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AN FRANCISCO again! The last time I saw healthier sympathies and soberer ideas,
it was five years ago nine monpns Deiore treading the earth more proudly." r?
O iho 'iwful earthquake of 1906 when I look- . '
tlie awiui edii.u4ua o . The Women of those davs wpro horn noa tnn
imvn on it from the top or Mount ramaipias norWa " :
the
a a-v m u w w uii w . aa in ill r! nil i n i ii f iif i; i rrt t si
splendid city at ray Icct oa ine Bourn, ine the men W(J . . and our twentleth conf.rr
Sacramento River wlnamg : -i e bewe!ed and ed o
t,uwlgh the valley tc , th nortt. onli.ta-.el.-.cd.pta7lnf. novel-read-
line of . fog clouds hanging low over the misty
r -ncific one of the prettiest of memory's pictures.
- otiniiofail on frTriTYlotolir Vioa
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the wrecked and fire-swept city Deen' re-Dunt. :
The Isolation of Our Pacific Coast.
"The trouble with San Francisco is that it is
too far from the United States," said one of my
fellow-passengers last night, and he was about
right. To get to it from the rich States of the
West and Southwest you must travel across a
'sheer thousand "miles of, mountain and desert
:; ore tlian a thousand miles if you come by the
Union Pacific. And this morning in eastern .Call-'
forma 1 was more than a mile and a quarter high
er up than I am in San Francisco to-night. With
such -a- rough and barren country "between our
l aciiic Const and the thickly settled West Central
States, one "is inclined to think a little more seri
ously of Homer Lea's prediction thai Japan will
ing, automobiles and gossip, doubtless stand in
as sore need as the young men of some course in
hard, practical, unpleasant, human toil, calculated,
to give them a genuine sympathy with labor, the
knowledge of what a dollar is worth, and more
practical views of life.' Such a course should, of
course, concern itself chiefly with housekeeping
and home-making, yet I noticed not without inter
est in this morning's paper that the English prin
cess, daughter of King George, is learning type
writing: something akin to the spirit which
prompts the German Emperor to require that
every prince of the blood-royal shall master a
trade.
The Panama Canal and Some Southern Oppor
tunities. Sail Francisco just now has its coat off and its
sleeves rolled up in a bulldog-like endeavor to
get Congressional endorsement as the place for
the Panama Canal celebration in 1915. New Or-
ultimately seek to capture the Philippines, Hawaii,- leans wants it, too, and every Southerner should
give New Orleans all "the support possible, for
whichever city and section gets it will naturally
impress itself upon the popular imagination as of
most importance in connection with our Oriental
trade. Perhaps when our eyes are once turned
south to Panama, we may also deign to look a
little further and take notiee of the brilliant com
jnercial opportunities offered us by the develop
ment of South Americas As it is now, a business
man here who has traveled over practically the
entire continent tells me that only seven per cent
of South America's trade is with the United
States," and to get a decent ship for our sister
continent you must first sail to Liverpool. And
yet on t-he great highway of the seas, these coun
tries are next-door neighbors of our Southern
States and should buy largely of our cotton goods,
farm implements, and other manufactures.-. One
of my Southern friends is shipping a considerable
quantity of seeds to' Argentine which is the
United States of South . America, with exports
amounting to three-quarters of a billion a year;
but we can never hope to get our share of all
this znldpn" traffic until" w can send commercial
I myself remembered hearing my father explorers down there who can speak Spanish.
More of our college students should learn the
language, for King Alphonso's decadent little
country represents only a small part of the Spanish-speaking
world with which our generation has
to do.
Utah and the Mormons.
and California and thus win the complete mastery
of the Pacific! Certainly I have gained a new
idea of the enormous difficulty the United States
would have in getting re-inforcements across to
its Pacific frontier if the Japanese should succeed
in capturing two or three of the more important
railway lines.
The Sfii ring "Days of 49."
This dry, desert-like mountain country with its
feu safe passes, also reminds me of the enomous
.katJj-tolJ in the rush to California in the gold
iniiiting days of '49. Only this morning we pass
ed' Lake Donner, so named because by its banks
(;.mp d a great party of the early, immigrants,
the great majority of whom died of starvation be
fore ever reaching their .hoped-for El Dorado.
And hundreds and thousands of others in smaller
I uties just how many only the record books of
Heaven will ever tell left their bleaching bones
to mark the trail for other travelers, only a few
of them remembered even by one of those inex
pressibly lonely headstones which I saw occasion--U.amid-the
sandy sage brush in the desert yes
terday
tell of emifyrflntH frnm mv nld hnmA who started
out and were never heard of again. ,
"Enduring Hardness Like Good Soldiers."
And yet those days have an unfailing appeal
for all of us. They had their compensations in
'hat their trials brought out the iron in men, and
f ailed forth the highest qualities of daring and of
perseverance till death. Hosea Biglow echoed a
universal feeling of the human heart when he
aift: "I du like a man; thet ain't, afeared." As
e dame through passes this morning hallowed by
i'iesp epic memories of the. early settlers, 1 could
'lot but wonder if the young men tt our time will
he made of stuff as stern and worthy wondered
all the more as there stood beside mea lank, pale,
' 'es pectacled young descendant of .these emigrants,
who complained even of the" military training in
tle University as "beastly," his exquisite ring on
his 'right hand and his ruby-and-dlamond ring on
l)is left marking him unmistakly as a "sissy." No
IHE NATIONAL Farmers Union In. session
last wek at Charlotte, N. C. re-elected
President Chas. S. Barrett under whose
wise direction it has made such wonderful prog
ress. Resolutions were adopted favoring a tariff
for revenue only, opposing a central bank, favor
ing parcels post, favoring the prohibition of deal
ing in cotton futures, endorsing the policy of con- "'
servation, favoring physical valuation of rail
roads, telegraph lines, etc., by the Interstate Com
merce Commission and urging larger appropria-.
tions for the teaching of agriculture and domestic
science in the public schools. . .
Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, surprised the
coiintry last week by announcing his withdrawal
as a candidate for re-election. This action makes
even more unsettled the already uncertain politics ,
of that State. B. W. Hooper, the Republican
candidate, has been endorsed by the "indepen
dent" Democrats in many counties, and whether
or not' the warring Democratic factions will be
able to agree on "a candidate is very uncertain."
The independents think that Patterson, realizing
that hisdefeat for the Governorship was certain,
may, as a last desperate move, try to get control
of the Legislature and go to the Senate. It is
likely, however, that his political career is prac
tically over. First elected as a reformer, he began
at once the organization of the most perfect ma
chine ever known in Tennessee. His flagrant
abuse of the pardoning power, his attempt to co
erce the Supreme Courtand his disregard of his
pre-election promises proved him as unscruplous
as he was -daring and ambitious.
The four Democrats on the Ballinger investigat
ing committee met with Congressman Madison
and Senator Nelson and adopted a report declar
ing that Secretary Ballinger was unfitted for his
post and asking him to resign. Mr. Madison join
ed in the report with the Democrats. The other
Republican members refused to attend the meet
ing. Chalman,Kelson will call them together and
a report -llf likely be adopted exonerating Mr.
Ballinger. The whole investigation has been a
fierce partisan struggle, and the committee seems
to have done almost everything, except deliberate.
The" election in Maine last Tuesday was a gen
eral surprise. The Democrats had scarcely dared
hope to carry the State, but their candidate for
Governor, F. M. Plaisted, was elected by 3,000
to 5,000; they elected three of the four Congress
men and will possibly control the Legislature.
It has been nearly 30 years since the State had
a Democratic Governor.
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The sensational features of Mr. Roosevelt's trip
last week wre the refusal of Mayor Seidel, of Mil
waukee, to welcome him to that city, and his re
fusal in turn to dine at the same banquet with
Senator Lorimer. The day after this happened
the jury acquitted Lee O'Neill Browne, charged
with bribery in the Lorimer election.
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The long-standing Newfoundland fishing dis-
Yesterday we passed through Utah and I was pute between the United States 'and England has
Interested In talking with an ex-newspaper man,
long a resident of Salt Lake City, about the State
and its people. Irrigation has made it quite a
fertile Commonwealth, and it is claimed indeed
that Brigham Young was the father of Western
irrigation. He may also claim to have been the
been settled by the Hague Tribunal. The verdict
is a compromise, and Senator Root is reported as
saying that the United States gets the small end of
the bargain.
Lloyd W Bowers, Solicitor General of the Ufilt-
origlnal advocate of "Ten Acres Enough," for this ed States, who was slated, it is generally believed,
was the amount of land he allotted to each.Mor- for appointment to the Supreme Court, died last
mon,and the careful, intensive and profitable cul-,
tivatlon given these smaller areas has justified his
wisdom. Young was unmistakably a man of great
versatility and ability. The cities he laid off would
do credit to a landscape gardener;' the great
wonder William James begins to speculate as to " w, ctmctiirflu h nlannd are marvels of
vlmt we shall d0 t0 develop qualities of hardiness architecture, the organization or machinery of the referendum.
Friday. He was 51 years old and a native of
Massachusetts.
Early" returns from Arkansas indicate the elec
tion of the Democratic candidates by the usual
majorities and the' adoption of the Initiative and
and manhood in our city youth those who are so
unfortunate as never to have served a farm ap
prenticeship in breaking steers and plowing new
grounds and mauling rails. I noticed In a maga-t
sine only this morning his remark that
"To ccal and iron mines, to freight trains,
to fishing-fleets in December, to dish-washing
and clothes-washing and window-washing,
to road-building and tunnel-making, to foun
dried and stoke-holesto the frames of sky
scrapers, wouM our gilded, youth be drafted
off to get the childishness knocked out of
them, "and to come back to society with -
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i ? Q" 1' er8 ftre PTtly protected by eopyrijrh, but w shall be.
Kiaa to hve rd iters reprint not more than one-third of any one
article. This to No. 2 of the Bertes. -
Mormon Church is said to be superior even to the
Roman Catholic, and his business enterprises Ten high officials of the Swift, Armour and Mor
were so well managed that he died after sup- Hs packing-house concerns are under indictment
porting unnumbered wives and more children for conspiracy in restraint of trade.
than the fabled , "Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe" worth fully ;$7,5O0,000, whereas the
wealth of his entire party when they came to Utah
was only $2.85. Not impossibly he was fore
sighted enough to expect some such result when
he instituted the plan of requiring revived the Old
-A great ovation was given Gifford PInchot at
the National Conservation Congress and his pol
icies endorsed by the meeting.
The International Eucharistlc Congress, a great
Testament plan of tithing, all good Mormons being meeting of Catholic churchmen, closed last Sun
required to give one-tenth of their gross Income day.
to the church. , '
Concerning Young as a man of piety and re- Connecticut Democrats-have nominated Judge
(Continued on page 740.) Simeon E. Baldwin for Governor.