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Horse Breeding to Type.
Farmers, and others, for that matter,
as well, must breed to type. They
must know what kind of horses they
wish to produce and strive to that
end, declares John Gilmer Speed in
Century magazine. To do this, they
should know what kind of material is
at hand, and how it can be used. Here
is something that the United States
department of agriculture should do.
And the war department might also
assist, for proper cavalry remounts are
difficult to secure. In European coun
tries, where great standing armies are
maintained, there are not only govern
mental breeding farms, but the farm
ers are encouraged to breed army
horses by the giving of prizes, and by
permitting government-owned stallions
of proper breeding to stand to ap
proved stock at merely nominal fees.
In Austria 1 have seen a whole regi
ment of cavalry mounted on horses so
true to type that it would take study
and acquaintance to tell one horse
from another. In Germany the govern
ment has been breeding for the cav
alry since the time of Frederick the
Great, and with most satisfactory re
sults. In these continental countries
much enterprise is shown in securing
the best blood that may be had in
other countries, not omitting the Des
ert of Arabia, whence comes the best
and purest equine blood in all the
world. In this matter of horse-breed
ing the Italians are not the least enter
prising, nor, by the way, are the Ita
lians by any means inferior in their
horsemanship.
Americans who have hesitated be
tween the use of "Scotch" and "Scot
tish," not knowing which is preferable
or correct, will be interested in know
ing that others have felt the same
doubt. The subject recently came up
in the house of commons when a mem
from Dumfries urged that the name of
the Scotch education department
should be changed to "Scottish."
Scotch, he said, was wrong, but when
urged by his associates to prove this
he could not do so satisfactorily.
Facetious members insisted that his
objections to the word "Scotch" grew
out of his temperance proclivities and
the fact that the word suggested other
things than a race of people. The ad
vocate of "Scottish" did not convince
his English hearers, but as a matter of
fact it is said that the word "Scottish"
prevails in Scotland. It is a matter of
custom, however, without special philo
logical basis.
Gen. Grant says that his father did
:iot smoke to great excess until after
the capture or Fort Donelson. The
story went through the nation that
Grant had fought the battle with a
cigar in his mouth. Friends congratu
lating him on this, the first great vic
tory in his life, accompanied their
messages with boxes of cigars. The
hero was thus encouraged to smoke
more than was good for him. It is an
extreme case of the damaging effect of
•he American treating habit.
Halls of fame and pantheons of the
great dead aro distinguished almost as
much for conspicuous omissions as for
the monuments they contain. Bun
yan's "Pilgrim's Progress" used to be
second only to the English Bible in the
affections of the people, and is still
widely read, and yet Bunyan is not
commemorated in Westminster abbey.
It is said that the Baptists of Great
Britain have started a movement to
place in the abbey some shrine to the
master of English religious prose.
The report of Secretary Wilson
shows 1908 to be the biggest agricul
tural year on record. With products
aggregating nearly 18,000,000.000 in
value the farmer is the real billionaire
of the country. With such a basis, ac
companied by unexampled industrial
development, American prosperity
cannot be checked, even by occasional
"panics."
Pu-J'i, Ihe baby emperor of China,
has been taken from his immediate
family, and is cared for within the roy
al palace. According to the cable dis
patches from Peking, he was popularly
reported as crying day and night for
his old nurse. It is evident that even
if he is Chinese and an emperor, he is
, fit ill quite a human baby.
WITH THE COUNTRY
REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR HONEST
TARIFF REVISION.
Duties That Have Been Proved Un
necessary Must Be Removed in
Accordance with Pledges
Made to the People.
A local contemporary which thinks
mud.'lled thoughts on the tariff and
rogirj-ds that instrument as too sacred
for human touch makes Judge Gary's
bluff concerning the iniquitous duty
on steel the subject of its most dis
tressful attention, declares the San
Francisco Call. Judge Gary, speaking
as the head and front of the steel
trust, was filled with solicitude for the
little fellows, the small manufactur
ers of steel. Having created this
monstrous trust with the help of a
wholly unnecessary duty on steel, he
now takes shelter behind the "infants,"
whom he would gladly destroy
if he could, and asks that the
consumers of steel products be com
pelled to pay a wholly superfluous
tax, although Andrew Carnegie, who
ought to know, has declared that no
duty of any sort is needed, and that
the United States can make steel at
less cost than producers in any other
part of the world. The fact is not
disputed that this country can, and
does, sell steel in foreign markets in
competition with English and German
manufacturers.
Our contemporary regards the Ding
ley tariff as a sacred instrument and
any interference with its schedules
is akin to sacrilege. It is a sort of fet
ish before which the whole people
should bow down and worship.
The other day in Washington it
was discovered by a sharp eyed re
porter that the towels in use in the
rooms of the ways and means com
mittee were marked "Made in Eng
land," and the chairs on which the sa
cred persons of the committeemen
reposed were manufactured in Vien
na. These discoveries were made the
subject of a portentous joke on the
committee. They were high priests
of the tariff religion and were caught
in open commission of a mortal sin.
It is the same state of mind that af
flicts our muddled contemporary. All
foreign commerce is sinful, even if
the consumer takes* material benefit
thereby. The home producer may be
perfectly well able to take care of
himself, no matter under what condi
tions of competition, but, in fine, not
a single brick of the temple may be
dislodged. Let him be anathema who
would suggest that the country owes
any obligation to the consumer.
That is not the attitude of the Re
publican party. It is not the attitude
of Judge Taft, and if persisted in
would mean the downfall of the whole
protection system. The country is in
the mind to insist on an honest re
vision of the tariff, giving the fullest
protection to struggling industries,
but cutting off those unnecessary du
ties which operate only to rob the
whole people in order to fatten spe
cial interests which need no help. Of
these duties, the tax on steel is the
most flagrant example.
Delay Will Do No Harm.
It lias been hinted that if the lakes
to the gulf project is not included in
this session's rivers and harbors bill,
if there shall be one, the bill shall not
be permitted to get through. It would
not be a calamity if there were no
legislation this year: The regular ap
propriations for the next fiscal year
will use up more money than the
treasury will receive during that peri
od. The deficit for this fiscal year
will be about $114,000,000. The sec
retary of the treasury thinks the
deficit for the next fiscal year may
be about $14:1,000,000. That is a
guess, but it may not be far from the;
truth.
The impending revision of the tariff
may reduce customs receipts momen
tarily. The Importation of goods the
duties on which it. is probable will be
reduced or taken off will be checked.
So unless there shall be a decided
jump in the internal revenue receipts
a considerable deficit will be inevit
able.
Manifestly this is a time for con
gress to be economical wherever it
can. It should spend no money on
purposes, however praiseworthy,
where no harm will be done by wait
ing a year or two. There are rivers
which need improving, but they will
not run away if not attended to at
once. The deep waterway project will
not lose any of its meritorious fea
tures by postponement. There would
be no reason for the shedding of tears
if there were no rivers and harbors
legislation at this session.—Chicago
Tribune.
A Good Beginning.
The senate has passed without a dis
senting voice a bill appropriating
money for the acquisition of a build
ing in Paris for the use of the Amer
ican embassy. The bill should be
come a law, and the operation of the
policy which it embodies should be ex
tended till in all the foreign capitals
where the United States maintains em
bassies it will he able to house them.
This will go far to do away with the
need that men sent as ministers to
Paris. London and Merlin shall pos
sess large means. It may sometimes
lead lo the selection of individuals
more highly qualified to carry on dip
lomatic negotiations than are certain
of the men selected under existing
conditions. The new class of ap
pointees may not cut a dash in Ku
ropenn society-but they will have more
time to devote' to the duties of tftcir
positions.—Evening Wisconsin.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1909
STEP IN RIGHT DIRUCTION.
Movement to Provide Homes for Am
bassadors Is Wise.
The senate has pawed a bill ma
king an appropriation for the pur
chase or erection and furnishing of a
building in Paris for the use of the
embassy of the United States. There
was no debate and no dissenting voice.
The house may not act on the meas
ure at this session, but the unanimity
of the senate warrants the hope that
the next congress will make the ap
propriation.
The first step is the hard one. After
congress shall have decided to make
decent provision for the American am
bassador to France, it will inevitably
have to secure buildings for embassy
purposes in the other great capitals
of Europe. It would be impossible to
overlook London, Berlin, Vienna, St.
Petersburg and Rome. The less im
portant capitals could wait.
After the United States had its own
embassy buildings, meeting all the
personal and official needs of its rep
resentatives, they would not be under
any compulsion to spend most of their
salaries for rent or to draw upon their
private means to maintain the dignity
of their positions. It is true that there
are men who stand in no need of a
fine house to be useful and honored
ambassadors. If, as lias been sug
gested, the late president of Harvard
were sent to the court of St. James,
he would be as much esteemed and
sought after if he were in a few rooms
as if he occupied a palace. But such
a man should not be compelled to live
in restricted quarters or denied the
importunity to reciprocate courtesies
in kind because of the parsimony of
his government.
When provision shall be made for
the proper housing of American am
bassadors men of high standing but of
limited means will be enabled to fill
offices now practically closed to them.
The president will have a wider range
of choice and the interests of the
United States in foreign countries will
be better served.
BOTH SENSIBLE AND HONEST.
United States Steel Corporation Acted
Wisely and Well.
Assuming that the purchase of the
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company by
the United States Steel Corporation
was in no sense a violation of the
Sherman law, why did Judge Gary and
Mr. Prick consult President Roose
velt? And why did they tell him, ac
cording to his own statement, that
"they did not wish to do this if I
stated that it ought not to be done?"
—New York World.
Easy. For the simple reason that
they wanted to know whether their
purchase would be regarded as illegal
by the national department of justice.
They were confronted with the facts
of an administration pledged to "trust
busting" and an attorney general who
had been gasconading or jesting about
shooting into "whole coveys of cor
porations."
They did not want to make a pur
chase, even to save the banking situa
tion and avert panic, that might sub
ject their company to prosecution.
They believed themselves the pro
posed purchase would be legal, or not
in contravention of the Sherman act.
Their own competent counsel had ad
vised them of that.
But they also wanted to know
whether the president and his attor
ney general's view of the law corres
ponded with their view. They did not
set up as infallible about the law, and
they sensibly and honestly took every
precaution possible to ascertain the
law as related to their own reliability
to prosecution.
Their consulting the department of
justice, to make assurance doubly sure,
was an eminently proper and scrupu
lous course. Their purchase of those
securities from the imperiled banks
was a public-spirited act that went far
toward saving the banking situation,
and was so regarded and applauded by
the whole business ami financial world
at the time of the crisis.
A Tariff Commission.
The plan for a permanent tariff
commission receives the unqualified
indorsement of Mr. Taft, who writes
to an Indianapolis correspondent that
if the new tariff bill should make
provision for such a body it would
meet his views exactly. The na
tional tariff conference, which will be
held next month, will indorse the
plan and may take steps for the cre
ation of a permanent unofficial board
of tariff investigators. Unless a defi
nite degree of authority is conferred
by congress on a commission of its
creation, it is possible that an unoffi
cial board of investigators would ac
complish quite as much in the real
advancement of tariff reform as a com
mission whose opinions, if not its en
tire course of action, would be sub
ject to the political influences of the
congressional majority.
Slippery, Anyhow.
The president's reply to the resolu
tion of the hous6 of representatives
upon the subject of the secret service
Is wisely apologetic. He has been so
accustomed to the untrammeled ex
pression of every thought that came
into his mind that when, for the first
time, he is called to account for his
language, by an authority that com
mands respect, he is astonished and is
thrown back upon labored explana
tion.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Yes, but he deviated adroitly into
some good recommendations about re
organizing the secret service.
"Are the Republicans proud of tliei
victory?" asks Mr. Bryan's paper
They are mighty well contented, bi'
unable to say surprised. '
CENTENARY EVENTS
BIG MEN WHO WERE BORN ONE
HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
The List Includes Many Americans,
Among Them Edgar Allan Poe,
Oliver Wendell Homes and
Abraham Lincoln.
The year upon which we have just
entered is to be a remarkable one in
the way of centenary anniversaries of
great men. The list Includes such
poets as Edgar Allan Poe, Edward
FitzGerald, Alfred Tennyson and
Oliver Wendell Holmes; such musi
cians and composers as Felix Men
delssohn-Bartholdy and Frederick
Francois Chopin; such statesmen as
Abraham Lincoln and William Ewart
Gladstone, and such a scientist as
Charles Robert Darwin. Three other
Abraham Lincoln, Born February 12,
1809.
anniversaries are thrown in for good
measure. They are the four hundredth
anniversary of the birth of John
Calvin, the two hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson
and the centennial of the death of
Josef Haydn.
The first anniversary was that of
Poe, who was born on January 19, in
Boston. Among the plans for the Poe
celebration in New York was the dedi
cation of a bronze statue in Poe park,
opposite Fordham college.
The second anniversary is that of
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who was
born on February 3, at Hamburg.
Nine days after the famous son of
the Jewish-Christian family of Ger
many was born in Hamburg two men
whose names will long bo borne on
the roster of the world's Rreat ones
first saw the light on opposite sides of
the Atlantic. One was Abraham Lin
coln, born in a settler's cabin in
Hardin county, Ky., and the other
was Charles Robert Darwin, who was
born in the home of an English rector
in Shrewsbury. It is probable that
congress will provide for a national
memorial of Lincoln, and that the ons
hundredth anniversary of his birth
will ba observed as a national holiday.
His birthplace is to be preserved. In
New York city commemorative exer
cises will be hold in churches, halls
and schools. A general committee, in
cluding among its members many per
sons associated with Lincoln and his
assassination in .l personal manner,
nas been appointed to arrange for an
appropriate celebration, of which Jo
seph H. Choate is chairman. Hugh
Hastings is chairman of the executive
committee of this body.
Among the members are Mayor Mo-
Clellan, Frederick W. Seward, assis
tant secretary of state from 1861 to
1869, who was nearly murdered while
defending Secretary Seward, his fa
ther, ou April 14, 1865; Judge A. J.
Dittenhoefer, the only surviving Lit*
coin elector of 1864; Dr. Charles A.
Leale, who was the first surgeon to
reach the president after he was shot;
Maj. Gens. Sickles and Stahel and
Gen. James R. O'Beirne, who was pro
vost marshal of the District of Co
lumbia when the president was assas
sinated.
At Springfield, HI., where Lincoln
was buried, there will be addresses by
Ambassador Bryce of England, Am
bassador Jusserand of France, Sena
tor Dolliver of lowa, and Willian J.
Bryan on February 12.
The first day of the lively month of
March will mark the one hundredth
anniversary of the gentle-flngered and
romantic-spirited pianist and com
poser, Frederic Francois Chopin. He
was born in Zelazowa Wola, near
Warsaw, Poland.
It was on the tenth day of July,
1509, at Noyon, in Picardy, France,
that John Calvin first saw the light.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, like Darwin,
was a son of a rector of the Established
Church of England. He was born on
August 6, 1809, at Someraby, in Lio
colnshire.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the third
American of the great group of 1809,
was born on August 29 beneath the
classic shades of Harvard, at Cam
bridge, Mass. Two different classes of
persons can celebrate his birth with
special interest. They are the prac
titioners of medicine, who owe him
something for his essay on a medical
subject which had not received proper
attention before his time, and the
guild of authors,
Dr. Samuel Johnson was born In
Lichfield September 18, 1709. He was
another of the geniuses of recent cen
turies who have found that the arts
are poor paymasters.
The last of the group of ISO 9 to en
ter the scene, and also the last to
leave it, was William Ewart Glad
stone. He came very near not get
ting into this great year, for he wa*
Born on December 29.
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