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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06


On behalf of all our people, on behalf
no less OF the honest man of means than
or the honest man who earns each days
livelihood by that days sweat of his
brow, IL Is necessary to insist upon
honesty in business and politics alike in
all walks of life. in big things and in lit
tie things; upon Just and fair dealing as
between man and man. Those who de.
mand this are striving for the right in
the spirit OF Abraham Lincoln when he
said: -rT1 -
"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we
pray, that this mighty scourge may
speedily pass away. Yet, If God Wills that
II continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsmens two hundred and fifty
years OF unrequited toll <aall be sunk,
and until every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid by another drawn
with the sword, as was said three thous-
and years ago, SO still II must be said.
The judgments Of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether
with malice toward none; with charity
for all: with firmness in the right, as
God gives us to see the right let us
strive on to finish the work we are In /"
In the work we Of this generation are In.
there Is, thanks be to the Almighty, no
danger Of bloodshed and no use for the
sword: but there Is grave need Of those
stern Qualities shown alike by the men
Of the north and the men of the south III,
the dark days when each vaIiantiy bat
tied for the light as il was given each
to see the light. Their spirit should be
our spirit, as we strive to bring nearer
the day when greed and trickery and curi-
ming shall be trampled under feet by those
who fight for the Righteousness that ex-
alteth a nation.
Theodore Roosevelt
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

We attack only the corrupt men of
wealth, who find in the purchased
politician the most efficient instru-
ment of corruption and in the pure
chased newspaper the most efficient
defender of corruption. Our main
quarrel Is not with these agents and
representatives of the interests.
!, They derive their chief power from
the great, sinister offenders who
stand behind them. They are but {:
puppets who move as the strings :.
are pulled.
1t is not the puppets, but the
strong cunning men and the mighty
forces working for evil behind and
through the puppets, with whom we
have to deal.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

It without hire. From the railroad rate
law to the pure food law. every measure
for honesty In business that has been
opposed By these men on Its passage and
In Its administration with every resource
that bitter and unscrupulous craft could
suggest and the command Of almost, un-
limited money secure.
But for the last year the attack has'been
made with most bitterness upon the actual
administration of the law, especially
also through the Interstate Commerce
commission and the bureau Of corpora
tions. The extraordinary violence Of the
assaults upon our policy % Ssntained In these
ments. and pamphlets, and the enormous
sums of money spent in these various
ways give fairly accurate measure OF
the anger and terror which our public
actions have caused the corrupt men of
vast wealth to feel in the very marrow
Of their being. The attack is sometimes
made openly against us for enforcing the
law, and sometimes with a certain cum
ming, for not trying to enforce it in some
other way than that which experience
shows to be practical One of .he favorite
Is to attack the administration for not
procuring the Imprisonment instead Of the
fine OF ofsnders under these anti-trust
laws. The man making this assault is
usually either a prominent lawyer or an
editor who takes his policy from the finan-
ciers and his arguments from their attor-
neys. II the former, ne mas Ge1ended ana
advised many wealthy malefactors. and he
knows well that, thanks to the advice of
lawyers like himself, a certain kind Of
modern corporation has been turned into
an admirable instrument by which to
render it well nigh impossible to get at
the Gead of the corporation, at the man
who is really most guilty. When we are
able TO put the real wrongdoer in prison
this Is what we strive to do: this is what
we have actually done with some very
wealthy criminals, who. moreover, repre-
sented that most baneful of all alliances,
the alliance between the corruption of or
ganized politics and the corruption of high
finance. This Is what we have done in
the Gaynor and Greene case, IN the case
of the msapplicaton of funds I'm con-
nection with certain great banks in Chi
cago, in the land fraud cases, where, as
in other cases likewise, neither the high
est political position nor the possession
of great wealth has availed to save the
offenders from prison,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

Queen Alexandra Possesses a tea ser
vice Of sixty pieces, each piece being
decorated with a different photograph
which she took herself in Scotland.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

"He saved Miss Uglamog from
drowning and his friends think he
should have the Carnegie hero medal"
THAT wasn't very heroic act"
''But he's going to marry her"
''Oh, that's different "-Houston
Post.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

i do.not for moment believe that
the actions of this administration
have brought on business distress; SO
far as this Is due to local and not
worldwide causes, and to the ac-
tons of any. particular individuals,
II is due TO the speculative folly and
hagrant dishonesty of few men of
great wealth, who seek to shield
themselves from the effects of their
own wrongdoing by ascrlbing its
results to the actions of those who
have sought to put stop to the
wroagdoing. st-r.E gs .
But If 1t were true that to cut out
rottenness from the body polite
meant momentary check To an UNI
healthy seeming prosperity, / should
not for one moment hesitate to put
the knife to the corruption.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

We seek to control Iaw-defying wealth:
in the first place to prevent its doing dire
evil to the republic, and in the next place
TO avoid the vindictiye and dreadful rad
Hcalism which, If left uncontrolled, 1t is
certain in the end to arouse. Sweeping
attacks upon all property, upon all men
OF means, without regard to wheth they
knell Of the republic; and such attacks
become inevitable If decent citizens per-
init those rich men. whose lives are cor
rupt and evil to domineer in swollen
pride, unchecked and unhindered, over
the destinies Of this country. We act in
no vindictive spirit, and we are no re-
specters of persons. If labor union does
wrong, we oppose it as firmly as we OPP
pose a corporation which does wrong; and
we stand equally stoutly for the rights
of the man of wealth and for the rights
of the wagewor.zer. We seek to protect
the property of every man who acts hon
estly, of every corporation that represents
wealth honestly accumulated and honest
ly used. We seek to stop wrongdoing,
and we desire to punish the wrongdoers
only so far as is necessary to achieve this
One Law for All.
There are ample material rewards for
those who serve with fidelity the mammon
of unrighteousness: but they are dearly
paid for by the people who permit their
irepreserit ia tfves, whether In public life in
the press, or in the colleges where their
young men are taught, to preach and to
practice that there. Is one law for the
ITCH dilu aNOtner IOrs the poor. Inc
amount of money the representatives of
certain great moneyed interests are VIII
ing to spend can be gauged by their re-
cent publication broadcast throughout the
papers Of this country, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, of huge advertisements at
tacking with envenomed bitter the admin
istration's policy of warning against sue
cessful dishonesty, and by their circrla-
tion of pamphlets and books prepared
with the same object: while they likewise
push the circulation of the writings and
speeches Of men who. whether because
they are misled. or because, seeing the
light. they yet are willing to sin against
the light. serve these their masters Of
great wealth to the cost Of the plain peo-
pie. The books and pamphlets. the
controlled newspapers, the speeches
by pubic n or private men to
which I refer. are usually and especially
in the interest OF the Standard Oh trust
and of certain notorious railroad combina-
tions, but they also defend other indi-
yiduals and corporation of great wealth
that have been guilty OF wrongdoing. It
is only rarely that the men responsible
for the wrongdoing themselves speak or
write. Normally they hire others to do
their bidding. or and others who viii do
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

It is not easy always to decide just
where the line Of demarcation between
line must ultimately be drawn by
the federal courts. Much of the effort
TO secure adequate control of the great
wise and effective, but much of 1t has
been neither: for when the effort Is made
to accomplish. by, the action of the state
what can only be accomplished by the
actio:. of the nation, the result can, only
be disappointment, and in the end the
law wili probably be declared unconsti-
tutional. SO likewise in the national
arena, we who believe in the measures
herein advocated are hampered and nor
aided by the extremists who advocate
action so violent that IT would either be
useless or else would GAUGE more mischief
than 1t would remedy. @2iN
1t can not too strongly be insisted that
the defenders and apoiogists of the great
corporations, who have sought in the
past and still seek to prevent adequate
action by the federal government TO con-
tr1i these great eorpSSrations are not
laying up day of wrath for the great
corporations themselves. The nation win
not tolerate an utter. lack Of control over
very wealthy men of enormous power in
the Industrial, and therefore in the So
cial, lives of all our people, some of
whom have shown themselves cynically
of the people; and IL the congress does
not act, with good tempered and, sensible
but resolute thoroughness, in cutting out
pervision the result is certain 10 be ac-
ton on the part of the separate states,
some times wise, sometimes ili-jlldged and
extreme, sometimes unjust and damaging
to the railroads or other corporations,
more often ineffective from every stand
point. Because the federal courts declare
1t unconstitudonal. @
The Panic.
We have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. AT any
such time 1t is sad fact that entirely
innocent people suffer from no fault of
their own; and everyone must feel the
keenest sympathy for the large body Of
honest business men, of honest investors,
of honest wageworkers, who suffer be-
cause involved ia a crash for which they
are in no way responsible. AT such a
time there is a natural tendency on the
part OF many men to feel gloomy and
frightened at the outlook; but there is
no justification for this feeling. There
is no nation so absolutely sure OF ulti-
succeed. Ours is q nation OF mastery
energy, with continent for its domain,
and 1t feels within its veins the thrill
which comes to those who know that
they possess the future. We are not cast
down by the fear of failure. We are up
held by the confident hope of ultimate
triumph. The wrongs that exist are to
be corrected; but they in no way justify
doubt as to the final outcome. doubt as
to the great material prosperity of the
future, or of the lofty spiritual life which
Is to be built upon that prosperity as q
foundation. No smisdeeds done in the
present must be permitted to shroud from
our eyes the glorious future of the nation:
but because of this very fact 1t behco oves
us never to swerve from our resoiute pur-
pose TO cut out wrongdoing and uphold
what Is right.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06
Letting the Cat crt.

Amelia Herbert, dear, your Office is on
Orange street, isn't, il?
Herbert--Yes; why?
Amelia---Thats what | told papa. He
made such funny mistake about You the
other day. He said he'd been looking you
up in Brad street. ~,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

PILES CURED IN o TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any
case Of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
Ing Piles In Q to IA days or money refunded
6Oc Ee
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

{: The federal government does
(: scourge sin; it does bid sinners :
{: fear; for it has put behind the
{: bars with impartial severity, the :
/: powerful financier, the powerful :
{: politician, the rich land thief, the
1: rich contractor-all, no matter
(: how high their station, against
{: whom criminal misdeeds can be
&: proved. All their wealth and
=: power cannot protect them.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

Notwithstanding the staLep.ents or /
.sn..,uies here and in other .saxts Of
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

A Judge who on the bench either
truckles to the mob and shrinks from
sternly repressing violence and dis
order, or bows down before corpor-
alton; who fails to stand up yaliantiy
for the rights of property on the one
hand, or on the other by misuse or
the process of injunction or by his
attitu1e toward all measures for the
bettLrment of the conditions of labor,
makes the wageworker feel with bit
terness that the courts are hostile to
him: or who fails TO realize that all ;
d: public servants in their several sta
tionss :uust strive to stop the abuses
of t':4 criminal rich-such man per- !;
forms an even worse service to the
body polite than the legislator or
executive who goes wrong.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06
Spirit ,s Ethical.

!.
(: The methods by which the I:
!: Standard Oil people and those en-. /:
4: gagged in the other combinations -
: of which l have spoken above !:
(: have achieved great fortunes can :
only be justified by the advocacy +:
6: of a system of morality which !:
would also justify every form of /:
criminality on the part of labor /:
union, and every form of yio- {:
g: lence, corruption, and fraud, from (:
Z: murder to bribery and ballot box !:
stuffing in politics y - !:
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

The outcry against stopping dis
honest practices among wrongdoers
ly similar to the outcry raised
against every effort fer cleanliness
and decency I'm city government, be- :
cause. forsooth, 1t will "hurt bust
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

But In my Judgment thoroughgolng |:
7: and satisfactory control can in the !:
end only be obtained by the action !:
:: of the national government, for al ::
most ali the corporations of enorm- !:
Gus wealth-that is, the corporations !:
which ii Is especially desirable to !:
control--are engaged i'm Interstate |:
commerce. and derive their power !:
and their Importance not from that !:
portion of their business which is in !:
trastate, but from the interstate !:
business. '#i@ |:
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

followed IN dealing with these great cor
poratt0ns, these difficulties .rust be faced,
and one Of three courses followed.
Tho irGt course is to abandon all effort
to oversee and control their actions in
the interest OF the general public and to
permit q return to the utter lack. 81 con-
troll which would obtain IL they were left
moment believe that our people would
tolerate this position. The extr raordinary
growth OF modern industrialism has Ien-'
dered the common law, which grew up
under and was adopted to deal With totally
different conditions, in many respects in
adequate to deal with the, new conditions.
These new conditions made IL necessary
to shackle cunning as In the past we
have shackled force. The vast individual
and corporate fortunes, the vast combina-
tions of capital, which have marked the
Great new conditions, and necess.tate a
change from the old attitude of the state
and the nation toward the rules regulat-
ing the acquisition and untrainmeled busi-
ness use OF property in order both that
property may be adequately protected,
and that at the same time those who
hold 1t may be prevented from wrong
doing.
The second and third courses are to
have the regulation undertaken either by
the nation or by the states OF course
in any event both the national government
and the several state governments must
do each Its part, and each can do a certain
amour. that the other cannot do, while
the only really satisfactory results must
be obtained by the rcpresen tatives Of the
national and stare governments working
heartily together within their respective
spheres "@ Il
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-07
HALE WILL. RETAIN
POWER IN SENATE
Maine Senator to Continue
Leadership of Two Big
Committees.

Senator Hale of Maine VIII have
more power in his hands this winter
than any other man n the Senate.
II has been practically settled that
Senator Hale this session viii remain
at the head Of the Naval Affairs Com
mittee and at the same time Will be the
acting chairman Of the Committee on
Appropriations. This viii give Senator
Hale leadership Of two OF the great
committees OF the Senate.
The acAncv in the craftsmanship Of
the Committee on Appropriations viii
not be filed this session By the selection
OF a chairman II is the understanding
that Senator Hale viii be acting chair
man Of that committee and thai when
the next session be gins. the special ses-
sion called by Mr.. Taft for the revision
Of the tariff the Maine statesman Will
be made chairman of Appropriations and
VIII give up the Naval craftsmanship.
Senator Perkins, OF California, VIII then
become chairman Of the Committee on
Naval Affairs. 1t is quite possible this
Encouragement viii not be made until
the regular long session begins next
December
In acting as outlined, Senator Hale
Will be following a precedent set by
Senator William Window. The two
committees Of which he Will be head
this winter will deal I'm enormous ap-
preparations The Senate Appropriations
Committee takes jurisdiction over most
Of the big supply bills that come before
the Senate and the Naval Affairs Com
mittee has the appropriation Of funds
that are now mounting up IN the re-
giOn OF the 800 600 900 mark
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-07
Died

kRA US-On Sunday. December 9. 1905 At 4.10
D IN. at his residence. 300 North Capitol
street HENRY. beloved husband q the late
Katherine kraus, IN the slNty-sixth year
Funeral from MS late residence, Tuesda =,
20 p. M
Baltimore papers please .copyD /
MARTIN-Departed this life on Sunday. De
cenber 8 lsoS. AZ 1880 p. m. CHRISTIAN
Martin. aged eighty-three years and eight
May s. Isl
Fune-al from the residence OF be- da,,rh
ter Mrs Emma z. Ruckert, 81 FIfth
street southeast. on Tuesday. December s
at O'Clock p. m. thence TO German
Trinity Lutheran Church. corner Fourth
and + streets northwest. al go Relatives
and friends are respectfully United to at
tend Integment at Prospect HiI Cemetery.
BARRT-On sunday. December g. 1903. at 4
a. m, at the residence OF her son-in-Iavy.
ola road, JULIANA H, widow OF Capt. Ed
Llunds0n Barry
FOX-On sunday. December s. 1908. at "a
a. m. a ner residence. 1908 PENNSYLVANIA
avenue northwest. MARY y. widow OF
Charles Fox
KRAUS-Oa Sunday. December 8 raas o..
4-lo p m, At his residence. 1906 North Can
ital street. HENRY. beloved husband OF the
late katherine kraus, in the sixty-sixth
year OF his age.
VIERBCCHEN-Su on SUNDAY Ne
cember 8. 1905. AT 2 D. m, LOUIS ETER-
BCCHEN, in the forry-eighth year OF MS
age
WOLTZ-O1 December l. 1908. at 2.15. ate
q short illaess, SADIE V. beloved and only
daughter % George and Laura (nee Fess-
ler) Volt.
Funeral from, her parents residence. "a
MARYLAND avenue southwsst Decemb Der :, at
II a. m.
Frederick papers please cOpy)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-07
BOSS COX DECLARES
MACHINE FOR TAT I
Says He Can Name Forak-
er's Successor and
Throws Burton.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. Dec George B.
Cox. Republican boss Of Ohio. in a com
mu. ication to Charles p. Taft, brother
Of the Presideut-elect, received today.
stated uneQuivocally that he was IN d
position to name the successor in Ohio
to the Foraker tOga, and assured the
mau who financed Taft's campaign that
he would be sent 20 the United States
Senate.
According 10 the statement made by
Cox, the Akron speech and the differ
ences between Judge Taft and the State
machine have been forgotten, and he
stands ready to deliver the necessary
vote in the State legislature
The situation astOnishes Ohio pOIiti-
clans. They admit that Cox IS the cTux
Of the Senatorial situation, and say
that the boss is in a position 70 make
good his statement The throwing Of
his strength To Taft by Cox has de-
mOralized the Cincinnati supporters OF
Burton They realize the strength that
Cox has, but refuse TO acknowledge that
Burton's chances for election are gone.
Charles r Taft was seen this morn
Ing at his home. but he positively de-
clined TO make and statement
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-07
SOUTH'S SECTTONAIISM
is GONE, SAYS STRAUS

Beginning his address before the ini-
tial meeting Of the Southern CONNER
cial Congress this morning with the de-
claration that the south, commercially
and economically. had come out Of her
sectionalism, Secretary OF Commerce
and Labor Oscar S. Straus, who pre-
sided over the meeting, was accorded
an ovation
The outburst Of enthusiasm appeared
to be the result of spontaneity OF senti-
ment upon the Part of every delegate
and that the deliberations of the con
gress will be marked by an absolute lack
OF sectional features was assured within
five minutes after the call to order.
Previous TO the opening Of the con-
gress in the New willard Hotel the ar
rival OF every train from the South
majority Of these busted themselves in
the lobby of the auditorium, arranging
display posters advertising the respec-
tive sections Of the South which they
represented. At 10 O'Clock the United
states Marine Band gave a compli-
mentary concert in the auditorium Al
twenty minutes later g G-nsVenJr
Dave, secretary of the Commercial
Club, Of Montgomery, Ala, formally
called to order the first session Of the
congress.
Following the invocation by Rev. AL
fred Harding, bishOp-eiec- or Washing
ton. Chairman Dave made a brief ad-
dress, IN which he statet that this or
ganizauonl representing the various
commercial organizations Of the South,
was the result of a meeting of the sec
retaries of the several organizations
held In Chattanooga last fail
AFTER being introduced as the perTna-
nent chairman Of the congress, Secre-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-07
WEST VIRGINIANS
FIGHT FOR PLUM
Political Somebodies Here
to Wage Battle Over
ColleCtorShip.

Practically every politician Of promi-
nence in Vest Virginia assembled IN
Washington today 30 participate in the
fight over The appointment OF a col
lector Of internal revenue TO succeed
GOvernor-elect GlassCock. The indica-
tions are that the hight will be as bitter
as that which preceded the nomination
Of governor in West Virginia
The principal candidates are Governor
Dawson and Fred Paul GrosscUp, OF
Cha rleston. Governor Dawson is de-
handing the Office on the ground that
his service to the State entities him 10
further recognition. and also because he
is in poor health and needs the re-
Enumeration which goes with one Of the
best political plums IN his State. MT.
GrOssCup is making a strenuous fight and
his followers claim that he viii win
out He Is a brother of United States
Circuit Court Judge Grosscup. of Chi
cage.