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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
Vague and Dangerous Theorist.

While sitting in Denver, watching the
convention, we jotted down the opinion
that Mr.. Bryan's best hope for election
lay in retiring to the bottom of the
Pacific and allowing not single bubble
to escape. Since that time he has
talked a great deal about the best way
of regulating trusts he has made a
special slogan of the Oklahoma patent
medicine banking plan; he, the vision
airy, has claimed to be heir to the prac-
teal Roosevelt; he has been desper-
ately involved in an encounter with
that almost invincible politician; and
he has cast false aspersions on the in
tegrity Of the governor of New York.
Too many bubbles have escaped. What
ever may be thought of the Presidents
taste, in the controversy between him
and Mr.. Bryan the country will, we
imagine, feel the difference between
vague and dangerous theory upon the
one hand and shrewd, practical reform
upon the other; between hesitating and
vacillating arguments and the heavy
battalions of establishment fact-Col-
lier's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

1t is noticed that large majority
of the labor union leaders who are do
ing any talking in the campaign are
praising Mr.. Taft and are promising
to vote for him. In all his addresses
to workers-and he has made many OF
them-Mr. Taft has made an excellent
impression. He is now travelling
through a region covering Ohio, West
Virginia and New Jersey, in which the
labor unions are particularly strong,
hut everywhere he is meeting with a
very cordial greeting. He is getting so
many tributes from labor union chiefs
that the Democrats are resorting to
their old cry of "bribery."-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
BISHOP URGES METHODISTS
TO CAST VOTES FOR TAFT.
Church Head in Southern Asia Says
Republicans Are Material Aid to
Christianity in the Philippines,

Church Head in Southern Asia Says
Republicans Are Material Aid to
Christianity in the Philippines.
Bishop w. f. Oldham, head of the
Methodist Episcopal church in South
ern Asia, residing in Singapore, adj
dressed Chicago Methodist ministers
yesterday morning in the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Washington and
Clark streets, and made an eloquent
plea to those present to do what they
can to prevent a change in the admin
istration in the Philippines To do this,
he said it would be incumbent upon
them to stand by the party in power.
"Do not subject us to demagogic ex-
periments in the Philippines" said he.
every missionary in the islands is add
ing his plea to mine. Our missionaries
are giving their life to the work and
the wonderful progress they have made
in the last four years, during which the
membership in the Methodist church
has increased from 1000 to $4,000,
shows the beneficial effect of the adj
ministration, as directed at present.
IF the candidate of one party is the
peerless one,' the leader of the other
is the fearless one,' and we want the
fearless one. The presence of old glory
has had much to do with our success in
the Philippines, where we have made
more converts in the last four years
than we have in the entire Chinese en-
pire in twenty-four years"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
Hughes Not Hurt by Bryan.

Mr.. Bryan does not appear to advan-
tage in assailing Governor Hughes for
his veto of the two-cent fare bill. He
insinuates that this is evidence of the
governors strong leaning to the side Of
the corporations as against the people,
while as a matter of fact it is nothing
of the kind. The two-cent fare bill
was vetoed simply because the state
was adopting the policy Of railroad rate
regulation through commissions with
mandatory powers. 1t would have been
the height Of incC sistency to create
commissions to reg,.Iate fares and then
have the legislature itself and at the
same time assume the function
Springfield Republican.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
Publicity Under Suspicion.

The list Of contributions of 500 and
more to the Democratic campaign fund,
published with so much ostentation at
the request of Mr.. Bryan, has no affi-
davit attached to it. Neither Chairman
Mack nor Treasurer Ridder was sworn
nor, for the matter of that, ex-Treas-
urer Haskell, who turned in some col
lecticns before he was made to walk the
plank. Therefore the list may not be
complete, and as published it is GER
tainly not compromising, unless the So
600 check of Charles J. Hughes, lead
ing corporation attorney Of Denver
should put Mr.. Bryan on the defensive
New York Sun (Ind.).
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
why Taft Went South.

81 am going south to make few
speeches-one in Kentucky, one in Ten
nessee, one in North Carolina, one in
Virginia and one in Maryland-not so
much with a view to carrying those
states as to show the people down there
that. no matter what they think, they
are part of the Union, and, being a
part of the Union, they ought to vote
for the Republican party, wong for
which will make them part of the ma
ton and give to them that influence
which people of their intelligence and
energy and progress and enterprise
ought to enjoy."-William H. Taft.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
ORDERS IF TAFT rs ELECTED.
Travelling Man Says He Has Taken
Many Such in the Last Few
Woo1-a

Travelling Man Says He Has Taken
Many Such in the Last Few
Weeks.
"Talk to the effect that'the travelling
men, or any considerable proportion OF
them, will vote this year for Bryan is
tommyrot," declared L. II. Travis OF
Kansas City in the lobby of the Loyal
Hotel, at Omaha. eff Bryan gets 20
per cent of the commercial travellers
vote he will do a good deal better than
I expect. Practically all the men in our
line are Republicans in the first place
and believe in Republican principles.
In the second place, all Of them know
full well that they will get precious few
orders if Bryan should win. This is
not so much because Mr.. Bryan could
do any great harm himself, for he could
carry none of his wild schemes into
effect, but because business men are so
afraid Of him.
"If he, by any miracle, should get in
things would shut down absolutely for
a year. Everyone would be afraid or
his neighbor; would think, and think
rightly, that Brown and Smith and
Jones would be afraid. 1t is exactly
the same principle that causes runs on
a bank Many intelligent depositors are
not afraid of the bank which has ample
resources, but they are afraid that their
fellow depositors will be afraid and so
they hurry down to get in line.
81 have had many orders lately sub
ject to Taft's election. This was pure
business contract and not designed to
;nA,,anoa mo Da0n1a cinnlU WON'T he
able to swing the goods if Bryan is the
victor. This is not politics. 1t is bust
ness"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
WHY GERMANS FAVOR TAFT
Believe Bryan Theories are Menace
to Business,

The German is, as q rule, a good
business man. He believes in the gold
standard-which Bryan does not; he
believes in protection for American in
dustry-which Bryan does not; he be-
heves in expanding the money of the
government for the benefit of all the
people. in the rural free delivery, the
irrigation of arid lands, the preserva-
ton and utilization of our forests, the
improvement of agriculture and other
great public services which Bryan, ac-
cording to the political platform which
he has subscribed, regards as "unneces-
sary and wasteful."
The prospect that Bryan would be
nominated drew bitter protests from
leading Germans and German newspa-
pers. including the newspaper con-
trolled by Ridder, the present Demo-
cratic campaign treasurer, who de-
clared that he would never support the
advocate of free silver and reputation
and of other vagarieS offensive to the
sound judgment and honest character
of COMMUNICATIONS. The fact that
Mr.. Ridder has seen ft to change his
attitude toward the candidate whose
uOUlltdllOlI lie ItSdIuSu do CquANdAShI
to defeat does not mean that there has
been any general desertion on the part
of COMMUNICATIONS from the prln-
ciples of sound money and of protetc-
ton for American industry. Citizens
of German origin, Democrats as well as
Republicans, throughout the United
States, are for Taft and the policies
which Taft represents.
The Germans common sense tells
him that Bryan is a menace to bust
ness: that his political schemes are
visionary and impracticable, and that
he depends for his only substantial sup
port upon a form of class hatred tend
ing to undermine and break down
American institutions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

explains fol-
erhoo O Shovel and DTedge Men:
Taft made
War he
times and all his official acts and personal re
ways
disposition
against these
he
Panama MI
conditions
prevailing
reduction
dealings with
different branches he always shown spirit OF
the fair policies toward
lied prevailed while Secretary
which Taft with membership
diff
cordial reception
Taft his Cincinnati presented him
Brotherhood Mr.
other things Il glad have hands this
confidence efforts do justice while in Office AS to
which capacity
especially
the hmus
decide in favor contentious accepting this
evidences
official
do the thing for everybody"
his will convince the kep that he fair and just
OF MEMsER
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
High Prices and the Farmer.

1t is related that a Nebraska farmer
who complained that q reaper cost
SO more than in 1896 was reminded
by the storekeeper that he paid for
the old reaper with GOO bushels of
corn at 10 cents a bushel. The mer-
chant said: If you will bring me 600
bushels of corn now l will give you a
reaper, a surrey for your wife and $50
in cash" The farmer admitted that
there must be prosperity somewhere
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
TAFT-THE MAN.

AA4o LILO AAAebA AON Wy SA14~OA@SJf SSA~~A
fulness, Purity, Kindness and
Devotion to Duty.
There has been much talk about Mr..
Taft's religion, and many have cried
out against him on the ground that he
is not orthodox" He is Unitarian,
as his father and mother were. He has
never sought to conceal the fact. He is
willing to lose the presidency if man
is to be shut out of it for cherishing
the religious views of John Adams
John Quincy Adams, Jefferson, Madi-
son, President Eliot, and Everett Hale
Professor James of Harvard says that
one needs only to worry about those be-
liefs which express themselves in ac-
lions, and we who know Mr.. Taft are
willing that he be judged by these. II
sincerity, faithfulness, purity of person
al life. kindness, and an uncompromis
ing devotion to duty are not indications
of true Christian faith and character
we do not know what iS.-The Home
ITar1ll
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
To Learn the Truth.

If any one doubts that detection from
Bryan is general, let him talk with
his Democratic friends. Whether they
are employers or employed, large per-
centage of them will be found of the
opinion that the country does not want
President who declares that what
Roosevelt has done to establish inter
ests is as nothing compared with what
he will do. Those who are employers
or professional men want business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

Corporations are barred and excluded
rigidly from the joys of giving to the
Bryan fund But in glancing over the
names Of some of the largest subscrib-
ers the painful discovery is made that
they are corporation magnates, and the
frightful thought arises that the money
that some of them contribute smells
suspiciously of corporations.-Ba
more Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

Those who are wage earners want
work. And business and work are
plentiful in times of financial peace
financial peace being quite as essential
to prosperity as industrial peace-San
Francisco Chronicle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

No one can doubt that if Mr.. Taft Is
elected he will redeem his pledge inn
mediately upon his Inauguration to call
a special session Of congress to revise
the riff.-New York World (Dem.)
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29

Shall the wages of Iaborers IN the
United States be maintained or reduced
to the pauper level of Europe? 1t is
for voters to say on Nov. 3.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
The Two Candidates.

Here is the difference: Mr.. Taft's
fitness can be measured by his acts,
but Mr. Bryan's has to be measured
by his words.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
list the Democratic party has absolute
ly nothing to offer.
PrOsnarity for All.

Under the continuation OF this Re-
publican policy, Mr.. Taft as president,
this country will enjoy the highest de-
gree of prosperity. The interest of
every leading laboring community re
quires diversity of occupations, pur-
suits and objects of industry. The
more that diversity is multiplied and
extended the better. To diversity en-
ployment is to increase employment and
enhance wages. Where there is work
for the hands Of men there will be
work for the teeth. Where there is
employment there will be bread. 1t
is a great blessing to the poor to have
cheap food, but greater than that, prior
to that and of still higher value, is the
blessing of being able to buy food by
honest and respectable employment
Employment feeds and clothes and in
terests. Employment and well paid la
Dor produce, in a country like ours
general prosperity, content and cheer
f111nncc
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
Comparison of Wages.

and prosperity in America have been
constant companions. The scale of
wages per week in the United States
and Europe for a number of leading
lines of industry, based on official sta
tistics from the Bureau of Commerce
and Labor at Washington, are as fol-
lows
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-27
Continued from Page One.

izing Congress to pay to the contrac-
tor the amount of money expended by
him and to repeal a grant over which
that body has absolutely no jurisdic
ton. If that grant is valid no power
can repeal it. If however, it consti-
tutes monopoly, under the Chicago
Lake Front Cases above referred to,
it is within the poweraof the legis-
lature of Mississippi to repeal it, and
has any jurisdiction whatever in the
premises. 1t will therefore be seen
that those who turn their batteries
ON the Congress for repeal of this
grant are knocking at the wrong door
Just one more suggestion along this
line. The utter impossibility of pass
ing any such legislation even though
it were constitutionally permissible
will be apparent to any one who knows
the difficulties of obtaining approria-
lions for Rivers and Harbors. Evil
dence taken time and time again has
demonstrated that these terminals,
piers, channels, ETC., have altogether
cost an aggregate of over 100000,
and any one who knows the temper
of the Rivers and Harbor Committee
and of the Congress of the United
States knows what an utter impos-
sibility 1t would be to obtain an ap-
preparation of that size for this or any
like project. I have absolutely no
doubt that such a measure if intro
duced would find no warmer advo'
cate than the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad Company. 1t would reim'
burse that corporation larse sums of
money which it has been forced to ex-
pend, leaving the terminals intact,
which they could use for very reason
able compensation. Besides there is
absolutely no precedent for such ac-
ton.
desire now, as briefly as is con-
sistent with full presentation of the
facts, to recite my efforts and SER
vices incident to taking over Gulfport
Harbor, by the United States.
In the outset. let it be remembered
that the provision made originally by
the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1895
for Gulfport was peculiar in the ex
IRENE. No direct appropriation was
made. but the Secretary of War was
nuthorized to enter into contract witt
person willing to undertake tc
re a channel 10 feet in deptf
=. q Ship Island to the main shore
ed an anchorage basin one hal
x11Ie in one direction and one quartz
zfe in the other, for the sum o
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-27

the Idea prevailing is that should
death remove him from the scene, and
thus put an end to this project, 1t will
prevent greater improvement in that
place which would naturally come to
II The mere fact, Mr.. Chairman. thai
this bill was introduced in Congress
on the Goth day of April, with some
hope of fairness and business of Con-
gress it would be passed and that the
Government would take hold of it.
thereby giving a permancy to it,
which it would not otherwise have.
has increased and stimulated all the
Enterprises in that place and in that
community.
The whole country is interested in
1t to such an extent. Mr.. Chairman,
that at the last session OF the Missis-
sippi legislature memorial was pass
ed by that body which will be filed
with the Committee urging the SEN
ators and Representatives from the
state of Mississippi to use their best
endeavors to secure the permanent
control and maintenance of this chan
mel and anchorage basin by the gov
eminent, and that committee believe,
in fact know, met a portion Of the
River and Harbor Committee, and pre-
scented that memorial to them at Gulf
port.
And as to the character of the chan
mel. note the following from page
eleven:
Mr.. Neville: The channel is more
than 10 feet, with the exceptions of
the place mentioned by Mr.. Bowers,
just at the end of the pier. There is
pier running out from the shore a
mile. There the vessels go in and
out through that place., which has
shoaled from % feet to Is and 1871
feet, caused by the work in the an
Choir basin. we think. But that is
only for short distance and despite
that fact vessels drawing 81 and %
feet easily pass over that place.
Mr.. Williams, of Mississippi:-I
think, perhaps, the committee does
not understand why that is possible.
1t is owing to the nature of the mud !;
it is almost liquified mud, and as a
consequence these ships pass through
place where the soundings show only
IS feet, drawing, perhaps, % feet OF
Continued on page three.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-27
CONRESSNAN e. I BOWERS
REPLIES TOHON E. NJ BARBER

$3.50, 100000, no money to be paid until
the contract was completed; and I'M
til acceptance, the government did
not commit itself to the Improvement.
The contractor was also required to
enter into an agreement to maintain
the channel and anchorage basin for
a term of five years after the COM
pletely. The engineers estimate CT
the cost of construction alone was
$S00,000.00 and the actual cost of
maintenance was unknown. From
this statement it will be seen that this
was the most extraordinarily burden
some contract ever put upon any pub
lie improvement. AS heretofore stat
lie improvement. AS heretofore stat
ed the contract was entered into, and
instead of dredging channel 10 feet
the whole distance, an available chan
mel of from % to "a feet was dredged
but did not cover the whole of the
anchorage basin, and besides during
the latter part of the work some of the
material would drift back, causing
slight shoaling in several places, which
while it did not interfere with navi-
CATION, prevented a technical accep-
ance of the work. While the matter
was in this situation a great public
demand went up, not only from Cult
| port, but elsewhere in the state,
that the government should accept
/ the channel as it was, not only be-
cause greatly more work and much
more valuable work had been done
than contracted for, but because so
long as the government had not alb
solutely committed itself to the main
tenance of the harbor, so long as it
was in the hands of private con-
tractor, the public had no guarantee
! of the permaneace of the work 1t
will be understood that when d con-
tract of this character is let the work Is
in the entire charge of the contractor
and neither the government nor the
public have any control over it. Peo-
pie who desired to invest in Gulfpory,
as we'll as the citizens of that place,
with one voice demanded that their
representative should take steps TO
have the channel and anchorage ba-
sin IMMEDIATELY ACCEPTED BY
THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE GOV
ERNMENT PLEDGED ITSELF TO
IT'S FURTHER MAINTENANCE, IN
ORDER THAT 1T NIGHT HAVE THE
GUARANTEE AND STABILITY OF
GOVERNMENT BACKING. Until the
Government had accepted it, it was an
incomplete thing without government
! promise and the question of its com
r pletetion hung entirely upon the life
{ means, ability and disposition OF the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-27

indications of any character to show
that they are disconnected and gar
bled, may not mislead or deceive,
quote extensive extracts from the test
imony, giving thespages to which I re-
fer. Note the following on the question
of the Importance of the enterprise
and of the reason for the government
taking it over, quoted from page of
the hearings of May IA:
Mr.. Bishop:-Before you proceed on
that let me make one or two inquiries.
Does the timber shipped from there
all come from the immediate vicinity
of Gulfport or is it brought in from
outside places?
Mr.. Neville:-It is brought from out
outside places; it is brought down the
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. great
quantities of it all along the line. and
then large quantities of timber, square
timber, is brought from places in Han
cock County, and towed into that
place, put into the anchorage basin,
and loaded ON vessels that come to
that port.
Mr.. Jones:-How far away is that?
Mr.. Neville:-From Gulfport?
Mr.. Jones:-Yes.
Mr.. Neville:-I suppose about-how
far is
Mr.. Bowers-That port drains the
lumber from territory which would
bel should say was-east and west
about As miles, and north and south
about 100 miles.
Mr.. Neville:-Yes, about that dis
lance.
Mr. Bishop:-What is the amount
of timber tributary to this port stand
ing today?
! Mr.. Neville: Mr.. Chairman,
would prefer that you would get that
from Mr.. Hines. He has very in
telligent conception and idea, much
more more so than l have, as to those
! matters, as he has large interests
! there himself and knows something
about the value of standing timber
and the time 1t will require to use II
up. I would prefer you would take
that statement from Mr.. Hines be
cause it would be very much more
satisfactory and clearer to the com
mittee than I could give 1t.
Mr.. Bishop:-The point l want t.
elaborate was as to whether this wal
an individual enterprise or whether
large section of country is interested
Mr.. Neville:-It is not an individ
ual enterprise by any means, the who'll
country is interested in the develop
ment and maintenance of that chan
mel and harbor, and the truth is tn
contractor has done much more thai
his contract ever contemplated, an