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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
BRYAN UNLIKE LINCOLN.
Attempt to Compare Continuous
Candidate to Great Statesman a
Miserable Failure,

attempt TO compare CONTINUOUS
Candidate to Great Statesman a
Miserable Failure.
"The present canvass shows again
the folly Of the ass that put on a
lions skin. The managers of Mr..
Bryan's press bureau are attempting
to conjure votes for him by the use
of the sacred name of Lincoln. Aesop
declared that when the ass lifted up
his voice and brayed, every one knew
him and his owner came up and gave
him a sound cudgeling The warning
falls on deaf ears. The partisan who
tries the same tricks inviteslike shame
and punishment. The audacity of the
device may capture some of the IN
wary. Insofar as he has party be-
hind him, Mr., Bryan is the candidate
Of those who maligned and ridiculed
the first and greatest President the
Republican party has given to the ma
ton. Mr.. Bryan relies for support on
the forces which at every step opposed
Lincoln, which INSTRUCTED the meas
ures Of war and peace Of that savior
of the union, and pronounced the proc
lamation Of emancipation a monstrous
crime. Vice Residential Candidate
Sherman at Rock Island, Ill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
AS ROOSEVELT SEES BRYAN.

"You say that you have advo-
Gated more radical measures
against private monOpolies than
either 1 or my party associates
have been willing to undertake.
You have, indeed, advocated
measures that sound more radi-
cal, but they have the prime de-
feet that in practice they would
not work. 1 should not in this
letter to you discuss your atti-
tude on this question if you did
not yourself bring it up, but as
you have brought it up, 1 answer
you that in my judgment the
measures you advocate would be
wholly ineffective in curing a
single evil, and so far as they
had any effect at all, would mere
ly throw the entire business Of
the country into hopeless and ut
ter confusion. put Mr.. Taft's
deeds against your words. I ask
that you be judged both by the
words you wish remembered, and
by the words that seemingly you
and your party now desire to
have forgotten. 1 hold ii
entirely natural for any great
law-defying corporation to wish
to see you placed in the Presi-
dency rather than Mr.. Taft. Your
plans to put stop to the abuses
Of these corporations are wholly
chimerical. = Theodore Roose-
velt."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
COUNTRY NEEDS A REPUBLICAN
CONGRESS.
President Roosevelt Points Out I'm
portance of Electing Legislator;
TO Support Taft.

President Roosevelt Points Out I'm
portance of Electing Legislators
to Support Taft. :
President Roosevelt, in a letter to
William B. Mckinley, chairman Of the
Republican Congressional Committee,
appeals to disinterested citizens to join
with the National Republican Commit
tee and the Congressional Committee in
movement to elect William H. Taft
as President and Republican Congress
to support him, saying, in part:
at is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public interest, to
elect Mr.. Taft, and Republican Con-
gress which will support him; and they
seek election on a platform which spe-
officially pledges the party, alike in its
executive and legislative branches, to
continue and develop the policies which
have been not merely introduced, but
acted upon during these seven years.
These policies can be successfully car
ried through only by the hearty cooper
alton of the President and the Congress
in both it's branches, and it is therefore
peculiarly important that there should
obtain such harmony between them. To
fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be calam-
ity to the country; and it would be
folly, while electing him, yet at the
same time to elect Congress hostile
to him, a Congress which under the in
-, Ha
certain to thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect Mr..
Taft, and at the same time to elect a
Congress pledged to support him, is the
only way in which to perpetuate the
policy Of the government as now car
ried on feel that all the aid that can
be given to this policy by every good
citizen should be given; for this is far
more than a merely partisan matter"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
"sHALL THE PEOPLE RULEp"

Tune-"John Brown"
We have heard the wondrous query OF
Nebraska's Peerless One,"
AS it sounded out from Fairview and
struck the nation dumb;
So we guess We'll keep on ruling, as fol
many year we've done!
The people still shall rule!
Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory
hallelujah!
Glory, glory hallelujah! The People
still shall rule!
In eighteen ninety-six you know, the
People thought they'd rule,
And give the Peerless Orator. some
more years at school;
But still in ninteen hundred he could
not the People fool;
The People still would rule!
"Shall the People ruler" asks Bryan
Does he think the nation daft?
Is there any cause for wonder that the
People see his craft?
OF course, they'll keep on ruling, and
their Leader will be Taft!
The People still will rule!
Taft is running on his record, while
Bryan runs away
From the Paramount Issues" which he
held the other day;
And what he'll hold tomorrow no NOR
tai man can say,
The People still shall rule!
We believe in honest banking, but moi
in guarantees
To secure bank deposits that may tend
to foster thieves,
However much such methods some cum
ming knaves might please,
The People still will rule!
We intend to vote for William-but not
for William B.
Our ballots in November shall be cas-
for william T.
The defeat of William Bryan will be
counted No. 3,
The People still shall rule.
B. F. G. in Baltimore American.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
For Taft and the Big Stick.

To the Editor of The World:
Because Of the present condition of
our government we must have man
with the ability of Mr.. Taft to keep
the wheels of progress turning, SO that
more respect shall be shown on the
part Of Europe.
Our government has been progress
ing ever since its birth. The Monroe
Doctrine will be in great danger. In
stead of Japan being our friendly
neighbor it will become our foe. There
fore all parties should unite in electin9
Mr.. Taft by big majority, and with
the "Big Stick" he should carry out
President Roosevelt's policies.
LOUIS SHAPIRO.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
BRYAN THE FREE.TRADER
Stands To-day as He Did When in
Congress for Free Trade.
He Pronounced the German
Free Trade Bill Just and
Honorable.


career he is officially identified with
just one important measure Of federal
legislation, and that the Wilson-G German
tariff act Of 1894. AS a member of the
House Committee on Ways and Means
during President Cleveland's second adj
ministration Mr.. Bryan assisted in pre-
pairing that measure, and in its COM
pleted form it bore his unqualified ap-
prevail. His advocacy of the bill drew
sharp and clear the dividing line be-
tween the Democracy Of Organism and
the Democracy of Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. Bryan pronounced the measure just
and honorable. President Cleveland de-
nounced 1t as ''the creature of perfidy
and dishonor," refused to sign it, and it
became a law without his approval.
The distinction thus drawn between the
Bryan Democracy and the Cleveland
Democracy continues to this day.
Free Trade Disastrous.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Bryan is posing
this year as the special friend and
champion Of the farmers, it is worth
while to point out how their interests
were affected by the only important law
he ever helped to create. The Wilson
German act repealed the duty on wool.
On January 1, 1893, two months after
President Cleveland's second election,
the sheep in the United States, accord
ing to official statistics, numbered A.
273,o53 and were valued at $125, 9O9, 254.
At the close of Mr.. Cleveland's term,
thanks to the baleful influence Of the
free trade act which Mr.. Bryan had
helped to force upon the statute book,
the number of sheep in the country had
fallen to 36,S1S,643, having value Of
$6O,O20,942. In other words, the sheep
herds had suffered a loss of more than
100000, or nearly % per cent, and
the wool clip Of the United States had
declined in value about $5S,OOO,OOO, or
nearly 80 per cent, all through the op-
Grafton Of a law which found one of
its most ardent supporters in the per.
son of "the farmers friend" William
]. Bryan.
In 1893, under the fostering care of
tariff protection, the wool of the coun-
try amounted to 3O3 100000 pounds
in 1895, under the blighting effect of
free trade, 1t fell to 2O9,OOO,OOO pounds.
In 1891, with the tariff restored, 1t
rose to 3020O0,000 pounds and to 316,-
100000 pounds in 1902. During the
four years Of President Cleveland's sec
ond term the measure which he de-
nounced as "the creature of perfidy and
dishonor," but which Mr.. Bryan never
theless enthusiastically endorsed, sad
died the American wool growers with
losses conservatively estimated at $780,
100000.
But the wool growers were not the
only victims Of the Wilson-G German
Bryan perfidy. Every branch Of Ameri-
can industry suffered. 1t lowered the
duties on imports of manufactures and
thereby forced the closing of important
native industries and drove their en-
ployes into idleness. Wages in every
branch of Industrial activity declined,
the demand for every variety of farm
products fell of, and the workingmen
Of the country were subjected to uni
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
A Sentiment That VIII Live.

Judge Taft's II do not care for the
Presidency if it has to come by COM
promise with Senator Foraker or any
body else in matter of principle" is
one of those quotable sentences that
will stick IN memory and in politics and
be recalled in campaigns many years
hence as one Of the virile utterances Of
American history. Topeka Capital.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
The Public Welfare.
(From Governor Hughes Speech at
South Bend, Ind.)

(F'rom Governor Hughes Speech at
South Bend, Ind.)
eff Bryan had been elected in 1896
the disasters that would have followed
would have prevented him from ever
being a candidate again.
"We are devoted to a line Of progress
straightforward, honorable administra-
ton above every selfish advantage,
against every attempt to exploit the
people for private interest. We are de-
voted to the public welfare in establish
ing the stability Of honest enterprise
We serve the Republican party because
we believe that through it these things
can be accomplished. In the heat and
turmoil Of political campaign it is i'm
portant that we should preserve true
and proper sense Of proportion"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Big Western Bank Deposits.

The deposits in the State banks OF
Kansas on Sept. 1, the date Of the last
call, were greater than ever before in
the history Of the State-a total OF
over eighty-three million dollars, and
this within ten months after the panic
During the eighty days between the
last and next to last calls the deposits
increased at the rate of 100000 a
day. The net increase for this period
was eight million dollars. The ma
tional banks will probably show an
equal gain for the same period.-To-
peka Capital.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

Mr.. Taft should hold to his original
resolution not to answer every state
ment made by Bryan. Give Mr.. Bryan
time enough and he will deny them all
himself. -Philadelphia Ledger.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

Haskell in himself amounts to moth
ing, but he is valuable as showing with
what kind of men Mr.. Bryan is willing
to surround himself.-New York Globe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
TAFT's PLEDGE.
Mr.. Taft at st. Paul /:

"If I am elected, as 1 expect
to be, I have the greatest pleas
ure in pledging, in the presence
Of this grand audience, all the
energies and all the abilities of
which I am capable to continue
the Roosevelt policies, to make
business honest and to keep every
man within the law, be he humble
or rich"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Bryan for Free Trade.

William Jennings Bryan stands to-
day as he stood in 1894, for free trade
and all that it means to American la
Dor and American enterprise. He can
not get away from the record, and
there are no indications that he wants
to get away from it. He is committed
to free trade as distinctly as he is to
free silver, and his own words show
that he will fasten those twin deviltries
upon the country if he gets the chance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

versal hardship and distress. The OPP
Grafton Of Mr.. Bryan's pet measure
robbed the farmers, brought hunger and
misery to the wage-earner and bank
rupted the treasury 1t was indeed, as
Mr.. Cleveland said, "a creature Of per-
fidy and dishOnor"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
Wednesday, April 8.

Washington, April S.-The naval ap-
preparation bill, authorizing the con-
struction of two instead Of four battle.
ships, and eight instead Of four subma-
rine torpedo boats, and carrying total
appropriation of $103, 967,51s for the
naval service for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1901, was reported to the
house today by Chairman Foss of the
committee on naval affairs.
The bill carries an item of 81 ,O00,-
600 toward the construction of the sub
marine torpedo boats and an item of
$445,O00 toward the construction of
sub-surface torpedo boats. Provision
is made for the enlistment of 6, 900
men to man the following ships, which
are to be put in commission within
the next few months: The California,
Mississippi, Idaho, New Hampshire,
South Dakota, North Carolina, Mon
,ana, Chester, Birmingham and Salem ;
and for l,500 men required to man torz
pedo boats not now in commission.
Representative Hobson, of Ala bama,
submitted minority report recon-
mending that provision be made in the
bill for four frst-cass battleships in
stead of two.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
STREETS RUN BLOOD.
Seven Are Killed and 100 Wounded in
Lisbon Election Riots.

Lisbon, April 7.-seven persons were
shot to death and 100 others wounded
by soldiers last evening, after the vot-
ing in the elections in this city had
ended. The rioting was widespread and
such was the confusion during the vio-
lent conflict between the populace and
the municipal government that the
guardsmen, mistaking the infantry who
had been called out for rioters, fred q
volley into their ranks, seriously
wounding three of the soldiers.
The night was one of terror for Lis
bon, which seemed suddenly afame
with revolt. Bands Of men ran wildly
through the streets, brandishing wesp-
ons, while the sharp crack of rifles was
heard in various sections.
Lisbon remains practically an armed
camp. Large numbers have been az
rested. The people are now in state
of feverish unrest and it is feared there
may be a recurrence of the bloodshed.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
Ridder Sure Of Victory.

Washington, April 9-Herman Rid
der, OF the New York Staats Zeitung,
who represents the Newspape, Publish
ers' association in their demand for free
wood pulp, SO as to reduce the price of
white paper, said today, after confer
ring with President Roosevelt, that he
was sanguine congress would not ad-
journ without passing such mersure.
Mr.. Ridder said be had the written
pledges of 6S Republican members Of
the house, which, added to the Demo-
cratic vote, makes a large majority.
Mr.. Ridder declares that the ways and
means committee of the house is re.
sponsible for not reporting bill.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
EXPOSES RAILROAD JUGGLERs
Interstate Commerce Commission Is
sues Special Report.

Washington, April S.-A special re.
port just issued by the Interstate Com.
merce commission gives a practical
illustration Of the manner in which
railway corporations, once independ.
ent, have developed into fully controll.
ed systems. The report is the result
Of an investigation made in connection
with the establishment of q uniform
system Of REPORTS for railways which
the commission is empowered to pre-
scribe. One Of it's principal duties
will be tc compile information to aid
in determining the proper form Of a
standard balance sheet.
One of the principal uses Of the re-
port will be to furnish information,
heretofore unobtainable, to the public,
congress, court and Interstate Commerce
commission. 1t makes public for the
first time the amount of securities in
the hands Of the corporations. The
statistical tabulation shows that out Of
over SIS, 100000 900 of outstanding
securities s., 100000 is held by
railway corporations, leaving in the
hands Of the public about $1,000, ,OOO,-
900 Of funded debt and 100, 900, 900
of stocks. 1t includes a table of mis-.
cellaneous holdings of railway compan-
les in other securities than those of
railways.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
HAS PAID REBATES.
Great Northern Railway Co. Convicted
and Fined $5, 900.

0'S "SN ~SDSSSs
New York, April s.-The Great
Northern Railway company was today
convicted Of granting rebates to the
American Sugar Refining company, be-
fore Judge Holt, in the United States
Circuit court, and fined $1,000. The
company was charged by the govern
ment with giving rebates on sugar
shipped from this city to Sioux City,
Ia, in 1902. Counsel for tine company
gave notice of an appeal. The rebat-
ing indictments against the Northern
Steamship company were dismissed.
The trial was remarkable for it's brew
ity, la. ng only two days.
Before Judge Holt imposed the fine
United States District Attorney Slim
son called the courts attention to the
fact that there had been no attempted
concealment Of the alleged crime upon
the part of the defendant.
"There is no element of concealment
in this CASE" said Mr.. Stimson, "and
the court will recall that in the case of
the New York Central, convicted for
the same offense, there was an elabor-
ate system of bookkeeping which
led the payment of rebates, and
the giving of the rebate money was
kept off the regular books of the COM
pany. There is nothing Of that kind,
am glad to say, in this case"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
GRAVE PERIL IN ANARCHY.
President Sends Vigorous Message to
Both Houses Of Congress.

Both Houses OF Congress.
Washington, April 10.-In one Of the
shortest messages which he has yet
transmitted to congress, President
Roosevelt yesterday called the attention
of that body to the necessity for further
legislation on the subject o: anarchy.
With the message he transmitted q re-
port reviewing the legal phases of the
question by Attorney General Bona
parte. The message Of the president is
as follows:
"To the senate and house of repre-
sentatives:
~ herewith submit letter from the
department of justice which exlains
itself. Under this opinion I hold that
existing statutes give the president
power to prohibit the postmaster gene
raj from being used as an instrument
in the commission of crime, that is, to
prohibit the use OF the mails for the
advocacy of murder, arson and treason,
and ] shall act upon such construction.
"Unquestionably, however, there
should be further legislation by con-
gress in this matter. When compared
with the suppression Of anarchy, every
other question sinks into insigni6cance.
The anarchist is the enemy of human
ity, the enemy of all mankind, and his
is deeper degree of c1iminality than
any other. No immigrant is allowed
to come to our shores il he is an anar-
chist; and no paper published here or
abroad should be permitted in this
country If it propagates anarchist opin-
ions. THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
BIG DRY PATCHES.
Saloons to Be Abolished in Twenty
Illinois Counties.

Chicago, H., April SIN hand.
to.hand contest the saloon issue was
fought to standstill yesterday in Iii.
is. After campaign and election
seldom equaled in the state in bi ter
ness, 1900 townships voted on the di.
rect question of the licensed saloon and
both sides claim victory.
The Anti-Saloon league leaders are
jubilant over the fact that 20 counties
voted to become absolutely anti.saloon
territory and more than 500 saloons
in many of the cities and villages of
the state were voted out OF business.
The following counties are now ab-
solutely anti.saloon territory, go Great
ed by the voters yesterday, in addition
to the six which voted last November
to Danish the dramshops:
Boone, Brown, Cumberland, Moul-
trie, Saline, Shelby, Fayette. Gallatin,
Coles, Hamilton, Douglas, White, Ed
gar, Macon, Wayne, Clark, Platt, Rich.
land, Merced, Dewitt, Champaign,
Winnebago.
1t was in the cities that the desperate
character of the warfare waged between
the two elements developed in its en-
tirety, and both sides were more or less
surprised by the returns from some of
the municipalities.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
Federal Court Blocked

San Francisco, April 9.-By a sudden
maneuver, John Benson and Frederick
Hyde, on trial in Washington, d. c.,
halted Surveyor General Kingbury, of
California, as he was about to leave for
the national capital with the records
bearing on the case. Kingbury had
been subpoenaed to be in Washington.
As he was about 20 leave this evening,
he was served with an injunction for
bidding him to take the records out of
the state.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
Saturday. April u.

Washington, April 11.-Debate on
the naval appropriation bill in the
House today resolved itself in the
main into a discussion of the pOssi-
bilities Of war between the United
States and Japan. In line with his
well-known views on the subject,
Hobson, of Alabama, pleaded for
four battleships instead of two for the
next fiscal year, and pointed out that
from now on the United States
should have fixed policy with re-
gard to naval construction. A war
between the yellow and the white
races he regarded as inevitable, and
he asserted that Japan's present mil
itary activity was with view to the
supremacy of the Pacific and ulti-
mately she would clash at arms with
the United States.
Washington, D. c., April 11.-No
definite arrangement has yet been
made for the consideration of the
Fulton land grant resolution in the
House. While privileged matter, it
is not as highly privileged as appro-
are appropriation bills waiting to be
COloluclcu tueIe VIII dppdl citiy DC
no time to take up the resolution.
Chairman Mondell, of the House
public lands ommittee, who has
charge of the resolution, said today
that he would call it up at the first
but he did not deem it
wise to endeavor to crowd it in
ahead of any appropriation bill, for /
by so doing he would arouse those /.
interested in appropriations I
and furthermore, probably be over
ruled by the speaker, who would con-
sistently give preference TO appro-
priation measures. Before long, how
ever, the appropriation bills will have
all passed the House, and then, If
not before, Mr.. Mondell thinks the
resolution can be called up and
passed
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-04-16
| eech is Public Printer.

Washington, April 7. - John s.
Leech, of Illinois, now public printer
in the Philippines, WAS today appoint
ed public printer. Mr.. Leech is legal
resident Of Bloomington, Ill, although
she served respectively as compositor,
proof readers and foreman IN the gov
eminent printing office here from 1889
to 1901, at which time he was selected
as public printer for the Philippines.
He has made for himself most envis-
BILE record as an administrative officer
there, according to reports in the pos
session of the insular bureau.