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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26
]. S. CONWAY,
The Tailor.
Coal, Coal. Coal.

Get my prices on the best grades
of Ill. and Mo. Lump Coal, before
you buy.-Lewis Nash, Buffum
phone SO.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Get my prices on the best ILL.,,
and fancy Mo-. Lump Coal right
from the car. lean save you mon
ey.-A. Lewis Nash, Buhum
phone SO
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Reduced prices on wagons for so
days only at John Hendricks, Has
sard, Mo. 1873
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Miss Edith, Mackey and Ralph
Young. of Lewistown. Ill. arrived
Tuesday to visit their kinspeople,
w. S. Wilson and family.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Liberal discount on wagons for a
limited time, only. Kendrick,
Hassard, Mo. 1873
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Lost-A ladies black beado !
pocket book. Contains some mon
ey. Reward. Leave at Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Get bargain wagon within the
next so days.-John Kendrick. Has
sard, Mo. 1913
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26

Have Joe at Streams shine your
shoes.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-11-26
For Sale.

Five Jersey mich cows Good
ones.--J. E. Christian.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
THE HAITI TROUBLES.

The world is coming to the opinion
that ali foreigners should keep out of
Haiti, that the so-called Republic
should be in manner fenced in and let
the mulattos and negros fight their fight
to determination IL they will Nobody
is interested in the perpetual wars there
except when some too daring white men
and their property are involved. The
origin oil the troubles in Haiti is in one
sense the same that ii is in all the
Spanish-American countries. The
French were expelled from Haiti in the
same way that the Spania-ds were from
their possessions; that is, there was a
little crowd of officials fattening on the
people. In time grew up a crowd of
native-born whites and mixed bloods,
who were jealous of the privileges and
perqusites of their foreign born rulers,
expelled them, and seized upon their
money-making system for their own
there were not enough of these oppor-
tunities TO go around. and the fellows
who did not get in organized revolutions
to displace those who had been more
successful In Haiti the mulattos have
held themselves as much superior to
the pure negros, and have tried to play
the part of the dominant Frenchmen,
which the negros have violently resist
ed 1t has long been the opinion of
students of the conditions in the West
Indies that there is a battle going on
between the straight negros and those
who have white blood in them, and
which will end in the reign of the mu-
latto. The present President of Haiti
is Nord Alexis, a negro, and who repre-
sents the mulattos. Strangely, the ne
gros are led by mulatto, Gen. Antenor
! Firmin, who was unsuccessful in rev.
olution he attempted awhile ago, end
had to take refuge under the French
dag. This question of making the con-
sulates cities of refuge has been under
discussion in the chancelleries of the
| world, with them generally coming tc
| the conclusion not to allow the con-
sulates to be used as such except fol
| white foreigners. The United State:
has inclined to this opinion. but France
still continues to offer harbor of safe.
| ty in her consulates. At present the
so-called revolutionists are under the
protection of the French flag, witt
President Alexis demanding that they
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
GOV. JOHN A. JOHNSON.

The possibility that Gov. John A.
Democratic nomination for President
is an unusually pleasing one to the
people. 1t looks like return of the
Democracy to safe and sane ways and
an ideal campaign for the Presidency
in which both 4 candidates are of a
the best men in the country. Gov.
Johnson is regarded as one of the ex-
emplary products of our American in
stitutions. IcHis mother and father were
poor Norwegians and kept poor by the
fathers habits, but Johnson broke his
births invidious bars and by sheer
worth and exceptional ability rose un-
til he has been twice elected Governor
of Minnesota on the Democratic ticket
against the heavy normal Republican
majority in that State. AS Governor
he has been singularly effective in
bringing about much needed remedial
legislation. He has not wasted any
time in rhetorical clamors against the
trusts and other evils, but has pro-
posed practical reforms which even his
Republican opponents in the Legis-
lature had to accept. This is the
strongest indication of his unusual
ability. He is eminently a practical
statesman, and when he speaks his
words are such as to produce an i'm
preston upon thinking men. His most
recent declaration was against Gov
ernment ownership except for such OBJ
vious purposes as gas and water. AS
to the initiative and referendum, he
doubted whether it was of any value
in large way, but might be useful
in local matters. He regards corpora
tions and trusts as things inevitable
and necessary, and instead of wasting
time in vociferous denunciation thinks
we should accept the inevitable and
seek, while securing al the benefits, to
eliminate as far as possible the at
tendant evils. This is of the common
sense that strikes American people
powerfully. Gov. Johnson has win
ming personality, and IL he went about
the country more and met people, he
would increase his chances immeasur-
ably, since no man who ever comes in
contact with him fails to receive a dis
tinct impression of his integrity, abili-
ty and high public spirit.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
AN OPEN LETTER.


To the Senators and Representatives Congress
Widows Pension Bill is now
@ sa at G upon the d proposition @ ae b na @ ene
Arguments actual
the
that they would not
receive pension at their husbands death and that therefore they
Government great deal of absolutely aacous stun
their and who will actually entap feeble
While relatively few instances
haunting the dives around the soldiers homes
lie IN wait for the " ana @ ] ts a peu and women
Of the whole
knowledge that the
living the country or in the small towns where
associate with are of the same respectable
I + .,;t f ~ own ommnny where Won are acquainted
The old soldiers
precisely the that they
locality between the Atlantic and the Pacific
sn sou an honorable discharge from the Armies of
YOUR community
You would be wholly surprised at any of these veterans
whom know would be
only take home to yourselves the KNOWLEDGE @
Judgment Of those in every community
Of your local acquaintance sun closer nome " H you We @ n % r Of
ber how many of these @ veterans @ @ ~h h @ % married. % The situation Of
left with family of partially grown
direction of mother
development their
them mother to ore replace n the ONE ONE whom they had lost
the high credit of american o @s @ M as n @ %
usually of mature age have oo the
of bringing family as well as of caring for man who was no longer
Of intorabe
first
anwhen
of of
sometimes the support of him
sfamly
an consideration by the Government
gratitude Not
question asked
the
most roll When the of the Revolution
discrimination
in
the widows of the war o
hoew
abolish the limitation
Homes the chaa
of
soldier
justice
the act of
enwho be
mind in favorof he -r.
IN
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justice National
the just
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

France has usually been successful in
the Germans, but not nearly as much
as the American soldiers in the Philip
pines. Gen. D'Amade, in command
in Morocco, has called for reinforce
ment of $4,000 men, and it Is thought
that this will nave to be made 10000
troll. 1t is possible that he may have
to strike directly at the Morocco Capital
before he persuades the turbulent ma
tives that he is bound to preserve the
Deace
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

Now it is a Lutheran clergyman
whose narrow, dust-grimed brain is rat
tied by the appearance of the flag in
church. The Rev. o. s. Schoenlein,
pastor of the Lutheran Church at Cas-
tie Shannon, Pa, refused to receive the
remains of Comrade William H. Langh-
erimrich, because they were wrapped
in the American flag. The parishioners
were intensely indignant at the refusal
of the pastor, and very properly refused
to remove the flag. Instead the body
was carried back home, followed by the
mourners and the congregation, where
services were held, and then the re-
mains were buried in the cemetery with
the flag wrapped around them. The
occurrence of these incidents show how
little even such men as preachers know
about the regulations of their churches
and great spirit of loyalty which domi-
mates everything. There is no rule in
any church prohibiting the entrance of
the American flag, the emblem of the
supreme authority in the Nation, and
a minister who objects to it reveals his
own ignorance of his duties and the
laws of the church of which he is a
servant.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

o. M Carter, late Captain in the
United States Engineers, is entirely too
premature AS soon as Judge Kohlsaat
decided a point of law in his favor he
Immediately began to talk about restor-
alton TO the Army and an entire clear
ance of his record. The proceedings of
the court-martial he declared null and
void. Attorney-GeneralB Be naparte takes
q widely different view. He says that
the case before Judge Kohlsaat had
nothing to do with Carter's guilt, but
merely related to qustion whether the
Government could recover some of the
stolen money alleged to be in other
hands The question of Carter's guilt
was settled by the verdict Of the court
martial and the proceedings subsequent
thereto AS to the money which Carter
put in other hands, there will be other
effort TO recover it.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

The Conference Committee on the
Widows Pension Bill consists of Sena-
tors McCumber, Scott and Taliaferro.
of the Senate Committee on Pensions,
enslager and iWeisse, of the House.
Owing to the death of Senator Bryan,
which took away to the funeral in
Florida Senators Scott and Taliaferro,
no meeting of the conferees has been
held, but one will be this week, when
it is hoped that they will promptly
agree upon the bill as passed by the
Senate and on reporting the same back
to their separate Houses the measure
will become a law.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
GEORGIA AND THE wIRz MONUMENT.

The editorial in The National Tribune
to the effect that the ill-judged action
of the Daughters of the Confederacy in
exalting Wirz to martyr and building
monument to him would seriously in
jure Georgia, has aroused the anger Of
the Georgia papers. They are particu-
larIy incensed at the statement that this
will prevent Atlanta from getting her
much-d desired boulevard at National ex-
pense, and also from getting the Ma
tional Encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
The Savannah Press denounces Tho
National Tribune's article as rude and
boorish" 1t says:
"It is unworthy the notice of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. and did
net emanate from the mind of any good
or gallant man. 1t does not represent
the sentiment of any decent or con-
servative paper, and does not voice the
opinion of any brave or noble people.
National Tribune, indeed Such an ar
ticle must have been fished out of a
National trash heap"
"Flinging epitaphs," as Mrs. Parting
ton would say, at The National Tribune
will not help the matter in the least.
The vindictive spirit of the Daughters
Of the Confederacy cannot help having
a profound effect upon Northern peo-
pie who think of going to Georgia and
investing their capital there. If they
change their location they are certain
to seek section where the bitterness
is less pronounced, and where they can
have more hope of being welcomed and
living in peace with their neighbors.
Every word that Is said about the
Wirz Monument must inevitably preju-
dice the people of the rest of the coun-
try against Georgia and all that Geor-
gia represents. That Andersonyille was
in Georgia. and all its horrors. that
were tolerated by the people of that
State. had been measurably forgotten
by the people of the North until the
insensate course Of the Daughters Of
the Confederacy painfully reminded
make any favorable consideration for
Atlanta's park and other things that the
city wants much more difficult to OBJ
tain. The Daughters of the Confed-
eracy have only to thank themselves for
this. The Grand Army of the Republic
certainly did not bring on this intensely
disagreeable recrudescence of the bit-
terness about Wirz and Andersonville-
For years the National Encampment
and the Commander-inCh Chief have done
all that was possible to avert this re-
vival of hateful memories. and the Conn
mander-in- Chief of the Grand Army Of
the Republic has personally appealed to
the head of the United Confederate Vet
erans. and the officials of the Woman's
Relief Corps have likewise appealed to
the heads of the United Daughters Of
the Confederacy to stop the erection of
the monument, with it's insulting in
scriptions, in the interest of sectional
peace and good will. ALI their efforts
have been unavailing, and now If the
Daughters persist they must take the
consequences.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The competitive trials of two scout
cruisers, built exactly alike except thai
one had reciprocating engines and the
other turbines, brings out some results
astonishing to engineers. The Birming-
ham has reciprocating engines and the
Chester turbines. In the four-hour
speed trial the reciprocating engines
only made 24.32 knots per hour, against
1852 knots for the Chester driven by
turbines In the long test of "a hours
the Birmingham made 22665 knots,
against 22.7S knots by the Chester, so
that the difference became trifling. In
the matter of coal consumption the
Chester steamed 2.475 knots for each
ton &c coal, against 2.s24 knots for the
Birmingham, making the difference in
favor of the turbine of only .349 knots
or a trifie over third of a knot for each
ton of coal. The greatest surprise came
in the low speed test, where each was
kept down to about IL knots. In this
trial the Chester steamed about three
fourths of knot farther on each ton OF
coal than the Birmingham. Heretofore
n has been alleged that while the tur.
bine might be more economical of Goa
ut high speed, the reciprocating engines
would do more per ton at the Low
speeds This opinion is now reversed,
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

Senator Reed Smoot may be off-col-
ored as to religion, but he is acute in
business matters. In 1892 ne owned
$1,000 sheep. As soon as he learned
of CIeveland's election he began rush
ing his sheep into the Chicago market
to get ahead OF the tumble in prices.
which he saw was sure TO come. He
got from $3.50 to SO apiece for his
sheep, and then stocked up again when
his neighbors were selling their sheep
for next to nothing to get rid of the
expense of feeding them.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The religious world is deeply exer-
cised over the passing of the Andover
Theological Seminary, which has been
the stronghold of New England ortho-
doxy. This has of late years failed to
attract students and next September it
will cease to be, by becoming part of
Harvard University at Cambridge. The
transfer will take to the University
seven instructors, II students. and a
library of $4,000 volumes. 1t has an
endowment of ss5O.0o0. which pro-
duces an annual income of $4,000, and
if its income has been properly ex-
pended, each student has cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 annually. Even this,
with the prospect of paying scholar
ships, has not been sufficient to bring
students. The disappearance of And
over as a fountain of purely theologi-
cal instruction, is not pleasant thing
to contemplate, and thi staken as sig
nificant, the world Is becoming weary
of theology.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

1t is pointed out by Newton Daine
that Ebert H. Gary, Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the United States
Steel Corporation, is the agent of 160.-
900 stockholders who demand divi-
dends, and on the other side stand
100000 working men who demand
wages. He is the Cesar of an Empire
which owns more than the States Of
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and
Vermont, support more people than
there are in Nebraska. employs more
men than fought at Gettysburg, sails
larger navy than that of Italy, makes
more steel than Germany, and gathers
in a larger revenue than the United
States, and represents more capital than
the banks of New York He was born on
a farm in Illinois, and had the usual
experiences of a farmers boy in the
early days. when he chopped wood, fed
cattle, hoed corn, and went to school
in Winter. He became a lawyer, wers
into politics, sat on the bench, and
about 10 years ago went into the steel
business. A similar career to his is
that of Samuel c. T. Dodd, who was
the real organizer of the Standard Gil
Company. He was born in a log cabin
in Pennsylvania, became a lawyer and
employed his talent in developing q
corporation which has paid s500.000,-
900 in dividends. In his youth he
was by turns an errand boy. grocer's
clerk, and printers devil. He has no
genius for forensic efforts. and his
cases were always argued in court by
other lawyers. He cared little for
but everything for organiza-
ton. and when he found suddenly that
his salary hAd been increased to $780,
900 . year. was lost In wonder as to
how he should spend the money. ~
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

SO far from being wild over Bryan,
the Ohio Democrats tabled resolution
indorsing / N at a conference which
was held in the interest of harmony.
by State Chairman Harvey c. Carver
and Mayor Tom Johnson has become so
bitter that the peace conference called
to harmonic them adjourned after hav-
ing added much to the difference be-
tween the two.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

1t Is very much to be feared that
Uncle Sam will have to apply the rod
sharply to the President of Venezuela
The Government stood between Vene-
zuela and deserved castigation by the
the Allied Powers some years ago, but
80 far from recognizing the good Off
ces of the Government in this, Presi-
dent Castro believed that he had sue
cessfully bluffed them OFF. Now he is
turning against the hand which saved
him, and becoming intolerably uppish.
The remonstrances of our Minister
against his acts have been treated with
the greatest discourtesy and he has
been guilty of the last offense in a
diplomatic way in breaking the seals
of our mail pouches and reading our
diplomatic and naval correspondence.
President Roosevelt's patience has be-
come exhausted, as has Secretary
Roots, and we may look for a
sharp Lesson to be given the truculent
semi-barbarian, who thinks that the
whole world is afraid Of him and his
petty little Republic.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
WASHINGTON, D. c.. APRIL 2, 1908.
NOTICE.

When gou send In your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another post
Office give former address as well.
When change of address is desired be
sure to give former address.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

plea for recognition of the value of the
goat. 1t says that there is far less cap
ital locked up in the goat than in the
cow. While goats milk is richer in
butter fat, it is better suited for the
food of children than cows milk A
nanny will average over a quart of milk
per day, and she can be fed much
cheaper than a COW.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

What in the world is our politics
coming to when we read of bitter
fight in the 10th Ward of Chicago be-
tween the Koralewski and Jarzembow-
ski factions? What can the plain, old
fashioned American who thoroly loves
a political scrap have to do with either
of these?
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The brokers in New York have be-
gun to sit up and take notice of the
improved conditions in the country as
is shown by a most remarkable ad-
vance in the price of seats in the
Stock Exchange. This week an offer
of s65,50o has been made for seat.
which is an advance OF $13,50o since
last November. when seats sold for
$4,000.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The people are laughing at what
might have been an error in the De
Kalb, Kan, Tribune, a thick-and-thin
Democratic paper, which alludes to
Bryan as ''Democracy's Standard Bar
rier"
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The New York American points out a
strong difference between the fine of
s29,9OO,0O which Judge Lands i'm
posed upon the Standard Oil Company
and his later fining man one cent.
The difference is that the Government
got the cent in the more recent de-
cision
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The old, old pound butter-from-
a-pint-of milk" swindle has been re-
vived by somebody in Covington, KY,
calling himself or themselves the Star
Manufacturing Company. We trust that
none of The National Tribune readers
Will allow themselves to be caught by
the seductive circulars.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

The value OF all fertilizers is mainly
IN the nitrogen that they contain and
which has been bought very extensively
in the shape of guano and nitrate of
soda. 1t has been the dream of scien-
lists to devise some economic method of
obtaining nitrogen from the air, three
fourths of which consists of nitrogen.
Quite a number of establishments have
been made to carry out the ideas of
sanguine inventors. Most of these in
volve the use of the water power in
remote districts to produce electricity.
This process is exceedingly simple in
theory, but it has not worked out in
practice as hoped for, and in all the
plants so far in operation only two or
three are now claiming to produce nitro
gen. or ammonia, as the commercial
term is, cheaper than it can be bought
in the shape of Chilean saltpeter. One
of these is in Italy. and is said TO be
producing 1000 tons annually at a cost
of few dollars less per ton than Chile
saltpeter.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02

President Nord Alexis offers that if
the refugees in the Consulates are given
up to him he will not shoot them on
sight, but give them fair trial. Prob
ably his conception of fair trial is
merely asking the prisoner the ques-
tion II he IL ready to die.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
Col. Maurice M. Kaighn, of Salt LAX,

Col. Maurice M. Kaighn. of Salt Lake
City, has started q movement there to
secure the holding of the National En-
campment in that city. He has pointed
out the immense pecuniary and other
which Denver received from
holding the National Encampment
there, and he thinks that Salt Lake
would profit to the same extent.
The National tribune., 1908-04-02
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Yours, hopefully.

be delivered over to him to be shot.
1t is claimed that Alexis is the ablest
leader who has risen in Haiti for many
years, and he has maintained himself
in power for five years, an unusual
length of time. Those who favor him
say that he will make another Diaz for
Haiti, and restore peace to the island
by shooting all the professional disturb
ers. He certainly began very energeti-
cally when he learned of the last plot
to depose him, and had IL of the lead
ers in the plot shot before breakfast
one Sunday morning. There does not
seem any solution of the situation ex-
cept the withdrawal of the few whites
from the islands and everybody keep
ing their hands off while the people
pursue their policy of determination to
the end. The Haitian Government has
been the grossest travesty upon Gov
ernment that modern history affords.