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of democrats, thing unheard of there

of democrats, a thing unheard of there tofore
 l make no apology for quoting liber- ally from MT. Redfeld's remarkable speech. Here is something that ought to apeal to every citizen. however dense his ignorance or venomous his prej- udice touching the tariff
 How does it happen, Mir. Chairman, that in quotation recently made for ma chinery to mine in Japan the American price was $215 less than the English price? How does it happen that those American locomotives are running upon those Japa- nese railways, upon those of Formosa upon those of Manchuria? How does it happen that American engines are sold In Hongkong? How does 1t happen that I sent one day before yesterday to Ran goon? These are sold in competition with makers in Great Britain. I happen to know what those locomotives cost, rel ative to those made by German and Eng fish manufacturers, and happen also. to know this, which is one of several stories whichs will illustrate the particular con tention, namely, that last January I was in the city of Tokio, and a friend who was with me took large contract, by
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hook and the blow to displaee the swor1 and the 14-inch rife?
 It Is not my wish to embellish an alto gether tyite theme, for God knows this is trite enough; yet this action on the part of the Senate strikes me as sort of re- versal to primitive reasoning. If ran- kind ever knows universal peace, and if we truly wish 1t forwarded, that trre wish must be brought true through a last power-an ultimate tribunal, in whom must be vested the last hopes of rhe na- tions. To me 1t seemed a sorry spectacle that of our highest body mncing mat ters that seemed so lucidly clear-gossip- ping together like group of old women at a quilting bee. It may be that those old women are not ready for the radiant days of the future which the world must know when the beast is utterly destroyed. dare say the most of them do not wish to be deprived of that kitchen pataver and gossip After all there is no great dif- ference in mems talk and womens talk
 in council halls and kitchens not such a vast dlference-mostly stubbornness
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YOHN- BULLS pardona5le boast is
 that he is honored most acceptabiy 0 when there is no money in it. A vast number of his foremost business men lay down their personal affairs and ac- cept burdens for the municipality, the county the state, happy only to be elected and to have the inestiniable privilege of working for nothing The duties of leisure are always recognized as the obligation 10 serve, on city council, county council, school board, jury, or, most coveted place of all. as member of parliament. Such situation is almost idyllic. Here are about FOO men to be chosen to represent the people and here are two or three times 700 men eager to be adopted as candf- dates, eager to pay their own expenses in the contest, most happy of all men if pernlitted at last to write M. P. after their names, tho the M does not stand for money nor the "P.'' for pocket
 Can they make anything thereby on tho side? Is there a graft somewhere? Not a chance! The least whisper against my one of the 700 would blast his political career. He may be poor. That is hardly forgiven him. But if he is not too proud to turn his honor into cash, he had better hunt a cool corner in tie neighborhood of spitzbergen or the Pole. where it will be
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s. He bought American lead pencils in Java and American shaving soap in Hongkong. Mfr. Redfield stated that the city of Liege has the lowest priced indus trial labor in Europe; but that he of fered to sell his goods to a merchant there cheaper than the Iiege price; but the man would not take the order be- cause it was against his principle to ouy anything produc In a country that put Up high tariff wall against his country. That Is the shackle the tariff robbers have put on industrial America. He said that on the main street of the city Of Batavia is a very fine office building. one of the finest in Java, and over the door IS this legend: United States Products Co"
 He is one manufacturer-and soon theiY name will be legon-who regards the tar if as a letter to enslave him and not shield to protect him. In less than 20 years an immense majority of American
 manufacturers will embrace the tariff idea of MT. Redfeld which Is the tariff idea of Carlisle and Mills. Cleveland and Bryan, Robert J. Walker, Albert Gala- tin and James Guthrie. Then the citadel of that creaming fraud, protection, will be in Louisiana and other southern states.
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K YISTUR EDDTTUR: Massachusetts
 MI has the only reel high brow in " 4 the U. s. Senate Comrarysons air odurus, and we shouldn't make them, but when Henery Cabbotts Lodge IS stuck up long side of one of his feller senators, say Jeff Davis ,frum Arkinsaw, it is payneful, it reely is. Henery Cabhotts is
 what you mite call classick; he has been called lots of things, and lots or
 times, but classick fits him best. Henery
 Cabbotts is smart, and awful smart at that, when he was only quite lad, about three years old, he had walked thru Daniel Websturs dicktionery three times. and could resite Homur's lllyard sideways, and he could beet your branes out with enny old greak verb extant.
 Henery is a very large gun up in Bost- ing where all conversation is spoke ac- cording to the constitusion. and where. IL Is unlawful to eat beens with your knlre' IIenery is swell all rite-to tell the reel truth he is swollen. Henery Carrotts wares whiskers, and such set of whisk- CTS too-as whiskers go his air pippfns. There air no boll-weavils in thenl-not on your life, for evvery morning Henery has his valit comb them whiskers first with heavy comb like a garden rake, then he runs lite cultivator thru them. then he sand papers them, and uses the curling irons, then he sprinhies a little oil of joy ovver them and when Henery gets down h Ia o;r prominint and blend well with his nat,irel dignyty, and Henery has a big stock of dignyty, you can depend upon it, he could discard half he's got and then make the whole U. s. supreem court look week in that commodyty r.
 We have newer seen the senater rum Massachusetts but we have seen his pic ture, and we opine that his picturs does not do him justis; all the pictures we have
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Mir Redfeld brought down the House with this narrative:
 When a tariff bill was pending, MT. Chairman, some years ago, representa- tive of a cy1lcible steel works in Pfttsburg came into my office and said: I have a petition I would like to have you sign. said What is it?' He replied: It Is a petition to have the duty on our product advanced l asked him why. I ought, perhaps, to explain, MT. Chairman, that manufacturers have talked very freely with me for many years. assuming, as a matter of course, that I agreed with them In their particular views. and this man went on to say in answer to my question as to why they wanted this additional duty: We have got to keep the standard Of American living; we have got to hold up the American rate of wages and see that our American working people live on a basis far better than the pauper la bor of Europe. I said: That is very n- teresting. How much of the proposed in crease do you propose to add to your pay roll?' He said they had not yet given that serious consideration. Uaughter) asked him if he would add any portion of this increased duty to the pay oil, and he replied that they had not got to that yet.
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tarianism. He is the way-shower 10 the
 lair of the beast; so far he has made no
 loving oyertures to the brute, nor even attempted to tame 1t. He Is the finest critic in his field, though ttere Is no 7aore poetry In his books than in the Bertillon system-no more laughter in his message than may be discovered in Chopins Marche Funebre'-unless a certain mad glee may be seen in the faces of corpses and criminals. He is much given zoo, to insistence upon gradation in, crime; that we err in looking only in society's dregs for evidences of atavism. Because of this repeated insistence have been surprised to find nothing anent the opinion that prevails of nations going to war. He naturally would attribute 1t to the beast that fingers in us-this popular 5ustifica- ton of manslaughter when men fight in groups, and this condemnation of man slaughter when men fight singly. Shall we call 1t an aberTation, or no more than the protective instinct? And it is a queer result of the civlizing process that such
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cations. This Is in fact, the inheritance of class privilege. the unequal distribution of education. and the consequent speciaiiza- ton of moneyed men on the tasks of leg islation. But the other hand these privileged classes have been steadily ex- tending themselves downward, as compul- sorry education has spread its gracious re- suits among the people. It Is but 41 years ago that the foundation stone of popular education in England was laid by William E. Forster, and the task of making Eng land intelligent was laid upon the should CTS of the state. Till then 1t was made quately attempted by conflicting churches.
 During those 41 years generation of shrewd, we1l-read working men has sprung up, and their representatives in parliament have made a problem almost wholly unfelt till now. They have cap tured the road to the tree of knowledge, hitherto held by these cherubim, the priv ileged aristocracy and the middle class. Now they with horny hands and greasy aprons, have picked up the sword of state and propose to seat themselves in stead- fly increasing numbers in the assembly of the elders by the gate, which is to say, in parliament. One-seventh of the whole number of members of the house of com monss is now derived from the ranks of
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the workers. They have no income other than that which their own skill and toll afford. But they have most aggressive and unchangeabe purpose, a passionate conviction and propaganda. They are ready for sacrifices. They will wear their rough Scotch caps in the same chamber where the sons of privilege tilt tradi- tional stove-pipe silken headgear across their senatorial brows. They will lodge in simple and economic manner far from the haunts of frivolity and fashion. They will make shilling go further than the arlstoccrat's sovereign could be made to stretch. But they must have at least the shilling. Primitive they may be; but they cannot lodge in the gutters or the parks
 It is not long since legal decision was rendered which forced the next step for ward When laboring men were sent to parliament their constituents undertook to provide meager salary. The collection of this fund devolved on the unions, and the court decreed that such collection and payment was illegal. Decisions like this prove boomerangs to hyper-conservatisn, and now the boomerang has put in it's ap
 pearance in the shape of a proposed law to equalize wealth and poverty in the mern-
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bership of the commons by paying all alike.
 We read that the mother of parliaments is the only one which offers only honor and work as the reward of successful candidates. Government officials are paid even there; but more as an honorarium to meet extra social expenses than by way of salary for work done. It is an interesting question whether the change to the salary basis for all members will bring deterioration in the honorable tra- ditions of the house. Will graft develop with this offer of a competency? Will meaner race of men seek for seats until politics fall into disrepute and the fine old chivalrops usages and ideals be scattered on the turbid River of Time?
 Fine old chivalrous usages, indeed. When a Cecil can lead an outrage like that the other day, estopping the prime minister of the nation from expoundng his plans to the nations representatives, the chivalry Is too bespattered with child ish d-pie-making to bear much scru- tiny. A London editor frankly asserts that the crisis has made the unionsts ln- sane It is a. word of charity.
 Students of the situation will observe in the new proposal only are more inev-
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a contradiction should obtain in the rninds of otherwise thoughtful persons.
 We have lately noted vestiges of the jungle brute in the failure of the United States Senate to ratify the arbitration treaty between Great Britain and France. as originally drafted. tYou at least read your daily newspaper; know the proposed arbitration and of its amendment py the Senate, eliminating, however, the provis- ion giving special privileges to .he pro posed joint commission) Whatever un- pleasant results might accrue from such a coalition, the original draft at least meant perpetual peace between these three nations, and with the elimination of this provision. some eminent jurists, such as our President Taft. doubt it's efficacy. Many points of this interminable debate are obscure to the writer-yet out of the wordy mass we gather that the Senate Is jealous of the proposed joint high com mission. Washington correspondent believes that the issuance of certain circular on the day prior to the Senate s
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with an undue regard for dress and os- tentation will in her maturity grow into little more than a Haunting butterfly of fashion.
 And 1t need not provoke your special wonder that in this sort of high 1.fe' there should be satiety and heartburn ings and closet skeletons.
 We need another Thackeray in a new Vanity Fair,'' who will puncture the snobbery of some modern boarding school.
 Of recent pictures, one of surpassing in terest and which has attracted much at tention is that of Blair Leighton, entitled ITO the Unknown LAnd'
 The picture tells story that, alas, is all too frequent In our common life-a story in symbol of little childs death and the grief of the mother.
 This is the picture story:
 small boat is leaving the shore. At
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tick. and mopes around and looks worst than a defeeted cannydate for-~sherriff who has mortgaged his farm for campain funds.
 If the Demmercrats win in 1912 you will hear sum classy predictsions of just where the country is going to, rum Senator Lodge of Massacho If he wasn't frum Boseting we'd call him a Nocker. but as he Is. and they do not understand slang teerms up there. we'll compromise by calling him a Frost"
 We have a coppy of speech Henery maid one time, on the Responsibility of leesure" according to Henery leesure Is no joke. So far as we air concerned we have newer ben trubled with 1t, but in case we air we air glad to have Henery's advise upon the subject. Hen cry strongly intermates that its not rite to spend your leesure time in fish ing and such pursoots as that. but he hints that you mite rite book or sum such triffle, he seys. Far bettur the man that cumburs the ground is the man who, if he does not use hls en- terlectuel powers, at leest employees his fissical gifts in sum way" get that? Hanged if do. but I guess Hen cry uses both his-he, uses his fissical gifts enny how, by adorning the Sem ate
 We ain't nockin .Henery. He is an able man and a credit likely to the country, but he would be a gratur one, If he could forget that there air uther phases on the map beside Bosting, and that uther pepul in the grate country have rites and need profession besides the manufactures-and that 1t is pos sibul. sumtimes for evven a Demmer- crat to be dh the rite side of ques- tion.
 When Henery admits enny of the above, however, vardaman will vote to pension Booker T. Yours trooiy.
 BILL VINES
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pay all bills while I am on earth. I am under no obligations to anybody
 The other said:
 "I tried to do some good as I went along, but failed. am tired of the strug gle. I have earned a rest. I have no grievance against any one. Let the world wag as it will | was surprised at the bitter dfegs I had discovered In the bottom of these hearts. | They are wrong, both of them. They hauled down the flag too soon. They were well whipped, though still boastful The battle of life Is only about one-half over at 50. | Both these men had lost the fine hush deavor which should come to the veteran when the drums are sounded for charge. They had quit the days job while it was yet noon.
 And, having quenched the spirit, they had shortened their days Like some forest trees, they are dead not only at the tops, but in the heart of them.
 A man should not quit growing so long as there is in him the sap of self-develop- ment nor 50 long as he can be useful to his fellows
 Roll upsyour sleeves, Fifty! Suppose Franklin or Edison had retired at 5o how much the world had lost. Some of the best work done by humans has been done by men between the ages of 50 and go.
 l Quit at 30? Why, that's treason.
 Renew your youth like the eagles. Climb up where you catch again the visions of your boyhood
 l Fight on, Fifty! r. Is the old sword battered and broken l? Nevertheless fight on with the remnant of the old blade. Wait until the bugles blow the retreat! When the sun goes down on the fighting there Is time enough to so into camp. A Chicago woman who sent her daugh- ter to private boarding school tells this story: s
 T asked my daughter after few days how she liked the school and how she got along My girl said:
 "'Well, mother, it'sa very nice school. but the little girls are the strangest creatures The first thing they said was, How many carriages have you?" And I said, why we haven't any carriage
 And what do you think. mother. be- fore could finish what I was<saying a little girl turned up her nose and walked away from me and said to another little girl: .s4
 t"s. ''Whats she doing here? Why. they haven't even a carriage.
 And said went on the child excit- edly. we haven't any carriage, but we had an automobile. "Oh. have you? Well, Its all right then but we have three car |riases and. an automobile and a runabo.t and seven servants, and my mother has G pairs of shoes.'
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the bow sits the oarsman-Death. In the storm is a respendent white robed angel whose great dropping wings touch the water on either side.
 In the arms of the angel is the wee child, smiling up into the face of the heavenly messenger come to take it to "The Unknown Land.'
 That is half the picture
 The other half-the sad phase of it-is the figure of the bereft mother kneeling on the shore, alone, desolate. bowed in agony, as the child is being borne away on the waste of waters.
 Her sky is dark. and the only gleam of light Is the radiance that streams from the presence of the angel visitant and re- fected from the face of the babe.
 The picture is great-because it is true
 It fills Tolstoy's definition of real art a message from the heart to the heart.
 How poignant is the suffering of mother who, having gone down into the
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action on the treaty was the cause of It's failure. This circular. privately mail ed to the members of the foreign rela- tions committee, contained a quotation from James Bryce's "The American Com monweaIth," In which that statesman criticised the honorable Senate upon the ground that it kept diplomatic troubles alive so long as there was any political advantage to be gained by it. Another reason given by a senator tBorah, I be- leve) for voting adversely 10 the origi- nal draft was that such an agreement with France and England would not only mean sooner or later the admittance of all other European nations, but ulti- mately the Asiatics en masse-Chinese, Japanese, and all that yellow ilk.
 Through seemingly selfish motives the representative body of what we think the most progressive breed of folk under the sky let's pass chance to put this nation on record as favoring the universal broth erhood of man! The two things that pre- vented this treaty's ratification by the Senate were. it seems to the writer. chief ly childish revenge because the truth
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shown, backbiting. fault-fnding. To hush ones hast word in the gossip of the ,ia- tions-well, what would be the pleasure of statesmanship if one couldn't air ones embryonic theories? And at quilting bees, one can't just quilt" and be silent. eh2
 Some of us had believed that the time had come for on understanding between the nations, though such an absurd idea it was. What should one expect from g. world where the wholesale slayers of men are still in the hero classi Get ever 60 many scalps of the distant tribes, my brave epauletted captain, and you may break bread with me n gold dishes,' saith the Jungle Spirit. But do not dare to kill your willful enemy, for that is an offense against the laws" Kill all you please to accompaniment of the cornet and drum, the zoboe and fife-to splendid march-music be deadly as you please but we charge you to destroy none whom you cordially hate!
 Lord, save us from foolish contradict tions If we can't win to saner reasoning than this-well, let ''the world bust through" and quickly.
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yU/ASHINGTON, August 1s.-
 NA/ Special )-One of the most

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 W remarkable speeches that has been delivered in either House of the American Congress in double decade was that of William c. Redfield. a democratic member of the Sixty-second Congress from Brooklyn, N Y. MT. Red field is a manufacturer and pays the highest wages in the world for what proves to be the cheapest labor in the world. He makes engines and sells them abroad, even Tn far-off Asia, in successful competition with England. Germany, France and the other great manufacturing countries of Europe It is his theory and his argument that with ha absolute free trade with all the world our country would do most of the manufacturing that is done in the world.
 In 1890 Rober Q. Mills stumped New England preaching the same evangel, asserting that with free raw materials our, manufacturies would dominate the world in hundreds of lines. That year, for the first time since our party was labeled democrat" we got a majority of the New England delegation in Con- gress, and the majority of the Mas sAchussetts delegation was made up
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:" Mother continued the child, think of anyone having a5 pairs of shoes
 Another girl remarked to my dauGh- ter: T have a new pair of shoes. They cost SIP. What did yours cost? And she fbbed when she said. Oh. $s or sio'
 'As matter of fact my girls shoes cost 8, and I spent an hour trying to convince my child of the insignifcance of wealth compared with other things.",
 Well!
 Somehow one. feels as if one might think better of that mother had she promptly removed her child from that sort of att mosphere.
 Vulgar pretense of superiority because of the possession of the trappings of wealth is an insufferable thing.
 What may be expected from a girl who from infancy has been encouraged. to in dulge such silly vanity?
 A child whose mind and heart are filled