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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

The Independent still insists that
the tariff is an unjust tax upon all
for the benefit of a few, and these
few, we are told in the last issue
of that paper, are Pitts5urg mil.
lionaires, who apply the gains
from this favoritism of our poll.
tical economy in buying them.
selves handsome young actresses and
riotous living. It is strange how
our prejudices will betray our in.
tellect at times. Our neighbor's
views hold the inference that with.
put the tariff there could be 10
Pittshure plutss with q peuehant
loy handsome stage ladies With sx.
travagast lotiens ot living. Ys,
lseM 9a9laad, Whsrs there 10 10
pesssst.vs tatle ID harss VI,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

thoughts of the political philoso-
piers, We have similar stories of
men of great wealth investing
heavily in actresses for their Own
pleasure and qualification. France,
Germany and other countries not
seriously afflicted with protective
tariff all furnish many instances of
the same sort. So it is quite ap-
parent that the tariff is not the re-
sponsible cause of the indiosyn-
crasies of our Pittsburg friends,
which, as we have shown. are not
peculiar to themselves. We will
have to have a sounder and more
tenable argu ment than this before
our belief in the soundness of the
protective tariff as an economic
principle is shaken.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

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is the daily Globe, Democrat. of
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sample copy to Globe Printing
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crat, two years for $1.25, else
where in this issue.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

As usual great solicitude is sud-
denly being felt in certain circles
for the small shareholder of trust
stocks as the result of the Presi-
dents corporation tax recommend.
alton, that such a law would be
''fining the small shareholder. :"
We have an idea, however, that it
is the big shareholder who is most
afraid of the fine, the little fellow
always takes his medicine with
more bravery. He Is more used
to it, you know.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
Interesting History of Missouri.

AT one time there were sixty
regular steamboats, on the Missouri
river and forty transient steamers.
David K. Atchison, United
States Senator from Missouri, was
president of the United States for
one day, in 1S49.
One.tenth of the corn of the
world and one-twelfth of the wheat
of the United States grows in Mis-
souri,.
The state capitol will next year
be aged three score years and ten.
1t was built the year of the Platte
purchase.
The town of Brunswick, Mo.
was once an important shipping
point on the Missouri river. 1t is
now five miles inland.
The historic oak tree under
which Grant stood when he receiv
cd his commission from Presiden,
Lincoln is standing in 1ronton,
Missouri.
"Grand Gulf" in Oregon coun.
ty, is $50 feet deep, and from 81
to 100 feet wide. 1t is in levei
plain and bridged by natural
bridges.
| Sinking Creek, 10 Shannonlcoun.
| ty, flows for one mile under Il
mountain 500 feet high. Boats
can follow the stream under the
monntain.
| Ihe Cascade, = waterfall neal
lrontna, runs over the inp Ut Gas
aads EsuatAiat Raa fAi!s 400 Tee,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

Mr. 0aynor, An Irishman celebrated
for his good humor, was dining one
Friday with a friend and Ash was the
only meat served. Gaynor was par
ticularly fond Of haddock, and seated
himself near a fine specimen. His ol.
factory nerves, however, soon made
him aware that the ash was not too
fresh He flrst lowered his mouth to.
ward the head of the dsh, and then
his ear, as II conversing with It. The
woman Of the house. perceiving his
peculiar motions, asked him whether
he wished anything.
Nothing" replied Gaynor, nothing
at all, madam. l was merely asking
this haddock whether he could give
me any news Of my friend, Capt. Muir
ply, who was drowned last Monday;
but he tells me that he knows nothing
Of the matter, for he himself hasn't
been to sea these three weeks."-Sun-
day Magazine.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
1.-The Third Degree"

What is this sinister and mys-
| terious thing to which newspapers
at times so frequently allude and
which the police and the habitues
of the underworld call "the third
degree? Often in the last few
DAYS the accounts of the inqaisi-
tion of Chung Sin, the New York
Chinese from whom the police
have sought to wiring confession
relative to the murder of Elsie
Sigel, have darkly hinted at what
Chung Sin was compelled to un-
dergo in his star chamber exami-
nation.
He was "given the third degree. "
the wires said, and then were 81
lent. That the obdurate witness,
who has made three several and
varying confessions, all of which
hold truth and none of which is
wholly believed, knew much Of
this now notorious crime was evil
dent in the first instance. But his
confessions did not suit the police.
They wanted further admissions.
They kept their captive awake for
so hours, under fire of merciless
questioning, threatening, cajoling,
promising, terrifying him, until
bis nerves were tangle of culver
ing responsibility.
Then they ''gave him the third
degree" 1t is a well-known meth
cd of police procedure.
Under the persuasive urgings Of
the boot, the rack and the funnel
of the torture chambers of the
dark ages men have denied every
thing they had professed, haye ad-
mitted everything they had denied,
have damned their souls and sacri-
feed their loved ones. So will
they when in our enlightened times
''the third degree" is applied.
1.-The third degree has its uses.
Its application may often have
discovered hidden crime. More
often it has created new crimes,
has taken away mems lives through
perjured testimony wrung from
shrinking and terrified and help
less arrested men, whose endurance
to tell the truth had vanished uD-
der terrible ordeal.
Administration of "the third de-
gree" is forbidden 10y every law
we have, from the Constitution
downward. Yet it is administered
every dsy, somewhere, in some Sc
cIuded room, by officials whose
first duty is to maintain the law.
What do The Times readers
think ought to be done about it
St. Louisi Times.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

As might have been supposed,
the wealth-dominated press of the
large cities is outspoken against
President Taft's recommendation
to congress to pass a law levying a
tax of two per cent on the net earn
ings of corporations. Several of
them go 80 far as to say that this
is Rooseveltism and then some.
Mr.. Taft by advocating this tax
has taken stand for national reg
ulation of the trusts and great cor
poratioDs, for, as a matter of
course, in the enforcement of such
a law, the exact earnings of these
organizations will become public
and of public concern. As to the
justness of such a tax, most of
them argue that it is class legisla-
tion'and will not stand the constitu-
tional test in the courts. 1t is
nothing after all but the old fight
to make the division of wealth
more equable by laying the bur-
de1 of the government upon that
class of society that is best able to
bear it. The expenses of the gov
ernment are growing faster than
the revenue is coming in, and
more revenue must be raised
Heretofore the additions to the tax
burden have always been shifted
upon the masses-equal taxation,
like that derived from the tariff,
where the rich man practically
pays no more than the poor; but
it is evident that since there is
pressure from high places for an
income tax law that public opinion
on this point is changing, and that
it is only question of time when
income and Inheritance taxes will
be regularly levied.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
RECOGNIZED IT As MS OWN.
Dialogue, II Correctly Reported, Should
Have Made Cooperation Masnats
Feel at komo.

The corporation magnAte who had
been a witness while ON earth ap-
preached the golden gate and handed
his card to st. Peter, saying:
'Will you kindly open the gate?"
Il am very sorry" said Peter regret
fully, but, really. I must consult my
counsel before answering"
Why. you know who l an, don't
you?" inquired the departed.
THE question" said Peter, 'is mis-
leading, irrelevant and immaterial; !;
yet, as I desire to give fullest in.
formation on all matters, I will say
that my memory IL faulty on that sub.
Ject."
Certainly, you are acquainted with
my gifts and good Deeds"
Il have no distinct recollection"
"At any rate. you know I left the
bulk of my estate to charity" said the
departed, slightly miffed.
Really, I have not been in personal
touch with these matters for some
years. Yet, If the amount is 50 stated
I am not in position to question it, p"
SS'u StSA, oAAluA USAl&uly
III you don't know these things,
how am l get in?" exclaimed the de-
parted.
Il cannot say" was the answer.
Am to get in at all?"
That is not my understanding of
the matter"
well. this beats the DEVIL" said the
departed.
Such may be the case, but I am
unable to view 1t in that light" an
swered Peter
Then he stepped OF the stand, and.
bowing kindly on all sides. went to
luncheon.
And the departed, sitting down on
the steps, said musingly:
There goes q splendid man, one l
could have used in my business. And
yet he lacks originality. That was all
my own stuff"-New York Times.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
How far have socialistic i'd

How far have socialistic ideas. as
expressed in the demands of Or
ganized labor, influenced the dom.
inant political divisions of this
country to the extent of having
them adopted into laws in the past
fifteen yearss The average per.
son will no doubt ans wer, not at
all; but let US see. In 1898, at the
meeting of the American Fedora.
tion of Labor in Chicago a plat
form incorporating, among other
things, the following demands,
was adopted:
''Compulsory education" Many
states, Missouri among them, now
have compulsory educational Jays.
"Direct legislation" A num-
ber of states, dominated by Demo
cratic or Republican parties, Mis-
souri, among them, have adopted
the initiative and referendum.
"a legal eight.hour work day."
The national congress and the leg
islature of nearly every state In
the Union have passed the eight
hour law.
'Sanitary Inspection of Work
shop, Mine ana Home" As in
many other states, Missouri has
factory and mine inspection, and
national inspection laws govern
the operation of the great meat
packing plants.
Liability of employers for in.
jury to health, body or life." How
popular insistence for employers
liability legislation influenced Con.
gress into passing such a law is
we'll known to all.
Thus it will be seen that policies
peculiarly related to the welfare
OF the working masses and as re
Gently as fifteen years held to be
socialistic and revolutionary are
now part of the general laws of the
nation and individual states. Such
policies as municipal ownership o1
public utilities, naturalization o1
railroads, telegraph and telephone,
collective ownership by the people
Of all the means of production and
distrihution. which were also par'
Of the platform above referred to,
while they have not advanced =,
Tar ~ The others, are now mattsrs
| ts ssuMsa Alssusols1 within iht
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
Nervous Headache

i know from experience that
Dr: Miles Anti-Pain Pills will
relieve severe cases of headache
quickly MRS. GEO. S. HENRY.
Sullivan, Wash.
In many persons the least excite
ment. exertion or irritation causes
headache. They cannot attend
church, theatre, places of amuse-
ment, travel, or mingle in crowd
without suffering an attack of head
ache. The nerves of the brain are
easily excited, and this irritable con-
dition causes pain. Such persons
should take
DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills
before starting out. or on the first
indication of an attack. They
invariably relieve all such misery.
The first package will benefit; If not,
your druggist will return your money.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

these pleasant homes for the dele.
yates and members.
Third, that we extend our most
hearty thanks to oIr officers, and
especially Miss Tucker, for their
earnest efforts to make this
League conference a success, aud
to The program committee for their
Interesting and instructive rro-
gram.
Fou: til, resolved, that II copy
of these resolutions he sent to The
Pennington News, the Lead Bel,
News and Potosi journal for pub.
iica!lnn.
MISS DORA HOY.
MISS MAUD DENTON,
O. }. FERGUSON,
Committee.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

two leading parties, and are not
held to be nearly as radical and
dangerous as they were decade
and a half ago. Socialism, there
fore as the term is generally ac-
cepted. is merely relative one;
what is socialism today in year
or two more may be profound Re
publican or Democratic doctrine.
Our political economy, under So
cial progress, is simply undergoing
an inevitable evolution, call it
what you may.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
The De Soto Press, a Democrs

The De Soto Press, a Democrat
ic organ, is just at present very
busy making Republican politics.
In its last issue it had the an
nouncement of E. c. Edgar, a De
Soto lawyer, as a candidate for the
Republican nomination for circuit
Judge in this district. Mr.. Edgar
ought to separate himself from
the Press if be hope to cut much
ice in Republican politics.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

The warm weather recently
seems to have made Bro. AXE of
the Ironton Register somewhat ir-
ascible, at which times he seems to
reach the conclusion that Republi-
can editors are a braiuless lot.
That's all right, however, but we
feel like he thrusts something at
us that does not belong here when
be says that the Journal has been
contending that the tariff makes
wages high and prices low.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

Mrs. Howard Gould has been
granted legal separation from her
husband with yearly alimony Of
$50. GOO. With only $4,000 month
she will have to live quite parsi'
moniously and will no doubt have
to wear the same dress more than
once. Men who get along on an
income of about $3.50 year will
sympathize with her over the small
allowance she is to receive.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
SquandsrinS Ability.

Doing the lower whom the higher ID
possible constitutes one Of the great
est tragedies of human life.
The squanderinE of money seems
wicked thing when we think Of the
good that might be done with 1t; but
what about the wicked waste Of abiM
ty, the deliberate throwing away OF
80, rs, perhaps %, per cent. Of ones
success possibility Just because he
never trained himself to use 1t, tc
grasp it With such vigor and power
that he can fiing his life into his ca
reer with IT, maximum effectiveness ]
Most people take hold Of life with
the tips of their fingers. They never
get hold of the life proposition with
that grip and tsnacity of purpose and
vigor Of determination which does
things worth while. They just hang
on the outskirts of things, playing
upon the surface of their possibilities
without ever getting down iato the
marrow Of their being, where efficiency
and power dwell.-Orison SWEET Mar
den, in Success Magazine.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
There Are Qthera.

"Bings is afraid that he may be
prosecuted for polygamy.'
Why, he is married to only one
person, amt he?''
That is what he thought for q
while. but now it appears that he mar
ried her whole family. and there are
seven of them"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
We'll s.a1o Feet pssn.

The record Of the deepest well in
the world Is claimed by France. Stu
ated 1t Ronchamp (Haute-Saone), the
Buyer oil we'll 10 said to be the deep
est that has ever been sunk for In
dustrial purposes. It reaches . depth
OF 1910 feet. The temperature ut the
bottom OF the well 10 not lees than
lis degrees Fahrenheit when 4 10 50
degrees Fahrenheit at the mouth oe
the well. Apart from wells. tAe deep.
est boring On the sarsA's surface u
probably that VI ~ fASsseAewlts
a'ia~. II unstr ssaekaA. 4 aiaalnA ;
As1sA q 2sst M,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
AZ the Museum.

On this platform, ladies and gents. "
said the lecturer. you see Sig.
Pankey. the legless wonder or human
stump, who was reduced to the condi-
ton in which you behold him by a
shark in the Indian ocean IA years
ago Sig. Pankey, as you see, has no
legs whatever, and his principal and
only occupation nowadays, ladies and
gents. is eating bis head of Proceed
ing to the next platform. / call your
attention to the Egyptian mummy,
supposed to be that of Rameses the
Great"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

Because the News and Courier
stated the obvious conclusion, from
the fact that water pipes do not
freeze in hades. that there are NO
plumbers in that region, some Of our
contemporaries are vilifyiAg it in their
narrow. partisan way. In spite Of this,
We now declare that the amount Of
gas constantly escaping from hades
shows that what plumbers who may
be there are apprentices .-Charlesto
News and Courier, 49, 49,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

Our Democratic friends don't
think the Republicans should have
any credit for the prosperity of
the farmer, but on the other hand
they should have all the credit for
the low price of lead and tiff.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

With dissentions in the missouri
prohibition camp the brewer and
saloon keeper are smiling with
greater confidence. The way for
prohibition to win is to keep its
forces together.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
FINAL SETrL EMENT NOTICE

trraiitsiIS aud ali Others Interested
fH he partnership estate Of j. and w
J, Casey, John Casey. deceased,
late ii Washington county. Missouri.
are hereby notified, that on the first
day tf the next term of Probate Court
| SHALL make ANAL settlement OF said
estate. MORGAN J. CASEY,
Administrator Of the partnership es-
tate of J. and w. J. Casey. John
Casey, deceased.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
Then She Got Fired,
Who's the pretty girl.

Who's the pretty girle'
She's the baby's new nurse
Il suppose she understands her busi-
nesss"
. "Yes. she's = graduate. and she'll
take good care Of baby: sht says NO
one saAll kiss the baby while she ss
around"
II x1sss sAs's rixnt. I wouldn't waht
g klss. txs xAty wAsae sAs xsl
xfSS4tss .,<..s,z..
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
4 4 Song IS BEST,
40 Or
-T-& -
10 or
BY Wilbur ID. Nesbit.

BY Wilbur ID. Nesbit,
A song is best; song is best.
A song whose whispered mcasnrs come
AS echoes from the hills Of rest
In an enchanted, drowsy hum;
Or one whose words swing with II Tilt
That leaps ont Of the golden wliIes
Wherein all laughter has been split
When we were psrdisa of SMILES.
A song is best; Il song that drifts
AS bretze acrrss .hc night
TO find where dark's dul! draping lifts
And roses blaze up in the light.
A song-Al, just some oIden strain,
Some halfremembered. misty thing
That drips an anodyne to pain
And IuIs the heartachcs WHEN we sing.
A song is best. The fair, fair stars
They sing across the deeps OF space.
A song will soften all the scars
That stress has given in your face.
There is no frown it may not smooth,
There is no heart it may not rest
Nor any grief it cannot soothe-
A song is best; Il song is best.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
Beer is not natural flood" T"
because it generally tends to
change a mans natural nature.

France has a naval scandal. One
Of these days all navies will be a
scandal, their cost pretty nearly
makes them so now.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30
District Epworth League Conference

The Pennington District Ep-
worth League Conference Of The
NJ. f. church, South, met at Iron
dale, June IA to 1G inclusive. AZ
ter very interesting program,
the following officers were elected:
President. Rev. Harry Hoy, Lu'es-
vile; first vice c-president, o. j.
Ferguson, Fredericktown; secon,!
vice president, Miss Dora Hoy,
Flat River: third vice president,
Miss Robbie Pipkin, Huntington;
fourth wee president, Miss EuIa
Ramsey, Irondale; treasurer, Ar
mold Zimmerman, Lutesville; sec
retary, Miss Susie Tucker, Farm
in,on; Epworth Era agent, Claude
Eaton, Irondale; Junior Superin-
tendent, Miss Opal Westovcr, Fla,
River.
Miss Susie Tucker was elected
the delegate from the district to
the State League Conference Mt
Pertle Springs, July II to Il.
The resolutions com m it e
brought in the following report,
which was adopted:
"We the Leaguers of this con,
ference, feel that words are made
qna,c to express the gratitude ii
nur hearts To The good iru,ir .l
lruu,iaie fur their bnuu.iful cnier
tainncnl, The social uli'f. we have
received frum them, also The stir
itual inspiration this i.oasao con,
ference has hena IL ,is. Therefore
he i
Resolved, that the thanks IF the
Epworlh League conference If the
Pennington dis:ric, he extended
to the good .,en;.Ie If ircnda|o for
the generous way in which The
delegates and visiting members
were eaieriAinsa.
s1nnaA. that wa wish su thank
thu entertainment committee for
ibsi' aa''tisg saoll. IL ssiujias
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-30

to the bottom of narrow moul.
tain gorge.
In the Ste. Genevievc cavern are
eighteen pictures in smooth lime
stone of birds and human feet.
Nearby were found ancient vessels.
A stream in the Ozarks makes
such a short curve that the farm
ers float down to market with The
current, transfer the boat across
the bend and float home again.