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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1913)
THE NORTH PLATTE 8EMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE PLOTTERS OF MEXICO REAR ADMIRAL PEARY , AND HIS "SNOW BABY" WAJlIIJN WM 'U I "Get Out "of" i the Rut" Supply of Incriminating Evi dence Is First Move. i i ii milium ' No Conspirator Is Recognized ao Such Unices This Qualification Is O. K. Mexican Situation From Hu morous View Point. (Tlie life of a correspondent In Mexico City It not wlmt It Is crnchecl up to be. Wnr concHpomJent nuil Moxlrun corre-i rpondont am piynonymous, ur-npiie mo Xuct that a Mexican correspondent neor known nt Just what moment ho In lln lila to bo "tltlriy-threed," which incanii belnii flrrt out of the country, nfter an unpleasant mid danceroun oxprrlonro In Mexican JalH, n Mexico City torrenpond ent Iuib been able to nco tho humor of tlio eltuntlon ns It exist", today In thu turbulent ljitln-Amerlcan republic, -Hd-Itor'fi Note.) Mexico City. Tho first thing ri Mexican does when ho becomes a con Bjilrator, or JoIiih a rebel Junta, or ap prentices himself to learn tho trado of banditry, or gotH Into tho Plotters' union, Is to supply himself with In criminating documents. No consplra lor ugalnst tho provisional govern ment of Citizen Gen. Don Vlctorlano lluerta, presldcnto intcrnlo constltu tlonal of tho United States of Mexico, Is recognized na a plottor In good standing unless ho carries "them pa pers" on his person. When a man Is Initiated into a cir do of Carranclsta or Znpatlutn or VazqulBtu or BQino othor "Istn" con spirutors, ho takes a terrlblo oath never to reveal tho secrets of tho or der, oven though ho bo put to slow torturo. Then signs and passwords nro given him and a largo bunch of Incriminating documents Is conllded to his care. Tho "documents" may dfffor In detail, but they always con tain tho names and addresses of all tho conspirators and a full expose of their nefarious plans and projects, "with diagrams. All tho conspirators carry thoso documents In ihelr breast pockets when they vcar coats, and In tho pis tol pockoto of their trousers when they don't Sometimes but this Is very rare tboy leavo tho Incriminat ing documents in their office desks or lying on their bureaus at home. Some of tho mombcrs of tho cham ber of deputies who wore arrested by order of President lluerta October 10 for conspiracy against his govern- i-.km ma Mnjniiin-Jiim v nun nuir7 viki v 'I liJ. JJBTLL-Si mm'&?(rifl wJBr3U!K2.wJifyX2.' il III II 2 Sss j 11 i mzAJIWTiM HI pSKw mESmmPJm AfS3SMn!9HncaHKv'll'g' .kmk-.. "Vmw. Kkmk xfoiW 'fill TlllTliM'HiiT h) 1 immMmTmM T Y i 1 iHnwB JtWfif-lMiMHaBfM I -''H'cr Only Two Steps to Get Outside the Circulation country printing office. "job! rJJ Mrsrr jerwBtoi xta&SB ma oof 'SmJ.J i J lvzyf fca. 1 y xks Rear Admiral Robert 15 Peary, tho dlseocrcr of the north pole, nnd his daughter, Miss Mario, specially posed on hoard tho Kaiser Wllhelm the Grosso, on which vessel Miss Peary returned to America tho other day after an absenco of 18 months. MIbs Peary Is known all over tho world aB tho "snow baby," becaiiBo sho was born in tho winter quarters In tho arctic during ono of tho north polo discoverer's earlier trips, when Mrs. Peary accompanied him as far north as his baBo of supplies. fm. -. . momborB of tho diplomatic corps to tho national palaco and told them in an aggrieved tono how thoso tell-talo papers had boon found in the depu ties' desks by tlio police, llo really was very pngry about It, for, as ho and everyone knows, It is tho correct thing In tho host plotting circles to carry bucIi papors on tho person, where the secrot police can get at them without vexatious delay and trouble. Thoro can bo llttlo doubt that tho Imprisoned deputies will got much severer sentences than they would havo rocolvod had they not maliciously sought to annoy tho po lice and causo dolay by leaving tho3o incriminating documents in their desks, instead of carrying thorn to Jail, whoro they could havo boon found without trouble whon tho depu ties wore searched. Thoro are instances of record where suspected plotters liavo mysi terlously disappeared and their rela tives havo known them no moro, but In all such cases the missing onos In variably were careful to leavo their incriminating documents where tho police could find them without trou bio, thus making it ploasanter for all. Sometimes tho incriminating documents are found neatly tied up with the last will and testament of the departed. Sometimes they aro hidden, but tho police are wonderful exnerto at finding them. Relatives and frlonds will search a room for hours, not leaving a squaro Inch un explored, and discover nothing what soever, not oven a scrap of writing. Then, tho pollco will come anu glance cnrelessly around and, presto, in tho shako of a lamb's tail they discover enough incriminating documents to paper the room ltBelf. II CftH'T SEE THE PRESIDENT CREED NOT AN ESSENTIAL - Gen. Don Vlctorlano Huerta meat carelessly left their Incriminat ing documentB in their desks in tho chamber, Instead, of carrying thorn in their pockets, according to custom, thus putting tho secret pollco to u groat deal of unnecessary troublo to get tho papers. President lluerta called nit tho Easy Enough to Be Quite Religious Without Being Doc trinal. Provldonco, R. I. Almost any Sun day wo can find Homothing mentally stimulating anpng tho lotterB to tho editor, remarks tho Provldonco Jour nal. Of such quality was a lettor from Grecuo ono Sunday referring to a re cent discussion of a "creodlcss roll- glon." A prominont clergyman and an equally prominont publicist camo into disagreement ovor tlfl question of re ligious instruction in tho public schools, In tho couroo of which tho layman declared that "rollglous in struction muBt bo In accordance with Bomo creed," and thorcforo was out of tho question aB a policy In tho achoolB. Thoro aro thousands of all creeds whd will heartily agreo with tho Bub stance of UiIb opinion. G. K. Chester ton llatly expresses tho samo Idea in "A Miscellany of Men," and hla inter esting way of putting It 1b worth noting: I M fflWfrl FREES ALL HER PRISONERS -X-- Portugal Government Turns Loose 300 Illiterates, but Keeps tho Intellectuals. Lisbon. In order to square Itself with tho opposition, but moro partic ularly 'with tho world at largo, tho government, on tho third anniversary or tho republic, released 300 Hoyullst prisoners, soma of whom had been kept in Jnll for .three yearB without trial. This act has called forth cen sure from tho Carbonari prosB tho prcsB of Portugal's Tammany which declares that tho royulists "should huvo boeu allowed to tot In prison," and that "tho government 1ms shown that It fears foreign criticism." Tho release, howovor, Is not so much to tho credit of tho government aB tho first. cablod news of It implied or tho Carbounrl consuro Indtcatcs. Tho juujorlty of the prisoners now released are peasants nnd poor work men, a distinction having been drawn by tho government betweon tliesu and tho less poor or thu better educated - It 1b a curious distinction, and to tho vara of a demagogue may havo a lino sound and dignity, but It Is ono which a moment's consideration shows to bo untcimblo nnd absurd, it is presum ably not intended to bo a premium on Illiteracy, for tho government pro fesses a horror of Illiteracy, but It Is, in fact, a piemlum on servility, mean ness, and obsequiousness. It Is do Blgned, says tho government, to divide thu responsible from tho irresponsible. A hundred and twenty of tho better educated prisoners remain accordingly Jn tho penitentiaries. Uut it tequlres no voiy high intelligence to know whother ono prefers tho monarchy to tho ropubllc, or to renllzo that tho object of uttack waa tho republic; so that, assuming that all thu prisoners wore guilty of taking up arms or ac tively conspiring against the ropubllc, which, of courso, la not tho enso, tho not result of tho distinction drawn by tho government is to reward thoso who fought against tho ropubllc, not on principles, but wantonly, in order to oarn a few shillings, and to rotaln in prison thoso who did so honestly, from conviction. It is precisely thoso who wero con demned rather owing to their convic tions than their actions who aro to bo kept In pilson. Hecausu some of them aro prlosts and otheis belong to tho Portugueso nobility they are hold responsible, and are to continue to servo a senterico to which they should uovor havo bqen condemned. No ono wishes a nobleman to havo more favor In tho eyes of tho law than a lxmsaut, but why should ho huvo lessT" The "conspiracy" of those now ro leased Is at least as clearly estab lished as that of those who remain In prison. Tho present government pro fesses to ahullsh God and religion, but In undertaking to Judge men by tholr motives lather thun by their proved acts It Is assuming u prerogative com monly hold to be not human hut divine. I "Don't uso a noun and then an ad- Jectlvo that crosses out tho noun. An adjective qualifies, it cannot contra dict. Don't sny, 'Glvo me a patriotism that 1b free from all boundaries.' It 1b like Baylng'Glvo mo a pork plo with n i pork In it.' Don't say, 'I look for ward to that largor religion that shall havo no special dogmas.' It is like saying, 'I look forward to that largor quadruped who shall havo no feet.' A quadruped means something with four feet; and a religion means something that commits a man to some doctriue aliout tho universe. Don't let the meok substantive bo absolutely mur dered by tho Joyful, exuberant adje& tlvo." All of which 1b very clever, in th usual Chestortonlan stylo, but It 1: misleading lnrgoly falso as well as truo. What a religion means depends somewhat upon the individual who pro fesses It. It does commit tho Individ ual to soma definite doctrine nbout the universe, but that doctrino may bo broad, shallow, narrow or deep. It may bo slmplo or It may bo full ol complexities and Inconsequential de talls that havo nothing to do with the fundamentals of "rollglous belief" In tho broad Benso. Tho danger of doc trino Ib that it Is almost Inevitably bound to' expand, develop and multl ply, bo that In tlmo there Is a whole family of doctrines all grouped under tho original title and recognized aa part of tho conventional system. Mr. Chesterton Is misleading whec ho cays that tho man who looks for ward to a rollgloii that shall bear no special dogmas might as well declare that ho wants a pork yio with no pork In It. This might npply to any distinc tive doctrinal faith, as, for example, tho liaptlst who 'should express hit longing for n Uaptist religion that would bo HUfllcicntly advuncod to dis card tho rito of baptism, but it Is rldl cuIoub whon applied to "religion" without n specification of creed. Sure ly theiu is a possibility ot something worthy tho nnmi of "rollgion" that does not commit Its followers to any elaborato creed and Is practically free from speclnl ddgnuiB. Thoro will be, ninny ngieo with tho gentleman from Grecuo In his belief that creeds arc likely to bo of much less Importance in tho future than they havo been in tho past. - .. . ... A-TYti..10tftn. MrtctofUrn WSiIINGTON. Charles A. Kram, auuuor ior uio nura onv.o ,, . department nt Washington, at one time in his younger days worked In a Ills stories of country newspaper euuuia uiu nin.wua at the Capitol, where ho often Interjects un nnec doto to Illustrate a point when nppearlng before some of tho congressional committees. At ono tlmo, when he was explaining circulation matters to a commltteo ho told of tho yarn of a certain colonel who was tho editor of n flam- it ..It. .. V.lnt. nnmndmnU 1 1 1 0 boyant Btieot in mo suum, wiuuu i"""" trlbuted ob high as a hundred copies a week. g Tho colonel hau an oiu tramp primer uu mo staff who could stick typo nnd drink whisky with 7S greater faculty than any other man in tho world Ho Kopt Uim alive, iurnisuuu nun n" "'i "" lar now and then, nnd always put him off with an evasivo answer whenever tho genius would make a Hat appeal for back pay. Ono dny tho printer, having accumulated an extra flno Jng and nti ex traordinary amount of dignity, approached the colonel with tho threat to resign unless the ghost walked. " 'Resign,' Bhouted tho Indignant colonel. 'You low-lived companion of tho ruin fiend! Resign! Why, you'd be as helpless aB a babe in tho woods. You couldn't itnd as much shelter without mo as could a vagrant fox in a strange wood. You lngrate! I havo supported you in easo and luxury for no return and now whon I am temporarily embarrassed you threaten to turn against mo! Why, if you ever dared to do a thing llko that I would donounco you with all tho vltrollc nower of my pen! You would be scourged with my scorn and no decent man who reads my journal would look at you again!' "Whereupon tho printer turned up his nose. '"Denounce mo!' ho said with flno dignity, while leaning upon tho desk for support, 'go ahead and do your .worst! I don't care. Why, I could take two stops and bo outside of your circulation!'" Secretary Joseph P. Tumulty Is a Real Censor AMONG tho many duties which fall to tho lost of Joseph P. Tumulty, tho president's secretary, is that of censor. Ills right of selection is exercised on tho president's mail and on his visiting list. It is benevolent censorship and ono tho president could, not do without, ir ho saw everybody and read everything designed for hla inspection ho couldn't get any sleep nor could ho perform his duties. For that reason, If you have any personal busi ness with tho president ot tho United States, you had best see Mr. Tumulty. Ho is the easiest man in Washington to have a chat with. If you know a congressman or a newspaper correspondent, you can seo and speak with Mr. Tumulty within an hour. And if tho petitioner's mission Is ono tho president need know of personally, tho president will seo tho petitioner or know of tho petition within five minutes. But if it Isn't then J. P. Tumulty, tor all his bluo eyes and yellow hair and beautiful .complexion, 1b a wall of adamant, one million miles hleh. The white enameled door between tho secretary's bin room and thw president's offlce seems a poor and inoffectivo barrier that a humming bird might demolish with his bill until Joe Tumulty, raising IiIb soft Irish volco a little, remarks to an importunate one: "No, sir, you can't see the president. Then it becomes tho great wall of China. 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The Typewriter for the Rural Business WVWVN MvAiAA' YUH HAFTA HAVE AFFIDAVITS Afl' OTHER THIMffi S ri It 1b computed that ono' bullut In 10,000 in warfaro la offoctlvo. "He Waa a Good Fellow." nalttmoro. Md.Charlea 1'rlnUala. amateur stump collector, who died Boveral months ago, had requested that a monmnont bearing tho epitaph "Ho waa a j;ood follow," ho placed over Ills grave. Ills oatnte consisted of 15,000 BtanipH' worth, ho Bald, $15.. 000. Until tho Htampa uro sold the monument must wait. It Was Her Debut Into Public School Circles wv von had been In Washington tho 22d ot September you might havo seen I tawnoy-halre-l Victor Murdock of Kansas, militant, eager and optimistic leader of tho Progressive party in tho house of representatives, on his way to the Henry D. Cooke school with his little seven- year-old daughter by his side. It was tho first day of school and little Miss Murdock was going to enter tho llrst grado. It was her debut Into public school circles. Now, tho Henry I. Cooko school is an Impos ing edifice, said to bo one of tho finest examples of school structuro in the country. Everything about It is imposing the broad front steps, the entry, tho assembly hall. Uut most Imposing of nil was tlio gentleman whom Representative Mur dock queried about tho requirements of a little stranger getting a seat in the llrst grade. Later Mr. Murdock found the teacher of tho llrst grade. "Isn't it too bad a person has to go through so much red tape to get a child in tho public achool?'' asked Mr. Murdock. "Thero isn't any red tape, All you havo to do Is to bring the child and leavo her. Wo do tho rest." "Hut I was talking to the principal, and he told mo I would havo to got affidavits and certificates and a dozen other things," said tho Progressive leader. "Ho told you!" exclaimed tho pretty teacher In surprise. "Our principal isn't a man: it's a woman. Mrs. C. H. 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