Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 106, 22 February 1909 — Page 4
THE RICHMOND PALUUUtnH AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1909.
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Berlin, on a visit to his nephew, the emperor, everything was all riot. (Syracuse Herald.) It would be quite a touching act of hospitality if the kaiser could only arrange for a Berlin production of "An Englishman's Home" and invite King Edward to attend with him.
(Chicago News.) King Edward will enjoy the visit. The kaiser will offer advice to his royol nnrlo In n mnw Knhdiifrt tnnfi of
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THE TWENTY-8ECOND. Washington's birthday, coming in the year of centenaries, attracts less attention all over the country than usu1. However, it is never amiss to call attention to the unlikeness and similarity of Washington and Lincoln. As a recent biographer of Benjamin franklin said, the fault with Washington lies ia the fact that he had no faults, meaning that it was hard to sympathize with a man who had so little of human weakness in his makeup. It is hard to believe that although Washington was well nigh as perfect in most respects as the solar myth: to which he has grown, that in
Washington's own time he was the
target of violent abuse which led to Ills death. It Is fortunate for this country that tve have had both the Virginia cavalier and the gaunt backwoodsman as the chief executives of this country. If there is a lesson which needs to be driven home in this cquntry, at the present time, it is that men of all classes may have the same qualities of Intellect and morals and patriotism. In these things the refinements of life play but a minor part In a time when wealth and labor seem likely to be arraigned In the future it is well to exhibit examples of great qualities in the highest and lowest of so-called society In the hope that the best things of this life may not be slurred over in class hatred. If Washington were alive today he would indeed be an aristocrat of aristocrats, but the qualities of his character would be no less patriotic than they were. In the' old days when men assailed him as seeking a crown. There is a similarity between the chaos of that early time and the confusion of this, which called for the itrong hands of Washington and Roosevelt. The future historian may note that the strong government, (for
" both Washington and Roosevelt belong lo the federalists) was necessary to the best interests of the country. It
Is only the pendulum of history swinging back and forth as occasion de
mands. . , So that this anniversary has its ap
' plication to our own time in the very
Vital subject of what the country must
face. The centralization of govern
ment and the whole federal question
has come up quite as strongly as it did in the days of Washington. The cries of imperialism must be met with
an understanding of what they really mean. It means that when the other
Sunday's issue that a certain Earlham
professor had announced that reporters had no right to criticise athletics, etc. The editorial was written under a misapprehension of what the gen
tleman said. It appears that he recognized the right of reporters to criticise athletic contests and merely criticised the criticism (which he of course had the right to do). The editorial in question was written for the sole purpose of defending the rights of The Palladium's representatives a view which we still subscribe to as well as to the other things said in the editorial. - The Palladium will continue in the future (as it has in the past) to endeavor to keep its columns free from error and prejudice and will take pleasure in rectifying such errors as occur. It does this for the purpose of making its columns as reliable as possible.
sions.
(Columbia State.) King Edward is reported to have resorted to every possible ruse to avoid
returning the visit of his bellicose I nephew, Wilhelm of Germany, because i of the irritation felt in England ' pgainst the kaiser and his people; but : he can't dodge and England squirms.
Items Gathered in From Far and Near
Good Fellowship Item. (Chicago Tribune.) King Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm have had such an enjoyable time together that Great Britain has just decided to build six more big battle ships.
OVERCERTIFYING OF CHECKS! Herbert N. Casson in March Hamp
ton's Magazine: Most important of all, to protect the banks from in partnership with the stock gamblers, the Wall Street practice of overcertifying checks must be abolished. There is no good reason why stock brokers should be made a privileged class by the violation of the banking laws, or why the bankers should place them
selves and their depositors in danger, in order that stock gambling may flourish. When a broker wants to borrow money from a bank, why not compel him to do as everyone else has to do deposit his securities at the time" he takes the bank's money?
St. Valentine in the Senate. I do not mind the pictures In shrewd, sarcastic style;
I do not fear the doggerel Which critics say is vile; I'll welcome the allusions To weaknesses of mine. And though the text revile me, I'll laugh at every line. And yet I fear the postman. Who brings my daily mail; Each envelope upon my desk Invites me to turn pale. I tremble lest some missive Shall fill me with dismay, Addressed to "My Dear Senator," From 2i Broadway. -Philander Johnson, in the Washington Star.
DEMOCRATS HAVE ABOUT GIVEN UP ALL THEIR HOPES They Are Now of the Opinion That It Will Be Practically Impossible to Repeal County Option Law. PLATFORM MEASURE IS ALSO SURE OF DEATH Kleckner Bill Fell Down Mis-
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Political Announcements
FOR MAYOR. HENRY W. DEUKEH is a candidate for mayor, subject to the Republican nomination.
vote with the democrats to repeal the
time when the county option law might have been repealed, bt.t the democrats delayed action for various reasons, and they thus lo't thek U.ance. jus: as they have lost tr.eir chance for a pood many other thins by doing nothing at the rl:ht time. The senate committee on public niora's I ho'din? i:p the Toml'nson bill and there is no means of telling when : the bill will be rerorted out. Srnator ' Malt ina:!y. one of the strongest eup-; porters of the county option law. is
chairman of that comnMtiee. and it is
n,tir -i Inn o n tin rtni hrs till . ft.. Ka In Vi urrt
eraDly in benate and natllff slightest notioa tUt this viil ever to dc anrth!np tint will hurt that law.
Only Republican Supporter In the House.
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THE BANKS AND PANICS. There may be many persons of the
Upton Sinclair type who really think that banks may wish to bring on panics. A bank is ex natura so placed that to bring on a panic would bring
on its own destruction. Every one
knows that in the liabilities of a bank account appear the items indicating
its obligation to share-holders for the capita, surplus, and profits, as well as the items of deposits indicating
the sums left with the bank which
may be drawn on demand. On the other hand, the bank lends its resources
whether coming from capital or de
posits and receives as its only security assets from whose recurring maturity its loans are repaid. If these
assets, such as collateral composed of stocks and bonds, or paper based on the sale of goods, should lose their basis of value, the banks would lose. They have already given the borrower the right to draw, and they get repayment by the borrower only in the future. Hence, the only chance of the bank to regain what they have parted with lies in the assets retaining value enough to cover the loans already made. To suppose, therefore, that the banks should ever have a motive for bringing on a panic is to suppose that a sailor afloat on the ocean in an open boat should have a motive for punching a hole in the bottom of the boat-the only thing which saves him from destruction. The popular supposition that the bankers gain a special profit by the issue of notes, which by right should go to the government, is doubtless
Editor Palladium: I notice in your Sunday's issue you
state, in speaking of men coming to Richmond from New Castle, for em
ployment that the local concern, therefore, is not worrying about se
curing skilled mechanics."
If liquor drinking men are the "skilled mechanics," please Inform me why the railroad companies for years past have prohibited their employes
from drinking either while on or off
duty?
Are Richmond employers different
from those in most large corporations where they will not employ drinking men? Or are we to understand that
men who drink intoxicants are the best
"skilled mechanics?" EARNEST ENQUIRER.
For a good, wholesome, cheap break
fast, always buy Mrs. Austin s pan
cake flour. Your grocer has a fresh
supply.
INDIA!! BRAVE
GOES ON WAR PATH
Palladium Bureau, Indianapolis, Feb. 22. The democrats have about given up
all hope of being able to repeal the county option law, and it need not be
happen. Ser.aiors Uurre and Chnaoii will vote to -icytal the c-Ofiuy option law with alu.oo; any wind ol a substitute and Band uiay do the ta-r.e. Early in the game he taid he wou.d. but lately te has been S eeping remarkably quiet on the subject, presumably because he did not wish to hurt the chances of the Linton court bi'.l, in which he had his whole heart set. So the Kleckner bill has no more
chance of getting through the senate
So the bt'I may not lx reported out until the latter part of this week.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR ALS.
PROPOS-
surprising to" see this session of the
legislature adjourn with that law still than a DOy has of climbing a fifty foot
on tne books. The lonihnson bill is roaspH nnie
O - " A
doomed to defeat and the Kleckner bill never had any chance to become a law.
It is even said that Senator Fleming
has given up hope of repealing the law, though Fleming is not saying anything about what he thinks. It is aid that be has, however, stated to friends that
he does not expect the legislature to change the county option law.
Fleming Not Affected. Of course, it makes little difference,
personally, to Fleming, whether the
law is repealed or not, for it is believed that Allen county and Lake county would neither one, vote themselves
dry,, and it is in
Trim Tomlinson Bill. And if the Senate amends the Tomlinson bill along the lines that it proposes and shoots it full of holes the house democrats will not accept it. The senate is going to riddle the poor thing when it gets at it. When the senate gets through with the bill its j own father will not be able to recognize his offspring. There are a number of democrats in the house who favor the Kleckner bill, but who will vote against any bill such as the Tomlinson bfll will be when it gets back
United States Post Office Building. Richmond. Ind.. Feb. ".. i;!. Sealed proposals will be received at this building until '' o'clock, p. m.. Monday. March 1, 1!K. for furnishing fuel, lights, water, ice. miscellaneous supplies, washing towels and hauling ashes, for this building during the fiscal year ending June SO, l!lo, or such portion of the year as may be deemed advisable. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved by the Treasury Department. J. A. SPEKENHIER, Custodian.
Th Jap's Santa Claus.
The patron saiut of Japanese children Is named Kotie. He is always pictured with a big sack, which is said to coutain presents for the good children. Wbeu Kotie wishes to cross a river be us?s this sack as a boat. lie
Tha Ox's Affections. Oven usually die in pairs. One yokefellow seldom survives the other. Working and resting side by side thiouch many long years, those patient animals develop so strung, so riiop ar.d abiding an affection for one another that separation means death. When n pair of oxen are yoked together in youth they fight. Their mutual hatred Is as pre at as would be that of two men yoked together. But with th years' rnsasre they resse to kick and butt. They become friends. And this friendship ripens at last Into an overcasterlns affection, which, it may be, consoles the nil'.d. laborious creatures in some measure for th lifelong cruelties heaped on them by man. Cincinnati Knqulrer.
mind us of our Santa Claus. London Chronicle.
from the senate. They say they are
l"u wuuu" for the repeal or tne county option iaw ( . ,.,. V1W in th- tMt.u nf
that most of the beer made by Flem- b6Cause the democratic platform de-, t,3 wad to watcb he mUe one8 and ings brewery, is sold. So his business ciares for township and ward option,' .-.. , mi. ,i..h
but that they are not in iavor oi as re-.
; strictive a measure as the Tomlinson
bill will be when it comes back to them. Delay Injures Chances. It is said now that delay has killed
i the chances for the passage ot tne ! Tomlinson bill or the Kleckner bill or j
any other repeal bill. There was a
functions of the government become wiae spread, in truth, there is per se
no Dan king prom except that arising
weak and unavailing in the interests of the people the administrative department must fill the gap for the interests of the people. . It was so in Washington's time; so in Lincoln's, and we are just realizing that the thing has happened again in Roosevelt's administration. Whether the enemies of the republic be tories, secessionists, or corporate bodies, the situation is identical.
THE PASSING OF THE COLONEL. The recent announcement that Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal has retired from public life due to his age and the sorrows ,of the death of his children will be a aad blow to those who are his admirers. ,One of the best things which can be said ot a man is that he is worthy of admiration though disagreed with. And this can be said of Watterson. It is Watterson above all others who stands for the most lovable of Kentucky characteristics. His charming personality with his whimsical outlook on the life around him, irrational, paradoxical and honest, is on a par with his limpid English which he so effectively used. The country will sustain a great loss In the absence of the public service of Colonel Watterson North
and South. It is a pity that his retirement is not a pleasant one. It
would be far more comfortable to feel that he had been turned out to pasture
like the thoroughbred that he is. to enjoy the pleasant sunshine with no
care to bother him. . There' will al
ways be a pleasant past for Watter
son to look back on work well per
formed and this, it Is to be hoped.
will fill his thoughts rather than the
4 cares of his heavy sorrows. ;
from the discount on loans; and since
discounting, or lending, can go on
without issuing notes as is seen at
all banks and trust companies organized tinder state laws then it is patent that the profit of banking is not due to the issue of notes.
From "Government vs. Bank Issues"
by J. Lawrence Laughlin, in the March Scribner.
is safe under any circumstances.
The democrats are not able to pass
the Kleckner bill in the senate. They tried it once and failed to get enough
votes to pass it. This bill proposes to repeal the county option law and substitute for it, township and ward option, In line with the democratic
oiaic piaiiuiui. it to lu7 (fall uiaa- j
ure, and yet there are eleven democrats in the house who say they will not under any circumstances vote for the Kleckner bill or. any other bill that would repeal county option. There are sixty democrats in the house. Counting off eleven of them you have 41) as the limit of those who will support the Kleckner bill. Only one republican will .vote for the Kleckner bill. 1 He is Representative Ratliff, of Wayne county. This would make an extreme total of fifty votes
for the passage of the bill, or just one vote short of enough to pass itKliver Is Doubtful. There are some who believe that Representative Kliver, of Lake county, will vote for the Kleckner bill, but Kliver has said that he will not. Tt is said, however, that he may vote for it in order to carry out a deal by which a number of votes were lined up for the passage of the Gary court bill, but it is not likely, judging from present indications. Much will depend on the action of the governor with reference to the Gary court bill as to
NaVaiO Chief BeCOmeS Fren- whether Kliver votes for or against
me luminibuu uiu. ii. me guvuuui signs the Gary court bill Kliver probably would be bound to vote for the Kleckner bill. If the governor vetoes the Gary bill, and it is not at all unlikely that he will, Kliver will not then be bound to vote for the Kleckner bill.
for the deal will then be all off. Of
course, if Kliver votes for the bill, it
may get through the house. Senate Will Kill It.
But even if it does pass the house,
the senate will kill it, for there are not
more than twenty-one democratic sen
ators who will vote for it. McCarty
and Tilden are openly opposed to it
There are only twenty-three democrats
in the senate. This would make it necessary for the six republicans to
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zied in Cincinnati Station And Stabs Three.
WOMAN FATALLY INJURED
DAZED PASSENGERS, AFTER THE THIRD VICTIM FALLS, POUNCE UPON RED MAN AND HOLD HIM FOR THE POLICE.
(New York Herald.) A scientist in the Bronx Zoo has dis
covered that a snake may become intoxicated by tilting its head at a certain angle. This will cause a lot of
sore necks in the dry states.
(Louisville Times.) The theory that a snake can become
Intoxicated by tilting its head at a certain angle may serve to explain the
painful emotions said to be undergone by men who see snakes. Envy leaves its sting.
King and Kaiser. Pittsburg Gazette-Times.)
King Edward and the kaiser show ger in her back and then slashed her
that the anti-kissing crusade hasn't across the body and arms.
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 22. With an ear-splitting warwhoop an unidentified Navajo Indian war chief ran amuck in the Union Station Sunday and before he could be overpowered, he had fatally stabbed and cut Mrs. Anna Devord of Huntington, W. Va., and Max Meyers of Cincinnati, and seriously wounded Joseph W. Gordon, of Cambridge, 111. The Indian, with four Sioux war chiefs from Kansas, had ali.arhted from
the crowded Chesapeake & Ohio train J
No. 5. As the passengers alighted from - the train the Indian, with a warning yell, drew a long dagger and started through the crowd, slashing right and left. Mrs. Devord was nearest to the Indian, walking up to the platform with a child in her arms. Before she could heed the warning cry raised by pas
sengers the Indian had buried the dag-
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Of the Groat Emory REMNANT OAHrES The biggest and best values of the entire sale will be offered this week. Small lots will be cleaned up regardless of former selling prices. Every department will offer some new and extra bargains every day. Be sure you attend every day.
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yard, Final Week. Sale price per yard --2c
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in the store, this week. Your choice COiCO
More of those $1.00 Curtain Stretchers this week, 1 0o
made much progress in royal circles.
(Columbus Evening Dispatch.) When King Edward appeared
in
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Disregarding; the insensible form of his victim the Indian next -attacked Meyers. Overpowered by Crowd. As Meyers fell to the station platform the Indian ran toward Gordon, As the Indian's blade penetrated the clothing of the victim and entered the flesh, passengers and station attaches who had stood rooted in their tracks with horror, matte a concerted rush on the mad man. : Male passengers and station employes then hurled themselves upon the prostrate Indian, who struggled desperately to free himself from their grasp. The dagger was knocked from his hand and he was taken in charge by the police. On the train the Indian, who had been to Washington to see the secretary of the interior, was noticed by passengers to be brooding and sullen, but he evincced-no signs of frenzy until the passengers "trere leaving the traiaV
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Tomorrow, Tuesday Morennagjs 2,000 yards fancy silks for Waists and Suits in stripes, checks, dots, etc Foulards, taffetas and printed pongees. Big Variety of patterns. Every Piece EeftSreBy ftlew. Our several -silk sales last year are still fresh in the minds of the public. Come early; you will not go away disappointed. m. c. masemeheis C(D. P. s. At this writing we still have on hand a good assortment of the 98c and $1.23 umbrellas which were on sale Saturday. Can not say how long they win last Both Gents' and Ladies' handles.