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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
bible in Navajo.

From the Indianapolis News
The American Bible Society has Just
added 10 its interesting list OF versions
Of the Scriptures IN the languages Of the
North American Indians a translation
Of the Book Of Genesis and the Gospel OF
Mark into the language of the NavaJoes
This is the first publication Of the trans
lation OF the Scriptures into the tongue
Of these people. The version has been
prepared by the Rev. Leonard P. Brink.
OF Tohatchi. New Mexico, connected with
the Southwest Indian conference, an IN
terdenominational mission al work in
that region There are said 70 be 2, 000
NavajOes in the United States. and there
are at present Baptist. Methodist, Presby-
terrain, Christian Reformed, Gospel Union,
and independent missions at work among
them. These Scriptures will help in the
education OF the people and in the for
nation Of a Navajo literature.
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DEFINED BY Ia TOILETTE.
Progressive Movement Means that
VIII of People Must Prevail.

[ ff0m speech il Robert IT. Ia Toilette.
After all 1t is a simple matter TO define
the progressive movement. It can be ex-
pressed in a single sentence. II COM
prehends the Inspiration OF the human
race in It's struggle from the beginning
down to the present time.
The Will OF the people shall be the law
Of the land. Constitutions. statutes. and
are but instruments 20 carry out the will
of the people. and when they fail-when
constitutions and statutes and IL Of the
agencies employed 20 execute constitu-
tons and statutes fail-they must be
changed 20 make them carry out and ex-
press the well-formulated judgment and
the will Of the people
For over all and above all and greater
than all, and expressing the supreme SOW
ereignty Of all. are the people.
Now, that's simply saying in modern
phrase what Washington said when he
declared the inherent right in every peo-
pie TO write and make their laws and
their constitutions III government That
is expressing what Abraham Lincoln de-
clared when ne said that government OF
the people. by the people, shall not perish
from earth.
That is what this struggle IN Wisconsin
and California and New Hampshire and
Kansas. and in every other State in this
Union means. that gOvernmtnt shall be
brought back 10 and committed 10 the
hands of the people; that they are su-
preme over legislatures, over govern
ments. over Presidents. and over consti-
tutions
There is no power expressed in any
State document Of our government that is
not derived from the people. and so I say
TO you that every step Of the struggle in
Wisconsin. going back some seventeen
years. is spoken of as an organized move
ment-going back beyond that period, If 1
may be permitted 10 refer 20 myself, more
than a score Of years ago. this movement
al every step has meant Just that and
nothing less and nothing more, and on the
part of those who have sought TO make it
appear as an assault upon business inter-
ests, as an assault upon prosperity, as an
assault upon the stable foundation and
integrity Of our whole system, analysis
and time have justified every measure
that we have formed TO the present time;
and Of all the men VINO have opposed this
movement In Wisconsin not one dare rise
and oppose his voice TO a single measure
which we have advocated.
\ great campaign is on, not for our
State alone, but for all the States III this
country OF ours and for our great country
itself. / think God has been exceptionally
good 10 Wisconsin.
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Protecting the Workmen.

The strong sentiment that il growing
in this country against the injustice that
is worked when worKngmen are injured
at their work and have in many cases,
no redress save such as they may get
from the law courts is rapidly making
it possible for the passage of laws that
shall recognize il as a right that the en-
ployer must share in the risks 10 his
workmen equally with them.
IN this respect we are far behind other
civilized countries. notably Germany,
where for twenty-six years there has
been in operation a system Of workmen' s
insurance. some features of which we
might do well TO adopt. II has resulted
In d big development of a volume OF ac-
eident. sick. and old-age pensions. which
have proved a wonderful protection to
the people
Under the German law. the employer,
the employee, and the government each
bears portion OF the cost. From 1885 TO
1907 the payments made by employers
amounted TO s937O00OOO; the workmen
paid in that same period sS5l, 100000. and
the governments share was Sl21, 900. O00.
Statistics show that in 1906. out of every
1000 day laborers in Germany, S63 were
protected by insurance against accident
and $50 were protected against old age
and disability.
To-day there are more than 200OO,OO0
working people in Germany who are
protected by accident insurance, and in
1907 the payment 10 these amounted to
over SS5. 100000. There We're 100000 work.
ingmen eligible TO sick benefits in 1907.
which shows an increase Of p per cent
in seven years.
The pension department of this service
not only takes care of the old and dis
abled workers OF the German, empire. but
it protects them in the case of loss Of
limbs. and the government being a
sharer in the cost. it follows, as a mat
ter of course, that there is strict gov
ornamental supervision of factories and
workshops. so that prevention is enforced
just as well as cure. To the same end
and from the same motives of economy.
the government has taken steps TO make
the conditions of livelihood outside of
the factories more healthful. with the re-
suit that there has been marked falling
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A Revolution.

Revolutions never go backward
and a revolution, fraught with the vast
est consequences TO the happiness Of
mankind, is now taking place. the end
OF which viii be the demolition OF all
restraints and impedinents in the way
OF complete political and commercial
freedom and equality"
To Roosevelt, La Toilette, Cummins,
Beyerldge. Victor Murdoch. or any one
OF a score or more of leaders in the
present progressive night in politics, the
foregoing might naturally be aseribed
Each of them is voicing a sentiment
akin to it,
All the world knows. OF course, that a
political revolution Is going on and that
revolutions never go backward"
But the words quoted-the combined
maxim and prophecy-whlch have such
a familiar ring and ne so aptIy the
present situation. are seventy-three years
old. They were penned. not spoken, by
an early editor of the New York Even
ing Post. William Leggett but who was
at that particular time editor of the
Plain Dealer, in which they appeared
March Il. 1897.
The paramount issue then was not the
tariff. or conservation or popular GOV
eminent, but the banking system. and
III the demand for a change came the
same burning appeal that We are hear
ms to-day. The struggle involved equal
rights" the curse Of monopoly Iegisla-
ton" exclusive chartered privilege. 3"
and the like. all OF which are figuring
now in the political equation; and by
this glance backward we ind. further.
that a charge of "Iunacy and Jacobinism"
was frequently preferred against those
who made the earliest stand in defense
Of free trade and equal rights" and in
support of measures adverse TO the
present monopoly system"
Opponents Of a change, once so ready
10 shout Jack Cade" and "Agrarian." the
ancient editorial assures US. now show,
by a decent silence or faint approval,
their consciousness that a vast change
has taken place in the minds of the
people"
AS in 1857 so in 1910 we have our
problems TO meet. our monopolies to
deal with obnoxious systems To over
throw. and the peoples rights to uphold
at all hazards. They did these things
then just as we are doing them now,
when a campaign is on. with heat and
yociferatiOn and much extravaganza Of
rhetoric. The millennium was not reached,
nor did the nation head for the bow
vows in 1897; and neither thing is hap
pening. or going 10 happen, seventy
three years later
Historical facts appertaining to our
political history are reassuring They
promote optimism and faith-in the
parallel of things that We're and are.
Mr.. Bryan says that the tariff COM
mission plan is delusion. He speaks
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
Genesis of Jury Trial.

From the indianapolis News
Whence comes the system Of trial by
jury? In the opinion of Bourguignon, a
French jurist, Its origin loses itself in
the night of time" Blackstone speaks Of
it as "a trial that hath been used time
out of mind" Reeves thinks it was in
trOduced into England by the Normans
who themselves obtained it from north
ern Europe. IT is certain that the Scan
dinavians had an established jury sys-
TEN more than thousand years ago. The
Normans on their arrival in England
found prevailing there the ordeal of hot
irons, which enforced the carrying Of
pound of heated metal by the accused
for a given distance. and the ordeal Of
hot water in which by way of variation
stone had 10 be withdrawn from a
pitcher Of boiling water. No attempt at
reform in this direction was made by
William the Conqueror.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
Urban Population.

There is hardly an American city since
the census figures have been published
that has not congratulated itself On a
substantial Increase in population. There
Is one fact in connection with the census
that has, however. almost escaped notice.
and that is. that during the past decade
the growth of the cities has been sur
prisingly larger than the growth OF the
rural districts. In spite Of the prosperity
OF the American farmer, Il would seem
that the movement OF population has
been. during the last ten years, away
from the farm and into the city.
OF course. the industrial revival OF the
past decade has had much 10 do with
this, for the growth Of large factories and
industries has attracted TO them large
numbers Of working people. But aside
from this IS the question of tbs move
ment Of the rural population. Through
out New York and the New England
States generally there are great numbers
Of abandoned farms-abandoned because
S4'p'C WIZ NuAhNu them fuDbeQ them OF
fertility. took all the soil had TO give.
repaid 10 it nothing, and when the Mace
was exhausted moved westward to take
up other fertile land This movement
has been going on for years and is TO
continue for many more years. until all
the virgin land has been occupied. I'd
10 the present time the spirit thar has
animated too many American farmers
has been the spirit of the pioneer-the
country has been so vast its virgin soil
so extensive, that il has always been
easier TO move 10 new land than il
has been 10 practice the economy de-
manded of farmers in other countries-the
economy Of conserving the soil The pio-
neer movement has been helped. too, in
the past decade by the new hope given
by irrigation, which has turned millions
OF acres of land hitherto deemed limos
sible of cultivation into veritable para
disc for farmers So, by that much. the
pioneer movement has been extended.
But It must stop soon, and the Depart
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
FIoridn,s NIIsfortnne.

From the Philadelphia Press
Florida has had recently an unusual
motality OF United States Senators
stephen r. Mallory died three years ago.
and his successor, William James Bryan,
I died after a short service. Napoleon
BOnaparte Broward. who died last Sat
urday, was not yet a Senator. but he
had been nominated at the primaries.
and would have been chosen by the legis-
lature TO succeed Senator Taliaferro next
March beyond doubt. His death gives
Mr. Taliaferro another chance TO succeed
himself, as his defeat was not due to any
speciaI disfavor felt for him. but because
Of the greater popularity of eX-Gov.
Broward. who competed with him at the
primaries.
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ment of Agriculture. through its lessons
in scientific farming. in teaching the
doctrine of economy and what the farmer
owes to the farm that keeps him. is
doing much 10 bring about changed
condition of AFFAIRS Already ii has been
demonstrated THAI the abandoned farms
OF New England may be taken up with
profit, if only scientific and sensible
farmer is being made. to see that his
land, instead of becoming poorer and
poorer each year as the crops are taken
from 1t. may by the proper agencies be
made richer and great revenue producers
as the years go on.
Then. too. while life is yearly be-
coming harder for the great mass Of
workers IN cities, It is becoming easier
and more attractive for the dwellers on
farms. The advent of the telephone
rural free delivery OF mail. the increased
use OF the automobile. cheap and good
magazines, and many other blessings OF
the modern age have done much 10 re-
move the isolation and loneliness that
was the bane OF the farmers existence
We have no class IN America that is
more generally prosperous and happy
than the farming class, and as this fact
Is becoming better realized, we may ex-
pect soon TO see a decided trend from
mean much to American citizenship and
70 the prosperity Of the nation as a
whole.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
Congressman ontes, Epitaph.

From the Springfield Republican
The late Congressman William c. Oates
OF Alabama, left a fortune Of about $780,
90. and left in his will an epitaph 10 DE
placed on his monument, which reods
Born in poverty, reared in adversely
without educational advantages. yet by
honest individual effort he obtained q
competency and the confidence of hi.
fellow-man. while fairly liberal TO rela-
tiyes and to the worthy poor" 1t is alsa
stated that he gave right arm to the
Confederate cause and accepted the re-
suits of the war without a murmur.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
The Pace that Kills.

From the New York American
That the highways Of our Long Island
suburbs should be filed with manned and
slaughtered human beings TO make a hol-
iday is, beyond question, degrading and
disgraceful The Vanderbilt Cup race on
the present plan, viii certainly have to
be given up Not even once in a while
is it permissible that motor cars should
speed through open country roads at
seventy miles an hour Automobile races
should hereafter be confined TO properly
inclosed race tracks.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
A CITY ELEGY.

When at the last this wear heart reposas.
Choose for my grave pleasant county spot.
Plant DER me neither violets nor roses.
For when I was alive ye brought them not.
Seek out some city churchylrd, fOg-enshrouded.
Where. wrapped fcreyer in the city's gloom,
The unTegretted dead lie closely crowded,
Jostling each other even in the tomb.
Grave nc no verse beseeching ccsral pity
These lines alone in which my life stands whole
Here lies a nameless enc: the mighty city
Has now his body as 1t had his soul
Pal Mall Gazette
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A Mean scheme.

You don't mean 10 tell me that you
are going 10 wear a mixture OF red,
brown. and yellow puffs?"
For one evening only" replied the
bride. II had these made from the va
rious locks OF hair that my husband had
on hand when I married him. The orig
inal donors viii all be at the ball TO-
night"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05

oft in the death rate in recent years
among the German working people.
Such economies as these might well
commend themselves 10 our legislators.
There is no thought of government pater-
naiism about it. it Is simply a wise pre-
caution and humanitarian one.
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Looking beyond November.

From the Baltimore star.
The President Of the United States is a
solid, sane. and sensible gentleman
While the country is convulsed by politi-
cal events in individual States. and the
horizon Of the average statesman ex-
tends only TO the ides Of November. he
looks far. far ahead-and builds. A little
oscillation one way or another In the
political balance. partisan or factional,
disturbs his perfect equanimity not the
least. Those things, he knows. do not
count in the long run. but the course Of
the next session Of Congress does.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05

'Inquisitor how We hate these anon
ymous rrespondents-writes to say;
HAS not the bellboy as much right TO
wear the uniform Of a captain of the
army as the officer OF police TO wear
that of an admiral Of the navy?" Can
any reader kindly supply US with the
answer?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
Hunting peer in Maine.

froll tlt bOstun IransCTlpt
In the matter of deer, the animal that
may now be hunted, the Maine law is
sufficiently generous. \ nonresident must
pay a license fee OF SIS and engage a
registered guide. who asks s. or more a
day and found" a hunter is entitled
to two deer, which may be shipped home.
free OF State charge. when he accom-
panies them. In the opposite event. the
carcasses must bear a State tag, which
costs 81
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
A LITTLE NONSENSE,
GIVE HER A CHANCE.

Let woman have her rights,
In grill-rooms dine.
And stay up late o nights,
II she incline.
Let woman have her rights
And join a frat,
And go 10 rooster fights
And all like that.
We men are selfish Wightss
We're in the wrong.
Let woman have her rights,
And 20 along.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
A wcII-estabIished Cause.

From the Dallas News.
The cause OF progressive reform is too
wei established 10 make the support even
Of the colonel Indispensable 10 It. Yet
even II il were otherwise. we do not be-
ueye this New York platform would be
nearly so much a danger signal 10 the
cause Of progressive reform as there
seems 10 be a disposition 10 make it out.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
A Husky Mayors Return.

From the New YORK Globe.
It's good 10 be hack" says Mayor
Gaynor. as he sits once again in the
historic corner room at the City Hail,
The grass and the flowers show green
and bright through the window. the
embracing skyscrapers fringe the scene
and confuse the eye. the hurrying throngs
PASCAL things are as they were. It's
good 10 be back Mayor Gaynor is a
most fortunate man. and his next three
years should be happy ones.
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A Good Way.

you are actually encouraging your boy
20 write poetry?"
Yes: and to send IL 10 the magazines.
I don't know OF any better way TO take
the conceit out of him"
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New Brand of PrOgressiveness.

From the Newark Star.
1t now remains for Speaker Cannon 10
announce that he is a real. bona fide
progressive II there is 20 be a DOMINIC
OF borrowed white progressive garments
by the Republican reactionaries. taking
example from a scared President. why
should not Cannon. and even Aldrich.
put them on. too? Why shouldn't all
the Cannon Congressman come out ar
rayed in the same fashion? The six Re
publican Cannon Congressman in this
State might consent 10 stand up in a row
In the garments of the progressives and
pose for campalgn pictures.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
A Better Bait.

How did the gymnasium pan out, that
you installed in the basement OF your
church,"
1T was poorly patronized. We're think
ing OF turning IL into a garage"
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HIS Evening Abode.

II wish that daughter of mine would
hurry up and get engaged.
why this anxiety"
''The nights are getting cool. and I'd
ike 10 move in from the back porch"
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WHY. Indeed:

From the Boston Transcript.
He-What would you say if I should
kiss you?
you can so easily get the exact facts.
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No More Material.

why can't We have any more comic
operas2"
For want Of title Former libret-
lists have used up all the sultans, ty-
coons ratahs. ameers, and ahkoonds."
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The Last Summer Girl,

And now back home she goes
With seven rings, by gosh!
And half a ton OF clothes
For ma TO wash.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05

Gen. Funston is TO be sent out TO the
Philippines. There, at least, the uniforms
OF the bellboys win not offend him.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05
LIZ In NeY, York.

THE burglar got away. after all"
Couldn't you find a policeman"
I found one. but he said he was on
the poolroom squad"
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POLITICAL COMMENT.
Not Lincoln Republicans.

From the Kansas City Star.
1t is amusing TO hear the "old guard"
OF the Republican party eonjure with
the name of Lincoln. Whether IL is IN
New York, or Wisconsin. or Kansas, the
determined fight OF the ''old guard" 10
maintain special-privilege rule is always
backed by fearful pleas for ''the Re
publicanism Of Lincoln" Every news
paper and every political boss that stands
for machine politics and for a political
system that menaces representative gov
eminent assume that the progressive
movement TO give the people square
deaf is an attack upon the Republican
ism Of Lincoln" What was the Repub-
iicanism of Lincoln? II was simply this:
That the interests Of all the people were
above the special interest OF slavery.
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Beginning Early.

From the Boston Transcript.
Caller viewing new baby)-Do you
think he is going 10 resemble his father?
Mother-I shouldt be surprised. He
keeps me up nights even now.
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From the Boston Transcript
Financially speaking, Congressman
Tawney.s defeat was probably the best
thing that could have happened 90 him
He is having offers Of positions worth all
the way from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum.
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OF High Degree.

From Life.
My ancestors came over in the May
flower"
That's nothing; my father descended
from an aeropIans."
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The Roosevelt has been bought as a
wrecking ship. A stand-pat Republican
paper asks whether il will live up 10
its name
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How IL l. Done.

From the Charleston Nsss sad Courier
The Democrats always pick their can
didates; the Republicans have theirs pick
ed for them.
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Even the best OF citizens sometimes
comes down town with a wish that the
manager would call him from the box
just for this game, and put in sub
stltute.
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Let us do our duty and deserve public
favor once more" says Mr. Root. Thus
do We .hear the voice Of morality above
the political storm.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05

The death rate in the United States is
shown 10 be only Is per 1000. But this
viii soon increase If aviation and auto
mobile cup races continue.
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Report OF a Southern hailstorm SAYS
the stones were the size of guinea-hens
eggs Times are too hard. we suppose, 10
make them the size, Of hens eggs.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-05

When the modern novelist talks about
his heroine having a wealth OF hair. he
does not seem TO realize how cheap those
puffs are
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You may not like the fall fashions.
but. after all. the fail girls look pretty.
whatever they wear,