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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
DISCUSS CANAL MATTERS.
Senators Believe Congress Should Fix
Salary Of Employees.

Washington, Dec. 12.-When the
senate convened a message was re-
ceived from the house transmitting
the emergency bill appropriating SILL
100000 to aid in the construction of
the Panama canal. It was withheld
by the vice president until the con-
clusion of the routine morning bust
ness.
When the canal bill was called up
for reference a general discussion of
canal matters was precipitated. Mr..
Tillman characterized the high sal
aries paid canal employees as stealing
and graft"
Messrs. Hemenway, Hopkins, Nc
Cumber and Teller said there should
be legislation fixing salaries for the
canal employees. Mr.. Teller said that
by legislation congress had authorized
the president to appoint the officers
and fix the salaries and it was the
duty of congress to- nay them.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
RAILROAD MEN IN SESSION.
Central Committee Will Probably Or
der General Strike,

Warsaw, Dec. 12.-The central com
now in session at Moscow will prob
ably order a general railroad strike to
begin at midnight in consequence OF
the arrest of Nj. Krustaloff, president
Of the executive committee of the
workmen's council at ST. Petersburg.
The loIal committee of the railroad
mems union has received a notifca-
ton from the committee at St. Peters
burg to that effect
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Dec. 11.-Wheat - Dec,
$3.50; May, S91s @s9Ac. Corn-Dec,
4lAc; old, 1870; May, 445sc. Oats
Dec, BIZ M31ssc; May, 1924 @327sc.
Pork-Jan., $13.42k May. $13.421a.
FlaN-Cash, Northwestern, $1.O211a;
Southwestern, sc. Butter-Creamer-
les, l7@23Ac: diaries, 17m2Oc Eggs
-20lD24c. POultry-Turkeys, 13c;
nhicf ems and springs, &c.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
MITCHELL APPEAL DISMISSED
End Of Case Against Late Senator
From Oregon.

Washington, Dec. ION motion of
former Senator ThurStOn Chief JUS
tice Fuller. on behalf of the supreme
court of the United States, has direct.
ed the issuance of an order dismissing
the appeal Of the late Senator Nit
chell in the case against him. The
proceeding was brief. Senator Thur
stOn announced the death of the Ore
of the case In directing the order
the chief justice merely remarked
that this course was usual in Grim
inal cases.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS.
Twenty.four True Bills Against Kan
sas CattIemen.

Topeka, Kan, Dec. 1.-THE federal
land fraud cases, has reported twenty
four indictments against cattlemen.
Three of the indictments charge
conspiracy to defraud the United
States government out of a portion of
it's public domain and subornation of
perjury in the securing of fraudulent
homestead entries. The other twenty
one indictments charge the unlawful
Enclosure of the public lands
All the men indicted are wealthy
cattlemen
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Ex-AssembIyman Goes to Prison.

New York, Dec. 12.-Former Assem-
blyman Joseph ]. Cahill of Brooklyn,
who was convicted of perjury in con
nection with violation of the election
laws at the mayOralty election last
month"; has been sentenced to serve
two veara in SinG Sing prison.
Rev. Frank Okazaki. pastor OF the
Japanese Baptist mission in Seattle
Wash, is planning colony for imnli
grants from his country. 1t is planned
to establish the colony somewhere on
Puget Sound
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Whiteman Taken to Prison.

Buffalo, Dec 12-Alonzo J.. White
man, convicted of defrauding the FL
deity Trust company of this city by
means of forged and raised paper,
was taken to Auburn prison during
the day to begin term of eight years
and FIVE months.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
TO INVADE TURKEY.
Force Of Suitan's Troops Sent to Re.
pei Persians.

Constantinople, Dec. 12.-Trouble is
threatening on the Turko-Persian from
tier at the vilayet Of Mosul and in
the neighborhood of Bayazid. These
points have never been exactly delim-
tied. Five thousand armed Persians
are gathered in the district of Sujbu-
lax, southwark of Lake Urumiah, and
they threaten to invade and take pos
session of strip of territory in the
vilayet of Mosul, claimed by Turkey.
Two battalions of Ottoman troops,
with three guns, have been dispatched
to repel the invasion ard the governor
of Mosul is calling for more reinforce
ments.
A similar situation exists on the
frontier in the neighborhood Of Bay
aid.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
sToREkEEPER HELD UP.
Robbers Use Him as a Shield Against
Attack.

Fort Dodge, Ia, Dec. Ed Cor
man and Tom Smith were arrested
here charged with holding up Patrick
O'Connor in his store at Vincent, a
village six miles east of here.
Two men with threats of death
forced him to open the safe and turn
over several hundred dollars to them.
A son with revolver and a daughter
with a shotgun were prevented from
assisting O'Connor by the thieves US
ing him as a shield.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Communication Restored,

st. Petersburg, Dec. 12.-Tele
graphic communication to the cable
end at NystadI Finland, has been re-
esta blished, but whether communica
ton will be permanent or not cannot
be said
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Gar Thanks the Cossacks.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 12.-EmperoI
Nicholas has issued an order of the
day thanking all OF the Cossack troops
for their "self-sacrificing untiring and
loyal services to the throne and ia
therland, both at the seat of war and
in the preservation of order within the
omDjra "
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
FORCED LOAN ORDERED.
Desperate Expediency to Save Russia
From Bankruptcy.

St. Petersburg, Dec. 10, via Eydt'
kuhnen, Dec. 12.-The government
seems to have succeeded in tiding the
treasury over the present crisis, al.
though the method by which this was
the government mas been reduced.
The emperor has approved a ukase
authorizing the State bank to discount
$5O,0O0,0GO in eXchequer bills, which
is permitted by the regulations of the
bank, but it savors of the character
of a forced loan. This method has
not been resorted to since the days of
the Russo-Turkish war.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12

George Becner, young BavariaE
living on a farm south of Hammond.
Ind. has been notified by the Amer.
lean consul at Munich that he is one
OF four heirs to an estate in Bavaria
said to amount to S14, OOO, 900.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Reouisition for Pat Grove.

Des Moines, Dec. Ex-Governor
Cummins has issued a requisition fol
the return of Pat Grove to Iowa fol
holding up street car in Council
Bluffs the night of July 2, 1905. A
woman betrayed Grove and he will
be tried upon her evidence.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12

Paul Meurice, the author and drama.
list and literary executor OF Victor
Hugo, is dead at Paris.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
WORST SEASON ON LAKES.
Over TWO Hundred Lives Lost Dur.
ina Present Year.

ing Present Year.
Chicago, Dec. 12.-According to fig
ures complied by the Lake Marine
News bureau the death list on the
Great Lakes during the past season
was 215, the heaviest loss on record.
During the season of 1904 only
forty-nine lives were lost on the
Great Lakes, this being the smallest
loss on record
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12

Clothing.
Suits, overcoats and trousers.
The little man of 2 IL years
and all his male re ations can
be fitted out in our clothing
department.. Mems Suits
$3.50 to $3.50. Young
mems suits $500 to S14.00.
Boys suits $500 to 1000.
Children's suits So to $500
Cut Glass
A full show case of cut glass
End quality, that we are clos
ing out at 20 per cent off.
We also show a fine assort-
nent of lst quality goods.
Christmas Candy.
Chocolates 25 to 40 cts. a ID.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Crepe Paper
Commencing Monday Dec. 18th

this will be open o'clock until the 23rd If Christ
shoppers will do much of their trading the toenoons
possible they will confer favor the salespeope and will
undoubtedly receive better sometimes impossible
customer satisfactory during the afternoon and
evening holiday shoppers
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12
Framed Pictures.
to
$1,000

framed Pictures.
100 framed pictures, a nice
assortment of frames and sub
Jects, these pictures have
been sold in Bemidii, the
past summer as high as $500
a piece, our..h iday price..6y
cents.
Japanese Goods.
Hand embroidered whit =,
shirt waists patterns 5000.
japanese Cushions $l.OO to
$500. Japanese Collars 25
to 10 cts. Japanses card
cases, mats and wall orna-
mentS.
:.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-12-12

Fine chocolates in boxes. 10.
Is. %. SO and IS cts. a box.
Fresh Butter Cups 40 cts. a
ID. Mixed candy 10 to 25c
a ID.
Dolls.
We can suit the purse in dolls
they range in prices from sc
to 5000 each.
Silk Hose.
Ladies silk hose, good Christ
mas gifts, Sl.25 to s. so a
pair.
Crepe Paper.
500 roll l0c crepe paper all
colors I cts a lo'l. 200 folds
Of decorated crepe paper the
Csc kind for iSc a fold.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03
URGES FARMERS
TO HOLD.
President Smith Advises
that Arrangements be
Made with LoCol Bonk-
erS for Necessary I'D
vdnCcS.

Columbia. February "a. -Presi-
dent E. D. Smith, of the South
Carolina Cotton Growers Asso-
citation, has issued the following
address of most general import
ance:
To the People of the State Who
Are Interested in the Southern
Cotton Association: In view of
the numerous inquiries that have
come to me by those who are
holding spot cotton as to what
method they can secure a loan
on their cotton to meet their
pressing necessities, I call on the
several county organizations to
appoint a committee consisting
of their chairman and three other
members to see their local bank
ers at once and arrange plans by
which those needing the money
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03
EDUCATION IN
SOUTH CAROLINA.
BY w. H. HAND.

Thirty-two States and Terri
tories of the Union have COM
pulsory school attendance laws
of some kind. West Virginia
and Kentucky are the only States
of the southern group which have
such laws. The South stands
isolated, SO to speak, in a matter
which has become almost univer-
sal in the remaining states of the
Union. It is worthy of remark
that an examination of the pro-
ceedings of the National Educa-
tional Association for the past
ten years reveals scarcely a ref
erence to compulsory school at
tendance. The same is true of
the leading educational maga-
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03

makes South Carolina must re-
duce her white illiterates be-
tween ten and fourteen years of
age from 9, ,942 to 1878.
What are some of the common
objections made to a compulsory
education law? 1--WE are NOT
ready for such a law, say some.
No, nor are we ready for the
Ten Commandments, if our law
lessness is taken as evidence of
our readiness. And no law can
be enforced as long as the officers
OF the law tell the people it can
not be enforced.
Compulsory attendance laws
came from monarchical Prussia, "
say some others. Not at all;
both Massachusetts, and Connec-
ticut had compulsory attendance
laws before Frederic William of
Prussia was grown. Compulsory
education is republican rather
than monarchical-in both origin
and spirit.
The last objection is, "the
negro is in the way" The negro
is going to school without com
pulsion. Let the figures prove
this:
Illiterates in South Carolina:
Native whites, over 10 years
Of age, in 1880, % per cent; in
1890, 18 per cent; in 1900, 13 per
cent? per cent in 20 years.
Native negroes, over 10 years
Of age, in 1880, 78 per cent; in
1890, 64 per cent; in 1900, Sc
per cent-26 per cent in 20 years.
Some insist that the negro is
out Of the way by disfranchise-
ment, therefore the illiterate
whites have nothing to fear. He
is out of the way only for a time.
Besides. even if the negro is
kept out of the way by disfran-
chisement, there is no provision
made for the 1854 illiterate
white females of the State.
Well" says some one, 1.-The
Anglo-Saxon is destined to rule
this country anyway" Deluded
man, you know not how impotent
will become chat same Anglo
Savon when reduced to an in
ferior intellectual condition. In
telligence will dominate the
world; it always has done so; it
always will. Whenever the
Anglo-Saxon race has been out
stripped by another race in in
tellect, the Anglo-Saxon at once
has to resort to the force which
belongs to the brute. He is then
dominated, not dominating. This
is. ! know, a low plane upon
which to discuss this question,
but these objections must be met
on their own plane. THE SOUTH
ERN HOME.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03

can secure loan on their cotton
1t is needless for me to empha-
size the urgent Importance of
this step. The three cardinal
principles in our fight are as fol-
lows: The reduction of acreage.
reduction of fertilizer and hold
ing spot cotton.
Already the price of cotton has
advanced $3.50 per bale, since
the New Orleans Convention.
Had it not been for this organi-
zatlon and the hope that it in
spired, cotton would have flooded
the market at the disastrous]v
low prices prevailing a month
ago and the South would have
lost between fifty and one hum
dred millions of dollars. If the
local banks and the farmers who
are able to, and the merchant ts
in their local organizations, will
pool their interests and stand to-
gether at this acute crisis, the
hight is won. l am in a position
to know, but cannot give tie
names of the parties furnishing
me the information, that the
world is needing cotton more
than we are needing to sell; that
Liverpool has not received one
fifth of the cotton that has been
exported. Eighty per cent of
that exported in January and
February has gone to Russia:
very little to Manchester. The
stocks in all foreign centres are
short, in all foreign and domestic
mills they are short, and it is
only a question of holding to-
gethcr to secure good price for
our cotton.
would like to state further
that if no arrangements can be
made locally, that the banks and
ware houses of Columbia can
take care of every bale of cotton
sent them and advance 80 per
cent of its value at the rate of
6 per cent.
Anyone wanting further infor-
nation as to shipping to Colum-
bia may communicate with
Messrs. F. H. Weston and F. H.
Hyatt.
We, the president, secretary
and treasurer, who were elected
at your convention to take charge
of this matter, and see that you
succeed, cannot hope to do our
work efficiently without having
facilities for doing it.
We need an office, we need
stationery, we need a stenogra-
pher, we need typewriter and
we need postage, the incidental
expenses to such a great under
taking. Therefore, we call on
the public at large who are in
terested in this movement to
send into Mr.. F. H. Hyatt, treas
urer, any contributions they feel
able to make and send it at once
and we promise that every cent
sent us shall, so far as we are
able, do 100 per cent good for
every one hundred cents con-
tributed.
E. D. SMITH,
President South Carolina Cot
| ton Association
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03

on to pay the cost of e!ementar,
education, this second ster
would add powerfully to the mo.
mentum of a movement that may
be already endangering the in
stitution of the home.
! And yet we must not, in our
care for the interests of the home
forget the momentous interests
of government. With us the
latter is organized on the basis
OF self-government by the mass
es, and will fare we'll or i'll ac-
cording to the enlightenmenta and
character of the voting multi
tude, in whom sovereignty is
vested. Thus it happens that
ignorance is endowed with I'M
mense power for mischief. Clear
tly, therefore, it is of critical i'm
portance that the State should
free itself as speedily as possible
from the menace involved in the
presence Of numerous ignorant
voters. To be sure, it may do
this by disfranchising them.
Yet, if it is compelled to disfran-
cbise many, then it yields up to
that extent the fundamental
principle of democracy, and
takes from large portion of the
people their privilege of self
government.
Again, however, the welfare
of the State is menaced in an
economic sense by the existence
of a mass of ignorance. Indus
trial competition is every day be-
coming more strenuous between
individuals, sections, and nations.
At the same time modern indus
trial conditions are advancing
steadily in the standard of intel
ligence demanded as the price of
success. The State that lags be-
hind in educating it's population
will assuredly lag behind also in
the race for economic prosperity
and power. Thus it appears that
the State must seek protection
through education against an
other threatening danger.
1t seems, then, that the prob
lem before us may be reduced
fundamentally to this: Is the
general welfare Of our people
threatened more by ignorance
among the voting and producing
masses than by the tendency of
parents to shirk the responsible
ties incident to family life? If SO,
then the State would be justified
in risking the lesser danger in
order to escape the larger.
That the State has a moral
right to impose it's authority up
on parents in order to protect it.
self from the dangers arising
from ignorance cannot be ques-
toned. The State regulates mar
riage and divorce; steps in to su-
pervise the transmission of fam
lily property by inheritance; de-
mands of every head of hosue-
hold that he shall support his
family, unless he can prove dis
ability; invades the home to en-
force quarantine or sanitary reg
ulations, and in other ways as
serts it's authority over the fam
lily organization in the name of
community welfare. There is no
lack of precedent, therefore, for
State interference of the charac-
ter involved in compulsory edu-
cation.
Only the fundamentals of the
problem involved have been
touched upon above. Many 9TH
er considerations of a compare
lively minor significance, yet
very important in the total, are
here excluded from view. Ju-
diciallo balancing the facts above
brought out, pro and con, it
would appear, however, that
there is more in favor of COM
pulsory education than against
THE Southern Home.
ENaIr ATlNA sAV
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03
SCOMpULSORY
EDUCATION.
From the Standpoint Of
the SOCiOlogiS. By j.
n. TiIIinghaSt.
professor in the Departmet OF
ECONOMIES, Converse College.)

The movement for compulsory
keducation is part of tendency
in our time, which presents a
very interesting, but a very puz-
zling, problem to the thoughtful
student of social development.
1t will be impossible under the
limitations of a magazine article
to do justice to the subject, but
some general considerations may
perhaps, be touched upon in a
profitable way.
From time immemorial it has
been a fundamental function of
the family, as social institution,
to furnish society with new men,
bers, properly reared and taught
in the knowledge of their time.
But modern social development
is silently working out deep
changes in the practice, if not in
the theory, of family life. If an
optimist, you may think hope
fully, or if a pessimist, then de-
spondently, of the meaning of
these changes, but there can be
no doubt of their existence.
While we may have our fun at
the expense of those who push
the new woman" idea to an eX-
treme, there is nothing to laugh
at in the gradual spread of a pro-
found change in the sentiment
of women toward marriage and
the assumption of maternal bur-
dens. AS yet it has made but
little headway in the South, but
in certain other quarters it is un-
mistakable. The opening up of
many occupations, formerly
closed to women; the entrance of
women, though married, into
many public activities, that dis
tract attention from the demands
of housekeeping; and the wide
agitation of doctrines that en-
phasize certain ideals, wherein
marriage and maternity are
viewed as inconvenient all these
developments do not tend to
strengthen the institution of the
family.
Further, there is an unmis-
taxable tendency to shift from the
family to other external agen-
cies various functions, one habit
ually regarded as belonging to
the family. The care of sick
members in the household is be-
ing more and more delegated to
professional nurses, while in
some quarters the custom is
growing to send the sick to a
hospital. The responsibility for
giving proper religious instruc-
tlon to the young once regarded
as especially incumbent upon
parents, is now becoming almost
wholly shifted to the Sunday
School. This agency was origi-
mated to meet the needs of the
city waif, not to supersede the
religious teaching that cultured
parents can give their own chill.
dren under much more effective
conditions at home. The kinder.
garten idea has developed g
widespread disposition to senc
the children off to Infant
schools" at a very early age
thus reducing at another point
the amount of care given al
home. Meantime, it has become
the universal theory, more o.
less carried out in practice, that
parents should be relieved by tht
State of the expenses of provid
ing at least elementary educa,
ton.
And now it is still further pro
posed that the State shall assum,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-03-03
E. D. SMITH,
President South Carolina Cot
ton Association.

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