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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, POKTLAND, JANUARY
17, 1907.
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THyiYlANNEiR
SELF -AVOWED ',
PRESIDENT R0031VEUI
BY" FRHDER I OJv BOYD STKVENSON".
w-HKRE3 Ja a Ions tunnel-like passage-
KRHDER I OJv BOYD ST FTV I5N HON
-ifRE3 is a Ions tunnel-like passagi
way leading down to. . Forakcf
I
m COmmillW-rOOm thA 4nn.t - ArtrVi.
mlttoe on Pacific Islands and Forto Rico.
Strung: along: thin passage and blocking:
Hie way to the door of the committee
mom, the other day, were a half score
of Ohio -politicians.1 Thy were waiting:
-to see Senator Foraker. They bad Just
heard him deliver-perhaps "fire" would
be the better word his philippic against
the President of the United States v In
the Brownsville affair. They had seen
him in the Senate Chamber, with the law
books and the Army records and letters
and data stacked upon his desk artd I
aoouc nis aesk. They had heard each
taustic word accentuated oratorkally"
with a cool., deliberate, distinct, stinging
voice and they had seen each word punc
tuated srestlculatorily with hands and
arms wielded with pugilistic precision.
In another minute Foraker himself
bobbed Into ti tunnel. He. hurried
ihroogh the gauntlet oT Oh loans and half
nurst, half fell into liis room, His face
was white, his gray hair was in strinjes,
and his collar was wilted.
'Oi vo me a drink of water.' he whis-
pcied, '
The Ohioana crowded around him.
That was a. erreat ispMch." said one.
Foraker drained the water from the
tllass. Then he sprang to his feet and
began shaking- hands rlg-ht and left.
"CSlad to oe-e you! Glud to see you!"
he cried, first to this one and then to
that one. calling each by name.
One man drew him aside and' whis
pered earnestly into his ear.
"Yes, yes," said Foraker aloud. :
Another man drew him gently to an
other comer. And the other man whis
pered into the other Senatorial, ear.
"Yes, yes," said Foraker again, and he
nodded vigorously.
Then three athletic sons of Ohio h j
tured him. Ftoraker smiled the smile.' of
Pleasure, but the deep lines on his ra
race
told the tale ot the jaded man.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow," he said faint
ly to all. Then to his secretary: ., "Did
you call a cab?" And again to the Ohlo
aris: ''Gentlemen, I'll see you tomorrow.
I must go home."
Busiest Man In the Senate.
And on the morrow there was Foraker
as brisk and as vigorous as if 61 years
'had not been crowded into his busy life.
Foraker la one of the men In the Senate
who -works. His enemies may say he is
bitter; they may say he is revengeful:
hey may even aay he is vindictive, but
fchey cannot deny that he la everlastingly.
incessantly busy. He is up ever morn-
In before daylight, and it is after mid-
nlsrht nearly every nisht before he re.
tires. rurlngr the most active sessions or
tho Senate-no matter what fight he may
have on hand he never neglects to keep
up his extensive line of reading;. With
out exception, he is undoubtedly one of
the best Latin and Greek scholar in
public life. But busy as he is in Wash
ington with, the affairs of the Nation and
the affairs of his state which state, hj-
thc way, keens its Senators fully occu
pied he remains In close touch -with the
law. and does more legal practice when in
Cincinnati than any other man in the
l-'nlied States Senate. That he Is one of
the hardest workers in Congress is an
established fact. but. despite his hard
work, he maintains his health. Once a
friend asked him how he did it.
"By- riding, driving and '.walking," said
Koraker.
As to the political side of Foraker well
some say there are several political sides;
at any rate, there
are many views by
a n ca n t$i ve a n ac-
the outsiders no m
curuto diagnosia,
t)e,leve tuat Foraker lias been honest
in this Brownsville fight," said one close
Administration
me the other
evening- in Washington
believe he is
sincere in the stand tie has taken and is
doing what he believes is rifrht."
; It is perhaps as well for the Adminis
tration to belies this, but the feeling is
not shared by other circles,.
j "Foraker and Brownsvlll
e! reiterated
Another. "Wis
i ration that's
position is an'tl-Adniinis
"Whateta Foraker from
.now on, Foraker is playing politics. IN
,Vidy know8 the game better than For-
Watch him.
Always
Ufl'ft lynr !.. lV .1.1 .1 . '.
s it, in, is me oiu story oi roraKer,
the ligrhter. He began that nKhtinK career
"r his way back In the eighteen fifties in
tHillsboro, when, although so slender that
lib playmates dubbed him "Skinny," he
;could lick any boy in school. Following
;tip this line of physical aggressiveness.
he enlisted with the Eighty-ninth Ohio
Volunteers when only 16 years : old. : and
was the youngest soldier, from that state
to nSht in the Civil War. In three years
he was a brevet Captain, went all through
Itlie Atlanta campaign, and when he was
mustered out was an aide-de-camp on
jtieneral Slocum's staff. The late AV. r.
Sherman once said to him, In referring
Jto tho battle of Bentonville:
"Well I remember you. my young friend,
ks you came through the pine woods that
jday on your -horse, covered with lather.
"You came up like a soldier and reported
.to me the message from your General,
-Slocura. A.' knight errant with . steel
-ulrass, hia lance in hand, was a beautiful
thing, and you are. his legitimate suc
cessor. I wish you all honor, all glory,
all fame. I wish you may rise to the
highest position this American people can
give to you."
And It is for this highest position that
Foraker is now . said to be engaged : in
the greatest fight of his life. If you asl
him -point blank if he is a candidate for
the Presidency he will smile (rood natured
ly and well, he may- talk about the
weather.
"But make no mistake about Foraker,"
- said one who has followed the Senator's
career in Washington and Ohio, "for he
lias the Ohio machine veil, in hand. And
not only has he the Ohio machine, but he
has a pood chance of controlling many
,of the members off the National Repub-
lican machine. He is going to be one ot
-tho factors In 1908. Roosevelt name his
'siiccessorT No. Roosevelt, since he has
;been in office, has done nothing to buttd
i:p a machine. He .will not cut any figure
in the -convention. The men who stand
1 he best chance today for the Republican
nomination are Foraker or Fairbanks."
When a lull came on the second day
following Senator Foraker's - speech, he
Cry MAN WHC? 15
ANTAGONIST OP
entered his committee-room after the ses-
slofi and threw
chair. - -
JN"o. no,", he
himseif into a big arm-
id In answer to my
pointed question; "I am not a Presiden-
tial candidate,
the place."
And he raised
Why, man, I don't want
his hands deprecatingly
Then he continued slowly.
"There Is too grave a responsibility con
nected with that position."
"But, supposing the convention should
nominate you," I began.
"No, no," he said. "I don't want
I am not seeking it.
He was silent for a moment. Then he
added with smile: ,
I'm thinking of Brownsville just Hot."
"Your friends in Ohio, however '
"I am doing: the best I can'cio tor Ohio
right here in the Senate,'' said he.
"But certain issues will arise In. 1508
have arisen now and they must be 1119 1
by a forceful candidate in the Republic-
an party," I said. -
Iet us meet them in 1908.!' he eail with
a smile.
A moment later an Oliloan said:
"Out In Ohio we all want Foraker for
President, because he is such a fiprhter:'
Foraker. the lighter! Always Foraker.
the -Jlgnter!
. Entrance Into Politics.
The expression takes one" back to the
Cleveland administration, when Foraker
was Governor of Ohio. President Cieve-
land expressed the desire that the Gov
ernors of all the Northern States would
return to the Confederate States the flag's
captured in the South by Union soldiers.
When, this request came to JForaker, he
oalci: '. 'No rebel flas snail be returned
wnlle I am governor of Ohio."-
From this reference to the flags he re-
ceived the pseudonym . 'Fire Alarm
Foraker. But his career as a fighter be
gan long- before -that..; After the war
Foraker fought his way as a lawyer in 1
Cincinnati, and that, he has . often said,
was one of the hardest fights be ever had.
But he made so good In that tight he
was appointed Judge of the Superior
Court of Hamilton" County, where he re
mained for three years, when Ill-health
forced .him' to ; resigm. Then: politics
crossed his path and with this first en
trance into politics the fight in him was
brougrht out, for during that gubernatorial
campaign of 1883, in which he was the
Republican candidate, he 1 was dubbed
"FMfchtiiiK Joe" Foraker. and the slogan
of the battle was "Vim. Vigor and Vic
tor'!" There was vim and vigor but not
victory, for . the- Democratic. nominee.
JudKe Hoadley, . also of Cincinnati, and a
close personal friend of Foraker, was the
winner.
'Foraker had no intention of going into
politics before he entered that campaign,"
said a friend of the Senator's, the other
day, "His hole tent was with the, law;
but once he entered the game, it com
pletely captivated him It had . the ele
ments of battle that appealed to him. He
has often told me how the first news of
his boom for Governor-of Ohio startled
him. Me bought a paper in Cincinnati
one evening and boarded a street car for
home, 7 On taking a. seat In the car he
opened I ihe paper, and there he saw star-
injr him in the face in jrreat 'scare beads,
Foraker for Governor!' He" was fright-
ened and hastily folded the paper and put
it in his pocket lest some acquaintance
should see the tell-tale type over has
shoulder. I felt as if I had committed a
crime,', said he, 'and that my guilt was
published to all the workj. ' Bat still there
was the fascination. I could -not keep
my eyes orf the paper. I took It out of
my pocket and ttieni despite the risk of
being caught red-handed, I devoured
every word of the article.' But Senator
Foraker is not so modest now," added the
friend, with a laugh. "' ' .
The defeat 'of Foraker for Governor
. , .,. - i f i sin nit. r : w x 1 1
?'';
did not diter
political . race: '
staying in- ""the
His blood was warmed,
and he was' ail the more eager, to make
a second -'attempt. So. two years later,
he - and Hoadley were again opponents
for gubernatorial honors in Ohio.
aker had learned a few things during the
two years in which he brooded over jiis
defeat. He had learnedt.ow to .make a
bitter speech.- to pick out the weak spot
in his enemy armor and to stab him
there. It -was this very knowledge that
he had acquired and become, an adept in
that won him that second political bat
tie in Ohio. It i that same knowledge
that b uses so skillfully today. He used
it- in the; Senate in his speech against
the president. It is His most powerful
weapon. In that second Ohio campaig n
JEALOUS FARMER SLAYS SHEPHERD
" . International Sunday-School Lesson for .Today Is "Tn: Story of Cain and Abel." ; 1 :
BY W1LUAM T. ELLIS.
0
NE sin begets another. The father's
fall often trips his son. No worse
punishment comes to some parents
to .see -their- early evil habits ald
duplicated in : the case -of their
children. Wheiv Cain the farmer. ; in i
fit
of mad. : Jealousy, did to death his
pherd brdther Abel, the father of both.
think!
is back to
own act which had
brought sin into the wprlrj, might well
have cried. wlth Caln, "My punishment Is
greater tria.n I can bear!" Thus are Uvea
linked with other lives, and an endless
and interdependent chain. "No man llveth
to himself,, and no man dieth to him
self." . .' - - - v '
Th traicic event In the garden of man's
first estate, when Eve hearkened to the
sophistries of the subtle serpent, upset
God's programme for humanity. We must
fso back to it for an explanation of why
the time today, are so badly out of
joint,- Society is not a .beautiful, peace
ful, loving; homogenous mass, In this
year of our Lord. 1907. simply because
human -Belf-wlll and Iniquity have been
tlirust into the - emjjothly-movinfr wheels
of a .divine purpose. -
.The Eden 'idea ws ;hat all creation
Bhould dwell together in affection and
harmony. Brothers were meant to. live
together In unity and mutual -enjoyment,
and not In strife, jealousy or self-,seek-'Ing.
.There' might be diversities of gifts
and--callings, but there should be oneness
of -honor. He - who - toiled and he wb '
governed . were still equals, : before Ood
and in ; self-respect. . Not' rivalry, but
co-operation, was' the-; plan', which! -Go-
made and man spoiled: and it is the plan
which will be executed Increasingly as
this earth returns toward an Eden state.
The Buddha in a Shirt. 4
Varmer Cain and Shepherd Abel. in
course of time, brought offerings to Jeho-
vah. Tbis was in-obedience to the deep-?
seated instinct of. man everywhere .to
honor - the supernatural. Every church
spire-In (?tirlntcndom is a slf?n of mao-'a
recognition of Qod. Scattered by tens
of thousands over heathen lands are all
sorts of temples, shrines and Idols some
times an elaborately constructed and
lavishly decorated building: of immense
proportions, and sometimes only a rough
ly hewn stone. Before literally thou-
sands of these I have seen the offerings
which reverence has laid upon -their
altars; sometimes only a twig of green,
Sometimes a tiny ball of rice, a bean
cake, a bit of fruit, a jar of wine., a
flsh. a- bunch of flowers, a few trifling
copper coins a vase, or some other prized
gift.- More than -once I have seen stone
and bronze images xf Buddha decorated
with cheap calico hats, bibs, shirts and
aprons. However crude- and incongruous
the offering, f it represented devotion,- and
man's intuitive reaching up toward God
and may not, be ridiculed.
The difference In worship is not in
t N. -.-...I W 1 I Finally, foraker
I " V ' .1 , T .', Joint debate
For- WCW w
he used " it against Judge Hrmdley, his
forrner friend and associate. Hoadley and
Foraker were not only close friends 'at
one time, but they were also close neigh
bors, depositing their votes In the same
ballot box. As the second campaign
waxed warm, however, the former friends
became very bitter toward one another.
the manner or the girt, bat In the spirit
of the worshiper. Herein was the line
ot separation between Cain and Aflel,
when they brought their offerings before
Jehovah. Even old Plato saw this point,
tor he said. "It would toe atrange ir the
gods looked to gilts and sacrifices, and
not to the soul." N'ot for an Instant Is
the idea to be entertained that Abel's
offering was acceptable because he
brought of the fruit of his flock, and
Cain's .unacceptable because be brought
of the fruit of the field.
Like some of the mystery stories, so
popular of late. In fiction, which prove to
be no mysteries at all, this much-magnl-
fled difficulty is perfectly simple. 1 There
is no need to resort to conjecture as to
why Abel's sacrifice was acceptable and
Cain's was not. The reason lies on the
surface of Scripture, where God says to
Cain (v-7).. "If thou doest well, shalt
thou not be accepted?" -The unfitness of
the sacrifice lay In the- heart of the
giver. Qod cares as much for a sheaf
of wheat as for a slain lamb; but he
does not care for an unworshipful spirit,
no matter what its offering. CTain ap
proached the divine prpence with an
evil heart; therefore he was unaccept
able, even as is every other person who
does not worship God in spirit and In
truth, even though he may build a d oaten
churches, endow a university or establish
a hospital. ."What, doth Jehovah require
of thee, ljut to do justly, and to love
kindness, and to walk humbly with thy
God? '
Oettlng "mad with the preacher who
Chows us our BlrOrtcomings is only an ad
ditional feign of our need of admonition.
Cain's experience should have caused, not
angrer. but , self-examination. The unac
ceptableness of his offering should have
jet him to searching his heart. But his
later conduct only proved the righteous
ness of God's refusal to accept his
worship.-
With the condescension that is char
acteristic only of himself. God reasoned
with Cain in . th latter's anger. He
pointed out that the simple way to merit
divine favor was to do well. Then Jeho-
vah added a warning and a promise, if
Cain did not amend, sin, like a' devour
ing monster, lay in wait at his door.
But even so. the promise ran. Cain
might rule over sin: which is man's
birthright, taken with him out of Eden,
as a sign of ultimate conquest. The
reasonableness of God in his relation
wl t h. the sulky elder brother is remark
able, Jllu&trating that he is "slow to
anger, and plenteous fn mercy."
A Orime and at Question.
Back of the deed lies the" thought. It
i a profound law of "As a man
thinkjeth in his heart, so Is he." Cain
hated Aibel before he slew htm. The
murder was 4ut incidental the the jeal
ousy. Jesus later taught that the desire
is equal to? the deed. So in the sight
of heaven Cain was a murderer before
t-
. elialleiised Hoadley- to a
tli rmirt issue in Ohio at
that time being ttie .temperance question.
lr was arranged thatthe two candidates
should meet, first in Toledo, and then- In
Cincinnati. Both men were excellently.
equipped for such a meeting. Both, were
fine' orators. " Both were "well " informed
as to all the details- of the political his
tory of their state. Both -were quick "at.
repartee. It was natural that the meet
ing places were crowded to overflowing-.
- Gerrymandering was one of the early
sciences practiced to perfection in Ohio
by both the great political parties. In
former days the Republicans had gT
rymandered Columbus, so .that . a po
litical map of the city looked, rlke
cracks in a Satsuma vase. Then' the
ever his hand was raised ." to. shed - liia
brother's blood. As Hawthorne's "Scar
let Letter" so powerfully portrays, It Is
the brand upon 'the " soul, and not the
Btlgma u rx" the . breast. that " really
counts. How men would shrink one from
the other if alf wore to be visibly,' brand.1
ed for-their thoughts!- V . '
Why did Cam hate Abel? "Why does the
bad everywhere hate the', good?. Be-
cause even the coarsest nature feels re-
buked by the presence of.. a finer.,
As
Shylock hated- Antonio, -slmnlv .for the
latter's integrity, so there are 'myriads
of upright, clean-lived men. and-' women
who are made to feel the venom of those
whose evil they unconsciously rebyke.
They who would, .after the fashion - of
Abel, live godly lives , in . this present
world must expect persecution; "v -v
After the bloody deed ' had ben' don L
Cain had to - face the consequences; the
day of reckoning may never be evaded.
The first question addressed by God to
man was an Individual one, as to tils per
sonal state, "Where art " thou?" .The.
second was a social one. as to - his re
sponsibility, " ' "Where is' Abel. thy,
brother?'- That Is tlje order of progress
everywhere. A person' who; his'. dealings
with God cannot escape responsibility for
his fellow man. . . " . '
The voice of conscience and of -God
pursued the murderer everywhere. Lit
erature abounds with " graphic . Illustra
tions of this, same law. as in' the case of
Bill Sykes. in "Oliver - Twist. " 'and ot
Macbeth in Shakespeare's play. : This
same unescapable voice , is heard, or will
be heard, by every oppressor of the- poor,
by every worker of injustice to hia kind,
and by all the men responsible for what
is iniquitous 1n . social. 4 conditions, , For,
as in the beginning1, the blood-:-of inno
cence still cries out to. God .from the
Kround. and: his question groes forth1 like
the voice of 'doom, ""Where is thy
brother?" ' :' 1 ' ;- L '
The culprit tried to lie "I 'know not
and then to equivocate-and to' avoid the
direct Issue. Cain was like has father
Adam in lack of; straightforwardness,
"Ani I my brother keeper ? he inquires,
as if to rebuke- the divine presumption.
Thu early In history we find the ex
pression of" the , "Look out - for number
one" doctrine enunciated, W it femarked,
by a murderer and a Har. Cain. knew the
it iiHwpr to his - hypocritical question be
fore - lie . asked It: every . man Is . hia
brother's Keeper. Only thus can the so
cial fabric hold 'together. ' Each -man is
responsible for himself, and' must -meet
that responsibility before God. He can
not evade It by saying that his brother
made him do wrong. That is perfectly
clear. But his responsibility does not les
sen his brother's, which is another mat
ter. He may not shift TUs responsibility
upon you, yet you, In turn, without at ail
interfering with his obligations, must ac
cept that responsibility. Both my brother
IN POLITICO AS KLAW OHIO'S'
SEHIOE SEUATOk HAS ALWAYS
DELIGHTED IN ATTACK
I Democrats got into power, and gerry
mandered it all over again. Foraker
took Hoadley to task for this latest
political Job. Moadley defended him
self by saying that the Democratic
party simply corrected a great Repub
lican wrong:.
"That." said Foraker, '"reminds me
of the man who had the reputation or
belns: a constitutional liar. The habit
erew upon him, and he aerreed with
bis friends that tie ought to stop It.
So. they arranged that when one of
them heard-him begin to tell an unlike
ly story it should be cut short with a
nudge. Soon after this agreement he
and one of these friends .were traveling
together, and one night in the bar
room of the hotel the constitutional liar
said to the proprietor .
"Landlord, what is that big liouse
they are building back here on the
road?"
" ' 1 know of no bis house. said tho
landlord.
"'Why.' said the liar, 'it's the'biggst
and I must answer for his failures which
I might have prevented.
The Relentless Avenger.'-
One made deed made this husoandman,
whose Hf had been the uneventful one
of the field, a fugitive from God and
from his own pursuing conscience. He
became a vagabond in the land of wan-derlng.-and
the builder of tire first city.
Iay and night he was to realize that
every, crime carries its own curse, 'and
that sin is sure to find you out; whether
the sin Is. found out or not. it finds out
the -sinner.- In the whispering leaves oC
tJie new-born trees, Cain could hear only
accusing voices. In every twig that
coward by conscience", ' he dreaded ven-
seance at the hand of ever',, man. Small
wonder tha.t he cried out. ,'fMy punlsh--ment
Is greater than I -can bear." Only
trie guilty Rnow the full horror of RUill -r
ttief Innocent can never understand the
Immeasurable sweetness of a conscience
free' from off anse. - -
Worse than to be slain was Cain's pud.
ishment; he, was permitted to live.
Branded he went forth from the presence
of God to dwell with remorse. All the
beauty and Kladness and hone were ex
tinguished - from his life. Odious to his
fellows,- but more odious to hlmseir, he
dragged out a long, living torment, bnd
all because he had permitted himself to
get out - of sympathy - with God. out of
which evil state grew jealousy, hade,
murder. ..
Our.Bf others in Red
.feme Comment om ike t'Btfami
rrmm MeeflBir Topic for Ydhik
People' Societies.
if V ARrs ot the Nation." the term
inr frequently applied to the Ameri-
can'lndlans, describes tersely their some
what anomalous position within the Uni
ted "States. .Lords of the soil when the
flrst white- man came ' to America, ' they
are now an almost extinct race, living on
suffrage on 'land granted them by the
"Government.' their own land havinff been
usurped by the white men. The -Government.
Of the United States, aroused to a
sense of the, injustice thus done .to the
Indians, set apart reservations In differ
ent sections of tile country where he
nxiKht live. Thus the scattered tribes are
.today gathered together; they are grad
ually adopting the habits of civilized life,
and -the once - savag-e Indian, feared by
isolated settlers. Is fast becoming; a thins
Of the past.
, ' ' "'' '
"The progress of the Indian" has been
through civilization and Christianity to
citlsenshlp. - For- many years it has been
the practice of the Government to make,
treaties with the Indians for the extinc
tion of their rights to the lands occupied
by them and for their removal to lands
specially set apart for them. The most
important an the largest of these reser
vations Is the Indian Territory, which
was created In 1S34. Within the limits
JEMTI
house I ever saw. It is 921 feet h I jrh
and
"Here his friend gave him a nuds.
He stopped short and then quickly
added :
" 'And two feet wide."
Ulicn He Waved flie "Bloody Shirt."
. For many years' Foraker waved the
"bloody shirt, and. when good o- . -
sion offers, he docs not object to wavt
it now. lurlng the debate with Hoad
ley. the latter, who was noted for th
mistakes he made, stated that the Tie-
publican party had degenerated. Hoad
ley himself had left the Republican
ranks, he said, because of this desen-
eration. He charged the Jiepublican
party in that campaign with dodging
the tnmperanrp Issue.
"In the days." said he. "when Salmon
r. Chase, who died a Democrat, and
Abraham Lincoln, who died a Demo
crat, and. Charles Simmer, whose last
wish -was that the emblems of victory
should be removed from our flag', and
Horace Qreeley. who died a Democrat,
and a thousand other leaders of t Ji?
Republican party, who came within the
fold of the Democratic party boforfl
they died. were the leaders of t hat
part-, that party would never ro be-
fore the people and present itself for
their favor, dudging an important
issue."
"Another Hoadley mistake. thun- "
dcrcd Koraker when his turn came to
spoaU.
The meetlnK iiiif Icly responded .- to
him with a roar. Fcraker grrasped the
situation in a second. Coming to th
front of the platform, with his hands
upraised, lie said In Ills penetrating
voice:
"Governor Hoadley has given to ni
surprising- information. lie has told
me that Lincoln died a Democrat. I'
want to tell you that the mistake he
made was that Lincoln died by the
hand c a Democrat."
Hoadley denied the statement. The
stenographer was appealed to, and the
notes showed that he had made the
remark. Then he admitted he had
made a mistake. The house was For
aker's, .and the state also, and to this
one Incident It Is said ho owed his vic
tory."! And Still H Fishier.
Those who heard Senator f'oraker
make his Brownsville speech In th
Senate the other day. and who knew
hlm In the' fights with Hoadley, rccojt-
nize In him the same old Tire Alarm"
Koraker of the Cleveland flag incident.
They recognized in him the sam-a qulctc
spirit ot repartee the same eagre r sar
casm the same alertness to recover a
lost point. This was well illustrated
when he was reciting the General 1
case. Senator Lodge Interrupted Jilrn.
"The Senator from Ohio must rerol-
lect that there were two General Lea
cases." said Lodge.
"Oh, I know" said ForaKer Instant
ly, "but I can't talk about them both
at once."
And thus he avoided an attempt to
confuse his facts and figures, whhh ho
was presenting: with the precision and
rapidity of the trained attorney. He
Is the same Foraker that he was 0
years ago. The years have M'hltened
his hair, but It has not dimmed tile
enthusiasm and the flgrhttngr spark, that
has been wlthtnilm since those school
days when he "licked" his playmates.
(Copyright, 1 007. by, P. B. Stevenson.)
of this reservation the Indian in pro-
tected both as to his person and his
property, and all offenses committed
within the reservation are punished by
the Government. -
Recognizing Uie responsibility of the
Government fdr these wards of the Xa-
tion. Congress passed an act In ISisT pru
vidlriK the Indians living on lands allot
ted to them should be considered as
citizens of the United States. The im-
mediate effect of this act was to confer
citlxentthlp upon more than lO.OOO Indians.
Every year from lOOO to 3000 Indians sijv
niry their desire to become citizens. At
the present time it is estimated that there
are more than 20,000 Indian voters In the
t'nltd States.
In addition to the provision made by
the Government in securing homes for
the Indian he la also beinjc educated in
Government snhools, more than 1.00 board
ing schools exclusively for the Indians
having been established in different sec
tions of the reservations.
Fop a number of years the Government
has taken an active interest in the wel
fare of the Indian. He has been located
upon reservations. fed and 'clothed;
houses have been built for him ; he Iiur
. been provided with teams, wagons, tools
and' all the necessary implements for
cultivating the fields; the children have
been taught and cared for In Government
schools at great expense. Yet today.
after the lapse of yearn, his condition
remains practically unchanged, He is still
dependent upon the Government for ex-
isetnee. little, if any, nearer the Knal of
Independence than be was 30 years ago.
. Industrial work among the Indians is
proving one of the most helpful agencies
in Ills transformation. Simple and prac
tical knowledge which they may use in
their own homes is taught in the mission
schools as well as are many of the
trades.
Seven Sentence Sermons
Ho who would be a Rrt'iit hou! in the
future must be a great soul now. Emer
son. Not in the clamor of the street.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the
thron?,
But in ourselves are triumph and dofpat.
Anon.
Great truths are greatly won, not found
by chance. Bonar.
.
IjOv of our neighbor in the only door
out of the dungeon of self. George Mac-
donald.
a
Rvery noble crown is. and on earth ever
will be, a -crown of thvma. Carlvle
Better be self-dcnylnj every day
Than once a martyr.
Lan bridge.
Either God will shield you from suffering-,
or he will give you unfailing strength
to bea-r It. St. Francis de Sales.
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