Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-08

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point Of view, his hunt was not very
successful. Up to the last day OF his
outing he had killed n deer, but on
hat day brought down a good-sized
black bear trailed by the dogs. AT
Nashville, Tenn, where the Presldeht
stopped over several hours, after hav-
ing made a brief visit to Vicksburg,
he delivered three addresses and o ok
part In two parades. Gov. Patterson
and the Mayor of Nashville were on
hand with other prominent citizens TO
receive him, and a company Of Confed-
crate veterans marched as a speclal
escort. In his speeches, referring TO
the prevailing panic in Wall street, he
took occasion to say emphatically that
his policies would be p~ersevered IN, ana
he summed them up In n BRIEF SEN
tence, saying that they represent the
effort to punish successful dishonesty
He doubted If they had any effect In
bringing about the present trouble, but
If they did. he said 1t would not alter
in the slightest degree his course. A
temporary commercial depression he
would consider small cost If 1t were
necessary to arouse civic IN
our nation. After his address the Pres
ident and his party visited the Hermit
age, the home occupied by President
Andrew Jackson. Upon his return to
the White House the President SAID
he was delighted with his trip, and
was especially gratified over the fact
that he got a bear as the result OF
his hunt. During his journey he had
visited eleven States, and his main
purpose was to give the weight of his
office to the movement for a ship canal
in the Mississippi.
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What's the matter with the navyt
This question Secretary Metcalf has
set himself to answer. The trouble
in the navy apparently applies both to
personal n fighting machines. Seri-
u defects, long pointed out by some
reform officers, are now made plain
and so many more have been shown
that there has resulted a wide differ
ence OF opinion as to the practicable
ity of attempting the cruise from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Now the gen.
eral board is divided IN its opinion as
to the type and numbers Of the battle
ships that should be bdilt. The board
Of construction is divided as to how
they should be built. Officers Of the
bureau Of navigation and other div1-
sious are divided as to how to improve
the personnel. Metcalf is ut sea and
where the bureaus differ between them
selves they are coming to the point OF
standing together against the secretary.
1t Is said it has remained for the pro-
jected Pacific trip to bring the divi-
sion to a focus and possibly a crisis.
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A new step has been taken by the
administration in its war upon illegal
trusts by invoking Section 6 of the
Sherman antitrust law to justify the
seizure of about $1,000 worth Of to-
bacco goods in Virginia belonging to
corporations allied to the American To
bacco Company, otherwise known as
the Tobacco Trust. Up to this time
Section 6, which specifically authorizes
the seizure and condemnation of any
property owned under contract Or in
combination prohibited by the Sherman
law, had remained a dead letter. The
seizure in question was a complete
surprise to the tobacco company, which
Is already under prosecution by the
| Federal government. 1t Is supposed
that this seizure will p~recipitate an &C
ton which, under the law of seizure,
would bring to light information other
wise not obtainable, which the govern
ment might use against the trusts.
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Attorney General Bonaparte has rem
dered an opinion to the effect that the
action Of a State in furnishing inan-
cial assistance u giving promise OF
employment to secure immigration is a
violation of the immigration laws, UNI
der which the State is in precisely the
same standing as an individual. The
occasion of this opinion was the case
OF one Geronimo Garcia, who came to
New Orleans from Cuba, his passage
money having been paid by the Louis
lana State Board Of Agriculture and
Immigration. He had also been given
assurance that employment as a farm
laborer would pc secured for him, aud
he had promised to return to the State
the money advanced for his passage.
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.Whea the government goes into the
hbor market as a competitor in search
of men it finds itself handicapped by
pay tables which have not varied appre-
ciably in the last fifty years, and were
based on the old idea that anything was
good enough to be food for powder, and
that only the necessitous and ne'er-do-
well were available for enlistments.
Conditions have changed radically,
without pay changing with them, and
standards haze been raised without
.ay accompanying advance in army
wages. Consequently the wonder is not
that the government does not enlist
more men, but that it secures as many
as ii does.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
la.d before the Secretary of the Navy
the suggestion that the locks Of the
Panama canal be wider than now
planned, owing to the larger size OF
merchant vessels and warships now
csfs,ssisss into vogue. 1t is thought pos
sible that this question may revive the
discussion of a sea-leyel waterway.