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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

Smirch on His Record.)
a small place, but small as it is it is
big enough to need a library. Mr..
Morton realized this fact, bought the
land, which is close to the railroad
station and the center of the village,
and gave his check to Mr. Quick, the
builder, for $4,000 to erect a building.
He has also provided that the library
shall be properly equipped and main
tanned.
His provisions for its maintenance
and its equipment, however, included
the condition that his own name
should in no way appear. There is no
bronze tablet over the door announc-
ing that this library is Morton gift.
On the contrary, it is to be called the
Rhinecliff Memorial library. 1t is
monument, and will be a lasting one,
to his daughter who so unfortunately
passed away last year.
Mr.. Morton is a Yankee.
He was born on May 16, 1924, In
Shoreham, VT His father was
minister, and he was the youngest of
six sons. On both his fathers and
mothers side he is a direct descend
ant from the Pilgrim Fathers. George
Morton, his first American ancestor,
came from Bawtry, England, in the
good ship Ann" in 1923 and settled
in Middleboro, Mass. His mothers
American ancestor was Joseph Par
sons, who also came from England,
and landed only few years after the
arrival of George Morton. With this
sturdy stock, this ancestry of Pilgrim
Fathers. behind him, Mr. Morton has
been only too proud and too glad to
live up to this ancestry. During his
long life of more than four score
years he has adhered to the precepts
so carefully inculcated in the Shore
ham parsonage. He was vigorously
trained in those principles of Christi
an morality and religious reverence
which have characterized his life ever
since his boyhood.
He received a rather better educa-
ton than the average Yankee boy,
and with this as a foundation he be-
gan a business life which led ulti-
mately to great financial success as
we'll as to public honor. Starting as a
farmers boy he graduated into a
clerkship at a country store, and then
step by step found himself outgrowing
each position that he occupied from
Boston to New York.
Mr.. Morton's political honesty has
never been called into question, and
his influence for good in the political
life of the United States has been so
conspicuous as to win the approval of
all political parties almost without
regard to his own determined parti-
sanship.
His record of business undertakings
also, as well as his career as a states
man, is well nigh spotless, He has
accomplished ii not merely by brain
force, but by inherent desire to be
honest and upright. The keynote OF
Mr.. Morton's personality has not been
money getting, although in that line
lof endeavor he has been remarkably
successful. He has won the esteem
of his fellow men largely because he
has considered and treated them as
fellow human beings and not as OBJ
jects of greed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
CHARLES A. EARLE,
LAWYER.

LAWYER.
aoom 30. Battell Block, Middlebury, VT.
Both Phones.
Through fifteen years employment as
.esiden and as travelling manager for Nor
:ross Bros, Builders, l have had large ex
oerience in adjusting legal controversies
tout OF COURT; the best way when possible
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
Rutland Railroad Co.
TIME TABLE
IN EFFECT OCT. o, 1905.
NORTHBOUND.
sOUTHBOUND.

Daily. Daily except Sunday. r Pullman
Sleeping Cars attached Sundays only.
= Pullman Parlor Cars attached. For de-
tailed time tables consult folders.
GEO, T. JARVIS, General Manager.
c. +. DAILY, Passenger Traffic Manager.
C. A. NIMMO. Grand Passenger Agent.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

Sells Abroad At q Lower 4 4S>k
1t Home. ~

A vast amount Of nonsense has been
printed about American manufac-
turers selling their products cheaper
abroad than at home. 1t probably has
not occurred to superficial thinkers
that that Is just what the American
farmer Is doing when he exports his
grain or other farm products. The
same superficial way Of thinking would
impulsively point to Liverpool quo
tations as evidence to the contrary,
because prices are higher on Amerh
can cereals, for instance, in Liverpool
than In Chicago. But the Liverpool
quotation is not the farmers price;
he does not get It, The Liverpool
price is the price paid the farmer,
plus elevator charges, commissions
and railway transportation to the sea
coast, plus more elevator and switch
Ing charges and the cost of ocean
freightage and handling at Liverpool.
All this work Is not being done for
nothing; and 1t costs money to land
the grain 1000 to 5000 miles distant
from the field where 1t was produced.
~ 10 Oil dSSCplCu THAI tn6
home market is the best market"
1t Is the best market because 1t ia
the nearby market, free from all the
expenses of long distance transporta.
ton.
The proof that 1t Is the best and
most profitable market is found in the
fact that over nlne-tenths of American
cereals are sold in that market and
still larger percentage of other farm
products. Is the American farmer go
ing to sell his crops In the poorest
market, at lower prices, II he can find
better market at higher prices?
The question answers itself.
But he does sell small fraction Of
the products of his rural factory in
the poorer market abroad at lower
prices than he gets for the bulk of
his products at home. Why? Be-
cause 1t is the surplus, beyond the
requirements OF the home market. So
the farmer naturally reasons. that the
more this home market can be en-
larged and have consumption in
creased by new manufactures and
commercial and other enterprises the
better for him.
Meanwhile, he sells his surplus
abroad at discount, because he must
get rid of all stock. And the Dem
ocratic platform and orators and press
have never a word of condemnation
of the American farmer for doing 1t.
Which shows what mere partisan
politics will do when reason and logic
are on ation.-Burlington Hawk
Eye.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29
How to Deal With Trusts.

The prosecutions instituted by the
attorney general of the United States
against the officers Of the Standard Oil
company, under the antitrust law,
bear out the contention of Alton d.
Parker, the Democratic presidential
nominee OF 1904, and of protectionists
also. that ample remedy for trust ex-
tortion is provided for In existing laws.
1t is said to be the intention of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to supplement with
criminal prosecutions the procedure
under the antitrust law. A rigid ad-
herence to this line of action Is what
the country wants. What the country
does not want is that the government
should attempt to solve the trust prob.
lem by ripping up the tariff, That is
not the true solution. Trusts would
flourish with or without protective
tariff. No tariff proteets the business
of the Standard Oil company. The
same is true of many other trusts
vigor and persistence in enforcing the
laws we already have. resulting IN
money penalties and in imprisonment
- well, will do the business.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29
Proposed Anti.Protection combln,

Congressman Weisse, Democratic
representative of the Sixth Wisconsin
district, has bright idea. 1t is that
the Democrats and the tariff-ripping
Republicans of the Sixtieth congress
form a coalition and defeat Joseph G.
Cannon for reelection as speaker Says
Mr. Weisse:
"If the Republicans are really earn
est in their desire for revision of the
tariff schedules they will have the sup
port of the Democrats. But revision
cannot be accomplished with Mr.. Can
non in the speakers chair. With him
anything but 'stand-pat policy Is be-
lieved to be impossible -
IF the Republicans consent to this
union the Democrats will consent to
the. selection of any man whom the
tariff revision Republicans name for
speaker. But revision Of the house
rules will be asked in return. The
Democrats say this, too, Is impossible
while Mr.. Cannon rules the house. 1t
is not the desire of the Democrats to
obtain more house patronage; simply
revision of the house rules which
will enable revision of the tariff"
Something like go tariff-ripping Re-
publicans would be needed to enable
the coalition to control the speaker
ship. Whether so many can be relied
upon to unhorse uncle Joe" remains
to be seen. Then, too, 1t Is question
able whether the Republican revision
lists are at this time prepared to help
the Democrats pull their free trade
chestnuts out of the fire and by dis
rupting the Republican party prepare
the way for Democratic victory In
1908. They may get to 1t in time, ac-
cording to present indications, but not
set, we think. 1t looks as though the
Democrats would have to walt at least
another two years before they are
able to form an anti-protection COM
bine.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

to scourge the recreant public servants
In st. Louis. He may at least find In
their unhappy experiences some lesson
that may put q check upon him wher
he reaches for the forbidden gold--t
lesson that will impel him to her
straight to the line Of duty.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29
The Same Argument.

Organized labor uses the same ar
gument as do protectionists-tnere 10
held out the promise OF personal ben
efits in the way OF better wages and
shorter hours. 1t Is hoped that at
some time the world may become 80
good and so highly civilized that hui
mainly may find 1t possible to work
for each other But at present gov
eminent must protect the people that
gives It being. the protective tarin
seeks to benent those living under It
and unionism guards the welfare Of
its members.--La Fayette (Ind.) Jour
nal. g VA =
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29
In Permanent Exile.

In Permanent Exile.
Ellis Wainwright, millionaire
brewer, who was a director in the Su
burban Railway company when it at
tempted to buy up the council and
house Of delegates. has been exiled il
Paris for more than four years. Al
Indictment for bribery is pending
against him in ST. Louis AID he dare
lot return.
Charles Cutie, a former member o.
the house OF delegates. was indicted
for bribery IN September, 1902. 81
many Of the boodlers had run ava!
TO escape punishment that the COURT
would not accept bail al lest than s2Q
900. Ed. Butler signed bonds Unit
he would not be accepted 0r more. a.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

Charles Kratz was thu nrst member
Of the city council to BE- indicted for
bribery. He was charged with par
ticipation in the Suburban deal. and.
like Murrell. he fed to Mexico before
his case came to trial.
After two years persistent work
Folk succeeded in influencing the Unit
ed States government to make a
treaty with Mexico covering the CRIME
of bribery. The attorney general Of
the United States construed this
treaty to be retroactive, and under
It's provisions Kratz was extradited.
Scarcely had he returned to st. Louis,
In the spring of 1908. when he was at
tackled with appendicitis and for
months lowered between life and
death. His sickness however, might
have been considered turn of for.
tune in his favor, because 1t enabled
him to get his case carried on the
dockets until after Folk was elected
governor, and when he was tried at
Butler, Mo-, he was acquitted. Before
he was tried one of his children died.
Never Saw His First Born.
Charles e. Denny was considered
one of the brightest members of the
old house of delegates. He was a rail-
road employee and had an excellent
reputation until Folk caught him and
slapped three indictments on his
back-two for bribery and one for
perjury. Denny had just been mar
ried, and few months after the we'd
ding bells rang he was bundled up by
the sheriff and hustled off to the peni-
Tertiary. While he was prisoner
babe was born In his household, but
he never saw the face of his first born,
as death carried 1t away before its
fathers term ended.
Louis Decker, liveryman, Is the
only member of the old house Of dele
gates combine who was convicted
after Folk quit the circuit attorneys
office. His conviction FASTENED the
death of his aged mother which &C.
Cured few weeks after the jury
found him guilty.
Edmund Bersch, once prosperous
insurance broker, was the first of the
house of delegates combine to begin a
term of service in the penitentiary.
His mind gave way under the strain,
and he spent the greater part of his
IS months Imprisonment In the hos
pital When he left the penitentiary
he was broken in health-a mental
and physical wreck.
One Man Escaped Fate.
Just one man-John Schn. ttler-
who elected to stand trial OH the
charges preferred against him, has
escaped without some misfortune 9TH
er than the penitentiary sentence i'm
posed upon him. He has served out
his sentence.
These are what may be called the
tragedies of the st. Louis Doodle cru
sade. The facts are strange-almost
startling. The boodler's punishment
in the penitentiEry was the least OF
their suffering. They saw their chill.
I dren scorned by other children in the
/ schools and on the streets Thsy saw
/ their faithful wives. heartbroken. fall
( al the feet Of the law their husbands
! had outraged, and plead for mercy that
could not be given. These men were
naughty, brszsn: when in the zenith
I OF their power as corruptioniEts. they
sacrificed every interest Of the people
! for the money Of franchise grabbers.
But they have had their punishment.
The MAJ who is about 10 sell his vote
tor money may determine for himself
whether fate joined hands with law
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

dered by one OF a band Of robbers OF
which he was member. On the very
night that the elder Snyder died the
widow OF his son confessed that her
dead husband was member OF an
organized band OF robbers, who had
been cracking safes throughout the
western country. Cary Snyder kept
lis tachs- in constant trouble for near.
y three years before he was killed.
z VI S1yt=r went 10 ST. Louis in
IL E5ri-g e 1885 and consummated a
i.I-.l.g lit colossal bribery. in street
-T.1vIr :-z-e1.ze biIl. says the New
T.riH Esr1-L-
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

reached Kelly's ear and he quietly
slipped away. A few minutes after
Kelly left the anterooms of the grand
jury's headquarters his absence was
discovered and deputy sheriffs were
sent In every direction TO find him and
bring him IN. Kelly probably never
will forget his experiences Of the next
IL hours. He was held a prisoner by
the men he was about to betray. and
hustled on to quarry In remote
portion of the city. One Of the men
who was subsequently sent to the pen
itentiary for bribery was left to guard
him.. He spent the night In a shed
that stood on the brink OF the quarry
pond. Early the next morning Kelly
was put on a train at one OF the SUI
burban stations and was hurried of
by the most direct route to Canada.
He did not stop there, and upon reach
ing the Atlantic coast took the first
steamer for Europe. Not a word was
heard as to his whereabouts during
the next two months. On November
30, one day after the statute of limi-
tations had become operative against
the participants in the city lighting
bribery deal, Kelly landed in New
York and was met by son Of Edward
Butler, who conveyed to him the news
that three days before his 12-year-old
son, his favorite child, had been buried
and that his wife was then lying at
the point Of death.
Mind Broke Under the Strain.
Kelly FASTENED home. Whatever
testimony he might be able to give
was then of no value to the state. He
had no sooner reached st. Louis than
he was arrested, an indictment having
been voted against him by the very
grand jury that he ran away from. A
few weeks later Kelly became insane
and was confined for months In St
Vincent's asylum. Careful treatment
IN a measure restored his mind. Folk
took pity on him and permitted him
to turn states evidence in q minor
case.
The indictments against him were
nolle prosecuted. With this burden
lifted from his mind his mental facul-
ties underwent a gradual rehabtlita-
ton. and he is now trying to build up
again the business that went to ruin
during the time that he was involved
in trouble.
or the seven men sent to the peni-
Tertiary only three are in stripes, the
sentences of the others having expir-
ec. Gov. Folk has announced that two
OF these men, both of whom he prose
ctted when he was circuit attorney,
Will be pardoned. The two men who
will be the recipients Of executive
cltmency are julius Lehman and
Emile Hartmann. Lehman is serv-
ing seven years sentence and Hart
mann six years for bribery in connec-
ton with the city lighting bill.
In Permanent Exile.
Ellis Wainwright, millionaire
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

consequence Gutke was confined In
jail for six months. During that time
his 19-year-old son Eugene was strick-
en- down with galloping consumption
and died. Gutke was later permitted
to turn states evidence and escaped
prosecution.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
A Missouri 4-Story Farm

From Howard county comes the tale
of a four-story farm. Charles Ridge
way is it's owner and the farm Is To-
Gated near Fayette. Mr.. Ridgeway has
fine clover field. Beneath the clover
is one of the RICHEST beds of coal
and underneath the coal is a fine bed
of shale from which excellent build
clover is an abundant crop of apples.
This makes four-story farT-shale,
coal, clover, apples and shows how
the wealth is piled up in Missouri
Columbia Herald.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04

quired Donnelps interest after the
failure of the New York house.

quired Donnelps interest after the
failure of the New York house.
Donnell, Clark & Larabee had loan
ed in the course of their banking bust
ness at Butte, some thirty thousand
dollars to William l.. Farlin, an init
mate friend of Clark. Farlin had To-
Gated several claims on the Butte
hill, and one down below the town
called the Trevonia. The Trevonia
was promising. Farlin started to de-
velOpe it, and in order to do so, Dor
rowed the money from Donnell, Clark
G Larabee at Butte.
When the loan came due, Farlin was
unable to meet it, and in order to Sc
cure his friend Clark, placed all his
mining property in Clark's hands with
the understanding that Clark should
work the properties to the best advan-
tage, pay off the Indebtedness, and re-
store the claims to Farlin. Instead
Of working the Trevonia, the most
promising Clark leisurely prospected
the other claims nothing, of
course--and at the expiration of his
trusteeship claimed forfeit of every
thing Farlin owned. Larabee looked
upon Clark's mineral holdings with dis
trust, and in settlement between the
two, took band of valuable horses
belonging to the firm in exchange for
his half interest in the mines which
had once belonged to Farlin. Clark
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
Unusual Coaster Sport

The annual sports of the Costermon
gers Federation included donkey
races, hand barrow races and other
event which appealed particularly to
the coster world, but the quaintest
item on the program was the half mile
basket race, in which each competitor
had to carry ten baskets on his head
There were eight entries for this race,
but only two contestants succeeded in
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
covering the whole distance without
disaster.-The Graphic.

Chancellor James r. Day of SYRIA
cuse university, in discussion of the
craze for athletics that sometimes be-
comes too rampant in the universities
of America, said with smile:
Why | know young clergyman
he had been an excellent first base
man at college in his time-who after
reading a portion of the Scriptures,
said solemnly as he closed the Bible
one Sunday morning in the baseball
SEASON.
Here endeth the second innings
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
A GREAT FORTUNES BEGINNING
Senator Clark Got First Big Start
Through a Foreclosed Mortgage


Clark had been a clerk for Robert
w. Donnell, one of the early pioneers
of Montana, who accumulated a for
tune as a merchant during the first
gold excitements in the Rocky noun
tains. Donnell opened small banking
house in Deer Lodge, Mont, and after
wards established the firm of Donnell,
Lawson & Simpson, at 102 Broadway,
New York, hwich failed in the Wall
street panic of 1884. When Robert w.
DOnnell was about to go to New York
to establish his house there, he opened
a branch house at Butte, taking into
partnership w. A. Clark and another
of his clerks, S. E. Larabee. Clark
took charge of the Butte bank and ac-
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
PROPERLY TAX
Advocated BY Colorado Millionaire,
Income Tax and Exemption of
Small Home From Taxes


Colorado Springs, Colo.-Thomas F.
walsh, the multi-miliionaire mine own
er, in an address at the banquet of
the Pixies Peak centennial celebration
discussing present conditions that per-
NIT few to accumulate large wealth
and impose burdens on the mass of
the people, declared in favor of grad
uated tax upon fortunes, an income
tax, the exemption of the owners of
small cottages from taxation, govern
ment insurance for workers and gov
eminent savings banks.
In commenting upon the unequal
distribution of wealth in America, Mr..
Walsh said:
Accumulated and concentrated
wealth, both corporate and individual,
is crushing from the masses the life
of individual ownership, individual in
dependence, and almost individual ex-
istence.
"A continuance of monopolistic con-
ditions means all the commercial
wealth of our country centered in a
few hands, and the masses of the PEG
pie left without an atom of ownership
in our country. If we are to survive
as a nation, the welfare of the masses
must ever and always be our first aim
We must remember that no wealth
can be accumulated without the as
sistance of the people | only plead
that the masses may get their pro-
portionate share of the created wealth.
One of the things | would suggest
to keep the ownership of our country
from the hands of the few is a grad
uated tax upon accommodating fortunes.
Make the beginning, if you will, at a
very comfortable sum; then the great
er the accumulation the greater to be
the share to be given to the public
fund.
..To my mind, the income tax is the
fairest that can be imposed. 1t reach
es only the rich, and they surely can
afford to pay it. 1t is humiiating in
justice to have the owner of humble
little cottage, raising five or six or
eight children, taxed for the little cot
tage that shelters him and his family.
Why not exempt him from all taxes
of every kind and description?
Another thing, the masses of the
people have never received any direct
benefit from the great credit of the
country The moneyed interests and
banking institutions have always re-
ceived that benefit. Can you imagine
any more beneficial work than for the
government to open department of
insurance that will give insurance to
the toiling masses at actual cost.
81 see no reason why the govern
ment cannot also have a department
of savings banks, to assist the poorer
people, whose interest it is our great
est duty to promote, for the wealthy
can take care of themselves"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04

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p r o o (
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t h a n shin
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and warmer
AlDsolu
brand new.
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04

and boilers combined and sep
crate, from 2 H. p. to 10 FL. P.
Locomotive Outfits, on skids
up to 35H HIP. Saw Mil Outfits
etc. Machinery OF all kinds.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
Steel Roofing Per 100
So. Feet 3t.5o

Most economical and durable roof
covering known. Easy to put on; re-
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mer With ordinary care. will last
many years. Thousands of Satisfied Gus
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-10-04
Gasoline Eslyjnes
rssszssa SIS.

This price for
our high grade
National En-
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manufactured
Simple. Other
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20 SEQ. Small
Steam Out
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