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THE ATLANTJAN 21 THE WAY IT IS SAID. The Sultan awoke with a stifled scream, His nerves were shocked by a fearful dream. An omen of terrible import and doubt, His teeth all in one moment fell out. His wise men assembled at break of day, And stood at the throne in solemn ar ray; And when the terrible dream was told, Each felt a shudder, his blood ran cold. And all stood silent, in fear and dread, And wondering what was next to be said. At length a soothsayer, wrinkled and gray, Cried: "Pardon, my lord, what I have to say; ’Tis an omen of sorrow sent from on high. Thou shalt see all thy kindred die.” Wroth was the Sultan, he gnashed his teeth; And his very words seemed to hiss and seethe As he ordered the wise man bound with chains, And gave him a hundred stripes for his pains. The wise men shook as the Sultan’s eye Swept ’round to see who next would try; But one of them, stepping before the throne, Exclaimed in the loud and joyous tone: “Exult, 0 head of a happy estate! Rejoice, O heir of a glorious fate! For this is the favor thou shalt win, O, Sultan, to outlive all thy kin!” Pleased was the Sultan, and called a slave And a hundred crowns to the wise man gave. But the courtiers nod, with grave, sly winks, And each one whispers what each one thinks. "Well can the Sultan reward and blame; Didn’t both the wise men foretell the same?” Quoth the crafty old Vizier, shaking his head, “So much may depend on the way a thing is said.” THE PROTEST OF A DEPEN DENT. Patrick Henry charged that our pe titions had been hurled with contempt from the foot of the throne, and he ar gued from this premise that rebellion was justified. A representative of the ten million people inhabiting a thou sand islands on the other side the earth presents claims and petitions on the floors of our representative halls that have been endorsed by our presi dent, and they receive neither notice nor regard, while our house of repre sentatives embodies a scheme of taxa tion into law. That law will tax the Filipino as well as the American—it will enhance the cost of living to the Malay and the Igorrote, who were not represented when the rate was pre scribed and the burden imposed. That the complaint and petition may be founded on justice we accept on the authority of President Taft, who should know whereof he speaks, since he was governor of the Philippines before he was president of the United States. Thus the whirligig of time brings back its revenges. It was tyranny when Great Britain taxed us without representation, and the ancestors of Mr. Taft were heard in New England on the subject we doubt not. Now Mr. Taft must enforce the same law on others, but we would be amazed if a Patrick Henry in Manila denounced him as a tyrant and declared us op pressors and robbers. But if we be guilty, it is necessary that a Filipino Patrick Henry arise to acuse us? Is the nation that claims to have fought a great war to free a black man to insist on the oppression of a brother j tinged with yellow? If we are to J claim credit for emancipation, might it not be well that we took some pains to preserve a reputation bought at a price so dear that the genera tion which incurred the penalty could not pay the damages? That little speech from a little Fili pino in a hall where a Republican ma jority sat enthroned as the guardian of our national morality as well as our law, will not escape notice when the history of our day is written. It has been said that a whole nation was moved to discharge a debt of con science in 1861, and did not hesitate at the price exacted—have we deteri orated when in 1909 we refuse to dis regard the opportunity to collect a few thousand dollars from a people poor and ignorant and helpless? If there was a great awakening of the public conscience for the days of Roosevelt,are we to understand that the elevation still leaves us so far below the stan dard set in the day of Lincoln? Then we did not hesitate when required to spend billions and to sacrifice thou sands of lives; today the justice of that day would only demand the loss of a few hundreds of revenue that we could recover by the practice of un noticed economies in the growing of roses in the White House grounds. Times change and men change with them, but language flows on forever. It is proposed that we guarantee the political integrity of the Philippines if somebody will help us, confessing that we find no profit in governing the the islands. We are assured by the Filipinos that we are doing them no good, but rather retarding their busi ness and intellectual progress. Once we defended the acquisition of the is lands by claiming a motive to do good —that claim is now dropped. Next we proposed to hold the islands and the people, because they would make us rich in the years to come—we are im poverishing ourselves in peace, and would be unable to defend them in Caster (Greetings We are now ready to supply you with your EASTER SHOES Some of the latest styles and makes on the market. Men’s Women Misses Children PRICES TO SUIT ALL Agents for Laird, Schober & Co. Ladies’ Shoes. Edwin Clapp & Son, Men’s Give Us a Call R. C. BLACK, 35 Whitehall case of war. No other claim is ad vanced to justify continued posses sion, but we hurl back the petitions of those dependents with contempt from the halls of congress. "No man is good enough to own another” or to govern him without his consent. The Hartford Times (Dem.) says: “Champ Clark’s opinion about the new tariff being distasteful might well raise the question as to when the tariff has been palatable to many, or all, or even the majority. The tariffs of 1816 and 1824 were nettles. The Whig tariff of 1842 was full of exasperations. The Walker tariff of 1846 did please many, and after eleven years was materially reduced, but it disconcerted the revenues in ways that embarrassed. The tariff of 1883 was an abortion and pleased no one in either party. The McKinley act of 1890 raised duties beyond any point hitherto known—to an average of 50 per cent—and the Mills bill’s average of duties was also about 42 per cent. The Wilson and Wilson-Gorman measures awoke all sorts of dissen sion and changed fond dreams to nightmares. The Dingley tariff ought to please all who believe in a high ly protective measure, but it is plain that it fails to do so. As for the Payne bill, it is well to look at it sharp, as when it passes it may be unrecog nizable.” R. H. BELL, Shoe Repairing 46 Walton Street Both Phones 5044 First Class Work. All Work Guaranteed Called for and Delivered Or Done While You Wait