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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12
CHICAGO TAX DECISION.

The application of the Chicago
Union Traction company and the Con-
solidated Traction company for an in
junction restraining the State board of
equalization from assessing the capital
stock of those companies for 1900 was
denied, recently, by Judges Grosscup
and Humphrey, in the United States
circuit court. The temporary injunc-
tion issued by Judge Grosscup in Chi
cago also was dissolved This
is great victory for the taxpayers
and places in the State board of equal
ization the power to assess the capital
stock of the Chicago Union Traction
and Consolidation Traction companies.
The decision of the State supreme
cour: has been held good in this mat
ter.
The law of Illinois, Judge Grosscup
said, had erected certain machinery
for administration of the taxing power.
The initial machinery was found in
the local assessor. The duty of the
State board of equalization generally
speaking is to equalize the assessment
with respect to the whole State. This
board possesses the final reviewing
power. It is in the highest degree one
OF the tribunals Of the State, and is
meant to be an Independent tribunal.
ut has no more right,'' said he, s'to
depart from the exercise OF its own
judgment than a court of lazy or
equity has right. to depart from its
conscience" . ...:.
Judge !Grosscup. in closing promul-
gates this safeguard: 1--WE. believe,
and are bound. TO believe; that the
board will exercise its function as con-
templated by the law. This would ex-
clude the supposed danger of .over-val-
uation. # it transpires that the board
of equalization, through personal fears
or moved by any other consideration
than the impartial and Independent
discharge of its own duty, attempts to
certify an assessed valuation that in
It's effect would be fraud upon any
taxpayer, the courts still remain open
to the injured taxpayer This we will
assume until the contrary appears
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12

MINNESOTA congressman Jared very
we'll in committee appointments at the
hands of Speaker Henderson. Five Of
the seven members get chairmanships.
Eddy gets mines and mining, Fletcher
expenditure on public grounds and
buildings, Heatwole printing, McCleary
library committee, and Tawney expo
sitions. Morris retains his place on
rivers and harbors and is the Minneso-
ia member on the special committee
having in charge the memorial services
for President Mckinley.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12

THE UNION closes its twenty-ffth
year of publication with this. issue. 1t
has passed the quarter post of the cen
fury run and is now headed for the
half. AS this edition passes out of the
UNION office into Uncle Sans big
sacks, and few papers are filed away
Tor future reference, the quarter cen.
turys work is finished, there is but a
moments reflection, the types com
mence to click again and life's story OF
love and hate, of woe and sadness and
Joy and gladness is told again.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12
CONGRESSMAN LITTL EFIELD of Maine

CONGRESSMAN LITTLEFIELDO of Maine,
has started in to carry out President
Roosevelt's suggestions in regard to
controlling the community of inter-
est enterprises that are making so
many radical changes in our Industrial
and commercial life. According to the
terms of his bill on Or before Septem-
Der l of each year, the corporations in
question are to file return. stating
date of organization and constituent
capital stock, with the amount issued,
outstanding and paid in: total indebt-
edness, giving nature of the same and
the purpose for which it was incurred:
statement of assets and liabilities, in
Guiding mortgages; total earnings and
income, operating expenses, salaries of
officials and wages of employees. Swear
ing to false returns shall be deemed
perjury and the offender punished
by the laws of the federal government.
An annual tax of one per cent. on the
capital stock issued and outstanding is
to be imposed where corporations are
engaged in interstate commerce. Rep
resentative Littlefield has also intro
duced a bill to so amend the Sherman
antitrust law that any person or COR
poration can commence an action in
the name of the federal government
against any person or: persons, or cor
:porations who in any way violate the
provisions of the law. Another feature
of the bill makes it compulsory on all
parties summoned to testify in pro-
ceedings against any trust or monopoly,
and also in producing all books, papers,
contracts, agreements and documents.
These two bills ought certainly, if they
become laws, 60 far toward the much
longed for goal of publicity.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12

FROM the way the war department
distributed that prize money for. the
sinking Of Cervera's fleet, one would
infer that there was considerable gross
favoritism in that department, which
is evidently controlled by lot of con-
temptible officials who lack American
spirit and fairness. The rascals should
be fired. Sampson gets S25,797.44 and
Schley S149.53. Is that so? Well you
can't buy the applause of the American
people for no 1925, 797 A, eh!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12
THEGERM.4.N TARIFF.

Charles r.. Flint in IAN article on
''American Exports and the German
Tariff" which appeared recently in the
Saturday Evening Post, says that
while the tariff will practically pro-
hibit the Importation of American
manufactures and foodstuffs the effect
will hardly be felt by the workingmen
or manufacturers in this country, since
the trade with Germany represents
only about one One-thousandth OF one
per cent OF our entire Interstate and
international trade. He thinks that
Germany will be very willing to re-
move the present tariff in short time.
He says: ':Our part, so far.as the new
German tariff is concerned, lies in
ignoring it, in pursuing the even
tenor of our way regardless of what
the German Empire may do in the
direction of keeping out our products.
We can very. we'll afford to be per-
fectly passive, because the new law is
bound to hurt Germany much more in
the end than it will hurt US. When
she puts a tariff on our wheat and on
our meats she adds to the price of
these necessities to her working peo-
pie and compels her manufacturers to
pay more for labor in order that labor
may secure the necessities of life.
This will prove fatal course, for Ger
many is essentially dependent upon
the cheapness Of her manufactured
products to SECURE and hold a position
in the worlds trade.''
Mr.. Flint thinks that in the present
state of the worlds development that
the enactment of any additional pro-
tective or prohibitive tariff is distinc-
lively retroactive step.
''Nations of the first class that ex-
pect to progress and grow must stead
lily enact laws looking to free trade
rather than a more restricted one, "
says Mr.. Flint. ''In our own case am
not in favor of the enactment of any
provision" that will interfere with
vested interests, but if we must have
tariff legislation at all, let us have it
in the direction of lower rates rather
than higher ones. [ do not think the
time has come when we should mater
tally scale down our duties, such as
they are, but when we do have tariff
legislation it should be in the line of
such scaling down, so that we should
encourage freer intercourse with the
other nations of the earth.;'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12

THE State superintendent of public
instruction has notified one of the
school officials of Pierz, in Morrison
county, that repeating the Lords
prayer in the public schools is in viola.
ton of Sec. 16, Article I, of the State
Constitution, which decision was made
by H. w. Childs, as encouragement.
in 1895. Minnesota school children
must worship the text books and black.
boards and let it go at that.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12
CONGRATULATIONS Us. CREdUERTES

While at the annual meeting of the
State dairymen's and cheese makers
association at St. Cloud recently, Dairy
Commissioner Mcconnell in speaking
OF the Capitalization of dairy interests,
said: 1T is not the interest of the
dalrymen or the patrons of cream
cries to leave them for the small
advance in prices that are offered by
these larger creameries located in the
twin cities and other places, and I
would advise every patron of a cream
cry to stick to it. This Capitalization
OF plants, if patronized by the farmers
and shippers of cream will mean the
closing down of every small creamery
in the State. 1t would be impossible
to make high grade butter, owing to
the longehaul of some of the shipments
and the time required to reachsit. No
matter how good an Offer these twin
city Capitalization plants offer, stick to
your home creamery. This is a poor
time to make'a change" to the larger
plants which have threatened to close
every small creamery in the State. $
Another matter of great Importance
was the nececessity of marking Mime
sofa butter for eastern markets. Be-
cause of the fact that Minnesota butter but r
is sold on eastern markets with no tags
or. marks to Indicate it's superiority,
Minnesota butter makers lose from two
to three cents per pound. On, > Z
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12
oIEOu4RG.IRINE AND BUTTER.

are to wage war again on the manu-
facturers of oleomargarine which is
to-day placed on the market by the
clever manufacturers in such a manner
that it resembles in all respects fine
creamery butter, possessing the rich
''June tint'' by artificial process, and
we must confess that much OF our but
ter is treated in the same way.
The Grout bill would tax oleomar-
garine 10 cents pound when it was
colored to resemble butter, and thus
practically confscate the product.
There is no question but what the
dairy and creamery interests of the
country have some grounds for COM
plant, but it does not seem that oleo-
margarine can be driven off the market
by legislation. 1t is commercial
product that will always have an out
let, and color or no color, tax Or no
tax, there are certain channels of trade
that will use it instead of butter. The
mines, lumber camps, second-rate ho-
tells and lodging houses use tons of it
and will use it, color or no color This
class of trade cannot afford to use good
choice butter, and as between second
rate and inferior butter give US the
oleomargarine every time. We have
tasted both, and the latter product is
in our estimation quite sweet as COM
pared with the rank, ill-smelling and
vile stuff called butter that is some
times sold. For all our choice dairv
and creamery butter there is always a
good demand and at very fair prices we
believe to the manufacturers, and we
do not think that oleomargarine comes
into actual competition with much of
our best dairy and creamery product.
Merit is the judge and common de-
nominator, and tells every time. There
is too much belief in the theory that
laws can regulate all the little details
of trade and commerce.
1t is said that the oleomargarine
manufacturer colors his product to
resemble butter, but if the butter
makers did not color their butter the
cleo manufacturer would not have to
resort to coloring matter so often.
While the dairy conventions resolve
and petition for stringent laws against
oleo, the stoclrnen of the west resolve
and petition that no such legislation be
enacted. The western cattleman
claims that ito cripple the oleomar-
garine industry means loss of from
81 to SIS on every head of cattle he
ships to market,' and there you have
it. It is one industry against another.
But it will make little difference
what congress does in the matter. the
product of the dairy and creamery and
the product of the big provision and
packing houses will be sold for what
they are worth. The man or woman
who goes on the market for good but
ter can generally tell it from oleomar-
garine, and if they can't they do not
know good butter when they see it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12

The Rush City Post has started it's
twenty-seventh volume, hale and
hearty, and out Of its trundle. bed long
since it goes over the journalistic boule-
ward in an automobile. =~-.>s.s==s y !. !.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12
RU.'M|'![.-1'vA7lons.

+: RUM-1NAnoNs.
Some of our trusts are not to be trust
ed very far from home. ...>
One Thos. Lawson Of Boston, is still
doing business at the same old stand.
| Tolstol is not dead, neither is Miss
Stone. We have not heard from
Grover lately.
Senator Frye has introduced his new
ship subsidy bill. Is this from the fry
ing pan into the fire?
Sank Centre is entertaining the
State dairymen's association this week.
That's right, Sank it to 'em.
Inc benton county grand jury has
Indicted eleven citizens of that county
for running blind pigs. This is a ';fine''
outlook.
A man was arrested in Sioux Citv
for eating postage stamps. It has not
been learned whether the charge
against him will stick.
Prince Henry is having ''PulIman-
izing" all by himself, and when he
goes home late at night he can't tell
three o'clock from the night KEY.
The people of Minneapolis will not
ride in bob-tail cars any more. We
don't blame them. More than one
man has tale of woe connected with
them.
They have discovered a great cave
in Montana not far from Butte. This
must be the hole that Butte is slipping
or sliding into, or is it what is left of
the amalgamated copper trust.
Now the doctors tell US that too much
salt produces cancer. Indeed, this is
startling, and is apt to worry the
salt trust. But ''please pass the saltn'
will go ringing down the ages just the
same
A soldier in the government hospital
at Fort Sheridan, who was being kept
on hand for the doctors to Xray him at
will in the interest of the learned pro-
fession, made his escape. He objected
to the extraordinary treatment he
had been receiving.
Indian Agent Simon Michelet of
White Earth has bought a printing
outfit and will start a newspaper at
the Indian school on that agency.
Simon has observed that the Indian is
case, is always out of sorts, is full of
the old Nick, likes pie, and believes
that the noble red man could find his
calling in print shop. When the
paper comes out we expect to see some
hot stuff on this order:
O-mo-na- bo-log- ma sausage will start up
his dog meat factory in a short time
Old Musk-ox-h a- ha MOI ri -ga-lu arrived last
night from Onamia with new pair of blankets.
Wu-wah- wooz-zi, who spent his summer va
cation at Vineland, has returned to White
Earth for the winter
-shi-ja-lash-to went to Brainerd last week
and returned with key OF nails to finish the
woodwork on his new tepee
Mez-zi-w a-agoo-moo- p ow-washtills- boo-zo-
me-Doo, came in from his clearing TODAY and
reported that the bed bugs had DESTROYED his
corn crop.
W1n-ne-wu-zu-full of bug juice who has
been at Lawrence selling trinkets to tourists,
returned home last week and resumed work on
his chicken coop.
The kindergarten pupils have got so they
can patch Muskrat Bills shirt in manner
that would make Joseph's coat of many colors
look like very plain garment.
Miss Bon-goo- MASKS hu-afraid-o of her COM
plexion came up from Wigwam Flats at Mile
Laos lake and was entertained at an animoos
supper by a number of her old time friends
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-12-12

JOHN CHINAMAN must pay an indi-
Vldual assessment Of one dollar to
light the re-enactment of the Chinese
exclusion act. John might as we'll
keep his money.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-30
The Great Indian Con
SreSS.

FOR WHITE people of all classes and
nationalities the red man possesses
a remarkable fascination. His history,
revealing so much of injustice and dou-
bic dealing on the part of the white
settlers, brings us face to face with the
question of his future. and it is sad in
some respects to think that whatever
civilization may have i'm store for him
his life as Il wild child Of Nature has
about come to it's end. The young In
di8ns Of the far West today have no
chance left to make names FOR them
selves as warriors, as their forcfathers
had. for the tOmahawE is being made
into a hoe, the WigWam is being dis
carded for th" house. and instead Of
engaging as of old in the buffalo hunt
they recciV" cattle from the govern
meut. But even with an thps" changes
III" old chiefs who are survivors of an
era of warfare are ftiii u0recoucilci L.
civilization and it, ways, ANA W"r,
they not held in cheek hy the strong
yym uI tno government tine chances are
they would Hc Just as Wild gs in the
days when the great Tocum3ru and his
brother planned to drive ;ur whites
from this con inuul The purpose ot
the Creator In tarrpDiug that one race
should be SO different from auutAer Is
hard to understand. Ii alwos, ac'ms
sometimes as if there We're ulauaibliity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-30

secret until the opening Of the EXposi-
tion. 50 that their ncWneSs and origi-
nality may be Il perfect surprise to the
millions WHO VIII attend it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-30

When one wheel is down taking on and
dscharging passengers, the other Is
revolving 275 feet in the air. The Aerio
Cycle will be Illuminated with 1000 in
candescent electric lights and be oper-
ated by power from Niagara Falls.
To visit "The Beautiful orient Will
seem like going to the Old World. for
within the entrance everything is char
acteristic of the East. The streets and
buildings are faithful reproductions OF
streets and edifices typical of the ORR
ent. They will be inhabited by from
$50 to 800 Orientals. There will also be
Bedouin Arab encampment and no.
mads from the Desert of Sahara.
In the Streets of Mexico life VIII
he seen exactly as it is in that inter-
esting country. This Is one of the
largest concessions on the Midway.
covering $4,000 square feet OF ground.
The Mexicans in charge OF this con-
cession will wear their native costume,
and all kinds of wares peculiar to the
country will be sold in the faithfully
reproduced Mexican stores. There will
be an army headquarters for the con
venience of the company of 100 noun
ed men or "rurales" who will atte
the Exposition by order of Preside
Diaz of Mexico.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-30
Bostock's rained Wild
Animals.

t HOCGH the Midway will be chiefly
an exhibition of strange and cur
ious men and things, the brute world
viii not he overlooked, ana the fact
that the wild animal exhibition of the
famous animal trainer ana collector.
Frank {, BosJock, is to be shown is
ample assurance that this feature or
the Midway win be one Of the most in
teresting of all Mr.. BOstock now has
in training 20 African lions which will
take part in the entertainment, to say
nothing of the numerous other animals
to be included in the collection. The
mammoth building in which this col
lection is to be shown will be one of
the most conspicuous features of the
Pan American Midway
one Of the most dramatic and path
etic incidents in American history was
the terrible food which swept down
the valley of the Connemaugh and
overwhelmed the city of JOhn8town,
Pa, i'm the year 1889. over $4,000 900
was contributed to the relief Of the
suffering survivors of this great catas-
trophe. and the sympathy Of the world
was drawn upon as had seldom oc-
CURED before. TO picture the scenes
object of one Of the most ingeniOusly
devised exhibitions of the Midway. The
"JohnStoWn Flood SCenOgraph" has
been described as from a mechanical
standpoint IAN evolution from the cy-
clorama, the diorama and the scenic
theater, the best features of each being
retained and many novel features be-
ing added which the development of
electrical devices renders possible"
"rhe Scenograph" is 1iO feet across in
elliptical form, with depth of 80 feet
from the front edge to the back drop,
and the spectators are seated and see
the action from the outside of the
scene instead of being in the center of
a building and seeing all around, as i'm
cycorama. The Scenograph will
represent at the beginning Johnstown
as it appeared the day before the aw-
full food and then, gradually and inn
perceptibly, the scene will change, pre-
senting in succession all the acts in the
tragedy. The storm and the succeed
ing food are terribly realistic, and
throughout the performance the pic
ture literally lives, The angry tor
rent seems to create actual devastation
before ones very eyes, and yet by a
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-30

lIIIE extending our trade horizon to in
MI clude the Antipodes, we have passei
wv right by our neighbors in Central and
south America. Our transactions with
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-30

in the idea entertained by some In
dianS that there are two Gods, one for
the white man and one for the Indian.
We know that the ancient Hebrews be-
lieVed in the God of Abraham. Isaac
and Jacob, and it was eXcaoi dinghy diff
iicult for the jew to become resuGciird
to the idea that his Jehovah was the
Goo also of the hated GentileS. Why
blame the red man too much IL he
thinks that should he desert his God.
the God that gave him life and created
tor his use the buffalo, bear, elk and
deer, he might expect thar the God Of
his forefathers, the God who sends his
spirit warriors To act as guides for
each Indian spirit over the long trail
To the "happy hunting ground" would
desert him?
What, argues the Indian. does the
white mans God know of him and the
wants OF the Indians? If they desert
their own God, they viii, so many be-
licve, be like children lost in a wilder
ness. none to care for them in time of
sickness, none should they die TO pre-
vent their outcast spirits being driven
about by the winds that como from the
four corners of the earth. Such being
sorrowfu and perhaps somewhat sui
len when he sits in his wigwam and re-
fleets that the mightiest nation upon
earth, the nation that has driven away
the buffalo, elk, deer and bear the In
dams food, wigwam and clothing, is
trying TO force him to believe in a new
God, to tread in the white mans road
and discard the old trails travelled for
many ages and worn smooth by the
spirit feet of the fathers? one must
not wonder in view of this at the In
dams antipathy to civilization. Geroni-
mo, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph and other
famous chiefs now living are just as
wild in spirit today as when they We're
leading their warriors in battle years
ago, and when you see old Geronimo at
| the head of his band of warriors at the
| Indian congress at the Pan-Amcrican
Exposition you will see the same willy
old chief who led his followers i'm raids
! through the mountains OF New Mexico
and Arizona and would do so again
had he but the opportunity.
The era of wild Indian life on the
plains is fast passing, as have said,
and soon 1t will be impossible to give
such a reproduction of ii as is to be a
feature of the Pan-American Midway.
There will be represented in this con-
| gress AZ different tribes. and the 500 or
| 600 Indians will live as they do In the
West, the Sioux In their tepees, the
| Winnebagoes in their wigwams, the Pl-
mas in their wickiups, the cliff dwellers
in their cliff caves and each tribe in its
| peculiar abode, The Navajoes will be