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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
GOV. ROGERS AT REST.
Late Executive Of Washington Laid in the
Tomb at PuyaIlup,

Tacoma. Jan. I'm the soft, misty
in the valley district. the body of
John Rankin Rogers, third governor
of the state of Washington was yes
terday laid to rest in the hillside GEM
etery of Puyallup. Thousands of peO-
pie thronged the streets, and there
was hardly a house in the city that
was not draped in black. Companies
B and ID, of the National Guard, and
the First Regiment band had come
from Seattle, and were in waiting at
rived from Tacoma. The sidewalks
were blocked by an impossible liv
ing barrier, and people had even
climbed on the roofs of houses to view
the procession. A great number Of
Masons were also in Puyallup when
the train arrived.
In drizzling rain the procession
started from the depot. Down Merid-
ian street the sad line slowly made its
way under the arch of green at the
intersection of Main street. This was
an artistic work, being made of ever
greens and draped with long black
and white streamers, with many small
American flags arranged at the top.
The telephone poles were also decked
with green, and the street, with these
and the private decorations, made a
fine picture.
On reaching the house of the late
governors son. the coffin was borne
in by the same National Guardsmen
that had acted as pallbearers while
the body lay in state at Tacoma, and
placed in the main room. Governor
Mcbride, Ex-Governor McGraw and the
state officials occupied an adjoining
room, and the others were filled with
members of the Masonic order and
friends. Outside the house was an
dead march was played on the organ
in the house the members of the fam
lily entered, Mrs. Rogers shaken with
grief and needing support to reach the
friends. After the hymn Jesus, Keep
Me Near Thy Cross" had been sung
the lesson was read and the choir sang
abide With Me-" Rev. w. O. Berna-
don, of the First Methodist church of
Puyallup, made a prayer, in which he
referred to the glorious hope of resur-
rection. Rev. Spencer Sulliger, chap
lain of the First Washington Regi-
ment then delivered an address, based
on the text, "Thy sun shall go down
no more" When the choir had sung
Nearer, My God, to Thee" the public
were admitted to view the dead gov
ernor. The crowd was so great that
many persons were unable to gain adj
mittance.
On the road to the cemetery the
First Washington Regiment band,
playing a dead march, took the lead,
followed by Companies A and E, of
the National Guard, of Tacoma; Com
panies b and ID, from Seattle, and
Troop B, dsmounted, from Tacoma,
and fifty files of Masons, who proceed
ed the hearse, which was drawn by
four black horses. A line of carriages
followed, and long procession of
friends and the public. The services
at the cemetery were conducted by
the MasOns, in the presence of fully
2O0O persons, at the close of which the
militia fired three volleys and sound
ed taps. The family of the late gov
ernor returned to Olympia on a spe-
cial train.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
Double Duty on Bounty Sugar

London, Jan. 3.-On the ground thai
in spite of the sugar duty imposed
last year, the price of sugar is now
lower than ever. owing to the enor
nous imports from Germany. the Daily
Mail today advocates doubling the
duty on bounty-fed sugar, but leaving
the duty on colonial sugar unchanged
The paper says such a course would
avert the ruin now Threatening the
West Indies and would be an effective
means of persuading foreign nations
to abolish sugar duties.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
Fight With Escaped Convicts.

Casper, Wyo.. Jan. EN- a fight
with four escaped prisoners today
Sheriff w. c. Kicker was shot and
killed. The outlaws are Clarence and
Charles Woodward, David Foote and
c. b. Franklin. They escaped the
night of December 81, and Sheriff
Kicker followed them to a point sew.
enty-five miles west of Casper. where
they were in ambush. They fired on
the Sherff's party and Kicker re-.
ceived a shot in the breast. The
posse has continued the chase
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
Palma's Policy.

New York Jan. 2.-Thomas Estrada
Palma in his home at Central Valley
n. y, tonight received the news that
his election to the Presidency of the
republic of Cuba was conceded. He
announced that the new Cuba would
be one of work and high endeavor.
that it would be his aim to strengthen
the friendly relations which exist be-
tween his country and the United
States and to bring about reciprocity.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
Generals Go to Batansas.

Manila, Jan. g. General Chaffee
and General Wheaton have gone to
Batangas in order to make personal
investigation of the state of affairs in
that province and confer with General
Bell. Generals Chatfee and Whea-
ton will return here tomorrow.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
100000 Damace to Power Dam

Anderson, S. c., Jan. 2.-Three
hundred and fifty feet OF the Anderson
Llght d Power Company dam at
Portman Sohals. in Seneac river. was
washed away last night. The dam
age is at least 800 600.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09

Washington. Jan. g. Hugh J.
Bonner, of New York, has accepted
the tender of an appointment as
chief OF the fire department of Manila.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09
Prairie Sails for Port of Spaip

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 2.-The United
states cruiser Prairie sailed today for
Port OF Spain, Trinidad, near the
coast Of Venezuela.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-01-09

Az 600, 900 silk cargo has Just
reached San Francisco from the Orient
The world famous Diesel engine is
to be built at South Worcester, Mass.
Twenty-seven hour trains are here
after to be run between New York
and Chicago.
An immense $4,000 ton hydraulic
press is to be erected in the Carnegie
armor plate plant.
In 1900 England imported nearly
$4,000 tons OF German wines.
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by moonlight he pulled a plow which
the boy guided. In this way a cotton
crop was made free from debt. With
the small surplus which he got from this
he bought an OK. and with this beast
made a second crop free from debt. A
mule was bought. and then another To-
day this man is the owner of a comfort
able home. is stockholder in one of
the banks OF the county. and his note or
check will be honored by any business
house there. While others were talking.
or debating over second hand doctrines
learned by rote. this strong son OF ma
ture had found himself and solved his
own problem
This goes TO prove that progress is an
economic affair. and that the best bust
ness man will as a rule make the most
money, irrespective OF his social quail
fcations. Mr.. Washington has ideas of
his own, moreover, about the qualities
most desirable in business, and here are
some OF them:
Some people are able to do a thing
when they are directed to do 1t, but peo-
pie of that kind are not worth very
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money. But the fact Is that If there are
two men living side by side and one man
puts into practice such advice as this.
with or without thorough school train
ing, and the other scorns milking cows
and such manual labor because he thinks
it is unfit for him, 1t is not very difficult
to see which way the money will be like
ly to go. The world has been slow to
learn that when you educate mans
hands you educate his head at the same
time; and this. in spite of the fact that
the people who are skillful and shrewd
artisans. are always upsetting the es-
tablished order of things from time to
time and getting themselves into power
in politics, in literature. In art, and in
business. II is not money which has
made Booker Washington's school what
1t is: there has probably been less
money spent on II than ever was put into
an institution anything like its size. II
Is ideas, and while there is no patent
on these. not every man knows how 20
use them, even after be has diploma.
Here is one OF the pithy little stories
which the author Is fond OF using as IL
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Illustrating his points. II illustrates this
one:
In little town IN Alabama there
was a sturdy, Industrious black man,
who for nearly twenty years had lived
upon rented land. had hired mules and
horses to work that land, and had mort
gagged his crops to secure food and
clothes. He was driven to church on
Sunday in buggy that was not his, and
he wore good-looking clothes that we're
not paid for. In outward appearance he
Sc emed to prosper. He seemed to be
what the white men about him were.
But this black man knew that he
was trying to stand upon an imperfect
basis. And so, one day about a dozen
years ago, he made up his mind that
henceforth he would be hImseIf-that he
would stand upon his own foundation.
He told the white man to take back his
mules. to take back his wagon and
buggy, and he gave up the rented land.
He had resolved 10 be a man. A few
acres of land were secured He made his
bed in the cotton seed at night. He hired
a boy to come TO his place at night, and
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capital combined. before he left the
Old World. Arriving here, he lacked
energy either to strike out for him
self or to compete with slave labor.
which. by another combination OF
capital, monopolized the industrial
field. He is q direct result of that
very concentration of wealth In the
hands of a few which tie authors
of this book so vigorously defend.
He has been for generations such
result. II what he needs is the cap
italist, he is now getting the bene-
At OF that individuals influence In
the cotton mills. where. according to
report, children OF five and six years
are required to do fourteen hours
work day, and fathers. when they
come 10 epply for work, make stip-
ulation that the mill owner shall
employ the whole family. That Is
what capital without any conscience
does to the poor white of the South.
The mountaineers of whom Charles
Egbert Craddock wrote are a diff
ferent sort OF people. They are ig-
norant. but they are not degraded.
physically or morally; they are
quick witted. strong of body, and
almost Invariably moral. though Of
ten extremely superstitious. In
view of the superstition which Is
rife in New York city, among East
Siders. who have grown up under the
very nose OF the. trust, this ought
not to count against them. In point
of general intelligence. health. and
ability to make the most of an op-
portunity when they get IL. these
people are equal to the inhabitants
OF most factory towns. 1t is true
that their mountains are full of coal
and Iron, which they do not mine,
but they make living. and enjoy
most OF the essential comforts OF
life. II is a question whether, II
they could develop their knowledge
of the world through education,
books. and a moderate and slowly
growing system of industry, allowing
q high degree OF skill In hand labor,
they would not turn out to be
most superior race of people; but
this is just what the corporation
OF mushroom growth does not allow.
The illustration is unfortunate, il It
was intended to prove that without
capital American ideals cannot exist.
These mountain folk are likely yet
to furnish leaders for the American
people. because they live close to
nature, and possess an unworn vi
tality and an unwarped way of look
ing at life. New York: Doubleday,
Page & co.,
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takahly that the change has. taken place:
and he accounts for It in this wise: that
The masses o. the English people have
always been In sympathy more or less
with our HE and spirit, and have felt
their lush!p with us; while the aris-
tocracy has learned to respect our sue
cess in the fields of politics. of COM
nerce. and of war. In short. the feeling
OF the elder branch OF the Anglo-Saxon
rnce toward the younger is much that OF
an elder brother who has systematically
snubbed and browbeaten a junior, but
on becoming aware OF the latter's newly
won manhood. gradually learns to re-
spect. love aad be proud OF him.
II is net very 1attering to the Eng
.sh a-!stocracy. hut at any rate that is
what Mr. adams thinks. He has, how
ever. overlooked CT disregarded one fac
tor which has certainly been OF some I'M
pcrt1nce. and that is literature Ameri-
can books have been read in England.
American writor5 recognized there. and
English writer's. coming here. have
found much to admire and praise. 1t
was not so sevsnty-fvc or even ffty
years ago. American writers we're not
well known 20 tire English public, and
there IS no use IN denying that English
travellers here had some reason to ccm-
plain OF being uncomfortable. II an
American were to so TO England now
and undergo half :he discomforts which
Dicke-s experienced during his tour in
the United States he would probably
raise as much CT a howl as ever Dickens
did about the matter. and be. just as
frank and Just as sarcastic, If his ability
permitted These causes OF criticism
have vanished with Our progress. and
with them at least one source of fric-
;ion between Us and the mother country
Boston: Horghton. Mif1in & Co. sl.50)
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THE LITERATURE OF THE TRUST.

good. and has never been good. when
such combinations seize the reins of
government 1t Is still worse. None
of these objections to the trust are
answered by the eneral-progress
argument
A fair example of the attitude of
the writer's of this book is found
in description of the mountaineers
of Tennessee and North Carolina,
who are used as an illustration of
the existence of people without the
beneficent and ennobling influences.
of capital. Apparently the author
has gotten them mixed with the
cracker" an entirely different type.
This is what he says Of them:
They are not an idyllic people.
Even Charles Egbert Craddoc,S
has failed to make them poetical.
AS the world has progressed through
the aid of aggregated capital. and
ti-N " ~ pOSHl-
BILE. these people have been left be-
hind. Their mountains are filled
with coal and other minerals. their
forests are composed of valuable
timber but they do not utilize them.
The laziness, filthiness, mental and
moral degradation. all that may be
summed up as general cussedness,'
of these people is proverbial. To
send missionaries to them at pres
ent Is useless. What they first need
is the capitalist
The statement is also made that
these people ARE OF good descent,
and started fairly with the other
settlers of America"
Now, as a matter of fact. II the
accuracy Of this description is a
fair example of the truthfulness OF
the book, it Is not worth much In
the first place. these mountaineer5,
such of them as are OF good de-
scent" are not degraded: they are
undeveloped, which is quite dif-
ferent thing. Is 1t supposed that
our ancestors were degraded people,
from whose condition we have beea
raised by the civilizing influence of
the trust? Hardly that. The truth
is that there are two distinct classes
OF the poor whites of the South.
One is variously known as CRACKER"
"squatter, or poor white trash
quite a different thing from poor
white man." II the genealogy of this
type could be traced. 1t would prob
ably in the majority OF cases lead
back to the indentured servant who
was transported TO the Virginia COL
onies from the slums of London. and
was a defective and degraded being,
owing to the monopoly of caste and
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British attitude toward America is not
cnly of especial interest at this time,
but likely to prove shrewd explana :
tion OF phenomenon which has puz-
zled coed many people.
The essay or Lee was read before the
American Antiquarian Society, and its
object is stated in the following para
graph:
In one word. in the strong light OF
passing events, think it now Opportune
to set forth the debt of gratitude this
reunited country of ours-Union and
Confederate, North and South-owes to
Robert E. Lee of Virginia.
Most of those here-for this is not a
body OF young men-remember the state
OF affairs which existed in the United
States, especially in what was then
known as the Confederate States, or the
rebellious portion Of the United States
In April. 1865. Such as are not yet as
mature as that memory implies have
read and heard thereof. 1t was in every
respect almost the identical state OF
affairs which existed in South Africa at
the time of the capture Of Pretoria by
| General Roberts. In June year ago.
And further he says:
Recalling the circumstances of that
time, II is fairly appalling to consider
what In 1865 must have, occurred, had
Robert f. Lee been OF the same urn
of mind as Jefferson Davis, or as inn
placable and unyielding in disposition
as Kruger or Botha have more recent
ly proved The National Government
had in arms million men, Injured to the
hardships and accustomed to the bru-
talities OF war. Lincoln had been fresh
ly assassinated; the temper of the North
was thoroughly aroused, while its pa
thence was exhausted. An irregular war
| fare would certainly have resulted-a
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warfare without quarter. The Confed
eracy would have been reduced 20 a
smoldering wilderness-to what South
Africa Is today. In such death grap-
pie, the North, both in morale and In
means. would have suffered only less
than the South. From both sections
that fate was aveTted."
Various documents and records of the
time in question are freely quoted, and
no one interested In the history of that
great event OF Appomattox can read this
paper without feeling that careful
scholarly. and fair-minded account of it
is here presented.
| There are many interesting things in
| the second essay, but perhaps the most
important is the light which it throws
on the character of Sumner. Like many
other prominent men OF his time Sum
ner has seldom been estimated with any
degree OF unprejudiced fairness. To his
friends he was saint and hero, and
to his enemies fanatic, fool or
| hypocrite according TO their several
reasons FOR dislihng him. His public
acts were invariably mixed up with
some partisan movement which prevent
ed straight view of them being taken.
In this essay is recorded an incident In
diplomatic history which exhibits the
Massachusetts Senator in light which
will be new to most people. On January
| II, 1871. Secretary Fish received from
Sumner, then chairman of the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations this memo
-andum:
First The idea of Sir John Rose is
that al! questions and causes of irrita-
tion between England and the United
States should be removed absolutely and
forever, that we may be at peace really
and good neiThbors, and to this end all
points of difference should be considered
together. Nothing could be better than
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"The Trust: Its Book" IS a small
volume containing symposium OF
opinions on the subject of trusts.
The different chapters are by Charles
r. Flint, James J. Hill, James Il.
Bridge. S. c. T. Dodd, and f. b.
Thurber. There Is only one trouble
with the opinions from any point
of view, and that is, that they are
all one way 1t is a strong defense
OF this form OF industrial combina-
tion. Moreover, no one can deny
that II contains at least as much
sense as most of the books which
have been written on the other side,
and many will contend that it con-
tains a good deal more.
The argument OF these writer's is,
first, that the combination of capital
is inevitable, and second. that 1t is
beneficial. They take the position.
In short, that when thing cannot
bt II 10 a bppu tHiA6- Nv
ascribe most of the nineteenth CEN
tury progress OF the world to this
agency in one form or another, and
point to, the opposition which every
improvement in industry encountered
when first introduced. They compare
the opposition to the syndicate and
the department store to that en-
countered by stage coaches when
first introduced. II was argued that
the coach line would ruin the busi-
ness of saddlers and various other
artisans, who depended on the old
fashioned method of travel for their
living. 1t might be added that sim
liar arguments were used against
being.
The faliacy In this sort of argr-
ment is that 1t draws parallels which
are not quite straight. To intro
duce an improvement in machinery
hNlCH uectSSdTlly Throws lnuitltuueS
of people out OF employment is one
thing; TO make a corner In wheat.
or amass millions by a monopoly IN
some z-cessary article which permits
its aduiteration, is another The
one is necessary. the other is not
The one Inconvenience this genera
tion for the sake of the next, but
big corporation which keeps its
employees absolutely in its power for
more than one generation lowers the
average vitality. and what should be
man, capable OF varied service
to the world, becomes a machine.
capable of but one service. The
tendency of many OF these industrial
combinations Is to cheaper and
shorten human life. and this is not
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not one. There was only one man in
politics just then who had much OF
Rhodes makeup. and that was not Sim
ner.
The peculiar situation in the Senate
was this: The majority OF the presi-
dents party supported his foreign poi
icy. while the chairman of The Commit
tee on Foreign Relations here shows his
hand as unalterably opposed TO 1t. Man
ifestly such situation could not long
continue. 1t was not Grant who had 20
give way. The whole incident. coasider-
ed in the light CT subsequent eveut.;, Is
temperament to back up his empire
making ideal, 1t Is entirely possible that
Canada might have become a part OF the
United States. and that we should have
Imperialism considerably sooner than
we were. That these problems would
have proved less perplexing thirty years
ago than they are now is hardly to l.s
supposed. 1t Is one of those cases In
which the unseen and underlying forces
Of our national life worked for our goUd
while We were hardly aware CT Their
existence.
This is only one OF the incidents
here recorded, which help TO round out
ones conception OF American history ct
one of its critical periods. The quar-
rel between Gunner and Fish also re-
ccived considerable attention.
In the essay on Great Drita,n's change
of attitude coward America. as shown
by the extreTc cordiali;y now exhibited
by her governing class toward all things
American. Mr.. Adams first gives his
proofs. and then states his theory. He
speak. of his personal observations
when abroad, in which he noted unmis
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ESSAYS IN POLITICAL HISTORY

nation, as rule. and that principles and
circumstances are In one continual,
ne ver-ending. inevitable conflict for the
co atrol of racial character. In the life
OF people, as in that of an individual,
tho spirit declares, 81 will. and cir
cgInstances say, You must" 1t is al
ways : question not only which will get
the mastery. but which ought to get it.
Sometimes it happens that the uncon-
sc luus shaping of what We have learned
to call manifest destiny tends TO a high
er character than the following of an
imperfect ideal. Some dim perception
of this has of late become general, ard
deTlylng forces. the half-understood cir
cumstances, which defect the current OF
human life this way and that. 1t is of
these forces and their influence upon
public character and national life that
Mr.. Adams speaks. His book is a valu-
able one to any student of American
history who cares to do more than skim
the surface of things.
There are five of the papers, bearing
the respective titles, Lee at Appomat-
t'ox." THE Treaty of Washington; Be
fore and After, THE British Change OF
Heart" IAN Undeveloped Function, -
and "A Plea for Military History.
T here is also a thing which should never
be absent from any historical work
n amely, an index.
The most important as IL is by far
the longest of these papers is the sec
Q nd. Many facts regarding the treaty
of Washington are here given. which
whll be new to most readers. Lee at
Appomattox" is likely to prove of gen
eral interest, while the article on the