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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-12-16

uleuUS UdhCu IL olII uuC l CCOi I'D VI GuC
company for period of three years
the proposed plan, at least, equals
the present as a revenue producer,
and would save the policy holder
% cents on each 800 every five
years. l wish, therefore, to SUBJ
NIT the proposition to the member
ship of our company with the view
of ascertaining their wishes relative
to the advisability of adopting the
proposed method of collecting in
surance funds, and request every
policy holder to mail me a postal
card expressing his choice in the
matter before the annual meeting,
which occurs in Redwood Falls,
Jan. I'd, 1904
| would respectfully urge the
farmers to manifest their interest
in cooperative insurance by attend
ing the annual meeting. | have or
dered number of very appropriate
calendars representing our compa-
ny. for distribution, which will be
something novel in design, and
serve as reminder of what we
have achieved by cooperative effort.
A. d. STEWART, Sec y.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
WHO'S WHO IN CONGRESS.
"HIstoriaI, Document of Unique I'm
p~Ortance.
Philadelphia Ledger.


recent refined criticism Of the tendency
OF contemporary literature discerns that the
writing of history, properly so described,
has ceased. 1t has been supplanted by
biography. That is to say, there is now
adays little interest in the large currents
OF events; no one is occupied with the
philosophy OF progress; men, rather than
epochs or movements, are studied, and his
tory has become an elaborate curiosity Of
parsonage.
Viewed in the light Of this tendency,
the Congressional directory is an historical
document Of unique Importance, containing
as II does Biographies of the notable figures
who wrestle in the arena Of national at-
fairs. A new edition Of this invaluable
compendium affords the student access to
sources at once Illuminating and enter
tanning. Biography loses nothing by being
elf-indicted, and when the autobiograph-
ers are Ingenious with the fresh candor OF
the American politician We may reason
ably expect a series Of memoranda rich
In elements Of the picturesque-whteh &C
cordingly we find in this little regarded
publication.
The Congressional Record may furnish
the tex of an occasional act, display the
motive and intention OF legislation and even
/ trace the pOllllCdh uloNoly =" $500
but what fact noted in its pages shines
with the interest attaching to the infor'
nation, now first impaired to an eager
world. that the wife Of the member from
CarroIlton, Ill, is interested in philan-
thropy? The touch of reality is laid upon
an event which might. on a merely casual
view. be passed as Of slight Significance
in. the broad course OF human history
when the fact emerges that an "all-dsy
downpour OF rain" fell in Arkansas on
the fateful day that seated a new member
from that commonwealth In the Fifty
eighth congress. Vast illumination falls
upon large questions Of national policy
when II is learned that another new men,
Der was interested in athletics when he was
in college; international affairs are trans
figured In the great white light OF the fact
that a modest gentleman from Iowa wa'
importuned for years TO run for congress
but persistently refused while the eolossa
interests OF epoch-making treaties shrinl
into insignihcance beside the consideration
that Ohio now sends as a congressman
man who since 1882 has been engaged II
the manufacture OF nsnnelette undergar
ments at sandusky, Clyde Fremont an'
Tim.
These are the original sources 10 Whlei
the future historian will turn TO NIL out
adorn and vivify the harsh outlines Of hi
eountry's story.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
4 SUIT AGAINST TRADES UNIONS.

The strike of street car employees at
Waterbury, Connecticut, has attracted
very general attention chiefly because of
the lawlessness that marked 1t, which
made necessary the calling out of the
militia. There is another phase of the
conflict. however. which is of interest
and this is the civil suit for $4,000 dam
ages brought by the street railway com
pany against the union Of street car
employees and the several trades unions
that aided the strikers, principally in
the way of a boycott.
We believe this is the first suit of the
kind in this country, but there is Eng
lish precedent In the recent famous
pany obtained heavy damages from a
labor organization Oh account of injuries
to it resulting from a strike. In that
case judgment was rendered against the
labor organization on the ground that
its agents had caused acts in themselves
unlawful to be committed to the injury
Of the company. The English court de-
clared that a strike in itself was lawful,
hence no damage could be claimed sim
ply because of a strike; but II IN prose
cutting a strike the union or its agents
carry it on by unlawful means, then
the union may be sued and mulcted in
damages If the charges of unlawful con
duct be proved. 1t was also held that
a conspiracy to !njure an employer by
unlawful means exposes strikers to re-
prisals of this character In the courts.
1t appears evident that the suit brought
by the Waterbury street car company
is an attempt to establish the English
precedent in American Jurisprudence,
therefore the result will have great and
general interest. 1t is probably a safe
prediction that the company viii not
win.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

value Of these corporations is unwar-
ranted and absurd.
The most conservative estimate Of the
loss which the city of Omaha alone
would sustain by a change from the
basis laid down by the supreme court
to the basis proposed by the public
utility corporations would be $4,000 a
year in taxes aud that amount would be
saddled upon all the other taxpayers.
The loss that South Omaha, Lincoln and
other towns and cities in Nebraska, that
do not own gas. electric lighting or
water supply plants, or street railways,
would be proportionate, but even IL the
loss was trivial the principle is wrong
and should be resisted at all hazards.
1t is equally wrong with regard to one
class Of franchised corporations as with
another, equally wrong whether applied
to telephone, gas, water or street rail-
way companies.
If the cities of Nebraska are to be
compelled to bear the burdens which in
justice should be borne by the railroads
they certainly should not be made to
bear also in addition thereto the burdens
that have been justly imposed by the
supreme court upon public utility cor
porations whose profits all come from
the special privileges they enjoy in the
respective cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
TAKE No STEP BACKYARD.

The attempt to pipeline through the
new revenue bill an ingenious scheme
that would nullify the ruling of the
supreme court ON the assessment of the
franchises Of public utility corporations
should be resisted and defeated by the
legislature. These corporations ap-
pealed to the supreme court from the
assessment of the tax commissioner of
Omaha and the court laid down as the
basis of franchise taxation of this class
of corporations the value of their stocks
and bonds after deducting therefrom the
assessed valuation of their tangible
property.
This ruling was on all fours with the
decision rendered by the circuit and
supreme courts OF the United states and
should by rights be applied to the valu-
alton for taxation. Of the properties of
all corporations enjoying franchises as
common carriers. The proposition to
set aside the supreme court decision and
adopt a new basis for the assessment
of the property of one or more of these
i"' AMY NbAIplhAlOhS Is NIOuk III
principle and wrong in practice.
The taxpayers of this city, as repre-
sented through the Omaha Real Estate
exchange, were forced into the courts by
the Notwithstanding corporations and
for nearly two years were compelled TO
carry on the contest at great expense
and an immense amount of hard work.
1t was confidently expected that the
legislature would extend the principle
laid down by the supreme court de-
cision for the taxation of public utility
corporations to the railroad companies,
telephone companies and public carriers
of every description in the assessment
of their properties for state, county and
municipal purposes. Whether the legis.
lature adopts or rejects this mode of
taxation for railroad and telegraph com.
panies' 1t certainly would be repre-.
hensible for it TO deprive the rank and
nile Of taxpayers of Omaha, Lincoln and
= every other town of the benefits that
have accrued to them by reason of In,
: supreme courts decision.
1t is conceded on all hands that tn,
franchises of corporations that enjoy
the monopoly Of supplying cities will
gas. water electric light, street railway.
I and telephone constitute by far the mos
valuable asset of these corporations
which are stocked and bonded any
e where from five to fifty times the yalu
I of their tangible property. The assump
q ton that the gross receipts of thes
( corporations for a single year woul
represent as near as San be the franohla
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
Personal NOTES.

DR.. william A. Mum, former president
of the Colorado State Medical society and
recently the head OF the Board of Health, OF
Denver, is dead.
Israel Z~angwill, when asked recently what
special outdoor pastime he loved the most.
replied Enthusiastically: A forms Of
,ocomotion except b~alooning."
prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumuiakha,
last descendant OF King Kamehameha Of
Hawaii, is dead" Peace to his name, which
is safe from the obituary poet, anyhow.
A girl in New York saved a mans life by
snatching him from in front Of a locomotive.
Then she violated all the traditions Of
romance by disappearing unidentified, in
stead Of falling in love with and marrying
the man.
It is OF current note that every man who
sat at Lincoln's council table has been dead
for years past but John II. Reagan, Jeffer-
son Davis postmaster general. who is get
ting along toward the 9O-year mark and is
one of the briskest of Texans.
A fund is being raised in Tennessee, at
the suggestion of Col. Jeremia Baxter
through the Nashville News. for the pur-
) chase of the Andrew Jackson relics at the
Hermitage. The Ladies' Hermitage So
ciety has made the first contribution OF
$3.50 TO the fund.
The public reception to ex-Speaker Hen
| derson on his return to Dubuque Is to be Of
a non-partisan character. The date has
not been set as yet. Colonel Henderson
will be met there by a committee composed
OF leading members Of both parties on his
arrival from New York.
The state Of New Hampshire still re-
tains the ancient custom of an annual day
Of fasting and prayer by the governors
appointment. Governor Bachelor and
council have this year designated Thurs
day, April 23, as the day. Saturday, May
2, has been appointed by them as Arbor
Day in the SAM state.
Consul George Sawter went to Guayaquil,
Ecuador, to take the post left vacant by the
death Of Thomas Mast. Arriving there, he
discovered that yellow fever was raging and
Immediately took passage back to the
United States. On landing in New York he
found that another Office had been seeking
him in his absence. While still at sea he
had been nominated by President Roosevelt
as an assistant appraiser Of merchandise al
the port of New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
EFFECT ON THE MoNEr MARKET.

A good deal of interest is being mani
tested in eastern financial circles as to
the possible effect upon the money mar
ket of the coming payments on Panalna
canal account The amount involved is
$5O,OOO,O 900, of which $4O,OOO,OOO will go
to the French owners of the canal and
$4,000 900 to the Colombian govern
ment. Ii is not yet certain when these
payments will be made, but it is thought
the time Is near enough to give them
money market. This money is to be
taken from funds in the possession of
the treasury, in the form either Of cash
or of bank deposits. 1t is not to be OBJ
tanned by a sale of bonds, the author
ization given by the Spooner act to the
secretary of the treasury to borrow re-
lating wholly to supplying the money
for constructing the canal.
1t is pointed out that to withdraw the
$50,OOO,OO0 from the cash in the treas
ury would not leave a safe working bal
ance n a part OF the amount will have
to be taken from the government de-
posits with the banks. There has been
some fear expressed that in the present
condition of the money market any con-
siderable withdrawal from the banks of
government deposits might have a bad
effect, but the Financial Chronicle does
not take this view, saying that the mar
kpt's cash resources should no strenoth-
ened, at least temporarily, by what the
treasury pays from its cash on hand,
since this would be held and used by
the domestic banks receiving it until
gold exports should absorb 1t. 1t seems
quite certain, however, that the pay
ment of this money. If it shall require
a large withdrawal of the governments
deposits, must somewhat aggravate the
existing rather unfavorable conditions.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
Division of Property in Banks.
Indianapolis Journal.

Indianapolis Journal.
In 1876 there were POS, 4S6 owners Of the
$505, 900, 600 capital Of national banks The
average share being worth 500, the average
number OF shares to each holder was 24.1.
Only 767 persons held more than 0,000 OF
stock. The report this year shows that
there are $40, 124 shareholders and $673, o00,-
900 of capital, or 2O.4 shares to each share
holder. That is, while the capital stock
has increased 34.6 per cent the number OF
shareholders has increased So per cent. This
means tina the division of property has
gone on faster than the increase In
amount.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
A BIoGRAPHER,s BLUNDERs..
Assault on Good Name of q Western
Character vigorously Resented.
Philadelpbla North AmeHcan.

Philadelphia North American.
The sister Of ]. b. Hickok, alias wild
Bill, a noted frontier fighter of the last
century, has written a letter to a Chicago
paper, taking strenuous exception to sew
eral statements in a biographical sketch OF
her picturesque brother, written by a per-
son pretending to have been his intimate
friend. The writer OF the sketch appears
not to have known even the right name Of
the untamed hero Of the Wild West, but his
errors in that matter are OF little impor-
lance. What the sister resents most
sharply is a gross Misrepresentation of
Wild Bits disposition and fighting method.
Evidently the biographer rehearsed one
Of the old tales Of Bills hardness with a
pair of six-shooters and pictured him in the
act Of putting twelve bullets through SOM
nefarious PERSONS left eye in two seconds,
for the late Mr.. Hickok's sister declares
with some asperity that there are plenty Of
people in Illinois who knew him and who
would not for one moment believe that he
would shoot a man twelve times when once
was sufficient"
The natural presumption is wholly against
the biographer and in favor Of his critic.
No man was so destitute of judgment as to
empty both his guns unnecessarily, and
leave. himself practically disarmed at any
stage of the proceedings in a frontier de-
bate, could have achieved the eminent posi-
tion which Mr.. Hickok occupied at the
Round Table Of the Wild West. Like the
gentleman referred to in CALIFORNIA; epic
poem, it would have been said of him: ,
In his bloom he went up the fume
In the days of Forty-nine.
The late Wild Bill pervaded the frontier
from the Rio Grande to the Cheyenne for
fifteen years, the crack Of his gun was
equivalent to a notification to the coroner
wherever it was heard and it is not
recorded of him that he was a squanderer
Of ammunition. He was an efficient agent
Of moral regeneration in Abilene and other
tough towns and it is self-evident that he
never could have effected any OF the mu-
nicipal reforms which history attributes to
him had he been so shiftless as to shoot a
man twelve times when once was sufhcient.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
moRGANs ADDRESS TO THE SENATE.


8. r. Kiser in the Record-Herald.
I come not here to talk. You know too well
The story 1 would tell you. But this ditch;
The bright sun rises to his course ana
Yon ditch's banks! He sets and his last
Fall on that ditch-not Nicaragua's ditch.
OF which / would tina I might say a word
II 1 had but the time and gift OF speech
That reekfng, foul and fever-haunted nut,
Dug past some. dozen paltry villages,
Strong in some hundred DOORS ohly great
In that strange spell-a debt
Each hour gray ghosts
OF its dead victims haunt the thing,
Cry out against 1t! But this very day
An honest man. my neighbor- name no
Cried: "Risel Rise, Morgan, say a word
Again this crime-this shameful thing! Sit
In seTvile silence! Are you speeches.,
That, ,%Tig6tful protest may not pass your
I know a better course-I that speak to ye-
l told you Of 1t once. A pleasant way
Full of all beauties and OF easy grades -,
or sweet and quiet scenes, with here and
A tall volcano throwing ashes out
In graceful showers.
That glorious scheme! Younger by forty
Than YOU behold me now, I took IT UP
To descant on It's fair advantages
And win your favor for II. In one snort
session
That pleasing fad of mine was slain! | saw
The friends that l had won desert! But
here
I rise, at last, from silence 10 cry Shame!
Have We good ears? Then l will open my
I have few words, but / can say them DER
and Ger;
You shall not stop me ere l say my piece,
For | can sleep and talk II needs must be-
And eating still declaim!
Yet here l stand
And here We sit and read the while / talk
of that which needs no honest praise OF
mine
why, but its very name should be a charm
To win you to its favor!
And once again
Hear me. We walls that echo back the
words
| rye said and still will say: Again I swear
That Nicaragua shall be ditched!
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
Have You Got Your sharef
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
A current circulation of $50, barring a
tiny fraction, for every man, woman and
child in the commonwealth is probably the
best showing ever made by any nation
the price Of a COW or a spring overcoat for
everybody. Its distribution is a trihe ir-
regular, but. that is like the seas level,
always in a state Of disturbance and rectin-
cation. Those who haven't got their share
Of the $50 are not forbidden to hustle for 1t,
and for those who have more the get rich
quick concerns stand ready to redress their
balance with neatness and dispatch when
ever they are so minded.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

Assistant Attorney General Beck in
his argument for the government in the
Northern Securities case makes it plain
that the merger deal is simply Il ~cleyerly
concocted ruse to get around legal oh
stacles in the way of absorption Of com
peting railway lines. 1t would be inter
esting, simply as a matter Of informa.
ton, TO know what lawyers worked the
scheme out for the merger magnates
and how long it took them to perfect it.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

Members OF the city council recklessly
vote overlaps in spite Of the plain pro-
vision of the charter that renders them
and their bondsmen liable for eXpendi-
lures in excess of available funds.
Sooner or later the taxpayers will muster
courage enough to protect their interests
by instituting suits against the bonds
men, nus putting an end to the periodic
raids on the city treasury in the inter.
ests Of franchised corporations.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

at is not too much to say that for a year
past there has not been a single out and
out Bryan man in the senate. Even such
men as Senator Tillman, while undoubtedly
holding their old opinions. have acquiesced
In the elimination OF Bryan from senatorial
councils, and have made no protest against
IL. Such men as Bailey, formerly among
his strongest supporters, have taken the
lead in his elimination. The determined
attitude of the senate democrats has in
fected their colleagues in the house to a
considerable extent.
"All this is not to say that Bryan's In
nuence among the people who followed
him is in any respect decreased. Senators
do not always represent the rank and file
and among the western supporters OF Bryan
the old sentiment may be as strong as
ever. II certainly is as strong as ever
among some OF the men in the house OF
I representatives. But il is a certainty
that Bryan cannot control the senate, OF
even secure its attention. He knows II
and he stays away.
The election OF Senator German TO th'
leadership, therefore, did not represent anS
| change in sentiment or policy. He would
have been the leader a year ago II he had
been I'm the senate. What II did represent
was a desire on the part Of the democrats
TO secure a capable commander
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

The Commercial club committee en-
gagged in pushing the telephone rate bill
expresses confidence that with two
members from Douglas county on the
senate sitting committee the measure
win be properly looked after. But what
about the house sitting committee. on
which the telephone company has hall
OF the Douglas county representation
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

Well defined rumors in circulation on
the streets of Seattle credit Ex-Governor
Savage with receiving the following
message:
Father, oh, Father, come home to us now,
The clock in the steeple strikes twelve;
The legislature is about to adjourn,
And the cigar box is still on the shelf.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

1t is currently reported that "Our
Dave is coming back home by the
limited to pay Postmaster Etter of South
Omaha the $500 he generously borrowed
to defray part of his campaign ex-
penses.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

According to senator Money of Mis-
sissippi, the Postoaice department has
made the people of the south hate the
administration by ~reviving the race
issue. The fact is, however, that the
democrats of the south have themselves
revived the race issue and If they did
not have that as a pretext for antag-
onizing the administration they would
devise some other excuse
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

Having put the canal treaty through
the senate with such dispatch, the
tors will be wondering why they didn't
do it before the regular session adj
journed without necessitating a call for
an extra sitting.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
Standing for the Full Cradle.

NSAAk y W.
No ruler, ancient or modern, has ever
hazarded so audacious an utterance as
President Rooseye1t's shirt-sleeve lecture
to American women on account of the lazi-
ness which leads them to eschew matri-
mony and the rearing Of families. Only
those who are. aware what a woman citizen
Of the United StatA can be when she likes
will appreciate the recklessness OF a states
man who, not content with fighting bears
in the Rocky mountains, must needs pile
the Pelion OF the black problem upon the
Ossa Of the trusts, with a view, apparently,
to attacking the goddesses in Olympus
itself. The d~ivinities OF Dana Gibson have
already remarked that President Roosevelt
at any rate practices what he breaches.
Judging by photographs, his family seems
to, be as lusty, and in the case Of the boys,
as untidy, as any philosophic backwoods-
man need desire. It is, moreover, remark
able tina most Of the more strenuous per-
sonalities in the political arena have been
Of recent years men Of domesticated tastes.
Gladstone, Disraeli, Chamberlain, Lord
Salisbury, the kaiser and the car are only
a few of the nrmes which Immediately sug-
gest themselves to the advocates OF
Home, Sweet Home" as opposed to the
club for women OF celibate aspirations,
But it is not against the men that Presi-
dent Roosevelt brings hlr accusation.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

Judging by their plans for the next
carnival, the governors of Ak-Sar-Ben
appear to disagree with Governor
Mickey as TO the propriety of dancing
and other hot time in the old town"
features.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19

Missouri's legislative investigators
have succeeded in getting a couple Of
refractory witnesses in contempt of the
house. Nebraska's legislative investi-
gators have not succeeded in getting
hold OF any n who knows anything
he refuses to tell. That's the difference.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-19
Denning n philosopher.
Philadelphia Ledger.

A correspondent asks us what a philos-
opher is. We can't define the thing, but
we know one when we see him. A citizen
Of New Jersey takes a vacation OF six
months every year, Asked the reason, he
said: We'll, you know, when a mans
dead, he stays dead so long