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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
Encouraging Small Accounts.

1.-THE device of issuing postal saw
ings bank stamps has met with some
response. The stamps are simply a
method by which small amounts can
be deposited without the expense of
issuing book, figuring interest, and
opening an account.
'On the whole, the reception accord
ed the postal savings bank has been
gratifying, and gives good promise.
The investment of the funds is in the
hands of postal savings bank invest
ment board, which carries a certain
amount of the funds on deposit, and
has limited power of investment. The
law provides that % per cent of the
money held on deposit may be loaned
on first-class real estate, under limita-
tions carefully drawn to protect the
depositors, and 10 per cent on agricul-
tural lands under still more rigid limi.
tations."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Marine Note.-The oil-tank steamer
G. N. Haskell is reported homeward
bound to Oklahoma with a heavy list
to port Portland Oregonian.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Mr.. Bryan no longer refers to Mr..
Roosevelt as his imitator, counterpart
and understudy.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
BRYAN AND HASKELL.
Haskell Case Entirely Different from
That OF Senator Foraker.

(From the Kansas City Starr
The most adverse development of the
Democratic campaign is the charge of
Standard Oil connections against Gov
ernor Haskell, treasurer Of the Demo
cratic National Committee, because Mr..
Bryan is responsible for Mr.. HaSkell's
prominence in the Presidential contest.
Even if the charges are false, the
weight of suspicion resting on Mr..
Haskell is such that his connection
with the campaign should at once be
severed and remain severed until he
can prove his innocence
The Haskell case is entirely different
from the Foraker case. Foraker oppos-
ed Taft to the time of his nomination
Taft refused to make terms with him
to secure the nomination, and has re-
fused to vouch for him since. Foraker
is down, but Taft does not need to tax
any cognizance of his fan. He is not
responsible for Foraker
Haskell, politically speaking, is a
Bryan product.
And the only way to explain Mr..
Bryans ENHANCEMENT with Haskell is
that he is about as bad judge Of
men as he is of issues.
Bryan is an experimentalist. He is
attracted by superficial qualities. He
likes new measures and new cham
pions. The hardest strain that has
been put on the popular belief in h's
individual sincerity has been imposed
by the unsound policies he has espouscd
and the unsound counsel he has sought.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Mr.. Bryan is spending more time on
the rear platform than on the Denver
Iatform.-Omaha Bee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
Secretary of Peace.

This combative altruism is Mr.. Taft's
most distinguished characteristic. AS
Secretary of War he has earned the
worldwide sobriquet of Secretary of
Peace" He has fought some hard bat
ties, but they were with bloodless
weapons, and the results were victor
les for peace. The greater the degree
of altruism the keener was his zeal,
the harder and more persistent his bat
tie. The greatest struggle of his career,
in which he disregarded utterly his set
tied ambition, and cheerfully faced
continuing serious menace to life itself,
was on behalf of the weakest and most
helpless object in whose cause he was
ever enlisted-the Filipino people. That
was the purest and loftiest altruism.
But although this is the dominant
trait of Mr.. Taft, he is well known
permanent, founded upon a deep-seated,
comprehensive and ever alert sense Of
right and wrong; his courage, proved
by repeated and strenuous tests; his
calm. imperturbable judgment, and his
all embracing sympathy are character
istics that have been often and widely
noted. They are his by right of inhe.-
itance from generations Of broad-mind
ed, upright men and women. The de-
velopment Of his country has extend ed
the range of his opportunity and given
greater scope to his activities than was
enjoyed by Alphonso Taft, his father
or Peter RawsOn Taft, his grandfather,
but in character and intellect he is
their true descendant
Fitness for Presidency.
The American people know Mr.. Taft
as man of pervasive good humor, al
ways ready with hearty laugh, and
quick to see fun In any situation His
other side has not often appeared, but
he is capable of tremendous wrath
Nothing arouses it more quickly than
unfaithfulness to a trust or an exhibit
ton of deceit. Injustice in any form
stirs him to the bottom instantly. lie
has a broad, keen, quick, all-embracing
sympathy always ready to respond to
any call. His sense of justice is won
derfully quick-springing and alert. And
he has a genuine fondness for work,
which enables him to derive real pleas
ure from his task. These qualifica-
lions are the endowment of an unusual
ly gifted man. The people know, be-
cause they have seen, his ability to
turn off an enormous amount of work.
They have seen him prove an excep-
tional executive ability. They have
seen him manifest an equipment for the
Presidency such as no other man has
shown before his election to that office.
In experience, training and ability, Mr..
Taft has amply proved his fitness for
the chief magistracy of the nation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Mr.. Bryan has been right at least as
often as he has been president.-kan-
sas City Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

ed as an asset of the highest value to
the government in the accomplishment
of it's colossal task"
Taft Raises Wages.
On May l, 1907, as Secretary of War,
Mr.. Taft issued q longevity order max
ing liberal and appreciate increase in
the wages of various classes Of work
men, as follows:
"All employees not native to the trop-
les who occupy the positions herein
designated shall be granted the follow
ing increases in pay for length of con-
tinuous service on the Isthmus: Five
per cent Of the basic or class rate for
the second year, with accumulative adj
dition of three per cent of the basic
rate for each subsequent year; pro-
vided, however. that such cumulative
increase shall not exceed a total of 25c
of the basic rate"
In other words, Mr.. Taft made it
possible for every American laborer on
the Isthmus, by remaining there and
working, to increase his wages % per
cent and at the same time have a per-
manent position. These men also get
four weeks vacation with pay, every
year and Mr.. Taft favors making the
vacation six weeks with pay.
Change Would BE Disastrous.
In the performance of this work the
United States is under the scrutiny of
the entire world, especially of our
neighbors in Central and South Amer
lea, before whom we must make good
our profession of high social and in
dustrial ideals. 1t would be national
calamity to jeopardize the present lib
eral progressive policy that is so sue
cessfully constructing the Panama Ca
nal Mr.. Taft is the one man to con-
tinue this great work to the end.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Oklahoma will eventually live down
it's reputation for gold bricks in poll
tics.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
TO MIDDLE WEST AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES REPUBLICANS

elected and they cannot Dc
National Committee mas sucenI
the 1t costs money "
to for printing posi-
clerks at headquarters travelling @
details make rue
successfully know has passed IA"
making solicit from corporations we
must depend individual voters every re
contribute dollar to the
fund,w
want Taft and Sherman VIII you heip
chairman State FINANCE
in the list following or send it direct
official receipt of the Republican
Committee Respectfully,
FRED w. UPHAM,
Contributions be order to of the
Colorado Whitney Newton, Denver.
Idaho F.. Johnson, Wallace
H. Smith, Peoria
Iowa. HonL Young Moines
Kansas Ion. E. Grimes, Topeka
Michiga Detroit
North Second street ST. Louis
Hon. Thomas A. NARROW. Helena
Nebraska Omaha.
New Mexico J. w. Reynolds, Santa Fe.
North a Buchanan, buchanan
Oregon, DIR H.
South O. w. Thompson, Vermilion.
Washington, Hon. D. IoGe, Seattle
234 Michigan avenue
Chicago Illinois
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
RELIGIOUS FIGHT
ON TAFT A FAILURE
Desperate Attempt by Opposition
to Stir Up Prejudice Proves
Boomerang.
Clergymen of All Denominations
Rush to the Defense of Judge
Taft and His Attitude
Toward Religion.

The effort to arouse prejudice against
William II. Taft because of his relig-
1ous belief has, in the opinion of the
campaign managers, not only proved a
failure, but has had a salutary effect.
for many clergymen of prominence have
haStened to express their confidence in
the high religious standing Of the Re-
publican candidate. The attack on re-
ligious grounds began long before the
candidate was nominated, when friends
Of one of the "allies" sought to spread
the report that Mrs. Taft was a Cath
olic The story was widely told, but it
never gained much credence. 1t was
too well known that Mrs. Taft was an
Episcopalian and regular attendant
at st. Johns Church in Washington.
where only year ago her daughter.
Miss Helen, was confirmed in that
faith.
After the nomination the attack was
renewed from wholly different quar-
ter and was based on the ground that
Mr. Taft was Unitarian. When this
report was brought to the attention OF
Mr. Taft, who has been conspicuous for
his breadth of view in religious mat
tiers and the assistance which he has
rendered on every opportunity to Chris
tlan ministers and missionaries of ev-
cry denomination, he became indignant
and refused to defend his creed.
This method of attack has proved a
boomerang, and many Christian minis
tiers, indignant at the character of the
articles and editorials published on the
subject, have FASTENED to testify to
their full confidence in the high char
acter and deep religious conviction OF
the Republican candidate.
Praise from Bishop FaIIows.
One Of the most notable declarations
Of this character was that of Bishop
Samuel Falows of the Reformed Epis-
copal Church of Chicago, who declared
from the rostrum at Toledo his high
opinion of Mr.. Taft, saying in part:
"He is easily a master among all the
masterful men who are to-day controll-
ing the governments of the earth He
is deeply religious, without a trace OF
bigotry, fearing God and working right
eousness as did the two Adamses and
Abraham Lincoln. He is equally the
friend Of capital and labor, as every
President should be. / can aver with
out fear Of successful contradiction that
no man ever came before the American
people for the highest honor in their
gift, the proudest political position
known to man, so thoroughly prepared
to meet it's weighty responsibilities as
Mr.. Taft. He is broad in the back,
broad in the brow and broad in the
heart"
Like testimonials have come from
many other prominent clergymen, tes-
timonials, which might, perhaps, in
many instances, never have been volun-
teered but for the attacks to which the
candidate has been subjected from GER
tain quarters, and on grounds concern
ing which clergymen are most compe-
tent to speak.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
Democratic "Publicity" Duplicity

The Democratic party of the country,
through its representatives in Congress,
is on record as voting down a bill pro
viding for publicity of campaign con-
tributions in national elections and for
voting down bill providing against
fraudulent registration and fraudulent
elections. Such is Democratic duplic-
ity and Democratic insincerity in re
gard to this subject which has been
dignified into a campaign issue-James
s. Sherman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
The Rev. DR.. Shorts Tribute.

In a recent public address the most
Rev. John Ireland, Catholic Archbishop
of st. Paul, took occasion to pay high
tribute to Mr.. Taft's high character and
pre-eminent fitness for the great Office
for which he is a candidate, and only
to-day the Rev. DIR. Francis Burgetta
Short, Il leading Methodist clergyman
of Salt Lake City, paid tribute to Mr..
Taft in these words:
Judge Taft surely occupies a con-
spicuous place in both the ethical and
religious world. He is eminently fitted,
both in character and practice, to occu-
by the highest Office in our land. His
efforts to raise high standard of life
at home, his interest in and solicitude
for the nations across the sea mark
him as a man of sane religious visions
and desire. Such q man this nation
needs and requires at its head, if we
continue to hold the undivided admira-
ton of those at home and those abroad.
Such a man we must have if we would
make history that is gloriously humane.
No place here for the visionary, but
large and fitting place for prophet,
and for one whose genius and expert
ence and heart have directed difficult
tasks to most successful elimination.
Our President must be master in the
art Of statecraft. He must be able at
times to stand like Gibraltar and yet
he must have heart as human as
babe.
"Such a man, and much more, is that
scholar and genius and statesman and
patriotic citizen, William Howard Taft.
He surely merits the support Of all
high-minded citizens, for we recognize
that he has given his entire influence
toward the better development of
higher Christian civilization both at
home and abroad"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

interest in the work was evidenced on
many occasions and should be account
ed as an asset of the highest value to
the government in the accomplishment
of it's colossal task"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
PRACTICAL
DEMONSTRATION.
Actual Operation of Postal Savings
Banks in Philippines.
Two Years Experiment Indicates
the Plan Is Successful.

The only postal savings bank sys-
TEN in operation under the American
flag is that in the Philippines, where,
after two years of experiment, the
institution has been declared a great
success. In the report of the Philip
pine commission, just published, the
postal savings bank is discussed brief
ly, in part as follows:
1.-THE postal savings bank was first
opened in Manila on Oct. /, 1906.
The law provides for three classes,
with limitations as to the amounts
that can be received at any one time
in each class. Following the opening
of the Manila Office, other postal saw
ings bank Offices were opened in vari-
Gus cities, of different classes, until
at the close of the year 235 had been
opened, of which 8 were first, Sc were
second and 40 were third class.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
FiIipinos Adopting System


cat first the Filipinos did not to
any great extent avail themselves of
the opportunity of depositing a portion
of their receipts in the postal savings
bank, anda great bulk of the depositors
were Americans and of other nation
alities. As the advantages of this sys-
tenn have been disseminated through
means of schools, government bureaus,
private agencies and others, the pro
portion of Filipinos is continually in
creasing, and gives very good promise
that the Filipinos will learn to trust
their money to the care of the govern
ment, and welcome the opportunity.
THE accounts opened up to the
close of the fiscal year numbered
2,676, of which 347 were closed, leav-
ing 1929 still open. The deposits
reached the total sum of 7S6, 361.O pc
sos-an average of 10S.21 pesos. With
drawals reached the total amount of
go, 1921 pesos, leaving a net deposit
of 500, 1881 pesos at the end Of the
fiscal year-or the first nine months
of the operation of the postal savings
bank-but by no means the first nine
months of operation of the average
number of offices, the smaller ones
having been opened from time to time
during the year, SO that many had
not been opened more than month or
two at the time these figures were
taken.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Work on the canal has passed
through two stages. those of planning
and preparation. 1t is now in the third
and final stage, that of construction.
Both of the earlier stages required the
presence Of a large working force,
necessarily Quartered in temporary and
make shift accommodations. Because
of these conditions, inevitable at the
outset, early critics of the enterprise
mistook the initial and temporary out
Git for permanent equipment.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-07-17
The Mail.Order Citizen

St. Martinville Messenger.
Governor Folk, of Missouri. de-
clares that every man should be
proud of his state and his town.
II do not believe in the mail. or
der CITIZEN" says that popular
official. 1T is better that we
should have a thousands towns
than one large city. If a place is
good enough for a man to make
his money in. it certainly should
be good enough for him to spend
his money in.
THE merchants have a just
right to all the business of the
town in which they have their
store, and every good citizen will
help them to get it.
mo town is better or worse
than it's citizens make it.
Show me the stores and news.
papers of a place and | will tell
you what sort Of citizens it har-
bOrS.
Local association officers
should cooperate with the editor
of their local newspapers in de-.
Tending their town and it's bust.
ness interests against the per-
nicious influence of the mail.or-
der house from without and the
mail.Order citizen from within.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-07-17
The Cane Crop.

The Cane Crop.
Louisiana Planter.
Showers and hot weather con-
tinue to be the weather program
throughout the sugar district.
and this is of course calculated to
the growth of the cane
and it is especially favorable to
that cane which hasbeen laid by.
In places where the crop has
not been given its last cultivation
the grass is growing trouble
some. as it grows apace under
the influence Of the almost daily
rains and where the cane was
laid BY without being large
enough to shade the ground com
pletely the grass lis proving so
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-07-17

aggressive that another working
will have to be given which is a
hard matter on account of the
difficulty of getting the teams be-
tween the rows. The excellent
development of the cane crop all
along the line is most gratifying,
however, and the planters in
general feel very optimistic over
the situation.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-07-17
Afraid of Bryan's Strength.
New Orleans States.

AIIdlO III DTydu SAICilxlh
New Orleans States.
The anger which the organs OF
high finance are now exhibiting
because they were unable to pre-
vent Bryan's nomination is the
best evidence of the fact that they
are very much afraid of him at
the polls. If they were not
afraid of him their editorial col
umns would not be filled with ex.
pressions of rage and disappoint'
ment. In this connection that
careful observer of current
events the Brooklyn Citizens
says:
when the interests which
these organs exist to promote are
remem bered. it carnOt be deemed
conceivable that they would have
gone to such great lengths to
work up feeling against Bryan
had they not been anxious, for
the sake of Mr.. Taft, to secure
the nomination of some less form
liable candidate. As it is not in
accordance with what is known of
human nature for men to prefer
q strong to a weak antagonist,
the inference is unavoidable that,
not the weakness, but the
strength of Mr.. Bryan, is what
has been troubling the journals
tic representatives of the preda-
tory corporations. The more
earnestly, therefore, they per.
sisted in urging the Democrats
at Denver to drop Bryan, the
more fully the delegates were
sure to be convinced that he is
just the man to put at the head Of
the Democratic ticket"
All genuine Democrats will
take this view when they recall
the fact that five or six months
ago nearly all of the most influ-
entail Republican papers in the
country were urging the renomi.
nation of Roosevelt on the ground
that he was the only man in the
Republican party who could in
sure the defeat of Bryan. 1t is
safe to say that these papers had
no reason to exaggerate the
strength of Bryan at the time.
but spoke sincerely. What was
then their honest Judgment is
their judgment at the present
time. 1t is true that q
majority of them are now shout
ing for Taft and declaring that he
IS certain to win, but it is still the
belief Of q very important and ex-
perienced minority Of these Re-
journals that Mr.. Taft is
il great danger of being defeated
by Mr.. Bryan. :
Rut putting aside the question
Of whether or not it is the destiny
Of Mr.. Bryan to win the contest
fall his friends are greatly
encouraged by the fact that the
forces most fixed in their oppo-
to the Democratic party
feel easier in mind had he
been thrown out Of the race and
another man nominated as the
Democratic candidate. But they
know now that they must make
the fight of their lives il
they are to fatten for another
four years on the people of the
for the blunder Of 1904
WAS not repeated at the Denver
convention.
It is quite easy to understand
that the defeat Of Bryan at Den
YER would have been worth many
Of dollars to the preda.
lory interests. They would be
millions Of dollars in con-
kdbutions to the Taft campaign
md had the Democrats nomi-
S.ted an utterly weak candidate
g the Parker type. But they
vsre doomed to disappointment
ia knowing it. they and their
pfrans are quite angry and I'M
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