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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21

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Mayor Tom l.. Johnson, the present
leader and guardian of the Democratic
party In Ohio, when he assumed his
throne and began his sway as the
temporary chairman of the Demo
cratic state convention at Sandusky,
o. made a keynote" speech and an
nounced as his war cry Home rule
and Just taxation" Home rule and
Just taxation" as exemplified by him
In the city of Cleveland. means Tom
L. Johnson as mayor. elected by the
people. with all the principal officers
OF the city appointed by him and a
rapidly increasing rate of taxation.
Home rule and just taxation" as ex-
emplified by the Republican party in
the city of Cincinnati. means a compe-
tent, upright mayor, elected by the
people. surrounded by faithful Of
ficials, also elected by the peo-
pie. and the lowest rate of taxa
ton In any large city in the state OF
Ohio. Home rule and just taxation" !"
as exemplified by the Republican par
ty In the state Of Ohio. means a gov
ernor and the principal state officials
all elected by the people. and the rate
of taxation upon real and personal
property reduced by more than one
half. Whose home rule and just tax
alton" do you like the best. that Of
Tom l.. Johnson in the city OF Cleve-
land or that Of the Republican party
in the city Of Cincinnati and in the
state of Ohio?
My advice Is. Let well enough
alone, stand pat, and vlote the Re-
publican ticket"
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
New Facilities for Reaching the
Pacific Coast. Low Rates. I'M
proved Train Service and Un-
precedented Travel to Cali
fornia and Oregon. The Ser
vice this Winter to be Better
than ever. Special Attention
Is Being Given to Tourist
Sleeping Car Parties.

The trans-continental lines have been
making extensive efforts lately to inn
prove their service to and from the
Pacific Coast, the latest development
announced being that the Personally
Conducted feature Of the Chicago &
North Western and Union Pacific ser
vice Is to be expanded and extended to
include personally conducted excursions
to the Coast twice q week from Chicago
via Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake City,
in addition TO the three'a week now OPP
Grated to the Coast via Omaha and
Cheyenne. This gives the tourist a
chance to enjoy the most beautiful
scenery that Colorado affords, the route
being through Colorado Springs, past
Pixies Peak and via the Royal Gorge,
Glenwood Springs and Salt Lake City
This, with the two tours q week via
Cheyenne and Ogden to Sacramento,
San Francisco and Los Angeles and one
week TO Portland, makes five person.
ally conducted excursions per week
from Chicago to California, Oregon and
Washington.
This personally conducted feature has
expanded wonderfully in the last few
, years. The service has steadily i'm
proved, so that Pullman tourist sleep
| ing cars have all the oonveniences of
the standard sleeper and are particu-
larly well adapted to the use OF family
parties and those who desire economy
In travel. With the low rates now in
effect to the coast, this branch OF the
service promises to be very popular in
deed, and will doubtless enable thous-
snds to visit the coast who otherwise
would have been unable to go. These
thousands will include large percent
age Of people who hope to find on the
sunny slopes ef the Pacific a place
where life's hard struggle may be made
easier, and where q competence may be
gained with q small investment In fruit
raising or some similar occupation; 70
which class IL added the invalid who
finds In the far West the dry and
bslmy air and sunshiny days that bring
health and strength that the East failed
TO provide.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
WOULD HELP THE TRUSTS.
Smaller Concerns the Sufferers, the
laruer the Gamers.

Smaller Concerns the Sufferers, the
Larger the Gamers.
u. 8. Senator Fairbanks. in his
speech at Anderson. opening the In
diana campaign, made these points
among others:
The charge that the Republican
party creates and fosters combina.
tions is not true in any evil sense.
During Republican administrations
the country has prospered and the
energies Of the people have been EN-.
ployed to the utmost. An increased
capitalization of many enterprises
has occurred to meet legitimate e1
panding conditions. There was nc
such necessity during Democratic con
troll, for enterprise was paralyzed ;
there was neither the need nor the
opportunity for combinations to be at
fected for either good or evil. II
should be borne In mind that II tarin
is removed from articles with respect
to which trusts are formed, not only
the trusts would suffer. but all OF
their smaller competitors would suf
fer AZ well. II is entirely probable
that in the end the Independent OIL
smaller producers would be the great
er sufferers and that the larger pro
ducers would be more securely en-
trenched In power by the destruction
Of their independent competitors.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
FARMS AND HOMES MUST CO.
All Ownership Must Go Under John
son the Confiscator.

All Ownership Must Go Under john
son the confiseator.
johnson, in his Chicago Tribune in
terview. repeats the fallacy so COM
mon to all followers OF Henry Georges
confiscatory doctrine. saying: The
farmers know that the taxable value
of the land itself on which their farms
are conducted is practically nothing.
providing one eliminates from that the
value OF their stock. their houses, their
agricultural implements. and the vari-
Gus improvements they have them
selves put on the land. In the cities.
however, a million dollars an acre is
not an extravagant valuation for the
land, because real estate must be val-
ued not by its size. but by the use to
which 1t can be put
johnson, or more probably the inter-
viewer, overstates himself In describ-
ing the character OF improvements
which are exempted. Henry George
thus declared: when the title to the
improvements becomes blended with
right is lost in the common right"
This practically leaves the only i'm
provement exempt the buildings On the
farm. Fertilization. orchards, etc,
would be taxable as part of the land.
| In the farming districts buildings are
but a small part of the value Of farm.
1t is in the land that the value chiefly
lies. In the cities buildings and land
are Of about the same value. II any,
/ the difference would be in favor Of the
buildings. Take Ohio. for instance
The value for taxation purposes or her
farm lands is $494. .573. on which
are buildings OF a taxable value OF
$114, ,237, ,704. In the cities, villages and
| hamlets the taxable value of the land
Is 1871. 500. 1853; the value Of the build
| ings thereon is 1886. .763. .637. In other
| words. Johnson would remove from
taxation purposes buildings in cities
value1 at three times the value oi
buildings on the farms, and then tel
the farmer that he was doing HIM 9
| benefit Johnson's land taxation the
| DRY would work about as well for the
| Ohio farmer as did his free trade the
Ory when he voted. as a member o.
congress, for the Wilson bill, that Sc
affected the price of wool that Ohio
fine-washed clothing wool that wal
bringing Al cents a pound dropped II
Is cents a pound.
Fifty-two per cent Of the families o.
Ohio live in homes owned by them
selves; the percentage OF owned farm
in Ohio is 72.6 per cent. The applica
ton Of Johnson's doctrine would vir
tually confiscate the land of every on
of these. He is the apostle of confisca
ton. and his plausibility and audacit.
only render him the more dangerous
Bryan would only have us pay TO
land with a 50-cent dollar; johnson
would take IL away by taxation with
out recompense. - Cincinnati Time
Star.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
Timely Touches by
The Urbana Times.

For q man with a game leg the Pres
ident did q good job.
Nature has been kind during the sea-
son OF high prices for coal.
For q busy man, Chairman Dick is
doing lot Of letter writing.
The succulent and tootn-sweet corn
will now side-step for our ancient
friend, the bivalye.
The American people are all-power-
full when their united sentiment is
against certain object.
Neither party to the coal strike can
afford to higgle now about the fine
points. The public patience is about
exhausted.
The god whom Mr.. Bser imagined
himself In partnership with was one ot
his own creation whose other name ::
Msmmon.
For a State that prides itself on It.
gentlemen, Kentucky seems to hav,
more cowardly assassins than any Other
of which We have any note.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
AN OPEN LETTER
To Hon. Tom L. Johnson

Dear Sir-You are recognized as the
leader of the Democratic party in the
present campaign in Ohio. You are
making a canvass of the State on q
platform which declares that in max
ing assessments all property should be
appraised at not less than its saleable
value" ana your chief battle cry Is q
demand for ''Just Taxation" You de-
nounce in particular those aggrega-
tions of capital known as public service
corporations, which you accuse OF rob-
bing the public by not paying their
Just share of taxation. You have even
charged that corrupt bargain was
made between the Republican MEM
bers of the present Legislature and
other Republican leaders in the State,
and certain corporations, notably the
railroads of the State, by which the lat
ter were to further escape payment OF
their just share of taxation.
You have promisnd to answer all
questions which may be put to you. Let
me ask you u few questions.
Have you in the past twelve years
paid your just share of taxation?
The records of Cuyahoga county,
where you have your residence, show
the following returns made in that
period of personal property belonging
to you, and subject to taxation:
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
Personal Returns of Tom L.
Johnson.

Were those fair and honest state
ments of the personal property belong
ing to you, on which you were liable
for taxation under the laws of Ohio?
1 have before me Photographic copies
of your personal property returns for
the past three years. In the year 1900
you returned for taxation, outside Of
household furnishings and other tsngi-
BILE personal belongings, nothing what
ever but the sum Of $1,000 under the
item of ''vslue of all moneys in posses
sion, or on deposit subject to order on
the day preceding the second Monday
of April, 1900" That statement was
subscribed by you under oath. Was it
fair and honest return?
In the years 1901 and 1902, while
your household goods and furnishings
increased in value in the sum Of %, 900,
the item of moneys subject to order de-
creased to $1,000. The return for 1902
was also sworn to by you. Were those
correct statements?
DIN the year 1898. while you were liv-
ing in New York or Brooklyn lookin ,
after your valuable business interests
in the east, though still retaining your
residence in Ohio, the gentleman hav-
ing contract with Cuyahogs county TO
collect unpaid taxes due said county
began an investigation to discover
whether or not you were paying your
just share of taxation. After an
examination covering several months
he reported to the county auditor that
you had failed to pay taxes on personal
property belonging to you, valued rs
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21

The county auditor thereupon charged
you on his duplicate with the taxes due
on the above sums, together with SC
| per cent, penalty, as required by law,
as follows.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21

No self respecting Persian ever an
swers question by bold affirmative
or a blunt negative. He always re-
serves margin Mr.. Wilfrid Spar
row. a tutor to the Persian royal chill
dren. asked Mira Saleh. a turbaned
linguist. in regard to a servant, Hail
Isma'il
lis he honestT'
Mira Saleh was busy with the
pages of a dictionary.
"Little-take care-Haji Isma'iI's
god-money is" said he.
THAT is no answer. | want one
word Is he honestw
Mira Saleh closed his eyes in medi-
tation. opened them and shook his
head. closed them again and then sat
buried in thought. his fingers on his
eyelids. By and by he looked up.
baffied.
"One word. sahib?' said be as one
who should assert, THE task Is i'm
possible!"
"Cer.ainly. One word"
He shut his eyes for the third time,
as if he would keep the truth from
popping out unawares. When he
opened them at last, it was to search
for the English of the word he had
chosen When he had found II, his
| face broke into an expansive smile.
'Sahib," he cried triumphantly, de
f-ci-entP'
Deficient is good"
1T is not bad" he replied I'm a tone
| of modest pride.
81 will engage another servant,
then" said the Englishman laboriously
! in Persian.
1T behtar would be, sahib."
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
NICE NEW RUGS
MADE
Out of
Old Carpets

In answer to numerous in
quiries from our many friends,
we are pleased to announce
that we have our
New Rug Machinery
and are prepared to convert
old carpets into new rugs with
neatness and dispatch. Our
machines are of the latest and
best designs and enable us to
turn out the highest grade of
work, and we solicit the pat
ronage of the public.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
AuCtiOneer

HIP. Runyon Is having great success I'm
cryingSsAles, and Is prepared to answer all
call on short notice.
Rates given on application
Address me 1t begran Or leave orders at
RaPuRLIcAH once, Bsllefoc tains.
kttlpaIy 8. ~ II. n. r. IUNNON
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26

Photographs of zap Relatives would
have TO go.
One Day when the Provider struck
the Premises he found the Workmen
putting Red Burlap on the Walls of the
Sitting-Room.
why the Gunny- Sack 81 he asked.
Cant we afford Wall Paper?"
Love Of Art is the True Essence of
the Higher Life" said the Aesthetic and
she began to read Booklet bound in
the same Paper that the Butcher" uses
when he wraps up a Soup Bone
Come again. said the Wage
Garner, who was slow at catching
these Ruskin Twisters.
This is Art Burlap and not the
kind that they use for sacking Pea
nuts" explained the Disciple of Beau
ty. above the Burlap will be a Shelf
Of Weathered Oak and then above that
Frieze of Blue Jimson Flowers Then
when we draw all of the Curtains and
light one Candle in here, it will make
q Swell Effect"
II feel that we are going to be very
Happy" he said and then he went out
and sat behind the Barn where he
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26
THE WARSHIP WITH
THE PRETTIEST NAME.

OF all the warships in the world one
that is in the German navy has the
prettiest name. 1t is named Frauenlob,
meaning "Parise of Women"
The story of how a warship came to
carry such name is as pretty as the
name itself. Fifty years ago, when
Germany was poor and threatened and
attacked constantly by one enemy or
another, the Prussian King, Frederick
William w announced that the coun-
try needed more ships. But the coun-
try had spent so much money for de-
Tense and lost so much in war that ii
was easy enough to say that a ship
was needed, but not so easy to OBJ
tain it.
In this crisis the German women,
stirred to their brave hearts by the
troubles of their fatherland, came to
the rescue. For several years they
worked increasingly. and the result was
that in 1854 war schooner was launch
ed, the gift of the German women to
Germany.
Prince Adalbert of Prussia then COM
manded the navy. And he and his ia
Their, the King, gave the ship Its name,
Praise OF Women"
The Praise of Women" sailed away
one day six years afterward and steer
ed out into the world. 1t never re-
turned to Germany. In the Japan seas
1t was overcome by a typhoon and
sank, with every man aboard.
But Praise Of Women" was not to
be lost to the German navy. Last
March a new steel cruiser was launch
ed, and 1t bears the name now.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26
MODERN FABLES.
BY GEORGE AIDE.
The Modern Fable of the High Art That Was a Little
Too High for the Vugarian Who Paid the Bills.
Copyright by Howard Russell
BY GEORGE AIDE.

Copyright, 1902. by Robert Howard Russell
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26

trained involuntarily so that they be-
come better workmen IN their own
line, bringing to bear finer sense of
the beautiful. This sense will impress
itself upon the most ordinary things
that these same people may produce.
Almost before we know it, If we beau
tify our cities with statuary and art
galleries, we will be a nation of art
workers instead of mere manufacture
ers. Nothing else in the world creates
such value as a fine art sense You
take piece of bronze that isn't worth
three cents. put it in the hands of a
French art worker and he changes it
into something that is worth twenty
dollars
1t was her art wealth that enabled
France to sink two hundred and fifty
millions in the Panama canal, to pay
the German debt, and to do a host of
other things that many nations would
have found impossible, and all this
without impoverishing herself.
This is not a call to thousands of
young people to rush into art for its
direct lucrative results Unless. with
true artistic humility, they are willing.
after proper training, to take positions
in the industries where are may be an
Piled, the great majority will be not
alone doomed to disappointment
themselves, but they will in nowise
benefit the community.
j. @. A Ward.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26

Vanishing Act with Sirloin Steak and
he had the Coffee come right along in
a large Cup. He refused to daily with
the DemiTasse. For this True Ameri-
can the Course Dinner was a. weak in
vention of the benighted Foreigner.
When he squared up to his Food he
cut out all of the Trimmings
This is the kind of Husband who
peels his Coat in the Evening and gets
himself all spread out in a Rocking
Chair with a fat Cushion under him.
He loves to wear old Velvet Slippers
with pink Roses worked on the Toes
and the Heels run over.
Give him about two Cigars that pull
freely and a Daily Paper and he is
Fixed for the Session.
Along about 1890, if he can connect
with a Triangle of Dessicated Apple
Pie and a Goblet of Milk, he is ready
to sink back on the Husks feeling sim
ply Immense.
Now this Husband had a Fireside
that suited him nearly to Death until
the Better Half began to read these
Magazines that tell how to beautify
the Home.
Her first Play was to take out all the
Carpets and have the Floors massaged
until they were as slick as Glass, so
that when the Bread-Winner stepped
on one of the Okra or Bokhara Rugs
he usually gave an Imitation of a
Player trying to reach Second.
He told her that he did not care to
live In a Rink, but what he said cut
very few Lemons with the Side-Part-
ner. She was looking at the half-tone
Pictures of up-to-date Homes and be-
ginning TO realize that the Wallpaper.
Steel Engravings and the Enlarged
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26
Copyright, 1902, by ]. GA. Ward.)

From a material standpoint alone
there is nothing so important to our
people at this time as a thorough edu-
cation in art. We have become the
greatest agricultural and manufactur-
ing nation on earth. We raise more
corn and wheat and beans and barley,
we turn out more steel rails, steam
engines and bridges than any other ma
ton on the face of the globe. In that
respect, then, we have reached the ulti-
mate. The only field in which develop
ment remains, and, I repeat, am now
speaking from a material standpoint
only, is art. In that we still lag, and
in that there lies more wealth, more
comfort and more enduring greatness
than in all the other pursuits beside.
france to-day is a great nation only
because she is a nation of artists. Her
centuries of education in art developed
hundred great and profitable indus
tries, that without this education
would have been impossible. Her
feather workers, milliners, silk-weav-
ers, all owe their existence and pros
perity to the fact that art took
strong foot-hold in France long bNore
any of these industries were dreamed
OF. They are simply an ofrshoot, or
rather an evolution of the art sense
that was inculcated in the masses
through the example of the masters.
Let our people, as a rule, become art
lovers, and all our conditions and reia-
Tons in life will be improved and oeau-
uhed. The surly, brutal policeman Will
pass away. He cannot survive in sucn
an atmosphere. Even the complains
OF bad street car service, over-croWo-
ing, under-lighting, the barbarous wor-
rles of a. city, etc, will disappear.
But it is in our industrial life ana
progress that the greatest improvement
will come AS an illustration of what
can be done by applying art and an art
sense to ordinary avocations, can
think of no better example than tnat
OF well known carriage builder. rms
carriage builder found that in order 10
get really handsome carriages ne nau
70 import his trimmings and musings
from France. He could built as good
a carriage as any man in the world
put he could not compete with me
french artistic finish. So he Drought
over Frenchman, who was an artist
III his line, and set this man TO WORK
teaching the rudiments of the art 10
the worknen In the American shop.
he result is that to-day the manu-
Iacture of carriage trimmings Is
sreat industry in the United states,
employing thousands of worknle;l ana
Hutting OFF practically the necessity LOT
importing from France This Is prac-
ucal art
All this bears In the material aspect
-. VI art. Quite as important is the an,
'''S'e value Of art in developing anu
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-26

a different Shape so that I might sit
down in some of these Chairs. What
are those Iron Dinkuses sticking out
from the Wall?"
Those are Florentine Lanterns" she
replied, and they are very Roycraftie.
even If they don't give any Light"
Next she started in on the Dining
Room.
Rule No. / for making Home more
Cheerful is to put in Shelf wherever
there is room for one. After which
the Shelf is loaded down with Etrus-
can Growers and Antique Jugs.
The low-browed Husband could not
tell the difference between High Art
and Junk.
The female Bradleyite covered the
Walls with about 400 Plates, each with
Blue Curly-Cue on it. They looked
very cheap to him until he received
the Bill and then he learned that they
were Old Delft and came to $11 apiece.
In fact, after his Wife had been
haunting the Secondhand Places for