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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-08-13

The Miller PRESS will give abso-
utely free to Hand county girls five
diamond rings.
The purpose of this fve-prize con-
test is to secure new subscribers to
the PRESS.
The reason for division into five
districts with an equal prize for each
is to give every young lady contest
ant an equal chance regardless of
the locality she may reside in.
The Commissioner districts are
taken as the line of division, because
they were based upon population.
Conditions
Any young lady residing in Hand
county on August 10th, 1908, is eli
gible. The one receiving the most
votes in her district will receive a
diamond ring. Anyperson may vote
for any candidate regardless Of
where the voter resides.
The price of subscription to the
PRESS is $l.00 per year, and 200
votes will be allowed for new sub
scribers, $50 votes for renewals by
old subscribers, and SO votes for
each $1.00 paid on job printing, thus:
votes
New subscribers, one year. .... 200
two years. -. 45O
five .... 1900
Old " renewals, yr. $50
Job printing, for each 81 l..... so
Advertising, for each $1....... so
Each coupon cut from PRESS 10
The ballot box will be at the PRESS
office, and all votes brought in or
sent in by mail will be placed there
in and also a record made of them
in poll book
On the closing day, the ballot box
Will be placed IN the hands or the
County Treasurer, Auditor, and
Register of Deeds to count and de-
clare the result.
The rings to be presented to the
five lucky girls are solid gold, with
diamond set. purchased of the city
dealers, Wilson Jewelry Co.. and
may be seen on exhibition at their
store.
Every girl and young woman in
Hand county has an equal chance
and right in this contest. and to win
one Of these beautiful rings, all it
takes is little nerve and persistence.
1t is yours for the effort.
District Map of Hand County,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-08-13
Worth the Effort.

Any girl in Hand county can Sc
cure one of the diamond rings offer
ed in the PRESS contest. Just a
little courage and persistence.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
THE PEOPLE? PSHAWI

The Financial Age, published at
New York, printed in it's issue of
March % this editorial:
HOPES FOR ALDRICH BILL.
"The removal of the railroad bond
feature from the Aldrich bill provokes
the question: Is currency legislation
something to please voting constitu-
ency or is it something for the finan-
cial betterment of a people? This
action is considered a direct play to
the west and southwest, and it may
save congressman or two. There is
another question. of course-even with
this feature eliminated, does the bill
answer the purpose? That question is
of considerable Importance"
In other words, is currency legisla-
ton or any other Legislation for that
matter to be for the benefit of the
people or for the advantage of a
coterie of individuals?
The editor of the Financial Age evi,
IDENTIFY thinks that currency legislation
should be passed in accordance with
the pleasure of the financier. Then
railroad legislation should be arranged
by the railroad magnates; trust legis-
lation by the trust magnates; tariff
legislation by the tariff beneficiaries,
and so one down the line. But the peo-
ple-who are the people, anyhow, If
they are not the men who provide the
Republican party with it's campaign
funds?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
NO TIME FOR THE PEOPLE,.

1t will be remembered that in
March, 1907, the Democrats in the SEN
ate killed the ship subsidy bill, which
had passed the house by Republican
vote. Senator Carmack of Tennessee
led in the filibuster which resulted in
the defeat of this ridiculous measure.
Now the Republican senate has passed
a ship subsidy bill and the measure
goes to the house. 1t seems that the
Republican party has ample time to
pass measures demanded by the finan-
ciers, such as the Aldrich bill, and
measures demanded by the subsidy
grabbers, such as the shipping bill.
But when the people demand tariff re-
vision and other important reforms
they are expected to be satisfied with
the assurance that If they will again
trust the Republican party with power
they may have such tariff revision as
the friends of the tariff think the
people are entitled to-after the presi-
Dental election.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
FROM THE
DRAWING THE LINE.
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER

Democrats draw distinct line be-
tween federal legislation which is sup.
Elemental to state legislation, and that
form of federal legislation which
would substitute a national for state
remedy. No national charter should
be granted to an insurance company
and no federal supervision should in
terfere with the exercise of the power
now vested in the states to supervise
companies doing business in such
states.
= The Democrat would not take from
the federal government any power
necessary to the performance of its
legitimate duties, but he recognizes
that the consolidation of all govern
ment at Washington would be a men
ace to the safety of the nation and
would endanger the perpetuity of the
republic. He believes in the preserva-
ton of the power of both state and
federal governments, recognizing in
the constitutional division of those
powers the strength of free govern
ment. The advocate of Capitalization
is always optimistic when the dangers
of Capitalization are pointed out He
is not afraid that any harm can come
to the American people, and yet no
enthusiastic advocate of Capitalization
can talk long without betraying his
distrust of the people. Instead of &C
cepting the theory that the people
should think for themselves and then
select representatives to carry out
those thoughts, he believes that repre-
sentatives are selected to think for the
people, and he does not hesitate to
build barriers between the govern
ment and the voters. While the advo-
cate of Capitalization is urging legisla-
tion which obliterates state lines and
removes the government from the con-
troll of the voters, the monopolist may,
on the other hand, hide behind the
Democratic theory of self-government
and use this theory to prevent national
legislation which may be necessary.
The Democrat who believes in Demo-
cratic principles and who wants to pre-
serve the dual character of our govern
ment must be on his guard against
both.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
Mo Hone of Enterinu Mine.

Cheyenne, Wyo., April 4.-General
Superintendent Bradbury of the Union
Pacific Coal Co., who passed through
here Friday from Hanna, where he
had been investigating the disaster
which resulted from two explosions
in mine No. 1 last Saturday, said that
in all likelihood no attempt would be
made to again enter the mine in
search of bodies for many days. The
mine has been sealed until fire and
gas are eradicated. Mr.. Bradbury
said that the company will recover
the bodies of the dead in spite of all
obstacles, but that the mine would
be closed until it was safe for res
cuers to enter.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
LIGHT, MR.. PULITZER, LIcnTi

The New York World is calling for
publicity" with respect to Wall street
1t is supporting a resolution introduced
In the New York legislature providing
for the investigation of the stock
gambling practices now countenanced
by the New York stock exchange.
A very good measure, indeed; all Of
which reminds us that Democrats in
all sections of the country are calling
for publicity with respect to the mo-
tives Of the New York World in ma
tional politics.
But while finding time to attack
Democrats who have criticised corpo-
rations such, for instance, as the steel
trust, and who have insisted upon rail
road regulation, the World has not
found 1t convenient to tell its readers
the extent OF its owners financial in
terest in the concerns that are to be
regulated.
And this brings us again to the
question: What is the extent of the
financial interest held by Joseph Pulit.
ger, owner of the New York World, in
railroad companies and in great cor
porations commonly known as trusts?"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
DIPLOMATS SLAYER ARRAIGNED
!. w. Chang, Korean, Who Shot Stew
ems, Appears for Hearing.

San Francisco, April Charged
with the murder of Durham White
Stevens, l. w. Chang appeared for
preliminary examination Friday be-
fore Police Judge COnlan. Many Jap
anese, including Consul General
Kioke, were in attendance, together
with number of Koreans. The ex-
animation of the surgeons who at
tended Mr.. Stevens was brief, their
testimony being purely technical. 1t
is thought not unlikely that the de-
fence will make an effort to show
that Stevens died as a result of
surgical operation performed after
the shooting, and not from the wounds
inflicted by Chang. Chauffeur Schnei-
der and Edward Finlan of the Fair
mont hotel testified to the facts of
the shooting. Nothing startling de-
veloped at the hearing, but Assistant
District Attorney Black promised to
make sensational charges when his
chief witness. the Japanese consul, is
plr. on the stand The case will be
resumed next Monday afternoon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
The Road To Success.

The world is wide. If you wish
to be somebody pitch in" The
brave always have friends. Where
others have gone you can go. If
the old track don't suit you, make
a new one; somebody will walk in
it. Don't hurry too fast, especially
till you know the road or become
acquainted with your team. Mind
your own business and look after it
yourself. Don't stop to club whifits
or to retail gossip. You may grow
weary, but remember this is not a
world of ease, and rest lies beyond.
Success is never obtained in a coun-
try like this without effort. If you
fail once, try again. If you fall
down, get up. If it is dark, strike
a light. If you are in the shade,
move around; if there is shade on
one side there is sunshine on the
other. 1t takes longer to skin an
elephant than a mouse, but then
the skin is worth something. New
er be content with doing what
another has done excel him. A
tr5 d. is a good thing to have; it is
better than gold brings a larger
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10

Ing them the desired cheap labor,
would also undermine the conditions
in cities and towns, bringing about re-
auctions in wages and lowering the
scale of living for all laborers?
They probably do know this, but
they don't care. What they want Is to
get their labor as cheaply as possible,
just as they want to sell their fruits
and vegetables at the very highest pos
sible prices.
That is business. This is Il CONNER
cial age, and every fellow is doing
the very best he can for himself.
And so it comes about that the work
ingmen of this country. including the
laEor agitators" referred to in the
fruit growers memorial, are opposed
to the invasion of their interests and
destruction of their welfare by the
cheap labor hordes from China and
japan.
The question is, VIII congress and
the country stand with its millions OF
laborers-upon whose prosperity de-
Ponds the prosperity of all-or with
few hundreds of fruit growers and
market gardeners, who look to the pub
lie to nav them the m0rket rrlce for
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10

price work now done by Asiatics.
1t will be noticed that this memorial.
containing inaccurate and foolish state
ments. comes just at the opening of a
congress which will be urged to extend
and strengthen the present exclusion
act. With the exception of those who
directly profit through the employment
of cody labor the people of California
and all the Pacific coast and mountain
states desire extension of the exclusion
act so as to include japanese and Ko-
reans in its provisions and the rigid
enforcement of the act against all
cody labor.
The fruit growers can obtain all the
labor they require if they are willing
to pay the market price for it. Just
now, when laborers are leaving the
country by the tens of thousands be-
cause of the dullness of the labor mar
ket, is bad time to make the claim
of a scarcity of labor.
The fruit growers memorial itself
furnishes the proof that their trouble
is one Of wages, says Joseph r. Blu
chanan in the New York Journal. 1t
says that better wages in the cities
have drawn the Chinese laborers away
from the rural employments.
Do not the Iaeaiorialists see that re-
peal OF the excelsior act. while furnish
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
NO WONDER.

After considerable effort congress
passed bill that stopped rebates and
enabled the railroads to keep what
they had formerly returned in the way
of rebates to favored shippers. The
railroads weakened the bill as much
as possible and no one knows yet how
valuable or valueless the measure will
prove
But the state legislatures went in to
work in the effort to lower rates. A
number of legislatures enacted two
cent fare laws and some reduced
freight rates.
Immediately railroad magnates be-
gan to plead for federal regulation"
meaning exclusive federal regulation,
and the decision of the supreme court
in the Minnesota and North Carolina
cases is spoken of by these railroad
magnates with the highest sort of CON-
pliment.
No wonder the railroads want to get
away from state legislatures. The
state legislatures are near to the peo-
pie and quickly respond to public
sentiment, while the national congress
is more remote and harder to reach.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
Coal Companies at War.
LABOR STRIKES IN ROME.
Pierpont Morgan Does Not Venture
from Hotel by Request of Police.

Rome, April 4.-The city Friday
bore the aspect of holiday as a re-
suit of a general strike of work
men inaugurated as protest against
the killing by the troops on Thursday
of three rioters and the wounding of
Is others.
No serious incidents occurred dur
ing the day Tourists experienced dis
comfort through a lack of cabs aud
the cessation of street car traffic
Persons possessing automobiles
risked being struck by stones when
their cars passed through the neigh
borhood where strikers were gath
cred
J, Pierpont Morgan was requested
by the authorities not to leave his
hotel and accepted the warning.
Eight hundred tourists who were
annoyed by the strikers left the city.
An especial watch was kept near
the vatican in order to suppress any
disturbances that might break out.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
Answering Children's Questions.

Anyone who has the ability to
ask a question that to him is worth
asking, has the capacity to receive
an answer that to him is worth re-
ceiving. A thoughtful child, on
inquiring the location of Heaven,
was told by his mother that he
could not understand her, even if
she explained it. She was proba-
bly, right in so far as the childs
ability to understand her was con-
cerned; but she was wrong in not
telling him that the fault was with
herself and not with him. Had
she known as much about answer
ing him as he knew about question
ing her, there need have been no
trouble about his understanding
her explanation. There is no
question that a child can seriously
and fairly ask that cannot be as
seriously and fairly answered. To
tell a child or to lead it to infer
that it is too little" to know any
hing more on any subject about
which it already knows enuogh to
frame question, is to deny his ca
pacity for further growth. 1t is
to thrust the childs mind into
dungeon, instead of opening it to
the light. It is to bind it in fet-
tiers, instead of giving it freedom
of action. Ability to ask pre-
supposes capacity to receive. And
no questions are better worth an
swering than, a ehild's.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
Taft in CHICAGO.

Chicago, April A. Secretary Taft
addressed members Of the Inter-De
guest he was at banquet and recep-
ton Friday night on the religious
question in it's application to affairs
in the Philippines A hour later he
was whisked away to speak to mem
bers of the Hamilton club, who were
engaged in their annual celebration
of "Appamattox day" His talk to
the clubmen of this occasion was of
an informal nature and was for the
most part reminiscent of his admin
istration in the island possessions.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
Short Road to Misery.

Begin by fancying that no one
cares for you; that you are not of
any use to anybody-a sort of non
entity in the household, where your
place would not be missed, but
easily supplied. Reflect on your
want of beauty, and lead yourself
to believe that no one can love
plain face, or think you agreeable
because there are others more char
ming. Fancy that every one who
looks upon you makes a mental COM
parison which initiates against you
in favor Of some one else. I'M
agine that every word said in jest
s only meant to cover a deeper and
more painful meaning that every
article of wearing apparel you don
is criticised and ridiculed. Do all
this and your tendency to morbid
ity of feeling will so increase that
in a very short time you will be-
come one of the most miserable of
human beings.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
THEN CAME THE COURT.

In his speech at Trenton, N. j., Sec
rotary Taft depfored what he called
too great Capitalization Of govern
ment," and attributed it to the failure
of state legislators to perform their
proper functions. About the time Sec
rotary Taft made this remarkable
statement the supreme court of the
United States was handing down de-
cision that in effect prevents a state
legislature from performing it's func-
tions. Further than that, the decision
actually goes to the length Of saying
that state official may be enjoined by
a federal court from appearing in
state court to move for the enforce
ment of a state law Secretary Taft
seems to be somewhat mixed in his
ideas.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
CULTiVATiNG FERNS.
How They Can Be Raised and KeFt
FIourishing.

How They Can Be Raised and Kept
FIourishine.
Ferns are among the most graceful
and beautiful of foliage plants. For a
shady nook in the yard during sum-
mer, for a shaded window or for hall
decoration in winter the ferns will be
found desirable plants, says Garden
Magazine.
They like a cooler atmosphere than
most plants grown for the window, and
for this reason a cool room or hall
suits them best. A temperature of
from 80 to 65 degrees is warm enough
for most of the greenhouse species.
Keep in light, moist, shady place and
as soon as the young plants are large
enough pick them out and pot in three
inch pots, placing half dozen in each
pot. AS they become larger they may
be ported singly.
When the ferns once are established
in pots do not repot them more than
once a year and that invariably when
the plants are in a dormant state. I'm
der no circumstances should the roots
be disturbed while growing. AS the
plants become larger the soil should be
more lumpy and coarse and should
consist of one-siXth part of charcoal or
broken crockery, which will keep the
soil porous and sweet.
1t is a mistake to use large pots for
ferns. They will thrive with less root
room than the majority of cultivate
plants, and it is not unusual for florists
to allow the plants to remain in the
same pot fox more than one year. II
this event, however, the soil is en-
riched during the growing season by
liberal applications of liquid manure.
Great care should be taken that the
plants do not suffer from dryness at
the roots This will stunt them and
seriously injure their vitality.
Ferns are not attacked often by in
sects. The young fronds sometimes
are troubled by green fly, but this pest
can be effectually destroyed by fumi-
eating, Swinging and washing with
tobacco water The scale insect is the
worst foe and is difficult to dislodge.
Repeated washing with camphor wa
ter or diluted alcohol when the plants
are at rest will be found effectual.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
WAS MR.. ROOT A PROPHET

The decision of the United States
supreme court in the Minnesota and
North Carolina railroad cases recalls
the statement made by Secretary Of
State Root in his speech delivered
something like two years ago. Fol
lowing is an extract from Mr.. Roots
speech: What is to be the future of
the states of the union under our con-
stitutional form Of government? The
conditions under which the clauses of
the constitution distributing powers
to the national and state governments
are henceforth to be applied are wide
ly different from the conditions which
were, or could have been, within the
contemplation of the trainers of the
constitution, and widely different from
those which obtained during the earli-
er years of the republic"
Was Mr.. Root a prophet
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-04-10
MINERS BREAK
WITH UNION
OFFER is MADE OPERATORS TO
TREAT AS INDIVIDUALS
ON ISSUE.
UNION ROW is PROBABLE
Illinois Workmen Also Show q
Disposition to ignore the Head
Officials-Early Settle
ment in Sight.

Pittsburg, April 4.-Miners OF the
Pittsburg district, through their own
local union, No. 5, Friday adopted a
resolution offering to deal with oper
ators of the Pittsburg district as in
dividuals instead of following the iron
clad instructions handed down at the
Indianapolis convention of the United
Mine Workers of America, in effect
that districts must sign as whole
and that there should be no dealing
with firms individually.
While this break in orders will like
ly precipitate serious international
trouble in the miners union, it is
also likely that it may have whole
some effect on the coal strike in the
Pennsylvania district, since it is
known that many firms desired to con-
tinue work at this time. The Pitts
burg Coal Co., backed by the United
States Steel corporation, is more than
anxious to resume, since orders came
from the east some time ago to swing
the Independent operators into line
and sign up their scales for the com
ing year at least, as the corporation
did not care to use stored coal.
Coal Companies at War.
This the Pittsburg Coal Co. failed
to do and bitter enmity has result
ed between this large coal interest
and the smaller independent inter
ests of the district.
That the Pittsburg Coal Co., which
controls possibly 40 per cent of the
coal mined in the Pittsburg district,
will sign with the miners if given the
opportunity is limited here, and if so,
it would have a startling effect