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Progressive Winnipeu.

Statistics show that Winnipeg Is
now the fourth largest manufacturing
city of Canada, and those who have
studied the benevolent economic con.
ditiofs which must control her future
see a repetition of the history of st.
Louis or Chicago before the capital
city Of Manitoba.
In 1902 the city Of Winnipeg had a
population of 48,411; at the opening
of the present year the official figures
were lis, 5000. In that same year five
years ago the total assessable prop.
erty of the city amounted to $2S,615,.
$40 and in 1907 had jumped to $1O6,.
$4,000. In the same space of time
the bank clearings increased from
1SS,37O,O0O in 1902 to $599, 667, 900 in
1907.-Cement Age.
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senators IS most responsible for the OBJ
struction of reforms. For 100 years after
the adoption of the constitution, the de-
mand for the popular election Of senator's,
while finding increased expression, did
not become a dominant sentiment. A
constitutional amendment had from time
to time been suggested and the matter
had been more or less discussed in a few
of the states. but the movement had not
reached a point where it manifested it
self through congressional action, In the
Fifty-second congress, however, a reso-
luton was reported from a house COM
mittee proposing the necessary constitu-
tional amendment, and this resolution
passed the house Of representatives BY
a vote which was practically unanimous.
In the Fffty-third congress a similar res
olution was reported to, and adopted by
the house of representatives. Both the
Fifty-Second and Fifty-third congresses
were Democratic. The Republicans gained
control of the house as a result of the
election of 1894 and in the Fifty-fourth
congress the proposition died in commit
tee. AS time went on. however, the sem
timent grew among the people, until it
forced a Republican congress to follow
the example set by the Democrats, and
then another and another Republican
congress acted favorably. State after
state has Endorsed this reform, until near
ly two-thirds of the states have recorded
themselves in it's favor. The United
States senate. however, ~impudently and
arrogantly obstructs the passage of the
resolution, Notwithstanding the fact that
the voters of the United States, by an
overwhelming majority. demand 1t. And
this refusal is the more significant when
it is remembered that a number of sem
ators owe their elections to great corpor-
ate interests. Three Democratic nation
al platforms-the platforms of 1900, 1904
and 190S-specifically call for a change in
the constitution which will put the cleo
ton of senators in the hands of the vo-
tiers, and the proposition has been in
dersed by a number of the smaller par
ties, but no Republican national con-
vention has been willing to champion
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Truth and
Quality

appeal to the Well Informed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and crcditable standing. Accor.
ingly, it is not claimed hat Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of Soma is the only remedy oil
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co, only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
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trust magnate contributes 500. 900 to elect
political friends to office. with a view to
preventing hostile legislation, why should
that fact be concealed until his friends
are securely seated in their official posi-
tons?
This is not a new question; ii is a cues
ton which has been agitated-a question
which the Republican leaders fully under
stand-a question which the Republican
candidate has studied. and yet he re-
fuses to declare himself in favor of the
legislation absolutely necessary, name
ly. legislation requiring publication before
the election.
How can the people hope to rule. II they
are not able to learn until after the cleo
ton what the predatory interests are do
ing? The Democratic party meets the
issue honestly and co%urageously. 1t says:
w pledge the Democratic party to.
the enactment of a law prohibiting any
corporation from contributing to a cam
paign fund, and any individual from con-
tributing an amount above a reasonable
maximum, and providing for the publ
cation. before election. of all such con-
tributlons above a reasonable minimum"
The Democratic national committee i'm
mediately proceeded to interpret and ap-
ply this plank, announcing tina no con-
tributions would be received from cor
poratonS. tnat no individual would be al
lowed to contribute more than $40, 900, and
that all contributions above 800 would
be made public before the ~election-those
received before October 10 to be made
public on or before that day, those re-
ceived afterward to be made public on
the day when received, and no such con-
tributions to be accepted within three
days Of the election. The expenditures
are to be published after the election.
Here is a plan which is complete and
effective.
Popular Election of Senators.
Next to tn corrupt use of money, the
present method of e~lecting United States
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of the requirements of the situation. He
says:
'"If I am elected president, I shall urge
upon congress-. with every hope of sue
cess. that a law be passed requiring the
filing in a federal office. of a statement
of the contributions received by COM
mittees and candidates in elections for
members of congress-. and in such other
elections as are constitutionally within
the control of congress-"
l shall not embarrass him by asking
him upon what he bases his hope of sue
cess: it is certainly not on any encour-
agement he has received from Republican
leaders. 1t is sufficient to say that if
his hopes were realized-if, in spite of the
adverse action of his convention, he
should succeed in securing the enactment
of the very law which he favors, it would
give but partial relief. He has read the
Democratic platform; not only his lam
guage, but his evident alarm indicates
that he has read 1t carefully. He even
had before him the action of the Demo-
cratic national ommltte in Interpreting
and applying that platform; and yet, he
fails to say that he favors the publication
OF the contributions before the election.
OF course, it satisfies a natural curios-
ity to find out how an election has been
purchased, even when the knowledge
comes too late to be of service, but why
should the people be kept in darkness
until the election is past? Why should
the locking of the door be delayed until
the horse is gone?
An Election a Public Affair.
An election is a public affair. The peo-
Pile, exercising the right to select their
officials and to decide upon the policies
to be pursued, proceed to their several
polling places on election day and reg
lister their will. What excuse can be CIV
en- for secrecy as to the influences at
work? If a man, ~pecuniarily interested
In concentrating the control of the rail-
roads in one management" subscribes a
large sum to aid in carrying the cleo
ton, why should his part in the cam
paign be concealed until he has put the
officials under obligation to him? If q
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One BY the Colonel.

Some n had been telling the
colonel about weather so warm that
eggs could be fried on the sidewalk.
Call that hot weather." scoffed the
colonel. Why, that's nothing, sab"
Think not, colonel?"
mo, sab. Why, All have seen it so
hot down south, sab, that the popcorn
popped right on the stalk"
"Whew!"
And that's not all, sab. The juice
in the cane in the next field turned to
molasses. ran through the fence.
mixed up with the popcorn and formed
the finest combination of popcorr and
molasses that eve crossed your lips.
sab. Talk about hot weather? HUH"
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Ladies First"

In this age of leveling up and level
ing down, and of attempting to place
ONE on the same plane as men in
everything, chivalry is nearly a dead
letter. Many wish it were altogether
so, regarding it as a bar to the full
emancipation of There can
be no traffic here with such
wrong-headed and wrong heart
notions. In the healthy at
mosphere of sport such notions wither
and fade like exotics in an alien soil.
Ladies first!" is an abiding principle
with all who are sportsmen.-Frye's
Magazine.
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Absorbing.

SilaS-Ha! Ha! Reuben got
bunkoed again.
time?
Silas-Why, Reuben saw an ad
that stated that for one dollar they
would send him some of the most alb
sOrbing literature he ever read.
Cyrus-And what did they send
him?
Silas-Why, they sent him a pam
phlet entitled How Blotters Are
Made" and another entitled Points
on Turkish Towels"
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French

We are not SO blind as not to see
that manner are becoming more gen
tie, that the number Of honest peo-
pie increases, that morality is spread.
ing more and more into the social
masses. II thirteenth-century people
could witness our mid-Lent they
would doubtless reproach us with be-
coming much too virtuous.-From
LIE Steele. Paris.
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Dles, bearing down sensations, etc.).
On June goth, 1907, four and one-half
years later, she said: Il haven't had
kidney trouble since. 1 repeat my
testimony"
Sold by all dealers, so cents a box.
toster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
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Recipe for a Lonu Life.

He who would live long, BEAUTIFULLY
and happily in the land should avoid
all anger. hatred, jealousy, revenge,
fear. anxiety and worry. He should
earnestly cultivate those two great
virtues, calmness and kindness. For
calmness and kindness are not only
moral virtues, but are the most valu-
able Of all hygienic influences.
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Keep Busy.

There would be fewer empty hearts
II there were more occupied minds
and buster bodies. Both the body
and the mind are restless when they
have nothing to do. Keep busy; exer-
else. stir around. Activity is the law
OF the universe. Even the world has
to take its daily exercise and turn
itself about.
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Pronounced Bad.
Il made a bad break to-day"

81 made a bad break to-day"
"How was that"
There Is a Chicago woman visiting
Julia Dean and while 1 was there this
afternoon she insisted upon talking
about Gerty. Pretty soon l asked her
If Gerty was her daughter. You should
have see her flare up. And then l
somehow found out she meant Goaty."
"Who?"
"Oh, you know-the great German
author."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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The Open Window.

The best part of a modern house 10
its windows. To keep these open day
and night and to make the air inside
approach Is nearly as possible the
air outside should be the first bust.
ness OF the housekeeper.-Good
Health.
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Thank God we do not live with
saints! We live with people full of
faults. and 1t is excellent. for the
faults Of others serve us either by
imposing a salutary constraint or by
the lesson that they give.-Paris Fl.
caro-.
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Learn for Yourself.

1t is a most beautiful and salutary
order of things that you should first
bear the burden you place on others
and learn from yourself how men
should be ruled.-St. Bernard Of Chair.
Yaux.
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Manual Irainino.

Manual training is no small part Of
public education and should be given
precedence over many of the latter.
day frills and furbelows introduced
in the free schools.-Memphis Com.
mercial-Appeal.
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ney troubles. Is that
relief lasting? Let
Mrs. James M. Long,
of 113 n. Augusta
ST., S%taunton, Va,
tell you. On January
31st, 1903, Mrs. Long
wrote: "Doan's Kid
ney Pills have cured
me" (of pain in the
back, urinary from
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Learn This To-Day

The courtesy with which l receive a
stranger. and the civility | show him.
form the background on which he
paints my portrait.-John Paul Rich.
ter.
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Best Part Of IL.

A New York woman fired at q burg.
lar who was entering her window. OF
course. she missed him, but the best
part of it is that she did not kill an
innocent passer by.
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Democratic Lead
erACCepts Nom-
nation.
PLEASED WITH PLATFORM
PROMISES IN THE FUTURE TO
DEAL WITH THE PLANkS
IN DETAIL.

'oilcles of the Republicans Come In
for Bitter Criticism in the Speech
o9 Observation-Disclosures Country
Needs Change in Ruling Party
Publicity for Campaign Contribu-
tons, He Says, Is Democratic Idea
Not a Foe to Wealth Honestly
Acquired Elected, Promises
Justice to All.
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Publicity as to Campaign Contribu-
tions.

An effort has been made to secure legis-
alton requiring publicity as to campaign
contributions and expenditures: but the
Republican leaders. even in the face of
an indignant public, refused to consent
to a law which would compel honesty in
elections. When the matter was brought
up in the recent Republican national
convention, the plank was repudiated by
a vote of $50 to "a. Here. too, Mr.. Taft
has been driven to apologize for his con-
vention and to declare himself in favor
of a publicity law; and yet. if you will
read what he says upon this subject. you
will find that his promise falls far short
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FIattery Overdone.

That is fine. and l would have
praised you more II you had praised
nae less.-Louis XIV.
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Mother Of Hard Work.

Necessity il the mother Of hard
work with most Of us.-Atlanta
Georgian.
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granted in return for money contribut-
ed to debauch elections. What can be
expected when official authority is
turned over to the representatives of
those who first furnish the sinews of war
and then reimburse themselves out of
the pockets of the taxpayers?
Fasting In Wilderness Necessary.
So long as the Republican party re-
mains in power. 1t Is powerless to re-
generate itself. 1t can not attack wrong
doing in high places without disgracing
many of its prominent members. and it,
therefore,. uses opiates instead of the
surgeons knife. It's malefactors coIstrue
each Republican victory as an indorse-
ment OF their conduct and threaten the
party with defeat ii they are interfered
with. Not until that party passes through
4 period of fasting in the wilderness,
will the Republican leaders learn to
study public questions from the stand
point of the masses. Just as with in
dividuals, the cares of this world and
the deceitfulness of riches choke the
TRUTH SO in politics, when party lead
ers serve far away from home and are
not in constant contact with the voters,
continued party success blinds their eyes
to the needs of the people and makes
them deaf to the cry of distress.
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Why No Railroad Legislation?


For ten years the Interstate Commerce
Commission has been asking for an en-
largement of Its powers. that it might
prevent rebates and determinations, but
a Republican senate and a Republican
mouse or representatives were unmoved
by its entreaties. In 1900 the Republican
national convention was urged to indorse
the demand for railway legislation. but
its platform was silent on the subject.
Even in 1904. the convention gave no
pledge to remedy these abuses. When
the president finally asked for legislation.
he drew his inspiration from three Demo-
cratic national platforms and he received
more cordial support from the Democrats
than from the Republicans. The Republi-
cans in the senate deliberately defeated
several amendments offered by Senator
LaFollette and supported by the Demo-
observation-disclosures embodying legislation
asked by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. One of these amendments au-
thoriZed the ascertainment of the val
ne of railroads. This amendment was not
only defeated by the senate, but it was
overwhelmingly rejected by the recent
Republican national convention and the
Republican candidate has sought to res
cue his party from the disastrous results
or this act by expressing himself, in a
qualified way, in favor of ascertaining
the value of the railroads.
Over-Issue of Stocks and Bonds.
Mr.. Taft complains of the over-issue
OF stocks and bonds of railroads, for
the unlawful enriching of directors and
for the purpose of concentrating the
control of the railroads under one man
agement,' n the complaint is wei,
founded. But, with a president to point
out the evil, and a Republican congress
to correct it, we find nothing lone for
the protection of the public. Why? My
honorable opponent has, by his confess
sion, relieved me of the necessity of fur
nishing proof; he admits the condition and
he can not avoid the logical conclusion
that must be drawn from the admission.
There is no doubt whatever that a large
majority of the voters of the Republi-
can party recognize the deplorable situ-
alton which Mr.. Taft describes; they rec
ognize that the masses have had but lit
tie influence upon legislation or upon
the administration of the government.
and they are beginning to understand the
cause. For a generation. the Republic
can party has drawn it's campaign funds
from the beneiciaries of special legisla-
ton. Privileges lave been pledged and
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The Gateway to Other Reforms.

shall the people rule?" Every remedial
measure of Il national character must run
the gauntlet of the senate. The presi-
dent may personally incline toward a
reform: the house may consent to 1t;
but as long as the senate obstructs the
reform. the people must wait. The pres
ident may heed a popular demand: the
house may yield to public opinion; but as
long as the senate is defiant. the rule of
the people is defeated. The Democratic
platform very properly describes the pop
ular election of senators as the gate
way TO other national reforms Shall we
open the gate, or shall we allow the ex-
plotting interests to bar the way by the
control of this branch of the federal leg
i~slature Through a Democratic victory
and through a Democratic victory only,
can the peop!e settfe tie popular eiec-
ton of senators. The smaller parties are
Unable to secure this reform; the Repub-
lican party. under its present leadership,
IS resolutely opposed to it: the Democrat
ic party stands for it and has boldly de-
manded it. If l am elected to the presi-
denCy, those who are elected upon the
ticket with me will be, like myself.
pledged to this reform, and | shall CON
Vene congress in extraordinary session
Immediately after inauguration. and ask,
among other things. for the fulflllment
of this platform pledge.
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man." the Democratic party charges the
Republican party with being the promo
ter of present abuses, the opponent of
necessary remedies and the only bulwark
of private monopoly. The Democrats
party afflrns that in this campaign it
Is the only party. having a prospect OF
success. which stands for justice in gov
m and for equity in the division
of the fruits of industry.
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FATiGUED EXPRESSION.

That Is What Proves True Merit.
Doan's Kidney Pills bring the quick.
est OF relief from backache and kid
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Talent and Genius.

Talent creates a work; genius keeus
1t from dying.-Emerson.
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Personal inclination Not Sufficient.

In his notification speech, the Repub-
hcan candidate. speaking of the cleo
ton of senator's by the people. says:
personally, j am inclined to favor 1t.
but 1t Is hardly a party question:" What
is necessary to make this a party aues-
ton? When the Democratic convention
vote. and the Republican convention re-
jects the proposition by a vote OF seven
indorses a proposition by a unanimous
to one, does it not become an issue be-
tween the parties? Mr.. Taft can not re-
move the question from the arena of pol
tiles by expressing a personal inclination
toward the Democratic position. For
several years he has been connected with
the administration. What has he ever
said or done to bring this question before
the public? What enthusiasm has he
shown in the reformation of the SEN
ate? What Influence could he exert in
behalf of a reform which his party has
openly and VIGOROUSLY condemned in its
convention. and to which he is attached
only by "a belated expression of personal
inc1inatiOn2
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Shall the People Rule?
The Presidents Indictment Against
the PARTY.

In a message sent to congress last jan
uary, President Roosevelt said: "The at
tacks by these great corporations on the
Administrations actions have been given
a wide circulation throughout the coun-
try, in the newspapers and otherwise, by
those writer's and speakers who, con-
sciousiy or unconsciously. act as the rep
resentatives of predatory wealth-of the
wealth accumulated on a giant scale by
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Republican Party Responsible.
Why No Tariff Reform?

The presidents close friends have been
promising for several years that he would
attack the iniquities of the tariff. We
have had intimatlon that Mr.. Taft was
FESTIVE under the demands of the highly
protected industries. And yet the infu-
ence of the manufacturers who have for
% years contributed to the Republican
campaign fund, and who in return have
framed the tariff schedules, has been
sufficient to prevent tariff reform. As the
present campaign approached, both the
president and Mr.. Taft declared in favor
of tariff revision. but set the date of
revision after the election. But the pres
sure brought to bear by the protected
interests has been great enough to pre-
vent any attempt at tariff reform before
the election; and the reduction prom
ised after the election is so hedged about
with qualifying phrases, that no one can
estimate with accuracy the sum total OF
tariff reform to be expected in case OF
Republican success. If the past can be
taken as a guide, the Republican party
VIII be so obligated by campaign con-
tributions from the beneficiaries of pro-
lection. as to make that party powerless
to bring to the country any material re-
lief from the present tariff burdens.
Why No Antitrust legislation
n few years ago the Republican cad
ers In the house of representatives were
coerced by public opinion into the sup
port of an antitrust law which had the
Endorsement of the president, but the
senate refused even to consider the meas
ure. and since that time no effort has
been made by the dominant party to Sc
cure remedial legislation upon this sub
ject.
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the cause of the people on this subject.
The subject was ignored by the Republic
can national convention in 1900; 1t was ig-
nored in 1904 and the proposition was
explicitly ~repudiated in 1908. for the re-
cent Republican national convention, by
a vote of $3.50 to ia. rejected the plank
indorsing the popular election of sem
ators-and this was done in the conven-
ton which nominated Mr.. Taft, few dele
gates from his own state voting for the
plank.
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Lincoln, Neb.-William Jennings
Bryan was formally notified of his
nomination by the Democratic party
Tor the presidency of the United
States Henry D. Clayton of Alabama
was the spokesman of the notification
committee. Mr.. Bryan's speech of &C.
centanro fol1ouc.