Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-08
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what will be the upshot of it all?
The Prime Minister on December End
introduced into the House of Commons
resolution reafiirming in the strong
est and clearest terms the financial
supremacy of the Lower Chamber.
That resolution strikes the keynote OF
the campaign. The Liberals can hard-
" expect to return from the polls with
an undiminished majority. IL tney
come back even with a majority lnde-
pendent of the Irish Nationalist VOTE
if will be q very considerable achieve
ment | know England too well 10
prophesy with any deflniteness the re-
suit of a General Election but l shail
be very greatly surprised II, IN spite Oh
| the many formidable interests they
have antagoniZed, the Liberals 40 not
return to power with clear mandate
| to brindle the financials pretenslons Oh
| the House of Lords. one Llperai Mih-
lister after another has declared tHa'
his party will not again take ONCE
without a clear guarantee mat What
occurred on November 3Oth shall never
be o, rmitt ed to occur again. there -
only one guarantee that VIII meet INC
| situation; and that is promise ny Tic
| King that he will be prepared 10 Gre
ate a sufficient number OF peers 10 car
nv through the House OF Lords Dill
| definitely depriving the upper Ciail-
Der of the right to reject the Tfiailciai
| nroposals of the Commons. sooner
| than be swamped by 800 new men the
| House of Lords would agree 10 any
thing But the eXpedient Is a desper-
ate one, 50 desperate as to be IN ltSell
| sufficient proof that Great Britain IS
passing through a peaceable but pro-
| found revolution and is entering on
the prodigious and fateful task of re-
building almost from top to bottom her
| Constitutional framework
Baalbcc. in Syria, the city of stupen-
dous ruins, where Cain is said to have
raised his altar, is described in q faS-
chatting article by Albert BigeloW
Paine, which appears in the issue OF
HarIer's Weekly for January 1st. 1T
was the city of refuge built by Cain"
suggests the author in accordance with
the Arab belief, whose fear must have
been very large if one may judge from
the size of the materials used" No
where else have such enormous stones
been laid. One stone was seventy-tWo
feet by seventeen, and the workmen
had lust started to move it when the
work was abandoned. Try to think
Of a plain box building, a barn, or
warehouse, say, of that siZe-then
mentally convert it into a solid block
OF stone Mark Twain likens it to two
| freight-cars placed end to end, but it
is also as high and as wide. Eight
freight-cars set four and four would
lust about express it. Think of that!
Think of moving a stone of that siZe!'
1T was my pleasure to have known
President Lincoln personally" said AL
exanGer Mcdowell. clerk Of the House.
II talked with him on several occa-
sions, in Washington and at the front.
and while l knew him well l do not
hatter that he knew RE we'll for there
was only one of MIN and there Were
'orty millions Of me. What struck me
above all else was his simplicity and
everyday common sense.
"He net all men as equals. not in
patronizins way, but in a way that
said as plain as words, we are all OF
one blood and brothers. He was
great man and he was the only one in
all the land mat did not know it.
He alway remembered his early
struggles and poverty, and with a SYM
pathy born of them was ever ready t.
give n helping hand to those compelled
to travel the road that he had been
compelled to travel in his youth and
early manhood.
He was Christian, not a church
member and did by his actions what
Sc many do by their professions only.
His life was the golden rule in action.
He loved and had faith in his fellow
man, and $tocG at all time ready to
hold the ladder firm while they ascend
ed and no Jealous envy ever entered his
mind, no matter how high the ascent.
ode was g Republican and a partisan
but above all, a patriot and a lover Of
his country. We need today partisan
Republicans and partisan Democrats,
men who believe in their party and the
principles Of their parties and not so
many guer;llaS that feed between the
lines, now on one side and then on the
other.
"In his death the South lost sincere,
honest friend and the nation a patriot"
Joe Mitchell Chapple in Affairs az
Washington" in January National
Magazine.
Readers who are familiar with Rob
ert Louis Stevenson, may remember
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