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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Double Taxation an Injustice.
HOW 1T WORKS
In MINNESOTA.
Wisconsin Newspaper Man After Prac-
teal Exposition of the Primary
Election Changes His Mind.

s. E. Bronson, who recently edited
end published the Wonewoc (NVis) Re
porter and who was rabid advocate of
the primary election theory, seems to
have had a wet blanket thrown upon his
enthusiasm. He is now editor of the
Leroy (AIinn.) Independent and has just
passed through primary election, and as
a result seems TO be hunting for some-
thing better. Here is what he says:
The writer has been a believer in and
an advocate of a primary election law,
the purpose of which is TO take the nomi-
nation of officers out of the hands of
rings and cliques, snap caucuses and
conventions, and put the matter whore it
properly belongs, into the hands of the
people
but we are now convinced that the
primary election law now in force in this
state is worse than the old system and
should either be repealed or mutilated to
such an extent that its own mother
wouldn't know it.
I'm county where there is city
large enough to exercise big influence
on an election the primary law works
squarely into their hands, for the reason
that the country vote is scattered, while
that of the city is easily directed solidly
to the support of its own men.
Generally through the country the
primary vote was about 50 per cent. Of
the vote of 1900, but in Austin it not
only took the entire Republican strength,
but called out no less than 200 and prob
ably $50 Democratic votes, enough to de-
termine the nomination OF Campbell and
Lightly. Austin has always had the dis
position to grab everything in sight, and
the new primary law affords her a dead
cinch on all the nominations in the coun-
ty."-Baraboo News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Political Potpourri.

The Iowa and Idaho Republicans are
not the only ones who want a lower
tariff on trust products.-New York
World
1t is not true that the Presidents in
jury to his leg came from an attempt
to straddle the tariff question.-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal.
"Oom" Shelby thinks the tariff prob
lem will be satisfactorily settled. Has
anybody ever thought 1t would be final
~ settled in any other way?-Chicago
Record Herald.
II monopoly is not sheltered In the
tariff, why this mighty protest from
monopoly and its organs against re-
moving the tariff on monopolized COM
modities? Sioux City Tribune.
The Presidents notion of letting the
.ariff alone while pretending to fight
the monopolizing trusts is as idle as
it would be to,treat patient for ague
and neglect his fever.-New York
World.
Chairman Hanna of the strike set
tiers association is developing enough
white feathers to I'LL a bedtick. On
one side are the votes. On the other
side is the money. That's Just what's
the matter with Hanna.-Dallas News.
President Roosevelt's speeches on
trusts and public sentiment generally
caused the abandonment of the propos-
ed meal merger" saws n cOntemnOrary
There ought to be closer division.
How much of the work did the Presi-
dents speeches do?-Cincinnati En-
quirer
An organization of Pullman porters
has been formed to stop the tipping
practice. If the members use the pro-
per amount of violence they will proba-
bly, be able to prevent people from
yielding too much to the habit that has
become so obnoxious TO the porters.-
Philadelphia Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
PACKERS. MERGER is FORMED.
Combine Is known as United States
Packing ('omDany

Packing Company.
There was formed in New Jersey Fri
day what New York financiers profess to
regard as the nucleus around which the
great packing companies will be combined
into the long-expected merger. Chicago
packers, however, enter into explicit de-
mails that the new corporation is of such
character.
The United States Packing Company
is the name of the new concern This is
the name reported long ago to have been
selected as the title of the big merger
The capital stock is listed at $1,OO0,OOO
consisting of 10000 shares. The laws in
New Jersey under which the corporation
is formed, permit the new combine to ac-
quire other properties and to increase its
capital stock at will. One explanation
for the new corporation is that its promot-
ers have taken time by the forelock and,
acquiring the name, are ready with a
charter that will be useful in many re-
spects for the talked-of combine.
The only man in Chicago admitting
knowledge OF the mysterious corporation
is j. W. Dekay. secretary of the North
American Beef Company. He declared
his interest in the new concern and said
il was not trust OF combine and was
organized for legitimate purposes The
only names known in the transaction are
Horace ID. Gould. Frederick K Howard
and Kenneth MeLaren, all clerks in the
Office OF the Corporation Trust Company
of New Jersey.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
CHAIRMAN WARDEN
SEES VICTORY.
Says Mayor Rose will be Surely Elected
by from 10000 to 10000
Plurality.

"As near as l can get at anything"
said Chairman A. Il. Warden Of the
Democratic state central committee, eve
expect David S. Rose to carry the state
of Wisconsin by from 10000 to 10000
plurality He is about 1900 stronger
than the balance of the ticket.
I'VE shall elect three congressman sure
and have fattering prospect in the case
of the fourth. Which ones are they
Why, in the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
districts sure, and the one in which we
have more than a fighting chance l pre-
fer to keep TO myself for various reasons
1.-THE predictions | have given you are
based on careful estimates received from
about sixty counties and general reports
fron, the others. We have reports from
ali but three or four counties.
I'VE expect to elect majority of the
mem bers Of the Legislature. My report
shows that up to this time the Repub
hcans have done almost nothing
up to the present time Republicans
have not held twenty meetings in the
state and some Of them have been poorly
attended. just what effect the entrance
into the campaign Of Senators Spooner
and Quarles will have upon the condi-
tions as they now exist remains to be-
seen.
."Our state campaign viii open generally
Monday, October -. We shall send out
from $50 to 200 speakers and will cover
the whole state.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
II9 7IIlI!IHELL


T. W. Hunter was elected Governor
of the Choctaw nation
Baltimore News says the 3. & o. has
acquired the Reading.
Cincinnati messenger boys struck for
boost. Didn't get it.
Nikola Tesla, electrician, New York,
was fined 500 for failure to respond TO
a court summons
DR.. F. W. Whitlock, whose father built
the first mill in the territory of Iowa,
died at Wichita, Kan, aged so.
The labor unions of Topeka have ap-
pointed committee to select a site and
secure plans for Labor Temple"
Fred Smith, 10 years old, was injured
so severely by falling into the seed con
veyor at the cottonseed oil mill ut Ok
lahoma City, o. T., that he died goon
after the accident.
A patent has been secured in Lontion
covering novel engine for marine PRO
pulsion, which John Wills, the inventor
asserts will reduce the crossing of the
Atlantic to at least three days journey.
The commissioners of Saline County,
voters at the next general election a prop
osition to levy tax for the building of a
new court house, not to cost over $T5,-
600.
Isaac A. Singer. one of the largest
stoekho.eer s of the Singer Manufacturing
Company, is dead in Atleqtic City. His
home was in New York. I.e retired from
active business several years ago and
Travelled extensively.
Lizzie Kern, a 12-year-oi6 girl living
at Kansas City. tried 10 light fire with
coal oil. An explosion followed the
pouring on Of the find. and the girl was
terribly burned about the body before the
flames could be extingVished. She died
the next day.
r. G. Mcmillan. a man 10 years Of
age. was run down and killed By the Mis-
souri, Pacific fast mail one mile west Of
Knohnoster, Mo. He was crossing the
track short distance from his home
The largest back tax suit ever fled
Kentucky was filed recently BY the au3i-
tors agent. Frank Lucas Of Padacah.
KY. against the Illinois Central for back
taxes for nine years. beginning in 1888
The total IS nearly 100000.
Andrew Freedman has severed his &C
tive connection with National League
baseball. and the controlling interest IN
The Iew York baseball club passed into
the hands Of John T. Brush. former
owner Of the Cincinnati team.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Contrast of Platforms.


The discipline Of Gen Leo's socks was
ali institution" peculiar to our hospital.
Mrs. Lee, it is well known, spent most
of her time in making gloves and socks
for the soldiers. And she gave me. at
one time, several pairs of Gen. Lees old
seeks, so darned thet we saw they had
been well worn by our hero. We kept
these socks to apply to the feet of those
laggard "Old soldiers" who were suspect
ed of preferring the luxury" OF hospital
life to the activity Of the field. And
such was the effect of the application of
these warlike socks that even a threat
of it had TIE result Of sending a man
to his regiment who had fingered months
In inactivity. 1t came to be a standing
joke in the hospital. infinitely enjoyed
by the men. If a poor wretch was out
Of his bed over week, he would be
threatened with General Lees socks"
and through this means some most
obstinate cases were cured Four OF
the most determined rheuin1tic patients,
who had resisted scarifying OF the limbs.
ard what was worse, the smallest and
thinnest OF diets, were sent TO their regi-
ments and did good service afterwards.
With these men the socs's had to be left
on several hours, amidst shouts Of laugh
ter from the assistants" showing that
though men gnay Withstand pain and
starvation they succumbed directly to
ridicule.-Emiiy V. Mason, In the At
lautic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Reef Trusts Arrorance.

The beef trust practically scknowl.
edges the commission of all the iniqui-
ties charged against 1t by Attorney
General Knox. but 1t denies that the
law inhibits or restraints such rascal
ties. II is a plea of guilt as to fact,
but denial of legal responsibility.
The trust hopes to escape through the
open meShes of loose Interstate com
merce and antitrust legislation. II
this result shall be accomplished it
viii be sore defeat for the admins
tration and new demonstration of the
inability of the Republican party TO
cope with the monster combinations
Which il has nourished into malefcent
existence Philadelphia Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
An Ocean Mystery.

The most remarkable ocean mystery IL
that which enshrouds the fate of the
crew of the Marie Celeste, an American
merchant vessel, which sailed from New
York for Villefranche few years ago.
She had on board thirteen persons, in
Guiding the captains wife and daughter.
Some time after she was sighted off
Gibraltar By a French steamer. The
Frenehmen gazed long and earnestly az
the vessel lying becalmed under fall sail,
Glasses failed to discover any signs Of
life on board Of her. On the captain
haifiag the vessel and receiving no re-
Spouse, boat was put off and the crew
find everything ia apple-pie order, but not
a soul on board. The Marie Celeste was
searched from stern TO bow: there were
no signs Of a struggle: the boats were
all there, and clothes were hanging out
to dry.
In the cabin. on the table, was a
haif-fnished meal: a piece Of calico was
on a sewing machine. and the com
passes and watches Of the captain and
mate were found. There was plenty Of
water on board and. altogether. il was
a most unaccountable mystery what had
become of the thirteen people.
The ships log had been kept within
f0rfy-fwo hours Of the time when she
was discovered, and spoke Of q voyage
without accident Of any kind II was
with difficulty a crew was secured to
take the vessel TO her destination. Since
then nothing has been heard Of the crew
of thirteen who 50 mysterieusly disap-
peared-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
ROSE ANSWERS
/ LA TOILETTE
Puts the Words of Messrs. Stout and
Buckstaff Against the Denial of the
Governor Concerning Book Deal

Mayor Rose took occasion to comment
on Gov. La Follette's denial of the Buck
staff-Stout charges that the independent
book companies had contributed money
for his personal campaign at Whitewa-
ter Saturday. After discussing the school
question for a few moments the mayor
said
in a speech made yesterday Gov. La
Toilette denied for the first time that he
knew where the contribution came from,
but | want 70 call to your attention the
witnesses VINO are conversant with the
facts, Mr.. George Buckstaff of Oshkosh,
an eminent Republican and an eminent
citizen. and Senator Stout of Menomo-
ME, and both of these the warm personal
friends of Gov La Toilette down to the
moment that his perfidy w2s disclosed to
them.
Mr.. La Toilette denies that he knew
where the contribution came from. Mr..
Bucks.af and Senator Stout say that
when this information came to them be-
fore the Madison convention was held
they called upon the governor and told
him what Kronshage had said to them,
but he refused to take any action, re-
fused to listen to them unless Kronshage
was present. Gov. La Toilette has al
lowed the matter to rest, waited for near
" three months after these charges were
made, when, driven to It by the goad, he
comes out and makes a denial.
''There is the evidence and there are
the witnesses. The witnesses are all
Republicans and as I said, personal
friends Of Gov. La Follette's prior to this
time"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
WOMEN AS FARMHANDS.
Thousands of Them Toll in Fields Near
New York.

To an American in Europe it seems
strange to see women at work in the
fields. He thinks it a sign of superior
civilization that in the United States
woman do not commonly till the crops.
Yet within the limits of the city from
which he probably sailed hundreds of
women are to-day employed as farm la
borers. and within a few miles of New
York may be found more than 5000 WON
en- farmers and farm hands.
Women are employed for planting on
ions for harvesting crops that are picked
by hand, such US green peas, string beans,
lsmS beans. ana tomatoes, for punching
rhubarb and for wedding tender crops,
like onions and young carrots, that cannot
stand the cultivator
In planting time and in June and Sep
TENDER. when the h-sf ana second crops
OF peas are gathered. the outfocking of
women is sudden. One may see as many
rs fifty at work in riot Of few acres
where the day before there was not one.
The wages receivtd by women farm
hands are better than might be supposed.
For filing a rwo-hushel bag OF peas 4
picker gets - eeDss; for beans half as
much. At these :ates good hand earns
$3.50 s dag.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28

When Secretary Moody says that
@the duty of 90 cents ton ON anthra-
cite coal was struggled into the tariff
act in a sneaking and cowardly man
-ler'' he states what is evidently true
The clause of the miscellaneous
schedule which puts a duty of 81 cents
a ton on all Goals containing less than
90 per cent of fixed carbon covers all
anthracite available for importation
into this country.
If there is any foreign anthracite con-
tainins more than 92 per cent of fixed
carbon it is in China or some other
place where 1t is hardly more available
for American use than if it were in the
moon.
The persons who caused that para
graph TO be inserted in the miscella
neous schedule were aware of tGat. as
we may know from their precision in
naming '-92" instead Of some other
percentage
When. after ingeniously subjeeting
all available anthracite to a duty of 81
cents a ton without mentioning it spe-
cifcally, the authors of the Dingley
bill put anthracite in a conspicuous
place on the free list, except as spe-
cially provided for in this act" they
evidently intended to deceive not only
the public but even proteciionist con
gress.
As to the smuggling" Mr.. Moody is
right, but when he goes further ana
predicts that Congress when it con
venes in December will make haste to
amend the law so as to make anthra-
cite free he expresses his wish rather
than what Is likely to come 10 pass
The men who did that neat trick Of
smuggling are still ON earth, and they
are power not merely In railroad
offices aud at the coal mines but on the
floors Of the two houses of Congress.
Those who tell us that the Dingley
tariff Is too sacred to be touched at any
point-the Hendersons and DalZells of
the House and the Aldriches and
Quays of the Senate-are still force
10 be reckOned with.
Theirs is a tremendous force of in
ertia, and that is the only force needed
to prevent action before the expiration
of the present Congress Chicago
Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
SKETCHES Of LIE COMMISSION
The Men Appointed to Arbitrate the
Great Coal Strike

Great Coal Strike.
Gen. John NJ. Wilson (retired) was
born in 1897 and was graduated at West
Point In 1860. He was transferred to The
engineers IN 1862. At the end of the war
he had reached the rank of lieutenant
colonel. For thirty years he had charge
OF engineering work OH rivers and har-
bors. He retired in 1901.
Bishop John L. Spalding was born nj
Lebanon, Ky, in 1S40 He was educat-
ed at St. Mary's College, Maryland, and
IN Belgium and Rome. He was secretary
to the Bishop of Louisville in 1866, be-
came chancellor of st. Augustine s
Church, Louisville, in 1872, and was ap-
pointed Bishop of Peoria in 1877.
Judge George Gray of Wilmington,
Del, was born at New Castle, Del, May
4, 1910. and studied at Princeton. He
was admitted to the bar in 1863. He was
Attorney General of Delaware 1879-S5;
United States Senator 1859. He was
a member of the Paris peace commission
and OF The Hague arbitration commits
sion. he is a gold Democrat.
Edgar E. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Is grand chief of the Order of Railway
Conductors and a member of the execu-
tive committee of the National Civic
Federation.
Edward Wheeler Parker is statistician
of the United States geological survey.
lie is an expert mining engineer and edi-
tor of the Engineering and Mining Jour
nal of New York. He was born at Port
Deposit, Nd, in 1860.
Thomas II. Watkins of Scranton, Pa,
fills the requisition of the operators, "a
man who by active participation in min
ing and selling coal is familiar with the
physical and commercial features of the
business"
Carroll ID. Wright, recorder of the COM
mission is labor commissioner and au-
thority on labor questions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Cannon should Reta1iate,

Speaking of the Joe Cannon boom for
the Speakership, this is calculated to
remind one that Mr.. LlttIefield, of
Maine, is touring the West. Cannon
should go East on a campaign-that is.
if he is not afraid of being lost in some
of the cities with which that part OF
the country is studded. Uncle Joe is
bucolic and wisely avoids all large
towns where the depot is not in sighs
from every street-Dallas News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28

Mrs. James Lawrence Blair, who has
been elected president of the board of
lady managers of the worlds fair, was
the unanimous choice of Missouri women,
and it is said that her well-known ex-
ecutive ability will insure most BUSH
ness-like administration. Mrs. Blair is
young, handsome, and one of the leaders
of western society. She has endeared
herself, moreover, to all classes by her
democratic bearing and by her efforts to
educate and refine young women of the
lower stratum of life. She is the wife of
the attorney for the fair.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Danger in Our Frequently.

The chances for making a good liv-
lug are greater in the United States
than in Great Britain. and as long as
that is SO labor viii be drawn here.
thereby increasing both our number
and our strength. While we thus have
an advantage. it should not be over
looked that we may lose much OF ii IL
we hamper ourselves with restrictive
laws which make 1t difficult FOE our
merchants to compete with those of
other countries for the markets of the
world Boston Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
A caucasds Glacier.

Between Mount Kazbek and Ghimarai
Khokh in the Caucasus glacier de
sends into the narrow, wedge-shsysd
valley OF the Ghenal Don, which after a
course Of thirteen miles joins the Ghizsi
Don. a tributary of the Terek. Like
most glaciers Of the Caucasus The GhenaI
Don has Of late years receded consid-
springs Of hot sulphur water were I'M
covered by this recession About the
middle Of July the whole end OF the
glacier broke off and slid down the val
ier. grinding down everything In lis path.
Thirty-two lives were lost. On July 10
another huge block Of ice broke of and
followed the first with terrible rapidity
fo- over eight miles down the valley.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
A1ner,a vindicatinn

The friends of General Alger are in
sisting on his election as United States
Senator to "vindicate" him. Among
those against whom he must be vlndi-
Gated are President Mckinley, who
compelled him to resign from the cali-
net, and Colonel Roosevelt. who signed
the round robin that brought matters
against him to an issue. --Waterbury
Conn American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
ARTIFICIAL coal.
Plant for Its Manufacture May Be
Erected in New York.

Plant for Its Manufacture May BE
Erected in New York
Within the last week the attention Of
A group of New York coal dealers and
capitalists has been turned toward the
establishment of a plant in this country
for the manufacture of hriquette, a fuel
made in Germany both from peat and
from the slack or waste of soft coal
mines. For ten years or more the manu-
faeture of hriquette fuel has been m
important industry in Europe. There are
at least ten plants in Germany which turn
out upward Of 100000 tons of briauotte
annually. Briqnette is IN reality artif-
cial coal. In Germany Ignite. or car
bombed peat. is found in large quanri-
ties
This substance. which is a vegetable
coal of more recent formation than an
thracite or bituminouS, is crushed and
moisiened with water until il has the con-
sistency of mortar. then passed thros.Sh
the machine. which by compression under
heat develops the hitamen Ia the mste-
rial and readers the mass 50 plastic that
II mouiis easily into smooth. glitterinS
bricks Of brownish color The material
burns readily. gives out a strong heat ard
IS smokeless-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
"Strain" of Tari6 Revisiop.

President Roosevelt has been talking
about the strain which revision of
rhe tariff every few years" involves. as
II our tariff laws had been considered
sacred from change for long periods
AT time in the psst. The Presidents
party has nevei, hesitated to tinker on
the tasic whenever it thought il would
be to is advantage TO do so and the
idea of setting fixed intervals between
tariffs ,sill hardly strike the country
SIS br.sinesS-like 9ropoSition.-Auanta
IournEl
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Why the West Rer.olts.

Our export traffic with the old world
has expanded in volume and value,
even while foreign manufacturers have
been drawn upon to supplement def
ciencies of domestic production in inn
portant branches of industry. 1t is
this continued disclosure of ability to
hold our own in the worlds competi-
ness to the sting of tariff exactions
and urges the great agricultural West
to revolt against protection that pro
tects only few monopolists. while
consumers are forced TO contribute 10
swell enormous private fortunes and
to pour unneeded revenue into the pub
lie treasury Philadelphia Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28
Fiqhtinp Their Own Interests.

Senator alison thinks 1t puerile to
suggest placing articles controlled by
monopoly on the free list, because more
trusts would be benefited by it than
otherwise. Well, why are the trusts
fighting the proposition with all their
might! If 1t would benefit them they
would adopt the opposite course,
wouldn't they?-Sioux City Tribune.