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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

The neatly dressed woman in
her new midsummer suit met her
friend and chum the other after
noon, and, of course, was anxious
to know the verdict.
How do you like it?" she
asked, anxiously, but without
waiting for reply.
81 have just come from my
dressmaker's. where | had long
talk about the new styles. I know
you are just dying to hear about
them. Well, listen!
"The midsummer suits are crys-
talizations of all the beautiful de.
signs seen earlier in the season. In
other words, the prettiest feature
of each Of the early styles was
picked out and the best features of
all the seasons suits have been
put in one.
"Just notice the line of the coat.
1t is the cutaway idea purely. The
idea is to have the coat either very
long in front or sloping sharply
away to the back. You see hand
some fabrics are used as we'll as
embroidery laces, braiding and
long lines of buttons in elaboration
ooh, do tell me how do you like
it?"
! The friend was not a cynic, and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

9TH old place
looks run down
to tn home
conner. but it
might-a looked
worse II her a
stayed there"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12
AMERICAN LABOR
LEADS WORLD
Special Correspondence to The Press

special Correspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON, d. g., Aug. H.
Is the high standard OF living
adopted by the American workman
a mistake?
Would he be happier with the
conditions that surround the Eng
lish or the German laborer?
The bureau of labor answers
these questions in tne Negative. its
reply being based on reports of
Investigations into the cost of liv-
ing in the United States, Germany
and England, just made by the re-
spective governments.
The bureau lays emphasis upon
the food that the American eats.
The table of the American work
man Is more abundantly supplied
and with far greater variety, it is
declared, than either the German
or the English. The food of the
American workman costs more, but
his table does not require nearly
so large a wage-percentage as that
of the Englishman or the German.
AhOtHOl JOY tHdt tuC AluCIlCdu
laborer Is able to experience by
his standard of living Is that of
keeping his family together Sta
tistics show that the family of the
American living at home is larger
than that of the German or the
Englishman. The American indus
trial family averages slightly more
than five persons, with three chill
dren to family living at home.
A comparison of the cost of liv-
ing shows that the credit the Eng
lish have been given for genera
tions, of being the greatest beef
eaters on the globe, is unwarrant-
ed. The American workingman
and his family eat much more
meat than the English.
The reports indicate that the po-
sition of the English workman is
more fortunate, in regard to wages,
rental and food, than the German;
but that in all these particulars the
honors go to the American.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

ficient moisture 1t would wave and
show tendency to curl.
Save something every week.
Be calm. It's the best way to
stand hot weather.
'If you can't be good-be care.
fuP!"-Newest song hit.
A Turner picture sold in Lon.
don recently for $4,000.
From 1871 to 1907, inclusive, Is
men hit 400 or better in National
league.
The percapita consumption OF
spirituous liquors in the United
States is % gallons.
The instinct that causes a woman
to attend a murder trial makes a
man give up $40 to see prize
fight.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12
TO PROTECT DEPOSITORS

RENO, New, Aug. Gov. Die
kerson is today preparing a new
banking law which he will ask the
legislature to pass to protect de-
positors in every state bank. Fol
lowing recent failure of the Bank
of Austin the attorney general rem
dered an opinion that the state
could intervene in management of
private banks, even if the state ex-
aminer cannot now examine their
books.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12
CITY WATER IN BiSBEE

The matter of city water con-
nections in Bisbee addition was re-
ferred to the board of works by the
council last night. The company
protested on the grounds that the
city would enter into competition
with it and there was not sufficient
revenue to make up the usual II
per cent on the investment de-
manded.
Commissioner O'Brien remon-
strated against the council favoring
the company demands for the 'rea-
son that the council had already
ordered the BOARD to proceed with
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

COLORED TAFFETAS
5000 yards of colored taffeta
silks; all our regular S5c grades;
wines, browns, grays, tans,
navys, heliotropes, purple, yell
low; every yard warrant co.
ed; on sale at, a yard. OZC
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

Three Weeks" dance is latest.
The human body should have
been classified as first of seven
wonders of world.
Boast not thyself of tomorrow;
for thou knowest not what a day
may bring forth. PROV. 27:1.
English medical officer says ne
elected teeth cause large percent
age of disease of digestive organs,
and men are most offenders of san
itary rule of cleaning teeth daily.
Many women would find that if
they would give their hair suf-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12
HONOLULU NEEDS
CITY WELLS

HONOLULU, Aug. 12.-Honolulu
is facing water famine. Since
early March there has been no
rain in the mountains and valleys
which the city's supply Is obtained.
The municipal reservoir Is prac-
tically emptied. The department
of public works has issued an or.
der prohibiting street sprinkling.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

EMBROIDERIES
A small lot of Hamburg en-
broidery fiouncings, with good
edges, a serviceable quality for
petticoats; widths IL to 16
inches; 35c to SOC o.
values on sale at........GOO
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

Children's colored border
handkerchiefs, just the thing for
school use; borders come in red,
blue and lavender; buy all you
want of them at this A.
this sale at, each. ........ IL
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12
HITCHCOCK GETS BUSY

HOT SPRINGS, Aug. 12.-Frank
Hitchcock, republican national
campaign manager, arrived here to-
day. After a conference with Taft
he proceeded to straighten out the
West Virginia tangle. Charles
Swisher, one of the republican
nominees for governor of West Vir.
ginia, conferred with Hitchcock.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

the extension and some of the ne.
cessary pipe had been ordered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-12

SO she said:
at is just beautiful If you
don't mind III go back to your
dressmaker's with you and order
a midsummer suit along the same
general lines as yours"
And she did!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
are therefore given little weight ii
political circles.

Congressman Kennedy, otherwise
known as Sunny JIM" has taken up
the cloak once worn by General Gros-
venor and appears in the role of Of
fetal prognosticator of the result of
the election in Ohio this fall. He
called on Nominee Taft a few days
ago, to urge him to attend the cam
paign opening at Youngstown, where
Kennedy expects to shine with super
lative brightness, and at that time
told him he would receive majority
of at least 100000 votes in the Buck
eye state. He said the vote would be
a record breaking one, with the excep-
tion of that cast for Roosevelt. The
question which arises in the minds of
many well acquainted with the con-
gresham is, where did he get his in
formation. He refers to men of ripe
intellect and business men who will
vote for Taft in order to avoid a
national calamity. 1t is not generally
known that he has been intimately as
sociated with this class in the last six
years. His intimates, if reports are
to be credited, are those who often
turn night into day and flock where
the lights are brightest, and it is
doubted if knowledge is cleaned from
these quarters which gives the con-
gresham the right to speak authori-
tatively of thep result of the coming
election.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
TAMPERlNe WITH LABOR.

Perhaps the most disquieting fea-
ture IL the recent industrial paralysis
has been the inequitable distribution
of labor. We have high prices for all
the necessaries of life because the
farmer, we are told, cannot get a
sufficiency of good labor. In the
cities we have long bread lines, hosts
of the starving unemployed, haunting
the gates of the great mills and fac
tories now for a long time silent or
on half time. These mills have
reached such a stage of efficiency
that the few that are running can
easily supply the demand, even on
partial time, says the Pittsburg Post.
The exorbitant prices maintained
by methods such as the steel trust
recently exhibited tempt capital and
labor into rival plants, thus duplicat-
ing the charges to the consumer when
these rivals are taken into the trust
and silenced and their hosts of en-
ployes scattered. BY the payment Of
bigger wages than farmers are able
to guarantee steadily, the country
labor has been tempted into town to
starve.
And worse than this, the hordes OF
the unemployed foreigners whose con-
dition is now such a grave problem,
have been brought to this country
either by some of the many methods
that have been devised by the great
industrial concerns to beat the con-
tract labor law, or tempted here by
the greed of steamship companies.
The great iron and steel indus
tries of the country show a strange,
but uniform, preference for foreign
labor. The butcher bill of the great
mills in this district shows that for
eign workmen are employed almost
exclusively in industries in which a
tariff is levied to protect American
labor. Most of these foreigners are
now out of work, with no help in
sight, burden and a menace to the
community. Tampering with eco
nomic laws thus shows it's evil effects.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27

radicalism, the Democratic party APP
pears to have recovered to cOnsid-
cradle degree from its long infatua-
tion and to be once more in a posi-
tion to render efficient service to the
republic Without scanning 1t too
closely for imperfections we believe
that it deserves encouragement and
is entitled to Democratic sympathy
and support.
The Democratic platform and nom
inee are sound in their opposition to
iingoism and Roosevelts war-conjur-
ing spirit, in their demand for pub
licity for campaign contributions ano
expenditures in their reputation of
Capitalization through constructive
jurisprudence" in their hostility to
our wretched, bloody and costly ex-
pertinent in Imperialism in the Phil
ippines, in their insistence upon genu-
inc tariff reform and in their call for
retrenchhment of reckless and ruin
Gus national expenditures. On all Of
these things the Republican platform
and candidate are either hopelessly
wrong or silent or evasive.
If we dislike irresponsible personal
government, government by denun-
citation, executive usurpation and pop
ularized war spirit and profligacy we
must have a real and effective
Democratic. opposition, strong pop
ular protest against the party in
power and vote of confidence in
the principles and aspirations OF
Democracy against plutocracy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
THE POLITICAL PENDULUM.

If the declaration of the Baltimore
Sun for William II. Taft and against
William ]. Bryan, and predictions of
Republican success by the Cincinnati
Enquirer stood alone, they would be
most significant facts.
But they do not stand alone. AS
pointed out by the Philadelphia Press,
they are part of a broad movement.
fortnight ago the Springfield Re-
publican, which has supported Mr..
Bryan in the past, announced for
Judge Taft
The Brooklyn Eagle, once Demo
cratic, opposes Bryan.
The New York Financial and Com
merciaI Chronicle, the leading bank
ers' weekly in New York, which has
bitterly attacked President Roosevelt
and was talking six months ago about
a conservative Bryan" now feels
that "Mr. Bryan fails to fill the re-
quirements of those who think the as
saults on corporations, on railroads
and on capital and wealth should
cease" but that Mr.. Taft, judged by
his judicial temperament and his
record in public Office and on the
bench" leads "the moderate classes
to think that, as chief executive, Mr..
Taft would act cautiously and conser-'
vatively."
This is the judgment which all five
of these papers, three Democratic,
another independent, almost radical,
and the third the organ of the New
York banking, each in its way repre-
sents, different as their public and
party relations are, and plainly shows
that Taft has made deal with the
Wall street interests instead of fol-
lowing out the Roosevelt policies.
When elected he will be controlled
body and breeches by the plutocratic
interests of the country.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
JUGGLERY OF FACTS.

Republican newspapers and cam
paign speakers were never known to
discuss the tariff question with fair
by resort to false statements and a
jugglery of facts Misrepresenta-
tion is their long suit.
Just now, when they tremble be.
cause the people, who have been sand
bagged out of their honestly earned
money for years without registering
a protest, and demanding a modest
relief, these papers and campaign
harranguers are sending out the cry,
which they know to be false that "the
Democratic party stands pledged to
the abolition of protection"
The Democratic party stands fol-
nothing of the sort. On the contrary,
the Democratic party stands for pro-
lection, not for fovored few, as the
Republicans would and do have it.
but for all. Protection to a few per-
sons of wealth, who ought to be able
to walk alone for some time, as
against the great rank and file who
constitute the bulwark of the Govern
ment, is un-American, un-Democratic
The accumulation of untold millions
of dollars more than is required for
the successful administration of gov
ernmental affairs under the guise of
affording employment to workingmen
which they are not getting, but which
is in reality for profiigate Republican
Congresses to squander at will, is not
the Democratic party's conception OF
the purpose of a protective tariff. 1t
never will be.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27

Vice Presidential Nominee Sherman
IN his speech Of acceptance at Utica
says that RooseVelism is going to be
the issue in the present campaign
and that he indorses every act done
by the president while in Office Mr..
Sherman forgets that as a member
of congress he was one of the most
bitter antagonists the president had
in that body, having worked and vot-
ed against almost every measure that
was advocated by Roosevelt. But now
as he sees that the American voters
are against the plutocrats, he is will
ing to sidestep in order to secure the
Office to which he aspires.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
SHOULD TAKE SOMETHING.
From the Youngstown vindicator.

From the Youngstown Vindicator.
The Alliance Review ought to take
something for a sour stomach. 1t
gravely informs its readers that there
is a more important crisis confront
ing the American people today than
at any time since the civil war; that
the campaign has much deeper sig
nificance than the continuance of ma
tional prosperity, for "the hope of the
country lies in the election of Will
liam Howard Taft and a congress
sympathetic with his policies already
so emphatically declared, which mean
the perpetuity of the government for
the people, by the people and of the
people," Mr.. Taft's nomination was
held to be a safe one and should com.
mend itself to those interests not
lined up with the Roosevelt policies
and it was also held and is proclaimed
to be for the purpose of carrying out
the Roosevelt pollcies-a plan tc
catch em going and coming. And
Republican hardly knows just what to
expect in the way of policies. Nor is
he is sure about a Republican con-
gress being in sympathy with any
Roosevelt policies that Mr.. Taft may
take along with him in the event Of
his election and induction into the
presidential Office. The eastern Stark
county organ of the 6. o. p. should
possess its soul in peace, for there is
no crisis confronting the country.
People have learned more sense than
some politicians and political writer's.
They know that the country isn't
going to be ruined simply because one
party or the other is elected to power.
They know that the Republican party
is no longer the sole defender of the
republic against cyclone, calamity
and collapse, nor does it possess a
patent right on prosperity. Mr.
Bryan raised the question as to
whether the people shall rule, and
now here you have a Republican
paper assuming that the Republican
party in power is a government OF
the people, by the people, for the peo-
pie, such a government as Lincoln re-
ferred to in his memorable address.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27

Mr.. Bryan, in his speech at Des
Moines voiced a sentiment that must
appeal to every self-thinking citizen of
the country. when he declared that
the whole aim of the Democratic party
is to secure justice in taxation. Mr..
Bryan declared the Democratic belief
to be that each individual should
contribute to the support of the gov
ernment in proportion to the benefits
which he receives under the protec-
tion of the government" Could any
thing be more fair? Contrast this
principle with the record of the Re-
publican party in the shaping of tar
iff legislation. Protection, as applied
by Republican administrations, has
been in the interest of favored few,
from whom the party has received
funds with which to carry on it's cam
paigns of political debauchery. The
consumer has never been considered
by Republican ways and means COM
mittees. Yet he pays the tariff.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
COULD GO DEEPER.
(Leetonia Reporter.l

Ueetonia Reporter,)
The Lisbon correspondent who
sends out story of shortage and al
legged graft in county affairs might
go little deeper and find more pay
dirt. Something over a year ago an
examination of the county commits.
sioners' report was made. 1t pointed
out some shortcomings and irregular
tiles and made some suggestions.
The report was never published. A
few months ago another examination
was made. 1t likewise pointed out
some queer business on the part of
the commissioners and other county
officials, and made some pertinent
suggestions. That report has not yet
been published, and only recently
when inquired for it could not be
found. is it not strange that the
quartet Of subsidized county papers
would not insist on having legitimate
advertising that would pay them big
money?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27

Keir Hardie, the English Socialist
leader, has bushes these latter days
in nearly all countries but his own.
Having recently returned from his
journey around the world, he now
proposes to visit the United States and
Canada in order to amalgamate, if
possible, socialism and trade union
ism into political party. If he con-
fines his labors to Canada, until after
the first week in November, he will
be well advised. After that date Mr..
Hardie can tour the United States
from end to end and draw no curses
from Mr.. Gompers or any other man
as a meddling BritisheT. Before then,
our socialists and trade unionists will
enjoy the privilege of fighting it out
among themselves.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27

Republicans of Youngstown are
having hard old time trying to raise
$4,000, the price agreed upon for hav-
ing the G. o. P. campaign opening
pulled off in their city. Four years
ago the campaign was opened in the
bustling little city of Warren, in an
adjoining county, and the cost did not
exceed $500. Taft, Foraker, Herrick
and Dick spoke at the opening in
Warren. 1t cannot be claimed that a
galaxy of campaign shouters for the
Youngstown meeting are any more ex-
pensive than the Warren bunch. The
question will naturally arise as to
what is to be done with the extra
$23,500, in the event the Youngstown
enthusiasts are successful in raising
the promied amount. OF course, Gov
ernor Hughes comes from a distant
state, but he is supposed to be a
moredate liver.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
THE PREVAILING OPINION.

A prominent member of one of the
local labor unions of Salem who was a
city visitor Saturday, while in CONVEX
sation with a friend, gave out some
very startling information in regard
to the political situation in the Quaker
City. Although he has been lifelong
Republican and an earnest party
worker during former campaigns he
is now very dubious as to the outlook
for Republican success. "In our local
and in Others" said he. the men are
all shying at Taft. We used to poll a
solid Republican vote from our local,
but now thorough canvass shows
that out of two locals we can only
scare up three Republicans and the
total membership is nearly one hun
dred. OF course they are not all going
to vote for Bryan, but 1t is certain
as grim death that they won't vote for
Taft" This information coming as
IL does from one who is in a position
to know what he is talking about GER
tainly points TO a stormy time for
Republican candidates in @. o. p. rid
den columbiana county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
THE COMMON PEOPLE DO NOT
FEAR.

From the Milwaukee Daily News.
If Mr.. Bryan shall be elected presi-
dent, it will be by the votes of the
common people, For popular though
he be with the mass of the people,
Mr.. Bryan is looked upon with dis
trust where men foregather in exclu-
sive clubs, on the stock exchange, and
in the directors rooms of the great
financial institutions. And why? Be.
cause they, too, believe that he is an
honest and fearless man, who if elect
ed to the presidency will not wink at
lawlessness or sanction thC ir schemes
OF plunder.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27


Considering the fame and fortune
and popularity that attended the
composing of that deathless lyric,
After the Ball." campaign poets
seem painfully slow about grasping
the opportunity there is in a political
ditty on the theme, After the Elec-
tion," says the Pittsburg Press.
Hitchcock ought to be willing to give
up quite a bunch of trust money to
something that would make a hit
with the people, and make them be
willing to wait until it is too late to
know whose money is financing
Taft's campaign. Here's just to help
a good thing along:
After the election is over,
After the votes are in,
Maybe then we will tell you
Who put up all the tin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27

Congressman James Kennedy, of
have to get something more potential
than the cry that he is the original
Taft man" if he expects to be re-
elected. In ]. ]. Whitacre, of Can
ton, the Democratic candidate, Ken
nedy has a foeman worthy OF his
steel. The good-natured congress
man doesn't care to discuss the tariff
before the starving steel and iron
workers of the Mahoning valley,
while Whitacre is showing up it's
fallacies on the stump with vigor. 1t
will be surprising if-the old Mckinley
district is not found in the Demo
cratic column this year.-Pittsburg
Post.