paul; and there is more to be learned from these two books than most college graduates ever get out of all the Latin and Greek authors
 With the excellent and cheap English literature now accessible to our youth there is no excuse for ignorance. 3. THE FREE SPIRIT OF lNVESTIGA-
 TON.
 I am not of the class of people who go into paroxysms of fright at what Bib Heal Criticism" has done, or may do. Shelley, I believe it was, who said: T don't believe in ghosts; I've seen too many of them;" and most of those who are so frightened at the ghost of biblical crit icism, have seen little of it, and know all most nothing about it. have not the least doubt that the modern tests to which the Bible, and especially the life of Christ, have been subjected, have been, and will still be, upon the whole, helpful to the faith of candid and intelligent students of the scriptures.
 4. OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES.
 It is probable that under our form of government, these are better secured than are those of any other people When Pope wrote'
 For forms of government let fools con
 test;
 That which is best administered is best" he showed that he knew little of the sub ject Under our existing system any grinding oppression of any considerable body of people, is, for any length of time. well-nigh an impossibiity; and 1t is doubt full if this can be truly said of any other form of government now existing on this earth. have no desire to live under a hereditary monarchy. American politics may be tainted with corruption, and the people do not always choose their rulers wisely; but we have never had an execu- tive whose chief notoriety arose from cheating at the gambling table, and if we should have such an executive we should have ourselves to blame. In England such a man can come to the throne by hereditary right" ! Our system of government is unique, and when framed in 17s7 was novel ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

T0HE lower animals have no history.
 Each of them lives his own life
 x and knows nothing of the manner of life of his forefathers. Man has his tory, and by comparing the present with the past, he learns something of human progress. By such comparison of the condition of this generation of Americans with that of past generations, and with that of other nations. we shall find much to be thankful for. And,
 1. AS TO THINGS MATERIAL.
 No man who is not idiotic and who has really learned how to do any useful work need fear starvation in this coun- try. The English traveller who sas "do- ing" America inquired at the hotel for .sthe boots," and after some search, found the knight of the backing brush in restaurant across the street dining on roast turkey. I do not say that the hootblack was making the wisest invest mont of his means, but I do say that an European bootblack would not be likely to have means to invest in such a way, Do bootblacks in any other country dine thus? One-third of the human race are toe poor to eat bread Something like ene-nfth of the population of France aue of the most cultivated nations in the vorld-cannot afford to eat bread, as rsgular diet, but must live on something cheaper.
 Some people in this country greatly Asprecate the smoking habit, and grieve e see the draymen on our streets smok- Ing their cigars. But there is bright side to this. Do you know of any other country where draymen can get cigars @ smoke!
 0acaulay once said that it was sad fact that there were 300O0 thieves In Lon don; but that there was bright side to this fact; for what other city in the world could support 5000 thieves? And how im- uense must be the honest gains, and the solid thrift in a city in which the mere offerings support so many!
 | OUR EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.
 Ie you really wish to be educated there . no excuse for your living in ignorance. An ugly awkward lank, lean Hooser vas once seen by one of his neighbors sit- ting on a woodpile. deeply immersed in a book. What are you at there, Abe?" said tho passerby. I'm studying law" was the reply. It was. Abraham Lincoln. ..elame on. sthe youth. who whines about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

not a church. but state, and they were not weak enough to believe that the two could really be one.
 Tt is not fair to call these men Goddess" Franklin made a most memorable plea for prayers in the federal convention. though he failed to carry his point, and Franklin was ex- ceedingly liberal in his religious views Jefferson was abroad at that period, and so had nothing to do with fram- ing the constitutions; but his well known liberality In matters religious had most powerful influence in se- curing absolute freedom of religion in this country. If Madison had been a bigot; if Jefferson had been a zealot; if ,Frankling had been an enthusiast, one trembles to think how different might have been our present condition as regards religious freedom.
 EQUAL RIGHTS.
 Another striking thing about the or ganic law of our land is that every citizen of this republic has equal rights before the law. True, he cannot always enforce his rights, but this is true of every right that any citizen ever had under any government upon earth It is one of the inherent weak nesses of all human institutions and can never be cured while man is in his present state.
 England is often called the freest coun- try on earth; and yet the very name of subject which is applied to every cit lzen of the British state, shows distinct ly that such thing as absolute equality before the law is unknown in England Even in this country men do occasionally complain of the inequalities of life and of the conditions of living; but the sober minded thinker, who has really studied the subject, is usually slow to believe that any wise legislation can be reason ably expected to equalize human condi- tions; and even if these could be equal ixed, who Is weak enough to imagine that they could be kept so for "A hours? l If Congress and all the state legislatures should pass law that everybody should have plenty of money, and that each cit izen should decide for himself just how much is "a plenty and if by some un- known alchemy, the people really could be supplied with "a plenty" would that "equalize' things? Not at all. for some q 2 |. -I ~ -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

to do the best he can for himself may be, and is, abused; but it will be a sad day for human progress when this right is seriously abridged by human legislation. God Almighty is the only being who can be trusted to make privileged classes '. CHEERING SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
 There are many evils abroad in our land, and our current literature abounds with prognostications of dire calamities ahead of us But let us take courage from some glances at the bright side.
 There are solid scriptural grounds for believing that God will finally overrule all the sins of the world to His own honor and glory, and to the highest good of His redeemed people; that every grogshop and gambling den shall be forced to pay its tribute to the glory of God and to the hap piness of his saints. If this be not true, how could Paul say that "all things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06
Billiards More Popular. the Detroit Free Press

Billiards More Popular.
 From the Detroit Free Press.
 This winter has shown a moro pro- nounced revival in billiards than in any pastime or sport that can be mentione6.~ said W. l.. Howard of Chicago at the Hotel Normande. Tt is estimated that 5oo00 men have been playing billiards reg ularly in Chicago. A few days ago there was little interest in the game that had been the rage in other days. Bowling cut in and attracted many of the billiard players While bowling still is the fav- orite, many are coming back to billiards and the old game has an army of re- cruits.
 When the east and west were d. vided in opinion as the relative merits of Schaefer and Slosson and Ives, and Carter and others were playing in what was called the short stop tournament, billiards was the thing in our town. In those days only the champions and as- pirants for such honors were playinn balk line. but now there Is leaninn toward big tables and the chalk lines ara considered necessary for the complete enjoyment of ordinary players
 "Billards is good game for the win- ter season. A man walks miles in a hour or two at the table and it improve his sight and makes his brain work ao the same time. Pool holds its own amon0 the younger element and will continue to be the popular game for them. although the travelling men like 1t and you cag find plenty of them at the pool tableo around the hntelas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06

work together for good to them that love God"
 The existence of a personal devil-a deeply malignant and miraculously vigi- lant enemy of all righteousness--is one of the darkest facts revealed to us In tho word of God. With the tendency to think or to speak lightly of this august prince of darkness l have not the least sympar thy. But even the fact of satan's exis- tence is not without it's bright side; for what powerful thing righteousness must be in this world, when it furnishes full employment for all the time and all the dreadful ingenuity of such being e satan, whose sole business is to oppose itl A. B. Brown, in his splendid sermon on the text, "All things work together for good to them that love God" includes in the "all things" the devil and all his angels, whom he depicts as a scowling chaingang, working upon the road that leads the saints to gloryl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06
A Poets Life by Space.

FfOm Pul >.
 When n1 is born. local; when he pub Ii hes his Ilrst volume six lines review i; when he is married, paragraph; when he puts out his second book, 12 lines re- view: when he is divorced, red headlines when he d'cs. editorial
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We'll, the republican Senate is going to investigate the thing, or pretent to-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-27
THREE BANDITS ENGAGE IN sUc-
cEssFUL HoLD-uP IN OUT
SKIRTS OF OGDEN.
TAKE PASSENGERS COIN
AND LOOT EXPRESS SAFE
Diamond Earrings Of Women Torn
From Their Ears in Brutal Manner
and Male Passenger Severely Beaten
Sheriff With Posses Starts in Pur-
suit of Robbers.

Ogden. Utah. June 27.--Three mask
ed men early today held up the second
section or the oregon Short Line train
Ne. /, north bound, at Second street.
In the northern part OF this city. All
passengers, numbering nearly 100. were
relieved of their valuables and the safe
of the express messenger was riHed.
The amount secured bs- the robbers Is
not known.
Woman passengers had diamond ear
rings torn from their ears. and another
passenger. Il foreigner. was brutality
beaten TWO trainmen also were hurt.
The robbers stopped the train by
placing railroad torpedoes on the track.
They went thru each eoacd with a de-
liberation and calmncss that showed
they were not noyices at the game.
With drawn revolvers the bandits COM
PEELED each passenger TO hand over Ills
| or her yaluables.
litter the train was robbed men fred
a fuiisade of shots TO terrorize tho
passengers. got into u buggy and drove
away. sheriff Wilson was notified.
and gathered posse and started in
pursuit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-27
TAFT AND EXECUTIVE STAFF TO
GO TO SUMNER HOME
TUESDAY.
CANNON TO RETAIN SEAT
PROVIDING GOD is WILLING"
Speaker Cannon Declares He is Going
Back to Washington Unless There is
Divine Intervention - Secs RepusIl
can Victory in Fall Elections - No
Ship Subsidy Lobby.

Washington, June 27--"God willing.
I Will be here next session. and IL VIII
be for the republican majority to de-
termine who's hall hes pcaSer," Speaker
Cannon paid farewell call at the
White House today and the above is
what he had to say regarding his fut
ure plans.
In all my life never have seen the
situation so full of promise for a re-
publican victory In the fall. 1t always
happens the democrats win hands
down this time of the year but when
the ballots are counted they come out
behind as usual"
1t was stated at the White House
today that nothing is known there OF
the prospective meeting of Governor
Hughes. Roosevelt. and President Tart
at Beverly this week or at any time
in the near future. 1t IS stated posi-
'tively that no such arrangement was
suggested at the Washington end Ar
rangements transferring the executive
offices from Washington to Beverly
practically were completed today. The
president will leave for the summer
capital tomorrow
The house ship subsidy lobby in
vestgation practically was closed to-
day. The commtre will meet in New
York In November and examine
steamship representatives and report 10
congress next winter. The committee
already has concluded that the charges
that lobby was maintained in Wash
ington have not been sustained.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-27
president. And perchance Governor

president. And perclrance Governor
Hughes may be there.
Those who have discussed politics
with Colonel Roosevelt know that he
has not made up his mind in regard to
the Taft administration. He hasn't
indorsed or given any hint that he IA
vors what the president has been doing
and he will not make public any an
nouncement until he has the opportun-
ity Of feeling his way. The colonel is
busy at present attempting to get a
line on how things stand both locally
and nationally. The wires to Saga
more Hill are getting hotter and the
mail is increasing tremendously every
day.
1t is said here that Roosevelt Is go
ing to- try to get Taft to exert his in
fluence upon Governor Hughes to give
up the federal supreme court bench for
a third term In the gubernatoral chair
at Albany. Roosevelt is dead in earn
est about Roosevelt saving the republi-
can party in New York state, and the
visit of Hughes to Sycamore Hill some
time soon viii be a mighty interesting
one. Several letters have passed be-
tween Roosevelt and the governor.
Today. for the first time since he re-
turned from the African jungle. and.
indeed, since he left the White House.
Mr. Roosevelt spent a quiet day with
his family. There were no visitors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-27
TO PROBE GORE CHARGES.
Committees Of Both Houses to Push
Bribery Investigation.

bribery InVoSIl9aCion.
Washington, June 27.-An early start
on the investigation Of the bribery
charges made by Senator Gore in con-
nection with the Indian attorney zee
contracts will be made by the senate
and house committees appointed in the
closing hours of the session Saturday
night. The investigation promises to
be one of the most sensational ever un-
dertaken by the national lawmakers.
Senator Gore, who charged that an
attempt was made to bribe him with
SEC, 900 to abandon his attempts to null
lify the contracts made by J. F. Nc
Murray and his associates with the
Choctaws and Chickasaws will be one
Of the principal witnesses.
SO far Senator Gore has not blamed
officially the man who attempted to
hribe him. He says, however, that he
will give the name OF the man to the
investigating bodies, and Will produce
other witnesses, to corroborate his
charges.
The scandal was disclosed so close
upon the adjournment OF congress that
there was no opportunity for the in
auguration Of systematic and orderly
investigation. The proper course would
have been the appointment Of joint
investigating committee of the two
chambers. as was done in the Balling-
erIP1nchot case, but in the haste OF
getting an inquiry under way the SEN
ate and house appointed Independent
committees.
Aiinv 1izv committees &C 4:
ent 1t Is probable that they will CO.
openato In the work Of the Investigation
20 that kheE will not coTexs the saEns