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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1908)
.in mmwuMomniii!tnBmmmmmmmrmmmK!0Bmmm PMMM THE TRAVEL OF TAFT Sepretary of War Seldom His Office. In SWINGING ROUND THE CIRCLE Cobwobi Accumulate on Official Door While Private Duslnea Recoives First Aid The Prospective Presi dential Candidates Tariff on Wood "Pulp'and the Prlco of Print Paper. ny WILMS J. AniOT. Secretary Tnft, who linn been scon very$$ttlc, about tins war ilcpnrtinent, Is once ngnln mnklng a long Jour nbyi' GWialUiy tho trip Is Blmply a visit to Pniiniiiti. Why the secrotnry Is needed there Is not known. We have fife commissioners paid ?12,000 u year eneh to nttend to the work there being done. Of course, If It Is absolutely nec essary to add to this galaxy of talent tho secretary of war of tug United States, nobody must question the fact. Yet It would Rcein that If the commis sioners, who have been described as the most brilliant, able, hardworking olltclals In public service, are not able to handle the work on tho Isthmus without monthly visits from Taft there must bo something wrong with their methods or their energy. Mr. Taft went to the Isthmus on tho cruiser Prairie. "When ho comes back ho will be landed either nt Pensacola or at Charleston. It Is apparent the place of landing de pends upon tho" political needs of tho moment. From his landing placo ho will make another stumping tour through the south. In tho meantlmo the cobwebs gr,ow,Qver tho ofllce of tho secretary 6t -War, Mr. Taft'a Travels. In tho last year Secretary Taft has seldom bcenla-hls olllco thrco days In succession. Thero Is hardly any spot on tho civilized or even the uncivilized world that he has not visited. Other candidates fpr the presidency, like Speaker Cannon, Senator Knox and Senator La Folletty. nnd Vice President Fairbanks, have refused to accept any invitations to speak outside of Wash ington whllo congress Is In session. But Sccortary Taft, holding an olllco which should demand all his time, Is never seen In tlint ofllce and llnds ex cuses to travel all over the world. A humorous representative In con gress on reading the statement that Tnft would neither attend to his duties nor resign suggested n cartoon showing Mr. Tnft looking contemplatively upon the cobwebbed door of the secretary ' of war's ofllce and under It these Hues from Goldsmith: ... a t Where'er I roam, waatovor realms to sec. My heart juntravcted fondly turns to thee. In six months Mr. Taft has hardly been In his olllco one week at n tlmo. Hero Is n summnry gathered by a Washington newspnper which Is worth printing; 1007. March 10 Now York March 18..., New Haven March 30 to April 20 West Indies Mny 3 , i. Dayton, O. May 7 Jnmestowiiv exposition May 25 to Juno l....v St. Louis Juno 8 to la.SauUifDakota nnd Kansas July 4 to 'AMba,10a. .Murray Hay, Canada Auk. IS to Dec, 21, Around tho world Dec. SI... , Cincinnati, O. Dec. 30 ul Boston 1D03. Jan. 10 New York Jan. II Philadelphia Feb, 7 to 19 Michigan and Missouri Feb. 21 , , Buffalo Feb. 20 ...v...' New England JIarch 14. ..New England and Now Jersey March 31 Nebraska and Ohio April 18 .'. .New York That Is tho record. It Is olllclal, nnd It Is fair that It sjiould bo set forth in order that tho American people, who pay tho salary of Mr. Taft aud the expenses of his department, who are dally Impressed with the Idea that the ability of tho secretary of war Is so great that tho department could not proceed without his direction, should l.c given Just a notion of how much time William II. Taft, secretary of war, has been-giving to the depart ment of which he Is the nominal head und how much to the globe trotting nnd the political stump speaking of which he seems to he so fond. The Political Antagonists. It might aB well tys understood that the candidates for Jho presidency be fore the American people this year are going to 1)0 on tho Republican side Mr. William II. Taft, secretary of war, and on the Democratic side Mr. Wil liam J. Bryan, a man who has uo pub lic ofllce whatsoever. Of course thero is much outcry about antagonism to Taft. There are men opposed to him: there are contesting delegations go ing to Chicago to destroy; thero arc at tacks made upon him lu tho United States, senate mid house of represent atives. But. after all.' politicians lu Washington recognize the fact that he will lo nominated. Iu his own party other men are mentioned. Speaker Cannon has his -81010, with fifty-four votes; Senator La Folletto has his .state; Vice President Fairbanks has his state. But uot ono of them all has one single vote outside of his own political bulllwick that Is to say, out side of his own state. Secretary Taft has picked up all the delegates In the J' south and in the .-middle west nnd stands today as the leading candidate. So It seems fair to say that Taft Is certain to be the Republican nominee. Now, on the other side, in the Demo cratic party Mr. William .T. Brynn has r-.itruetod for him 208 delegates. More over, thoro nro olght delegates from Rhode lslruid who, though not In structed, are for him aro Brynn men. Tho only other Instructed delegates como from Delaware. They number six and aro Instructed tot Judge Gray. So far Bryan, with 203, nnd Gray, with six, nre tho only candldnted that have been mentioned In Democratic conven tions. In tho Pennsylvania contest fifty-one out of sixty-four dolegntes were carried for Bryan. As not nil newspnper rend ers understand methods, It mny bo stated here that n delegation to a na tional convention Is elected bycongres slonnl district conventions. Of these there nro thirty In Pennsylvania. The thirty district eonventl in pJret sixty delegates to Deiur. They have elect ed llfty-ono delegates for Brynn. Tho stato convention Is yet to be held, and It has the power of electing four dele gates nt large, but It Is yet to bo de termined whether they wll) not be out nnd out Bryan delegates. If tho voters of tho stato of Pennsylvnnln have been able to elect so enormous n mnjorlty of the district committeemen to Denver, It will bo curious If tho stnto convention shall not bo responsive to tho will of tho voters. The Two Conventions. Tho time of tho two conventions, Re publican nnd Democratic, Is drawing nenr. Both will be Interesting; both will bo worth while seeing. There enn bo no better education for n young man In American politics than to nt toml either one. There Is always n feeling that the stranger cannot get a ticket to tho convention. I have had sonlo oxporlenco regarding this matter, and It Is unquestionably true that the stranger without n "pull" has hard chances of getting a ticket to the first day's Besslon. After thnt tickets aro easily obtained, nnd there nro no meet ings of nny sort thnt give so clear an Illustration of tho American systom of government as these national conven tions, whether It bo the Republican or tho Democratic convention. The mnn who Is fortunnto enough to go to one of theso conventions need not think of the house of representatives or tho sen ate, lie finds In tho convention tho en thusiasm, the devotion nnd tho purpose which control, nt tho last, American government. Ho does not find n mnn with a gavel controlling the delegates, but he sees In both the Democratic and tho Republican conventions true democ racy, fair debate and thorough discus sion of every point raised. Illinois In the Bryan Column. Tho Intcst stato to declare Itself for Bryan In convention was Illinois. It has Instructed for the Nebrnskan and directed Its delegates to us nil honor able means to secure his nomination. While it is entirely true that there have been some fnctlonnl antagonisms In tho stnte, the nctlon of this conven tion has quieted them all. The Illinois delegation Is nnd will be n Brynn dele-' Ration at Denver. It will cast fifty four votes In tho nntlonal convention nnd will bo n very consldcrnbld factor m uuicrmimug me action or mat con- t ventlon. Tho Democratic state conventions nro coming slowly, but North Dako ta, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Il linois nnd Indiana have already In structed for Mr. Brynn. And If you look nt the east the stato of Massachusetts has been carried al solutely by the Bryan element. Mas sachusetts will send nn Instructed dele gation, Democrats throughout the United Stntes might ns well figure now that tho convention Is going to be con trolled by the friends of Mr. Brynn nnd that the nomination will be made within the first three ballots. Publishers and Politics. Tho committee of newspaper pub lishers recently in Washington found themselves treated with scant courtesy by the commltteo appointed to consider their demand for the repeal of tho duty on wood pulp and on print paper. I luivo talked at some length with n member of this committee. What puz zles him Is that when tho publishers nnd owners of newspapers, of whom ho Is one, reached Washington they found thnt six congressmen, no one of whom, was a newspaper owner, had moro knowledge of the paper business than nnybody, except the purchasers of print paper for a newspaper, could pos sibly have. This might be Indicative of extraordinary Intelligence on the part of tho congressmen on the com mittee, headed by Mr. Mann of Illi nois. But there fccems to bo a general feeling that It Is more Indicative of tho fact that thero was some quiet Influ ence at work to put tho committee In a position of antagonism to the mem bers of the Newspaper Publishers as sociation who addressed It. Of course the commltteo, being Re publican, did uot wish the question of tho tariff roopeued through the demand of the newspaper publishers for free paper anil free pulp. That is a matter of notoriety. But hero Is another suggestion which tills llfOll lliniln 111 WnHlllnfnn nti.1 which is not without Its plausibility. The papers that are suffering from this wood pulp tariff are the one cent papers of large circulation, usually Democratic. The suggestion Is made that such papers as John R. McLean's Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 cents a copy, and his Washington Post nt 3 cents n copy, tho New York Herald at 3 cents n copy, the New York Sun nt 2 cents, nnd Its nnuex, the Chicago Inter Ocean, whose editor Is very close to Congress. man Mann, mny possibly be furnUhlngl to the committee considering the paper trust situation their information. This, at nny rate. Is tho story that 'comes to me, and it may be worth consideration by the people. Either there mnst be a reduction In tho price of print paper or the readers of newspapers w"Hl have to pay 2 cents where they now pay 1. Washington, D. C. , Football Not Good Training For Suc cess In Life. Dy CHARLES W. ELIOT, President of Harvard University. !! he American modifications of Rugby football have r t n"tttr Itnnn ninTrnrl lsTin nnnnmt 4-r tnnlA nneoinln n iiirirr- ft" ment as to tho success of eminent football players in after life, and tho verdict is what might have been expected. t IT CLEARLY APPEARS THAT NEITHER THE I' "S!1 S3MtM& j BODILY NOR THE MENTAL QUALITIES WHICH CHARACTERIZE FOOT BALL PLAYERS ARE PARTICULARLY SERVICEABLE TO YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE THEIR WAY TO MAKE IN THE INTELLECTUAL CALL INGS. FOOTBALL TOUGHNESS IS NOT THE KIND OF TOUGH NESS WHICH IS MOST PROFITABLE IN AFTER LIFE. Tho weight and insensitivoness needed in tho football lino aro not tho bodily qualities which best servo the man who must mako his living by' quick, accurate and invontivo thinking. K . To get accustomed to mako one's greatest exertions in tho prcs onco of shouting thousands and of the newspaper extra is BAD PREPARATION for tho struggles of professional men, who must generally do their best work quite alono or in tho presenco of a few critical observers. Even for modern warfare the violent competitive sports afford NO APPROPRIATE PREPARATION, inasmuch as in real war faro tho combatants seldom see each other. The Art of the Theater As a Beneficent Influence, By OTIS SKINNER. Actor. c IIE drama stands recognized tho human mind has in all ages striven to utter itself. There is a dramatic element in our common nature which literature and art and moro especially tho representations of tho stage meet, minister to and satisfy. A normal demand is supplied. First of all, thero can be only ono reply to any inquiry as to the moral worth of tho drama and .its relation to tho life of tho commu nity. If tho manner of tho theater is to bo regarded as an art at all it must bo of beneficent influence, for ALL ART IS UPLIFTING. Without art wo should go down tho byways of existenco nnd know little except tho, sordid. Think of LIFE WITH OUT A SONG, a picture, a poem, a beautiful building or a statuo 1 c. ALL ART IS THE EXPRESSION OF AN EMO TION, AND THAT ,OF THE , H EATER IS THE MOST EMOTIONAL OF ARTS, a- . A charge brought against tlio theater is that it represents vice. 6f courso it does. It represontsvirtuo.' Why not vico ? All peoplo aro not paragons of virtue. Butfbr morals, as such, it is rank absurd ity that wo should uso them in theatric or any other art. Naturo, pitiless, beautiful, barbarous, soothing, murderous, exalting naturo, is indifferent to them. Why should art, tho handmaiden of nature, who takes only hints and primal truths from her mistress, observe them ? YET OUR ART MUST BE MORAL FOR ALL THI8. AN IM MORAL ART WOULD BE A HORROR. It wero vain in tho present day, after Shakespeare hastransformed tho stago into A HIGH SCHOOL OF HUMANITY and Schiller and Goctho havo crystallized it into a handmaiden of ethics nnd Chris tianity, to onter on nny defense of its recognized authority as a moral agent. Tho stago in its highest conception is a POWERFUL CO ADJUTOR OF THE CHURCH in making men better, wiser and happior, and even in its loss lofty attitudes it lights up with genial mirth the hard lot of tho toiling masses. China's Relation With Us Will Be Always Friendly. By WU TING FANG. c .ULNA'S relations with America will always remain friendly. It is natural that they should bo so when you consider on your sido that your policy is JUSTICE AND FAIR PLAY nnd on our side HONESTY AND STRAIGHT FORWARDNESS. You may be surb acts of kindness and fairness, such as return or waiver of over ten millions of dollars to China, will certainly creato a most favorablo impression in China and strengthen the bond of friend ship between tho two countries, and the existenco of an important and influential association liko this I'considor a SAFETY VALVE of tho two nations. No moro misunderstanding, I feel suro, can occur in tho future, and tho relationship botween tho two countries will yet become CLOSER DAY BY DAY. Our Patriotic Dutjr To Control Monopolies, By United States Senator ROBERT I OWEN of Oklahoma. HE time has come in tho DOCTRINE OF EQUALITY should bo recognized in our statecraft. It 6cems to mo it would bo unwise to destroy the great corporations which havo been constructed in this country by our so called captains of industry. ' WE HAVE A PERFECT RIGHT, HOWEVER, TO CONTROL THESE MONOPOLIES LEGALLY AND MORALLY, AND IT 18 A PATRIOTIC DUTY TO DO SO. AND THEY SHOULP NOT BE PERMITTED TO TAX THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN EXCE6S OF A FAIR INTEREST ON THE CAPITAL ACTUALLY INVESTED. If they were so controlled it would give a stability to wages. We would hear no more of overproduction nor of underconsumption, but hefce ei.tornriscs would PROCEED UPON RATIONAL LINES ... ... nnd work for the welfaro of all of tho peoplo of our common cquntry. as ono of the methods in which Chinese Minister. United States when THE GREAT RANDOM NOTES- nV UNCLE OEOROE. T Alliance had a wet snow Monday, but indications today point toward a long "dry" spell. I It's a short alley in Alliance that has but one ash-pile. U That was a hundred-thousand-dollar snow Monday. Corn is king. At tho present high price, some people find it too costly to cat. We asked our boarding boss for a second helping of corn-bread at breakfast the other day and she almost throw a fit. -I- Some people seem to be worried about what will become of the poor saloon men who have been put out of business here. For the relief of these sympathetic souls we will state that the saloon keepers will not gojo the poor-house right away. Mr. King has secured a footing in Grand Is land, Mr. Cook has found an opening in Crawford, and it is reported that Mr. Soder will "stay where he is at" and feed the thirsty on Excelsior water and other suds. Mr. Corneal has bought a saloon in Coun cil iilufis, Iowa, and Bud Betzold will sell mineral waters and cigars, -?- U "Nobody knows how dry I ami" is be ing hummed by a good many residents of Alliance just now. A bar-tender at one of the saloons in formed our reporter that he had sold nine thousand dollars worth of booze since the election. So the town will not be teeto tally dry for a while. -g- U Some men never believe in hell until they get married. -2- The Burlington Railroad company re cently struck a vein of water at Edgemont, at a depth of several thousand feet, that is hotter than blue blazes. Hades mnst be located near Edgemont. -- Scotts Bluff county is all torn up over a proposition to build or rebuild a bridge across the North Platte river between Ger ing and Scottsbluff. A vote was recently taken upon a proposition to build a new bridge directly across from the depot at Scottsbluff, but if failed of the necessary two-thirds majority by half a dozen votes. Our esteemed contemporary, the Scotts bluff Republican, which is credited with defeating the new location project, now de mands the erection of a bridge on the site ol the old one, but the advocates of the proposed new site declare they will have a bridge where they want it or none at all. So it looks like the people of Scottsbluff will have to swim the river when they go to Gering to pay their taxes or annex the f county-seat1. 'The latter course, will most likely be the ultimate result of the present agitation. Gering has become a dilapidat ed ceraotery of dead hopes, and the county seat should be removed to a live town. -2- The Scottsbluff baseball team was ad vertised to play at Alliance Saturday, but failed to show up. Guess the freight didn't run on the "jerk-water" that day. -2 U The Morrill Mail and the Mitchell In dex issued special editions of twenty pages last week. They were twins of the stereo typed order, but showed enterprise on the part of the publishers of those papers. -2- W. A. Stewart, of Lexington, Dawson county, has announced himself as a candi date for state senator for the 30th district. The Gering Courier intimates that it will support him, although Scotts Bluff county has a candidate in the person of Louis L. Raymond. Hut Raymond lives iu Scotts bluff and is being boosted by Westervelt of the Scottsbluff Republican and that set tles his hash with Wood. The latter would deny his Maker if Westervelt should claim Him as his, It's not our funeral, but we feel like saying, "Seek him, Tige, go to him, Majel" ' ? TI Ex-Gov. S, A. Holcomb has returned to Broken Bow from Seattle and will re sume the practice of law. ''His, health was not improved by his temporary residence in the Washington metropolis. -i frA Bridgeport man named Smith was buncoed out of S40 by a "con" man in Om aha the other day. The Bridgeport jays ought to stick close to their own firesides. -2- The Alliance water-wagon is carrying a very heavy load just now. but it will be lightened ns the days go by. The express trains will not be taken off. -2- We have long entertained the opinion that appendicitis was more of a fad than a fact, but have kept this opinion in the in nermost recesses of our think tank because the so-called disease was such a fashionable fad that we dared not denounce it. But now that reputable physicians are attack ing the quackery connected with it, we are encouraged to make our opinion public. Just the other day a distinguished doctor of South Dakota, at a society meeting, pro nounced appendicitis the biggest humbug of the age. He said if a person had an ul cerated tooth or an ingrowing toe-nail, the avtrage physician was tempted to diagnose it as appendicitis if the patient had coin enough to pay for an operation. He also said th'at a traveler fainted in a depot, and a doctor pronounced his trouble appendi citisafter examining his purse, which was well filled. The unconscious man was hurried to a hospital and the surgeons pro ceeded to undress him, when,-to their sur prise and chagrin, they discovered a card pinned to his shirt on which was written "Please don't open mo, for 1 havo been opened three times already. This is fits." Another man, this doctor said, was found dead upon the street, and pinned to his coat was a card reading, "Opened by mis takesend for the coroner." Continuing, this South Dakota physician said that most young doctors were actually looney on the subject of appendicitis. They would, he said, if they could, havo a compulsory ap pendix extraction law, somewhat similar to to the compulsory vaccination law; and compel everybody to have their appendix removed. And the victims would be given an appendix button to wear, or some such evidence that they had surrendered their vermiform appendix. And all who could not produce this evidence or refused to part with their appendix would be run down, as the dog-catcher runs down un tagged caniues, and forciby separated from their useless and dangerous organ. , Death oflrsTTw. Irish The messenger of death has again visited us and the happy home of Mr, and Mrs. Frank W. Irish, so full of joy and contentment, is buried in grief as solemn and desolate as the moaning of the night wind through the leafless branches of the autumnal forest. In that peaceful home, as twilight descend ed last Saturday evening, the eyes of Mrs. Irish were closed in eternal sleep. The circumstances surrounding her taking away were such as to touch the hearts of all who knew her. A baby was born to the loving couple a short time ago and happiness reigned su preme in anticipation of their blessing. But death with cold fingers stood in-' visibly by to turn the father and moth er's happiness into sorrow. Physi cal complications arose iu the condi tion of the mother that baffled medical skill, and tho soul of the noble woman went back to its Creator in response for the faithful duties fulfilled by her in mortality. Surely, thrice blessed are they who are called forth from this life under the conditions that confronted Mrs. Irish. The infant survives its mother as an angel remembrance to the bereaved husband in the days of sorrow he is called upon to undergo. Mrs. Irish's maiden name was Ida B. Wills. She was born in Nemaha City, this state, October 1, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Irish were united in marriage at Kearney, Neb., Sept. 12, 1889. Be sides her husband, there are left to mourn this amiable lady her mother, Mrs. W. A.- Wills) three sisters, Mrs. Eva Messex of 'Denver, Mrs. Cora Lewis of this cityj Mrs. Charles E. Hamilton of Los Angeles, and brother, C. E. Wills of this city. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at 2:30, at the family resi dence, Rev. G. C. Jeffers of the Bap tist church officiating. The attendance was large for Mrs. Irish had many true friends who desired to show their affection for their departed friend even to the tomb. The Eastern Star mem bers were among those present at the last rites of their beloved sister, and there were several persons from abroad at the funeral, among them being a sister A. D. Edgenbroadt of Lincoln. David Miller of Deadwood, Thos. E, Miller of Pueblo, and Rev. G. W. Mit chell of Chadron. Interment took place in Greenwood cemetery under auspicies of the O. E, S., and the ceremonies were most solemn and impressive. The husband, mother, sisters and brothers of the late Mrs. F. W. I rish, desire to express their appreciation of the many acts of kindness rendered them during the illness and death of their beloved one. They wish to thank the kind neighbors, friends and local societies who took such interest in their welfare during their hours of affliction and death, Resolutions of Respect ' vfteaolutionsof condolence and respect drawn up by Latky Lodge No. 162, De gree of Honor, Alliance, Neb, Whereas, It has pleased our heavenly Father in bis infinite wisdom and love, to call our beloved sister, Mrs, Ida Irish, from her services on earth to a higher one in heaven, Resoived, That we humbly bow to the divine will, knowing God doeth all things well, Resolved, that we desire to bear testi mony to her faithfulness as a loving, cheer ful worker, her beautiful christian char acter and loving disposition, submitting always to His will; therefore, be it Resolved, that the Degree of Honor wishes to extend to the bereaved mother and husband and their families our heart felt sympathy and pray that the presence of the Comforter abide with them always. Resolved, that a copy bn sent to the be reaved husband and to the local papers and be spread on the records of Latky lodge No. 162, D. of H. M. Ella Beck, Nklue Richards, . t Elisk.L, Grieb. Alliance, Neb., Mays, 1908, ."--nn
