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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

Mr.. Lucas b. Haynes and Miss Ruth
Mil5y, of King and Queen county, were
married n few days ago by Rev. \. A.
Jones
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

AIr. J. r. Butcher, Of LOudoun county,
and Miss Alice Gowans, OF Washington,
were married last week in that city.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

Ernest C. Feagans. of Culpeper, and
Miss Emily Jarvis. Of Washington, were
married 10y Rev. + W. Winirey last
week.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

Indications are that the Frye-Hanna
ship subsidy bill, which may pass in the
Senate, will fail in the House.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

Licensed in Washington to marry:
Woodson Jasper, of Fauquier county
and Mary Mcdonald, Of Culpeper county.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

Miss Lutte Florence, Of Fauquie
county, and Mr. John Ish, will be married
at the brides home near New Baltimore
tomorrow
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-28

Tie fund for Miss Ellen NJ Stones ran
som now amounts to 81, 800
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING" DEC r. 1902

and upon: them should be placed, as
far as practicable, the burden of fur
nishing and maintaining circulation
adequate to supply the needs OF our
diversified industries and of our do
mestic and foreign commerce.; and the
issue OF this should be so regulated
that sufficient should be always
available for the business interests of
the country.
1t would be both unwise and unne-
cessary at this time to attempt to re-
construct our financial system, which
has been the growth of century; but
some additional legislation is, think,
desirable. The mere outline of any
plan sufficiently comprehensive to
meet these requirements would trans
gress the appropriate limits of this
communication. 1t is suggested, how
ever, that all future legislation on the
subject should be with the view of
encouraging the use of such instru.
mentalities as will automatically sup.
ply every legitimate demand of pro.
ductive industries and of commerce,
not only in the amount, but in the
characte of circulation; and of max
ing llkinds of money interchange
able, and, at the will OF the holder,
convertible into the established gold
standard.
again call your attention to the
need OF passing proper immigration
law, covering the points outlined in
my message to you at the first session
of the present Congress; substantially
such bill has already passed the
House.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
GOOD TITLE ron PANAMA CANAL.
Greater Engineering Feat Than Has Yet Bee
Accomplished.

ss'PsssSSs
The Congress has wisely provided
that we shall build at once an 18TH
milan canal il possible at Panama.
The Attorney General reports that we
can undoubtedly acquire good title
from the French Panama Canal Com.
pany. Negotiations are now pending
with Colombia to secure her assent to
our building the canal. This canal
will be one Of the greatest engineering
feats Of the 20th century; . greater
engineering feat than has yet been
accomplished during the history Of
mankind. The work should be car.
ried out as . continuing policy with.
out regard to change of administra.
tion; and it should be begun under
circumstances which will make it q
matter OF pride for all administrations
to continue the policy.
The canal will be OF great benefit to
America, and of Importance to all the
world. 1t will he OF advantage to US in.
dustrially and also as improving our
military position. 1t will be of ad-
vantage to the countries OF tropical
America. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that all Of these countries will do as
some Of them have already done with
signal success, and will invite to their
shores commerce and improve their
material conditions by recognizing
that stability and order are the pre-
requisites Of successful development.
No independent nation 10 America
need have the slightest fear OF ag-
gression from the United States. It
behooves each one to maintain order
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12

within its own borders and to dis
charge its just obligations to foreign.
ers. When this is doue, they can
rest assured that, be they strong OF
weak, they have nothing to dread
from outside interference. More and
more the increasing interdependence
and complexity OF international politi.
cal and economic relations render it
incumbent on all civilized and orderly
powers to insist on the proper pol icing
of the world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.
We Should Stretch Out Helping Hand to

l hope soon to submit to the Senate
a reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On
May 70 last the United States kept its
promise to the islands by formally Va.
eating Cuban soil and turning Cuba
over to those whom her own people had
chosen as the first officials OF the new
republic.
Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever
affects her for good or for i'll effects Us
also. So much have our people felt
this, that in the Platt amendment we
definitely took the ground that Cuba
must hereafter have closer political re-
lations with US than with any other
power. Thus in q sense Cuba has
become part OF our international
political system. This makes it
necessary that in return we should
be given some OF the benefits of
becoming part of our economic sys.
tenn. 1t is, from our own standpoint,
a shortsighted and mischievious policy
to fail to recognize this need. More.
over, it is unworthy of q great and
generous nation, itself the greatest and
most successful republic in history, to
refuse to stretch out helping hand to
a young and weak sister republic just
entering upon its career OF independ.
ence. We should always Gearlessly in
sist upon our rights in the face OF the
strong, and we should with ungrudg.
ing hand do our generous duty by the
weak. / urge the adoption of recip.
rocity with Cuba not only because it
is eminently for our own interests to
control the Cuban market and by
every means to foster our supremacy
in the tropical lands and waters south
of US, but also because we, of the giant
republic OF the north, should make all
our sister nations of the American
continent feel that whenever they will
permit il we desire to show ourselves
disinterestedly and effectively their
friend.
A convention with Great Britain
has been concluded, which will be at
once laid before the Senate for ratifi-
cation, providing for reciprocal trade
arrangements between the United
States and Newfoundland on substan.
TALLY the lines OF the convention for.
merly negotiated by the Secretary of
State, Mr.. Blaine. / believe reciprocal
trade relations will be greatly to the
advantage OF both countries.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12

ment in the ground thus made ready
for them. The courage, the unflinch-
ing endurance, the high soldier
ly efficiency, and the general kind
heartedness and humanity of our
troops have been strikingly mani.
tested.
There now remain only some $4,000
troops in the islands. All told, over
100000 have been sent there. OF
course, there have been individual in
stances OF wrong-doing among them.
They warred under fearful difficulties
OF climate and surroundings; and
under the strain of the terrible provo
cations which they continually re-
ceived from their foes. occasional in.
stances of cruel retaliation occurred.
Every effort has been made to prevent
such cruelties, and finally these efforts
have been completely successful.
Every effort has also been made to de-
tect and punish the wrong-doers.
After making an allowance for these
misdeeds, it remains true that few in
deed have been the instances in which
war has been waged by 3 civilized
power against semi.civilized or bar
barous forces where there has been
40 little wrong-doing by the victors as
in the Philippine Islands. On the
other hand the amount OF difficult,
important and benefcent work which
has been done is well-nigh incalcul-
able.
Taking the work OF the Army and
the civil authorities together, it may
be questioned whether anywhere else
in modern times the world has seen .
better example OF real constructive
craftsmanship than our people have
given in the Philippine Islands.
High praise should also be given
those Filipinos, in the aggregate very
numerous. who have accepted the
new conditions and joined with our
representatives to work with hearty
good will for the welfare of the islands.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12

over the whole subject of the great
corporations doing an interstate busi-
ness; and with this end in view, the
Congress should endow the department
with large powers, which could be in
creased as experience might show the
need.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
AFFAIRS IN THE Philippines.
Policy Of Holding the Islands Amply vindi
Gated.

On July 4 last, on the 126th ami.
versary of the Declaration OF our Inde-
pendence, peace and amnesty were
promulgated in the Philippine Islands.
Some trouble has since from time TO
time threatened with the Mohamme.
don Moros, but with the late insurrsc-
tionary Filipinos the war has entirely
ceased. Civil government has now
been introduced. Not only does each
Filipino enjoy such rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness as
he has never before known during the
recorded history of the islands, but
the people taken as whole, now
enjoy q measure OF self government
greater than that granted to any
other Orientals by any foreign power,
and greater than that enjoyed by any
other orientals under their own
governments. save the Japanese alone.
We have not gone too far in granting
these rights Of liberty and self-gov-
ernment; but we have certainly gone
to the limit that in the interests OF
the Philippine people themselves it
was wise or just to 60. To hurry
matters, to 60 faster than we are now
going, would entail calamity on the
people OF the islands. No policy ever
entered into by the American people
has vindicated itself in more signal
manner than the policy of holding the
Philippines. The triumph OF our
Il
laws and principles. has come sooner
than we had any right to expect. Too
much praise cannot be- given to the
Army for what it has done in the
Philippines both in warfare and from
an administrative standpoint in pre-
pairing the way for civil government
and similar credit belongs to the civil
authorities for the way in which they
have planted the seeds of self-goyern
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
ARBITRATION BETWEEN NATIONS
United States and Mexico First Before tn
Hague Tribunal.

As civilization grows, warfare be.
comes less and less the normal condi'
ton of foreign relations. The last
century has seen marked diminution
of wars between civilized powers; wars
with uncivilized powers are largely
mere matters OF international police
duty, essential for the welfare of the
world. Wherever possible. arbitration
or some similar method should be EN-.
ployed in lieu of war to settle diff.
culties between civilized nations, al.
though ~ yet the world has not pro.
creased sufficiently to render il possible
or necessarily desirable to invoke ar.
bitration 10 every case. The formation
of the international tribunal which
sits At The Hague is an event Of good
omen from which great consequences
for the welfare ofall mankind may flow
II is far better, where possible, to in
woke such . permanent tribunal than
TO create special arbitrators for given
purpose.
It is q matter OF sincere congratula.
tion to our country that the United
States and Mexico should have been
the first to use the good Offices Of The
Hague court. This was done last
summer with most satisfactory results
in the case OF claim at issue between
us and our sister republic. 1t is earn.
estly to be hoped that this first case
will serve az . precedent for others, in
which not only the United States but
foreign nations may take advantage oi
the machinery already in existence al
The Hague.
/ commend to the favorable consid.
Grafton OF the Congress the Hawaiian
fire claims, which were the subject oi
careful investigation during the last
session.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
Starting and Staying.

At the start i'll long race, the advant-
age often appears to be with all outsider.
But the race is won not in starting but
in staying. The quality which wins is
staying power. 1t is so in the race of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
PosToFFIcEs SHOW PROSPERITY.
Extension Of Rural Free Delivery Recon-
mended.

The striking increase in the revenues
OF the Postoffice Department shows
clearly the prosperity OF our people
and the increased activity of the bust.
ness OF the country.
The records OF the Postoffice Depart.
ment for the fiscal year ending June
30 last amounted to $12l,34S,O47 26,
an increase of $l0,2l6,S63 81 over the
preceding year, the largest increase
known in the history of the postal
service. The magnitude OF this in.
crease will best appear from the fact
that the entire postal receipts for the
year 1860 amounted to $8,518,067.
Rural free delivery service is no long
er in the experimental stage; it has be.
come fixed policy. The results follow
ing its introduction have fully justified
the Congress in the large appropria-
tions made for its establishment and
extension. The average yearly in.
crease in postoffice receipts in the
rural districts OF the country is about
3 per cent. We are now able, by &C.
tual results, to show that where rural
free delivery has been established to
such an extent as to enable us to
make comparisons the yearly increase
has been upward Of 10 per cent.
On November /, 1902, IL $50 rural
free delivery routes had been estab-
lished and were in operation, covering
about third OF the territory OF the
United States available for rural free
delivery service. There are now await
ing the action of the department petit
tions and applications for the estab.
lishment OF 10,74S additional routes.
concluded on Fourth Page1
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12

life. staying 6
power wins, and
as a rule the best
slayer is the man
with the be st
stom a CHI. All
physical strength
is derived from
food which is
properly digested
and assiinilated.
When the food
eaten is only part
ly digested and
assimilated there
is a loss of nutri-
ton which means
a loss Of strength
and the general
result is physical
breakdown.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12


DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
gives strength and staying power, be-
cause it cures diseases of the stomach
and other organs of digestion and nutri
ton. 1t enables the perfect digestion
and assimilation of the food eaten, and
so strengthens the body naturally by the
nutrition derived from food.
NJ was troubled with indigestion for about
two years." writes VIM Bowker, Esq, of Julia
eta, Latah Co.. Idaho. al tried different doc
tors and remedies but to no avail, until wrote
to you and you told me what to do. 1 suffered
with pain in my stomach and left side and
thought that it would kill me. Now glad
to write this and let you know that am all
right. can do my work now without pain and
I don't have that tired feeling that I used to
have. Five hotties of DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery and two walls of his Pleasant
Pellets cured me-"
Accept no substitute for Golden Med
ical Discovery. There is nothing rjust
as good" for diseases of the stomach,
blood and lungs.
DIR. Pierce's Pellets are easy and pleas
ant to take. A most effective laxative.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF COUNTRY.
All Kinds Of Money Should Be Made Inter.
chansesbIe.

chansesbIe.
Interest rates are potent factor in
business activity, and in order that
these rates may be equalized to meet
the varying needs of the seasons and
widely separated communities, and to
prevent the recurrence of financial
stringencies which injuriously affect
legitimate business, it is necessary that
there should be an element Of elastic
lity in our monetary system. Banks
are the natural servants of commerce.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-12-12
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
FULLTExT OFAVERY IMPORTANT
STATE PAPER.

Conclusion from last issue
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-19
Auction Sale.

AS have quit farming I will sell
at public auction at the P. A. Odell
farm, Sec %, Town of Lake Andrew,
on Thursda March 20, 1902, begin
ming at 10 O'Clock a. m , the following
deserted property;
FIVE young horses, II cows, % head
of young stock, l SOW with pigs, l
half=blood Shorthorn bull, l year old ;
one hundred CHICKENS, l Deering
binder 7foot cut, run two seas ns; l
Deering >5.foot cut mower, l l0-foot
hay rake, l 14-shoe drill, l spring
tooth seeuer, 2-horse corn GUILTY. ator,
l single corn cultivator, 2 walking
plows, 3 harr ows, lumber wagons
l road cart, pair sleighs, 2 hay
racks, l pair harness, l single har
ness, l Owen tanning mill, l cook
stove, l tank heater, some household
goods and many other articles toe
numerous to mention.
TERMS: All sums of SIS 90 and I'M
der, cash; above that amount tim.
will be given until Dec. l, 1902, OF
approved notes bearing 6 per cent in
terest.
Free lunch served at noon.
j. AUGUST HEDMAN.
}. G. MONSON, Auctioneer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-19
The court can decide that the North

The court can decide that the North
ern Securities Co. is a legal corpora
tion or that it is not. In the former
case there is no reason why securities
companies may not concentrate owner
ship of half the railroads in the United
States into few corporations Within
six months. Should this be done, 1t
would certainly produce violent an
tagonism and lead to severe anti
railroad legislation, if not to an ire
sistible demand for government owner
ship of all railway property. To give
a dozen men control of the rate. max
ing power of the railroads in the
United. Suites would be to place in
their hands a power over the business
of the country, which, even if it were
fairly exercised, would not be borne
by the peop'e.-Wall Street Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-19
Anderson Bros,
Jewellers g. Opticians,

eddy be mergers Of other systems, like
the southern and central Pacific roads.
Then we can look for a merger of the
mergers, and the absolute control of
all important railroads by few men.
After that what? Is there anyone so
fatuous as to believe that this vast
power will be used for the good of the
people? It is not in human nature to
use such power mildly. Does any
one believe that restrictive laws will
do any good, when this giant power
turns it's influences on the judiciary?
There is only one remedy that will
reach the root of the evil, and that is
government ownership. To this we
must come if we wish to avoid rail-
road ownership of the government and
the people.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-19
the ONLY effective REMEDY.

It appears that the state of Mimi
esota is rel ally helpless when it comes to
attempting to check the railroad mer-
ger. There are too many loopholes
in our legal system. The state can
not bring suit in the U. S. courts be-
cause some of the defendants are citi-
zens of Minnesota. 1t cannot bring
suit against the Northern Securities
Company in state court because that
corporation is organized in another
state. 1t is possible that an attempt
will be made in a state court to reach
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific without making the Northern
Securities Company party to the suit,
but this is considered almost hopeless.
The national government has com
menced suit in Minnesota against the
merger, under the Sherman Antitrust
law, but no one expects any decision
unfavorable to the trust. Instead of
simply claiming that the merger vio-
lates the law by eliminating COMPETE
ton, the complaint makes the sweep
ing allegation that the defendants
shave monopolized such interstate
and foreign commerce to the great
and irreparable damage of the people
of the United States.'' While it is
generally conceded that the merger
will, as soon as it gees firmly estab-
lished, use its power to the detriment
of the people, it will be an impossi-
bitity to prove that it has so far done
''great and irreperable damage"
The conviction will force itself on the
minds of people who knew the attor-
nej-g& neral's close connection with
trusts, that the allegations were pur-
posely made so sweeping as to make
It impossible to prove them, and thus
the merger will escape the clutches OF
the law. Indeed, at the time the az
nouncement was made that the gov
ernment intended to SUE the merger,
many knowing ones claimed that 1t
was q friendly move intended to firm
" establish the merger by giving 1t
the sanction of law. The TRIBUNE
was disposed to give the authorities
credit for fair Intentions, but in view
Of the :wsy Of procedure 1t is difficult
to maintain that belief any longer.
The probabilities are now that al
legal means Of preventing the merger
will fail. The next step will undoubt-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-19
Auction Sale.

AS I have rented my farm in section
Ii, town of Mamre, Kandiy Obi county,
[ will sell at public auction on March
20, commencing at O'Clock p. M, the
following property:
One Milwaukee binder, l corn pillow,
2 l4-inch stubble plows, l breaking
pillow, l drag, l lumber wagon, l double
buggy, nearly new, l single buggy, /
pair working harness, l single har-
ness, pair bobsleighs, l hay rack,
2 hogs, Is chickens, self-feeding heat
ing stove, l cook stove, l heating
stove, carpets, Is blu. oats, some hay,
and other articles too numerous to
mention.
Terms: Sums OF $500 or under, cash ;
over that amount time will be given
until Nov. l, 1902, on bankable notes
at 7 per cent interest.
P. SWENSON.
CHAs. L1NDBERG, Auctioneer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-19
ONLY POLITICAL MEASURE.

Some of the financial organs, in
tended for circulating only among
spectators and business men, some
times make very interesting reading
because they talk more plainly than
organs intended to reach the people
in general. The Commercial West,
speaking of the alleg ations in the gov
ernment case against the Northern
Securities company, says:
The petition rests on the Sherman antitrust
law. which law is POLITICAL MEASURE DE-
SIGNED TO QUIET THE FEARS OF THE PEOPLE
who were beginning to complain that the re-
publican party was an ally Of the trusts, which
were at that time being organized. 1t be-
comes question Of great interest, therefore,
as to how far statute already OutgrOwn can
be made to block the operation OF principle
Of trade that may bear the outward form of
monopoly, but in fact be as far from it in spirit
and operation as are any two wholly dissimilar
laws.
This bold statement explains why
the Sherman antitrust Jaw has been
allowed to remain in "inocuous des-
netude'' while the trusts have been
growing at such a tremendous rate.
The people will know now that lit was
only "a political measure intended to
quiet the fears of the people," and
that there never was any intention of
using it against the trusts. The edi-
tor of the Commercial West is a most
ardent supporter of the republican
policies, and can therefore not be &C.
cused of making the above statement
in order to hurt that party. He made
this bold statement because he knew
that the class he represents knew this
to be fact, and he only needed to
call attention to it in order to bear
out his argument that the courts
should not apply the law against the
Northern Securities Company.