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The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

For your sagacious. persistent. untir-
| ing and able efforts in this cause the
country owes you debt OF gratitude
GEORGE F STONE, Y
Secretary Chicago Board Of Trade
The citizens Of Billings and Yellowstone
County, through the Undersigned, desire
| TO express to you their hearty congratu-
lations and thanks for your efforts in be-
half of the Irrigation Bill just passed.
BILLINGS COMMERCIAL CLUB.
I'VE realize that 1t was owing to your
abillty: tact, Industry and tenafiy that
successful conclusion at such an early
date
a. A. BURNHAM.
League, Chicago.
There ought to be some recognition of
,hrotb rdet tho or,s was vamr ssocIaten
and particularly through your untiring
efforts in behalf of the legislation, that the
great sentiment in the east in favor of na-
ional legislation came to our relief in the
House of Representatives"
| JOHN f. SHAFRoTH,
Member OF Congress from Colorado.
| please accept my heartlest conCratula-
| tions for the favorable action just taken
by the House on your bill. 1t looks now
as. II you had won the fight, and the great
arid west is to have proper attention from
| the government"
II. NJ. KINNEY,
President National Association of Wagon
| Makers.
| ~ extend to you my heartiest congratu-l Z
lations and sincere thanks for the noble~
thinking the said results due more to
your untiring work than to any other one
| thing
vlce-president and Manager. Alcatraz As
phnlt Paving Co, Los Angeles. Cal
ifOrnia.
| "T want to conGrn tulate you on the mag
nIfccnt achievement you won in Congress.
! l fear the nation at large will not give you
all the credit that is due you, but your
friends all know that this irrigation bill
would never have been passed but for your
untlring efforts and hard work. You VIII
/ grateful people west of the Missouri
JOHN STEEL.
General Agent The Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Omaha
ITO you. more than, to any other one
man. is due larger siAre of credit, first
for the conception; second. for the crystal
lzation. and. third, for the passage of the
National Irrigation Bill. You have my
hearty and sincere Congratulations
r. w. TANSILL,
Chairman Executive Committee. Pecos
| Irrigation Company. Carlsbad, New
/ Mexico.
"Tt is truly a great pleasure TO he able
TO congratulate you on the results Of your
] long campaign and the hrst-casS work you
have done. The whole west rejoices with
you"
VIM. II. CHADWICK.
President horticultural Society OF Chi
caEu.
! 'T was both surprised and Gratlhed to
r"nd ia the Associated Press dispatches
that the Irrigation Bill had passed the
House. The monument to your work is
growing by leaps and bounds, and l con-
graduate You upon your splendid success.
| l called on Mr. Schurmeier this morning,
and he is very, very much pleased, and ap-
preciates that 1t is your work that has
done the business
BENJAMIN T. BEARDSLEY,
Secretary st. Paul Chamber Of Com
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10
Extracts From TcIcgrams and
Letters

TO GEORGE Il. MAXWELL,
Executive Chairman The National Irrigation
Association, following the Passage OF
the National Irrigation Act.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10
GEORGE II. MAXWELL.

Executive Chairman and General Counsel.
Rural Settlements Association. l4oS
Fisher Building. Chicago, Ill.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

Maxwell was and is still the active
moving spirit, and those who avail
themselves of the opportunities he is
laboring to create for men Of moder-
ate means to get homes on the land
will secure the benefit Of his wide
experience, extending over more than
fifteen years during which time he
has given the closest study TO every
element necessary TO the success of
the man who makes home on irri-
gated land.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10
GREAT IRRIGATION DAM.

After the passage of the National
Irrigation Act, Mr.. Maxwell spent
several months in the Salt River Val
ley aiding in the work of organizing
the land owners of that Valley into an
"a 4Gl
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

ITO you. more than, to any other one
man is due n larger SHIRE of credit, first,
for the conception; second. for the crystal
lzntion and third, for the passage OF the
National Irrigation Bill. You have my
hearty and sincere Congratulations
r. w. TANSILL,
Chairman Executive Committee Pecos
Irrigation Company, Carlsbad, New
Mexico.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

'Tt is truly n great pleasure TO he able
TO congratulate yon on the results Of your
long campaign and tn" frst-class work you
have done. The whole west rejoices with
-
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

For your sagacious, persistent. untir-
ing and able efforts in this cause the
country owes you u debt OF gratitude" Z
GEORGE F STONE,
Secretary Chicago Board of Trade.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

81 extend to you my henrtiest congratu-l Z
lations and sincere thanks for the nobleV
results of your efforts in behalf of the ma
tional irrigation project. To my way of
thinking the said results are due more to
your untiring work than to any other one
thing
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10
CARL T. ADAM,

Vice-president and Manager, Alcatraz As
phnlt Paving Co, Los Angeles. Cal
ifOrnia.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

please accept my heartiest conCratula-
tlons for the favorable action just taken
by the House on your bill. 1t looks
as II you had won the fight. and the great
arid west is to have proper attention from
the government
II. NJ. KINNEY,
President National Association of Wagon
Makers.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

VIM. II. CHADWICK.
President horticultural Society Of Chi
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

There ought to be some recognition of
the fact that 1t was almost entirely
and particularly through your untiring
efforts in behalf of the legislation, that the
great sentiment in the east in favor of na-
ional legislation came to our relief in the
House of Representatives.
JOHN +. SHAFROTH,
Member OF Congress from Colorado.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

THE citizens of Billings and Yellowstone
County, through the undersigned. desirt
TO express to you their hearty congratu-
lations and thanks for your efforts in be-
half of the Irrigation Bill just passed.
BILLINGS COMMERCIAL CLUB.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

I'VE realize that 1t was owing to your
ability, tact, industry and tenacity that
the irrigation measure was carried to
successful conclusion at such an early
date
A. A. BURNIIAM,
General Secretary National Business
League, Chicago.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

az want to congratulate you on the mag
nfccnt achievement you won in Congress.
l fear the nation at large will not give you
all the credit that is due you, but your
friends all know that this irrigation bill
would never have been passed but for your
untiring efforts and hard work. You will
certainly alwnys be remembered by the
grateful people west of the Missouri
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

'T was both surprised and gratlhed to
rcud ia the Associated Press dispatches
that the Irrigation Bill had passed the
House. The monument to your work is
growing by leaps and bounds. and l
gratulate you upon your splendid success.
l called on Mr. Schurmeier this morning,
and he is very, very much pleased, and ap-
prccates that II is your work that has
done the business"
BENJAMIN F. BEARDSLEY,
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-10

JOHN STEEL,
General Agent The Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Omaha,
Nebraska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

riding squad. spills have been numerous
and serious In results. It Is a marvel that
several of the riders have not been killed,
so furious Is the pace at which they dash
around the big saucer track and shave the
inches in their. frantic endeavors to gain
laps. Yet the spectators, thousands in
number. have sat and yelled themselves
GUS speed. 1t is not to be doubted for a
moment that they have been largely drawn
to the place by the hope that they might
possibly witness one of these shocking
mix-ups. 1t is the same hope that attracts
spectators to certain circus performances
at which headline features are of the
"death-defying' style, motor-car leaps over
gaps in mid-air bicycle tricks of a highly
dangerous character, "sIides for life" and
that kind. There is altogether too much
disposition to cater to the morbid, sensa-
t1on-loving trait of human nature in the
course of the public amusements. Certain
temperaments crave excitement, and their
sense of moral proportion appears to be
blunted with indulgence in this form OF
diversion There is something wholesome
about an honest, Straightforward race be-
tween earnest contestants. But these six
day grinds, which are not even tests of
physical endurance, but tests of good luck
In avoiding death or dsablement in the
Spills, are far from being of that descrip-
ton. They should be absolutely prohib-
tied by law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

erty. probably bringing the grand total
of cost to the railroads up to SO. 600, 900 for
the one year.
Whether the railroad cost is $10,OO0,OO0
or more or less, the cost in lives is SO
heavy that relief is imperatively demanded
by the country. No sensible person can
agree that most of the wrecks that de-
stroy lives are due to unavoidable causes.
The two recent collisions on the Southern
are too sharply in evidence, not as excep-
tional cases. but as types. to permit mis-
conception of this matter. At the bottom
of the majority of the railroad disasters is
human inefficiency or carelessness, or. 1T Is
feared, a deliberate acceptance of risk by
the operating companies for the sake of
working the equipment to the limit.
1t has just been reported that Operator
Mattox, who occupied the block signal sta
ton at Rangoon, Va, when the collision
occurred that cost President Samuel Spen-
GERS life, has been declared by both the
railroad company and the state railroad
commission to be guilty of the mistake that
caused the disaster. Yet owing to the
secret sessions held in both cases, the pub
lie has today no information whatever as
to the real conditions which obtained prior
to and at the time of the wreck. This
policy results in a fast mounting suspicion
that the railroad arrangements methods
are not squared with the prime require
ments of the public safety. Operator Mat
tox says something publicly in his defense
about obeying certain orders and signals.
The suggestion is conveyed that there has
been a practice to admit trains upon oc-
cupied blocks, provided a certain time had
elapsed, in cases of traffic congestion. 1t
Is well known that on some single-track
lines train crews are tacitly encouraged to
''steal switches in order to make up time.
When an accident results the men are
blamed. When nothing happens they are
rated as smart railroaders.
Until the veil is lifted and every railroad
wreck. of whatever magnitude, is thorough
ly investigated in the open by public au-
thorities, there will be satisfaction in
the public mind that the peoples safety Is
properly considered by the railroad cor
porations. These rapidly increasing totals
Of death and disablement alone provide
reason for the prompt intervention of Con-
gress in this vitality important matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Bonaparte.

Says Mr.. Bonaparte in reply to his critics:
II believe all laws should be obeyed with
out evasion or question and that all who
do not obey the law should be impartially
and infiexibly punished according to the
law. This is the only statement of my
views which think appropriate in this con-
nection.''
This covers the case completely. And,
what is more, it may be accepted without
the slightest reserve. Mr.. Bonaparte in the
Attorney Generals chair will give the coun-
try the full benefit of talents which in his
private affairs brought him distinction at
the bar. We should not forget that Mr.
Knox when appointed to the same office
was made the subject of much the same
criticism and yet proved in the place as
aggressive and successful an adviser as
the country had ever had. He put the
screws on the trusts In most effective
way, and put all of his critics to confu-
sion. Mr.. Bonaparte both as man and
lawyer is worthy of all confidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
81
The Kaiser and His People.

The German parliamentary crisis may
have important results. For a long time
the tension has been increasing, indicating
serious strain between the emperor and
the people. The imperial policy in Africa
has been extremely unpopular. The war of
subjugation has been costly in money and
lives, and has moreover not been particu-
larry successful. The advances scored have
been of slight avail in reducing German
East Africa to a pacific state. Cruelties
have been practlced upon the natives,
which, however justified perhaps from a
military point of view. have shocked the
sensibilities of the German people. The
proposition of the emperor was to increase
the appropriations for supporting the
troops in the field of operations The issue
was squarely drawn and was boldly met
The clerical party, which holds the baiance
of power in the reichstag and has hereto
fore supported the government in its poll
cies, went bodily over to the opposition and
the kaiser was defeated by a majority of
ten in a vote which totaled SAG, or 81 less
than the maximum strength of the reich
stag
Under the German constitution the en-
peror cannot dissolve the reichstag without
the consent of the bundesrath or federal
council. This was hurriedly, obtained yes
terday during the progress of the debate,
when it became apparent that the voto vas
going against the government. A dssolu-
ton must be followed by elections within
sixty days and the assembling of the new
reichstag within ninety days of dissolution
Thus the kaiser now faces his people in a
test of strength. Naturally, the elections
soon to be held will turn upon the issue
that caused the dissolution, the mainte-
name or abandonment of the East African
campaign. If the people vote against main
tenance serious blow has been struck not
only at the campaign in that region, but at
the entire colonial policy of the empire
For success in driving the emperor out of
his militant enterprise in East Africa WILL
II is believed nerve the socialistic and nom
militant elements in the German body pol
itic to oppose other lines of procedure
abroad.
The steady tendency of the German cleo
torate has of late years been toward social
ism. The periodical increase in the vote
cast in this interest has been regarded as
one of the most significant phenomena of
the times. 1t is of the utmost interest to
world observers today to note whether with
this new issue of colonial policy squarely
before them the German people will follow
the lead of the socialists and pacifsts or
will heed the cry Of Imperialism and trade
extension. The emperor clearly has his
work cut out for him in the political field
at home. .... ,.s. .....5..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
The American Juggernaut.


A study of certain statistics just COM
piled and published by the Interstate COM
merce commission relative to railroad cas-
ualties will emphasize the demand of the
people for safer system of signals, checks
and other safeguards against accident. The
death roll is annually mounting at rate
which shocks the country. Passengers and
employees to the number of 1854 were
killed in the fiscal year 1908; 3,7S7 were
killed in 1904; 3, 79s were killed in 1895, and
4293 were killed in 1906. OF passengers
alone 6.973 were injured in 1903; SOFT in
1901: 10040 in 1905, and Hiss in 1906. In
1906 there were LESS collisions and 1915
deraiments--a total Of train accidents of
these descriptions of 3,103. These disas-
tiers caused total damage to cars, en-
gines and roadway of s.. 1878, 924. No figures
are at hand to indicate the cost of the rail-
road corporations in personal damages, but
the total must be very heavy. doubtless
three times as great as the cost in prop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Mr.. Root Stirs the Country.

AT last we seem assured of an answer
to Tim Campbells immortal question
What is the Constitution between friends!
Alas that Tim himself is no longer present
in the flesh to hear it, good man and
true, though with no qualifications what
ever for law-making, he was a source oil
pleasant amusement for all his associates
in Congress. and the question just quoted
will preserve his name in our political his
tory When ADLER men who figured In his
day are entirely forgotten, that rosy, good
natured Irish-American will survive In the
little inquiry which when propounded upset
the gravity of Mr.. Cleveland, and then,
when published, of the whole country.
Mr.. Root in New York Wednesday night
did not of course repeat Tins question,
but what he said brought up, and will keep
before the public for some time. the whole
matter of the Constitution, and what is
being done under the authority or without
the authority, of that instrument. The
theme is timely, and lawyer of Mr.. Root S
powers necessarily invested it with both
charm and instruction. He has, indeed,
performed another public service.
Straightway everybody has been set to
talking. The Constitution Is the cry. All
other subjects are for the moment SUBJ
planted for the time even the most inter-
esting novels in English literary circles,
Mr.. Roots speech on what is ordinarily a
dry and heavy topic has sent all mere sem
sationalism to coventry. Interest is both
universal and intense. Even the men who
have nullified two of the Constitutions
most important amendments, and are sup
porting no more of the great charter than
they find profitable to themselves and their
section, are gravely concerned lest some
body else in another quarter. and on a
different line lay violent hands on what all
are bound, and many on oath, to defend
and support in its entirety.
In the hulabaloo let US not. however, for
get two things Mr.. Roots history is be-
yond dispute. What he cites is so. And
to exercise the powers they have so long
neglected. thereby causing the extension
of the Capitalization SO many now deplore,
Is clear and ringing. If the states refuse
or neglect to attend to public business the
nation must. Somebody must attend to
that in which in a greater or less degree
everybody is interested.
Let the discussion proceed. Let every
body be heard. Particularly let the men
who have gloomed and groaned for years
lest the country on its national tack should
go to smash speak their pieces again now
that the subject is of such overwhelming
popular concern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Busy DAYS.

Don't you talk bout troubles, honey
Trim dat Christmas tree;
Don't you stop fob love nor money.
Busy as kin be.
Days is swiftly on de wing,
Oars a time for everything;
Time to work an time to sing:
Trim dat Christmas tree.
Never min dem politicians
Trim dat Christmas tree.
Let dem folks in high positions
Talk an disagree.
Spend yoh dollar or yoh dime,
Swing de bells an hear 'em chime,
Jes' do one thing at time
Trim dat Christmas tree
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Millionaires Disturbed.
From the New York Times.

lIt NeW IIIut5.
Theodore Roosevelt has set the millions
aires to talking. If he had committed his
ideas to a treatise upon political economy,
1t may be doubted whether they would have
infamed the community. Stronger things
have been said more strongly, and without
exciting anybody, but not by theorists with
power of administration in possession, and
power of legislation in prospect, or at least
power of influencing legislation. 1t must
be because they think something may come
of the agitation that SO many with qualif1-
cations derivable from uncounted millions
are seeking the public ear In rivalry with
our chief magistrate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Spelling.
From the PHILADELPHIA Ledger

There are some things that cannot be
done in hurry, and to change the estab-
lished habits of many millions of people is
one of them. Spelling does change, I'M
even in the generally accepted diction-
aries" but it changes very slowly, and only
through this general acceptance which is
voluntary and not enforced. Apparently
the cause of the "simplifers'' is rather less
hopeful just at this moment than 1t was
when Mr.. Carnegie undertook to finance it..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
The Horror Show.

Six-day bicycle races in New York are
just as vicious spectacle under the new
law forbddding continuous performance on
the track as under the cid law which en-
abled single contestants to remain in. ae-
ton as long as their condition permitted
The present performance at the Madison
Square Garden is shameful exhibition
demoralizlng to the public and cruel to the
participants. Owing to the intense rivalry
of the competing teams and the size Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
A Sensitive Point.

$50 that foreign nobleman has ceased his
attentions to that girl
yes" answered Miss Cayenne. "She told
him her face was her fortune. and he said
that under the circumstances he declined to
be classed as fortune hunter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

The United States having settled the
questions of free education and freedom of
worship can afford to be calm in contem-
plating assumptions of superiority by Eng
land and France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
SHOOTING STARS.
Not an Idealist.

do you think that politician is disinter-
ested in his friendship"
Il don't want him to be disinterested,"
answered Senator Sorghum He'll work
harder if he sees something in it for him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Punctilious.

$50 you expect to go to the north pole in
flying machine?'
Il did not say that" answered the al
ways veracious explorer. Il expect to start
for the north pole in flying machine"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

TIN order to avoid delays on account Of
personal absence. letters to THE STAR
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the once. but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bust
ness Departments. according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Double Difficulty.

Now must We join crowds that wend
Their way where shoppers fret
And moneys most as hard to spend
AS it has been to get.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

The tragic love affairs which have been
Undertaking. might make it desirable to
have revised mythology in which Cupid
is armed with revolver instead of bow
and arrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

The amount of adverse criticism now be-
ing leveled at the White House from COL
ored citizens ought to secure the President
some share in Senator Tillman's admira-
ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

The less obligation Charles E. Hughes
processes for those who have assisted him
in politics the better w. R. Hearst will be
pleased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

Mark Twain cannot see why an author .
works should get less expensive as time
passes. when the prices of everything else
are going up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

1t might be desirable to have it distinctly
understood that the single salary paid dip
lomatic official does not call for any service
on the part of his wife
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

The world politics in which America is
becoming involved is even more complex
and exciting than the New York product
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
Scarcity
From the Detroit News.

From the Detroit News.
Persons whose memories reach back to
the early nineties will agree that scarcity
of labor is a lesser evil than scarcity of
employment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14

Mr.. Reed Smoot should by this time
understand that he Is In for hauling
over the Goals at regular intervals.