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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09
The first dinner in honor of the Pre-

The first dinner in honor of the Presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt alter the New
Year will be given by the Secretary Of
State and Mrs. Hay, who will inaugurate
the new fashion of giving dinner to the
President without the necessity of invit,
ing all of the Cabinet. The report seems
incredible, but probably has some
foundation, that Cabinet officers and their
wives actually find each other bore
when they are compelled to dine together
dozen times during a single winter.
Hence the new departure.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09

@. A. Snow s. Co., Patent Law
yers of Washington, ID. c., have
sent US Handy Vest Pocket Diary
Memorandum and Account Book
for 1905. 1t contains calendars for
1905 and 1906, a census of cities and
states, common business laws, court
decisions in patent cases and other
valuable information. 1t is such
a book as every man needs all the
time. O.. A. Snow & Co. will send
it to any address on receipt OF
actual postage, two cents. This
pocket diary would cost elsewhere
from 10 to 20 cents and is indis-
pensable TO those who know how
to use it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09

The climate of Panama has been found
so deadly to men from temperate chimes
that there will be great difficulty in get
ting free wage-werkers to dig the canal.
Some benevolent people have solved this
great labor problem which confronts the
canal commission by suggesting the EN-
ployment of convicts. A humane view
of the case The Suez canal is said to
have cost Sc Yenty-si4 thousand laborers'
lives, and Suez is health resort as COM
pared 10 Panama.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09
THE MESSAGE.

The closing session of the 58th Con-
press convened on Monday and imme-
diately adjourned until Tuesday, when
the Presidents message was presented to
both branches of the body.
This state paper, which is very lengthy,
consumed two hours time in reading, and
is styled as quiet in tone and unam-
bilious in substance. Its range OF sub
iects is wide and contains many recon-
mendations to Congress, more than will
ever be considered by that slow-moving
legislative body.
The President gives himself over to a
discussion of the relations of capital and
labor at the outset, stating that capital is
to be sustained, but not to be grasping
and oppressive; while labor is to be en-
couraged, but not to be violent and in
tolerant. The President contends corpora
tions are not to be antagonized as such,
but regulated for the public interest,
while the abuse of rebates must be
stopped.
The rural free delivery receives unqual-
fled endorsement, the upbuilding of the
merchant marine is advocated, and re-
vision of the immigration and naturaliza-
ton laws recommended. For the protec-
ton of the electorate he recommends the
enactment of a law directed against
bribery and corruption.
It is on the foreign policy that our
strenuous President spreads himself, as it
were, and while extolling peace asserts
the best method of preserving it is by a
large army and powerful navy-especially
the latter-in order that we may be able
to assert our rights and protect them.
A short paragraph is devoted to cur
rency in which he says Congress should
consider the retirement of the greenbacks,
and that every silver dollar should be
made by law redeemable in gold at the
option of the holder. This is in line with
the Wall street notion of finances, and
should make Roosevelt solid with thai
gang once more.
According to the President our prog
ress in the Philippines has been steady
and gratifying, and all who oppose the
policy as being carried out in those is
lands are stignatized as foolish and prag
matte people, who are endeavoring te
inculcate false ideas of premature indie
pendence in the minds Of the Filipinos
when their needs are not political at all
merely moral and industrial.
The one particular subject which is
made conspicuous by its absence. is the
tariff, which is not discussed, and is evil
IDENTIFY to be treated in special manner
at later date. AS whole the message
is what the democrats might style safe
and sane" and concerns itself chiefly with
detail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09
Politics and Business.

What is politics? To answer this ques-
ton we must ask another: What is a
political organization ? And what is a
political policy? A political organization
is simply body of people banded to-
gether to control community in their
own interests. Their policy is.the course
they decide to pursue to attain that end,
and their politics is simply the means by
which their policy is applied.
The politics of the old parties, which
has for It's object the robbery of the
workers, is necessarily dirty politics. This
is why at every election you see them en-
gagged in continually charging each other
with dishonesty, lying and treachery; this
is why the political boss levies blackmail
on the dens of vice, why votes are bought
and ballot boxes stuffed, why the ward
heller and poll workers bride the voters
with rotgut beer, whiskey and cheap
cigars, why they always try to attach
their political tag to the neck of any man
who may have little influence in his
trade union, why every crook and scoun-
drel can be used on election day and for
the vilest and meanest of purposes, and
why every politician on either side re-
CARDS his opponents as liars, sneaks and
tricksters. And this is all necessary be-
cause the parties and their politics are
based upon robbery and fraud.
There are but two ways to get living
in this world. One is to work, the other
is to work the other fellow. This work
ing the other fellow has become profes
sion with the American people; they call
/ it business In the name of "bus-
mess" and business interests Legislators
have been bought and sold, judicial tri-
bunals have become vena1 institutions,
ballot boxes have been stuffed and plum
dered, and where this has failed to meet
the ends of the business interests whole
states have been transformed into mil
itary despotisms as, for instance, Colo
RADIO, state that has for over year been
ruled over by an uncrowned king, who
carries his crown in his pocket and paid
pimps on his pay roll. And where today
the workingmen, for no other reason than
that they are members of labor organ
ization which threatens to disturb the
business interests of those to whom il
is said God in his infinite wisdom has in.
trusted the management of the universe,
are being imprisoned, deported and shot
down like wild beasts.
Today the capitalist class-a small mi
nority-own and control the means
whereby the majority live. The working
class are allowed to work only on such
conditions as the capitalist class feels
inclined to give. Intelligence and moral
worth is the only thing that can deliver
us from capitalism and wage slavery, and
when the monopolies, trusts, and syndi-
Gates are gone, when the private owner
ship of land and machine have passed
away and tyranny is dead, then shall
come righteousness. liberty and happiness
for all.-John w. Brown, in the Worker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
which opened at St. Louis on April IS.
closed on Wednesday of last week, and as
is usual with these big shows, the fnau-
cial statement shows deficit. In round
numbers the Exposition Co. expended
Sz2, ooo, 900. while the receipts amounted
TO but SO, ooo, 900. The total admissions
to the Fair were yS,3I7.457, September
being the banner month with an attend
ance of s,65I,s73.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-09
Property Transfers.

Haines England to David F..
Let's, property in Ninth district,
81 900.
William s. Byers and wife, of
Pennsylvania, to John s. Byers
and DIR. John B. Keaggy, one
third interest in Welsh Point farm
of 472 acres in Second district,
$4,000.
L. Marshall Haines, Attorney,
to Edward Taylor, Ward property
on Cathedral street in Elkton,
81, 200.
Joseph F. Holt and wife and
Thomas s. Holt and wife to John
B. Holt, two thirds interest in 70
acre property of late John T. Holt,
81, 400.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

The uniform this remedy correcting disturbance the due it's fou Snh ive and ghens
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

diers just landed and making their camp on the Common. Then he went to the waterfront and saw the transports from which the troops had landed and watched three other transports coming up the harbor with yet another regiment. Truly 1t Is no wonder that Sammy found little time to study, although he did find time to stop at his sisters for the gown shs was making him to wear at Commence Enent. A month later he reports hearing that there are go cd Cannon at Wal than chiefly brought there on scows from Boston. Then came the news from BosS ton in September that the soldiers werO preparing to march their Packs on their Backs & a Number of Boats on this side of the Common, it much alarmed the peo- pie who have kept Watch all Night uH the River expecting they were a going tG Watertown to git the Cannon but they never came from their Camp"
 Later in the month we find him visiting the entrenchments that were being thrown up in Boston, and within few days he had joined the Cambridge com pany ito larn the exercises On Friday "a powry day" the journal ends with an account of the hissing of two students who essayed to speak dialogue against the proceedings of the Americans. Chand- Ter himself disappeared into civil life after serving in the war, but the old journal still remains as a quaint picture of Har- yard and Boston in the days immediately preceding the struggle for independence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
THE NEGRO IN HAITI
HE HAS PROVED A FAILURE IN
 AN ISLAND PARADISE.
After a Hundred Years of Self-aov- ernment Hayti is the Most Wretched Land on the Globe. Bloody History of That
 Republic and Santo
 Domingo.

The recent celebration of the Tooth an- niversary of the setting up of a negro government over the island of Hayti after the most sanguinary and horrible revo- lution recorded in human history, brings from a writer in The Philadelphia Ledger the following story of the ne1ro's failure when left to his own devices: Toussaint LOuverture was not It's hero; the name of that man is but faintly remembered Sn the islands. The monster Dessalines is the national hero-a brute, savage, blood thirsty. perfidious, whose mildest crimes were inhuman in their hideous cruelty On the 1st of January, 1894, he proclaimed the independence of the black republic, following the proclamation with a slaugh- ter of all the French. male and female young and old. still alive in the God-de- serted land.
 So. on the 1st of January, 1904, the last ruler of the Haytien blacks, grizzled old Nord Alexis. who now calls himself Alexis du Nord. President of. the Republic, mounted the platform in the centre of the Place Rationale at Port au Prince, and made discourse to rabble of soldiery and barefooted citizens, recounting the glories of the first century of black rule in the fair island of Hispaniola.
 National Degeneration.
 This island was the site of tha first colony planted upon American soil. Co lumbus made 1t his chief seat in tba New World. built in 1t city. named af. ter his father, whose castles of ston., had grown dark with age before a cabin
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
EARLY AMERICAN
 SCHOOL JOURNAL
DIARY OF A HARvsRD MAN IN 177os-How BOSTON PREPARING FOR REVOLUTION SEEN AMERICAN COLLEGE BOY.

Cambridge, Feb 6, 1904-Just about this time, 131 years ago, Sammy Chandler, very lively youth of Gloucester, Massa- chusetts, was packing his chest prepara- tory to joining the class of 1775 at liar yard College where he not only studied Latin and Greek-with a side ambition to play the banjo or become a conjurer- but also kept diary Sammy's diary re- gently published in part in the Grad uates' Magazine, presents a curious pie ture of student life at an American col lege in the very last days of the old colonial regime. The diarist indeed often ran away from college to see what was going forward in old-time Boston, Con- temporary life at Harvard is curiously mingled with contemporary events in Boston in this 18th century American school boys diary, running as it does from the experiences of Master Sammy in his efforts to recover a vanished $5 through the assistance of local con- jurer-who gave us full satisfaction that he well understood the Art he profesSed" despite the non-recovery of the treasure to the hissing of two students who at tempted 10 speak a dialogue against the Proceedings" of the American revolu- tionists. Sammy himself was what would nowadays be called sport and his ac- count of his own performances Is often
 
 discipline in the time of our ancestors
 Sammy Chandler set out for Harvard February 10, 1773. lat about of Clol in Schooner Sc although the Wind was contrary we got to Boston about at night" Nowadays he would have trav- eled on the train and made the journey from Gloucester in something over an hour. The first thing that happened to him after he reached Cambridge was the loss of his So and he decided, having his own suspicious, to seek the aid of a con jurer.
 "Thursday. 25," he writes in his diary, "this fore Noon I hired MT. Steetman's s hors x Sha in which Emerson and I to- gether with Battle and Hall went to Ded- ham to one Dusts a COTiurcrs. I told him I had lost Something and wanted his Helpe in discov' ing ye Person. Upon no other Information he told me when I lost it how I left my Money and that 1 Suspected one particular Person, he de- scribed Parker so exactly that before he had mentioned one Quarter of ye De- scription two of my Company (who knew nothing of the Affair." knew it by ye Description of him and mentioned his name, he described ye place where ye Money was Wiz on the East side of a Chimney which is ye Place where Park
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

'ural right. together with what they can thieve. confiscate or procure by terrorism and in the way of bribes.
 Today Du Nord maintains in the west a show of authority by the liberal employ ment of the approved instruments of ter rorism. A half dozen generals are cam paigning in the east-Morales. Jiminez. Vasquez and the rest. Santo Domingo is in complete anarchy. The country is as mountainous as Switzerland. and the in- terior can be reached only by dangerous passes. Anarchy, or rather primitive bar barism, is its normal condition, but the towns have generally pretended to ac- knowledge one chief or another. Lately many towns have been pillaged and burned. There Is continuous rioting. Santo Domingo has been repeatedly bonn barded within the past month. In Port au Prince citizens suspected of antago- nizing the ruling dynasty have been shot down in the street, beaten to death by cocoa macques or thrown into jails to live with rats in unspeakable welters of infected corruption.
 Failure in Eden.
 It Is in this island, then, that the expe- riment of negro government has had it's trial. Other nations have had to subdue a wilderness for a home, to fashion laws, to achieve a language, to invent a relig- ion. to find markets, to discover and de- velop resources-all for themselves. The Haytien set up his government in a gar den, having language. religion and laws ready made, with nothing to do but to carry on for his own benefit the work he had long performed for others and to en- ter into the prosperity which they had enjoyed. He has failed to do even that. The garden has become a wilderness; its products have diminished and it's revenues decreased; its houses of residence, of in- dustry. have fallen down in decay; its governments are ridiculous affairs of con- temptible incapacity; its moral condition Is an affrOnt to the conscience of the world
 The Ethiopian has been a failure in Eden. After a full century there in free dom he has nothing to show but the pic ture of a degenerate people continually embroiled fin civil conflicts. purposeless and profitless, amid the ruins of the la. bors of other centuries; a people without ambition to take a part in the worl1s work. and having itself no principles tc live for, no ideals to cherish. no arts to foster. no manner of thought or fashion of living to maintain. It was not for this that the isle of Hispaniola was set there in the midst of the American Mediterran- can, endowed with It's inexhaustible wealth and lighted with it's inextinguish- able natural beauty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
nnssian soldier A Laborer. Too.

The Russian soldier in Manchuria is a laboring man first and a military man af- tetrward. It Is an item not to be over iooked-indeed. the Russian soldier must be most carefully considered by those who are estimating the forces influencing the world at present. No toll is too heavy for him; no hardship is to him hardship at all He will fell trees. excavatee ditches, build houses, with the same good humor with which he will go into action where wounds and death are his sure re- ward. In Manchuria there are three classes of the Russian soldier: The Cos sack first. then the railway guard, and then numbers of that host of which the Russian army is composed, the common soldier of the army.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
Doko's Violent Intentions,

Senator Tillman tells a story of Doko a little town in South Carolina. with just about enough people to fill small school house. At the beginning of the civil war its people became greatly excited over se- cession and held mass meeting at which these resolutions were passed: Resolved First. that South Carolina should secede, Resolved. Second, that if South Carolina don't damned If Doko don't"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
PaIpitation of the Keart.

Many persons subject spells of violent heart throb bns be almost painful They regard this and often worry about 1t thus aggravatng trouble s9 cent of these heart troubles entirely orde in the stomach and dgs cured by applying proper treatment For this purpose PRIcKLY BITTERs is effective remedy, it eause the ach, strengthens the digestion regulates purifes bowels By overhaung correcting system this the cause of the heart symptoms helps and vigorous body
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

stn1uant occasionally. The digestive organs the liver the kidneys and bowels lose their effectiveness at times and need help. At such times stimulating cleansing and reg
 ating medicine is of priceless value because serious diseases spring from neglected disorders in these organs An admir- able stinulant and system regulator will be found in
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-12
LOCKOUT GOES INTO EFFECT
Between $4,000 and 100 900 Men
Acknowledgement Arbitration Ii
Repadiated.

New York. August S.-The general
lockout against unions in the build
ing trades, whose members have re-
Gently ordered strikes. went into effect
today. The number of men affected
by the lockout is variously estimated
at $4,000 to 100, 900. About half of
these are skilled workmen. the re-
mainder being laboreGS whose employ
ment depends upon the Skilled hands.
The lockout which was ordered by
the building trades employers ~associa-
ton, is the result of an agreement
entered into by the unions and the as
sociationS about &C rear ago TO submit
all questions to arbitration. Many
strikes have been ordered against
members of the association during the
past few weeks, and The lockout or
der followed.
The building trades alliance. which
comprises ell the unions affected by
the big lockout order, today adopted
a resolution providing for the repudi-
alton OF the general arbitration plan.
1t was stated at the conclusion OF the
meeting hat all big jobs in the city
will be struck tomorrow.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-12
MAY ED FOR THE LEASE.
II. S. Rowland. of Asheville. Talks A.
and n. G. With the Governor.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, n. c., August S.-Governor
Aycock this afternoon announced that
R.. S. Rowland, of Asheville was here
to see whether he would make a bid for
the lease of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway, Thee. F. Davidson
being Howland's attorney.
They had a conference with the Gov
ernor today and will nave another to-
morrow. The Governor sal he could
not yet give the terms of the bid. Colo
mel Davidson said Howland was a man
of means, very public spirited. a great
developer of the electric railways and
suburban properties at Asheville and
had been the most useful man to the
Mountain section.
He said Howland's plan, if his bid
was accepted, was to thoroughly equiv,
and overhaul the road and if possible
TO induce the general government to
aid in deepening bar at Morehead City.
Rowland is looking forward to the time
when all that delta section Of North
Carolina will be vast truck gardens.
Three hundred more Kladi uniforms
are requisitioned for the First Regf-
ment. A hundred sabres and belts have
arrived for the National Guard officers.
New instruments for the three bands
have also arrived.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-12
ON WAY TO
The Adjutant General anG Quarter
master General VIII Be i'm Camp
Preparing Democratic Handbook.

Especial to The Messengen)
Raleigh. y. c.. August s.-Insurance
Commissioner Young today paid into
the state treasury $27.2zi collections
for July, the increase over July of last
year of $685. This increase VIII
make the receipts for the present fis-
cal year over 100000.
The farmers state convention held
here last week appointed a committee
composed of S. L. Patterson. J. J..
Thomas. John W. Atwater. T. B. Par
ker and j. Bryan Grimes to recon-
mend the names Of two hundred far
mers, merchants and bankers dealing
at the Cotton Growers Convention at
St Louis September ~. The COM
mfttee today asks - names of per-
sons who will go. 50 the Governor al
appoint them La delegates.
Adiutant General Royster and
Quareermaster General Macon are
here on their way b Morehead Cry
for the National Guard encampment.
Colonel Macon says there viii be 1000
officers and men in camp. There will
be $50 common tents, 81 wall. 5 hos
pital n twenty conicas. AIter for
gatIing battery from Charlotte.
Senator Simmons and Francis ID.
Winston arrived this afternoon and
will this week complete preparation
OF the Democratic handbook II
win contain ESQ pages Simmons says
It viii have strong facts and figures
and VIII deal 1argey with state affairs
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-12
STRIKERS USE BOYCOTT.
UNION TRANSFERS JOIN IN
STOCK YARDS DISPUTE.
No More Ice VIII be Delivered to
Butchers Who Buy of the Big Pack
ers-Increased Forces of Working
men on Duty in the Plants.

Chicago, ILL.,, August S.-The union
teamSterS are to be the principal
with which labor leaders propo
to use to win the stock yards strike.
Orders We're issued today to drivers of
ice wagons to deliver no. ice to butch
erS who buy of the big packers. Or to
amy of the branch houses of the pack
ing plants where the men are not now
OH strike. A list of more than 200 retail
dealers, who have been buying meat
from n so-called trust packers and
hauling it away with their own wag-
ons. has been compelled to stop. and
according to h claims of The strike
leaders. the ice supply will be cut off
from every one of these places tomor-
row morning.
Arrangements have been made to
keep pickets stationed art all the retail
markets which have been PLACID I'M
der a of the unions to see hat the
boycott is enforced to the limit. The
International Brotherhood of Team
sters. in session at Cincinnati. today
rave the necessary endorsement of
thep roposed boycott.
ALI the packing houses began opera-
tons here today with slightly increas-
ed forces of workmen, nearly 200 ID
ditional employees having been Secur-
ed over Saturday. Nearly all the men
who left the yards Saturday night to
spend Sunday at their homes turn
ed to work this morning.
The livestock receipts. consisting of
$4,000 cattle. $4,000 hogs and 10000
sheep, were nearly all brought up by
The packers today. This fact. the
packers claim, is positive evidence
that they now have the situation we'll
~, hand