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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-29
A Fine Institution.

DR.. Kessel's Hospital is situated In
the center of grounds which consist
of l5a acres in the Northwest part of
Cresco-away from all noise, dust. and
c Confusion
Fourteen varieties of trees are scat
tered over the grounds. The building
consists Of two stories and a basement.
Entire length SO feet and width 80
feet. Kitchen, dining room, wash
room, cellar, pantry and china closet
constitute the basement.
The first floor has ward containing
four beds, two private rooms, asittlng
room and reception hall.
The second floor has four private
rooms, a bath room, operating room
and office. Two Of the rooms were
furnished by the o. e S. and I. o. O.
F. at cost of about 5000 each. The
operating room in the MOI Invest
corner, with good North light has
all the modern Improvements The
building has city heat, maple floors,
gas and electric,lights.
The Hospital has been running one
year and has had sixty-three cases
most of which were surgical. The
Drs. Mayo, of Rochester, have been
assisting with the major operations.
The nurse in charge is a graduate of
Monroe st. hospital Chicago, of whom
too much cannot be said. Then there
are other nurses as circumstances re-
quire.
I cannot see why so many needing
surgical operations and care in hos
pital should prefer going far away
from home to have work done when
they can have the advantage of the
best skilled physicians in the land,
and more and better care than they
can get in hospitals that are always
crowded with patients-and the beau
ty Of 1t is that it is at home. THOMAS
RICE Canton Free Lance.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-29
ROOM EIGHTH.
HIGH SCHOOL,

Leah Kline
Ethel McCatfrey
Ida Norton
Chas Graf
Mildred Steinman
Gertie Thompson
Nelson Carmen
VIM Connolly
Anna Davis
Maude Gibbons
Arlie Mcmillan
Louise Fer inovsky
Leslie Steinman
Chas White
Emily Beadle
Lillian Borchard
Lydia Dempewolfe
Zina Fessenden
Dora Perry
Leone West
Kenneth Welsh
Irene Barker
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-29

Cresco foot ball players are being
heard from. Last Saturday occurred
the first game In which the S. I. U.
played, wining from Cornell by a
score of to 0, Will Davis making the
ouly touchdown in the game. Elmer
Davis did not play on account of a
sore foot. The Highland Park Col
lege had game with Ames last week
and James Barrett. playing half-back
with them, made 20 yard run and
received special mention in the DeS
Moines paper for brilliantplaying.
The republican caucuses so far held
indicate the almost unanimous nomi-
nation of F. A. Wildman for superin-
tendent, Miss Clink having secured
only the jamestown delegation. For
treasurer Kakac and Sanborn are
about even, with the chances slightly
in favor of the former, he having 80
votes sure to Sanborn's %; Kakac car
rying the three Cresco wards, Ches-
ter. Saratoga and part of Jamestown;
and Sanborn having the delegations
form Forest City, Albion. Howard
Center and Vernon Springs. The
other caucuses have have not yet been
held
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-29
Timber for Sale.

WHEELER & MARSHALL.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
Loads @00 North Carolina Daily Circulation
STRIDES OF THE SEABOARD
UNDER JOHN s. WILLIAMS
Increase of Fifty Per Cent in Net Earnings and Ten
Per Cent in Mileage. No Change
in Control.

t1hos. Grasty in Manufacturers Record.l
The very unusual private and public
expressions and deliverances that came
up from the South when it was an.
nounced that the houses of Williams &
Sons and Middendorf & Co. were in trou-
bic had the effect Of focusing public at
tention on one asset that John SHELTON
Williams and ]. w. MIDI ndorf and their
firms held beyond possibility of loss
through stock fluctuations. financial pam
lie or industrial depression. to wit, the
confidence OF the people. The embarrass.
ment Of the houses that financed the See
board brought out the fact that SHELTON
Williams had managed to "grapple unto
his soul with hooks of steel an army
of warm, loyal. devoted friends.
So widespread feeling of almost affec-
tionate concern for the future status OF
this splendid Virginian in respect to the
railroad system Of which he was the or
ganizer. and as to the future of the Sea
board itself, kept the people of the South
on the lookout for news as to the out
come of the troubles that had overtaken
the two firms with which he was identi
fed. People everywhere in the States
traversed by that system have been anx-
ious to be assured that he would con-
tinue TO hold the fort And so when
among other stories that originated in
New York. one more elaborate than the
rest appeared purporting TO define his
new status as that of railroad president
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
EQUALITY AND SEPARATION.

EQUALITY AND SEPARATION.
Charlotte News ~
Equality is a taking word, for the op-
posite, inequality, is equivalent to injus.
tice. The caste spirit that denies human
rights Is all wrong. That which merely
requires separation may be both wise
and beneficent. If the phrase Social equal
ity' had been Social separation" the
thing itself, that is much better defined
by the latter term than by the former
would scarcely have had an advocate,
certainly have had few among the white
race save those that go to the fanatical
extreme OF demanding the mingling of
white and negro blood in marriage. About
the only valuable historical reference in
Professor Bassett's paper on Race Anti
pathy was that to the punishment admin.
istered in Virginia and in North Carolina
for such degradation as the mingling OF
blood, in the one case By marriage and
in the other without it. 1t is q pity that
the law and its punishment was ever re-
Taxed in either case.
In protesting against social equality, in
the sense Of social separation the white
race is not trying to save itself from be-
ing equalled by the negro i'll any line
The white race has no reason, from his
tory. from ancestry or from present con.
ditions, to fear the best efforts that the
negro can put forth for his own improve
ment, SO little TO fear that III the South
| at least the white race has been most
generous in helping to lift him up. No
| white man objects TO a negro becoming
as we'll educated az possible, TO his to.
coming the best workman possible for
him to become, to his becoming as great
in the spheres of oratory or of author
ship, or in any profession, as is possible
In fact, the South takes q sort of collec-
tive pride in the attainments of a negro,
| especially full-blocded negro, when he
does not spoil them with conceit and
effrontery.
Just, so, thoughtful men in the Souti,
see a hopeful sight in the fact that there
is beginning to be formed a social sphere
among the negroes. from which are ex
Guided the immoral and the vicious. And
no well regulated white man cares how
high in their own social rank. as com
pared with the white mans society. the
negro may attain. 1t is only insisted that
the social spheres shall be absolutely and
forever separate. There may be more o,
less intercourse between the races in the
industrial, in the business. in the religious
spheres, except where these i.npinge upon
the social sphere. But the mingling OF
white and negro society means a condi-
ton too horrible for Anglo-saxons to
consider with any degree of federation.
even in thought. 1t may as well be said
that the defence of the South in the Civil
War would be as nothing TO the spirit
with which the Anglo-Saxon woman de-
fend the right to their purity of blood.
1t might be said that they would die en-
masse in that defense
The South is not unjust to the negs 0
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
...The Logical Outcome.

(Webster's Weekly }

Holy martyr>l Booker Washington greater
man than Kl'gol Our head swims. Surely
that is carrying the thing too far Yet 1t IS
the discovery of DR.. BA,Sett, member Of
the faculty of Trinity college. Th- State
papers are roasting him, and even thr Raj Ugh
Post says his usefulness is at an end Well,
WE'LL
But seriously. this thing is logical. First,
Duke robs the people: then he establishes
an institution and endows it; the professors.
independent of the public as to salary, pro-
coed to ignore it and make asses of them
selves under the delusion that they are great
original investigators of sociological prob
lens. They first discover that Thomas JET
ferson is not only greatly overated, but
monster, and now that Booker Washington
is the greatest man, with one exception, that
the South has produced ii century,
The MethodISts ought to get rid OF the whole
outfit or invite Booker up and make him
president and open the doors to the coming
race, whom Professor Bassett says can not
be denied equality or account of their flat
noses and black skins. Why the delay?
The wife of Trinity professor has said
that with two exceptions every professor at
Trinity is a free thinker. Let them be free
thinkers but for Gods sake let the Metho-
dist Church withdraw. from the whole mess
its seal of approval.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08

Line system and the Seaboard Air Line
system yet Atlantic Coast Line stock Is
quoted in the market about 112, and is
highly regarded at that price, while Sea-
board Air Line stock is quoted about L.
In closing, Mr.. Williams said:
There is some reason to believe that
systematic efforts have recently been
made to depress the value of Seaboard
securities and injure the credit of the COM
pany. but have no hesitation in saying
10 the security holders of his company
that, in my Judgment, their securities are
today intrinsically more valuable than
they nave ever been at any time in the
past. and that believe that the company
will not only continue to earn q surplus
equal to more than per cent. on the pre-
ferred stock, but that it's surplus earnings
will largely increase from year to year"
! When he had finished l said: But you
| haven't answered my question as TO your
own status as president" His answer
was: ''There has been absolutely no
change in my relationship to the system.
My official position is just what it has
always been, with no curtailment of its
powers or prerogatives. l and my own
close friends still own more than q ma
jority of the company's stock. No change
of policy is under consideration further
than to work harder than ever to develop
our resources and make the most of our
opportunities"
That John Shelton Williams has passed
through some trying ordeals since the
embarrassments of his own firm and Mid
dendorf's is undeniable But he has never
for one moment (as l am told by those
who know lost his courage. his good a
ture or his head. The man who can keep
calm, serene and cheerful withal under
such stress and perplexity is a man to be
reckoned with by the captains of affairs
Self-reliance that stays with man while
the crash is ON is a quality that his enc
mics should take into account in planning
his undoing.
! New York, November 8.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08

and the Southern man in debarring him
with a determination as fixed as fate
from any social privileges in the same So
cial sphere, is not treating the negro with
inequality. And just here we would like
to put in a word against an injustice that
he is to some extent the victim of now
One of the best things that North Caro-
lima ever did was to separate the Wv"
races on the cars and IN the waiting
rooms Of our railroad stations. But the
Jaw requiring that separation requires also
that there shall be 10 difference IN the
accommodations, and that law is not en-
forced as it should be- It would be a
generous thing if, by white initiative, the
railroads were compelled to obey the let
ter and the spirit of that law. No, social
separation does not mean inequality in
the sense of injustice. And the more we
think Of it the more we wonder that a
Southern man should have been guilty OF
the folly of Professor Basset. He admits
that the negro wants social equality in
the usual sense of that phrase-"it is not
dlstasteful to the negro to eat his dim
ner or to go to churches or to theatres
with white men" He declares that the
negro considers the separation of the
races III railroad car "a badge OF in
tolerance which he will some day seek to
wipe out" And then he draws upon his
knowledge of history and says: 81 am
persuaded that it is in many respects the
cid conflict between the Roman plebs ana
the Roman patrician over again. 1t ought
to be shorter than that conflict, and the
| issue ought to be more fortunate, than
the issue of the Roman conflict; for Am.
erican life is richer ind better than Roman
life"
Now if Prof. Basset understands at all
that reference to history, he knows that
the conflict ended with the intermingllng
of patrician and plebean blood. But they
were all Romans, not only of the white
: race but of the Italic race, Does the
professor mean that in shorter space OF
time, we shall see the breaking down Of
all barriers between these races that are
at opposite poles from one another? Does
he look forward with complacency, con-
sidering the greater richness OF our Am
erican life, TO the time when his own
descendants shall be of tawny color?
Southern newspapers were criticised for
suggesting to President Roosevelt. anent
the Booker Washington dinner. the pos
sibility of an alliance between the houses
of Roosevelt and Washington. Professor
Bassett suggests the same thing tor tue
whole Southern people after short con-
fict
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
The Neanest Man.

wjnterville. y. c.. Nov. 5.-A man with
bride of only three weeks to desert and
leave her among strangers deserves pun
ishmen. more severe than human IN
genuity can inflict We know OF such a
case net thousand miles from our door:
yet not thing has been done TO the ras-
cal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
THE PRESS ON BASSETT.
Extracts From Newspapers That do Not
Approve the View Of the Trinity
Professor.
Professor.

The article of Professor Basset has aroused the people
II the State from the to the mountains From day 10
dav extracts from other newspapers have appeared in these
columns. Below give other utterancss:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-08
TAKING PROF. BASsETT TOO sERI-
OUSLY

Norfolk Vlrglnlan-Pllot.
Several contemporaries are more or
less incensed because of paper by Prof
John S. Bassett in the current number
of the South Atlantic Quarterly, in the
course OF wazA the declaration is made
Cont h on Tenth Page.)
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06

wise provision of the city charter for.
bidding unconditional alienation.
Then their gloating eyes fell on the
old courthouse with the gilded dome.
They thought of selling that. They
hoped to obtain 100000 apiece for
their votes on this. They were going
to give the courthouse away; that is,
the city was to get nothing for It eN-
cept two top stories free of rent In
a large office building to be erected
on its site. This failed by reason of
the title, to the ground limiting the
use to courthouse purposes, else to
revert to the original owners.
Then they concluded to sell the
Union market, but the market men
had considerable political influence.
With this and the sum of $4,000 they
raised and paid the members they
succeeded in stopping the sale. Then
came the exposure. Now some Of
these representatives are fugitives
from justice in foreign countries;
others have turned states evidence;
the remainder have faced juries,
and eighteen OF these givers and
takers of brides have received SEN
fences ranging from two to seven
years in the penitcntiary.
Doesn't it seem strange that a free
people should elect thieves TO be the
makers of their laws. If these things
had taken place in the medieval ages
we would have marveled at it, What
must we think when we reflect that
all this occurred in the great metrop-
oils of our own state-in our own
time. Such is the city.
Have you in the country done much
better in selecting your representa-.
tives? The lieutenant governor of the
state has confessed to more boodling
than it was thought possible for on5
man to commit. The honor of tho
state has been peddled around by the
seekers of brides in return for off
cial influence. The lieutenant gov
ernor himself distributed bride money
amongst certain senators. Thou
sand-dollar bills have been caught
sight of here and there, with sena
tors in hot pursuit. law makers hav,
confessed to boodlng extending
through a period of twelve years, in
dicating that legislation has beer
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06
CIRCUIT ATTORNEY JOSEPH w. FOLK, or sT. LOUIS.

more right TO use their official pow
ers for personal gain, or to repay
personal obligations, than they would
have to put their hands into the pub
lie treasury to pay private debt.
hope to see the day come in Missouri;
and all over this land of ours, when
officialintegrity will be held as sacred
as female virtue, and as zealously
guarded.
There are some WHO deplOre the
exposure of corruption on the
ground that IL Injuries the city or
state. No community can he hurt
by the enforcement of law. Cor
ruPtIOR can not be cured by hiding
II. There IL mo- secret remedy known
for IL. Exposure and punishment
of public pIundeFers In n states
honor, not its shame. The disgrace
IN in tolerance, not an correction.
IL II more honorable to correct
evils than 10 bear them in iRnObIe
silence. The ORIy way 20 stamp cut
corruption Is 40 strike IL hard
whenever and wherever Il reaFs Its
NAAg manu. ~ N Oh COURSE n9AuhAAuN-
iRE to know so much corruption has
gone ON so long without hiRdranee.
but Il IL more PRtriOtir GO apply the
knife OF the law to the eancerOaA
growth, than by tolerance TO allow
Il 40 eat into and destroy civic
life.
The issues are made up in the case
of the state of Missouri against pub
lie plunderers. The defendants are
powerful and well organized They re-
sort to every subterfuge to stay or
turn aside the wrath of the people.
Their allies do not dare come out in
the open and defend corruption, but
on one pretext or another they seek
to accomplish the same purpose. They
cry out, "Slandering Missouri" Did
any one ever claim that the exposure
and punishment of murder. arson or
other crimes slandered the state
Why are they SO sensitive about oil
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06

whtn 1T win be too late to protest?
st. Louis and Missouri are but two
types of what some other cities and
states are, If they were exposed as
corruption has been laid bare here.
There are many problems con-
fronting the American people to-
day, but there IN none more serious
than the subject OF the eradication
of bribery. other questions con-
Germ the functions OF government,
while bribery undermines the foun-
dalton of government itself. Under
our form of government ali authors
~ IL vested In the people, ana by
them delegated TO those who repre-
sent them. Every power possessed
by an OmcinI belongs not 60 him,
but 60 the people who gave it In
trust, to be administered for the
public good, not for private gain. n
there be an ORense greater than all
others, Il IL that of him in whom
such "a sacred trust has been re-
posed, who sells IL for his own gain
and enrichment. He is worse than
the thief, for he not only plumbers,
but violates his trust. He IL worse
than ~ murderer, for the murderer
takes the life of an Individual,
while the corrupt OmcIaI aims at
the assassination of the common
wealth.
Bribery, AZ allowed to go on.
would he fatal TO the civic life of
any people.
No government can long exist
where IL II tolerated. II all official
acts were for sale, then we would
have not a government of and for
the people, but "A government of and
for the few with wealth enough to
purchase official fnVOrs.
Other offenses violate the law, while
bribery strikes at the foundation oil
| all law The givers and takers OF
brides are the enemies of the repub
lie, the greatest enemies we have to
deal with to-day, for when Legislation
becomes a commodity the liberties oil
the people will be lost. Officials are
trustees of an express trust, to be
administered for the public good. Toe
many otficeholders do not realize they
are the agents of the people, acting
in fiduciary capacity; they have nc
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06

bought and sold like merchandise.
sentatives of the people would send
one of their number to start the
"drift-wood" down the legislative
stream. They would be delighted 10
receive message from their ennis.
saTy, "River rising fast; drift-wood
coming down; be there tomorrow"
"Drift-wood" was their word for
bride money. Yet these officials con-
sidered themselves honest.
1t is related of a senator that he
sold his vote on a pending measure
for $500, receiving the bride in ane
bill. He took the train on his way
home. Having to ride all night, he
engaged a sleeping car. While he was
asleep the porter stole his purse con-
tanning the $500 bride money. When
the senator awoke the next morning
and discovered his loss he was indig-
nant. Suspecting the porter, he had
that person called before him and ac-
cused of the larceny. The porter be-
came frightened, confessed and re-
turned inc tnoutys L ne SNh0btI manu-
ed the porter SIS bill, saying, 81
could send you to the penitentiary
for this, but / will not do so. Instead,
1 give you this advice, which you
should keep in mind the rest of your
life, wherever you may be, under any
and all circumstances, remember that
honesty is the best policy" These
are only few instances of corrup-
ton. l can not in this brief adddess
more than give faint idea of the
real rottenness that existed. The
story of corruption in st. Louis and
in Missouri, as revealed by sworn tes-
timony, would I'M volumes.
These revelations should bring the
blush of shame 10 honest citizens for
having permitted such state of af-
fairs to exist. Where will the end
be? Win the people rule, or win they
supinely permit themselves to be fur
Their iieeced untn the time comes
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06
shaw and Req Tnpe.

For hundred years, maybe, it has
been the rule of the treasury depart
ment that if a corporation received
government check or warrant, that
warrant must be Endorsed by some
person specifically authorized by the
board of directors of the corporation
to indorse it before the treasury
would pay it. Any bank in the coun-
try, if not in the world, win accept
the usual Endorsement of any corpora
ton, but in the case of the treasury
warrants il was held that the person
making the Endorsement must have
direct and specific authorization from
the board of directors, and proof of
this authorization had to be filed at
the treasury department. The com
panies doing business with the depart
ment have been kicking about this
trifie for years-it made an endless
amount of trouble. Finally Secretary
Shaw heard about it. He ordered il
stopped.
"But," protested some of the treas
ury people, "this rule has been in
force hundred years here"
That's long enough for any rule,
especially foolish one, to be in ex-
istenee," said Mr.. Shaw "StOp it, and
if the government losses any money
by its being stopped, I will pay the
loss out of my own pocket"
The rule was dropped and chorus
OF approval went up from the people
doing business with the treasury
n. Y. Times.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06
FOLKS FIRST SPEECH.
Given a Rousing Reception by Fif-
teen Thousand People of Mont
gOmery and Surrounding
Counties.

They Were I'm Attendance ON the
Old Settlers Reunion mt New
Florence, and Listened with In-
terest to lhe Words of st. Louis
Circuit Attorney.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06

The man who lives the longest does
not always live the most.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06

Styles change, but good manners
are the same every day.