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The surest uau to hit a woman's heart U
to take aim kncrUnti. Dontjlas Jerrold.
Life at Hnrrlsbui'R Is Just ono polltlenl
conference nftcr nnotlior.
What Is tlic use of roIiik to t-'iorltln, when
we have the same kind of a ollhiato right here
at home?
The men who wanted to pet Into the late
Judge Kalston's scat heforo It was cold will
have to wait a while.
Senator Underwood, who Is opposed to n
riuniL uomimssion, cviucnuy oujecia 10 iiav-
lnff his thlnklnj; donu for him In tho White
House.
Tho Dutch Queen Is so plump tlmt the doe
tors must have been unable to diagnose her
Illness as the mumps, until they made her
try to cat a pickle.
The -belated effort of the American Fed
eration of Labor to raise tho money to pay
the flne3 of tho Danbury hatters ought to
succeed.
Perhaps the boom In the lumber business
repqrted by the State Lumbermen's! Associa
tion Is caused by the sudden influx ot
woodenheads Into public life.
Did you answer the Presidents call yester
day? If tho charmiiiR young women did not
smile a generous response out of you, you
must have been callous, indeed.
That burglar who robbed a drug storo at
Ridge avenue and Mount Vernon street and
left the postofflce funds untouched set a good
example to tho pork barrel Congressmen.
Secretary WUson Is not planning to resign
from the Cabinet to run for tho Senutorshlp. I
He knows that in. salary check In tho pocket
is better than adisappointmcnt in the oiling.
"Two can plan nt that game," said Con
gressman Mnnn'when ho henid that the
President had changed his mind about a
tariff commission. ,And ho promptly changed
his mind about asmall-navy llmltcd-army
defense.
If It Is true that na.vy yard workers aro paid
the lowest scale of wages in their rcspectlvo
localities Instead of the average rate, as Pro
fessor Parkinson toldn committee in Wash
ington, the politicians) have been neglecting
their opportunities.
If Secretary Daniels would guarantee to
the armor plate manufacturers orders enough
to keep their mills running on full time ho
would doubtless got armor plate for less
than It would cost the Government to make
It under the most favorable conditions.
Director Haroun al Raschld Wilson his
name Is going to be! Like tho Caliph of the
Arabian Nights. Mr. Wilson Is prowling
about tho city long after curfew hours. Llko
tho Caliph, he Is probably doing some good
deeds unbeknownst. Like him, he Is satis
fled with his Bagdad.
Amateur operatic performances In thl3 city
aro given by a number of organizations, and
they are unusually well patronized. These
occasions have an Interest quite apart from
the merits of the performances, and they
have a far-reaching result. Whatever ama
teurs do to Jncreaso interest tin opera is wel
come In a city which has no opera company
of Its own and la compelled to depend en
tirely upon the arrangements of foreigners.
The Metropolitan does Its best for Phila
delphia, but It Is not always close to the
local demand, and cannot be.
The President In one of his New York
speeches declared for "Justice without
' aggression" In our relations with Mexico. Ah
t a country the United States has not asked
- for nor even wanted aggression. It has
demanded Justice, and it has believed for
many months that Justice could have been
achieved more swiftly, moro certainly, by
other policies than by those chosen by tho
President. His course has been that of
Justice to Mexicans. But what superior
right have Mexicans that they should re
ceive JUBtlce while It Is denied to Americans?
The President must know that, as a last
yesorti the sending of an armed force Into
Mexico. In support of a recognized govern
ment, would not be aggression In any sense.
Further, the President reasserted tho Amer
ican doctrine of allowing each nation to
determine. Its own attitude toward It3 own
affairs. It might be suggested that this
' right floes not Include the )rlvlIego of de
termining' the right toward America.
U Is hard to select the most striking
points from the article by Otto H. Kahn
In tho current Issue of World's Work, be-
cause nearly every point In that article on i
' What American Railroads Need" Is of Im
portance. Mr. Kahn assumes the right-
lies o! regulation. In principle, but de- I
flares that the practice has been flagrantly
jural r to the roadv, so that i.ow 41.9S6 miles, '
repressing over two billion dollars In
iBpUal. SB bJng managed by receivers. One j
of tho vautes may be found In Mr. Kahn'a
4rtlon that there has never been ap- j
jiolnted to the Interstate Commerce Com-
mlmiuii "a nuo a bo came to It qualified by ,
flrtt-rute experience in railway operation." j
Aru.itur LHui Is tbat the Communion is 1
4MDtrewtfe jvrwurked With the best of i
Intentions no commission of seven men could
do all that the commission theoretically does.
Yet the commission, If It had tho physical
power, would bo hampered by the 43 con
flicting State commissions, by tho 440 na
tional and State laws affecting tho railroads,
passed since 1912. and by the general atti
tude of punishment rather than co-opernllon
with the industry which If Hip bosls of pros-
I pcrlty. Mr. Kahn docs not gloss over tho
faults of the rond;i, particularly In tho elder
I day when they were nrrogunt to private
I rltlwns and generous to politicians and care-
lens about finance. Hut he Indicates that a
change has come and that n. corresponding
change muit come In regulation. His sug
gestions are certain to be deeply considered.
They Include the virtual abolition of State
control over Interstate railroads, abolition of
rnte-lixltig power In the commission, with
the rate adjusting nnd reviling power re
tnllicd, nnd the rslubllshmont of a central
board of control with regional boards In the
manner of the prrsonl banking system.
WISHING 11UTTKUS NO PARSNIPS
Vim cnnnnl uvi lmalnei"i liy nipn-lj-irNhlni;
for It. mill (nil.- nil) tint innkr
I'lillmlrlpliln n Krcntrr city. 'I lie nnr to
Iirliiir mure t rrult- lien li to m out nftrr It.
PLKTAHCH In hH "Lives of the Ten
Orators" wrote that when Demosthenes
wns asked what was the llrst part of oratory
ho answered, "Action," and which was sec
ond he replied, "Action." nnd which was
third lio still nn.woi'od, "Action."
.Vo great business was over made grenter
by the malingers sitting back In their easy
chairs and wishing. The managers know
that the only wny to get business is to hustlo
for It and to keep hurtling.
Those captains of Industry who nre com
manding the great enterprises here, which
they have built up from smnll beginnings,
nre continually on tho Job. No opportunity
to expand escapes them. They know In ad
vance where there Is to bo a need for their
product, nnd they see to it that their goods
aro there ready for tho purchasers.
Philadelphia hnn grown to Its present size
and Importance because of the alert enter
prise of Its citizens In pushing their own
business. All that Is needed to mnke this the
city of which wo are dreaming is tho exer
cise of the same active energy in concert.
There Is no lack of energy, but there has
been lack of Intelligently directed co-operation
toward n definite end.
The country Is not nwnio of tho advan
tages which this port offers for foreign trade.
Shippers in the Interior, who would naturally
use Philadelphia, have sent their goods
abroad by way of New York because they
did not know that there was a channel In
the Delaware deep enough to accommodate
the biggest ships. Thy supposed we did not
have mote than L'O feet of water, when, us a
matter of fact, there is 3 feet practically all
tho way to the sea. If any pilvnto business
house heio should learn that It had lost a
lurge order because a prospective customer
was afraid that It could not (ill It In tlmo the
managers of that enterprise would hot about
disabusing the mind not only ot tho cus
tomer It lost, but of oery other possible
customer In the country, until no one re
mained in any doubt of tho extent of its
facilities.
There aro already encouraging signs that
the prlvnto business men have decided to
apply to enlarging the trade of the port the
same kind of enterprise that has brought
success to them. The call which President
Bartol, of the Bourse, has Bent out to the
presidents of seven directly allied exchunges
to meet him on Monday to consider forming
a permanent committee to draw business
here Is tho latest exhibition ot the new spirit
that pervades the city. The plan to show to
shippers, not only in Kutopo and the rest of
America, but right hero nt home, the ad
vantages of using this port because of the
lower terminal charges, becnuso of the facil
ities for loading and unloading directly from
the cars to the ships and from the ships to
the cars, and bccnuc of tho lack of conges
tion, is exactly the kind of a plan that any
ono of tho business men interested in the
movement would huvo devised If ho wanted
to get moro trade for himself. President
Bartol Is likely to find that tho 'men whom
he has invited to conference are ready to
co-operate with him most heartily.
Tho projects outlined before the local
chapter of the American Institute of Archi
tects nre part of the general plan for making
a greater Philadelphia. It is as Importnnt
that the country understands tho almost
limitless opportunities for expunslon hero as
that It realizes that we already possess un
rivaled piers on deep water and convenient
railroad terminals. When trade expands suf
ficiently tho new plrs along the river below
tho mouth of tho dehuylkill can readily bo
built. There Is space enough to mako them
1G00 or 2000 feet long. They Hhould be as
large as thut, for we should not be outdone
by Seattle, with its pier half a milo long,
equipped with railroad tracks and traveling
cranes for handling the heaviest cargoes.
The extension of tho city limits as far as
Chester is still a long way off, but It Is not
too early to bo thinking about It. whllo wo
ate completing the Parkway, convention
hall, the art museum and the public library.
Wo aro setting the stakes pretty far ahead,
but it la likely that If tho momentum which
wo are acquiring continues, wo shall havo
to take them up nnd reset them sooner than
most of us expect.
CHAMP CLARK IN THE RING
CHAMP CLARK has not forgotten the
Baltimore convention. The beo Is still
buzzing about his ears. Two days after his
Presidential boom was launched In New
York by a committee of men with Teutonic
names he Issued a platform shrewdly framed
to catch votes.
Tho first plank in that platform declares
against an increase In the excise taxes and in
favor of the elimination of nil stamp taxes
so far as possible.
The second plank calls for an Increase in
the Income tax.
And the third plank urges the passage of
a Jaw which shall compel the munition
manufacturers . to bharo their great profits
with the Government.
The munition manufacturers tiavo no
friends. The men with large Incomes are
regarded as the legitimate prey of tho tax
ing power by all the Democrats who would
voto for Mr. Clark, and the farmers who use
gasoline motors and the thousands of own
ers of small automobiles will rise as one man
in support of a candidate who opposes an
excise tax on gasoline. The price of gasoline
is high enough already, they think, and they
will tight any man who wants to make It
higher.
The Clark boom Is worth watching, for It
is the most Interesting development in the
Democratic Held. The next thing to watch
for 1 the revelation of what relation Mr.
Bryan baa to it.
Tom Daly's Column
IN WASHINGTON 8()UAnE
She live in the square bcloto me there.
Ah, me! If she'd only love me.
But she walks abroad with her head in the air
Supremely oblMous of nr.
Time was when this square was queenhl, ioo
IZrc Commerce, worst of marauders,
found a foothold here for the parvenu.
For shops and for bachelor boardcis.
The house of her fathers, square and brown,
Grand )nnn.sr of the olden city.
Seems looking down on the tawdiy town
With a mixture of scorn and pity.
This look of her house, austere, aloof,
Itests now on her hlyh'brcd fraturri,
When the hsues forth lorn, beneath her roof
To watk anion, meaner creatines.
I sit at my window under the eaves
And yearn to be there beside her.
Hut a inlf between llhe the ocean heavei,
for never a put) was wider.
She lives In the square below me there
Ah. me! If she'd only love me.
She lives In the square below me there,
Hut moves In a circle above me.
For the Promotion of Picturesque Profanity
When wn announced that we'd slop our
cars to all oaths of more than 20 worth) we
had no notion that Arthur Oultertnan would
try to win his own book. So. we're ralsiHir
the onto to 30 words, to mlmlt this entry
from him:
Maybo I'll send .ou n brief esnv on the
true Inwardness and rntlonnle of profanity.
All that occurs to me now li a coinprelien
slxe curse that la barred from our com
petition by Us length and probably by Its
Intensity. Some old writer, who.e name I
hnvo forgotten, but be wns ov detitlv a testy
bookworm, expresses his feelings thus:
"May be that prlntcth n Hook without mi
Index be damned ten miles lieontl Mell
whore the IVvIl himself can't go because
of the nettles!" Aithilr Gultcrtunu.
Kor strength this is above proof, but music
It whnt we want, too. A protest has been
entered against our own mild little oath,
"By the wings of the things In the beard
ot the prophet!"
Dear Tom N'o inntter how rotund or musi
cal or picturesque the onth, Its value will
be fatally vitiated bv faulty entomology!
Since when have the things- that are In
the binrd of the prophet been provided with
wings' You don't cet that copy of "The
Laughing Mute," nnwny. 13. S.
This K. S. person Is probably some beard
less youth who knows little of hirsute har
bors; doubtless he never heard Kronk
Oglesby's sweet tenor voice rendering this
lovely lyric:
Thero was an Old Man lth n heard.
Who mid. "It Is Just what I feared!
Two 0le nnd ii Hen,
I'our t.nrlia anil u Wren
Have all built their newts in my beard!"
Here's another entry and of the sender's
nationality there can bo no question:
To nn enemy. "May tho Pivvll sit on your
upper lip ami bark down at jour soul."
A. O'.M.
And here's another:
Perhaps vnu'll nward ' The Laughing Muse"
To the scribbler of thli verse.
Hv the Knnnio that does Hum In my hairy dome."
Is that the Iuii1iik rurso?
If not, then here's nnnthcr
Which rontnlns a fen unrds mere:
"Hv the rumbling" nnd tho grumblings
Of the eternal Rods of war."
Macklmtn.
tui: itAcn.u si:asox opa'.vs
Sayi Doctor Dixon : "Here's a flxl .
Sfcio dilnks, the germs to slauyhlcrl"
Says Doctor Kruscn: "What's the use!"
hi the battle of boiling water.
Aloysius.
PROFANBLY SPHAKINO OF I'HOFANITV.
A couple ears ago there was an anecdote in
the Satevepo&t about n jqung man who was
advised to get his leader's nttcntlon at Hie
start. He brought back a short tflory which
started, " 'Oh Hell', said the Duchess, who had
hitherto taken no jmtt In tho conversation."
This week a" .story In tho Post situ in, " 'Oh
Hell.' said Mis. Hicks, who had hitherto main
tained a haughty silence." 1 don't think Its
fnlr for contributors to u" the Post's Jokes
besides I was go!ng to use the opening myself.
N. W.
"This sign at 17th and Chestnut stiects,"
Nt'B
GOWNS
writes W. H. B.. "may be said to be doubly
interesting because of the fnct that 'Nile' Is
the feminine form of the French for 'nude'."
it's a good Lirrnut after all
CfOMI! O.VL' lias advanced the opinion that
0 the letter "e" Is the most unfortunate let
ter in the English alphabet, because it is
ahcays out of cash, forever in debt, never out
of danger and in hell all the time. For some
reason, he overlooked the fortunatcs of the
letter, so we call his attention to the fact "c"
Is never in war and always In peace. It is
the beginning of existence, the commencement
of rase, and the end of trouble. Without it
there would lie no vieat, no life and na
heaven. It Is tho centre of honesty, makes
love perfect and without It there could be no
editors, dcvili or neicj. Fourth Estate,
A I'ltOPIIKCY THAT HONE JO.K I1USTEU
Sir Can Ilughy Fullerton qualify as a humor
ist or prophet ami enter your sacred college of
aspiring humor?
Kxtrnct from American Mngazine for Jan
uary. 1910, page 3S5: "Perhaps IJteyfuss may
persuade Wagnor to play again but I think
not, for Wagner has achieved his ambition."
Jay Hay.
AN INCIDENT OF TUB ORIENT.
(Serving tn Introduce a certain Euntern sage who
mas be expected tu make Ids talaam from time
to time, weather and editor permitting, In this
column.)
Old See Youf Irst, of men the worst
Was something of a Wit.
For knowledge he'd n holy thirst,
Of Turks ho was tho very first
To sample brie, ond wlener-wurst
He also drank a bit. .
i
A missionary, one bright day
In sober black bo-clad,
Strolled, hollly, along that way.
Cried Youf: "I lave good men who pray;
My 'bone trick' la tho game to play.
I'll frisk yon simple lad,"
See Youf salaamed: "Effendi! See,!
A rello rare have I;
This tiny bono is from the knee
Of Mahomet! For dollars three
It goes to you a Saint; Ah, met
To sell It makes me cry,"
Then spake the missionary, low:
"This ten-spot, Friend, is nl
My purse; mako change, and let me go
Keep, you, three dollars. Hurry, bo,
1 sail, forthwith, by P. & O,
And I must haste, withal,"
See Youf made change. To Bank then went
That rogue of deepest dye.
The Banker sitting In his tent
Over the "parson's" ten-spot bent:
" 'TIs counterfeit; not worth a cent"
Quoth he, in accents dry,
A. A.
Looking over the above filling, it seems
to us there's a terrible lot of brimstone and
strong full-grown man talk about it, but
it's too late now to change it.
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OPPORTUNITY AS
FOUND IN AMERICA
Secretary Wilson, "Boomed" for
Senatorship, Came to Pennsylva
nia Coal Mines When a Small
Boy and "Got On"
OF COURSE, Pennsylvania has to ! ive
two Senators In Congress all the other
States do nnd as a vacancy in soon to occur
the new Senator might as well be William
Hauchop Wilson as anybody else That Is,
according to certain
Democrats. Perhaps a
better way of stating
the situation wouhl be
to say thut the Dem
ocrat 1 c candidate
might as well bo Sec
retary Wilson as un -body
else. For snmi
of these Democrats
you know, uien't dead
sure how things arc
going to t u r n out
W h I c h . perhaps, it
only common wl.sdom
t h e non-partisan
kind. Anyway there's
a difference between
c e r tn I n Democrats
and absolutely certain
SHi'ItliTAl.Y ll.-UN
Democrats. Once I
saw In a btore window
u display of dispatch
boxes advertised on the card therewith as
"fireproof." On personal examination I found
thut light was shed through them. Calling
tho attention of the clerk to this fact, I
pointed dramatically at the sign In tho win
dow, "Fireproof Dispatch Boxes." "But,"
he responded triumphantly, "it doesn't say
'absolutely,' not 'absolutely.'" Which hns
nothing to do with the political case, tra la!
Mr. Wilson has been both In Congress and
in prison. In some respects his career sug
gests that of Kelr Hardic. His parents weio
Scotch, and tho story of his lifo has to do
In large part with the coal mines. For many
years he was known ns an agitator, and cer
tainly his path as a labor leader was not
strown with roses. His education ho ob
tained by his own initiative nnd effort, by
which ulso he got on in tho world. It's
chiefly the coal, however, that suggests tho
late Kelr Hardle. Other semblances aro
slight.
Evicted Into America
Wilson began his long series of lemarknblc
experiences In childhood. Ills father was a
coal miner In Scotland. Tho family lived in
a two-room house, tho property of tho com
pany, nnd thero were six In the family. A
strike camo. The miners wero evicted from
their houses. It was winter. With two other
families the Wilson family took rofugo In a
stable under the toolhouse nt Avon bridge.
Tho strike wns finally settled, but the elder
AVIIson decided to come to America. Ho had
enough money to pay his own passage, but
tho rest of the family remained In Scotlnnd
till funds wero sent back for their transpor
tation. In 1S70 William was then eight
years old they .Joined Mr. Wilson In the
coal Holds at Arnot, Pa. Tho next year Will
iam wont to work In tho mines. At the ago
of 11 he joined a labor body and lost his Job.
Ho got another one, however. At tho ago of
14 he organized a debating nnd reading so
ciety of the miners of Arnot. Later he as
sisted In organizing tho United Mine Work
ers of America. His identification with tho
labor movement In West Virginia caused his
Imprisonment.
As a boy In the mines he was onco burled
under several tons of rock he was saved
from death, however, by n miraculous pocket
formed by debris. He had other exciting
experiences. Also, later, other occupations
than coal mining. He worked as a fireman
en a railroad, dug ditches, curried a chain
and surveying tools, prospected for coal de
posits and chopped down trees in tho "bark
woods" of Pennsylvania before he rented the
farm which he afterwards bought. That
farm In Blossburg is now his home. Thither
he brought his wife, a Pennsylvania girl of
Scotch birth. And there they reared a family
of nine children. In 1898 Mr. Wilson wns
elected to Congress from the loth District,
ond after two re-elections he joined the
Cabinet of President Wilson as Secretary of
Labor.
Head Books to Father
Secretary Wilson tells how he acquired tho
beginnings of an education. "Whllo working
In the mines, during a period of several years,
I was accustomed to read aloud to my
father at home In the evenings. He could
read, and write also, but he did both wjth
difficulty. A typical argumentative Scotch
man, he was accustomed to worry over
straws of discussion with his neighbors. The
reading, which was usually of a serious char
acter, provided him with a basis of knowl
edge on which to construct his arguments.
Among other books that I read to him, as I i
remember, were 'Science and the Bible, i
JEST FISHIN'
Ql
Adntn Smith's 'Wealth of Nations,' Cham
bers' 'Infnimntinu for tho People,' and
Drummond's 'Natural Law In tho SplrltunI
World.' .My father had been a good tlcrtl
worried about my loss of nppottunlty for
getting nn education. Hut tho rending
taught mo a good deal. My mother had been
accustomed to read aloud to him up to tho
tlmo when I wns able to take up tho task.
When 1 whs about 12 years of ngo 1 had an
opportunity to Join a night school which had
been newly started, and this gave me u
L'hunce to catch up to some extent with tho
branches ot instruction in which I was most
deficient."
Secretary Wilson's father was a man of
noteworthy mental vigor, nnd back In Scot
land he organized a great co-operatlvo so
ciety known as tho Cndzow Society. It was
named after nn ancient castle in the neigh
borhood. It paid dividends, and what was
moro Important. It encouraged thrift among
tho miners.
Tho Secretary of Labor sprang from humble
circumstances. "If," says he, "I luivo man
aged to get on in tho world to any extent,
It affords tho best possible ovidenco that
this Is a country In which opportunity lies
in every man's path." K. IT.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
As things nre today, wo should sny that If
the President thtows bis Inlliience on tho side
of a t.'iillf commission the country is certain to
have one. Indlnnnpolls News.
N'o matter why or by what party the outrage
wns peipetiated. It Is Cnnanza who is imme
diately responsible to the America i Govern
ment, nnd lie should bo hold to a strict ac
countability. Uetiolt Flee Press.
Ameilcnn archcologlsts who have been accus
tomed to spending their time in tho Old Woild
may ilnd, if they will till n their minds to it.
that there Is plenty of Interesting nrchcologlcal
material right hero in tho now. Tacoma Tri
bune. When tho mral delivery service was Ill-organized
and the pay voiy low there was no
particular waste of money in a standard wage.
Hut every year Increases the propriety of
gi anting tbn PostoIIlco iiuthoilly to lit wages
to service. New York Evening Post.
If cotton had Its fair ehaneo In tho world's
markets It would have been bringing our South
ern pluntois fully -0 cents per pound for tho
last 1" months, and the pioiparlly of the peo
ple of tho Houtli would be double that which
It Is today. Cincinnati ICmiulrcr.
"THE TYLER GRIPPE"
77j the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir The present wldo prevalence of tho form
of Influenzo known as la grippe, from the
French, which tho leporters call tho "gilp," Is
not new. Many similar visitations aro recorded.
Their comings nnd goings nro mysterious as
tlioso of the wind, of which wo havo been ro
mlned 'no ono can tell whence it cometh nor
whither It gneth," It haB been known to dla
nblo n ship In mlilocenii by suddenly attacking
the ciew and rendering them unable to man
age tho vessel.
Perhaps few remember the nssaclntton of tho
malady with our national politics. In the year
1M0, when the writer hud reached the ngo of
It yenis, the country wns In the throes of a
ptesldentlnl campaign, in which Ceneral Will
iam Heniy Hnn icon was the candidate of tho
Whig party for President with John Tiler as
running mate.
The campnlgn was whnt may be termed up
roarlous. Harrison's celebrity ns the hero of
the fight with the ledmen, in tho battle known
as or Tippecanoe, formed the basis of tho
Blogan, "Tippecanoe nnd Tyler, too."
Ills alleged lowly origin led Ids opponents to
deprecate him ns coming trom the log cabin
and drinking cider. The Whigs took this up
depreciate him ns coming from tho log cabin
nnd Haul Icier." Ilrass tokens weio coined,
of which t have preserved a sample, showing
a log cabin with tho cider barrel conveniently
by. Iog cabins were carried In torchlight pro
cessions, ono of which structuies Is preserved
by a neighbor who haB j -unit tod me to tako
a plctuic of It. Hooks of campaign songs were
circulated. Farm wagons wero driven tp tho
meetings, crowded with standing men, holding
each other up and shouting these songs, pcr
hups, too, cnirying within them soma of the
beverage attributed to their candidate.
Great was the grief when, a month after his
Inauguration, Harrison died and "Tyler too"
became President. About this time came ope of
those mysterious visitations from which we are
now suffering and which is not mentioned In
the enumeration of similar epidemics in the
Encyclopaedia Hritannlca. It was, however, very
severe and widespread nnd Its association with
the leading political event ot the tlmo led to Its
being known ns "Tiler Grippe." Whether It was
thought to have been the moving cause of the
attack of pneumonia which caused the death of
Harrison and put Tyler In his place or whether
Its association with the defection of the latter
from bis party led to tills designation ( know
not, but the name "stuck" until the "grippe"
took it3 night to other regions and gave place
to other subjects of Interest.
J. A. ANDERSON.
I.ambertville, N J., January 2T.
COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH
To the Editor of Evening Letlger:
Sir Congratulation. You had the only real
analysis of the speech of Colonel itooaevelt in
your issue covering that portion of the recent
Americanization movement In thlsVlty. He made
a political speech, pure and simple, and used tho
conference to exploit his attempt to sidle into
favor with the bigwigs of the llepubllcan
party. Social Justice was discarded. The iron
heel was nowhere In evidence, and T. It. trod
about with carpet slippers, so tbat If he did
strike some plutocratic corn he would not hurt
the owner Kt'SS d. UBOl'UE
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