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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31

The Republicans have taken the bull
by the horns and have decided to fight
the coming Congressional campaign on
The tariff question. They could not
do otherwise. after the developments
tof the last few months, but they
have been bold enough TO challenge
the Democrats on the Issue raised by
t1he Party of the Constitution, and are
already forging their thunders of de-
fence for the campaign, which opens
on August Is.
This announcement comes from the
Republican campins-sround in Wash
inston, and is accompanied by the
usual line Of tariff talk, from which
IT is evident that the Republicans do
not propose TO advance any new argu-
,,nents in behalf of the tariff They
Will stand by the Aldrich Accumulation
and viii argue, with all their
pugnacity and bitterness that this
is the best tariff that can be framed.
The same sophistry and the same Jug
Cling which sickcned the public in
1903 VIII be employed to show that
the tariff is the one thing in the
country which is not responsible for
high prices and Industrial Ills, As
one Of the campaign managers of the
Republicans put it in an oficlal an
Houncement sunday;
The fight VIII be waged on this
line We have a tariff law that fu!fls
all the pledges In the platform, that
produces sufficient revenue to meet o.il
expenditures. that has discarded al
duties which have become unnecessary
}becanae OF changed conditions, one
(which, while removing unnecessary
duties, puts out no furnace fires, stops
mo wheels OF, INDUSTRY ard deprive:
no man OF his wages
The Democrats and Insurgents hav,
been wasting months in vain talking
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nnsERHE rr ALWAYS.


are thinking of abolishing Decoration
Day, as they call the solemn Memorial
Day we observed so beautifully yes
terday. Commander j. Willard Bro VII
who is leading in the movement 10 do
away with the time-honored celebrn-
ton, thinks that the present method
of celebrating the day is 50 contrary
to the spirit in which it was originally
planned that the day had better be
omitted altogether than given over to
baseball, merry-making and holiday
festivities. A solemn memorial Sun
day, Commander Brown thinks, would
be more becoming, more enduring ma
more appropriate.
The Grand Army can decide this
matter as it thinks wise. and is, Of
course, the best Judge of its own con-
duct, but here in the South, where ira
ditions- are revered and the past counts
for something, we trust Memorial Day
will be observed when taps shall have
been sounded over the last Conseder-
ate. To abolish Memorial Day would
be to cut the link that binds us
to the most glorious past Of which
any nation can boast and TO
transform the day into a festival for
mirth and merriment would be to des-
ecrate the graves of departed heroes.
The celebration yesterday was itself
a pathetic appeal for the continuance
OF Memorial Day In all its pageantry,
all its solemnity and all its beauty.
/ The gray column which marched up
| Franklin Street and out to HOLLYWOOD
was sadly thinned, and its files We're
few. Many who marched in line a
year ago and paid their tribute to their
| comrades are themselves numbered
among the dead to-day. Many Of the
! best and bravest of the men who
brought the city from the horrors or
Reconstruction and fought for It's in
dustrial progress slept peacefully yes
terday while their comrades marched
by floating the same old flag.
The thought is bitter, but within q
few more years Lee Camp and Pickett
Camp and a. F. Hill Camp and the rest
will no longer exist; their members
will all have passed beyond, and the
embers of their camp fires will have
died in darkness Then will be the
time for those Of the second genera.
| tion--the children of the war and their
children--to show their loyalty to the
memory of their sires and to observe
the day as their fathers observed it,
when a thousand Confederates ira nped
the streets on Memorial Day ana
showed the gray on every corner.
| Some people in the South believe
that when the SURVIVORS Of the war
are all dead tho day will die with
them, but we do not share in such n
belief; we hope, at least, that it may
neverbe. The people of Richmond owe
too great debt to these men and to
their departed comrades to let their
/ memory rest in oblivion, they! are too
proud Of their heritage, too loyal 10
their stock, not to pay their tribute ia
| the men whose deeds made them whar
/ they are. Ten years hence, twenty
years---a century, We trust-Menorial
Day will still be observed in Rich-
J mond as day of mourning, a day OF
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31
ISAAC wYMAs ALIVE AND DEAD.

Appraisers are at work on the es-
tate of Isaac Wyman, trying to esii-
mate the value of the property which
the Massachusetts, man left to Prince
ton College. Their preliminary es'i-
mate exceeds slo,oOo,oo0, and they are
daily finding more property owned nS
tho dead real estate investor lnc!-
dentally, they are finding out great
many things about the man who spent
his life, accommodating property In a
dozen states to bestow it on his Alma
Mater.
wyman is dead now, and he died a
philanthropist. 1t may be unjust
to review his life and to Judge his
motives. yet the story of his career Is
not without its moral. Wyman was II
rniser with a mania-the endowment
of Princeton. Those who knew him
casually and those who paid him rent
on his property thought him hard.
merciless and unyielding. Those who
knew him better saw his love of art
and wondered at his appreciation or
the beautiful; but even they could
net understand why It was tha. he
denied himself the Joys of tra:c spent
little pressed his tenants hard ana
every demand of charity. 80
tar as the outward appearance wenI
Wynan was a misanthropist, The
people built a Y. NJ G. a. in his home
town, and he refused to contribute
they made up subscriptions for
tits purpose and for that. but his name
never appeared among the donors:
townsmen worth not 1.-THE as
much as Wyman, gave freely of their
means to hundred good causes; he
gave not a cent. Yet, when he died. a
priaccly fortune was given away. Ills
niece his only heir, was provided fer,
but every house, every lot, every fac
tory and every mortgage went to the
great college. BY one act he sought
/, make amends for a miserly. SELF
centred life.
one cannot but wonder how WyInan
will stand in the Great Day. Do tho
deeds of mans life count more than
the charities OF his death? Is for
tnre given to education. when ones
life is done. more than a mite given
to charity day after day? VIII isaac
wyman dead be remembered or Isaac
Wyman alive? Will the great bene-
factor of Princeton outlive the selfish,
misery neighbor?
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asoUTuERN HospIT.L1rY.,'

Colonel Wallace w. Screws, the able
If at times cantankerous. editor of the
Montgomery Advertiser. will please go
up to the head of the class for the
present. He has said something some
body should have said about the dis
cussion in the House at Washington
last week over the Presidents travel
ing expenses, in which so much was
said in exaltins the horn of Southern
hospitality" Says Colonel Screws:
IN regard to ringing in Southern
hospitality that is an expression that
Southerners ought to try to stamp out.
1t would show about as much III taste
to brag about being clean or being
honest,
president Taft may not be all that
President should be. but in common
justice to him be 1t said the South
does not grudge one cent that was
spent on his trip. and considers i'll
advised any criticism of the Presidents
trip. Above all. right thinking South
erners condemn parading forever and
eternally, actual or alleged. southern
hospitality.
We wish We could stop talking about
it. True hospitality is very much the
same the world over. 1t is true that
no such ham and oysters and mint
iulcps are to be found anywhere else
in the world as are these things when
we serve them to company" in Nir-
gina: that there are no such rice and
hoppin john as the South Carolinians
dish out to their visitors, and the wa.
tcrmelons and 'possums OF Georgia,
jessamines OF Texas are the hest of
their kind. Out in California however,
the denatured cactus is the finest thing
in the world, and in all the States and
Territories there is something to eat
and something worth eating when one
is hungry, and a little something TO
drink that the people like to parade
when there are any visitors around.
1t is never good form. however. to,
talk about these things except among
ourselves, and 1t would be worse than
a crime to tell the company" how
much we are spending on them to
make them comfortable. Old-fashioned
people never did it., and only a very
raw sort Of new-lights in the social
armament ever think of advertising
that they are gentlemen and ladies.
A general tour OF the States would
probably prove to the self satisfied
among us that good people are very
much the same everywhere. OF course,
everybody can't live in Virginia, more's
the pity; but at least they might imi-
tate the decencles Of living in this
State, where no ono ever thinks OF
telling strangers how much 1t is cost
Ing to entertain them. Then, again.
since the fashion magazines have made
the clothes OF the women In Mexico
look Just as much up to date as the
clothes OF the women in North--Texas,
it is hard to tell them apart except rs
they do not boast OF their hospitality,
Time was when some of us had cur
own seamstresses, while others cut out
their clothes by sight, so to SPEAK:
but Box and Joe Mitchle Chapple ana
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tlen1an. He was not in tho habit of
making broad assertions. He did NOT
indulge In the use Of superlatives.
$50. do not believe my father made
the statement" This leads the Spring
field Republican to remark: "of course
if General Leo had said that General
Grant was without superior In HIS
tory, he would have shown simply a
distorted Judgment"
We are ratYr glad, however tha'
Senator Borah touched upon the SUB
iect, as 1t has brought Colonel w.
Gordon Mccabe into action with all
his guns unlimbered.
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sorrow, but as a day of pride and o
GET orr or THE WAY,

ANXIOUS Inquirer" wants to know
why 1t would not be a good thing TO
require uniformity in the horns of tho
automobiles. He complains that II Is
difficult to tell In the present dlscord
or horrible sounds how to Know
whether one has to make way for n
bicycle. hand organ or rcd devil,
some OF the most magnificent Of the
roadstcrs chipping like little birds and
others of the less conspicuous cars
possessing lungs of tho fog-horn or
der. We arc advised by our own ex-
pert In such matters, and man who
has an almost desperate antipathy to
anything like trust, that IL all the
horns on tho automobiles were exactly
alike that would throw their manu-
facture into the hands OF the makers
of whatever horn might be selected as
the. standard and, therefore, be in
restraint of trade.
There does not seem to be anything
wrong with that purely business-like
view OF this important question and
we doubt that there is anything left
for Anxious Inquirer to do but get
out of the way whenever he hears
anything coming. The automobile has
taught many persons, both male and
female. great CELEBRITY in movement.
and we must give it credit for that.
Deliberation is virtue that should be
encouraged. but not when 1t is prac-
tised in the middle of the big road or
in crossing the street.
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EXIT. THE nEp.nEApEp WIDOW.

EMIT: THE RED.HEADED WIDOW.
| Tho Houston Post has withdrawal
! the red headed widows from tile mar
ket 1t explains that the supply ~
not equal to the demand. that if the
annual output were ten thousand there
! would still not be enough OF them to
pco around; but we strongly suspect
! that the paper has really been led to
| this surprising course by the letters
to the editor" complaining that the
widow business was being oVerdone.
that IL was hurting Houston, that there
can be too much of a good thing. and
so on to tho end OF a long string OF
perfectly. harmless, but none the less
annoying, objections from those who
could not have invented the red-head-
ed widow, because there is really no
such person, and who think that no.
body else likes to read about her
because they do not care for that sort
of stuff"
As matter OF fact, the red headed
widow has obtained for the Post, which
invented her, and for Houston, In
which some innocent persons have
Imagined that she was domiciled,
more advertising than all the con-
ventIons and ice cream festivals
and fishing frolics that were ever
nela in that town. II would be
Just as easy to write about fossils or
the tariff or tuberculosis or mission
airy enterprises: but it would not be
nearly so entertaining to so many
people. 1t is the human touch that
newspaper readers want. They know
the price OF cotton or tobacco as we'll
as the editor. they can read the die.
tionary IL they care to be absorbed IN
words, they can be as dry as dust
without any help from the editor: hu,
they really like little something
every day that will take them out or
themselves and away from themselves.
ball games, so that they can root"
and hear the funny things that are said
in the field or on the bleachsrs That
Is why they always like to have an
original view OF what tho great ones
of earth are doing and how they are
doing it. They will~go to Are or a
fight or parade jus, to see what the
world outside of themselves and their
sober thinking is like, and uncon-
sciously they find themselves part
of 1t. whatever 1t is
That is why thousands of persons
all over the country. with the help
of the publicity she has gained in
newspapers that really have circula-
ton. have become interested IN The
red-headed widow OF Houston. Tex
There is no such person. Of course.
but neither was there a aucrai White
elephant in the Barnum and Fore
paugh shows. but people wen. to $40
them just the same, even as people
Will read about great men or red
headed women But exit the Fed
headed widow OF Houston. The neo.
pie outside Of the Postof1ice. who
wouldn't know where to start IL they
tried to make newspaper. have their
wish.
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LoR1MER is INDIGNANT.

william Lorimer has struck back at
last. He demands an investigation of
the charges of bribery and corruption
that have been made against him by
the Chicago Tribune, which has al
legged with great particularly of de-
tail that William was elected to the
United states Senate by ways and
means which are not regarded by
some of the mollycoddles as exactly
straight. William insists that spe-
cial committee shall be appointed by
the Senate ito ascertain the facts in
connection with these charges and re-
port as early as possible" The com
nlittee is also empowered to send for
persons and papers and to employ
photographer and such other addition
81 help as it shall deem necessary"
In Offering this resolution. Senator
Lorirner made an impassioned speech
in which he denounced his chief ac
cuser in bitter terms and appeared 10
be mad all through. which was alto
sether proper and natural, in the cir
cumstances. OF course. he denounced
the Trihune--that was the right card
for him to play; but it would not sur
prise us if his trumps give out before
the game is ended. The committee
should not have very much difficulty
in getting the persons and papers
The Tribune will help all it can. l,
has already offered a reward of $4,000
for legal proof of the identity of all
tho members OF the syndicate which
put up the money for Lorimer's cleo
tion. There is State Senator Hoist.
law, from Marion county Illinois, for
example. who has confessed that he
voted for Lorimer for United states
Senator for the sum of $4,000 to him
in hand paid He got the money from
senator John Frederick. The payment
was made to him in Broderick's saloon
in Chicago in slco bills. and $500 be-
sides. This is a beginning at least, and
with the help ofthe Tribune, and Of the
pS'Pi- III Spi4HSi tSAN, anu hoNeTilof
Deneen and others the COMMITTEES
should not have a great deal of trou-
ble in finding what Lorimer wants q,
to lind out.
OF course, tho Tribune is a liar we
have always known that--and the
committee can safely concede that
much; but the present question does
not concern the veracity or lack OF
veracity of the Tribune so much as j,
concerns Senator Lorimer Did he or.
did he not buy his seat in the United
States Senate? All the rest is 'on
the side so TO say.
T. S. The committee might find out
some interesting things from the
grand jury OF Sangamon county. II
would also Ae-'justtihed, probably. 10
sending for. TIE members of the III! |.
npis Legislature who have been MAX.
ing some inquiries on account of Lori
mer The committee ought TO get al
all the facts In the meantime, Ill
might be as we'll to put Mr. Lorimer
under bond for his own appearance.
IT is hoped that the committee will
not employ Kerby as its stenographer.
He might find some things in the
course of the investigation which
would not appeal to his sense of pa,
.triotism. and, with Kerby, 1t is Coun-
try first and foremost, and Kerby next,
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THE HEATHER AT HOME.

However praiseworthy, however
consecrated these endeavors. of what
final avail are their sporadic circum-
scribed efforts against the overwhelm-
ing mass of the task to be accom-
plished?" That is exactly what we
want to know. What is the use OF
raising all this money to send mis-
sionaries everywhere when there are
so many to be converted right here at
home?
There ought to be great activity in
Atlanta. There the railroads run their
engines with potentially cracked
wheels there murder unafraid and
insolent, stands at the elbows" there
the farmers have been advised to
mentally visualize" the oncoming boil
weevil' there the pivotal thorough
fare is so CONSTRUCTED as to penalize
both traffic and commerce, and there
"in executing the diabolical pro-
gramme of disease" the negro lis
often sort of immunized vehicle for
spreading to the white race the death
and suffering to which he is himself
slower to succumb.'' Manlfestly, At
lanta is the place for great missionary
effort. and we can very we'll let Tim
buctoo alone until We have saved At
lapfa
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the rest of Il noble army OF the bene-
factors OF the hup,an race have made
us all look very much the same when
we arc Dressed UP, in our hospitality
clothes.
What Congress ought to do is to
make UP the deficit in the Prcsidenta
travelling account. That would be true
hospitality, and far more honest than
when Che members of Congress- took
their mileage for the constructive
session a few years ago.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31

Lost or ssrayed, from the United
States Senate. one Senator, answering
to the name Of Jefries Davis When
last seen the lost man was very mo-
rose and had not spoken Word for
three days. Doubts are entertained as
to his sanity after this long silence.
1t is not thought that he has beer
stolen, because nobody would hava
him as a gift
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31

Divers who descended to the French
submarine, sunk off Calais. report that
the men confined in the boat are prob
baly dead, but to make sure. they will
not try TO rescue them until this at
ternoon.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31

Austin and kiplins having both fail
ed to write anything worth reading
about King Edward. 1t is hoped that
some muse in the United States will
be moved to the task of paying the
great Peacemaker proper tribute.
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1t would be better, however. II the
mothers would take the fathers along
with them to take care of the babies.
instead OF trusting the dear little crea-
lures to strange nurses Tar bett-r
that, than to leave the fathers at home
to Shift for themselves,
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Forty blue jackets aboard the Massa-
chusetts are suffering from ptomaine
poison. and there is not an Alger in
the Cabinet on whom 10 put the blame.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is ninety one
Years old. May she live as long again
II she will promise not to write an
other Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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Pension for Widows Of sIcxi,nn SOL

dIers.
Do widows of Mexican soldiess draw
pensions. and II so. for what amount?
4 w.
Your query is In part illegiblcAbut IL
the above be the correct formio a.
we suppose YOU have In mind widows
OF soldiers who fought in the Mexican
War Such women have right 10
draw pensions which may under(cer
tain conditions amount to $40 nor
month.
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.u Lang and pIlly suuIre..

Bell Lang and Billy SquIres.
Please Tell me when II was that Bell
Lang Knocked out Billy Sluires. Where
did the fight take place, and how long
was 1t? / am very anxious 10 get
these facts TO put a crimp In sport
around the town who claims to know
everything about fights. POOL ROOM.
Lang knocked out Saures in twenty
rounds In a fight at Melbourne. AUS
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Says the Anderson Daily Mail: "The
Richmond Times-Dispatch contained a
solid page of editorial matter on Mon
day. And all of it was worth reading
too
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The I.nrgcst Suicide Rate.
What city In the world has the iarg-
est suicide rate? 4 CITIZEN.
Paris. with AZ suicides per annum
per 100000 inhabitants.
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President Jackaon.

read the other day that an attemrr
had been made some time In the early
thlrties to aSsassinate President Jack
SON, Can YOU give me any Information
on the subject? a READER
On February rs. 1895. Richard Law
renee attempted to take the life OF
President Jackson.
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There will be kindergarten and
playroom and nurses to care for the
little ones. while the parent indulgas
IN the social features of the gather
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Women who attend the National
Mothers Congress in Denver in June
are expected to take their babies Nth
them. The Woman's National Daily
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pnnpers In the united states.

How many paupers are there in the
United States? What percentage OF
these are OF foreign birth? x. ".
In 1904 the census estimated that
there were s1,7si paupers in this coun-
try, OF whom about 80 per cent. were
OF foreign birth.
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Cruelty to Animals.

BY what law. State or municipal,
does the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty TO Animals act? And can
not the same law be enforced in ru-
raj districts. as we'll as in city and
town? SUBSCRIBER.
Cruelty TO animals s punishable I'M
der section 3Ts5a OF the Code. and is
in consequence an oHense against
State law, bu; societies are given ape-
cial rights by the State
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ON ,y,cnt,,c,sv..

1 am incloslns piece of poetry en-
titled In Kentucky" and Will be glad
for you 10 tell me how long II has bien
since this poetry was written, or as
near as you can T. A. II
II We recall correctly this poem WIS
printed sonc two years ago.
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shcrir John r. hughes.

Please tell mo il the late D T.
Hughes was at one time sheriff of
Charlottesville. Va. a READER.
SO far as we recall. sir. Hughes was
never sheriff OF Charlottesville, though
he served in that capacity In Rich
mond for number OF years.
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Addre.s OF j. Il. Connor.

j. p, Common, whose ADDRESS was
requested by reader of this paper
some days ago. writes to US from.
Dillwyn. Va. r. F. d. no. /. The rer-
son who requested this address can
communicate with him there.