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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-11-27
MISSOURI AT THE
NATIONAL CORN SHOW.

Missouri farmers who have not
received copy Of the premium list
OF the National Corn Exposition to
he held at Omaho, Dec. g-lg, should
not fail to send for "a copy immedi-
ately, We must not bc behind our
sister states in the showing we make
ut this great National Exposition.
state pride alone should impcl us to
make every effort to place Missouri
at the front, and from the prepare
tons that other states are making il
will he necessary for us to use every
effort in bringing out display from
Missouri which shall be representa-
tive of our state and its resources.
Exhibits will be transported free
of charge over part Of the i'm
portant railroad lines Of the state
and information will he sent with
each catalogue giving directions re-
garding the method Of shipping.
Address J. Wilkes Jones, Bee
building, Omaho, Ncb., for these
premium lists and full particulars.
The premiums offered for Missouri
alone are of very high character
and in addition every farmer will be
eligible in the "open to the world"
classes. Entries close Dec. 9th.
Let MS pull together in this matter
and SEQ that Missouri makes the
proper showing.
NJ. F. MILLER,
Vice President for Missouri.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1908-11-27

Worthless dogs around Maiden
have been scratching up the graves
in the cemetery.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
Absurd Claims.

There is no dispute about the gall
of the Republican party. 1t swiped
nearly everything it processes to stand
for from Democrats platforms of the
past, and when that party reiterates
its time-honored principles the Re-
publican press sets up the cry of pla-
giarism. The fundamental features of
the Denver platform are older than
the Republican party itself Whatever
the Republican platform contains that
is broad, popular, national and states
manlike was filched from Democratic
platforms of the last quarter of CEN
fury That which is original is either
narrow and sectional in spirit or bears
the earmarkS of trust, monopoly and
corporation dictation.
AS proof of the Republican propen-
sity to appropriate Democratic thun-
der note the following:
Senator Geo. H. Pendleton, a DEM
ocrat from Ohio, was the author of
the civil service law and urged it's
passage against Republican opposition
for several years. The Republicans
now claim it as their own.
Hon. w. G. Whitney, secretary of
the navy during Cleve1and's first adj
ministration, originated the measures
that terminated in the construction
of the new navy and is generally rec
ognized as the father of the greater
navy. The Republicans claim they
built the entire outfit.
The improvement of the great wa
ter ways at national expense COM
menced under Pierce and was contin-
ued under Buchanan as we'll as Cleve-
land. The Republicans claim credit
for it all.
AS Chalmers the Republicans show
up we'll in the front, but their strong
hold is as spenders of the peoples
cash. They can give the Democrats
pointers when it comes to creating a
deficit, and they should stick to that
in which they are most perfect.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
Bryan Not Dangerous.

So far as the first comments of the
independent press have reached us,
they bear out what we said yesterday
that the defences against Bryan are
weakened. Here is the World, for
instance, finding comfort in the fact
that the 1908 platform is much better
than that of 1896. Others, like the
Times, are taking up the old fight
against Bryan and the party to which
they would like to adhere; but nothing
like the ZeSt and vigor of the 1896
campaign, or even that of 1900, is to
be expected. The mere radicalism of
Bryan can terrify no one; our cur
rency and our standard of value are
not imperilled. Where is the danger
to which any one can point as menac-
ing the overturn OF our institutions,
unless is is promptly met? The risk
to the Supreme Court? Ask any law
yer of note what he thinks of the ap-
pointments to that tribunal during the
last Republican Administration, and
if he states his opinion frankly the
argument against Bryan becomes
weak indeed. In no direction can one
point and say, here our national honor
and good faith will be betrayed if we
have Bryan in control. No; the argu-
ment lies elsewhere. In matters of
policy it is often only a question of
degree-where the platforms are not
on all fours. 1t is the personality of
the candidates which must count and
upon which the decision will turn,
and there, if the advantage is all with
the Republicans, it alone cannot stir
the Independent press to the magnif1-
cent efforts of the former Bryan cam
paigns.-N. Y: Evening Post
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
Kansas Dogs and Sheep.

There is no duty on dogs. There is
no pretense that it costs an American
dog more to grow a coat of hair than
it costs dog in England or Russia or
South America. 1t is not argued that
the American dog gets more expensive
food. He is not even commercially
remuneratiye. He has been accused
of being noisy, of killing sheep and
chickens, and even of biting human
beings who had no criminal intentions
and who ought not to have been mo-
Tested. On the other hand, upon the
sheep rests the entire fabric of the
American fiscal policy. If it were not
for the supposed interest of farmers
in the duty on wool all duties on raw
materials could be abolished, with the
result of immensely stimulating every
manufacture in the land, and all the
duties on manufactured goods could
be reduced in proportion, even accord
ing to Protectionist theories.
Yet sheep have been declining for
five years. They are declining in all
the settled agricultural States; the
mutton sheep is fast displacing the
wool sheep, and the raising of wool
is confined mainly to States and Ter
ritories where there is plenty of Gov
eminent land and sheep can be grazed
for little or nothing. The wool tariff
is failure.
Mr.. Coburn, secretary of the Kansas
Board of Agriculture, complains that
in his State there are fifteen unprotect-
ed and improbable dogs for every one
protected sheep. Four counties have
only eight sheep among them and
67S2 dogs, whose owners pay a tax of
$1.25 on each. The companionship
of their dogs is worth vastly more to
the farmers of Kansas than the profits
that can be made on wool, even with
the help of preposterous rate of
protection. What do the farmers of
Kansas care for the duty on wool?
How much would they suffer if the
American people were permitted to
get their clothes without paying an
enormous tax to Senator Warren, of
Wyoming, and other owners of huge
sheep ranches in the public land
States and Territories ?-Phila. Rec
ord
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
Hearst Quits Bryan.

William R. Hearst certainly never
rendered the Democratic party as
great service as he does now by leav-
ing it. Had he deserted before he
made frantically absurd struggle
to capture the Democratic nomina-
ton for President four years ago, or
before he cajoled the Democratic or
ganization in New York in to an al
lance with his. Independence League
in order to make him Governor, there
might have been some persuasion of
his political sincerity. But the odium
that attached to him in the contest for
Governor, when he alone was defeat
ed on the State ticket, was such as
to leave him no standing place in the
Democratic party. Since then his
following has shriveled up to so great
a degree that not trace of it was to
be discovered in the convention at
Denver. Hence the bitterness OF his
denunciation of the Democratic party.
He goes now stripped stark naked OF
political infiuence-the pitiful picture
of fallen and despised demagogue.
May he serve as a warning and ex-
ample?
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
What Is Bryan's Charm?

In the meantime 1t may be we'll to
inquire into the reasons for this re-
markable, in fact, almost unexampl-
ed, ascendency of Mr.. Bryans inf1u-
ence among the voters of his own
party. 1t began with an effective bit
of Oratory and it has been maintain
ed, in part, ever since by public adj
dresses which have never lost their
power of moving and delighting the
great crowds that come to hear him.
Mr.. Bryan is professional lecturer
and has in his own person revived the
glories of the lyceum platform, which
played so large a part in the educa-
ton of America. There are few towns
in America where he cannot draw a
multitude, whether in the open, or
where entrance requires a fee. He is
an editor and though his paper has no
extraordinary circulation, it is watched
everywhere because it speaks with his
voice. These are the outward forms
OF Mr.. Bryan's approach to the people.
They would have little influence did
not his admirers feel assured not only
that he is good man, but also that
he is their sincere friend and desires
to be their helper. He has appealed
more and more to the plain people as
a good Christian and a churchman, a
student and admirer of Christian work
in al lands, a man of upright life and
simple manners. He pays the people
the compliment they like next best to
that of recognized superiority-that
of being one of themselves He at
tacks that which they suspect and dis
like. He believes that he would be
able to do much to make life easier
for every one. His convictions are
positive and radical. With this charm
of address, this personal character
above suspicion, this assurance of con-
viction along popular lines of thought,
this promise of results to be achieved,
we have the outward marks of a pow
er which must at last be traced back
into the hidden places of personality.
The moment seems to be in his hands.
The Congregationalist.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
Republicans and Hogs,

A Republican politician in Iowa
says: with hogs at So a hundred
you can't pry the Iowa farmers loose
from the Republican party with a
crowbar." Perhaps it would be use
less to try to convince the Hawkeye
farmers that the Republican party
does not fix the price Of hogs, and
that pork would be as high under
Bryan as under Taft But the Iowa
Republicans are highly progressive
They are scarcely behind those of
Wisconsin. They admire Roosevelt
and are reconciled to Taft because he
promises to keep the Roosevelt pol
icles going. But if Taft's letter of &C
ceptance should be the soothing por-
ton that is predicted for the bene-
fit of the commercial centres, the
Iowa farmers will have nothing to
do but support Bryan, and in that con-
tiAgency it is admitted by some Re-
publican leaders they are very likely
to do so. Taft has got to satisfy Re
publican radicalism or run heavy
risk of losing several Northwestern
States. And if he satisfies the radi-
calls the financial and commercial in
terests will care nothing whether he
shall be elected or not.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
VALUE OF FARM PRODUCTS.
The American Farmers Earnings ARE
$24,OOO,OOO a Day.

4 The following interesting article in
taken from the columns of Sacramento
4 (Cal.) Union: Recently we showed
that the value of the fruit crop in Cal
ifarnia each year exceeds the entire
cost of the Atlantic battleship fleet
that recently visited the Pacific coast.
Such figures as these, and some
others, concerning the dairy products,
the cotton crops, and like harvest OF
the United States, gives one an idea
of the vast import of our farming in
dtstry.
1T has been known for many years
by the leading economists and states
men of the world that Americas great
bnlwark aof freedom and financial pow
er lies in the wealth of her farming
regions, also that more than half of
the business population of the United
States is engaged in agricultural pur-
suits, or in those trades obtaining in
villages, which are little more than
farm centres.
The vastness of the farmers wealth
gives him a substantial hold on life.
1t has been shown that if American
farmers should sell out, they would
clean up thirty thousand million dol
lars. This sum is so great that the
American farmers would be obliged
to sell ON credit, for there is not
enough money in the world to pay half
of the value of the great farms of the
United States.
A recent writer has shown that the
American farmer earns enough in sew
enteen days to buy out the Standard
Oil Company, and enough in fifty days
to wip Andrew Carnegie and the
stool fr11cf from, tho an, of tho WORLD
In comparison with the great trusts
of the world, the earnings of farmers
for a few days seem like the fortune
of the tabled monarchs of old.
One great American harvest is
worth enough to buy the Kingdom of
Belgium, king and all The same sta
tistican shows us that two harvests
would buy Italy, three would buy Aus
tria-Hungary, and five at a spot cash
price would take Russia from the car.
Looking at the question in another
way, the American farmer earns a day
! S24 100000. 1t requires wonderful
imagination to conceive such sums.
Place your finger on the pulse of
your own wrist and count the heart
beats say four. With every four of those
heart throbs day and night thousand
dollars is said to clatter into the gold
bin of the American farmer. These
figures are startling but they give us
good idea Of the wealth Of the prin-
cipal industry of the United States.
When Columbus discovered the new
world, he little dreamed of the marvel
lous opportunities that laid in the
land he never saw, In the days when
he sailed from the little city in Italy,
in search of far-away temples, and
mysterious peoples, no one in all the
world could have conceived of the
inexhaustible wealth that lies on the
American continent.
In contemplating these figures, con-
corning the great wealth of the farmers
and the farming country, it is encour-
aging to realize that they are, after
all, our best people; more free than
all of us from diseases and vice and
aDmjtv
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
The South and West.

Whatever popularity the President
has is due, as Mr.. Clayton pointed out
in Denver, to the ideas he has Dor
rowed from Mr.. Bryan and the Demo-
cratic party. On the other hand, II
there is any Populism in the Demo-
cratic platform-and there may pc
some incidental touches of it here and
there-it is of Republican origin.
Kansas and Nebraska are Republican
States; they are the hOtbeds OF Popu-
lism, and both parties in them nave
been somewhat affected by the ire
mendous excitement the Popul1sts
created. Taken as a whole the plat
form is soundly Democratic. Ii there
be few incidental suggestions OF
POpulism in it they will make 1t all
the easier for the Democratic party to
carry States in the Northwest and on
the Pacific coast that the Republicans
count on as safely theirs.
With 176 Southern votes secure for
Mr.. Bryan, he will need at least sc
more. Nebraska and Indiana may,
reasonably be expected to support
Bryan and Kern. Mr.. Bryan got his
own State twelve years ago, and In
diana used to be a close State, with
Democratic preferences. These two
states nave 23 electoral votes. Kan
sas has 10 more, and Mr.. Bryan car
ried the State in 1896. A group of the
smaller Far Western States carried by
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 have 29 electoral
votes. The sum of these three items
is 81. Mr.. Cleveland in 1892 got all
but one of the electoral votes of Cali
fornia, one in North Dakota, one in
Ohio, besides all of Illinois and Wis
consin and fvein Michigan. Mr.. La
Toilette and Mr.. Bryan are in very close
accord, and the former has proved his
complete power in his State nothing
else caused Senator Spooner to retire
from politics.
In view of all the Western and Pa
cific States that the Democratic party
carried in 1892 or 1896 it seems rea-
sonable that Mr.. Bryan should get
enough electoral votes to carry the
election without any help from New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut
But in regard to New York we may
recall that not long ago General Stew
art L. Woodford declared that the Re-
publicans could not win without it,
and that unless Hughes were nomi-
mated it would be a doubtful State
1t is not so certain that Mr.. Bryan can
get nothing in the East.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31
The Labor Vote.

1t is announcing no new doctrine to
allege that the Democratic party has
always been the champion of the
cause of the workingman. The very
name implies that it is the party of
the people, and while not exclusively
the party of labor it has always faith
fully guarded its rights.
Democracy is national; it is the
conservator of law and order; the
guardian of the rights of the states !;
the champion of national progress
the originator and defender of the
Monroe Doctrine, and chief among its
precepts is an honest solicitude for
the rights of the man who earns his
bread by the sweat of his brow.
There is nothing new in all this,
and we are therefore not greatly sur
prised to find that organized labor,
under the lead of conservative men
like Mitchell and Gompers, is once
more seeking utilization with Demo
cracy, under the banner that has al
ways borne the glorious legend of
equal rights for all; special priv
ileges for none" In the ranks of the
Democracy the man who labors finds
his surroundings most congenial. He
is at home in the Democratic party.
He is at home when rallying around
the great commoner who bears the
standard of Democracy in the coming
campaign. He is part of the great
cause of human rights, a factor in the
struggle for improved conditions
under the able leadership of William
Jennings Bryan and John Worth Kern
The people all over the land will be
rejoiced at the news that organized
labor is to march side by side with
Democracy in the impending struggle
for emancipation from Republican
rule
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31


dinner in the same frocks we wear In
town. I should love to spend a sum.
mer in a camp like this with only
sympathetic people around me-,
She sighed to think Of the inpossi-
bility Of obtaining her wish and then
gave her attention to experimenting
the fabrication of a rustic chair, deep
roomy and redolent of the woods.
For a month she was almost a daily
visitor. Then one afternoon she came
with frown upon her pretty face
and as Bradley settled himself for q
chat she drew a slip of printed paper
from her pocket and regarded him at
tentively.
"a penny for your thoughts" he Of
fered when she did not speak.
'I think that you are horrid," was
the unexpected answer. "This little
island has been such haven of rest
to me. Now I find that, instead of
being guide, you are a nasty, cynical
playwright. I hate you!"
Because I write cynical playsT' he
asked. 1T assure you that I would
rather write the other kind, but they
do not take with the audiences.
"I hate you because you deceived
me-" was the answer in a voice that
was close to tears. ~ saw this in a
magazine"
Bradley groaned. In an evil mo-
ment he had given an interviewer a
glowing description of his island with
out betraying it's location. 1t had been
made the basis of an absurd "human
interest" magazine story.
A copy must have fallen into her
hands. and more than ever Bradley
was determined to get even with the
imaginative person who had written
the story.
"And we cannot be friends he
asked, "just because am not a
guide?"
Because you deceived me-" correct
ed Nannette. "You were just leading
me on to talk about the imitation
campers so you could put it into a
play"
mot into a play" denied Bradley,
4.into a romance-a private romance,
1 had hoped. Had I introduced my
self as a city man you never could
have come again. should have raised
the barrier of conventionality between
US. AS it was, you thought me a guide
because I was building my own cabin.
With a guide you felt free to come
and go as you pleased. 1t was only
for that. reason I did not explain your
error"
"But now that 1 know the truth l
must come no more" she said slowly
as she rose to her feet. 81 am sorry
that 1 have found out"
She looked longingly about the camp
which she had helped to make so COM
Portable with her suggestions and aid.
Then she turned and ran down to the
beach, where her light canoe lay upon
the sands.
She had already pushed off when he
reached the beach, but at his call she
checked her Roadway.
"May 1 come for your he called
softly. "May I come for you, Nan
nette, and bring you back to the camp
that we built for ourselves"
For a moment Nannette paused.
eyes," she called, finally adding,
Come soon," and then the paddle dip
ped deep into the water.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31

Not satisfied with having appropri-
ated it's best planks from the old plat
form of the Democracy, the Republi-
cans are now initiating Mr.. Bryan's
attitude on the subject Of campaign
contributions from corporations. How
they do despise trusts and combines
and wicked corporations at this time.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-31

There is no nation in the world
that gives greater encouragement and
opportunity to its people to become
skilled artisans than Germany. NUM-
cipal, state and the federal govern
ments all contribute to the establish
ment and support Of technical indus
trial schools, and there is scarcely a
city or town of any Importance where
one of these splendid institutions is
not found.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-03-20
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Timber Land, Act June 8, 1878.
United States Land ntiire.

january 3, 1903.
Notice Is hereby given that III compliance
with the provisions OF the act of Congress
of June g. 1873. entitled IAN act for the sale
of timber lands in the States of California,
Oregon. Nevada, and Washington Terri
tory" as extended to all the Pubnc Land
States by act of August 4. 1892.
WILLIAM S, RAINS,
of Kendrick, county of Latah State OF
Idaho. has this day filed in this oihce
his sworn statement No. 1910, for the pur-
chase of the Lot 2, OF Sec. No. 4,
Township No. 80 n, Range No. 2,
w. B. NJ, and will offer proof to show
that the land sought is more valuable for it,
"'Nber or stone than for agricultural pun
poses, and TO establish his claim to said
land before the Register and Receiver at
Lewiston, Idaho on Monday, the 10th day
of March, $685.
| He names as witnesses:
! George E. Heady. OF Ivy, Idaho
! Albert Mckee, of Kendrick, Idaho.
| Wright Taylor, -
Mason Taylor, g /"
| ANY anu all persone claiming adversely
| the above described lands ara requested to
| file their claims in this Office ON or before
| SAID 10th day Of Ma rvh. 1898
L. H, Bartlett.
! Register.