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created. The persistence with which
those engaged in the operation of these
great corporations, endowed with dele
gated power of an extraordinary kind,
far beyond that of private citizen,
neglect to recognize the fact that their
powers are conferred, not for private
benefit but for the public good, is the
chief source of much of the misunder-
standing and antagonism which pre-
walls between the public and the cor
porations created to serve it. The or
ganizers and the operators of these
corporations, regarding their acquired
and extraordinary rights as if created
for their personal benefit, depart at
once from the proper exercise OF their
functions and presently find them
vested in these public utilities is en-
titled and is expected to earn . E1lr
profit, but it is much more important
and much more consistent with the
theory upon which the corporation is
created, and with the purpose for
which it was called into being, that it
shall render a satisfactory public SER
vice. If these corporations had been
conducted upon that theory rather than.
upon the opposite and conflicting prin-
ciple of extOrting from the public all
that can be got from it, there would
be little occasion to fear the legisla-
lures or the courts. Meanwhile, and
until that theory of operation of the
public service corporation is adopted
the powers of congress and of the state
legislatures and of the courts will be
called dntO exercise for purposes of re-
Stralnt as occasion may require.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01

Probably the people of the United
States do not realize that they are an
nually sacrificing more lives by their
barbarous methods of celebrating the
declaration of national independence
all the battles of the Spanish war. The
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
citation has compiled figures on this
subject which are furnished to us by
DR.. Haynes of st. James. They make
a powerful argument against the con-
tinuatiOn of the use of fireworks by
children and young people in celebrat
ing the Fourth of July.
These figures show that last year
pating III the fourth of July celebra-
tions, a few possibly from unavoidable
accidents having nothing to do with
dangerous fireworks. But 400 of these
deaths Weer from lockjaw, and lock-
jaw following a Fourth of July cele-
bration generally means some form of
powder burn or Iaceration by an ex-
plOsive. In addition to the 466 killed,
1888 received injuries more or less
serious; 10 were totally blinded rs
lost one eye, "a arms and legs were
lost, ana IA persons lost one or more
fingers The total list of casualties
reached the appalling figure of 4449,
or nearly 5000 persons killed or injured
to make an American holiday
In view of these facts, it would seem
as if national, state and municipal
legislation would be enacted at once
absolutely prohibiting the use of
fireworks and firearms as a means of
celebrating the national holiday. That,
however is not to be expected. and
the probabilities are that. in spite of
these appalling figures, hundreds of
lives will be lost on the approaching
Fourth of July, and thousands of peo-
pie injured through indulgence in the
popular passion for noise and display.
good deal can be accomplished.
however, by prudent intelligent action
on the part of parents and by rigid
restrictions on the part of municipal
authorities
Meanwhile it is time for US as a
civilized people to get over the idea
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01
THE STEEL STEAL.

/ In good time, no doubt, the history
| of stock watering in America will
| make its appearance among the
economic literature of the day. Books
more appearing from week to week,
all bearing upon the trusts, in the
writing of which there was neces-
sarily some attention given to the evil
Of stock watering, but since specula don
is the tendency of the age, We may
ultimately expect to find this phase
If the trust phenomenon taken up
specifically. When this is done first
place must be reserved for the record
of the wonderful doings Of the dis
tinguished gentleman who planned and
put through the United States Steel
corporation.
Yesterday, 9 was the figure for the
common stock; nine dollars for a
share nominally worth a hundred.
The thirty-seven thousand separate
holdings represent a great number of
small lots bought by investors. Much
of it they got between so and So, but
at recent low points it had fallen AZ
points, or 81 per cent. The total is
sue once stood for 1882, 100000 at cur
rent market quotations, and holders
drew dividends at the rate of 4 per
cent per annum. Today it stands for
about $43, 100000 and holders draw
nothing. What these holders would
like to know is whether any of the
big men really own any of the stock
or when or where they got out and who
ran first
The more conservative financial pa
pers criticized the payment of divi-
dends from the first, pronounced it
contrary to sound business policy, and
saw in it only a scheme to induce
investors to buy. At so it paid 8 per
cent at 40 it paid 10 per cent Peo-
pie believed so in the Morgan fetish
that they still bought it for invest
ment at IS.
Whether Morgan Schwab, Keene,
Perkins or others identified so prom
inenuy with the company's exploita
tons now own any common stock we
cannot know, but the selling out by
SchWab, who appears to have started
TO run q little late, is matter COM
paratively recent. Meanwhile the es
tate of the late H. w. oliver, one of
the Pittsburg insiders, who was
known to own $4,000 shares at one
time, has been in process of liquidation
and only 800 shares have been found.
The people hesitate to do injustice
to the eminent names connected with
this gigantic deal. but in the light of
recent developments it begins to look
| as if the poor old public has again been
found with the goods, this time the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01
WHAT PUBLIC SERVICE CORpOp
ATOMS ARE MADE FOR.

! At the banquet of the Illinois Man
| ufacturers' association in Chicago
! Vice President Brown of the New York
Central railroad delivered an address
on the relation of the railroad to ma
tlonal commercial and industrial pro-
Sress, in which he complains that the
patriotic and disinterested activities of
the railroads have not been appreciated
by the public as they should be: that
their efforts to better their service and
foster commerce by consultations to
prlng the great grain producing and
manufacturing states in close connec-
ton with the growing, exporting cities
of the northwest, have been misunder-
stood and cOmbated.
There is no doubt that there has been
engendered much unreasonable antag-
onism toward railways during the last
thirty-five years by reason of unjust
determinations and excessive charges
put that there was a basis for regula-
tive legislation must be admitted. The
interstate commerce law was the pro-
duct of legitimate and honest indig-
nation over wrongs suffered by ship
pers from many railway companies.
The law of 1887 did not accomplish
what it's originators intended, although
1t removed some conspicuous forms of
injustice. But it has been recently
amended SO as to give the commission
greater power in the exercise of their
function of regulating
Mr.. Brown is grieved over the su-
preme court decision in the merger
case, as one which cripples the use
fulness of the railways and he thinks
that in the course of a few years. the
Will seem to reflect the clamor of the
public rather than the calm judicial
review of a gerat question by the ex-
allied tribunal" and he believes that
there will be Legislative amendment or
a Judicial determination as to the
question of reasonable restraint of
commerce, as against any restraint
whatever, In order to remove the Sher-
man law as an obstruction to CONNER
clal and industrial progress.
Mr.. Brown is treading very close to
dangerous ground. The implied as
that the transportation ia
cllities of the country shall be organiz-
ed and reorganized until they have
all been brought practically under the
control of one man or one small grOun
of men, and yet left free of all re-
straint and government control. rests
upon such a conception of fidelity to
public interest on the part of the man
agement and operation of transporta
ton lines as has never vet been rea-
lized in human affairs, and is not like
~ to be. When consolidation reaches
that point, the state may stop short of
public ownership, but it will not stop
short of such measure of control of the
facilities of the conn
try as will make them serve the high
est interests for which they have been
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01
w WEATHER..
SLATGHTER or INNOCENTS.

Tonight showers; Thursday fair.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01

Samuel S. Particle, manager of the
Orpheus company of Australia, was in
the city this morning. He booked his
company here for the coming Monday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan McGillivray
and daughter, Miss Katherine and
Miss Durry returned to the city last
night from Spokane where they had
been for nearly two months.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01

J. Elmer Myers left this morning for
Spokane to attend the annual meeting
of the county school superintendent
convention.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01
NOTICE..

Inasmuch as there has been
change in the management of the
Statesman Publishing company, it ia
desired that all old accounts be set
tied with promptness in order that the
old books may be balanced. A new SET
of books is to be opened.
STATESMAN PUB. CO
P. c. Holland, Mgr,
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Two Wives in Siaht,

Your wife was waiting at the door
for you when you got in last night,
wasn't she?"
yes"
Were you sober?"
We'll, l thought for a moment thar
must be a bigamist."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01
THE DECREASING BIRTHRATE

The province of Ontario is worried
over the decline of its birth rate. At
recent clerical gathering in London.
Archdeacon Williams of Stanford
stated that the decrease in the birth
rate in Ontario is greater than any
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01

Mother-Johnny, what makes that
little boy out there wear such SUI
perior air? Johnny-Oh, he's the only
kid on the street that's had the measles
twice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01

George Taylor, operator for the
Western Union Telegraph company,
has resigned his position and will leave
in a few days for Portland.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-01
Personal Mention

D. R. Kirk and son are in the city
from Clyde.
Clark Nelson of Weston was in the
city today.
w. M. Price of Dayton is registered
at the State.
F. T. Keiser of Waitsburg was a Wis
itor in the city today
A. J. Latimer, a we'll known farmer
of Lowden, is in the city.
Honorable A. G. Lloyd was Waits
burg visitor in the city this morning.
prominent Waitsburg men, were in the
city today.
Ralph Lloyd and family came to the
city from Waitsburg yesterday and re-
turned today.
L. w. Damon of Portland, represent
ing the Remington Typewriter COM
pany, was in the city today.
J. Elmer Myers left this morning for
Spokane to attend the annual meeting
of the county school superintendent
convention
Adjutant Loney of Boise City is eX-
pected to arrive in the city on Monday
morning to take charge of the Saliva |
ton Army here.
George Taylor, operator for the
Western Union Telegraph company
has resigned his position and will leave |
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29

FOR Rent.
Six rooms with bath and toilet. LO
Gated in the most desirable portion
OF this city. VIII lease for term of
years. Enquire II this Office
~,,24..acs-.,-t.i;ion as bcokkeeper fer
-. o.7.s Il y,siness in this city
IS ii a-.cr.mendation furnished.
=, g iE;....,.: at this office.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29

No. xx!iI.-AssembIy Concurrent Res
olution, relative to amending Section
I Of Article X Of the Constitution ct
the State Of Nevada, pertaining to
the assessment and taxation Of pat.
ented mines.
Passed March 20, 49O3.l
Resolved by the Assembly, the Sen
ate concurring, That the Constitution
Of the State of Nevada be amended so
as to read as follows.
AIMED Section l, Article X, of the
Constitution of the State of Nevada,
SO that the same shall read as follows:
Section 1. The Legislature shall pro
rate of assessments nd taxation, AMI
shall prescribe such regulations as
shall secure just valuation for taxa
tiCn CT all property, real personal and
possessory, except mines and mining
claims, when not patented, the pro-
ceeds alone of which shall be assessed
and taxed, and when patented, each
patented mine shall be assessed at
not less than five hundred dollars
$4,000 except when one hundred dol
lars $1,000 in labor has been actually
performed on such patented mine dur
ing the year, in addition to the tax
upon the ret proceeds; and, a1O ex-
ceptlng such property as may be eX-
empted by law for municipal, educar-
| iOnal, literary, scientific or other char
.t2ble purDOs| c.
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TEST

-; ~ d Silver Man"
VI. r. STONr,.
- - =.
VIII -. Nac3.oE,
Secretary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29
SILVER PARTY COUNTY CONvEN-
TON.
Headquarters Silver Party County Gen.
trail Committee.
Carson City, Nevada

Carson City, Nevada
At a meeting of the Ormsby County
Silver Party Central Committee, held
at Carson City, Nevada. September
/, 1904, it was ordered that the County
Convention. be held at the District
Court room, Carson City. Nevada, on
TUESDAY,, SEPTEMBER 27, 1901.
at 10 O'clock q. m.
for the purpose Of nominating the
general election to be held Tuesday,
the Sth day of November, 1904. con-
sisting Of:
Three members Of the Assembly.
Sheriff and ex-ofhcio Assessor.
Recorder and Auditor
County Clerk and Treasurer
District Attorney and Superinten;-
ent Of schools.
County commissioner, long term.
County Commissioner, short term.
Justice of the Peace, Carson Town
ship.
Constable, Carson Township.
Justice Of the Peace, Empire TOwl
ship
Constable. Empire Township
| Also the appointment of County
| Central Committee and the transaction
of such other business as may prop
cr}v come before the convention.
The basis Of representation shall b.
as follows: Carson 1G, Empire )
| Total, p.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29
Going to the Worlds Fair?

The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
announces that special excursion rates
will be made for the St. Louis Fair on
September 1st, I'd, 9Th, 9th, 9TH, Sth,
10Th, goth, 2Sth, and 10Th, and Oct
ober 3rd, 4th, 5th. 9th, 10Th, Goth, 26tn,
27tn.
A splendid opportunity is hereby
offered to visit the Worlds Fair
cheaply and comfortably. At no seas
On Of the whole year are the beauties
and grandure of the Colorado Rockies
so pleasing to the eye, as when deckej
with the russell and gold OF the Aut-
unm foliage.
The schedule for the through Pull
man as well as the person ally conduct
ed excursion parties is SO arranged
as to afford daylight views of the
magnificent scenery via the Denver &
Rio Grande, rightly called the Scenic
Line of the World.
Write for our Worlds Fair PAM
phlets and handsome books of travel,
to any of the following Rio Grande
System ticket Offices: No. IL Ea 1T
Santa Clara Street, San Jose; No. 1917
Second Street, Sacramento; No. 1910
Broadway, Oakland, or
w. ]. sHOTWELL.
General Agent D. & r. G. r. r.
62S Market st, Gan Francisco.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29

Secretary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29
ARTICLE.
PUBLIC UTILITIES.

T . I III
Section 1. The State may engage IN
the business Of transportation and of
furnishing water, lights, and means Of
communication to the people, and may
provide such other utilities as may
become necessary of expedient, and for
these purposes a State debt not ex-
ceeding ten per centum of the assess
ed value of the taxable property in
the State may be created; provided,
that no Act or resolution authorizing
an expenditure Of public money, or n
creasing the State debt for these ptr.
poses, shall be effective until it shall
have received the sanction of the PEG
Die by a majority Of votes cast at the
general election.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29

No. xI!I.-Joint and Concurrent Res.
olution, amending the Constitution
OF the State of Nevada by adding
thereto an article providing for pub
lie utilities.
Passed March IL, 1901 .....
Resolved by the Senate, the Assem-
bly, concurrina, That the Constitution
of the State of Nevada be amended 10y
adding thereto an article as follows:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CON.
STlTUTlON.

No. x.-Serate Concurrent Resolution,
relative to amending Section 10, Ar
ticIe XIV, Of the Constitution of the
State Of Nevada.
Passed March 10, 1903
Resolved the Senate, the Assembly
concurring, That the Constitution of
the State of Nevada be amended as
follows:
Amend Section Is. Of Article XIV
of hte Constitution of the State of
Nevada, so as to read as follows:
Section Is. The enumeration of the
inhabitants of this State taken under
the direction CT Congress ia =. D..
Nineteen hurd~c1, ard n7-0r.-- ton
years thereafter. or sucn enumeration
as the State may make, shall serve as
the basis CT representation in both
houses of the Legislature; provided,
that each county now organized, and
any county hereafter created, shall be
entitle to at least one Senator ana
one Assemblyman.
This resolution having remained n
the hands of the Governor five days
after having been placed in his hands
during the Twenty-first Session of the
Nevada Legislature, and no objections
having been filed by his Eexcellency
it is therefore passed this 10th day o.
March, A. d. 1903.
VIC. DOUGLASS,
Secretary OF State
By Geo. N. Noel. Deputy.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29

We favor q constitutional amenf-f
ment providing Ter the initiative and
referendum
We congratulate the laboring men
Of this State that in pursuance Of tina
plain mandate Of the labor plank IN !
our last platform the Democratic-Sil- !
yer Party Legislature enacted an eight
hour law that was signed by a Dem
ocratic Governor and upheld by the
Supreme Court of this State.
We also favor national eight-hou.
law applicable to all public works.
We are opposed to the alorming
growth ON militarism and to the inter-
ference and settlement Of civil dis
putes by the military forces undA
the present Republican administration
We demand that all military author
tiles be subordinate to civil law.
For the protection of the life and
limb of employees we favor the PATS
age of bill by the Legislature Of
the State of Nevada defining who ara
fellow servants in the occupations Of
mining, railroading and all other ex.
ira hazardous occupations
We favor the passage of the laws
providing for the inspection of mines
and mining machinery, to insure the
safety of miners We favor a law pro-
viding for arbitration for the settle
ment Of labor difficulties.
NO IMPERIALISM.
We favor and especially emphasize
that plank in the st. Louis platform
which declares that all men under
the American flag are entitled to the
protection Of the institutions whose
emblem the flag is, even if they are
inherently unfit to be members Gf
the American body polite Wherever
there may exist people incapable Of
being governed by American laws IN
der the American Constitution, the
territory or people ought not to be 4
part Of the American domain. We in
sist that we ought to do for the Fiji
pinos what we have already done for
the Cubans. and il is our duty to make
that promise now and upon suitable
guarantees Of prot cotton to citizens Ot
our own and other countries resident
there at the time Of our withdrawal
set the Filipino people upon their feet
free and independent to work out
their destiny
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29
OFFICIAL COUNT Or STATE
STATE OF NEVADA,
County of Ormsby, S. $.

County of Ormsby, s. $.
John Sparks, w. G. Douglass anil
James G. Sweeney being duly sworn
severalIy say they are members Of the
Board of Examiners of the State CT
New, that on the 18th day Of July, CA
they, CATER having ascertained from
the books of the State Controller the
amount Of money that should be III
tn Treasury made an official eyami-
nation and count Of the money AMI
vouchers for money in the State Ire
| asurv of Nevada and found the same
correct as follows:
Coin S2S6,O5S.53
| Paid coin vouch-
erS not returned
to Controller 67,e79 II
Total 353,337 20
State School Fund Securities.
Irredeemable Nevada
State School
Bond $4,000 90
Mass. State per
/ cent bonds $4,000 90
I Nevada State
bond 237 100 90
Mass. State 81 per
cen bonds $4,000 90
United States
bonds 215O00 90
Total S1,911,4 70
John Sparks
w. G. Douglass
Jas. G. Sweeney
Subscribed and sworn before me
this 18th day of July A. d. 1904.
j. Doane.
! Notary Public, Ormsby county, New.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29


By Geo. N. Noel. Deputy.
No. Xii.-Assemhy Concurrent Reso-
luton. proposing to AIMED Section
One of Article Four. Of the Consr-
tuition of Nevada, pertaining to the
initiative and referendum, and other
legislative authority and power con.
nected herewith.
Passed March II, 1908
Resolved by the Assembly, the sA1-
ate coneurrino, That Section I of Ar
ticle " Of the Constitution of the
State of Nevada shall be and is here
by amended to read as follows:
Section l. The Legislative authority
If the State shall be vested in the
Senate and an Assembly. which shall
be designated as the Legislature OF
the State OF Nevada" and the ses-
sions Of such Legislature shall be held
at the seat Of government Of the
State The people, however, reserve
to themselves powers to propose laws
and amendments to the Constitution,
and to enact or reject the same DIT
the polls, independent OF the Le2is.
lature, and also reserve pOWCC at
their own option to approve or reject
at the D0Tls aDy act of the Legislative
Assembly The first mower reserved
by the people is the initiative and not
loss than ten G0) ppr cent of the
legal --~.srs shol1 he reuirad to nrOnOsa
any measure nv s1ch natition and
every such netifion shall include the
I'm, tnvt of tho measure 90 Dronosal
Initiative netitions shall he f1el with
the Sacretrv Of state not less than
four mont. hnf-re the election Of
which thay- r. = llnOn. The
10 second mower fe = r,.fa,an DIM, and Il
nov no ordarad 1avca,t as To Lowe noe.
cseo-r, for tho inn. a..:-s.. ,earvation
of tba nublic naI'.o haaiti 0r cafntvl
oitbor h,T war; .:crn<.7 H., s,7-or ~
nov oont If 40 1,-.-,l ,,c+.,.c or NV +Io
ooisIafi,a ae III. &c o.7o,. htI1s
N,.oa+o,
oeetloh =. ne = eli''0'.' 'S'loH,
siaii De hIeu WIN VIZ, .'@~t airy II
state not more Ihah SIM '"' GAYS
ai'er the ma 40 '"'F4'th~ / tne
session oI 'he - ~ az WIZ" pas
ed 'he olil Oh "hI-H ~ i7-1--uo iii !,
uei'ialoen' ne '9to po"el VI .hS
"uN eli'oi snail No, eA,eiu 20 illeaaul :,
feleired w 'he people. All electio1
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29

Judqes-Peter Fain, Joe Stevens AMI
Robt DiXOn, Jr.
In all precincts not holding prima-
ries, vacancies will be filled by County
Committee
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-09-29
TIE PRIMARY ELECTION.

Shall be held on Tuesday, September
20, 1904, between the hours Of l ami
-. II.
ARSON-Polling place, Curry En-
CINE House. Judees-E. James, Geo.
b. Cowing Peter Hansen, VIM. Heiden-
reich.