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WHIPW! 6 The Commoner. ' VOLUME 13, NUMBEB OPICS zS, TC32 mm .ysT?yi?ns ' ' ny??yHB83BBuBfW8ifflBHPiH .- - a - " IK .jr 0tt s JOSEPH P. TUMULTY, who will bo President Wilson's secretary, is thirty-three years of ago and a natlvo of Jersey City, N. J. He was Oovornor Wilson's secretary from tho time the lattor assumed tho ofllco of governor until last Novombor, when ho resigned to become clerk of tho ntato Biipremo court. Since election ho has boon tho governor's secretary without com pensation. Governor Wilson found Tumulty in tho legislature, where ho had served four terms whon Wilson was elected. Since then Tumulty has boon Wilson's most intimate counselor. He was roared In a tonoment district ward in Jersey City, his father being an iron molder in poor circumstances. Drought up in an utmosphere of hard, practical politics, ho developed a pro gressive democracy that was at its height when Wilson became governor. This attracted the ox-collogo president to him. Tumulty was edu cated in parochial schools and St. Pctor's col logo, Jorsoy City, and studied law in a law offlco. Ton years ago ho was admitted to tho bar. Ho is married and is. the father of four girls and two boys. & & S SPEAKING of Mr. Tumulty, Henry C. Rich mond, chiof clerk of tho Nebraska house of representatives said: "From my acquaintance with him I should think that a more model se lection could not havo boon made. Mr. Tumulty is a progressive democrat and is temperamental ly qualified and thoroughly educated. I do not think that any president over had a better sec rotary than Mr. Tumulty will make. J remem ber how much sympathy ho showed with regard to affairs affecting this section of tho country, and I noted that ho showed a keen insight into and understanding of, tho things which most men in his position only havo a superficial knowledge of. Mr. Tumulty is only a youn man but ho is gifted far beyond tho ordinary man. He is a magnificent typo of young Ameri can manhood. Ho was born and raised in Jer sey City and knows tho ups and downs of re publican politics as well as any man in tho kln?lvy wiSSi18 8tring Wlllocl and reSDlut0 but Kindly withal, and bo sympa'thotic and con- Unukltho0ifllhnenBl:tS f ?"" WPll thSl tmuk ho is an ideal man for tho position If tho time comes whon tho president wishes to do Son 1 ? tho,cabinot I a predict he win do ngthing to bring reproach upon our now president. Mr. Tumulty, in my opinfon win evVrh,atCSt CCCretary that W nt has 2,000 miles from tho mouth of tho Amazon. Ocean steamers are already running regularly as far as tho lattor place. The cost of the A nazon-Paciflc, as it is called, is estimated at $10,000,000, on which tho government of Peru guarantees six per cent under security of in come from tho tobacco tax. The route of tho road is through a wonderfully productive region but quite undeveloped. What does this new trade route mean to the United States? Briefly, it will be possible for shipments of rubber, hard woods, and hundreds of tropical products from tho upper Amazon region to reach us directly via the port of Callao and the Panama canal and vice versa. To Peru, it means the exchange of eastern and western products within three of four days instead of six months' time and 20,000 miles of travel via tho Amazon and Europe. The promoters hope to complete the road by tho time the Panama canal is officially inaugurated. J? & jfi nnilE Chinese aro proud of large families, and JL a largo family living together under ono roof is accepted as assurance of peace and pros perity. A writer in Tid-Bits says: A largo family which is ablo to live together without dividing up tho property always receives much credit and is highly respected. It is ono of tho highest distinctions in China to havo Wu Fu T ung T'ang, or five generations, under ono roof, although such a distinction is attained by very few According to a recent census, tho family of Meng Yu Shih, a widow, of the village of Manlao, in tho territory of Lei-hai-wei. has tha distinction of being tho largest in the ?and Her family consists of 60 members, and with ono servant, there aro 67 mouths to be fed hSSf Yu ?hih ls sixty-six years old' aud nas nlno sous and numerous grandchildren nn,i great-grandchildren, all living" under hereof She has not yot attained tho ambition of beinr o1Gheraf(lm0nvU Fl T'U,ng T'a, but the 8S Smi J am,,y i1?8 alreadv Siven her tho honor an 1 pleasure of being tho largest in China even if F.he has not live generations under one roof lhoro are many households with more than 40 w C 6 & J5 A'SKSS'I Arw .. liam A. Roid, a nowsnanm- r-nr,,.,'." , ,-nmnn,in,, J"? .ltu considerable nnviotv for1 the nronLUa and Insistent demands evening. They" enteral thl0m 5 tho oth mony to And an Rh, rm without cere- PaJamassSinrinrrnLanf hifl ously into the house tSlnSS king vigor abashed tho littln pK L6.1?0', Quit un- iL aTm y rau is described by Wil- thta wai- To'fifn n0W8PftPr correspondent, in mis way: lo tho averaKo renrW nn n ' v that were recently flashed over the oS, T Lima, Peru, havo little or n i ,s from "Work begun on YucayaH Sld an! world at largo has never heard of Lvi, T 1G qulsca; yet, this Peruvian town i ?itSyllftr.,B" workmena great undertniHJ itee,mins w,th boginning-anterXe X " ?hich tt, lUl economic and comn ercial com uLl l Itant undergo radical changes "on 2! li on5 aro to Is to bo tho slogan of this imnJVh? YucaW which in plain wo?dsIg nS u'W rftil routo Paciflc coast by rai with ti,J i? 1,,nlclns of Amazon river. All tho worh?a?Wators Qf the wonderful Oroya railroad p knows of the dimculties which bese71;G0fJ;; a,,ld of tho in pushing its rails tc tho Ba lo, MoiSs known to railroading its n test hoIShta summit of tho moi fains L rf reached tho have been extended ZnzuL, Vl? Vm l)olt descent of the eastern fi S?" Y tho not attomptod. Now, tho cafi" ' S Was means that tho last obstacle L"G ltioucd abo and that work has actual v S been amoved larisquisca is the northSn ffm0.ncod- Go Oroya railroad, from which no1n?,nUB of the work will be 'pushed eastwnv?i constl,ction North American capital , ds YaMy as will command. Tlfo distanco01;1? maInery from tho Oroya road Is ab0l n 270 'li Yucaya11 rlvor port of Pucalnn i mIles to the 2,000-ton BteamoPte uTS,? latter PlSS Peruvian city of greatGco?nnScli? induce abashed tho little n , ,eph0e- Quito un Said hfi: 4'm TOliLSM to explain down stairs an hour a7o nSt , My paPa went back. My mamma is home lnh r,?11' come want somebody to say nri C1cInati. I go to sleep." Here 7s a nyin ay0r8,t0 eo J ca mother in Cincinna 1 has tb,y f Whom th Proud. Most little boys wonfSi1 reaK80n t0 stricken at the very idL ?hl? haV0 boGn Pani natural to WHUo Lckson MSeemed Poctly most "big boys." But mail t8? ncJthlng of a living God and he , i Z I Jackson's God is .lovo and revTen'ce180111110 ShW hI" Vi lie Jackson no better than ibof6 Can w!sh Obbe the man his boypA; $ J5 & WHAT the Los Angeles Triii,i f . first step toward m m e rgards as Is involved in House Bn F&iK I y desPotism congress. Tho Tribune says- Itw Pding an expense of untold milE ou,d Saddlo make of the UWted 1 Sutes an a"011' ad Russia, it might ultimately if ,Camp llk Romo and other dead nations tpi5 hIajtory oi destroy our government teaches anything ot individual recttt ?Zla2Zl P& bill would pay enlisted mon and officer nf i national guards salaries from $45 to $?rn month, tho burden totaling somo $15 000 La But as the thing grew, as it would by K' ng hordes into an easy, life, the expense 2t increase to any proportions. All over AmoS the. citizen militiamen, now organized on 2 emergency, defensive basis, would become nm lessional soldiers on an offensive basis tw are 118,000 men in our state m They would become a part of the regular army By the provisions of the bill the president could instantly order all or any part of these to any part of the national domain. Think for a mo. ment, too, of the political power of this vast military establishment if once its potential force should be brought to favor some measure for its own aggrandizement. The dangers lurking in this bill, and merely hinted at here, are not too remote to consider- seriously. General Wood General Bliss and others hare been maklnc speeches advocating the very thing planned by this measure. Wood urged it during his recent visit to Los Angeles. Militarism has ever been a most insidious danger to a free people, and America is not too strong to fall a prev to its designing schemes. ' S & a ONE man has been discovered that never heard of Theqdore Roosevelt. A writer in the New York Journal says: Step forth, Karl Koudlka, aspirant, for naturalization, and let a palpitating nation gaze upon you! Though you failed to satisfy the presiding judge that you knew enough United States history to become a citizen, yet you wrote your name largo in the .,,: fme Havin& blithely answered that William Taft is president, you thereby proved that you were neither deaf, nor dumb, nor blind. Ana thus, In full possession of theso God-given faculties, you listened to this "A B C" of ques tions: 'Do you know anything about Theo dore .Roosevelt?" "No," you said. Moreover, you had not heard of him, neither had you read or mm He was and is to you stranger than tnc contents of your favorite Hungarian goulash t?? t?S' -m?0 not WeeP and enasb your teeth, liar Koudlka; you may never become a citizen Sne8? nitGd States but a Prouder honor is f ' , 70u can sav: "! am unique. Ono in one hundred million I alone do not know who uieodoro Roosevelt is!" wi s A N EFFORT made in the Nebraska legisla ,rl) V Protect a law from "judicial legis tr!', B descrIed by the Lincoln (Neb.) q?-v wn 1 is way: Senotop Cordeal's "Bluo Rlinrnm W,th th following Which tllO ?dmn?i COlirt Is exPected to look upon as an ihl ?Z nlVon '")m thG People to deal gently with dflci?rnPn f the Jature: "Should the courts thS .fany Section' or any Pal't of a section, of l?w n, uncnstitutional or unauthorized by of i " ?nflIct wIth a"y other section or part Mhon,of a 8ection or Provision of this seoHnn il 8UC5 decisin shall affect only the l?f ,of sub-division of a section, or Shan irS S0,de.cIared to bo unconstitutional, and Part nr A? ,a?y other sectlon or any other Sf thiS niS T18!011 of a sectlon or Provision each Lph' U Ib, furtaer expressly provided that Section 1 T ia"1 each Part of sub-division of a section nneIn is indePendent of every other a P?Hnn yery other Part or subdivision of sub-diiSSnn nd not any 8QCtIon or any part or the i a sectIon te an inducement for sub dlvSCnt f any other section or Part or lertalai SS if a fiection'" In other words tho SlrS ?n5.WB what is doing in every Son S? f the W11 and is not accepting one tion nn2? 1 means of getting some othor sec thePrnwf.d' JKiB an interesting evidence of hand? n? ?f d08ire t0 keeP legislation in the tho couns PePl and out of the IiandS f & J8 Jt O P??,,for,mer President of Venezuela, was o(Nivai?ed lunch DV Governor Sulzer a irrioY 1 irk'. The formGr President is doing ?nf0rnDMdeal I taing, and some of it decidedly WorM ?ff V ,,Ho. PrePaTed for the New York w oria the following statement: "To defend the alk.v n Jfrtijjjjtj1H
