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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence,
The charge is made that Mr.
Roosevelt “flirted** with the lily
white organization and encouraged
its members m believe that they
could count on him for support un
til he made up his mind that they
could not “deliver the goods” and
that then he abandoned them and
turned to the old line colored or-
organizations for support. The
“whites’* now claim that they can
see a possible chance for victory
ahead provided they can count on
co-operation from Washington; but
that they cannot depend on Mr.
Roosevelt and they could on Mr.
Hanna. Postmaster General Payne
says that the president will not
countenance an effort on the part of
republicans in any part of the coun
try to deprive duly qualified voters
from exercising their political rights.
That sentiment the southern repub
licans characterize as very beauti
ful and Quixotic but' eutirely too
fhiraerieal for practical politics.
Whether the insurgents will be able
to effeot anything in the nationul
convention it is impossible to fore
tell, but it is belieNed by many poli
ticians that the senator from Ohio
would welcome any disaffection
whioh would warrant his assuming
the republican leadership.
The president, encouraged by the
attitude of the people towards his
Cuban policy, has sent General Bliss
to Havana armed with all the pow
ers of a minister plenipotentiary to
•onolude a reciprocal treaty with
Cuba. This treaty provides that
here shall be no reduction of Cuban
mties on imports from the United
States but that there shall be an in
crease of all duties by 60 per cent
a goods coming into Cuba from
ther countries. This, it is ealeu-
< i,ted, will give the United States a
i monopoly of the Cuban trade, and
ia return General Bliss is authorized
i grant a concession of 26 per cent,
if' necessary, from the Dingley rates
•a imports from Cuba.
That the Cuban treaty, even if
•< tcoesBfully negotiated, will be rati-
<iad with as little difficulty as the
,u’osident seems to anticipate does
•cot seem to be the opinion of some
• •ftbe members of his party. It is,
• •’ course, true that a" large number
: ihe voters have expressed them-
i- cjlves in favor of the policy, but the
|»«ef sugar trust has not and Mr.
Henry T. Oxnard has come to
iVhwhingcob to see about it. Mr.
Oxnard has taken a house in which
‘ i) will be able to entertain as lav-
i hly as he did last winter. That
ir. Oxnard intends to oppose the
: licy of the president is a foregone
• delusion. That he considers that
• ie ohanees of success are good is
• (-tally certain. With the matter
’ iuing only before the senators,
mm are less direotly responsible to
' to people than are the representa-
i «**«, he will find it easier to influ-
<•'•()« votes. The policy of the oppo-
• "ntd, in so far as it is outlined, will
• ) t > make it a condition of a vote
f 'V the Cuban treaty that a vote be
pledged for some of the other reoip-
»• 'dity treaties to which the various
I mo tooted interests are bitterly op-
I 'sed, and thus it is hoped to defeat
u I reciprocal legislation.
“The speakership contest has nar-
r >ived itself down to a fight be-
i Mon revisionists and anti-tariff re
vise mists,” said Representative Pal-
!**’ 1 the other day. Of course Mr.
1> > zsll represents the anti-revision-
Dr. Dalzell proposes to fight
f.o the bitter end, but aside from the
Pennsylvania delegation there are
J> / who regard his chances as at all
>od. There are already 88 votes
pledged to Mr. Gannon, out of a
| Mceosary 104, and it is estimated
i v b ime that there are 32 more
\ 'ioh are favorable to the represen-
> ii'o'from Illinois. ''
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Preaching and Practicing.
Macon Telegraph.
As a preacher of public morality,
civic duty and private integrity,
President Roosevelt is a distinct
success. He says fine things and
says them well, for he is our most
literary president. The astute ob
server can see him carefully working'
his choicest periods into shape be-
forehandi for manifestly they are too
good for the mere extempore plat
form. At the chamber of commerce
dinner in New York, for example,
Mr. Roosevelt said:
“There are very different kinds of
success. There is the success that
brings with it the seared soul—the
success which is achieved by wolfish
greed and vulpine cunning—the suc
cess whioh makes honest men uneasy
or indignant in its presence. Then
there is the other kind of success—
the success whioh homes us the re
ward of keen insight, of sagacity, of
resolution, of address combined with
unflinching rectitude of behavior,
public and private. The first kind
of success may* in a sense—and a
poor sense at that—benefit the indi
vidual, but it is always and necessa
rily a curse to the community.”
Presumably the success described
in that excellent phrase, “wolfish
greed and vulpine cunning,” iH the
success of the all-devouring trustB
against which the president made
several very fine speeches early in
September, and then helplessly (or
with careless design) declared that
before anything oould be done it
would be necessary to define a trust,
intimating fhat nobody oould tell
which were the bsd ones and which
wore the good ones, or even what a
trust is, thus leaving his own fine
speeches suspended, aB it were, in
the air.
Other inspiring utterances and
exhortations, referring to patriotic
duty in publio life, that are worth
framing and hanging up in every
politician's office, are the following:
“There must be no compromise
with official corruption.”
“We caunot trust those
things who treat politics only tt- ..
game out of which to wring a sn;
livelihood.”
“The real and dangerous Lu r.
the corrupt politician.”
“No man who is corrupt, no man
who condones corruptness in others,
can possibly do his duty by the
oomraunity.”
“No amount of intelligence and
no amount of energy will save a na
tion Which is not honest, and no
government can ever be a perma
nent suooess if administered in ac
cordance with base ideas.”
“We need fearless criticism of our
publio men and our publio parties;
we need unsparing oriticism of all
persons and all principles that count
for evil in our publio life.”
“The ounce of performance out
weighs the ton of promise.”
How admirable! And yet, taking
these noble sentiments in connection
with the Auddicks affair, President
Roosevelt appears to be convicted
out of his own eloquent mouth. Ac
cording to all accounts, Addioks of
Delaware is that very breeder of
“offioial corruption,” that very “dan
gerous foe” against whioh the presi
dent hurls his polished periods.
And certainly the respectable repub
licans of- his own state denounce
him in unmeasured terms and ap
peal to the president against him
and his growth of power through
odious means. Nevertheless a Roose-
velt-AddickB combine has come to
pass, as a result, it is whispered, of
the fact that Addicks is in a posi
tion to lead the biggest delegation
to the republican convention in
1904. And everybody is reminded
of the president’s own pointed say
ing:
“The ounce of performance out
weighs the ton of promise!” This
should now read: “An ounce of
practice is worth a ton of preach
ing,”
We do not write this in partisan
glee, but in ,genuine regret that
President Roosevelt’s fine utterances
should be robbed of so much of
their power for good among the
people at large by his'own failure to
apply them when put to a crucial
test.
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Items of Interest.
During the last year 80,000 Jews
emigrated from Roumania.
A New York woman is making j
$7,600 a year teaching whist.
It is not as cold in Newfoundland ;
as in New Brunswick or Quebec.
Genuine frankincense is produced
only in Arabia and a part of East
Africa.
It is said that in Memphis one in
six of the male adults carries a re
volver.
During their migration thousands
of birds die in the neighborhood of
every lighthouse.
It takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end of the
Atlantic cable to the other.
More than seventeen million pu
pils attended the public schools in
the United States last year.
The Potomac river is only 600
miles long, and in its lower course is
rather an estuary than a stream.
Kites are now being used instead
of balloons on board Russian war
vessels for observation purposes.
An elephant’s sense of smell is so
delicate that the animal can scent a
human being at a distance of 1,000
yards.
A German manufacturer has in
vented slippei’B made of paper,which
are finding ready sale among hotel
keepers.
The earliest library was that of
Nebuchadnezzar. Every book was
a brick engraved with cuneiform
characters.
Including policemen, pressmen,
bakers, postal employes and market
people, at least 120,000 people are
working all night in London.
The cheapest postal service in the
world is that of Japan, where for
seven-tenths of a penny letters are
conveyed all over the empire.
Fifteen years ago a German do
mestic servant, now aged 22, swal
lowed a hairpin. It was recently ex
tracted from her leg at Marienburg.
The biggest mail order business in
i v "i world last year did $123,000,000
1 i) isinees. It was Uncle Sam’s post
• li -j business that accomplished it.
Berkley, near San Francisco, a
town of 20,000 inhabitants, which is
the peat of the University of Califor
nia, contains no public houses and
has no policemen.
At Hammerfest, Norway, the sun
does not set for 28 times 24 hours.
During that time the natives have
only about four hours of sleep out of
24, aud do not seem to want more.
According to Dr. Pinard, of Paris,
many careless persons catch conta
gious diseases by taking off their
dusty shoes and then sitting down
to a meal without washing their
hands.
The people of the United States
have in their possession one-fourth
of all the gold there is in the world,
and about one fourth of all the good
things in the world also, remarks an
exchange.
A Leipsio physician expresses the
opinion that on aoconnt of the deli
cate sense of touch, blind persons
are specially qualified for practicing
massage. In J apan this is done very
largely.
In 1889 every child in the public
schools cost Prussia six dollars a
year. To-day the cost is $12. The
total sum expended last year on
publio schools was nearly sixty-seven
million dollars.
If a thin coat of white paint is
put on the outside of a screen door
or window it will effectively obscure
the view from outdoors. The paint
is scarcely perceptible even on the
outside, and from within cannot be
seen at all.
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