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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02
Radical Policies Run
Through Party Lines

More than in any previous year men
of all parties have been unwilling to
tolerate the leadership Of tainted poll.
ticians or untried aspirants for Office
Insurance exposures. rebate prosecu-
tions and Increased cost OF living, de.
spite the continuance of great business
activity, all combined to stiffen the
popular demand for square deal poll
tics and anti-monopoly legislation,
however people differed as to partics
ular ways and means.
On the Republican side President
Roosevelt voiced this sentiment with
his successful call for the, rate. pure
food, meat Inspection and ndustrial
alcohol laws and through his open OPP
position to the beef, railroad, coal,
sugar and other trusts. eliminating In
challenge to mortal combat with the
financial aggregation headed by John
ID. Rockefeller. At the same time that
the president called a halt on the ex-
pose writer's in his .smuck rake,
speech, APRIL IA, he startled the con
servatiye by limiting at the idea of a
progressive federal tax on swollen
fortunes. which in his recent annual
message to congress. DEC. 4. was deii-
nitely urged for legislative action ~
the antidote for Socialism,
In spite Of or by virtue Of these posi-
tions the personal following of the
president, plus good crops and contin.
ned industrial prosperity. were in the
main factors In the reelection Of a
Republican congress, NOV. 6, although
the opposition, aided in some districts
by the labor vote, was able to reduce
the Republican majority to fifty-eight.
The keynote Of the campaign was to
stand pat on the tariff and prosperity.
The entry Of organized labor into a
candid quizzing campaign under
the leadership OF President Gompers
was called failure by its enemies.
Gompers himself said he was well sat,
isf1ed, and his reelection by the fed
Grafton showed that the unions shared
his opinion.
Z On the other hand. the Democratic
ranks were so full OF corporation
hatred aud solialistic inclinings that q
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

q the law in Ohio and public opinion
elsewhere the Pennsylvania inaugural
ed q two and a half cent fare and 2
cents on thousand mile tickets The
/ Erie, Lackawanna. New Haven and
other lines followed suit.
Aawson's Insurance attack took final
shape IN the formation Of the Interna-
tional Policy Holders committee, nan.
aged by Samuel untermyer, and a
l costly campaign was Waged with the
y existing management for control Of
these com panies il the elections de-
creed by the new Armstrong law.
Whether you consider that labor has
got its full share Of prosperity or not,
! it is fact that in nearly every indus
I Try wages have been advanced during
4 the past year, sometimes on demand OF
4 the unions and sometimes voluntarily
By employers. The dread Of great
miners strike which disturbed the
business public when the year was
young became acute In the Indianapo-
lis conference Of soft coal operators
and miners FEB. 26, when the opera
tors refused the demand of the men
( for twelve and a half gent increase.
AT this point President Roosevelt an
pealed to both sides to get together.
and when Robbins. the Pittsburg oper-
ator, agreed to q 5 per ceAt increase ii
] was only d matter Of time when all of
the soft coal men had come to terms on
the compromise Of a 5.55 increase for
two years. with certain concessions
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

BY President Roosevelt, SEPT 10. The
abdication Of Palma when he found
that the American governments was not
disposed to intervene In his favor COM
PEELED Taft to proclaim himself provi-
sional governor. SEPT. 90, and to call
for sufficient naval and military sup
port to overawe the warning factions.
] Later Taft was succeeded by Magoon.
S Panama and Colombia made treaty
OF peace AUG. 4. Since January Ven
ezuela and France have ceased diple-
matte relations. President Castro Quit
Office, a sick man. All the South and
Central American countries were repre-
scented at the PAN American congress
at Rio de Janeiro In August They fa-
yored q general arbitration convention
to be enacted By The Hague conference
and approved the Drago doctrine.
JA lA3Pl 81 u So As fter getting her grip on
the Chinese trade Japan cond descended
Y to open the. door into Nfanchuria Ia
March. and the new world power Of
the orient was engaged in May in MAX
ing a new tariff law with retaliatory.
and protective features. a most amaz-
Ing feature Of .Japan's progress was the
national izing Of all her industries.
.E CHINA Even the Chinese pulse ap.
pears at last to be throbbing with the
common aspiration for individual ex-
preston under popular government.
and BIZ the decree Of the aged empress
u commission Of distingu ished China
men visited western nations and re-.
turned to begin the creation 81 d CON
stitution for China.
KONG0 The Belgian management
of the vast Kongo estate became an
acute internati onal issue late In the
year when the British government sug-
gested the possibility Of intervention
! ~ the name OF humanity. Leopold,s
lobby at Washington was exposed and
the senate was expected to act on the
Lodge resolution.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

interior, who successfully headed OF d
abor revolt when the general strike
was declared, MAY Il. In the succeed
Ing elections the government was sus-
tanned, and on OCT. 10 Clemenceau
succeeded Sarrien as premier and
brought Colonel Picquart yindication
by making him war minister. The con.
mIiation OF Dreyfus had been finally
annulled by the supreme court, JULY
u, and he had been restored to the
army. with command OF d division.
#Clemenceau's great crisis came, DEC.
~, when with firm hand he proceeded
TO execute the separation law, sending
the pope's ambassador to the frontier
and taking forcible possession Of the
church property Passive resistance
was urged by the church leaders.
M RUSSIA The car announced On
APRIL "a q constitution, the purpose
OF which was to retain his control of
the army and navy, to declare his
right to dissolve the douma and to give
the upper house, Or council. of state,
the right to pass upon all legislation.
Thus circnmscribed, the first Russian
parliament was opened at st. Peters
burg MAY 10 BY the car in person. The
Constitutional Democrats were In q
large majority, ana there was large
peasant representation IA strong adj
dress demanding political amnesty,
universal suffrage, land for peasants
and legislative Independence OF the
douma Was adopted but it was reject
ed by Premier Goremyk kin. After talk
Ing continuously for two months and
eleven days without tangible result
the douma suddenly was dissolved by
the car JULY %. sSs
The repressive measures which had
been used against the liberal classes
by Minister Of the Interior Durnoyo
were now Intensified under the pre-
miership OF Az Stolypin, thousands Of
sintellectuals being banished to Siberia
and many serious Hebrew naassacres
resulting the worst or which were al
Biaiystolx on ] IJNE IA ana ut fsiedIce
on SEPT, s. Repression was answer.
ed by terrorism and assassination, and
series OF peasant uprisings begin.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02
HISTORY
OF 1906.
The Worlds Chief Events
and Tendencies Of a Year
Outlined In Orderly Array
For Of Busy Readers Who
Want to Be WellInforrned.
Higher and Higher
Sweeps Prosperity's Tide
BY EDWIN S. POTTER,
Editor Universal News Analysis.

Look first at the enormous product
won from the soil by the American ma
chine-and -science-aided farmer. Sec
8 Rotary Shaw has figured that out for
us within the past monthan output
4 valued at SO, 794 900 900, a total 1924
! 100000 bigger than last years. In the
crop realm corn was king at valua-
ton Of LOO, 600, 900 Agricultural ex-
ports reached the high water mark Of
$9760o0, O0O.
All OF the great railroad and indus
trial corporations have reported in
creased earnings, have paid higher div
idends and increased capital stock,
while many have cut luscious surplus
melons notab bly, HIPS hundred million
ore deal distribution, the Pullman $685.
900, 900, the United States and Wells
Fargo Express companies forced di-
vision Even Steel common resumed a
& 2 per cent dividend.
Trusts have gobbled trusts, and, de
spite the rate law, rebate prosecutions
and Jungle book exposures, the con-
\ centration of capital interests has gone
forward. new feature being the for
nation Of huge holding companies In
England, which was disclosed in the
Findlay trial Of the Standard OIL COM
pany and was reported in connection
with the beef trust The glucose trust
was absorbed By the oil trust in Janu-
ary The Anal amated Copper COM
pany absorbed the Heinze interest, and
two gigantic new trusts were formed
the American Farm Produce company.
with $40 00O, 900 capital, and O,0OO,-
600 rubber company to exploit the
Kongo concession both financed and
controlled By the Ryan Whitney Inter-
ests. 5 I.
8 But II was especially in the railroad
business that the movement toward
cents saion was evident, and here
the dominant figure Of the year was
that Of 3. Il. Hartman, who in Jan
uary pushed subsidiary line into
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

expe cted, especially
in view of the impe-
tus given to their.
movement by such
notable accesslons as
Chicago's young mil
lionaire, Joseph Me-
dill Patterson, who
resigned MARCH 8
as Mayor DUNES
commissioner OF pub
lie works, and ]. G..
Phelps Stokes, the
wealthy New York
settlement worker
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02
snissg JULY 20 destroyed many fine es-
states and spoiled the crops.

/ nisg JULY 20 destroyed many fne es-
tates and spoiled the crops.
On July 80 fiji anticipation Of the
long expected general strike there be-
gan a number of Bloody nlutinies at
Syeaborg. Fiilhlnd. at Gronstadt at Re
val and on the Blslck sea. Mutinies
also occurred Frequently IN the army,
even the cars guard regiment being
affected. The bulk Of the army and
navy remained loyal, however. and
these sporadic rayolts were crushed
with a stern hand. The general strike,
too, proved Ineffective. Famine is Rus
sia's winter guest. al.
GERMAN W Barring tile costly colo
NAL war in southwest Africa, which
caused the dissolution OF the reichstag
DEC. 3, the kaiser's people had d
busy and prosperous year. The effect
of the treaty $ gned at AL seciras, Spain.
April. /. providing a Joint interna-
tional control in Morocco, was proof
enough that the Anglo French alliance
could not ignore Germany. a grandson
to the kaiser was born j UI.Y 4.
SPAIN Two events within the Span
ish realm commanded the attention Of
the world. One was the international
conference at Algeciras. The other was
the bomb punctured wedding ceremo-
ny of King Alfonso and Princess Ena
at Madrid MAY 81. IL
NORWAY.-At Norway's ancient cap
sital, Trondhj em, JUNE %, the newly
elected King Haakon VII. and Queen
Maud were crowned.
PERSIA. The age-long hypnotic spell
of absolutism which had held back
progress In Persia gave way at lastsb
fore the influence. Of Russia's terrific
ferment The leading merchants and
mullahs voiced the aspiration for self
government, and the shah convoked a
representative assembly to be known
/ as the house Of justice JAN. "a and
granted q constitution AUG. is.
SPANISH AMERICA. President
Palma Of Cuba began his second term
\ NAY 20, with the island republic ap-
parently making good progress toward
security. opposition Of the defeated
Liberals having subsidized, but sudden
& ", about the middle Of August, num-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

Der OF Liberal
leaders were ar
rested, and Cen
eral Pine Guer-
"a headed a
i strong force Of
rebels in Pinar
del Rio. An Of
fer Of amnesty
was rejected
and martial law
declared If Sever
al fatal clashes
occurred before
an arms tice
was arranged
by Messrs. Taft.
and Bacon sent
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02
Durnont and Peary
Take Scientific Honors

After centuries Of dreaming ana ex-
perimentation IT was the privilege III
the year 1906 To- see mans first me-
ctanical navigation Of the air 'front.' .
standing start in q screw propella1 :
roplare. This was mplished bs1
A. Santos Dumont at Paris, SEPT. Isl,
and in q later flight he won the $40 ,oo8
prize BY dying over q kiiometer from a.
standing start. Lieutenant nm an
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

vocating a system Of federal and state
owned railroads.
With one or two exceptions the states
east ard west that have gone Repub-
lean usually We're found in line, the
Democrats carrying Rhode Island, Min
5nesota, Oregon and Nevada, controlling
Oklahoma constitutions convention
and recovering some lost ground in
Missouri
Under the stress Of much radical talk
in both the older parties the Socialists
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

be attorney general,
Moody to the SUI
preme court bench,
Metcalf to the navy,
Oscar S. Straus, the
New York merchant,
commerce and la
Dor; Amba dor
Won 4. Meyer to be
postmaster general,
Cortelyou to the
treasury, Garfield
rD1,,N ~, ,-T~G Llas
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

the president sent
two experts, Messrs.
Nell and Reynolds,
to verify the fiction.
lists statements.
Their report was SO
far confirmatory
that 1t was first used
as a secret lever to
bring the senate to
pass the Beveridg
insnopfion hill and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

Seattle, in July
bought up the Bal
timore and Ohio
stock which the
Pennsylvania peo-
pie had dropped, in
4 N o " e N Der tri-
Jump he'd over Fish
by placing Hara-
han at the head of
the Illinois Central
and thus made
himself master Of
a 1900 mile trans
continental railway
system a / m os t
without a conpeti-
FIR Tn roSno,,co 70
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

new prophet rod de
forth on the vel
low panoplied steed
Of syndicated news
paper publicity and
obtained a treinen-
dons following All
thong b 3 ditor
Hearst was un-
horsed as the D en-
ocratic- League can
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-02

becoming pre-
mi e r. Troops
were necessary
to quell the
serious N Inc
strike riots aft
er the fatal ex-
plosion at Cour-
riers, in which
more than 600
men lost their
lives. Here was
felt the strong
hand Of II. Gle
menceau, then
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
THE POLICE COURT.
Terryville and Cheshire Men Contri.
 buted to City Funds

John Gleason of TerryviIle came to town Saturday to pay a few bills. He got intoxicated and by doing so be put sd and costs on his shoulders. It was mystery to him how he beeame Intoxicated Maurice Mahon was sleeping it oH on the sidewalk on PembeTton street when he was sr- rested He was told to go home but he preferred to be locked up. If cost him s7 and the trimmings also.
 George Walker of Cheshire cane tn town Saturday to see how things were regarding the election He feII uu- der the cup that cheers and vas com nitted to Brookside for thirty days. He owes the probation oEoer szI
 Edward Stack insisted he was rot intoxicated yesterday. but the ozesr Eho arrested kiz insisted othsruizs and Judge Psasley took the o@osrrs word A fine of S and cosss vas imposed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

William Lyman of South Leon
 ard street is spending few days 1T New York.
 Buy underwear before you need it.
 Complete stock at Upson, Singleton & Co.'S.
 The Rosebud football team start ed the season yesterday by defeating a west end team on Corcoran's lots by the score of Ii to 0.
 At meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic club yesterday afternoon the recently elected officers were install ed by Past President Anthony J. Car roll. The fair which closed Saturday evening was big success and the club treasury will realize a handsome sum from the event.
 By defeating the Rosebuds yes terday the Quakers are now in line for the championship of the Junior league. They are now tied with the Pioneers and as the schedule of both games is completed, a game to de- eide the winner of the rag will have to be arranged. In all probability a meeting of the managers will be held on Thursday evening.
 Manager Michael Madden of the Brooklyn Athletic club is now con- fident that his team will win the City league champonship. By defeating the North Ends next Sunday the Brooklyns will be tied for first place. The B. A. c. boys are confident that they will take the measure of the north end aggregation next Sunday, then the finish. Manager Madden is willing to back his conversation with money. ~.
 At his home in South Brooklyn Saturday evening number of friends of James Ross called upon him and welcomed him back from his three months trip to Scotland. MT Ross went oyer to visit relatives and was much impressed with the land of Robbie" Burns. His home coming was surprise to his friends, so the latter thought they would surprise him. They arranged a little spread under the supervision of Michael J. Lawlor and Saturday evening they more than made merry at MT Ross home. MT Lawlor was toastmaster and in addition to filling the chair in 8 most excellent manner recited "The Fighting Fifth" in a praiseworthy
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
BLACKS HELP LYNCH NEGRO
Mob Kicks coIored Man to Death In
 Cumberland, Md.

Cumberland, Md, Oct 7.- William Burns, q negro desperado, who shot Policeman August Baker, infiicting a wound from which he died, was taken from jail by mob and lynched. Only Deputy Sheriff Adam Hendley was at the jail when a crowd of fewer than a hundred men, some disguised. de- handed the keys. These being re- fused. a telegraph pole was used as a battering ram and entrance to the building was forced.
 Other negroes in neighboring cells were careful to guide the lynchers to that of Burns. where the battering ram was used again. The lynchers found their victim crouched behind his cot and. seizing him by the feet. dragged him up and down stairs and into the street. where. within a few yards of the entrance 10 the jail. Burns was kicked and shot to death.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
Rat Eiahts A Woman-

Newark. \. j.. Oct. Mrs. Jason WOrmwOod is not a woman who shrieks and jumps on a chair or faints at sight of a mouse. Single handed she fought a cumulative rat to the death in her kitchen at North CaId. well. That she killed the rat greatly rejoiced her. for in its nest she found pieces of a five dollar bill she lost weeks ago. She thought 1t was stolen by a tramp to whom she gave a meal. The greeubaek was used by the rat as a nest lining for four of its young.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
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Boston. Oct T.-The Massachusetts Republican state convention in Boston renOminzted the entire ticket headed by Governor Guild Senator Lodge was chairman and made a long ad- dress. 4 special session of congress for tariff revision was favored in the platform The Massachusetts Dens- cratic state convention split at Spring field terminating two tSckets headed hy Henry M- whitBey and Senator Charles ". Bartlett