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the revolutionist It was agreed that
President Diaz would retire and that
General Madero insists in tranquiliz
ing the country. Madero insisted that
Diaz should retire before Madero
went to Mexico City.
KIND WORDS
For the past month the issue of
a metropolitan paper without a dis
sertation on W. J. Bryan is incom
plete. He is getting more and more
in the lime-light of public gaze. In
fact, he is becoming known; his true
worth and merit Is being realized.
Heretofore it has been a sort of hap
hazard praise and criticism.
For a number of years partisanism
has so swayed public sentiment that
he was not given credit for his good
Intentions. This tension Is being
relieved at a rapid rate and good
words and deeds are being appreci
ated to a large extent, regardless of
the political or religious views of
those who speak and perform them.
He has weathered the storm of the
critics and can now be seen and ap
preciated as he Ib. It has become
idle talk to assume that he is greedy
for wealth or fame only as it accrues
from-actual merit. He holds to the
right, win or lose, and it generally
turns out that he is right. It re
mains to be proven that he was ever
involved in a shady deal either finan
cially or politically.
No person of the present age has
lived to see so many of the principles
he has advocated enacted into law as
he has and be it remembered, nearly
every one of them were subject of
derision but a few years ago. From
his advent into public life he has
not wavered in his advocacy of the
"people's rights," and he is as
strongly opposed to the domination
of trusts and corporations today as
when he began. It is this consistency
and loyalty to true democratic prin
ciplesthat .has endeared him to those
who rightly hold to democratic prin
ciples of government. The Minden
(Neb.) Courier.
POLITICS AND SCHOLARS
"Washington dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press: Scholarship
accompanied by common sense will
enable a college man to win success
in politics, but scholarship alone is
of little avail. This was Speaker
Champ Clark's advice to the College
Men's Democratic League at their
meeting in celebration of the birth
day anniversary of Thomas Jeffer
son. Addresses also were made by
Warren Jefferson Davis of Virginia,
president of the league; Thomas Nel
son Page and Representative James
A. Hamill of New Jersey.
Speaker Clark extended a welcome
to college men "to enter democratic
politics" and deplored the fact that
"it is fashionable in this country to
sneer at the scholar in politics."
"I am rather inclined to think,"
said Mr. Clark, "that this Is only
an exercise of the 'humorous faculty,
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which is almost universal fn America.
It is incredible that there should error
have been, is now, or ever will be
any general prejudice against learn
ing or learned men. The scholar in
politics is all right, but a pedant is
ridiculous, whether in politics or out
of it."
Mr. Clark declared that honesty
in politics was an absolute essential
and that the chief inducement to en
ter public life never should be tho
salary or the emoluments attaching
thereto.
Speaker Clark contrasted the op
portunities in politics today with
those of fifty years ago, declaring:
"Young men of America of this day,
collegians and non-collegians, come
upon the scene in a very fortunate
era'. This is tho day of great things.
It is the ago of tho world's Interest
activity and highest development:
Men are prone to look backward to
a golden age, I prefer to think this
ago Is better than any of its predeces
sors and that the best is still to
come. True, we have not reached
the millennium yet. There are
wrongs still to be righted, reforms
to be effected. There is plenty for
all of us to do in improving our
methods of government under which
wo live."
DIVISION OF SOCIAL LABOR
The present King George in his
younger days visited Canada In com
pany with the Duke of Clarence. One
night at a ball in Quebec, given in
honor of the two royalties, tho
younger prince devoted his time ex
clusively to the young ladies, pay
ing little or no attention to the
elderly ones and chaperons.
His brother reprimanded him,
pointing out to him his social posi
tion and his duty as well.
"That's all right," said the young
prince. "There are two of us. You
go and sing God save your grand
mother, while I dance with the
girls." Ladies' Home Journal.
FOR HE WAS MARY'S SON
It -was the Mary-part of him that
prayed
Beneath tho garden's midnight
sky
That it might be the Father's holy
will
The death-drugged cup should
pass him by
The mother-heritage, the earthly
trait
So sweet and yet so prone to err;
For he was half her child, this sup
pliant, Born of the blood and bone of her.
Had he been all divine, the dreaded
cup
He would have quaffed and made
no sign.
Nay, more; the draught had had no
bitter taste
Had he been all divine
Had he been wholly God he had not
feared
E'en for a breath the stern decree
That wrung from him the crucifixion
cry:
"Eloi, lama sabachthani!"
But he was Mary's child as well as
God's;
'Twas she dowered him with the
strain
That taught him kinship with an
aching heart,
Yet made him coward at the
thought of pain.
'Tis that he dreaded while he
drained the cup
That courage is the world's high
creed;
'Tis that, in agony, he cried for help
That he is pitiful to human need!
Sara, Beaumont Kennedy Jn Mm-.
. , , phis Commercial .Appeal. .
WASHINGTON NEWS
An Associated Press dispatch says:
"Prolonged cheers and applause fol
lowed the statement in tho house by
Republican Leader Mann that
Speakor Clark was being considered
by the democrats for the presidency
in 1912. Tho demonstrations started
on tho floor ,but tho gallories soon
Joined In. The speaker, his face red
with embarrassment, pounded vig
orously with his gavel for two min
utes before he could command any
semblance of order."
Governor Osborne, of Michigan,
appeared before tho senate commit
tee and delivered an argument in
favor of Canadian reciprocity.
Representative Stanley introduced
and the house adopted a resolution
providing for an inquiry Into tho
steel trust. The resolution says that
the committees shall consist of nino
members, to bo elected by the house.
Representative Henry, of Texas,
nominated the members of the steel
committee. They wero elected unani
mously. They aTe Representatives
Stanley, Bartlett, Beall, Littleton and
McGilllcuddy, democrats; Olmstead,
Young, Sterling and Dan forth, republicans.
The supreme court of the District
of Columbia, on its own motion, re
instated proceedings for alleged con
tempt against President Samuel
Gompers, Vice President John Mit
chell and Secretary Frank Morrison,
of tho American Federation of Labor.
President Taft sent a cordial mes
sage of greeting to the confederate
veterans in session at Little Rock,
Ark.
Secretary MacVeagh has called for
bids on fifty million dollars of Pana
ma canal bonds, bearing 3 per cent.
President Taft withdrew from all
forms of disposition 2,550 acres of
land In Wyoming to be reserved for
examination and classification with
respect to their coal value.
The' judiciary recall was under
debate in the house and Mr. Legare,
of South Carolina, a democrat, de
nounced the proposal in the Arizona
constitution as "the rankest of politi
cal heresy." He declared that the re
call meant nothing moro or less than
the rule of the mob. Referring to
statements made that the people de
manded the adoption of the plan of
recall ,Mr. Leagre exclaimed: "It
is true that the people always want
more power. Of course they want it.
Once convince the people that
through the recall of the Judiciary
the absolute control of this govern
ment can be placed directly in their
hands, no human agency can preyent
their acquiring that power, and once
given that power the old ship of state
will veer toward the maelstrom of
revolution and anarchy."
Representative Martin, of Colo
rado, approved the recall, and criti
cised President Taft for his opposi
tion to it. Asked by Representative
Littleton, of New York, under what
circumstances ho would favor the use
of the recall In application to the ju
diciary, Mr. Martin replied: "Under
circumstances similar to those that
would lead to impeachment."
The Washington correspondent to
.th Chicago Record-Herald says: "In
the excitement and Intense popular
.interest attaching to the -Standard Oil
decision, of the. same iday. .by .the sur,
promo court which is regarded by
the government as far more conse
quential In its effects Jias been al
most entlroly overlooked.
"Attention was directed to It at
the department of justice,' and Attor
ney General Wickersham expressed
tho view that It was, everything con
sidered, tlio most important decision
rendered by tho kighost tribunal In
tho country in a groat many years.
"Tho case involve is that of tho
Stato of Oklaaema vs. the Kansas
Natural Gas cmaay. It aroso out
of a law enacted by the Oklahoma
legislature which provided that cor
porations engaged in tho transmis
sion of natural gaa within tho stato
should not deliver gas to persons or
corporations cngnged in transporting
gas to points outside tho stato.
"Tho apparent Intent of tho law
was to conserve a resource of tho
stato in tho solo interest of its own
people. This purposo is declared un
constitutional by tho supremo court
which holds that natural or other
products cannot, once they aro given
over to private ownership, bo kept
from passing to tho possession of con
sumers beyond tho Btato limits.
"Decisions heretofore rendered by
the supreme court have caused the
legal lights and administrative offi
cials of tho nation te bo in fear and
trembling of tho tremendously seri
ous consequences that might rosult
from radical action by states In the
matter of cutting off interstate com
merce In natural or even manufac
tured products.
"In a celebrated case involving tho
right of a prohibition state to pro
vent the manufacture of liquor within
its borders even when tho product
was intended solely to sell in other
states, tho court held in favor of tho
prohibitory law.
"In the celebrated Knight case, In
volving tho sugar trust, It was held
that the fact that an article is manu
factured for export to another stato
does not make it an article of inter
state commerce aa4 that tho United
States has no Jurisdiction until inter
state commerce actually commences.
"The opinion in the Oklahoma
case, as presented by Justice Mc
Kenna, reverses the principle as
hertoforo interpreted in tho light of
the earlier decisions."
A United Press dispatch from
Washington May 18th said: "Four
bills to restore to tho Sherman act
its former power have been, intro
duced in the senate.
"Jones (rep., Wash.) presented an
amendment providing that 'combi
nations In restraint of trade, whether
reasonable or unreasonable,' should
be unlawful.
"This would give the law the scope
it had in the three supreme court de
cisions preceding the court's Stand
ard Oil opinloM.
"Culberson (dem. Texas) Intro
duced an amendment that would
make the law as effective as it was
before the Standard Oil decision.
"An amendment offered by Reed
(dem., Mo.) provides that every con
tract, combination or conspiracy In
restraint of trade Ib 'hereby declared
to be unreasonable and illegal.'
' "Another Reed amendment de
clares all monopolies or attempts to
monopolize and all combinations and
conspiracies to be unreasonable and.
illegal.
"It is said in senate circles that
the changing of the law probably will
go over until next winter.
" 'There is no prospect for an
amendment to the Sherman anti
trust Jaw, at-this session .of congress,'
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