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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
LATLN.AMERIcAN COURAGE.

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1t is common practice in the
United States and Europe to sneeE
at the courage and tenacity of the
Latin-Americans. The sneer, is due
almost wholly to ignorance.
Bravery in battle prevails In all
the republics from the Rio Grande to
Cape Horn. The details Of the bat.
tie of Rama in the Nicaraguan civil
war are beginning to arrive and they
show that both sides fought with a
fire and intrepiditys fully worthy OF
Englishmen or Frenchmen or Ameri-
cans or anybody else.
Yet one who has read the history
Of these countries should not have
expected anything else, The Mex
leans, although beaten In every bat
tie, made heroic fight against the
United States sixty years ago. They
never left the field In a panic, and
when the battle was lost they were
always willing to fight again.
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A British army was compelled to
surrender nearly a century ago al
Buenos Ayres to the people of Ar
|gentlna. who equalled there the ex-
plot of the Americans somewhat
earlier at Saratoga. The fight
against. Spain for independence was
filled with deeds of heroism. The
decisive battle was won by the Ar
gentine general San Martin after a
passage Of the Andes more difficult
than that Of Napoleon over the Alps.
In the battle itself the best infantry
of Spain was forced to yield to the
charge of the South Americans.
The little state of Paraguay fought
with such desperation against united
Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay that
Tor twenty years afterward her
grown women outnumtered her
grown men two to one.
The war Of Chill against Peru and
Bolivia furnished battles in which the
percentage of loss equalled anything
known In Europe or North America
Such facts as these throw ridicule
upon the talk of Europe. absorbing
such great states as Argentina anil
Brazil II 1t were not for the Monroe
doctrine. Juan and Pedro may bs
little and barefooted, but they know
how to fight, and In many parts Of
South America they are neither little
nor barefooted. Y. World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29

Chicago! Dec. 81
$50: fair to good steers. ss.0O0725: COM
mon to fair beeves, S500D8.00: good to
fancy yearlings, 49, 75Gs.25 good Ito choice
beef cows, s4.5o05.25; inferior killers. $ab
as medium to good beef cows. $500
40: common to good cutters, s2z5@3.50:
liuferior to good Gamers. 2.501a.o0; good
to choice heifers. s5.oO@s.oO: common to
$3.BG5.1D; good. to choice calves, $3.50
$50; calves, s4.5O@Z75.
/. HOGS Good to prime heavy. Is. 45Gs. 70:
good TO choice light. ss.e51S a: common
"a fair light grades $s15@s.3o; butcher
Weights. $S.So@s.65; medium weight mixed.
$s.2oGS.45; rough packing. sS.oo9s.10; pigs.
fG.75Q8OO. b.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
THE sToRk AND srovAiNE.

Even the stork Is interested in DR..
Jonnesco's stovaine and strychnine
anaesthetic. A writer in the New
York World says: This morning
there .flutters out Of Manhattan and
across Jersey to the city Of Penn .
wondrous bird. It flutters on noise
less, nerveless, painless wings. for 1t
accompanies the Roumahian scieut-
list, Prof. Thomas Jonnesco. It IL
the same old stork that all humanity
has known for all time and t.sas
President Roosevelt feared was go
ing out Of business in America, but
1t has a new name. Its name is sto-
saine. On last Thursday morning t
World told how Prof. Jonnesco had
said in the POSTGRADUATE hospita,
that when the new stork went. to
home his flight was rapid and was q.
blessing to motherhood Yesterday
at the Hotel Knickerbocker Prof
Jonnesco confirmed this statement
4 am confident. said he, that 1t is
destined to bring Joy into millions
Of homes where now the alighting OF
that sacred bird that you American
call the stork brings sometimes sor-
row and anguish Nowhere did the
announcement that the new anaes-
thetic was as useful in childbirth as
in any surgical operation, create
more discussion that at Bellevue, the
great center Of suffering and sorrow.
All the surgeons had read that, in
the POSTGRADUATE and other hospit-
ais. men had undergone difficult op.
erations fully conscious after sto-
vaine had been injected; but that
stovaine would remove the dread
that hangs over the lives Of 80 many
women was surprise. In fact,
there seemed to be doubt about the
adyisability of trying the new anaes.
thetic in maternity wards until 1t
had been thoroughly tried and ap.
proved elsewhere
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
SAYS PEOPLE ARE PLuNDERED
|. CHIEF FORESTER P,NcHoT FLAWS
rich CRIMINALS"
Declares 8 ss,pecizii:. Interests Have Made
Repeated Attacks on u. 9.
Forest Service.

New York, Dec. 2s.-That the peo.
pie of the United States have been the
complacent victims of a system of
plumber of the public forests-crimes
often perpetrated by men of high sta.
ton in commercial and social life
was the Open declaration Of Chief
United States Forester Clifford Pin.
chot IN. an address before number of
prominent publishers at the Ilniver:
sity club.
Condemning the. methods. OF these
"rich criminals,'' he said:
But they have suffered from a
serious moral perversion by which 1t
becomes trustworthy to do for cor,
poration things which they would re.
fuse with the ,loftiest scorn to do for
themselves. Fortunately for us, all
that delusion is passing rapidly
away"
THE American people have evident.
ly made up their minds that our natsl-
RAJ resources must be conserved" he
said. THAT is, good. but it settles only
half the question. For whose benefit
shal, they be cpnserved-Tfor the bene-
itlt OF the many, on for the use and
profit of the few? The great conflict
now being fought will decide There
is no other question before AIS that be-
gins to be SO important -or that will
.be SO difficult to straddle--as the
great question, between special inter-
est and equal, opportunity; between
the privileges of the few and the
rights of the many; between govern
ment .by men for human welfare and
government by'money for profit; be-
tween THE m6ns who. stand for, the
Roosevelt policies.Sand the men who
stand against them. This lis, the
essence Of the conservation problem
to-day.
THE conservation issue is moral
issue. When a few men get, posses.
sion of one of the necessariesso of life.
either through ownership of natural
| resource or through unfair business
methods, and use that control to extort
undue profits, as In the recent cases
Of the sugar trust and the beef pack.
ers, they iijure the average man with.
out good reason, and they are guilty
| Of q moral wrong.
:" believe in one form of govern.
men. and ]. believe, in the golden rule
Putswe must face the truth that mo.
nopoly of the sources of production
makes. it Impossible for vast numbers
of mensand women TO earn a fair liv'
ing. Right here the conservation ques
ton touches the daily life Of the great
body Of our people. who pay the coat
OF special privilege. Ane'the price is
heavy"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
aoost.L ana knocks.

How comes 1t that the, evil which
men say SPREADS so wildly and lasts
so long, whilst our good, kind words
don't seem somehow to take root and
bear blossom? Is 1t that in the stony
hearts of mankind these pretty flow.
ers can't find g place to growa9 Ger
tain It is that scandal; Is godd, brisk
talk, whereas praise Of ones neigh.
Dor is by no means lively hearing
w. M. Thackeray.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
PRIVILEGES FOR THE FEW OR
RIGHTS FOR THE MANY \

In recent speech at New Ro-,
chelle. New York. Clifford Plnchot,
chief of the United States Forest
service, explained the attacks up
on the forest service. The fact
that the differences between
Mr.. Pinchot and Secretary Bal
linger are soon to be the subject of
congressional examination, adds
weight and Importance to whatever
Mr.. Pinchot may say in reference
to the issue.
Special interests" says Mr.. Pin.
chot, have made repeated attacks
on the United States forest service
and these attacks have increased in
violence just in proportion as the ser.
vice has offered effective opposition
to predatory wealth.
THE American people have evil
IDENTIFY made up their minds that our
natural resources must be conserved.
That is good but it settles only half
the question. For whose benefit shall
they be conserved, for the benefit
Of the many or for the use and
profit Of the few? The great con.
flict now being fought will decide.
There is no other question before us
that begins to be SO important,-or
that will be SO difficult to straddle,
as the great question between spe-
cial interests and equal opportunity;
between the privileges Of the few
and the rights of thebmany, between
government by money for profit. be-
tween the men who stand for the
Roosevelt policies and the men who
stand against them. This is the
essence of the conservation prob
lem today.
1T is the honorable distinction of
the forest service that it has been
more constantly. moro violently, and
more bitterly attacked by the repre-
sentatives Of the special interests in
recent years than any other govern
ment bureau. These attacks have
increased in violence and bitterness
just in proportion as the service has
offered effective opposition to pred
atory wealth. The more successful
we have been in preventing land
grabbing and the absorption of water
power by the special interests, the
more ingenious the more devious and
the more dangerous these attacks
have become"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
500 ARE LOST in STORM
King Manuel Goes to Help Subjects
In the Interior Of

Lisbon. Dec. 2S-Five hundred per.
sons are believed to have persisted In
the storm that has swept Portugal in
the last few days.
Seven hundred vessels were swept
to sea and hope for the great majority
of them Is abandoned.
The loss is fully $s0.00O,OOO. latest
dispatches say.
King Manuel is on his way inland
to aid in the rescue work In the In
terror. ~ 81.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
According to all accounts Pres


According to all accounts Presl
dent Taft is greatly chagrined be.
cause the American people did moi
acceptshis statements as proof posi-
live Of Secretary BallIngers fit
ness for the position he holds. After
his Winona speech the President had
no right to expect the public to take
his unsupported word on any poiitl
cal question. BY that speech he
placed himself in position where
he will have to show the people as
well as to tell them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-12-29
Woman Structural Iron Worker.

Woman STRUCTURAL iron Worker. Z
II just got tired of working around
the house and being away from my
husband all day long"
!; That explains why Mrs. Eva Talbert,
~, pretty bride. left her cosy cottage
In Canton to learn the dangerous struc.
tural iron working trade.
Go down to Bill Main street and you
can see. the only woman in ,le world
WHO follows this hazardous work. high
In the air on a five.story building risk
ing life and limb, helping Harry Tai.
bert. her brawny husband, put up fire
escapes. Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
ppe.