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From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
GOVERNOR METCALFE
Hitherto the governors of the canal
zone have taken an active interest in
the affairs of the republic of Panama
and the influence they exerted was
in a large measure detrimental to the
people and to the administration.
Their endeavors were usually bent
towards imposing unpopular condi
tions; they never took, the part of
the common people; they would not
champion the weak against the
strong; they were ever with the op
pressor against the oppressed; the
medicine they wished to administer
was ever both bitter and poisonous.
But we have a different kind of a
governor of the canal zone now. His
hand has been felt in the cause of
humanity and justice on the canal
zone and the people are confident,
the oppressed are hopeful. Colon
(Canal Zone) Free Press.
THE MINORITY VETO IN THE
SENATE MUST END
(Continued from page 7.)
neither party, if in a majority, can
control the senate so long as the
minority veto remains as a part of
the rules of the senate. If this rule
is not changed, then both parties in
future campaigns should put the fol
lowing proviso as an addenda to their
national party platforms.
"Provided, however, That in mak
ing the above pledges to the Ameri
can people it is distinctly to be under
stood by the people that we make
these pledges on the understand
ing that the opposite party does not
forbid us to carry out our promises
by obstructing the fulfillment of our
promise to you by filibustering in the
senate, in which event we will agree
to sustain the right of the opposite
party to veto the redemption of our
pledges to you, by leaving the rules
of the senate in such a condition that
the opposing party may veto our ef
fort to redeem the promises made to
you."
If the party trusted by the people
is so imbecile as to leave the senate
Itself subject to the veto of the de
feated party it will deserve future
defeat for such perfidious conduct.
The people of the United States
have the right to rely upon the party
placed by them in power to fulfill the
party pledges made to the people,
and if the leaders of both parties con
nive with each other in the senate to
sustain the minority veto under the
pretense of "freedom of debate" they
will have betrayed the promises made
to the peoplq, both expressed and im
plied. If this rule be not changed so
as to establish majority rule in the
senate, and so as to enable either
party to carry out its promises to the
American people, then neither party
responsible for such conduct deserves
the confidence of the people of the
United States, and the people may
well say in regard to party promises
made by such men, as said by Mac
beth in the witches scene
And be these juggling fiends no more
believ'd
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the world of promise to
our ear
And break it to our hope.
BEER AND GRAPE JUICE
Even if Congressman Bartholdt
could persuade Secretary Bryan that
beer contains less alcohol than grape
juice, the diplomatic service in Wash
ington would be no happier. It is
not a formal beverage, and even in
the Jeffersonian simplicity in which
our government has its being, and
with so persistent a plain person as
Mr. Bryan doing the entertaining,
such a lapse from grace and beauty
would not be considered.
Diplomatic capacity is not a trivial
thing, but rather Gargantuan, and it
would be more seemly to deny alto
gether than to stint. Therefore, were
beer the official drink of the adminis
tration and not grape juice, it would
be necessary to carry a case, of a
couple dozen bottles to each guest's
plate, and he soon would be sur
rounded by a litter of empties.
Mr. Bryan, we are certain, would
never rest easy if his state dinners
were to take on the aspect of a busy
saloon after a New Year's eve rev-airy
and if a couple of brewery wagons
had to be ordered in the morning to
carry away the debris of the feast.
No, Mr. Bartholdt would bo in a
hopeless case even if ho could go un
challenged, and Mr. Bryan is in posi
tion to bring I1I111 up as to his state
ment of fact. Ho has but to call upon
tho thousands of housewives who
"put up" their own grape juice every
year. If any alcohol gets in it, it is
by the simple operation of boiling
grapes, water, and sugar. There may
be some, but if it be the 0 or 7 per
cent of Mr. Bartholdt's legend (as
compared to tho 3 or 4 per cent of
beer), it has an astonishing lack of
effect on tho drinker, who may take,
his mugs of juice and go sober about
his affairs. Chicago Tribune.
OCR POLICE and pexal
. SYSTEMS
(From an address before tin Oma
ha (Neb.) Philosophical society, by
Laurie J. Quimby, Omaha.)
IL.tfl society learns to ileal fairly
with the criminal the number of
criminals will increase. Society has
tried punishment for untold centu
ries, and yet today the most intellec
tual and painstaking of the students
of criminology are not in the least
agreed that punishment has in any
sense proved efficacious in the cure
of crime. For no matter how severe
the punishment, it cannot expel from
mind of the offender the desire to do
that which he believes he must, and
so long as any desire remains in the
mind of.man, that desire will eventu
ally be satisfied. You may punish
a man so severely that he may not
commit a certain deed, but you can
not punish him so severely that he
may not wish to do it, and though
you may take his life you do not de
prive him of that desire, and there
fore you have only unchained the
criminal, with tUe, added determina
tion on his part to commit the deed.
England for centuries tried the se
verest punishments against crime.
During the reign of Henry VIII,
about thirty-nine years, some seventy-two
thousand people were put to
death through the power of the state,
and for all this time there is not an
item to prove that crime decreased.
Two centuries ago England had
more than two hundred crimes, which
her criminal code made punishable
with death, but not until the state
became less criminal, did crime de
crease. It is not uncommon for some
folk, whose own conduct is not al
ways above suspicion, to say that one
who breaks the ciiminal law puts
himself out of all consideration by
his fellow mortals; but wlun society
hounds him who has once offended,
and hounds him for that reason only,
it is itself a worse offender, for it
puts a club into its enemy's hand.
Verily, in the majority of cases, it is
the criminal who is more sinned
against than sinning. , . .
From observation and learning the
opinions of others, I believe hat the
majority, if not indeed all, so-called
criminally-disposed are more the vic
tims of circumstances, environment
and growth, over which they had no
control. I am constancy more and
more convinced that all of us really
try to do the best we can. That we
do not rise to tho degree we should
is more through our ignorance or
from our underdevelopment. From
this premise, it would follow that so
ciety should treat the criminal more
as a sick man more as one in need
of assistance than as one upon
whom it should pounce with distend
ed talons, to rend and tear.
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BALLOT REFORM
"Uncle Gabriel, are you in favor of
votes for women?"
"Does you-all mean, suh, dat me
an' Liza could bof vote?"
"Yes."
"Ah suah does favah it, den. Dat
would be four dollars.')' St. Louis
Post-DJspafch.
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