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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-21
TAX BILLS and THE Farmer
DISCUSSED BY A LEGISLATOR

Editors West Virginian:
| l beg for a limited space in youl
valuable paper to say a few words i1
| reply to the editorial in Mondays
Times with reference to one of the
tax bills passed by the recent special
session of the Legislature, stipuating e
among other things that property shall
| be assessed at its market value, that
is. at the price it could be sold if vol
unfairly offered for sale by the owner.
| Having been a member of that body,
I feel it my duty to do what 1 can to
| explain to the public some of the rea-
sons for passing and enacting into law
the tax bills, especially when Inisrep-
reservations are being made by such
unreliable sheets as the Times and
Wheeling Register, two papers that
were never known to tell the truth
about anything, political or otherwise.
l want to- say I voted for every one
of the bills that were passed and felt
While doing so l was serving my con-
stltuents according to my oath taken
at the bar of the legislative hail. and
for doing SO l offer no apology, and
would do the same thing again had 1
the Opportunity
notice the Democratic papers and
the Democratic politicians can't under
stand why it was SO made that proper
ty should be taxed at it's full value in
stead OF at nominal value, as it is |
now, and can't see where the farmer
will be benefited thereby At this |
am not surprised, for as rule they
her IDIl f,f
being SO familiar with fraud and cor
ruptlon while in power it is almost i'm
possible for them to see and distn-
suish between fraud and corruption,
and justice and equity
One Of the reasons why the law pro-
tides that all property shall be as.
sessed at its market value is to com.
bel the tax dodger of the city to pay
lis proportionate amount of taxes tot
he county and State, equal to that
II the honest farmer, and to prove this
VIII here set forth some figures: |
lave for convenience sake taken for
N example the mansion of one of
he county Democratic candidates, be- ,
ieving that everybody will be familiar
nth it and know how artistically it is
onstructed from the emoluments of
years in a county office.
was informed by it's owner four {
ears ago that he refused $4,000 for
aid mansion. I was informed to-day !
Y one of his friends that he was 7
fered lately $4,000 for it. Now that q
lansion and grounds stand on the
md tax books today assessed at the \
ltiful, unjust and Democracy assessed a
I'M of $4,100, upon which its ownerf t
ays the unjust and unproportionatetn 2
cents on the 81 90. Suppose that il
Lid property was assessed at $40 ,OO0.: y
hich5 is 1900 less than its $owner{lH
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-21

All sorts school novelties.
1ettc's
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-21

Advance sale of seats for the Boys
New York Symphony Orchestra opens
at Christie's tomorrow morning at 9
O'Clock. ..-.-t X
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-21

"A word to the wisc''-Wear the
Dorothy Dodd Shoe. C.. 3: Highland.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-21

Street Hat Opening Thursday, Sep.
tember 22, 1904, at The Bon Ton. &
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
The Significance of the Returns.

The people want distinctly defined
issues in a national campaign. De
spite ali that was said to the contrary
during the last two preceding cam
paigns about radicalism. and the mag
ined disaster attending the same. il is
the difference in platforms. that ap-
peals to the voter after all The idea
of conservatism finding response from
the business or other interests of the
country has been effectually repudiat-
ed by the peoples sovereign vote.
There never was a milder platform
written in the history of this country
than that which came from the St.
Louis convention. There never was a
worst beaten candidate for the pres
idency than the man who ran on that
platform.
The platform was conservative in
the extreme. While it made issues Of
both the tariff and Imperialism. and
through the tariff the trusts. il was
not sufficiently OutspOken on the para
mount of all questions-the trusts
to arouse the sentiments of the people
in opposition to them, or to cause any
very hard feelings on the part of the
trusts themselves. The candidate for
the presidency made the best fight he
could on such a platform. but with the
party so tamely committed on the sub
ject. the people did not care-verv
much-whether a change was made OF
not. So they gave their sanction to
all that the trusts have accomplished
in the last four years in their own
behalf.-through the republican party.
What will be the consequence OF tine
election eventually? Will the trusts
accept the verdict of the people in tho
only light in which it can be prop
erly interpreted? Ii they do what
will the people do after Il while when
they become fully awakened To what
they have been doing? Facts may as
we'll be looked sQuarely in the face
The significance to be found in the
growth of the socialistic vote cannot
be ignored in contemplating what may
happen in the future. The republican
party drunk with success and the pow
er delegated TO il by the people can
only be expected to 90 on as il has
been doing. growing holder and more
defiant in the face of all opposition
be il great or small. The policy Of
imperialism now firmly rooted in the
American system of government, ami
the trusts strengthened in their hold
upon the nation and upon the people
the man who stops 10 think cannot
blind himself 10 the fact that future
campaign may bring al last that which
has all along has been most dreaded
by the reasoners of both parties.-the
defining Of party lines between the
two leading political organizations
on the relations between capital and
labor
When this time comes. if it does
come. the people will see the misfor
tune that the nation brought upon IL
self when it defeated the democratic
ticket in the election of 1904.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

the highwayman who will sandbag
man up an alley. l tell you that every
business man who is approached by a
CRATER should have spunk enough to
expose him on the instant For this
practice must be stopped at any haZ-
ard. If il was left TO me l would set
up the whipping post. There are some
things that need elemental punishment,
and this is one of them
While it may be doubted whether the
noted preacher has suggested a remedy
that would stop grating. even were it
adopted. there is q fine sort of scoTn in
his denunciation of grafters that rings
true. The CRATER is indeed traitor
and OF the meanest kind. He takes
of q place, given him by the
grace of the people. TO rob the people.
His philosophy that he is in public po-
sition TO levy toll on public funds is the
philosophy of q traitor. His practice of
dividing up or taking money on the
side is the practice OF traitor. And,
as the bishop says this grating strikes
at the Vitals of American principles.
II makes government of the grafters,
by the grafters and for the grafters.
Ii would surely excite some comment
TO witness the Hon. Ed Butler. of ST.
Louis, or the honorable ex-mayor of
Minneapolis tied TO a post and given 90
lashes with the cato -nine-taiIs. but it
would not stop the practice of graft
inc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

have Been- no OF course his honor
never said any. such thing.
The two men and the girl exchanged
glances. Drew looked ready - bite
of his tongue that had made the OBJ
lection. Merritt smiled cOmplacently.
and Miss Towle burst out laughing
The prosecuting attorney returned 10
the courtroom 10 attend to the next
case, while Merritt and Florence left
the building. and before they parted
Merritt had been invited to dine 1T the
Towle home the same evening.
Give me your hand" said the judge
to Merritt when they met. You are
the first lawyer since l have been on
the bench who has had the impudence
to attempt To prove that l had express
ed an opinion in a case TO be tried be
fore me-
And you saved an innocent per
SON." Florence put in. FOR you know.
papa. Mr.. Merritt said that he knew his
client was not guilty"
Il was sure to lose my case" replied
Merritt, unless l could win it by y
ruse. l was in an agony OF dread lest
the prosecuting attorney should pre-
vent the witness from answering"
From that moment the love tables
were turned I'm favor of Merritt. The
Judge was delighted with his brilliant
stroke. and the daughter had always
preferred him. Merritt won the girl
and in time became one OF the most
distinguished cross examiners ut the
har. ROBERT c. WARDER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
One Fact Made Clear.

Out of the smoke of political bat
tie in Rock Island county there rises
again one particularly significant fact
the people want none of LoOneyism
in the politics of either party. The
slump in the vote of John X Scott.
whose alliance with LOoney was made
clear, as soon as the democrats were
given place on the ticket despite the
efforts of LOOney to prevent this ad-
vantage. indicates clearly the attitude
of the people. Had there been a suf-
ficient length of time to have impress
ed the actual state of affairs on the
people throughout the county. or had
the democrats polled anything like
their accustomed vote Scott would
have been showed under up to his
ears.
Even as it was. it is hoped the new
states attorney has read the results
sufficiently to heed the warming. As
to this. however, only the trend of
subsequent events will show.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

gers advisers. The Russian govern
ment was then urging China TO agree
to convention making the de factO
situation in Manchuria permanent. Ii
Hung Chang. always pro-Russian, de-
sired the acceptance of Russia's pro-
position, and advanced some reasons
why the empress-doWager should agree,
which sounds very much now as
if he had an insight into the future. If
he said, Russia was left in possession
of Manchuria, no serious harm would
enSHe, for in that event friction would
certainly arise between Russia and
Japan on the frontiers of Korea, and
an actual conflict would be inevitable
To his own country he assigned the
ignoble part of siding with the victor
Should the Japanese win. the proper
policy for the Chinese, in Ii Hung
Chang's opinion. would be 10 join them
in driving the Russians out Of Nanchu-
ria.
In the other event China should win
Russias gratitude and receive back
Manchuria by giving Korea to the car
and by aiding in the complete over
throw of the Japanese. Thus he felt
certain that, either way. China would
regain Manchuria-a belief hardly to
be shared by unbiased observers of the
Russian tenacity in holding on to any
territory once acquired. But it is in
teresting to note that the present war
was foreseen in China as clearly as in
Japan, and this makes the Russian
blindness 10 impending events all the
more astonishing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

!. Pierpont Morgan has had bound
complete two massive volumes CON
tanning 3.5oo clippings from Canadian
and American newspapers relative
70 the recent visit of the archbishop of
Canterbury. He has taken a person
al interest in the work of selection TO
avoid duplication. In addition TO the
clippings. there are 400 illustrations
from the daily and secular papers
These have been cut ont in outline and
pasted in appropriate places. The vol
umes contain comments beginning with
the arrival of the British primate in
America and concluding with the ca
bled announcement OF his return 10
London. They will be forwarded by
Mr. MorEc to England.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

Thomas g. Gaylord. a New York
lawyer, was arrested. charged with
speeding his automobile beyond the
legal limit. He offered TO bet the po-
liceman VINO took him in charge that
no fine would be imposed. The officer
took the bet and told Magistrate
Breen of the transaction. The pris-
Oner wins said the court calmly, and
Gaylord smiled triumphantly as he
started to leave the room. Il shall
hold him for trial in special sessions.
added his honor. And then it was the
policeman's turn TO smile, even though
he had lost the bet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

Portland Oregonian: Venus, she
of the broken arms. and the discus
thrnwer have been ANONYMOUSLY
banished from all buildings controlled
by the school board of Gloucester,
Mass. Poor Venus. she has been
gazing unabashed upon the world these
many centuries. and the discus thrower
has been making his cast with never a
thought of sweaters. but Gloucester has
cried: TO the basement with the bag
gage and her trouserless fellow" Max
ed Truth had better lie low in her well
or the school board of Gloucester will
send the hussy packing with her elias
steal companions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
DID LINCOLN ACCEPT THE
NOMINATION AT STERLING?
Paper of That City Says He Did But
There is Discrepancy
in Dates.

According to the Sterling Standard
Abraham Lincoln's letter accepting tn
nomination for president in 1860 was
written in the Whiteside county CITY.
The Standard prints the letter, which
was cut from a copy OF an Old news
paper which found its way to that
office. It reads as follows:
Sterling. Ill. May -. 1860.
Hon. George Ashman. President of
the Republican National convention
Sir: | accept the nomination by the
convention over which YOU presided
and of which | am formally appraised
in the letter of yourself and others
acting as a committee of the cOnven-
ton for that purpose. The declaration
Of principles and sentiments which
accompany your letter meet my ap-
prevail. and il shall be my care not TO
violate il nor to disregard il in any
part. Imploring the assistance of Di-
vine Providence. and with due regard
10 the views and feelings of all who
we're represented in the convention. to
the rights of all the states and terri
tories and people of the nation. to the
inviolability of the constitution, har
by 10 cooperate for the practical sue
cess of the principles declared by the
convention.
Your obliged friend and fellow-citi-
zen. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Just what Lincoln was doing in
Sterling when he penned his letter of
acceptance. on the eve of the outbreak
of the civil war, is not stated. There
appears to be a slight discrepancy in
the dates. also. for the convention
which nominated Mr.. Lincoln for the
presidency met in Chicago on June
Is. 1860. hence his letter of acceptance
must have been written subsequent
to that time The letter in the old
paper is dated May -. month before
the republican convention in Chicago
All the news all the time - THE
ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

Ex-senator Thomas Carter of the
St. Louis Exposition company. tells a
story of a Chicago family visiting the
fair who were asked by one what had
impressed them most of the big show.
We'll" said the eldest girl, who took
il upon herself to be the spokesman
for the party, 81 rather think we liked
the picture of Adam and Eve, along
with the apple and the serpent" so
that struck You most forcibly?" the
friend asked. Yes. indeed. we found
it most interesting. We knew the
anecdote, you see"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
II. G. Reynolds, superintendent o

II. G. Reynolds, superintendent of
eastern bridge company, is a resident
of Kingston. y. Y, and 40 years old,
but he cast his first presideu-
tial vote yesterday. although he has
been trying to vote ever since coming
of age. Until this year he has never
lived long enough in one place to ac-
quire legal residence. In the past 20
years he has lived in every state and
territory of the union except CalifOr-
mia. Nevada and Arizona, but never
over six months. He has now been a
resident of Kingston Is months and of
New York state two years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
NIcCabe on Grating.

Bishop McCabe. better known rs
Chaplain NCCabc. has a blunt way of
saving things that makes for plain I'M
derstandins. In a recent interview he
Is quoted as saying:
Graft is treason-nothinS else. trea-
son OF the deepest dye We ought TO
call it so Il strikes all the vitals OF
American principles. The man who will
graft on the government is worse than
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

Japan is no longer the land of cheap
living. Rents have advanced from 200
10 300 per cent. Europeans who used
To pay from 81 to $12 month for a
whole house now content themselves
with a single room. Prices of food
drink. etc. are a long way beyond
those of Europe. \ bottle of beer
costs from Is TO p cents. A 2-cent
cigar fetChes - cents. The only
cheap article is French champagne
owing to the low duty paid. German $
trade with Japan is falling OFF; Ameri-
ca 5 and EnEland's are increasing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
LHupP Changes Prediction.

The London Times has discovered an
interesting letter written by Ii Lung
Chang a few weeks before his death in
-901. to Yuns-lu, at that time one of the
most influential of the empress-dowa-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

TERMS - Daily, 10 cents per week
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character. political or religious must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill. CEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

Well. Theodore. here's looking at
you, anyway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

There is one thing about it. we know
Just where we got it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

Misery loves company-and there is
plenty of company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

There is one thing about it-demOc-
racy has many inquiring friends still.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09
Wednesday, November 9, 1904.

And John Hay is still loafing round
the throne.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-09

RYTHE J. w. POTTER CO.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

1.-THE story frequently repeated
about professional divers who have
been able to remain under water for
over two minutes is silly DR.. Joseph
Boehm tells me- "No one can remain
under water that long without drown
ing, whether they are trained divers
or not. At Navarino, where the
sponge divers are reported to be able
to remain under water three and four
minutes, tests were made recently
ard resulted in conclusively proving
that none of them remained down as
long as a minute and a half Ninety
seconds seems very long time to the
watcher on shore, and it is about the
limit of a divers endurance under
water. At Ceylon, where time tests
we're also made among the famous
pearl divers, it was ascertained that
few of them remained below the sur
face as long as minute, and other
tests made on the Red sea among the
Arabs proved that minute and a
quarter was the longest they could
endure without a fresh breath.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

It is a sad commentary upon our
scholarship and our civilization that
the average life Of a man to-day
should be somewhere between 80 and
,35 years, says What to Eat. With
all our scientific advance and our
knowledge of hygiene and sanitation,
we have cut down the life Of man
to nearly one-sixth since the days Of
Abraham and Isaac. We have it on
good authority that Abraham lived
175 years and that Isaac died at the
ripe old age of $780,, being full of
years and of days" Jobs life was
full Of trials, bolts aud yicissitudes,
and yet he was 12O years old when
he gave upEthe ghost. Prof. Eli
Metchnikoff of the Pasteur institute
has fixed the minimum limit of mans
: life at 140 years. Having lived a
natural and scientific life from birth,
indeed, man need not expect to shut
fe off this mortal coil at 14O years.
:At:.that time of life he will merely
begin to feel himself full Of days. -
: Prof. Metchnikoff shows that mans
vermiform appendix is a moral dis
harmony, for whose useful existence
we must go back to herb-eating crea-
lures like the rabbit, in (which it: full
fills a notable .function. in the diges-
ton of raw" vegetable ;:matter;; In
man it is nothing but a. athtEap,: one,
Paris hospital having: Treated ;,A4s
9ases of appendicitis in live fears. =
J.: And what is the scientific scohclu-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

C. J. Post, who is travelling through
unknown South America" for Har-
per's Magazine, writes in the March
number of a dangerous ride through
the mountains of Bolivia:
1--WE kept on ascending between
winding walls" he says, "at length
emerging on a narrow table land-the
top of the cliffs we had seen from the
decks of the Limari. A short distance
over the level ground, and then from
the farther edge we looked down on
the fiat, stony bottom of the Vitor Val
ley-a ragged gorge that wound tor
tuous course through the desert. A
narrow trail with Short. sharp angles
zigzagged down a steep gully to the
bottom. The mules. carefully picked
their way down among the loose
stones, hating inquiringly at times to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07
Mans Days Of Life

sion from all this? Man cannot wait
for his great intestine to disappear
in the course of the ages, and he
does not care to run the risk of hav-
ing it cut out. And yet it is the the
DRY of Prof. Metchnikoff that the phe-
nomena of senility and old age is
due directly to the microbes OF the
large intestines, which are continually
breaking down the higher cells of our
structure.y; The only course is to fight
the intestinal mlcrobe, and as there
are 128,OO0,000, 100000 of him formed
each day it will be seen that the job
is no summer-day picnic. The pro-
.fassaE sses'fs
and warns Us Is 1fwars ofsan ..Hnr
cookeths products Dr. they miSrobe-in-
tested :. earths&salads, ! arfichokes,
strawberries, melons, onions, cucum-
bers, celery radishes, turnips, carrots,
'cabbage:- Unless they are thoroughly
cooked they should not enter into
the human organism. BY rigid 'ad-
herence TO this theory of alimenta-
ton, and with the aid of certain ey-
totoxic ~serun1s prepared in the Pas
teur institute, man may fight off old
age. He will not grow old'' at 60,
70 and 80, as he does now. Whether
the theories of Prof. Metchnikoff are
scientifically sound or not, there is
little doubt that man was designed
to- live: to: a: mRch: greater age than
Tie now sattains,:, and that longevity is
even .now = question: of. RATIONAL h y
:gienie' A B =: 8 !: ! y :, - !,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-07

Attacking machine that has created
no. little sensation is that just pro-
duced by DR.. r. Marage, we'll known
member of the French academy OF
medicine. 1t is an interesting device,
which reproduces with perfect accur-
acy4 the sounds of the human voice,
not, as in the case of the monograph,
by merely repeating words spoken by
a person, but by a process which is
purely mechanical from start to fin
ish, and in which no word is spoken
by any human being. The sounds are
produced, by a system of vibration.
Attached to the machine are a series
of plaster heads, five in all, repre-
senting the five vowels, a, e, i, O, u.
They are each a perfect model of a
persons mouth, fitted with pliable
lips and perfect teeth. Air currents
set in motion by the machine are
made to pass through the dummy
mouths, which are fitted with sirens.
Through his invention, DR.. Marage
has discovered that the steam sirens