Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 328, 3 October 1909 — Page 4

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Taft and Roosevelt. From the Washington Star. Ifc ia announced that the Roosevelt Club of Cincinnati has given up the ghost at least its quarters. So many members had dropped out and made other alliances, there seemed no further use for the club's existence. And yet, if we consult the philosophy of the New York Times, this action was premature. The Times sees a chance for Mr. Roosevelt to "come again," and rather expects him to improve it. Mr. Taft may not hold his party together. Already the tariff is giving him trouble. Suppose other questions should give him trouble. Suppose republican difficulties increase and as the time for naming the candidate approaches a protest within the party against a second term for Taft is made, and represents an influential faction of the party. What more natural and logical than to turn to the former leader? The Times dwells upon the tariff, and thinks Mr. Roosevelt would hold a strong position as to that. He has not Indorsed, and may not indorse, the Payne law. When a young politician he accepted membership In the Cobden club. Suppose, then, discontent with the Payne law grows. Suppose an increasing number of republicans refuse to accept it as a redemption of the party's promise to revise the tariff downward, and insist upon further action, making the issue of 1012 turn again largely upon that issue. Mr. Roosevelt has no very definite position on the tariff. It is understood that he is a protectionist because he is a republican. His membership in the Cobden club a free trade clubis of no consequence. Gen. Garfield was a member, and maybe other American politicians, without a thought of committing themselves on the subject, have accepted the civilities of that English organization. But a refusal to indorse Mr. Taft -it the republican national convention in 1912 would not be referable solely to the tariff. The party, In effect, would . confess failure all along the line, and would almost invite defeat. Could anybody save the day? Strong as he was when he left office, as he may be now, he may then be with an element of his party. Mr. Roosevelt as a candidate of his party 'the third time would be handicapped. He would find himself leading a divided party, and resting under the imputation of having connived at the rejection of his friend for indorsement. A strong democrat might discover his opportunity in tho situation. Those Cincinnati politicians evidently do not expect Mr. Roosevelt to "come again," as a presidential quantity. And there does seem further use for his name for political purposes. But it is a good name for a hunting club, or a riding academy, or a tennis court.

The Tools of Genius. From the New York World. Of all the features of the celebration, is there any which has caught the Imagination of the crowd as has the facsmile of the Half Moon, with its suggestion of human daring and endeavor? Truly they had hearts of oak and nerves of tripnle brass who ventured out over unchartered seas in this puny craft. Many timid souls today, would not risk a cruise off Sandy Hook in the boat in which Hudson crossed the Atlantic. Genius is proverbially careless of its tools. A Franklin flics a kite, a Watt watches a tea kettle, a Herschel scans the heavens with a tiny homemade telescope, a Garcia looks down the human throat with a minature mirror found attached to a stick in a Paris shop, and civilization takes a long step ahead. If it bad been necessary to wait until a Lusitania was built before the ocean was crossed, or until steam lathes and trip-hammers were perfected before a locomotive was built, w should still be in the dark ?m. Th world has wnnderfnllv ad.

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peace. But has one millimeter been added to the breadth of the human spirit in a thousand years?. Are the lileriots and Wrights and Curtisses who are wresting from nature the secret of a new science a whit more daring than Columbus or Hudson?

THE SPIRIT OF THE OCCASION. It gives a thrill of the best sort to look down Main street. The banners and bannerets, so gaily blowing in the fall breezes; the splotches cf brilliant color here and there; the plaited poles; the festoons; and the preparations for the brilliant lighting of the streets ancJ not done yet! Not done (you gasp), why, have they commenced already? Now that is the remarkable part about the whole affair and: it extends throughout the whole performance. Everything in this Fa'l Festival is proceeding in the same orderly confusion if you will pardon the expression. It is the spirit of rapid accomplishment. And it is particularly good for a town which bears itself as staidly and which has eo good a title to the name of the "Panic Proof City" that It should have a taste cf this rapid accomplishment. It gives a grip ou affairs a strengthening of the sinews and the muscles a direction to its mind and a stimulant to its ambition for Richmond is a living organism.

But this sort of thing the thrill of accomplishment, does not happen quite by accident. In reality it's simply this old matter of co-operation that we have all been talking to you about for over a year. Call it "getting together and doing something"; if you don't, like the larger word but we're all talking about the same thing.

There really isn't much left unsaid about this Fall Festival. It's hard to find some new phase to talk about yet the reason is that we are all so busy thinking and working that it proves that we are all absorbed in it. But right here it needs to be said before we abandon ourselves to the joyous excitement that pulses through those of us who have blood and youth in our veins (no matter about their age) when the Fall Festival is over it won't do to go into a long sleep like the coma in which Teddy, the bear at the Glen, goes into at the winter season. Teddy is a sleepy old knocker and simply paces up and down in the same old tracks a captive of circumstance. We are past that in Richmond except for a few specimens kept as horrible examples. Those who have taken the greatest part in the Fall Festival know better than anyone else the reason for its being and that is to help all this part of the country. For that is the way to help Richmond. They also know that not very much can be accomplished if this Fall Festival spirit is not participated in by every citizen in Richmond. The Fall Festival must be followed not by a stupor but by a continuance of this wideawake spirit.

So when you look down Main street and see what is being accomplished or for that matter, go into almost every district of the town and see the Fall Festival preparations give praise to the men who have worked in your interest. And remember that to be effective this Fall Festival spirit of accomplishment is the thing for which Richmond receives her standing in the eyes of the country 'round. It's the spirit and the thrill which has made the Fall Festival. No wonder you get the action of reflected energy when you look down Main street.

OUR PART AS HOSTS. Many times more people than will read this will be on Main street for three days during the waking hours next week. Not only will the citizens of Richmond be there but hundreds and hundreds of olhers. The editors of the leading papers in this part of the country will be here one day, as will the Governor of Indiana and the Representative of this Congressional District. As the people of this town as a whole, express themselves through the medium of their actions and conduct in every particular so the town will be judged. We have no great belief in putting on manners for occasions. Yet some time ago at the Wright celebration in Dayton the kindly manners of the crowd particularly toward the Richmond people made those who were over there have a warm regard for their hosts. Surely that is worth while. We who see each other all the time have occasion to judge of the individual and to make allowance for his grumpy day. Not so with our visitors. They size us up on the snap shot impression thty receive from the short exposure of three days to Richmond. This is an opportunity for us to show the spirit oi hospitality which we all feel. We made a good impression last year it ought not to be lost by carelessness. Don't neglect the glad hand and. the smile we are all hosts here in Richmond when the Fall Festival is on.

Whitewater Quarterly Meeting. BY WILLIAM N. TRUEBLOOD. Two angels look ever on life's bright dream And under their vision its vistas gleam; The one looks forward, and the crags seem crowned With auroras that beckon and promise and smile; The other looks back from some long sought bound. And desert and jungle and fortress, the while Seem asleep in the softest amethyst hue And all th' long marches, a garden in dew.

Our Angel, today is the retrospect one, Whose glass has the hues of the low-sunk sun; But it gives us a view to that morning tide, When the spireless church and the hymnless choir Found a home in the wild by Whitewater's side And voiceless worship, like a pillar of fire, Arose with the song of the wood and the shore Which alone had arisen, the ages before. The picture is fair, O Memory, fair This sowing of seed in the wilderness there. This Star-gleam of faith in the darkness then, This wisdom that sat in the councils grave Oh th' sweet-faced women and strong faced men, Whose eyes ever turned to the future, and brave In their vision, would reckon no cost But sacrificed self until self was lost. But the futures are changing with every sun, And short is the work that is already done; And many have given their prayers and tears For that which is only imperfectly true, For glimpses of truth through our dust clouded year Look strange and oblique, as we climb in the blue, For truth is a circle, whose circle is seen Only in arcs until Time has been. lust Johns of the desert are the prophets, all, Whose visions of truth are but visions in small. But hard, indeed, is the lesson to learn That our own is not all of the infinite Heaven, And the scriptures, we know and so earnestly yearn To implant, are not all of the Testaments given; That man and his church fit together and both Are alike, being twins, of an infinite growth. Behold, ye that planted by Whitewater's stream The harvest is fairer than that of your dream. Not that your city's a city of spires, Not that its pulpits are fountains of zeal. Not that anthems ascend from organs and choirs All this might be without worship or weal. All this has been in some cities old, That went to perdition in sins untold. -But fairer, because, on the church you saw. The chief Archangels were Duty and Law, While now a fairer, and truer one, Whose home is higher In, in Heaven's above, Is seen by the altar, standing alone And smiling forever, the angel of Love, Whose love is not church, or church alone. But the great life of man, in its joy and moan. And fairer, because, from the gilded domes Worship is flying to th' shops and homes And the 'Call" is the call to a life that is true Everywhere now at the mill and the forge, and the bar. And the place for me and the place for you

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Is the place that is suited to what we are. For love is wider than church and sect And last in all is the old "elect." More than you dreamed, O planters, has come. Perhaps what you feared in that wilderness bom. The wid'ning of service, the lapsing of creeds, Salvation outside of the folds of the Kirk, Religion as wide as humanity's needs. And ev'ry-day gospels, the gospels of workBut could you look backward with us you ld say Xot ours, O Jehovah, but Thine is the way.

Two angels look ever on life's bright dream ' And under their vision its vistas gleam. Blind' them, and what could the future hold? And how would the marches behind us appear? O Hope, keep ever thy scroll unrolled. And Memory, ever thy fondest tear, For the way is covered by clouds and night And long is the waiting for abscCute sight.

TWINKLES

(BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.)

Invitation to Argument. "So you think I should not marry Reginald?" said the confiding girl. "I am afraid he has a quarrelsome disposition," answered Miss Cayenne. "What makes you think so?" "He is constantly asking people whether they thinic Cook or Peary discovered the north pole."

Something of x Logician Himself. "You must at all times have respect

and reverence for the law," said the sincere patriot. "I have." answered Farmer Corntossel. "But it's pretty generally admitted that Satan may quote Scripture and pervert its meaning. So I can't help feeling suspicious when certain parties get up to real from a merely human production like the revised statutes."

those cinders you pick n while traveling on the steam cars."

"Imitation," said Uncle Eben. "may be sincere flattery to de original, but it's usually an insult to de intelligence of de people you tries to pass it off on."

In the Eye. ''Your old enemy, Mr. Snortington, is very much in the public eye." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "And he's as irritating there as one of

Ezra anri Rufus. We're in a great commotion down to Pohick on the crick. We tried to do the proper thing, but fate has played a trick That leaves us In confusion. Ezra Spinks an' Rufus Lee. They went out a-exnlorin fur to find a possum tree. Ezra borrowed several lanterns, dogs an' similar supplies. An' had a great farewell when he set out to win the prize. But Rufus. he snuck out alone an, fur as we could see. He din't even stand a chance to finish one. two, three. We'd 'most forgotten 'em when Rufus came in out o breath. With Ezra steamin after him like he was scared to death. "Congratulate me!" Rufus says, "I've found that possum tree!" An" Ezra says: "Shet up! The one that seen it fust is me!" We cried "Hooray for Rufus!" which made Ezra want to fight Then we says: "Hooray for Ezra!" which riled Rufus out o' sight. And, as all thet we could think of was that useful word "hooray,"

We stood around, embarrassed, not jes knowin what to say. Then ol" Joe Struthers, he spoke up as f oilers: "'Pears to me You're makin an onusual fuss about that possum tree. When you go out explorin. the Importance of yer find Is measured by the help that it kin be to human kind. My jedgment isn't warped by either prejudice or fears. The one that brought the possum home's the one that gits my cheers." But there warn't nary possum- An we all went home ag'in. Exceptin Spinks an Lee. They staid an" kep on arguln.

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. f- ' . From the Springfield Republican. No newspaper lias yet published 4 sketch-map of Peary's dash to' New York. He Is reported as making fifteen miles Friday in spite of bad weather.

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