The Hartford republican., 1910-12-16
LETTER FROM
WASHINGTON
Presidents Message Most
VoluminouS Ever Printed.
California Girls Refuse to Dance
With Japanese Naval
Officers.

Washington, ID. c., Dec. 1.-THE
Pasadena, California girls refuse 70
dance with the Japanese naval Off
GERS; the ball is called off; the Jap
anese admiral in high dedgeon sails
, away, and all Japan ressnts the af-
front. The Pasadena girls wire with
in their rights and they have the SYM
pauhy of California girls ard the girls
of the United States. But what about
this International Exposition for
which California ard the Pacific
coast is clamoring? The support of
that Exposition, if held at San Fran
cisco must come from the Orient. We
all know the attitude of San Francisco
to the Orient. 1t Very necently
brought us to bho Verge Of war with
Japan, and there are possibilities of
serious trouble in an International
Exposition held on the Pacific slope.
The proper place for an exposition
TO celebrate the completion of the
Panama Canal will be the capital of
the United States New Orleans, San
Francisco? "a plague on both your
houses
The Secretary of War has just re-
turned from the PHILIPPINES by way
of Asia and Europe, bring the scme-
what tribe information that our Nal
sayan acquisition from Spain Is net
fit for self-government. We'll what
country ever was fit? The real diff
less fft, or least fit. 1t is posi-
tive benediction to some ccuntrlss
like India, Egypt and the Philippines
to be governed by an Anglo-Saxon
Speople. ALI children need guidance
and control, and these people are
not only half devil and half child
but devil, ostrich and orphan child
in one"
The Presidents message is the
most voluminous ever printed, and
is generally considered to be an I'M
portant and up-to-date document, few
readers will persue 1T from ond TO
end and the epitomiss furnished by
the press are excellent as time saw
ers. The President earnestly favors
the fortification of the Panama Ca
nal, and surely If it is worth digging
1t is worth defending. Without for
tification it could be destroyed by a
few pounds of dynamite in "a single
night. To fortify the Canal is no
challenge TO the peace of the world.
International interests demand its pro
lection.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
now completed his most optimistic
of reports. The value of the Agri-
CULTURAL products of the country in
1910 is estimated at $S,926,000, 900,
. and Mr.. Wilson says that at no time
in the worlds HISTORY has a country
equalled this record. 1t is quite pro-
bable that those even who are now
past middle age may sec an agrlcul-
tural output equalling in value one
trillion of dollars.
The recommendation of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture to eliminate mid
dle-men and for cooperative organi-
zations of farmers and cooperative
societies of consumers to get to-
gether, shortening the distance be-
tween the farm and the dinner-table
Is we'll worth of consideration and
atcion.
There is expectation that the re-
Gently elected congress will be less
under the hypnotism of the express
companies and more mindful Of tht
populardemand fer parcels post thar
past Congresses have been. The Pres
ident in his message urges legisla'
ton authorizing the Pest Office Dc
parupeht to transport packages in h'
maids at reasonable rates with rea
ascnabls limitations as to bulk ant
weight The present mailing condi
itons are more unreasonable, havlri
baen dictated by the oxpness com
panies to throw the cream of the car
\ rying business in their direction
The backwardrsss CT our country il
this modern postal facility Is shame
full. for the parcels pest is extan
even In such countries as China
Japan, Africa, Australia, Asia Minor