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First Stupendous Blunder
of the New Demo
cratic Party
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Members in Congress Have Voted to Degrade the United States
From Third Place as a Naval Power to Fifth Place.
The Democratic caucus in the House voted Wednesday night,
70 to 62, NOT TO AUTHORIZE THE BUILDING OE ANY MORE
BATTLESHIPS FOR THE NAVY.
By a majority of eight votes the Democrats in Congress have
thus definitely decided to degrade the United States from third
place as a naval power to fifth place.
The American navy is now excelled only by that of Great
Britain and Germany.
The Democrats in Congress have voted to make it inferior to
England's, Germany's, France’s and Japan’s. The Democrats
have voted to make the Mikado's fleet mistress of the Pacific
Ocean.
In any future diplomatic controversy with the ambitious, ex
panding, restless, scheming, conquering race, and in the defense
of the Panama Canal, we shall have a nation to depend solely upon
the art of diplomacy, in which all Orientals excel, but we shall
be without a proper fleet to maintain our rights or to protect
our possessions.
To oppose strength with weakness at sea is to make a present
of our guns and ships to any strong Power that combats us.
To refuse to build new battleships is NOT economy, as a few
ignorant and small representatives believe it; it is wasteful in the
highest degree, for it throws away the hundreds of millions already
wisely spent to bring our magnificent navy to the present splendid
condition of adequacy and efficiency.
It is like building forts or factories at enormous expense and
then closing them and allowing the machinery to rust and decay.
A navy that is not maintained is destroyed.
The decision of the Democratic caucus Wednesday night is the
first stupendous blunder the party has made since it regained con
trol of congress. It will greatly weaken the pa fy in the coining
campaign, and Governor Wilson will—if he is wise—mitigate the
blunder in his speech of acceptance next month.
Not to do so is to put a dangerous weapon in the hands of Mr.
Taft and of Air. Roosevelt, who will say that the present modern
navy, founded by the Democratic party in 1885 by Secretary Whit
ney under President Cleveland, was FOUNDERED by the Demo
cratic congress in 1912.
Money Hunger Aids the
Slick Swindlers
Government reports show that $120,000,000 has been stolen
from the public during the last year by swindlers operating through
the mails.
The old fraud order method of stopping these swindles has
proven useless. Those against whom the order was issued merely
changed their names and their addresses, and then stole more mon
ey from the great American seeker after wealth.
The government is now trying to protect people from their own
folly by bringing charges against the swindlers. This may, and
probably will, have a deterrent effect, and, perhaps, it will curb
some of the cruder sorts of swindlers. But the trouble about this
is the fact that those who are swindled are in the main themselves
responsible for the condition that the government faces.
Those who part with their money are men and women who are
seeking an inordinate return from a small investment. They are
people who listen to the fairy tale of 50, 100 and even 500 per cent
dividends. They are people who want to invest a thousand dollars
and get two thousand dollars a year income from it.
In France, England and Germany, where such swindles are a
rarity, investors are satisfied with 3 or 4 per cent, and elaborate
investigations are made before money is risked in anything outside
of government securities.
But in the United States the hunger for money is so great that
the victim readily falls a prey to any specious promise from a crim
inal, and that is the reason why green goods, wire tapping, fake
stocks and other get-rich-quick methods are popular and profitable
to their vendors.
Uncle Sam a Keen Real Es
tate Dealer
Have you ever thought of Uncle Sam as a real estate dealer?
Do you realize that he has bought about two and a quarter millions
square miles of good land at an average of a little more than five
cents an acre, and incidentally ousted from North America every
nation except England ?
All his business has been done on a big scale. Back in 1803 he
hung out his shingle, and liis first client was Napoleon, who sold
him 875,000 square miles for $15,000,000. The territory then pur
chased was eighteen times larger than the Empire State, and eon
tained some of the richest mines and prairie lands in the world;
yet it went for a trifle less than three cents an acre.
From Ferdinand VII. of Spain, Uncle Sam acquired Florida for
five and a half millions, or a trifle more than twelve cents an acre
In 1848 M exico ceded to Uncle Sam land embracing the present
states of Arizona. California and New Mexico for four and one-half
cents an acre.
Along in 1853 Mexico got slo.ooo.o<>o for an additional 36,000
square miles, the top price ever paid. Fourteen years later we pur
chased Alaska from Russia. Uncle Sam's latest acquisition was the
buying of the Philippines for twenty cents an acre
Has the buyer made money? Every square mile of this land
which has been homesteaded yields a profit of $lO4 an acre, or
nearly 200 per cent.
No longer can good land be bought at bargain figures, which
proves that Uncle Sain has been a good investor.
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Giving a Little Time to Thoughts of Life to Come
Copyright, 1912, bj American-Journal-Examiner.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
IT is a great thing to give a por
tion of each clay to thoughts of
the life to conic', and to realms
v hieh lie all about us, near, while
invisible.
It is fertilization of the spiritual
nature to think of those who have
passed on. and to picture regions
of beauty and glory immortal. But
to do this to the neglect of this life,
and the living people of earth, is
sinful.
How can a reasonable human be
ing expect to dwell In heaven, in
continual felicity with angels, who
is dwelling on earth in constant
di.-cord with friends and relatives?
We must practice the heavenly
role right here on earth, and we
must make our homes and our gar
dens beautiful before wo can expect
to be given gleaming mansions and
golden st rents above.
We must be tender and tolerant
and patient toward the living, or
we will not find peace and joy with
t lie dead.
And we must broaden our minds
on < very topic which tends toward
making the earth more agreeable
for the living.
it is a crying sin against the
hosts of suffering human beings to
give so much valuable fertile soil
to the use <>f dead bodies.
If all the cemeteries of New Eng
land were plowed up and the soil
given to the poor to cultivate, there
would be no need of alms houses,
cremation dees cleanly, quickly and
kindly what burial requites years
to accomplish, in a disgusting, slow
ami dreadful manner.
Burial of bodies pollutes the
earth and monopolizes it.
fortunately, the progr ssive and
sensible minds of the world are all
In favor of cremation.
Recently In England the body of
tl< Right Rev. Charles William
Stubbs was cremated, and the urn
containing the ashes was placed in
th" niche of Truro cathedral.
It Mas an epoch of progress of
England, as it was the tli'kt time
a bishop had been cremated.
<me of the prominent English
dailies said of this event:
MONDAY. JULY 29. 1912.
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ELLA vVHEELER WILCOX.
"The growth of public opinion,
especially the intellectual side of
it, in favor of cremation as the
wisest and most sanitary means
of disposing of the dead has been
most striking in recent years, and
nowhere more so than among the
clergy of the Church of England
and ministers of other denomina
tions themselves. Even at West
minster Abbey it is now the rule
-due to lack of space—that only
the ashes of the distinguished
dead shall be placed there.
Since the Cremation Society of
England was first formed in 1885,
the remains of many distinguished
people have been cremated. To
take the names of a few clergy
men and ministers we find the fol
lowing:
"The Ven. Archdeacon W. H.
Tribe, the Ven. Archdeacon A. S.
Aglen, 11. I)., Canon Henry Shut
tleworth, Canon Robinson Duck
worth. Canon W. H Cooper. Canon
G. Ratu mien, the Rev. Brooke
lambert, M A the Rev H R.
Haweis. M. A . the Rev. Norman
Ma< cod E‘rrers, I>. Ir, the Rev.
Brook Herford, l> I>. the Rev, J,
P. Hopps, Hie Rev. H. C. .Marriott.
"The records also contain the
names of many titled persons and
officers of the army and navy."
The ceremony of cremation robs
the last rites given to the dead
of more than half their horrors.
The imaginative mind, however
religious, is tortured by thoughts
of the body of a dear one slowly
rotting beneath the mound of
earth, and such thoughts must,
and do. distract the mind from
ideals of the spiritual home of the
departed soul.
When there is nothing remain
ing of the corporeal frame but a
little heap of ashes, the thoughts
must soar to planes beyond the
earth to find a resting place with
i the beloved one.
Cremation leaves the earth for
the uses of the living, and does
away with the expensive and use
less monuments which cumber
valuable ground and do no good
to living or dead.
Those who desire to erect some
monument to the memory of their
dear dead can find useful and
humane and ornamental ways of
doing so.
An arch which will beautify a
city street: a drinking fountain for
thirsty and toiling animals; a
scholarship In some college; a free
bed in some hospital: a playground
for poor children, are a few of
many ideas which can create a no
ble memorial to the dead and still
leave our mother earth clean and
sweet to nourish her living chil
dren.
If a little child of wealth passes
on. what better monument to her
memory could her parents make
than a permanent contribution to
the fresh air fund, which would
send the child of some poor mother
out of sweltering cities to enjoy
country life?
We can not expect every ceme
tery to be done away’ with in this
generation. But it is to be hoped
that public sentiment will be edu
cated after a few generations so
that no more cemeteries will be
needed, and that the territory,
money and time now dedicated to
th" decaying bodies of the dead
util be used for making happy the
living.
THE HOME PAPER
The Education of the
Voter
SHEPHERDS AND THEIR SHEEP
Weigh the Spellbinder’s Arguments Carefully
Ere You Vote the Way He Directs
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By THOMAS TAPPER.
ANYONE who promises much
for little gets the attention
of the crowd.
The reason why we pay promot
ers of fake Investment schemes a
million, dollars a day is because we
expect two millions, or more, in re
turn. tomorrow or the day after.
One of the oldest games in the
world is to catch a man and his
money by promising him something
he wants. And the farther away
the gold mine is, the richer he feels
until he finds out. later on, how far,
far away the promoter is who took
the money.
It is just as easy to bunco a man
out of his common sense as it is
out of his money. And a. bad phase
of this trick is that, while a man
who loses his money always misses
it and knows he has lost it, he can
be robbed of his reason and never
suspect it.
This is why a man should be
everlastingly asking questions, not
only about what he does not under
stand, but also about what he feels
sure of It is so easy to dream that
some dreams look like the real
thing.
These Men Always
Talk About Prosperity.
AU this leads up to the silver
tongued spellbinder who tells you
how well off you can be by taking
his view' in politics. He is gener
ally an interesting man, and that
be can make voters follow him like
sheep trotting after a shepherd
shows that he is a man who knows
how to sell his goods.
These men always talk about
Piosperity, because they know that
every human being is interested in
it. It is the one thing all people
want. No matter what a man has.
he wants more. Hence, the shep
herd and the sheep.
Lots of men, thousands of them,
will tell you exactly how the affairs
of this nation should be run to
bring prosperity to all. And yet
these men are themselves not al
ways prosperous. The rules that
slip off their silver tongues seem
not to work in their own cases.
Do you imagine that the framers
of the constitution who added their
names after that of George Wash
ington winked at one another when
they introduced such expressions as
‘'justice,” ‘‘domestic tranquility” and
"blessings of liberty” into that doc
ument?
They did not.
They had in mind the sublime
fact that a citizen has powers for
ambition, industry and prosperity
conferred upon him by the Creator;
while rights and privileges for their
development were conferred upon
him by the constitution of the
United States. All these work to
gether for the glory of the man if
he has any pride in them.
Let us imagine the case of the
Battle of the Pyramids
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
THE battle of the Pyramids was
fought 114 years ago and
ended in victory for the
French. It made Napoleon the mas
ter of Murad's palace in Cairo and
placed in his hands the sovereignty
of Egypt.
Pointing to the venerable and
imposing piles in which reposed
the ashes of the once mighty
Pharaohs, Napoleon cried out to
his men: "Soldiers, from the sum
mits of yonder monuments 40 cen
turies look down upon you." and,
inspired by this eloquent intima
tion of the "glory” that awaited
them, the French lines sprang for
ward and the Mamelukes were
scattered. In the shadow of the
Pyramids they had met their fate,
and a greater than they made a
fresh advance in the stadium of his
destiny.
While meditating upon his vic
tory midst the golden Minarets of
* airo, there came to Napoleon some
bad news. Nelson had destroyed
the French fleet and he was bot
tled up in the land he had just
won.
The army of Egypt, without any
means of returning to Europe, and,
worse yet, cut off from the source
of its supplies, was in a bad fix.
But Napoleon, the man of infinite
resources, was there, and the sol
diers were soon put in motion.
Anything but the rust of inaction;
and so, in expedition after expe
dition. the men were kept busy.
Ami then the march for Jaffa, and
Acre, and Aboukir, with its min
gled victory and defeat, the defeat
'■istly in excess of the victory, and
the retreat through the burning
average voter to be something like
this:
He has a family and a job. He
gets money for his labor, and he
spends this money. He moves
through life year after year, his
wife by his side and his children
about him. He makes some sort
of a home, and acquires some kind
of a reputation among his friends.
There Are Two Ways
Open to Every Man.
This man wants prosperity, for
every man does. He wants it not
for himself alone, but for his fam
ily.
How is he to get it?
There are two ways. The first
is lovely, rosy and inactive. The
second is sure to work every time,
though it does not look as rosy as
the first.
The first way is to work when
you feel like it; let things at home
run along any way they may, save
nothing; do little to make a proud
and happy family—meanwhile, wait
until we have a decent government
and every MAN gets a square deal.
The second way is to work to
the limit of endurance all the time,
to stick to the job until a better
one can be had; to take pride in the
home; to make wife and children
feel that the affairs of their little
home-republic are absolutely safe
in your hands.
With this, a little frugality and
good management, which means
something set aside for the rainy
day; and what is the result?
You may answer:
A man who has found prosper
ity.
This is only half right. The real
answer is this:
A nation that has found and
pbssessses a citizen who contributes
prosperity to it as a whole.
A Republic Is
Made Up of Units.
A republic is made up of units.
When every one is interested in
prosperity in his own behalf, pro
tecting himself against the spell
binder that wants, him to invest his
intelligence in a fraudulent p:inei
ple, the whole matter of national
prosperity takes care of itself
They do not make prosperity in
Washington, D. C., nor at the na
tional conventions of the two great
parties. They may promise it. But
so far as you get it, you make it
for yourself.
Your family is a republic, rind
you are president of it. Keep that
picture in mind. Your term of of
fice is lifelong. Serve it with all
the efficiency you possess and you
will have done more, in the end. to
make prosperity a real thing than if
you had followed the political
shepherds al) your life, bleating at
their heels like a helpless lamb for
a little odd change to send home to
wife and children.
sands to the shadow of the Pyra
mids.
The Mamelukes were extin
guished, but those stubborn Brit
ishers that met him at Acre were
a different proposition, and the
Egyptian expedition, whatever
may have been its original designs,
was knocked sky high, and the
man who originated it must sneak
back to France as best he can,
trusting to Providence to provide
some way of escape for the army
he leaves behind.
And what were the original de
signs of Napoleon in the expedi
tion of Egypt? Perhaps the answer
is to be found in his words to»his
secretary, Bourvienne: "Bour
viennet I do not wish to remain
here in France. There is nothing
to do. Everything wears out here.
My glory has already disappeared.
This little Europe does not supply
enough of it. I must seek it in the
east, the fountain of glory." Ho
called Europe a "mole hill,” and de
clared that there had "never b»en
any great empires except In the
east, where there are 600,000,000
people.”
Likely enough, then, the wonder
ful man intended making his Egyp
tian expedition the first step I
the establishment of an empire that
< should include the entire Orient. I
not yet is the thought complc- -
for Guigot was probably corn- t
when he wrote of the “Man of I' l 3 '
tiny" that "In his secret though' 9
he nursed the hope of pushinu f‘
ward to Constantinople, - c.f
that city and making himself mat
ter of Europe by attacking it f‘"J
the east. It was to the conqu>-t
the world that he marched in ad*
\ anting upon Jaffa."