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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-10-23

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d. NJ. KENNEDY,
First National bank bldg.
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WANTS

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FOR SALE-2 registered Hereford
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AFFORD, Ere, Kans. II
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Farm to Rent.

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the young lawyer worked his smile ana his stories
from one end of the street to the other
Somehow. before anybody particularly realized it,
there a sort of general inquiry to whether
Big Mike would be able TO satisfy his appetite
i'm the Piphole delegation that TO the capt.
toll during the session for the purpose Of holding
Pig Mikes hands and giving him moral support were
heard 20 lnslnuate JnaJ the poill leaoer OF the Dusl
ness element hated 20 AN office get past him
that he'd be running for iusice Of the peace or con
stable next rather than have some other fellow hl
the place.
Then the women and the dudes OF Pinhoe society
began to whisper that it would real nice to have
mayor who didn't spit his shirt bosom and who
used at least three handkerchief in a week.
Well before the polls opened you could walk from
end of the street to the other without hearing
solitary word the subject OF how Big Mike had
stampeded d whole Legislature and saved Pinhole
wagon bill But every time YOU listened IN at a ht-
tie political talk you We're dead sure to hear how
many spots were once counted on Big Mikes shirt
bosom and how uresome a thing II is to see a man
make political glutton of himself
Big Mike didnt hear very much of this talk and
he simply snorted with cOmplaisant content at the
stray fragments of 1T that did reach his He al
lowed that a could shirt front Of solid
plug fringed with fine cut ii he could only give his
constituents their hearts desire and give EN-
quiCk-when they called for it, The people he said
knew aT about him and ne knew the people of Pin
hole well that ne didn't have to out and run
a campaign with dude a shirt-front issue. bear
floor sanded with carpet tacSs would be a calm
the ballots counted that night and the election
of the smooth young lawyeA announced.
Mike plowed up both sides of the street in his
wrath, sold out his business and moved into another
frontier town. in adjoining district which had been
much benefited by his work i'm the legislature as
had PinhOle Then he started in for long campaign.
e working at il day and night and may
depend upon that he viii be back ,again in the leg
islature long knife any legislation that
now reformer-and that the first thing he proposes
reform is the memory Of his dear friends the peo
All this I admit is rather. discouraging to a man
who has put up really great fight for good meas
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center. The radiating rays or the CEN
trail sun could then be arranged by fold
ing and tearing. SO that the amount OF
the check could be shown and never al
tered. All of these expensive checks
were returned to the persons sending
them, after the stamps imprinted on
the size of the end of a lead pencil.
These cancellations were intended TO
render the stamps valueless for re-
demptiOn purposes. and to make IL inn
possible for the government to be forced
t. pay for the same stamps more than
once. AS stamps they have no value
except for redemption. as the war rev.
enue law is no longer in effect
Millions Paid, More to Follow.
Up to this time there have been 36.S99
packages of all sorts and sizes offered
at the treasury department, containing
$4,000 claims for redemption The gov
eminent has refunded thus far i'm
round numbers. s.. 600 600. The bulk of
the work has been done. Every stamp
or stamped piece Of paper must be i'm
the hands Of the treasury officials be
fore July J. 1904 as that is the time
limit for redemption set by the law.
and paid by the government in con-
nection with the redemption operation
was that of the Pullman Car company.
That concern spent three months pre-
pairing its claims. II employed four
men during that period to sort and ar
range the thousands and hundreds OF
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to cast his vote to veto any act Of the assembly It
would though a provision democratic and
just elis could become the law of every state
in America and yet the strength of the boOdler and
the politician is so great with us that even the
fails to place this power in the peoples hands.
But not only have the Swiss people the right to
veto egslaton they have the right 10 enact it,
A petition signed by q very small fraction Of the
voters makes it obligatory submit any proposed
Thus The humblest Swiss shepherd tending his flock
on the summit the mountain make, veto
remake laws. For the humblest peasant is a member
of the real Swiss parliament which is true democ-
racy in which each has equal voice The same
provision to making and changing laws applies to
the constitution of the republic and the cantons;
these may be altered or amended IN whole or III part
any time that the people shall elect So far as
the constitution is concerned, there is only one thing
better and that IS 10 nave no constitution as IN Eng
land, for all constitutions are an impeachment 10
growth the Will Of the people should be supreme.
weak but they always great stumbling blocks
in accomplishing any progress in law and govern
America is so fettered by constitution state and
federal that change is wei nigh Impossible and vest
ed rights or rather vested wrongs only iaugh ar me
futile efforts of the people to change institutions and
seven of the Swiss cantons have adopted another
system democratic still This is proportional
representation" This is not to be COMPOUNDED with
minority representation the latter system whereby
politicians choose all the members and the PEG
pie have nothing to do but ratify their choice Under
proportional representation each party may nominate
it's candidate its votes and when the result
representation in proportion to the cast. In
this way the party must be very weak that has no
only adopted this method ten years and now
seven in line. it is safe to predict that it
viii be many years when this system viii be uni
versaI in the republic.
The results of all this may strike different people
in different ways OF course if does not believe
the people he viii not believe in the system Amer
leans profess to believe in the people but make it
out Of question for the people TO have anything
do with government except to ratify the action
of the caucus and submit to the coTuptonist and
the knave
But whether the people should be trusted or not
of the results of this system can be seen Swift
erand today owns it's telegraph and telephone sys-
In 1898 the government submitted 20 the PEG
pie the question of taking the railroads and this
proposition adopted by over 200O00 more than
two 10 Since that time about half of the roads
either been acquired operated by the gov
eminent and the acquisition is rapidly going on 1T
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C.. T. u. forces certainly did make a powerful
ing and for a while it looked mighty
strictive legislation would go through. That was the
time when Big Mike. the member from PinnOle, took
of his coat and began wood. He knew that his
of legislation had begun to get in its saving work.
A big delegation Of business on from Pin
De6ged Mike 70 turn BACK the enemy ~ any cost.
He buckled right down business, sacrificed every
hns else and traded right and left for anything that
would cut into the votes Of the reform party. And
he was a shreUd trader too.
If the missionaries who have gone to spread the
Gospel had worked haf as hard as Big Mike, there
wouldn't be Unconverted heather on the earth. IF
he had not TO eat sleep until he had killed
that bill ne couldn't have hustled harder. Day and
night he out the rampage, cutting out
member from the reform bunch at every possible OPP
portunity and putting the Pnhoe brand on him.
When the hHal roundup came he had picked up
enough strays, by hard riding, to defeat The day.
Judging by the noise the Pnhoe delegation made
sent to congress They loo>ned the underpinning ot
the capitol building and painted the town until it
looked like a horse show poster. And the whole
thing was done over aEain when Mike made his tri-
umphal return to his own town. All the brass bands
in the country there, and the blowout that
had in his homer went down in history
A few months later young stranger with bari
tone speaking voice q smile that made the dogs Wag
tails and string of good stories. struck the
town and opened a law office. When the municipal
election around the opposition ticket nominated
him for mayor. Then the business element waited
on Big Mike and asked him 10 run in order 10 save
the day Ihey assured him that ne was the one man
who could snuff out the young invader without bat
ting an eye Of course being mayor of Pnhoe looked
hhe small potatoes 70 q man VINO neld the center
Of the stage through whole legislative session and
who had his on "a seat in the state senate. But
the boys begged him to make the sacrifice and urged
that the of his would put the other
out of the running Finally he yielded. The mu-
sic which had celebrated his trumphal return was
stiH sounding in his ears and he looked upon the
whole municipal campaign as matter of form. I'm
fact. he didn't consider it necessary to remind
"dilIed- AiisS coutu l1 81 losSt mat % ie JUS
kept on handing out hardware to his customers while
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will be but few years until every railroad in Swift
erland is owned by the people These roads although
constructed in the most dficult land in Europe are
remarkably well managed, and already bringing
in revenue to the government. Since the acquisition
sistent reduction in service charge and more progress
Most all of the municipalities their street cars.
works and waterworl1s, and the city of Geneva
has utihzed the great rush OF water from the lake
into the Rhone by erecting great water power
pft from ~ hich they ln their public utilities and
sell power to factories and individuals at very low
rate which is one great factor in the industrial pros
perity Of Geneva.
In addition to all this the Swiss from the earliest
times have maintained the right of the commune to
large part Of the land They own their common
pasturage, their common woodlands and meadows, and
simple extension of this principle which they have
long and valantly maintained viii make the Swiss
people the owners Of all their land.
The constitution of Switzerland is written in the
broadest spirit Doubtless not perfect, it contains
some restrictive measures that ought be outside
the province of government. certainly not part of
people carefully guarded and civil and religious
liberty broadly guaranteed. read the constitution
bling Of ali sorts. After supper I Went over to the
chief amusement place Of the town, and there saw
gambling carried on openly and without restraint
constitution When saw the crowds around the
wheel of fortune and remembered the provision Of
the constitution, I felt very much ut home. inn
agined that / was back in the Illinois legislature
AGAIN still constitutions are like New Years resO-
lutiOns They adopted when feel vrtuOus.
but never much stand in the way of anything they
really want to do
But more than anything else Switzerland has
stood for years as the asylum of the oppressed and
prosecuted all lands. Since the European agree
ment in 1915 territory has been carved out
OF the map of Europe. and kept neutral ground
However fierce the battles that may rage around
Switzerland, when the bORiers Of this republic are
reached the soldiers must Nv down their arms For
a hundred years the defeated soldiers. the political
Outcasts and the weary eXiles of all Europe have led
to Switzerland with the feeling of the hunted
Jewish fugitive OF Oden times who fled to the tenn
pie and grasped the horns of the altar and found
safety in its shelter.
over and again some European ruler has pro
that this neutrality must be broken so that
ne might spread his net the mountains and val
eys and pursue his prey into its lonely hiding place
But against all sorts of threats and opportunities
against all those brief transitory freuzfes that drive
men and nations into panic, this little republic has
stood by its principles and maintained its harbor Of
refuge for all the WORLD.
The schools and universities of Switzerland have
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Her great mountains and sterile soil doubtless first Of
all Next to this her position on the map OF Eu-
rope surrounded by greater powers. each jealous Of
the possession of such inaccessible fortress by the,
Switzerland the home Of large number of in
Jellectual and women. whose luster doubt in
huenced and Hberslized the whole land. Here lived
work 1.-THE Social Contract which perhaps more than
any other book the Bible of the French revo-
luton Here, too, toward the end Of the last cen
tury, Notaire spend his declining years. and
at once created that intellectual atmosphere which
too, banished to Geneva by Napoleon. and again
opened the court which had before been the most
brilliant of France and the center of the revolution
Gfbbon came to Switzerland to write THE Decline
many other brilliant Englishmen who in that stirring
age We're devoted TO the rights of man
After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo the al
lied rulers of Europe met at Vienna TO take account
VI NJ. .. a. - e.. -
poleon had left AT this meeting II was nnaly agreed
Switzerland should be left to form independ-
ent government and should always be neutral land.
This agreement has been kept invioIate ever since,
though more than once some strong ruler has cast
ustfuI eyes upon this little republic, and would doubt
less have taken it had he dared.
Even before the Swiss constitution was adopted
and her confederation made complete her various can
tons had commenced the movement the initiative
and referendum-the hope and aspiration Of the real
ticians OF the world
The primitive mountain cantons the earliest
times had called together all their people every year
TO elect their officers and make their laws. This was
a large field under the blue sky. In the early
part of the day all the people would gather and
march together to the held Rehglous exercises pre-
Ceded the election of officers and the making of the
and everything was subject to review at the COM
ing election The whole meeting partook of the
ture of a religious ceremonial exalted the idea
simple people of the functions of the state
Even today i'm more cosmopolitan cantOns where cleo
tion is by ballot the election is always held sun
day and I'm the church, to emphasize far pos
sble the character Of the work that they
form. All of this reminds very much OF cleo
tions-t different.
The Swiss constitution provides that every law Of
q general nature which is passed by the legislature
shall remain I'm allegiance for ninety days after it's
passage, and then. on a petition of about one in a
hundred of the voters of certain number of
cantons shall be submitted to the people for their
approval rejection Each OF the twenty-five
cantons likewise provides for the referendum upon
all is thus impossible for any act TO be-
come a without the practical OF the Swiss
people. and voter of the republic has the right
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BY Forrest Crissey.

that ought TO enttle him TO eternal mortgage
the support of his district for anything ne may
streak of satisfaction to fellows in the fact that
constituency is about quick to forget his sins
their behai Perhaps you nave Forgotten le episode
of 'Gum-shOe Smith" I'm the session when you were
laid of Let me jog your memory Gum-shoe repre-
scented one OF the river districts Aithoush ne mad
whole lot of farmers in his bailtwiC ne out FOR
any substantial assets he could fasten onto without
making too much noise about IT. And what more
he didn't hold himself at cheap price. either He
always stuck for something worth while and if he
did not get it he was a bad man to deal with He
showed a daredevil when any of the corporate
interests tried to throw him.
One of the biggest franchise bills that
during the session engineered by transplanted
New England Yankee who hated TO see cent slip
through his fingers. This made GUm-shoe mad and
he fixed price on his support that threw the Yankee
into the They diCkeTed and haggled up to
the last minute before the bill was TO come up for
third reading, but Gum-shoe wouldn't bulge an inch
discount his price dollar.
At the last ragged minute before roll call that
Yankee. who was hid away in one Of the committee
rooms turned to a young fellow from his own town,
whom he had put the payroll, and handed him a
long envelope containing $1,000 with the remark Just
hustle into the house and quietly hand this to AR
Smith. 1t contains some papers he wants 10 use right
away"
far his knowledge. Of inside legislation WAS con-
ccrned. and besides that he didn't have more
house and asked the doorkeeper: Where is Mr.
smith,"
desk"
The young fellow slipped quietly down the aisle and
laid the envelope the desk indicated. Before the
door and began to look snxiOusly about. In a mo-
ment he found what he was looking for and he and
the Yankee held about two minutes of mighty ami
mated conversation. Then the young man who had
been sent with the envelope came up. The Yankee
grabbed him by the arm and asked, in undertOne:
You gave those papers to smith, didn't YOU
Yes" answered the youns man in a scared voice
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Copyright 1908,

Geneva. oct 81 1903.
N, WITZERLAND has for years had political
Importance out OF all proportion to her size
and wealth. In fact, her political Importance
81 has come from her lack of size and wealth.
This little repubs made mp of mountain ranges is
the freest most democratic nation the earth.
Switzerland hes Gone. forward and accomplished
many OF The things that other people talked Of
doing and especially America her system OF gov
eminent and her institutions have the deepest mean
ms.
In Switzerland more than in amy other civilized
land Che people really rule They make and execute
their laws and DO their business for themselves.
The present position OF this republic has come by
fo" growth through many years and after an sorts
and institutions furnish an the possibilities Of the
true republic Of which the world has ever dreamed.
Up to the middle Of The thirteenth century the
twenty-five separate cantons or states which now
make up switzerland We're ruled by dhierent coun-
tries and princes. and had not even commenced to
was not known until tlat date True some OF these
had for years maintained pTeCariOus often
interrupted Independence and the germ OF her pres
feet. reaches back the origin English and
American freedom. the early Germans. whose people
then and now make up much the largest part Of the
obscure mountain canons united for sef-defense and
regain their rights of common pasturage and
ated for themselves These three canons adopted as
their motto Each all and all for each" the
she s,,ss s,.o1s fofned the confsdeT9ffon and had
fare the right to independent place the map
OF the world From time TO time during this period
different nations took possession of a portion. and
sometimes an the territory but still the confedera-
ton gradually grew I'm size and strength up to the
time when Napoleon fixed the OF Europe day
after day 60 suit his within. For some reason not
quite clear the emperor saw lit to sp the swiss peo
pie 90 strengthen their confederation, but although
constant progress was made toward Swiss unity from
that time was until about 1SiS that the can
tons fully Joined I'm national confederation which
gave them unbrokeu front to the world outside.
Tt is the political life and institutions of switzer-
lond 1875 that of interest and import
.hnce the student. and especially the student
who stiII retains of the dreams and aSpira-
lions FOR 90 land which rules itself
Many things doubt conspired TO bring about
the Swiss federation and o give this republic demo
cratic government SO far iu advance all the world.
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Then Gum-shoe turned on the little fellow and
said
You're liar, You never gave it to me; you've
sailed IL down I'M your pocket you little thief"
'You?" was the astonislsed response. COT course L
grizzle- headed little old man with the vhisBers
the right hand OF the center aisle. third seat down
In one second Gun-shoe made a rush for the meek
hJte OLD farmer trom the southern end OF the state
who hadn't said word during the whole session
ceptnR TO answer ON roll call About half OF the MEM
ners ha'nt discovered lhat ms name was smith
and those who had distinguished between him and
the other Smith by giving him his right surname,
while they always spoke of the main smith as Gum
shoe This how the doorkecper happened TO send
the innocent young mani 20 Farmer smith instead Of
Gum-shOe from the river district.
With fierce grip on the old farmers shoulder
CfUm-shOe blurted out.
Here. you old pioUs sneak thief Just fork over
body
with a shaking hand the scared farmer made a
velope and handed it over. When Gum-shoe saw
thatlit- had been opened lac gave nasty laugh and
said:
If you ever peep on this IN teach YOU that there's
. such thing honor among thieves
on the roll call Gum Shoe voted for the bill, and
voted hard. As several OF the members sitting near
of the story leaked out and got into the newspapers
OF course Farmer smith out uD the defense that he
wasn't going to keep tn money.
Some believed this and some didn't Anyhow both
of the men were roasted to crisp i'm the newspapers
Smiths would ever dare 70 run Tor paJhmasJer- buL
the records show that they both back again i'm
the house inside of four years and Gumshoe as you
probably remember. was later sent up 20 tle senate
And Ned YOU viii see why don't put quite as
much confidence I'm the memory or the coustancy of the
ordinary constituency as YOU letter led me to think
YOU do. The average American king forget bene-
factions and forget crimes about nimbly any
other kind o a king. Ny advice is: Don't scrimp
good trick for people; get hold of some issue
and convince them that you're the only man that
as they did the thing YOU have already landed
Yours ever, WILLIAM BRADLEY.