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The Commoner.
VOLUME 13, NUMBER W
Cardinal Gibbons ban Issued a
statoment declaring that ho Is op
posed to woman suffrage. Ho says,
howover, that tho Catholic church
has taken no position on tho matter.
Governor William H. Mann, of Vir
ginia, submitted to an operation for
appendicitis. Ho is well on the road
to recovery.
Tho Cuban senato and house, In
Joint session, havo proclaimed Gen.
Juan Mario Menocal and Enriquo
Jose Varona olected president and
vico president of tho republic re
spectively. They will bo inaugu
rated at noon May 20.
One hundred miners lost their
lives in an explosion in a mine near
Finleyvlllo, Ponn.
Tho Montenegrins captured Scu
tari and tho powers aTo having con
siderable apprehension over them.
Tho Austro-IIungarlan government
has submitted proposals to the
powers for tho application of drastic
moasures to coihpol tho Montenegrins
to evacuato Scutari.
A Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch, carried
by the Associated Press says: The
judiciary commltteo of tho assembly
was instructed to draft nnimuimpntH
to Arizona's anti-alien land owner-J
ship law, enacted last year and a
situation similar to that in Califor
nia is forcasted by expressions of
opinion on the floor. Those favor
ing the amendment of tho law in
such manner as to make its pro
visions apply only to aliens ineligible
for citizenship in the United States
apparently were in the majority.
The present law, prohibiting owner
ship of land in Arizona by anv alien.
has aroused vigorous protest among
wealthy Mexicans in the state. Their
attention was directed to the law by
the California situation. The matter
was taken up in the lower house and
those who desired the rigid enforce
ment of the present law wero out
voted. Tho amendment desired
would exempt foreigners who have
already -established property rights
in the state from the prohibitions of
the law and legislators wore of the
opinion that the ineligibility clause
would also bo inserted.
Missouri because of antagonistic
legislation which they assert ha
been enacted and which seriously in
terferes with, their business. More
than sixty-two insurance companies
were represented at the meeting.
Tho action of the western insurance
bureau follows a similar decision
taken recently at Philadelphia by the
western insurance union. It is said
the two organizations write about 90
per cent of the insurance in Missouri.
A Los Angeles dispatch says that
Ortie McManigal, the confessed
dynamiter and informer, who has
been a prisoner since April, 1911,
will be released in thirty days.
A Pittsburgh, Pa., dispatch, car
ried by the Associated. Press, says:
Tho western insurance bureau, head
ing an annual convention here, de
cided to withdraw from the state of
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ADDRESS, THE COMMONER, LINCOLN, NEB.
Governor Sulzer of New York, has
appointed John Mitchell, labor
leader, to be state labor commis
sioner of New York.
Railroad firemen "were granted an
increase in pay of from 10 to 12 per
cent by the award of the Erdman act
arbitration board of New York city.
THE HUMAN FACTOR
In reviving a practice out of use
for one hundred and twelve years,
President Wilson did not revive any
of the state and ceremonial which
accompanied the methods of Wash
ington and Adams. These probably
deterred Thomas Jefferson, the
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the apostle of political simplicity,
iuuugu ptu-Honauy one or tne most
fastidious of aristocrats, quite as
much as the reasons he gave for not
appearing in person as the vehicle
of his own messages. Simplicity is
also the Wilson ideal.
But that simplicity is made per
fectly consistent with his keen de
sire to keep himself and his func
tions in the closest personal touch
with the important business which
is transacted in the two houses of
congress. He wished, in his" own
experience, "to verify for myself the
impression that the president of the
United States is a person, not a mere
department of the government hail
ing congress from some Isolated
island of jealous power,
that llO q n hlimnrt ha(nn 4-ott4.,
co-operate with other human beings
in a common service." Such was the
overture to the reading of his mes
sage, which was followed by his
prompt exit from the hall of audi
ence. The Intimate human factor as be
tween the executive-and the legisla
ture, in its common spontaneous
working, presents an ideal much to
be commended. The two can work
together, no doubt, with much better
results, wherever and whenever, that
can be done without encroaching on
prerogative or seeming to do so, an
alternative- almost as bad. This dan
ger, of course, can always be averted
by political tact, one of the rarest of
virtues, however. We all assume
that President Wilson will develop
this bland solvent and emollient as
often as political intimacy, which
would be so molded and colored by
personal idiosyncrasy, breaks out in
eruptions on the skin, as irritating
sometimes as deep-seated disease
Government certainly should be
more than a machine, however per
fect of its sort, its parts more vital
and close related than mere me
chanical parts. To bring this about
in a degree larger than has hitherto
been the vogue is assuredly a worthy
ideal, creditable to a man of ideals
who has shown himself a little dia
dainful of the humrimm nn A ! 51?
rifled in public life, and determined
to p force to the heart of things Tho
president displayed a good deal of
this as governor of New Jersey, and
injected a vitality into affairs which
they had not known for years own
though he sometimes flourished IS2
2LfF" '?, n? fl8t' "hue he brSn!
dished the olive branch in the other
He made things very interesting
The country will look forward S
the liveliest curiosity and SSSesT to
that achievement on a ern? !?;
Which a man rtf H ?r,at fS.
f oT1nrf iiq'I mi&T.ni-
..wuuo wttwuvR projected on
small stage in fife human and intfi
-.v.uur .t! every aonarr.
ment of government. New York
Commercial. ur
TRAINED IN DIPLOMACY
The new ambassador to England
hath a very pretty wit. O. Henry's
remark that "Walter Pago can write
a letter declining a contribution with
thanks, and word it so sweetly that
you can take it to a bank and raise
money on It as an evidence of money
to come," is conflrme'd by this letter
of acceptance written by Mr. paRe
Shenu,ne WM editor of th AtlanUc
Monthly:
"My Dear Madame You tako re
jection so sweetly that it is a posi
tive sorrow to be forced to tell you
that vour storv in nntimaffioMii-
accepted." u,lwwv"li,
Diplomacy is nothing new to a
magazine editor. Baltimore Sun.
HEADED OFF
"Did you tell her when you pro
posedno her that you were unworthy
of her? That always makes a hit
with them."
"I was going to, but she told it to
me first." Houston Post.
A MODEL GRADUATE
"I wonder why that chap is always
so quiet?"
"Well, you see, he- graduated from
the school of experience, and that
institution has no college yell."-H
St. Paul Dispatch.-
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