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The suburban citizen., 1902-04-19

Los Angeles Cals
a day at time how l would feel the
next day. Five bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
changed all that, my days became days
of health, and have enjoyed every day
since-now six years.
I'VE have used considerable OF your
Vegetable Compound in our charitable
work, as we find that to restore poor
mother to health so she can support her.
self and those dependent upon her, il
such there be, is truer charity than to
give other aid. You have my hearty
endorsement, for you have proven
yourself true friend TO suffering wo-
men. "-MRs. e. SAILER, 1907 Hill ST.,
Los Angeles, Cal. $4,000 forfeit U Gbovs tss-
umontai Is not genuine.
No other person can give such
helpful advice to women who
are sick as can Mrs. Pinlkham,
for no other has had such great
expericnce-her address is Lynn,
Mass, and her advice free-if
you are sick write her-you are
foolish IL you don't.
The suburban citizen., 1902-04-19
Dire Thrent.

Fay--He behaved awfully mean when
| refused him.
May-You don't say
Fay-Yes; he declared he'd never pro-
pose to me again.
The suburban citizen., 1902-04-19

"If' is a mighty small word to cause
such a lot Of trouble.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
MAY ORDER A SUIT BEGUN
A Thorough Inquiry Into the Status
Of the Anthracite
Combine.

Washington, June 29.-President
Roosevelt has requested Attorney
General Knox to submit an opinion as
to whether the combination control
ling the anthracite coal output con
stitutes a trust within the meaning of
the Sherman antitrust act, and the
decision of the United States supreme
court thereon.
In making his request, the president
gave Attorney General Knox the re-
pert recently prepared by Carroll D.
Wright, commissioner of labor, after
a careful Investigation of the differ
ences existing between the coal opera
tors and the miners, the facts forward
ed by President Mitchell of the Unit
ed Mine Workers association, and all
ether data in his possession bearing
on the subject.
It will be the duty of Attorney Gen.
eral Knox to formulate an opinion for
the president, making a definite dec
laration that the anthracite combina-
ton does or does not constitute a
trust. His present instructions do
not require him to go further and ex-
press an opinion as to the probability
of successful prosecution under the
antitrust act.
The president will, it is believed,
upon his subsequent line of
action after Attorney General Knox
has rendered his opinion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
THE EAsT is

New York Times: The country il
to be congratulated that the senate
irrigation bill goes to the president
substantially unchanged. It is to be
credited largely to the vigorous sup
port given by the president, who has
been more closely interested in this
measure than in almost any relating
to internal policy.
The objections to the bill were not
very serious. Some Of them were
amusing. Some of the opponents
thought that the money should be tax.
en- directly from the treasury instead
of from the sales of lands which in
part are devoted to the agricultural
colleges. AS any deficit in the pay
ment to the colleges is to be made up
from the treasury this objection has
little weight and it's good faith was
questioned. There is no doubt, how
ever, Of the entire good faith of the
gentleman from Indiana who protest
ed that the farmers of the middle
west, after getting their lands in con-
dition to cultivate at their own ex-
pense, were now asked to pay for ir-
rigating lands the products of which
would come into competition with
their own. That is the old cry of the
timid and shortsighted and it's gen.
uineness cannot be questioned. It
was first raised long years before the
federal constitution had been adopted,
against a more perfect union" which
would bring the products of New York
into closer competition with those of
Connecticut, and prevent that state
from protecting it's interests by prop
er legislation. 1t is the cry of Mr..
Nixon against free trade in ships. 1t
is the cry of all who are agraid of a
fair field and of progress.
But it is belated in this. matter of
irrigation. When the United States
government paid the first installment
toward opening up the territory, then
a wilderness, from which the Indiana
representative is elected, it made
free competition throughout the en-
tire continent inevitable. And it is
precisely that freedom that has made
the country the most powerful and
wealthy of the world. The irrigation
plan is but adding to the general re-
sources of the nation in furtherance
of the impulse which has carried our
vigorous race from the little fringe
along the Atlantic to the shores of the
Pacific and far into Asian waters.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
TRICK OF POLITICIANS.

The claim is now made that much OF
ban policy is not so much Of an OBJ.
lection to- the policy as it is an OBJ
lection to the president himself.
Some of the politicians are not over
friendly toward the president because
he has showed himself to be the pres
ident in fact as we'll as in name and
has displayed a sturdy independence
and Indifference that they do not
take kindly to, and they are credited
with having started the talk of the
defeat of the Cuban reciprocity bill
being a blow at the administration,
hoping thereby to make it one of the
means of preventing his nomination
for another term.
Whether these men are rightly
charged may be open to doubt, but it
would surprise no one should it turn
out that the accusation is true. There
are always politicians in all parties
who consider it their right to dictate
to the president in many things, nota-
bly, appointments to Office, some of
the senators and representatives hold
ing that right to be a ~prerogative of
their position. Sometimes they Il
permitted to do 50. 5nd sometimes
they are not. Under the administra-
lions of Cleveland and Harrison they
were not and in the case of both there
were not wanting in their own parties
men who freely predicted the utter
impossibility of their denomination.
Yet both were nominateda second time.
The truth is that it was their very
independence that made them popu-
lar with the people and who demand
ed their denomination. The same will
be the case with Roosevelt. The fact
that he is the de facto as we'll as the
de jure president of the United States
and not a mere puppet in the hands of
certain politicians will continue to in
cas- his popularity and the politi-
clans will find that there are times
when they must give heed to- the de-
mands of the rank and file and that
powerful as they may be they are not
omnipotent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
MECCA FoR GAMBLERS.
Offenders concIusively Proved Guilty
by Evidence Are Acquitted.

Butte, June 29.-Butte is the Mecca
for gamblers. In this city they may
operate without fear of detection, and
if arrested for conducting gambling
houses their cases are either never
heard of afterward or with easy grace
they are acquitted.
Six men were tried in Judge Nc
Clernan's court today on the charge
of conducting gambling houses, and
all were acquitted.
On the jury was one man who de-
clared that if required,to act he would
vote for acquittal, and n said that
he had played poker with one of the
on trial.
Neither the state or the defendant
objected to him as a juror. .
The evidence against all the de-
PENDANTS was conclusive of guilt, but
It seemed to carry no weight.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
FIRST SABBATH SESSION in
NINETY YEARS.
PAID TO THE DEAD
Eulogies for Representatives Cum
minss and otey-Members Of
All Parties Speak.

Washington, June 29.-T The house
Of representatives assembled today at
IL O'clock and for four and a half
hours tribute was paid to- the mem
cries Of the late Representatives
Amos J.. Cummins, democrat, New
York, and Peter j. Otey, democrat,
Virginia, by members ct both politi-
cal parties.
Not since 1911 (ninety years ago.
has a regular session Of the house
been held on Sunday, although sever
al sessions were held on Sunday, but
they were combinations Of the legis-
lative day of Saturday.
But today the house, when assembl-
ed, was opened by prayer by the chap
lain, and the reading of the journal.
The marine band was in attendance
in the lobby of the house by special
direction of Secretary of the Navy
Moody, and rendered a beautiful
sacred program. The families of the
two deceased members were in at
tendance in the speakers private
pew.
EuIogies Impressive.
The eulogies were exceedingly i'm
pressive, the galleries being well fill
ed and the attendance on the floor
unusually large for an occasion when
eulogies are the order of the house.
The most impressive eulogy was
that delivered by Representative
Joseph G.. Cannon of Illinois, chair
man of the appropriations committee,
who paid a tribute from the heart to
Mr.. Cummings memory.
Those who 1ulogized Representa-
tive Cummings were Messrs. McClel-
Ian, democrat, New York; Foss, re-
publican, Illinois, Cannon, republi-
can, Illinois; Sulzer, democrat, New
York; Mccall, republican, Massa-
chusetts; Myer, democrat, Louisiana;
Clark, democrat, Missouri; Dayton,
republican, Virginia; Goldfoggle, dem
ocrat, New York; Lester, democrat,
New York, and Hooker, democrat,
Mississippi.
Many Speakers.
The following pronounced eulogies
on the life and character of Mr.. Otey:
Jones, democrat, Virginia.; Jenkins,
republican, Wisconsin; Flood, demo-
crat, Virginia; Lanhan, democrat, Tex
as; Hayden, Virginia. Morris, repub-
lican, Minnesota; Swanson, demo-
crat, Virginia; De Almond, democrat,
Missouri; Rhea, democrat, Virginia;
Mccall, republican, Massachusetts,;
Rixey, democrat, Virginia; Graf, re-
publican, Illinois; w. w. Kitchen,
democrat, North Carolina, and Lamb,
Virginia.
At 1925 p. m. as a further mark of
respect to the memory of the deceas-
ed the house adjourned until II
tomorrow.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

able of crushing democratic enthus-
iasm. Since the conclusion above re-
ferred to has been arrived at the old
fighting spirit is m%anifesting itself
in the eastern democrats. They claim
to believe that if the policy outlined
is adopted they will have a good
chance to carry the country; to win
a number of northern states hereto
fore republican, and to secure a ma
jority in the next house Of representa-
tives. To secure control of the house,
they say, would be to inspire every
democrat and do more than anything
else to restore harmony and rehabil-
itate the party and contest every inch
with the republicans in 1904.
OF course, it would. So would a vic
tory at every election, but the plans
of the party and the results accruing
therefrom are always so at variance
that the people have begun to tire Of
democratic speculation and prognosti-
cations The present instance will
be only a repetition and after it is
all over it will be again in order for
the leaders to explain to the rank and
file. The people of the nation have
twice experimental with the demo-
cratic remedy of tariff reform and the
results are still SO we'll remembered
that they will not care to try it again.
The memory of the closed factories,
marching men, soup houses and gen.
eral poverty which existed all over
the country remains and is very
vivid.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
AN IMPossiBILlTY.

Minneapolis Journal: There can
be nc question that Governor Taft
is right in refusing to accede to the
demand of the vatican that the pri-
mary schools in the Philippines be
placed under control of the church.
The demand is directly opposed to
fixed and Interchangeable American pol
icy. Governor Taft will, of course,
have to adhere to this policy even at
the grave cost of the refusal of the
church to lend it's good offices to the
settlement of the friar question
OF course, if the matter cannot be
settled by friendly negotiations it will
have to be taken into the Philippine
courts, where it will be settled &C
cording to the notions of the govern
ment. Such an arbitrary settlement
would be less desirable than a friend
ly enc, because it would arouse I'M
friendliness between the church, and
civil authorities in the Philippines
and might result in the refusal of the
former to withdraw the Objectionable
friars. The attempt of the friars to
return to their parishes would be fol-
lowed by hostile demonstrations. The
government would have to protect the
friars as much as it would any other
persons, and such a course would
tend to rouse native enmity to the
government. On the other hand, the
friars being without official support
in. their attempt to exercise religious
functions, would find their tasks so
unpleasant that their voluntary re-
tirement might eventually be expect
ed.
But whatever the cost, Governor
Taft will not, and can not if he would,
take steps that will impair in the
slightest degree the American policy
of religious liberty which depends
upon absolute separation of church
and state. Senator Morgan was not
far from right when he declared that
the greatest blessing American rule
has given the Philippines is religious
and separation Of church
and state.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
DEMOCRATS AND TRUSTS.

Portland (Me.) Press: The Indiana
democratic platform denounces the
party for it's surrender to trusts. APP
%partently the democrats do that from
force of habit. All that has been done
to SUPPRESS trusts has been done by the
republican party. The Sherman anti
trust act was passed by a republican
congress, and a republican president
so-called meat trust and the railroad
combination projected by Messrs. Nor
gan and Hill. All that the democrats
have to show in support of their al
legged hostility to trusts is a lot of
windy defamation.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
r Il ISSUE.

After all the advice of Doctor Cleve-
land is to be taken and we are assur-
ed that the tariff and trusts are to be
the leading issues in this years polit-
ical campaign. The anti-imperialist
and the anti-army agitation is to be
carefully put on the shelf. This may
be the cause of a crouch to the wing
of the party which still acknowledges
allegiance to the colonel, but that is
to cut no figure.
Chairman Griggs of the democratic
congressional campaign committee
has been sizing up matters since the
Doctors Tilden club speech and after
consulting with other equally promi-
nent members of the party has come
to the conclusion that only in adopt
ing the advice of the doctor of juris-
prudence is there any hope for the
party this fall. He and the others
believe that by following such a
course they may expect to win and
it is proposed to plant the party once
more on the old platform of tariff re-
form. The tariff, of course, is to be
the principal issue, the trusts are to
occupy a secondary position, as they
are held to be but the offspring of
the protective tariff.
Despite the efforts Of the other
fellows to belittle the doctors infu-
ence in his party, it would, seem from
the news that comes from Washing
ton that he is still the medicine man
to whom many of the braves
pin their faith and would rather take
chances on winning under his advice
and directions than assume the risk
OF again acting upon the advice of the
great commoner who lives in a barn.
Notwithstanding that the party has
been defeated a number OF times on
The tariff issue they think that to try
1t once more is about the best and
only thing they can do. While it is
true that onthe financial question the
party has been beaten only twice.
they argue that each defeat was SO
overwhelming that it would be folly
to go forth once more on the same
issue. It might result In the total
Of the party. rather than
merely its partial disruption. as was
the outcome Of the last two cam
naieas.
Neither defeat nor disaster IL cap
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

Colonel Bryan's announcement that
he intended to do all in his power to
aid those who are determined to pre-
vent the Cleyelandizing OF the demo-
cratic party has brought out some
pointed remarks from the eastern end
of the country After suming up the
record of both gentlemen a New York
paper arrives at the conclusion that
it would be better for the party to- be
Clevelandized once more than to per-
NIT the colonel to %pulverize it a third
time.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
%PERvERslTY OF NATURE.

New York Sun: The Nebraska
crops must seem extensively and even
indecently large to the Nebraska
democrats and populists. The har-
vest is great and the laborers are
few. A state which insists upon be-
ing prosperous in spite of trusts and
Imperialism and in the face Of demo-
cratic and populists platforms, must
be a preverse and cross-grained state.
It is time for a set Of resolutions de-
nouncing the fertility Of the soil and
the growth of agricultural %plutocracy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

A new weapon is to be employed
against men who go on strike and en-.
deavor to- prevent others from taking
their places. Instead OF being applied
to for injunctions and .restrainging
processes of different kinds, the
courts of Pennsylvania are to be in
voked for the punishment for criminal
libel of the leaders of the coal strike
now going on there. At Scranton lists
were posted a few days ago containing
the names of men who were declared
to- be unfair" because they had re-
fused to join the strikers. while 9TH
ers We're so designated for having
sold food to the 'sscabs." Agents Of
the coal companies secured@copies OF
the lists and the companies are urg-
ing their employees to enter criminal
prosecutions against the committees
and others responsible for the pub
locations.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

By passing the bill appropriating
100000 900 for a forest reserve in the
Appalachian mountains, the senate
simply gave notice that it intended to
play no favorites as between the east
and west. Having voted for national
irrigation beyond the Missouri, it
wanted to do the fair thing and help
the east to do something to prevent
the necessity of future legislation for
a like enterprise in that direction by
voting money to- purchase private
lands and stop the demolition of a,
range Of hills which is said to seri-
ously threaten the agricultural and
commercial interests of several states.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
~BEAR-PRooF G
Used in Yellowstone Park for Trans.
portation of Fresh Meat.

Mamoth Hot Springs, Wyo., June 20.
Bands of elk have strayed from the
Yellowstone Park and are roaming
the hills around the little mining town
of Jafdine. Some time ago the people
desired Major Pitcher: superintendent
of the park, to- have them driven back
into the park, but they are to be left
alone and will be protected by the
people. Major Pitcher suggested to
them that the elk were as well off
where they were and that their alb
sence from the park ranges would
leave the winter ranges in better con-
dition, as well as give the settlers an
opportunity to- obtain legitimate hunt
ing during the open season. The logic
of this was at ono APPARENT and the
settlers will observe the law and pro-
tect the elk as the law directs.
Bears are more numerous in the
park this year than ever before.
Among the objects of interest the
bear-proof meat wagons, used to trans
port meat over the mountain roads to
the park hotels, occasion no little
comment. On frts sight they are TAX
en- for government ammunition wag-
ons. as they are built along bomb
proof lines. The wagon beds are
about three feet high and covered
with heavy sheet iron, iron gratings
on the ends, to provide ventilation.
The bears are so numerous that these
wagons have become a necessity. An
ordinary wagon-bed with a wooden
box would be torn to pieces in a
single night and the meat eaten or
carried away. It is doubtful If even
the b%ear-proof wagons would with
stand the test if exposed too long, ow-
ing to the ingenuity and great strength
of the animals.
While they are mischievious, they
are really becoming quite tame, coming
down to the garbage piles, back of the
hotels, in large numbers for their
evening meal. Here the tourists can
get neal enough to take snap shots
with their cameras. The bears do not
encourage trespassers, however, and
a low growl is generally warning
enough to the too venturesome.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
JUST ii SAME,

Minneapolis Journal: The Ameri-
can invasion has aroused John Bulls
patriotism to such an extent that it
is now considered tactful to keep the
American label off our goods. Pulling
Off n label under such conditions is
something like pulling down the flag,
but it is comforting to know that we
keep on selling more goods to John,
just the same.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
FRENCH TO KEEP THEIR HEADS.
Life imprisonment to Be Extreme
Penalty Hereafter.

Paris, June 29.-Tremendous mass
meetings were held this week in the
labor exchanges throughout France
to advocate the abolition of the death
penalty. President Loubet, who has
always been SO much affected by an
that he cannot sleep for
days before or after it's occurrence,
is heartily in favor of the reform. It
Is said that he has promised himself
that until the measure is adopted he
Will follow President Grevy's example
by refusing to send any more victims
to the %guillontine and committing the
sentence In each case to life impris-
pnment.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

Somehow the figures furnished by
the secretary of war do not bear
out the assertions of the democrats
as regards the condition of affairs in
the Philippines. According to his COM
m~unication to the senate in reference
to the expenditures in the islands, in
the middle Of the fiscal year ending
June 20, 1901, there were about 10000
American soldiers in the archipelago.
That number has been reduced until
at present there are only about %, 900
left. Orders have been issued for the
return of the Eighth, Fifteenth, Twen-
ty-fourth and Twenty-ffth infantry
and a squadron of the Tenth cavalry.
When these orders shall have been
carried out the number of American
troops in the islands will have been
reduced to $4,000. This would make
1T seem as though something was be.
ing accomplished over there in the
way OF p~aciication and that ciyiliza-
ton was holding it's own at any rate.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

1t will require at least one more
harmony banquet before the party of
Jackson and the Hon. "Cal" Edwards
can agree upon a selection OF issue
with which to make a fight on the re-
publicans two years hence. With
Cleveland declaring the tariff to be
the only proper issue and the Ana
conda Standard intimating that
the doctor is off his base and
that silver is not SC, dead as to
have arrived at the stage of
p%utrefaction, and the Butte Miner
inclining half way toward the doc
tors point of view, with just a sus-
picion of belief that " imperialism"
might not be such a bad thing, the
situation is becoming more and more
mixed. Henry Watterson's latest con
tribution does not appear to have
helped matters in the slightest.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01

If MI. Reid will hustle with Ameri-
can vigor he may yet be able to get
back to attend the dedication of the
Montana state house and show his
special coronation suit. He is assur-
ed equally as warm a time as though
there had been no postponement Of
the attraction for which he originally
fitted himself out.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-01
AND RESULTS.

Chicago Tribune: Lincoln Monday
OF Knoxville. Tenn, was a member of
the Ninth United States infantry and
served in the Philippines. Four men
made insulting remarks about the
army and now one Of them is dead
and the other three are dying.