The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1911-07-20

"ZHf AUoZST TRI6LlXAL -

road to run straight but Wen send 1t around the
tree"
If the Australian tree is still standing it stands
as a monument to an Irshman who had a soul
once Representative William Alden Smith, now
United States senator, tried his level best in
the house debate on Panama to make Congress
man Dinsmore of Arkansas supply stock of good
Republican campaign material, Just as Blaine
bated Ben Hill in the old days. Dinsmore was
talking about the hasty recognition OF the lnde
pendence of Panama by the United States and
drew a comparison between that action and the
attempts of this government to keep foreign ma
tions from recognizing the confederacy In 1851.
The Arkansas. member got warmed up and be-
gan to talk about the power OF the confederacy.
He made the statement that its soldiers had
thrashed the Union army in the first six battles
of the war He got still warmer as he went on
and suddenly Smith OF Michigan sprung the ques-
ton Are you defending the rights OF the states
to secede" -
Dinsmore came to himself like a fash. "Ah,
Brother Smith," he said how you would love
10 lead me into the pit! / have an abiding affec'
ton for you but neither my feet nor my tongue
shall 90 astray for the benefit OF the Republican
party"
Everybody knows what stckler the senate Is
for courtesy. Courtesy has seat at every desk
When one senator refers to another, whether ne
he political foe or political friend 1t Is always
as the distinguished gentleman from Maryland
or from Maine another state, as the case may
he Senator Tillman said fairly good thing one
day, II was side remark, but it reached the
gallery and was enjoyed by the auditors, who had
become bit weary Of resisting the Impulse TO
salaam every time senator rose and handed
few verbal flowers to a colleague
Senator Bailey had Just referred to the dis
tinguished senator from Maine. Quit It, SAID
TilIman you'll distinguish them all till they're
so stuck up that no one else can distinguish them
one from the other"
When James Wilson came to Washington as
secretary Of agriculture he understook a bit OF
sef-descrpton by saying to a caller: u am what
they call a hayseed." 1t should be noted that Mr.
Wilson did not say that he was a hayseed He
has the Scotch Presbyterian habit OF sticking to
the truth even in his humor 1t was rumored once
that in order to evade the laws OF this country
certain great companies were planning 10 take out
CORPORATION papers abroad. The matter was call
ed to the attention of the agricultural member OF
Mr. Roosevelts cabinet. His comment was this:
I'VE have laws we have petit juriesj we have
grand turies we have department OF justice;
we have courts, and we have penitentlaries'
Then Mr. Wilson smiled Just little grimly and
refused to discuss the subject further. He couldn't
have said anything that would have added one
iota to his meaning, and he knew II. There Is nc
waste OF words in the conversation OF James
Wilson.
Secretary Wilson unquestionably would be
success as a managing editor of a great newspa
per He knows news. When the Beyeridge pack
ing-house investigation measure had passed con
gress and Secretary Wilson was in the west on
tour of inspection. he was asked by newspape
man at the close Of one of the secretarys busies
days in Chicago what the news was.
Mr Wilson said: "Sit down and I'll give you tn
news and nothing else. These things have bee'
done within the last few days and not one OF then
has been touched on in the newspapers. The res
OF the stuff is ancient history.