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Show p. B THE REALM OF fa I THE PSYCHIC & 1 Havo you a dollar In your pocket? f j f Forget It! It's only" your Imaglna- $ j tlon. Dollars don't exist really, you i know. 18 your stomach empty? nub-y- jL I'Ish! That's all In your mind. Emilia Emil-ia I tlness Is only an abstraction. Aro hM; you out ot a Job and Is your ramlly lit starving? Pshaw! Th,eso things lK aren't real at all. Llvo above them, jBwja mnn; llvo abovo them! Ewl O you psychological Woodrow! aBt Thero Isn't any tariff, really, or any wS Mexican sttuhtlon, or any Canal Tolls Ibj -UHI, or any Colombian treaty or any BfJ Jnpaneso muddle, or any of the num-WmK num-WmK ' crous thliiRa that you havo worried ' about so long and kept Congress busy HB . for over a year on. J9 When tho crops aro all good and Br everything points to a splendid liar-HI liar-HI Test, yet big firms aro constantly go-Ml go-Ml Ing to the wall and tho army of the PES unemployed grows larger every day, Uiero la somothlng wrong. In fact, HS In tho present Instance, thero aro HB wo things wrong. fljfl The first and worst Is tho Under-B? Under-B? wood tariff. Any system which regu-HB regu-HB lates our foreign trade so that the bal-HH bal-HH ance la against us spells national mm poverty. Every month Uiat the Un-PjJJj Un-PjJJj derwood tariff has been In operation In shows an Increaso ot Imports and a Ml decrease ot exports. No manufacture M ing concern can stand up against that Hfc It means that our factories must pay ft' lower wages and sell for lower prices Iff er go to tho wall. And that means un- H employment tor labor and poverty for EM capital. Thero is no use talking HLY IB about It. The flguros speak for them- Wm. selves. h' Tho other and lessor thing that la W -wrong Is tho long session ot Cons' Con-s' Kress and the excess ot legislation Hj aimed at business. This Is not psych-H psych-H ologlcal either. It Is h fact. Congress $ has been In session for more than a I; year and during nil of that tlmo It lias bceu considering bills radically affecting business. No business man '. can afford to branch out when bust- (noss coriditfons nro unsottlsd. Every Instinct counseln letrenclunent or at best, "watchful waiting." No man wnnts to Invest n million dollars, or even a hundred, In a business which may ht any moment bo made bankrupt bank-rupt by the passage of bills which ., aro always ponding in Congress. Business does not trust dtlir.' tho Resident or Congress. They havo proved thomsolvcs radical nnd linprnc Ileal. Business can not bo blamed for this httltudo, It Is tho natural and sensible result ot r.tr.iticrat'.o tinkering, and will dlaappcnv ns spon ss conditions, aro sottmd. It Is useless to, illscui.i UieM things AH Uiat wo can do Is to .r'1 to hold & on till tho storm blows over. Thank j Jk heaven It has only a fe.v montli.i to HVKMk blow. And may tho Lord givo Uj sense enough noor to elect another I 'i-scliocglcal president ' .. .J. .j. THE COLOMBIAN TREATY We do not ag'eo with tho view that tho present treaty with Colombia Colom-bia Is csscnt'ally tho samo ns tho memorandum drawn up during President Pres-ident Tail's term.v Tho most objectlonablo part ot tho pending trc.'ity Is that which fastens tho blame for tho secession ot Panama Pan-ama on tho United States. In the treaty our government, on behalf of tho people, expresses Its "slncero regret re-gret that anything should havo occurred occur-red to Interrupt or mar the relations of cordial friendship" between the two nations. This Is not objectionable, objection-able, for It does not fasten the responsibility re-sponsibility on either country. It meroly regrets, the Interruption of cordial relations. Hut tho treaty adds Uiat "the government of tho republic re-public of Colombia, In Its own name and in the name ot tho Colombian people, accepts this declaration In tho full assurance that every obstacle to tho restoration -of complete harmony between the two countries will thus disappear." By tho acceptance by Colombia ot the expression of regret It becomes an apology and an acknowledgment acknow-ledgment of guilt. Wo can afford to bo fair and Just to Colombia, and ever ev-er generous, but neither fairness nor genoroslty requires that the people bo humiliated. Tho facts in the Panama episode aro still fresh In memory. The United States offered Colombia for Canal concessions a very generous price. But those In charge at Bogota thought they saw the'r chance aud began to hagg'.o for an exorbitant price. In the meantlmo the NIcaraguans wero making overtures to our government and the people of Panama wero afraid that they would lose tho advantages of the gigantic enterprise. Panama then bethought Itself ot an old constitutional right to secede which had been abrogated under pro-, test, and declared her independence. Tho United States, by nn old treaty, was under obligation to maintain freedom ot transit across tho Isthmus, Isth-mus, aud when It was thought tho military operations of Colombia may Interfere with such transit, our government gov-ernment refused to permit tho landing land-ing ot troops In Panama. And thus tho independence was secured, and the now republic was recognized. Theso aro the facts. Whatever may be said ot the early recognition aud support of the seceding republic, the truth remains that Colombia could havo tho price we paid Panama, and that country to boot, but for the do-termrhation do-termrhation ot her statesmen to play a game of holdup. We mar sincerely sincere-ly regret this, but we may not accept ac-cept the blame for It, or confess that in dealing with Colombia we received stolen goods. In connection with this Panama treaty thero are ugly rumors which may, or may not, havo a foundation In fact. It Is claimed that If thotrcaty Is ratified Colombia will only rocolvo $15,000,000, and that $10,000,000 is to bo divided botween promoters ot tho deal. Wo hopo this is not truo, but It it is, there Is every prospect ot H national scandal, Deseret News. |