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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 40, 1918.
THE STATESMAN
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THE VICTORY.
If it la true there are 37.500,900
dozen eggs ia cold storage at Chicago
it is time for the Illinois legislature
to break up the trust hen’s nest-Gai-
veston News.
Pull the hen off; there’s an egg for
every democrat in the nation to throw
at the rascals that have been keeping
us in suspense the past two days.
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t,f eontests, each showing democracy with inereased
strength. Wilson’s had no such antecedent*. Hi*
party had mat disastrous defeat under Parker and
vnder Bryan. When he became its leader there
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empire and that the possibility of po-
litical separation has becme a thing
of the past-From "The Danish W est
Indies: Keys to the Caribbean." by T.
Lothrop Stoddard in the American Re-
A lot of good money would be cre-
mated if men could take it with them
when they die.—Honey Grove Citizen.
As it is, a good deal is burnt by the
heirs.
while the great negro mass was sinking
into apathetic wretchedness,
since then, however, much has hap-
pened to improve the situation. The
British West Indies have fairly "turned
the corner"and have every prospect of
a brighter day ahead. The production
of new staples, such as bananas in Ja-
maica and cocoa in Trinidad hag siren
these largest of the British Islands
something of their former agricultural
prosperity. The demand for black la-
bor at the Panama Canal and the Amer-
ican banana plantations in Central
America has relieved thelabor conges-
tion in many of the smailer British
inlands such as Barbados The winter ।
tourist traffic from the United States
is bringing In money. The opening of
Ships to the number of 1097 have
passed through the Panama canal in
the last two years, and the tolls ha¥e
amounted to $7,000,000. It ta probably
useless to conjecture now wnat the
business of the canal would have been
were it not for the Ero,ean war, but.
as the Christian Science Monitor sug-
gests there can be no oojectionto the
entertainment of some very hope1ui
views regarding its probably annual
business with the return <f peace —
Beaumont Enterprise.
The canal is destined to be an im-
mensely important gateway in a world
whose commercial relations ara likely
to be radically readjusted as a con-
sequence of the war.
’ Colonel K. M House of Austin is the
only Texan that contributed as much
as $1000 to the national committee for
the purpose of electing Woodrow Wil-
son. Colonel House is also the only
Texan that the President can not get to
accept an office.—West News.
It is quite true that the patriotism
of the great majority of our fellow cit-
izens is of too sterling a kind to stand
aside when some lucrative office cries
alour for help. Colonel House is a good
paying member, but the rest of us are
ready to work when the preacher calls.
THE TRIO DE LUTECE
In recital at the Hancock Opera House thia evening, but you can hear any
one of 16 selections by those wonderful artists in your home if you own a
Columbia Grafonola. We are exclusive agents for these instruments, with
the largest stoek in Texas at your service.
wall, but the wat upper cisnes were -----— ------- -— ---- - . - - . - .
ateadily drikting away to other tielas’the Panama Canal la rousing evory-iview of Reviews for Septempber, Hit
What has become of the old fash-
ioned woman who hated to burst a $20
bill?—Galveston News.
We give it up. But if you find her,
send her to us: we know marriageable
men who. yearn to make her acquaint-
ance.
Instruments from $15.00 to $200.00 Come in and
make selection now for Christmas.
One of the best features of Denton
County's present prosperity lies in the
fact that a lot of surplus cotton money
is being invested in good stock — hogs,
cattle an sheep particuiariy.for
breeding purposes. Whenever the time
arrives that every farm in .Denton
County will be counted incomplete un-
less it has a few head of livestock,
some chickens and other merchantable
poultry, that time will spell prosperity
here with a big P. and it’s good to know
that this high-priced cotton is con-
ducing to that dealruble end rather
than in a prospective overproducton
of cotton, for livestock-owning means
feed raising. Denton Record-Chron-
icle.
That is goo doctrine. High cotton
prices another year are uncertain, but
the man who has his living at home
is independent of the cotton market.
Trio de Lutece.
SERENADE. (Widor.) Trio de Lutce.
SERENADE. (Saint-Saens.) Trio de Lutce
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The bulk of Europe’s holdings in the
Caribbean are in the hands of two
great powers—England and France.
Next to our own, Great Britain's posi-
tion in the Caribbean is indubitably the
strongest and not so very far behind
us, at that. Indeed, in terms of square
miles and population, the Stars and
Stripes are quite outshadowed by the
Union Jack. Our only formal Carib,
bean colony is Porto Rico, an island of
3600 square miles with a population
of 1,100,000, whereas the British West
Indies, including the continents! foot-
hold of British Honduras, total nearly
21,000 square miles with a population
of close on 2.088.000. And their po-
litical significance is even greater than
these mere statistics would indicate.
Nearly every Caribbean waterway Is
flanked by British territory. The
northern coasts of Cuba and San Do-
mingo, and for that matter, the cast
coast of Florida to boot, are blanketed
by the immense Bahama archipelago,
though these sany keys are so low and
devoid of deep water harbors ns to
offer no chance for the establishment
of a first-class naval base.
Quite different is the case within the
Caribbean itself. To begin with, just
south of the most important of all the
entrances to the Caribbean—the Wind-
ward Passage between Cuba and San
Domingo lies the great island of Ja-
maica, squarely blocking the direct
rood to Panama. Jamaica a lao flanks
the highway from New Orleans to Pan-
ama, while just to the westward on the
mainland. British Honduras takes I on.
The .policies for which Woodrow Wilson stood
ere vindicated. There is not likely to be anything
more than petty murmuring against his interna-
tional policies, and, with continued prosperity, the
wisdom of his domestic policies will be shown with
increasing clearness. The nation has spoken and
the old issues are dead. Dead among them is the
worn-out argument for a protective tariff.
New issues must be faced and there is reason
for confidence that they will be handled well. The
new Congress has its drawbacks. Neither party
can be certain at all times, of control. A very
small rebellion in Democratic ranks would over-
throw the party’s dominance. But division on
partisan lines is not always desirable. Nor does
Congress so often divide on these lines now as in
the past. Republican votes have helped the pro-
gressive Democratic element to put through some
of its most valuable measures.
Democratic votes may help the Republicans to
block some future measure unwise but approved
by a majority of Democrats.
There has been a broadening of American views
since the great war began. We are now less par
tisan, more American and, consequently, more
thoughtful. The complexion of the new Congress
will be such that measures passed by it must first
pass the test of reason The balance of power will
be with those Congressmen who think before
voting
The Wiltshire war agricultural com-
mitee have derided to close down the
training school for girl farm workers
at Shaw for the present, the results
having been wholly disappointing.
Mr. Stratton, at a meeting of I he
commitee. Raid very few pupils stuck to
the work. Women could be taught' to
drive milk carts or horses quite easily,
but the monotony of actual milking be.
came dreadful London girls eoud not
siand it.
When these Kiria came from London
to the country, he observed, their im-
agination I wag of lovely green fields,
shady trees and, In the near future, a
colonial farm life with I heir soldier
correspondent. But it all ended when
they got to the actual life of the farm,
with its mud, filth and clouds.
Mr. Rogers, the board of agriculture
representative, snid that mogt of the
girls were of a "flighty" disposition.
Country giris turned out well, but town
girls had not been able to face the lone-
liness and monotony of country life.
MI as Olivier declared that Lonon
giris were their best pupils at the
training school, but they did not like
the work when they went on to the
farms.
Reference was also made to the dif-
ficulty of finding suitable accommo-
dation for girls in country cottages, and
to the need of supervision In cases
where girls were living in cottages by
themselves.— London Observer.
This election showed, among other things, that
women who vote do not agree any more than men.
That is remarkable, isn't itT Absolutely, it isn't.
If the woman vote could be held together it would
be actually dangerous, for it would control in the
States newly become "pivotal," and .must always
be flattered, eajoled and courted to the possible
detriment of important policies and measures.
Some matters there are upon which we properly
may expect women to vote together, as the safe-
guarding of women workers, improvement of hous-
ing and living conditions, advancement of educa-
tion and the like. If they do not stand together
for these things the suffragists can hardly expect
mere men to become enthusiastic over “the cause."
But on political matter* it is to be expected they
will divide, and for their own. "cause" it is bet-
ter so. )
Before marriage a girl wants, a man
to write her love letters; fterward
checks will suffice—Honey Grove Citl-
zen.
She does not object to an occasional
lore letter after marrlaga, but of
course it is all the sweeter it rein-
forced with an order on the tanker.
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was nation-wide dissatisfaction with Taft, but it
may be well doubted that Wilson could have won
bad not Roosevelt split the Republican party by
his defection. In 1912 the Democratic party re-
mained the weaker party, although it gained con-
trol of the nation. It is so no longer. Wilson has
been greater than his party and that party fol-
lowing him has become the greatest in the nation.
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ter, Mayor Wooldridge, in proposing that a com
petent engineer be employed to determine the
Stability of the dam, the practicability of gates
md the other questions which have arisen with
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where* a new stirring of life and hope.
Laastly, the present war is knitting clos-
er th« bonds of empire. If England
should abandon free trade for "mperial 1
preference" her West Indian colonies
would obtain a market for their sugar
sufficient to put them on a paying ba-
sis one* mom. There is also the pos-
sibility of tariff arrangements between
the British West Indira and Canada,
a great market growing in importance
with every year. Altogether. It is safe
to say that the British West Indies
are firmly reknit into the fabric of the
Bearing in mind the sweeping claims of the
Democratic campaign manager* and comparing
them with the actual results, after two day* of un-
certainty and anxiety, the average Democratic
voter will hardly realize just now what a remark-
able victory President Wilson has won. Not only
have our leader* made claims calculated to en-
gender expectations of an easy victory, but the
record of 1912, and the attitude of our greatest
newspapers were additional influences to over-
confidence on the.part of many Democrats. The
strength of the forces arrayed against the Presi-
dent was underestimated except by those in close
touch with national affair* and in the discussion
of so-called “issues” the numerical weakness of
the Democratic party, which offered the real
chance for Hughes to win, was almost forgotten
Although they have been reminded often enough
that Wilson was the choice of a minority of Ameri-
can votets in 1912, the Democrats have not ap-
peared to keep this fact sufficiently in mind to
prevent some disappointment now at the closeness
of the result of the election. It is necessary to re-
member it, however, in order to appreciate what
Wilson has necomplished: In 1912 Wilson received
just 38 per cent of the vote of the country. Tues-
day he received almost, if not quite, 50 per cent.
And this gain in pereentage represents perhaps 4
million and a half votes. Those votes were won
by a record of achievement which set at defiance
the cool calculations of Wall Street. Wilson is
today, what he was not in 1912, the choice of the
American people. The Democratic party under his
leadership has become actually the dominant par-
ty, instead pf only apparently being so.
The wise ones of Wall Street could not foresee
such a result. They recognized the fact that the
President .waa the greatest figure in American pub-
lic life; they weighed his popularity in certain
sections and. his unpopularity in -others, but, while
Hughes' managers were making claims of a land
slide and Wilson's supporters were making coun-
ter claims, these cold, keen gentlemen remembered
that a million more American* voted against Wil-
son in 1912 than voted for him and they placed
their wagers accordingly. Wilson might be an
able President, he might be a great leader, but
there were a million more Republieans than Dem
ocrats and Hughes would win. So they calculated.
Before Wilson, the Democratic party had elected
one President since the Civil War. Cleveland’s
victory, however, had been preceded by a series
the other flank as well. Of the great
island chain known as the Lesser An-
tilles which curves southeastward from
Porto Hico to Venezuela on the South
American mainland, the vast majority
of the links are red.
Fifteen years ago, as we have said,
we might possibly have obtained the
British West Indies, either by purchase
or by excbange of the Philippins. At
that time the islands had sunk to the
very nadir of economic misery. Su car.
their universal staple, was a drug in
the market, and free trade England of.
freed them no hope for the future. Their
natural market waa the United States
and their poverty-stricken population
gazed longingly at the American tariff
8 George Barrere in solo and in combination
5 with the world-famed Barrere Ensemble,
5 has also produced flute and woodwind
I records that are veritable enchantments of
2 sound. Hear them or the solo records of
k Carlos Salzedo, and you will begin to appre-
x ciate what the Columbia process can mean in
9 every branch of instrumental recording.
E For true perfection ininstrumental music.get
A “music-note’' trade-mark records—every time!
Columbia Records in all Foreign Languages.
New Celawbta Retards en sale the 90th ef every month.
Thss advertisement was dictated t» the Dictaphone.
T | ^HE Columbia recordings of the Triode
| Lutece are no less than the epitome
of trio perfection.
EMEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
For, indeed, there is now but one real “national
party.” Except for South Dakota, Oregon, West
Virginia and perhaps, but not certainly, Minne-
sota, the Republican party is dominant only in a
part of the East and North. In no State bordering
the Gulf has it strength; in no State on the Mexi-
can border is it the party in power. The great
West is Democratic; the South is Democratic; a
majority of the States bordering Canada are Dem-
ocratic ; even solid New England has been broken
into. From Canada to the Gulf and from New
Hampshire to Southern California, democracy is
victorious.
But a few years ago the “solid South was
the only section which could be counted surely
Democratic. Today even the “solid East” can
not be counted surely Republican. The “grand
old party" has become a sectional party and not
certain of victory oven in that section it normally
controls.
Three such artiris as Barrere, master-flautist, Salzedo,
harpist-laureate, and Kefer, the well-known virtuoso
of the ’cello, united their genius to produce these
masterpieces of trio recording:
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THE STATESMAN
he course that would ordinarily be taken by com-
latent business men. Mr. Taylor and Mr. Lyndon
I nsist that the dam is all right. Other engineers
1 iave criticised the plans and entertain doubt as to
ta permanency. Before paying out any money
he eity. should know. The nearest approach to
inowledge is to be acquired from competent en-
gineering edviee -
Outside the matter of paying for the dam, if it
$ defective we should know it. If it is not right
We should make it right. Austin wants a dam
ana has waited for it long enough. Get busy and
fret *n engineer and then get busy and finish the
TRAPES
cOUNL
Creeping in between bulletin* on the voting
have come stories of Mr*. Hughes and Mrs. Wil-
son. This could hardly be avoided. There ap-
pears to be something particularly pleasing to the
public in the realization that our ruler* are, after
all, merely human, and that they have wife* who
watch anxious-eyed the election returns, and who
kiss them when victorious or console them in de-
feat, just as our own wives would tinder similar
circumstances. Of course there is nothing remark-
able in the interest taken in the election by the
wives of the candidates. It would be remarkable
it they were not interested. But we like to know
about it and to talk about it, no doubt too mueh.
So there will be Democratic women—and men.
too—who will rejoice in the joy of the First Lady
of the Land and smile to think that she will be able,
after all, to see the sprouting of those bulbs on
the White House lawn. And, since we mint be
so kindly impertinent as to concern ourselves about
the affairs of these ladeis, let’s not forget to sym-
pathize with Mrs. Hnghea, who came so near to be-
ing the lady of the White House,
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