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There is comfort for the murderers
of the king's English iu the latest con
tribution to periodical literature by
Mr. Lounsbury, emeritus professor of
English ai Yale, excusing and i:i a
measure justifying some of the so
called vulgar mistakes iu orthography
and grammar committed by unedu
cated people. According to Prof.
Lounsbury, there is, or was, the best
of authority for saying pint for point,
jist for joist, ile for oil and bile for
boil. Our'n and your'n and his'n are
upheld by ancient usage. The double
negation is similiarly vindicated and
there are a dozen instances of the
use of learn in the sense of teach in
Shakespeare. It is gratifying to note
that the professor draws the line on
"I done it." There are limits to what
are euphoniously termed archaic forms
of speech, it seems.
Ellen Emerson, oldest daughter of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and for years
his close companion and assistant,
died at the home of her sister Edith,
wife of William M. Forbes, in Milton,
Mass., on January 16, aged 70. Miss
Emerson was active in the social and
literary life of Concord at all times,
and especially in the affairs of the
Unitarian church. Besides her sister,
a brother, Dr. Waldo Emerson of Con
cord survives her.
Frank Wentworth of Winsted, Conn.,
has doped it out that in 2,000,000 years
the human race will have developed so
far that, instead of walking on a pair
of alternate pendulums, as now, men
will have on their lower extremities
wheels actuated by turbines driven by
hot air. Here's a chance for some peo
ple to get just 2,000,000 years ahead of
the rest of us, merely by standing on
their heads and talking rapidly.
According to the Elektrotechnischer
Anzeiger, a company in Berlin is fit
ting a steamship which runs on the
Oberhavel, with a system of electric
propulsion. The equipment consists
of a suction gas plant, consuming an
thracite; a gas engine coupled to a
direct-current generator; a battery of
accumulators and electric motors on
the propelling shafts.
Siam has recently passed a law giv
ing women the right to vote in'certain
cases. , While this may seem an ex
traordinary step for an Oriental peo
ple, the Siamese women themselves
explain that it is the teaching of Bud
dhism.
Corsets cause the biggest war cloud
now on the horizon. American cerset
makers have invaded Paris and the
local artisans fly to the defense of
what they treat as a vested right.
Well, a war of the corsets would add a
new feature to history.
The latest news is that the Duke of
Abruzzi is determined to marry the
girl of his choice, either as a royal
prince or as a private individual. That
is the sort of lover whom all the world
loves.
An Indiana piano player played for
25 hours in a contest ;«d then fainted.
Report fails to state how many of the
neighbors were similarly ptat out of
business.
During the year I!M>7 the additions
to the Russian railroad system
amounted to 1,167 miles, an increase
of three per cent., bringing up the to
tal to 40,438 miles.
The total deposits in American sav
ings banks diminished by less than
one per cent, during the last fiscal
year.
Mrs. L.1.. Gillogly of California has
the distinction of being the first lay
woman to take an active part in a Pan-
Auglican Church congress.
Mme. Curie, who helped her hus
band to discover radium, has just been
elected a corresponding ineinbe. of the
St. Petersburg Academy *if Seiem
With wireless telegraphy on the job
henceforth there will not be so many
mysteries of the sea.
Dr. Wiley (peak's guanlediy, but, of
course, his real opinion of benzoate of
soda would not look well in print.
UPHOLD REED'S RULE
CONGRESSMEN RECOGNIZE RIGHT
OF MAJORITY.
Order of Congressional Procedure, as
Laid Down by Great Repub
lican, Will Be Retained
by Lower House.
Mr. Hepburn's valedictory was on
the subject of tho rules. He spoke
from personal experience of both the
old rules and the new. Ile retire <1
after a long service, and in a mood
which made him hope for a new order
of procedure in the making of laws.
In speaking of the Heed rules —the
present rules—Mr. Hepburn described
them as made for the mob. That is to
say, they were made to rescue tho
house from the power of the mob. The
language is strong, but not too strong.
Under the old rules the house could
be, and often was, thrown into the ut
most disorder by members so dis
posed. A premium was put upon ob
struction. At times all that the
speaker possessed was the gavel in
his hand, and that was only a weapon
for pounding the d'Sk. The mob held
the field.
Mr. Reed, who was both a resolute
and an astute man, saw his oppor
tunity when he became speaker, and
improved it. To be of the proper serv
ice he must have some authority. He
must be the speaker in fact as well as
in name. As he thought, the majority,
through the speaker, should be able to
do business at all times.. The argu
ment was sound, and the new house
supported him in the position ho took.
Those who witnessed the inaugura
tion of the new policy must retain a
lively recollection of the scenes. For
weeks there was almost a daily col
lision between the speaker and the
minority leaders, and on several oc
casions a riot looked likely. But time
and public opinion came to the speak
er's aid, and the new rules prevailed.
Nineteen years have passed, and Mr.
Hepburn holds that experience has
shown the necessity for changes in
the rules then adopted. The mob
spirit, he thinks, has been permanent
ly quelled. It is the general desire
now that the house do business, and
with that end in view he favors modi
fications of the present procedure, al
though he is withdrawing from the
scene.
The subject, for a year or more, has
been gaining upon attention, and by
next December it may come up for ac
tion of some kind. But two things will
probably mark whatever action is
taken: (1) Provision will be mads
against, the power of mere obstruc
tion, and (2) the majority will shape
the changes ordered. A return to the
old mob methods is out of the ques
tion, and equally undesirable would if
be for the Republican!* to so divide as
to lose exclusive control of the situa
tion.
With Mr. Cannon in the* chair again,
and up-to-date rules in force, the busi
ness of the new house should be trans
acted swiftly, smoothly and satisfac
torily.
World Conservation.
This, the western hemisphere, has an
Immense array cf convincing object
lessons furnished by the countries that
sustained the ancient civilizations of
Europe and Asia as to the righteous
ness and wisdom of the conservation
policy which Mr. Roosevelt has been
so* insistently urging. Some of the
mountainous areas in the older sec
tions of the old world, once covered
with forests of cedar, spruce and oak,
are now bare of tree life and in conse
quence are bare of soil. When these
once thriving hill regions were en
tirely shorn of forest growth the rains
and the floods soon melted away the
soil.
Much may yet be accomplished in
the way of conserving economy in the
sections of the earth where mankind
has for many centuries been drafting
upon the stored-up resources, and the
invitation which President. Roosevelt
formally extended to foreign powers to
participate with this country in a
world conservation convention, to be
held at The Hague, will undoubtedly
meet with such a responsive accept
ance as its importance deserves.
The conference, which is set for
next September, while not planned
especially with the thought of promot
ing world peace, will in its practical
effects work to tha conservation of
peace and good will among the na
tions. It is full of hopeful promise
that world conventions are being called
in these twentieth century days to
consider schemes for the betterment
of human kind, rather than for arrang
ing the rules and regulations of the
international war game. It is a most
beneficial augury that world attention
is being directed to methods of preser
vation and restoration rather than to
methods of destruction. There may
not be very numerous signs of the
coming of the great peace millennium,
but. surely the assembling of The
Hague conservation congress will con
stitute one sign.
Democracy's Chief Trouble.
Col. Bryan announces that he is
much encouraged by the spread of
Democracy. It is spread so much,
however, as to have become too thin. —
Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Bryan's political arguments are
largely of a mathematical nature. They
consist in taking date of a previous
presidential election and adding four
years to it.
Mr. Bryan will realize SIOO,OOO from
his lectures this year. There, you who
have been criticising his opposition to
a SIOO,OOO presidential saalry.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1909.
TAFT AND TRUST LEGISLATION,
President Recognizes Necessity for
Change in the Laws.
In a recnt speech President Tafl
touched upon what is to be the ques
tion of questions in this government.
The question of private property, its
limitations, and its relations to our
present civilization and institutions
formed the subject of his address. He
asserted that with the exception ol
personal liberty, the Institution of
private property has had more to do
with the upbuilding of the race than
any other institution He recognized,
however, that conditions had changed
the last few years, making necessary
a change in the laws of administration
governing the control and use of pri
vat" property. As a solution of the
problem, there are those, on the one
hand, who would destroy all private
property and make impossible all com
binations of capital. On the other
hand, there are those who would let
well enough alone, and allow the ut
most liberty in these combinations.
The problem to be worked out is "tn
lay the line of limitation which shall
interfere as little as possible with in
dividualism and freedom of property
011 the one hand, and shall stay the
progress toward injurious combination
and injurious monopoly on the other."
President Taft recognizes (he seri
ousness and vastness of the problem,
and his words of counsel and warning
and words of wisdom and statesman
ship when he says this problem is tc
be "worked out not through denuncia
tion, not through mere rhetoric and
eloquence, but by (he careful consider
ation of the operation of the limitation
as it shall be stated in a statute and
interpreted by a court."
OUTLAY IN TIME OF PEACE.
Immense Sum Annually Expended by
the United States.
The army appropriation bill, which
has passed the senate, provides for an
expenditure of $103,000,000 for the next
fiscal year. The navy bill appropriates
$137,000,000. The total is $240,000,000,
which is within a few millions of the
military and naval estimate of the
German empire for the year ended
March 31, 190 S. Germany is a great
military empire. We are a republic at (
peace, professing and maintaining a
policy of peace. The total enlisted
strength of our army is 77,000, staff
and line. The peace strength of the
German army includes about 014.000
combatants of all ranks. Evidently a
mark in Germany goes farther than a
dollar in the United States in provid
ing for the maintenance of land forces.
We are not aware thai the American
people complain particularly of tin 1
cost of their army and navy. It is a
fair subject for inquiry, however,
whether with the example of Germany
before its. ways of reducing expendi
ture without reducing effective force
be discovert <l.
Hut even in a time of peace we are
paying a tremendous bill of costs for
past wars. The pension bill, as it
passed the senate, appropriates $ 162.-
000,000. Pensions, army and navy, will
use up $400,000,000 of the taxpayers
money in the fiscal year ending June
30, 1910, Our expenditure for pensions
since 1864 reaches the prodigious total
of $3,691,230,624. —Chicago Tribune.
Secret Service Bubble.
President Roosevelt probed the
probers. He progged the report ren
dered by Senator Hemenway, of the
senate committee of appropriations,
and let out all the material of inflation.
The result has been a collapse of one
of the most improbable stories of in
sidious conspiracy against the free
dom of citizens from espionage' thai
was ever concocted. It is charitable
to those who pictured the secret serv
ice men marching along in a serried
column 3,000 strong and with banners
flaunting to the breeze appropriation
figures of $20,000,000 to believe they
were so overcome by the surcharged
atmosphere of the senate chamber as
to be incapable of seeing facts singly
and in order.
Mr. Roosevelt said slmplj' that in
stead of an increase of the secret
service since McKinley's time from
107 to 3,000, there has been an in
crease from 1,200 to 1,900; instead of
an increase in expenditure of twenty
fold or more, the increase has been
less than 50 per cent. With these
matters of fact let the anti-secret serv
ice agitation be dismissed. But not
before the adoption of the committee's
recommendation for placing the force
under the department of justice, a
plan that, seemingly without, the sen
ate's knowledge, has been repeatedly
urged by Mr. Roosevelt.
The Panama Report.
There is nothing but encouragement
in the report of the engineers who ac
companied President Taft to Panama
to inspect the work on the canal. They
assert without equivocation that the
work is progressing favorably and that
the right type of canal has been select
ed. The Gatun dam, for the control of
Chagres river floods, is pronounced
thoroughly safe with a good founda
tion.
We are not so sanguine :«s to as
sume that this report will put an
end to criticism, to forebodings, or
to controversy. It is just as well
that it shall not do so. A certain
amount of fault-finding will act as a
spur to the engineers on the job, of
whom the investigating engineers re
port that they are, if anything, over
cautious. Hut the report will serve
to assure the mass of citizens that
they are getting what they are pay
ing for.
"Mr. Bryan sees hope for 1912," says
a southern contemporary. We all set
hope for I'Jl2. In fact, we ai'e almost
sure it. will come.
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President Taft's cabinet of nine men
is headed by Philander Chase Knox,
secretary of state, who was born
In 1853 at Brownsville, Pa. He
graduated from Mount TJnion college,
Ohio, in 1872, and three years later
was admitted to the bar. During the
years 1876 and 1877 he served as as
sistant United States district attorney
for the western district of Pennsyl
vania. In the latter year he formed
a law partnership with James H. Reed
which still exists and which has rep
resented many large corporations, in
cluding the Carnegie Company. Mr.
Knox entered President McKinley's
cabinet as attorney general in April,
1901, serving until 1904, when he was
elected United States senator from
Pensylvania. The latter position he
resigned to become the head of Presi
dent Taft's cabinet. He was a candi
date for the presidential nomination in
the Republican national convention of
1908. Mr. Knox is recognized as one
of the foremost constitutional lawyers
in the country.
MacVeagh for the Treasury.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the
treasury, was born on a farm in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, gradu
ated from Yale in 1862 and from
Columbia Law school in 1864. He be
gan the practice of law in New York
city but ill-health forced him to aban
don it and in 1865 he went to Chicago
and engaged in the wholesale grocery
business. In this and other commer
cial pursuits he has amassed a large
fortune. Before entering the cabinet
he disposed of his holdings in the big
grocery firm and resigned as director
of the Commercial National bank of
Chicago. Mr. MacVeagh has always
been interested in movements for the
public welfare, locally and nationally.
He has been president of the Chicago
Citizens' association, the Chicago
Bureau of Charities and the Municipal
Art League, vice-president of the
American Civic association, and chair
man of the immigration department of
tho National Civic Federation. Mr.
MacVeagh formerly was a Democrat
and In 1894 he was nominated for
United States senator by the Demo
crats of Illinois, but was defeated in
tho legislature. He supported Grover
Cleveland, but afterward changed his
party allegiance because of the atti
tude of the Democratic party on the
money question.
Dickinson Is War Secretary.
Jacob M. Dickinson of Tennessee
and Chicago, the new secretary of
war, was born in 1851 at Columbus,
Miss. He graduated from the Uni
versity of Nashville in 1872 and after
ward studied law at Columbia college,
at the University of Leipsiz and in
Paris. Ho served several times by
special commission 011 the supreme
bench of Tennessee and was assist
ant attorney general of the United
States in 1895-97. For ten years pre-
vious to accepting the place in Mr.
Taft's cabinet he was general counsel
for the Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany. When not living in Chicago,
Mr. Dickinson makes his home at the
Hermitage, the estate upon the out
skirts of Nashville, Tenn., once the
property of Andrew Jackson. Like
Mr. Roosevelt, he is very fond of
hunting and fishing. Though a Demo
crat, Mr. Dickinson has always been
an opponent of Bryan.
Wilson Retains His Place.
Only one member of the Roosevelt
cabinet retains his portfolio under
Mr. Taft. That is James Wilson of
lowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex
cellent had been his work in that posi
tion that there was no serious talk of
making a change. Born in Scotland in
1835, Mr. Wilson came to the United
States in 1852 and three years later
settled in lowa. In 1861 he engaged in
farming in Tama county. He was a
member of the lowa assembly for
three sessions and speaker of the
house for one session, and also was a
member of the lowa state railway
commission. In 1873 he was elected
to congress, serving two terms, and
was sent to the national legislature
again for one term in 1883. He was
regent of the State university of
lowa in 1870-74, and in 1890 ,was
made director of the agricultural ex
periment station and professor of agri
culture at the lowa Agricultural col
lege, Ames, la. In 1897 he became
secretary of agriculture.
Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The first cabinet officer selected by
Mr. Taft after his election was Frank
H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, who
gave up his place as first assistant
postmaster general to manage success
fully the Taft presidential campaign.
He has been given the office of post
master general in the new cabinet.
Mr. Hitchcock was born at Amherst,
0., in 1867, and graduated from Har
vard in IS9I and from Columbia Law
school in 1894. Since 1891 he has
been a government official, having
served at different times as chief of
the division of foreign markets of the
department of agriculture; chief clerk
of the department of commerce and
labor, member of the government ex
position board and first assistant post
master general. He is a member of
many scientific antl social organiza
tions and is the author of numerous
bulletins, reports and circulars 011 for
eign trade and customs tariffs. His
work in the post-office department un
der President Roosevelt was especial
ly noteworthy.
Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio.
Missouri has been rewarded for its
switch to the Republican column by
the appointment of Charles Nagel as
secretary of commerce and labor. Mr.
Nagel is a leading lawyer of St.
Louis and the west. He was born in
Texas in 1849, moved to St. Louis
when a child and graduated from the
St. Louis Law school in 1873. He has
been senior member bf the law firm
of Nagel & Kirby, professor in the
St. Louis Law school and a trustee
of Washington university. In 1881-83
he was a member of the Missouri house
of representatives, and in 1893-97 was
president of the St. Louis city coun
cil. He is a member of the Repub
lican national committee and for years
has been an intimate friend of Mr.
Taft. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt's
most enthusiastic supporters. As an
attorney Mr. Nagel was identified with
several important cases dealing with
the numerous complications in the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in
the then Indian territory.
Navy Under Meyer's Charge.
President Taft's secretary of the
navy, George Von L. Meyer of Massa
chusetts, has had wide experience as
a business man, legislator, diplomat
and cabinet officer. He was born in
Boston in 1858 and graduated from
Harvard in 1879. He then entered
business and has been prominently
conected with a number of financial
and mercantile concerns. His career
as a public official began in 18S9, when
he was elected to the Boston common
council. He then served on the board
of aldermen, and in 1892-96 he was a
member of the Massachusetts isgisla
ture, the last two years being speaker
of the house. In 1900 Mr. Meyer was
sent to Italy as American ambassador,
and in 1905 was transferred to Rus
sia. In January, 1907, President
Roosevelt called him home to enter
his cabinet as postmaster general.
Balilnger Secretary of Interior.
After about one year's service as
commissioner of the general land of
fice, Richard A. Ballinger of Seattle,
Wash., has entered the cabinet as
secretary of the interior. He is a
native of lowa, having been born in
Boonesboro in 1858. After attending
the University of Kansas and Wash
burn college at Topeka, he went to
Williams college, graduating in ISB4
and afterward studying law and re
moving to Washington. He was
United States court commissioner in
1890-92 and later was judge of the
supreme court in Jefferson countv
Wash.
Attorney General Wickersham.
George W. Wickersham, who be
comes President Taft's attorney gen
eral, has bad the reputation of being
one i>f i lie ablest lawyers in Now
York city. Born in Pittsburg in ISSB.
hn studied civil engineering in Lehigh
universHy and in 1880 graduated from
the liw school of the University of
Pi-niisylvania. For two years he prac
ticed law in Philadelphia. In 1884 he
became associated with the law firm
ol Strong & Cadwalladare, to which
Heyiry W. Taft, brother of the prtsi
dent, belongs.