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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-26

fee until the first Monday in July 1910,
on which date and thereafter annually
board of directors and officers shall be
elected, unless said day shall be legal
holiday, when the election shall be held
on the next legal day thereafter. Notice
of said election shall be given by at least
ten days continuous notice in one of
the daily newspapers of Shreveport; and
the board of directors shall appoint one
or more stockholders to preside at such
election as commissioners Any failure
to elect directors on the day named for
that purpose shall not dissolve the cor
poration, but the directors then in Of
fee, as we'll as the officers of the cor
poration, shall hold over until their Sue
cessors shall be chosen. In such event
the president shall call another election
to be held withia thirty days, and shall
give notice thereof as hereinbefore pro-
vided. The election for directors shall
be by ballot, and the maj ority in amount
of votes cast, each share of stock voted
to be counted as one vote, shall elect
the person for whom cast. After each
election the board of directors shall
elect from their own number the officers
of this company.
ARTICLE V.
The board of directors shall have
full power to fill vacancies in their
number caused by death, resignation or
otherwise, from among the stockholders
of the corporation. They shall have full
control of the property of the company
and shall SO conduct, manage and use
the same as in their discretion they
deem fit, and that is consistent with the
objects of this company, or the welfare
of the same They are authorized to
adopt such bylaws, rules and regula-
tions as the affairs or business of this
corporation may require, and as it may
deem necessary for the management and
conduct thereof; provided the same
shall not conflict with this charter or
with the laws of the State or United
States. The president is authorized to
appoint such officers, agents, employees,
servants or clerks as he may deem
necessary for the conduct and affairs of
the corporation, fix their compensation,
term of service, with the right to dis
miss them; he shall submit the names
of all persons appointed by him and
dismissed by him to the board of direc-
tors, and said board may annul his &C
ton by a two-thirds vote. The board
shall have the right to fix and deter
mine the salaries, terms and duties of
the officers herein provided for.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-26

The remodeling of the executive Of
fees in the western wing of the White
House began the other day with the
removal of the office furniture to the
cloakrooms adjoining the porte-co-
chere at the other end of the building.
In the cloakrooms Assistant Secretary
MischIer. who is in charge of the of,
fee force left behind by Mr.. Taft on
his departure for Beverly. will conduct
such part Of the presidents routine
correspondence as can be handled in
his absence.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-26
ARTICLE VII.

No stockholder of this corporation
shall ever be held liable or responsible
for the contracts or faults thereof in
any further sum than the unpaid bal
ance due the company on the shares of
stock subscribed for or owned by him,
nor shall any informally in organiza-
ton have the effect of rendering this
charter null or of exposing stock
holder to any liability beyond the I'M
paid balance, if any, on his stock.
Thus done and passed at my notarial
office in the City of Shreveport, Louis
lana, on the day, month and year here
in first above written, in the presence
of r. r. MeeFe AID Walter H Polk,
competent witnesses, together with ap-
bearers and me, notary, after reading of
tI,a x,,bo1o
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-26

!. Shreveport, La, Aug. 10, 1909.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11
Democratic campaign committee
was. Mortified News.

DOllJOC1dVIC V0AJH01ku NVAAAA4SVSSS
was. Mortified News.
We have no recollection of the
Democratic Central Committee hav-
ing contributed any money to the
Lawson campaign. We certainly
would have been glad to receive the
sum named, for we have a vivid re-
collection of the fact that funds
were scarce for the most pressing
expenses, and we were up against
a desperate man of means who
poured out money like water to
save himself from a second defeat.
We appreciate the fact that Mr..
Day was very friendly to US, and l
believe he did make a small person
al contribution thru one of the To-
cal boys. We also have recollec-
tion of having filed a statement of
receipts and expenses as required
by law, altho long after that was
filed we continued to pay bills in
Cured both for Democratic and
Prohibition meetings at which we
had been invited to appear and
which had not been paid. But why
do you single out the campaign ex.
penses of a poor populist who rar
as an independent, when you have
so much richer fields for your in
vestigations, Mr.. Heatwole? Fol
instance, you might investigate the
action taken by the political end o1
the State Brewers Association il
the same campaign and what con
nection there was with that and tht
money sent to Willmar to line VI
the "booze gang against the "kit
that has raised -- with US a
Willmar.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

IF you find a public man who is
staunch and true to the county op-
tion question, you will usually find
a man who can be trusted to take
the peoples side on other questions
when special interests have some
thing else at stake. '-Willmar
Tribune, July %, 1909.
We would like to ask Editor Law
son if he really means what he says;
and, if so, when he had change OF
heart. When did he see the new
light? Has not Senator l.. O.
Thorpe always been "staunch and
true to the county option ques.
?"-Republican Gaettze.
Senator Thorpe is hide-bound
partisan, who is anxious to main.
tain his standing and prestige in
the councils of party that has
never dared to commit itself for
county option except in counties
where it is a political necessity.
Senator Thorpe is a Hamiltonian
in principle, who fears the exten.
sion of the idea of popular govern.
ment
Being hemmed in on one side by
party expediency and on the other
by a fundamental belief that people
should not be trusted with any
further participation in the govern.
ment, his county option activities
have very limited field.
Knowing Senator Thorpe's re.
cord, locally and otherwise, as we'll
as we do, our application of the
truism which the Gazette q Totes SC
gleefully could not be otherwise
than to the detriment of his county
option position.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

The Gazette uses the stuff pub
lished by Heatwole in the North
field News as an excuse for rehash-
ing its old plaintive cry that the
Tribune Editor has been trying to
deceive the Prohibitionists while
he at heart is a Democrat. Fiddle
sticks! There is not Prohibition
lst in this county or one of note in
the State who knows me at all, but
who knows my position politically.
In the campaign of three years ago,
l was invited to be present at meet.
ings Of both democrats and prohi-
bitionists. | don't know of any
better prohibitionists than the DEM
ocrats. Prof. Magnuson and David
H. Evans, with whom we appeared
at several places, nor do l know of
any better democrat than the Pro-
hibitionist Woetendyke, with whom
l had the geat pleasure of being as.
sociated in that campaign for ter
days. Of republicans there were
hundreds that not only gave me
their hearty assistance but signed
my petition and voted for me or
election day. The day when you
can 60 out and line up the people
simply with a party name is past
and gone, Mr.. Crosby.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

The premium list of the Willmar
Street Fair is published in this
issue of the Tribune. The cash
premiums offered in the same ag-
gregate about thousand dollars, a
larger sum than ever before offered
at similar fair in the county.
The board of managers are hoping
to make the Wi]lmar Fair one that
will be credit to the city in every
way, and we bespeak the hearty co.
operation of all good citizens to thi:
end.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11
IT, IT, K 2leide:seRs al ID Sc Pc
Observations by Clarence

The republican party promised
to revise the tariff. 1t did not
furnish any plans and specifications
as to how the revising was to be
done, but the man who was sup
posed to know the most about what
the party intended to do, a grace
full, willowy figure named Billy
Taft, went out on the stump and
interpreted the promise to mean
that the tariff was to be reduced.
And in a fit Of mental alteration
the American people believed him
and elected the aforesaid Bill and
his associates to take charge of the
revising.
In order to get the right kind of
a start, the house elected. speaker
named Joe, who believes that the
tariff schedule is the only sacred
book in ancient or modern litera-
ture. Joe selected some of his ilk
as committee to prepare the new
tariff which said committee had
been selected and had prepared it's
work long before Joe was elected
speaker, which showed that the
cards were stacked before the game
opened. Yet, strange to relate,
that committee introduced a bill
that did actually reduce the tariff
here and there not in any revolution
ary manner, you understand, but a
nice, gentlemanly reduction of from
one to five per cent and even trihe
more on certain schedules that the
people had been talking a great
deal about. And the bill was
showed thru, which showed that Joe
wanted it to 60 thru.
The reason for this apparent
effort to in some measure, however
small. redeem the promise of tariff
revision downward was that every
member of the house will have to
come up for reelection in about a
year from now. The work of
breaking the promise was left to
the senate, only one-third of that
body coming up for reelection
next year, and only a very few of
them having to face the people di-
rect at primary election. And
the senate, that is Aldrich. did its
duty like a man, revising the tariff
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11
VICTOR E. LAWSON, Editor and M anager
LUD IG S. DALE, City Editor.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. II, 1909.

Supt. Youngdahl of the Minneso-
ia Anti-Saloon League says the re-
port that the League will refuse to
cooperate with the Prohibitionists
wherever it can be done is all ''hot
air." We thot as much. The pa
pers that are hostile to the promo
tion of the no-license cause always
use every effort to try to divide the
temperance forces.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

your public business and the doings
Of the men who pretend to repre-
sent you.
Emancipate yourselves, from
what? From your absurd and cal
an itous servility to party names
and partisan prejudice.
AS long as you give less attention
to the law-making than to any
other matter, the laws will continue
to be what the rival interests want
them to be. So long as you leave
your legislative agent unmatched.
said agent will go the way of all
other unmatched agents. So long
as you sanction the slips. the fail
ures, the frauds, the wrong-doing
of political party because of its
name, so long will you be mistreat-
ed by that party.
The people complain of high
prices. The cost of living goes up
and up, and we rail at the Trusts.
Those high prices which cause
you to grunt or swear every time
you buy anything, are the Federal
taxes, which your Congressman put
upon you. That increased cost of
living is the burden your Federal
Government throws upon you. The
Trusts rob you, because Congress
gave them a license to do it. The
men who organize corporations and
combine them into monopolies are
very human and very practical.
They go to Washington and look af-
ter legislation. The kind of laws
they want are those which will shut
out competition and leave at the
. mercy of the Trust those who have
to sell to it and buy from it.
While you are hard at work SOW
ing grain or planting cotton, your
Congressman are busy framing the
legislation which will enable the
Trusts to rob you of the fruits of
your toll. Every ravenous combi-
nation Of capital has been in Wash
ington to control. the making of the
new tariff bill. They figure, down
to a gnat's heel. what they need in
the way Of special favors. They
know, to a fraction, what is neces.
sary to the preservation of their
monopoly. This they demand, and
J this they get. They stay right
there in Washington until they dc
get it.
Who thinks of you, the common
man? Who looks after your inter
I ests in Washington? Who bring:
to bear upon Congress the pressure
of the people-the millions of pro
= ducers who will be robbed by these
" Infamous laws? Nobody.
Southern Congressman sat silen
while the villanious Ryan-Duke To
= bacco Trust got the laws which pro
= voked Night-riding. Some of thest
e Southern Democrats helped tn,
: Ryan-Duke robbers to get the laws
~ Ryan, you know, is a boss Demo
e crat who financed Parker's noimna
- tion, and he carried the Virginia
e delegation to the convention in hi
~ private car.
= Night-riding scared the Ryan
u Duke rascals, and the law whicl
. provoked it has been repealed.
" Would you care to have m,
e honest opinion as to when the heart
: = less exploitation of the Trusts an
:" the wicked extravaganza of tn
:. Federal Government are going t
~ be checked?
- WHEN THE NIGHT-RIDIN(
=: SPIRIT, THE FIGHTING TEN
"a PER OF 1776, GETS A COOL
)" GRIM GRIP ON "WE, THE PEG
- PIE. THE Jeffersonian.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11
And Just before the bill went in

And just before the bill went in
to effect the importers were sending
wireless messages to transatlantic
steamers to hurry into port so that
the imports could be passed in un-
der the Dingley hill hitherto the
highest tariff bill passed in the
United States. On Aug. 6, the last
day of the Dingley tariff. about
twenty ships were running under
forced steam to reach harbor; i'm
porters chartered swift tugs to
meet the ships and hustle the cap
tains to shore before closing time.
but they failed and it is figured
that the importers lost between
$500, 900 and 5000, 1000 by failing to
get the advantage of the Dingley
rates. Yes, the despised Dingley
law, which levied such high rates
that no party dared defend it in the
last campaign, actually looked like
a free trade measure to those i'm
porters on Aug. 6, 1909. Like a
tyrannical old king, it looked bene-
ficent in its dying hour because the
successor was known to be worse
tyrant.
The bill was actually so bad that
both the Minnesota senator's and
eight of the nine representatives
voted against it on the final roll
call. Iowa's two senators did the
same, as did also LaFollette, Bev-
eridge and Brewster.
The only Minnesota representa-
tive who voted for the bill was
Tawney; but Tawncy really does
not belong to Minnesota any more :
he has become a part of the Cannon
machine, and for that privilege he
has sold his constituents.
If the people of the First Mime
sofa district DO not come the Nc.
Cleary act on Tawney at the next
election they must be the most alb
ject party slaves on exhibition any.
where in this country.
1t is stated in press dispatches
that Taft is coming to Minnesota to
speak good word for Tawney.
recognizing undoubtedly that Taw-
ney needs it badly. Well, the peo-
pie have about sized up Taft by this
time, and if he gives Tawney a GER
tifcate of good standing in the
party and proficiency in the intri.
cacies Of craftsmanship, the only
comment on it will probably be-:
birds Of feather flock together. -
A severe thunder storm broke
loose at Washington Immediately
after Taft had signed the perfidious
bill. That was only foretaste of
the storm that will break when the
people fully realize how they have
been betrayed by the men in whose
hands they have trusted their
affairs. A day of reckoning must
come some time, and it ought to
be near at hand.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

so boldly that the upward tilt could
be seen with the naked eye at a
distance of three thousand miles.
Then the bill went to conference
certain number of senator's and rep
resentatives whose duty it was to
get up compromise between the
house and senate bills that would
pass both houses. On this commit
tee Jim Sherman appointed only
standpatters from the senate and
Joe Cannon did the same in the
house. 1t was evident to everybody
that this committee would favor the
senate bill or some compromise that
would raise rates still higher.
Enter Bill on the scene. 1t was
now time for him to see that the
promises to the people be kept.
He had number of conferences
| with the conferences but all knew
their parts we'll and nothing seemed
to come of it. But at last still :,
small demand came from the shoe
manufacturers Of New England for
free hides. Aldrich had put a
heavy duty on hides to please the
senators from the wild and woody
range states, who, having nothing
else that they could demand pro-
lection FOR were inclined to be revi-
sionists until the duty on hides
made them hide-bound protection
lists. Aldrich was of course in
clined to help the manufacturer on
any thing they wanted on the free
list, so he saw here the opportunity
to help Bill out of the mess, help
the manufacturers of New England
and hurt nobody in particular ex-
cept people who had hides to sell.
Therefore hides were placed on the
free list.
| But new difficulty arose. The
hide senator's declared that they
would vote against the conference
report unless there was CORES.
ponding reduction made in leather
goods. Aldrich had figured that he
had had all the use he wanted OF
the hide senator's, but now he found
that there were enough republican
insurgent senators to defeat the re.
port with the aid Of the democrats
and the hide senators. So he had
to make the one concession that
really did not please him, a reduc.
tion on leather goods. Even then,
he tried to run in a ''joker' that
would have defeated the reduction
on leather, but the hide senators
found it out in time, and forced a
correction Of this "error.'' Even
then, there are two clauses affect.
ing harness, one levying duty OF
IS per cent, and one levying 20 per.
cent, and the customs officers can
take their choice.
And so the bill passed, and Bill
signed the bill, declaring that while
it wasn't exactly what he wanted it
was IAN honest effort at downward
revision" The only effort worth
mentioning in that direction was
the one affecting hides and leather,
and that was, as stated above. an
effort to help the manufacturers
which by the force of circumstan-
ces became a genuine reduction.
The genuine effort" of the party
leaders in both houses was to raise
the tariff instead of lower it.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

An "Occultist and diviner" advertised
in an English paper:
young man, some woman dearly
loves you. If you would know who
she is, send shilling to Seer and
learn her name."
A young man responded and receiv-
ed the answer. "Your mother"
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

T also have Concrete Blocks on
hand. Before buying, parties should
see me and get figures.
Phone No. $50. WiIlmsP, Minn.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

OpflHg Vdlley mas n. n. n. IL
is not a revival of the Ku Klux
Klan of the south, however, but
only Keep Klean Klub. 1t has
for it's object the determination of
all weeds, the care of newly planted
trees and shrubs in the parks, and
the protection Of birds.
Editor Tripletts of the Flood
wood Broadaxe a short time ago
landed on top in a red-hot libel
suit. and a little later he was in
dicted for assault by a person
claiming $4,000 damages.
Tripletts armed with a Broadaxe
must be a terrific combination.
Madison is considering the ad-
visibility of adopting the commits
sion form of government.
Nicholas and Paul WitZman, bro
theirs, who live at Watkins, have
returned from an auto trip to the
Seattle exposition, which they made
from their home town in exactly
two weeks. They followed the
Northern Pacific wherever possible
and ran their machine day and
night. tax ing turns at the wheel
and sleeping on the car. They
stopped only for meals and made
short stops at that. They used a
small runabout and say they spent
nothing for repairs on the entire
trip. The distance from Watkins
to Seattle is 1886 miles, which
they made in six days and nights.
-Litchfield Saturday Review.
The sales of prison twine this
year will exceed 81 900, 900. with a
profit of 5000, 600 to the state.
Mankato raised bonus of $751; :
900 to secure the Evangelical Lu-
theran Ladies' Seminary.
Residents and business men of
the thrifty little village of Brooten
have spent more than 1000 for
building improvements during the
past six months, according to the
Brooten Review.
Both Big Stone Lake and Fair
mont will have Chautauqua sessions
again next year, in spite Of the
fact that the sessions this year were
not financially a success. At the
former place a Ladies Chautauqua
Club has been organized with a
club house of their own, and this
! organization will cooperate with
the Chautauqua association in an
effort to make the session next year
| the best ever.
The profits of the Farmers eleva-
tor at Kerkhoven for its first year,
recently completed, amounted to
more than $4,000. A dividend of ten
per cent was declared, or $3.50 per-
share, and $18 for every $1,000 worth
of grain sold. The net profits were
Is per cent on the investment.
The Milan elevator company de-
clared 40 per cent dividend on last
years business.
The life of an editor was saved
the other day by a silver dollar in
his pocket. A crank shot at him
and the ball struck the dollar.
Now should we happen to get shot
before you pay up your subscrip-
tion, we shall always presume you
might have saved our life, says the
editor of the Swift County Review.
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

Just for curiosity would like to
know what Mr.. Lawson's recollec-
tion of the sum contributed by the
Willmar tribune., 1909-08-11

The popularity Of the "Od Settlers Series" of post
cards issued by the Tribune attested by the fact that
the first large edition is being exhausted The eight
cards are sent to any address at 15c Sold by Dealers