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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
'.sHALL THE PEOPLE RULEp"

Tune-"John Brown
We have heard the wondrous query of
Nebraska's Peerless One,"
AS it sounded out from Fairview and
struck the nation dumb;
So we guess We'll keep on ruling, as for
many year we've done!
The people still shall rule!
Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah Glory, glory,
hallelujah!
Glory, glory hallelujah! The People
still shall rule!
In eighteen ninetysix you know, the
People thought they'd rule,
And give the peerless Orator" some
more years at school,;
But still in ninteen hundred he could
not the People fool;
The People still would rule!
"Shall the People ruler asks Bryan.
Does he think the nation daft?
Is there any cause for wonder that the
People see his craft?
OF course, they'll keep on ruling, and
their Leader will be Taft!
The People still will rule!
Taft is running on his record, while
Bryan runs away
From the Paramount Issues" which he
held the other day;
And what he'll hold tomorrow no NOR
tai man can say,
The People still shall rule!
We believe in honest banking, but not
in guarantees
To secure bank deposits that may tend
to foster thieves,
However much such methods some cum
ming knaves might please,
The People still will rule!
We intend to vote for William-but not
for William b
Our ballots in November shall be cast
for William T.
The defeat of William Bryan will be
counted No. 3,
The People still shall rule.
B. f. C. in Baltimore American.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
BRYAN UNLIKE LINCOLN.

Attempt to Compare Continuous
Candidate to Great Statesman a
Miserable Failure.
1.-The present canvass shows again
the folly of the ass that put on a
lions skin. The managers of Mr..
Bryan's press bureau are attempting
to conjure votes for him by the use
Of the sacred name of Lincoln. Aesop
declared that when the ass lifted up
his voice and brayed, every one knew
him and his owner came up and gave
him a sound cudgeling. The warning
falls on deaf ears. The partisan who
tries the same tricks invites like shame
and punishment. The audacity of the
device may capture some of the I'M
wary. Insofar as he has party be-
hind him, Mr., Bryan is the candidate
of those who maligned and ridiculed
the first and greatest President the
Republican party has given to the ma
tion Mr. Bryan relies for support on
the forces which at every step opposed
Lincoln, which INSTRUCTED the meas
ures of war and peace of that savior
of the union, and pronounced the proc
lamation of emancipation a monstrous
crime. Vice Residential Candidate
Sherman at Rock Island, Ill.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
ANSWERED PRESENT
When Democrats Had Chance in
Congress to Vote for Bryan Bank
Deposit Plan Thew Dodg

When Democrats Had Chance in
Congress to Vote for Bryan Bank
Deposit Plan They Dodged.
In recent interview Judge Walter
1. Smith, Member of Congress, said:
"At the last session of Congress a
currency bill was introduced by Mr..
Jno. S. Williams of Mississippi, leader
of the Democratic side of the House
and Democratic Senator-elect from Mis-
sissippi.
''This bill not only provided for the
cure of all the ills of our currency sys-
tenn, but contained provision for the
much lauded national guarantee of
bank deposits. On the 9th day of last
March Mr. Williams arose in the House
and stated that he had been furnished
with advance sheets OF an editorial to
appear in Mr.. Bryan's Commoner, COM
menting upon this bill and asked that
these advance sheets might be printed
in the Record, and leave being granted
they were so printed.
''In the editorial slight criticism was
made upon trifiing details of the bill,
but upon the whole it was declared to
be an ideal measure that ought to re-
ceive the support Of every Democrat.
1t was also stated that the bill had been
prepared after conference of the lead
ing Democrats of the Senate and House
at which Mr. Bryan was present
"When the Republican currency
measure was brought UP in the House
it was provided by the rule that it
should be in order to move to substitute
this bill of Mr.. Williams, which, it
should not be forgotten, contained a
provision for the national guarantee of
bank deposits.
"As the time drew near for the close
of the debate and for some reason no
Democrat offered the bill, Mr.. Kahn of
California moved to substitute the
Williams bill for the Republican bill.
Immediately there was great confusion
on the Democratic side of the chamber
and a hasty consultation as to what
should be done. Finally six Democrats
voted to substitute the Williams Dill 1Of
the Republican measure, 20 Democrats
voted against it and 90 Democrats vot-
ed present without being paired.
"The question was not on the adop-
ton of the Democratic bill, but was
whether the Democratic bill, containing
the national guarantee of bank deposits
was preferable to the Republican meas
ure, and on that question only six Dem
ocrats voted Yes 90 Democrats voted
NO and 90 Democrats without being
paired voted present. In other words,
about three-fourths of all the Demo
Gratis had no opinion whatever one way
or the other as to whether their bill
with the blessed guarantee of bank de-
posits in it, was better or worse than
ours.'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
COUNTRY NEEDS A REPUBLICAN
CONGRESS.
President Roosevelt Points Out I'M
portance of Electing Legislators
to Support Taft.

President Roosevelt Points Out I'M
portance of Electing Legislators
to Support Taft.
President Roosevelt, in a letter to
William B. Mckinley, chairman of the
Republican Congressional Committee,
appeals to disinterested citizens to join
with the National Republican Commit
tee and the Congressional Committee i'll
movement to elect William III. Taft
as President and a Republican Congress
to support him, saying, in part:
ut is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public interest, to
elect Mr.. Taft, and a Republican Con
gross which will support him; and they
seek election on platform which spe-
officially pledges the party, alike in its
executive and legislative branches, to
continue and develop the policies which
have been not merely introduced, but
acted upon during these seven years.
These policies can be successfully car
ried through only by the hearty cooper
alton of the President and the Congress
in both it's branches, and it is therefore
peculiarly important that there should
obtain such harmony between them. To
fail to elect Mr.. Taft would be a calam-
ity to the country and it would be
folly, while electing him, yet at the
same time to elect Congress hostile
to him, Congress which under the in
fiuence of partisan leadership would be
certain to thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect Mr..
Taft, and at the same time to elect
Congress pledged to support him, is the
only way in which to perpetuate the
policy Of the government as now car
ried on. feel that all the aid that can
be given to this policy by every good
citizen should be given; for this is far
more than a merely partisan matter"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
For Taft and the Big Stick.
the Editor of The World:

To the Editor of The World:
Because of the present condition OF
our government we must have man
with the ability of Mr.. Taft to keep
the wheels of progress turning, so that
more respect shall be shown on the
part of Europe.
Our government has been progress
ing ever since its birth. The Monroe
Doctrine will be in great danger. In
stead of Japan being our friendly
neighbor it will become our foe. There
fore all parties should unite in electinl
Mr.. Taft by a big majority, and with
the big Stick he should carry out
President Roosevelt's policies.
LOUIS SHAPIRO.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
AS ROOSEVELT SEES BRYAN.

"You say that you have advo-
Gated more radical measures
against private mon0polies than
either 1 or my party associates
have been willing to undertake.
You have, indeed, advocated
measures that sound more radi-
cal, but they have the prime de-
feet that in practice they would
not work. | should not III this
letter to you discuss your atti-
tude on this question if you DID
not yourself bring it up, but as
you have brought it up, | answer
you that in my judgment the
measures you advocate would be
wholly ineffective in curing a
single evil, and so far as they
had any effect at all, would mere
ly throw the entire business Of
the country into hopeless and ut
ter confusion. l put Mr.. Taft's
deeds against your words. I ask
that you be judged both by the
words you wish remembered, and
by the words that seemingly you
and your party now desire to
have forgotten. | hold it
entirely natural for any great
law-defying corporation to wish
to see you placed in the Presi-
dency rather than Mr.. Taft. Your
plans to put stop to the abuses
of these corporations are wholly
chimerical. - Theodore RoOse-
velt."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
Big Western Bank Deposits.

The deposits in the State banks Of
Kansas on Sept. /, the date of the last
call, were greater than ever before in
the history of the State-a total Of
over eighty-three million dollars, and
this within ten months after the panic
During the eighty days between the
last and next to last calls the deposits
increased at the rate Of 100000 a
day. The net increase for this period
was eight million dollars. The ma
tional banks will probably show an
equal gain for the same period.-To-
peka Capital.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
BRYAN THE FREE-TRADER
Stands To-day as He Did When in
Congress for Free Trade.
He Pronounced the wilson, German
Free Trade Bill Just and
Honorable.

In the record OF Mr.. Bryan'S public
career he is officially identified with
just one important measure of federal
legislation, and that the Wilson, German
tariff act of 1894. AS a member of the
House Committee on Ways and Means
during President Cleveland's second adj
ministration Mr.. Bryan assisted in pre-
pairing that measure, and in it's COM
pleted form it bore his unqualified ap-
prevail. His advocacy Of the bill drew
sharp and clear the dividing line be-
tween the Democracy of Organism and
the Democracy of Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. Bryan pronounced the measure just
and honorable. President Cleveland de-
nounced it as "the creature of perfdy
and dishonor," refused to sign it, and it
became a law without his approval.
The distinction thus drawn between the
Bryan Democracy and the Cleveland
Democracy continues to this day.
Free Trade Disastrous.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Bryan is posing
this year as the special friend and
champion of the farmers, it is worth
while to point out how their interests
were affected by the only important law
he ever helped to create. The Wilson
German act repealed the duty on wool.
On January 1, 1898, two months after
President Cleveland's second election,
the sheep in the United States, accord
ing to official statistics, numbered A.
273,553 and were valued at $125, 900, 254.
At the close of Mr.. Cleveland's term,
thanks to the baleful influence Of the
free trade act which Mr.. Bryan had
helped to force upon the statute book,
the number of sheep in the country had
fallen to 36,S1S,643, having value of
$60,020,942. In other words, the sheep
herds had suffered loss of more than
100000, or nearly % per cent, and
the wool clip Of the United States had
declined in value about $5S,OOO,OOO, or
nearly so per cent, all through the op-
Grafton Of a law which found one of
its most ardent supporters in the per-
son of "the farmers friend" William
J. Bryan.
In 1898, under the fostering care of
tariff protection, the wool of the coun-
cry amounted to 3O3,OOO,OOO pounds
in 1895, under the blighting effect of
free trade, it fell to 2O9,OOO,OOO pounds.
In 1891, with the tariff restored, it
rose to 3O2.OOO,OOO pounds and to &c.,
100000 pounds in 1902. During the
four years Of President Cleveland's sec
ond term the measure which he de-
nounced as "the creature of perfidy and
dishonor," but which Mr.. Bryan never
theless enthusiastically endorsed, sad
died the American wool growers with
losses conseryatively estimated at $780,
100000.
But the wool growers were not the
only victims of the Wilson German
Bryan perfidy. Every branch of Ameri-
can industry suffered. 1t lowered the
duties on imports of manufactures and
thereby forced the closing of important
native industries and drove their en-
ployes into idleness. Wages in every
branch of industrial activity declined,
the demand for every variety of farm
products fell off, and the workingmen
of the country were subjected to uni
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
A Sentiment That win Live.

Judge Taft's II do not care for the
Presidency if it has to come by CON-
promise with Senator Foraker or any
body else in a matter of principle is
one of those qaotable sentences that
will stick in memory and in politics and
be recalled in campaigns many years
hence as one of the virile utterance1 of
american hiStory.-Topeka Capital.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
The PuhIia Welfare.
(From Governor Hughes Speech al
South Bend, Ind

South Bend, Ind.)
IF Bryan had been elected in 1896
the disasters that would have followed
would have prevented him from ever
being a candidate again.
I'VE are devoted to line of progress,
straightforward, honorable administra-
ton above every selfish advantage,
against every attempt to exploit the
people for private interest We are de-
voted to the public welfare in establish
ing the stability of honest enterprise
We serve the Republican party because
we believe that through it these things
can be accomplished. In the heat and
turmoil of political campaign it is i'm
portant that we should preserve a true
and a proper sense Of proportion"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Mr.. Taft should hold to his original
resolution not to answer every state
ment made by Bryan. Give Mr.. Bryan
time enough and he will deny them all
himself-Philadelph Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15
TAFT'S PLEDGE.
Mr.. Taft at ST. Paul !:

IF l am elected, as expect
to be, I have the greatest pleas
ure in pledging, in the presence
of this grand audience, all the
energies and all the abilities Of
which / am capable to continue
the Roosevelt policies, to make
business honest and to keep every
man within the law, be he humble
or rich"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

Haskell in himself amounts to moth
ing, but he is valuable as showing with
what kind of men Mr.. Bryan is willing
to surround himself.-New York Globe
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

versal hardship and distress. The OPP
GRAFTON of Mr.. Bryan's pet measure
robbed the farmers, brought hunger and
misery to the wage-earner and bank
rupted the treasury. 1t was indeed, as
Mr. Cleveland said. "a creature of per-
fidy and dishonor."
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-11-27

when constructed and improved the
waterways are only free to the pub
lie in theory, not in fact, for no
products except upon payment OF a
sum of money, while the public road
is indeed and in fact free to all class
es, for all lawful purposes and af-
1ects every individual interest and
BENEFITS the commerce of every sec
tlon. Hence, I say in passing, that
the building Of 4 public highway or
the land is as equally deserving o.
national aid as the cutting of pub
nc highway or canal through the
land. The governor of Mississippi
said: Much as we appreciate rail
roads, rivers and canals as means
for transportation of the commerce
of the country, they are
Of less Importance to mankind anG
TO all classes of people than are good
country roads,
All over the country the people
are awakening to the Importance Of
good roads The universal verdict
Of the states is best expressed in
the report OF the State Board OF
Public Roads of one Of the eastern
states: There has been an i'm
nrovement, not only in roads. but
in all the conditions which goo
roads effect No one owning a horse
bicycle or automobile, whether trav
cling for business, or pleasure, would
go back to the cd roads, muddy
rutty, quilted, rock INSTRUCTED ana
ungraded." Charles Sumner once
said: The road and the schoo.
master are the two most important
agents in advancing civilization.
France has expended 5000, 100000
uTon her roads. She has the fines
II the world. On any section of hei
main highways, beside the regula'
traffic, at least hundred motor car;
go by daily. These are the tourist
taking advantage of her excellent
900 is left every year in France b,
the pleasure seeker. Frances best
crop is this harvest of gold garner
cd annually by the French people
from the tourists This is an item
we'll worthy OF consideration. Our
country can excel in every natura
wonder or scenic beauty which Eu
rope can present. We of the Pa
citic coast, and particularly Of Wash
inetOn, are especially favored by ma
ture A wealthy man who had tray
eled all over the earth, visited bui
Two points Of our Cascades-Mount
Rainier and the Cascade Pass, anf
pronounced them the most marvel
ously wonderful Jews with Whic'
he had met in all the world. Ye
he saw merely the entrance to thi
wonder land; the beauty beyond an
The grandeur within he did not be
hold.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-11-27
Critics Of Navy ROundly Scored.

Chicago, Nov. 24-Critics of the
Navy who condemn warships because
of minor defects were answered pub
licly last night at banquet of the
United States Naval Academy alumni
of the East Six Rear-Admlrals sa+
at the banquet board at the Audi
forum Hotel and letters scoring re-
were read from Admiral Dewey,
Rear-Admiral Schley and Rear-Ad-
miral Evans. The Rear-Admirals
present were: Washington l.. Caps,
chief of Construction in the navy;
Albert Ross, Willard H. Brownson,
Francis J. Higginson, French e.
Chadwick and James H. Dayton.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-11-27
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat-Track prices: Club, soc;
red Russian, SSc; bluestem, Csc;
Valley, sic.
Harley-Feed, $3.50; rolled
500 $3.50.
Oats-No. l white. $31; gray
$50.
Hay-Timothy Willamette Valley,
fancy, SIS; do. ordinary, $12; East
ern Oregon, mixed, SIG; do. fancy,
$3.50; alfalfa, $l2; clover, $12.
Batter-Extra, 35c; fancy, 33 " C.;
choice, csc; store, Is a zoe.
Eggs-EXtra, 81 hc.
Hops-190S. choice, 8@8Rc;
prime, 7@7kc; medium, " q &c;
1907, so &c.
Wool-Valley 14@ Isl Nc; ID !;
Eastern Oregon, 8@16c, as to
shrinkage.
Mohair-Choice, 1S@19c.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-11-27
SEATTLE MARKETS.

Wheat-Bluestem, SO Rc.
Oats-$30 q "a.
Barley-$26.
Hay-Eastern Washington timo-
thy, SIG per ton; Puget Sound hay.
s1O@11 per ton; wheat hay, $12
ner ton; alfalfa, $3.50 q 10 per ton.
Butter Washington creamery,
CSC per 10; ranch, 81 @ 23c per ID.
Esgs--Selected local, 43@ 44c.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-05
MINISTERS AS PHYSICIANS
Dr. Osborne Urges Them to Study
 Mediclnc--Nauure Poor Doctor.

Chicago, June i,Department meet ings took up the early part of the day in the convention of the American Medical association. Dr, Oliver OsS borne of New Haven, Conn, read pa per before the section on pharmacology and therapeutics. He strongly urged medical course as a part of the tram Ing of ministers of the gospel ana strongly criticized the extent to which the adherents of mental control over physical disease have carried their claims. He asserted that the time had come to refute the claim that nature is such good physician that every thing should bo left to her control.
 Tho following officers were elected unanimously:
 President, Col. William C. Gorgas; first vice-president, pr, Thomas Jeffer- son Murray, Butte, Monte; second vice-presldent, Dr. John A. Hatchett Oklahoma; third vice-p president, Dr l Thomas A Woodruff, Chicago; fourth vlce-p president, pr. F. M Hall, Ken lucky; general secretary, Dr, George l II. simmons and treasurer, Dr. Franl
 Billings, both of Chicago, were re I elected,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-05
YALE BRYAN CLUB
w. G. Davis and Harold Stanley Look Out for Democratic
 Interests.
WARM TIME NEXT FALL
The Peerless Leader tO Have Much Backing in Camp of Repub-
 lican Rival.

Yale is apparently to be riven in twain in the coming national cam paign. and the campus Is already feel ing the throes. Only few days ago a Taft club, to support the candidacy of the present famous member of the corporation, was formed and a large number of the students have express ed their intention to it's organizers Captain Biglow, of the football eleven and ]. C. Auchincloss, the cheer lead CT, to join.
 Now comes the announcement that Vale will also fall in line for Bryan. or whoever the democratic candidate may be. Some weeks ago in the Yale Law school club was formed to support the candidacy of Judge Gray, of Delaware. for the democratic nomination. and the judge the same night retired from the race A simi- lar action on the part of MT Bryan is not expected
 The two men who are organizing the democratic club are leaders in the senior class of the academic depart ment-Walter G. Davis, editor of the Yale Daily News, and Harold Stanley, captain of the hockey team which last winter won the championship Davis in the class choices was voted the most likely to succeed of the mem bers of the class, and his undertaking to form Bryan club shows his cour- age in fine light The club will meet to organize in a few days, and there will be an active canvass for mem. bers
 Probably the most surprised persor to hear of Bryan club in Yale will be Mir. Bryan himself, whose one expert. ence with Yale men was not of tho pleasantest kind. The personnel o the organizers however, shows tha the present movement Is no joke.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-05
TRAFFIC RETURNS
Hut Little. if Any, Improvement In
 Business on New Haven Road

The trafilc returns of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rall- road for the month of May shows that there has been practically no I'm provoment in the freight receipts, Passenger business, however, shows only q very slight dimlnution as com pared with last year, A very early improvement. however, In tho freight business Is looked for, as tho reports of agents show that the resumption of work In the cotton mills includes practically every factory In the sys- tem's territory, the product of which must soon roach the company's lines. In the wooden business factory re- sumption has been slight and in the metallic industries ono the system there has been practically no change the chief center of depression being still the Naugatuck valley. On the navigation lines of the company the diminished business still continues affecting both passengers and freight In Rhode Island where the trolley system of the company was showing serious losses those losses have beer of late much diminished and tn, trolley situation there Is steadily i'm, proving