The National tribune., 1910-04-28

ceived in Washington has i6een ac-
cepted by Edwin c. REED. Secretary of
the Sixth International Esperanto Con-
gress. In payment for ticket to the
Esperanto Congress, (which will be
held in this city in August. 1t is
drawn by a Delegate in Cordova,
Spain, upon a bank in London, and is
payable to Mr. Reed, in Washington.
This check may be said to be the ,pio-
neer of the movement in this part of
the world to put Into operation the
international money system worked
out by the Esperantists. 1t is a part
of the paper of the Esperantist Check
Bank of London, established only re-
Gently.
Prof. Rene de Saussure. a scientist
of Switzerland, invented the .interna-
tional money system. This system is
based upon what is termed "speso."
The ''speso" unit is so small that any
national value may be expressed in an
even number of "spesOy.
The ''spesmilo'' G.000 spesoy) is
equivalent to half an American dollar.
Some European banks, notably a lead
ing bank in Geneva, issue checks in
Esperanto with sums expressed in
this system.
Now, why not use plain English. such
as is spoken by quite half the people
of the world, instead of making the
learn brand new language? English
is good enough for anybody.
Representative Romelus r. Linney,
formerly member of Congress from Tay-
lorsville, n. c., dropped dead in his
law office as he was entering it one
day last week. ApopleXy was the cause
of his death. Former Representative
Linney was one of the oldest men who
ever came to Congress. He looked the
typical Southerner, and he talked like
one, with the peculiar drawl and no
RS in his alphabet, but as a thinker
he was an all right Northerner. He
had a huge frame and was pretty well
filled out. He was an aggressive Re
publican in, politics. and among his own
people had earned the sobrjquet of "The
Bull of the Bushy Mountains" which
is the name of a small range of hills
lying in view of his home He was a
fearless orator and a very antagonistic
one. Language flowed from his tongue
like water from an open spigot. He
had a peculiarly thin. high pitched
voice, far from being musieal, and he
was an orator who always pleased On
the stump he was absolutely fearless
in expression, and was seldom wersted
in debate. His knowledge of statute
law was simply phenomenal.
The President of the United States
was the first man mustered in Wash
ingten in the taking of the census, and
he has no legal residence here at all
The family was also counted, but the
pretty Jersey COW that has fed on the
White House lawn for the last year
was not counted. She died Just before
the day the census enumerator went on
duty.
Some very funny things are happen
ing in the Departments now over the
taking of the census and If the Gov
ernment really wants to know who lives
where, the census taker can tell him
Many of the Government employees are
extremely retieent over giving the place
where they live, as they are very much
afraid that 1t will affect their status
in their various offices. 1t is a we'll
known fact that there are thousands
of clerks in Government employ who
have registered as being from certain
States, when 1t is known positively that
they never set foot inside those States.
They are now afraid to give the States
they really did come from and dare
not give the States that they sare on
the roll as having migrated from-and
so there you are.
The armored cruiser New York, Ad-
ndSSn1p at tne Bdttte
of Santiago. left Hampton Roads for
San Francisco to join the Pacific fleet.
The New York recently was rebuilt at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard at cost of
nearly a million dollars. She now
mounts four 10-inch guns in her tur-
rets, instead of four eight-inch guns.
When joined by the New York the
Pacific armored cruiser feet will num-
Der g powerful vessels.
Jolted Hard.
The National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation got some mighty severe jolts
while it was in Washington, and it is
question whether the National con-
vention was worth much to the older
suffragettes and whether it would not
have been better never to rave held it.
The first mistake of the Association was
the Kissing of the President of the
United States. 1t is always questionable
whether IL is proper to ever hiss an
orator, but 1t amounted almost to a
crime to invite to be their guest the
head of a great Nation like ours. and
man who had warned suffragettes
that he did not think exactly as they
did. and then to hiss him. That, how
ever is an incident of the past, as the
suffragettes have apologiZed, and the
President accepted the apology in a
courteous letter in which he mildly
roasted the suffragettes for their un-
womanly and un-American perform
ances. OF course. the apology and its
acceptance are like lie and the truth.
Truth travels in leaden shoe and lie
on the winds. and the truth never
catches up with the lie, nor will the
apology ever catch up with the story
of the kissing.
That wasn't the worst of it.
Harriet Taylor Upton and Rachel
Foster Avery. who have been the wheel
horses of the organization for some 40
years or more, both resigned their
offices. the one as Treasurer and the
other as Secretary, and decided to ter
inmate all connection with the National
Association. That was a
blow, indeed-a regular staggerer, and
it Is doubtful If the Association will
soon recover from it. There are all
sorts of stories told about how 1t came
to happen. but the simple truth is that
a lot of blaze society women have got
hold of the Suffrage Association. and
If their connection with it is long con-
tinued they will simply bust up the
whole thing. They are none of them
women who are deeply interested in
the uplifting of women, but are just
a lot of fiuttery butterflies who have
exhausted every other sensation in life,
have worn out all enjoyment from any
thing that money. can buy, sand who
yet find an aching void which needs
some kind of an amusement to fill it;
hence they have turned to woman's
suffrage as an outlet for their weak en-
ergies and as something that promises
at least transient notoriety with some
degree of FAME. They want everything
done in slap-stick style with parades
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