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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1907.
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POPULATION OF TEXAS CITIES.
The population of the seven largest
cities of Texas on June 30, 1906. as esti-
mated by the United States Census Bu-
reau, Is as follows:
San Antonio 62,711
Houston 53,132
Dallas 52,793
Galveston 34,336
Fort Worth 27,09d
Austin 25,092
Waco 24/143
The Terrible Cost of War.
The pension rolls disclose some
curious facts, as, for example, that
there are still living three women
whoso lathers fought in the Revolu-
tionary War and more than five
hundred widows whose husbands
fought in the War of J 84.2.
These cases, however, only go to
show the longevity of the war sur-
vivors on the pension rolls and sug-
gest the length of time that must
elapse before Uncle Sam will finish
laying the pensioners of more recent
wars, even if a condition of profound
peace should exist for another cen-
tury.
Whenever the jingoes who evidence
a desire to precipitate a war upon any
pretext whatever appear to be exer-
cising a considerable influence in in-
flaming public sentiment, no better de-
terrent, could be suggested, possibly,
than an exhibit of the pension rolls
left over from previous wars. What
General Sherman said about war is
all right, however inelegantly ex-
pressed. It means heartaches, deso-
late homes, horror and sacrifice and
devastation and everything else that
is bad, and it means also a tremen-
dous loss of treasute, for war is very
expensive. It means a burdensome
tax upon the1 people to keep up the
army and navy while the war is in
progress and the piling up of a vast
National debt to be met after the war
is over.
The public debt of the United States
at the beginning of the war between
the States was less than $100,000,Out).
At the close of that war it exceeded
two and a half billions and in the
years succeeding the Government, has
paid out in pensions the enormous
sum of three and a half billion dol-
lars. Even the war with Spain, which
was hardly more than a picnic, en-
tailed such heavy cost as to fiecessi-
tate the levying of extraordinary
taxes, besides the issuance of interest-
bearing bonds, which caused the pub-
lic debt to materially increase in vol-
ume at a time when it was being
steadily lessened.
Uncle S«.m is too big to knuckle
to anybody and too proud to submit to
insult from any quarter, but he is also
too sensible to be led into war with
any other power, great or small, when
the conflict can be honorably avoided.
And Japan also knows something of
the cost of war and the advisability of
keeping out of it, despite all that the
jingoes at home or abroad may say,
for Japan has a public debt propor-
tionately much greater than ours and
a pension list also. We are getting
too practical to be warlike, but not
too timid to send b fleet of warships
from one ocean to another for fear
that some might not like it. But there
wljl be no more wars In our time,
perhaps.
Taft or Hughes.
There appears to be no question
that Secretary Taft is Mr. Roosevelt's
choice for the Presidential succession.
Such an impression has prevailed for
eoine time, even among those support-
ers of Mr. -Roosevelt who have beea
insistent that he should accept a nomi-
nation.
Mr. Roosevelt is reputed to have
said that If the positions of Secre-
tary Taft and himself in the present
Administration had been reversed the
policies would have been the same,
that tb iy look at public questions
from the same angle and are in such
perfect accord that with Taft the
P.-esident's successor the present Ad-
ministration would, in effect, be pro-
longed.
With this understanding It is sup-
posed the ardent supporters of the
Roosevelt policies will becotno indent
•■■porters of the Taft Presidential
candidacy and that the Secretary of
War will naturally and inevitably suc-
ceed to the Presidency if the Roose-
velt sentiment should be as strong
in 1908 as It is in 1907. It is not to be
understood that Mr. Taft will bo the
popular choice merely because of the
Roosevelt support, for it is undeniable
that he has demonstrated qualities
which commend for the office Inde-
pendent of any consideration of Ad-
ministration favor.
It was because of recognized ability
that Mr. Taft was called to the bench,
that he was subsequently made Gov-
ernor of the Philippine Islands and
later called to a position in the Cabi-
net as one of the President's advisors.
It was because of his recognized and
demonstrated ability that he was se-
lected by the President for delicate and
important, missions which have called
him away from the National Capital on
so many occasions as to stamp him as
cne of the most successful and versa-
tile members of the Administration.
He has made an impression upon the
people second only to that of Mr.
Roosevelt, ajid as matters now stand
he leads the procession of Presiden-
tial aspirants far and away.
Among the probable contestants be-
fore the Republican National Conven-
tion of next year for the Presidential
nomination only ono other appears to
have mpde any considerable headway,
and that, one is Governor Hughes of
New York, who has grown rapidly
and continuously since ho became
Chief Executive of the Empire State.
He was not at first, thought to be of
Presidential size, but he has dissipat-
ed that. Idea aad has developed sur-
prising strength as a Presidential pos-
sibility. He is the choice, apparently,
of the ultra-conservative element and
would he preferred by the anti-Roose-
velt sentiment and the standpatters
to any of the other suggested nomi-
nees, with the possible exception of
Mr. Cannon, who is being put forward
as the favorite son of Illinois, with
little prospect of receiving more
than a complimentary vote. Sen-
ator Knox's candidacy has fallen
fiat, outside of Pennsylvania, and Vice
President Fairbanks, though longest
in the race—longest in respect to sta-
ture as well as time—has developed
no strength anywhere, and the others
are merely in the also-mentioned
class. -» i
How the campaign will shape tip
next summer remains to be seen, but
at present it looks to be Taft against
the field, with Hughes as the candi-
date of the opposition, and that is the
way it. may appear In the Republican
National Convention.
Cheaper Telegraph Service.
The Telepost Company, which em-
ploys the Delaney system of automatic
rapid telegraphy, announces that it
will build its own trunk lines from
Boston to San Francisco, using the
wires of independent telephone lines
to hasten the extension of its service.
If the Telepost Company does all it
proposes it will practically revolu-
tionize the business of rapid communi-
cation: in this country and so reduce
the toll on messages by wire as to
greatly enlarge the volume of tele-
graph business, which is said to be
smaller now, per capita, than in Eu-
rope.
The automatic apparatus consists
of a perforating machine operating on
a tape which is then fed through a
transmitter to the wires. The re-
ceiving is also accomplished automati-
cally on tape which takes the mes-
sages from the wire In Morse. By
this system, it is claimed, as much
business may be handled over one
wire as over seventeen worked quad-
ruplex by the old system. The cost of
constructing the telepost line is esti-
mated at about one-seventh of the
cost of the ordinary telegraph for
the same capacity, and the cost to the
company of sending messages about
one-third. Therefore the Telepost
Company announces a flat rate of 25
cents per 25 words, without regard to
distance, and proportionately favor-
able rates for press service.
The new company is not yet in oper-
ation, except experimentally, and its
performance may not equal its prom-
ise and it may be as slow In its de-
velopment as has been the system of
wireless telegraphy on land, but the
possibilities of improvement In any
direction are such that hardly any
promise or realization challenges cre-
dulity.
It Is Interesting and somewhat sur-
prising to le«rn from the prospectus
of the new company that although the
people of the United States send many
more letters per capita than do the
people of any other country, they
send far fewer telegrams—.95 a year
per capita, as compared with 1.28
telegrams per capita in France, 2.27
in England and 5.05 in New Zealand,
In all of which countries much lower
rates prevail. From the same author-
ity is Is learned that the Western
Union last year handled 74,804,551
messages—about 95,000,000 was the
total for both companies. At the New
Zealand ratio more than 450,000,000
telegrams would be «ent annually in
the United States. This indicates the
possibilities of expanding the telepost
business under low rates, though it
might somewhat reduce the number of
letters sent through the malls.
This Is the era of advancement, and
why not In cheaper telegraphy as in
other things?
Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
"A San Antonio girl who recently
saw a football game says bull fights
are less brutal. Unhappib, it is the
dumb animal that Is forced to suffer
in the bull fight, more especially the
wretched horse. In a football game It
is man against, man. Luckily the
Sail Antonio gtfl isn't really obliged
to see either form of sport." The
San Antonio girl was probably refer-
ring to the bulls of Wall Street and
did not reflect that physical Injuries
are sometimes less far-reaching than
others.
Citizens of the Panhandle propose
the establishment of a big National
Park and game preserve in the fa-
mous Palo Duro canyon, which is
rplendldly adapted for such purpose
and probably not. much good for any-
thing else because of its rugged char-
acter. As National parks and game
preserves are popular elsewhere, why
should not Texas have one that will
vie with any of the others?
The .New York Commercial believes
that with the advancing price of
milk it becomes only a question of
time when the church supper com-
mittee will find it economical to put
another oyster in the stew. It is to
be hoped that they will do this in-
stead of trying to improve upon the
milk-dealers' Imitation of a Wall
Street manipulation of stock.
The Waco Times-Herald announces
that. H. Clay Pierce looks anxiously
through his mall each morning for a
letter hearing the signature of
Thomas M. Campbell. Letters have
been addressed to him by every oth-
er official of Texas, ex or otherwise.
One would think that he would be
satisfied.
Referring to the recent financial
flurry, the Houston Post announces
that the latest report from Pittsburg
indicates that the situation is calm,
that no suspension of alimony pay-
ments has occurred and that the co-
respondents are serene and confi-
dent.
The Houston Post Is authority for
the statement that William Randolph
Hearst is the son of a native of Mis-
souri. That is the reason, probably,
that the Missourians today wish to be
shown before sizing up a proposi-
tion.
A mouse, according to the Indian-
apolis News, seldom lives more than
three years. The one that daily dines
from the editorial paste-pot will be
c-xtremely lucky if he lives three days
longer; that is, unless modern sci-
ence counts for naught.
Kansas City proposes to indict any-
cne found toiling on Sunday. That
is nothing. In San Antonio, it has
already been decided that there shall
be no opportunity afforded for
whiskey to get in its work on the
Sabbath.
President Roosevelt declares that
the man who carries the baby Is a
good fellow. Why does Teddy put
this slight on the martyr who trundles
the push-wagon?
The Chicago police, according to
the inter-Ocean of that city, are to
stop gambling. This certainly should
indicate a tendency towards munici-
pal reform.
\ model husband is the noblest,
work of woman, says the Indianapolis
Star. And the woman in the case is
usually his wife's mother.
The Fashionable Attitude,
Call htm anything you please.
Curse him aw he goes his way;
Pray upon your bended knees
That his heart may break some day;
Why have one kind word or fair
For the man who passes there?
Is he not a millionaire?
Hate with all the might you may.
He may wish to serve mankind,
He may feel that you and I
Are Ills brothers—never mind,
Curse him as he passes by?
Ask not what may be his aims,
Heap upon him shameful names,
Curse him for the wealth he claims.
Pray that tortured he, may die.
Though he may have fairly won,
Though his merits may be great.
Curse him still and leach your son
To behold him with your hate;
He may use his riches well.
He might lift you if you fell-
Hope that all the fires of hell
For his cringing flesh may wait.
-S. E. KUer.
.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
There's no rpom at the top for a
quitter.
Be a reformer, If! you will, but befin
on yourself.
Every man knows how other men ought
to do things.
Follow your Inclination If you like;
that's the road to ruin.
Take home a box of candy occasionally
lo sweeten your wife's temper.
But the more a man Itnowa the less he
has to say about his knowledge.
Self-love Is the. only brand of love
some men are capable of generating.—
Chicago News.
WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAY
Joins Associated Press.
The 8au Angelo Standard has been
elected a member of the Associated Press
and announces that on or about Novem-
ber 2 It will be enlarged to an elght-pag«
dally. The Standard in infused with the
same spirit of progress!veness that char*
neterlzes the growing town of Ban Ange-
lo and deserves surreal.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Wifely Pocket Habit.
The more money a man «»arns the
harder time he has to make his family
have any of it.—Florence Vidette.
It Is to be surmised from this that the
men of Florence are not in the habit
of leaving their change in their trousers
pockets over night.
♦ ♦ ♦
Cheerful News.
The Rclton Journal-Reporter announces
in a nine-column streamer head the
gladsome tidings that >^the Negro Hense
Williams Will Not Hang." A marked
copy was probably sent to Hense and the
Journal-Reporter wished him to be able
to spell out the news of so much interest
to himself.
♦ ♦ ♦
There Are Others.
Ye young men of Gainesville, listen!
It is not the "call of the wild,' but the
call of the gentle, yea. even the gentlest
and fairest in all the land. for. verily, the
Gainesville girl is the queen of all in tlie
State—Gainesville Messenger.
The claim of the Southwest Texas
maiden to the diadem has heretofore
never been disputed. However, be this
as It may, the beauties of this section of
the State are not forced to "call." Let
them merely whisper and the chivalry
of Southwest Texas is ready to respond.
♦
May Die Later.
Sarah Bernhardt, in denying the rumor
that nhe was to retire from the stage,
reiterated her oft-expressed declaration
that she will play till she dies.—Gorman
Progress.
The Divine Sarah, however, has yielded
in one particular to the onward march
of Father Time. She has given up acting
in trousers.
> ♦ ♦
Nobles* Oblige.
Falfurriss owes a debt of gratitude to
the business men of San Antonio, partic-
ularly to the Business Men's Club of that
city, for their hearty co-operation in the
effort of our Chamber or Commerce to
secufe better schedules on this branch of
the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Rail-
way.— Falfurrias Facts.
The business men of San Antonio are
working not only for San Antonio, but
also for Southwest Texas. Tn unity there
is strength, and the smaller towns of
this section of the State are in a posi-
tion to do their part of the good work.
♦ ♦
Wasting Time.
The President and his party bagged
three bears in their recent hunt in the
canehrakes In Louisiana. The President
killed one. He reports having had a
great time. Of course he did. Any one
from the North can have a jolly good
time If ho will come South and mix with
the best race of people that God ever
made. Wilson County Journal.
Naturally! But the average pefrson
coming clown on a hunting trip, unless
he was a member of the* Suppression of
Cruelty to Animals Association, would
not have such poor luck.
♦ ♦
If They Have to Hold.
Southwest Texas farmers are putting
their land In shape to plant the biggest
cotton crop this section has ever known
the coming spring.--Cntullaytecord.
What effect will this h^Pvo on their
chance of disposing of this year's crop st
15 cents?
♦ ♦ ♦•
Probably the Reason.
When Taft told the Filipinos that
within two years he exnectecl to again
be a private citizen, (lid it mean that
when the time cam* he would si.lestep
the nomination for President Rooifevelt.
or that he would be nominated and de-
feated by the Democratic nominee?—
Beaumont Enterprise.
It is more llkoly that he realised that
Roosevelt could not be deterred from
taking a third chance.
♦ ♦ ♦
Inherited.
New York nsay be the money center of
tke country, out it also appears to b- the
center of financial dishonesty and idiocy.
-Galveston Tribune.
It may be that Marvelous Manhattan
acquired other things from Pitiful Pitts-
burg than mere money.
Why Walt for Snow?
"Look for the beautiful" advises an ex-
change. We aro doing so, brother. We
expect "Beautiful Snow'* along almost
any day now.—El Paso News.
Why not, Instead, buy a ticket to San
Antonio?
♦ ♦ ♦
Probably Correct.
"An oration," wrote a Western Re-
serve freshman in examination the other
day. "consists of three parts, the pre-
amble. the body of the speech and the
peroration. The preamble is what you
say before you begin. The body of the
speech contains what you have to say.
The peroration is what you say after
you're through."—El Paso Times.
What a pity that some of our public
speakers do not adopt this definition and
confine their remarks to that portion
covered by the term "body."
s* TOPICS OF THE TIMES ^ ^
Women and the Suffrage.
Miss Phoebe Cousins' somewhat melo-
dramatic statement of her reasons for
abandoning the women's mffrage cause
will harJIy change the opinions of any of
the leading advocate? o£ that cause, but
it may induce them to retort with equally
exaggerated assertions on the opposite
side. As against her indictment of wo-
men for their unfitness, the advocates of
the cause will probably claim a transcen-
dent fitness.
;4lfs t'ouzins used to believe that
women were "honest, wholesome, pro-
gressive and proficient." Now she be-
lieves that tney are "under the dominion
of priests and preachers;" that "religi-
ous freedom and political purity" are out-
side their range entirely; that they have
"not a oiirll'le of regard for vested
rights." and would hence be "a menace
to our Republican form of Government;'
that they are certain to buy votes "with
a sniile and some silver;" that they lack
"the needed nervous force;" that they
cannot loolt at any question Impersoiial-
lv, and flrally, that "they wtre not de-
signed hy the Creator for the rough-?.nd-
ti.:nhie activity of political life."
This is a terrific indlcttn'nt. With all
due apology to M;ss Cousins for so un-
gallant a retort. It is terrific rubbish. It
Is just as foolish as the opposition ar-
gument which goes on the theory that
all women are angels, case-hardleneJ
against political fall. I: is just as foolish
n\ an argument which turns on tlia
natural rgnt o£ the women to the ballot.
If disputants on such subjects as this
would gather all the facts they can and
stick close to these before indulging in
rhetoric il fights, it would he useful for
all of tiicm. There are some very defi-
nite facts underlying the suffrage ques-
tic-n.
Ono is that a good rum of the women
of this country would make most excel-
lent voters. Cully equal and probably su-
perior to the men in their own circles of
life. Another is that certain other sec-
tions of the women, especially those
found in the crowded parts of cities,
would make pot r to indifferent voters,
and that even if they were r.o worse than
the men of their families they would hi
an undesirable addition to the suffrage.
Another .act is that whenever the ma-
jority of the women actively want '.lie
ballot they will cettainly get it. And
still anotlv r is that when the time comes,
it ever, that the men fall generally to
ex.,ress the will of the women In their
families as they vote, then the women
will becin to want the ballot vigorously
and will otart out ifter it. In the mean-
time Incendiary language is evidently
useless on cither side.—Chicago Recoid-
1-IeraM.
Why Foreign Craft Are Used.
For two reasons the Navy Department
hns been compelled to award to foreign
shipowners the entire cohtract fot deliv-
ering the 130,000 tons of coal required by
the Atlantic battleship fleet on Us Pacific
cruise. One Is that there are not enough
ocean-going steam colliers in the shrunk-
en American n erchant marine to convey
the amount of coal requited to fill the
hunkers of the battleship fleet on Its 13,-
000-mlle voyage from Hampton Roa is to
San Francisco. The second reason is that
ti'e doten American steamers that were
offered by their owners for this service,
having a capacity of 50.000 or 60,000 of the
IJC.Oiio tent, could not compete with the
foreign ships n rates, and were, there-
fore, all rejected by the United States
Government.
Now the main reason why these dozen
American steamers cannot carry tht.
navy coal so cheaply as foreign steamers
is that the wages or mechanics In Ameri-
can shipyards are nearly twice as high
as the wages of mechanic* In foreign
.hipysrds, and. therefore, American ships
cost'nitre to build. The wages of the of-
ficers and seamen of American ships a in
higher than those raid on foreign ships,
and. therefore, Vnieriean ships cost con-
siderably more to operate.
Bos'on shipowners, in a formal remon-
.«fl>ance to the N»vv Department against
the use of foreign craft, presented a com-
parative statement showing the differ-
ences in cost of eperat-on for a year be-
tween a Boston steamer and a British
steamer of the same tonnage. This wad
placed at ll'.iM', due to the higher Ameri-
can wag.s In the shipyard, »15,42S due to
the higher American wages on shipboard,
r.nd Jlthi due to the mere liberal food pro-
vided under the American flag-a total of
S.14.434 Because of these claims and of
other representations, President Roose-
velt directed the N'avv Department to
give. American vessels a preference of BO
per cent in the rates pais for the trans-
port service. But this generous offer
came tcio late. for. alter an unavailing
search fcr roturn fretgh'a from the Pa-
cific Ocean, the American steamers had
put In their bids on the .basis of a time
charter, and their owners were not able
to secure sucit freights end present re-
vised bids before the contract was award-
ed. Even if *11 Shese American ships had
h;en accepted, It would have been neces-
saiy to depend on foreign steamers to
deliver more than half of the 133,000 tons
of fuel required by the battleships.
Thin lark of return cargoes from the
Pacific Ocean has proved to be an im-
portant factor in throwing the entire
naval contract Into the eager hands of
foreign shipowners. These foreign ships
are chiefly British. Arriving at our Pa-
cific ports and discharging the coal, they
expe-t to load lumber in British Colum-
bia for Aistralia, or ths Orient, and dis-
charging again there, load a third cargo
home for the United Kingdom. British
vessels are preferred by the British mer-
cantile houses which everywhere domi-
nate the ocean commerce of the world.
American steamers, on the other hand,
hrve beer driven out of even our own
tradie with Australia and the Orient either
by the subsidies or by the low wages of
other nations. All that Is now left for
American steamers ;s ill" coastwise trade
of the United Slate'.. From this foreign
vessels are excluded, unless, as Attorney
General Ponaparte has just ruled, they
happen to' he chartered hy the Govern-
ment. But a coastwise voyage from our
Pacific to our Atlantic coast is 13,000
miles long via the .Vtraits of .Magellan or
Cape Horn, while the haul is only 300')
miles across the' continent by rail. The
intensifying competition of the transcon-
tinental railroads and of the two routes
via ti-.o isthnriscs of Panama atid Teliu-
antepec has left few commodities now
available for the Cape Horn voyage, anil
has so reduced rates thnt a few days ago
ocean grain Ireights from Paget Sound'
tn New York were less than $8 a ton,
while they were $10 a ton for the voyage
of about the same length to the United
Kingdom.
The United States Government has
saved some money by employing foreign
ships to convey its . aval coal, but it has
saved it at the expense of its prestige.
The Transcript quoted the other day thu
remark of a British newspaper that the
Yankees were about to demonstrate to
the world that their boasted sea power
was a good deal of n humbue, because
they could not move their battleship fleet
frrin Hie Atlantic to the Pacific coast
without the help o." a fleet of British
colliers. It should be remembered that
we could no more lawfully or decently
lire ihilish colliers to support oitr battle-
ships In ease uf war than we could bor-
row gunners er sailors or firemen from
the British navy. \V' should have to de-
pend upon our own resources, and we ar-r
now engaced in proving to a wondering
world that these resources do not exist.
The chartering of there foreign colliers
has armed the critics of the Pacific cruise
with the most effective of weapons—
ttat of ridicule.—Brston Transcript.
Ethics of the Legal Profession.
A contemporary publishes an extract
from the American Bar Association's re-
port on Diofes'sirtnal ethics. This fine,
lofty and eloquent document was ac-
cepted at the recent annual meeting of
that assoi iation. and it recommends the
submission of a draft of a code of such
ethics to the next myelins;. There i.s
much wrathful indignation in it against
shys^rs. ambulance, cha^iuc employ-
ment of "runners." etc. Wo nre told
that the practitioners who lack fixed-
ideals "not only lower <hc morals of the
rrot'ession," but "debase the lawyer's
high calling in the eyes of the public."
'Nay; more and worse; these cheap and
unworthy practitioners "hnmp^r the ad-
ministration and even at times sul vert
the ends of justice." They are "enemies
of the Republic," and it !s sheer mock-
ery to soeak of them as ministers of tho
courts.
This is hot stuff, and it is ri« hly de-
served by the ambulance chasers and the
mean shysters. By all means, let tiiem
placed beyond the pale by a code of
pjnfc-ssioral ethks.
Hut it will strike the averape lay c.iti-
zi»n as rtrange thaf%the Hmi- Association
*«V>uld have omaiie^^Till the vials of its
wr*»th on poor, inferior lawvers who
"work up" persr nal injury rases and en-
courage dishonest litigation anion* the
poor. Should J lot some of this indigna-
tion have boon directed against a very
different class of lawyers, lawyers "at
tie ton." to whose tnfinitely n?«>re i<*-
moralizing tricks and shifts President
Roosevelt directed attention some two
years a«o*> The dangers to Justice, mo-
rality and so.la! order from ambulance
chaser* are ludicrously slight beside the
danger# to theise same things from law-
yers who teach rich malefactors how to
evad* and nullify 'aws bov. to make the
belt-laid plans for insulation hopelessly
ineffective, how to doctor accounts and
Olstort facts and evidence. Ip these days
of Mtartllrg revelations of fraud and roh-
bcr\ by high financiers, of "tank town*
in thr wilderness, of vanished millions,
of Illegally destroyed bool;s and recoids.
of api-eals to statutes of limitation and
Immunity '.>atht>, of yell »w dog funds, and
so on. .t wruld si em that the need of an
»'thl<al code is greater in the spleiuild of-
flces of certain corporation and trust, law-
yers than In the dingy oiuh of struggling
shysters.^
Is the 13?«r Association to strain at
gnats while swallowing camels?
MENACE TO MORALS.
Rabbi Loeb Tells Reason for Oppos-
ing Prohibition,
"It is a well-known fact that all over
the world the J«<wa exercise great mod-
eration in drinking. Habitual drunken-
ness is very rare among them, and they
seldom appear as guests at police sta-
tions and Jails. I, therefore, as spiritual
adviser of a Jewish community, ne*d
hardly assert that I am strongly in fa-
vor of temperance and detest the ex-
'cesslve use of alcoholic beverages.
"Rut to me temperance means modera-
tion. I do not favor abstinence, and am
emphatically opposed to any kind of pro-
hibitive legislation. My reasons therefor
are of a Biblical and religious charac-
ter."
This statement compises the ooinion of
Rev. Dr. J. T. lioeb, former rabbi of
the Adath Israel (Orthodox) congrega-
tion, of this city, on the question of in-
troducing prohibition in this city.
"Time and again," continued Dr. hoeb.
"1 have been approached on the subject
by the numerous temperance associa-
tions and asked to co-operate in the
m<'\ement for prohibition. My reply whs
always brief; it was simply to the effect
that an agitation for prohibition or tee-
totaliam of any sort la against my re-
ligious faith and conviction. The unre-
dreming and irieconclluble plan to abol-
ish the entire use of fermented bev-
erages appears to me to be as detri-
mental to public morals as it Is lmpruc
tlcable from every point of view.
"It is bound to break up business in-
tercouse ami friendly relations amidst
Open, honest, and lawful circles of hu-
manity. It will drive the better classes
into low dives, and many a bitter soul
to despondency. The EJIble. which is the
standard teaching of morality and civilis-
ing principles, repeatedly speaks in praise
of wine, and fully grasps the meaning
of the situation b?« saying: 'Give strong
drink to the unhappy and wine to the
embittered soul.'
"This appears In Proverbs xxxi, 6. The
Bible contains innumerable references to
strong drink, m^ommendlng the use of
the same to despondent souls and the
unhappy.
"Legiplation should not. and must not.
tule out the use of wine in religious and
sacred ceremony, such as the sanctifics-
tion of the Sabbath and solemn feasts
among Jews, particularly on the Pass-
over Eve, when every member ot the
Hebrew raco is commanded to drink the
'four cups' of the beet wine obtainable,
or. on the Purlin festivity, and the day
of the 'Rejoicing in the Tiaw,' when
drinking is not only commendable, but
an imperative duty for all those who
cannot be materially injured by its ef-
fp(-'ts. L . ,
"Judiasm positivelv and absolutely pro-
hibit* prohibition, as it strictly forbids
asceticism and evey other extreme meas-
ure. For more than thirty centuries tlie
Jewish people dra>ik wines and liquors,
and were not worse for it In their tem-
perance and moderation, as during ait
generations they had offered the best ex-
ample for temperance versus abstinence.
There is hardlv a Jewish home where
you do not find alcoholic beverages, and
yet sobriety and induntry are prevailing
among Jews everywhere. It is there-
for but natural that the Jews as a
business people, and more especially from
a religious and moral standpoint, are
stroriglv opposed to prohibition, or any
legislation of a prohibitive character.
"In striving to accomplish our duty as
men we must not try to go beyond hu-
man nature and the ordinary conditions
of human existence./ We must not. be-
come over-wise and righteous ovr-muon,
in just the same mnnner as we must not
be wicked and foolish over-much' (Ec-
cjesiastes vii, 16-18). ,
"The way to reform is not to prevent
but to teach the proper use of things,
rind to prevent their abuse. —Washing-
ton Herald.
FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.
International Congress Will Meet in
Washington Next Year.
Preliminary announcement is made of
the meeting of the fifth International
Congress on Tuberculosis, which will he
held in Washington next year, Sep'. 21
to Oct. 12. The four previous meetings
were held in Moscow, Vienna, I.ondon
and Paris, and the coming meeting at
Washington will excel all of Its prede-
cessors in attendance, in its exhibit ,ind
in its discussions.
Since the first tuberculosis congres,
met in Moscow, the attitude of the med-
ical world toward the disease has been
completely changed. Since the second
meeting tit Vienna the study of con-
sumption has made more scientific prog-
ress than in all the ages before, since
the third meeting in London rational
treatment has been widely adopted, lhe
congress .it Washington will ue is much
a report of progress as It is a discussion
nt scientific principles. Among its most
Interesting feature.-; will be lhe consid-
eration of ways and means to bring the
benefits of scientific discovery and cure
to lhe millions who are in need of them.
. * •
On no oth'r subject is the medical pro-
fession so thoroughly united as on the
treatment of tuberculosis; with no other
plague has the profession made so much
progress toward ultimate extinction.
Though smallpox attracted universal at-
tention many yens ago and lias lost most
of its terrors by reason of Improved
treatment, the outbreaks continue to he
frequent and annoying, wnile medical
opinion finds no ground of agreement,
'rile tresiment of tuberculosis, on the
other baud, is uniform and the results
have been satisfactory to ill. The one
greatest problem' is to find means for
bringing r-II cases under treatment in the
early stages. To this end the public
must be educated to recognise the mal-
ady and to sanction lhe expenditures nec-
essary to deal with II properly.
It is the chief work of the International
Congress on Tuberculosis to furnish ma-
terial for the educational campaign, and
lo direc* it into the most effective chan-
nels. One of Its features Is a tubercu-
losis exhibit, designed to Klve the public
instruction not otherwise possible, and
lo bring to the attention of doctors sucn
mat'er as is not often accessible to or-
dinary practitioners. This exhihit at
Washington will be far in advance of
anything previously undertaken. It will
we'll repay the study of the thousands
who will have opportunity to attend.
• • •
The general committee is headed by
Dr. Lawrence F. Flick of Philadelphia,
chairman. Henry Phipps Is general treas-
urer. Ilenry Fnek a member of the
honorable toard ot counsel, and Dr.
Lawrence Litchfield of this city is A
member of the committee, which Includes
Miss Jare Addams of Chlefljro and Sur-
geon General Walter Wyman of Wash-
ington. The general secretary Is Dr.
John S. Fulton. Washington, with Miss-
Gertrude B. Knipp, editorial assistant.
General meetings of the congress will
he held at intervals, and each day there
will be lectures and clinics hy distin-
guished men of this and foreign coun-
tries. The work of the sections will
cover tin period from Sept. 28 to Osi. 3.
The sections are as follows:
Section 1—Pathology and Bacteriology.
Dr. William H. Wclch, Baltimore, prefci-
dent.
See'ion £—Clinical Study and Therapy—
Snnltorla. Hospitals and Dispensaries,
Vincent Y. Bowdltch. Boston, president.
Section .1- Surgery and Orthoeertlcs. Dr.
William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn., pres-
ident.
Section 4—'Tuberculosis in Children—
Etiology, Prevention and Treatment. Dr.
Ahrnhim Jac-ohl. Nf, Vork. p«-e«ldi;nt.
Section t—Hygienic:, Social, Industrial
and Economic Aspects. Edward T. De-
vine, New Vurk, president.
Section 11—Statn and Municipal Control.
Surgeon General Walter Wyman, presi-
dent.
Section 7—Tuberculosis In Animals and
Its ltcl.itions to Man, Dr. I/UonarJ Pear-
son, Philadelphia, president.
• • •
following Is the official announcement
of what the congrisMS will be:
A real world's congress, the fifth of
Its kind, the first one to be held in th»
I lilted Stales, and not likely to come to
this country again in twenty-five years.
II will carry on for three week, public
discussion of I ho tuberculoids problem,
led by I tie most eminent authorities on
this subject in this and other countries,
official delegates will lie present from
nearly %ll civilised countries. There will
he i course of thirty cpeclal lectures, to
which all members of the congress and
the general public are Invited.
The congress will be divided into Sfven
sections, giving ample scope for the par-
ticipation of both scientific and lay mem-
boi».
There will be a great tuborculosis ex-
hibition, in which one can see what is
going on the world aroimd In the cam-
paign against tuberculosis.
There will he clinics and demonstra-
tions throughout Hie whole period of
three weeks, giving medical and lay
delegates object, lessons in this subject.
There will be very valuable publica-
tions, i>f which the transactions will be.
the most important. The transaction*
of lhe last congress are published in
three volumes. The proceedings of this
congress will rec-pnre four volumes. These
are free to all members of tn« congress
who have paid thetr membership lee of.
$.Y»>.
The cost of the congress will far e*-
eeed t he revenue derived from fees. Thi»
cost will b» provided for hy the National '/
Association for the Study and Preven-
tion of Tuberculosis, which will invest a
large sum iKinO.cMO) In the project.
The American membership should num-
ber 10.Otici persons. There are two classes
of members—lull members, who pay a fee
of $;,.on, and associate members, who pay
a fee of $2.50, and have all the privileges
of membership, except the right to vote
and to receive thu printed volumes.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH FEAT.
Strains of Sweet Music Interrupt the
Receipt of a Message.
The many vagaries of thn wireless sys-
tems of telegraphy and telephony which
are now Installed on the various vessels
of the navy are subject to constant study
by the electrical experts who ar» in
charge of the plants. They are of es-
pecial Interest now because of the im-
portant part that wireless communica-
tion will play In the coming visit to the
Pacific.
During the recent assembling of th»
fleet ill Cape Cod Bay ono of the oper-
ators on the Ohio, while receiving a mes-
sage. was suddenly Interrupted by the
strains of a march sounding In his ear-
pieces. Thinking it was the band of tho
ship playing, h» went to the oflfcer of tho
deck and asked to have the band stopped
until the message was completed. The
man who relieved him at the receiver
when he went to the officer of the deck
continued to hear the music, and conse-
quently when the first operator returned
and Informed the man at the receiver
that the hand was not playing on the
ship there wus consternation In the wire-
less office, for sounding clearly In the
ear ecc-s was a march played by a band.
Tile Connecticut being the only ship
present on which a system of wireless
telephones had been Installed, every ono
was at a loss'to explain how music could
bo heard over tho receivers of a wireless
telegraph. It seems the band, which was
heard at a distance of oVer a mile, was
on the Connecticut, and her wireless
transmitters were thrown In while her
band was playing and another ship had
a wireless message interrupted by hear-
ing this music. The reason of this freak
of electricity is not yet explained.
An explanation probably lies In the fact
that the car-pieces of the wireless tele-
graph are very sensitive, and tho wire-
less telephone transmitter on the flag
shlo is very powerful, hence the sound
waves of ihe music, caused sufficient
Btatic electricity to be transmitted and
received by the. aerial of the wireless
telgraph.
As all Wireless experts know, directors
of the microphone type are irregular In
tlieir action, and for that reason are moro
or less unsatisfactory. While they aro
more sensitive than the coherer, they
can not generally be used to advantage.
They can be improved in their reliability
bv using anumher in multiple and re-
volving the needle, which is generally
a small steel piece, by clockwork. Thia
causes a more or less musical sound in
the receiver, but. the sound of all the in-
struments of a band Is quite another mat-
ter. and It will probably be some time
before the r«al cause of this phenomenon
is discovered.
Another possible explanation may lie in
the fact that all wireless instruments
have to be "tuned" before messages can
be received. Bv "tuning" is meant tho
adjustment of tlie closed and open send-
ing and receiving circuits to the same
wave length or to any desired wave
length within their limits. By a wave
length is meant the length of the curve
of tlie atmosphere which is disturbed
when the static elechrlcity Is discharged
from the aerial wires. This wave Is of
different, lengths, according to the Instru-
ments used, and, as* it is known that
sound travels in waves, there may have
been some synchronization between the
lengtli of the' waves of the music made
bv the band and the tuning of the recelv-
inK instruments on the ship where this
occurred.—Washington Correspondence of
New York Herald.
"The lilood is The lift."
Science has never gone beyond th«
above simple stateme nt of scripture. But
It has Illuminated that statement »nd
given It a meaning ever broadening with
tho increasing breadth of knowledge.
When the blood is "bad" or impure It
Is not alone the body which suffers
through dlfease. The brain is also
clouded, mind and judgement an
eES^cted, andln^ny an evil deed or impnro
th<«wht^JH^Sk«ctljr traced to the
Impumyof the Foul, impure blood
can be made nMTo. fry ti|o ..«■ - ~
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Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. _
Enriches and nnritws the hl^ thereby
curing, pimples, blotches, eruptions an4
other cutaneous affections, as eczaaa,
tetter, or silt-rheum, hives and other
manifestations of Impure blood.
® ® ® ® 9 •
In the cure of scrofulons swellings, en-
larged glands, open eating ulcers, or old
sores, the"Golden Medical Discovery "has
performed the most marvelous cures. Iq
cases of old sores, or open eating uleers,
It Is well %o apply to the open sores Dr.
Pierce's All-Healing Salve, which pos-
sesses wonderful heal lag potency when
used as an application to the sores In con-
junction with the use of "Golden Medical
Discovery "at a blood cleansing consti-
tutional treatment. If your druggist
don't happen to have the "All-Healing
Salve " In stock, you can easily procure It
hy Inclosing Itty-four cents tn pottage
stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierce, 863 Main St.,
Buffalo, N. Y., and It will oome to you by
return pott Most druggists keep It at
well as the "Golden Medical Discovery."
• ••«••
Tou can't afford to accept any medicine
of unknown composition as a substitute
for "Golden Medical Discovery," which it
a medicine of known composition,
having a complete list of Ingredient* in
plain English on Its bottle-wrapper, tht
name being attested as correct under oath.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulata
and invigorate stotaach, liver and fcnN*
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