|_ THE. 
National Capital 
Events of eds from the Seat of 
overnment F 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureai, 
Washington, Jan. 19, 1915. 
Quezon and His Race 
Commissioner Quezon of the 
Philippine Islands, suggests that 
his people be permitted to vote up- 
on the question of separation from 
the United States, and he frankly 
states it as his opinion that the 
Filipinos desire to continue under 
protection of the United States, 
though he positively declaims in 
favor of self government. Perhaps 
Mr. Quezon is afraid of the Japan- 
ese domination, and it has been 
suggested that he wants to take 
home an issue for his people to vote 
upon, so that he and his fellow poli- 
ticians who control the situation 
may be perpetuated. At each ses- 
sion of Congress Quezon makes a 
speech, and he hammers well at the 
Queen’s English, considering the 
fact that he was formerly one of 
the insurrectionists. At the time of 
the American occupation Quezon 
was employed in a bank, but he left 
his job to join Aguinaldo, and al- 
though he may be as good a fighter 
as his chief, he furnished more 
noise. He talked as fast as a race 
horse, and the Filipinos sent him to 
Washington. He is still talking, 
and he never fails to make a good 
ease for his people. Should there 
ever be absolute independence in the 
Islands, Quezon would likely be the 
first George Washington of the 
establishment. But even that would 
not be any too great a comfort for 
a Commissioner who has enjoyed 
the salubrious climate, and worked 
himself into the pleasant ways of 
the Capital of the United States. 
Uncle Sam’ll Get You a Job 
‘Some of the Cabinet officials at 
Washington have arrived at the 
proper conclusion that in America 
there is a job for everybody, and 
they have picked out the postmas- 
ters as the goats. Every man who 
wants a job is supposed to tell the 
man at the general delivery win- 
dow. The Department of Labor is 
the real instigator of the plan, but 
has been obliged to fall back on the 
Post Office and the Agricultural De- 
partments to help it in the execu- 
tion of the work, as its own force is 
small and rather inefficient. 
Students of the problem do- not 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
bank much on the new scheme of so- 
lution and since the percentage of 
population is more than double in cit- 
les as compared with the rest of the 
country, to what it was a quarter of 
a century ago, it is believed by those 
best qualified to know that the true 
relief exists in making a success of 
the ‘‘back to the farm movement,’’ 
which was so near and dear to the 
hearts of politicians a few years ago, 
but which appears to have been 
abandoned because of the difficul- 
ties it presented. 
The Ring is Still There 
A good many politicians have 
been getting a lot of comfort out of 
the supposed retirement of Colonel 
Roosevelt who described himself re- 
cently as ‘‘the privatest kind of a 
private citizen.’’ Recently it has 
been discovered that all that is lack- 
ing to make the picture of Progres- 
siveism complete is for the Colonel 
to toss off his hat, as it has de- 
veloped that the ring is still where 
it used to be. And the intimate 
friends of the Colonel in Washing- 
ton declare that there will be three 
tickets in the field in 1916. And so 
the local politicians can start figur- 
ing out whether this tip is important 
or not. 
The Fight of the Railroads 
In former days the railroads 
fought their battles before legisla- 
tures and their agents wrote out 
passes that filled many trainloads. 
Today the railroads are making a 
vigorous fight, but it is to convince 
the public to their way of thinking. 
They are spending fortunes in get- 
ting their side of the case printed, 
and into the hands of the American 
people. Cards are all down on the 
table at last, and it is to the public 
that the former autocrats now ap-, 
peal for a ‘‘square deal.”’ 
The President’s Speech 
President Wilson put so much 
punch in his Indiana speech that 
even Blissful Washington was 
startled. No President has so care- 
fully kept his own counsel in recent 
vears, and Mr. Wilson, feeling that 
his case had been established, went 
abroad, and after defying all critics. 
let it be understood that he would 
be the Democratic candidate for 
1916. Democrats.in Congress de- 
clare that the President has put 
across some ‘‘great stuff,’’ while the 
Republicans who have not forgotten 
the mischief of the Taft tariff speech 
at Winona, declare that Mr. Wilson 
has put his foot as deep in the mud 
as Taft’s was in the mire. One 
thing is certain, and that is that the 
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mild-mannered Woodrow Wilson 
out-Wilsoned himself in casting 
discretion to the four winds, and in 
unbosoming himself to the country. 
Therefore the Indianapolis speech is 
a record-marker, and should be care- 
fully studied by every American 
voter. 
Suffrage Before Congress 
The suffragists, like some other 
members of society, are ever with 
us, and the ‘‘fair ones’’ have been 
impressing themselves upon Wash- 
ington again. President Wilson has 
given the ladies small comfort, as 
he always tells them to take their 
affairs up with the different states. 
Congress gives inch by inch on the 
proposition, and the recent develop- 
ments in the House demonstrate the 
fact that only an overwhelmingly 
publie sentiment can bring that 
body to vote in favor of submitting 
the question of a constitutional 
amendment to the states. While 
suffrage has been gaining there is 
little to indicate that it will carry as 
a national measure in many years. 
One reason for this is that Congress- 
men are perfectly willing to orate 
in favor of women’s suffrage, and 
they ‘‘think it may work fine in 
somebody else’s state,’’ but they do 
not at heart welcome it, or any 
other reform that has their own 
future in keeping. Equal suffrage 
gets too close to the Congressman’s 
job to particularly appeal to him. 
How’s Your Health? 
Senator Works of California, has 
made a notable attack on the Pub- 
lic Health Service, arraigning it as 
an ‘‘autocratic power to restrain 
and imprison a citizen and prescribe 
and enforce the habits of the peo- 
ple.’’ While attacking the ‘‘doctors’ 
trust’’ the Senator prescribes as a 
remedy for the ills and difficulties 
of mankind that everyone take up 
Christian Science. The Senator’s 
panacea for human ills may not ap- 
peal to a very large percentage o! 
the public, yet there is nothing new 
in his attack upon the American 
Medical Association as a ‘‘powerful 
political organization,’’? and in sup- 
port of this oft-repeated charge 1s 
the difficutty experienced in such 
schools of medicine as Homeopathy. 
Osteopathy, Hclectics, etc., in fight- 
ing their way into recognition. In 
olden times all roads led to Rome, 
and today there are plenty of peo- 
ple at the side of each road that will 
tell you positively that it is the sure 
pathway to health. 
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