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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-12-23
WILSON OF IOWA.

1t is signal honor which has come
to lowa's member of the Roosevelt
cabinet that he is to be retained in
the same position by President Taft.
James Wilson was first in the cabi-
net of Mckinley. and while every
other cabinet officer has changed, he
has remained at the head of the
Department of Agriculture since, and
has been asked to continue for the
future. This is most distinguish
ed honor. and Iowa is proud of Mr..
Wilson, and his record. Previous
to his time. the bureau. and later
cabinet position of Agriculture. had
been almost laughing stock before
the country. 1t was looked upon
as simply a seed house to furnish
fresh seeds on request of congress
men. One head of the department
had recommended the culture of tea,
in our country. and for this was
ridiculed. 1t was reserved for Will
son of Iowa to put vital energy into
the nearly dead roots of the depart
ment and to place it in the rank
which it truly should occupy. of the
leading one, as far as the ordinary
people of the nation are concerned.
He came from the professorship Of
the chair of Agriculture at our state
school of Ames. He had many plans
matured for the benefit of the farm
ers which he had not been able to
put in effect because of lack of money
and time to devote to the truly i'm
portant things which the agricultur
alists of thc nation needed done.
Secretary Wilson formulated his
ideas as to what his department
should truly be undertaking, ane
these he presented to congress. H.
of course had the support of the
great Senator Allison. he had beer
member of congress himself. ant
so his demands had respect from
the first. He enlarged the scoop,
of the division. having under con
sideration the composition of soils
he saw the opportunities for tn,
growing of sugar beets, and ha
made a great beginning toward thi
great industry for our own people
he enlarged the division having t.
do with the inspection of animal
killed for food. and this led to tn,
right to determine the composition o
all foods offered for sale. He agita.
ed the protection of our forests; h,
enlarged the crop inspection and croI
statistics activities of the Office.
was his master mind which put tn,
people to thinking along these lines
and in course of time congress re
sponded with liberal appropriations
Such was the confidence of congress
in the honesty Of Secretary Wilson
that immense sums of money were
placed on his call. to use to make
Investigations along the new work
of the department. 1t is usual t.
state explicitly what shall be done
with money congress authorizes tt
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-12-23

Welt. He is master of the situation
and he is responsible for his mistakes
and for his victories. Whatever
plumbers he has made are so far over
Swallowed by his many accomplish
ments that IN few years the Ameri-
can people will have forgotten that
there was a flaw in his armour.
He will be referred to as the president
who first defed lawless aggregations
of wealth and who inaugurated new
regime IN civic righteousness. We
do not want man in the PRESIDENT
al chair who is too dignified to fight
for right principles and to fight with
weapons that count for results.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-12-23

be spent, and there is penalty for
the transferring of money from one
purpose to another. Secretary Will
son, was nearly given free hand.
because it was not known just what
would be done. and where the activi-
ties of the department would run.
1t was felt that James Wilson would
be strictly honest and there be no
waste of public funds. His record
has borne out this confidence and there
has not been scandal connected
with his department as to the misuse
of money.
The Department of Agriculture has
now become the one next to the Post
office in nearness to the people. 1t
is concerning itself about things the
people want to know. and especially
locking after their health. The
sweeping food inspection laws and
the enlarged scope of the meat inspec-
tion bureau have come through the
work and activities of Secretary Will
son. He has truly Created" the
department and his successors for
many years will have but in the main
to perfect the plans he had laid out.
Such is the fame of America along
scientific agricultural lines that
hundreds of men have come from a.
broad to investigate our methods and
there is constant call for experts to
go abroad to teach the inhabitants of
other nations. Therefore Iowa feels
proud of the fact that Mr.. Wilson
is to remain at his post. AS was
natural Secretary Wilson. knowing
that the Iowa young men who had
been at Ames knew of his methods
and were in sympathy with his plans,
made liberal calls on them to come to
Washington and help him. This offer
many accepted. and with their en-
thusiasm and expert training they
have done much to make successful
what has been done in the work of
his department. So again Iowa claims
credit. There is report that on
finally retiring from Office he will
move to Colorado and give the agri-
cultural college there the benefit of
his experience. Iowa will not be
jealous. He made his career as an
Iowa man, and his great achieve
1nents will always be credited to Iowa
and her sons.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-12-23
LIBEL AND LIBEL.

1t must be confessed that the loyal
Friends of President Roosevelt. es-
pecially those of US who live at
distance from the theatre of action,
find themselves somewhat bewildered
by the events of the past two weeks.
1t has been known for some time
that the opponents of Roosevelt and
his policies have pursued u persistent
policy of "nagging" and irritation.
counting upon the presidents i'm
patience and quick temper to place
him in bad light before the people.
It would seem that the President
has fallen into the trap.
Message has followed message in
quick succession. each more vitriollc
than its predecessor These mes
sages have become so frequent as to
become common, and for this reason
have failed to make the serious i'm
preston which Presidential messages
should.
Relative to the alleged Panama
scandal. the President has all the
best of the argument at present. The
facts, as adduced by the Chicago
Tribune, and which stand unanswer-
ed up to date, support the President
in detail and fully vindicate his
course. We do not agree with the
Register and Leader that the press
should be allowed unbridled license.
The line between liberty and license
has been so often discussed and is
such debatable ground that we will
not attempt its definition. There
are laws against libel. both civil
and criminal laws, but the Review
has never been hampered by them.
because it has had no desire to
transgress. If the charges made by
Pulitzer, Lafflin and others are untrue
there should be some means of pun.
ishment. Because a man prints a
newspaper should not make him i'm
mune aud because man holds Office
should not. of itself. make him sub
ject to defamation of character at the
pleasure of any blatherskite who
owns newspaper.
1t would appear to US that in this
the President has all the best of it.
Butt would also appear that the
very reasons the President advances
in his indictment of Pulitzer, should
have restrained him in his wholesale
denunciation of Congress.
Even if the President were entire
ly right. it would still be a pity thai
uur dirty linen should be thus expos
ed to the eyes of all the nations.
The President maybe right. as t.
the effect of the amendment on tn,
secret service, it maybe that i
operated only for the benefit of crimi
nails; let us go farther and suppose
it to be true that the amendment
was passed with "malice afora
thought" by those having the bill il
charge; even then it does not appear
that congress as whole deserved the
castigation which the President al
given it.
1t is not only possible, but highly
probable, that such an amendment
might have passed both houses with
on. a large number of the members
knowing or realizing that any danger
to the republic wss involved. 1t
might even have happened that the
appropriations committee acted with
an ulterior motive. and still many
congressman, not on that committee.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-12-23

LOST Friday night at the central
school or on the way home gold cuff
button, also Monday up town, an
other gold cuff button. Leave at
this office if found and receive re-
ward. SIP
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The Christmas Ball at the Brueder-
schaft Hall Friday evening, Dec.
26th. Sig
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have good blacksmith shop for
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Iowa. 503pd
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-12
Editor Of Higher Science Takes Issue
Upon Its Habtaton and Limits It To
Few Probable Insects.
(By Franklin H. Heald).

by Franklin II. Heald).
/ have been reading the continued article
by your correspondent Chas. o. Hayes upon
his ideas of the Planet Mars and the posi-
bilities of ii being inhabited; and beg leave
to submit TO your intelligent readers the
following facts, which | believe prove con.
clusively that it is impossible that Mars is
Inhabited by any life much more evolved
than plants or at most insects and reptiles.
Almost all scientists including your able
correspondent, Mr.. Hayes, base heir logic
upon the Nebular Hypothesis /. e., that Mars
is oder than the earth and that each planet
away (up) from the sun is millions Of
wears older than the last
THIS seems to me to be false premise
for the simple reason tha' the figures prove
that the cider ones are nearer the sun.
First. we find the planets located in regu-
lar ratio of distance from the sun as fol
lows: Mercury. 4; Venus, Z; Earth, 10;
Mars, l6; Asteroids, rs; Jove, 52 Saturn,
100: Uranus, 204 Neptune, 412. And while
Neptune. 3 billion mile from the sun is
travelling but 100000 miles per day, Muir.
curry which is but 30.000.000 miles distant
is travelling 100000 miles per day and
each che between them is travelling in the
exact ratio, as ITS distance from the sun
REQUIRES. according 10 The laws of gravity
and centrifugal force which acted on it i'm
fall toward the Gun. There can then be
no ether alternative hut that the planets are
formed beyond Neptune, as material is
furnished and there after gradually fall in
an orbit around the sun until they finally
reach it; which shows us that The nearer
they are to the sun the oder they are.
This is the foundation upon which is built,
the theory of Procession of Planets. The
Nebular theory is based upon an impossi-
hilitv i e. that a vast cloud Of white hot
gas once occupied the space of the solar
system and that it gradually condensed in
it's revolving, forming the sun at the center
and dropping eff the planets one ct time
as l. cooled and condensed: in which case
the farthest away would be the Oldest.
Let us see.
Why should there be in space "A patch of
white hot gasG II is an entire impOssi-
bility Gas is Invisible to begin with, and
cannot be seen, not even by a spook; and
if it could it is impossible hat it should
be heated. There is nothing to heat it. In
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-12
BLUE GRASS BLADE
The Planet Mars

the next place, let us suppose that there
was such a vast revolving mass and that
it formed and dropped off the planets one
al a time; should then find Neptune
making its orbit in the same time that Muir
curry does or travelling Is billions Of miles
while Murcury travelled $50 millions of
miles. Instead of NIurcury travelling ten
times fas er than Neptune. as it does in
fact. il should, if the Nebular theory is
true, be travelling only one hundredth part
as fast. Must we not then concede that the
Oldest planets are nearest the sun? Do We
not preceive that each planet away from
the sun has more moons, and that they are
holding exactly the same ratio of distance
and speed to their planets that the planets
hold 10 the sun? Do we not also see that
each planet as we near the sun. from Jup-
tier. is more cooled, which is proven by its
mountains?
As planet cools the act of crystalization
makes it larger and thus raises mountains
upon its surface. Mars has no mountains;
the highest mountains on the earth with
crust forty miles thick) are five miles
high while those on Venus are nearly 80
miles high. because ii is much more cooled
than he earth. If then the earth is mil
liors of wears older than Mars need we
expect to find a people Of great intelligence
there? Certainly not. What kind of life
occupied the earth few hundred million
we can tell The first birds were winged
serpfnts. and The first animals were ser
penis with legs, and no doubt the first
eerpents evolved from worms with posi-
tive and negative degrees of heat (Which is
electricity or life), organized in the water
or from plants upon the land Why could
an intelligent people build great canals 70
irrigate land that is no doubt under water,
when II is not frozen solid?
More likely these SO-called canals are
mountain ranges that are beginning to be
forced up cut of the water and change
color Gf they do changer by producing
vege' alton during their warm season which
is a whole year Of our time. Even with a
solid wear of sunshine the surface of the
p'anet could not have sufficient warmth,
were II not for its close prOXimnity to its
internal fire inasmuch as The sun only gives
one-fifth as much light and heat as at the
earth. When the great new telescope is
in place upon Mt. Wilson, let us hope it
will settle this question of whether or not
we see canals upon the surface of Mars.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-12
Christian Missionaries in India

@. What do Asiatics, as rule think OF
the missionaries?
A. Most of these missionaries belong to
the down and out mddle-cass in the country
from which they come; seldom either to
the workingmen class or to the cultivated
among the rich. No people on Gods earth
are so ignorant superstitous or tyrannca
as they are Their scientific knowledge is
nil. They know as much about philosophy
as Morgan and Rockefeller know about hon
esty They are filled with a burning hatred
Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-12
Personal Reports Grossly Exaggerated and
the Plain Truth Tod BY One Who
Knows.
(By. DR.. Krishna.)

The following interesting interview upon
the Christian Missionaries in India, was
given by DR.. Krishna to the Wage-Slave, of
Hancock Michigan, and coming from such
a source, the author being a native his
utterances are entitled to every fair con.
sideration Among other things, he said:
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03

The above letter from one of the
old Equity wheel-horses, about ex-
presses the trend Of things in the
entire west, aud We need not be sur
prised any time should we hear
something drop"
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03
CARDINAL POINTS.
Mn EDITOR

Mn EDITOR
Our order has three cardinal point,
organization, education and set.
ting prices upon the farm product.
We cannot set prices and maintain
them without education. We can.
not get education without organizs-
ton any more than boys and girls
can get education without schools.
Organizing only affords the oppor-
tunity for US to educate. When
members meet aud spend their time
In talking nonsence, rising no higher
than neighborhood gossip or smutty
stores, they are losing opportunity
and wasting time; then they COM
plain because at doesn't amount to
anything Every local is, and of
necessity must be, just wha, Its
members make it-just as high or
Just a. low, Just as important or Just
as worthless as the ability or mental
status OF its members. | have often
said, and still maintain, that every
local should have, besides its present
officers, a lecturer, a statistician, and
a business agent, and, where there
is enough business to Justify it,
change the business agent to a board
of directors. The duty of the lee.
;urer is either to arrange a short,
spirited literary program to be rem.
dered by the young people of the
neighborhood, or he should lead In
the discussion en- some one of the
great and important questions that
are up before the American people
settlement While none of Us un.
derstand the great and ever growing
question of production and Sistribu-
tiou too well, it is not enough to
study that, to the neglect of the econ
omic questions; for we may be legis-
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03

Owing TO lack Of time last week
We inserted the Associated Press dis.
patch relative to. the Bowling Green
tobacco meeting, which organizer the
Great Tobacco Union, without com
ment.
The Stemming District delega tes
did not sigI the articles Of incorpor
alton, but the whole proceedings
will be laid before the members Of
the association for ratification. So
il is up to Us as to what we will do
about IT therefore | insert the objects
Of the proposed new Society so that
you may be thinking about il. They
are a. follows
The nature OF the business propos.
ed to be transacted and promoted aud
carried on shall be To foster aud
promote the interests Of all the grow
ers Of tobacco in the United States
by disseminating information relat.
ing to the planting, growing, hous-
ing, handling aud selling Of tobacco
aud to thus, and by other means,
improve the quality of tobacco; to
assist in the sales Of tobacco aud to
act as agents'to that end; to assist
in securing fair and remunerasive
prices for tobacco and to these ends,
aud for the promoting of these OBJ
iects to cooperate with other tobacco
societies, corporations and organiza-
tions having the same general objects
in view.
And it is the purpose and object
of this organization to become the
central head aud general association.
in which all the present tobacco
growers societies, associations, cor.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03

bacco In the Louisville aud Cincin
natl markets, and as step in this
direction twenty-five country buyers
have been dispensed with, as was
stated exclusively in The Times Sat.
urdsy. Officers Of the American
Tobacco Company are reticent about
the matter. Speaking Of the matter
to-day leading independent buyer
said that he had heard the'rumor and
believed it was true. Further he
said ''If it is true, 1t means the
restoration Of the local market to ITS
old time-glory. The American To-
baceo Company has been buying
something like 80, 600, 900 pounds in
the country, and an equal amount in
the local breaks. Lots OF the tobac-
co troubles have been contributed to
the policy Of buying in the country.
1t is believed the Withdrawal Of these
buyers will allay much Of the bostil-
ity on the part of the growers to-
ward the American The American
can dominate the local market just
as well as it can FIX the price by buy
ing in the country, and altogether it
looks like the best thing to do is do
all the buying on the breaks. Dur
ing the past ten days quite a strong
demand has sprung up for the stock
Of the Louisville Tobacco Warehouse
Company. the common stock ad-
vancsng from s43 to ISL, this gives
color to the rumor, as the buying
through the local market by the
American would mean handsome
earnings for the warehouses. Louis
vile Times.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03

We hope that every tobacco grower
in the county begin now to make hi:
arrangements to be in Louisville on
Sept. 18th, Equity day" This
day is set apart for us and we should
avail ourselves Of the opportunity to
meet with the largest crowd ever as.
sembled in the Falls City, to mingle
with the greatest army of Tobacco
growers ever assem- blod on the globe
Ii is hoped that the growers of every
Association will go, but especially
should every member of the Society
Of Equity be there to meet our breth-
ern of the Green River, Onesucker
and Burley districts. You should
hear their stories of their fight
againts the Great trust from their
own hips, Our troubles have been
but trifles compared with theirs. So
let US go. The railroads will have
low rates. The State fair will be
better than ever this year. We shall
be in our new quarters which now
belongs to US. in new buildings and
a pertinent home for the farmers to
exhibit the products of our great
state. You are paying the bill and
you should endeavor to get the most
out Of it. Go and see the fine stock.
poultry and farm products, so that
you may arrange to better the breed,
and varieties at home.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03
MARION F. POGUE. EDITOR.

To farmers and their friends
While the object Of these columns
primarily to advance the cause Of
the Society Of Equity, by promul-
eating its principles and recording
its wonderful work Ia state and
nation, in condensed form, we shall
be glad to receive contributions
from our friends everywhere relative
to the farmer and his interests, no
matter TO what organization you
may belong. All such communica-
tions should be addressed to me,
Fredonia, KY, X. +. d. No. g
Such communications must be signed
IN full by the writer, besides the
nom do plume, If any.
The EDITOR.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03
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