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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Bryan's Lecture Tour.
(kansas City Journai.)


Wilma j. Bryans re-entry into the
Chautauqua lecture field in order to
make money, as frankly expressed III his
statement at Ashevile, y. c., Sunday,
will add another embarrassment to an
administration already haraSSed by in
competent and tactless cabinet members.
That the secretary OF state should thus
openly and fiagfantly Violate the propr1e-
ties of his Office and thereby set a per-
niciouS example to government employees
everywhere is bad enough, but it is APP
parent that such "a practice Will leave the
administration without amy responsible
head to its most important department.
At the present moment the assistant
secretary of state is out of the country;
the second assistant is in Europe. and
the third assistant is busy accompanying
the visiting Brazilian minister of foreign
affairs upon his visit to various important
cities of the United States. Under such
circumstances il would seem that Score
tary Bryan would stay in Washington
where congress is in session and where
multitude of important problems de-
mand strictest attention. In Mexico
civil war is threatening the downfall of
the provisional government and armed
intervention on our part may not be
long delayed. Our International trade
relations are wholly neglected and the
state department is being besieged with
foreign inquiries as To our tariff policies
The dispute over the Panama canal qhes-
tions have not been settled and the
japanese question is growing daily more
serious.
With all these duties and responsible
ties pressing upon him, Secretary Bryan
calmly announces that he is about to be-
gin six weeks Chautauqua tour be-
cause his salary is insufficient for his
needs. This truly is a most astonishing
state of affairs. Mr.. Bryan is a rich
man. As he says himself for Is years he
has been leeturing for money which has
been accommodating with gratifying regu-
larty. And still his appetite for gain Is
not sufficiently appeased to permit
him to remain at his official post
when he is most needed. In his re-
cent statement he attempted to mitigate
his actions by declaring he knows of no
better audience than. the Chautauqua
audience and that these meetings
enable me to keep in touch with the peo-
pie But why does the secretary OF
state need an audience" at this time
and what immediate need is there for
him to keep in touch" with the people?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
The Hiqh School and Citizenship.

Proposed topics in high-school civics
are: Community health. housing and
homes, pure food, public recreation,
good roads, parcel post and postal saw
ings. community education, poverty
and the care of the poor, crime and Ie-
form, family income, savings banks
and life insurance. human and material
resources of the community, human
rights versus property rights, impulsive
action of mobs and the selfish conserv-
atism of tradition. public utilities, like
street-car lines, telephones, and light
and water plants.
The purpose is not to give the pupil an
exhaustive knowledge of any of these
subjects. but TO give him a clue to the
significance of these things of himself
and to the community, and to make
him want to know more about the con-
ditions under which he lives. 1t is to-
help him to think civically, and, if pos
sible, to live eiVically.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
COUNTRYWIDE PROTEST AT
BRYAN'S DOLLAR DIPLOMACY.
Almost Universal Denunciation of Secretary
Astounding and Unpatriotic Pretentions--A
Chautauquan Tour When Men Needed.

disagree with what he is supposed to
stand for at present. The right of indi-
vidual opinion should be freely recog-
nized in a government by the people.
But 1t is not unreasonab BILE to ask
whether it is likely to increase respect
for United States abroad to have the
news go out. as it did without denial,
that the secretary of state and his wife
had lunched at cost OF seven cents for
the two while on trip down town in
the nations capital. Neither does 1t
seem altogether unreasonable to ask
what impression foreign governments
will receive from the spectacle OF the
secretary of state of the United States
going on the lecture platform, as he
himself aserts. to exc out his salary at
a time when other members of the cabi-
net are taking a few weeks rest from
their labors at Washington.
Foreigners, but slightly informed as to
the personality of our secretary of state
cannot be expected to understand that
it is not in the last analysis. as much a
matter of getting living as of being
able to live at all. That the trouble with
Secretary Bryan is physical rather than
economical He himself states that he
has been accustomed 10 talk more fire.
quently for nothing than for a money
consideration. That explains it. The
trouble is as the doctors would say.
maxilary. From constitutional causes
and physical necessity the present Sec
rotary of state must talk or suffocate.
He will go on the Chautauqua circuit and
feel better than If he Were taking any
but it must be only incident, he Will
avoid cutting into his savings, aceumu-
lated at the rate of $4,000 year for the
past Ii years,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Disposina of Foss.

Governor Eugene n. Foss of Massa.
chusetts, is read out of the Democratic
party by President Wilson and Mayor
John F. Fitzgerald of Boston, at least
for immediate campaign purposes. This
is the gist of the conclusion reached
ny the President and the mayor at a
conference in the White House,
Wednesday. The mayor came to Wash
ington primarily to discuss the political
situation in Massachusetts, and to learn
at first hand whether the gubernatorial
campaign should be made on the new
tariff law or something else. He learned
very quickly at the White House, that
the President would expect the Demo-
cratic party in Massa chusetts to make
its stand on his tariff bill, which, he in
formed the mayor, probably would be
law by Sept. l. AS large incident in
the discussion the possible candidacy Of
Governor Foss came up and, accord.
ing To the mayor, the President agreed
with him that the governor could not
stand on the Democratic tariff plat
form.-Washingon special dispa tch TO
the Boston Transcript
Let's see; it was Mayor Fitzgerald
that read Maine off the map. because
he did not like its roads or its booze
provisions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
A DepforabIe Mistake.
CNeW York World. Dem. J

t-NeW 1Uth w IcIii-J
II is of course obvious that Mr.. Bryan 5
explanation of his money-making lecture
plans readily explains what cannot be
readily excused.
He says that he is going to limit his
profits TO his vacation. The last thing he
should be thinking about at this time Is
a vacation.
The Mexican crisis alone makes any
talk of a vacation little short of an in
suit to his office.
We earnestly believe that when the
present Administration reversed the for
mer policy of dollar diplomacy and sub
stituted the diplomacy of minding our
own business in international affairs, IL
was a splendid reform.
But this policy of hands off illegitimate
diplomatic problems should make it all
the more essential for the State Depart
Ment 10 devote full measure or time
and attention to legitimate diplomatic
problems. Otherwise there may arise
grave doubts in the public mind as to
where policy of conviction ends and
where a policy of convenience begins.
AS for Mr.. Bryan's financial sacrifices,
they constitute question which should
have interested Mr.. Bryan before he ac-
cepted the portfolio of State and which
lie now.
That public has a right to take the
same view that Thomas Jefferson did in
his letter to Richard Henry Lee, which
Mr. Bryan possibly remembers, in which
he said:
I'm a virtuous government, and more
especially in times like these, public
to those appointed to them, which it
would be wrong to decline, though fore
seen to bring with them intense labor
and great private loss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Editorial Comment
A Grave Responsibility.
belfast Rep. -Journal.)

From the beginning of the present
congressional campaign, il has been
universally conceded that the tariff is
the essential issue. Because of this,
every reasonable effort has been made
by the Republicans so to shape things
that the Democratic nominee, as a
representative of the free trade policy
now being carried out at Washington,
should have one opponent-one on
whom all anti-Democrats could unite
These efforts have failed. One an
ti-Democrat is already in the field, and
another will be after the primary
election on July 2S.
How little Mr.. Lawrence, progress
sive, and Mr.. Peters. the probable
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Why Unions Do Not Grow Faster.

Bwreferendum vote of the unions af-
filiated with the Santa Clara county,
Cal, labor council proposition TO for
bid members of local unions in future
from buying, renting, or leasing houses
built or repaired by non-union labor, or
from patronizing any individual or
firms occupying premises built by such
labor, carried.-"In the World of La
bor.''
IF you refuse to do as we tell you,
you must get off the earth"
Suppose non-union labor dema nded a
law that any building built, owned,
rented OF repaired by a member of a
labor union should be torn down, and
that any individual or firm so owning,
renting, occupying or passing such
building. be driven out of business :?
Would not that be as just and as rea-
sonable?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Have you been Mulhalled?
PALMYRA.

GALE DISTRICT-A cloud was
cast over our district. Sunday after
noon. when the telephone announced
the death of Ira Alonzo feathers, son
of John III. feathers, also grandson of
the late jeremiah Leathers, of Thomp-
sons Crossing. Ira, in company with
Winnefred II. Allen, Oral Emery and
Levura Hart was instantly killed by
lightning at the house of Leighton
Pennell. Winnefred and Oral were
Knocked senseless by the bolt, but a
physician arrived in time to save
them. Ira was past Is. He was es-
teemed one of the brightest boys of
his age in Gale district The funeral
services were very touching. conduct
ed by Rev. Frye of Hartland at the
Leathers home. Tuesday afternoon.
The attendance was claimed to be the
largest known at any period since the
death OF Jane Baker, who was burned
to death IS years ago. He was buried
in Mount Pleasant cemetery. The
casket was banked with flowers
brought by his many youthful COM
panions. who knew and admired the
manly boy. The grave was entirely
buried in flowers The bearers were
Everett Vanadeatine. Oral Emery,
Alvah Nichols and Winnefred Allen,
his schoolmates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

The unanmity of adverse criticism
concerning the recent course of Seere-
tary of State Bryan is one of the most
striking demonstrations in administra-
ton history of half century.
For his acts and utteranees he Is CLEAN
ing, countrywide denunciation from
newspapers of every political faith.
That his Chatauquan leanings should
have been announced at this time OF
great international controversy directly
involving our government seems to have
been particularly unfortunate for the
popularity of the Presidents team mate.
Comments from a few of our leading
exchanges follow:
Pay Mr.. Bryan His Price.
(Boston Transcript
The more Mr.. Bryan excuses himseif
the more he accuses himself. BY his
own confession he has been saving about
gregate of his thrift is therefore re-
serve capital of $4,000, which ought to
yield him an income of about $1,000 with
which to supplement his official salary
in meeting the expenditures of his posi-
ton He had at least this reserve capt.
tai when he entered the State Depart
ment, and in little more than four
months it cannot have undergone serious
To the Bryanites of the idolatrous
type, Mr.. Bryan's explanation may be
sufficient, but to all who realize the i'm
portance of the duties of the Secretary
of state. and to all who hold the old
fashioned doctrine that the laborer Is
bound TO give his best labor for the
wages he accepts. Mr.. Bryan is making
a sorry and sordid spectacle of himself.
He is neglecting the duties he has
pledged himself to perform. There are
at least three great International ques-
tons pressing on our Government for
decision. There are our relations to
Mexico, involving Monroeism and its ap-
plication; the Panama tolls controversy
with Great Britain; and the conclusion
OF negotiations with Japan growing out
of the California antialien legislation
Any one of these is enough to give an
experienced and conscientious Secretary
of STATE exaeting employment OF ,, ms
experienced nor conscientious. He let's
these questions drift. while ambassadors
vainly call for decisions, and while he
is speeding from something Lake" to
qua engagements. He has no policies
himself; he has no time to consider poll
eies to which his attention is invited.
As Chautauqua lecturer Mr.. Bryan Is
a busy man. as Secretary of State an
idle mantle is eallous alike to the
claims of official duty and official dignity.
1t is in this national emergency that
Senator Bristow, the Progressive leader
in the Senate, comes forward with the
timely proposal that President Wilson
ascertain and Communicate to the Con-
gress Mr.. Bryans own appraisal of his
services per month. Then can the legis-
lators add to his salary the amount nee
essary TO keep him on the job at least II
of a year. This may come high
but better let the nation pay for ii in
cash than in humiliation at the specta-
Gle of the successor of John Hay peram-
bulating the Chatauqua circuit with the
State Department as his .side line"
resolution and pay Mr. Bryan his price.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

How's This?

for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo. o.
We the undersigned, have known f. J.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry,
out any obligations made by his nrm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE.
Toledo, o, =
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
eous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price rs cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
tion.-Advt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
The Mistakes for Billy 3.

Secretary Bryan's unworthiness of
his high Office, as exhibited by his lee
ture tour TO lay up his usual ten
thousand year. is emphasized by the
pressure OF other governments for
s0fne immediate decisive action as to
Mexico. The Secretary of State who
appreciated the honor and RESPONSE
bility of his position would have be-
come occupied and anxious over the
details of the Mexican problem. He
would have begun to work out a
theory OF the situation that would be
adequate to the known details. He
would not allow any representative Of
another government to show superior
knowledge Of conditions in Mexi %
He would prepare his case, carefully
and thoroughly.
This Mexican problem may well be
one so important, and SO changeable
from day to day, that the responsible
foreign minister would feel it his duty
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
The Secretary Of State.

manchester UniOn.)
The position Of secretary of state at
Washington is one of dignity, or ought
ginning of the government ii has been
recognized as the first in rank in the
Presidents cabinet. In all foreign reia-
tions and in dealing with other nations,
il is the secretary of state who figures as
of the first Importance. In the minds of
all other peoples 1t is he who represents
great and prosperous nation of 10000
O00. The dignity of the United States in
every foreign capital and among the
people of every foreign nation Is persona
fled in the secretary Of state. 1t cannot
be otherwise, for it is he who has under
his immediate supervision every detail
of diplomacy and of the relations of the
United States with foreign powers
1t Is weak and silly to carp continually
at William ]. Bryan, the present secre-
tary of state, merely because one has
not agreed with him in the past. or may
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Capitalized Politics.

Z fTtSS.J
Mr. Bryan is one of the few men in
this country who has capitalized his
politics, and II common report is to be
credited he has grown rich at 1t. He
has been nominated repeatedly for the
presidency by the Democratic party and
when not running for that high office,
has managed to keep in the public eye
by the methods of which he is a past
master. All this has made him one of
the three or four best advertised men in
the country and has enabled him to go
about on the lecture platform at a high
price per night Recently he has been
appointed foreign secretary of this coun-
try which it is already apparent, he con-
siders chiefly in the light of its adyer-
Using value. Having got the advertising
he naturally wants to realize upon it,
and he throws aside important matters
connected with his office and proceeds
to accept vaudeville engagement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

Lolis G.. Michael, a graduate of an
agricultural college in this country, has
so successfully introduced American
corn growing methods in Bessarabia
that for the first time in history corn
has been cut and shocked according to
methods employed here. while the land
was plowed for the next crop with an
American tractor. AS result of his
efforts the Russian boys of that dis
triet are being organized into corn
clubs and the peasants are receiving
their first lesson in real farming. a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

to stay right at his post, keep fully
and closely informed, to the end that
the country he serves does not suffer
in its interests nor in its prestige
Lewiston Sun, Democratic.
We remarked, some months ago.
that a shrewd political observer had
placed Bryan where he would forever
eliminate himself as a candidate for
Presidential honors. President Will
son already has passed the line of
worry as to the "Commoner" as a
competitor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

That 1t might injure this countrys pres
tige abroad to have our foreign secretary
quit his job i'll order to take advantage
of the prestige at home his job has given
him, seems never to have occurred to
him, or ii ii did, he has not cared. The
question naturally arises whether If Mr.
Bryan had been elected President a
much more expensive office to maintain
he would still have had to go out and
supplement his salary by going on sic
vaudeville stage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

The Biddeford Record is invited to
make good on its charges that Sheriff
Stevens of Androscoggin is neglecting
the duties of his office. What duty
Is he neglecting? Please name at least
one specific casef Has the Biddeford
Record ever even heard one of it's
rummy friends say that Sheriff Stew
ems had neglected single one of his
official duties? Or was the editor
simply exercising his assumed right
to tell any kind of a lie in the ser
vice of the rum trust?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
Bryan's Sacrifice.
fRoston Globe: DemO

IB0SIOn tIIOhe. Dem.
Everybody has understood that Mr.
Bryan made a financial sacrifice when
he accepted the appointment to be Sec
rotary of state. but many other men
have made financial sacrifice. to render
public service in positions of high honor
and considering what ii means TO be
Secretary of State. Mr.. Bryan can tefa
not only not to get ahead financially
during his term of service, but even to
have ii set him back bit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
FREEDOM.

SOUTH-Miss Gertrude b. Brad
street visited the past week in Belfast
and Northport
Morris and Bertha Kane of Bangor
are visiting their grandmother, MIS-.
r. F. Ward.
Earl Mutt is working for A. Fl.
Russell
Mr. and Mrs. O. b. Ward are the
proud parents of a young son. born
Wednesday, July 16.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

Republican nominee. differ may be
seen by noting, first. in Mr.. Peters
letter to Mr.. Lawrence, made public
Tuesday morning, his reference to the
vital issue of this campaign, and then.
in Mr.. Lawrence's speech at Water
vile on the afternoon of the same
day, his reference to the same issue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19
READElElD.

Word has been received here by
friends that 10-pound girl was born
July 9th to Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. San
born of North Dakota, who went from
here three years ago. Both mother
and child are doing well.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

A young woman in Richmond, Va, has
paid fine of $25 for the offence of wear
Ing skirt slit to the knee. Apparently
the aperture In her draperies cost her at
the rate OF about two dollars a foot
Waterville Sentinel. a.
One of Richmond's tall girls, or a
centipede girl?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

The tight skirt; the slit skirt; the di-
aphenoas skirt. We can what We are
coming to in places where the wea,ner is
warm enough.-Portland Press.
Apparently it will be premeditate ted
but the editor of the Press will look
funny in either, to say nothing of the
three-and with diaphanous hair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

A young man and a young woman in
south Germany have been SENTENCED to
prison for dancing the turkey trot.