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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17
Secs Breakers Ahead.

Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish, lately president
of the Illinois Central Railroad COM
many. has assumed the role of Cas-
sandra and tells his countrymen GER
tain things which they do not like to
hear. Pope says:
All seems infected that the infected spy
AS all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
It may be-who knows - that the
fact that Mr. Fish was recently and
forcibly separated from nice juicy
Job causes him to take a pessimistic
view of things. However that may be,
he begins lengthy article in the
Journal of Commerce with this dis
ouieting sentence: Sin point of time a
great industrial crisis is due, and there
are many indications Of its being i'm
minent'' With that for a starter he
discourses on earthquakes, famine,
cliques, ETC., in extenso. One Of his
sentences will surprise most folks. It
is this: 1--WE are still debtor nation. !"
We have been Boosting SO much lately
about our unprecedented increase in
wealth, about being the richest nation
on the globe and about being world
power, which we have been since April
80, 1903, that it stuns us to be inform
ed that we are still debtor nation.
Toward the close Of his article Mr..
Fish dips into politics and intimates
that a business depression betwixt now
and 1908 would cause the discomfort
ed to flock to the banner of Mr. Bryan
or Mr. Hearst. He cites as sample
of sthe temper of the people, the fact
that Charles Evans Hughes, Republic
an. was elected governor of New York,
while all the rest Of the Democratic
candidates were elected, and then
says that this temper Of the people
'sis vastly stronger elsewhere All IA
all, Mr.. Fish's remarks are well worthy
Of consideration by those who arc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17
Progress.

FTO9ICSSs
The world moves A Chinese repub-
lie is proposed. Doesn't that jar you?
The Democratic idea, like Tennyson's
brook, goes on forever. If Thomas
Jefferson is cognizant of what hap
pens on this mundane sphere, he must
be delighted. to use favorite word Of
the latest of his successors. The Chi
nese have been supposed to be not
only joined to their idols, as was
Ephraim of old, but also to their IDEAS
They have been counted as the most
incurable conservatives and mossbacks
Of all human beings, but there is such
an institution as the Chinese Empire
Reform association, which has for its
ambitious purpose the Americaniza-
ton of China and the establishment of
a republic Wonders will never cease,
and surely this is the most marvellous
bit of news during the first seven days
of 1907. Suppose the aforementioned
association should succeed in Amer
icanizing China, which means that
China and the Chinese would wake
up. Suppose also that the 400000,000
and odd Chinese after they are walked
up should join hands with the forty odd
millions of Japs who have already
walked up and that they should take
it into their yellow pates to go forth
conquering and to conquer. What
then? All the white men on the face
Of the earth would be compelled in
self defense to bury their own differ
ences and line up together in order to
withstand these Asiatic hordes Ash
attic nations from time immemorial
have been in the habit of swarming
after the fashion of bees, and the only
reason they have not swarmed much
since the battle of Tours, in which
Charles Martel defeated Adder Rah-
man, is that the power of the whites
has restrained them But within the life
time of folks now on earth Japan has
experienced new birth. So may China,
and when she does it is war to the
death between the yellow races and
the white races.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17
shiveIx For Vice President.

There is a rumor in Washington that
Hon. B. f. Shively of South Bend, Ind,
has announced that he is willing to ac-
cept nomination for vice president,
and the rumor has been received with
applause by all Democrats in Wash
ington who know the brilliant Hoosler.
He could have been nominated at Kan
sas City in 1900 if he had been willing.
He served several terms in congress,
retiring of his own motion March 4,
1893. When he first entered the house
he was the youngest member and dur
ing his entire service was a distln7
guished member He is still in the
prime of his splendid powers, lawyer
in the front rank, a public speaker OF
unusual force. He is a tall, well knit,
prepossessing man-an advantage in
public life not to be despised or lightly
held Shively is a fayorite son of the
Indiana Democracy and occupies
geographical position Of great strategic
Importance Since Indiana quit holding
her state election in October, just a
month in advance of the presidential
eloCtlOl, Slic ID llOL 81 AuuSii VI q PA'oeeAi
state, but nevertheless in a larger
sense she is still pivotal Normally In
diana is close and at the election in
1906 showed signs of swinging back to
the Democratic column. In this con-
gress her delegation stands two Demo
Gratis and eleven Republicans. In the
Sixtieth congress she will have four
Democrats to nine Republicans, and
two of those Republicans were elected
by the skin of their teeth, while the
majorities of some others were cut to
almost the vanishing point. Shively
made famous race in the South Bend
district, reducing the Republican ma
jority from 5000 to about 200. Mr..
Shively is happily married to a daugh-
ter of Hon. George A. jerks of Brook
vile, Pa, who was prominent mem
Der of congress and who held high
office under Grover Cleveland All in
all. he would make a tiptop candidate,
and when elected he would make an
ideal presiding officer of the senate.
Should be succeed to the presidency by
the death or resignation of the presi-
dent he would make a safe and popular
chief magistrate of the republic. The
fact that a man of his standing is will
ing to accept a vice presidential nomi-
nation is another evidence that the
Democrats expect to win in 1908.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17


cures made by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-R Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
cal triumph Of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years Of
scientific research BY
DR.. Kilner, the emf.
nent kidney and blad-
der snecia LIST and is
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17


Vile negro soldier episode, and
that is Reed Smoot of Utah. 1t comes
to Reed in the nature of a reprieve,
not that he is or ever was in the slight
est danger Of being separated from his
ruruIe chair by his fellow senators. II
he had been Democrat he would
have been bounced long ago; but, being
Republican, be has been all the time
safe as a bug in rug by reason of the
modus vivendi entered into several
years ago by the Mormon hierarchy
md the Republican bigwigs. The rea-
son why Smoot is grateful for the
Brownsville imbroglio is that it gives
him a rest from the dreary stream of
senatorial talk about himself. He may
be thick skinned. but even he must
have grown weary of that solemn driv
ell. OF all the farces ever put on the
boards the Smoot investigation heads
the list. If he is not entitled to his seat,
he ought to have been fired long ago.
If he is entitled to it, his title ought to
have been confirmed before the middle
of his term. The Smoot case is a stencil
in the nostrils of decent folk.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17

plunging and should be warning or
at least a cause for study by all those
who have spread out too much under
the impression that this era Of pros
perity will have no end.
It is a 10 to shot. however, that his
suggestions viii fall on deaf ears, just
as did Noah's predicting the food.
Human nature has been the same in all
ages of the world, and the rule OF con-
duct for most people Is sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof which,
after all, may be most productive Of
hannineSS
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17
Republican Eeudists.

The G. o. p. is rent with feuds. SEN
ator Joseph Benson Foraker is after
President Roosevelt with a sharp
stick about the wholesale discharge of
the colored troops Governor Albert
B. Cummins and Mr.. Secretary Shaw
head the two Republican factions in
Iowa which are fighting each other to
the death-God be praisedl In Mis-
wings are not Hopping together. Quite
the contrary. In New York the reg
ulars, y now out in the cold, are watch
ing Governor Hughes and the ire
formers with knives up their sleeves.
In Indiana Vice President Fairbanks
and his friends are trying to unhorse
Senator Albert j. Beveridge and his
friends. On dit that the Fairbanks
crowd have gobbled nine of the state
committee and have left poor Beyer-
idge with only four. Consequently the
Beveridge crowd is sore-sore as was
the man of Uz when he was afflicted
with boils and when his wife coun-
seled him to curse God and die" It's
a pretty kettle of fish. What's the
matter with these snarling, wrangling,
biting, scratching, caterwauling pa
triots? Spells and the division there
of. public pap and its ladling out.
When tile office seekers were Fostering
President Lincoln almost to death, he
pathetically remarked as to the pau
CITY of teats and the surplus of pigs.
It's the same now. They have all the
federal Offices in the land and most
of the state and county offices, but
there are not enough to go round;
hence wars and rumors OF war, hence
this hair pulling and knitting just
why Vice President Fairbanks wants
to Dust the soulful Beyeridge from his
curule chair is not clear to an out
slider, but that such is the case seems
the only conclusion to be drawn from
Indianapolis dispatches. Perhaps the
senator is ineubating presidential
boom of his own which the vice presi-
dent thinks or fears may collide with
his own BOOM So he proposes to
souelch the brilliant and ambitious
Beveridge at once and forever. Ii they
will closely scan the Hoosier election
returns in 1906. they may discover that
a bitter quarrel between them might
mean Democratic Indiana once more.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17
DO YOU GET UP
WITH Alamo BACK ?
kidney Trouble Makes You miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure TO know of the wonderful
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17

make state as large as Indiana.
thereby making homes in the heart of
the continent for several millions Of
American citizens The people of the
Mississippi valley should rise up as one
man and demand in way to command
attention that congress shall do it's full
duty in the premises. Systematic ac-
tion--a long pull. a strong pull and a
pull together will accomplish the de-
sired end, and nothing short Of that
will suffice. Year in and year out the
Missouri and the upper Mississippi
swallow enough rich land to constitute
a state as big as Massachusetts,. Why
not save that precious land for our
children and our childrens childreng
We spend millions on irrigation prof
ects. If we can spend moae to get
water on to land. why can't ne spend
money to get water off other land?
That is a question which, though fire.
quently asked, has never been salts
factorily or adequately answered. Sure
Iy it is up to congress to answer it.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17
Chinese Coolies.

Hon Samuel Gompers, president Of
the American Federation of Labor, has
no influence, SO we are informed by
certain high and mighty Republicans.
AS heretofore related, some of them
even have the cheek to claim that his
opposition to measure boosts it rath-
err than retards it. If that be true,
strange things are happening things
inexplicable. For instance, some Of us
about a year ago made fight in the
house to prevent the employment of
Chinese coolies on the isthmian canal.
President Gompers was on our side in
that fight, but the plutocrats rolled us.
Now, however, rejecting on the cleo
ton returns, the Republicans have sud-
denly concluded that President Com
pers and the rest of us were right all
the time and therefore they declare
that Chinese coolies will not be en-
ployed in building the canal, a fact on
which Uncle Sammy Gompers may
congratulate himself and union labor
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17

Judge Walter Evans of the United
States court for the western district of
Kentucky has sort of patent right
on a way to get his name into the
newspapers, and that is by declaring
important laws of congress unconsti-
tutional This habit Of the judge
causes President Roosevelt to devote a
sharp paragraph in his December mes
sage to one of the judges decisions,
though he did not name the judge.
Now comes Judge Evans and sbusts'
the federal employers liability act At
this rate he viii soon become persona
non grata at the White House.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-17

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back kidney. bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form Of kidney trouble.
Dr.. Kilrnerss SwaTnp-Ro0t is not rec
commended for everything but if you havekid-
ney, liver or bladder trouble if will be found
just the remedy you need. lthas been tested
in so many ways. in hospital work, in private
practice. among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
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send your address to ::E::Es
DR.. Kilrner & Co.. Bing
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regular fifty cent and Home of swamp Root
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Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp Root, DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton,
N. Y. on every bottle.
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Especial Washington letter.
~ HERE Is at least one senator Of
q the United States who is no
doubt thankful for the Browns
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31
FREIGHT RATES

1t is we'll known fact that
freight rates are not now and never
have been based on the cost of
transporting commodity. The
rule has been TO charge all the
commodity will stand and the law
permit. If commodity will not
move at certain rate a lower one
is established. Stockholders and
sometimes officials are often in
terested in certain commodities,
especially grain, stock, lumber and
coal and the concerns in which
such parties are interested get
better rates then those in which
they have no interest. One only
needs to scan the freight schedules
in any depot to discover the glaring
incongruities therein contained.
That the present legislature should
give this matter their careful consid-
Grafton and devise some measure to
relieve the people from the extor-
ton and Dissemination practiced
upon their is self-evident.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31
Still the Same Old Whiteman.

We were worrying for fear w. G.
Whiteman was degenerating and los
ing his vigor but the two items below
clipped from the Herald-Star shows
there is still vitrol in his blood.
The lower house of the state legis-
lature has asked Gov. Johnson what
it had better do about county option.
If the house gets the answer it de-
serves it will read something like
this, "Do as you d--n please"
In the matter of the county print
ing in Big Stone county the prece-
dent has been set that the highest
bidder meets with the greatest favor
by the board, and that instead of vir-
tue being its own reward lying ras-
cality pops up and picks the plum.
When the story of the recent letting
of the countyprinting is told Judas
Iscariot will stop his paper in des.
pair and the home for the feeble
minded will yawn for another inmate.
1t should be said, in justice to the
board, that it stands two to two and
one and won.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31
WANTED FORMATION.
Robert Desired Minister'S Formula for
Disgusting His Breath.

A very aggressive and highly sue
cessful crusade in favor of temperance
has recently been going on in GER
tain Scotch city, and a young minis
ter, whose eloauence is married only
by the unfortunate remarks he some
times makes, has been able to per-
suade several heavy drinkers to enter
the temperance fold
Meeting one Of his converts one af-
ternoon, he stopped him and inquired
how he was getting along.
The man kept we'll back, and the
ministers suspicious were aroused.
"Ah, Robert" sal ! the reverend gen.
tleman, sadly. I'm afraid you've
been drinking. can smell it on your
breath"
Robert didn't deny the impeach-
ment-in fact, he couldn't-and just
remained speechless, his eyes fixed on
the ground in front of him.
Now, Robert continued the minis.
ter, you never smell the odor OF
liquor in my breath
mo, sir, l never did" was Roberts
reply; then, in most anxious tone OF
voice, ne added:
What dye dae for it,"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31
AT WORK

The present Legislature has mani
tested a commendable desire to get
down to work 335 bills have already
been introduced in the two houses,
which is much larger number than
is usual during the first 1s days of
thv session. There are however
comparatively few measures in
which the people take any interest.
Legislation equalizing taxation, re-
ciprocal demurrage, reduction of
freight and passenger rates, alb
clifton of passes, an Industrial
school for girls and the primary
election law. The people expect
action On these propositions and
the Legislature cannot get down to
work on them any too soon. Bills
have been introduced on all these
subjects and they must be threshed
over in committee and discussed in
the Committee of the Whole. The
only way any satisfactory results
can be obtained on these measures is
for the Legislature to get to work
on them and keep to work.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31
TAXATION

The true principle of taxation is
that every dollars worth of property
regardless of its character should
pay an equal amount of taxation.
1t is not necessary to say this con-
dition does not exist at the present
time in this city or any other.
There is not an assessment district
in this state but what numerous in
stances can be produced of indivi-
duals paying more taxes then other
individuals owning three times as
much property. Equality of taxa
ton is just as much fundamental
principle of republican government
as political equality.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31
A Fast Messenger Boy.

THAT little fifteen minutes talk
was worth a million dollars" re-
marked Anthony X. Vansant of Oma-
ha, as he left Philadelphia tele-
phone booth after having called up
his fiancee in a Western city over
the long distance, and asked: What's
the charger"
Eighteen dollars and seventy-five
cents" replied the hello girl. :.
Vansant began to search his cloth
ing for money, discovering his total
capital was insufficient to meet the
cost of the conversation. Manager
Arthur Barney suggested that a mes
senger be sent to Vansant's hotel for
the necessary sum. This was done,
while the helle girl held Vansant a
prisoner in the telephone booth. 1t
took the messenger two hours and a
half to return with reinforcement Of
greenbacks.
I'm glad that kid didn't have to go
to OMAHA" exclaimed Vansant as no
walked away. 80
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31

anyone that the cost of living and the
other expenses incumbent on men,
Der of the legislative branch of the
Government, or a Cabinet officer, as
a rule, more than eat up salary al
lowances.
The grounds surrounding the White
House are very much over run with
squirrels. About two years ago some
two hundred of the little animals we're
liberated in Lafayette Park, just OPP
posite the Executive Mansion, and
ever since their numbers have in
creased rapidly. Those in the White
House grounds have become so tame
that they will eat from the hands OF
the people who display enough inter-
est to stop and pet them. On days
when the sun shines brightly they
are much in evidence in the trees, on
the lawn, in the shrubbery, and the
younger Roosevelts often stop to play
with them.
A special friend of the squirrels is
the big policeman who is stationed
in the day time just east of the main
entrance to the White House. He
always carries nuts in his pockets and
they know how to get them. They al
go appear to know the hour when the
clerks in the State, War and Navy
Departments 60 to and from their
work, for they line the walks through
the grounds at these times and expect
food from those who pass. The other
day one of the more bold of the little
fellows walked right into the vesti-
bule of the Presidents Office and
would have gone in farther had not
screen prevented.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-01-31

The cost of living has increased
as much for Government Clerks,
Railway Mail Clerks, Rural Free
Delivery Carriers and Postmasters
as it has for Vice Presidents,
Cabinet Officers, Speakers, Sena-
tors and Congressman. Yet their
salaries were not raised without a
roll-call, nor with one either.