Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 82, 9 February 1912 — Page 8
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THE BICHMOKD PALLADIUM AXD SUX-TKL.EGRA3I, FRIDAY" FEBRUARY 9, 1912.
POLITICAL GfliETO Of.GE COS VEEK Lincoln Day Celebrations to Be a Cause for Unusual Activities.
(National News Association) ' WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 9. Politics a-plenty is promised for the coning week. In fact, the nest few days will be the busiest ones that the politicians hare experienced In a Ions time. The Lincoln Day celebrations will be a cause for nnusual activity on the part of the Republican leaders, particularly those of oratorical ability. President Taft will go to Newark to take part In the Lincoln celebration In that city Monday' and In the evening he Is scheduled to speak in New York City. The same night Attorney General Wlckersham will address a Republican banquet in Milwaukee: Senator Townsend of Michigan, will speak In Detroit; Representative Mc'Call, of Massachusetts and several other Republicans of note, will be heard In Minneapolis, and Representstlve Hinds of Maine will be the chief orator at a gathering of the clans in Portland, Me. Secretary of the Treasury, MacVeagh will add to the gaiety of the Republican situation by making a speech to the Republicans of Michigan with "What Is a Progressive?" as his topic. The speech will be delivered Tuesday night at the annual dinner of the Zach Chandler club at Lansing. A Michigan Banquet. Another Michigan banquet at which Republican oratory will be on tap will be that of the Calhoun Lincoln club at Albion. Governor Osborn will be the chief figure, with Congressman
J. M. C. Smith of Michigan. C. II. Sloan of Nebraska, and Prank W. Mondell of Wyoming as the other speakers' list Indicates that many good words will be spoken for Theodore Roosevelt before the evening is over. A Lincoln Day banquet to be given In St. Louis by the association of Young Republicans of Missouri will save as speakers Governor Deneen of Illinois and Governor Hadley of Missouri. Governor Tener of Pennsylvania, z-Oovernor Utter of Rhode Island, Charles M. Schwab and Congressman Howland of Ohio are . scheduled as speakers at a banquet to be given by the Lincoln Republican club of Bethlehem, Pa. Republicans of the Hoosier state will turn their eyes toward New Castle, where a thousand of more of the party leaders are expected to gather for the annual meeting and banquet of . the Indiana Lincoln league. i Event In Colorado.. In Colorado, also, the anniversary of
the birth of Lincoln promises to be a banner day for the Republican party. Republican leaders of all factions have been Invited to meet In Denver oa that day for a grand "harmony" eonferenos. The state committee will meet to discuss plans for the state convention, a conference will be held by the Republican . editors, and the gathering will close ' with a Lincoln banquet at which former Senator Bev-
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Aside from the Lincoln Day jubila
tions the chief event of the week on the Republican calendar will be the
state convention of Georgia Republi
cans, which Is to meet . in Atlanta Wednesday to name delegates to the national convention at Chicago. Re
seat reports from the South give evl
deace of considerable activity on the
fart of Roosevelt adherents In Georg
ia aad It Is reported that they will snake an effort to have a Roosevelt man elected chairman of the state committee. The Taft neonle. however.
do not appear worried over the situs
turn and the ceneral onlnion is that
about the best that, the Roosevelt followers can hope for is an unlnstructed delegation to Chicago. A solid Taft delegation is the prediction of the
President's friends.
On the Democratic, side, the most Interesting news of the week probably will bo furnished by Governor Wood-
row Wilson, who will make a hurried trip to Chicago to deliver one or two
addressee on Lincoln Day and to con
for wiih some of the prominent Democrats In the West Also of interest will be the Democratic presidential primary in St. Louis to select zlf delegates to the Democratic state conven
tion at Joplin. The Joplln convention will determine whether former Governor Joseph W. Folk of Speaker Champ Clark shall have the Missouri indorsement for President
HDD RANKS DRAW ADD WHAT IS FAME?
The Market Price of Your Some Presidential C Quoted. Soci.
Autograph Points the Way. ndidates' Signatures Not lists to the Fore.
A TWO YEAR SUPPLY Of Ice Congests Local Storage Plants.
Professor Rcsssll's class at Y. M. C.A 7:30 tonight. The receipts of French theaters last year amounted to about f&soo.ooo. Moving picture shows took in nearly a quarter M much.
Stubborn Cclda May Lead to Consumption Did you ever have a. cold that would 52iJ.f?; i uh Jt persisted, that prevented sleep, and made watt in hours miserable? Eekmatt's Alterative Is the proper remedy In auch cases. Perhaps some simple medicine may be effective where It la only a tickling In the throat; but when your cheat la sore and simple remedies dont an-swer-tbn take Kckman'a Alterative. Ifee-ieet often leede to more aerloua trouble; a case in point follows: " ' Cherry U Phils.. Pa. - "Gentleman: In July l0 J. I rim noticed the conditions that showed I had psasumptlet). I lost weight rapidly: had a hollow cough, hemorrhages and very severe night sweats. My brother reeoMeaded i fielunen'a Alterative. In the of HAS 1 beean to take It. At tats time I mm perfectly well and rowst. My appetite Is aeod and my weight has Increased from 11 to 140
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frue jr 'Jk, a. iwaea m tx.. and otner leadlac efruavlets. Ask for booklet-of cered e&fee and write to Kckman LaHraterrvPailadelpala rs. for addition
pounds. Not a trace of my old t Ue remains. 1 will a-ladly express asetits of this medlelae to anyone.
What Is fame? The other day at an autograph sale in elegant Boston the autograph of John I Sullivan sold for more than that of ex-President Eliot, of Harvard. That famous live-foot shelf may have done the deadly work. Although the people who haunt autograph sales are not, presumably, the sort who would exalt a pugilist over an educator and litterateur. But the fact remains that Eliot, in his own bailiwick, was thrown into the discard, In favor of an illiterate "has-been" of the ring. The truth is that the world, in the large, admires brawn more than brain. Learning, erudition. In the abstract, Is the envy of the unlettered and is paid respectful homage by the aver
age.
But It does not arouse enthusiasm. And, frequently, on account of its lodgement in an unattractive fleshly environ, it excites a certain contempt. The prodigy at school Is never the hero of the class. The latter is the muscular young giant who stars on the football team
or breaks records on the Held. He who
barely scrapes through his examinations and only gets a grade by the route of the convenient pony. It Is Roosevelt's fighting qualities
that appeal to the public.
Its his alleged record at San Juan hill that makes him assume heroic
proportions.
Its the way he hammers and hits
about him that pleases.
Whether or not its true, it is none
theless the general opjnlon that he has
It In for the "interests," the "captains
of industry," the "magnates," and the "plutocrats." Perhaps be has and then again perhaps he hasn't. Its pretty hard to tell from the things you read In the papers, the denials and sub-denials, the anti-denials and the post-denials. And if you go through the exchanges you find, on an average, that editorial comment is leaving numerous loopholes for escape whether the comment is directly inimical to him or only more or less mildly hostile. There are only two other candidates in the field in either party, aside from Roosevelt, that make what Is called a "popular appeal" Bryan and Beveridge. Who cares about old John Kern a political turncoat, a hypocrite, a sneak,
a four-flusher, a side-stepper, a backpedaler, who jumps from one political pole to another if be sees any chance of getting an office.
In common parlance what is called snoopy." What does he "stand for?" What
does he represent so far as the people are concerned.
What does he care! Just so he gets
something.
His calibre was shown in the sena
torial campaign when he loped round
the state abusing his opponent, sneer
ing, ridiculing, Jibing.
What did he say about direct "Is
sues?"
Very little. Read bis speeches, analyze them and
what did they amount to "Elect me I don't care how only elect me." Then after he had for years been making Beverldge the target of his sardonic sneers for the latter's determination, senatorial precedent or not, to represent his state in the national body and have a voice in its proceedings lambasting him for "butting in" so early in the game, for making speeches and thrusting himself upon the attention of the Senate and the country did Kern himself retire to a
back seat and wait for several years to pass before rising in his place and saying "look who's here?" Hasn't be. from the time he set his foot in the Senate been making speeches, objecting, resolutionizlng, attitudinizing on committees and generally trying to hypnotize the spot-light his way? In other words isn't it merely an evidence of another case of extremely acid grapes? "In the name of heaven," said the man at the next desk "what are you doing writing a political editorial?" "Oh, well" said the other person, "John W. Kern makes me perfectly sick. If the men are going to have a president why don't they have a man not a " "A what!" inquired the man at the next desk. "Well, a jackass, if you insist," said the other person. "That Isn't a lady-like word." reproved the man at the next desk. "A man baa a right to choose his
own vocabulary, hasn't he?"
Sure," said the man at the next
desk. "Only Kern isn't half bad. How could he be when be has such ardent supporters in this center of culture
and acumen?"
"Yes the art center of the middle
west!" jeered the other person.
"I don't like that way you have of
talking about us," said the man at the
next table. "What if we do prefer ten
cent vaudeville and twenty cent reper
toire companies? Isn't it best to be frank and honest about these things? Its a virtue, rather than a fault. Why,
we say In effect don't Judge us by
what people from town say at so much per. It isn't so. If we aren't aa cultur
ed as our artistic acrobats say we are
when they get out of town, still we got
a La Follette vibration."
" Vibration r " quoted the other per-
can't explain but know exists." "I confess I dont follow you," murmured the other person. "I didn't expect you to," said the man at the next desk. "But La Follette's out of the game that's all. "Nobody could stay In that made an after dinner speech of two hours and a half. It wasn't that he insulted the newspapers they'd have passed that up. People like to hear newspapers ripped up the back' But to post-pran-dallze for two-hours and a half " "The unforgivable sin." "Who do you want for president?" asked the other person. "Well," said the man at the next desk, "while I regard Marshall as the only Democrat in the state, my personal presidential preference would be Eugene Debs." "A Socialist!" shrieked the other person. "Why not?" asked the man at the next desk. "Its only a choice of men between the others. Things will be just the same whoever gets in. But with Socialists in the saddle thcre'd be something doing."
; "When Debs got in the White I House," said the other person "you
couldn't tell him from Roosevelt or Wood row Wilson." "Er who was that laBt?" "Woodrow Wilson Harvey's handmade candidate, you know."
"Ah, yes not crafty but artless I recall him," said the man at the next desk. "But, frankly, I'd like to see the Socialists win out," he continued. "What have the Dems and Repubs made of it so far? Look at the mess we're in now? Who cares a rum-dum for the Initiative and referendum, the
arbitration treaties or the wool schedule. Aren't we marooned on the desert isle of the high price of living? Aren't the winters getting colder and the summers hotter? Does any sane person know what the beef Inquiry's about. And who, in the name of hades, can define the present status of the Lo rimer investigation? Isn't beefsteak a tradition and eggs a myth? Don't they charge you seventy-five cents for a forty cent pair of overshoes and fifty cents for butter made out of lard?" "And still." interrupted the other person, "silk stockings were never cheaper and a man paid $85,000 for a Corot in New York the other day." "That's begging the point," said the man at the next desk. "You know and everybody knows that Socialism is making enormous gains for one thing they control the next German parliament and the Kaiser's sitting. up and taking notice. "They've elected a lot of mayors round the country and have a representative in congress. Half the people you meet are Socialists on the side. The vote has Increased from 21,000 votes in 1892 to 1.100,000 in 1911, although this is not an index since about
one-third of the Socialist vote is not counted or omitted in the final returns.
"Everybody's tired with the present
order.
"They don't want revolution and
they don't want anarchy. But they want well, they want a chance," said
the man at the next desk.
"Everybody's got a chance the
thing is making the try at the chance."
"Never was a greater fallacy utter
ed," cried the man at the next desk.
Nobody has a fair chance. The Social
ists are going to try to give it in so far
as environment is concerned.
"But, even at that, you know," con
tinued tne man at tne next desk,
"there is the boa-constrictor of heredi
ty."
"The only living thing that has an
even chance is the worm," he went on.
"They get a fair chance at everybody
in the end."
"What's this got to do with the price of autographs?" asked the other per
son.
"Oh, nothin' except that Roose
velt's commands a good price and Kern's has never been quoted. Not in the market," grinned the man at the
next desk.
With all their ice houses crammed to the roofs with first quality ice, from eight to twelve inches in thickness the Ice cutting crews of the local ice companies, suspended operations yesterday because of lack of room for storing the summer supply. Over 5,000 tons of ice were put up, the largest crop since 1902, and a far better quality of ice than was harvested at that time. The ice now in the ice houses, with the artificial supply which is made in the local plants, even with the hottest weather, will be enough to supply this city for over two years.
CONCEIT OF BARBADOS.
A Mighty Colony Is "the Little England of the Tropica." None of the great nations of the earth Is half so proud of Itself as the little colony of Barbados, a mere speck in the Caribbean, which calls itself "the little England of the tropics. Alone of all England's West Indian Isles, Barbados has belonged to England ever since it was first colonized by white men. It has never been conquered by the enemy, as the others hare been. This fact naturally gives the Barbadians a good conceit of themselves and indeed makes them Just about the proudest people on earth. When, Just before the Crimean war. England was hesitating whether she should attack Russia, the Barbadians sent this message to the cabinet: "Go ahead. Don't be afraid. Barbados is behind you. King George was offered an asylum by "little England" when Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to invade England. "If you were driven from England," the Barbadians wrote, "come here. Yon will be safe with us to protect you." When England was suffering her worst reverses in South Africa the Barbadians were not worried. They knew that if matters really reached a crisis "Barbados would go in and finish the business," as one of their newspapers seriously put It.
English Earthquakes. English earthquakes are not uncom
mon, but we can rejoice that they hare decreased in severity, for the damage
done nowadays is as nothing compared with the ravages wrought by early
English earthquakes. In 1080. for In
stance, part of St. Paul's cathedral was wrecked by an earthquake shock, and
at an earlier date Glastonbury abbey had been completely destroyed. Staf
fordshire, where the latest shock was
felt, would appear to be the earthquake area of England, for shocks were also felt there In 1903. Even as recently as 1884. however, aft English earthquake was severe enough to require a mansion house fund to repair its ravages in the eastern counties. London Chronicle.
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The Limit In Close Bargains. "Over in my county," said the talker in the hotel lobby, "we have a thrifty merchant, a bachelor, now getting along in years, who is noted "for driving close bargains. He is straight as a string in money matters, but a very close harvester of the coin. He pays all bis bills Inside the thirty day limit in order to get the cah discount. The other day, meeting bis favorite nephew, he said, 'Andy, you've been a good young man, and I intend to remember you in my will.' ' 'That's nice of you, uncle,' said Andy, "but I'm having some hard luck now. and if you could advance me something It certainly would be helpful.' "Here was the opportunity of the uncle, always on the lookout for a bargain, so he said. 'Suppose I give it all to you now, how much of a discount will yon make me?"' Indianapolis News. Could Not Do Without Him. Henry Austin was slow. His work was always behind that of the neighboring farmers, although he always
got it done eventually. He had been courting Jennie Blake for five years, and at last they were to be married at her home in the Stumpfield district, two miles from his farm. On the evening on which the event was to take place his neighbors, the Fosters, drove by bis house on their way to the wedding. Henry was just going to the barn with his milking pail. Mr. Foster shouted: "Where are yon, Henry? I should think you would have .been there long ago." Henry, equal to the occasion, reresponded In his slow drawl, "Waal. 1 guess they won't do much business 'fore I get there." Youth's Companion.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
have a fund of $1,250,000 and can call ! on the Federation of Trades Unions
for $125,000 a week for three weeks.
The Massachusetts state board of education la sending circulars to local
labor onions throughout the State, nrgI ing the members of the various unions (to qualify for positions in the State aided vocational schools of Massachui setts. "Unhallowed" iron that is Iron
Stationary boiler inspection . work manufactured by nonunion labor a workmen's compensation having been found to have been used
London (England) waiters have formed a trade union. Fourteen large British shoe factories are now using the union stamp. The New Brunswick legislature has
enacted law and
lawr t in the building of the Labor Temple at The Ohio supreme court has upheld Sydney. N. S. W.. the Trades Hall the constitutionality of the Greene Committee decided to remove all such nine-hour work-day law for women. "black stuff" from the building. The Every member of the Baltimore Fed- objectionable material will, therefore, eratlon of Labor will soon be compell- be torn out. ed to wear clothing, hats and shoes . , made by union labor or be expelled 1 ''
from the organization. , Stokers, stationary enginemen and haulage enginemen engaged at the : North Staffordshire (England) coal i fields have made an application to the ; colliery owners for an eight-hour day. j The Atlanta (Georgia) Federated ; Trades has moved into its new labor!
temple, in which accommodations will be furnished to all the unions in the city. The new home is already paid for. In the year 1855, out of every one thousand persons employed in the BritlBh mines, a percentage of 4.3 lost their lives through accidents. In 1910 this percentage was reduced to 1.4 per cent. Miners' Federation of Great Britain is one of the best organized unions in the United Kingdom. It has a large emergency fund on hand and is prepared for a long struggle with the operators. United States census figures just issued show that during the decade preceding the year 1910 the percentage of women breadwinners in this country increased 4.1, while the male breadwinners increased only 1.3. An eight-hour day for children employed in industries, is now in force in eleven states Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Kansas Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The funeral, old age and disability benefits of the Amalgamated Association of street and electric railway employes of America will be increased under the new constitution, which went into effect January 1, 1912. The significance of the present British cotton struggle may be appreciated when it is understood that the unions
LOSS OF LIFE AND .
ruurjucrr is lauiu (National Kews Association) - .
USBOK. Fen. 9. Heavy , won or. life and tremendous damage to prop-, erty la being done by a flood in the Tagus river as the result" of terrific rain storms in southern . Portugal. Scores of dead bodies are being; fished from the swollen rivers. Hundreda
are homeless and the - hospitals are filled. The damage is estimated at a million dollars.
Gas for power uses is now supplied by the Northampton Gaa company for 36 cents a thousand cubic foot..'
Valentine Day
Fed. 14th
Don't forget your friends. For members of the family and friends, pretty Valentines as remembrances of this year and future ones. For the Joker we have supplied an unusually large assortment. GE0.BREDT.2 Toy Shop 517 MAIN 8TREET ,
Ladies ---Please NotHee Our Dates For The Thcrmatlg Flreless Cooker Demonstration Beginning Monday afternoon, February 12th, and continuing until Friday p. m., Mr. R. P. Snyder, expert demonstrator, will daily tell of the superior qualities of the Thermatic Cooker and explain the wholesomeness of the food therein prepared. We cordially invite the general public to visit our store and see for yourselves the many practical features of the Thermatic Fireless Cooker. .
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Firemen in Japanese cities get from $6.47 to $7.47 a month. Coolies, when called for fire duty, get 85 cents
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