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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
THE ALDRICH FINANCE BILL.
MOve In the Direction of
Much Needed Financial
Reform.

Mr.. Aldricl, chairman of the senate
ne will appoint u subcommittee. to
meet during the recess of congress,
which will draw up finance bill to
be submitted TO the, senate at the ope n
ing of the next session in December.
There is no doubt that the committee
is DESTROYS of making quick work with
financial reform this time. The bill
for this purpose which was before the
recent congress was prepared too late
to have any chance for enactment.
The proposed measure will be one of
the first which will go on the senate's
calendar, says the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The senate, on one notable occasion,
showed that it was capable of very
quick work in the way of financial re-
form. This was in 1874. When the
democrats carried the house of rep
resentatives in November of that year,
thus endangering the work of placing
the country's currency on the gold
basis, which was in the minds of the
republican leaders, President Grant.
Senator Sherman and the rest OF
the chieftains of their party de.
termlned to postpone resumption no
longer. Accordingly, Sherman, from
the committee on finance, reported
resumption bill to the republican sen
ate on December 81, less than three
weeks after congress met, and six
weeks after the election of the demo-
cratic house, which would meet year
later. 1t passed that body on Deem
Der %, went through the republican
house on january I 1875, was signed by
President Grant on January IA and
went into operation on January /. 1879.
What republican president and con-
gress did % years ago republican
president and congress can do now.
Inc resumption act was republican
measure throughout 1t was opposed
by the democrats at every step in each
branch of congress. The democratic
national convention of 1876, in ST.
Louis. which nominated Tilden. de-
clared for the repeal OF the resumption
act. 1t went into effect on time, how
ever, raised all the country's currency
up to the gold level by the stipulated
day, at the beginning of 1879, and has
kept it up to that line ever since. That
was one of the most important finan-
clal measures ever placed on the
statute book in the United States. The
Aldrich bill, which is also in the direc-
ton of needed financial reform. can
be put through congress quickly if
there is the same energy behind i,
which passed the greenback redemp.
ton act of 1875
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
Corn for Dairy Feeding

An enthusiastic advocate of soiling
says that the truth of the prediction
made some years ago that corn will
soon take the place of grass for dairy
and cattle feeding is already realized
by many farmers. With the progress
sive dairymen pasturing is considered
out of date and wasteful method
Hay is inferior to prepared cornstalks
for feeding purposes. and now that we
can supply perfect corn ensilage for
feeding we have more particular need
for the pastures. An acre of pasture
will not supply much more than one
fifth of the food required to support
a COW through the growing months.
One acre of corn will give all the green
food it needs from the first of July to
the first of October. On the same piece
of land corn raised for soiling will
make fou times as much green food
for cow as will grass.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
LAST CONGRESSIONAL WORK.
Important Legislation Put Through
in Furthernnce of National
interests.

OF the finished legislation of the SEES.
sion just closed, the trust bills dealt
with the subject of widest and deepest
interest. but they may prove more i'm
portant as preparatory work than as
complete devices for holding the forces
OF monopoly in check and insurine jus
tice in commerce and industry. 1t was
understood in Washington. when con-
sress adjourned. that if the bills which
had become laws did not serve the pur-
pose intended other steps would follow.
The end of the trust question has by
no means been reached. Various legis.
lative bodies have been feeling their
way along toward goal which must
be attained, though probably after
many slips and mistakes. They realize
that their task is not Yet completed
says the Cleveland Leader.
Another piece of legislation which is
bound to attract wide attention was
the creation of a ninth department in
the presidents cabinet. The CONNER
cial and industrial interests of the
country have never been more in the
minds of the people of the United
States than they are now, and any addi-
tion to the cabinet would attract much
attention among all classes. 1t is
change in the visible and obvious ma
chinery of the government. No one
who keeps Informed at all about the
affairs of the nation can fail to notice
the growth of the cabinet
Other important legislation has been
less conspicuous. The immigration
laws have been improved. The war
taxes left after the preceding reduc-
tons since the close of the Spanish
war have been removed. Some impor-
lant improvements have been made in
the laws affecting the Philippines.
The army and navy have been improved
in organization and equipment Porto
Rico has been helped by timely legis-
lation. and something has been done
to give Alaska good government. The
important census bureau has been
placed on a permanent basis. Alto
gether. congress has not been idle or
futile.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
AN EFFECTIVE HoTBED.
Valuable Suggestions for Farmers
Who Are Thinking of Giving
Gardening u Fair Trial.

The location for good hotbed
needs to be chosen with some care;
it should be sheltered by trees or by
a good, broad fence on the north
side. This fence should be six and one
half feet high, and is usually built
leaning back about six inches from
perpendicular at the top so that mats,
sashes or shutters leaned up against
the fence will not SO readily be
blown down by the wind The land
should slope little to the south or
southeast, and the beds should be
either level or of even grade from
end to end in order to run the planks
straight from one end to the other.
Th bed should face southeast, south
or southwest, according to the lay of
the land
The best material for heat is fresh
horse manure from stable where
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
PRESS COMMENTS.

U"Stutfed prophet" Is old, 10 be
sure, but Il man has to be Il stuffed
something TO have influence with the
democratic party.-Sioux City Journal.
n7Mr. Bryan complains of the ex-
Penditures of the last congress. and in
speaking of the treasury surplus saws:
The wonder is they did not take it
ALL The last congress of which Mr..
Bryan was a member did more than
that--it took it all, and then some more.
leaving in the vaults of the United
States treasury generous vacuum
which the administration was COM
PEELED o fill by issuing bonds and build
ing handsome addition to the public
debt Shelbyville Republican.
UMr. Bryan in the role of universal
critic is one the people are becoming
accustomed to, but he should not OBJ
lect when he in turn is held up to criti-
cism. As an old laconic saying ex-
presses it: ''He who would shun criti-
cism must not be a scrihbler: and he
who would court it must have great
abilities or great folly."-N. y. World
DCol. Watterson's remark that
"free silver is as dead as Judas" is an
unpleasant association of ideas for
many democrats. The colonel's vote
against Bryan in 1896 and for him in
1900 should induce a milder use Of me Ia.
phors.-St. J ouis Globe-Demccrat.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

Lafayette square S0
into independence" square and make
it commemorative of the revolutions
airy war. Lafayette and Rochambeau
already occupy the two most conspc
nous corners of the enclosure. The
proposal is to place on the other cor
ners statues authorized by congress in
memory of Baron Steuben and Gen.
Pulaski. The idea is an attractive one
and if it were not for the sacred Jack
son it might be put into effect. The
Jackson statue is probably the most
famous of all the equestrian figures in
Washington. 1t has been the theme of
controversy among artists, patriots
and partisans ever since Clark Mills
modelled it years before the civil war
i raised storm of discussion as to the
possibility of any horse ever assuming
such a position as was there perpet-
uated in bronze, balancing itself proud
ly on its hind legs and the tip of its
tail. For over half century it has
been one of the artistic marvels of the
capital. There is an old, oldsstory that
when Charles Sumner tried to enter
tain Lord Lytton by driving him about
the city he took special pains to dis
tract his lordship's attention when
they passed by Lafayette square. But
Lytton spied the Jackson effigy and
upset all calculations by demanding to
know who that might be perched on
a rocking horse. Yet with all its ques-
tionable artistic qualities it is doubt
full whether any other statue in the
capital is the object of quite so much
sentiment as this. 1t has almost come
to be democratic shrine, and any
proposition to move 1t from its con-
spicuous position in front of the white
house is sure to arouse resentment.
When the Lafayette statue was pre-
scented by France about ten years ago
it was at first proposed to erect it in
the middle of the south side of the
square directly between the jackson
statue and the white house. The
foundations were already built at con-
Jackson got wind of 1t. Senator Bate,
of Tennessee, introduced a resolution
forbidding the erection of the Lafay-
cite statue at that spot, and the loca-
tion was promptly changed. The SEN
timent for the old jackson statue was
altogether too strong TO be opposed.
The rocking horse" will stay where it
any rate, as "Old Hickory" continues
10 hold his place as Democratic
saint.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

tuc 1CN NAiSAl al q
not have the meagerest kind of founda-
tions. The latest is the most ridiculous
of all. 1t is said that the historic cab
met room where every president for
half century, up to the time of Roose-
welt, gathered his official advisers about
him, has been transformed into gym
nasium with bare floor and with walls
decorated only by fencing masks and
foils, boxing gloves and other athletic
properties; that here the president and
Gen. Wood have their bouts at single
stick, and that the president INDUCES
in every other kind of-strenuous exer-
else; that everything suggestive of old
traditions has been ruthlessly torn
away. Now it happens that President
Roosevelt has taken special pains to
keep this old cabinet room in it's time
honored condition. The same prints
are on the walls, the same books and
cases are at hand and the same chairs
and desks are there as they were under
Mckinley and Harrison and Garfield.
The room is the presidents study and
consultation room. Whenever he has
an important policy to consider he is
in the habit of gathering there the par
ty leaders in congress in order to talk
it over with them. More than one polit-
ical conference of the highest impor-
tance has been held there in the last
few months. The old abinet room will
continue under Roosevelt and doubt
less under his successors to make his
tory as it has made it in the past. Its
traditions will still linger even though
it is no longer frequented by hordes
of office seekers, as was so often the
case in the days when the white house
was devoted to public business. There
is no such thing as gymnasium in the
white house, although there might we'll
be. The president takes his exercise
wherever and whenever he can, he
has nothing in the way OF system
for it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
A HANDY FORK,

stuff. The piece that goes under the
tines to hold the end of handles is
one-half by one inch. Bore one-half-
inch holes through the head. and
round off tines to fit, then nail cross
piece on under side of tine so there
is four and one-half inches space be-
tween the two pieces. Then pat the
handle on over the head and under
the crosspiece and nail it. Cut notch
(as in small cuD in end of handle
where it goes under crosspiece. Ham
die is made of a narrow strip OF
board.-F H. Peck, in Ohio Farmer
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
Italy's jolly Rulers.

All accounts agree that no royal
family in Europe gets so much simple,
democratic fun out of life as the young
king and queen of Italy and their two
baby daughters. Their eldest child,
Princess Yolanda, would be regarded
as terror if she We're of humble birth.
Being a princess, the worst ever said
of her is that she is quite vivacious."
Yolanda is nearly two years cid and
fears 40 one but her English COVER
Gess.-LoL Ion Mail
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
Dust Spraying In Favor.

Spraying materials have been APP
piled more or less from the first in the
form of a cry powder, usually diluted
with slaked lime, -four or some other
cheap substance. This method has
generally been used in treating low
growing plants like potatoes, but in
some sec. ions it has within the last
few year; been given a wider applica
ton and used in combating orchard
rests. IL is highly recommended by
some of those who have adopted it.
and appears to be of growing impor-
lance. 1t would seem to be of special
value in places where it is difficult to
get water for the wet method. Several
machines for busting plants and trees
are on the market
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

authorized by the
last congress and
which will be COM
p | e t e d in three
years. L h e new
station will be a
great step in the
d e V e | opment of
the capital, for the
existing railway
facilities are a about
as shabby as any
city of the size in
the United States
is forced to en-
dure. There are
now two stations,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

=
business himself
he could not have
d O n e a b e t t er
stroke for himself
than Major Rath-
bone did in filing
t o + m a | charges
against him just
on the eve of his
departure. fro m
the United States.
There may be a
legitimate d iv i
sion of opinion as
to whether Major
ID / L
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

"deSecratlOn OF
the white house.
If half of them
were to be be-
lieved the historic
old mansion would
indeed be in a bad
way. 1t w o II ! d
hardly be recog-
nized either out
side or in. Fortu-
II a t e ! y almost
every one of these
stories is wholly
imaginative an d
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
BuIIet-Proof BrenstpIate.

An inventor in lrkutSk. Siberia, has
constructed bullet-proof breas tplate.
The police Inspector of the town re-
Gently experimental with it, firing sew
ernl shots at the bullet-proof cloth out
of revolvers of various calibers; but
the bullets glanced of vii bout IN the
least damaging the material
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

Es'It having been reported that Will
liam ]. Bryan would convert piece
of woodland on his place into public
park, he denies it. He says: 81 have
considered the idea of making changes
so that there will be desirable shade.
but it will not be a public place" From
present indications Mr.. Bryan will
have much use for desirable shade in
the ure.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
AN EXCELLENT FORK.
Designed for the Easy Handling Of
Cut or Shredded Fodder and
All Sorts of Chan.

A handy fork for handling shred
ded or cut fodder or chaff of all
kinds is shown in the illustration. 1t
is made of one-half-inch stuff for
tines. The head is one inch square
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

square, Patriotic
societies are send
ing memorials to
the white house
asking that the
Jackson statue be
exchanged for the
equestrian statue
of w as h i ngton
which now prances
in Washington cir
Gle, a mile or so
away fro m the
center of the city.
The idea they have
in mind is to turn
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

GGvThe democrats engaged in elmi1..
ating each other grow more wrathfui
as 1904 approaches. 1t is wise proph-
eft who can estimate the size of the ir.
repressible conflict in the party rex
yeaT.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

Burn all trash from the garden; be-
sides The tidy appearance given by the
operation an untold number of insects
and fungi germs will be put beyond the
power of doing damage to the garden
this summer. The ashes will do good,
not harm. 10 the garden.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

Gylt is curious that on the eve Of
every disruption that is predicted to
take place in the republican party
owing to differences between men
clothed with sponsibility the polit-
ical sea becomes calm and the prophecy
regularly fails. The latest malicious
endeavor to open Il breach has failed
Albany Journal
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
Gooseberry and currants

Gooseberry and currants may be
propagated from cuttings. Take last
years growth of wood, stick in we'll
prepared soil so that two or more buds
are below the surface. Do this before
the buds swell. Keep free from
weeds this season. Next spring you
can transplant nice little BUSH
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
Trouble for jackson statue.

There is trouble ahead for the IA
nous old Jackson statue in Lafayette
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
A New Raii,,., station.

Ground has been broken for the new
union station in Washington which was
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
WASHINGTON LETTER
Public Men and Public Affairs at The Capital OF
the Nation.
the Nation.
The Advancement of Wood.

4 Leonard Wood goes to the Philip
pines with a clean bill of health. If he
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

The garden plot may DE cleared of
and the trash burned before the ground
IS in condition to plow.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18
White House Not De.ecrated.

Washington-Every few days some
body springs a new story about the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-18

dinoY-altogether
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-06

But there is a something that did
act, viz: energy, that has transformed
itself as it's action passed into some
thing more durable, viz: form. This
form then is the dead form of ener-
gies past, projecting itself into the
present moment of time.
If this is not the case, what has be-
come of it? In the case of the squir
rel and the stored nuts that French
presents, the result of the squirrels
energies previously expended we ex
press by the term stored Col
lected" would do as we'll; but why is
it not also form? In an economic
sense form is the most general distinc
tive term that could be employed, and
we are not in the field of art where
technical description is a necessity.
There was, then, form stored with
those nuts-the effect of the squirrels
last energies.
This throws the matter into the
field of physics for demonstration, and
it would seem as though science
should be able to demonstrate the real
facts in this problem to the plain UNI
derstanding Of the common voter and
give him solid basis of fact to rea-
son upon. A plain problem is this
a boy chewing gum expends energy
every time he brings his teeth down.
upon that gum, and the visible effect
of that act is a previous form Of that
gum destroyed and another taking its
place. Destruction and creation of
form is here demonstrated; but what
we do not yet know by demonstration
is, what becomes of the energy that
was expended in producing that form?
Is that it's finale? Is there anything
left of it after that forms destruction?
The boys energies expended in the
course of day are of quantities suf-
ficient for measurement, and science
ought to be able to ascertain whether
after form anything can be found ex-
listing in evidence of past energy.
We have as certainties form. and
energy as the only thing capable of
producing it. Form, as positive evil
dence of time that Is past. While
labor is always descriptive OF the &C
ton of energies of the present mo-
nent only. Fl. ELLINGSTON.
Minnehaha, Mimi.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-06
The Iowa Democracy

The Iowa state democratic conven-
ton rejected the Kansas City and
Chicago democratic platforms. but
nominated for governor one who had
supported those principles. The con-
vention was controlled by the "reor
ganizers," so-called. Mr.. Bryan, in
his Commoner, after delay of a
week, advises democrats in Iowa to
support the candidate because the can
didate supported the ticket in 1886
and 1900. In our opinion there is a
manifest inconsistency in this advice.
The platform repudiates the declara-
tons of 1896 and 1900; the candidate
who accepts a nomination on that
platform accepts the platform itself
and thereby repudiates the principles
OF 1895 and 1900. What is the differ
ence between man who repudiated
the principles in 1896 and 1900 and a
man who repudiates them in 1903?
If there is any the balance is in favor
of the man who rejected them in the
earlier years; because he may not
have fully understood their applica-
ton, while the man who accepted
them then rejects them now for the
compliment of nomination. Mr..
Bryan has taught us that principles
were everything; he. himself an
nounced that he would refuse the
nomination in 1900 unless the platform
contained certain declarations. If his
present advice is any indication of his
future action are we to expect that If
the national platform points one way
and the candidate leads in the other
direction that the men of 1896 and
1000 will be asked to support it, and
If not, then why should the advice be
given concerning state election? The
answer is clear We have come to
8 parting of the ways, but Mr.. Bryan
either will not or cannot see 1t He
adyices Iowa men to hold on because
he has declared that he will not ad-
NIT of the possibility that the reor-
ganizers will be in control in 1904"
His influence seeks to hold every man
in the party in the forlorn hope that
the principles of 1896 and 1900 will
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-08-06

be reaffirmed in 1904. There is only
enc glimmer in the darkness, and that
is the possibility that the Hearst men
may organize a campaign for dele
gates that will be as aggressive as the
campaign OF the reorganizers for the
control Of the convention The con-
test in the primaries will be for can
Gidates-for men; the contest in 1886
was for principles and men were nor
mentioned. This year the platform
will fit. the man who gets the dele
gates. 1t will be either Hearst or a
reorganizer if Hearst organizes cam
paign for. delegates.-E. Gerry Brown,
in Brockton (Mass.) Diamond.