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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
GRADUATING EXERCISES
WERE HELD LAST NIGHT
Members of Eighth Grade Graduating
Class Presented With Certificates
by Prof. Ritchie.

The graduating exercises of
the Eighth grade wereheld at the
City Opera house last night, and
were attended by large crowd
which taxed the capacity of the
hall.
The exercises were opened by
an invocation by Rev. Broomfeld,
in which the reverend gentleman
asked the blessing of the Diety
on the future efforts of the grad
uating class and on the lives of
it's individual mem mbers.
The class salutatory, "Legends
of the Mississippi" was given
by Willie Naylor. The speaker
gave several very interesting
legends that showed careful
preparation and were delivered
with good effect, among the num-
ber being that of "Maiden Rock"
and "Hiawatha," which have
been handed down from one In
dian tribe to another for genera.
tions.
Mary Klien gave the class his
tory, which was replete with
episodes of class events and the
lives of the mem bers comprising
it's roster.
Gladys Brannon sang, very
nicely, "There, Little Girl, Don't
Cry" with Miss Boyer as accom-.
panist.
"Boy Patriots" was the sub
ject of an address by Walter
Puphal. This address was ex-
ceptionally good, the speaker
showing that the spirit of true
patriotism was as strong as ever,
also referring to the early-day
patriotism of Admiral Dewey,
Commodore Perry, John Paul
Jones and George Washington,
and telling interesting stories of
their youthful history.
Alice Huntosh gave a reading,
wherein was told touching story
of little girl who had an older
brother in a graduating class,
and of whom she was very proud.
The boy was to reclte at the
commencement exercises, but
broke down, the little girl tried
to prompt him, and that failing
she took seat beside him and
encouraged him to the extent
that when given another trial he
did excellently. The story was
we'll read.
Vivian Dwyer gave very nice
instrumental solo.
Gladys Brannon gave "The
Glass Prophecy" which was a
very interesting and cleverly told
tale of a prophecy of the future
of the mem bers Of the graduat-
ing class.
The valedictory was given by
Vivian Dwyer, who had for her
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
GRAND OPERA HOUSE TO
OPEN THIS EVENING
First Attraction Courtnay Morgan Stock
Company---0pening Play, "A
Woman of Mystery"

The Courtnay Morgan Stock
company, headed by the talented
actress, Miss Courtnay- Morgan,
will open a three nights engage
ment at the Grand Opera House,
commencing Thursday night.
This company recently played
at Aitkin, and the manager of
the opera house there writes as
follows:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
Fine MOVinu Pictures.

The Bijou is attracting a large
crowd to see the "Unwritten
Law" which is founded on the
Harry K. Thaw trial. The films
are very good and the lecture
that accompanies them is very
interesting,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30

of the graduating class of the
Bemidji high school will be held
at the City Opera house tomor-
row evening. Practically the
whole town will turn out, to lend
by their presence encourage
ment to the six who step from
school life into the hard work of
the real (not the ideaD life.
The program of the com mence-
ment exercises is as given below:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATES.

Alice Huntosh
Elsie Miller
Martha Galchutt
Ellen Anderson
Mollie Al derson
Linnie Guthrie
Clara Brondby
Vivian Dwyer
Olive Cunningham
Gladys Brannon
Jessamine Gould
Callie Arnold
Mary Klein
Willie Naylor
George Elletson
Paul Winebrenner
Orvllle Titus
Roland Henrionette
Alfred Neumann
Louis Larson
Floyd Stewart
Bertha Beeson
Walter Puphal
Ruth Titus
Nora Shaw
Nellie Erickson
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
Board Adjourned

The board of county commits
8 MS adjourned yesterday af-
ternoon. The county auditor
was instructed to call special
meeting for June II.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
500 Reward

Betram County hereby offers reward of $l00 cash for
the recovery Of the three Of John Shepherd
dead alive who disappeared from his home, two miles
east Of Soway last Friday, May a. The reward is open
to anyone. Join the Posse at Solway.
IVES WRIGHT,
Chairman Board County Commissioners.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30

clever musical and dancing spec
ialties are presented throughout
the play. The regular house
prices will prevail and reserved
seats are now on sale.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-05-30
Commencement OF HIGH
SCHOOL FRIDAY NIGHT
A Class of Six Will Receive Diplomas
From the Bemidji High
School.

The commencement exercises
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17

pound Until 1883. when the duty was
decreased to 4 cents a pound, the owners
of this copper mine exported their cop
pf,r and sold il in London on an average
of about IS cents a pound while selling
the same copDer in New York at about
n cents 4 mound. The English and con-
tipeutal manufacturers of brass mateTlalS
being able to buy their copper from our
cot1ntrvmen for about cents pound less
than il was sold in our own markets.
used the American copper in the manu-
facture of brass and exported II 10 cur
country. nearly running our manutactur-
ers of brass Finally American manutac-
eurers who wished to purchase copper
cheap enough to compete with the fof-
eigner onceived The idea of buying (
of the English purchasers OF American
copper. The copper was shipped 70 Il
purchaser in England. purchased from
him BY Americans, and returned at on,
i'm the original packages TO the JnlteH
States thus avoiding paying a duty I'M
der the law. Then the mining company
required every En2lishman purchasing
their copper to give bond that he woui1
not resell the copper purchased by nm
to an American. The eighty thousand
watered shares of the Calumet x Hecla
mine costing about SO share sold as
high in those years as S175 a share. ana
a share. or 133 IS per cent This mining
company recently has been paying divt-
dends upon its S2.50G.000 capital as fol-
lows: 1895 90 per cent; 1896, 100 per cent;
1897. 10 per cent: 1898, 100 per cent: lSy9.
2S0 per cent; 1900.-320 per cent; 1901. 20
per cent; 1902. 1o0 per cent; 1908, 40 per
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of
the doe
of all
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states bank. which he regarded as q me-
mace TO the peoples rights. the surplus of
tne ma uonal treasury Of S40.00o.00O to the
State banks. which loaned It out freely
Land speculations became the craze:
oooih towns as in later Gavs. suddenly
a. - Ose al over the country. Lands on the
ffrunllers and surrounded only with wild
IOttStS sold for fabulous prices Real
estate was assessed for more in New
years later.
Cause of 1897 Panic.
Prior 10 1884 the average annual sale
OF public lands for settlement had been
S-,9yIVV- In 1898 it had risen to SOS. 900 600.
LanG these lands were paid for in state
Dank notes. In 1896 President jackson
alarmed at the mania of speculation and
pdper money. ordered the payment for
lahdS TO be made in specie hoping TO
onsSk the wild speculation. The banks
pdlO these demands. falling due in jan
uarv- 1881. and in April. but could not
IalSe the third installment and the finan-
C4ai crash came as d consequence. and
IIot because of the tariff, for there was
~ national debt, and the tariff was pro-
uuclhS a surplus. Daniel Webster speak
ing IN New York in 1887, ascribed the pan
~ " lIle above cause and d committee
N WdS sent 10 Washington to ask President
van buren, to resCind the specie payment
ORDER attributing the financial trouble
10 the same cause.
Henry Clay, the father of the Ameri-
70. = al u pfOtecUOn, said IN the
Cnte0 states senate in 1872 on the panic
OF 80 and its causes: 1t is a great mis-
take TO say that any portion of the en-
~ D .dtTdSSsIneat OF the country resulted from
II 'the tariff of 1889. Other causes have
contributed 10 this result and ii is to be
ATTRIBUTED To experiments made upon the
currency, also to the action of the states
Whlch' by plunging into schemes os in
teFldl improvements. have made debts
abroad and thereby given false appear
atce 10 the prosperity of the country, and
When their bonds deprecated, the evils
from which they now suffer as a conse-
quenCe enSuCd
HuSh Mccullough for three terms sec
Ieiary Of the treasury, said the same thing
rep: j lS0. and ascribed the panic of 1887
solely TO the causes stated. and yet such
worthy and distinguished gentlemen as
Judge Frick will differ with Clay. Nc
Cullough and Webster who lived at the
time; and at whose shrine he wOrships.
The average ad valorem rate of duty
on actual imports was. during the period
in question, as follows:
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Recent Tariff History.

The Wilson bill in 1894 was defeated by
q few senators. Since then other ma
ticnal issues have diverted attention from
this subject, and the DinEley tariff i'm
posing duties of 20 per cent upon dutiabIe
imports and fostering and giving rise TO
hundreds of trusts, has continued to op-
press the people Since 1861 the prevail
ing rate of duties actually paid upon du-
table imports to our government has ey-
Ceeded that of any other country in the
world. In recent years, by means of our
improved machinery and intelligence We
have been able to produce most of our
highly protected products cheaper than
any of our competitors.
Prior TO 1880 competition among do
nestle producers did reduce the price of
commodities some eight times below the
highest tariff barriers, but for about
eight years the trusts. protected from
foreign competition. have largely de-
stroyed and rendered impossible domestic
competition, and in many cases are ex-
acting prices exceeding those of fifty
years ago. or before the successful in
PRODUCTION of labor-saving machinery and
the wonderful development of scientific
processes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17

1.-THE panic Of 1895 and the subsequent
depression clearly came from causes ex-
listing at the time Mr.. Cleveland became
istration the national treasury was over
flowing with money. but the first con.
EreSs of Mr.. Harrisons administrator
cut off Sj0.0OO00O of the public income bv
passa &c of the Mckinley bill imposing
duties so high as to keep foreign i'm
ports ont of the country. The same con-
gTeSs added $4,000 600 to the ordinary ex-
penditUTcS of government 1t borrowed
$j0Ug0.0OD Of the national banks by turn
ing the redemption fund into the treasury
and it added over SlJ0.O0O,000 TO the legal
tender currency of the country redeem
able in gold. while II diverted an equal
amount of the public revenue 90 the Drr-
chase of pig silver at much more than
its real value. to be kept i'm the TREASURY
vaults For several months before the
4tl day of March. 1893 Mr.. Foster. sec
rotary of the treasury. was represented I'm
the public newspapers AS contemplating
the immediate issue of bonds to DE sold
To raise funds to supply the deficiency.
but by hook or crook this was tided over
turned over the treasury. practically
bankrupt. To- the new administration and
the financial crisis was already at hand
4 shortage of crops i'm our own countrv.
the low price of wheat prevailing here
together with large crops i'm the com
tries of our competitors and the genera
depression then prevailing througb0ut
European countries. together with the
other above stated causes. easily accounts
for the financial depression Of 1893 and
1894
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
Story of Wilson Bill.

"Protectfonists have steadily mIsTeprc-
scented the nature of the Wilson tariff
paSsed i'm August 1894 They invariably
describe it as a free trade measure and
as the cause of the panic which occurred
more than a year before its passage In
stead of it's being A free trade measure
il was highly protective in every feature
The average ad vaiorem rate of duty on
dutiable imports actually imported under
the Wilson bill for the year ending july
l. 1897 was 42.17 per cent: the average
duty upon dutiable imports under the tar
if of 1883 for the year ending July l.
1SS2 was a. 80 per cent; while the averag e
ad vaIorem rate of duty for the year end
ing July l. 1854. toward the end of r.
civil war was $3.50 per cent. Yet protec-
tiOuistg declare that the Wilson bill. 4
clearly prOtectionist measure. Instituted a
period OF free trade. The Wilson bill re
moved the duty on wool. thus making A
compensating duty to the manufacture
unnecessary but it left the dd valorem
duty of 30 per cent. Some of the men
repTesentinG the Democratic party in the
United States senate in 1894 sorely abused
the confidence which voters had placed
i'm them, and the Wilson bill which they
passed instead of being free trade
measure was but little better than the
Mckinley bill which it, superseded. 1t
was repealed within a period Of about two
and a half years, and surely sufficient
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
AN AWFUL CASE.

Several years ago had Blood Poison and my flesh
was IN awful condition. Great sores would break out
and nothing put on them would do any good. Ny
hair and eye brows fell out and l looked "right.
My mouth was so sore had to live milk and
TOOK Mercury long time, but instead of improving
was steadily growing worse and my arms and hands
became SOLID sores while my legs were drawn
could not walk began s. S. s. and it helped me from
the start After taxing it awhile sores all healed
my Rheumatism was cured. and today am strong
well man S. s. s. got all Mercury out of my sys-
tenn and completely cured of this vile disease.
ADAM SCHNABLE.
I'll Mary street. Evansville Ind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
Duty on Steel Rails.

In 1870 congress imposed duty Of
II cents pound. or SOS a gross ton. up
ON the Importation of steel rails. BY 1871
the average price of steel rails in Eng
land was only a little over 81 per ton
After 1871 FOR a while the English price
did not average SO high. as S2S DeT ton
The duty Of SIS, therefore, became equiv
alent to more than 100 per cent on the Tor
eign price After 1879 for some years our
manufacturers sold their steel rails at
SCI to So per ton, while the same rams
could have been purchased in England at
sf1 to $50 per ton. Congress. knowing the
fact. nevertheless continued a duty of
S17 a ton on steel rails by the act OF l&S3
Of s1s44 per ton under the Mckinley tar
if and today of S7.S4 under the Dingley
bill although there has not been a year
since 1850 when steel rails could not be
manufactured in this country as chcati5
as I'm England 800,
1.-THE issue in the campaign Of 1888 was
the tariff. Then came the Mckinney tar
iff of 1890. establishing the highest duties
which the country had known UP TN that
time. BY that act the average ad val
orem duty on dutiablc imports was made
inward of 30 per cent.
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neck and groin swell, copper colored spots
appear on the body, the hair and eyebrows
come out, and when the blood has become
thoroughly impregnated with the poison, sores
and ulcers break out on the flesh, the finger
nails drop off, and the disease works down and
affects the bones. 1t is the most contagious
of all blood disorders, and many an innocent
person has been inoculated with the virus and
suffered all it's dreadful effects through a
friendly handshake, or by using the toilet
articles of an infected person. Children in
herit the awful faint from parents, and their
innocent lives are blighted and ruined because
Strong mineral medicines like mercury
gious Blood Poison, but years of failure have
trouble. These medicines can only mask. or
but as soon as they are left off the old svmpto
tinued use of mercury and potash destroy tt
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The Panic of 1893.

time had not passed TO determine vheth-
er or not It was an Improvement over ths
MChIuleN bill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
Beginning of Abominasion.

Policy rather than principe became
an issue The great patriots of earlier
days were passing away and politicians
were more in evidence and as a result
of the new conditions and prominence OF
selfish interests. the tariff of abomina-
tions was passed. Its average ad vaio-
rem rate was 4S.SS per cent. the highest
known in the country until the Mckinley
act of 1890. Jackson was elected and both
his supports and the supports of
Adams. his opponent. joined in condemn
ing it. IT was replaced in 1882 with tar
iff similar to that of 1924 In 1893 the
compromise tariff was passed. which pro-
vided for d gradual reduction of the tar
if. 1t has been said that this reduction
caused the panic of 1897. What truth there
is in this fiction. study of history will
reveal. and you should learn that for
yourselves. Let us see In 1893 President
jackson transferred from the United
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
An Equitable Tariff.

The Democratic party is not opposed
TO a tariff tax. but insists that il shall
not exceed am amount which will produce
the needed revenues Of the government
economically administered, giving Incl
dental protection equally and fairly dis
tributed on commodities and localities
Such a tariff will afford more protection
than was given during the first fifty
years Of our national existence, WOW or
industries were i'm their infancy and dur
ing a time when the tariff was not par
tisan issue. Washington and Hamilton
did not live to see an ad vaIorem tariff
exceed - per cent; today it is over 20
per cent.
1t was under jefferson that the young
nation fought and vanQuished the politi-
cal olgarchy, and the moneyed oIigarchv
under Jackson And I believe it VIII be
under Democratic rule that the people
VIII be relieved of the tyrannical and
unlawful combinations. corporations
trusts and money barOns. brought into
existence. made possible developed. ma
tured and entrenched behind a prohibit
i've tariff. and fostered by special rates
and rebates, piundeTiuE the people on
the one hand while with the other they
make foreign conquest and sell their
products cheaper abroad than they sell
them 10 our tariff-taxed people
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aristocracy of the old world. We import
over half billion and pay in tariff there
on nearly 30 per cent of the amount. The
Domestic producer. by reason of the tar
III restricting foreign impOrtatiOns, Is en-
abled TO raise the price of like products
In many cases up TO the duty line and ac-
lually sell a considerable portion of the
S2O,oOtOO0.G09 Of domestic products at a
price enhanced BY the amount of the tar
III. when. in fact much of the same goods
are sold abroad at reduced prices. This
Is done in the face of the fact that the
cost OF manufacture has been decreased
IN the last fifty years to fiftieth part
in some cases, of what it was. and the
price maintained at what il was fifty
years ago. through the aid of the tariff
and trusts 1t should be easily under
stood how necessary it is to increase the
tariff periodically in order to keep out
competition as the cost of production de
creases, for otherwise there would be
some competition under the old tariff.
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Country's Natural Wealth.

The 2 Au Age says we snail produce
this year g.00O000 tons of pig iron In
1885 the United States produced more than
one-haif of the worlds output of copper.
and it has been rapidly Increasing ever
since In 1865 we produced $4,000 tons
of lead and in 1904 we produced more than
one-half of all the petroleum of the world.
The same is true as to cotton and corn
yet copper. corn and cotton received no
benefit from the tariff
Although our national expenditures
amounted to more than 0OO0. 600 more
during the last four years than during
the same period Immediately prior the
burden of our national taxes in ratio To
our production is about s. per capita or
about S1s per cent upon the value of the
entire national product at it's point of
export and consumption, while in its
competing manufacturing counties Great
Britain. France. Germany and the Neither
per head. Our people can make a net
profit of per cent upon our entire ma
tional product before their competitors
named have paid their taxes.
Individual Superiority.
THE great French writer Mr. LEROY
Beduieu. says, basing his statement upon
our census reports Of 1900: There can be,
no question Of the ipdustrial primacy
which she (the United Statesl, has held,
probably since an epoch midway between
1880 and 1890. Yet, curiously enough the
proportion of the population occupied in
INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS Is mucn less than the
proportion of the population similarly en-
plOyed in England Germany or France"
This same writer admits the superiority
of our workmen heretofore stated
Under such conditions can the protective
tariff be other than means of extortion
on the part of the powerful combinations
that enjoy the benefits of the tariff
"DunS commercial agency says the cost
of living has increased IA per cent since
1897. You can hire today common labor
for 81 per day. Employees of the protected
industries are always paid low wages. 1t
is the men in the building trades and
kindred vacations that get the very high
wages. and that is accomplished through
their unions. ThJse trades never were or
can be protected. Under the speciors guise
of necessity for a protective tariff. q few
men are enabled to destroy competition.
and have been able TO take the consum-
er's money through the tariff, or indirect
methods Of taxation and thereby enrich
themselves beyond the conception Of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
STORY of TARIFF
TOLD BY MOYLE
Democratic View Given Before
Political Science
League.
PLEA FOR FAIR TAXATION
DANGERS OF PRESENT SYSTEM
APE SHOWN.

Speaking before the Political Science
league AT the University of Utah. on "A
Democratic View Of the Tariff" recently,
James II. Moyle. of Salt Lake said:
Democracy stands for the rule of the
people the equality of man.
IT cmbodies in its principles the let
Ter and spirit of the enduring Declare
zion Of Independence.
1T stands for equal rights TO all and
special privileges TO none; for the reserv-
alton in the people and states all the
rights not specifically granted To the fed
eral government.
1T stands for home rule. the priceless
right Of local self-goVerument
1t is the unalterable enemy Of the
Capitalization Of power in the federal
or any other government removed from
the people, except those powers granted
by the constitution.
In consequence Of these fundamental
principals of liberty constituting its
foundation principles. il is the consistent
opponent and enemy of monopoly in cV-
cry form, hence its opposition to a tariff
fax imposed for the benefit of any spe-
cial class at the expense Of the masses.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17

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