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, 1906-03-27
HON. w. H. HOLIDAY ESSAYS AN
SWER To PRINTED RE-
MARKS OF THE MAYOR
AND CITY COUNCIL.
Declares Latter Lacks Authentic SID
nature n Leaves Him Unable To
Find To Whom He Should Ad-
dress Answer-Notices Two Points
In Statement and Makes Com
ments Observation-Disclosures Matter.

To the Editor Of The Republican,:
The discussion of a purely economic
question, such as the installation of
an entirely new system of street lat
erals and a belt line pipe covering
virtually all the built up section of the
city of Laramie on the east
side, carrying with it, as pro-
posed by the city council, a change
from ample water for household use,
free from a tax, to a system of house
hold taxation for the use of such water
and an increase of taxes on all the tax
able property in the city; such discus
sion ought to be on purely economic
lines, free from personalities or par
tisan prejudice; from the fact that
personalities do not interest the gen
eral public, and the debt burden, if
imposed, will be borne by all the
people in the city-on the property in
proportion to its assessed value and
on the householder in proportion to
the number of rooms, number of chill
dren and consequent number of baths
that the family may take.
This rather lengthy prelude is in
part prompted by an article given to
the public through the medium of both
daily papers under date of the Goth
inst.
Whenever the mayor or a majority
of the city council are willing to &C
knowledge authority of the Officers
Reply" in The Republican, or the
Council Makes Reply" published in the
lures, I will gladly take up such points
as are Of public interest and answer
them to the best of my ability, with
out dealing in half truths or garbled
quotations.
Two Points Noticed.
For the purpose of this communica,
ton I will refer to two points only in
the Officers Reply" One is the
John Mckenzie incident. If that Incl
dent so peculiarly worded is intend,
ed to convey the idea that the writer
Of this article ever in any way inter
posed an objection to John Mckenzie
tapping the Fourth street lateral, or
the lateral on any other street, it is
giving c~ountenance to a lie pure and
simple. The w. H. Holiday company
had paid as much as any two lot own
ers toward getting the south Fourth
street three-inch lateral laid to the
point where Mr.. Mckenzie tapped it,
and the writer had paid fully his part
for the lateral passing his residence
lot. Just what fund McKenzie's $25
found it's way into l am unable to
state.
AS to Balance of Officers Reply.
Now, as to the balance of the "Of
ficers' Reply: There is such a repug.
nance in western life to the crowd
that fires from the brush" or at
tempts to throw mud from behind win
dows, that ordinary dignity forbids q
counter attack until the enemy comes
out in the open.
J If the public could only know some,
thing of the formality of the meeting
of the mayor and city council" when
formulating the Officers Reply" or
the City Council Makes Reply" then
there would be certain points in the
article that might be worthy of fur
Their attention-one in particular, and
that is the mayors premature action
! in starting a three-inch lateral across
, 1906-03-27
OPERATOR AT SWALLOWS TO
BLAME FOR TERRIBLE COL
LISBON ON DENVER
AND RIO GRANDE.

Negligence Mas Not WiIfuI or Ma
licious and coroner's Jury Finds
No Cause for Prosecution of o.
orator or Officers of the Road
Death List in Casper Accident Has
Reached Ten, With Many Injured.
, 1906-03-27

DISAGREE
MINERS AND OPERATORS VOTE
TO RECOMMEND DISAGREE
MENT TO PLAN OF
SETTLEMENT.

Made by President Mitchell of
Miners Organization and Second
ed by Chairman Wilder of Opera
tors-Believed Strike Will Be In
augurated Saturday Night, When
Present Contracts Expire.
, 1906-03-27
GIVES LARGER SUM.
Carnegie Increases Donation for Indian
Territory Library.

Tulsa, I. T, March 27.-Carnegie
has increased his library donation here
from $4,000 to $4,000.
, 1906-03-27

Canon City, Colo, March Eft ap-
pears now that no one is to be pun.
ished for the Rio Grande wreck at
Adobe station, on the morning of
March 1G. The ~coroner's jury, after
Investigating, finds that the wreck was
due to the negligence of Frank S.
Lively, the Swallows operator. The
negligence was not wilful or malicious,
or of such a nature as to render him
or the railroad company open to pros.
ecution. The jury finds the present
system of railroads, in having fixed
, 1906-03-27

Why not get all the news when 1t
Is news by reading The Republican!
, 1906-03-27
COMPREHENSIVE SYNOPSIS OF
DECISION IN THE MANDAMUS
PETITION OF THE STATE
TREASURER.
Constitution Fixes Term of State
Treasurer for Four Years and
Date of Beginning of First Term
Hay Could Not Create Vacancy In
Term Commencing Next Year and
Resigned only Portion of Term.

Yesterday The Republican gave a
brief telegram from the capital relat-
ing to the decision of the supreme
court in the cas- of William C.Irvine
against the governor, but feels that a
more comprehensive synopsis should
be given.
Mr.. Irvine, who was elected state
treasurer in 1904 to fill the vacancy
in that office caused by the resignation
of Mr.. Hay, whose term of office would
have expired on the first Monday, in
January, 1907, claimed that he was
elected for a full term of four years
from the first Monday in January,
1905, and sought to require the COVER
nor to issue to him a certificate of cleo
ton to that effect The governor re-
fused to issue a certificate except for
the uneXpired term of Mr.. Hay.
Constitution Fixes Term.
The court holds that while the con-
stituton fixes the term of office at four
years, it also fixed the beginning and
ending of the official terms and that
it was the intention of the trainers of
the constitution that the full terms of
the state officers mentioned in article
A, section 2 of the constitution should
commence on the first Monday in Jan
uary after the first state election, which
made the term of the first set of state
officers commence in January, 1891,
and end in January, 1895, and so on,
n term commencing when the other
ended, and that they should all be elect
ed at the same general election every
four years
, 1906-03-27
SECR|ST IS
CONVICTED
FORMER DENVER POLICEMAN is
FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
IN SECOND DEGREE AT
DENVER TODAY.

Shooting Followed Game of Dice ! IN Sd
loon, Policeman Killing Friend
With Two Bullets-Set UP Plea
of Defense and Will Serve Long
Sentence-Arrest of Prominent
Politicians in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Furnishing the Lawbreakers.

Two New York courts yesterday furnished
evidence that the way of the CRATER and
that of the rebater are hard and, in the
end. costly. A jury In one court returned a
verdict of guilty against a counsel of a life
Insurance company charged with the lar
ceny of company funds. and a federal judge
at the same time imposed fines aggregating
$l50OOO upon the sugar trust for accepting
repayments of freight rates from the New
York Central which corporation has al
ready been fined $4,000 for the same Of
lenses
These two happenings will go far to re-
store public confidence in the law processes
as So jeguards against misconduct on the
part II individuals and corporations. The
grating insurance official who has just
been sent the first step toward prison is the
first of this kind to suffer the condemna-
ton of jury. That there are others who
equally deserve the same fate is a popular
belief. inspired by the revelations of the
Hughes inquisition into the conduct of the
great life companies. But with all the dis
closures of maladministration in the man.
agement Of these corporations fear has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Demanding the Impossible.

The absolute injustice of the order dis
missing without honor all of the men of q
battalion of the 25th Infantry because the
government could not detect the perpe-
traitors of an alleged outrage at Browns
Vile, Texas, is made even more apparent
than before by the decision of the admins
tration to require each individual soldier
who has thus been branded as a possible
criminal to assume the burden of proving
his entire innocence before he can re-
enlist. This simply means that the prose-
cution has itself declared a verdict of guilty
without proofs. The defendant is stripped
of his rights. His proffer of proof of his
innocence has been already rejected by the
inquisitors of the inspection service, and
he is now told that he must positively dem
onstrate his guitlessness before he can be
restored to the service.
What are these men to do? They have
gone already as far as they can go, further
indeed than they should ever have been
asked to go. Their proofs of alibi have
been in effect rejected. They can 20 no
further. Yet they are told, in the face of a
showing of innocence already of record
sufficient to satisfy any unprejudiced mind,
that they must still demonstrate their in
nocence before they can be regarded as fit
for re-enlistment.
If the situation were not so strongly sug-
gestive of tragedy it would be farcical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Lecturing and Gate Receipts.

A special from Bellaire, Ohio, tells this
story:
1.-THE trustees of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church have cancelled the en-
gagement of Senator Tillman, who was to
have delivered a lecture here next Tuesday
night for the benefit of the church.
After his Chicago lecture the trustees
decided to write to the senator for the
purpose of exacting a promise that he
would not indulge in any vulgarity pro-
family. They intimated that if the promise
was not forthcoming they would be COM
PEELED to cancel his lecture engagement.
Senator Tillman replied that he could
make no pledges of the nature asked, as
during the lecture. He was then notified
that his date in the churchs lecture course
would be filled by another" e-
Here is suggested the inquiry which the
Chicago episode provoked Why have
selected Mr. Tillman for such an occasion?
At Chicago the Golfers Of hospital were
empty. In this Ohio town church needs
money. In both cases the authorities put
everything but money out of consideration
and decided upon what seemed "a good
drawing card" In Chicago the card" drew
but at a heavy cost to the reputation Of the
hospital management and the dignity of
the town.
1t is to be said in behalf of Mr.. Tillman-
and it is the only thing that can be said
in his behalf in the premises-that nobody
need be in the dark about his views or his
manner of stating them. He is frankness
itself, and on all occasions. AS a lecturer
he has practically but one topic-the race
question. If he does not start with it he
ends with it, and he is probably at his best
or worst-when he starts with it and sticks
to it to- the very end. 1t explains both his
II "a L. Tn Ia
ate by reason of it. and the senator makes
the lecturer. If Mr.. Tillman were only a
South Carolina planter his views would be
of no interest at distance from home.
The problem therefore is a very simple
one. If any community, north, east, or
west, wants to hear the race question dis
cussed in extreme terms. Mr.. Tillman has
talk which, in it's way, Is thriller
He gives his hearers in the matter of ex-
citement the worth of their money. He is
good man to figure on for gate receipts
| AS has been pointed out, his invitations
| from the south are few, If any. And for
| the reason of course that his message Is
| no novelty in that section. The people have
heard the same thing from scores of poll
ticians. Gov. Vardaman Of Mississippi and
Gov jeff Davis of Arkansas turn the lin
| guistic trick quite as well as Mr. Tillman
| does.
But why should any community any
| where care for such a deIiverance? Why
particularly should religious congrega-
tion or charitable institution, go into the
| show business on any such basis, and lend
| itself to the dissemination of bad feeling ?
| Mr.. Tillmans drawing power is in his ex-
| IRENE opinions and his style of expressing
them, and he modifies neither at anybody s
] request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Dolliver of Iowa.

Reports from Iowa indicate that Mr.. Dol
liver will have no opposition in his own
party for reelection to the Senate. He
should have none. He is a useful man in
his present place, and growing one. Al
though still young, he is veteran legis-
lator, having served for years in the House
before taking his seat in the Senate. He
possesses all that Is necessary to success
In national office-health industry, ability,
character, and fine gifts as speaker More
over, he is personally popular, and that
counts for much In public life. Iowa has
reaped rich reward from her course to-
ward Mr.. Allison. Discovering that in him
she had a most capable public servant, she
has kept him in commission to her own and
the general benefit. In Mr.. Dolliver she
has such another, and her best interests
suggest a similar course toward him. and
for quite as many years if he lives to count
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Again the Chinese Exclusion Law.

There is to be a renewal at this session
of the attempt to amend the Chinese ex-
clusion law. 1t failed at the last session,
and 1t ought to fail again. Then the driv-
ing force was the Chinese boycott of Amer
lean goods. great to-do was made OF
that. and virtually the threat held out that
unless some modification of the law was
enacted American trade with China would
be ruined. But the thing was overdone.
No such peril existed, and this was shown.
Congress stood pat on the law, and the
boycott-which had never attained the ad-
vertised proportions-petered out. Our
trade with China today is larger than ever
before.
The driving force Of the movement now Is
the furry that has been caused by the San
Francisco school matter. In some way the
champions of the Chinese coolies hope to
profit by the anti-Japanese agitation on the
Pacific coast. That is to say, they insist
that there is no more ground to bar the
Chinese than the Japanese and that neither
should be barred. Let us have, they de-
mand. liberal law for everybody, and then
all will be well.
This appraisement of the Japanese is an
affront to superior people. They are far
above the grade of the Chinese coolies in
them at high figure for years. Indeed.
We count it a feather in our cap that We
introduced them to the modern world, and
gave them the first friendly clap on the
back in their march along the new path.
How well they have justified the interest
We then displayed is a matter of very
recent history, which reads so well that
all the world has been attracted. 1t is
a sort of impudence therefore to ask that
such people be graded with the Chinese
coolies. who swarm unwholesomely at
home. and are welcome nowhere else. Great
Britain is having an experience with them
in South Africa just now which empha-
sizes the wisdom we have displayed in put
ting up the bars against them.
The Foster bill is as Objectionable now as
1t was last session. when action on 1t failed.
We shall be told again of course that
the measure is not in the interests of the
coolies, but in those of friendlier infer
course with the educated classes Of the
Chinese good tale but not convincing.
All the difficulties that have arisen under
the law as it stands have grown out of
the efforts to smuggle coolies into the
country; and the best way to put an end
to those difficulties Is to put an end to
the cause
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Pension Appeals and Economy.

The legislative appropriation bill now be-
fore the House contains one paragraph
which has a peculiar history and which
challenges the attention of believers in
the square deal for the old soldier 1t is
proposed by this paragraph to reduce by
thirteen members the board of pension ap-
peals of the Interior Department, now COM
posed of twenty-eight men. This board has
jurisdiction over all appeals from the de-
cisions of the Commissioner of Pensions
In former times, with a smaller force of
members, it was unable to cope with the
current work, and Accommodations resulted,
so that the appellant was required to wait
about two years or two and half for de-
cision. When, several years ago Congress
granted an increase in the force to meet
this condition the work was quickly brought
SO nearly current that the pensioner was
promptly granted final ruling.
One result was that disappointed claim
ants were encouraged to take appeals more
frequently than before. The number an
nually Increased to ten thousand, and yet
the board was able to practically cope with
the inflow. so that at present the appellant
Is compelled to wait only about two
months for a determination of his case
The old soldiers are passing away at a
rate WHICH threatens IN lew years to re-
duce the ranks to a pitiful remnant of the
Grand Army. 1t is therefore a matter of
urgent importance that nothing be done to
lessen their chances of securing all that is
coming to them under the law. delay of
a few months may be fatal to a cause. Yet
Notwithstanding this condition it Is now
proposed to reduce the board of pension ap-
peals by thirteen members. stroke which
would inevitably cause the congestion of
the files so that within few months the
appellant would have to wait at least a
year for decision. and at the present rate
of application it would not be long before
the board was two years behind its work
The consideration operating to suggest
this change, as claimed by General Keifer
In his speech before the House yesterday, is
that possibly the reduction of the force will
cause corresponding reduction in the
number of appeals. The appropriations
committee has evidently argued that mas
much as the increase in the size of the
board brought the work up to date and en-
couraged appeals the reduction of the board
will allow the work to fall behind and thus
discourage appeals. This is an amazing
move toward economy. and one that when
understood will not favorably impress the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12

been aroused lest the formal processes OF
the law might not reach the offenders. The
conviction of Burnham should restore faith
to large extent.
In the case of rebaters, 1t is especially
gratifying to find that the statutes are ef-
fective. If the practice of giving and re-
ceiving rebates on freight rates can be
broken up through the medium of heavy
fines, which mulct the guilty concerns to
the extent of the benefits derived from
these improper transactions, there will be
little chance of further offenses of this
character. A blow will be struck at the
gigantic corporations that crush their rivals
by means of the advantages gained in the
transport of products. The new railroad
rate law prohibits Determinations and its
proper enforcement should result in an even
chance for all shippers, great and small
The old statutes afford an opportunity for
efficient law officers to reach the combina-
tons that seek a way around the pro-
hibitions.
What this country most sorely needs to-
day is a series of such demonstrations that
there is vitality in the laws. 1t has suf-
fered from anemia for long time. Much
of the radical socalistic sentiment which
pervades the body polite today is due to the
ldCh VI Idltn III the cStdDfISIico pTOCeSS6S
and the written provisions and safeguards
against undue corporation development. A
series of convictions should act as tonic
and brace up the country. Our institutions
are in no danger if the people preserve
their faith in them. The worst thing that
can happen is continuation of the success
full defiance of law which has marked the
progress of the trusts and the other great
business establishments for a number of
years, and the best thing that can happen
is the interposition of such effective checks
as have just been applied by the two courts
in New York city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Anomalies Of Prosperity.
From the Chicago Chronicle.


National prosperity continues to show
that it entails certain penalties as we'll as
pleasures. The very force of the swelling
tide tends to react upon itself. Thus bust
ness activity Is SO great that money COM
mands high prices. 1t is not only the
stock gamblers who suffer. Legitimate en-
terprises are halted by the difficulty of
financing them. 1t Is well known that the
published rates for money do not by any
means tell the story. Money, like any other
commodity, is worth what it will bring,
and neither lender nor borrower Is likely
to take the public into confidence respect
ing transactions far above the nominal rate
The scarcity Of money is one disagreeable
phase Of prosperity; the scarcity of labor
is another. Here, too, great enterprises
are hampered and delayed by the circum-
stance that men are not to be had to do
the manual labor. They cannot be secured
even by offering extravagantly high wages.
There are simply not enough men in the
country to do the work Of the country.
The tide reacts upon itself again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
HOLIDAY Trihes.

This world is like a Christmas tree
With stars fur candles bright,
An trimmin's mighty fine to see
That CLEAN both day an night.
An mebbe, same as fur the boys
An girls, fur US it brings
AS many idle cherished toys
AS real useful things
Fur 'mongst themselves the children SAL
That more than books or shoes
They like to get on Christmas day
The things that jest amuse
An so smile or kindly word
Oft lights a grown-up's eye
With greater pleasure, I have heard,
Than things that wealth kin buy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12

TIN order to avoid delays on account OF
personal absence, letters to THE STAB
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the ONCE, but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Busi-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Hughes at the White House.

Oh, well, why should either Mr.. Platt or
Mr.. Depew have been at the Hughes din
ner at the White House last night? Neither
one lifted his hand or opened his mouth In
Mr.. Hughes behalf last fall. The campaign
was unique in that it was waged without
the assistance of any of the republicans
who for so long time had manipulated
the republican politics of the state. And
the Hughes task now is not in turning to-
ward, but in steering away from, that old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Beans and Goldfish
Report Of Lecture in Boston Transcript.

Report OF Lecture In Boston Transcript.
Pragmatism in its all-aroundness must
consider pluralism. Monism must estab-
lish unity, otherwise it is failure Plural
ism may easily be satisfied with q small
number. Pragmatism abjures absolute
monism, and also absolute pluralism. Since
monism is devoted to one, then pragmatism
must be classed with pluralism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12

order Of things. For II It should appear
that new leaf has not been turned and a
new leadership established. last months
election results. SO far as the republican
party Is concerned. will go for nothing. Mr..
Hughes has promised to be his own man at
Albany. and not P1att's. nor Depew's, nor
another's of any stripe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12

Secretary Bonaparte while in Baltimore
declined to discuss the Storer case with
an interviewer. Mr.. Bonaparte is no doubt
courteously disinclined to trespass on a field
that has become peculiarly that of Secre-
tary loot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12
Primitive. but Normal.

Primitive, but Normal.
''Why does the car employ fortune
teller?'
1T Is the instructive desire for predic-
tion," answered the man who always has
an explanation. "After his government has
progressed further, he will dismiss his for
tune teller and employ weather prophets
and statisticans."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12

In many instances the spelling reform
agitation has served only to revive the
memory of Noah Webster and stimulate
an old-fashioned respect for him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-12

| The fate Of the bison in America consti-
| tutes sufficient warning to take care of
| the far more valuable SEAL