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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02
Philippine Independence.


fully and permanently laid.
Philippine Independence.
Acting under the authority conferred |
upon the president by congress, l have |
already accorded the people of the is
lands a majority in both houses of
their legislative body by appointing |
five instead of four native citizens to |
the membership of the commission. / !
believe that in this way we shall make
proof of their capacity in counsel and
heir sense of responsibility in the
exercise of political power, and that the
success of this step will be sure to
clear our view for the steps which are
o follow. Step by step we should ex-
end and perfect the system of self
government in the islands, making test
If them and modifying them as exper-
ence discloses their successes mad
heir failures; that we should more and
more put under the control of the ma
i've citizens of the archipelago the es-
entail instruments of their life, their
heir schools, all the common interests ,
# their communities, and so by coun-
Ell and experience set up government ,
which all the world will see to be :
uitable to people whose affairs are +
nder their own control. At last, |
ope and believe, we are beginning to ;,
ain the confidence of the Filipino peo-
les. By their counsel and experience, /,
ather than by our own, we shall learn ,
ow best to serve them and how soon it /;
ill be possible and wise to withdraw
ur supervision. Let us once find the
ath and set out with firm and conf
ent tread upon it and we shall not e
-ander from it or linger upon it.
The Alaskan Situation.
A duty faces US with regard to Alas n
a which seems to me very pressing a
nd very imperative; perhaps I should D
ly a double duty, for it concerns both Il
lie political and the material develop o
ent of the territory. The people of fl
laska should be given the full terri q
rial form of government, and Alaska,
a storehouse, should be unlocked. -
ne key to it is a system of railways. n
nese the government should itself q,
lid and administer, and the ports and In
rminals it should itself control in the h,
terest of all who wish to use them W
+ the service and development of the r.
untry and it's people. w
But the construction Of railways is q
ly the first step; is only thrusting in Nv
9 key to the storehouse and throwing
ok the lock and opening the door. m
wv the tempting resources of the III
untry are to be exploited is another ar
Utter, to which | shall take the liber- m
of from time to time calling your at fir
ltion, for it is a policy which must ra
worked out by well-considered IN
ges, not upon theory, but upon
es of practical expediency. 1t is
It of our general problem of conser-
ion. We have a freer hand in work dis
out the problems in Alaska than in sa
states of the Union; and yet the at
nciple and object are the same, me
we touch it. We must use tn
resources of the country, not lock sic
m up. There need be no conflict or am
lousy as between state and federal vie
horities, for there can be no essen bu
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02
Led a Gay Life.

COLUMBUS, Dec. 2.-Dapper and de-
bonair, Harry P. Dewey, an actor, ap-
peared in court here today to answer
the charge Of impersonating an officer
OF the United States navy. 1t is charg-
ed that Harry P. Dewey, claiming to be
naval officer and the "favorite ne
phew of Admiral Dewey" has been
wined and dined in many cities during
the past two years.
Dewey was arrested October 29 in
Cincinnati by H. c. Clabaugh, special
agent Of the department Of justice, and
held in $1,000 bail for his appearance
today. Dewey claims to have partici-
pated in the battle OF Manila bay, and
to have received a commission of lieu
tenant for bravery in action
Safe deposit boxes for rent Thomn-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02

E. N. Wrightington, vice-president OF
the Boston Consolidated Gas Company.
replied on behalf Of the delegates. Dur
ing the remainder of the week there
will be addresses and reports on very
phase of the gas industry.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02
N. Y. Ban on ..Dodor Ball.

UTICA, N. Y. Dec. 2.-The New York
state bowling leagues opens here to-
day with game between Rochester
and Utica The state league has de-
cided that the "dodo" or loaded ball
will be debarred from all contests.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02

lege of putting my time and energy at
their disposal alike IN counsel and in
action.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02
Enjoys Cooperation.

May | not express the very real
pleasure l have experienced in cooper
ating with this congress and sharing
with 1t the labors of common service
to which 1t has devoted itself so unre-
seryedly during the past seven months
OF accomplishing concentration upon
the business Of legislation? Surely 1t
is a proper and pertinent part Of my
report on "the state of the Union" to
express my admiration for the dill
gence, the good temper, and the full
comprehension of public duty which
has already been manifested by both
the houses; and hope that it may not
be deemed an impertinent intrusion of
myself into the picture il l say with
how much and how constant satisfac-
ton have availed myself of the priv
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02
PRESIDENT DELIVERED
MESSAGE PERSONALLY
Continued from Page ~

waiting And then, when the end
comes, we shall hope to see constitu-
tional order restored in distressed
Mexico by the concert and energy of
such of her leaders as prefer the liber-
ty of their people to their own ambi-
lions
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02

sage they Will find themselves quit O
many of the difficulties which now
hamper them in the field of credit
The farmers, of course, ask and should
I be given no special privilege, such as
extending to them the credit of the
government itself What they need anc
should obtain is legislation which will
make their abundant and substantial
credit resources available as founda-
ton for joint, concerted local action
in their own behalf in getting the cap
ital they must use. 1t is to this we
should now address ourselves.
Back to the Farm.
1t has, singularly anough, come to
pass that we have allowed the industry
of our farms to lag behind the other
activities OF the country in its develop
ment l need not stop to tell you how
fundamental to the life of the nation
is the production of its food. Our
thoughts may ordinarily be concentrat-
industry, upon the cries of the crowded
market place and the clangor of the
factory, but it is from the quiet inter
spaces of the open valleys and the free
hillsides that we draw the sources of
life and of prosperity, from the farm
and the ranch, from the forest and the
mi, Il
be silent, every office deserted, every
factory fallen into disrepair. And yet
the farmer does not stand upon the
same footing with the forester and the
miner in the market of credit He is
the servant of the seasons. Nature de-
termines how long he must wait for
his crops, and will not be hurried in
her processes. He may give his note,
but the season of its maturity depends
upon the season when his crop ma
lures, lies at the gates of the market
where his products are sold. And the
security he gives is of character not
known in the brokers' office or as ia
miliarly as it might be on the counter
of the banker.
The agricultural department of the |
government is seeking to assist as new
er before to make farming an efficient |
business, of wide cooperative effort, in |
quick touch with the markets for food
stuffs. The farmers and the govern
ment will henceforth work together as
real partners in this field, where we
now begin to see our way very clearly
and where many intelligent plans are
already being put into execution. The
treasury of the United States has, by a
timely and well-considered distribution
If it's deposits, facilitated the moving
If the crops in the present season and
the scarcity of available
'unds too often experienced at sNch
lines. But we must not allow our
selves to depend upon extraordinary
,xpedients. We must add the means
" which the farmer may make his Gre
lit constantly and easily available and
command when he will the capital by
which to support and expand his bus
ness. We lag behind many other great
of the modern world in at
empting to do this. Systems of rural
redit have been studied and developed
n the other side of the water which
re left our farmers to shift for them
elves in the ordinary money market
-ou have but to look about you in any
ural district to see the result, the
andicap and embarrassment which
ave been put upon those who produce
ur feed,
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02

ious controversy of any kind. mean
the method Of selecting nominees for
the presidency of the United States. 1
feel confident that | do not misrepre-
sent the wishes or the expectations of
the country when l urge the prompt
enactment of legislation which will
provide for primary elections through
out the country at which the voters of
the several parties may choose their
nominees for the presidency without
the Intervention of nominating conyen-
tons. l venture the suggestion that
this legislation should provide for the
retention of party conventions, but on
ly for the purpose of declaring and ac-
cepting the verdict of the primaries
and formulating the platforms of the
parties; and 1 suggest that these con-
ventions should consist not of dele
gates chosen for this single purpose,
but of the nominees for congress, the
nominees for vacant seats in the SEN
ate of the United States, the senators
whose terms have not yet closed, the
national committees, and the candi-
dates for the presidency themselves,
in order that platforms may be framed
by those responsible to the people for
carrying them into effect.
Uncle Sam Guardian.
These are all matters of vital domes-
tic concern, and besides them, outside |
the charmed circle of our own national |
life in which our affections command |
US, as we'll as our consciences, there
stand out our obligations toward our
territories over sea. Here we are |
trustees. Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Phil |
ippines, are ours, indeed, but not ours
to do what we please with Such ter
once regarded as mere pos
sessions, are no longer to be selfishly
exploited; they are part of the domain
Of public conscience and of serviceable
and enlightened craftsmanship. We
must administer them for the people
who live in them and with the same
sense of responsibility to them as to-
ward our own people in our domestic
affairs. No doubt we shall success
ully enough bind Porto Rico and the
hawaiian Islands to ourselves by ties
If justice and interest and affection,
tut the performance of our duty to-
ward the Philippines is a more difficult
nd debatable matter. We can satisfy
he obligations of generous justice to-
yard the people of Porto Rico by Civ
ng them the ample and familiar rights
nd privileges accorded our own citi-
ems in our own territories and our OBJ
gations toward the people of Hawaii
y perfecting the provisions for self
overnment already granted them, but
4 the Philippines we must go further.
We must hold steadily in view their
ltimate independence, and we must
love toward the time of that indie
endence as steadily as the way can be
leared and the foundations thought
lily and permanently laid.
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tial difference of purpose between them.
The resources in question must be
used, but not destroyed or wasted;
used, but not monopolized upon any
narrow idea of individual rights as
against the abiding interests Of COM
munities. That policy can be worked
out by conference and concession
which will release these resources and
yet not leopard or dissipate them,
for one have no doubt; and 1t can be
done on lines of regulation which need
be no less acceptable to the people and
governments of the states concerned
than the preservation from waste OF
the nation at large, whose heritage
these resources are. We must bend
our counsels to this end. A common
purpose ought to make agreement easy.
Three or four matters of special i'm
portance and significance l beg that
you will permit me to mention in clos
ing.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02

round the employment of sailors and
render 1t extremely difficult to obtain
the services OF spirited and competent
men such as every ship needs If it is
to be safely handled and brought to
mort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
.AXHAWKE.R JOTS

One good thing. optimises the We'll
lington Journal. 1t isn't very hard to
swat the weeds this year.
And the Linn Digest is unkin1
enough to call attention to the fact
that 'squaw' and "squawk" are words
very closely related.
1t is claimed by the Minneapolis
Better Way that the new law in Mis-
souri, prohibiting the free lunch in sa-
looms has knocked the eat out of treat
This is the season, says the Irving
Leader, when $40 worth of FISHING
tackle looks like a bargain, and s.
worth of pew rent like awful waste
of money.
Gertrude. the Allison correspondent
of the Jennings Echo reports: Some OF
the pessimistic farmers have already
prepared a menu for next winter which
consists of stewed potota bugs, dried
grasshoppers, jackrabbit soup and buff
falo grass tea.
A man travelling in the country met
a middle-aged farmer, relates the
Osborne Farmer, who said his father
ninety years old. was still on the farm
where he was born.
Ninety years old, eh?''
Yes. father is close to ninety
rs his health good?'' %+-sa
"Tain't much now. He's been COM
plainin' for few months back" '
What's the matter with him.
II dunno: sometimes 1 think farnin'
don't agree with him.
Related by the jamestown Optimist:
Down in front of the drug store a few
evenings ago. snakes and snake rene-
dies We're being discussed with a great
deal of interest. Pm deathly afraid of
a rattlesnake." said one gentleman.
who might be called Lou for the sake
of brevity. land not long ago I went
fishing down on the creek, my brother
and 1 and the kids, and 1 made up my
mind that it wouldn't be safe to go on
a trip like that without some whisky
Well, I filed a bottle and took it along,
and it saved nv life. I was sitting on
the bank trying to get a nibble,. when
all of sudden here came a great big
rattlesnake. swimming right across the
creek toward me, with his mouth wide
open. L jumped and grabbed the bottle
and drank every drop of the whisky
before I realized that the snake hadn't
bit me at all. After that I felt a greae :
deal safer-sort of inmune.a as it we-e-
and l killed that snake with the empty
bottle. He had seven rattles.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
THE NEW TARIFF.

| IAN act to reduce duties and to pro-
vide revenue for the government, and
for other purposes" is the official title
of the Underwood Simmons bill. But
in view of the determination of the
Democratic statesmen to place a duty
on heretofore free bananas, a duty on
the cans in which tea is now imported
which is no more than an indirect tax
on tea, and to fix up other duties here
and there for the purposes of revenue
that will certainly offset some of the
reductions in other schedules, it would
seem that the first phrase in the title
should be amended by substituting Il
more general and appropriate word for
the one reduce"
Then, too, the bill when it becomes a
law may not be as prompt in the pro-
duction of revenue as its trainers con-
template. Just a casual reading OF the
measure is sufficient to indicate that
the Democratic tariff makers have pro-
duced a legislative child that is strictly
their own. In few, if any of the import
ant particulars does the bill follow in
phraseology or construction. regardless
of the duties provided, either reductions
or increases, or new ones, of the tariff
acts of the past.
Not only will this prove confusing to
importers, but it will likely prove
equally confusing to the government
officials who will be called upon to adj
minister the law. And such a condition
of affairs is almost certain to result
in long drawn out lawsuits for an adj
judicati ton of many of the important
details of the law.
Except during the Cleveland regime,
all of the tariff legislation in this coun-
try for half century had been in the
hands of the Republicans. This re-
suited in what might be called a stan
dardization of the forms in which tar
iff acts have been written. All dis
puted features of the tariff laws, be-
cause of this fact. have long since been
settled. And a mere change of the size
of duties in the more recent of the Re
publican acts did not give new am
biguity to any of the schedules.
But the Democrats have seen fit not
only to change the duties. They have
practically written a new tariff law.
And it is more than probable that
much of the revenue that the Democrats
are expecting from it will be tied for
an indefinite period while the interest
ed parties are getting decisions from
the courts interpreting the meaning of
it's various features.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

Don't be so durn good-hearted as to be
considered an easy mark
Weather never gets too hot for dancing
il one is young enough
If summer resort serves enough spring
Sometimes she goes to an Exclusive
1t Is quite jump from the old fas hioned
Skirts no longer rustic as in the brave
days of old: it takes room to rustic,
understand.
History is so kind that the fact that
many past patriots were grafters Is gen
erously forgotten.
Woman may lack initiative but you
have lived long and know who starts the
flirtatio
An aviator has plenty of nerve and
might live long and amass competency
as book agent.
States are modest, and are rarely able
to brag on their climate and their corn
crop at the same time.
We have always regarded the fact that
it can catch rabbit as an insufficient ex-
cuse for the greyhound.
Summer is cool in Colorado because the
altitude is almost as high as the price of
other commodities out there.
Men occasionally wish they could go
back to the simple life of Adam, but did
you ever sit down on a hedge thorn?
Il am getting old 1t no longer seems
an age between the installments of a con-
tinued story.''-Rufe Hoskins.
It occurs to us that the gent who wor-
going too far out ahead in his search for
trouble.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23

believe every one should have a serious
purpose in life"
Help he exclaimed. Here I am
a player in the business of life, and
you come back at me with the theory
OF a definite purpose-weIl, I have
formed one, Miss Canston.''
He had no opportunity to finish, for
just then Mrs. Brighton gave the sig
nal for the ladies to rise, and with an
apologize little smile, Miss Canston
left him.
The ladies drifted out to the cool,
comfortably appointed veranda, and
while chatting impartially with her
guests, Mrs. Brighton was holding the
girl in close scrutiny. There was some
thing strangely familiar about her eyes
and voice.
When they were Joined by the men,
she smiled grimly to see Albert reso-
lutely make his way to Miss Canston.
He saw that they were seated be-
yond hearing of the others. Il am
here to tell you my new formed pur-
pose
Proceed"
MY present purpose" he declared
soberly, lis to win you. And then you
may help me to be of some real use
on this old globe. VIII you give me
leave to try?"
For one compelling second their eyes
met, then her face grew troubled. Il
can't answer you yet, Mr.. Brighton.
Perhaps you won't care to when 1 have
explained. Our acquaintance is found
ed on misunderstanding"
At that moment they were Joined
by Mrs. Brighton, who had been OBJ
serving them from afer, and had noted
the serious turn their conversation had
taken.
The girl caught one of her hands in
a nervous tense little grasp.
May I explain something, Mrs
Brighton-or rather may I apologize?'
At the surprised nod of assent she went
on hurriedly: when I received your
note of invitation was really too busy
to accept-my stay here in town is on
business, and 1 did not expect to &C
cept social invitations, but when the
second invitation came, 1 resolved to
accept anyway
Pardon me-" interrupted Mrs
Brighton, II do not understand. My
note was sent to Miss Ivor, the daugh-
ter of an old friend"
The girl laughed. after my father
death and mother was married again
to Dick Canston, I was often called by
that name too-you know the way
people do sometimes. But my real
name is Ivor-Lucy Ivor."
sometimes, mother put in Albert
tits well to take people at their face
value" his eyes sought Lucys COM
pellingly-"especially if you have a
serious purpose. 1918, by
| the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-23
EVENING CHIT
Darning the Weak Places
81 RITA CAMERON.


But there aren't any holes in
those stockings" said Molly. why
do you put them into the pile to be
darned %
The La Wv o-Always- Knows
Something had been sorting out her
weekly grist of stockings on the
veranda and Molly had been lying in
the hammock watching.
The Lady picked up the pair of
stockings in question and ran her
hand into them again for Molly's
benefit. Il know there isn't any
hole" she explained. but see all
those weak Places =
You aren't going to darn them p"
asked Molly, incredulously.
Indeed 1 am" said the Lady; Il
| always do. I find it's very much cas-
Ter than, darning holes. That's part
of my philosophy, you know"
philosophy echoed Molly, in
Quiringly.
yes" said the Lady. Tm mean that
L believe in darning the weak places
| everywhere in life instead of waiting
for the holes to come. You know my
husband inherited weak lungs. You
didn't know it? Well, I suppose that
means we've darned the weak place
pretty successfully. Both his father
and mother died of tuberculosis and
he was naturally stoop-shouldered
and w-cheSted. If we hadn't
done anything about it, l don't doubt
under some of the hard strains he has
had to bear. But instead of waiting
for the hole to come, he darned The
weak place by taking exercises snd
sleeping out of doors and building
himself up by his diet. Wasn't that
better than letting the weak places
become hole and then spending the
rest of his life trying to patch it up"
Molly admitted that it was.
well, that's one way of darning
And Mrs. s. is an example of an
other. That pretty little girl of hers
is just beginning to realize how pref
ty she is and to think of nothing but
would say, 1T is just the foolish age,
and wouldn't try to do anything about
it unless the weak place became a
bad hole, but Mrs. s. believes in darn
all she can right now to make Dor
othy modest and sensible and I'M
spoiled.
And then there are the weak
places in our efficiency" went on the
Lady, warming to her subject. Now,
I know a stenographer who is so
quick and accurate, and such a pleas
ant person to have around, that her
employers bear with her bad SPELL
ing. Sometimes they get out of pa
thence with her, but they have al
ways forgiven her so far. and she
thinks they always will; and she
doesn't try to darn that weak place.
should hate to see it wear through
into a hole because it would be so
much harder then to patch it up
than it is now, but
But I have tried" interrupted
Molly, suddenly.
How hard 2" asked the Lady, not
at all surprised by the interruption.
mot very" admitted Molly, reluc-
family. you don't happen to have
a spelling book handy. do you?"
RUTH CAMERON.