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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
Manifold Activities
Of the Federal Executive

On the 10Th day of August the whole
world bowed its Acknowledgements to
the chief executive of the United States
for having been the instrument Of
bringing to close one of the greatest
wars of al history. The peace Of
Portsmouth was negotiated by the Rus
sian and japanese plenipotentiaries on
that day, ana its terms AMI bearings
properly belong to the record of for
etgn affairs. but Of all the varied activ-
tiles of President Roosevelt's year moth
ing has brought him so much and so
well earned applause as the fact that
he. through his official initiative, first
made possible the peace conference
and, second, by his tenacious and force
full personality brought the representa-
dves into agreement after almost all
hope had been abandoned on account
of Russia's unwillingness to pay a sim
gle kopeck Of the big indemnity de-
manded by Japan.
The progress made on a large scale
toward the realization of this nations
ambition for waterway across the
American isthmus stands well at top
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
Protestant Churches
Reaching Out For Federation

Doctrinal fences between Protestant
denominations in the United States,
which had been getting more and more
shaky for several years, virtually fell
into disuse when, Nov. 81, the dele
gates to the interchurch conference
ON federation, at New York city, adopt
ed unanimously a plan for council
of the churches of Christ in America"
Thus the 20,00o,000 communicates of
thirty different church organizations
were brought into the promised land Of
moral and missionary unity. This for
ward stride is the one thing above
others which has put new hope and
enthusiasm into American Protestant
ism. The apparent inconsistency of the
conference in excluding the Unitarian
delegates, not on personal but ON doe
trinal grounds. is not regarded as al
tering the essential Importance of the
movement for those great bodies which
are directly concerned.
The Presbyterian church in the north
took the lead in active utilization with
organized labor. During the summer
Tic unity sEhkA was SdOMh ~ Eltat
vival meetings in all our larger cities,
with all the Protestant churches unit
ing. In Philadelphia and New York
the churches took an active part in
politics, praying and working for re-
form candidates. The northern and
southern Baptists united after sixty
years of separation, adopting a consti-
tuition at their St. Louis conference in
May. The Catholic church as we'll as
the Protestant churches joined in the
movement against divorce. The Zion
lists in convention at Basel. Switzer-
land, split, a majority favoring Pales-
tine rather than British colony in
Africa. The Methodists adopted q re-
/ vised hymn book.
The protest made by the Rev. DR..
/ Washington GLADDEN. of Columbus. O..
against the acceptance of a Rockefeller
donation &c the Congregationalist for
sign missions on the ground that the
money was tainted" by the frauds
and corruption connected with its &C
QUESTION started discussion which
ragged furiousiy in his own denomins.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
Educational Tendencies,
Hand Craftand Self Expression

From comprehensive study of the
entire field of public and private edu-
cation, and especially in this country.
from kindergarten to university. it is
apparent that the two most notable
advances of the past year hav been in
the direction of free manua. and artis-
tic expression Of the grow!4g pupil on
the one hand and of dependence on
public opinion for establishing and pre-
serving the requisite degree cf order
and a safe standard of progress.
Princeton has begun int-s:,. ,!cin- the
tutorial system. Columbia ha, ed the
way by establishing the pr.nc.p.e OF
international university ca-o-c-ation. a
definite alliance with Der. n university
being arranged. Oxford and Cam
bridge both voted in March to retain
Greek. Pennsylvania exonerated Pro
fessor Hilprecht of the charges Of un-
scientific conduct brought against hIni
by DR.. Peters. Columbia and the Ney
York university led in movement of
eastern colleges toward the abolition
or reform OF football The effort to.
merge the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology with Harvard failed on le-
gal grounds The Carnegie technical
schools were opened in one building at
Pittsburg Oct. 16.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
Publication of Politics
Begun by Anti-Graft Revolt

In the history Of American politics
the year 1905 will mark an awakening
of the nations voting citizenship to a
new realization of its responsibilities
and its powers and as the beginning
of the end of the kind of commercial
lied party dictatorship which for more
than a generation had held the mass
of voters in thrall. The fact that the
national issues of monetary standard,
tariff and Imperialism had been left
behind with the receding presidential
year and that the Republican party
was more strongly intrenched in pow
er by reason Of President Roosevelt's
phenomenal personal popularity with
the people of all sections tended to
clear the track for the entry of reform
knights in the several cities and state
Journeys armed with the lance of an
awakened popular conscience against
which the puppet riders for the party
bosses could avail nothing.
Next to the president himself in his
ceaseless advocacy of new legislation
to give central government adequate
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and with all executive responsibility
centralized in himself and two others,
Magoon to look after the law and san
The last mentioned suddenly quit the
job on June 80 and was succeeded by
Stevens. The progress made by the
commission is mainly in laying the
foundation for health and contentment
of the canal employees and in getting
an adequate equipment on the ground.
The pursuit of governmental grafters
and drones which began in 1904 with
the purgng of the postal service has
been extended and intensified system
atically through all the executive de-
partments by the Keep commission.
Hitchcock, in the interior has made
surprising Roadway in the prosecution
Of the land grabbers of the far west,
scoring among many convictions that
Of the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon.
Secretary Wilson's statistical bureau
was ripped up, especially as to leak
In the cotton report, causing the dis
missal of Assistant Statistician Holmes
carly III July iatCi thC NViphtois
retirement of his chief, John Hyde.
The Keep investigation committee Is
still at work. Even the state depart
ment has had its share of scandal to
publish and live down In the dismissal
Of Minister to Venezuela Bowen after
a hearing of his charges against As
sistant Secretary Loomis and the sub
sequent voluntary retirement Of the
latter in September to be succeeded
by Robert Bacon. After the death of
Hay, Root became the secretary 'of
state July 10, and Charles j. Bonaparte
of Maryland became secretary Of the
navy June /. A census OF the Philip
pines disclosed a population of 1885,
426. The army in the Philippines COM
pletely subdued the rebellious Moros
The Philippine government completed
Its purchase of all friar lands. The
body of John Paul Jones was brought
to Annapolis from Paris with great
naval ceremony July "a.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
War and Revolution
Crowd the Foreign Horizon

The list day of January, 1905, went
into history with an event pregnant not
only for the year, but for all time, for
on that day Russian soldier emerged
from the inner fortress Of Port Arthur
bearing from its commander, Stoessel
the letter of surrender to that victorious
Japanese general, Nogi. At that mo-
ment the long cherished dream of an
oriental empire and world conquest by
the imperial house Of Romanoff through
the exploitation of 125,000,000 of Mus
covite subjects vanished into thin air.
This event, the fall of Port Arthur,
which began the year, was also the be-
ginning of the end of the Russo-Japa-
nese war. The siege had cost Japan 55,-
600 casualties, but the remaining veter-
ans under Nogi were hurled directly
northward to REINFORCE the left wing of
the greatest army ever put afield, CON-
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the Russian left flank was turned with
Nodzus flying column-this in two
weeks of fighting, ending March u,
compelling the entire army of Kuropat-
kin to retreat In the utmost disorder
from the fortified base about Mukden
with immense loss. The Russians re-
tired toward their base at Hardin,
closely followed by the Japs. Kuropat-
kin was superseded by Linevitch.
Despite this crushing defeat the war
lords at st. Petersburg persisted in
sending the patched up Baltic feet,
under Roiestvensky, onward into east
ern waters to its inevitable defeat,
May 81, in the Korean strait, at the
hands of Togo's unbeaten sea fighters.
Russias sea power had been complete
" wiped out, and consequently the
time was ripe for the entry of the
great American peacemaker, President
Roosevelt His suggestion for a con-
ference between the warning power
was accepted June Is, and the peace
ENJOYS met at Portsm )urh, n. H., Aug.
s. In the meantime the Japanese oc-
cupation of the island OF Sakhalin had
taken place. The peace of Portsmouth
was concluded Aug. -. the main fe;
lures of the treaty being: Transfer Of
Port Arthur and control of the Man
churian railway TO Japan. Japanese
preponderance in Ko.ea. integrity Of
China. evacuation o. Manchuria. di-
vision of Sakhalin ana Siberian fishing
right for Japan.
Russia's year has been one ceaseless
reign of terror. The chaotic condition
of the existing regime at the close of
the year was foreshadowed in the myS-
FERROUS firing of a cannon over the head
of the ear during the ceremony OF
blessing the waters of the Neva at st.
Petersburg on Jan. 10. That ominous
incident conceded with the first of the
series of strikes which have paralyzed
industry and commerce and rendered
the government almost helpless. That
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
Science Expecting
The Conquest of tuberculosis

Although the actual chemical agent
capable of conquering the tuberculosis
microbe in human tissue has not been
so definitely announced in any quarter
as to be authoritatively acknowledged
In the medical section of the scientific
world, at least one world famous med
ical pioneer, Professor Won Behrjng,
did claim before the international tu-
berculosis congress at Paris in Septem-
Der that he had solved the problem and
had in his possession a positive remedy
for the great white plague. At least
twenty medical experts are hot on the
trail Of a real consumption cure as the
year ends. DIR. Levi, the Italian spe-
cialist, claims TO have cured consump-
ton by the use of iodium, and DIR.
Russell of New York reported success
in a series of hospital cases by using
a diet of the juice of mixed raw
vegetables.
The unending rivalry of navigatms
for the honor of discovering the north
pole took on new interest for Ameri-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
Leading interpretations
And attractions of the Law

Beginning with the Jan. 80 decision
of the United States supreme court,
which sustained the Grcsscup injunc-
ton against the beef trust, several
opinions handed down by the higher
courts have seemed to lean toward the
validity of antitrust legislation and ex-
tension of the larger corporations OBJ
legations toward the public The high
est court also upheld the Kansas and
Texas antitrust laws in February. In
May the same court declared the New
York franchise tax and the Kentucky
corporation tax laws to be valid, and
In July it sustained the Arkansas anti
trust law.
In twenty-eight states extensive pros
ecutions have been instituted against
commercial or political graft, while the
federal government has actually
brought number of the land grabbers
to conviction and beef packers to, trial.
On Sept. "a at Chicago four beef
packers were convicted Of accepting re-
bates and were fined $4,000. Prosecu-
tons were begun at Philadelphia, Chi
cago and other railroad centers Dec. 10
by the federal government against rail
road officials for violation of the re-
bate law. The gamblers, big and little,
have been checked by Jerome in New
York, by Governor Hanly in Indiana,
and the Sunday race track betting re-
duced by Governor Folk of Missouri.
A big nest of professional swindlers
was destroyed at Philadelphia in
March following the failure of the Sto-
rey Cotton company. The third trial of
Senator Burton for his connection with
the Rialto Grain and Securities COM
pany of st. Louis in November result
ed in his conviction and sentence to
six months Imprisonment and $500
fine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04


Jewish massacres at Odessa, Kiev and
other parts of southern Russia made
terrible the early days of November,
and the government acknowledged Of
fetal connivance therein. Then came
the mutiny of sailors at Cronstadt on
Nov. 8, after which the railroad strike
was resumed. Sailors of the Black
sea feet again mutinied at Sevastopol,
Nov. &c, and mutinous army pillaged
Vladivostok and Hardin. All Livonia
set up a provincial government on
Dec. IL.
Europe's other storm centers duringN
the year lowered around Morocco Tur-
key, Hungary and the Scandinavian
peninsula. Not until the resignation of
the French foreign minister, Delcasse,
June 6, did France and Germany relax
their tension. This left matters in the
hands of the more conciliating Premi-
er Rouvier, who had succeeded Combes
Jan. 10. The outcome was an agree
ment for the France German confer
ence at Madrid, with which the year
ends. The bill for the separation of
church and state passed the French
senate Dec. 6. Germany's greatest
trouble has been the costly war with
her rebellious colony in southwest
Africa.
quish her hold on Macedonia necessitat-
ed the mobilization Of the international
feet in Grecian waters and the taking
possession of two Turkish ports before
the sultan surrendered on technical
compromise Dec. 10.
The unrest in Hungary reached that
point where open civil war was only
to be averted by the governments in
PRODUCTION of bill for manhood suf-
frage Nov. rs.
When King Oscar vetoed the plan for
a separate consular service Norway
denounced her union with Sweden,
June I. For time there was fear of
war, but basis of separation was
agreed upon by arbitration. Prince
Charles of Denmark accepted the call
TO the throne, entering Christiania
Nov. %.
Great Britain passed most of the year
waiting for the Balfour ministry to die.
Balfour held on, perhaps to perfect the
friendly understanding with France
and to complete the new Anglo-Japa-
nese treaty of Aug. II, and did not
resign until Dec 4, when he was sue
ceeded by strong Liberal ministry,
headed by Campbell Bannerman and
committed to home rule for Ireland.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04

others In the inter-
est OF naturalization. AT the same time
Paul Morton became the society's Of
Lcial head. The extravagances and ir-
regularities disclosed in the Equitah
by Its own investigation and that Z
the state insurance commissioner were
followed by similar disclosures In the
New York Life. the Mutual and others
and shocking corruption In all of tn,
under the scalpel of Counsel Hugh
for the Armstrong New York state leg.
lslative committee. The McCurdys had
to get out OF the Mutual and others
were expected to follow. The immedi-
ate effect on the commercial side W: I,
reform and economy. Missouri led the
way in the campaign for restitution by
ordering the offending companies 10
quit the state
The trend toward commercial com
binations which was notable in many
lines. such as the locomotive trust.
shelters trust, bank and trust compa-
MES combinations. huge traction hold
Ing companies and the pottery trust. en-
sountered arp but futile opposition In
the state of Kansas in connection with
the oil Industry.
1t has been period OF great indus
trial achievements. among which the
Lewis and Clark exposition at Port
land, Ore, from June to October with
$3.50 900 and a 30 per cent dividend
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04

iuto Lne new year. Charles f. Hu1hea
Not only the Equi-
table, but the New York Life, the Mu-
tual, Mutual Reserve and others, un-
der the relentlees vivisection of Coun-
sel Hughes, shocked the public by their
various diseases of extravaganza, leg
islative bribery and political corrup-
ton. Both of New York's senators, ex-
Governor Odell and minor political
lights were dimmed in one way or
another by these revelations. The adj
mitted large contributions to campaign
funds, mostly to the Republican party
In recent years, tended to place that
party's campaign managers ON the de-
fensive, and the administration voiced
a quite general demand for federal
control of the great interstate insur-
ance concerns.
The issue as to Chinese exclusion
was raised by the anti-American boy
colt in China, and the president prompt
ly moderated the execution OF the ex-
listing law. The personal popularity
of President Roosevelt and support of
his policies were increased by his ex-
tensive journeys, first in April through
the southwest territories and states to
his hunting vacation In Colorado and
in October through the south to New
Orleans, not to mention several shorter
excursions.
The short session which brought the
Fifty eighth congress to a close March
was noted chiefly for what it failed
to do. Aside from the appropriations,
totaling SS1S, 47S,914, the only impor
tant matter agreed upon by both
houses was placing the Panama canal
administration entirely in the presi-
dents hands. The house passed, 1926 to
II, the Esch-Townsend rate bill, in
dorsed by the president, but it was
pigeonholed by the senate. The seven
arbitration treaties failed owing to the
insistence of the senate on its right to
amend, Influenced somewhat by the
administrations reported agreement
with Santo Domingo. Later the form
al Domingo treaty reached the senate,
but failed of ratification, and con-
ditional agreement for the collection
duu uOiulub VI bOmluSOs TtNeuuco
was made by the president. A blot
on the session was the houses effort to
get mileage allowed for the construc-
tive recess, the bill being killed by the
senate. Other important bills that fail
ed after much effort were those for
statehood of the territories and pure
food. The house impeached Federal
Judge Swayne of Florida, and on Feb.
81 his trial by the senate resulted In
acQuittal of the Compton charges,
The Fifty-ninth congress began its
career Dec. 4, with many vital prob
lens to solve, chief of which was that
of the federal rate fixing and control
Of corporations so strongly urged in
the presidents message. Its first nota-
BILE action was the $11,000,000 appro-
priation to meet the current obligations
of the Panama canal commission.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04

great Republican strongholdS of the
east, which elected Democrats to office
was conceded by all TO mean tri-
umph for the Roosevelt administration.
In Philadelphia no one thing so much
strengthened the hands of Weaver as
the letter from Elihu Root just before
the great New York attorney entered
the cabinet to take the chair vacated
by the death of Secretary Hay. His
bold Characterization of the Penrose-
Durham organization as "a corrupt and
criminal combination masquerading
under the names of Republicans gave
courage TO the long enslaved party
worshipers of the keystone State. A
similar note of independence ON the
part of the administration was sound
ed by Secretary Tafts Akron (o9
speech in October. In big and little
cities wherever an individual or an or
ganixation stood sQuarely for some
moral principle of local affairs the vot
ers responded effectively.
The enormous vote for Hearst in
New York lty as the candidate of the
sbdAtNtltA Wv ANANuts ttistA
Mayor McClellan's official majority
was contested in the courts, was mere
ly an echo of another electoral triumph
for municipal ownership earlier in the
year-namely, ChicagoS choice of the
Democratic candidate for mayor.
Dunno. by $4,000 over Harlan. the Re
! publican. Although Mayor Dunno has
been able to accomplish little toward
immediate city ownership of the street
railroads on account of the majority In
the city council against that policy,
| his election on that issue has gone
far toward committing the national
Democratic organization to the general
| principle OF government ownership OF
tublic utilities. The Socialist vote fell
OF wherever the municipal ownership
candidates were put up. In this return
of the Democracy toward radical poll
cies the figure OF William j. Bryan
doomed up again with a prospect OF
dominance. He urged the Democrats
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04

Astronomy was enriched by a num-
Der of important discoveries, chief Of
which We're the photographing of the
canals of Mars by Professor Percival
Lowell 1t Flagstaff, Ariz. the finding
of tie sixth and seventh moons of Ju-
piter by Professor Perrine of the Lick
observatory; the discovery of several
new stars in Aquila by Mrs. Flem-
ming of Harvard; the observation of
radium in the photo sphere of the sun
by NJ. B. Synder Of Philadelphia; the
successful observation of the total
eclipse of the sun Aug. 80 by scientists
Of all nations, and the location of the
tenth satellite of Saturn by Pickering
of Harvard. Numerous successful ex-
periments in air navigation were made.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04

to support Roosevelt IN a trust busting
policy and started with his family on
a world tour Sept. q.
But of all the political reactions of
the year nothing had more far reach
ing effects than the course of the New
York legislative investigation of the
great life insurance corporations, be-
gun Sept 9 under the craftsmanship Of
Senator Armstrong and the skillful
probing Of the committees counsel,
Charles e. Hughes. This was brought
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strike eliminated In the bloody Sun.
day' of Jan. %, when a crowd OF
trusting subjects. led by Father Gopon'
who came TO present their grievances
TO the czar in person, were set upon by
the soldiery. shot down and trampled
in the streets by order of General Ire
noff who had been made dictator of the
capital.
Next in the order of revolutionary
tactics came the assassination of Grand
Duke Sergius at Moscow on Feb. IL by
Kolaieff, an avowed terrorist. On Feb.
% the accidental firing of the Baltic
feet on British fishermen, with several
fatalities. was brought TO peaceable
settlement by an arbitration commits
sion at Paris. The car celebrated
Easter by graciously conceding to his
subjects liberty of conscience. Follow
ing the May riots throughout Poland
the zemstvos congress at Moscow May
s boldly asked for universal suffrage.
The next outburst came at Odessa
when the sailors of the Kniaz Potemkine
mutinied and held the city for several
days, while unruly classes pillaged and
murdered. The zemstvo men demand
ed constitution July IS. and the first
congress of peasants was held Aug 10.
On the following day the car, through
his minister Bouligyne, who had sue
ceeded Mirsky, summoned the national
assembly, or douma, on basis of prop
erty and class limited suffrage.
These restrictions did not suit the
people, and a general railway strike
was begun Oct. "a which for the first
time showed the immense power Of the
labor organization. About this time
Count Witte was called to head lib
eral cabinet, and through him on Oct.
80 the cars great manifesto was Is
sued, making complete surrender of
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VI the Dst VI uOluSS
chargeable to the
executive, especial
ly since congress,
Feb. %, put the
whole management
of that project in the
presidents hands,
with S10,000,00 to
start with. Six days
thereafter the old
cum bersome canal
board was ousted
and a new one went
to work, headed by
TheOdOre p Shonts