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CONGRESS HEARS
SECOND MESSAGE
President Tells of Treasury and
Army Affairs.
PHILIPPINES ARE INCLUDED
Bill for Natives’ Independennce De
nounced as Premature—Progress
of Panama Canal.
Washington. Pee 6.—Congress today re
reived from President Taft the second of
his messages to the short session. It
deals with fiscal, military, insular and
judicial affairs and in part is as follows:
The condition of the country with ref
erence to business could hardly be better.
While the four years of the administra
tion now drawing to a close have not de
veloped great speculative expansion or a
wide field of new investment, the recov
ery and progress made from the depress
ing conditions following the panic of 1907
have been steady and the improvement
has been clear and easily traced in the
statistics. The business of the country is
now on a solid basis. Credits are not
unduly extended and every phase of the
situation seems in a state of prepared
ness for a period of unexampled prosper
ity. Manufacturing concerns are running
at their full capacity and the demand for
labor was never so constant and growing.
The foreign trade of the country for this
year will exceed $4,000,000,000. while tin*
balance in our favor—that of the excess
of exports over imports—will exceed $500,
000,000. More than half our exports are
manufactures or partly manufactured
material, while our exports of farm pro
ducts do not show the same lncrea.se of
domestic consumption. It is a year of
bumper crops: the total money value of
farm products will exceed $9,500,000,000. It
is a year when the bushel or unit price
of agricultural products has gradually
fallen, and yet the total value of the en
tire crop is greater by over $1,000,000,000
than we have known in our history.
Condition of the Treasury.
Th? condition of the treasury is very
satisfactory. The total interest-bearing
debt is $963,777,770. of which $134,631,980 con
stiute the Panama canal loan. The non
interest-bearing debt is $378,301,284.90. in
cluding $346,671,016 of greenbacks. We have
in the treasury $150,000,000 in gold coin as
a reserve against the outstanding green
backs; and in addition we have a cash
balance in the treasury as a general fund
of $167,152,478.99. or an increase of $26,975,
W2 over the general fund last year.
Receipts and Expenditures.
Kor three years the expenditures or tne i
government have decreased under the in
fluence of an effort to economize. This
year presents an apparent exception. The
estimate by the secretary of tlie treasury
of the ordinary receipts, exclusive of pos
tal revenues, for the year ending June
30, 1914. indicates that they will amount
to $170,000,000. The sum of the estimates j
of the expenditures for that same year,
exclusive of Panama canal disbursements i
and postal disbursements payable from
postal revenues is $732,000,000, indicating a
deficit of $22,000,000. For the year ending
June 30. 1913, similarly estimated receipts
were $667,000,000. while the total corre
sponding estimate of expenditures for that
year, submitted through the secretary of
the treasury to congress, amounted to
$656,000,000. This shows an increase of
$76,000,000 in the estimates for 1914 over
the total estimates of 1913. This is due to
an Increase of $25,000,000 in the estimate
far rivers and harbors for the next year
on projects and surveys authorized by
congress; to an increase under the new
pension bill of $32,500,000; and to an in- j
crease In the estimates for expenses of
the navy department of $24,000,000. The
estimate for the navy department for the
year 1913 included two battleship*5- Con
gress made provision for only one battle
ship, and therefore the navy department
has deemed it necessary and proper to
make an estimate which includes the first
year’s expenditure for three battleships
In addition to the amount required for
work on the uncompleted ships now under
construction. In add?’’ n to the natural
increase In the expenditures for the un
completed ships, and the additional hat
i tleshtp estimated for, the other increases
i are due to the pay required for 4,000 or
more additional enlisted men in the navy,
and to this must he added the additional
cost of construction imposed by the
change In the eight-hour law which
makes it applicable to ships built In pri
vate shipyards.
With the exceptions of these three
i Items, the estimates show a reduction
this year below the total estimates for
1913 of more than $5,000,000,
The estimates for Panama canal con
struction for 1914 are $17,000,000 less than
for 1913.
The president then explained at some
length the national reserve association
system recommended by the monetary
commission and urged congress to ex
amine the plan impartially from all
standpoints and then to adopt some
plan which will secure the benefits de
sired.
Concerning the tariff he had little to
say in view of the fact that a new con
gress has been elected on a platform
of tariff for revenue only.
Army Reorganization.
Our small army now consists of 83,809
men. excluding the 5.000 Philippine scouts.
1.saving out of consideration the coast
artillery force, whose position is fixed in
our various seacoast defenses, and the
present garrisons of our various insular
possessions, we have today within the
continental United States a mobile army
of only about 35,000 men. This little force
must be still further drawn upon to sup
ply the new garrisons for the great naval
base which is being established at Pearl
Harbor, in the Hawaiian islands, and to
protect the locks now rapidly approaching
completion at Panama. The forces re
maining in the United States are now
scattered In nearly fifty posts, situated
for a variety of historical reasons in
twenty-four states. These posts contain
only fractions of regiments, averaging
less than 700 men each. Ih time of peace
it lias l>een our historical policy to ad
minister these units separately by a geo
graphical organization. In other words,
our army in time of pe ace has never been
a united organization but merely scat
tered groups of companies, battalions and
regiments, and the first task in time of
war has been to create out of these scat
tered units an army fit for effective team
work and co-operation.
To the task of meeting these patent
defects, the war department has been ad
dressing itself during the past year. A
comprehensive plan of reorganization was
prepared by the war college division of
the general staff. This plan was thor
oughly discussed last summer at a series
of open conferences held by the secretary
of war and attended by representatives
from all branches of the army and from
congress. In printed form it has been
distributed to members of congress and
throughout the army and the national
guard, and widely through institutions of
learning and elsewhere in the United
States. In it, for the first time, we have
a tentative chart for future progress.
The National Guard.
Under existing law the national guard
constitutes, after the regular army, the
first line of national defense. Its or
ganization, discipline, training, and equip
ment. under recent legislation, have been
assimilated, as far as possible, to those
of the regular army, and its practical
efficiency, under the effect of this train
ing, has very greatly increased. Our citi
zen soldiers under present conditions
have reached a stage of development be
yond which they cannot reasonably be
asked to go without further direct as
sistance in the form of pay from the fed
eral government. On the other hand, such
pay from the* national treasury would not
be justified unless it produced a proper
equivalent in additional efficiency on the
part of the national guard. The organized
militia today cannot be ordered outside of
the limits of the United States, and thus
cannot lawfully he used for general mili
tary purposes. The officers and men are
ambitious and eager to make themselves
thus available and to become an efficient
national reserve of citizen soldiery. They
are the only force of trained men. other
than the regular army, upon which we
can rely. The so-called military pay bill,
in the form agreed on between the au
thorities of the war department and the
representatives of the national guard, in
my opinion adequately meets these con
ditions and offers a proper return for the
pay which it is proposed to give to the
national guard. I believe that its enact
ment into law would he a very long step
toward providing this nation with a first
line of citizen soldiery, upon which its
main reliance must depend in ease of any
national emergency. Plans for the or
ganization of the national guard into tac
tical divisions, on the same lines as those
adopted for the regular army, are being
formulated by the war college division
of the general staff.
Porto Rico, \lr. Taft says, continues
to show notable progress and he urges
the senate to pass the bill granting the
Porto Ricans American citizenship.
Philippines.
A bill is pending in congress, con
tinues the message, which revolution
izes the carefully worked out scheme
of government under which the Philip
pine islands are now' governed and
which proposes to render them virtu
ally autonomous at once and absolutely
independent in eight years. Such a
proposal can only be founded on the
assumption that we have now dis
charged our trusteeship to the Filipino
people and our responsibility for them
to the world, and that they are now
prepared for self-government as well
as national sovereignty. A thorough
and unbiased knowledge of the facts
clearly shows that these assumptions
are absolutely with justification. As
to this, I believe that there is no sub
stantial difference of opinion among
any of those who have had the respon
sibility of facing Philippine problems
in the administration of the islands,
and T believe that no one to whom the
future of this people is a responsible
concern can countenance a policy
fraught with the direst consequences
to those on whose behalf it is osten
sibly urged.
In the Philippine islands we have
embarked upon an experiment unprece
dented in dealing with dependent
peoples. We are developing there
conditions exclusively for their own
welfare. We found an archipelago
containing 24 tribes and races, speak
ing a great variety of languages, and
w'ith a population over 80 per cent, of
which could neither read nor write.
Through the unifying forces of a
common education. of commercial
and economic development, and of
gradual participation in local self-govern
ment we are endeavoring to evolve a
homogeneous people fit to determine,
when the time arrives, their own destiny.
We are seeking to arouse a national spir
it and not, as under the older colonial
theory, to suppress such a spirit. The
character of the work we have been do
ing is keenly recognized in the Orient,
and our success thus far followed with
not a little envy by those who, initiating
the same policy, find themselves hamp
ered by conditions grown up in earlier
days and under different theories of ad
ministration. But our work is far from
done. Our duty to the Filipinos is far
from discharged. Over half a million Fili
pino students are now' in the Philippine
schools helping to mold the men of the
future Into a homogeneous people, but
there still remain more than a million
Filipino children of school age yet to he
reached. Freed from American control
the integrating forces of a common edu
cation and a common language will cease
a/id the eucational system now well start
ed will slip back into Inefficiency and dis
order.
An enormous increase in the commer
cial development of the islands has been
made sinec they were virtually granted
full access to our markets three years
ago. with every prospect of Increasing
development and diversified industries.
Freed from American control such devel
opment is bound to decline. Every ob
server speaks of the great progress in
public works for the benefit of the Fili
pinos. of hart or improvements, of road
and railways, of irrigation and artesian
wells, public buildings, and better means
of communication. But large parts of
the islands are still unreached, still even
unexplored, roads and railways are need
ed in many parts, irrigation systems are |
still to be installed and wells to be driven.
Whole villages and towns are still with
out means of communication other than
almost impassible roads and trails. Even
the great progress in sanitation, which
has successfully suppressed smallpox, the
bubonic plague, and Asiatic cholera, has
found the cause of and a cure for beri
beri. has segregated the lepers, has help
ed to make Manila the most healthful city
in the Orient, and to free life throughout
the whole archipelago from Its former
dread diseases, is nevertheless incom
plete in many essentials of permanence
In sanitary policy. Even more remains to
be accomplished. If freed from Ameri
can control sanitary progress is bound to
be arrested and all that has been achiev
ed likely to he lost.
If the task we have undertaken is high
er than that assumed by other nations its
accomplishment must demand even more
patience. We must not forget that we
found the Filipinos wholly untrained tn
government. Up to our advent all other
experience sought to repress rather than
encourage political power. It takes long
time and much experience to Ingrain po
litical habits of steadiness and efficiency.
Popular self-government ultimately must
rest upon common habits of thought and
upon a reasonably developed public opin
ion. No such foundations for self-gov
ernment, let alone independence, are now
present in the Philippine Islands. Disre
garding even their racial heterogeneity
and the lack of ability to think as a na
tion, it is sufficient to point out that un
der liberal franchise privileges only about
3 per cent, of the Filipinos vote and only
ft per cent, of the people are said to read
the public press. To confer independence
upon the Filipinos now is. therefore, to
subject the great mass of their people to
the dominance of an oligarchical and.
probably, exploiting minority. Such a
course will be as cruel to those people as
It would he shameful‘to us.
Our true course is to pursue steadily
and courageously the path we have thus
far followed: to guide the Filipinos into
self-sustaining pursuits; to continue the
I cultivation of sound political habits
through education and political practice:
to encourage the diversification of indus
tries, and to realize the advantages of
their Industrial education by conserva
tively approved co-operative methods, at
once checking the dangers of concentrat
ed wealth and building lip a sturdy, inde
pendent citizenship.
Regulation of Water Power.
There are pending before congress a
| large number of bills proposing to grant
| privileges of erecting dams for tbe pur
pose of creating water power in our navi
gable rivers. The pendency of these bills
has brought out an important defect in
the existing general dam act. That act
does not. in my opinion, grant sufficient
j power to the federal government in dcal
I ing with the construction of such dams to
exact protective conditions in the interest
of navigation. It does not permit the
federal government, as a condition of its
permit, to require that a part of the
value thus created shall be applied to the
further general improvement and protec
tion of the stream. I believe this to be
one of the most important matters of
I Internal improvement now confronting
the government. Most of the navigable
rivers of ibis country are comparatively
long and shallow. In order that they
I may be made fully useful for navigation
J there has come into vogue a method of
improvement known as canalization, or
the slack-water method, which consists
in building a series of dams and locks,
each of which will create a long pool of
I deep navigable water. At each of these
dams there is usually created a long pool
of deep navigable water. At each of these
dams there is usually created also water
power of commercial value. If the water
power thus created can be made available
for tbe further improvement of naviga
tion in the stream, it is manifest that the
improvement w’ill be much more quickly
effected on the one hand, and on the
other, that the burden on the general tax
payers of the country will be very much
reduced. Private interests seeking per
j mits to building waterpower dams in
navigable streams usually urge that they •
j thus improve navigation, and that If they
i do not impair navigation they should be
I allowed to take for themselves the en
tire profits of the water-power develop
j mont. Whatever they may do by way of
relieving the government of the expense of
improving navigation should be given due
consideration, but it must be apparent
that there may be a profit beyond a rea
sonably liberal return upon the private
investment which is a potential asset of
| the government in carrying out a com
prehensive policy of waterway develop
ment. It is no objection to the retention
and use of such an asset by the govern
ment that a comprehensive waterway
policy will include tbe protection and de
j velopment of tbe other public uses of
water, which cannot and should not be
ignored in making and executing plans
for tbe .protection and development of
navigation. It is also equally clear that
inasmuch as the water power tb”i cre
ated Is or may be an incident of a gen
eral scheme of waterway Improvement
within the constitutional jurisdiction of
the federal government, the regulation of
such water power lies also within that
jurisdiction. In my opinion constructive
statesmanship requires that legislation
should be enacted which will permit the
development of navigation in these great
i rivers to go hand in hand with the util
ization of this by-product of water pow
er. created In the course of the same Im
provement. and that the general dam act
should be so amended as to make this pos
sible. I deem it highly important that
the nation should adopt a consistent and
harmonious treatment of these water
power projects, which will preserve for
this purpose their value to the govern
ment, whose right it is to gTant the per
mit. Any other policy is equivalent to
throwing away a most valuable national
asset.
The Panama Canal.
During the past year the work of con
struction upon the canal has progressed
most satisfactorily. About 87 per cent, of
the execavatlon work has been completed,
and more than 93 per cent, of the con
crete for all the locks ts In place. In
view of the great interest which has been
manifested as to some slides in the Cule
bra Cut, T am glad to say that the report
of Col. Goethals should allay any ap
prehension on this point. It Is gratifying
to note that none of the slides which oc
curred during this year would have in
terfered with the passage of the ships
had the canal, in fact, been in operation,
ar.d when the slope pressures will have
been finally adjusted and the growth of
vegetation will minimize erosion in the
hanks of the cut. the slide problem will
be practically solved and an ample sta
bility assured for the Culebra Cut.
Although the official date of the open
ing has been set for January 1. 1915. the
canal will. In fact, from present indica
tions. he opened for shipping during the
latter half of 1913. No fixed date can as
yet be set. hut shipping interests will be
advised as soon as assurances can he
given that vessels can pass through with
out unnecessary delay.
Recognizing the administrative problem
in the management of the canal, con
gress In the act of August 24. 1912, has
made admirable provision for executive
responsibility in the control of the canal
and the government of the Canal Zone.
The problem of most efficient organiza
tion is receiving careful consideration, so
that a scheme of organization and con
trol best adapted to the conditions of the
canal may be formulated and put In op
eration as expeditiously as possible. Act
ing under the authority conferred on me
by congress. I have, by executive procla
mation. promulgated the following sehed
uel of tolls for ships passing through the
canal, based upon the thorough report
of Emory R. Johnson, special commis
sioner on traffic and tolls:
1. On merchant vessels carrying pas
sengers or cargo. $1.20 per net *+•*<*(
ton—each 100 cubic feet—of actual capac
ity.
2. On vessels in ballast without pas
sengers or cargo, 40 per cent, less than
the rate of tolls for vessels with passen
gers or cargo.
3. Upon naval vessels, other than trans
ports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply
ships. 50 cents per displacement ton.
4. Upon army and navy transports, col
liers. hospital ships, and supply’ ships,
$1.20 per net ton. the vessels to be meafl
used by the same rules as are employed
in determining the net tonnage of mer
chant vessels.
Rules for the determination of the ton
nage upon which toll charges are based
are now in course of preparation and
will be promulgated in due season.
Panama Canal Treaty.
The proclamation which 1 have Issued
In respect to the Panama Canal tolls Is
In accord with the Panama Canal act
passed by’ this congress August 24. 1912.
We have been advised that the British
government has prepared a protest
against the act and its enforcement in so
far as it relieves from the payment of
tolls American ships engaged in the Amer
; ican coastwise trade on the ground that
! it violates British rights under the Hay
Pauncefote treaty concerning the Panama
! Canal. When the protest is presented, it
will be promptly considered and an ef
fort made to reach a satisfactory adjust
ment of any differences there may’ be be
I tween the two governments.
Workmen’s Compensation Act.
The promulgation of an efficient work
men’s compensation act. adapted to the
particular conditions of the zone, Is
awaiting adequate appropriation by con
gress for the payment of claims arising
thereunder. I urge that speedy’ provision
be made in order that we may install up
on the zone a system of settling claims
for injuries in best. accord with modern
humane, social, and industrial theories.
Promotion for Col. Goethals.
As the completion of the canal grows
nearer, and as the wonderful executive
work of Col. Goethals become? more con
spicuous in the eyes of the country and
of the world, it seems to me wise and
proper to make provision by law for such
reward to him as may be commensurate
with the service that he has rendered to
his country. 1 suggest that this reward
take the form of an appointment of Col.
Goethals as a major general in the army
of the United States, and that the law
authorizing such appointment bo accom
panied with a provision permitting his
designation ::s chief of engineers upon
the retirement of the present incumbent
of that office.
Navy Department.
The navy of the United States Is In
a greater state of efficiency and is
more powerful than it lias been be
fore. but in the emulation which ex
ists between different countries in re
spect to the increase of naval and
military armaments this condition is
not a permanent one. In view of the
many improvements and increases by
foreign governments the slightest halt
on our part in respect to new construc
tion throws us hack and reduces us
from a naval power of the first rank
and places us among the nations of the
second rank.
A year ago congress refused to ap
propriate for more than one battleship.
In this I think u great mistake of
policy was made, and I urgently rec
ommend that this congress make up
for the mistake of the last session by
appropriations authorizing the con
struction of three battleships, in ad
dition to destroyers, fuel ships, and
the other auxiliary vessels as shown
in the building program of the general
hoard. We are confronted by a condi
tion in respect to the navies of the
world w’hich requires us. if we would
maintain our navy as an insurance of
peace, to augment our naval force by
at least two battleships a year and by
battle cruisers, gunboats, torpedo de
stroyers. and submarine boats in a
proper prorotion. We have no desire
for war. We go as far as any nation
in the world to avoid war. hut we are
a world power. Our population, our
wealth, our definite policies, our re
sponsibilities in the Pacific and the At
lantic. our defense of the Panama ca
nal. together with our enormous world
trade and our missionary outposts on
the frontiers of civilization, require
us to recognize our position as one of
the foremost in the family of nations,
and to clothe ourselves with sufficient
naval power to give force to our rea
sonable demands, and to give weight
to our influence in those directions of
progress that a powerful Christian na
tion should advocate.
Department of Justice.
This department has been very active
in the enforcement of the law. It has
been better organized and with a
larger force than ever before in the
history of the government. The prose
cutions which have been successfullv
concluded and which are now pending
testify to the effectiveness of the de
partment work.
The prosecution of trusts under the
Sherman anti-trust law has gone on
without restraint or diminution, and
decrees similar to those entered in the
Standard Oil and Tobacco cases have
been entered in other suits, like the
suits against the powder trust and the
bath tub trust. I am very strongly con
vinced that a steady, consistent course
in this regard, with a continuing of
Supreme court decisions upon the new
phases of the trust question not already
finally decided, is going to offer a
solution of this much-discussed and
troublesome issue in a quiet, calm and
judicial way. without any radical leg
islation changing the governmental
policy in regard to combinations now
denounced by the Sherman anti-trust
law. I have already recommended as
an aid in this matter legislation which
would declare unlawful certain w’ell
known phases of unfair competition in
interstate trade, and I have also advo
cated voluntary national incorporation
for the larger industrial enterprises,
with provision for a closer supervision
by the bureau of corporations, or a
board appointed for the purpose, so as
to make certain compliance with the
anti-trust lawT on the one hand and to
give greater security to the stock
holders against possible prosecutions
on the other. I believe, however, that
the orderly course of litigation In the
courts and the regular prosecution of
trusts charged with the violation of the
anti-trust law is producing among
business men a clearer and clearer
perception of the line of distinction be
tween business that is to be encour
aged and business that is to be con
demned. and that in this quiet way the
question of trusts can be settled and
competition retained as an economic
force to secure reasonableness in
prices and freedom and independence
in trade. WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Thne He Went.
"Ah.” remarked Miss Weary, whom
Mr. Staylate had been boring with
old conundrums, “that last one re
minds me of the best thing going-”
"What's that?” he asked, eagerly.
“A man who has stayed too long."—
Catholic Standard and Times.
I
Ambiguous.
Mp.ud—What kind of a man did Car
oline marry? Beatrix—The kind who
can come home from Europe with
money in his pocket.
O
Before Houses Were Numbered.
Four hundred years ago the idea of
numbering houses originated in Paris,
though it was not until 1789 that the
system became general. The first
known instance of a London street in
which houses were numbered is Pres
cott street, but the practice did not
spread far until 1764.
Worth Knowing.
When running curtain rods through
thin curtails place a thimble on the
end of the rod to prevent it from
catching in the material.
4
The Real Boss.
“Well, which one of the newly mar
ried pair is boss?”
"No one can tell."
“Why not?”
“Her mother is visiting them at
| present."
The Topic
“What is being most discussed in
the homes of the nations just now?
The tariff?”
'No; 1 think fall housecleaning is
just now on the carpet.”
Finance.
Marks—"I have Borne money, but 1
l don’t know whether to buy a home or
an automobile.” Parks—“Take my
advice; buy a home and mortgage it
to get the machine. Then you’ll have
both.”—Boston Transcript.
Suitable Play.
“I am going to make my farewell
tour in Shakespeare. What shall be
the play? ’Hamlet?’ ‘Macbeth?’” “This
is your sixth farewell tour, I believe.”
“Well, yes.” “I would suggest ‘Much
Adieu About Nothing.' ”
Both Alike.
“A dentist who wishes to change
his business ought to be a good real
estate agent.”
“Why so?”
“Because he haB had experience in
making money out of ache-rs.”
Tact.
She (sternly)—I have a rod in pic
We for you.
He (genially)—If the pickle is one
of those jars you fill so appetizingly, I
shall welcome it, my dear.
Argumentum ad—
“John, why don’t women have the
right to vote, anyhow?”
"Maria, do you really want women
to have the right to vote?”
“Not on my own account, of course,
but—”
“Wrell, that’s the reason, Maria.”
No Danger.
“I am afraid that young writer will
skim over the surface of his subject
and never go deeply into it.”
“He can’t. The subject la the bor
ing of wells.”
Two of ’Em.
"Yes. I was a great player in my
day," said Jones. "Made a goal Trent
the kickoff. Can any of you beat
that?”
“I'ye done the same, you bloomin’
liar!” replied Brown.—Judge.
Its Class.
"Unhorsing a rival in the old days
of chivalry was very much like a
modern holiday in a busy life.”
"How so?”
"It was taking a knight off.”
Precautions.
George—She sings nicely, doesn’t
she?
Tom—Oh, yes. When she sings
they have to close the windows.
George—My goodness! What for?
Tom—Her voice is so sweet that it
draws the flies.—Pathfinder.
Rough on Dad.
"Dp you believe in love at first
sight, mother?” “Of course, I do, my
dear. Do you suppose I’d have mar
ried your father if I’d taken a sfecond
look.”—Detroit Free Presa.
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HUBBY GOT IT.
Wiley—I want tc get a big effect
with my new spring gown, dear.
Hubby—Don't worry, darling; you'll
get it all right in the bill.
No Cali for Anxiety.
The citizen put the solicited coin
in the hand of the tramp.
"And now I want your assurance,”
he said, “that this money will not be
used for any unworthy or unnecessary
purpose."
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caller.
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these Lunnon chaps ain’t smart! Just
look what that feller’s fixed up at tbe
back of ’is wagon to keep boyB from
hangin' on be’ind!”—London Sketch.
The honeymoon is on the wane
when hubby quits taking wifey every
where he goes.
Nearly every shiftless man has a
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