The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-18

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The Wondrous Wireless Tele,raphx.
Had IT not been for the discovery
OF wireless telegraphy. that great
vessel and all Of it's human freight
would have gone down In the middle
of the ocean, and up 20 this hour the
! world would have known nothing
about it; neither would the 500 peo-
pie who were rescued have been
saved. With this wonderful achieve
ment OF wireless telegraphy. IL there
had been proper precaution In the
building OF the ship. as well as prop
er!y equipped with life-preservers and
lffe-boats, every soul might have been
saved. The enormity of this disaster
Is the loss OF human life comes upon
us with redoubled force when we
realize that there went down in the
ocean with the sinking vessel more
lives than were lost In the Spanish
War
The Danger From Icebergs.
Another piece of criminal negli-
gence that made this disaster posi-
| Bile was the permitting of this ship to
take what is known as the Northern
Course" in its passage from England
to New York at this season of the
year. The northern course is the
shorter route by over two hundred
miles, but 1t Is well-known that from
this season of each year on to win
ter, that icebergs in great numbers
come down from the polar regions in
to the Atlantic Ocean. For this rea-
son, safety has shown that 1t is wise
for vessels to take a course two hun
dred miles to the south. For the
past week every vessel that has gone
over this course has reported a num-
the face of this danger the Titanic,
in order to make a world record for
the fastest trip from England to New
! York, took this northern dangerous
course, and was proceeding over it at
certainly high speed while in the very
region where the icebergs were
known to be, and also at time when
| the sea was covered with fog, and it
was impossible to see an iceberg far
enough off to prevent such a horrible
calamity.
This is another illustration of the
madness of the world over size and
| speed. The vessel was too large to
be safely conducted through a dan
gerous ice-field, and it's speed was too
great for safety where there is an
element of danger.
Among those who are reported lost
are Major Archibald Butts, the mill
tary aide to the President of the
| United States; Col. John Jacob AS
tor; William T. Steed, the noted jour
nalist and writer and dozens of 9TH
ers of equal prominence and cele-
brity.
The Great Mississippi Flood.
marine disaster are the terrible floods
Of the Mississippi River which have
been raging for the past week. The
water has risen higher in that great
river than for quarter Of century
in the past, and the levees have been
raging torrent Of water over tens
| of thousands of acres of cultivated
and inhabited land at every point, not
only resulting in tremendous loss Of
property but in great loss of life.
The good news comes to-day, how
| oxyor fron, tho iCfr Strin nfc
of the Mississippi Valley that the
| floods have reached their greatest
danger point and are now subsiding
The danger already inflicted, how
ever, has been appalling.
Colonel Roosevelt's Histories in H.
nois and Pennsylvania.
The most remarkable political vic
tory probably ever won by any man
was that of Colonel Roosevelt in car
rying the States of Illinois and Penn
sylvania in his campaign for the Pres
idency, and by majorities that were
astounding to his opponents and be-
yond the expectations of his most
sanguine friends.
The masses of the people have
shown that they still admire the for
mer President as greatly as ever, but
their action has probably been more
prompted on this occasion by their
desire to repudiate machine bosses
and smash machine rule in these
States than from any other cause.
Colonel Roosevelt, in his campaign
through these States, confined his
speeches almost entirely to an attack
upon the political bosses. The peo-
pie responded with great enthusiasm,
and the crowds that attended his
speakings increased in volume and
enthusiasm each day.
His victories in these two States
have already put the result of the
ponnhlicon National Convention in