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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
No Cause For Surprise.

The St.. Paul Dispatch, usually
temperate in denouncing graft and
robbery, has this to say concerning
the Pennsylvania robbers:
No surprise was caused by the sui
eide of the cashier.of the Enterprise
National bank, of Pittsburg, followed
by the discovery that the bank had
been looted by the cashier, it's direc-
tors and other state politicians to
provide money to float speculative
enterprises in New Mexico. Nothing
rotten can come to light in Pennsyl-
vania that would excite more than a
momentary raising Of the eyebrows.
More surprise has been caused by the
revolt in Philadelphia, not SO much
because it is a revolt against fraud
and graft and outright robbery as
that it could have attained such
headway. The whole nation long
since became accustomed to accept
ing Pennsylvania politics as hopeless
ly and incurably rotten. Exposure
followed exposure, and the body OF
voters of that state accepted condi-
tions, reelected the men guilty of
crimes, otficered the state with them,
made Judges of them and affrbnted
the nation by sending and keeping in
the senate the chief of them all Mat
thew Stanley Quay.
And Quay was but product OF
Cameronism. Old Simon Cameron, a
generation ago. set the pace that has
been so steadily and numerously fol-
lowed. From exploiting the treasury
of the state he went to the secretary
ship of war, as a result Of a bargain
in the national convention that gave
Pennsylvania's delegation to Lincoln,
and began exploiting that depart
ment under conditions that made
rich harvest possible for the conscien'
celess head. Lincoln, his native hon
esty shocked by what he learned was
being done, but feeling it impolitic,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
Nothing Old Of Out
Of Date.

To-day you and your fellow plund
erers stand convicted in the eyes of
the world not only OF juggling the
moneys of the widow and the orphan
In the stock-market, but Of manipu.
lating these trust funds for the bene-
fit Of your own pockets. To-day the
world is aghast at your perfidy anC
amazed at your temerity.
Notwithstanding the turpitude al.
ready exposed to the people, you Still
imagine you can SO conduct yourself
as to prevent the investigators from
fastening on you and your associates
the more desperate claimes that have
been committed in the past-the 15O
to 200 millions stolen and diverted OF
used in corruption. You know As l
do that only the very edges of this
national cesspool have yet been un.
covered. You know that not only
have the ballot-box and the Legisla.
ture at Albany been tampered with,
but the lawmaking and administering
machinery of other States corrupted,
the Federal Government surrounded,
and certain of the judiciary OF Ameri-
ca "Educated."
You believe you can keep the evid-
ence OF these crimes from the A.neri-
can people by the same kind of bluff
and effrontery with which you met
my first charges. But you have mis-
taken the tempter of your country
men.
have been authoized in writing by
over $1,000 policy-holders, carrying
over tifty-four millions Of insurance
to act for them.
had intended to await the finish
of the New York investigation before
proceed ing but as l have had placed
in my hands during the past few
days evidences OF the determination
Of yourself and your accomplices and
fellow conspirators to face it out re-
gardless of consequences, and as be-
lieve men capable OF committing the
acts that have been testified to dur
ing the past few days fully capable Of
taking the transportable part OF the
billion and quarter funds to foreign
countries, and Of using them to keep
themselves from their justly deserved
punishment ts, l have decided to act
now.
In sending you this open letter,
am only actuated by desire to bring
you and your associates to such a
sense Of the seriousness of your posit-
ion that you will see it Is useless
longer to attempt to defy the Ameri'
can people.
Yours, for the Exposure Of Corpora
tion Sneak Thieves.
THOMAS w. LAWSON.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
Death of George Hubbard.

Mr.. George L. Hubbard, residing
with his family at the corner Of Sec
ond and Grove Street, Kent, died
Thursday noon Of diabetes, and was
buried under Masonic auspices on
Friday. He was taken Ill on Monday.
His age was So and he leaves widow
and four children, the oldest son hav-
ing had the misfortune to lose his
right hand In a saw mill a few weeks
since.-White River Journal, Kent
Washington, October 81.
George Hubbard came to Fairview
township with his father in 1868
when he was Is years Of age, and had
lived there and in Canton until he
went west about year ago.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
Everything New and
up-to-0ate.


called 0u the moral sense of the Am
erican people. 1t Is time some one
dragged you out of the Wall Street
conservatory and set you in the plain
white light of daily life. 1t is time
you were shown yourself as you are
to-day seen by the millions of your
countrymen who, a month ago, be-
lieved you to be great and honor
able man.
In spite of the terrible exposures of
the past few weeks, in spite of the
pitiless revealment of yourself and
your directors as tricksters, in spite
Of the unveiling of the jugglery, graft
ing, and corruption OF your admins
tration OF the most sacred trust that
can be contided to man, you remain
unconvinced of your fall and unpene-
trated by your shame. Fortified by
the sympathy of your fellow sinners,
you imagine your audacious bluster
and your sly evasions before the In
vestigating Committee of the State
of New York represented shrewd gen.
eralship and able strategy, forgetting
that the enemy against whom your
maneuvers were directed was the
American people and that, in this in
quisition, your character and reputa-
tion were as absolutely before the bar
as though you had been indicted for
sequestration of the funds of some
dead friends wife.
Throughout this broad country Of
ours are good Americans who have
slaved and toiled to gather up the
hundreds of dollars which you have
exacted from them yearly as the
price of the future livelihood of their
wives and children, or as the pruvis-
ion for their own old age. You have
made yourself the custodian Of these
funds under sacred pledge of the
square dealing and safe and honest
administration. You have made
yourself the national executor, the
the great depository Of the moneys of
the widow and orphan. You have
cried your virtue and honorableness
from the housetops, and, under the
stress of your pleadings, hundreds OF
millions of dollars have been confided
to you annually-scores Of millions of
the nation have been turned into
your Golfers, all because you insisted
that you were honest beyond all other
men, and that the dear ones left be-
hind might rely on your generosity
and integrity for their support.
| And it is with the moneys tina,
might at any time have been claimed
by these widows and orphans tina,
you have been rigging syndicates
debauching legislatures, manipur.t
ing stockmarkets and doing other
things which will be proven later
Instead OF employing the vast powe!
and the immense wealth entrusted to
you to conserve the interests of you
policyholders, you have made yourself
a part of the cruel robbing machine
which the System" has create ed Il
de prive the American people Of thei
savings. Under the pretense OF seek
ing profitable investment, your cor
porauion has been perverted into ;
vast Safeguarding agency. Yo,
have filed the high places in you
corporation with your own children
and relatives and their relatives, ant
conferred on them great salaries ou
of which they have grown rich. Yov
have paid out to friends and associ
ates, on various pleas, enormous sum
that rightly belonged to your policy
holders. You have done all thes
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
H~~~~~~~~~~~~H ~~H~~~~~~A~~~~~~~
( Laqvson and His Critics
~~t~~~~~~~~>~~~
An Open Letter to A. Mccall,
York Company.

,rk Life Insurance Company.

habitually, yet to-day you describe
the investigation being conducted
into your operations as an impertin.
ence, and secretly you regard this in.
quisition and all that pertains to 1t
as a waste OF time and energy. You
are unrepentant, unshamed, and de-
hant.
shall take this opportunity, sir,
!! of reviewing our own ,eiations dur
ing the past year and contrasting
your position to-day with that you
boasted twelve months ago.
One year ago, in Everybody's Mag
azine, said:
| "The officers, trustees and officials
of the big Three life-insurance COM
| panies have been and are now squand-
ering their policy-holders' money.
They are grafters-mean, contempt
ible grafters.'
l gave specific instances Of their
thieveries. You replied, not by hal
ing me to court, but by:
Circulating throughout the world
documents by the millions, disparag-
ing my reputation by advertisements
and "news" and "editorial" state
ments from your subsized insurance
press, denying my charges and attack
ing my character, all at the expense
of your policy holders and without
their knowledge or approval
You libeled me in thousands Of pri-
vate letters to holders many of
which came back to me.
You employed James M. Beck, ex-
Assistant Attorney-General of the
United States, then and now chief
attorney for Henry Fl. Rogers, the
Standard Oil Company, the System"
and the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, to ridicule my utterances and
asperse my honor in addresses in the
cities Of Philadelphia and Boston.
You employed James H. Eckels, ex-
Comptroller of the Currency of the
United States. now president of the
Commercial Bank and representative
OF the System" in the West, to at
tack my arguments and distort my
motives in Chicago.
You ordered Vice-President Per
kins, OF the New York Life Insurance
Company, to perform similar service
in Philadelphia; and #a..
The burden of all these documents
advertisements, and disguised adver.
tisements and addresses was:' "Law'
son is an unmitigated liar and scound
rel, whose sole reason for attacking
the insurance companies is that we
refused him insurance
1 replied by printing your letter to
me. wherein you importuned me to
accept insurance in your company.
Again you gave me the lie, and pro
nounced your letter spurious.
| ! in turn repeated my charges, anG
instanced cases of perjury, bribery
and false statements.
1 stated that your claim that YOU
company did not own, nor loan upon
stock was false, and that it was mad,
for the purpose Of misleading and i'm
posing upon your policy-holders
banks, trust companies, Government
officials, and investors.
/ You answered this by writing ;
letter to one Of the great churchmer
Of America, and in 1t you said: :"
pledge you my word of honor thi
company has never, since 1899, had ;
dollars interest, directly or indirectl.
In any stock. Lawson knows this
, ard deliberately, for his own bas
purposes, makes charges to the con
. trary which he knows to be false. .
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03

If you are trou bled with indiges-
tion, constipation, sour stomach, or
any other pain, HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea will make you we'll
and keep you we'll. IS cents, Tea or
Tablets. I. NJ. Helmey & Co.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03

The man who sings to beat the
band, was in Canton last week with
the band he beat in a Iausical way
Morphy is wonder and all were de-
lighted with his singing. Everyone
declared that 1t was the best enter.
tainment ever given in the opera
house and that's saying much. The
band was composed OF artists and
Morphy beat the band. Hurrah fol
Morphy.
w ritinu a hl.ts st nr Nnf6,c
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
Death OF Baby Agnes Moe.

The sweet little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Moe died suddenly
Saturday night at 9 O'Clock. after
being sick for little over twentyfour
hours. Little Agnes Harriet Moe was
four years old on the first day Of last
May, and was an unusually sweet,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03
Reductions in Price.

A few grocery specials to
I liven up trade.
Beginning Friday morning,
Nov. 3, we will make the fol-
lowing low prices to stand
until further notice.
Sugar bestgranulated cane
20 lbs. for $1.OO.
100 10. sack 81.
This IS 4 lbs more for your
dollar than others are now
giving. that means 25 per ct.
more sugar for your money.
Buttermilk Toilet Soap, 3
cakes in box for 25c, with rub
bcr flesh brush free.
A good Soda, full pound package
5 cents.
Arm and Hammer or Diamond S
brand, for Csc.
Climax tobacco 4bc per ID.
Spearhead tobacco 45c per 10.
Star tobacco i5c per ID.
{ blb. package Oatmeal zoe.
Cream OF Wheat and Grape Nuts
2 for $50.
All lOc breakfast foods, 3 for CSC.
A full pound Baking Powder, com
plies with pure food law. l9c.
Fine new Apricots, 1908 crop, lbs
for csc.
Fine new Peaches, 1905 crop, 2 lbs
for CSC.
A good evsporated peach, 3 lbs
for 25c.
New Museat RaiSjnS. lbs for 25c
A fine whole Rice. the best, 3 lbs
for $50.
A good clean Rice, 6 lbs for 25c.
Hand picked Navy Beans. q lbs CSC
New Lima Beans. s lbs for csc.
VIII pay aOc for Eggs
and 2ec for good Butter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03

Have you seen our new
Souvenir Postal Cards? They
are fine, tasty cuts of Court
House, Asylum and Angus
tana College, 3 for &c. Just
the thing to send to friends.
Buttermilk Toilet Soap, 3
cakes in box with rubber flesh
brush free. 25c.
All sizes of window glass.
Hot Water Bottles will soon
he in demand and we have a
large variety priced from 75c
to 500.
A good whisk broom for l5c
Everything usually carried
in a drug store is found in
our stock and sold at reason
able prices.
We carry the largest line Of
school and fine tablets in the
city.
Bear in mind the drug
DuSltleSS Is our SpeClal DuSl-
ness and other things are side
lines. We have the only PHI.
G. in the city in charge of
our prescription department.
The Up to = Date Cough
Syrup is seasonable and
should be in every house
from this time.
When in want of anything
in the sundry line you should
not fail to inspect the stock
Of the Up-to-Date as it is the
finest and most complete in
the CITY.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03

We all have lot of hard luck, but
some men have SO much that we
wonder they are able to stand it.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-11-03

When you die you will die as dea
as anyb ody.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09

Sammy r idenour Prime End. z
with the Habit. Elks' Ministries. <
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09
"Under Southern Skies"

Patrons Of the theatre In our city
VIII be glad to know that they arc
soon to have an opportunity OF wit.
Messing one Of the greatest success.
es Of the present day at the Grand
Opera House on Thursday, February
2Gth. On that date Under Southern
Skies one Of the most delightful
dramas of the South ever written.
Will be presented by a very large
cast, numbering twenty.seven people.
and a complete equipment Of scenery.
Under Southern Skies" is one Of the
largest and most expensive dramatic
companies travelling, and 1t Is now in
its third successful season. 1t was
first presented in New York City In
November. 1901, at the Theatre Re,
public (now the Belasco Theatre.)
There it had a run Of three months
and has since then been on tour
throughout the East. returning three
and four times TO many cities. Large
and fashionable houses are the rule
for this first class attraction and
none of our theatre-goers who enjoy
a fine play finely presented SHOULD
miss It, Under Southern Skies /:
a love story Of the South told will
so many original and fascinating
touches and by such diverting types
OF southern characters that the play
has been pronounced "the most orig
inal. diverting and unhackneyed pla,
of southern life ever written"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09
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The Date For the Great New York
Success Is Wednesday, Febru.
rs. AIRY 22d.

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William a. Brady's production os.
"The Pit" which comes to the Grand
Opera House Wednesday, February
22d, is a dramatization Of FranlS
Norris novel of the same name, III
which Wilton Lackaye has scored his
greatest triumph and achieved his
most sensational success. THE Pit
is the latter Of the two most impress.
sive and memorable works Of fiction
in America. )
"The Octopus and "The Pit The
very names Of these books arc boldly
sensational, chosen deliberately as i
would seem, to attract the; democracy
Of the reading world. Their acti;,l
takes place far down, at the ve..
root of organized society They deal
with the most primitive, humble and
universal of human aims, tho prod,c
ton of that daily bread which Is the
staff Of mans life In the body. Hos
the grain on which our common sus
tenance depends is planted In hoi;
and harvested in fear, only to be OK
plotted far away. at great commercial
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Ssee 81 long eng 90 Ky,
s doubt a ma tter g keene M
terest to nose have the wisdom
sot lighter and az heart
No other ins ttlee 81 mlsic farce
coined eess mas been reSeal Is
$&here the original ctre manned
S ( ll1t impaired through esconstant sub
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09

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centers, BY spectators who supply
or deny It for their own selfish gain,
to the multitudes who toll at the
base Of social pyramid, such was the
broad theme which Mr.. Morris pro.
posed to himself in his Epic Of "1'he
Wheat"
For a good while after the first ap.
pearance Of "The Octopus" not much
was said aloud about the book. It
was thing painful to read and dis.
quieting to remember; moreover It
was confessedly fragment Of more
comprehensive scheme. 1t cannot in
any proper sense Of the term be call
ed romance. 1t is vision, rev:
elation. and an eruption of the sub.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09
IinaI ssEitiss. .pssps Az ths 4

q III n
final yertties ii peep into the retiII
crater over which we lightly walk
~ isl also sin some sense D manifesto
and Ia prophes Az has no Central
plot, althoughi qrtiyers from end 10
end With the thtoes OF human tragedy
like the soil Of d volcanic region la
pnquiet time.
In THE PIT Mir. Norris dropped
the dithyrambic note, and In this
which wns destined to remain ithe
last work Of his grave, parable, he
tspeaks as geer no longer but rs a
man OF the Western @orld-Tnlort,
fearless and with powers fully ripe.
tt?8e,The Pit Is the Chicago Wheat
Pit and TIC sometime dreamer ooits
Gtheter; California SnlleSswithlit It's faith.
omless focudity and the. SdaSe OF Its
perpetual sunshine holds his own
without effort amid the din or onrSblg:I
sest mariietS place, and evidences q
sesTpns grasp OF It's most complex iaf.
fairs. And Il is not the victim Of the
;aonopolist for whom he Is pleading
nov 50 much rs for the monopoliat
himself MhomEhe warns Of his owl,
SOULS peril. { "; /
4 The characters In the book are NIL
rather yulgar--at hest but half taught
and supcrhclally civilized. Neyerths,
less, and M Is perhaps one of Mr.,
Norris chief points Of distinction
1 there Is nothing vulgar in his manner
Of porlraylng them. He does not
| gloat nor smack his lips----how few
OF our novelists can refrain from do
Ing--over tho !nordlnate splendors
!. of a new found luxury He reports
tho faulty grammar OF their loose
7 though graphic speech quite simply
with no apology, or affected appea
i TO remote academic tribunals.
] These are Ills own kindred WHOM
!, he secs In danger deeper than TIL
wheat pit, through their oVer.mastef
!. Ing greed for anyhow Cotton riches
i What matters 1t how they dress Q
talk If only they be rescued and rt
9 habllltated? The solemnityi Of the IL
y sues involved in Ills own conceei
+ Ittrated convictions make all question
y Of nero taste appear trivial lin tn
j. authors eyes.
\ For those piercing eyes Of I'll
i young writer We have lost, It wa
d given for one moment, before 5thel
]. light went. ollt. to- see this teemin
e American life Of ours steadily an
Y 10 SEQ 1t whole. u
5. It lay bare to his brief clairyoyanc
q with all its vast resources and capac
<. Ties in nux, its immense potentlallt
II for both good and evil; above all wit
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09

and holds the auditor, while tho
strong dramatic situations with tic
Of the destroyer Of home and
happiness furnish fitting colorlng to
simple wholesome tale which teach.
es lesson. The author. W. B.. Pat.
ton, has duplicated his success in
THE Minister'S Son." THE Little
Homestead" is interpreted by a clev.
err company of artists, headed by
William Macauley.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09

Try big Estes famous chicken
stew at Murphy's. <
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09
GRAND OPERA House, " EpNgspAy, rgsRyARy 1s

those heavy obligations to the race
and the future attaching osthe focal
place from which it can move no
moresln the intrlcately woven web :,of
the worlds unified fate. The vision
faded and the illumined passed kon
before he could render Ineligible 70
his country the whole Of what he saw.
But his broken message remains full
of import, and 1t Is Idle SO indulge IN
iunayalling regret over the part that
was never spoken. & ,i u. Il 4 81
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09
Hoyt's "a Bunch Of Keys"

When season following season a
stage entertainment succeeds SO adj.
mirably in holding good esteem, as in
the case Of Hoyts "a Bunch Of
Keys" there must needs be some.
thing more than passing attraction
for its merits to deserve It.
How this singularly audacious
amalgamatlon Of fun. frolic and mu.
sic has been able to arrest the sub
stantial consideration of amusement
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"The Little Homestead"

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The fidelity of a husband to an err.
ing wife, the dog-lilie devotion of an
unfortunate cripple, the malignant
wickedness Of an unprincipled scoun.
drel. a desolated home, repentance
and forgiveness as the wick burns
low, all combine in telling the story
of "rhe Little Homestead" the real
istic drama which will be seen at the
Grand Opera House on Wednesday,
February 10. 1t has been truthfuliy
said that THE Little Homestead
certainly reaches the heart and the
better side OF mankind. 1t is pre-
dominated by strong vein of com
edy and pathos which at once charms
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-09
For. Sale.

Seventy two acres Of land Az miles
from Fairmont; 9 roomed house; 2
stables, other out buildings; good
water, good fruit; meadows $cut 10
stacks Of hay this year; land in good
condition; would make good dairy or
market gardening: farm close to
good markets. Terms easy. Call or
address No. fs22 Locust avenue, Fair
mont, ". Va. <
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(. .SyAslllNG i1Tys

Young mel, four of them will be
at the First Baptist Church to:morro,
night and give concert. Everybody
likes to- hear q male squartette. Come
around and enjoy the evening