Lower coast gazette., 1913-08-30
NATIONAL NEWS.

Gov. Hodges. of Kansas, is hunting
"a force of so expert pond builders TO
superintend the work OF BUILDING
100000 reservoirs throughout Kansas
for the purpose Of conserving the
winter SHOWS and the spring rains
to be Of value. to the farmers OF Kan,
sas during such droughts as menaceo
Kansas the last three weeks.
Congressman Francis Burton Har,
rison of New York has been named
governor general Of the Philippines.
!, Mayor Gaynor Of New York had a
4 narrow escape from becoming a
mangled and unknowable dead man.
Enough dynamite to destroy the
City Hall was found on the ground
outside the window of his office.
President Wilson will address Con.
press and make a. public recital OF
the details of the Mexican situation
since the beginning Of his term,
whose latest elimination is the direct
refusal of Huerta to agree to any OF
the requests made by Wilson with
the idea Of restoring peace and pros
perity in Mexico. He will indicate
the next move to be made, 1t is be-
lieved.
: Convicts in the Ohio Pehitentiary
will be paid for their labor on and
after Sept. LIST. The pay will range
from n to five cents per hour, and
the gradings will be based upon char
.aeter. industrial efficiency and good
conduct. ~
This is a praiseworthy penal
change. 1t will enable convicts who
are sincere about reforming to save
quite a snug sum and make them
stronger for the uphill fight after
they leave the walls that have shut
them out for years and which still
cast their discouraging shadows owe
whoever has left them as though they
wanted them back. Money makes
men stronger. A man leaving the
penitentiary with 5000 will find it
much easier to accomplish his re-
form than a man leaving with a 81
bill in his pocket and a reputation
that shadows him forever prevent
ing him from reaching the pinnacle
of honor from which he has fallen.
Laws like these are worth enacting.
These are real laws. They protect
the weak from the strong. That is
what laws are made for.
The flax and silk tariff have been
approved.
The vain efforts Of the Republicans
to prevent the appreciation of sched-
ules which they consider disastrous
has had a deadening effect upon their
later efforts. Defeat has disheart-
ened them, and many a Republican
in his heart is wishing that the tariff
tinkering is over. Both parties are
wasting much money and time by
these discussions which are always
mt,de by the minority in order to
orass the majority. The law is
ertain to pass. Pass it now. The
people want to try it. 1t should be
made a misdemeanor to argue against
a tariff rate when the representa-.
tive who is arguing knows his words
are pronounced breezes and as harm
less.
The apparent slowness and spice.
lessness of the Presidents treatment
of American complaints from Mexico
is distinctly hated by the restless por-
ton of American citizenry. Senator
Penrose's resolution demanding war,
and the resolutions little brother
which was a $25,00O,O 900 a%ppropria-
ton to compensate Americans in
Mexico for damages done was heard
by n "a and expelled through the
other.
The President would like to know
and the people would like to- know
who was going to get that money
Not the poor American nor the weak
for whose protection the United