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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-17
WOULD NOT GIVE Up DIRECT
LEGISLATION,

q. 3. Senator Bourne of Oregon, in
reply to Boston inquiry, says:
Replying to your inquiry AZ to the
present sentiment in Oregon regard
ing her direct leg islation system, feel
fully justified in stating specifically
that same is more popular than ever
and that no combination of circum-
stances or individuals can coerce or be-
fool the people into asserting to or
permitting any repeal or limitation
of its power. In my humble opinion,
Oregon's direct legislation syetein is
the safest and most conservative plan
Ct government ever invented. There
is no possibility of any overturn OF
policies or principle by cnsnge Of
parties in office-no great change can
be made without tho consent of q
majority voting on that particulsr
question separate from all others. SIN
confident that maj GRITTY can never be
had for q measure without there is
good reason to believe it will advance
the general welfare.
The great majority Of the American
people are honest, intelligent and just {:
agitation and full discussion must
inevitably result IN their giving wise
decision. Should mistake be made
through lack of agitation and discen-
sion, it can quickly be remedied by
this system by again referring direct
to the people. There is no occasion to
wait for a change of administration
or a change of party majorities in the
state Senate or House. This system
places direct responsibility on each
individual voter for every law under
which he lives.
The initiative especially makes
available all tho craftsmanship there is
among all the people. Any man or
group of men having good idea can
enlist for one or more campaigns and
get it before the people tor approval
or rejection. No boss nor political
machine nor corrupt legislator can
prevent fair hearing. the sovereign
people.
In Oregon the people have made
many improvements by reason of en-
joylng this power. They have adopted
a primary nominating elections law by
which they have destroyed the power
Of the political boss and his machine,
thus securing for the people the best
efficiency of public servants, on
account of their responsibil,t to the
electorate only. They have taken the
actual choice of the United States
Senator's out of the Legislature and
made the election by that body, IN
effect, nothing more than a ratifica
tion of the peoples choice, thus
preventing senatorial deadlocks OF
pe-nlcious legislative votes in
senatorial elections.
They have passed q local option
liquor law that takes the liquor ques.
tlon out Of their politics and makes
it purely local question-they have
given cities more complete home rule
than is enjoyed anywhere else in the
world, except perhaps in the free
cities of Germany.
The document No. IL Of the Massa.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-17
TRANSFERABLE.

WHAT IS republican?
Who knows?
Ask Platt Depew! Penrose !!
Can Hartman or Cortelyou give def
milton true?
We're the million bucks they shed.
ITO carry New York state)
For Ted?
Was all this coin, in theory,
Part of the late conspiracy
Was money spant for Teddy then,
As couQhed up by j. Hartman,
An evidence OF one
Who truly was republican?
Or is he dead one by the road.
Where once he paid to win1
Did Ted give him the double'cross,
To teach him how to skin?
Alas, alas, We fear it's true:
IT'S not denied by Cortelyou.
We sell trust goods in a foreign climes
For half the price, while all the time
They make me pay like sun'of-a
gum -.
Because, forsootb, I'm republican ! :
Kpute Nelson rants and shouts,
Joe Cannon smiles and says, Stand
pat!''
PRAY tell me true, what are these
.ss''' creeds,
For neither one is a democrat?
Ted sings of trusts to be controlled
The senate sings of combines bold;
But in each song you II lind the
rhythm
OF what each terms republicanism.
What is a republican?
Who knows?
Ask Plat Depew Penrose II
Can Hartman or Cortelyou
Give definition true?
Can You?
Skid1oo IN
ABE WEAVER, in ST. Paul Dispatch.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-17
FAWNDALE
st one of

May 14-Frank Rosso lost one of
his COWS.
Swanville defeated Fawndale at
baseball Sunday, % to 13.
Simon Geek visited his brother
John in Elmdale Sunday.
Mr.: and Mrs. Larson visited ct
Opsa1a Sunday.
F. Rosa had bad luck coming homo
from the Falls last week, tipping
over with q load of women.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-17
Suqqests Worth Gowns.

From the cabinets of Naturalist h.
W. Denton of Wellesley, Mass, go sug-
gestions for Worth gowns, La Fargo
windows, and many other results OF
artistic excellence. Mr.. Denton is a
collector and dispenser of butterflies
of the wonderfully colored beauties OF
the tropics. He has one of the finest
collections of butterflies in the world.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-05-17
Klna Edwards Myriad Subjects.

The king of England has in Asia
more than 3OO.0oO,000 SUBJECTS; in
America, 100000; in Africa about
AZ, 900, 900, in Australasia over 5,000,'
900, and in Europe over 42,00O,0OO.
Classifying the mbroadly by religions,
there are 2OS,0O0.oO0 Hindus, 94,000,'
600 Mohammedans, 58,O00,000 Chris
tians, 100000 Buddhists and 23,OO0,-
900 of various pagan or non-Christian
religions.
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GOT HONOR NO MONEY.
A Preachers Plan to Have His Salary Raised
without Asking for IL.

sYou men who work for a stipulated
salary under one employer do not realize
the troubles the average preacher has with
the salary question: said the minister OF q
small church near New York to a friend
employed in a mercantile house. Il found
that / could not make ends meet without
doing without many things. WANTED an
increase in my salary and | thought l ought
to lave II.
IF had been in your position I should
simply have gone to my employer and
would have told him that / thought l was
worth more money to the house. Now as
a preacher il l asked for more money |
would have been accused Of being COM
mercial. People don't like a preacher who
is always harping on money, 1t is easy to
ask for increased contributions for mis-
sions, but not for more salary.
well, I was sitting in the study with my
wife preparing a sermon for the next Sunday
morning. had what / considered a bright
idea and thought that we could get a larger
income without showing any signs Of COM
mercialism.
Jennie I said. we will go to the garrett
and resurrect come Of our old clothes. You
will wear hat hat you discarded two sum-
mers ago and that old brown dress that
looked 80 shabby. will get that suit which
has worn ~threadbare and shiny and the old
hat and that pair Of shoes run down at the
heels
MY wife could not see the point at first.
But | went on TO explain that we would
wear our old clothes and then the church
members would realize that we really
needed the money. Thus l thought we
could get what we wanted without being
accused OF oommercialism.
well. we followed that plan. We got the
old clothes, brushed them up and wore
them through the village and even TO church
the next Sunday.
But / found that my Judgment was poor.
n happened that ali the officials OF our
church are men who think little Of dress.
You know this section a generation ago was
thiokly settled by QuRkers, who believe in
plain drees and speech. These church
officials were sons Of the Friends and had in
herited the love for plain clothes.
Il was standing In the store one day when
one Of these men who did not know I was
present said to a friend: y
81 am glad our parson has got good
sense at last. See how plain he and his
wife dress, / always did hate a dressy
preacher; II looks as though his heart were
on clothes and not on his work Of preaching
and teaching
We'll" continued the preacher, mourn
fully, my plan failed. ] see no hope OF an
increased salary now. But my people think
/ am a humber n better man..
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level ground ct the same time, rode on In
opposite directions, These were never
suooeaGful, q fall or bad tumble taking
place at nearly every performance; 90 they
were abandoned.
They were succeeded by 1.-TWO Thrills Of
Terror" a double bicycle act by two broth
ems. One rider was to drop with his wheel
upon the upturned arm Of a seesaw and
from the impact oause tho lower arm TO
rise violently with the other rider, enabling
both to turn a somersault, wheels and all.
This act also was abandoned. owing to the
inability Of the artists 10 make good.
During all Of this reign Of the bicycle
thriller there were a lot Of people through
out the world ~oudgelling their brains to
invent something new. The automobile
was coming in, and the automobile struck
some OF these inventors Of sensations good
and hard.
But thus far the stunts with the automo-
bile have been confined to the performance
OF the feats already to the credit OF the
bicycle. They have looped the loop. and
they have looped the gap. and the dip Of
Death. and finally The Limit are familiar
to all c~ircusgoers. The last Is the most
sensational and dangerous Of all mechanical
feats.
1t consists in descending an incline in an
automobile and turning a complete somer-
sault in space. This without loop or gap;
just shooting up into the air and turning
completely over. to ride away on level
ground unframed.
These last remarkable feats are the
product Of French ingenuity and daring,
and TO add TO the human interest are exc
outeNby young ladies. The women are the
real thrillers all the way through.
This overweening desire on the part Of
the public to witness hair raising. breath
batting, soul stirring feats in tho arena is
the same to-day as in Nero's time. when
breakneok chariot racing, %gladiatorial com-
bats, DC, made up the most popular sports.
It was only very recently that 10000 Amer
leans Of both sexes fiocked across the Mexi-
can border at Ell Paso on a Sunday to see a
bloody battle between bull and buffalo that
IL interdicted by the laws OF their own
country. Human nature hasn't changed
much within 1000 years.
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Hatmaker was greeted with a volley OF
cheers and the crowd pushed forward to
shake his hand. Before he could explain that
he was not Bryan he had been introduced
to a dozen or more of the Nebraskan'a ad-
mirers. The joke seemed to be a good one,
but he thought it had one far enough and
finally managed to explain the mistake.
We'll. IL you amt Bryan you look enough
like him TO be his twin brother. said the
man who had first spied him.
Even after the explanation the crowd
did not seem to be satisfied that he really
was not Bryan and some Of them followed
him to the street. Every time Mr.. Hat
maker stopped to gaze into a shop window
groups OF people would gather and point
and wonder il he was the Nebraskan.
Invariably when Mr.. Hatmaker is intro
duoed TO a stranger the latter will shArS
hands with him and begin; why, how muSa
- s-
Il look like Bryan" Mr.. Hatmaker VIII
finish for him, with a twinkle in his eye.
In Schenectady, Of course, Mr.. Hatmaker
is well known among the merchants and,
other business men. because he has TO con-
suit them constantly about advertising az
fairs; but even there, where the population
increases as IL by magic, he is often mis-
taken for Bryan. On railroad trains Mr..
Hatmaker always attracts a good deal OF
attention. -
, Once the conductor nudged the trainman
as the Nebraskan's double got on and said
he thought the traveller was Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Hatmaker sat down In the smoking
compartment OF a Pullman as the handiest
place. Soon the trainman came through
and craned his neck at the sole occupant
OF the compartment. Then more trainmen
came and took a look, but apparently they
couldn't max up their minds whether the
passenger was Mr., Bryan or not.
The news that the Peerless OAs vas
aboard soon spread through the train and
many passenger we're eager 10 see him.
Some Just glanced in as they passed, but
others stopped 20 shake hands.
To each Mr.. Hatmaker had 10 explain
that he was not the Boy Orator Of the Platte,
or even remotely connected with him. Az
a matter Of fact he takes but an ordinary
citizens interest In national politics, and he
voted against Bryan both times he ran for
President.
Il don't mind the mistakes people make
In taking me for Bryan said Mr.. Hatmaker
20 q friend the other day, Just after a man had
stepped up and eagerly scanned his face
but it must be a queer sensation 70 be really
famous
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stayed there t~wenty-four hours and reached
me in New York on April 20.
Il was a little surprised, as you may
imagine, and AVE since learned that the
reason for il all was that Mr.. Bowman was
just passing through Chillagoe when he
wrote me and really has his place Of business
at Brisbane. Presumably, as he didn't
hear from me during all those seven months,
he concluded that l had forgotten him, and
no doubt he placed his order elsewhere. 1
have written him again and expect to hear
from him with explanations.
But what really interests mt is the trav-
cling that letter did for five cents. You
observe that it reached me again just seven
months to the day after had dictated it,
that is from September u to April 20 in
elusive it was roaming over the earth look
ing for this Bowman person. And it trav-
elled. without going into minute figures,
$3.50 miles TO San Francisco, 1900 more to
Brisbane, 800 more to Herberton, and the
Lord knows how far to Mareeba n
C~hillagoe.
THAT makes $3.50 miles anyway, and
both ways the distance figures 26,500.
Which for five cents figures a little less than
5000 miles a cent, and l think that's going
some, Ell? I'm keeping that envelope as q
curiosity. at any rate till j hear back from
this Mr.. Bowman
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BUYANSSCHENECTAOYD
MR.. HATMAKER OFTEN TAKEN
FOR THE PEERLESS ONE.

People Began Making the Mistake In 1890
and They Have been Keeping It Up Ever
Slnce-The Resemblance Between the
Two Men Really CIOse-DFess alike.
This IL the man who looks so like Williams
J. Bryan that even his own friends can't
resist telling him every now and then how
much he resembles the Nebraska statesrian.
He is Benjamin r. Hatmaker. the manager
of a daily newspaper in Schenectady. and
he Is of about the same heigh and build
as the Peerless One. although h. is four
years younger.
Like Bryan. he often wears a long frock
coat and a SLOUGH hat, and then the resem-
blance is almost complete. Even people
who have often seen Bryan are sometimes
taken in by the remarkable similarity OF
appearance between the two men.
One has to see Mr.. Hatmaker in person TO
appreciate the resemblance. Mr.. Hat
maker began to find it out in 1895. after
Bryan made his famous crsss OF gold and
crown Of thorns speech and was nominated
for the Presidency. I
Before that Mr.. Bryan was not widely
known outside of Nebraska, from which
State he had been sent TO Congress. In
fact, he had reported the proceedings Of
the Republican convention two weeks
before at st. Louis for an Omaha newspaper
and he went to the Democratic convention
at Chicago which nominated him at the
head OF a oontesting delegation.
With the enormous spread OF Bryan's
pictures throughout the country hat sum-
mer Mr.. Hatmaker's troubles began. But
he is even tempered and likes q joke, and
probably no one ever enjoye being taken
to- nn-AIar -zoa 49, sl-u
Only last week he was in Albany on BUSH
ness and had occasion to go to the Central
Railroad station. Bryan was expected
to visit the capital city that day, but through
a hitch in his plans he did not arrive.
As soon as Mr.. HatmakerEappeared in the
station everybody began to look at him.
A rus was made to shake hands with him
and he was obliged to tell the crowd that he
was not the Peerless One. but just a plain
business man. Even after that several men
who came into the station said, That's him:
that's Bryan as soon as they clapped eyes
upon him.
Mr.. Hatmaker has frequently had crowds
follow him in various other cities to which
he has made business trips. When Bryan
became famous and the resemblance began
to attract attention Mr.. Hatmaker started
10 make q record OF the people VINO p
preached him to shake hands under the i'm
preston that he was the Nebraskan. In the
last part Of the summer of 1895 his record
reached a total Of 400 names, and then he
gave up keeping it because it was too much
trouble.
Some one who mistook him for Bryan saw
him go into the Ellicott Square Building in
Buffalo one day. Now it happened that this
man was an enthusiastic Bryanite. although
he had never seen the Peerless One in per-
son. So he went out and got a crowd OF
other Bryan rooters n they assembled
in the main corridor to await the return OF
the supposed statesman from one Of the
upper floors.
When he stepped out of the elevator MIR.
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TRADE UNION OF BEGGARS
Formed by French Cyipp.es Not Affiliated
With Labor Organizations.

WIN A3uOT OTbtHlLNtOUB
PARIS. May s.-The latest development
in unions halls from Marseilles, where the
crippled beggars have met to form an
association to protect their interests.
The originator Of the movement is Fran
cois Rosin. better known as the Northern
Hobbler, who is a globe ~trotter. celebrated
for racing matches, to which he challenges
any one who, like himself, is condemned to
wood in the matter Of legs. NJ. Rosin
summoned a meeting Of his fellow cripples.
twenty-six Of whom answered the call.
Some came on orutohes, some had wooden
legs. some with no legs at all came sitting
on little wheeled carriages. and some had
no arms. All listened attentivelyt while
the oonvoker Of the meeting explained
his purpose.
we must first of all struggle against
false beggars who exploit children borrowed
from anywhere by making them dance
around their miserable barrel organs, poor
little kids for whom they pay seven francs
a month to parents. That at least Is the
present rate.
We must wag war against the con-
tractors Of ~mendacity who put beggars
out on the sidewalks. covered with long
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| blouses, which often conceal a perfectly
sound body. These contractors take most
OF the money given to the beggars.
we must finally put the public on it's
guard against all those beggars who, COM
ing from goodness knows where. from
foreign parts, shamming horrible infirmi-
ties, live on French public charity and
80 rob as
M Rosin was elected president OF the
new union without a dissenting murmur,
and then the following code was drawn up
and adopted:
Article Every member OF the union must
be French.
Article members must refrain from sing
ing or recitinE songs or monologues against
the Republican Government. Its o~f1cials, the
police and clergy OF any religion.
Article S-The duty OF a member OF the
union who finds himself in a town exploited
by ham mendicants or by beggars working
under q contractor is to give information to
the authorities.
Article 1T is clearly understood that to
belong to the union O member must be Grip
Piled or suffering from some infrmity. visible
or apparent.
Article 5-Crippled or inhTm women can
become members
Article e-No onoer Of the union shall re-
oeive any pay or indemnity.
After a short discussion IL was decided
that the union, In order to acquire the
good grace OF the Government, should not
~afiliate with the Bourse du Travail or with
the General Labor Confederation. But
as Il was thought we'll that the union should
seek oficial recognition, a de~putation.
consisting OF the president. secretary,
treasurer and dea OF the cripples, Celestin
Marius. waited on the Prefeot.
Unfortunately the Project was away on
business, but II the reception given by the
pre~fectoral stat may be taken as a token
the union is not likely TO get any status from
that oficer.
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Beauties; there lie George Moore, preaching
to Lord Howard de Walden.
Mr. Sargent Is represented rushing at his
cauyas with q huge paint brush in each
hand, while three musicians are hddling
with all their might to amuse the gorgeousy
dressed lady who is posing on the platform.
Bernard Shaw is pointing to 4 hattering
picture Of himself and asking Max Beer-
bohm: 1Now why can't you do me like
that?"
Jaques Blanche is eagerly combating
Maurice Maeterlinok's reluctance to be
painted. H. G, Wells, prophet and idealist,
is oonjuring up the darling Future, the
darling Future being an infant with water
on the brain handled in the arms Of . spec
tacled b~luestooking.
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his wit; neither does he spare himself. In
the present collection will be found artists,
writer's. politicians. actors. ~aristocrats and
professors It is impossible 10 describe the
humor[ Of these drawings. and fully TO
appreciate them one must know the origi-
mails; but the accompanying Illustrations
give a fair idea OF the scope and variety Of
the exhibition.
There is Hall Caine as a preacher; there
is Arthur Balfour, wishing he had been born
in a simpler age; there is Mr.. Haldane, ex-
crossing a ministerial prerogative; there is
Henry James revisiting America; there is
Mr.. Pinero, saying wistfully; Perhaps /
shall get a European reputation now
There is the picture of George Wyndham
and George Alexander posing as Rival