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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
GOVERNOR IS TO
SPEAK FOR WOMEN

to vote themselves and who don't want
terrible and perfectly awful conditions
prevailing in the states where suffrage
for women is already a fact. Colorado
especially is held up as a horrible ex-
ample, and every crime and misde-
mcanor committed in the state has
been laid by the ''antis' at the doors Of
the feminine voters. Mrs. Mackay be-
lieves that this afternoons adaress by
Governor Shaffroth will be "a sufficient
answer to these critics.
The old-time political worker would
omen his eyes in amazement if he.could
see the Equal Franchise Society's
headquarters in the Metropolitan
Tower, over which Mrs. Mackay pre-
sides. Away up on the twenty ninth
floor, commanding glorious view to
the south, are the Offices They con-
sist of two rooms, the prevailing tint
in the smaller being green and that in
the larger blue. In the first and
smaller rooms there are mahogany
tables and large soft armchairs, heavy
green pamphlets which the society is
to issue, a bookcase of white enamel
with thick plate glass shelves and gold
leaf trimmings. Beside this there
stands a document case of mahogany.
Along the walls of the beautiful larger
room, used by Mrs. Mackay, there is
a paper so lovely that nearly every
body is deceived into thinking the
walls have been painted 1t is usually
necessary to ask a skeptical visitor to
touch it before he can be convinced
that it is really wall paper and not a
painted picture.
In this blue room, as in the green
one, there are mirrors with gold
frames; there is soft, deep blue car
pet, and furniture mostly of mahogany,
though there is one beautiful onyx
table The chairs were brought from
Mrs. Mackay's house.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
WALLA WALLA AND SPOKANE
SHIPPERS DEMAND CUT MADE
Reduction of at Least Is Per Cent in
Carload Rates From East Sought
by Commission.

Wa.la Walla shippers have joined
with Spokane to demand reduction
of at least 25 per cent in the carload
rates from the East.
This demand is made by the ship
pers through H. M. Stephens, in their
brief, to be submitted to the Inter
state Commerce commission.
Mr.. Stephens makes a heated ar
gument in his brief for incorporating
the terminal rate cause in franchises
issued by the city to railroads. He
says in part:
Now Mr.. Woodwork advanced the
idea of loss of revenue, and among
other things he said the Milwaukee
is building to Spokane. There is a
proposition to tack on to the fran
chise the Milwaukee will ask for, that
if they get into Spokane that they
give Spokane terminal rates. At first
it seemed difficult to reach the con-
clusion that that would be a. fair con-
dition to put in a franchise, but MI
Woodwork settled that.
IF we have to go on paying these
hundreds of thousands of dollars eX-
cessive freight charges every yeai'
simply becase another railroad bui as
to Spokane, we are better off without
them, and better off if they never
build"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03

the credit of the accomplishment is
K. Lane, of California whom President
Roosevelt once described as the best
man Oh the Interstate Commerce COM
mission
The rules were adopted at Washing
tion of Railway commissions COM
posed of the federal and state railway
commissions and which is purely an
advisory body, having no existence
under the law They were threshed
out by a committee which worked for
a year, holding meetings in various
large commercial centers to which both
shippers and railroad men were invit y
ed Commissioner Lane was chair
man of the committee.
After the adoption of the demurrage
code by the association, the traffic
managers of the biggest railroads in
the country recommended their adop-
ton by the roads, and they go into
effect at once
In the course of its Investigations.
the committee unearthed an astound-
ing condition of affairs. 1t found that
big shipping interests had substituted
violation Of demurrage rules for the
old habit of demanding rebates and
that by refusing to pay demurrage
charges they maintained a supremacy
over other shippers who We're forced
to return cars on time or pay the con-
sequences. The private car was be-
ing used, the committee found prac-
ticaliy to eliminate smaller shippers
because no railroad could exact de-
murrage charges from shippers who
owned their own cars
! In the old days, the steel interests of
Pittsburg had been able to amass mil
lions of dollars annually by exacting
rebates from the railroads on pain of
diverting their traffic or building their
own line. The committee found that
the steel barons of today had varied
the program slightly by refusing to re-
turn empty cars on time or to pay any
charge for keeping them overtime In
one case steel foundry diverted it's
traffic. amounting to several hundred
thousands of dollars a year to another
line, because a railroad insisted on
collection of a demurrage charge of
$3.50. The common practice was for
the railroads to charge this UP to
weather and punching of cars rather
than risk losing the traffic of the big
fellows
This has all been swept away by
the new code, which provides briefly:
I'D. All private cars in railroad SER
vice are to be subject to demurrage
rules. (2) Forty-eight hours free
time will be allowed for loading and
unloading all commodities, but one day
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03

extra will be allowed when cars are
held for consignment, switching
orders or inspection. (S) Industries
owning their own tracks and switch
ing engines will not be allowed any
extra time. ca At the expiration of
free time charge of 81 a day or
fraction will be exacted 60 No rail-
road can refund demurrage charges
unless weather conditions are such
that the freight will be damaged by
loading or unloading or unless it is i'm
possible for the shipper to get to the
car co Shippers can average their
demurrage charges at the end of each
calendar month by receiving credit
for the cars they have loaded or un-
loaded before the expiration of the free
time.
Among the most fragrant abuses that
the committee remedies by the new
code are those of shippers using cars
for warehouses while waiting for a
rise in prices under the guise of hold
ing cars for reconsignment 1t was
found that five or. seven days was al
lowed in some parts of the country for
re-consignment. The, so-called In
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
NINETY YEARS AGO TODAY
HOOSiER STATE WAS AD-
MiTTED TO THE UNION.
Huddled Together Around Fort
Dearborn, Then Small Station

CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Today is the
ninety-frst birthday of the state of Ill
inois. 1t was on Dec. 5, 1918, that
President Monroe signed the paper
which admitted this state into the
Union. Chicago was then but a group
of huts huddled around Fort Dearborn
years later that the real city had it's
beginning. When Illinois was amdt-
and for many years It remained the
frontier state marking the western
boundary of civilization.
The act enabling the people of iii
nois II form a constitution and fixing
the present northern boundary was
passed by congress April IS. 1918.
The constitutional convention met in
August and without great difficulty
formulated the constitution.
Nathaniel Pope, at that time dele
gate in congress from the territory
of Illinois, had an important part in
securing affirmative action by con-
gress on the enabling act to Illinois,
providing for statehood. After an
energetic struggle he succeeded in
having incorporated in the bill pro-
vision that the northern boundary of
the state should be at it's present loca-
ton, giving to the state fourteen
counties and the city of Chicago, as
it now stands, which would have been
within Wisconsin boundaries under
the original provision This was for
the purpose. and so held by Mr.. Pope
of preserving within one state a COM
plete system of waterways which
might be used in the future to con-
meet Lake Michigan with the Missis-
sippi river.
The first election of state officers
under the new constitution was held
September II, 1918, upon the assur-
lnce from Washington that the con
formulated would be approx
I'd by the president, and Shadracr
Bond was elected the first governor
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03

dustrial rule" which gave shippers who
own their own tracks and engines
more. time than the ordinary shipper
to load and unload cars was abolished
because it was utilized to freeze out
less wealthy shippers.
The vast Importance OF having a
code Of demurrage rules that is uni
form all over the country will, in the
opinion of railroad experts, render
repetition of the car shortage of 1907
impossible, and may even clean out
the empty. ears from New England,
tile graveyard of cars when the
west is bowling for transportation to
set it's produce to market.
! In concluding its report, the commit
tee said, Car service rules are used
to no small extent as a means by
which favored shippers secure unlaw
full concessions. In some sections of
the country where the failure to en-
force Gemurrage rules has been par
ticularly notorious. the railroads are
carrying on their books at the present
time uncollected demurrage charges in
the amount of hundreds of thousands
of dollars
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
UP GOES PRICE OF MEAT.
Advance in January to Follow Rise IN
Hay and Grain.

Retail prices of meat are expected 10
advance materially about January ~
owing to the high prices of hay anu
grain.
Wholesale prices of meat are expect
ed to rise in few days about hall :"
cent pound, but this will not. -
believed, make any difference 10 tEe
retail trade.
Every year, it is stated, there IS
rise in the price of meat in DE- ccnnoel'
and another in January. This Is u
meet the increased prices of hay anu
grain.
This season the January rise, whlcn
will be about the 10th will proDaO!
be much higher than in former years,
Hay purchased formerly for IS and %
ton is now SIS a ton.
1t is too early yet to determine 'Ie
actual amount of the promised rise -
meat, but from indications it seeiL.s
that it will be of Importance to tH'
consumers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
JOAN E. SHAFFRoTH OF COLO
RADIO FAVoRS WOMEN'S
SUFFRAGE.
And Speaks in New York City This
Afternoon 20 First i'm Series of
Public Meetings.

N1W YORK, Dec. 3.-Mrs. Clarence
II. Mackay. president of the Equal
Franchise society, will this afternoon
have the pleasure of introducing a
mere man and a governor of a great
state. who is an enthusiastic advocate
of giving the ballot to women He is
John f.. Shaffroth, chief executive of
Colorado. and he has come all the way
froa Denver to speak before Mrs.
Mackays society at the Garden theater
this afternoon. He served several
tocms in congress before his election
as governor OF Colorado. His home
stcte is one of those which have grant
ed the right of suffrage to the fair sex,
81 ne will speak as one having author
it,. He will answer many questions
CuGmoaly asked as to the practical
" Kings of woman suffrage.
'r1;,iS afternoons session is the first
q (, series of public meetings to be
* 4 this winter by Mrs. Mackay's So
c.s;y. The next gathering will be on
December 16. when Everett Colby, the
Nav Jersey reformer. will be the prin-
cioai speaker.
HRS. Mackay has often showed her
Sea- TO be a wise politician, and in
bringing Governor Shaffroth to New
YSriS. she has executed a flank move
rcat on the enemy. One of the prin-
cipd arguments of the "antis" those
dogs in the manager" who don't want
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
BIBLE SOCIETY
HAS CENTENARY

society having it's sole field in and
about the city and harbor Of New
York" The society exists to distribute
the Bible among all sorts and classes
in the city in all accessible places,
among all the immigrants of every
race passing through Ellis Island, and
upon vessels of every description in
the harbor While the work is entire
ly Christian, it is entirely non-secta-
rian and undenominational.
During the past year, the total dis
tribution has been 151,179 volumes Of
Scripture. which is the largest in the
history of the society.
This includes supplying the immi-
grants at Ellis Island with Bibles, Tes-
taments, or gospels in their own
tongues; leaving similar volumes on
steamers. ships, canal boats, and
barges. craft of every size and de-
scription tied up at the docks; and
furnishing 81 institutions in the city
with Scripture, including hotels, chap
els, hospitals, prisons and workhouses
individual distribution by
and church visitors in
house to house visitation. The sick,
the aged and infirm, the poor, the err
ring, the visitor within our gates, the
alien at our door, the sailor from the
ends of the earth-all these are consid-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
UNIFORM SET OF
DEMURRAGE RULES

WASHINGTON. Dec 3.-On the first
day Of December. uniform set of
de4aurrage rules. which will do more
t. prevent discrimination between
shippers and to give the small man a
chance. than any other act since the
passage of the anti-rebate law, were
pat into effect on more than 10000
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03

miles of railroad in the United States
The adoption of the rules, which, by
agreement among the railroads and
state railroad commissions, We're made
uniform all over the United States, is
the first real piece of constructive reg
ulation of railroads ever done by the
Interstate Commerce commission, and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03

All the newest Fall and
Winter Ideas. Special y, c
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-03
STATE OF ILLINOIS
HAS A BIRTHDAY

me First General Assembly met at
kaskaskia, which was the first capital
Bond was inaugurated the following
day.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18
SuIlivans Are Down and Out.

Since the passing of Croker the
planet about which the Tammany sys-
TEN has revolved has been Murphy.
Murphy was surrounded by a
group of satellites, each and
all eager to displace him, but none
confident enough to take the risk,
though they had the power to dictate
many important nominations as re-
ward for delivering votes.
Among these near planets were big
Tim" and Little Tim" Sullivan who
controlled seven assembly districts
and kept Croker and Murphy on the
anxious seat in every campaign until
their share Of the spoils was appor-
toned in advance Just how absolute
has been their rule we cannot COM
prehend, for we do not live under con-
ditions where such rule could exist.
They ordered the nomination of their
henchmen for the best positions in the
government of city spending more
than many nations and did not hesi-
tate to dictate the naming of their
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18

favorite for election to the bench OF
the supreme court.
The last election marked more thai'
the mere defeat of the Tamnlahs
candidates. Big Tim and Little Tlm'
weakened by disease and exiled from
the field of battle by order of then
physicians, were not only beaten put
their power was broken forever. The
crash has been long in coming but the
eral years.
When Big Tim and Little Tim start
ed to build up the machine which has
furnished them a livelihood, the dis
trict in which they lived was popu-
lated by Irish immigrants and the first
generation of Irish Americans. Those
people understood the Sullivans and
the Sullivans understood them. 1t
was easy to gather friends enough on
election morning to sweep the district
clean. Later the Irish Americans ac-
quired property, drifted into better
classes of work and into better circum-
stances. Then they moved away and
the Hebrews came. With the Hebrews
came almost every other nationality
under the sun. The Hebrews were the
first to realize the advantages of citi-
zenship, however. and it soon reached
point where Big Tim and Little Tim
had to reckon with the Jew vote" 1t
was not so easy to handle these new
elements and as the leaders thereof
realized their power the task became
more difficult. A quiet test of strength
has show the Sullivan lieutenants that
the Sullivans are not necessary to
them. With the Big Tim in Hot
Springs, Ark, and Little Tim in Hot
Springs, Va, the Sulivans are to
be displaced That much is set
tied. 1t is also just as clearly
settled that the new satellite will
be Hebrew. 1t remains to be
seen whether he will follow Murphy or
do that thing which the Sullivans
would certainly have done had they
been able to win this last election, dis
place Murphy. A Hebrew in Cookers
place would make the old guard turn
over in their graves, but it is coming
and when it comes-exit Murphy. ct
ais. The Sullivans are already politi
cally dead
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY

A woman is like an egg when she
Is bad, she is very bad
The past is referred to as being
dead; but it is terribly alive.
Every woman wears cOrsets, and
says they do her great harm.
A mans idea of a duh time is to
play cards with women, and nothing
up.
Your competitor doesn't talk half as
much about you as You think he does.
The boys report that more men than
ever are being killed in the dime nov
els.
Considering the multitude of tempta-
lions, people are pretty good, after all.
We can pick out a mean mans wife
as far as we can see her, she looks so
distressed.
People are never old, according to
their own talk; they are only getting
old"
We never knew a particularly good
workman who didn't have a particu-
larly good job.-Atchison Okan) Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18
A New Source Of Wealth.

| sea captain many days out from
MADAGASCAR was driven into Charles
ton harbor in the territory OF South
Carolina in 1894. He was made welcome
and. when about to depart, presented
Governor Smith with sack OF I'M
sheIled rice. The seed was distributed
among the farmers and they planted it
freely. From this small beginning
comes our rice crop OF 600,00O,Ooo
pounds in 1908 Though this seems a
vast nile of rice, yet it is but small
fraction of the estimated worlds total
rice crop for that year, 10000, 100000
mounds. Some conception of the
magnitude OF the industry in other
countries may be gained from COM
harrison of the methods used in raising
it. In foreign lands the crudest i'm
plements are made to serve, while in
America the land is prepared with
sulky plows and disc harrows, the seed
is planted by machinery, the fields are
irrigated and the flow OF water accu-
rately controlled, and every step in the
preparation Of the grain is with the
finest machinery.
Though the rice industry has grown
by leaps and bounds during the past
few years, we have continued to i'm
port the usual amount and have ex-
ported almost none. With these
conditions. it seems that there is
ii future for the rice industry in
this country. There is an insistent
and ever increasing demand for rice
in South America which will be sup
piled by Asia or America. With our
improved methods and efficient ma
chinery we could compete successfully
with the cheap, but inefficient manual
methods OF Asia
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18
Boyhood on the Farm.

I'm longing for the 'old days" Bill
The days of long ago.
When to the schoolhouse on the hill
Together we would go.
1t used to seem the shortest mile
That could a whole mile be,
When we'd meet Becky and she'd smile
And walk and talk with me.
I'm longing for the old days, Bill,
OF peaceful country life:
The shady lanes so cool and still,
And free from din and strife.
I'm tired of playing manhood's role
And want to go with you
And swim in that old swimming hole
That long ago we knew.
I'm tired of the city's strife,
And want the simple joys =.
Of those old days of country life
We knew when we were boys.
And most of all. Bill, when I'm sad,
And cares of life distress,
d like to see the smile of dad
And feel mothers careSS.
Oft at night. Bill, back 1 roam
In dreams. and, oh, the joy
To be again in the old home,
happy, care-free boy.
Inc tickle joys for which gold pays
Have long since ceased to charm;
m longing for the happy days
OF boyhood on the farm.
Paul Hudson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18

When British bluejackets could not
write they used to pay a purser's clerk
to write for them. The fec was Il shl-
ling. Two men on board British ship
in the Baltic during the Crinean war
wanted to write to their wives. but
since they could only muster a shilling
between them they agreed to have a
joint letter written to the women to
suit both 1t began: III. NJ. S.
Dear Polly and Susan: This letter
come from your loving husbands; they
wish to tell you that they are well. We
are tnrashing the Roosians and mean
to thrash EN- again; and when that's
done we'll get back. so no more from
your loving husband Bill-and your
loving husband Jack"
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The Army AeropIane.

What is the net result of the series
been conducted near Washington the
past season? What have the military
authorities to show the tax payers as
a result Of their expenditure of time
and money?
Two important results have been
brought about, one a complete testing
out of the possibility of the aeroplane
as {; facility for military reconnais-
sance, the other, the education of sew
eral bright army officers in the use of
a machine which is bound to become
a very important piece of military APP
paratus
Lieut.. Lahm, who now ranks next
to the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss in
aeronautics in this country, believes
that the aeroplane will never be used
to- hurl bombs or explosives, but on the
contrary that its use will be confined
to seeking out the position of an en-
envy and that that use, limited as it is,
is sufficient to make the heavier than
air machine valuable adjunct to the
ordinary equipment of a military
force. either defensive or offensive.
Lieut.. Lahm's observations on the
present status and the possibilities for
the development of the heavier than
air machine are of peculiar value in
that he has no machine to sell and
therefore is above any suspicion of
having mercenary motive. Concern
ing the aeroplane he says:
Automatic stability and RELIABLE
ity of the motor are the two most
desired improvements. When We
have these We will be able
to use aeroplanes as they
should be used in the army
that is, under all conditions of
wind. With an automatic balanc-
ing arrangement it will not be
necessary to wait for favorable
winds before starting on flights.
Several self balancing devices are
hoped that suitable one will in
the near future be ready for use
on aeroplares.
IF we had a more reliable mo-
tor than we have at present we
would have no fear of making long
distance flights. This does not
mean that long flights cannot be
made now, but it means that with
more improved motor such flights
will be made with greater safety.
Even as the machine stands to-
day it is fitted for splendid work
on the battlefield. The aeroplane,
to my mind, offers a most reliable
method of getting into communica-
ton with the various sections of
an army on the firing line. Sup
pose a battle line of an army eX-
tends 20 miles-and this would be
a rather long line-with the gener-
ais headquarters about 10 miles in
the rear of the center of this line.
If the general should desire to
make a personal tour of inspec-
ton or wish to view the position of
his troops. he could easily do so by
using an aeroplane. The distance
he would have to cover would be
about 40 or 80 miles. which without
the aeroplane might be an impos-
Sible feat