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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25

best he felt he could get, so he accept
, ed it, especially because it provided
| for tariff commission and prepared
! the way for further revision to be
based on facts and not on politics, If,
then, the Democrats honestly want to
fulfill the pledges of the Republican
platform of 1908 more perfectly than
the PAYNE law fulfilled them--and that
is what Mr.. Wilson says he means to
dc--there ought to be no difficulty in
securing the assent of President Taft
to their work. They have the House
Of Representatives. They were able
last summer to command a majority
in the Senate for much more extreme
bills What is there to, prevent their
doing what our contemporary saws
would be best for business? At the last
session they were playing politics, were
intent upon putting the President in
a hole" and incorporated provisions IN
their measures for the purpose of max
ing vetoes inevitable which they would
never have put in with the desire or
purpose of having them become law.
That temptation is now removed.
They can devote themselves to the
drafting of a sincere measure of down.
ward revision to make the duties fairly
to American producers
for the highest cost of production in
this country. The insurgents should be
willing to help them, and even stand
patters'' might think such revision
less dangerous to business stabilit
than the probably long drawn out
wrangles of a new Congress. Thus the
tariff might really be taken out of pol
tics The possibility of so taking it
out rests not in President Taft, but in
the sincerity of the Democratic desire
to revise the tariff. as Mr.. Wilson has
in the spirit of Mr.. Taft's
platform.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
Better Than Prize Fighting.
Cincinnati Times-Star.)


The former heavyweight champion
prize fighter of the world, James J. Cor
bett, has just come out of hospital in
Philadelphia minus his appendix and %
pounds of weight During his stay
there the Philadelphia papers assert
that he has been the life of the ward in
which he was confined during his con-
valescence. and he left there with the
earnest good wishes of every one of the
patients with whom he had come in
contact
Especially interested was one small
boy and when he babe the former bank
clerk prize hghter-actor goodbye" there
We're genuine tears in the little
fellows eyes, The week previous Cor
bett had been told that his small adj
mirer would have to have one leg ampu-
tated; and the big man buoyed up his
small admirer by talking to him, tell
| ing him stories and helping him to put
| sand on his track As soon as the
youngster rallied from the operation, he
wrote an endearing letter to the big
fellow who had made more remarkable
fight against disease than he ever did
in the ring. ''You know, Mr.. Corbett,'
he said az told you I would be brave
ana would Sldilu Tue PAIN MY NOW II
does hurt but l gave you the promise
Please come and see me Thanksgiving
| am going to live and tell all my boy
friends how you helped me bear the
pain
Jim Corbett, who is known to good
many Thousand people, doubtless has
many things of which he is proud; but
if he is as human as his eiorts to
cheer that small boy in the valley of
the shadow would indicate, there is
nothing in his collection that can meas
ure up to the letter the youngster wrote
and his boyish words of enthusiasm
and appreciation. 1t is a far cry from
pounding an opponents physiognomy
into shapeless mass of bloody flesh,
to furnishing spiritual cheer and cour-
age to small boy in hospital; but If
the reports are to be believed, corbett,
the prize fighter. accomplished 1t
handily.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
a Faithful Student.
New York WORLDLY


Saws Charles Brickley, one of Har-
wards most brilliant young students:
Seven years ago l took up drop
kicking with the ultimate object OF
earning place on a Harvard team
that would defeat Yale. have prac-
tised conscientiously, always with TINS
one object in view. The football has
been a companion and brother to me-
Year after year l have felt that / was
gaining more and more control over
the ball.
1t is gratifying to give wide public
ity 10 such a conspicuous instance OF
this survival of New England zeal Tor
the higher education. The spirit OF
the old days when callous handed LADS
conned their Latin grammars by the
pine-knot blaze lives again in this
ambitious youth who for seven years
has followed his star with such dog
ged pertinacity and who now has in
sight the supreme moment SO long
awaited
To this it is natural that he should
an,iously look forward. But the test is
not the thing. 1t is the study 1t is
the discipline 1t is the broadening
of the mind 1t is the practical fitting
for adult cares. Twenty years from
new, when Mr. Brickley's waist-llne
is more generous and his thatch oil
hair is thinner, when the children are
getting bigger and their shoes and
clothes cost more. how thankful he VIII
be that stern sense of duty ola net
allow his forming mind to be diverted,
by invitations to slothtnl ease. vtEom
preparing himself for life's stern strug-
gle by a seven-yeais' study of drop
IA Ar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
A Banker on Farming.
douisville Courier Journal.l

louisville Courier Journal.)
Illinois is known as dairy state,
but is producing less butter now than
she produced thirty or forty years ago,
In an address in Chicago a few nights
ago b. F. Harris, retiring president of
the Illinois Bankers Association, said
that in 1879 Illinois produced 25,000,-
600 pounds of butter, while in 1911 the
production amounted to only 9,500,0e0
pounds.
Mr.. Harris made the remarkable
statement that if Illinois were closed
to butter shipped in from outside
states the people of all her cities, out
side of Chicago, plus 260,000 of her
urban population, would be deprived
of butter for their biead-this despite
the fact that more oleomargarine is
made in Illinois than in any other
state of the Union.
Mr. Harris urged that the banks of
the state get behind the farmers and
aid them III their problems. Most OF
our farmers he said, are not farm
ers at all, but miners, mining the soil,
and selling it's fertility for little more
than the cost" He showed that an
average increase of five bushels to the
acre in crops would add $4,000, 900
annually to the wealth of the state Of
Illinois. All lines of industry, Mr..
Harris said, had advanced production
and lowered the cost except the farm
err He is standing still, and the
stiller' he stands the higher goes the
cost of living and the lower soil fer
tility"
What is said of Illinois is applicable
to most of our agricultural states.
There is not one of them in which the
yield per acre of agricultural products
could not be increased. There is not
one of them in which the dairy indus
try could not be largely extended.
The average of wheat production in
the United States is only 1871 bushels
to the acre 1t is larger in many of
the European countries where the land
has been titled for hundreds of years.
The expectation of agricultural prod
ucts is falling off, and unless there is
Improvement in farming methods the
United States soon will be unable to
supply the needs OF it's constantly
growing population, and we shall be
importing instead of exporting these
necessities of life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25

exercise hitherto denied him. Let Others
take the responsibility now.
The studied effort to keep the exec
utive and legislative branches of the
government at arms length is a mis-
take, says the President. The veto on
the one hand and the confirmation OF
appointments and ratification of
treaties on the other he would not
change, but he does feel that there
should he closer relations between the
White House and Congress. 1T has
hecn proposed twice in our history" he
SAYS, after the fullest consideration
by some of the wisest statesmen we
have ever had, to pass a law giving
to each department head seat in the
Senate and in the House. and a right
to enter into the discussion of the pro-
posed legislation in either of the ma
tional legislative bodies"
In the early days of the republic the
President attended the sessions of the
Senate, sharing in the discussions on
public measures, but the custom began
and ended with George Washington,
who went away one day saying that
he'd "be damned if he would go there
again." Since then the Presidents have
tNuHii WIZ \oilSSi1S1 III "Ats
ing.
The presence of department heads
in Congress would tend toward greater
publicity in government affairs, but
the success of such an arrangement
would depend largely on whether the
legislative and executive branches hap
pened to be in control of the same po-
litical party. If Congress should pass
in the Senate and House there would
he great deal of frank discussion.
The administration would have di-
rect method of making plain plain its
purposes, while the people, through
their representatives, would have a di-
rect method ofEquizzing the executive
officers. If the administration wanted
to be secretiVe, however, the cabinet
officers could absent themselves and If
Congress wanted to be relieved of the
burden of listening to the cabinet Of
fieers, way would be found to cut off
discussion. The two branches of the
government could be brought closer
together in short. if beth sides were
willing, but since the representatives OF
the executive department could not
vote, it is a question whether the pro-
posed plan would work better II prae-
tice than the present system OF writ
ten communications and oral testimony
in committees.
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Editorial Comment
Honor in Politics.
cortland Express.)

| cortland Express.)
| Newspaper discussion as to the
| course of legislators elect when Janu-
airy has come, is, or ought to be,
! fruitless There is honor in politics.
| In business a man gives a monetary
bond to carry out his contract. In
| politics his bond is one of honor,
| far more sacred than any financial
consideration can be.
Ex-Governor Burleigh's nomination
, IS candidate for United States senator
was made at the same primaries at
which the Republican candidates for
the Legislature We're selected. His NOM
ination was fairly made. Every man
elected to the Legislature on the Re
publican ticket is under this bond of
honor to elect as United states sena-
tor the man selected by the Republican
primaries Any argument to the con-
trary is sophistry. In oregon, few
years ago under that states peculiar
direct primary law legislature of one
political faith elected a senator of the
other party, and in Nebraska today a
similar duty is facing an incoming leg
islature.
The Express Advertiser believes thar
the men elected as Republicans to the
Maine Legislature are men OF honor.
1t is totally unable to conceive of any
man III that distinguished body being
false to his pledge to the people, for
every one of them is under sucs q
pledge otherwise the direct primary is
a mockery.
The men who are being urged to for
felt their political honor are commit
ted to the doctrine of the primaries. It
is one of the corner stones of their
special doctrine, and is regarded as not
less fundamentally right by the Repup-
licans. To begin the reign of the peo-
pie through the primaries by refusing
to obey the dictation of the people
would be an Unthinkable inconsistency.
Those who are advising and trying
to promote such fraudulent represen-
tation are either Democrats who see
their opportunity to regain power
through the division of their oppon-
ents, or men with moral astigmatism.
We refuse to believe that the mem
bers of the next Maine Legislature
will be influenced by leaders Of either
class
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
Voices Of the Press
The Socialist Example.

The Suppression and manipulation
of news by the capitalist press is a
standing Indictment of the Socialists.
How Socialist newspaper that serves
not the money power, but only Truth,
would handle the news is indicated IN
yesterdays account of the lndianap-
oils murder trial in the Socialist
Call. McManigafs extraordinary ae-
count of the story regarding the Los
Angeles explosion told him by ]. B.
Mcnamara while on a hunting ex-
petition, is thus disposed of:
After reaching the woods and fixing
their camp, Mcnamara gave some de-
tails of the Los Angeles Times expo-
sion. But he was not very free with his
condolences.
Oh, freedom of the press, how your
aspect changes when the boot is on the
other legi-New York Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
An Exploded Excuse.
(Pittsburg Despatch.)

The remarkable oscillation in the
returns from California on the Presi-
dency and in Kansas on the Governor
ship, where a mere handful of votes
either way may swing the result. Of
fers occasion for thought to the indif-
ferent citizen who is accustomed to
excuse his failure to go to the polls
by the thought that one vote one way
or other will make little difference.
In the days when party pluralities
ranged in the thousands and States
We're set down as safe no matter what
the result in the Nation, there may
have been basis, if not justification,
for this attitude. Since the result was
taken for granted the Indifferent citi-
zen had at least the excuse of the gen
eral assumption. But when it has
been demonstrated that States the size
OF California and Kansas have see
sawed on a few score votes, and it is
recalled that prior to the polling even
Pennsylvania was classed as doubtful.
1T must be brought home to every
voter that it is not safe to imagine
that his vote does not matter.
OF course the national result Was
sweeping, but there is no assurance
that lesser offices may not be depend
ent upon a vote or SO either way, just
as in the Kansas Goyernorship, or as
in the close contest in which Repre-
sentative Longworth was beaten by
81. One result of this election should
be to destroy the fatuous complacenee
which has 50 often sought to excuse
neglect of this primary duty of citizen
ship on the plea that one vote could
not matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
A. Chance That Paid.


II Following an idea that is rapidly gain
ing ground throughout the East, a Chi
cago theatre manager has entirely aban-
doned Autographs, free tickets for win
dow dsiay and billboards as means
of publicity and substituted advertising
in the columns of the newspapers
The step was not taken blindly but
after long observation and consideration
Not in one single case" he says, did
a man tell noe he had seen or read our
advertisement on a billboard. An over
whelming majority said they had read
the advertisement in a newspaper.
Increased attendance and higher
quality of patronage is admitted to De
the result there as it is here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
The Business High School.

The Washington Star comments
editorially on THE Business High
School as it is now interesting edu-
Gators there. Merit is obviously to be
discerned in the plan that has just
been laid before the school authorities
by The principal of the Business High
School, who proposes that when pupils
in that institution are engaged in any
line of business occupation outside of
school hours, as. for example, in help
ing their parents in shops and offices,
they be given credit in their school
marks and study assignments for
whatever of merit they display in
these occupations. 1t is a fact that
many pupils of this school start their
business careers before they graduate
chiefly as what may be called home
helpers Inasmuch as the chief pur-
pose of the Business High School is to
fit boys and girls for commercial pur-
suits IT would seem 10 be altogether
reasonable to encourage them in dl-
rect application of their knowledge
and special training.
Principal Davis suggestion is, for
example, that if pupil is successfully
applying bookkeeping, stenography,
| typewriting or general business train
| ing IN the evening or on holidays he
| be allowed to drop a study in which he
has become sufficiently proficient for
his practical purposes and for reason
able requirements of mental develop
ment. This, of course, is in the direc-
ton of specialization. The Business
High School is in itself an institution
of specialized training, just as is in a
large measure the Technical High
School. In the case of such an insti-
tuition outside work along the lines Of
studies might profitably be encouraged
Just as home study and academic sub
jects is encouraged and even required
in general scholastic Institutions.
But here arises an important ques-
mitted, or even encouraged, to use
time and strength in outside endeavor
while engaged in school pursuits This
question is first to be considered, at
fecting, as it does, the physical and
mental welfare of the boy or girl. II
the Business High School is to be
| strictly a place of special training for
a particular line, it perhaps might be
successfully developed along lines of
what is known as extension educa-
| tion," with diminishing amount of
school attendance and class work as
| the course progresses toward COM
pletion, the pupil thus entering grad
ually into business affairs and rela-
tions as he nears the time of gradual
ton. Undoubtedly in many cases this
would be of material financial assist
ance TO parents who slow are Put to
some straits to give their children a
commercial education. The plan should
be carefully studied
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
The Presidential Limerick.

Il am having such a good time that
/ sometimes think of sending the Elee-
toral College a card of regret" says
Gov. Wilson in Bermuda.
He may perhaps think with regret
OF the troubles in store for him yet.
On his happy vacation
Outside of the Nation,
But he really won't do ii, you beti
Boston Globe.
He's down where they grow 'em but
should he
Have murmured Of onions, ''oh, Goody'
For their social smell
Does not draw very well
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
The Fool and the Gun.

In spite of repeated warnings. in
spite of demonstration after demon
stration that the thing is not con-
ducive to life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness, hunters continue
to crawl through the fence and putt
their gun after them by the muzzle.--
Biddeford Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
Take the Star" Out of Tariff.

Again we are led to exclaim: WHY
not2'' Here is a solution of the knotty
(and naughty problem Of tariff re-
vision; takes it out of politics and
helps Democracy over a dangerous
slough. Stunned up it is: Pass the right
kind of a tariff bill this winter and let
Taft sign it.
The New York Times said:
1t would be better for business il the
tariff schedules could be taken up dur
ing the coming regular session for a
sound process of revision. 1t would be
better, because the result would be
more speedily known. That is out of the
question, however; first because the
bllls prepared by the Democratic House
would necessarily undergo a good dea
of amendment in the Senate, where the
Republicans and the ProgresSiyes to.
gether have control; and there is nc
reason to suppose that such changes as
the country expects and has commanded
TO be made would receive the approval
of the Republican President
The New York Tribune made reply as
follows:
But why is ii impossible, if the Dem
mocracy is going TO carry out Mr.
wilson's declared ideas respecting the
tariff He repeatedly said in his
speeches that he simply wished TO dc
away with unnecessary protection, an(
that his policy was merely that an
nounced by the Republicans in thei
platform of 1908 and favored by Mr.
Taft. He also presented himself as tn
wearer of the NANTES of James G
blaine. who urged a more liberal tarif
policy in Is90-9l and of William Me
Kiniev, whose last speech pointed gu
that with our expanding industries W
were outgrowing the need of many Q
cur high duties.
Now, as ii is well known, Mr. Tai
was not satisfied with The measure 9
reduction in the Payne law. II di
make material reductions, and was tn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
The Cabinet and Congress.
washington Post.)

Even before his term expires. Presi-
dent Taft is experiencing the satisfac-
ton of making suggestions for reforms
without being under obligation TO make
the effort at achievement. Having lis
tened to the suggestions of others for
nearly four years, the President, as he
himself intimates, has earned the right
10 enjoy the free and easy mental
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25

but her heart, as well as her wit, be-
Ionged to her native land. One day
her father found her at her desk,
knitting her brows over a letter.
What's the trouble, my DEAR he
asked solicitously
Father" she responded dolefully
Il must write another declension, but
nothing viii induce me to conjugate
until | get back to the United States :
ipnincoft,S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
Prices of Liauids.

Many people who find fault with
paying eight cents a quart for milk
are perfectly cheerful in handing over
$125 for an equal amount for alleged
Whiskey.-Bath Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25

Funny we didn't think to put in a
hid for that Inland Fisheries ana
Game craftsmanship job! Every
body's dom it. ID rather have 1t thah
Pringle's place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
Honor tosTaft.

All honor and praise, gentlemen, to
William Howard Taft, true to his
Country and to his conscience, faith
full in all things, soon to become the
first citizen of America.-Harper'
Weekly.
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We Can't Help Saying 1t.


Language was invented to conceal
thought said a famous cynic of the
Old World, and behold how recent
American political history has tended
to confirm in the popular mind the
truth of the epigram.-Boston Tran
script.
Aw stop punching poor Dingley! He
can't help it.
Why should Boston start a free
school for chauffeurs more than for
motormen and watchmakers? Boston
Herald.
One reason that comes to us is that
the average matchmaker doesn't run
over many people.
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History Repeats.

That Pennsy should defeat Carlisle
is merely history repeating. The
Quakers beat the red men from the
start.--New York Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
ESTABLISHED 1926

No notice whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, PUBLISH
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25

| Cleveland has more telephones a
thousand of population than any of
the other large cities of the United
States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-25
Monday, November Is, 1872

They say william ]. Bryan is ac-
lively and vociferously urging one
term. He'll never get it!