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EL GONSTICIONAL
Accuses President o trying to
Create a Conflict,
1 '. J t t
RELATIONS ARE STRAINED
' . r y . t . .
It Says "It Is High Time For the
American National Nation to Know
President's Real Ambition, Whether
That of Friend or Dictator."
CARACAS, March 29. -The day
following the publication of the dip
lomatic correspondence regarding the
violation of the mail pouches of the
U. S, Str. Tacoma, President Castro's
official organ, F, Cotntricional pub
lished an editorial nccuning Presi
dent Roosevelt of "searching from
light incident! out of which to create
a conflict with Venezuela," and of
having a "premeditated plan."
It ys:
"It it tiossiblc that Minister Rut.
ell could have written his note to
our foreign office without having a
preconceived and premediatcd inten
tion to attribute to a dimple act,
without responsibility to the post
, office in La Cuaira, intentions which
do not exist and to prejudge the act
as serious for the government-of the
U. S. is to have a premeditated plan
which ought not to originate, be
cause it cannot, from the actual
American minister in Caracas VV. W.
Russell.
"From where then can originate
the idea of searching for slight inci
dents to create a conflict with Vcne
lucla? From the chief of this lega
ction who is connected with the sec
retary of state in Washington and
who in turn cannot but be under the
direction of President Roosevelt."
Saying that it is high time for the
American nation to know President
Roosevelt s real ambition, whether
that of a friend or a dictator, the edi
torial continues:
"If the inspiration of Roosevelt,
president of the U. S. against the
traditions which compose the union
of the Americans among themselves
has as a basis the abdication of the
territorial sovereignty of this people
or the nullity of their codes just be
cause of the pretensions of a few
citizens who do not and cannot re
present the will of the American peo
ple, it is then high time that this hor
rible truth be known and that the
people of the New world know
whether in the government of the U.
S. they have a friend or a capricious
dictator. If the first, Venezuela is
the most respectful of all to the dict
ates of honor and friendship; if the
second it should be known for all
that Venezuela assumes the pcrter-
After RHffesrtnpr for seven yearn,
thin woma n wan restored tohcaltb
by Lydia H. rink ham's Vegetable
Compound. Itcad her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter., whites to Mrs, Pinkham:
"I had female troubles for seven
years was all run-down, and bo ner
vous I could not do anything. The
doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While In this con
dition I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for ad
vice and took Lydia K. Pinkham'a Vege
table Comr.
and well."
table Compound, and I am npw strong
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nlty of its sovereignty and at this
lute , date it has not conceived the
crime of the, traitor to forge it under
any form or concern,"
A profound sensational has, been
caused in Caracas by its article for
it Is,, president Castro who speaks.
Hctwecn the lines it can be seen that
relations are almost at the breaking
point, saying that it was necessary
to conquer Venezuela if the decisions
of its courts are not respected the
article closed as follows;
"The question thus being placed on
its true footing, it is not warships
or cannon that 'can bring honorable
solution before the eyes of the civl
lized world, before American tradi
tions or even before that code also
many times misinterpreted, which is
called the- Monroe doctrine. The
dilemma resolves itself; either the U.
S. will respect and support the deci
sion of the mixed international tri
hiuials and those of the tribunals of
Venezuela or it will raise up once
for all the flag of conquest in Amcri
ca. llieit It will be that the people
of the new world will know what the
position is that they will have to oc
cupy in the present and in the future."
SHIPS GUIDED INTO HARBORS
By the use of a system of electric
lights beneath the water, recently
patented by an American inventor,
the navigation of dangerous harbors
and waterways may be even safer at
night than in the daytime.
The system consists of a water
proof submarine cable with ntimcr
ous floating branches connected at
suitable Intervals, to which are at
tached incandescent electric lamps
fitted with reflectors to concentrate
the light into parallel beams. The
whole system is designed to with
stand the pressure and corrosive ac
tion of sea water, and the lamp re
flectors are made sufficiently buoy
ant to maintain an upright position.
The cable thus equipped is laid in
position in the waterway to be light
ed up and connected with a source of
electric supply on shore.
A picture of the device in use ap
pears in J'opular Mechanics for
April, which also points out how ef
fectively it could be used to confuse
an enemy in time of war.
THE COOK IN THE NAVY.
, In order to prevent good food be
ing spoiled by poor cooks, the naval
department has recently established
a school at Newport, R. I., for ships'
cooks and bakers, says Popular Me
chanics in its April number. It is
the purpose to send to this school
all men recruited as cooks or bakers.
In addition, men already in the ser
vice, who want to become cooks, and
can show some fitness, will be sent
to the school In limited numbers.
The school will be equipped with
electrically driven meat choppers,
large bake ovens, coffee urns hold
ing 50 gal., mechanical dishwashers,
cold storage, dough-mixing machines,
and several ranges, sufficient to pre
pare a meal for three or four hundred
men. It will be on the same plan as
the galley on board a battleship, The
instruction will last for four or five
months, and will be under the super
vision of a chef, while a first-class
ship's cook will be in charge of each
galley.
THEATERS ON TRAINS.
A company is now being formed in
Paris for the purpose of providing
theater cars for all the important ex
press trains 011 the continental lines.
These railroad theaters arc to have
60 seats, a little stage, and an orches
tra consisting of a piano, a flute and
a cornet. Passengers will book seats)
as they now engage tables in a din
ing car. Popular Mechanics for
April,
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WASHINGTON NOTES
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Proposal to Create (Tariff Com
mission to Gather Facts.
THE FINANCIAL LEGISLATION
The Progress Secretary Taft is Mak
ing With His Candidacy Admits of
no Other Conclusion But That he
Will be Nominated at Chicago
Washington, April 8 The policy of
the majority in Congress so far has
been one of "masterly inactivity,"
no new policy for a dominant party,
by the way, in the face ot a national
campaign. IThc President himself
some time ago announced his ac
quiescence in the program of letting
the tariff question go over until after
the inauguration of a new administra
tion, and the proposals now pending
before Congress in this regard all re
late to tthe creation of a tariff com
mission to gather facts and make rec
ommendations to Congress. Senator
La Follctte and Senator Bcvcridge
have both introduced bills looking to
such an authorization by Congress.
A counter proposal, originating in the
Ways and Means committee of the
House, which is exceedingly jealous
of s its constitutional prerogative of
originating all revenue legislation, Is
that the committees in the Mouse
and Senate having to do with the
framing of a tariff law, shall employ
experts and proceed soon after the
adjournment of Congress to the con
duct of an investigation along these
lines,
It is not unlikely that in the
end this is as radical a course as the
majority in Congress will adopt. In
the long run it may be quite as con
ducive to early action, as the legal
power to originate such legislation
lies in Congress, and the report of a
commission of experts created with-
out the sanction of the members of
the Ways and Means committee in
the House and the Finance committee
in the Senate, would probably have
short shrift at the hands of these two
bodies,
That tariff revision, or tariff "ad
justment," as one of Speaker Can
non's conventions out in Illinois puts
it, will be had at the hands of the
Republican party, if it shall be in
power after the 4th of next March,
and at the hands of both parties, if
responsibility is divided after that
time, is now accepted as a certainty.
Republican leaders are apparently
agreed that there shall be a declara
tion in the Republican national plat
form in favor of tariff revision at a
special session of Congress to be cal
led immediately after the inaugura
tion of the next President, should he
be a Republican. As for the Demo
cratic declaration on this subject, it
is expected to hark back to the ring
ing pronouncement of the 1884 plat
form, and to call not for readjustment
or revision, but for complete recon
struction along revenue lines, with in
cidental potection.
As for financial legislation it still
seems probable that the AUIrich bill,
in one torm or another, perhaps
quite another, after the House gets
through with it, will pass. No one
claims for this bill that it is more than
temporarily remedial, while Senator
La Follette sees in the measure a sur
render to "the interests" on the part
of those responsible for framing it.
Senator La Follette declares that the
bill is directly in the interests of what
he calls "the system," and that it is
calculated to inure to the advantage
of the hundred captains of finance,
whom he names as being in control
of the industrial situation, and not to
the benefit of the masses who carried
inc real ourucn ot tne recent tinan
cial panic. What relation this attit
tude may bear to the rumored pos
sibility of Senator La Follette's nom
ination for the presidency on the In
dependence League Ticket, is an in
teresting subject for speculation. The
report that Senator La Follette was
being groomed by Mr. Hearst came
from Senator, Aldrich, immediately
following a conference-at the White
House on the Aldrich bill, and the
Wisconsin .Senator in making , re
joiner to the rumor, referred to the
place of orig'n of the story with such
a show of spirit as to start, the poli
tical dopesters to work figuring out
the exact relation, of Senator La Fol
lette to the nex presidential cam
paign. It is. stated that Senator La
Follctte, while reconciled to the sec
ond elective term proposal, is exceed-
ingyl hostile to the nomination of
Taft, believing that he is too much in
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the favor of the financiers whose
names the Senator read the other day
as the real national board of direc
tors, to be a candidate satisfactory to i
the radical wing of the party with
which he affiliates.
Despite the hammering of the op
position the Taft managers continue
confident, and are able to make arith-,
matical demonstration, which is at
least satisfactory to them of the ccr-:
tainty of Secretary Taft's nomination
for President on an early ballot: they
agree that it must be on an early bal-
' lot or the success of the War Secre
tary will be seriously endangered.
The success which the managers of
the Taft campaign have had in at
tracting to the support of the Secre
tary's candidacy elements which were
not long ago deemed hostile, and im
possible of amalgamation with the
j Taft movement, is indicated by the
flat-footed declaration of George B.
j Cox, of Cincinati, who has just been
in Washington, in favor of the Taft
'candidacy. In a statement given out
here Mr. Cox said: "The progress
Secretary Taft is making with his
candidacy admits of no other conclu
sion but that he will be nominated
and elected, and is indisputable evi
dence of his strength with the rank
and file of the Republican party. The
manner in which his candidacy ap
peals to the people demonstrates to
I mi tnirwl flint Viaip want him fnr ttip
Presidential succession."
The conversion of Cox, who since
the death of the late Matthew S.
Quay, is perhaps the most conspicu
ous and successful "boss" in Ameri
can politics, is looked upon as a piece
of political fine work indicative of the
shrewdness with which the political
affairs of Secretary Taft are being
managed. Less than eighteen
months ago Secretary Taft made his
famous speech at Akron, Ohio, de
nouncing the big Ohio boss and ad
vising the people of Hamilton coun
ty. The advice was taken, resulting
not only in the overthrow of Cox,
but the election of a Democratic Gov
ernor in Ohio. This demonstrated
to Cox the strength of the new wing
of the party in Ohio, headed by Sec
retary Taft and his brother, Charles
P. Taft, of Cincinnati, and he was
quite ready to make terms. A few
months ago he began to soften to
ward the Taft candidacy and his
identification with the Taft movement
became complete. Cox was eulogi
zed in a public address by Charles P.
Taft, the Secretary's brother, as a
"distinguished leader" of the party in
Ohio.
At the recent Ohio State conven
tion the Taft program went through
without a hitch, and the terms of the
working agreement between the Taft
and Cox wings of the party became
apparent when Cox and his friends
named every important candidate on
the State ticket, excepting the Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor. The
Toledo "Blade," heretofore a staunch
Taft organ, and many other Republi
can newspapers in Ohio, are in revolt
against what they are inclined to de
nounce as a "corrupt deal" but the
Taft leaders in Ohio insist that ar
rangements' of this kind are old in
Ohio politics and are a legitimate
part of the big game. In his inter-1
views here, Mr. Cox stated that the
nominees dictated by him and his ;
friends, are good men, and that they
will not be .withdrawn from the ticket.
He scouts the idea that the labor vote ;
will oppose Taft, but says' that it will
divide on party lines,, as usual: he
thinks, too, that the opposition of the
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been greatly exaggerated.
It is also agreed that some exceed
ingly clever work has been done by
some one in bringing about the
changed attitude of the big men of
the financial world toward the Taft
candidacy. Originally lined up for
Hughes, most of the financial big
guns are now known to be in pretty
close sympathy and accord with the
Taft movement. To Myron T. Her
rick, the Ohio ex-Governor, is given
the credit for convincing Wall street
that it was a 'choice between the re-
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ination of Taft and the bulletin issued
from the Taft headquarters recently,
and later re-called, stated the facts
when it said that these financiers were
now convinced that under Secretary
Taft as President, there would be
considerable soft-pedalingp in the re
iteration of the President's policies.
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