"On the other hand, the people will always be asked why they should resist or question that exercise of power which is so fair in its object, so plausible and patriotic in appearance, and which has the public good alone confessedly in view?" The purpose of the President, as declared by himself, is "fair in its object." No sane man questions his patriotism, or that he has "the public good in view." And the people are asked why they should "resist or question." Daniel Webster gave the answer seventy years ago: "Human beings, we may be assured, will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly, in popular governments, under pretenses of public safety or high public interest. It may be very possible that good intentions do really sometimes exist when constitutional restraints are disregarded. We may go farther than Webster, and in the light of history may affirm that there is not and never has been an American President whose chafing at constitutional limitations was not the product of good intentions. Yet when the constitution is treated lightly by executive power we must always fear for the country. As Mr. Webster continued: "There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. When such men attain to high place and great power liberty must needs take alarm and see that her walls be strong, lest paternalism usurp her seat. Those who "mean to govern"-"mean to be masters"-may have nothing but kindness in their conscious thoughts, but they are dangerous to liberty and fatal to prosperity. Why? Let Daniel Webster answer again: "They think there need be but little restraint upon themselves. Their notion of the public interest is apt to be quite closely connected with their own exercise of authority. They may not, indeed, always understand their own motives. The love of power may sink too deep in their own hearts even for their own scrutiny, and may pass with themselves for mere patriotism and benevolence." These words of one of the greatest of American statesmen, a pillar of the republic and an inspiration to its sons forever, were spoken on the 15th day of March, 1837, when the storm that was to lay prostrate for a time the prosperity of the American people was gathering black upon the horizon. We have no evidence that Andrew Jackson then or afterward was convinced that the policies in which he persisted, and which brought about this devastation, were anything but benevolent, or that his methods of pursuing them were in any way mistaken. But we know their effects. And so it is not surprising that we hear from Washington today that the President persists in his purpose, despite the deepening distress of the country which he already has brought about. History repeats itself, because human nature is unchanging. "There are men in all ages" who must be restrained, in spite of their good intentions, because they "may not always understand their own motives." And thus with all due respect The Inter Ocean makes the statement-President Roosevelt must be, will be, restrained. For, with the country as it is today, it is not conceivable that Congress will pass laws to enable him or his successor, by means of a federal license, to snap off before breakfast the existence of any great business in the United States as a constable would close a barroom or a mayor would shut a saloon. The mere existence of such a law would make permanent the conditions now upon us and eventually would drive over the Canadian border every man who had anything to lose. Therefore, the President's plan will not do. Though it thus invites the familiar charge from Washington that it has been "bought by Wall street," or "subsidized with the $5,000,000 conspiracy fund," The Inter Ocean repeats: It will not do. And The Inter Ocean will add that the mere mention of such a plan at this time shows a deplorable failure on the part of the President to appreciate the present situation of business in the United States. This country was not hewn out of the wilderness, built up in the bloody sweat of liberty, riveted with iron, cemented in the flood of battle, and fortified against usurping paternalism with every possible guarantee that a self-sacrificing statesmenship could devise, merely that its whole material life should be laid under the thumb of one man, to be spared, encouraged, tortured, or extinguished as might suit his good purposes, honest intentions, benevolent motives, or sincere prejudices at the moment of decision.-The Inter Ocean. If you wish success in life make preservance your wise counselor-caution, your elder brother -and hope, your guardian genius. He who can take advise is sometimes superior to him who can give it. It is worth while to do even the smallest kindness as we go along the way; nothing is lost. No dew drop perishes but sinking into the flower makes it sweeter. Never Know When Beaten; Thus with Many Great Men. By G. R. Clarke. Some of the greatest successes have reacted from the rare quality-obtuseness it might be called sometimes-of men who do not know when they are beaten. The paradox of an inspired stupidity in not being able to grasp a situation which seems plain to everybody else never has been illustrated by happier results nor more happily expressed than in the case of Senator La Follette. It was an Irishman in Madison one day after La Follette had met one of his worst Waterloos who came upon a friend. "Well, Mike, La Follette's dead this time, sure," said the friend. Closing one eye in a suggestive manner, Mike drawled, "Yis, he's dead, all right, all right, but he's not sinsible av it." One of the most critical times for La Follette was in 1894, when he had promised the gubernatorial candidate to return to him the delegates from Dane county. Success at the primaries here meant establishing him as a Republican leader of one of the most important counties in Wisconsin, and would make him a notable figure in the state convention. Failure meant political. burial, from which he would not emerge for some time, at least. La Follette Will Not Give Up. The first night designated for the primaries half of the entire number in the county were held, and La Follette had not captured a single delegate for his candidate. The awful pall of political gloom that had settled over La Follette and his friends at the time these returns were coming was described afterward by one of them. "It was about midnight when the worst was known," he said, "and we had met to talk over the situation. It was like a funeral, with us for the mourners, and Bob as a candidate for the cemetery. Half of all the primaries in the county had been carried by the enemy and we must carry every single one that remained if Haugen was to get the delegation. We five mourners, one after the other, spoke eloquently of the utter hopelessness of the fight, and threw up the sponge. Carry all the remaining primaries in Dane county? It simply couldn't be done. "It was here that 'little Bob' showed his obtuseness. 'Gentlemen,' he said, 'you can do as you please, but I am going to carry all the remaining primaries in Dane county if I have to crawl to them on my hands and knees.' "The funeral services were called off right here. Inspired with new hope and new determi nation, we filed out into the night and the work done then carried every remaining primary in Dane county. La Follette controlled the delegation for Haugen, became himself the chief lieutenant on the convention floor, and from that day to this La Follette's unconquerable spirit has led him onward and upward, no matter what obstacles barred his way." How Jacobs Built the Tunnel. In the wonderful series of tunnels that Charles M. Jacobs has built around New York, he has had a half dozen chances of showing this same faculty. In undertaking the old Hudson river tunnel Mr. Jacobs attacked a proposition that had been abandoned three times and was considered a wild dream when first projected. In finishing it he not only encountered the difficulties which had met the other engineers but found that they had not reached the most difficult part. Here rock had to be blasted under the middle of the river with twelve feet or more of soft mud and silt above, pressed upon by sixty-five feet of water. Nine thousand blasts were made before the way was cut, and after that, worse yet, the real bore was carried along a reef of rock 700 feet long, with soft mud above it. Strike Cannot Stop Him. Once during his work, because Mr. Jacobs discharged a foreman whom he deemed incompetent, the force of men under him struck. "All right," said Mr. Jacobs. "No one can dictate as to the work as long as I am chief. Meanwhile let the rest of us go to work and finish the tunnel." The union men were all called out by the delegates, but the work was carried on by the rest of the force, including draftsmen, stenographers, clerks, and assistant engineers, led by Mr. Jacobs himself, who was the prime actor in managing the shield and the hydraulic machinery, loading up the cars and carrying out the excavations. In short, with his inspiration and example, they did all the work of the tunnel laborers. to allow of the men going out in front to dig or blast. When they do this they haul the material through these opening and on out through the shaft. The ground was found so soft in this work that these doors were ordered shut and the shield was forced the mud, pushing all material out of its way. Suddenly one night, without word or warning, the foreman blundered and ordered doors opened. River Breaks Into Tunnel. In an instant, before he could close them, the Hudson river silt flooded through in water spouts, or, more accurately, mud spouts, of enormous size. They swirled in with terrific swiftness, rushing after the terror stricken men, some of whom were engulfed alive in the slime. It was stopped only by the concrete walls and steel doors of the air lock, and not until the tunnel was packed with 100 feet of solid mud. The heading was lost, the force was routed likewise, and disaster seemed to have overtaken the whole enterprise when Mr. Jacobs rushed to the scene. Hurrying to the American yacht Reliance, which had just been stripped to its mast, he purchased the mailsail and with it saved the day for the Hudson river tunnel. In the one minute he had conceived the plan of stopping the aperture at the top. Hurrying the negotations for the sails, he actually sewed them together to make one great sheet, and sank it in the river over the head of the tunnel. He next filled the top with clay dumped from the scows until the bed. of the river was patched. The sails closed around the head of the shield, cutting off the flow of mud so that the mass on the inside could be removed and the doorways closed. Like this, all through his work, this engineer met what seemed. to be crushing obstacles and defeat. How Reynolds Won Success. Twice D. A. Reynolds, president of the Great Eastern Telephone Company, has received knockdown blows in such a way that they eventually made his fortune. A mill business which he had helped his father to build up when he was a young fellow of about 17 was lost to him at the death of this parent through the treachery of others. He went out and learned a trade, and during the process he lost his health. After a severe illness, which unfitted him for manual labor, upon the advice of his friends he attended a preparation school for four months, making up his deficiencies by night study, and passed an examination for teaching after a total schooling of less than ten months. He married and took a small farm, which he worked in the summer and made payments on it by his school teaching in the winter. He began with a $25 payment-on the farm, a cow, an ox, and eight chickens-with poor health thrown in, He left it after five years with perfect health, over $900 worth of personal property, and he owned the farm. Again, through an unusual combination of circumstances, he lost everything. Difficulties seemed to be only a spur to him, however, for he was stripped of everything except credit, and he bought and consolidated two country newspapers by assuming their indebtedness. This he paid off in fourteen months without the investment of a dollar not earned in the business. During the next fourteen years he owned and edited eleven publications and conducted a jobbing and real estate business, and this part of his life turned out to be the stepping stone to the influence and riches gained later.-Chicago Tribune. "It is really distressing to see what a great army of young men are satisfied with general ability and usually a small amount of that. Where you find one young man using every spare hour in the study and practice of something that will one day make him a skilled, highsalaried workman or an honored follower of some profession, you find a dozen Eds, Bills, and Charlies satisfied to wear a red tie and high collar and to earn six or eight dollars a week. They are no more concerned about their future careers than if Dame Fortune had a million dollars in trust for them and they knew it. They take no thought of the morrow, what they shall eat or what they shall drink, but smoke the cigarette and spend their nights out with the boys, apparently unconcerned about what they will do when they are middle-aged or old men. Advertise an ordinary position and you will have these fellows by the drove. "What can you do?" you ask. "Oh, almost anything." "Are you a good stenographer?" "No." "Can you keep a set of books?" "No." "Good draftsman?" "No." Can you write an advertisement or an order-bringing letter?" "No." "Can you make a box or pack a piece of furniture?" "No, never did." Lord deliver us from these young men who say they "can do almost anything." This means that a man can do nothing very well. The world is crying out for the young man with special ability, who can do at least one thing better than the common run of people can do it. And when it means so little sacrifice for a young man to become the possessor of some special ability, he deserves no sympathy who prefers to remain in the ranks of the great, incompetent, depend-on-papa army." Arguments that Will Make Advertising Bring Results. Merchants and Business Men Will Find Many Strong Points in these Paragraphs. The flood gates are open, the bars are down, the inventory safe is under way; clear the surplus, cut the prices, reduce the stocks; it's like buying goods on installments and making only the first payment; we are driving hard; it's the grand effort, the supreme spurt on the home stretch of the greatest year we've ever had. credit, and don't be ashamed to buy on credit. Some of the largest business transactions in the world are made on a credit base. We will furnish your home on credit or for cash. We are tempting you with the finest weavesthe choicest patterns-and the most exclusive creations, we have put prices on them that would hardly pay their way through the custom house at the beginning of the season. Weak Purses Made Strong--strong in their buying power-strong enough any way to buy comfort and plenty for every bedroom. Lew Dockstader, the minstrel, used to give a pretty pat little talk to young men on the best method of kissing a girl. "Don't grab for it," he'd say, "Take your time-it's there!" Now, Mr. Gooddresser, don't you turn away from our stock because the first glance shows you clothes you wouldn't feel well dressed in. The suit you seek is there-it's only a matter of selection. That Hungry Feeling is due to this crisp, glorious weather, which calls dormant muscles inti play, makes your blood tingle, your step springy, adds vim and vigor to every action and puts your appetite on edge. It is a call for more and better vitalizing forces in pure, wholesome, nourishing foods, and plenty of pure air. You can indulge in both here in safety to your person and your purse. We never cry "wolf" when there is no "wolf" in sight. (You know the old "fable.") We are as careful what we say in our advertisements as we would be if we were on a witness stand, under oath, and would not, for any consideration, mislead or disappoint you by anything we say in our advertisements. When you see anything in our advertisements, it's so! -you can pin your faith to it. You don't need to wait until the thermometer registers 15 degrees below zero before you are convinced that winter is at hand; you may as well acknowledge it at once. Loud talk is often necessary, but when it comes to speaking of the many choice things to be found in our stock on the third floor, no talk at all is necessary. In fact, the goods speak for themselves, and in no uncertain manner. We Don't Live Forever. Waiting until "byeand-bye" to make home cozy is merely a different way of saying you never intend to. Right now is the time to enjoy the good things of life -other people do. Why not you? If you don't care to pay cash, there is always the refuge of It is our business to supply those comforts and conveniences which help so much towards happy home life. It is yours to do the rest, and take our word for it, no investment that you can make will yield the same returns of downright satisfaction as the dollars which you put into your home, lightening and brightening the daily drudgery and educating your children in an atmosphere of appreciation, for are not their surroundings a constant reminder of sacrifice and love? Wealth and wisdom usually travel together. What you save has a great deal more to do with your becoming wealthy than what you earn. Saving means finding a store where you get the same quality for less than elsewhere. Such a store is ours. All the time, too, every day. But it's on Friday that we make our big bid for bargain seekers. Such matchless values as we deal out from week to week ought forever to banish that superstition about Friday being an unlucky day. Try your luck here tomorrow. No, there's no luck about it. It's an absolute saving certainty. The Best Dressed Women on Earth-That's what they say abroad of the American beauty, and yet we've all got to admit that the well dressed American woman gets her original inspiration from Paris. That's unmistakably shown in every line and curve of the swell, new things we shall show Monday in fall and winter wraps-they're all fashioned from the finest French models. The real secret of the American woman's success is the way she wears just such wraps as these-adding new beauty to their beauty, new grace to their grace, new style to their style. The Value of a Wife depends very largely upon her ability as a housekeeper. A man doesn't want to eat bread that resembles asbestos, nor does he enjoy coming home at night to find the house untidy and his good frau in an old and soiled dress. Pass the pretty girl if she's not neat. The whole trouble is that some women are careless about their buying. They are careful to buy reliable drugs, but don't care where they get dry goods and wraps. Now look at the bargains named below. Use your sense and you'll save cents. Be a valuable wife! Save money! Can you do it by buying here? Look for yourself. |