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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
THE NEW WINDSOR HOTEL.

feathery foliage. It Is one of the O. coanuts, and has a taller relative that is a most beautiful large palm. This Is cocos f1euosa. So tall is the high curved stalk that the leaflets look like ribban grasses.
 The phoenix is the best for a hall a
 thrifty but rather stiff plant. It does
 not mingle well with others, byt by
 itself in corridors it Is a splendid palm.
 Reclinato. rupicola and canariensis are the varieties used. No other palm or
 dinarily seen has the leaflets set to the
 stalk as these are. Instead of spring.
 ing outspread, the narrow leaflet is folded together, edge to edge, and only opens out flat an inch away from the point at which it joins the stalk Areca
 lutesoeus resembles kentia, only 1t is
 more bushy. It Is not, however. so
 good a grower.
 How to Keep Them. Very rare and beautiful is the caryo-
 ta, or fish tail palm. The broad leaf
 lets distinguish 1t by their peculiarly
 ragged ends. which often look much like a f1sh's tall. It grows to a great height. Only the handsomest surround
 ings set 1t off properly.
 Not too warm a room and plenty of water Is the rule for palms. Never let them dry off. If this happens TO
 kentia 1t will not recover itself The
 best of all ways of watering Is to set the pot in a pail of water reaching to within an inch of the rim. In this way | the roots are all sure to be well-soaked, |, for the water sinks in through the DOT us pot and shows when the plant has
 been thoroughly refreshed by appear ing on the surface of the soil. Ordn- | ary surface watering rarely reaches
 but a part of the roots, which lie at the | bottom and sides of the pot The
 leaves must be sprayed frequently if the palm is to remain in a healthy condi- | tion.
 l Heat and Light. Draughts are destructive, although the evil result may not show for two CT three months Even, medium heat
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
D. p. West Progressive and Patriotic
 Citizen Who Has Grown With Montgomery

by Mrs. West, who is herself most excellent business woman of fine judg- ment and almost unerring foresight. he is domiciled there and will make his home fit for the entertainment and succor of the most fastidious and ex- acting citizen of the country. He is fast bringing the Windsor Hotel up to the modern standard and with fifty new rooms added to the building he will have e hotel second to none in the State
 His son, John. whose picture appears on this page. Is being educated at Har- yard, where he takes high stand. and he will be able to take up the work when 1t is laid down by his father. The story of fiction speaks for itself does 1t not read like a fairy tale? And yet every word of 1t is literally true, showing and proving what pluck and energy can do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

salary happy and enable them to have
 more continuous fires through the win ter.
 In the times of epidemic, during the
 prevalence of yellow fever in the city.
 he gave liberally of his means and
 time to aid the distressed and buoy up
 the weak hearted.
 In connection with his hotel business he also had a transfer line, the equip
 ment for which was bought complete
 from St. Louis and was first class, be- ing the first rubber tires ever brought to the city. He was interested in the Highland Park property and was the President of the company; was a stock holder in the first electric street rail- way, which was destroyed by fire and | which was brought here through his
 exertions. This was the first electric | railway in the United States.
 Now he is erecting a modern fee and | light plant at q cost of from forty to fifty thousand dollars and will do much yet to regulate prices in Montgomery. This is the record of his life in this city, and the half has not been told Mr West has been considerate of the rights and circumstances of others, and has never turned away a worthy ap- plIcation for charity empty handed. As strange as 1t may seem. sometime be- | fore his lease of the Exchange Hotel expired, he realized the need and ne- cessity of a modern hotel in this city and no one was a more earnest and Jealous advocate of that enterprise than he When urged to keep the | Exchange for one year more. he de- clined, even though sure of loss in a financial way. being convinced that 1t was to the interest of the city to have a hotel that would meet the demands and requirements of the travelling pub | lie of the present day, and it was he | as much as any other one person, who l was Instrumental in having the work on the next hotel begun so early. MT. West had already acquired the windsor Hotel and 1t Is there now that he proposes to preside and cater to the wants and wishes of the public. aided
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
nished the luxury regularly and in reasonable plenty. There was where

nished the luxury regularly and in
 reasonable plenty. There was where
 he really began his business career in
 this city. From that day to this he has been the unrelentiffg, uncompro- missing. deadly foe of monopolies or oppression of the people. in the price of those articles which are absolutely necessary and which must be had. He went into tho liquor business and be- gan with the Exchange bar making that the most popular and first place for pure and fine liquors in all the State, visitors delighting to get a drink and over his counters devise plans and close trades Involving thous- ande of dollars. In 1874 he took the Exchange Hotel and made 1t up-to- date. In the meantime he had gone into the restaurant business and was the first to brsag inviting and attractive furniture to that branch of business and established d himself on the corner of Court Square and Commerce Street, the
 corner now of the Moses Building. A.
 ter he took the Exchange. this passed
 into other hands only after he had started on the road to success and
 brought 1t up to the degree of making 1t attractive and furnishing the best the market anorded to please and re- tain the public patronage He took the Exchange when its stock was at B
 very low ebb and to what figure he brought 1t before he relinquished the property need not be repeated here. as 1t is so fresh in the minds of the peo-
 pie. but 1t Is known that there Is no more valuable property in the city. In
 conducting the hotel he was perfectly
 independent of all corporations or mo-
 nopolies, having a we'll of the purest and health giving artesian water, the first we'll of artesian water on private premises in this section: then he grew
 restless under the greed of the light companies and established his own light plant; he consumed much ice in
 his hotel and bar and put in an ice plant. The Pioneer" then his own laundry; then he fent into the coal | business, and with his small supply of light, ice and coal he stood as a men, ace to high and exorbitant prices on | every and all occasions refusing to | surrender and regulating prices, keep-
 ing prices down to living rate. He
 has gone out of the manufacture of
 these things temporarily incident upon
 his leaving the Exchange Hotel, and
 the result is already felt more partic-
 ularly in the price of coal. He will
 soon be on the market again and then
 there will be a slump in the market 1 that will make the man with a small
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

William Brinage Bate, United States Senator from Tennessee. will not ac- cept pass, frank tele- gram or draw pension. He Is veteran of the Mexican war, and as such is entitled to a pension from the United States Government, but he has declined to accept 1t. During the Civil War he was a Major General in the Confederate Army and distinguish ed himself frequently for bravery He was three times dangerously wounded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

is just right. The falling off in tem- perature at night Is not harmful There are two positions in which these plants must not be placed-near a radiator or near an outside door. Plenty of light is good for them, and at this time of the year they cannot get too much sun.
 When caring for palms respotting Is not within the amatuer's province. The one safe thing to do Is to turn them ov- CT to a florist He has especially pre- pared fermented soil, and he alone knows whether the palm needs respot- ting. or merely to have soil added to its present one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

quantities from the rigid cline of
 the East and West and sold as high as rive cents per pound regularly and was known In those times to go as high as twenty-five cents a pound in glutted market and in emergencies, people were glad to get it at that price. MT. West thought over the matter and determined to give the public ice at reasonable figure. Suit ing the determination with action. he ordered ice by the car load and brought a revolution in that trade in the city. He reduced the price of Ice and fur
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
The Cotton Eatimata.

New XoTk TimeH.
 The annual estimate of the Depart ment of Agricultural of the cotton crop fixing the total at 12,162.000 bales nat- urally threw the cotton market into confusion. 1t so far exceeded the esti- mates which have been accepted in the market as basis for recent trading that a break of from 30 to 50 points was to have been expected. The most
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

Senator Bate has old-fashioned ideas
 about official propriety. and 1t is sata he has never accepted a railroad pass franked e telegram, or sought . posfs
 ton for a relative. He was Governor of Tennessee before he was elected to
 the United States Senate. eenatoE
 Bate is now 7s years old ana is . cans didate for reelection.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
The Editors Appetite

NIIanlI lHU'I 4NeWb. V
 A country editor who had just fins ished a remarkably good meal at tho farm home of a subscriber remarked t0 the farmer: If this is a fair sampl4 of your meals think I'll come here t0 board" The farmer. who had noticed the editors ferocious appetite with some dismay replied: If that is a sanaa pie of your appetite I'll be sol durns4 eff want ye."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
J. P. Morgan. Ph,,anthrovs.x.

Although J. Piepont Morgan is creds tied with gifts to philanthropic enters prises which reach $1.000.000 a year. th@ greatest secrecy surrounds his charie4 able work. As a matter of fact. MAs Morgan Is well up toward the head oz the great glvers of the world. One o4 his chief philanthropies is keeping boys off the street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

year. coming thence to Montsomery. where he settled in 1870. He first en- gagged in the soda water business, be- Ing connected with its manufacture and sale. It was then his brain began
 the thought of equalizing the price of
 commodities offered for sale in the community. In those doys ice was very scarce. 1t was shipped in small
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

optimistic statisticians have not as- sumed figure exceeding i2,000, 900 bales and the more con servative have believed that 1t would not materially exceed 11.300, 900 bales. When time has been given for the excitement to sub side. the question will arise as to the amount of dependence which can be placed upon the department figures For a number of years past the de- partment has been far astray in it's December estimates. Last year 1t guessed total crop of 9.92e.0oo bales, whereas the commercial crop was &C., tually 10011.oo0. For 19o2-3 1t was only about S26.000 bales under the fact In 1901-2 1t underestimated about a million bales. This year 1t seems to have swung in the opposite direction to the limit of it's pendulum stroke, and by estimating considerably above what any one fin the business believes will be net actual yield of commercial cot ton. 1t leaves the disinterested student of the cotton situation in doubt what to think.
 Probably his conclusion will be that from all the evidence at hand we have this year had our bumper" cotton crop. since the least of the authoritatfves es- inmates exceeds the largest previous record. If 1t should be that the de- partment has erred on the side of con- servatism as much as has been its habit for several years past. we hall have to invent a new name to decribe this years crop. which would put 1t in class by itself. The largest previous cotton harvest was that of 1899, which totaled 11.235.3ss bales. For the suc- ceeding year it has been:
 Bales lyOU ~~ g. 435,55o 19Ol '~'.ss .-a.s lO, 426, 41 1sV6 .''""'.sS sss. .s.. ...s, 10.Tb1,463 1908 ... ,..,...... O.7s9 a29
 The ample crop of this year assures the prosperity of the South. In view of the statistical position of cotton the surplus Is not great enough to deprasa prices below the point of (sati-e- -'nry
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

profit for the grower. The weather conditions throughout the picking sea-
 son have been most favorable. and the reported average of 35 to 70 pounds of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
VIII Not Take a Pass,

lint from each 100 pounds of seed cot- ton beats all previous averages.
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the evil result may not show for two
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27
DebS Shows Up
Parker and Davis

and treating union men as enc
mics TO society, who should be
Gagged or killed.
"He does not permit his en-
ployes to belong to labor union.
For reference the United Mine
Workers will serve. Davis owns
big part of the state of West
Virginia. including its railroads
and mines.
SIN the summer of 1897, during
the Mine Workers strike, the ma
tional officers asked me TO 60 into
West Virginia to organize the
miners and get them to join the
strike. as West Virginia was
flooding the western markets with
'scab' coal. / was so successful
in my efforts that Judge Jackson
issued his notorious injunction
against me, which in effect en-
joined me from even leaving my
boarding house.
Henry Davis. the democratic
nominee for vice president, was
mainly instrumental in having
this and other later iujunctions is
sued by Judge Jackson, whose
name has become the synonym for
judicial tyranny among working
men.
"Davis is the very incarnation
of the old-timc slave driver who
flourishcd in the dominion.
Here is another point. The
democratic manager of the st.
Louis convention placed 1000 re-
served seats at the disposal of the
Business Mems league, an organ
ization hostile to organized labor.
But not a seat was rendered 10
labor, organized or otherwise.
"Six weeks ago William J Bry-
an publicly stated that no sclf-re-
specting democrat could support
Judge Parker, the tool of the
trusts and the money power. Mr.
Bryan is now supporting him and
in so doing is proclaiming him
self a political degenerate"
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

1t is said that 40 per cent of the
vote of our country comes from
the farming, and IS per cent from
the industrial world. If this is
true, then it is clear that the So
cialist must reach out into the
rural districts before he can hope
to take control of the government
through the ballot. There has
been some opposition to propa-
ganda among the farmers. but no
argument can be filed against such
propaganda that will equal those
for it. Whether the farmer owns
his land or not, whether he has
money in the bank or not, there
is nowhere in the world a class of
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

Comrade Debs sends us an in
terview had with him by the Terre
Haute Gazette. from which we
take the following:
Organized labor has no more
uncompromising enemy than
Henry G.. Davis. the person whom
the democratic party has chosen
to be the tail piece OF the national
ticket.
"It might be a good idea to say
here, too, that Mr.. Parker, the
head of the ticket, is merely the
personal candidate of John D..
Rockefeller. He was also one OF
the judges who decided that the
eight-hour law for labor in New
York was unconstitutional. He
is the candidate of the Standard
Oil company. The authority for
this statement is Thos. w. Law
son, the Boston millionaire, who
charges that Boss McCarren OF
Brooklyn, who brought out Par
ker, and managed his campaign,
is on the pay roll OF the Standard
Oil company as their political
manipulation at a salary of S2o,-
900 per year.
(Whcn questioned today by 4
representative OF the Associated
Press at Brooklyn, Carren refused
to make any reply to the above
statement.)
Judge Parker" continued Mr..
Debs. "is now the candidate OF
the democratic party which is 50
furiously opposed to trust rule.
"As to the vice presidential can
didate OF the party, who is sup
posed to represent the common
people of the country on the tic
ket, Henry G.. Davis is estimated
to be worth S3o,ooo,ooo, and he
has achieved fame in the labor
world by charging union labor
with being a criminal conspiracy
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

The Socialist locals over the
state should be getting busy these
days and look after their county
conventions. The Socialist party
has no reason to wait-they
should be first in the field with a
ticket and platform. Some of the
comrades need awaking. Why
not appoint a committee TO go
around and arouse them. Now is
the time to act. Get a move on
you, comrade. Do not lie around
like a big Mississippi nigger, and
then wonder why things go the
way they do. Get move on you ;
get a ticket in the field in every
county. Get to the people; tell
them what Socialism means to hui
manity. Push! Push!!
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

]. II. Calderhead has returned
home from the national conven-
ton of the populist corpse, whose
death was caused by democratic
fusion microbes. and gives out the
startling information that he eN-
poets the populist ticket to poll
larger vote this year than ever
before, even exceeding that Of
Weaver OF near a million and a
half. But then readers should
take this josh without laughing
because Mr.. Calderhead is hold
ing a position at the state capitol,
and he has a great desire TO hold
it another term. However. the
News would suggest that should
he be defeated from the much COW
eted position (which he will be-
he secure a place at an undertake
ing establishment that his tenacity
to hang To a corpse proposition
would not be eliminated.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

workers whose responsibilities are.
greater than his: whose hours OF
labor are longer. whose promise
of success is more uncertain.
There is not another portion OF
the working class whose diver
sions are so small and infrequeut
as are his. Nor another whose
lives are bound by so many limi-
tations. The farmers farm is the
center of his activity, OF his hopes
and pleasures. And save the in
frequent visits he makes to the
nearby towns and villages, the
farm is also the limit of his activ-
titles. For these reasons he more
frequently than any other class of
workers welcomes the new face,
the visitor. the lecturer. the school
house entertainment, the church
social, the new book, paper, or
magazine. He is not radical, and
he has not given much OF his time
to the study OF economics or 10 the
labor conditions OF his country.
But he is willing to be shown,
if the right course is taken in do
ing it. and after he is once con-
WINGED of unjust conditions and
their remedies none can be more
radical than he.
All through his life, the farmer
has heard periodically the speech
es of demagogues and old party
politicians and his ideas and ideals
are naturally formed through
these channels. He is told that
this is the greatest country in the
world and that times were never
so prosperous; that young men
have only to go out and call upon
Fortune and she will come to
them, willing servant. They are
told that the republican party is
responsible for all of this good.
| Or the democratic Office seeker
comes along and tells them that
there is untold wealth in his par
| ty, and il they will only elect a
democratic president to office that
high tariffs will drop like scales
from the eyes of an enlightened
voter, and that all farm implc-
ments will henceforth cost but a
very modest sum. The farmer is
made glad by these promises, but
his toll does not decrease. nor does
his financial condition experience
any material betterment. He
sends his sons to the towns and
cities to find work, and they natur-
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

Helena, and county of Lewis and
Clarke. in regular session assem-
bled on the day and year herein
first written, that the action of the
democratic mayor and the repub-
lican city council of the city of
Helena, in thus deliberately vio-
lating their pledges to the labor
ing people and to all citizens of
this city, be and is earnestly con-
demned and denounced; and it is
ordered that the fact of the viola
ton OF these pledges be brought
to the notice of every laboring
man affiliated with this council,
and that copies of these resolu-
tons be given the newspapers of
the city and county for publica-
ton.
FRANK ANDREWS,
President.
w. w. HILLS,
Secretary.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27
Why Socialist
- Papers Fail

Montana, when asked TO sub
scribe for the Montana News at
one dollar, throws up his hands
in holy horror, and exclaims that
the Appeal is only two-bits. 1t is
a loss of time To try to explain
the business end of the PROPOSE
tion to the fellow. We Just pass
him up and get to the fellow who
will subscribe.
The News reduced its price
from S2.5o per year to SI.oo, and
should we secure a large enough
subscription list in the future to
warrant another reduction, down
she will go, and this cannot be
termed "cut-throat' business
either. 1t is straight legitimate
business under the present COM
petitive system.
This whole proposition cannot
be changed until such time that
the Socialists begin to elect men
TO remunerative offices. And
then the party should own the
press. All electors salaries
should go into a Socialist fund,
the elector, no matter what Office.
to receive a union scale of wages
and all the big surplus of velvet
attached to most of the public Of
fees To 60 into the propaganda
cause, to support the party owned
papers, and further the cause of
Socialism.
For instance. a district Judge in
this state draws nearly 5000 per
month, while many other public
officers draw more; this. you will
see. is far above a union scale and
would leave a nice fund for prop
aganda work.
However, the present condition
of the Socialist press lacks man
agement, and it needs it, and
needs the very best. because the
present condition confronting the
Socialist papers is a serious one
and hard row to hoe, and con-
sequently needs just that much
more hustling.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-07-27

The financial failure of many
Socialist papers appears to be of
great concern to the comrades at
present. And when we read the
announcement nearly every week
of some Socialist paper reducing
in size, and few weeks later read
of its going out of existence, the
question naturally arises, why
can't these Socialist papers live:
Suffice to say it would take
some space to tell in full why
they fail, but in brief, it is mis-
management; if you realize what
hat word implies under the pres
ent competitive system. Many
Socialist papers are established by
some one who knows nothing
about the paper business. Then
a bid is secured from some Office
to set the type, the advertise
ments, makeup the forms, print
the paper, etc. Here is where the
profit has gone-gone to furnish
ammunition to the enemy.
To run a paper on this plan
means an expense of approxi-
mately $50 per week with circu-
lation of 5000; of course this all
depends upon the locality and the
Typographical union scale of
wages. Five thousand subscrib-
ers at so cents per year means an
income of about $500 per month.
Fifty dollars per week for the
work means an expense OF 5000 TO
$3.50 per month. All this is not
counting the editor, Office. tele-
phone, lights, fuel, insurance,
taxes, living and thousand other
small items that amount to a
great deal in the aggregate.
The Milwaukee Herald, in
speaking of the failure of the Sc
attic Socialist, alludes 10 the
cause as being brought about by
the "cut-throat" business meth
DDS of the Appeal to Reason.
There is about as much sense TO
such argument (?) as that adj
vanced bby the laboring mule of