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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-03-15

=, we the committee appointed to examine
the accounts OF the Secretary and Treasur-
Association find the statement true and
correct to the best of our knowledge.
E. K. CAVILEER,
WM. w. FELSON,
E. D.IBooKER, AUG. SHORT,
Secretary. Treasurer
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The Nicht Court.

To THE EDIToR OF THE SUS-Str: The estab.
Iishment OF the new night court at Jefferson Market
is a step In the right direction. The idea OF having
night sessions OF the inferior courts OF criminal
Jurisdiction Is by no means original with the city Of
New York. Chicag go has long demonstrated the
necessity and usefulness of might owl" courts.
as they are sometimes called,
heartily agree with the views Of some OF the
Magistrates as expressed In the daily papers that
the best way to make the new court Q success In to
have night sessions In all or nearly all OF the places
at which the Ma ~gistrates courts are held in the day
time. The only fault with the new law Is that II
does not GO far enough; IL should have provided
At the outset for the holding Of the different Magis
tratcs courts In two parts, one day and one night
session, and the number OF Magistrates and court
attendants should have been Increased accordingly.
The true object OF the new court seems TO have
been entirely lost sight OF In the published state
mcnts that II was primarily established for the
purpose of dealing only with cases involving the
graft OF the professional bondsmen. The graft"
evil IL one only OF the reasons for the establishment
OF the court. The blunders OF the police. the mis-
takes of complainants IN the decentralization of prison
ers, the necessity for the speedy judicial investigs-
ton OF criminal cases. furnish ample reason for the
holding OF night sessions OF the Magistrates courts.
The aim Is much higher than the adjustment OF
petty graft OF professional bondsmen. This court
Is designed to he a forum In which all accused per-
sons can have the opportunity for an immediate
judicial Inquiry into the charges made against
them: where the guilty ran he inns pun
ished snd the innocent promptly discharged from
custody without the disgrace OF Icing locked up In
a cell awaiting the opening OF court and tho allow
grind Of the wheels Of Justice. The arrest OF q
respectable woman on our streets last winter
upon a groundiess charge, her detention all
night as = prisoner and her complete vindicstion
upon examination before the Magistrate aroused
the public conscience 10 such A degree that q night
court was Imperative. We forget 10 soon In this
city Of New York. but a few months ago the press
uaa .laVnnrIn9 fnP such n eauTf an that lnnn..As
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The Gal In Black.

Steal on tiptoe into the shrine. Take
one longing, lingering look at the fairest
humanity Of classic art, the queen Of all
the goddesses, now crownless in her
voiceless woe, immortal loneliness in inn
mortal pain. 4 poet of the Atlanta
Constitution comes back from the once
cleaning celia with moist eyes and lips:
The once gay and cheerful Gal in the Foun
tain at the Piedmont Hotel, known TO every AZ.
lsn,an and many travellers who have passed
through the city. has lost her one time festive ap-
pesrsnce.
No longer does The Gal act the part Of vision
or goddess to the throngs late and early. prohls
and ants. who have admired her beauty and grac.
In passing through The hotel.
" She Is drsped In a mournful black robe. with
only flowers TO Offset the gloom"
The wreath of m~uscadines is whitening.
The victorious arms-she is really the
Hokesmith Victory-droop and sag. The
cheeks are thin. The orbits of the eve
look hollow. Surprise, reproach, spretG
injurid formT. passionate sorrow is in
those heavenly eyes. Not for herself
does she weep. Her place in gallery and
history il secure. No, she laments the
damming of the stream of beneficence,
She mourns for the lost charities, for the
corn bread to the hungry and the spelling
book to the ignorant, for all the many
noble eleemosynary purposes to which
the Hon. HoKE SMITHS third of the
bar receipts vas devoted.
She does well to wear black. Empress
of Georgia, those who are about to swear
of salute thee,
Thus is evil mixed with good in the
corrupted currents Of this world. When
the Hon. POKE BoGGs procured the
nomination Of his pupil the Hon. HoKE
SMITH, who could have foreseen that the
Gal in the Fountain and the world of
art would now be wearing inky cloaks?
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Incidental Remarks From Pittsburg.

To TIE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: I have
read with pleasure your editorial The Hope
full Little Man in Marion" and it's good stuff
He surely knows how to "twitter" for Fair
banks. I wish you knew the fellow. but you
have sized him M. Taller Man than Theo-
dore Roosevelt. =" the hopeful little Ansnias. e
That's George Lockwood. and the same
George who will get the $4,000 q year from the
United States Treasury.
We are glad in Pittsburg. for our man knox
stands a good show II Mr.. Fairbanks has the
"mercenary little man In Marion" at the head
of the Fairbanks press bureau. THE Sun is
O. X. and your editorial well timed. Pre-
pare for plenty Of twittering. He can afford
TO twitter at 81. 900 a year. NJ. A. MARTIN.
PITTsBrRG. August 5.
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entire approval Of the latter's Moroccan
programme. Under the circumstances
no international complication need be
apprehended-ss q result Of the concerted
resolve TO punish the murderous assaults
on Christians.
Nevertheless, the ultimate outcome OF
the indications that the religious ran
cor Of the Moroccan tribesmen is incap-
ble OF permanent repression so long az
their country remains independent will
doubtless be the conviction that the
Sultan's Mohammedan subjects, even
wnen trained ana oficered by Europeans,
annot be trusted TO safeguard the lives
of Christian s~ojourners, and that no
measures to that end will be effective
short Of the reduction OF the Moroccan
dominions to the status OF Algeria and
Tunis. The interests of other Powers
that conferred at Algeciras might be
accommodated by extending the strip
OF Morocco's coast already possessed by
Spain, and by distributing other seaports
among Great Britain, Germany and Italy.
The pressure Of events ia likely soon TO
cause the continued tol,ration Of a hot
bed Of Moslem bigotry Al the western
gate Of the Mediterranean TO be recog-
nized as a Glaring anschronism and a
rank absurdity. Nor will any reason
able onlooker deny that when the par
tition Of Morocco comes, &c come it must,
Germany. which needs a naval station in
northwest Africa, will have an equitable
claim 10 share the spoils.
The equanimity with which the Berlin
Government surveys the joint i%nterven-
ton Of France, Spain, Italy and Great
Britain ip Morocco is doubtless due to
the fact that it has ceased to suspect the
existence Of a concerted design to con-
sign her to political isolation. If such a
design was at one time formed, when the
British and French Foreign Offices were
presided over respectively by Lord LANs-
DowNE and VI. DELCAssE, it has been
repudiated since the accession of the
Bannerman and Clemenceau Ministries to
power. The compact recently made by
France with Japan was not signed until
the substance Of il had been made known
to Germany and pronounced unobjec-
tionable from the viewpoint of the latter
Power, and 10Y We learn by a telegram
from Berlin that the text Of the Anglo
Russian agreement just concluded has
been laid before Chancellor Won BUELow
and declared by him to be satisfactory.
As this agreement is known to define
the relations of Russia and Great Britain
in the Near East, we must infer that a
method has been found of reconciling
these with Germany's interests in Ana
tolia and Mesopotamia.
For the moment, then, although the
Hague conference has as yet done next
to nothing for the promotion of peace,
there is no omen Of war on the Euro
pear horizon.
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the demand be went about the next large
Job, which was the hand coloring Of all HIS
maps and prohles. Then the copies were
bound and the book was out.
Leading geologists say that the work IL
n Of the best Of It's kind. The small edi-
ton lie exhausted and the book will not be
reprinted. The editor Of Petermanns Mi
ts'inngen, believing that a wide circle Of
g~eologists would be glad 10 have the i'm
portant results or OswALD's Investigations,
has just printed in his periodical an eA-
tended resume Of them together with some
Of the maps. The University Of London
has crowned the work with its approval
by comforting the degree Of Doctor OF
Science upon the author. OSWALD has GER
tainly earned the congratulations Of all
who admire the qualities OF courage, perse-
veranoe and intelligent devotion TO a special
task.
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The Crime Wave.

To yellow journalism the crime wave"
is a real boon. So fierce is the compe-
tition to swell the list of outrages and
not lose a single attempt to lynch an
Italian that if the outrages dwindle and
all the Italians pursued with hempen
nooses escape mob violence the disap-
pointment among the crime wave manip-
ulators will be acute.
Is New York lapsing into savagery?
Must we form a vigilance committee to
a v our civilization? II would seem so
to scan the black headlines epitomizing
the saturnalia of violence which is over
whelming the police force. Even the
rich" are infected by the spirit Of venge-
ance, for some of the wealthiest resi-
dents" Of Brooklyn are reported to have
made "a determined effort to lynch two
men who attempted to attack a young
woman" 1t reads like a story of Atlanta
when Atlanta had lost it's head, and
these prosperous Brooklyn men did not
have the excuse Of racial hatred.
Originally the term crime wave" was
reserved for sexual assaults on women
and children. but competition has ex-
tended it to any and all examples of
physical violence. Truth is made to
appear stranger than fiction. The poi
soned blackjack" appears as a novel
and terrible weapon. A mob led by a
woman, screaming, rage crazed, would
have torn a man to pieces" in Staten
leland but for the intervention of a hero
in uniform who exclaimed. Keep back
or I'll shoot"
1t is ~reassuring to know that however
bloodthirsty a mob in the Greater New
York is, a policeman is always on the
spot to foil it single handed. There is
comfort too in casual admissions by
the crime wave exploiters that the wrong
prisoner has been arrested, or that the
evidence of an assault has broken down.
On the other hand, it is disconcerting
to hear that in spite of the public cutlery
and frequent and determined efforts to
lynch suspected miscreants, the crime
wave rolls on with greater volume and
more menacing crest.
Can it be checked until some one is
lynched? That is the question which is
making yellow journalism walk the floor
nights. Such a disgrace to New York
as a lynching is % horrible to contem-
plate, and so the rival analysts are trying
TO arouse the police TO a sense of their
duty. A lynching might make copy"
but the responsibility would be terrible.
What would Atlanta say? As for Judge
FOSTER, of course he does not know what
he is talking about when he intimates to
a Grand Jury that the crime wave" and
scarcity of news may not be unrelated.
Meanwhile who is responsible for the
crime wave? General BINGHAM, the
Police Commissioner, naturally-and he
has added insult to injury by taking a
vacation and leaving New York defence
less while the horrors are piling up.
Perhaps the sweep of the crime wave
and a desire to get rid of the General are
not unrelated. The higher the wave
mounts the more interviews with BILL
DEvERY and JOHNNY SEXTON and other
public spirited citizens and police dis
ciplinarians are printed TO prove that
BINGHAM must go. If the General sits
tight and the Mayor gives no sign the
crime wave" may presently subside to
a ripple and die out of the exhausted
"yplloys."
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VIII the south strange It's = rilways

VIII h south strange Its = ,tlways?
The industrial development and the
commercial expansion Of the South dur
ing the last twenty-five years have been
amazing. There is more money invested
In cotton mills and more raw cotton used
In the South to-day than there wal in all
the rest of the country in 1880. In 1905
the South produced 10000. 900 tons Of
bituminous coal. The production OF the
entire country in 1880 was only 8 100000 0
tons. Its farm products in 1905 show
a valuation equal 10 50 per cent. Of the
total value of the farm products of
the whole United States twenty-five
years ago. It's assessed property has
increased during the same time from
s 5000. 600. 900 70 Sc, 500, 0O0, 900. The value
of its cotton crop has more than doubled,
the value Of it's lumber products has been
multiplied BY six, the value of its iron out
put has been multiplied by nine, and the
value of it's farm products has increased
from $3.50 900, 900 to 81, $50, 900, 900.
All this has been accomplished with
the aid Of the least efficient transpor-
tation service possessed by any section
Of the United States,
The tremendous industrial expansion
in the South overwhelmed its railways.
Struggle as they might, the lines have
been utterly unable to catch up with the
business confronting them. The South
ern Railway has perhaps been particu-
larly overburdened. II forms the great
trunk line system between New York and
New Orleans. Directly and by its feed
ers il taps an enormous area of the best
of the entire South. For the convent
ence and benefit Of shippers, to say
nothing Of the safety of travellers, il
should be double tracked from end
TO end. SO should the Seaboard. So
should the Atlantic Coast Line.
The railways Of the South need new
equipment and more equipment. They
need new tracks and trackage. They
need facilities for the business already
upon them and far greater facilities for
the business which should lie immedi-
ately ahead of them.
Blind to their own welfare, careless Of
their great economic interests and de-
luded by politicians who are playing with
vast issues for their own political aggran-
dizement, some Of the States Of the
great new South are cramping their pres
en- and ~strangling their future by legis-
lation and attempts at legislation which
tend 10 ruin their lines Of communication
with their markets.
If the policy of the South toward its
railways were as liberal as it is illiberal
the resultant benefit to tina; section would
he in~calculable. As it is, there is grave
danger of widespread industrial disaster
as a consequence Of i'll advised railway
legislation. 1t is the policy Of suicide.
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studies In the Mathematics Of the BIG Fine.

To rBE EDITOR oF TEN SUH--Str: You truly
remarked this morning that a nne of S2s. 40 900
appeals 10 the Imagination, and added that Mr..
Bryan Thought II the INIT" presumably not In the
vrmacAlar hut in the legal possibility. But Is ~
The law, II seems. or the Interstate Commerce Com
mission or the railroad company Axes the rate of
transportation on oil az 40 much a h~undTedweight
not so much a carload, and to ship oil at a less rate
constitutes an Offence" \ carload holds say 20 900
pounds. or 400 hundredweight, so that II the rate
was wrong there would he 100 offences a car. In
stead OF only one offence a car. each OF which Is
subject 10 the maximum penalty under the ruling.
Let us see where that would leave the standard
on Company OF Indiana:
s.a. 24o,O00. on the carload basis, < +Oo : si &C.,
ON. OoO on the hundredweight basis.
This sum should hugely delight Mr.. Bryan. II
collected II certainly would "snnihiiste Standard
OIL" long before the time allotted at Oyster Bay.
q. g. d. CARLOAD LoTs.
NEW YORK, August 5.
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where for the Mantzer machine II 10
in the snvirons Of Washington. Quite
as certainly, the bulletproof qualities
Of that machine will find their most
impressive demonstration there. II is
impre gnable as regards sheritfs, consta-
blee and such small fry. 1t has enor-
nous size and strength and speed. It
possesses every virtue demanded by the
rich and powerful. We can believe that
IL is intended neither for business nor
pleasure; but so far nothing has been
said about education or discipline or
vengeance.
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Virginia, North Carolina, HoKE SMITHS
Georgia. and Arkansas appear TO be -fren-
lied against railroads.
Doubtless railroads have been a great
injury to these States and nave retarded
their development. prevented business and
put the farmer back into the eighteenth
century.
Therefore the outlawing of railroads is
natural and should be welcomed by lovers
Of walking. the simple life and honest pow
erty. II railroads are crimes or nuisances
they ought to be suppressed. put nut of
business.
Indeed. politics ia the only legitimate
bnainess
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Ballad Of Mars.

What do we know with our ioret
Are We but running q race
Others ran ages before
While they went whiriing through space,
Men who have gszed az Its face
Tell US they rad the same scars-
An. but II such 10 the case
Where are tho railroads OF Mars,
Threading that far way shore
Mighty canals have their place,
Built by the Martians of yore.
Intricate network Of lace,
Masters OF lock and or prace,
Surely their skin knew no bars
Yet did they miss by an ace,
Where are the railroads Of Mars.
or did the lawmakers roar
Setting . Roosevelt pace.
Vlals OF anger outpour.
Casting the railroads from grace' 70
welding 4 big stick for mace
Wipe them out. stock. rails and car'
Never Q sign can we trace.
Where are the railroads OF Mars,
T~rUtbuster. hot on the chase,
Solve US this riddle Of stars:
Did they TOO get on their osse,
Where are the railroads Of Mars7
McLAxpyuDsn w1son.
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what 70 DO with $50. 100000.

To THE EprroR OF THE SuN-Siy. The
name of Judge Landis will go into history
as one Of the greatest jurists OF the age. He
persisted until he brought poor old John ID.
before him as q witness, and nov has the
honor Of innicting the largest fine. known in
history.
II they had him in Texas those oil specu-
lators down there would draw him In n golden
chariot. How the result mentioned must
gladden. the exalted one at Ovpt.r ssy,
Here in this nearly $50. 900 600 fine appears
the vision Of six $1,000. 900 bsttleships for
the new navy, every one OF which should
be named Kenesaw Mountain commencing
WIZ "O o"o ~"u enuAns WIN hummer
' ~
-. ..e 70 u So.csso
.n ,oa Ne = y pe
ns@a snouS .i"uo p"y muen.
No Iol .welNe
oa.'e's.p', sn 70 oe nah nenesw NOUN
NJ, u" """"''' !" VOC" 'o"iu DO oes's-
os,y ~ .oo.' 'ns ploeramme ",
Cno '"As VI sppeennn nisner
IoI ".s,n 40 -, srus.
u.u ~ a. -. = ~ - a oo'ne, OF
al sppoei' y. pa'u Is ing enu 1oueo hah q
sens = pounu . mes'. mus se..ins is money
% ~ '"oi' ""' e"u NY LUZ
I've" We ~ S,.ns.u ,x
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Tishomingo AMI Y~slobusha on the Loosa-
Don and the other precincts Of Hillbilly-
land having been carried by the spruce
VARpAMAN, probably the Hon. JOHN SHARP
WILLIAMS will moi become reconciled to the
graoes Of civilization and repeat his acts
Of poetical neglect and frowsiness. Even IL
the margin" Of his victory is not Of the
widest, isn't IL wide enough to justify the
Yazoo statesman in haging at least one suit
Of clothes sponsed and pressed Yet the
toms strck 10 him, for all his ~ipcomptness,
and so he IL like 10 remain incompt.
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The Renewal Of Trouble In Morocco

The Renewal Of Trouble In Morocco.
The delay in the creation and distribu-
ton OF the coastwise police which was
prescribed by the Algeciras convention
and which was to be trained and COM
handed by French and Spanish officers,
under a Swiss Unprecedented, is
doubtless chargeable with the outbreak
of Moslem fanaticism in the Morocco
seaport Casablanca which cost the lives
OF a number of Europeans. The victims
of the iehad or holy war suddenly started
by the neighborinS tribesmep included
natives Of France, Spain and Italy, whose
respective countries, together with Great
Britain, have sent war vessels not onlyto
the scene of the homicides but also to
Tangier, Mazagan and Rabat, where the
lives Of Europeans are believed to be in
danger. Moreover, a French expedition
ary force of some three thousand soldiers
is expected to reach Casablanca to-day.
No m~isgiving seems TO be felt concerning
the ability of the Powers concerned to
restore tranquility, and the fact is re-
called that a similar outrage committed
in the southern capital of Morocco was
promptly and easily avenged by the seiz-
ure Of an inland town not far from the
Algerian frontier, of which place French
troops have since retained possession.
The Incidents to which We have re-
ferred seem TO justify the original agree
ment between Great Britain, Spain and
France, delegating to the last named
country the maintenance Of order in
Morocco, which provoked Germany's
tnterposition and brought about the
Algeciras conference. At this time, how
ever, there will be no opposition from
Berlin. for France has made known 10
Germany her intention to adhere strictly
{ the terms Of the Algeciras convention,
and kilograms from various points, in
Guiding Swinemunde, where the inter-
view between the German Kaiser and the
Gar has just taken place. concur in
asserting that Emperor WILLIAM has
assured the Paris Government Of his
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The newspapers make the war scares. ! haven
seen any American newspapers and ] don't know
how much OF q war scare you have been making
here. but 7 can tell you that 80 far as indications
I have seen are concerned the possibility OF a war
@.tA Japan seems g-ry rclncie.-Frcn an fHisTrtt0
nth Rear ADMIRAL STOCKTON.
The war ia all over. Ii was laughed on
the boards. and the scare makers are now
engaged with other sensations. among them
the orgy of crime in New York and the COL
lapse Of the police force.
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Ex-Governor JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON of

Ex-Governor JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON Of
Alabama will enjoy an opportunity 10 prove
his independence in Congress such as comes
to few men in public Office. He has been
elected by the State Legislature 10 the
~unexpired term Of Senator PrTTUs and to
a fun term in addition, so that II he lives
he will represent Alabama in the United
States Senate until March 4, 1918.
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Money Tight Because the Administrstion wars
on Business.

To Tx -pTroR ,,r TIVE SuN-Str: Much Ia said
at the present time about tight money. IL Is inter
estlng TO see how a psychological condition 10 mis-
taken for an objective reality. Never before was
there so large q volume OF the circulating medium
in the hands OF the people. The real dinnculty Is
the lack OF confidence. When confidence Ia strong
every one passes money along in q lively way.
invests freely. pays his debts promptly. and then IL
Is said Money Is easy" Confidence now being at
a low ebb. Investments are slow and people hang
on 20 what they have. They see outside what is
IN themselves.
So long as the national Administration wages a
persistent warfare not only against economic
abuses but against business and enterprise In gen
srsl doubtless the condition will grow worse. An
educsticnal experience OF hard umes- viii prob.
ably be the only remedy.
BraIssss FHnosorMa.
cAaDHupoK, Mass. August 4
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This in pretty talk TO come from our an
Gent friend the Eostern Arous:
T Bangor with the Cobb -Sturgis Law"
This profsne Use Of the name of an excel
lent II somewhat thirsty town-which has
had an excellent hymn named after it's
most unjust. Unjust to Bangor. we hope
certainly unjust TO Sheol and Biddeford.