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under the British guns we were all sing
ing, They're hanging men and women
for the wearing of the green" I thought
that was the end of it, but / was mis-
taken. When | reached shore a man
came up to me. "Who are you; what S
your manner" MY friend, 1 do not care
to tell you my name" "Where are you
from; what part of American Nov,
see here; what business of yours is it,
my name and my homer" He then said:
''You must tell me your name" l then
demanded, "Why must I? Who are you,
anyway" He then quietly Informed me,
II am the queens constable. and you
must tell me-" Then you may be sure,
told him. All this time my luggage
was being searched for contraband of
war. At that time the Fenan sympa-
thizers In the United States were giving
| extreme annoyance to the British gov
eminent, and I, who had so innocently
| sung the wearing of the Green on
the deck of the steam-tender, might have
been O'Donovan Rosa or someone quite
as obnoxious bringing dynamite in my
luggage to the people In Ireland or, in
deed, fire arms. That was the end of the
episode, so far as I knew, though I
might have been followed by detectives
from one end of Ireland to the other.
never knew.
I had even a more annoying affair in
France I was in the celebrated gallery
at Versailles where the German king
was crowned Emperor, just after the
Germans had so profoundly Inundated
the French. No German was received
there with any grace A French sentinel
heard me conversing in German, that
hated tongue right there where France
was brought to bite the DUST he charged
upon me, and accused me with being one
of his country's enemies. I assured him
that 1 was an American, but he could
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| ten reports that would make volumes,
and the productions of Stephen A.
Douglas, or John G. Carlisle. are not
more naked of ornament, not-less redo
lent of imagery, not more indicative
of rugged strength ana simple diction.
If Bailey had scattered his mental
forces and been an omniverous reader
and universal thinker like Burke he
would not have convinced Hale nor
overcome Spooner.
Bailey first appeared in Washington in
the Fifty-second Congress, that had had
the largest democratic majority that
party, or any other party, ever had in
any Congress of our entire history, and
he was its youngest member 1t was
also the first Congress of William j. Bry-
an, who is far more of a brilliant orator
than he is a profound thinker. Another
secret of Bailey's terrific force is pro-
nounced individuality of character, but
tressed by a mental aggression and q
personal audacity that enthuses his fol-
lowers and appalls his adversaries. TWEEN
ty years ago Bailey, like all men who
study in the closet and have strong con-
victions, was narrow, and 1t took several
years for him to broaden. In those days
he weighted down the spirit with the
letter, and even went so far as to pro-
pose to dock the pay" of members when
absent from their legislative duty He
was looked on as a crank, and was so
classed until he made two or three power
full speeches that astonished the House
and extorted from his enemies of both
parties admiration. And thus Congress
came to conclude that II the young man
was a crank he was the ablest. Drawn
iest hardest, most Jealous of the guild
Congress had ever seen. And then he be-
gan to grow more rapidly than ever, and
~ 1a,,a 80, frtro ,, h
has yet reached to his ultimate zenith as
a thinker and debater.
Charles f. Crisp was the leader of the
majority of the Fifty fourth Congress-;
but he died before the term expired. and
there was struggle for the succession,
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Benton Mcmillan was the logical can
date for he was in thorough accord
with the majority of the party on the tar
IF question. a disciple Of the school of
Morrison and Carlisle, to which Cleve-
land adhered. Bailey was an "insurgent'
on that issue, and while he did not go
the whole hog, there was rather strong
tincture of Vandalism in his composition
But Mcmillan, more than any other
member of the Fifty-second Congress-
was responsible for the defeat of Mills
FOR speaker by Crisp. Thus Bailey was
made the democratic leader; but Caesar
could not have led that demoralzed
squad. now torn by faction and rocking
with bitterness The silver question had
supplanted the tariff question, and the
on speaking terms with the democratic
party in the White House. But Bailey
Fought like a lion long he was
leader until he abdicated In disgust, and
was succeeded by James d. Richardson.
whose temperament was the exact oppc-
site of the Texans.
Reed, the speaker, was the majority
leader, and he found In the young Texan
a foeman worthy his stel, and that of
his chief of staff on the floor, Mr., Ding
ley. NAnd that recalls that when Thomas
B. Reed first appeared in the Forty-fifth
Congress he was a much older man than
Bailey was when the Fifty-first Congress
convened, and what Is more, Tom Reed,
In 1877, was a much more narrow man
than Bailey was In 1891. At no time in
his carer has Bailey ever delivered him
self Of such bigoted. repulsive. vindic-
tive fanaticism as came from Tom Reed
In the debate on the, bill approprlating
small sum to reimburse William and
Mary college for the vandalism visited
on 1t by Federal soldiers during the war.
Senator Bailey is man of immense
force and strong individuality of char
acter. 1t would be impossible for him
to be blind follower Of any man.
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give warning of ultimate downfall.
There was a time in this nation when
the nation delighted to reward ane
honor the man who had served hi
country. There was a time in this ma
TONS history when the politician was
unknown, or, if known, despised. There
was a time when the road to the presi-
dency led through Valley Forge, not
through the convention hall. There wa
a time, not much more than a century
ago, when it might be said of the Unit
ed States as was said of Rome when at
the height of her glory.
Then none was for a party,
Then all were for the state,
Then the great man helped the poor
And the poor man loved the great
Then lands were fairly portioned
The spols were fairly sold,
Then Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.
Those were the days when the patriot
shouldeTed his old musket and went forth
to offer up his life on his country's altar
leaving behind him all that was near and
dear.
For Romans. in Romes quarrels,
| Spared neither land nor gold,
| Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life
| In the brave days of old
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at least on this day dear little Mary
O'Grady can have a bit of mate" sir.
Before us lie the lakes, the lovely,
dreamy, dmpled lakes of Killarney: the
subject of the lovers song, the poets
verse, the dramas scenes and the paints
er's pictures Aliquid mirror rejecting
the cerulean sky, framed in by graceful
slopes of purple mountains and high.
hills whose every nook is full of romantioi
incident and quaint legend. The water,
when still. is so clear as to make 1t n-
possible to decide where the shore ends
and the water begins. The lakes are
three in number, the Upper the Middle
and the Lower From Lord Brandor.s
cottage where we take the boat, to the
| UNCOVERED ruins of old Ross castle,
there is a stretch of ten miles. But our
oarsmen are strong and merrily row us
down the lakes often pinning Irish wit
| to the wings of Time it flies We
wanted to move slowly. and SO we did.
Numerous are the places of legendary
or historic interest along the lagos, for
| they are in the very heart of Irish ro-
nance and one can well believe that
among the sylvan hooks and deep grot-
toes there dwell still nymphs, fauns, fays
and fairies with which the poetry of
Ireland abounds. The worlds din and
strife. its competitions and yexationss
thoughts of loss and gain, were shut out,
and deep stiffness fell upon the heart
of nature slowly we glided by tiny
islands, through narrow channels. or un-
der dark projecting rocks, watching the
while the flight of an eagle, the chang
ing glory of the clouds. or the distant
submits of MacGillicuddy's Reeks."
God must love the Irish very deeply:
He has given them such beautiful
home.
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| If that sense be in truth a sense of pro-
portion, may not touches of it's light glance
even on the statute book? Why not go
after the great evils and thus educate
mankind on the ethics of lesser issues?
Why not encourage the brewer to make
his profits in inverse proportion to the
damage he does? Why not compel him
and the dstiller and the wine grower to
pay dear, dearer, dearest, in scientific ra-
ito to the poison they concoct? You gen
tlemen who are still persuaded that old
whisky is a gentlemans drink grateful,
comforting, sociable, philanthropic, can
well afford to pay whopping big price
| for the G zion and for the liberty to put
| 1t In practice.
At the same time the other man, whose
utmost energy is needed to earn his fam
lily bread and rent, will have the tempta-
ton to drink that fiery fluid lifted out
of his range. The promoter of retail
booze" will be exposed to severe repris-
ais If he distributes more violently con-
cocted poisons, as for instance sulphuric
acid, In the place OF your expensive kind;
the negro will be unable to purchase 1t;
every pint of 1t introduced into the state
will be subject to the tax, and perhaps
| in state dspensaries, but certainly under
rigid supervision, both the consumption
of 1t will be discouraged and the eX-
!
ing. Let us tax 1t, and still tax 1t, till
the superstition on which 1t lives quite
crumbles and the miserable fire burns
| itself out, a. diStredited barbarism. More
slowly, perhaps. but just as surely, we
may hope for intelligence to ripen con-
corning beer and wine. Efficiency of
citizenship, In business, in social duties,
in professional affairs, and even In legls-
lation and oratory, is against John Bar
l,f- 81, -
the long years that clan has played "Old
Man OF the Sea to western peoples and
made them weep over wasted irredeem-
able lives! What heaps of corpses lie at
the doors of every statehouse In all this
broad fair free land! Shall England
and Germany, whom our own example
has spurred forward, achieve victory, be-
gin decently to inter their heaps of the
slain, while we go on interminably to
quarrel as to how and when we Will
bury ours? I do not pretend that where
wealth Is so abundant as in this land the
tax on whisky which avails to discourage
it in England will be equally successful
1t may not be the final method there or
here. But the method at least seems
sound, even though the tax should need
to be quadrupled. Am I simple to sup
pose that we could all agree in this policy
Of severe taxation on distilled liquors?
There's another feature of the British
budget which cheers the free trader In
things legitimate. 1t is that under free
trade. in spite of the necessity to pro-
vide the stupendous sum of f1S,000. 900.
or $99000o,000, for current expenditure. a
surplus Is shown of more than four and a
quarter million dollars, and big slice
cut from the national debt Prosperity
appears in every direction, excepting a
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our books which we cannot get officers
10 uniformly enforce or courts to sus-
tain, and we are driven to conclude that
we are developing both lawlessness and
hypocrisy. The very man who votes for
statewide prohibition too often smells of
whisky and congratulates himself that
his constituents have no voice over his
private appetites. Meantime the trade
which contributes most to produce lun-
atios and criminals escapes taxation for
tho support of the jals and asylums.
Now, with due humility and as fervent
sympathy as can be imagined with the
friends of sobriety, thrift and righteous
ness. may I suggest that legislation needs
to- distinguish between things that do
really differ, and be willing to hasten
only as fast as it can go? Socially and
personally I adjudge beer. wine and dis
TILED liquors all needless and alike
perilous. But oh, for a sense of humor.
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of power. Would they support the
whisky clauses of the budget? 1t was
thought not. On the contrary the Irish
men proved willing to pay for the friend
ship of their liberal allies, even to the
extent of supporting the whisky clauses
But now come sthe question? How
about the new budget? That Is to say
| will the government still try to combine
moral idealism and scheme of taxa
| ton? Will the anti-whisky animus still
exhibit itself? viii the Irishmen still be
complaisant?
! In reply to all this 1t must be said that
Mr.. Lloyd George has made his choice.
insists on the heavy tax, elects to wage
war on the drink evil, and practically
says to the Irishmen: (which do you
love most, the promise of emancipation
from the Saxon landlord and a free Irish
| parliament on the one hand, or the ira
ditional 'crathur' on the other?" The ex-
istence of the government is staked to-
day on the anti-whisky clauses. Whether
the Irish patriots will still confess that
Ireland should have less usquebaugh and
fewer obstacles to home rule will appear
as the debates proceed. 1t Is a psycholo-
gical moment for Irish nationalist aspira-
tions. t4A
To us in Alabama those debates will be-
perhaps, chiefly interesting, as they show
what has actually been accomplished in
the direction of controlling the liquor
trade. When so strenuous an opponent
of Mr.. Lloyd Georges policy as the Lon
don Spectator unites with his most fer
vent admirers in praising his reform"
budgets, there must be some sufficient
reason. There is. According to reports
printed in the British Weekly" Mr..
George has been able to show diminu-
| ton Of Scotland's consumption of whisky
truly phenomenal Convictions for drunk
erihess were fewer by SO per cent. The
admissions to Jail in Edinburgh from
April to December. 1909, as compared
with 1908, were nearly 1000 fewer, due en-
tirely in the opinion of responsible Off
GERS, to the increased tax on whisky. In
Ireland also there was "a great fall in
the convictions for drunkenness" In
England there were something like 1900
fewer convictions during the year. Ten
millions (gallonsD of SPIRITS had been
withdrawn from consumption"
Now this I take to be healthy and sane
progress. There is little of the hysteri-
cal In 1t. We all agree as to the impera-
tive necessity OF checking the ravages
caused by alcoholic poisoning. In Ala
bama 1t has come to be settled prin-
ciple that "the trade Is fundamentally
different from trade In ordinary merchan-
disc. It's destructive power over the in
dividual, the home, social relationships
at large, and business. makes whisky a
fit subject for scientific and rigorous con-
troll But splashing a puddle to make 1t
look like the ocean does not make 1t the
ocean Zeal not according to scientific
facts is generally more fruitful of evil
than downright wickedness And 1 must
be permitted to record the conviction that
war on drunkenness will not succeed un-
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has heard of the rule OF the people for
the people by the people. He believes
that is right and that's why he is re-
publican. But hardly has he declared his
republican proclivities when a democrat
takes him in hand and points out the err
rors of republcanlsm and the advantages
of democracy. Right there is where the
foreigner gets bewildered and he natural
ly concludes that democracy, being anti
republican, must be either ahead of or
behind republicanism. If 1t be ahead 1t
must be socialism, IL 1t be behind 1t
must be imperialism; to the one he will
not return nor will he advance to the
other, consequently he becomes a repub-
lican and remains one.
Political parties, If they exist at all,
should be the opposite of each other In
principle, purposes and name. Great
Britain furnishes a very fine illustra-
ton of this party difference There they
have the liberal party, being as It's
name indicates, the party of progress
and in opposition thereto, the conser-
vative party, being, as its name also
indicates, the standstill or reactionary
party. The principles and purposes OF
English political parties are wei
known to every Englishman and II
takes very little time or study on the
part of the foreigner to understand
them. The lines of distinction are sc
clearly drawn that mistake is impos-
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Now 1t strikes me that this is house
keeping on a pretty extensive scale, and
yet have made no mention of the tons
of canned goods that are used by the
average ship. 1t will be seen by the
figures | have given that eating Is one
of the chief diversions of an ocean voy-
age. AS an appetizer such a voyage Is
Incompatible 1t Is exhilarating beyond
words to describe. To me the odor OF the
salt air Is like the perfume of Arabia.
From my childhood l have loved the
bird-like freedom of the sea, and years
and years ago I put my sentiments in
these lines, which I wrote so long ago
that have no remembrance of the year
Away, away, o, stately ship,
Into the deep thy prov shah dip;
While mid storm and mist of foam,
Shall find in thee my native home;
Then fly like a bird DER the rollicking
sea,
What matters the tempest to you or to
me?
But there's a dark bar ahead of us;
what is 1t? 1t Is Ireland, for 1t Is now
six days since we left New York. When
we arrived at Queenstown the great ship
stopped out in the channel and tenders
with slight draft came out to take off the
passengers for the green isle. On the
deck of the tender there was vast
crowd of homecoming Irishmen Every
body happy to leave the prison of the
ship and every Irish face was beaming
with joy. I caught the happy Infection,
and as we steamed under the prows OF
the English warships In the harbor,
knew no better than to start the Irish
patriot song. THE Wearing Of the
Green" As / did SO, some priests stand
ing near me Joined in the song. then
others sang with us, and presently, right
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From the Youths Companion.
She was popular young normal, who
had been to a party the night before
and as a consequence was mot Freparo.--''
in the geography class.
The woman instructor. true to her
method of drawing upon the general
knowledge of student rather than to
permit a failure. after eliciting two or
three inconseauential "stabs" from her
fair but jaded. discipline. asked for the
products of China.
The victim frightened. Tea" she as
serted. preparing to sit down.
The young woman smiled with sweet
hopelessness.
Now you can mention others, L am
sure. Just think about it,"
Tea drawled the fiute-lilxe voice OF
the pretty girl, and" puckering her
forehead with an intellectual tour =
force, and laundry work."
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cannot control ignorant or evil wills. The
(cure Is the education of the will, and
cost is one means of such education. An
other means Is obstacle. Taxation OF the
drug unites cost and obstacle and so
strengthens feeble wills.
Let us further admit that there is a
greater and a lesser evil The less alco-
hol the less poison in social beverages.
Beer, however, containing only a small
per cent of alcohol, has been put in the
same legislative category with the great
excitants. its good points ignored. hys-
terics taking the place of legislative wis
dom in estimating it. Hence the whole
vast attack. so successfully inaugurated
by the anti-saloon forces. Is being dis
credited. In our enthusiasm we have
run ahead of conviction and gotten out
of touch with reflective sanity. Does
this explain the suplne attitude of the
medical profession? We have statues on
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or the money question. No full dinner
pail'' or sixteen to one or such like
"springes to catch woodeocks' were
necessary to secure for him the love and
respect of his fellow countrymen He
had served his country and his country
men were proud to honor him, and they
did So
Washington was the first and also the
last President who was elected according
to the spirit and intention of the Consti-
tuition. All his successors have been
more or less the nominees of political
parties. Fortunately for the nation, soms
of our Presidents have risen above party
after their election and thereby saved
the nation. although at the price of their
own future prospects. When in the
course of time a President laid down the
principle that ITO the victor belongs the
spells" there was sown the seed of whicn
future generations were to reap the crop.
Still preserving the comparison with an
cient Rome in the days of its decline may
we say:
Now Roman Is to Roman
More hateful than a foe
The Tribunes beard the high
And the Fathers grind the low
As we wax hot in faction
In battle we grow cold;
Wherefore men fight not as they fougns
| In the brave old days of old.
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KU/HERE government is carried on
M by political parties the politician
w fiourishes and the statesman
perishes. The politician is the man who
serves himself, the statesman is the man
who serves his country. What the United
States wants today is more statesmen and
fewer politicians, and the only way to
bring about that condition is to abolish
political party government.
While there are several political parties
In the United States today there are but
two really worthy of consideration, the
republican and democratic. 1t is between
the adherents of each of these parties that
state and national campaign for office
are carried on, and it is to the success OF
either of these parties that thousands and
thousands of ohiceseekers look for the
reward of their allegiance and service.
The politician is an officeseeker. pure and
simple, and as his hopes of office depend
on the success of his party he Ignores the
public good for the sake of personal gain.
Government by political party is driving
the government into the hands of the poll
tcians. and if it ever comes TO pass
that the politician obtains command OF
the ship it is only shortly thereafter UNI
I'll disaster follows.
What is the dividing line today between
the republican and democratic party? To
the average man the only difference seems