Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 352, 25 October 1908 — Page 4
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REPUBLICAN TICKET. NATIONAL TICKET. For President WILLIAM HOWARD TAPT of Ohio. For Vice-Preslds nt flAMES 8. SHERMAN of lievr York. TATE.
Governor JAMBS E. WATSON.
5 Lieutenant Governor FREMONT C. GOODWINS. Secretary of State FRED A. SIMS. Auditor of States . JOHN C. 3ILLHEIMER. Treasurer of State OSCAR HADLEY. Attorney General JAMES BINGHAM. State Supsrintendect LAWRENCE McTURNAN. State Statistician J. L. PEETZ. Jndge of Supreme Court QUINCY A. MYERS. -Judge of Appellate Court DAVID MYERS. fporter of 8upreaae Court GEORGE W. SKLF. . DISTRICT. Congress WILLIAM O. BARNARD. " COUNTY. Joint Representative ALONZO M. GARDNER. Representative WALTER S. RATLIFF. Circuit Judge HENRY C. FOX. Prosecuting Attorney CHAS. L. LADD. Treasurer . ALBERT ALBERTSON. Sheriff LINUS P. MEREDITH. Coroner PR. A. L. BRAMKAMP. Surveyor ROBERT A. HOWARD. f Recorder WILL J. ROBBINS. ..-Commissioner Eastern Dist HOMER FARLOW. -Commissioner Middle Dist BARNEY H. LINDERMAN. -Commissioner Western DIstROBERT N. BEESON. WAYNE TOWNSHIP. Trustee JAMES H. HOWARTH. Assessor 4 CHARLES E. POTTER.
Pacific, however, is making Itself felt
in a rather dramatic way. i
The cable dispatch which, intimates; i
that the British government wa3 re-j luctant ot grant this independent na
val privilege to Australia tells us just what we had a right o expect. England knows that a like request will be soon made by Canada, Just as England long ago foresaw that the
formation of the Dominion government would ultimately necessitate a like union among the British dependencies on the farther side of the Pacific. Australia's growth in population and
in business development has been
slow, and this postponed the demand
for autonomy for many years after come of the more astute British states
men expected it to appear. This came
in 1901, when the commonwealth was founded. Now that country makes a step toward the development of a na
tional policy which may be relied on to shape Itself with a rapidity which will be far from pleasing to England. A navy for Canada will probably be a development of the next three of four
years. As the western provinces of Canada are as hostile to Japanese im
migration as Australia Is, and much
more so than the United States, the
yellow problem Is likely to come up
In a rather practical shape In the near
future.
To paraphrase the words of the old
Farmers' Almanac regarding snow in
January, "About this timo look out for editorials in some of the London
newspapers on the subject of the de
cline and fall of the British empire,
London wil lsee in this concession to
Australia a weakening or the imperial
tie. And very likely London will be correct. A national consciousness is
beginning to take form among the big
British colonies of the Pacific, and these developments usually increase
inlmpotus with time. Australia has an area almost as large as the United States but has a population smaller than Illinois or Ohio. Its remoteness
from the rest of the world has given it
sort of social independence which
has made it an experiment station for trying out Utopias of several sorts. In this way it has accumulated an ex
perience, and also a public debt.
which are larger than those of many
countries which have been on the map several times a3 long. Moreover as she is some thousands of miles nearer to Japan and most of the rest of Asia than is the Ulnted States,
and as she is far weaker than us, the yellow peril takes a more portentous
shape for her than it does In California or in any other of our communities on the Pacific coast. Her lack of opportunities for laborers, either
from the inside of the outside, gives
her far less attractions for the Chin
ese and Japanese than the United States offered, but on the other hand
her facilities for resistance are far
less potent than ours. England has
a larger interest in the doings in the big western ocean than she looked for a few months ago, and so has the
United States. London, Washington and Tokio, and likewise Pekin, are
watchiing with a good deal of inter
est, the drama which is shaping itself over the sea of Balboa and Ma
gellan. By the time that Admiral
Sperry's squadron, ten or twelve days
hence, anchors oft Yokahama the Pa
cific problem will have begun to take shape which none of those capitals
dreamed of when President Roose
velt was bidding it au revoir as it was
swinging out from Hampton, Roads
LIGHTNING CHANGE ARTIST
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WILL CUT LOOSE
IN HIS MESSAGE
President Roosevelt to Strike
Straight From the Shoulder.
NATION NEEDS THE TRUTH.
million dollars a day. Doesn't take long to say it. does It? But a deficit of two or three million dollars a day would make a pretty sizable hole in time. Now. Mr. Roosevelt is not anxious to go out of the White House leaving a yawning deficit In the Treasury, therefore he Issued the order to cut, slash and chop. That's why the bureau and division chiefs are not mentioning the name of Roosevelt when they count their beads these days
PRESIDENT WILL ENDEAVOR TO
TELL IT IN HIS LAST APPEAL TO LAW MAKERS YEAR'S EXPENSE ESTIMATES MADE.
railway, the county which bred a war governor and which gave her sons 'for the cause of freedom and the preser
vation of the union. Nor was it incon
gruous that the son of Judge Lorenzo
Taft, the great abolitionist should have among his supporters the sons of those men whom Lorenzo Taft
helped to free from slavery.
Despite the fact that Thomas Study
cares to be contemptious language on
the subject the republican party has no reason to blush for its record on this occasion or any other connected with the negro question, whether
there were as Mr. Study said "eight niggers and Dudley Foulka on the platform."
THE NEW ERA IN THE PACIFIC
United State influence in the Pacific has just taken a shape which nobody in the United States was looking for, which is rather disagreeable to England, which will probably be displeasing to Japan, and which will surprise the world. This is Asutralia's demand for a separate navy, and the demand has been granted by the British government Ever since the commonwealth of Australia, consisting of the six British dependencies adjoining each other was established in 1901 there has been a desire on its part to have a navy ot its own, but this aspiration did not take concrete form until the United States fleet started for the Pacific, with a program which Included, a visit to several Australian porta. The invitation to call at the Australian ports was especially effusive, and as the world knows, the welcome which the fleet received was particularly enthusiastic Australian papers have freely said that their chief
reliance in their demand for white domination in the white islands and continents of the Pacific would be the
United states, Many tilings were
paid by Australian newspapers and public men just before, during and after" the fleet's visit which must have been embarrassing to the British government for they were eirected against its ally, Japan. No attempt, however, was made by them to spare the feelings of that government, but the visitors, who are booked to call at Japan a week or two hence, were necessarily forbidden by the Washington authorities to touch on- the Japanese Issue in any shape. The Influence of the American cruise to the
have its alliance a matter for the discussion and subject to the votes of a
populace, for diplomatic reasons would not permit of full publicity and discussion. The officials of this country are elected by and for the people of
this country and cannot, therefore,
enter into an alliance.
Friends, America wants and has.
But these friends must be Independent of alliances. Nor can we afford to be dragged into any squabble because we have an alliance with another country.
Our interests are our own and those of no other country, therefore we cannot have more than a friendly feeling for any other nation.
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
The Taft meeting had a souring ef
fect on that dyed in the wool demo
crat Tom Study. "Think of Dudley
Foulke and eight niggers on that plat
form!"
This feeling of contempt is typical not only of this distinguished demo
crat but of the whole democratic par
ty. What could one expect of the
party which during the days of the war stood on the side of the slave
owners. What could one expect of the party which in Indiana was the "copper head" and "Knights of the
Golden Circle" contingent, whose j main object was to thwart the efforts j of Governor Morton and to turn the state over to the confederacy. Was It not in accord with the southern democracy whose efforts have taken away the suffrage of the negro which the republican party gave them? The attempt of Mr. Study to ca3t a slur on the republican party failed. The republican party stood in the past for the liberation of the negro for the enfranchisement of the negro and stands there today. The democratic party's record in the past is known and far from
changing from it the platform of the party today contains not one word in favor of the negro. The democratic party Is responsible for the very things It finds fault with the negro for. The republican party on the other hand, is responsible for whatever the negro has of civic rights, it has encouraged his efforts for uplift Nor was the spectacle of colored men on the platform an Incongruous one in Richmond the stronghold of abolition a station in the under ground
PRESIDENT'S SONS.
The inauguration of President Gar
field's son as president of Williams
College and the entry of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., as a wage worker In a
woolen mill, bring up the question of the future of the sons of the chief
executives of the country.
James Arthur Garfield showed in
his address at Williams College, that he had grasped the Important princi
ples of modern education as firmly as any of his contemporaries, be they
Eliot of Harvard, or Wilson of Prince
ton. It was significant that the son of
the man who gave the credit of his
success to Mark Hopkins, the former President of Williams, should rear a
eon to be the successor of that man.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has started
in at $he very bottom and from all ac
counts is making a success even under the handicap of being the son of his illustrious father. Those men of science who have made a study of heredity regard great men as the final evolution of a long line and argue that after that point the line decays with great rapidity. But stock men do not disregard the laws of heredity in breeding. Why then should we always expect deterioration In the descendants of great men? Certainly Theodore Roosevelt is not the one to b'ring forth or to rear incompetents. Is it not fair to suppose that young Theodore has caught the
gleam of the strenuous life. What reason is there to believe that he will
not make his mark in the world?
The president of Williams College
has reached a conspignous place al
ready. Young Roosevelt has just
started. John Quincey Adams was
quite as eminent a man as his father
and the grandson of William Henry Harrison was no mean man. Why dis
parage the sons of presidents?
ed as Manila; in the latter they are de
creasing the cholora cases.
There Is a disposition not to leave
the young Turks much., of a country
to rule over.
If we had only hurried up matters
we might presently dig the deep water
way without any interference from
water. 1
William R. Hearst is a yellow journ
alist and; he shows up a pretty broad yellow streak in a number of yellow
statesmen.
TAFT, THE MAP?.
It is safe to say that of the large
crowd which came to see Tart yesterday, everyone felt the sincerity of the man. One couldn't help feeling
that here was a great man, a man
who had toiled all his working life in the service of his fellow citizens and
not for himself. He gave the impression of being a tower of strength on
whom the people might rely to see
their Interests taken care of.
As one man said: "I have heard
Bryan and Roosevelt and now I have
heard Taft. Bryan gave me the im
pression of talking then thinking,
Roosevelt gave me the Idea that he
thought and he talked at the same
time, but this man Taft why he
thinks and thinks many times before he speaks."
The air which Taft carried was one
of confidence in himself and he mat ?
his audience fell confidence in him.
He gave the impression of a perform-! er of honest deeds. And the most conspicuous thing was not his honest smile, but the thoughtful and intellectual look about the eyes. Above all this man was not a "moon man, shining by reflected light" but the man of accomplishment and performance who had been not a moon, but a guiding star to two republican administrations. Here was a man and not a weakling; here was a statesman and not a demagogue; here was a man of performance and not a dreamer and here was the friend of the people and the enemy of wrong doing.
Mead to Mead Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE Copyrlgfat, 1908, by Edwin A. Ny.
Pointed Squibs
They call ' these things whirlwind tours because the candidate feels like he had been in- one.
ALLIANCES.
The Japanese press is wild in its acclaim for America and Americans since the arrival of the fleet in their waters. Not only that but the interchange of a letter from Roosevelt to the Mikado and has made not only Japanese but American papers talk of a JapaneseAmerica alliance. - Unfortunately, however, for those who wish it this country cannot enter into alliances. Not only Is it not the precedent, but there is a reason far greater than that even than Washington's parting words to the American people to "beware of entangling alliances." That reason cannot be better illustrated than now during a political
election. Roosevelt has. four more months as president the secretary of
state is a man of his creation. Any al
liance that this country might enter
into could be but for a brief term, only to be npset when the election come.
Nor could a foreign country afford to
Isn't it shocking to have the reputation that the Standard Oil has? And it is fortunate it has the money to ease its situation in an embittered world.
No one seems to be taking presidential votes on railroad trains. What's the use?
Now for football, the game we love but never can understand.
Think we must have surely "shown" Taft in Missouri.
ANTHONY COMSTOCK.
A strange man, a strong man, a man of heroic mold, is Anthony Oomstock
of New York,
Whatever may be said of his meth
ods, the sincerity of the man and his
fidelity to his mission cannot be con
tradicted.
At tremendous personal cost he has devoted his life to the suppression of
vicious literature.
Comstock began his career In 1873. The business ot painting and distribnt
ing obscene books and pictures at that
time was highly organized and flour
Ishlng. In a single campaign In New
York he seized and destroyed the plate
of 169 vile books and pictures.
The vender of morii cancer then began their work of misrepresentation
an slandtr oL Comstock. They have persisted ever since in their abuse and rldlcale. They resorted to personal
violence." But Comstock: has never flinched.
Once he got a score of the sellers of
filthy stuff in Ludlow street JalL In fluential friends offered bribes. Fall
lng in this, they caused smallpox scabs
to be sent through the mails to his hotue. At this time he narrowly escaped being blown up by an Infernal machine. One night at Newark a man whom he had in custody drew a knife at the jail door and severed fire arteries in Comstock's face. At one time he was assaulted and beaten Into insensibility. On several occasions hired assassins have tried to kill him on the street or at his office. For years this stanch cleanser of society's sewage has refused to speak of himself generally. Not long ago he gave his first Interview. Speaking of the desperate encounters of his ca
reer, Mr. Oomstock said: "Shed blood, broken bones, assaults, ridicule, obloquy and libel have been my portion. I am content In thirty-four years I have made 2,691 arrests and seized more than ninetyeight tons of vile literature and pictures." It reminds me of St Paul's recital of his life's perils. Anthony Comstock may have made mistakes. At times he may have been Indiscreet or finical. His conscience Is the Puritan conscience. He cannot abide even the appearance of evil. cannot read the history of his grim persistence in well dolnr. his patient almost pathetic bravery, and withhold respect for the man and hit accomplish!""-
Washington, Oct. 2i. While await
ing the verdict of the American people
at the polls next month, President
Roosevelt is hard at work on the last
annual message he will send to con
gress. The final tone of the paper will be determined, of course, by the
results in November, but much of the laborious work can be done now as well as after the election.
Unofficial intimation is conveyed
that this last annual message of the president's will in many respects be the most memorable state paper which has ever eminated from Mr. Roosevelt. Plain speaking, it is declared, will characterize the docu
ment There are many things the president has long wanted to say In
message', but divers considerations
have deterred him. One of these con
siderations was that he was anxious
to avoid doing or saying anything
that would prove an obstacle to the
election of a republican as his succes
sor. The possibility of more seriously disturbing business also has kept
him silent on some subjects.
He is profoundly convinced that the
nation needs to be told the truth about some things concerning which it is
now in error. Tbe telling or some
of these truths might have been tak
en as campaign material by the demo
crats. The telling of others might have served as a pretext for "big busi
ness to still lurtner tie up the Indus
trial and financial situation. But next
uecemner Mr. Kooseveits successor
will have been chosen and political
considerations need no longer make him silent Also he will be within
three months of the end of his term,
and business could not well profess to
fear a man within three months of
yielding the sceptre.
Information is whispered about,
therefore, that the president Intends to "cut loose" and the message he
sends to congress In December ought
to make mighty Interesting reading.
The president can hardly hope that
many new projects of legislation will
be undertaken between the first Mon
day in December and March 4; but
ne win bo well satisfied to set up some sign-posts that will point the
way to legislation in the future.
When the farmer of the not-dlstaut future has shucked and cribbed his com. he will strip the leaves and husks from his corn stocks to feed his cattle. Then he. will soil th? bare stalks for almost as much as the corn is worth. That is the promise held out by the government scientists who have discovered that the making of paper from corn stalks Is a commercial possibility. It means a lot to the farmer and to the users of paper and it means also that the ruthless destruction of forests will be at least checked. Announcement may be expected t no distant day that the making ot paper from the cotton plant is also a commercial possibility. This will mean as much to the Southern planter as the corn-stalk project does to the Western corn grower, and each will supply a strong argument to those who believe In a paternal government
NOT A UNITARIAN.
The various executive departments
of the government are engaged just now in preparing their estimates of
expenditures for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1 next and the paring knife is the instrument most in demand. From the white house the order went to department heads that estimates must be "cut to the bone," and from the department heads it perculated down to the bureau and division chiefs, thereby causing much agony of soul and perturbation of mind. If there is one thing more than another In which bureau and division chiefs evel 4t is making estimates. They never are disturbed by such trivial facts an that a dollar contains one hundred cents. Indeed, the existence of such things as cents are wholly unknown to them when It comes to spending the people's money. A thousand dollars is the smallest unit in which they can think; and, say, maybe they are not the generous souls when It comes to scattering
around the thousand-dollar bills.
The result is that before a depart
ment head sends his estimates to Congress he always has to lop a few
it ill! dollars off the amounts asked 1
for by his subordinates. Then the
House appropriations committee gets busy and lops off a few million dol-,
lars more.
Despite this double lopping, the f
government's expenditures keep piling up at a rate calculated to stagger
the man to whom "million dollars" )
means something more than two words .
of seven words each. Just now the '
deficit In the Treasury is being in- j creased at the rate of two or three j
Editor Palladium In your Issue of yesterday in a communication (as I judge) respecting the religious views of Judge Taft, the writer gives a long
list of eminent people who have held the Unitarian faith. In this list is the
name ot Miss Frances Wlllard. I have
personal knowledge that the writer is -mistaken in the case of Miss Wlllard.
Miss Wlllard was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and accepted the teachings of her church. If she ever expresed dissent from these
teachings it Is unknown to her closest friends. Referring to her reception into the Methodist church. Miss Wlllard
Bays, "Those were solemn vowa we took. I almost trembled as our voices mingled in the responses to the ques
tions asked us." One of those questions was, "Do you believe in the doctrines of the Holy Scriptures as set
forth In the articles of religion of the Methodist Episcopal church." Can one believe that Miss Wlllard would have
falsified in her answer to this question. It is true that she did say that she had "mental difficulty" concerning the doctrine of the Trinity, while she accepted it She says. "While I will not judge others (Unitarians) there Is for me no final rest except as I translate the concept of God Into the nomenclature and personality of the New Testament what Paul said of Christ Is what I say." My object In referring to this matter U not to reflect in any way, or cast the slightest stigma upon those who hold the Unitarian view of the Deity, but simply to defend the reputation of this peerless Christian woman from the Implication ot duplicity in professing to believe what she did not believe. It Is to be deplored that the exigen
cies of a political contest call for animadversion of the religious views of the candidates so that they a. cn ot honor and probity. But if tut.i must be the case, care should be taken that Injustice be not done to those whose ' lips are forever silenced. Mr. Taft as a Unitarian, has plenty of good company, living and dead, without associating with him in religious faith, one who could not be thus placed without casting a shadow upon her sincerity and lowering the estimate In which she is held as a woman of transparent purity and nobility. GEORGE H. HILL.
It Is rather mean to make Bryan do all his own campaigning. Where are the Democratic wheelhorses -loafing around In the pasture?
Theodore must be satisfied, as there Is nothing proceeding from the white house but silence.
More slmping in Wall street because of the European war cloud. Those
Wall street fellows are more or less
inclined to be slumps.
St Petersburg Is not as well govern-
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