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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04

Novel Work for Torpedo Boats.
Six French torpedo boats have been
ordered to -Brest to chase porpoises
away from the coast, where they have
done much damage among the sardines.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
Tuesday, August 4, 1908.
REsuRREcTlNG A CORPSE.

RESURH6CI lNG n
That which for years past has been
considered a dead issue in republican
notifies in the state has been resur-
rected and is likely to play an i'm
portant part in certain sections of the
state in the campaign next year.
Every republican who took part in
the memorable campaign of 1896 can
readily recall the stirring scenes
enacted in those days within the party
lines over the question of bimetallism.
The trouble started when the party
in national convention at st. Louis
declared in it's platform for the gold
standard and a majority of the Mon
tana delegates to that convention
either deliberately walked out or re-
NAMED and refused to take part in
the deliberations of the party in the
adoption of the national platform.
The climax of the party difficulties
in the state was reached that year
when the state convention separated
into two bodies, the one being desig-
mated as he SILVER republicans and
the other the gold wing" of the par
ty. Men who for half their life time
had been close social and political
friends in many instances had person
al encounters. The gold" republi-
cans, although largely in the minority
and knowing long in advance OF the
general election that their cause was
hopeless in Montana, were just as
loyal and sincere in their advocacy
of the principles of the party as re-
ed at st. Louis as were those republic
cans who marched under the Bryan
free silver banner.
But those bitter contentious within
the party were supposed to have been
entirely obliterated in the state cam
paign last year. At the state conven-
ton held at Great Falls, participated
il by many of the leading republicans
who so widely differed during the two
preceding general campaigns in the
even refer to former disagreeable fea-
lures which made party success in
the state an im~possibility. A splendid
campaign followed the work of the
convention and resulted in a magnif-
cent victory at the polls.
While it is probable that the Great
Falls convention was dominated by
one or two men who had their eye
on a single purpose-that of keeping
the state and federal Offices within the
palms of their hands-there appeared
to be no disposition then to offer any re-
sistance to that kind of a proceed.
ure. 1t was believed that harmony
should mark the deliberations of that
representative body of republicans
and no attention should be paid to
such q small matter as the contro
of the Offices within the gift of the
PARTY in the state.
1t appears. however, that months il
advance of the campaign next yea,
q disposition is manifest in certain
quarters to resurrect the free silve
bugabOo in the hopes that a thorough
discussion of certain transaction
within the party ranks during the fire.
silver craze will keep in the politica
background certain men who had tn
hardih0od to come out as republican
and openly champion the cause G
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04

were cabled to the United States
steamship Bancroft at Port Of Spain
to proceed at once up the Orinoco and
release the detained vessels.
An Artistic "Pick Up"
On the walls Of the antechamber of
the Office Of the secretary of war hangs
a gallery of portraits Of his predeces-
sors, resembling in variety of subject
and execution the group of ancestors
sold to the Jews by "Charles Surface"
in the play. When Mr.. Roots portrait
is added to the collection he need not
waste time and money in sittings. as
he can put under one Of the present
portraits the legend. 'Elihu Root. ditto
to Mr.. Poinsett," and every n who
knows Mr.. Root at all will recognize
the hit as happy. The resemblance of
feature is extraordinary. James R.
Poinsett of South Carolina was secre-
tary of war from 1887 to 1S41.
Lafnyette.s Great-GrandsOn.
The Viscount de Chambron. great
grandson of Lafayette. may be seen any
day in the lobby of one of our fashion
| able hotels. The young French diplo-
mat is possessed Of very democratic
manners and is bound to make himself
popular with all classes. He is dark
c~omplexioned and of slight physique.
but looks a good deal more like a
Yankee than n Frenchman. He speaks
, the English language without a trace
Of accent. CARL SCHOFIELD.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
PAY UP.

All those receiving notice OF
their subscriptions to the pa
per expiring are requested to
make their remittances without
delav, The amount due from
the Individual is small, but the
total runs into many hundred
dollars. Therefore, we request
a settlement.
The colored American., 1903-11-21
sG'a"a 'a"t" of the otsa order oftrae

ead1g Fraternal Society the United
headquarters
male female,
membership
benefits
$1,000
BENEFITS PA0To to death
ehts, $h37S75 'F'''' ~
of
July from
benefits
w. l.
any OF his authorized deputies
& ; G the training of the
known the Rosebuds
of
Fountain
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The colored American., 1903-11-21

The fool killer has broken loose in
Georgia and South Carolina. The At
Ianta NerUS, edited by John Temple
Grave, the grave-lOoking joker who
made an ass of himself at Chattanooga
some time ago on the interminable
race problem, is publishing a series
Of articles from alleged Christian cler
gymen, in which the unity OF the hu-
man family is called into question and
an effort made to show that the Ne
gro does not belong to it.
One DR.. Mack, South Carolina sky
pilot with headquarters at Presby-
terian church somewhere in that God
forsaken State, seems to be between
the devil (but nearer the deviD and
the deep sea, as to whether the Negro
is man or brute, and can be saved like
white people by the blood of Jesus
Now, the question seems to have stirred
ND those sections of the South from
their centers to their circumferences,
and DR.. Mack is the central figure and
the chief exponent of the idea that
God did not create the Negro at the
same time white folks were created,
etc, etc, etc.
The colored American., 1903-11-21
The Impending Crisis

mon origin of mankind and there can
be no appeal taken from the record
The Christianity unity of mankind is
defined in Ephesians z, chapter, 10, %
If DR.. Mack or any other white clergy
man is not ready or willing to accept
this definition and to live up to it's
teachings, he has no more of the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ in his heart than
has the devil in hell
The colored American., 1903-11-21

l haven't the slightest doubt about
DR.. Maek's politics; it is only neces-
sary to know that he lives in South
CarOlina-the home of unwhipped and
unhung murderers, to determine his
political leaning. He is a Democrat.
President Roosevelts policy toward
the Negro is the basis of DR.. Mack's
attack upon the authenticity of the
Bible story of the creation and origin
Of the human family. Dr. Mack doesn't
say anything worth remembering, nor
does he say anything worthy of serious
thought. He is just plain white jack
cOnceit and pride of learning to make
him third-rate fool. The discussion
which he has provoked is political rath-
er than religious in character, and is
intended to infiame the minds of sap
headed thinkers like himself against
President Roosevelt, who believes, as
every Christian gentleman does, that
the Negro is a man and that God ere
ated him in His own image and like
ness, and will in his own time work
out his purposes and plans through
this race. 1t is a waste of time to ar
que with a shallow-pated fellow like
DR.. j. B. Mack, of South Carolina. If
e really knew the origin and history
OF the Bible, of which he processes
to be an exponent, he would know
that the black, or Ethiopian race, is
largely responsible tor his having it;
that the leaders and teachers of re-
ligious thought, when civilization was
young, and his own race was living in
caves like wild animals, were men of
the black race. There is abundant
proof of this, and if DR.. Mack knew
where to find it he would do so, and
probably confess himself a theological
ass. But he does not need to make
such confession; his oral gymnastics
proclaim him such. If any white or
black preacher wants proof of the unity
of the human family he has only to
read the record of its origin and es-
tablishment in Gen. X, 80; Acts XVIII,
rs; Gen. III, %. These prove the COM
The colored American., 1903-11-21

In6SG exclusive Wn1Ce clergy are
pretty nearly all agreed that the thick
Tipped, black-skinned Negro, despised
of all mankind (white) are aliens from
the commonwealth of Israel, and that
God made them little lower than the
white men, who feel that they can
best interpret his purposes and fix
the bounds and the habitations of men.
Let all such read prayerfully and care
fully the First Corinthians, IS to 81.
If that does not take the conceit out
of them and halter their pride of learn
ing, nothing will
If there is one thing in this world
more than another of which the white
The truest and best exponents of the
religion which Jesus taught and prac-
ticed are the people of African descent;
the world over they live nearer to God
than any other race on earth, and the
race that does that is sure to possess the
earth and to enjoy his blessings. Out
of Africa will ultimately come the
true leaders of the religious thought
which is to revolutionize the Christian
world and teach mankind what brother
hood really and means. Africa IS
dark continent to the white man
because he can not penetrate its vast
domains, but he will learn as time
grows old that there is much more light
and truth within its boundaries than
he ever dreamed of. Many years ago
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote these
words: If ever Africa shall show Gas
in the Providence of God she is now
showing) as devoted and cultivated
(Christian) race (and come 1t must
some time), her turn (mOre than she
has done in the past) to figure in the
great drama of human improvement,
life will awake them with gorgeous
ness and grandeur of which our cold
western tribes family have conceived.
In that far-off mystic Lana of gold and
gems and spices and waving palms
and wondrous flowers and miraculous
fertility will awake new forms of art,
new styles of splendor, anu the Negro
race will perhaps show forth some OF
the latest and most magnificent revela-
tions of human life"
The Southern clergymen of the Mack
stamp possibly see horrible visions.
But these prophets of evil can no more
stay the hand of God than a mosquito
can stop the mighty onward rush OF
Niagara.
God is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of earth are stored
And has loosed the fateful lightning
of his terrible swift sword And the
thunderbolts of his wrath will destroy
that thing in America called religion
The colored American., 1903-11-21

Continued on page 12.)
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
SURPRISES IN STORE
Philharmonic Club Is Busy Prepar-
ing for a Season Of Unusual
Promise.
First Concert Of the New Symphony
Orchestra Will Be Given
November g..

Professor Emil Oberhofer is a busy
man nowadays with the affairs Of the
philharmonic club. Since his return
from Europe he has had his hands
full arranging for the opening con-
certs of the club as well as the pro-
grams of the new Minneapolis Sym
phony orchestra, which is being
formed under the auspices OF the club
and will assist at all its@concerts, be-
sides giving independent concerts.
Nov. 3 the ne worchestra will make
it's bow to Minneapolis, and on this
occasion Anton Van aRooy, the great
barytone, will appear as soloist. Mr..
Van Rooy is Hollander, 81 years old
and has made a. great reputation in
TWagnerian roles His first work, was
at the Bayreuth festival performance
five years ago, and he has since APP
peared In Wagner roles in nearly
every great musical center in Europe.
He has already appeared in this
country with the Metropolitan Opera
company of New York and has been
re-engaged this season to sing "Am-
fortas' in the forthcoming production
of "Parsifal," to be given in New York
with a picked cast of the greatest
Wagnerian singers living.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
JUMPED IN TO FIGHT
F. B. Wood Appeared as the Cham
pion of Minnesota's Grain
Inspection System. !"
~ ~
He Had a Hot Passage at Arms
With the Grain Dealers !.
Secretary.

: State inspection Of grain versus pri-
Vate inspection, the merits and de-
merits of existing systems and the
possibility of the adoption of some
FEDERAL system are questions now
freely discussed on change. The Min
neapol1s chamber may be said to ia
Vor the present system. But in other.
grain markets sentiment Is much
mixed, as. became evident in the dis
cussion Of, the Grain Dealers conven-
ton. 81 -5
- 1t was in this connection that there
occurred in the closing hour of the
convention the dramatic set-to be-
tween George A. Stibbins, secretary
Of the Grain Dealers association, and
f. B. Wood of the Minneapolis cham
Der. Mr.. Stibbins was dwelling upon
the bad features of an inspection sys-
tenn dominated by politics. He bore
down so hard upon the state inspec-
tors and their work, that many local
grain men squirmed in their seats
but no one rose to reply. 5~.- 80 -,
] Meanwhile Mr.. Wood. not a mem.
Der of the association, but member
of the Minneapolis chamber, dropped
/ in. Something Secretary Stibbins sale
|: stirred his wrath, and the two were
| locked in fierce debate in a twinkling
"I7 know nothing of the justice Of
the gentleman's remarks so far al
: they are applicable to Chicago sale
/ Mr.. Wood, ''but in applying them tt
Minneapolis great injustice is being
done. In all my experience here,
never heard the honesty Of the in
! spectors questioned. never knew o.
! an instance of dishonesty or incompe
Itency, and I believe he present stat
i of grain inspectors to be composed O.
as honest and capable a lot Of mel
as itWould be possible to get togethe>
under any system. Mistakes do hap
( pen, errors are made, but such i
| bound to be the case under, any cir
! cumstances. The allegation that EN-
ployes are often appointed for politi
I cal purposes rather than for compe
tency may be true elsewhere, but
does not apply here, and I do not be
lieve, and can safely say the member
of the chamber do not believe tina
Governor Van SAINT would appoint an,
man known to be incompetent to
4 position in the department" -.
i Considerable explaining was neces
sary to mollify Mr.. Wood, who wa
much worked up over what he tool
Il as an insinuation against the Mime
! sofa system, but which was probabl
not meant in the full force in which
was taken. Il ...s@
/ This morning the self-appointe
champion of the inspection depart
ment was the recipient Of numbe
Of compliments from members of tn
! inspection department and chambe
of commerce members for his defens
Of the Minnesota system. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
CANADIANS SAY mo-
Chamberlain's Tariff Policy Doesn't
Suit the Manufacturers in
Eastern Canada.
W. S. Dwinnell Says the Tariff
Fight May Delay Reciproc-
ity's Progress.

Eastern Canada will not view with
favor Mr.. Chamberlain's scheme of
killing off colonial manufactures and
re-enacting the hated corn laws, and
until these matters and the boundary
question are out of the way the un-
questioned progress of the reciprocity
movement must. be delayed" Thus
said w. S. DWinne1l this morning,
| Mr.. DWlnnell, who has been one of
the foremost of the local advocates of
reciprocity with Canada, and who will
probably succeed Eugene Hay as
the National Reciprocity league, has
travelled extensively in Canada and
keeps in touch with Canadian senti-
ment
"Chamberlain's policy, in brief, con-
templates the entrance admission, free
Of duty, of all colonial grains in re-
turn for which the colonies must agree
to admit free of duty all English man
ufactured articles This means that
the colonies must give up ,manufactur.
ing and you will find that eastern Can.
ada will not take kindly to such 6
proposition. -< - 81
"And then Mr.. Chamberlain pro.
poses to tax breadstuffs sent to Eng.
land from countries other than he1
colonies. This means that on all grair
raised outside the colonies and sen
to England--and it amounts to con
siderable-the people must pay tax
The English people never took kindly
to the corn laws and they are strons
on principle. The .boondery' question
as they call it in Canada, still bother
them. @.
my sources of information max,
me certain that the reciprocity move
ment is getting stronger every day
With these little troubles out of tn
way reciprocity will arrive quickl,
enough sysr4 <r,s-:.E .a..,gf t4 's.sy5...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
COUNTESS is A FRAUD
Assumed a Title and Imposed Upon
!, Society-Ended by Defrauding
Insurance Companies.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Rome, Oct. 10.-A parallel to the
case of Nine. Humbert in France has
been discovered in Italy, where the
self-styled Countess Bices Ubaldelli,
long and favorably known in the vari-
Gus circles of Roman society, was ar
rested for frauds perpetrated on sew
eral American life insurance COM
panies. The maunt stolen by the
countess does not come near the mil
lions of Nine. Humbert, but both
cases show the same methods of i'm
position, as each Of the criminals had
been enabled by her personal charms
and social standing to impose on all
classes of society.
The countess numbered among her
dupes, judges. ministers, prelates,
cardinals and even Pope Leo XIII.
She occupied a magnificent man
sion the Villa Fumaroli on the out
skirts Of Rome, and there entertained
her friends and dupes for several
years.
Living with her for many years was
her sister Eliza, only six years her
junior, whose life the countess had in
sured with several companies, Italian
and foreign. "A few months ago a
funeral took place fro mthe residence
of thecountess who, in the deepest
| mourning and shedding crocodil
etears, gave out the news of her sis
tiers unexpected death.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
WHO'LL BUILD It?
Dispute Between City and Railroads
About Burned Bridge in North
east Minneapolis.
Each Side Says It's the Others
Place to Replace the
Structure.

y - + l. T7
It may be years before the bridge
across the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific tracks at Twenty ninth
avenue NE is replaced. It was par
TALLY destroyed by fire and then sec
ton Ito feet long fell down. The de-
brls has been removed by the railway
company, but nothing has been done
towards. rebuilding. The city takes
the position that if the railways do not
want grade crossing at that point
they can protect themselves by re-
building the bridge. On the other
hand the railways claim right of way
antedating the opening of the street
as public highway and insist that
the city is obliged to replace the fallen
bridge.
The city will probably not attempt
70 force the railway companies, as
travel at the crossing in questions lis
not nearly so heavy as at many other
points where grade crossings exist.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
RAINS HELPED SOME
By Delaying Movement Of the Crops
They Prevented stringency
in Money. ~
n i.4. e y.
The View Of John H. Washburn of
New York His Views of
Morgan. ..

The recent rains that delayed the
movement of the crops have been a
great advantage to general business
in the opinion Of John H. Washburn
Of New York, president of the Home
Fire Insurance company. eff it hadn't
been for these rains said Mr.. Wash
burn to-day at the local office of his
company in the New York Life build
ing, the sudden and. enormous de-
mand for money to move the crops
would have embarrassed the banks
and would have proved a serious ele-
ment in the financial situation.
But the crops have moved slowly,
and there has been no stringency. The
crops too, have been very large
Farmers will once more have money
to burn Railroad earnings are keep
ing up, orders fofsinerchandise have
diminished only SIN oderately, as was
natural after the long continued
BOOM and, in general, there. is nc
ground Whatever for expecting a panic
Or return of hard times. There will
probably be, a period Of comparative
| quiet in general business, but it viii
prove merely what the Street calls
"a healthy reaction ''1ss9* y
AS to the stock market Mr.. Wash.
| burn, who is associated intimately
with the chief capitalists, Of Gotham
L SO1AIi1 1AiCSi eiiSEI M or.
gan has touched the highest poin
of all his greatness and hastes now tt
his setting" BE- rs eVa
Yes said Mr.. Washburn, o"peoplt
| have lost confidence in Morgan. For
merlys he had made mistakes of judg
. ment sometimes but he always pro
tected his friends. This time he coulc
not do So Four of his projects have
gone Wrong-the Steel company, tn
l Navigation COMPANY the Shinhi1ild
ing company and the Real Estate ant
/ Construction company. Schwab dit
worse than make mistakes in tn
Shipbuilding company, and Morgan
it is thought, was backing him. +
large fraction of the Steel issues
: there was quite enough to go round
was bought outright by poor or com
paratively poor people, especially b,
people living around Cleveland am
Plttsburg. But if the industrials ar
melting away, all the standard stock
continue to pay good dividends.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
EASY FOR CENTRAL
Minneapolis High School Takes
Il Game From st. Paul by
Score of AZ to 5.
The Mechanic Arts Boys Played
With Grit, but Were
Too Light.

Fast and desperate. football was
played at Nicollet park this morning
between the Central High school team
Of Minneapolis and the Mechanic Arts
was conceded to the Minneapolis
eleven on account of their greater
weight and experience and all that the
visitors hoped for was a low score.
They worked hard, however, and
pulled off one touchdown against
eight BY the, Centrals. The final score
was AZ to 5.
The Mechanics in the whole forty min
utes of struggle made their distance
only once, and only once did they hold
Central on three downs. st. Paul, was
light, but had plenty of grit and made
gallant fight. Central always plays
hard, snappy game.
Five touchdowns were made by the
Centrals in rapid succession. Nc
Carthy, Martin and Laid were prom
inent in plunging thru the line. Their
work with Yerxa's long end runs were
the features in the Central's game.
The contest was beginning to pail
on the spectators, when a costly fun
bic by Laid started a sensational play.
The ball fell from Ladd's arms and
was caught by 'Hinkly on St. Paul's
4O-yard line. Quick as a flash Hinkly
was off and hiking for the Minneap-
oils goal at top speed. He was over
hauled two or three times in his sew
enty-yard run, but his one-man inter.
ference, tho novel in form, was wholly
effective in keeping off tacklers and he
made his touchdown in safety. ~
Hinkly's success gave the Mechan
les courage and they played with more
heart after that. Central probabl.
eased off also especially after it
score had gone beyond the forty mark
Toward the end of the second hal
Central again fumbled on the enemy
25-yard line. Olund got the ball, blu
did not go very far and shortly afte
st. Paul had to punt. Again Contra
/ came down the pike, but to the sur
prise of all st. Paul held and got tn
ball on the 20-yard line. Three des
I perate plays yielded a bare five yards
= but then it was over. ST. Paul at
4 tempted to punt, after failing to gair
! but Martin rushed into the-ball whic
bounded back and rolled across tn
: goal line where Martin (smothered
and made a touchdown-the last O
the game.
- The teams 1ipad IN g Fo11ou,e.