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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
LAW ENFORCEMENT
SHOCKS PRITS
SEEM TO THINK THEY OUGHT TO
BE IMMUNE FROM PUN
ISHMENT.
AMERICAN PEOPLE STAND FOR
EQUAL AND FAIR APPLlCA-
TON OF PENALTY.

Chicago, Dec. 23-Attorney general
Bonaparte, VINO passed Saturday in
Chicago as the guest of the illinois
Athletic cluo, was the principal speak
er at banquet Of that organization.
He spoke on Oh Stacles to the EXecU-
ton Of the Laws.
He said it had been his experience
as attorney general that some people
think or talk ana write as though the
law specially exempted them. In this
particular he called attention to the
Strenuous opposition of interested par
ties to the enforcement Of the anti
trust laws, to the denunciation Of the
prosecution of those engaged in land
frauds by the guilty men themselves
and their friends, and to the opposi-
ton in some southern states to the
governments furnishing those engaged
in peonage,
In all these cases alike" he said,
the idea underlying the complaint,
an idea often more Or less concealed
by sophistry and falsehood, is that the
tended to be really obeyed by some
people. When a culprit shows, by
way Of answer to a charge against
him, that he is captain Of industry,
a 'generalissimo of finance or at least
q leading citizen in other words that
he is rich or otherwise influential, the
critics would let him go unpublished,
or at the worst escape with a sham
penalty.
In our country, neither the presi-
dent nor anyone else can execute the
laws faithfully, or execute them at
all, unless the American people want
them executed. If it is the peoples
wish that any laws, or all laws, shall
become dead letters whenever rich
or influential men find their faithful
execution a source of loss or danger
to themselves, then such laws can
not be, and will not be, enforced
against such men. But, !, for one, be-
lieve firmly that the people have no
such wish. Americans as a nation
think their laws are meant to be
obeyed by all alike, by rich no less
than by the poor, by the enlightened
no less than by the ignorant; more
over they wish and intend their laws
to be thus Obeyed, and that the rich
est lawbreaker who ever crushed out
competition through a trust shall find
no greater favors from courts or juries
cor public prosecutors than the mean
est Criminal who counterfeits our coins
or sends obscene matter through the
mails"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26

in pockets by the forewoman, and if
| by chance a worker loses a gem and
cannot find it she must refund its
value. This cutting is responsible
work, therefore, and it is slow and
patient work. An ordinary stone.
weighing about ten carats. will take
woman whole days work
There are twenty women doing this
work. In the big workrooms, where
the diamonds go for the final process
the polishing-there are 800 men
working. 1t is interesting to note
that the highest wage any woman re-
ceives 30 guilders a weeks the
average of the pay of these men.
Machinery is used in this department,
where the diamonds are polished and
given what is technically called their
"si1es"
A good many celebrated diamonds
have passed through this factory
where the women work. 1t was here
that the Victoria, weighing 400
carats, was cut and polished, and the
Mogul, 279 carsts in weight, and the
great Regent of France, which is now
in the Louvre. The Kohinoor was re-
cut here, losing half it's weight in the
process but more than doubling its
value.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
PULLMAN POR7ERS
GtT $40 AND TIPS

St Paul, Dec. 22-The Pullman COM
pany pays its porters S25 mOnth.
The travelling public does the rest.
This information was made a matter
Of public record Ii the Interstate com
MERGE commission hear .ng. :. r. Ne 1t,
Pullman superintendent at st. Paul,
was compelled to testify over the CD
lection Of the Pullman counsel, that
porters get $25 month from the COM
pany, and out of that buy their uni
forms, also bei-g fined each month
for linen and other articles lost or
spoiled Pullman conductors are paid
$40 to $50, according to term o. SER
vice.
Some very material evidence was
brought out in the closing hours. y.
A. Robinson, controller of the Omaha
road, produced the Omaha's contract
with the Pullman company. 1t guaran-
tees the Pullman company a revenue
of $500 a year On each car, and Tx.
Robinson said that one year the raid
road company had to pay out Of its
own funds to make this guarantee
L BOD
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
HEADS IF MILK
TRUST INDICTED
CHARGED IN TRUE BILLS WITH
ORGANIZING TO RAISE
PRICES.

Chicago, Ill, Dec. 22.-The Deem
Der grand jury Saturday returned IN
dictments against Is members OF
the Illinois Milk Dealers association
for conspiracy to do an illegal act Ill
furious to public trade.
The indictments are the result OF
the investigation recently commenced
by States Attorney Healy into the
causes for the recent advance II the
price of milk IN it's report the
grand jury said:
In our opinion the testimony sub
mitted conclusively proved the exist
ence Of a combination for the pur-
pose of advancing the price of milk. .
All of the men and corporations in
dicted are members of the Illinois
Milk Dealers association, and all
were said by witnesses before the
grand jury to have been present at
a meeting Of the association in this
city Immediately preceding the recent
advance in the price of milk. The
members of the association, however,
assert that prices were not discussed
and that no action regarding prices
was taken at the meeting.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
FORAKER BLAMES
RAIL Road LAW
SAYS RATE MEASURE, NOT SPEC
ULATION, BROUGHT ABOUT
BANK TROUBLE.

Cleveland, Dec. 23.-United States
senators, congressman, high govern
ment officials and representatives of
many business interests gathered here
Saturday in the interest of shin sub
sides. 1t is estimated that the gov
eminent will have to donate about
S100,000,000 to place the merchant
marine in a position successfully to
compete with the merchant marine of
other nations, where subsidies exist.
Senator Foraker made a strong argu-
ment in favor of building up the
American merchant marine. AS bear.
ing upon his subject he took occasion
to discuss the present financial con
ditions, which he declared were in,
evitable because Of many influences,
among which was the passage of the
rate bill by the last congress, making
the revenues of 100000 miles of rail-
road dependent upon "a rate-making
Washington.
I'VE are passing through a strange
experience" declared Foraker. ''The
plainest common sense propositions
with respect to great business trans,
actions are Whistled down the wind
if they do not happen to suit the ex>
cited fancy of lot Of self-constituted
representatives of an alleged moral
regeneration of the businss world
THE trouble is not due to scarcity
of currency. for we have more money
and better money today than ever be-
fore. 1t is not due TO over speculation
nor to inflated prices for there has
not been anything unreasonably ex-
travagant in either respect. 1t is not
due to a conspiracy of rich men to
bankrupt themselves and the whole
country for political purposes"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
Neat Little Game.

After tea she brought over his pipe
and his slippers.
John" she whispered tenderly, do
you know my conscience has been
hurting me and / have formed a lit
tie conscience fund"
Conscience fund.-" asked the big
husband in surprise.
Eyes, dear. You see l have been
borrowing a few dollars out Of your
vest pockets every night for week
and here is the entire sum-
well Well! You are an honest
little woman"
and John?"
well. my dear?"
''Now-Dow that l have been so
honest would-would you mind giving
me the conscience fund to buy the
pretty autumn hat I saw in window
today?"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
A Blind Telephone Operator.

The philadelphia Telephone News
tells of private branch exchange In
the Baldwin locomotive works at
Eddystone, Pa, which is operated by
a blind man. Instead of the usual
numbering on the drops raised num-
bers are used, and when a drop falls
the operator ascertains the number
calling by the sense of touch. This
operator is Aloysius Dukehart. He
was formerly in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, and
lost his sight through a railroad acct
dent The Philadelphia News adds:
IF operators or other employees who
think they are now working under
difficulties, could see this example of
patient and efficient operating, it
would broaden their minds to a wider
realization of their own blessings"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
RUSSIAN PRISONERS
HAVE ALLIES HERE
MARK TWAIN AND WILLIAM
DEAN HOWELLS INTERESTED.
BARON ROSEN APPEALED TO
Scores of Signatures To Petitions
for Release CT Both Nicholas Tch
aykovsky and Mime Breshkosky
Confined in a Foul Dungeon-Ar-
rested on Ancient Charges.

New York, Dec. pa movement to
Eberate Nicholas Tchaykovsky and
Nine. BreshkoVsky from the dungeon
into which they were cast ten days
ago by the Russian Government got
under full swing when hundreds of
signatures to petitions circulated by
friends Of the political prisoners were
obtained here and throughout the
country. That a movement was on
foot to aid them was made public by
Robert Erslline Ely, Director of the
Civic Forum, at the City club.
Since Saturday." said Mr.. Ely,
when a group of distinguished citl-
Gems met at luncheon, efforts have
been under way to help Tcnaykovsky
and Nine. BresEkovsky. Every one of
the gentlemen present had met both
the apostles of political liberty when
they were here last, and not out of
sympathy with any revolutionary
cause, but merely out Of regard for
the lofty character of both, did we
decide to help them. Since Tuesday
last, when the first dispatches were
printed about their Incarceration, we
nave tried to communicate either with
the prisoners or with their friends, but
not ore word have We received direct
ly from them in Russia.
The only confirmation we received
was a despatch from the Associated
Press confirming the arrest of TSchay-
kOVsky. 1t said he was arrested on old
charges that date back thirty years.
These charges were wiped out under
the amnesty granted by the present
-ezar in 1905. have not yet been able
10 learn why Nine. BreshkoVsky was
arrested. At any rate they are con-
fined in the old fortress Of Sc. Peter
and Paul, which is a foul and damp
dungeon"
Seth Low, Richard Watson Glider,
DR.. Lyman Abbott, Francis Lynde
Stetson, Morgan J. O'Brien, John D..
Crimmins, Henry CleWs, r. Fulton
Cutting, William Dean Howells, Mark
Twain, George Foster Peabody, Rob
ert w. De Forest, William Jaw Schieff-
elm, Elgin r. L. Could Jacob A. Rils,
Herman Ridder, Oswald G. Willard,
DR.. Parllnurst, the Rev. Percy S..
Grant, the Rev. Th0was r. Slicer, V.
Everit Macy, Horace White, Eugene
Smith, Norman Hapgood, the Rev.
Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, Edward NJ.
Shepard, Professor George w. Kirch-
way Everett P. Wheeler, William
T.,
II. Finley, George McAneny, Rollo
Ogden and John A. Sleicher.
Among the signers in Boston are
the Bishop of Massachusetts and
prominent editors, publishers, capital
lists and lawyers. Circuit Judge Julian
w. Mack is in charge Of the petition
work in Chicago and five hundred
! prominent citizens there are getting
! signatures.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
PEOPLE SANE IN
BUSTING TRUSTS
MOVEMENT AGAINST MONOPC
LIES NO MAD CRUSADE SAYS
CUMMiNS.

New York, Dec. Ex-Governor
Cummins of iowa, principal speaker
at the annual dinner of the New Eng
land society in Brooklyn Saturday
night, declared that the American
deet now steaming to the Pacific
coast would be welcomed by all the
great nations of the world before II
again anchored in New York harbor.
Speaking of the attitude Of legisla-
lures towards corporations, ne said.
There is a belief prevalent in
some places that the people of the
country and especially the people OF
tie west, have gone mad in a cru
SADIE against railway investment 1t
IS not so. On the contrary there is
not shadow of rancor or hostility
in the course they have taken. The
tendency toward monopoly or sub
stantial monopoly is as swift as it
IS natural. Within limits consistent
with effective competition, great cor
porations should be encouraged. not
denounced: but the moment one OF
them grows strong enough to DOM
nate the business in which it is Ell
gagged and to exclude all rivals. il
becomes as dangerous as the spirit
of anarchy.
There are a few men who have
fallen into this unfortunate habit of
denouncing the master spirits who
have accumulated fortunes, but they
have no constituency. The man
who wins in the struggle for supren-
acy, if he wins fairly. is entitled. 60
the fruits Of his victory. no matter
What may be the fed Of his endeav-
or: AID while he may excite envy. he
will always extort admiration. There
are a few men who see in every ad-
vocate Of change and progress z
demagogue. but they do not speak
for the people, and their voices should
be drowned in the current of sober
thought and noble patriotism"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
CONEICTS LEARN TRADES.
But Cigar Making is Abolished In
Michigan Prison.

Marquette Mich, Dec. 22-After
April l, the manufacture of cigars
Will be abandoned at the Marquette
rison. A fve-year contract for con-
Wet labor expiring the first of the year.
the board of control has decided rot
to renew it. Instead, the services OF
the prisoners have been awarded to q
manufacturer of overaHs who offered
terms much more advantageous to the
state.
The decision put an end to cigar
making at the prison is good news for
.cigarmakers of the state. The indus
try there has been a constant cause
Iof vexation to them for many years
and they have long sought TO have it
abolished.
In the last state election the peopie
voted on the proposition, shall thu
constitution be amended so as to PC,
NIT the teaching of trades to con-
victs?" The force of organized labor
was thrown against the proposal.
However, The amendment carried by d
large mapority. The vote removed
| the embargo on the teaching of trades
to convicts, and left the boards of con
troll free To employ them as they
wished, The question of convict Ia
Dor viii be considered by the present
constitutional convention.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26

credited with having started the Sun
day observance movement that now
has become widespread, has issued a
significant statement to the .1ssoci-
ated Press on his Interpretation of
the Missouri law that he is seeking
TO enforce. He also arraigns those
whom he says violate the law for
gain, and dwells upon the crying
need one day of rest out Of every
seven.
Judge Wallace in his statement
says:
1T is q. mistake to suppose that the
Sabbath is purely religious institu-
ton. The Sabbath was ordained be-
fore man had fallen or before there
was church or the need for a re-
deemer. Hence, it is easy to per-
ceive how it is that a desire for a. day
Of rest is a latent intuition for the
laboring man.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
SCANDAL IN COURT
STAGGF RS BUTTE

Butte. Mont, Dec. pa profound
sation was created when afidavits
were filed in District Judge Lynca's
court, accusing Amos DoIey, a mem
ter of the panel. with accepting d
bride of $50 from Jsoeph Collins, pre-
siGent of the Olympia Brewing com
pany, defendant in a damage suit, to
az verdict for him.
The affidavit of Mr.. Collins is sup
ported by the afdavits Of Cit De
tectiyes Edward Hennessy and James
Larkin, who were concealed in pri-
vate room in Mr.. Collins apartments
and overheard Doney make the as
founding offer, guaranteeing a verdict
for the sum stated.
Doney has implicated practically the
whole jury stating that each man
wanted at least S. for his trouble OF
arranging the verdict. 1t Was set
forth by Doney, to his listeners, SO 1t
Is alleged, that the panel -7as well or
gained and that they appointed d
new man each week to care for the
business Of verdicts, which were guar
anteed Asked his name, SO that the
detective might hear it, Doney replied:
Never mind, l am appointed to take
care Of this case and it would make
40 difference"
Doney is under arrest, and in de.
faut Of 81 900 bail, is in cell.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
BIC WESTERN
FOOTBALL GAME

Spokane, Wash, Dec. 22.-Students
of the new and old football declare
the hardest battle ever fought on The
gridiron in the northwest is SEIZED.
uled at Natatorium park in Spokane
for the afternoon of Christmas day,
when Johnny r. Bender, formerly
captain of the University of Nebraska
team, VII lead the Washington state
college eleven against the St Louis
university team. The game Will be
the first meeting Of strong middle
western and northwestern college
teams since football was introduced
among the institutions in this part
of the country, Is years ago. Both
are champions in their districts. Ed
die Cochems, formerly half back for
Visions n, now coach for st. Louis,
has advised former college friends
in Spokane that his bunch will show
practically the same lineup as the
one that defeated Nebraska by 81 20
0 on Thanksgiving day, while Bend
er who is working the squad at Pull
man, south Of here, is full of conf
dence and enthusiasm, declaring that
nothing would please him more than
30 down the team which defeated his
alma mater. He believes his team
has a fighting chance to win
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
WHEN HER HAIR TURNS GRAY
A Cherished DeIusion DoubIy Denied
by Meeting with Young Truckman.

A Cherished DeIusion DoubIy Denied
by Meeting with Young Truckman.
l feel young said MIR. Grayooy, il
the New York Sun, land l like to
think l still look young, but now and
then l get Little reminder.
ION the elevated last night man
who had been sitting in a seat three
seats distant from where | was stand
ing got up to go out. Now, standing
in the other direction from this seat,
but only two seats distant from it,
reading a newspaper, was a young
man who could easily have got to it
before l could, but he made no move
for it. He just cont nued standing
where he was and went on reading
hills paper.
And then of course | knew that ne
was leaving that seat for me, and |
knew why. But | was tired, and SO ]
looked at him and bowed and smiled
a little in acknowledgment of his
courtesy, and he bowed and smiled a
little in return and then | took the
seat
Coming across the street one mo
ing | heard a man singing out to me
cheerfully, Come on there, old man.
come on and looking up 1 saw
young truck driver holding up HIS
team so that he wouldn't run over m.
You know what he would have said
if / had been young man? 1t would
have been, Hey, there! and then it
would have been up to me to jump
or get run over but he was showing
to me the consideration due to age.
"And in this case my cherished
| illusion was doubly dented, for did not
| the necessity of the truckman's call
| ing show to me that | had been alb
sentminded when he spoke, not watch
! full and on the alert as ] ought to have
been in such a. place? And what the
truckman thought of me was shown By
what he said.
| Very kind of him, though; it surely
was, and the people who thus remind
me of my age are all prompted by the
kindest Intentions, but really | wish
: people wouIdi't be so polite
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
ACID STOPS
MAD COURSE
OF MANIAC

st. Joseph, Mo-, Dec. 22.-The con
dition of Mrs, Clay Filley, who, with
her baby. escaped a murderous attack
Of Albert Fiuey. her brother-inIaw. who
killed her husband and his own wife
and little daughter near Camtron, Mo-.
Saturday, is reported critical. but the
physician thinks she will recover. The
story of the tragedy is thus told by
AIRS. Filley:
4 retired about 1 o'clock this morn,
ing and was awakened at 4 O'Clock by
a revolver shot. followed immediately
BY my husband rushing into the room
exclaiming he had been shot by Al
bert ua aa into he living room
sd 81 tiaert beating to death
H picked up his daughter.
repeated the process.
us and attacked US. We
saA SD the yard and fought. Ny
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
STRIKERS LOSE FIGHT
Glad to Return to Their Old Places on
Tie Company's Terms.

Ielwein, Iowa, Dec. 22-Ine strike
of Great Western employees has been
settled except as to the boilermake S.
The union men are going back as rap
idly as there is room for them, at the
old schedule of wages and win che
knowledge that they will work in al
open shop. The strike was started
three month ago by the m"chinists
and bolermakers, who asked raise
in wages. A satisfactory agreement
could not be reached and the other
union men struck in sympathy, fully
1000 leaving their places. The Great
Western officials imported strike
breakers and sheltered, clothed and
FED them in the shops.
This condition existed until a We eiz
ago, when the different partments
began resuming. Now the machinisrs
have returned, and only half a hundred
boilermakers are holding out Tie
settlement IS regarded as a Zig victory
for the railroad company.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26
FROM MADISON sToNER.
First White Boy Born In Madison
Writes on His SEVENTEEN Birthday,

George W. Steiner has received a
gossipy letter FROM his brother, James
Madison Stoner whose home is Den
yer but who spent some weeks of the
last summer in Madison. Mr.. Stoner
wrote on December 10. the 10th ami
versary of his birth,-an event which
occurred II this city. He Says-"'Sey-
enty years ago today December 10.
you may have some recollection of
what happened at that time-or has
the time been so remote as to have
passed entirely from your memory?
Preparations have been made for the
reception OF the boosters who went
to Washington TO have Denver Sc
lected as the place for holding the next
democratic convention in which they
were successful; and in appreciation
of the services rendered they are to
be accorded as warm reception by
everybody regardless of party affilia-
tons as the cold weather will permit.
They will be met at the depot by
mayor, governor and citiznes with
bands, and a grand jollification is an
ticipated. Republicans have coutri
buted literally towards securing the
convention Senator Guggenheim (repl
gave $1,000, and enoug has been con-
trlbuted to make 100000. There was
some kicking about accepting the
money but they finally concluded TO
take it. Senator Teller is stiG on
deck and made the best speech that
influenced the selecting committee to
chose Denver. The railroads will give
reduced rates. The re new from
Denver to Chicago is $3.50 which is
a drop of about 81 from what it for
merly was. paid $2740 from Madi-
son to Denver The excursion ticket
from Denver to Mad son and return
was $29.40. There will probably be
81 great influx of travel to Colorado
next June and July. This cold snap
may result in a brief interruption of
building operations but tt auditorium
will be completed in time if they have
to build fires to keep the raborers
and workmen warm while they are TO
ing it.
The authorities are after the
coal combine here and its beneficial
effect is already apparent, good coal
and plenty of it selling a 81 per
to" 1t was S. a short time ago, well
did not start out to write much
but just to let you know that | was
alive on my 10th birthday