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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

INFANTRY HALL AMERICAN SCREW
COMPANY TOURNAMENT.
--Strings-
Once ..........4la 42s 4.s 1900
Eagle ...........S7s 4s6 sg4 zoos
Highest single string-McGoush. %.
Highest individual total-Garside. a75.
INFANTRY HALL l. O. O. +. ToURNA-
MENT.
2 2 Total.
Westminster ......425 432 424 1881
Hope .............4i4 3s4 ss1 11se
Highest single string-Mullins. 80. High
est Individual total-Carpooty. 26i.
INFANTRY HALL l. o. o. r. ToURNA-
MENT.
i Total.
Crescent ..........4o6 405 Az 12ts
Highest individual ~total-Hopkins. 272.
CROWN l. o. o. r. NJ. L., ToURNA-
MENT.
-Strings-
2 Total
............353 ses 3iS 1862
and Anchor .3F 376 $50 I1Oa
Highest single string-McKenna and
Mayor. Sc Highest individual total-Mc-
Kenns. 2S3.
oLNEYvIsLE. n Or m TOURNAMENT.
-strings-
wn,,.. ...~...a, ,a %. TG i:.,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

........42s 402 407 1927
Highest single string-Kinsley. 1ie.
Highest Individual total-Kinsley. SoS.
oLNEYvILLE Il. OF II. TOURNAMENT.
suing
oldGeld's .........ss7 4s $50 1863
Nichols ...........S9s se3 422 1871
Highest single string-oldheld. 1o6.
Highest Individual totsl-Oldheld, 26l.
WESTMINSTER TOURNAMENT.
-strings-
snellbacker's .....4l2 43s 1913 1893
Lincoln's .........39 400 All 1914
Highest single string-McIver, lO3.
Highest individual total-McIver, 25i.
EAST PROVIDENCE TOURNAMENT.
Slate Rocks .......4SO 4s9 4a 1891
Blske's ...........429 436 425 1890
Highest single string-McCormick. i0l.
Highest individual totaI-Menzies, 2S6.
BROAD STREET TOURNAMENT.
- Strings
I . 2 Total
Williams ........472 4S2 $50 1854
CAROLS ..........432 4H 4S2 1905
Highestsingle string-A. Williams. 10G.
Highest individual tota@Carroll. 29o.
RANDALL SQUARE TOURNAMENT.
-- Strings -
3 Total.
~Grandheld's .......4S3 44s I5 1897
Second Ward .....42t s5s 435 1894
Highest single string-Turner. Second
Ward, 1O6. Highest Individual total-Slat-
terry. Grandheld's. 267.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

RHODE ISLAND VOTERS
YOUR ATTENTION is RESPECTFULLY CALLED tothe Important ouss-
tons Awaiting Your Answer at the November Election.
It's nov possible, as a result of the earnest efforts Of the
REPUBLICAN PARTY
for you to vote to APPROVE" the Constitutional Amendment increasing the Roll
of the House of Representatives to One Hundred Members, and Dividing the State
into Districts for their selection.
THIS AM:NDMENT MERITS YOUR APPROVAL.
You Are Also Asked At This Time to "Approve" of the Good Roads and
State Armory Loan. The DesrabIIty of This Economical MmHur, intended to
reduce the Rate If Interest Paid by the State needs n Argument
Mark your Ballot, or Tuesday, November 9TH, for tn, following State Of
fers, who have proved themselves capable n efficient an worthy of your con-
fdMe, and also for the Republican Assembly Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE n. Utter
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
FREDERICK n. JACKSON
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
CHARLES p. BENNETT
FOR ATToRNEY-GENERAL,
WILLIAM B. ~CREENOUCH
FOR GENERAL TREASURER,
WALTER A. READ
MARK YOUR CROSS IN THE CIRCLE UNDER THE EAGLE
IN your State Ballot, and thus assure the Election of Republican State officers and
Members Of the General Assembly.
And if you have a town or city ballot for local Off ers,i addition to your
State ballot,
Vote FOR REPUBLICAN, N0m|UEES
ate Me. h@hdI men hnnn@ l npeCpUCn Al InWCCu Aa1lRr IN
S%s % us OF G%"a anal VulII1nI iii
%SI@@M% %@%% HAT % my I st Small Addressed EuMp School
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

CHESTNUT GROVE :. WASHINGTON
STREET O.
-Strings.-
2 Total.
Chestnut Grove .....,..-. AZ AL 4S 1856
Washington Street ...... 424 4os zoe 1894
Highest STRAIGHTFORWARD, 1l3. Highest
total Roy 2a3.
ARCTIC 8, NATICK o.
Arctlc ................... a6 44 as 1S4S
Natick ................... 4S5 40 424 1923
Highest single-Ashworth, los. Highest
total Ashworth. 2s9.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

Highest single strlng-Oldneld, ~
Highest individual total-Oldheld. 26l.
WESTMINSTER TOURNAMENT.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

Highest single string -McGoush, %.
Highest individual t~otal-Garside, a7s.
INFANTRY HALL I. O. q. +. ToURNA-
MENT.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-01

Highest single string-Mclver, lVJ
Highest individual total-McIver, 26f.
EAST PROVIDENCE TOURNAMENT.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

II rain and drought were due TO railway
determinations and unreasonable rates, 1t
might be Just to attribute the small crops
of 1894 and 1901 and the low prices Of 1895
and 1896 to railway perversity. Unfortu-
nately the railways have not yet discsv
cred the secret OF dominating the forces of
nature, nor can they entirely overcome the
laws Of supply and demand.
But in one particular 1 think Mr.. Rose
water will admit that the railways have
assisted In ameliorating the conditions
upon which the populist microbe in Ne
braska has been wont to feed its particular
brand Of discomfort. Throughout the semi
arid western third of the state the railways
have borne noteworthy part in bringing
over 2600C0 acres within the irrigated area.
where there was total of less than 120OO
acres fifteen years ago.
Claims Voters support Railroads.
To Mr.. Rosewater's claim that the people
the presidents plan to regulate railways
by clothing the commission with the rate
making power, we have the opposing testi-
mony OF their votes at the presidential elec-
ton of 1904. The democratic party in it's
convention at St. Louis adopted the follow
ing plank in regard to the regulation OF
railway rates:
We demand an enlargement of the pow
ers of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion, to the end that the travelling public
and shippers may have prompt and ade-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

devotes it's energies to the enforcement of
existing laws, instead of reaching out for
powers beyond human capacity to exercise
with justice, dispatch and discretion.
Some Reform is Needed.
With Mr.. Rosewater's reflections on the
necessity for some reform in the matter
of railway regulation find myself in SYM
pathy. But do not believe in the revolu-
tionary proposal to make the findings of
an investigating and prosecuting commits
sion effective before they have been finally
passed on by the courts. This is subversive
Of the common order of judicial practice
and denies to the railways the rights
which are accorded to the humblest suitors
in our courts.
Apparently Mr.. Rosewater favors endow-
Ing the commission with the rate making
power of giant and trusting it not to
abuse that power like a giant. Unfortu-
nately the record of the commission indi-
Gates both the greed of power and the dis
position to abuse 1t.
On the other hand, the record shows that
the railways have very generally acquiesced
in the rulings of the commission. Out Of
40 formal complaints under the Interstate
Commerct act in eighteen years, 2O6 were
definitely postponed, ninety have not been
disposed of, and 400 have come to final
hearing. In all these years only forty-five
| cases have been appealed to the courts, and
in only eight of these has judgment gone
against the railways.
! If l were consulted as to what legisla-
ton is needed ito keep the highways OF
commerce open to all on equal terms" ]
would say:
| Amend the present act to regulate COM
| merce to cover private car lines or to make
| the carriers provide special cars.
| Make all terminal and Industrial railways
| subject to the act
| Conflne the duties of the commission to
| investigating and prosecuting infractions
| OF the law, with authority to inspect the
! books of all carriers at all times with the
| aid of experts.
Place the railway statistics under the
bureau OF statistics of the Department ol
Commerce and Labor
Provide for government inspection of al
railway accidents involving the loss OF
human life also under the Department oil
Commerce.
Provide that all proceedings instituted
| by the commission shall have the right-of
way In the courts.
do not believe in the creation Of specia
courts for the adjudication of questions re
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

lating to railways, which are entitled TO
the same square deal in American courts
that should be accorded to any other Amer
lean suitor, be he complainant or defendant.
Sees Danger Ahead.
1t seems to me that the railways have
good cause to view with alarm the pro-
posal to invest the Interstate Commerce
commission with power to establish or
fix rates as threatening great financiar
loss If not disaster to their interests. 1t
would take only few errors of tenth
Of cent per ton per mile to throw scores
of roads into receivers hands 1t is not
reassuring to investors in railway securi-
ties and railway employees to be told that
the Interstate Commerce commission may
not use the power of rate making to the
detriment of the earning capacity of the
railways. 1t is unsafe legislation to
lodge a dangerous power in an irresponsi-
BILE body on the theory that the power
will not be exercised Tne soivency or
the railways G>-nds on reasonably re-
:---erative rates and there is neither occa-
sion nor warrant for reversal of the whole
course of civilized Jurisprudence because
some interested shipper or aggreived local"
ity may persuade the Interstate Commerce
commission to fix a lower rate in the place
OF one declared unreasonable.
| l think that when Mr.. Rosewater has ex
amined into this matter a little more def
nitely he will discover that railway rates
generally in the United States have beer
pretty closely adjusted to the commercial
agricultural and Industrial requirements o.
the country; that the hue and cry agains
the railways proceeds from the same OLE
caves OF discomfort and political ineptitud'
whence issued populism and free silver, anC
that rebates and other railway abuses can
not be stopped by transferring the rate
making power from the railways to tn
government. SLASON THOMPSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18
Railroad Legislation, Sta
and National
Seventh OF Series of Timely Articles Written by Edward
Rosewater, Editor ofThe Bee, on Different
Phases OF the Pending Railroad Problem

of freight and passengers, as
may from time to time be enacted and
provided for by the law Of the state of
Iowa" The same restricting clause was
inserted by succeeding legislatures of Iowa
and the various companies willingly and
gladly accepted.
The demand for legislation to restrict the
charges exacted by railroads from their
patrons to compel them to afford equal
facilities to all shippers for like service and
prohibiting discriminating rates to favored
shippers were enacted in the early 70's, by
legislatures of the states Of Minnesota
Wisconsin, Illinois, as we'll as Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska. In 1871 laws
were passed in Illinois and Minnesota
fixing maximum charges for the tran
sportation of freight and passengers and
forbidding determinations.
Railroads Become Arrogant.
The railroads claimed that a state did
not have the right to prescribe rates and
refused to be bound by these laws. In
stead of modifying their policy, they be-
came daily more arrogant Determinations
which had before been practiced under the
veil of secrecy and which had been de-
Tended by railroad managers, as exceptions
to the rule, made necessary by circum-
now openly and defantly practiced by
several of the larger roads Every encour-
agement was thus given by the railroads
to the uprising of the embattled farmers
who had enlisted in the Granger" move
ment.
The result was that in the fall of 1873
the legislatures of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois and Iowa were elected on the rail-
road regulation issue The widest predic-
tions were made by railroad men as to the
extremes to which granger" legislation
would go and the ruinous effect of such
legislation upon the railroad companies.
These predictions, however, failed to ma
terialize The granger laws were in the
main moderate, just and reasonable and
we'll adapted to remedy the evils of which
the public complained, had they been fairly
enforced and lived up to by the railroads.
Attempt to Make Law OdiOus.
In their desperate attempts to make state
railway regulation odious the railroad
managers complied with only part OF the
They contrived to create hardships for
certain interests and localities. Instead OF
charging in all cases reasonable rates, as
the spirit of the law demanded, they very
frequently charged the maximum rates per-
mitted under the law, and when they by
this practice succeeded in damaging GER
tain interests they would point to the
granger" law as the source of all existing
railroad evils. So. likewise, when they
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18
State

were asked by their patrons to reduce a
high rate they would plead the legislative
schedule in excuse for their failure to COM
ply with the request.
They claimed that they were ready and
willing to submit to all reasonable regula-
tion, but that the maximum tariff law was
prejudicial both to the best interests of the
roads and those of the public. They fur
ther asserted that the people, had grown
tired of this manner of regulating railroad
charges and earnestly desired a change
of policy; that the interference of the
state with the railroad business had in
1uriously affected certain Industrial inter-
ests and had gradually retarded railroad
construction by driving capital and pro-
moters OF railroad enterprises from the
state.
As a matter of fact, statistics prove that
during the five years following the great
panics of 1873 and 1898 the railroads in
the Granger states Jared no worse in
this respect than they did in the states
east, in the middle west or south, that
had not been invaded by the Granger"
movement and Farmers alliance.
State Regulation Inadequate.
State railway regulation, either by direct
law or through boards of railroad COM
missioners, proved entirely inadequate to
afford relief from the abuses to which the
American people were subjected by the
railroads. The states were powerless to
intervene on behalf Of the patrons of the
railways or the communities affected by
discriminating charges, only from 25 to
40 per cent of the value Of railroad traffic
being local while from 60 to 70 per cent
is interstate.
Popular agitation in favor of interstate
railway regulation by congress followed
closely on the heels of state railroad regu-
lation in the west and south, but during
two successive congresses national legisa-
ton was thwarted by the Vaccinations of
the railroad lobby and the great pressure
brought by the railway magnates and their
chief beneficiaries-the trusts.
After exhaustive inquiries by con-
gressional committees public sentiment in
favor of national railway regulation ex-
pressed through commercial bodies, political
conventions and legislatures finally crys-
talized into the interstate commerce act,
which was a compromise between two reg.
ulation bills known as the Reagan and
Cullom bills. Both attempted to define
and prohibit determinations and unreason.
able rates, declared such offences mis-.
demeanors and provided civil remedies and
criminal penalties for them. They differed
however, in that the Culom bill forbade
rebates and drawbacks only where they
inflicted unjust Determinations, while the
Reagan bill prohibited those practices alto
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18
YelIowntone Park ana Portland.

Personally conducted party will leave
via the Burlington Route June 10Th for
Portland, stopping at Gardiner, Mont, for a
six-day tour of Yellowstone Park.
Return from Portland can be made
through California and Colorado II desired
Party will travel in standard sleeper. and
application for berths should be made at
once. Rates are very low. Full informa-
ton at Burlington Ticket ONCE. 1909
Farnam street. ]. b. Reynolds. City Pas.
senger Agent
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

gether. The Reagan bill, moreover. pro-
hibited pooling, while the Cullom bill left
the subject to the commission.
Difference In Two Bills.
The most important difference, however.
was in the local remedies against offences
prohibited. The Cullom bill created an
interstate commerce commission author
lied to hear and investigate complaints In
all parts of the United States, to assess
damages IL unlawful acts are proved and
the failure OF any railroad to pay such
damages TO he constituted an offence
punishable by the final mandate of
the supreme court. The Reagan bill
left its provisions to be enforced by
the existing courts only seeking to make
the remedy more direct and easy
by permitting the injured party to bring
suit in any state or federal court within
whose jurisdiction the offending railway has
an office. 1t awarded to him exemplary
damages three times the loss he could
prove that the discrimination inflicted upon
him. 1t made the resort to a mandamus
from the circuit court of the United States
cumulative and where perishable freights
were involved authorized the writ of al
tentative mandamus returnable forthwith.
The compromise Cullom-Reagan bill pro-
vided a governmental tribunal which was
to give exclusive attention 10 abuses OF
railway management, but the weakest spot
In its makeup was and still is its inability
to enforce its orders.
Before the creation OF the Interstate
Commerce commission all the railroads and
their railroad attorneys made dire predic-
tions of disaster and wreckage in conse-
uuence of the attempt Of congress to de-
prive the railroads of the privilege OF
charging whatever the traffic would bear
and carrying on the transportation business
as they deemed most expedient and ad-
vantageous in the interest of their stock
holders.
Prosperous Times for Roads.
These apprehensions, like the prophesles
about the granger laws. have proved utterly
groundless. Notwithstanding the fact that
fully $4,000, 100000 of water has been In
jected into the capitalization of American
railroads, there never was time in their
history when they have been as prosperous
as they are at this time. Never in the
history of American railways has there
been such enormous increase in mileage as
has been constructed since 1887, when the
interstate commerce act went into effect
The present attitude of hostility of the
railway magnates toward more efficient
railway regulation through the measures
recommended by President Roosevelt Is
only a counterpart of their attitude toward
state and interstate commerce regulation.
Again they make wild predictions of disas-
ter, not only to the railroad interests, but
to American commerce generally. Now, as
then, they forecast a general cessatio1 OF
railroad construction in the United states
but the fact that more railroad extensions
have been planned and are already con-
tracted for in the United States for the
coming year than were constructed during
several years past would indicate that the
railway magnates either have no fear OF
congressional legislation or are simply try
ing to frighten the president and congress-
e. ROSEWATER-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18
A Tall Fish story.

Two small fish. resembling sun perch, arc
on exhibition in a st. Louis restaurant.
They fell during a heavy rain. according
to the statements of August Meiners, man
ager OF the restaurant, and Z. d. Evans.
connected with the Art Wall Paper mills.
Mr.. Meiners. who picked one Of the ish up
Immediately after 1t struck the sidewalk,
denied that his company had leased an air
route from any lakes in order to secure
quick delivery to the kitchen. The story.
he says, is true fish story, and anybody
that does not believe 1t can see the fish In
a large tin can on the cashiers desk, Ia
beled: These fish fell from the sky al
10:46 a. m."N
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

his companions he Is
apt 20 be q weakling.
and to be conscious
of the fact.
A great m a ny
mothers have testi-
fed TO the wonderful
curing and strength
ening power of DR..
Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery. ALI
strength comes from
food after It has been
perfectly digested
and assimilated. By
curing diseases of the
stomach and other
organs Of digestion
and nutrition, q SGold-
en- Medical Discov-
eryS enables the per-
feet nourishment OF
the body, which Is
thus built up In the
only way q body can
- k,itk rOhv f0Od
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

There Is no alcohol In uDiscovey,"
and II entirely free from opium, cocaine.
and all other narcotics.
SDr. Pieree's medicine has done wonders for
INV two song . writes Mrs. NJ HartTick, OF Dean
eler 'osweRo Co, N. Y. ~Both had scrotuia-
NY eldest son was taken two OF three years Sg9
with hemouhage from the iHngS ~ uoep,ea ueiaa
Hedical Discoyery and has not had one In over
. year. NY younger son had scrotalous soIes on
his neck; had two lanced, but has not had any
dnce he commenced 10 take your medieine."
Dr.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, In paper cover, sent Iyes on re-
ceipt Of aI oGle-cent stamps to pay ex-
peIsse Of mailing osky. For cloth bind
inE send Al stamps. Address DE-. Z. v.
Pierce. Buffalo. n z.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

$21 30 to Asbury Park, N. j., $31 80
And return. Via Nickel Plate road.
Tickets good via New York City. Dates Of
sale, June % and 80 and July ! and q with
extreme return limit of August 81 by de-
posting ticket. Chicago Ticket ofices, Iii
Adams street and Auditorium Annex. Depot.
La Sale and Van Buren, streets, on Ele-
waited Loup.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

Here Is shown decline OF over 1871 per
cent In the average passenger revenue of
the railways, and OF nearly 20 per cent In
tho average freight revenue during the
last decade, for which by the dilatory
grace of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission we have the statistics Between
1898 and 1903 the rates on wheat from
Lincoln, Neb., to Chicago have fiuctuated
between q and 20 cents per 100 pounds,
and on corn between p and Is cents, the
high figure in both instances being for
the earlier date. The fluctuations are al
ways due to the efforts OF the railways
to meet changing traffic conditions, not
only by rail in the United States. but by
water as to acean freight rates In their
relation to the commerce of the world.
Enough has been said to disprove Mr.
Rosewater's statement that Nebraska has
not profited along with the rest OF the
republic in the steady decline in freight
rates, which has contributed so greatly
TO the marvellous prosperity which Ne
braska has shared with the rest OF the
country.
Nebraskn's Material Prosperity.
That there is no reason for supposing
that Nebraska has suffered any injury alb
solutely or relatively from burdensome
freight rates during the past, ten or fifteen
years is easily demonstratable.
In 1890 Nebraska with S6s,SS7,sl7 ranked
sixteenth IN the gross value OF it's agri-
cultural products; in 1900 II ranked tenth.
the value having risen to sl62, ,6S6. SS6, an
increase OF over las per cent. In the gross
value of manufactured products Nebraska
showed an increase OF over 4 per cent.
During the same period the value of
IOwa's agricultural products increased $50
per cent and its manufactured products
only 81. and yet Iowa was blessed with
what Mr.. Rosewater is apparently striving
TO give to the whole country-a hard and
fast distance railway tarif.
What is more 20 the point, between 1890
and 1900 the per capita value OF agricultural
products in Nebraska increased from s6s TO
sl5S. or lp per cent. while that Of Iowa ross
Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18
GOOD Boys

Are the bad boys very often. The boy
that's good for anything is generally
pu0uacaoua, He's a healthy animal,
and the healthy animal viii always fight
for his nghta
When q boy shuns the rough sports OF