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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10
GOOD ROADS.
Address by Representatlve McRee

Address by Representative McRee
A large crowd of people assem-
b|ed ut the courthouse last Mon
day afternoon to hear DR.. McRee's s
address to the county court upon
the road bill then pending before
the Legislature,
He was announced by Judge
Lawson and proceeded in sub
stance as follows:
The Doctor said he was glad to
have the opportunity to talk to
the people on the subject of roads.
"You citizens" he said, "don't
know what you have got" The
people of the state recognize Obion
as the best county in the state,
and the members of the General
Assembly openly declare that fact
in discussing the relative merits of
all the counties in Tennessee. He
wanted our people to get that fact
before them, and let it be taken
into consideration when determin-
ing the welfare of the county.
He stated that the county court
had greater interest in the road
question than the Legislature.
The solution Of the road question
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

what misunderstood. 1t was ar
enabling act to be referred to the
county court for ratification or re-
lection, and provided for the
building of steel bridges and i'm
provement of the public high
ways. 1t was introduced in the
Senate by Mr., Bowden and in the
House by DR.. McRee by request.
The right and duty of the mem-
bers of the county court rests up
on themselves. If they do not
want the bonds issued the matter
is ended. But as member Of
the Legislature he was going to
give the people the right to say
what they wanted done. He Was
only servant of the people. The
Doctor said he would not have ins-
troduced the bill if he had not fe3t
that he was serving the people.
We had one of the best counties i'll
the world and he wanted to sea beg
develop and grow side by siGse
with the best.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10
Incidents at Dresden.

The county court at Dresden ap'
poined G. S. Boyd, t. l. Little and
J. L. Mclaughlin a committee to
build a new Jail to replace that
burned two weeks ago. 1t is
thought that a structure costing
between $1,000 aud $4,000 will be
erected.
Sol Butcher, desperate negro,
Monday cut and seriously wounded
Sheriff Dobbs while resisting ar
rest. Butcher created a disturb
ance in town and the sheriff over
took him while he was trying to
make his escape. Before the sher-
iff could dismount the negro drew
a knife and cut him on the head
ane hands. Bloodhounds were Sc
cured from Martin, but could not
trail Butcher, who is supposed to
be hiding in the the thick woods
about a mile north of town. A big
crowd is in pursuit and, should he
be captured, a 1ynching is almost
sure to result. The sheriff is ex-
pected to recover.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10
CAPITAL COMMENT o.


President Roosevelt has raaso4aa-
mated Crum.
Mr.. Oxnard is again training
his guns on the Cuban treaty
BilIion,dollar Congressmen are
now common. The last one spent
81, ,554, 108,514.
"Drunk with power" pretty ae-
curately describes the prospective
Speaker Cannon.
Judge Parker of New York is
maintaining the most discreet ST.
lence yet recorded.
The special session Of the Senate
will at least accustom us to saying
FIFTY eighth Congress-"
Senators Hale and Allison man
fully supported Senator TilIman
at the Illinois "Cannon's" mouth.
The Senate still has the Pres
ideDt on its hands. I. 1t is now ex-
pected to take a few weeks dicta-
ton.
Some people are beginning to-
suspect that there was a little too
much Aldrich in the last session
of Congress.
The action of the House in re-
placing Butler with Wagner was
as expeditions and business-like as.
it was unjust.
Senator German received more
applause and more flowers than
any other Senator sworn il on Sher
5th of March.
1t was unkind in some people te
laugh when Senator Beveridge as
corted Senator Fairbanks, to the
Senate rostrum.
Have you noticed that the Re-
publican party is rapidly losing
the support of the leading Repub-
lican newspapers?
A New Yorker who was operat
ed on for appendicitis was found
to contain few tacks, ,knifeblades,
pieces of glass, etc,
There must be considerable sat
isfaction to Admiral Schley in see
ing his enemies in the Navy De-
partment step down and out.
Is j. Pierpont Morgan contem
plating the annexation of Cubaa
No one will believe he is inspect
ng the island merely for pleasure
Mr.. Darrow says President Nit
,hell advised him not to run for
mayor. Lawyer Darrow would
nave charged Mitchell fee for
such good advice.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

state in counties having a popula-
tion of less than 10000 inhabi.
tants, three commissioners to be
elected for each civil district to
hold office for two years.
If the people of Obion will dc
their duty we will have the best
county without question. When
it comes to public highways we
are woefully behind. Maury, a
smaller county than ours, hasn't a
single wooden bridge, and we
have only one steel bridge. Why
dribble out your money and waste
it. The Doctor cited cases of how
the county had built cheap bridges
out of cheap lumber and paid first
class prices for same, and that
with every winter freNhet these
were washed away. He didn't
care, how much tax was put on
him 1nder'the proposition to build
steel bridges; he knew some
thing of speculation, and didn't
know of a better investment the
county could make. 1t was the
universal opinion all over the state
not to build any more wooden
bridges.
DR.. McRee stated that the ques-
tion of issuing bonds was some
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10
ION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1908.

his factory must be kept going,
for it is an essential part Of the
New Zealand law that workmen
must not strike nor employers
lock out while dispute is pending
before the Arbitration Court.
While this "strike" is going on,
theWoman plying her needle and
thread" sits in factory kept clean
and wholesome and safe by the
state, protected from being work
ed over time, compensated for ac,
cidents, guarded by sanitary and
protective laws of the most liberal
character, secure in her work and
in her wages, unless the court de-
cides that there is a real reason for
reduction-and one half of the
court consists of judges elected by
the working people themselves in
thesr trades unions.
This is the ''New Song of the
Shirt" You have all seen the fa-
nous picture of the musician sit
ting at his organ with an anxious
face, trying to recover ''The Lost
Chord" The old "Song of the
Shirt" is a lost chord for the sweat
ers in New Zealand.-By Henry
Demarest Lloyd.
Boston.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

had become q matter of vital in
terest, growing out of the deplor-
able condition of the roads this
winter. He referred to the action
of the county court in returning
to the overseer system, saying
that in his opinion it was mis-
take, but that he recognized the
authority and intelligence of that
body of gentlemen, and was will
ing to accept their decision. The
contract system became law in
1899. 1t was good as far as it
went, but imperfect from the fact
that it did not reach far enough.
1t wasn't necessary to say why it
failed, for the reason that the fault
was not altogether with the law it
self, but the execution of the law.
The Doctor then produced a
copy of the bill which had passed
the second reading in the Senate
and was guaranteed right of way
in the House.
In the provisions of the bill the
money was to be applied directly
to the roads. The contract system
had been tried all over the state,
but met with a similar fate expe-
rienced in Obion. The Doctor
thought it the best system ever in
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

troduced and a step in the right
direction, ,Rand that it should not
have beeI abandonded on account
of misappIication of the provisions
of the law. Had not the roads
been improved, Notwithstanding
all the rair and mud, and if con
tinued wouldthey not have been
much better?
There is no question which ap-
peals to us with greater interest,
and no question which has so en-
crossed the attention of the Legis-
lature. There was no subject in
which he was more Interested than
that of the public roads. The bill
was not exactly what he wanted,
but represented the views Of
the entire assembly, and hence
the best he could get. The bill
was not limited to the contract
system, but embraced q section
providing for the overseer system
which may be adopted at the dis
cretion of the court. Under the
provisions of the bill the county
court could give US roads that the
citizens would be proud of. 1t
provides for the laying out and
working the public roads in this
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

anteed by the state, so that no one
in New Zealand need be at the
mercy of an embezzing or dishon-
est trustee.
If a man is out of work, the
government will find him work II
he is landless, the government will
find farm for him-or for her,
since women are as carefully look,
ed after as men. This farm is not
given but sold or leased, and the
government will find work for the
occupiers, if necessary, so that
they may be able to pay for the
land; and it will lend them money
on the farm itself when it has been
improved. Women have been
given them. Old men and women
who have become poor are not
sent to the poorhouse, but are Civ
en- old age pensions until they die.
The New Zealand government
has discontinued the construction
of its railroads, bridges, roads,
and other public works by con
tractors, because it found that
these sweated their workingmen.
The public works of New Zealand
are done by the government itself,
through a Department of Public
Works, without contractors, under
system of cooperative labor.
One of the greatest advantages of
this is that old men, unskilled
men, and "soft'' men, like clerks,
for whom no place can be found
by the sweating, driving contrac-
tor, are given employment, and
saved from idleness and despair.
All this brotherliness-of work
for the workless, land for the
landless, pensions for the poor,
and the like-pays, for New Zea-
land is to day more prosperous
than it has ever been before, and
is the most prosperous country in
the world.
Of all these reforms perhaps the
most interesting and most impor
tant is the system of arbitration
by which the terrible strikes which
are creating so much devastation
in other countries have become
unknown there. In New Zealand
labor questions are fought out be
tween capitalist and workingmen,
but they are fought out in a civil.
lied way, in a courtroom, and not
as elsewhere in economic battles,
with the accompaniment of idle
factories, hungry homes, and pos
sibly riots and Pinkertons. When
the sewing wemen or the clothing
makers of New York are informed
by their employers that they must
take lower wages, they are COM
PEELED either to submit or to strike.
The seamstresses, immortaiized by
Hoods pity and poetry, still exist
everywhere save in New Zealand.
Everywhere save there they are
still driven by the sweater from
their dingy garret to one still din
gier, and from scanty crust to
one still scantier. Bot in New
when a would be sweater
tells his sewing women that they
must take lower wages, they ap-
peal to the Arbitration Court. |
The manufacturer must appear
and meet a representative of the
women before the court. He
must, if necessary, produce his
books for examination by the
Judges. He will not be allowed
70 cut below a living wage. He
will not be allowed to reduce
wages at all if the Investigations
If the court show that he is max
ng living profit. Best of all,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

AeSeAA O'tO . - - =
Hoods lines,
HWith fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
"A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread"
have stirred the hearts and con
sciences of mankind. Perhaps
there are not in literature any 9th
er four lines of poetry which have
done as much as these to spur the
sympathetic and the wise to chari-
tY and reform.
But there is a new "Song of the
Shirt" as full of Joy as this is of
sorrow. This new "Song of the
Shirt is sung in New Zealand, the
country which is famous for being
tile one in the world which is GA
country without strikes" New
Zealand is a land of great beauty,
perhaps the most beautiful in the
world. 1t has mountains as grand
as those Of Switzerland, lakes as
lovely as Windermere, LAX e
George, or the nLago di Como;
fjords equal to those of Alaska or
Norway; towering forests that
paint the land for miles on miles
with pink and white and scarlet
glory; plains with rivers, trees,
and meadows as charming as those
Of England; wonder in geysers,
mud volcanoes, and grotesque for
nations as striking as those of our
wonderland in the Yellowstone.
And once in a while, as an extra,
there is genuine volcanic eruption
or and earthquake. The climate
is perfection the healthlest in
the world, with no extremes, which
is perhaps one reason why peo-
pie has grown up there determined
to have no extremes of riches or
poverty. This people are of the
same blood as Washington, Jefer-
son, Adams, and the colonials of
Massachusetts, and Virginia whom
they led in the formation of our
American republic. 1t is the most
English people on the globe to-
day, and thence New Zealand is
coming to be called NewestEngland.
This vigorous Anglo-Saxon peo
ole in vigorous climate and
glorious country, with great OPP
portunitY, have set themselves to
achieve several reforms which the
rest Of the world has only got far
enough to talk about. The work
they have done is so important
that it is truly a revolution, but
not q revolution of the French
style. 1t is a revolution OF the
American style, peacefully accom-
plished at the ballot box.
The people insure their lives
through government life in
surance department. Working
men are given compensation for
accidents, but the government
eases the burden of this upon the
employers by enabling them to in
sure their workingmen through an
accident insurance bureau, added
to the life-insurance department,
and bill for a government fire
insurance department is now be-
fore Parliament. The people own
the railroads, and run them at the
cost of service, and not fer profit.
For instance, school children are
carried free to school." There is
public trustee, who will manage
any ones property for him, or ex-
cute a will, or carry out an endow-
ment, and whose honesty is guar
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

Our wagon passes your door every
day; or phone 100 for bread, cakes,
fruits and everything good to eat.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10

List your property with us. We
look after tax and general improve
ments, and then we get the rent.
PARKS, TURNER CALDWELL.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-04-10
THE NEW SONG
OF THE SHIRT

The old "song of the Shirt is
familiar enough. For generations
Hoods lines,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-12-05
Manager Wanted.

Trustworthy lady or gentleman TO manage
business in this comfy ANA adjoining territory
for well and favOrahly known House OF solid
financial standing. so straight cash salary
and expenses. paid each Monday by check
direct from headquarters. Expense money
advanced; position permanent Address,
MANAGER. 6i0 MONON BLDG, CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-12-05

State neW$


?, 1904.
The Searchlight Miners Union
has taken steps to call off the
strike at that camp.
A correspondent of the Reno
Journal warns miners against go
ing to Goldfelds to find employ
ment.
There are now 1858 pupils en-
rolled in the Reno public schools,
the largest number in the history
of the city.
A representative of an Eastern
wool house has just purchased
quarter of a million pounds OF
fleece in Eastern Nevada.
Forty men and four twelve
horse teams are employed in min
ing and the transportation of sui
phur from the Black Rock desert
mines.
A coroner's jury returned yer
dict that c. w Dresback, the
stage driver found near Wells,
was killed by falling from the
vehicle.
There is no snow on the sum-
nit of the Sierras, the light fall of
this year having all melted. The
mountains are eryadry at the
present time. be-,
Prof. H. H. Howe, principal of
the Carson schools, was elected
principal of the Teachers Asso-
citation of Nevada at the recent
meeting in Reno.
The mill being erected at Tono-
pah by the leasers to reduce the
ore they took out "a couple of
years ago is completed with the
exception of the roof.
The Eureka and Palisade rail
road has attached the Nevada
Copper Company's property in
White Pine county for money due
for freight transportation.
The Secretary of the Interior
has made a ruling allowing min
eral locations within boundaries of
lands withdrawn temporarily for
proposed forest reservations.
Clearing away the debris from
the Gold Hill end of the Home
stead tunnel is progressing more
rapidly than anticipated, about
200 feet having been cleaned out
so far.
There are now confined within
the walls of the State Prison more
prisoners than at any time within
the past thirteen years, or nearly
twice as many as there were two
years ago.
A cleanup of the test run of
Yellow Jacket ore is being made.
If the returns prove satisfactory,
eight commentators will be added
to the equipment of the Bruins
wick mill.
Three new cabooses for the San
Pedro-Los Angeles railroad passed
through Reno going west last
evening. They will be delivered
to the new company by way of
Los Angeles.
The Buffers plant in Virginia is
to be shut down temporarily,
pending a number of somewhat
extensive alterations in the pro-
cess, which will be made as speed
lily as possible.
The Times Review has made
its appearance again as a weekly.
Editor Plunkett says the pros
poets for Tuscarora do not war
rant the publication of the paper
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-12-05
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Full Sci Free
To Readers Of the
Chronicle
THE SAN FRANCISCO
I "CHR lNICIE" has ar

THE SAN FRANClSCO
i "CHR 0NICLE" has ar
ra4ssl for the reproduction OF a
series OF pictures Of the OLD
MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA, 10
- oven away FREE 10 readers
- Inc Svnday edition.
II sc arc mol common pictures;
NY arc masterpieces o. arr and
= orEaa ship, prepared with great
care aad expense, vividly portray
ins lro the he's, view points,
The lnte te5tinS features OF these
famous and historical old struc-
lures now fast falling away.
Those Of yov who are lucky
enough 10 set th.m will have set
Of arI works thai cannot be pro
erred clse<here. Gems, each and
ev r. one, with a lii lie historical
inscription about their rom0nceS.
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Items Of Interest Clipped
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which is Just now attracting con-
siderable attention. A twelvefoot
vein of silver-lead ore has been
uncovered on the surface.
Goldfields, the new mining camp
in Esmeralda county, continues to
attract a great deal of attention.
There are over two hundred men
in the camp now and more than
one hundred houses and tents.
Joseph Williams was shot and
seriously injured at Wadsworth
Wednesday night by woman of
the town known as Elizabeth Doe.
She was arrested and charged
with assault with intent to kill.
The c. P. Company has decided
to give Elko the best passenger
depot in Nevada, to cost between
81 5000 and $4,000. 1t will con-
tain waiting and baggage rooms, a
fine ticket Office and suitable
rooms for the express Office.
Superintendent Asbury of the
Indian School has received a let
ter from Judge Brown strongly
recommending an effort for the
communication of the sentence of
Goethe Sigmiller, now under SEN
tence of death at the State Prison
at Carson.
At Coppertown, Plumas county,
last Sunday. two Indians with
their brains fired with liquor got
into dispute over a game of
cards upon which some money
had been wagered, resulting in
the killing of one and the prob
able severe punishment of the
other
The Gazette has received infor-
nation from an authentic source
that the construction work at
Hartman will be continued all
Winter. A report has been going
the rounds that the company was
preparing to close down for time
during the wet season, but it was
without foundation.
The mines at Fay have been
sold for $4,000 cash to a syndicate
of wealthy Fasteners, who pro-
pose to put in improved machin-
cry and work them on an exten-
sive scale. The property is located
in the southeastern portion of the
State and has been worked upon
small scale at different periods.
Louis Silva, an Italian wood
chopper, was shot by Mexican
at wood camp at Lone Noun
tain last week. Two shots took
effect, one entering the abdomen
and the other just below the
shoulder blade, causing paralysis,
from which the Italian is in a pre-
carious condition. The Mexican
escaped.
The DeLamar Lode states that
there are 1900 teams and 1000 sin
gle hands at work on the grade
between Calientes and the Muddy
a distance of nearly sixty miles.
At the Muddy a town to be called
Moapa has been laid out, and it is
the general belief that it will be
the end of a division. About
twenty-five miles of grade is fin
ished below Calientes.
The trials of the accused muir
derers of the Chinaman in the
Tonopah riot began in Belmont,
Nye county, on the sd. The least
important cases will be brought
up first. Arandall, the president
of the Tonopah Labor Union, who
is believed to have been the lead
er of the mob, is endeavoring to
get a change of venue, and would
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-12-05
THE FIRST ONE

A picture Of MISSION SAN
DIEGO de ALCALA will BE- given
with THE SUNDAY CHRONICLE,
July Sth, and on each cons scytye
Sunday thereafter, one will be
given until the series is complete.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-09-10

to the contestants themselves and to
many others, who were betting that IL
inches or more would be the record
But two men. Guy Gallagher and e.
Coleman, entered, the latter drilling
III inches aud the former l0l inches.
The drilling was ln the same kind Of
rock as double handed contest, and the
prize. ncluiing entrance fees, amount
ed to $40.
The only decidedly bum affair OF the
whole day was the baseball game be-
tween the Ely snd Luud Georgetown
teams for a birrell OF beer. So dis.
eu.tingly rotten was the playing OF the
Ely boys that after few innings they
gave up the beer and acknowled an
| tnoble defeat.
Thus ended the sports OF one OF the
best holiday dsys Ely has ever seen.