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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
ROOSEVELT AS PRESIDENT.
Some of the Prominent Achievements
of the Administration.
Chicago Tribune.)

(Chicago Trbune.l
What, positively, has he (RooscvelO
accomplished?
He has handed over to Cuba the gov
eminent of the Cuban republic
He settled the anthracite coal strike
which for half year had demoralized
the industries of the country.
When Great Britain, Germany and
Italy were attacking Venezuela he in
duced them to desist. thus preserving the
inviolability OF the Monroe doctrine.
The three commissioners appointed by
him to discuss the Alaskan boundary
question gained a complete victory for
the American contention.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty, which
had been defeated by one Congress, was
passed in a subsequent special session,
because Roosevelt insisted.
BY the creation of bureau OF COM
MERGE and labor, for which his infu-
ence is solely responsible, the President
has taken the first definite steps toward
the solution OF the trust problem. Light
will be let in on the management Of the
trusts. Then, when their evils are deiin-
itely, not vaguely, ascertained proper
corrective can be applied.
The door to China's trade has been
kept wide open to our trade.
But the most enduring benefit the
President has brought to the country has
been the assurance that the Panama
canal would be finished. In the isthmian
imbroglio the President acted always
within the treaty rights of this nation;
his official conduct was eminently cor
rect. But were it not for his exceptional
adroitness and yigor during the crisis the
prospect of the interoceanic canal would
still be years in the future. For nearly
400 years man has dreamed of piercing
the American isthmus. But it remained
for President Roosevelt to bring these
dreams within sight of retaliation. His
tory will record his connection with the.
Panama canal as the most momentous
feature of his first term.
Thus Theodore Roosevelt has been an
upright and painstaking, vigorous and
useful, honest and patriotic President.
1t seems both wiser and fairer for the
American people to rC-elect him rather
than to elevate in his place an untried
jurist, who, however exemplary his per-
sonal character has had practically 10.
experience whatsoever to fit him for the
most difficult position in the world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
SLY OLD DAVID.
Unique Position Now Occupied bJ
Judge Parker's Manager.

Unique Position NOW occupied Ny
Judge Parker's Manager.
1t is not often that a political leader
finds it necessary to promise his party
associates that he will keep out of Office
and be unrepresented in the councils of
his friends in case of the success of his
own nominee. This unique performance
has been exemplifed by the Mephisto-
pheles of the Democratic party, David
Bennett Hill.
The effect is rather grotesque. 1t is
much as if the king of the nursery rhyme
were to declare that he would not, in
any case, taste of the pie, after the four
and twenty blackbirds had been caught,
plucked and baked in big dish of pastry.
The reception given to the promise
of Mephistopheles to 'be good after
the LIST of next January" is rather com
zeal. The more outspoken of the Demo-
Gratis say plainly, .Pshaw! l don't be-
lieve it, while the more secretive ones
simply wink the other eye" with a
grimace that would make the fortune of
the man that broke the bank at Monte
Carlo"
1t is sly old David, so it is! Well he
knows how to draw the ass's skin over
his own; confident is he that no braying
viii hide from the faithful few his real
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
The Lone Fisherman.

1t is only one of the curiosities of an
American national campaign the result
of which is foreordained, but it arouses
more than a slight degree Of interest.
Where is the Lone Fisherman, the man
who has been twice President of the
United States? Where is he, and what
is he going to do between the present
time and the Sth of November?
What is he thinking about-this Lone
Fisherman, and what are his inclina-
tons? We are all interested in him as
we should be interested in any ex-Presi-
dent of the United States, and, being
interested, we have also a curiosity.
What about Cleveland? Is that portly
and forceful old gentleman going to have
anything to do with politics this year, or
is he simply intent upon the considera-
ton of the subject of lines, bait, and all
that sort of thing?
The impression seems to prevail, and
one apparently justified, that the Sage
of Princeton is not much interested IN
the Sage of Esopus. The Sage OF
Princeton has at least a certain caliber,
and the two men do not fit.
Still, we all want to know what the
Lone Fisherman is going to do.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Those who Voted for Mckinley Prob
ably VIII Support Roosevelt.
Kansas City Star, independently

(hd0SdS City Quar-, independently
Some allowances must be made, of
course, for the optimistic representations
of politicians at the approach of every
great election. 1t is a part of the game
to manifest confidence, even if the policy
of claiming everything" has been dis
credited by the best political managers.
But the declaration that, according to
more or less careful canvasses, those
young Democrats who bolted Bryan and
voted for Mckinley will remain in the
Republican party, is quite plausible.
Those old Democrats in whom the party
spirit is still strong in spite of the trying
alignment of the Democracy four and
eight years ago, may be expected TO re-
turn to the fold pretty generally this
year; but there is nothing except parti-
san feeling to draw them, and this does
not exist to any great extent among the
younger generation, especially among
those who have already broken over the
lines to vote for a Republican Presi-
dent.
Indeed, President Roosevelt appeals
with especial force to the young men of
the nation. Considering his achieve
ments, he is still young man himself.
He is in intimate sympathy with the
spirit of early manhood. He is vigorous
in mind and body, and is active in both.
He is strongly progressive. His leader
ship has been inspiring to all classes,
but more especially to those in whom
ambition is assertive. His policies APP
peal forcefully to those who would make
stronger and better nation. He stands
for those reforms that are regarded as
essential to the perpetuity of personal
liberty and civic righteousness.
The belief that President Roosevelt, in
his splendid fu6llment of an obligation
assumed as a result of accident, has earn
ed an election at the hands Of the people
he has served, is especially strong in the
hearts of the younger generation of vot-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
Southern Industries.


Asheviile, n. C.-In the last year 1T
buildings have been erected at Asheville
at cost of 100000, and work under way
represents an additional expenditure Of
Chattanooga.-The Government will spend
millions OF dollars the coming year in near
by improvements to the benefit Of Chat
tanooga wage earners and producers.
Charleston, w. Va.-& So, 600, 900 ak fac
tory is to be established at Charleston.
Memphis.-More than $4,000, 600 has been
spent in building enterprises during the
present year
Tampa, Fla-During the year 1860, 319
has been expended in new buildings and
$4,000 Of b<nds are to be issued for mu-
Rock Hill, S. CA hydro eectrc plant
recently completed at a cost CT SLIGO, 600
is furnishing power for machinery and
lighting purposes covering an area of TWEEN
ty-fve miles.
Paris, Tex-More than $1,000 600 is the
estimate of investments at Paris during the
year 1904.
San MISUNDERSTANDING operations now
under way represent an expenditure Of
Berkley, VA steel door and blind fac
tory is new addition to industries Of
Dallas, Tex.-There is a demand for
100000 laborers in the cotton fields and in
the factories of the South
Coal Mining Company of Mena, Ark, has
been chartered with capitalization Of
100000.
Columbia. s. CA cotton mill is to he
established at Columbia by the Marion
Cotton Mills Company, with a capital stock
of 100000.
Richmond, vu.-The new Ashby Cotton
Mill. containing 5000 spindles, win be
Charlotte, n C.-The remodeled Loray
Mills of Gastoria will have over so coo
spindles and 700 looms in operation by Oc-
teber.
Columbia, S. C.-The Drayton Mills of
Spartanburg, operating II, 400 spindles and
$50 looms, will double its plant.
Austin, Textile Brazos Valley Cotton
Mills Company has been incorporated with
a capital stock Of 100000.
Charlotte, n. C.-The contract has been
awarded for 100000 for the erecting of
buildings for the Etowah Mills of Greens
bcro. The company Is, Incorporated for
ufacture Of carbon paint is to be erected at
Nashville. Work on the $4,000 stone dam
Of the City Mills Company has been
started.
has been spent in Sandersville in the last
year In industrial enterprises and improve
ments.
Baltimore.-Three million dollars is to be
invested in commercial enterprises upon
the resumption of navigation of the Oc-
mulgee River between Macon and Hawkins
VILE. Ga.
Louisville.-The Kentucky Packing and
Provision Company is a new industry for
Louisville. The plant has daily capacity
Of 1000 hogs, 100 cattle and 800 sheep.
Msmphis,-At a cost of S25. 600 the
Welsh & Lesh Manufacturing Company is
doubling the capacity of its spoke factory
at Grenada, Miss. A $4,000 sand brick
plant is being erected by the Grenada Cot
ton Oil Company.
Birmingham. Ala.-Universal Equipment
Company organized, capital $4,000.
Sylacagua Ala.-Capital stock of the
Alabama White Marble Company increased
to a quarter million dollars; property TO
be developed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
Farmers Ignored by Democrats.

The Democrats of Kansas, in making
up their State ticket, have entirely ig-
nored the farmer The Republicans
nominated two of the leading farmers Of
the State as Railroad Commissioners.
Seven out of thirteen nominations, in
Guiding Governor, ON the Democratic.
ticket are lawyers, while the Republicans
only recognized the lawyers in the nom
ination of Attorney General, judges Of
Supreme Court and one member Of the
Railroad Commission. The policy Of ig-
noring the farmer, which the Democratic
National Committee is reported to have
announced, is carried out with "a ven
geance by the Democrats Of Kansas.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
Iron and Steel InSustrv.


Pittsburg.-One hundred and fifty more
men to be given employment in new mills
being erected by the Interstate Steel Com
pany Of Tarentum and the Allegheny Steel
and Iron Works.
Pittsburg-By producing 1861 cotton
bundle ties in eight hours work the en-
ployes Of the Pittsburg Steel Company
break the worlds record; previous record,
1,614 bundles.
ST. Paul-One hundred thousand tons of
ore in excess of last years product will be
taken out of six working iron mines on the
Iron Range, adding in royalties to the
school fund 100000.
Ensley, O.-Ensley steel plant running
on double time turning out 10000 tons of
Railroad Company.
Braddock Pa.-The Edgar Thompson
plant OF the United States Steel Corpora
ton has resumed operations, giving employ
ment to 1000 workmen.
Pittsburg. hundred meh given
employment by the resumption OF work in
Clarion Furnace No 2 Of the United States
Steel Corporation and Mills Nos. s and Of
the American Sheet Steel and Tin Plate
Company.
Pittsburg hundred and fifty given
employment by resumption Of mills in the
Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel
Company.
Pittsburg.- open hearth furnaces Of
the United States Steel Company plant at
Canton, started up, together with the plate,
sheet, bar and billet mills.
Chicago, Contract for "a 900, 900 pounds of
material awarded the American Bridge
Company by the South Side Elevated Rail-
road, to be used in extending the system;
estimated cost. $5.OO00OO.
Newport, Ky.-Five hundred men given
employment by a resumption of work in the
sheet, puddle and bar mills.
Braddock. Pa.-One hundred and forty
thousand dollars was paid out by the Ed
gar Thompson Steel Works after the first
week of resumption of business.
Pittsburg. -The pay roll of the Home
stead Steel Works has been increased $780,
coo by the employment of additional men.
Pittsburg.-The large portion of the big
rail order of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was secured by the Carnegie
Steel Company. This, with other orders,
will keep the rail mills at Braddock oper.
ating for the next six months.
New York.-At cost of 81 100000 new
plant of the Seamless Tube Company IL
being built at Monessen. Pa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
Democratic Efforts to Breed Distrust Have So
Far Proved Futile.
RERuKE FOR THE CALAMITY HOVLERS
Railway Traffic Is Heavy, New Factories Are
Being Erected and Iron and Steel Mills
Are Crowded with Orders.

expended by. the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railroad in improving the
service from New York to the Bronx. The
road will issue $15000,O00 Of bonds.
Altoona, Pa.-Twenty five locomotives
are being built for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company at the Juniata shops.
Derby, Conn.-The New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad Company has
decided upon important improvements on
the Berkshire division at Derby.
=, MemPhis.-The projected railroad from
Clarksdale to Friars Point, in Mississippi,
is said to be assured; estimated cost of CON
struction, $4,000 per mile.
Jefferson City.-Railroad officials at JEFF
ferson City say they are much encouraged
because Of the heavy increase in business
within the past two weeks.
Fitchburg.-A $7,0000O0 deal involving
the purchase Of twenty different trolley
roads in Massachusetts and Northern Con-
necticut is under way.
Superior, Wis.-The docks are so full of
coal many boats are still compelled to
wait Several days to unload. This condi-
tion is owing to a scarcity of cars which
are being used in the wheat fields.
Detroit.-Freight traffic officials of the
roads centering in Detroit all state that
business is picking up.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

"The Republicans party viii be found
espousing those issues and those
questions which make for the sta
bility, the honor and the welfare OF the
country.'-Senator Fairbanks, at indian
apolis, December 81, 1900
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

"Growth ia the law of orr national,
social and Industrial being. We have
not yet reached the limit of the Divine
purpose. Tomorrow will be greater
and m ore splendid than tod ay.''-Senator
Fairbanks, at ST. Paul, August 81, 1903.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

The Democratic argument this year
should be printed in the humorous col
umns. 1t is, in brief: you need not be
afraid of us, for if we elect Presi-
dent and the House, the Republican SEN
ate will keep US from doing any dam
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Whenever the Democratic party has
had the power it has attacked and de-
stroyed the policy of protection for
American industries.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Judge Parker is said to have written
his financial views so as to not offend
Bryan. He voted that way, too, couple
of times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

The element which leads and domi
mates the Democratic party to-day stands
not for tariff for revenue, but for ulti-
mate free trade. There is no use trying
to dodge that fact. The workingmen Of
America must take note Of it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15

Balfour, the prime minister of Eng
land, in speech delivered Mt Sheffield,
declared that Golden, the apostle of free
trade, was "a great man, bit he failed
to foresee the developments Of the last
half century which had made free trade
an empty name and q vain farce"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS,

New York.-The lockout and strike OF
1.200 plumbers in Brooklyn has been de-
clared OF, the master plumbers granting
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1Oldl sp1, 1Oo,OOO,OOO
Eleven hundred and nine millions of
dollars betterment less forty-eight mill
ions increase in our Understanding debt
between July 1, 1897, and June 80, 1904,
leaving one thousand and sixty-one mill
ions ($1,061, 0O0,OOO) to the credit Of
seven years of Republican control of our
national finances.
WALTER J. BALLARD.
Schenectady, Aug. %.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-08
DOUBT REVEALS WORTH.

bf KEY. PeaFSe Pf1CH.
The usual accounts of religious re-
vivals makes one doubt whether there
is any real revival in them. They
create the impression that only three
forms of sin need TO be stopped to
bring heaven on earth. Get theaters,
cards and dancing away from church
members and they become saints on
earth.
Granting that many people lose their
sense, their religion and their character
in frivolous pursuit of, those three
things, yet they are not the things
that are honeycombing and eating the
life out of the churches. A revival
that gets no deeper than cards and
dancing and theaters is very shallow.
II l were the devil l would manage
things just as they are going.
The thing that ruins girls is not
dancing 1t is Il scale of wages on
which they cannot live. From So to
SO week will not keep a girl alive.
1t is not amusement that does the
mischief. 1t is a Christless spirit in
business. 1t is the bossing of the
church by men of Christless disposi-
ton
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-08
SERM0.NETTES

The Law.--We hear good deal of
Interpretation of law. Man has no right
TO interpret it in any other light than
that in which it was framed and fixed.
What downright dishonesty 1t is to say
that moldy old sandwich is a meal.
and that a miserable little saloon with
out any dining room or cook or bed
rooms is hotel. What utter false
hood to say that saloon is closed be-
cause the shades are up in the front
and the bar exposed, when every DO
liceman knows that the back door is
open the whole of Sunday.-Rev. Chns
Herold Congregationalist, Brooklyn,
\. Y.
Spiritualism.-Spi ritualism teaches
communication with the world of spir-
its. 1t is made up Of nine-tenths fraud
and a tenth reality And vet even af-
ter all this. | am inclined to think
there is very much in Splrltualism-
| am as certain that the devil is in it
as that | am alive: and l am Just as
certain that Jesus Christ is not in it as
/ am that | believe in the Bible. Keep
as far from it as you would from
contamination of contagious diseases.
Rev. a. c. Dixon. Baptist, Boston.
Mass.
Courage.-Courage to live, to take
up our burden again and go forward.
staggering. stumbling it may be. but
forward; TO 90 back into the fight.
ough it seems a losing fight: the
courage to assume a great response
bility and dare to face possible crush
ing disaste.': the courage. to Iive-that
is what Christ has given to men,
Rev. II. Melish. Episcopaliau, Brook
Ign. y. Y.
The Great Power.-Thc greatest
power a ~ fi3f;ssas gan win is the pesre-
to staIsI. simply to stand. The ability
to face and 1Jt to filEch-to be in
wardly and thoroughly arrnoured that
even heil's musketry shall drop upon
his soul with the soft and musical
touch wiz which falling rain caresses
the grass and the Aowcrs-Esev G. III.
Parkhurst. Presbyterian, New York
City.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-08
THE PROBLEM OF qAE CHILD.

BY Rev. ". a. BARTLETT
The Mothers congress, just held in
Chicago. although denouncing pretty
much everybody lii sight, had some
good points, particularly in the adj
dress of Judge Lind ~. OF Denver
In maintaining that parents should be
punished for all the evils the children
commit. Alas, ii is only too true that
they are punished when ii is too late
for the children to be benefited by 1t.
The fact is. we are suffering from
too much culture. In the earlier New
England days the home was the
mothers club, guild, missionary So
ciety. temperance organization, and all
the rest. To-day. as soon as family
is prospered little, the woman must
needs join" all kinds of clubs and
societies, till the child is left to the
care of any person who can be hired
TO do it, anI in the most tender, sus-
ceptlble, and isnpressionable years the
little one is at the mercy of untaught
and often INSCRIPTIONS caretakers.
1t is not improbable that many OF
the mothers who attended this con-
gress would have been better off at
home giving the same time and energy
to the real child and not the stuffed
dummy made TO order in some conyen-
ton.
Maiden ladies and people who have
no children are the most prolific writ
ers and speakers on the subject of
child training. Let them turn their at
tention to aerial navigation, the drain
age canal, or some other practical mat
ter, and let the women who have chill
dIen take down the old family Bible
and read there how to make a home.
That often dust covered volume con-
tains the wisdom of the ages.
Long before mothers congresses
were thought Of, Moses gave funda-
mental teaching about child training.
The sweetest of all kindergartens was
Jesus holding children in his arms.
That's what the children need
companionship, appreciation, drmness.
ard punishment. You can crush cut
child's life by many conventions and
congresses, and the distracted mother
goes home TO try on" the methods
suggested. till. Disguised and unhappy,
she bursts into tears. gathers the little
one into her bosom with tenderness
and prayer, and then she has become
a whole congress herself.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-08
fomcial Publication.

tOficial Publication
STATEMENT of the condition of the
METROPOLITAN FRI. Insurance
Company, of Chicago, il the State
of Illinois, for the year endinS Deem
Der Dist, 1908, made to the Commits
soner of Insurance of the State of
Wisconsin, pursuant to the laws of
said State.
Capital paid up in CASH.. Sl000)o 90
Income 1S3.G03 o.
Disbursements. 333,762 %
Assets.
Total admitted assets. $3.50. 1c2,Sl9 90
Liabilities.
:. Total amount Of all liabili-
ties except capital and sur
plus Observation-Disclosures. 27.18i 99
Surplus over all liabilities
and capital stock. $50. 1855 Oh
Wisconsin Business.
Gross risks written. 80. iG,500 90
Gross premiums received. go -
hereby certify that the foregoing is
an abstract of the sworn statement Of
the Metropolitan Fire Insurance Com
pany. filed with the Insurance Depart
ment of Wisconsin, this 2Sth day Of
January, 1904.
ZENo NJ. HosT.
Commissioner Of Insurance
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-08
No Longer Hiss President.

After insulting and deeply hurting
their president by kissing him and
drowning his remarks to them with sheep
bleats and cat calls. the students of the
University of Wisconsin profess to be
deeply penitent and are determined to
cooperate with President Van Hise in
the preparations for the Wisconsin semi
centennial celebration. President Van
Hise had called a convoeation of stu
dents to demonstrate with them for their
general lawlessness this spring Meet
iEgs of the various classes have now
been held and the students will assist
him in the celebration of the iftieth an
niversary of the university.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-08
jI5TGsIzs 4 POPULAR
kNs|Ily PULPIT

Or. perhaps. you We're unfortunate.
All friends left you. Then you came
TO God. He heard your cry and set
you going again. But. when you found
yourself out of the tolls, you forgot
God. l submit that was a mean and
unworthy action If a man pulls me
out of a mudhole, won't slap him
in the face when / am on my feet.
say, think on the goodness of God!