davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-13

readily trained. 1t is possible that they
might go a considerable way towarus
solving the problem of domestic labor IN
the Eastern states.
Since the opening of the reservation
Major Reynolds has had increased trouble
in keeping liquor from his indians. Inc
extended Intercourse with the outer worid
makes 1t a comparatively easy matter 70
smuggle the eontraband into the Gro"
country and there are not few WINES
suficiently INSCRIPTIONS to do IL. not
wfthstandlng the severe penalty attaching
IN detection. Right on the edge or the
reservation. between the agency and Bill
lines is a small settlement which appears
to be especially designed for the pursuit
Of this traffic. 1t contains no more than
a dozen houses and four Of these are
saloons with a prospect OF two ADDITIONS
in the near future. Major Reynolds Is
Aoht,ne this evil vigorously and within
the mast twelve months has secured as
many convictions.
10 one who knew the Crows ive years
AFRO a ride over the reservation at the
present time is revelation. Thickly
settled. well-tilled districts are found In
many of the valleys. The Indians are
NOT only seIf.supporting- a ration has
been issued In three years--but they are
furnishing considerable quantities Of pro-
duce 10 the open market and sell thou
sands OF head of horses every year. up
wards of 300 substantial houses have been
erected and the farms are well stocked
with implements and teams. The Crows
have extensive Irrigation systems which
thav have themselves constructed with
the community funds, under the super
tntandence Of government engineers.
Tooking over the Valley Of the Little Big
Horn from one Of the heights near the
Custer battle-ground one may see NUM-
her Of well-tilled farms with as pretty
dwellings as any owned by the whites IN
the county.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-13
American Filter to Check Cholera

REPORTS have been received In Calcutta
to the effect that several Indian coal
mines have been closed down on account
of cholera conveyed by the water. The
mines are putting in as fast as possible
nm American filter, In order to arrest the
snread of the epidemic. Wherever the
alter has been used no cases OF eholera
nave appeared. The same is true OF tina
tute mills on the Hooghly above and be-
low Calcutta.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-13

This is no world for the unsuccessful
Better the blow Of an enemy than the
condolences Of q friend
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-13

not OF Is
to tlV
d, s'ar <
3 is 81 &
By stnAY
ighten9F
the ustl
r silvsg|
e SCUM
a moss 4
fate, n
ar0un5A
' an IL Il
it hsA
settif
lere; alI
ing rad
er hes e
ings an
but N
b one Il
the bcV
n eagse
she hI
fastenlII
d dovsl
on hg
ound.Y III
had MI
I depajt
lntly III
used hill
y his n
Is elf.1t
yer mob,
deligha
N SO uY
ed abqS
Ehe kiflt
est home
E at tn
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
(From the New York SUM-

1t may seem to these conservative
Republicans-and there must be con-
sentative Democrats who are in sub
stantially the same frame of mind
that even granting, which we do not,
that the Republican platform is not
superior on the whole or at least a
little less demagogical than the Dem
ocratic, granting that the Roosevelt
policies are to win, whoever is elected,
still Mr.. Taft by his character, by his
training and experience as a lawyer
and a Judge, by his essential sobriety
and sagacity, is naturally more con-
servative than Mr.. Bryan and more
likely to give the country an admins
tration satisfactory to conservatives.
Somebody is going to be disappointed
and disillusioned. no doubt. in a year
or two, but we can't believe that the
d%isillusion and disappointment will be
In relation to the nature of Mr.. Taft.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
BRYAN'S LATEST FINANCIAL DE-
LUSION.
Former Secretary Shaw Explains
Some of Its Monsrrous Possibilities.

The address of former Secretary OF
the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw at the
Illinois Republican State Convention
brought home with all the emphasis
Of facts and figures that trained finan-
cier could command the utter folly
and impracticability Of the Bryan
scheme for guaranteeing bank depos-
It's. Said Mr.. Shaw: mr.. Bryan
promised In his platform the creation
Or q fund for the relief OF depositors
IN failed and failing institutions,
State and National. The trust COM
panies of New York alone lost III de-
posits 1920. 900, 900 in forty days, yet
no depositor has lost. or will lose, a
penny, and no stakeholder will real
lie less than par for his stock. 1t
would have required 5000, 000, 900 to
have safeguarded the banks of New
York City alone, and at least $780,
600 900 for the entire country during
the panic of last year.
with a fund created by assess
ment and under Government control.
directors would never sacrifice their
individual fortunes, as they did last
winter, to save their institutions.
They would throw the responsibility
of suspension and widespread disas-
ter upon the Government. Let the
Government assume such a RESPONSE
bility and the Government will be
called upon to make 1t good.
Docs the Democratic party" asked
MI. Shaw, Intend to withdraw $780,
o00, 900 from the channels of trade
and lock it up against the day of dis
aster which m once, perhaps, In
ten or fifteen years."
The more the Bryan bank guaran-
tee scheme receives attention the
more glazing not only the fallacy and
absurdity of the scheme itself, but
also the freakish instability OF
Bryan's mental processes hat permits
him thus to stultify himself In seek
ing to make fools of the public. The
bank deposit guarantee scheme will
go down in our political history as
another added to the list of financial
decisions which have been put for
ward under Bryan auspices within
the past twelve years to test the san
fly of the American people. In every
instance the people have proved them
selves sane by rejecting the delusion.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
TAFT on The STUMP.

THAT was no CON talk. He amt
no great orator, but. you bet he means
what he says. Bryan wouldn't have
told us the truth as plain as that, but
he meant what he said, and he's got
the nerve to tell the truth" These
are but a few of the comments, all of
the same tenor. which could be heard
when Judge Taft addressed 400 coal
miners recently at Athens, Ohio.
In the speech MI. Taft declared to
the union miners that he had issued
injunctions. Said he: II issued them
because the rights OF the plaintiffs
demanded 1t. When l am on the
bench l enforce the law, and ! have
no apology to offer" After the utter
ance there was a pause of almost dra-
matte intensity, and then those 400
miners broke not only into applause,
but cheers.
With the Nebraskan manipulation
Of language In mind Judge Taft said
to a Sandusky audience: II cannot
dwell in the cerulean blue. but have
to deal with facts" Because Bryan
has more experience than any public
speaker of the day on the stump, and
this experience includes several Pres
idential campaigns in which he was
the candidate 1t was thought In some
quarters that the Republican candi-
date might be at a disadvantage at
this game. But Mr.. Taft has come on
amazingly in this regard. At first he
spoke from manuscript, then from
notes, and at Sandusky and Athens
he spoke extemporaneously, as he did
at various points on the route to Gin
cinnati, and the effect was instanta-
neous in spontaneity of responsive
chord.
Bryan's ability at word painting
and to clothe glittering nothings with
poetical language, is now becoming
to be regarded merely as such. 1t Is
| all something apart from the business
In hand. 1t is like play acting. Good
enough to see and hear, but very lit
tie use when we all get back to work.
| All very entertaining, but no help In
the affairs of life that daily press.
For this reason Mr.. Bryan's light and
| airy nothings do not make the lasting
impression on his audiences which the
simple truths that Mr.. Taft expresses
with such absence of oratorical effort
make upon his hearers. The situa-
ton is something like the debate be-
tween Douglass and Lincoln. The
former tickled and swayed his hear
ers, but they carried away what Lin
coin said, and the great Abolitionist
had completely won them when they
got home. Much In the same way
Bryan's most enthusiastic auditors
for the most part will go home and
think it all over and then vote for
Taft.
Oratory for mere oratory's sake
| with nothing behind it in the way Of
| suggested serious achievement is the
| effect produced by the brilliant orator
of the Platte. One has been enter
tanned by the rhetoric of young men
just emerging from a college course,
but hardly impressed as much as by
what is said by one of distinguished
public service or of achievements in
the affairs Of life. AS Judge Taft
| starts out on his speechmaking cam
| paign no misgivings need be enter
tanned as to the outlook.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
ROOSEVELT NOT A MENACE TO
PROSPERITY.

Notwithstanding the careful seru-
tiny of and vigorous policy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt in relation to large
combinations of corporate wealth,
right thinking men whose interests
are affected do not regard his activi-
ties as a menac to prosperity. The
latest utterance from such sources is
voiced by Ebert H. Gary, chairman
of the board of directors of the
United States Steel Corporation. 1t
was made in London at a dinner given
to him at the Reform Club by Sir
Hugh Bell, president of the Iron and
Steel Institute. In the course of his
remarks Mr.. Gary took occasion to
say:
"May l digress for a moment to
speak of our President, Mr.. Roose-
welt, who has sometimes been misun-
derstood if not misrepresented? He
is not an enemy to capital or Of bust
ness prosperity. He believes that
right conduct is the first essential of
National health, but he also believes
that material success and growth are
necessary. He does not attack indi-
viduals as such, be they rich or poor,
but opposes what he c~onceiyes to be
wrong, whoever perpetrates It,"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
PHILOSOPHY Of BRYANIsM.

BY deduction and inference the phi
1os0phy OF Organism Is made clear to
the simplest understanding. To Illus
trate:
II corporations abuse their power
destroy them. Likewise II the plumb
ing In your house Is bad set fire to the
building In order to rebuke the tricky
plumber.
Notwithstanding to Bryan-is
created by legislation, not by labor.
Therefore abolish the taxing power as
Z needless oppression and raise rev.
onues by fiat.
All monopolies are unjust and dam
gorous. Hence we should abolish the
patent laws and thus discourage the
development OF inventive genius.
Federal ownership OF trunk line
railroads is necessary. Consequently
there must be Federal training
schools for the instruction OF locomo-
tive engineers, firemen, brakemen,
conductors. baggage masters, etc.
There Is danger, says Bryan, that
the American dollar may be made
sstoO honest" Obviously the way to
avoid that peril Is to make the Ameri-
can dollar thoroughly dishonest
through free silver at sixteen to one.
Labor Is insuficiently rewarded,
says Bryan. This is true generally.
but particularly as to the convict la
Dor of Democratic States In which
alone that infamous system prevails.
Tariff for evenue only-meaning
free trade-is desirable. SO Bryan
gays. BY the anne token low wages
for American labor are preferable to
high pay, trade depression Is better
than prosperity and the rusting ma
chinery Of idle mills is more beautiful
than the music Of industrial activity.
The philosophy Of Organism en-
courages Industrial discomfort. and
incites strife between employer and
employe. 1t means cheap men, cheap
labor and low wages paid In dishon-
ct dollars. 1t Is to-day precisely
what 1t was In 1896 and In 1900, and
has never misled or buncoed the ma
1ority OF the people even for an hour.
The trail Of the serpent is over 1t all.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
YALE MEMS fEAlTY 10 Mr. TAFT

Rising above the comparatively un-
important and conventional consfd-
erations that surround Mr.. Taft's col
lege days, one enduring feature APP
peals to the attention. That is the
absolute and unquestioning loyalty
with which his classmates, and Yale
men generally, cleave to him. The
fealty of rs men to Mr.. Taft is in
initely stronger than it was when
they clasped hands for the last time
as undergraduates on commencement
day.
The reasons for this are plain. He
has fiattered them by ~vindicating
their faith that he would go far in the
worlds affairs; that, as his father
prophesied of him as a boy, ME
diocrity will eve do for WILL" And
he has returned confidence with con-
fidence, loyalty with loyalty, affection
for affection and trust for trust. He
has never put aside an opportunity to
acknowledge the Indebtedness to the
men Of rs for the uplifting impulse,
the sustaining force that their regard
for him has been in dark hours when
encouragement and bafled endeayor
Knocked. +
Taxing a leaf from his personal ex-
perience, he narrated before the stu
dent body of the University Of Wis
c~onsin, In q talk on college friend
ships, this incident:
While In Manila In 1902 / was
alone in what they call the palace
with only Chinese servants, and /
was on my back with a very painful
Illness. The government had not
been going just as we all would have
liked 1t. The newspapers we're criti-
cising, as they always do, but they
seemed to have more ground for criti-
cism at that time. The shadows of
night were coming on, and the day
had just reached that period when
everything that Is burdensome or pes
simistic seems to lengthen with the
shadows. ! was very much depressed,
when a cablegram was handed me.
yale had been celebrating her
200th anniversary, and all the class
had gathered there to honor her In
that celebration. | had forgotten 1t
in the woes l had, but when this
cablegram was opened / remembered.
This is what it said: we love you,
Bill, and we are with you in every
thing you are doing. Yale, 49,,
Nov, II the sun had returned and
shone into that room, II could not
have given me more light. 1t could
not have given me more strength to
meet the burdens which were not
light at that time, than that message
from those men. l could feel myself
standing elbow to elbow, because !
knew that they were my most gener-
GUS critics, that they would bear any
defect that a man might have because
they knew that his heart was right;
that they would bring to bear in
their judgment OF him the charity, the
love and the deep feeling of compan-
ionship which nothing but a college
friendship can give"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
NO NATIONAL POLICY.

The Democrats in dealing with the
tariff, as in other matters, have shown
that they are good critics but bad
actors. Their platform will not de-
clare for free trade. but they will at
tack the protection policy OF the Re-
publican party with arguments which,
il sound. would justify free trade. II
entrusted with power in the Executive
Office and both branches OF Congress,
they would adopt an illogical tariff
giving liberal protection to the in
dustries of the South and %grudging OF
inadequate support to those not rep
resented In that section. The fact Is
that the party has no National policy
and is united only in distrust of the
purposes and policies of the opposi-
tion.-Dubuque Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

While listening to or reading Bry-
ans attacks on wealth, good Amer
leans should not forget the example
furnished by William Howard Taft.
He has been a public servant many
years and is still poor. How much
do you suppose he could have re-
ceived from any big corporation law
firm during that time for his legal
services had he been willing to lay
aside his duty to his country to feath-
er his nest.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

Mr.. Taft recently was quoted as
expressing himself In this way:
II can't conceive OF anything more
depressing than to be denied partici-
patton In an active campaign or to be
kept quietly in one place, depending
wholly upon necessarily fragmentary
reports as to what is going on and as
to what conditions are"
So Judge Taft said, in speaking of
his prospective speaking tour. This
is characteristic of the man. He
could not shirk If he tried.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

General Jacob Coxey, of Ohio,
whose army of unemployed marched
TO Washington only to be kicked off
the grass by a solitary policeman, is
Hooking with Bryan this year. This
is distinctly proper and consistent.
These emineRl reformers for revenue
only have b. III become wealthy by
shouting "Ca mityi" in various tones
OF voice.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

Whatever may be his tMr. Bsyan's)
present political potentiality may be
ascribed to the fact that hitherto he
has not been allowed to carry out his
program. Governor Hughes at
youngstown, Ohio.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

Taft campaign buttons are in great
demand in Delaware and Maryland.
Campaign buttons do not vote, but
their wearers do. What's the an
swer2
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

Now that Samuel Gompers is in
politics he must expect to be closely
watched by many of his followers who
are anxious to see whether he will
develop any ambitions for personal
benefit.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26

Leaders will gather to talk with
Bryan, aruns a news headline. They
may gather, but they will never have
a chance to talk.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-26
TAFTs CHARACTER AND BRYARs
(From the Philadelphia Press

(From the Philadelphia Press.)
The difference between Judge Taft
and Mr.. Bryan is precisely the differ
ence between the policies for which
President Roosevelt and the Repub-
lican party stand, and the crazy,
half-baked proposals of Populism,
corporation haters and railroad bait
ers, to which Mr.. Bryan is the real
heir.
The Republican legislation OF the
last four years proposed a fair, i'm
partial court, In the Interstate Com
merce Commission, where any ship
per. could go who thought a rate too
high and any railroad who thought a
rate too low. To this was added the
requirement of complete and accurate
reports of all railroad operations.
Justice, law and publicity are the Re-
publican Roosevelt policy, and Judge
Taft is its direct heir by character,
training, experience and record. But
this is not what Mr.. Bryan has inher-
tied or the estate to which he has
been a~djudged heir in the probate
court of public opinion. The whole
sale sweeping cut of freight rates, the
marrying of railroads, wild schemes
for Government ownership. laws de-
nying railroads and corporations a re-
sort to the Federal courts-these are
the assets OF the inheritance to which
William j. Bryan, Populist, agitator
and corporation batter, is heir.
1t is because the American people
propose to reform railroads and great
corporations by justice, law and pub
licity that the voters of the country
turn to Judge Taft as the rightful
heir of the work of the past four
years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16
AID HOMINUN ARGUMENT-By J. C. Hden D. D.

to the use of this style of argument His two epistles to the Corinthians fairly bristle with the sharpest ad homiHum thrusts and even in that sublimest of all treatises on the resurrection, the fif- teenth chapter of First Corinthians he hits his skeptical opponents hard when he asles: What shall they do who are baptized for Qnstead ofl the dead, if tho 6ead rise not at all2'
 Of course the ad hornluum argument is liable to be absurd. Many people, for in- stance, imagine that they are using an opprobrious tenn when they call a man "a Yankee" but such people probably do not know that, in Europe, we, 1. e., the whole American people are ''Yan- l5ees;" and the Europeans are, historical ly and philologically in the right; for the word Yankee" is well understood to be taken from "Yengese. the Amer ican Indians corruption of English" :" Besides, everybody who has ever lived in Massachusetts knows how fondly proud the people of that state are of speaking of Yankee pluck" Yankee enterprise" !" and Yankee thrift"
 To return, for a moment, to James Bar bour:
 Some two years after his debate with MT. Rives, the constitutional convention of 1850 was called. Barbour was candi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16
WILLIAM F. VILAS-By Savoyard

the President down to the humblest who co-operated with him in the ex- ercise of executive authority, every member Of that administration is con- tent to submit all its acts to the se- verest scrutiny, and wait patiently the verdict of impartial history. When the passion and prejudice, the personal an imositles, and the personal grievances of those disordersd times have passed away and the public mind is prepared to consider administrative measures and domestic and foreign policies on tn cir real merits, the last administra ton of Grover Cleveland will need no champion to vindicate its wisdom and patriotism before a just and generous people,"
 Whenever fell from orator statelier words? When was the language ever made simplier? And when did the race above the sentiment couch ed in this, the last public utterance of John G. Carlisle in a political assembly-the passage l have quoted?
 Villas, though not of the cabinet was a part of that administration. Per haps it's most trusted counselor in the United States Senate, and certainly It had no abler champion in that body than he. He always made the galleries full when he was heralded for a speech, but he was not an attractive orator to my taste. He had a huslxi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16

ness of voice and some attitudes of mannerisms that I did not like. In this respect he was like Bailey of Texas, and yet crowds, better judges of such things than l, hung on his words as icy do on Joe Bailey's. TO my mind, Bailey's speeches are the ablest of any man now in public life. I never fail to read every word of them; but I do not love to hear him, as I did to hear Frank Hurd or George Vest or Feb Vance or Ed Carmack or John Sharp Williams.
 I could listen, and with delight to Henry c. Turner for hours; but to my taste, Matt Carpenter was the greatest orator I ever heard, and I have listened to Beecher and Ingersoll. Ben Hill had mannerlsms like Bailey and Villas, but his every sentence weighed a hundred pounds when the lion In him was aroused and in action. Conkling was very great orator, but he, too, had mannerlsns that drove me out of the gallery; yet if you would see a wizard of our tongue get his speeches in combat with Carl Schurz on the French Arms Sale" There Is the mosaic of language, tongued and grooved and yet how different from the simple statement of John G. Carlisle or the sledge-hammer argument of Allen G. Thurman. l heard Blaine frequently how inspiriting he was! How f1uenti How like a chicken cock he lookedl How provocative he wasl and yet there was a matter of the flippant and the super