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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
The Philippine Tariff.

The House of Representatives after
close contest in which the Republican
ranks were split wide open, passed the
bill to reduce the tariff on sugar, rice
and tobacco from the Philippines to %
per cent OF the present law and placing
other products on the free list and the
entire tariff on Philippine products to
be abolished in 1909 This bill was rec
commended by President Roosevelt and
urged by Secretary Taft as a measure
of justice to the Filipinos and without
injury to the American people. The
Senate Committee on the Philippines
has now refused to report the bill, and
it slumbers in the committee pigeon
hole, with no chance of awakening, I'M
less a majority of the Senate shall or
der it reported.
The Protective Tariff League has
been very active in denouncing the bill
through its organ, the American Econ
omist, and its success with the commit
tee shows what a hold the trusts and
combines have on the Republican lead
ers
That protection is robbery in the
case of the tariff wall between the Uni
ted States and her colony is proved by
our own fight for similar free trade
with England when we were her col
ony. To, by force of arms, compel
the Filipinos to become our dependents,
and then refuse to allow them to trade
with, us, is unworthy of a rich country
like the United States.
We now collect imports from the
Philippines 20 per cent of the regular
tariff rates, almost as much as Is col
lected on Cuban products, while Porto
Rican products come In free. Is that
a square deal? Surely the Filipinos
have more claim on us than the Cubans
have. We cannot lmpove-ish the Fill
pinos and expect them to be our loyal
subjects,
The opposition to the Philippine tar
if bill comes from the beet sugar trust
and the Connecticut wrapper tobacco
| combine, backed by the hide-bound ultra
protectionists of the Republican party.
The Democrats favor the bill as a
small measure of justice and a step in
the right direction, which at the same
time will not injure the people of the
United States and may help to curb
the powerful sugar and tobacco trusts
that are plundering them under the
guise of law.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

nous. In the same way when he
aeasured Keene, the tragedian, for the
irst pair of slippers he ever wore as
Hamlet, Webert prophesied that the
actor would never gain the success to
which his talent really entitled him.
Wehert has made shoes for Buffalo
BILL for Frank James, the outlaw, and
for men In all ranks of life. He has
received 4S7 diplomas and medals for
his work
The highest price he ever received
for a single pair of boots was $3.50, yet
he will halfsole your shoes for you
while you wait and at moderate
price, tOO.-New York Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
what VIII We Get out OF 1t.

Senator Hale says plans have been
prepared to invade China and sons of
the troops are already on their way
to the Philippines. He blames the
general staff of the army, but the gen
eral staff cannot move without orders
from the Secretary of War, and he can
only order such preparations with the
full consent of the President. Only
Congress can declare war, but a few
heather Chinese killing a missionary
can create conditions that may be
made an excuse for landing an army
that would virtually make war on the
Chinese Empire With our army in
China we will have plenty of fighting.
and the Chinese. with Jap officers lead
ing them, will be found quite different
from the horde Of Boxers before en-
countered.
What can be gained by war with
China? We cannot expect to push our
goods down Chinese throats with bayo-
nets, or shoot yellow calico On their
backs from gatling guns. There may be
glory in it for President Roosevelt, but
what will you and l get out of it but
furnishing the food for powder" and
the taxes
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
Crop of Brigadier Generals.

There are 245 brigadier generals on
the retired list and the number is rap
idly increasing, for 60 more were made
by favor of the President and the SEN
ate from January l, 1902. to January
/, 1905. The retired officers of the
army draw annually $4,000 each, or a
total of S2,700,000. Representative
Prince declared in Congress that these
gentlemen have one hand on the flag
and the other in the treasury" All of
which shows how easy it Is to be free
when spending other peoples money.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
coseLER AND PROPHET.

st. Louis Shoemaker who Has
Made shoes for lannon's People.
To a little shop In Chestnut street;
ST. Louis, famous folk from all over
the country have gone 10 have their
shoes made.
Charles Webert, the cobbler who does
the work. has been in that same little
shop for twenty-five years. He has on
his literally. ION his books
the foot patterns of more than 1000
men and women
When q customer comes TO Webert
the feet to be shod are placed bare
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
HAY AS a JOURNALIST.

Few Newspaper Writers Have Pos
sessed Such an Equipment rs His.
Few newspaper writer's have brought
TO their task the equipment which Hay
possessed when he came TO the Trib-
une in the winter of 1870. After pass
ing through the great period of the
civil war as the private secretary OF
President Lincoln. he had served sue
cessiyely as secretary OF legation a,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
An Tmpious Neighborhood.

A minister tells this tale: 81 once
had in my Sunday school a young
urchin from a poor neighborhood. He
did his best to bring recruits, and one
AFTERNOON l said to him:
"'Billy, don't you think you could
induce one or two other boys to come
to Sunday SCHOOL," Billy answered:
'"'Well, sir, l could bring one, but all
the other fellers in our alley can lick
me. Philadelphia Ledger.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
RAW Material.

Mrs. Crossly-John, that gentleman
with the long hair and big black tie is
going to write a series of stories on
wild Animals l Have Met"
Mr.. Crossly-Well, what do you
mean by inviting him to call at this
house 50 early in the morning?
Mrs. Grossly (sweetly) Why, L
thought he would like to see you when
breakfast is a few minutes late.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
NoN-TRoLLEY ELECTRIC CAR.
1t May Revolutionize Electric Trans
portation.

portation.
Even ia these days when novelties
in transportation are so numerous as
to make it difficult to keep track of all
Of them such a vehicle as that which
has been racing across the country, the
Strang gasolne-electric car, made the
journey from the Atlantic to the Pa
cltic coast and return, 70 demonstrate
to railroad men that a car propelled by
electricity. which Is generated by gas
oline engine, is capable CT doing SUI
burban work and also Of taking care Of
freight and passenger traffic on branch
steam railway lines.
The new system of which the car IS
part Is intended to meet all the re-
quirements of an independent electric
car doing away with power houses,
third rails and overhead trolley wires.
1t is a combination of a gasoline en-
CINE, a dynamo and a storage battery.
The engine furnishes the power to run
the dynamo and generate electricity for
the motors that operate the car. The
storage battery receives the surplus
power from the generator. when the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
The Ohio Bridge Trust.

That bridge trust in Ohio that the
Republicans have fostered has all the
characteristics of the worst features
of the sugar trust, the beef combine,
or any of the other octopii that the
Republican party has made possible by
tariff and other protective legislation.
The Attorney General Of Ohio declared
before the Judiciary Committee of the
Legislature that: Il never knew of a
conspiracy so Infamous as the bridge
trust"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
soIicitude.

You have very little consideration
for the public"
There you wrong me, answered
Mr. Dustin Stax. Il believe in taking
care of the public Think what would
happen TO my various business enter
prises if the public were 20 become
extinct. "-washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
Advised to BOLT.

How it must rasp the feelings Of
Senator's Dick and Foraker ard the
other Republican machine Congressmen
from Ohio to read that, according 10
Secretary Taft, the Cincinnati Roose
welt Club is justified in boiling boss
dictated nominations, il things don't go
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

TO please them. VIII the Grosvenor
clubs in the Congressional district, that
has just discarded 1.-THE old man. fol-
low this advice and decline to vote for
the new nominee, who Grosyenor de-
clares is a boss and head of the Re
publican machine in that district?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Some meat sold by a Washington
butcher, and intended for immediate
consumption, has become the property
OF the United States, and forms a part
of the exhibit by which Doctor Wiley,
head of the Bureau of Chemistry, illus
trates the latest form OF fraud in the
sale of food. The meat was bought for
lamb chops, but it consisted merely OF
pieces of cheap meat, probably from the
neck, each with bone thrust through
it, and the gristly tissue drawn over the
bone. BY and by there will be factories
for the manufacture of artificial bones
to be worked into pieces of artificial
meat from the artificial necks of arti-
fetal spring lambs. The only thing
which is likely to be genuine is the
spring, for that can be made of steel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
Rebuking EIis 1mpuaence.

"Raise your chin just little" said
the photographer.
This is as high as l choose to raise
II" was the austere response of Mrs.
Vick-Senn. IF the effect is not to your
liking you can lower your machine"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Instead of drinking water from
glasses, certain persons in Washington
soon may be using gourds in old rustic
style. Mrs. Roosevelt is preparing to
give such receptacles to several close
friends. The gourds are Of new va
riety, called the Theodore Roosevelt
eourd, and are the products of the farm
she bought in Virginia last summer.
Ehe Roosevelt gourd will hold almost
half gallon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03
About the time the Galapagos

About the time the Galapagos ISL
ands were discovered a young turtle
was born there He died the other
day in the Geological Gardens, London.
He was at least $50 years old. When
he was feeling well he would eat as
much grass as an average COW.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

IN a special bulletin recently issued
by the United States census bureau it
is reported that in all the benevolent
institutions of the country 2,040,272
persons found refuge and relief during
1904, at the close of which 2S4,372 re-
manned. This may be taken as about
the average number Of inmates at any
one time. The males Outnumber the
females, largely because of the large
number of soldiers homes. The cost
(for 1909 amounted to 55,577 ,633, of
which about 80 per cent was for hos
pital maintenance. Orphanages and per-
manent homes took about $10,00O,000
each, and asylums for the deaf, dumb.
and blind about S3,5O0,0OO Paying in
mates contributed toward the total
$14S4S,5OS, and $6,OS9,226 was drawn
from public funds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Between Madagascar and the coast
of India there are about 10000 islands.
only GOO of which are inhabited. but
most Of which are capable Of support
ing population.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Many an otherwise truthful man
will lie about the fun he had while
camping out
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Seats are held in the British House
of Commons on the principle of first
come first served. Consequently fifty
new members gathered at the Parlia-
ment building at midnight of the day
before the session opened last month,
to await the dnlocking Of the doors. in
order that they might get good seats
by depositing their hats thereon. This
is one of the many things which we ar
range better in America.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

The President has issued an order
directing the registration Of every EN-
ploye of the government known to be
consumptive, and the examination of
all suspected Of having the disease. Ali
buildings are to be made sanitary, by
cleansing or structural changes. The
order is believed to affect 5000 EN-.
ployes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

What happens when barren lands are
irrigated is disclosed in Il recent state
ment by Mr.. c. j. Blanchard, an en-
gineer of the reclamation service. A
year ago last spring he camped on the
banks of the Snake River in Southern
Idaho in IL sage brush tract of a hun
bred thousand acres. His camp con-
tanned the only human beings within
thirty miles Last October, after the
dam in the river for the irrigation res
eryoir was Well along, riding in pas
senger car on 4 new railroad over the
same route that he had Travelled six
teen months before, he passed three
towns, and was in sight of a population
of nearly four thousand. Yet not
drop of water lad been delivered for
irrigation. The people were on the
ground ready to cultivate the land as
soon as the water was ready. This
seems to be doing better than making
a second blade of grass grow up TO keep
company with a single lonesome blade,
for it makes four thousand persons live
where only sage brush grew before.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Lynx-eyed to our neighbors and
moles to ourseIves.-La Fontaine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Great battleships like the $1,000 ton
English battleship Dreadnaught are the
crying need Of the American navy, ac-
cording to Admiral Dewey. who appear
ed before the House Committee on nav
al affairs the other day
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03


There will be no ship subsidy legis-
lation by the House at this session. The
Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries, to which was referred the
measure passed by the Senate, has d.
vided ten to eight against the pro-
posed legislation. Ci1c of the twelve
Republican members of the committee
are opposed to the bill and all of the
six Democratic members, with the ex-
ception of one are with them. The
principal ground for opposition is I'M
certainty as to whether its provisions
will call for the appropriation of $20,-
100000 year or $100000,000, The
western Republicans on the committee
who are lined up against the bin fear
that its inducements will be so great
as to take from the coastwiSe and lake
trade number of vessels to enter the
foreign trade for the subsidies offered.
They insist that any measure which
will have such an effect should be OPP
posed for the reason that all ships
engaged in domestic and coastwise traf-
fic should be encouraged to maintain
competition with the railroads.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-04-03

Resolutions adopted by the commit
tee of the Congress ON Uniform Divorce
Law last month recommended that no
attempt be made TO secure a Federal
divorce law by amendment of the Con-
stitution, but that each State adopt
legislation restricting to its own citi-
zens the remedies afforded by its stat
utes. 1t is further recommended THAI
a court, in a case between persons mar
ried outside the State. shall recognize
only those causes for divorce which are
recognized in the place where the par
ties were married. To prevent collu-
Sive divorces. it is recommended that
hearings and trials should always be
before the court. and never before dele
gated representatives of the court. The
Congress does not recommend any pres.
ent attempt at uniform legislation as
to causes for divorce, but names ten
causes which seem to be in accordance
with American legislation: former
marriages. bigamy, coercion, fraud, in
sanity unknown to the other party, in
fidelity. conviction of felony, intOler-
able cruelty, wilful desertion for two
years and habitual drunkenness.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-03
Morton Denies

New York, Feb. 3.-Paul Morton,
president of the Equitable, denied
emphaticall.v today that he was TO be-
come head of the new Interborough-
Metropolitan copany, the concern
which recently took over the Belmont
and Ryan traction lines. Mr.. Morton
stated that the story was absolutely
without foundation.
A director of the Interborough- Met
ropolitan also issued a denial that the
officials of that company were con-
templating ask ing Mr.. Morton to head
the company. He said that August
Belmont was to be the head of the b ig
combine.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-03
BEEF TRUST TO
Invade WENATCHEE
Representatives of the Frye-Bruhn
Packing Company Of Seattle Get
Ten Gay Option on the Harlin Mar
ket Property in This City.

Representatives of the Frye Bruhn
Packing company of Seattle, were in
the city yesterday and begun negotiat-
ing with Chas Harlin for the purchase
of his meat business in this city. Mr..
Hariin touav stated that he had given
the company ten days option on his
plant but would not state what price
ne had set upon it. The option will
expire on Feb. u. 1t includs price
on the plant with the real estate hold
ings in connection and on the business
alone.
The Harlin Meat company has been
iu business III this city since 1897 and
has dealt extensively both in dressed
meats and in live stock. The company
supplies number of smaller markets
in .his rart If the state with dressed
meats and has shipped during large
part of the time, on an average of
two carloads of stock per week todeal.
ers and packers nn the SOUND. The
company is at present operating two
markets in Wenatchee. The members
of the firm are Chas. Harlln, Otto
Harlin aud Glen Wells,
1t is popularity reported that the
Brye-Bnrhn company is the western
represantAtlaa .nt .ths beef trust con
, trolled by the great pc cking houses of
Chicago.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-03
JEWS MAY FOUND NEW
NATION IN EGYPT

Brussels. Feb. 3.-The general Jew
ish conference, called to. consider the
state of the Jews in Russia, formally
opened its session here today, under
the presidency of David Wollfsohn.
chairman of the international Zionit
commi ttee. In his opening address,
President Wollfsohn urged the estab-
lishment of an International committee,
either IN ;oerlin or Lodnon, to watch
over the interests of the Russian Jews.
A mot ion tc that effect went over
until later session.
M. Mandelstam, of Kieff, presented
a report on the conditions in Russia,
from which 1t was gathered that the
Jews had no hope of improvement in
their status resulting from a revolut-
ion or government reforms. The only
solution of the problem, according to
the report, would be the foundation
of a Jewish fatherland.
M. Kohan, of Klsheneff, said ne
thought the eventual EN- igration of
all the Jews from Russia was enevit-
able. He proposed Egypt or Asia
Minor as suitable for Jewish settle
ment, and advised that all emigration
of Jews to the United States Great
Britain be stopped in consequence of
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-03
DISCUSS GRANGE IN ssRooL DISTRICTS

a representative meeting of the
citizens of Chiwaukum, Merritt and
Nation Greek school districts, met in
the Office OF the county superintendent
Of schools office in the court mousse
The question which was brought up
between them and Prof. Riste was
that of the proper division Of their
different school districts. 1t was dec1d-
ed that taking in the whole mileage
from bridge 374 to king county line
OH the west of Merritt and Nation
Greek will have half of the district
included iD this territory and ChiwRu-
KUN district the other half. The per-
sons representing the different dis
tricts were: Chiwaukum. Uncle Dick
Giblin. G. A. Harris; Nation Greek
Nels Forsyth, Mr.. Foster and Mr..
Brooks; Merritt, John Mason, Harry
Smith and I. J. Davidson; Mason
Greek, f. A. Reyolds. Uncle Dick
says that the schools at Chlwaukum
are in a prosperous condition ana
everything is getting on fine.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-03
Ten Minutes More For Dinner

= = Hon. Joseph Choate tells of meet
ing at London club OF a Bishop and
Lord Rosebery. During the course of
their conversation the reverend gentle
man obsel ved to his lordship:
I've an Invitation TO dine this
evening. What c Nuisance it is--a long
dinner, | mean. There are two things |
absolutely dread-a long dinner and
a long sermon. l contend that, how
ever good they may be, neither the
dinner nor the sermon should take
more than twenty minutes at most. :"
Rosebery smiled. cit seems to
me-" he said, THAT the matter might
be nicely arranged by knocking ten
minutes off the sermon an3 putting it
on the dinner-Harper' Weekly.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-02-03
MAYOR COMES IN
OUT OF The RAIN
Public Opinion Forces Mayor Little
field, Much Against His Own Wishes,
to Issue Tardy Order for Closing
Saloons on Sunday.

City Mar shall Peter Wheeler yester-
day notified the saloon keepers of We.
natchee to keep their places closes on
Sunday, under penalty of arrest and
prosecution. Wheeler was inter viewed
today by aWorld representative but re-
fused to state whether he was acting
upon his own initiative or under orders
from the mayor. Mayor Littleneld
refused to be interviewed on the sub
ject, but it is generally belived that
he issued the order to Wheeler. What
the pressure il that has been brought
to bear to cause the mayor to issue an
order SO absolutely contrary to his per-
sonaI wishes, is still mystery. His
stand against law enforcement a few
weeks ago has won Linn much unpo-
pularity and caused wave of indig-
nation to sweep over the city against
such anarchis;io principals as Mr..
Littlefi:ld favors. 1t is probable that
realizing that his stand had met with
lisfavor and that the saloon element
in Wenatchee is not the dominating
element, the mayor is ATTEMPTING to
get into public favor by issuing this
tardy order. 70