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Cubans Incapable of
Self Government.
By P. A. IRWIN of San Francisco.
IX will be a bad day for Cuba and ESPECIALLY FOR
AMERICANS WHO HAVE INVESTED in that country
when the authority of the United States is withdrawn.
I am just back from Havana, where I have some interests,
and while there made it my business to study existing political condi
tions. There is not an American down there who believes in the
ability of the Cubans to run a government of their own in any decent
fashion. This is also true of the intelligent and property owning class
iof natives, but this is not the element that dominates.
IN CUBA THE PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS RU-N THINGS. AND
THESE PATRIOTS ARE EAGER FOR THE DAY THAT OUR FLAG
SHALL BE LOWERED SO THAT THEY CAN GET UP TO THE PIE
COUNTER AND FATTEN OFF THE PUBLIC REVENUES. AS LONG
AS OUR AUTHORITY IS PARAMOUNT THEY CAN GET NOT A
DOLLAR FROM THE GOVERNMENTAL EXCHEQUER, BUT THE MIN
UTE WE LEAVE THERE WILL BE OFFICES TO FILL AND FAT
SALARIES TO DRAW.
Cuba, I can tell you, is going to give us trouble. The natives are
simply not fit for self government, and I predict that we will have to
GO BACK THERE IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS after the
Magoon regime comes to an end. 1 don’t think it will be or ought
to be a state of this Union, and about the only solution 1 see is that
we shall eventually have to make it a kind of dependency and occupy
it in about the same fashion that England occupies Egypt.
High Time to Padlock
All Muck Rakers.
By JOSEPH D. FORAKER, United States Senator From Ohio
II would be most fortunate if a padlock could be provided for
the muck rakers —all of them, high and low, big and little,
well intentioned and evil intentioned —for it is HIGH TIME
TO QUIT SLANDERING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
They never less deserved it. They were never more worthy of praise
ami commendation.
THERE WERE NEVER HIGHER IDEALS AND MORAL STAND
ARDS AMONG THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE NATION. AND THERE*.
WERE NEVER BETTER METHODS EMPLOYED BY THEM fCrt THE
CONTROL AND TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS.
In this wc should not only find hope and inspiration, but also a
command to administer our public affairs on the theory NOT THAT
ALL MEN ARK DISHONEST, but that, with the exception of
thO'fow, all men are upright, and that as to even the few who may not
be upright they are entitled to the presumption that they are and to
have a right to be HEARD BEFORE THEY ARE CONDEMNED.
Humanity Gulled by Palmists
By Professor STIRLING of Victoria University Manchester, England
V" OOK at your palms and you will find certain classical lines.
I These lines—the so called lines of life, heart and head, ami
the girdle of Venus, and the bracelets of life around your
wrists- 1 -what do you suppose they really are? They are
nothing more or less than creases or folds produced by the ACTION
OF THE MUSCLES.
The line of heart, for instance, is the flexure of the four fingers.
The line of’ life is the result of the action of the thumb. All these lines
that have been given astronomical names by palmists are character
istic flexures. You will find the same lines on the palm of the Bar
ba rv ape.
Humanity is daily gulled through its EXTRAORDINARY
IGNORANCE OF THE 1 ELEMENTARY FACTS OF I’ll VS
*OLOGY.
]J PAYS 10 ADVERTISE 1111 TIMES TRY IT.
Forlnfants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Sough!
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, HEW YORK CITY.
€ i Labor . %
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■r ' By United States Senator A. S. CLAY of Georgia.
HAVE never been one to encourage antagonism be
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| - . % tween labor and capital. Each should be protected.
H Ij No thoughtful man will contend that labor organiza-
B 4* tions should he absolutely destroyed. Sometimes
4 ® their demands mav he unreasonable, hut if the work
<g> 1 . .
Sing people of the country cannot have organizations
to protect themselves against organizations of capital that may attempt
to put unjust burdens upon them they would he POWERLESS r J O
RESIST any oppression.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED A GREAT DEAL
OF GOOD. THEY HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER THE WORKINGMEN
AND THEIR FAMILIES IN CORDIAL AND FRIENDLY RELATION
AND HAVE ENABLED THEM TO SECURE BETTER WAGES, TO BUY
HOMES AND EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN.
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These people are in many instances our very BEST AND MOST
VALUABLE CITIZENS, and we should give them every possible
encouragement. This statement does not refer to the agitator, hut to
the honest and industrious toilers who seek to better their conditions.
Take John Mitchell, for example. lie lias shown himself to be a
careful, thoughtful and just man.
Both employers and employees have rights, and each should con
sider the welfare of the other. Destroy labor organizations entirely,
and a MOST DEPLORABLE CONDITION would confront us.
Army and Navy
Should Keep Pace With
National Growth.
By WILLIAM H TAFT, Secretary of War.
OUGHT we not in the six years between the present and the
completion of the Panama canal to adopt a policy which
shall give us a merchant marine to justify our expenditure
of this enormous sum of money on commercial as well as
naval and war strategic grounds?
13 IT NOT OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE THAT, IN ORDER
THAT OUR INFLUENCE MAY BE FELT, WE SHOULD MAINTAIN A
NAVY AND ARMY COMMENSURATE WITH CUR RESOURCES, WITH
OUR COAST LINE, WITH THE EXTENT OF CUR COUNTRY AND
OUR POPULATION?
I do not say this in any jingo spirit.
No one hates war or the prospect of it more than I do.
But I am confident that the maintenance of our navy commen
surate with our resources ami the reorganization of our army in such
a way as to permit its SPEEDY EXPANSION UNDER STRESS
will he most useful to secure life CONTINUANCE of THE
PEACE under which we shall thrive and attain the highest aims of
popular government.
The Bible a Human Book *
That Meets Human Needs.
By F. S. GOOGMAN Y. M. C. A Secretary
CUE Bible has always been under fire, hut the old hook will
stand all the assault that will come upon it. It has been
under the fire of infidelity, of destructive criticism, of con
troversy and of misrepresented text.
There is nothing the Bible has a harder time with now than with
the misrepresentations of professed Christians. The Bible stands
under this fire because it is a HUMAN LOOK AND, MORE, be
cause it faithfully accounts for human conditions, because it is a bool:
filled with the records of human misery and because it meets hufiian
needs.
In writing of Washington and Lincoln in the present day we tell
only of the good parts of their lives. Only the good stories that Lin
coln told are recounted, yet in his early life he told some that were
not so good. TLrti* Bible, however, looks the matter in the face and
TELLS THE TRUTH. It relates the sin in the lives of Abraham
"and David as well as the better parts of their character.
WHEN THE WRONGS OF MODERN CONDITIONS ARE RIGHTED
IT WILL BE BECAUSE THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRIST HAVE HAD A
FAIR CHANCL EVERY MAN LONGS TO BE BETTER THAN HE
IS. THE SATISFACTION OF THAT YEARNING MAY BE FOUND IN
THE BOOK. GIVE THE BIBLE A CHANCE.
State Corporation Commission
Successful In Oklahoma.
By P. E. PRINGLE, Merchant, of Guthrie, Okla.
OUR new state of Oklahoma is not half so wild and woolly as
outsiders have been made to think. Ido not think that we
have gone to excessive lengths of radicalism, and yet we have
done more to curb corporate power than any state of the
Union. Our plan of a ST ATO CORPORATION COMMISSION
HAS BEEN AN EFFECTIVE MEDIUM in bringing about this
condition, and I am here to tell you that the commission lias been a ,
success, as THE RAILROADS THEMSELVES ADMIT.
It has already Drought aboiil a big reduction in freight rates —50
per cent on lumber, 30 per cent on coal, 40 per cent on oil, '2O per cent
on grain—and is now arranging a cotton tariff that will bring relief to
our farmers, who are heavy producers of this crop. That's pretty good
for a body that has only been in existence since last November, isn't it ?
I hese reductions mean a saving of millions of dollars annually to
our people. What is more, instead of kicking; THE RAILROADS
ARE CO-OPERATING with the commission and signifying their
intention to work with it for the mutual benefit of the general public i
and of the transportation companies.
|Uniform Marriage
Lav/ to Control
the Divorce Evil.
Ey HENRY C. IOTTLR Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of New Yortt.
, UNIFORM marriage law is more important than a
% ■ iny Ifi uniform divorce law. The sane regulation of niar .
i hrxJi f riage will in a large measure control the divorce evil
|/ j o THE VERY EXISTENCE CF THE NATION DE-
I ¥ PENDS UPON THE PRESERVATION CF THE HOLv
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*&&&&■&&&&& INSTITUTION OF MATRIMONY AND THE IDEAL
HOME LIFE. THE REGULATION OF MARRIAGE IS FAR MORE IM
PORVANT THAN THE GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION OF THE
CORPORATIONS.
In many respects our laws upon marriage are more erode than
those of anv other great nation of the world.
With a record of some 50,000 divorces a year we lead any other
nation in proportion of divorces to population. The law should so
! safeguard the sacred institution of matrimony that we would be spared
'the disgrace and scandal of the,* SILLY SECRET MARRIAGES
that are of almost daily occurrence in this country.
While the state may and indeed should stop in and regulate mar
riage in many wholesome ways, yet happiness or unhappiness, honor
lor dishonor, depends chiefly on each individual. The great lesson to
he learned bv each of us is to perform our duty and our obligations
and to do both of these things well in the sight of God.
THE SHIRKING CF THE R ZSPONSIC! LIT! E3 CF PARENTHOOD
IS THE CAUSE OF MUCH UNHAPPINESS, NOT TO SPEAK OF ILL
HEALTH. IN DOING THIS THE FEOPLE “KNOW NOT WHAT THEY
DO.” NATURE'S LAWS CANNOT DC TAMPERED WITH IN ANY
ARTIFICIAL MANNER WITH IMPUNITY BY EITHER THE MAN OR
THE WOMAN. MORE RIGID LAWS REGARDING THIS SHOULD BE
PASSED. IF THE PEOPLE COULD CL INSTRUCTED IN THIS ALL
IMPORTANT MATTER. THE DECREASE IN THE J&JMBER OF
NERVOUS PROSTRATIONS. SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. INSANITY
AND EVEN CONSUMPTION WOULD BE VERY MARKED.
HEALTHY COU PLUS SHOULD HAVE LARGE FAMI
LIES. Ihe “one child" family is heifer than none at all, but a single
child is unfortunate for the child itself as well as for the parents.
Usually the one child grows up to be selfish, vain and with exagger
ated if not perverted ideas of life. When 1 there are one or more
brothers or sisters to sympathize with, t<* make sacrifices for and to
love it makes hettei rounded and sweet ( r characters.
Good IMorgls Requisite
To Good Business.
Dy OSCAR S STRAUS of Commerce and Labor.
CUE first requisite of good permanent business conditions is
(()(){) MORALS —not one kind of morals for the farmer
wh drives his earl of produce f<> market and another kind
of u,e>rals for the railroad whi-di brings the products of tho
farms and factories from distant point*..
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND RIGHTS 13 A3 NECESSARY
ON THE ONE HIGHWAY A3 ON THE OTHER. ND UNREASON
ABLE CONDITIONS OR RESTRAINTS MUST EE PLACED UPON
EITHER.
There are combinations which promote trade and combinations
which restrain fratio. T< cheek Loth i- harmful; TO PERMIT
ROTH IS MORE HARMFUL.
To adju-t our laws to preserve corporate industrial and individual
right, and BY ALL MEANS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, and to
curb wrongs, whether corporate or individual, is of the highest con
cern not only to commerce, but to the <tabi:ii% of the commonwealth.
A Humorous View cf Happiness
By J ADAM BEDE Coagfwnian from Minnesota.
I'AaSx APIMXESS mean- the npiinitm *f civilization. Each year
hj we meet new obstacle**, and when they have been overcome
J'L j? we have obtained anew ie-;d !<> happmess. Our comfort
and happiness lie m the < <t nb-tacles. Anti I might
say that it is not the wealthv class that enjoy- the most happiness. It
is THE GREAT MIDDLE GLASS of thi- great country.
T he women of the country today cujov more happiness than did
those of a century ago. This is the result of THE
MASTERY OK* OBSTACLES. The women have wife
more time to join the Daughters of the American ''AillJFHir
Revolution or to start a revolution >1 their own.
The men also enjoy more privileges, and privileges
It has not been so long ago when a law was £
passed prohibiting the sale -of vhi-kv in the eapitol
at Washington and on the Indian reservati-*ns. The
lawmakers evidently assumed that drunken Indians
and congressmen were dangerous. Perhaps they were right. Blit it
only shows the inarch of progress, which emphasizes happiness.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SUCH AN ADVOCATE OF PRO
GRESSIVENESS THAT HE HAS EVEN CHANGED THE NATIONAL
BIRD FROM THE EAGLE TO THE STORK, EVIDENTLY HE ACTS
UPON THE THEORY THAT THE EAGLE MERELY SCREAMS, WHILE
THE STORK DELIVERS THE GOODS.
Does Honesty Lead
To the Poorhouse?
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. Kansas Editor and Author.
I MUST deprecate the present lax methods of charity. Those
who need it don’t get it,
I he millionaires have not returned to the common peo
ple what they took away from them. And under the present
scheme of government these millionaires are fostered. The rich get
richer and the poor get poorer without any doubt. There is an un
even distribution of wealth that TENDS TO MAKE THE POOR*
HOUSE THE GENERAL"DESTINATION - OF THE IIOXF-T
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