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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01


 The Roosevelt administration may be businesslike affair. but there are some things it has not done when we are told that within the last five years under the trust regime, the cost of living for the workman in the Pitts burg. district has been increased 45 per cent. The price of his food has been increased that much. and his rent almost as much : while the cost oe clothing has been raised to an alarm ing extent And we do not need to go as far from home as Pittsburg. Here in Waterbury the conditions are about the same and honest republicans like Thomas Kelly are quick to discover and denounce the men that are respon- sible for it.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01
srRANGEsT OF sovEREIGNs.
Such Is His Majesty the Emperor of
 SJIrakaTta


 Surakarta.
 There is an empire on this planet which for strange originalit,s might as well be situated in Mars. 1t is governed by two emperors at the same time, and withal Is not larger than the state of Delaware. Both emperors reside in the same city, each has his own resplendent court, enor- nous revenues, a@aslies, imperial chan cellors. government officers and courts of justice
 Only one of these emperors is known to the outside world, and he only to slight extent. The name and titles of the leading one would easily fill volume. His subjects, a million in number, call him the Susu- hupan, and he modestly signs himself Pakoe Bowono X-|Nail of the Uni verse, the Tenth.' In him his people venerate not only their sovereign rul- CT, but also their religious ponfiff, placed so high above them that none dares approach him upright or cover him with a glance; his state ministers, and even his own brothers, crouch be- fore him with folded hands as if Ill prayer, and with doWncast eyes. Yet he is a powerless puppet i'll the hands of small European nation, and may not even receive or despatch letter without previously submitting it to the Javan representative of the Dutch. He actually rules his empire, every square inch of it, which he calls his personal property; yet he may not walk or ride outside the palace gates without the formers permission. He keeps thousands of troops at his own l expense, men with modern swords and rifles, Amazons with ancient l lances, bows and arrows; yet he is virtually prisoner in his own pal ace, the grounds of which cover nearly a square mile, where there are hum dreds of buildings, the most sumptu- ous halls, luxurious chambers, and | stoTerooms and stables, with many l thousands of attendants. Still he has no kitchen and no cook, his own meals being sent to him daily from outside. He Is absolute master over all his people, who depend for their lIveli- hood entirely upon him; yet he may not trust any of the men, and sur. rounds himself entirely with women Thousands of the later are at his beck and call; hundreds he calls his more or less legitimate wives, who have borne him many sons; yet he has no direct heir to the throne whlcIl l is one of the oldest and most eminent l in Asia.
 This curious parsonage is his Majes, I ty the Emperor of Surakarta.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

That Curtiss note has stirred up the deuce of row, and on closer investi- gation it has turned out that things are not so bad as they seemed. Tho missionary society has had the note less than year, and has made no de mand for its payment. Merely made an Investigation, and in doing so dis covered Mir Curtiss at work, and not in bed as reported, and also found Mv- ing under the same roof married daughter and her husband, able and willing to work. The society will not take part of the amount and give up the note. Those newspaper editors who were throwing spasms over the affair must feel, after the thing has been explained on both sides, as though they had been taken in.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01
HEARD IN PASSING

A man was killed in Chicago while '1ooping-the-loop." This should be warning to the New York Sun.-Bal- timore Sun.
 Red-headed voters should remember that they have not been represented in the white house for a good many years now.-Atlanta Journal. The campaign is not yet at the stage when thoughtful, patriotic citi- zens may prudentIy commit them selves to either party candidate with out reservation. There is plenty of time.-Boston Herald.
 "A judge will sit on his bench all day and say fifty times, You are dis I charged" remarked the observer of events and things, "but when he goes home and his wife requests him to go into the kitchen and repeat those words to the cook he's ready for the 1 woods. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
 James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, l is quoted as predicting a big fall bus l mess. How much better that is than crying poor-mouth just because 1 this is presidential year. The man who cries calamity to help elect hls candidate is not only a public nui- sance, but he is public enemy Boston Globe.
 l While it is claimed by the admins tration that the present settlement covers all the points at issue, it is clear that the Turk has not a warm regard for the big republic of the west. He considers it a dangerous nuisance in the world. and it's schools l in his dominions hotbeds of insurrec- tion.-Galveston News.
 Senator Tracy is one of the squar- est men in the state and worthy of any honor the people of Waterbury l can confer upon him. His word is l as good as his bond. There is no 1 trickery in his nature. He was new 1 CT guilty of an act of double dealing 1 in his life. Uhe republicans of Wa terbury will honor themselves every time they honor him,-New Haven l Leader.
 A sum approximately $5O,OO0,OOO is sent from the United States in small sums each year to assist those left be- l hind in the old world, or to enable I them to emigrate It has been pre- I dicted that the number of emigrants would soon decrease by reason of the exhaustion of the supply, but no ssTcn promise is warranted by the facts. Last year, 230,622 Italians 206,011 | AuStIIi1I1S, duQ 1OO,O0O IuSSIdlib SuE- cessfully passed the immigration bar riers of the United States. .-World's $ l Work.
 I It seems to be admitted by the chronic kickers that there is consider able energy in the new management of the New York, New Haven and l Hartford railroad. The announcement of the new Harlem entrance into the city, with rapid transit connections, rather took the breath away, for a
 moment, of the insurgent commuters in that section. Now it is made known that electric lights will soon replace Pintsch gas on half a dozen of the through express trains. Other things
 which are on the Mellen program will,
 when communicated to the public,
 tend to confirm the impression that it is the intention of the managers of
 the road to give the public pretty ] nearly what it wants and can pay for. ' 1-Hartford Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

4 !
 Great interest has been manifested throughout the country in an ex- tremely able dissection of the rela- tion between the protective tariff and the wages of labor, made by Isaac w. Griscom of Philadelphia, Pa. MT Griscom maintains that ''the allega- ton that either the general wage rate of the nation or the producing power of the wage is increased by any con- ceiVable system of taxation is absurd. The idea that the wealth produced by the labor of the nation can be in- creased by the taxation of American consumers is simply preposterous. ? Tn support of his contention MT Gris- com denies dilemma which he offers to supporters of the protection theory. What we need to know is: whether the protective tariff is supposed to be the cause of the high wage of Amer ican labor; or whether the high wage of American labor is the cause of the protective tariff being demanded by the American employer. Obviously
 
 the two horns of this dilemma are an, tagonistic. If the American wage rate is so high that the employer can not afford to pay it without the helT of the tariff, it is obvious that the em ployer demands the tariff to protec, himself from the American wage rate and that the touching anxiety In re gard to protecting American labol from the pauper labor of Europe is entirely uncalled for. If the higf wage is the cause of the tariff being needed by the employer, it is plai1 that the high wage has an existence Independent of the tariff and tha- American labor is protected from the 'pauper labor of Europe by something other than the tariff. But if, on tht other hand, it is contended that thu tariff makes the wage rate so higt that the employer cannot afford t pay it, it is plain that the disability O the employer is caused by the tariff ] and his difficulties must increase witt
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

Talking about ideal cities, Golden Rule Mayor Jones said that we need to understand that the city is merely partnership of the people for the pursuit of happiness;< that we do not need to organize the people as parties or as sects or cliques in a city, but that what we do need is to organize them as business corporations for the transaction of the public business in the most orderly and businesslike way. We shall eventually learn that only when we work together for one com mon end can we produce a thing of real beauty. So We need not hope to develop the ideal city by getting more drastic laws on our statute books. but rather as we outgrow our superstitious reverence for man-made laws and rules and becoming more American, we learn to know and be obedfent to the law of love, our cities will take on the beauty that is latent in our char acter. In reality, all that is distress. ing, all that is base, ignoble and mean to look at or think of in the life of oul cities to-day is, after all, but the reflex of our innate moral baseness, and we may hope to improve our cities esthet ically, artisticaIly and architecturally just in proportion as we-all of us shall improve morally. for, whatever our cities are, either goyernmentaIly or otherwise, they represent the aver age of the community that composes them. The way to get the ideal city then, is to follow the dictum of Wall Whitman, the greatest poet and pro phet of American ideals that the worlt has ever known. It is stated in these words: Produce great persons; tht rest follows
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

HEAR great their tendency
 monopolze industry with result that the young of today has chance, BUT THAT PICTURE HAS -~e TWO SIDES, AND BOTH ARE WORTH STUDY ING These great industrial combinations have been built by brains and they cannot continue exist without brains The Standard Oil created by the brains of John D Rockefeller IS WILLING TO PAY ANY SUM FOR BRAINS.
 Such of affairs that would indicate that trust question has another side it's bearing the future of the young seeking life, It that owing changed industrial young today opportunity establish himself in business of his days would have started And he probably would have failed half of them did Now his p portny the form wages the wages good the prospects bright.
 Of disadvantage a To be ones develop but should call disadvantage grave bearing character rather than bearing prosperity
 NO THouGHTFUL PERSON CAN LOOK AT THE COAL TRUST IN THE LIGHT OF THE GREAT STRIKE MEAT TRUST A GREAT DANeER-yERY GREAT DANGER--lN THE TRUST QUESTION
 Where danger where tempted be- inoent the point of lorng the public and making exorbant prices for the life Under ordinary conditions they cheapn the of production and the public should be the gner where the public imposed that the trust evil begins undoubted fact that have in their TO MAKE THE PUBLIC PAY EXORBITANT PRICES. I don't that they that power despo but they certainly have it, Now, opinion there only effective regulators of that power-FIRST, PUBLIC OPINION; SECOND THE POSSIBILITY OF. COMPETITION.
 Public opinion great righteousness other force stand against very long how pow erfu be- cannot stand against public opinion And the the second regulator the fear competition always present
 trust prices in short te but in doing conditions which invite competition possibility a thing is sufficient send prices again.
 have far faith in the operation laws any attempt at legislative regulation There has been great deal of legislation the subject but what the result? Of have stopped rebates and that good thing that, what hasb
 THE GREAT DANGER INDUSTRIES WHERE THE Poss- BILlTY OF COMPETITION IS REDUCED A MOST ELlMNATED. AS IN. THE ANTHRACITE COAL THAT IS THE GREAT DANGER
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01
Compulsory.

Doctor-You must take no form of violent exercise
 Patient-How can help it? My wife insists on my amusing the baby Puck.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01
Grain Profits Greatest.

More than half of Russia's profits from exports come from the sale of grain. The value of exported butter is over S16,000,- 900 per year; of eggs over $26,000,000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

increase of the tariff and his only hope of being able to pay the wage rate is in the abolition of the tariff
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
IN ACCORDANCE WITH WRIT
Charles q. Meyer Will be Produced
Before Colorado Supreme Court.
Gov. Peabody Says There Will BE
No Difficulty or Delay Inter-
posed BY the Militia.

Denver, Col, April 17.-Att'y.-Gen.
Miller is authority for the statement
that Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation Of Miners, will be
produced before the supreme court next
Thursday in accordance. with the writ
Of habeas corpus issued by that body.
He will be brought from Telluride in
custody of the military authorities by
whom ne was imprisoned, and their at
torneys will resist any motion for bis
release on bail pending a decision on
the questions involved in his case. Both
sides profess to be DESTROYS of oh
tanning from the supreme court a Do
cision as to the rights of the governor
to declare martial law, imprison and
deport citizens without warrant ald
disregard writs of the district court,
as has been done during the past six
months in Teller, San Miguel and Las
Animas counties.
There will be no difficulty nor de-
lay %interposed upon the part of the
militia which will hinder the produc-
ton Of Mr.. Meyer before the supreme
court" said Gov. Peabody.
II shall be very glad to get an opin-
ion of the supreme court if it will in
any way hasten the settlement of all
the contentious now disturbing the
business and welfare of the state"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The average mean temperature of the
days In the three winter months was
more than five degrees below the nor
NAL.
The first motor lifeboat built in France
has just been launched at the port OF
La Rochelle. 1t is worked by petroleum
and is of IL horsepower.
Prof. Robert Koch is studying dis.
eases of horses and cattle in south
Africa. He will also study the problem
OF malaria before returning to Germany.
The st. Petersburg Academy of Sci.
ences has offered 1880 for information
in regard to the party of Baron Toll. the
Arctic explorer, from whom nothing
has been heard since he left the yacht
Zaria, in 1902, and started for Bennett
island.
The process of silk weaving is illus
trated at the worlds fair. A silk mill
demonstrates the interesting process and
runs constantly. The finished products
OF the loom will create a center of inter-
est and will be useful in demonstrating
the possibilities of sericulture in this
country. To-day the United States con-
sumes more raw silk than any nation in
the world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
FLEET OF OIL STEAME Frs.
Oil to BE Conveyed on the Lakes BY
Tank Steamers Specially Built
For the Purpose.

Chicago, April 1.-THE Chronicle
says: A feet Of oil steamers, with spe-
cial docking facilities at all the i'm
portant ports on the great lakes and
an immense wharf at Whiting, Ind,
for the expeditions handling of the oil
vessels, are improvements now being
placed in service by the Standard Oil
Co. The purpose is to lessen the ship
ment Of oil by rail and avoid the anti"
rebate laws.
have been constructed, and will make
their first trip this season. AS many
more will be ready to be put in service
by The opening Of next season. These
oil steamers are ingenious structures
Of steel, divided into compartments to
prevent injury from the churning Of
the oil. They were built at a cost OK
$G50,00 each. Each is a great floating
oil tank, constructed something on the
whaleback order, and holds more than
a whole train of oil cars.
The oil fleet is to ply between Chi
cago or Whiting and all the great Lake
ports, and will travel even as far aG
New York. AS the steamers are all
owned by the Standard Oil Co., they
will reduce to the minimum the cost
of transporting oil between Chicago
and eastern points, and the company
will be nearly independent of the rail-
roads,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
MISSOURI A NEWS.


The mysterious disappearance Of a
$4,000 registered package, sent by the
Traders bank of Kansas City to 9
banking house at Great Bend, Kas., on
February 8 last, has been unrayeled
The man who stole the money and
confesses the crime is Edward Griffith,
a son of the postmaster at Great Bend,
and there is a woman in the case.
Young Griffin at one time was an en-
ploye in his fathers Office, and had
access to the place. He managed to
secure the package containing the $780,
90, and at once left Great Bend, de-
sorting a wife and going to Ell Paso,
Tex. The post Office inspectors traced
him from Ell Paso to Carthage, and
finally located him at Nevada.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
SLEEPS BESIDE HIS FATHER
Here of Manila Bay and His Gallant
Son Rest Side by Side in
Lakewood Cemetery.

Erie, Pa, April 19.-Second Lieut..
John Vincent Gridley, who was killed
in the explosion of the battleship Mis-
souri,, was buried Monday beside his
father, Capt. Charles V. Gridley, the
hero of Manila bay, in the Gridley
circle at the Lakeside cemetery. Hun
dreds of persons attended, and flags
were displayed at half mast on all gov
eminent buildings and on nearly every
residence along the streets traversed
by the funeral procession. Court ad-
journed during the services out of re-
spects to the young officers grandfath-
er, ~ex-Judge John P. Vincent, who is
the nestor of the Erie county bar. Rev.
F. S. S%paulding, of st. Paul's Episcopal
church, conducted the private ceremo-
MES.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
THE RECENT PENSION ORDER
Commissioners Ware Makes a state
ment Designed to Correct an
Erroneous Impression.

Washington, April Ito make
clear the actual effect of provisions of
the recent age pension order Of Com
missioner Ware, about which a large
number of inquiries are being made,
the following official statement is
made:
There appears to be an impression
among many of the old soldiers that
allowances of pensions under the age
order of the commissioner of pensions
are in addition to the pensions allowed
heretofore. This is an erroneous idea
of the order. The law prohibits the
payment of more than one pension to
a person for the same period, and the
effect of the order on those having a
pension already only will be to increase
such pension up to the age limit if the
pension already drawn is below that
amount,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
THE U. S. GUNBOAT PETREL
Her Officers Report Some Record
Breaking Target Practice With
Her Old Style Guns.

San Francisco, April 17.-The gun
boat Petrol, under command of Capt.
Tappan, has arrived in port from Pan
ANA. While there the Petrol had tar
get practice, making a record of 1.34
hits per gun per minute on a target
with her old-style siX-inch or gravity
return guns, the showing being prob
ably the best in the navy, considering
the guns.
On her way up the coast the Petrol
discovered a shoal some miles north
west of Magdalena bay, showing a
depth of only ten fathoms, where more
than 300 fathoms are shown on the
photographic charts.
After a brief stay here the Petrsl
will proceed to the far nothern coast
for a summer cruise in the Arctic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
HEUSACK HELD FOR
ANOTHER MURDER
Prisoner is Indicted for Killing His
Own Mother.
DEFENDANT is UNCONCERNED
Hensack Talks Cody of the Charge
and Expresses the Opinion.
That He Will be
Acquitted.

st. Louis, April 19.-Charged with
in-law, and under suspicion Of having
done away with his first wife, Henry
j. Heusack is one of the most uncon-
cerned of the 300 prisoners in the City
Jail.
The grand jury, in its partial report
Monday, returned two indictments,
each charging murder in the first de-
gree against Heusack. One of the in
dictments was expected, as Heusack's
arrest in connection with the killing Of
August Raphael, his father-in-law,
was of recent date.
The other indictment, which charges
Heusack with killing his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Voelker, was a surprise to
the police as well as to the defendant.
1t is alleged that on February %,
1899, Heusack killed his mother at No.
1859 South Eighteenth street. Mrs.
Voelker's body was found in her home,
her head partly in an open crate.
There were several bruises on her
head. The coroner held an inquest,
and decided that death was due to ac-
cident.
1t was stated that she was subject
to asthma, which frequently caused
her to fall, and that while suffering
from this ailment she fell and struck
her head against the iron fender, was
rendered unconscious, and smothered
to death in the ashes of the crate.
Mrs. Voelker's estate was valued at
$4,000, in which ]. Heusack shared.
Mrs. Henry Corner, of $500 West Pine
boulevard, and Daniel and Joseph
Voelker were the other heirs.
RaphaeI's Body Found.
On the afternoon of March 16 last,
the body of August Raphael was found
hacked to pieces in the kitchen Of his
home, No. 2213 South Tenth street.
Heusack was arrested. Blood spots
were found on his collar, shoes and
hands, and he was held responsible for
the death by the oroner.
August Raphael was the owner of
some property, but it is said his daugh-
ter, Heusack's wife, would not have
been heir to it, consequently the 10
tive for the killing Of Raphael has not
been determined.
Heusack Monday afternoon said that
he was first married in 1869 to Bar
bara LEM, and that they live on Broad
way, north of Mulanphy street. He
was then employed as a steamboat
mate. He said his wife, against his
wishes, went to Chicago to visit a fam
lily by the name of Osborne, and that
sometime later he received a letter
from a member of the Osborne family
saying his wife was dead.
Heusack talked cody of the charge
against him, and expressed the opin-
ion that he will be acquitted on the
first ballot when the jury comes to
pass upon his case.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
CHICAGO AS SUMMER RESORT
Western Railroads Will Innugu-
rate n Cheap Excursion Rate
to the Windy City.

Chicago, April 19.-During the st.
Louis exposition Chicago will be billed
as a summer resort point by all of the
western railroads. This was decided
on at a meeting of a special committee
of the Western Passenger association
held Monday. The rate in effect from
all points west to the Pacific coast
will be one fare, plus 50 for the round
trip, with a minimum rate of 500. This
rate is about the same as was granted
for the exposition, and will protect the
Chicago gateway on all classes of BUSH
ness during the exposition.