Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Page 2

Conscience In LawMAKING

tfRINQ the last seven or eight years in the senm B ate and in the house of yj fj f representatives there B Ar-Q have been introduced many measures. Many of I lAfj them have had their AjJm origin directly with the people who have made VV jy their influence felt more VyrvJ markedly within the dec/Kj ade than perhaps ever - V before in the history of the country. As a result of this members of both houses have been at times forced to show plainly whether their sympathies were with the masses or with the great can trolling interests. It has been hard tor them to counterfeit a loyalty to the people's Interests. Some of them have attempted it and have been found out, and are now in private life The conditions have been such as to make congressional actions within the last few years of special interest, certainly to the onlooker in Washington. After the Beveridge beef-inspection amendment had been tacked —it was hoped securely—upon the agricultural department appropriation bill the senate awaited house action on the amendment with manifest anxiety. Now there were some members of the senate who it was supposed from the very inception of the matter had held that the measure was altogether too drastic and was in its very nature an Invasion of the right of private companies to conduct their business as they saw fit, provided it was not conducted in a manner manifestly inimical to the public welfare. The upper house had sent the Beveridge amendment to passage quickly, quietly and without a dissenting vote, but the feeling held Nevertheless that some of the mem£bers voted as they did simply because they felt obliged so to vote. One of those who in the public mind It was held had cast his vote in favor of the beef-inspection law rather unwillingly, was none other than Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. Possibly it was Mr. Lodge’s wellknown bent toward conservatism and the old ways that Impelled people to think that he was in mind if not In heart opposed to carrying government Inquiry into the business of private concerns to any greater lengths than they had been carried. The house changed the meat inspection measure by transferring the cost of the work from the pocketbook of the packer to the pocketbook of the government and by striking out the clause which made obligatory the placing of the date upon the inspection stamp. When the measure came back to the senate in its changed form one of the first senators to get opon his feet for the purpose of denouncing the changes was Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, and the •leech that he made upon a subject matter no loftier than the din upon a packing house floor and the consequent duty of the government to force the hand of the packers to lay bold on the broom of cleanliness has been declared since to be the greatest speech made at the first session'of the Fifty-ninth congress, and when this statement was made by those who have passed Judgment the speeches of Bailey, Knox and Spooner upon the constitutional question involved in the railroad rate measure were not lost to sight nor to memory.

There are often sneers at Massachusetts, because, as the rest of the country has it. she arrogates to herself a certain scholarly distinction denied unto the other common wealths of the country. Possibly the sneer at times is justifiable, because the old Bay State not only holds herself distinguished above all others in matters intellectual, but she is too fond of letting the conceit spread into other fields where she stands not even second, nor yet perhaps twentieth. Massachusetts, however, generally does send big men to the senate of the United States, and in the main big men to the house of representatives of the nation. In the hearing of such a speech as that of Henry Cabot Lodge upon the Beveridge amendment to the agricultural bill the living sneer of the dead and gone Mark Hanna expends itself ineffectually. Hanna said that “in Henry Cabot Lodge a good historian was spoiled to make a poor statesman."

Mr. Lodge was talking about the pork packing Industry, of corn beef, of sausages and of bob real, and yet this man rose to the heights of a great orator. His speech was as withering as contempt for dishonesty In business methods, coupled with a mastery of the language of irony and scorn and biting satire, could make it. While the senator from Massachusetts was speaking not a colleague moved in his seat, not a whisper was heard, nor was one of the papers which littered the senate's desks allowed to rustle. Even Mr. Tillman, whose love for Mr. Lodge is not transcending, looked upon the Massachusetts man with a much more sterlingly honest expression of admiration in his face than he probably would have cared to putke manifest, for It was the Massachusetts senator who only a few days before bad lif the senate and in the Tillman pres-

By EDWARD B. CLARK

ence called the statement of a friend of the South Carolinian “ a deliberate and unqualified falsehood.” Senator Wlnthrop Murray Crane is Mr. Lodge’s colleague in the senate. Mr. Crane is no orator as Mr. Lodge is, and he knows it. Mr. Crane pales in the presence of a speech predicament and for the first-time in years the Bay State has onp man in the upper house of congress who cannot be eloquent when occasion demands. Senator Ctane, however, is a pacificator who reaches a high mark of abil-

ity. He certainly is a worker, and Massachusetts, and the country, for that matter, at times needs works as much as it needs words. This touching upon the representation of Massachusetts in the upper bouse of congress brings to mind the last great speech of Senator Geprge Frisble rtoar. It was upon the subject of the convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama. That speech was doubly a prophecy. In it he spoke of his own coming death, and then, quoting in part from John Bright, he said: “I see one vast federation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to' the calmer waters of the Pacific main, and I see one people and one language, one law and one faith, and over all that wide continent a home for freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and every clime."

On closing the last speech that he delivered in the senate of the United States, Senator Hoar said: “I do not expect myself to see the accomplishment of that vision, but I believe it is not far off. The eyes of children now born, the eyes of men now within the sound of my voice will see it far on its way to accomplishment. In spite of a difference of opinion on one great question, I am confident that the career of peaceful empire and of peaceful glory will be along the Bame path, with the same chart and compass, with the same guiding stars, with the same rule of faith and rractice that this nation has followed from the beginning." In congress at times there is presented a fine question of ethics to which the higher moralists may give answer if they can. Many a representative finds his conscience and his apparent duty to his constituents at loggerheads. Demand comes from home that he speak in support of a measure at which his own sense of right revolts. Is Le to speak or is he to keep silence? Possibly the answer that springs most readily to the lips is “yes," and the three lettered word has as a basis for its utterance the thought that a representative, being a representative, should do as those whom he represents direct. There are other sides to this matter, however, some of them shadowed in doubt and others of them clear in the sunlight Doubtless a representative should vote as his district demands, but have the represented ones the right to expect their member to stand up in the face of men to advocate a measure with reasonings and with arguments in the truth of none of which he believes, and in the setting forth of which he utters no word without making his lips lie to his heart? Flippant persons to the contrary notwithstanding, most congressmen have consciences. The house of representatives is composed for the far greater part of men of decency and of honor —poor men in this world’s goods they are in the main, and their poverty Is their praise. It was hinted in press correspondence from Washington time and again, and not infrequently plain statement was made, that scores of Republican representatives were opposed at heart tp, the railroad rate legislation urged by President Roosevelt and demanded by the people. • Those Republicans who held that the law which was sought was better off than on the statute books voted for the law against their qwn inclinations and belief because their constituents demanded that i they should so vote, but may it not be said to their everlasting credit that most of the representatives who thought the legislation wrong refused to play the hypocrite and the liar in oratorical- pleadings for that which they held to be bad in principle. It is no hard task for a layman of

ordinary intelligence to tell within the span of a speech whether or not the well spring of the eloquence is in the heart. Voice and manner betray the hypocrite, though the words themselves are a-fair mask for the lie. The speech reads „well in the Congressional Record and in the other public prints. The constituents find sincerity in the written words, but the listeners have caught the false notes in every sentence of the • tongue’s utterance.

Members of congress—considerations of conscience in the matter aside —do not care' to be marked for hypocrisy by their feJow members, even though the excuse of orders from their constituents be theirs to comipand. In this may be found the reason why so many representatives sitting at one session of congress, members who usually are heard when matters of great public moment are tefore the house, had nothing to say upon the railroad rate bill. The country knows today that one of the chief promoters of the rateregulating measure was a man who thought that the legislation was conceived in iniquity. He had the courage of his convictions at the outset — or thought he had —but later without undergoing in the least a change of heart he changed his attitude, and the railroad rate measure goes into history inseparably connected in the public mind with the name of a representative who almost unquestionably was a foe rather than a friend to the legislation. Are a renomination and a re-election worth the price of public hypocrisy? There were Republican representatives a few years ago who yearned Jsl speak their mlndß on the subject of tariff revision. That which they wanted to say would have been unpleasant to the ears of the majority of the party members. Loyalty to party kept most of these men silent, and no one, perhaps, blames them for their silence, for possibly party good is paramount. The few plain speakers on tariff revision were in the main those Republicans who were certain oi the countenance of their constituents in that which they had to say. It is highly probable, however, that Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts would have said what he did say if tnere hadn’t been a revisionist Republican in his district. There are some men whom party considerations can’t throttle. It was not a bit pleasant for Mr. Cannon and others to hear the heretic McCall say in his cold, blunt but forceful way: "Now, the people of Massachusetts are only thinking a little in advance o! some of the people of this country. Soon this idea will invade New York and Illinois and Ohio, gathering force as it moves; and I say to you that if we do rot treat protection as a rational principle instead of as a castiron. immutable set of schedules, we are likely to have the Democratic party and then possibly the deluge." There was prophecy in that. Mr. McCall’s boldness in the tariff revision matter calls to mind another showing of the courage in which he was one of two chief figures. Most party men probably will look upon it as simply ( a bit of Massachusetts “holler than thouism,” the outgrowth of anti-imperialist Pharisaism, but it looked like the genuine courage article nevertheless.

John Sharp Williams proposed to the Philippine tariff bill an amendment promising ultimately freedom to the “little brown brother.” It was pu. to a rising vote. Every Democrat stood “affirmatively" upon his feet The Republicans, all save two, sat as if spiked to their chairs. The two who rose affirmative and defiant, daring to vote with the Democratic enemy, were Samuel W. McCall and Rcckwood Hoar —true son of h'a father

RULES AND RECIPES

FOR JHE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF JAM. Remarkable Precautions Are .Imperative If One Would Achieve Perfection—Some Things That Muet Be Kept in Mind. Granted a little care, jam making at home does not present great difficulties and really entails very little expense, especially If the fruit Is home grown. There are a few rules to be borne In mind, as follows: Do not allow tin, iron, or pewter to touch tho jam. as any of these are liable to spoil the color. Everything employed in the jam making must be scrupulously clean. The sugar must be the best. The fruit must be gathered on a dry day, any that is Imperfect or damaged being discarded. It Bhould be Just ripe. The jam should be boiled until on dropping a little on a plate it jelliea Jam should be boiled fast to preserve the color of the fruit, and kept well stirred. All scum must be carefully removed as it rises. Dry fruit requires the addition of a little liquid to prevent its burning, and for this either water, rhubarb or currant juice may be used. Jam must be stored in a cool, dry place, free from drafts and in an even temperature. If any jam is spilt on the jars when pouring it in, wipe it off at once with a damp cloth wrung out in hot water. Pear Jam —Core out, but do not peel, some good, ripe pears, slice them, crush them well in a bowl, and wring the pulp through very strong muslin. For every pound of this pulp add onehalf pound of sugar, previously boiled to a thick syrup. Cook it very slowly on the stove until reduced to about two-thirds its original quantity. It should, when ready, be of the consistency of honey. Pour In jars, let cool and seal.

Rose Leaf Jam —Make a syrup of one pound loaf sugar and as little rose water as you can manage. Take one pound of rose leaves (the old red cabbage is the best rose for this) and dry these in the shade, after which scald them for a minute in boiling water; then drain and dry them and add them to the syrup with a spoonful of orange flower water. Cook It all to a marmalade, let cool, pour in glasses and cover with paraffin. This Is very sweet. It is a Greek recipe.

ADD WEAR TO HANDKERCHIEF

Careful Washing of Delicate Fabrics Will Materially Prolong Their Time of Use. Delicate handkerchiefs can be done up easily at home, and careful handling causes them to wear much better. Wet them, rub each gently over with good white soap, and soak in tepid water over night. Squeeze out (do not wring), put them in a small enameled pan, cover with cold water and half a teaspoonful of borax. Boil slowly, pour into a basin, add cold water and squeeze out all soap. Next, immerse them in clear tepid water, rinse about in this; then plunge into cold water tinged with blue. Leave them in this half an hour, squeeze and dip into a slight stiffening (one teaspoonful of corn starch to a cupful of boiling water). Squeeze and roll caefully in a towel and iron with a moderately hot iron.

Cantaloupe Glace.

Cantaloupe glace is a delicacy that i 8 truly delicious. Take melons that have been thoroughly chilled, cut in halves lengthwise, and scrape out the seeds. Fill the hollow of each half with vanilla ice cream, packing it in as firm as possible, leaving a little mound in the center. Place the halves together tightly, thus forcing the cream up into the fruit, causing the melon Juice to mingle with the cream. Whien ready to serve, a knife run between the halves separates the fruit and slices the cream.

Fudge Cake.

.iOne-third cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup* sweet milk, two and one-half cups flour, one-half cup cocoa, three eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, two level teasspoons baking powder, pinch salt, vanila to flavor, baking powder and salt together, milk and flour alternately, then add well beaten yolks, sift flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together, milk and flour alternately, then add well beaten whites. Any good icing ean be used.

Cold Process Cherries.

Pit nice cherries and cover with good vinegar and let stand over night, drain from the vinegar, and take a pound of white sugar to every pound of cherries; stir thoroughly and stand in cool place. Stir every few hour* and when sugar is all dissolved and syrup is thick seal in self-sealing jars. Extra line and superior to cranberries as a relish with meats or fowl.

Chrysanthemum Salad.

Shred a crisp cabbage and simmer ten minutes, drain and chill, then heap roughly on a bed of foliage. Mix two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, one tablcspoonful of salad oil, one teaspoonful of celery salt, dash of pepper, pour over salad, garnish with tliliy sweet peppers and hard boiled eggsi Allow to absorb dressing before sere-

GIVES RIGHT TOUCH

EMBROIDERY ON BLOUBF.B 18 OF DISTINCT VALUE. Many Varieties That May Be Employed, and None of Them Hard to Girl Bkiilful With tha Needle. There has, in all probability, never been a season in which embroideries have played such an important part in the world of dress, for, nowadays, even the simplest of muslin blouses la beautified with needlework of every description. This fashion is really a godsend to the girl with a moderate dress allowance, if she is at all skillful with her needle, for quite a cheap cotton dress or blouse may be adorned with embroidery until it has all the appearance of a most expensive article. The embroidery can be almost any variety, from the plainest to the most elaborate, according to the taste and capabilities of the worker, and every description of fancy work may be utilized. The most popular kind is satinstitch, rather heavily padded, and

this may be adapted to an Infinite number of designs, from flowing sprays of flowers to conventional and geometrical patterns. A pretty design is the one shown, which consists entirely of butterflies. This is quite easy to execute and may be carried out in that variety of stitches which is comprised under the heading of Mountmellick work. The bodies of the butterflies should be embroidered in satin-stitch, thickly padded, the stitches going evenly across and across. The wings are outlined with satin-stitch and then filled in with any stitch the worker pleases. A very effective method of working them is to cut large eyelet holes, the edges of which are overcast and then buttonholed bars worked across them. This design is a very uncommon one, but looks singularly pretty when carried out with care and taste. The conventional design given in No. 2 is particularly well adapted for embroidering on one of the kimono and Magyar blouses, which are still enjoying a remarkable run of popularity, and may be carried out in white or in colors, according to the blouse itself. Another idea for Mountmellick work is suggested in No. 3, the peacock's feather design, these feathers being worked apparently at haphazard, scattered over the front, back and sleeves of the blouse. Stem-stitch, button hoi e-stltch and feather-stitch are used in this design, while the eye of the feather is embroidered in satinstitch. A very striking and handsome effect may be obtained by working this eye in color, the rest of the em-

HOLIDAY WEAR

i ' A mob cep of soft iace and black velvet ribbons with very long enda

Black Bows on White Pumpa White bockakin pumpa and slippers have crisp little bows of black satin.

FASHION

broidery being, of course, in white, and a rather deep shade of Saxe or peacock blue will be found singularly suitable. A perfectly plain muslin or cotton blouse, which could be picked up for next to nothing at the summer sales which are with us'now, could be ornamented with this design, which will be found perfectly simple to draw out and particularly quickly and easily worked. For those who are afraid of attempting a heavy pattern in sat* in-stitch there.are a variety of charming and simple designs in stem-stitch or chain-stitch, which may be carried out by the merest beginner. Chainstitch, worked in delicately colored washing silk or filoselle, looks exceedingly pretty on a muslin blouse, having a wonderfully light and graceful effect

Black Chiffon Collars.

The idea of wearing shapely collars of black hemstitched chiffon cloth is attractive. The collars are put on white blouses, on light colored marquisette gowns, on black frocks when they are overlaid with a shallow collar of white Irish lace or white chiffon cloth, also hemstitched. These collars are not always In strict sailor shape. They vary considerably. The points may run out to the sleeves and the back and front cut off in straight lines. Again, the collar may be as deep as a bib in the back and sharpened off to points in front One can buy them in the shops, but it is better to get the hemstitched material by the yard and cut them aocording to the desire of the wearer.

Elastic for the Hair.

Girls have Invented quite a clever scheme this summer to keep their locks in place in or out of the house by using the tiniest kind of hat elastic around the hair. It matches their locks and does not show. It makes a tiny ridge barely visible, where it tightens the hair, but the locks can easily be pulled up above it with a hairpin. It keeps the hair from blowing down on the neck and over the face and gives a trim, trig look over the forehead and ears., It is not as substantial as a net, but it is much less trouble to put on and serves very well for those who cannot wear the other. The elastic is tied around the hair in a tiny knot without ends.

Follies of Investment.

The World’s Work sets forth some of the- absurdities that people for the most part intelligent will commit when they have money to invest If a man is sick, he goes to a doctor; if in a row with his neighbors, he goes to a lawyer; if in spiritual trouble, he consults a minister or priest; if in business straits he calls upon the banker. If, however, he has a problem of investment on his bands, he calls upon merchants, lawyers, bankers, ministers and miscellaneous people quite indiscriminately—and with about the same practical results that he would get if he followed the some method in sickness, in legal trouble, in business trouble or in spiritual woe.

Pepper Sauce.

Grind one dozen and a half green, red and yellow peppers and a small solid head of cabbage in a meat chopper. They should be very fine. Add 5 cents* worth each celery seed and ground mustard with vinegar tq make the consistency of catsup. This goes well with meats.

FREEING BRUSHES FROM DUST

Care That Is Necessary to Keep the Articles In a Hygienic Condition.

The hygienic condition in which both brushes and combs are kept so influence hair and scalp that if the former are not constantly freed from dnat that which they contain will be directly applied each time either article is used. Each timo after it is used a brush should have its bristles freed from dust Just as a dußtlng cloth Is cleaned after being used. A good housekeeper would not dream of putting away a dusting cloth without shaking It, but the same woman will put down her hair brush with no thought of its being unclean. To free the bristles from dust strike a flat surface, such as bureau top or table, with the tips of the bristles, the brush back being in normal position. Then rub across the table edge with the bristles, sawing across, as it were. If there is- doubt in her mind of the need of this treatment, one cleaning in this way will convince her. Once a week Is, as a rule, often enough to wash a brush. More than that Is apt to make the bristles Ilmp, and If they are to be kept stiff, never must they be placed In very hot water. There are specially prepared powders to cleaning brashes, but a few teaspoonfuls of borax In a basin of clear water is excellent To cleanse a brush to this preparation hold the bristles down and shake them under wa ter. To dry. the brush should be plkced on end. that the water may run out quickly.