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The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
GOOD ROADS MEN MEET.
Governor and Two College Presidents
 Will Make Address.

Will Make Address.
 Little Rock.-The Arkansas Good Roads Association will meet in Lit tie Rock January 26 and 2T. It ia estimated that between 800 and 1000 delegates will be here during the con- yention.
 Secretary Carter is busy preparing the program for the convention. The meetings will probably be held in the Auditorium. If the weather is too cold for this, arrangements have been made whereby the meetings will be at the Hotel Marion Governor elect Donaghey, James Gould, w. E- Faulkner of Fort Smith. Ben l.. Grif- fin. E. A. Kingsley, J. J. Montgom- cry, J. N. Tilman of Fayetteville and President Henry S. hartzog will speak.
 The Board of Trade and Retail Merchants Association will combine to make this convention big sue cess. It has been two years since the last convention of the association
 As the legislature will be in session during the convention, it is probable that efforts will be made to propose an amendment to the constitution to which the same objections cannot be raised which were made to the pro posed Amendment No. 10.
 The following members Of the as sociation have been elected the ex- ecutive committee and assumed their duties; w. A. Faulkner, W. NJ. Kay anaugh, w. Nj. Dickinson, J. N Till man, C. w Donaghey, ]. l.. Caldwell, H. l.. Remmel, B. l.. Griffin, ". s. Mitchell, Ad Bertig, S. w. Fordyce. W. J. Mckee, ". NJ Whitenton, c. A. Pratt and Mayor W. R. Duley
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
HARVESTER CAUSE OF KILLING.
Deputy Sheriff keeton Shoots State
 Ranger Thomas at Amarillo. Tex.

Deputy Sheriff keeton Shoots State
 Ranger Thomas at Amarillo. Tex
 Amarillo. Tex.-State Ranger Doc" Thomas was shot and killed in the county court room in this city by Jim Keeton, chief dputy under Sheriff Hughes, and also acting as jailer. The rangers pistol was undisturbed in it's holster.
 No friendship has existed between the local officers and the rangers since the coming of the latter to Am- arillo about the close of August. This forenoon the men sat in the office of the county attorney and after ex- cnanging a few words q single shot was fired. taking effect over the out ar corner of the rangers eye, and passing through his head diagonally. coming out at the back, going entirely through the door of the apartment and striking the floor of the next room.
 The shot was at such close range that the face of the state officer was literally speeked with powder.
 Parties rushing to the room found the ranger with his hands dropped to his lap, his head fallen back over the chair. and blood gushing from the front and back wound as well as from the mouth, nose and ears.
 The immediate cause of the trouble was the alleged Kidnapping of Arthur Bannister, who was taken to Arkan sas by Deputy Sheriff Sid Houpt of Hot Springs, Garland county, Ark, in connection with the murder of Mrs. Ada Reiehers, committed there last July. It is claimed that Ranger Thomas was instrumental in taking the prisoner from the Potter county jail without the consent either of the. prisoner or the sheriff's department.
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
Instances in Which
 Secret Service Starred.

Tn connection with the Nebraska prose- cution the government has by decree se- cured the return to the government of over a million acres of grazing land. Tn Colorado of more than 2,0O0 acres of mineral land, and suits are now pending involving 10000 acres more
 All these investigations in the land cases were undertaken In conseuuence or MT Hitchcock, the then secretary of the interior. becoming convinced that there Were extensive frauds committed Tn his department: and the ramincations or the frauds were so far-reaching that ne was afraid to trust his own officials to deal iE thoroughgong fashion with them. One of the secret service men ur- cordingly resigned and was appointed Tn the interior department to carry on this work. The first thing he discovered was that the special agents division or corps of detectives of the land office of the interior department was largely un- der the control of the land thieves: and Tn consequence the investigations above referred to had to be made by secret service men
 ''If the present law, for which MesSrs Tawney, Smith, and the other gentle men l have above mentioned are respon- slbie, had then been in effect this ac- ton would have been impossible. and most of the criminals would unuuestion- doiS nave escaped. No more striking in- stance can be imagined of the desrabil- ity of having central corps of skilled investigating agents who can at any time be assigned, If necessary in large num- bers, to investigate some violation of the federal statutes. in no matter what branch of the public service. In this par tcular case most of the men investigated who were public servants were in the executive branch Of the government But in Oregon, where an enormous acreage of fraudulenuy alienated public land was recovered for the government. a United States senator. MT. Mitchell. and a mem Der of the lower house. Mir. Williamson were convicted on evidence obtained by men transferred from the secret service, and another member of congress was In dicted.'
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
Regarding Restrictions of
 the Secret Service.

"There was both by implication and di- rect statement the assertion that 1t was the law. and ought to be the law, that the secret service should only be used to suppress counterfeitins: and that the law should be made more rigid than ever in this respect.
 ''lneidentally I may say that in my judgment there is ample legal authority for the statement that this appropriation law to which reference was made i'm poses no restrictions whatever upon the use of the secret service men, but re- lates solely to the expenditure of the money appropriated. MT. Tawney in the debate stated that he had in his pos session a letter from the secretary of the treasury received q few days ago in which the secretary of the treasury him self admits that the provisions under which the appropriation has been made have been violated year after year for number of years in his own department l append herewith as appendix A. the let ter referred to- II makes no such admis- sion as that which Mir. Tawney alleges It contains on the contrary. as you will see by reading it. an emphatic protest against any such abridgment of the rights delegated to the secretary of the treasury by existing law. and concludes by asserting that he is quite within his rights in thus employing the service of these agents and that the proposed modi- NcallOn WnlcH NIT. IaWntN succeeded in carrying through would be distinctly to the advantage of violators of criminal statutes of the United States call at tention to the fact that in this letter of Secretary COrtelyou 10 Mr. Tawnev, as in my letter to the speaker quoted be- low. the explicit statement is made that the proposed change will be for the bene- fit of the criminals, a statement which l simply reiterated in public form in my message To the congress this year. and which is also contained in effect in the report of the secretary Of the treasury to the congress.
 "A careful reading of the Congression- al Record will also show that practically the only arguments advanced in favor of the limitation proposed by Mir. Tawney's committee. beyond what may be supposed to be contained by implication in cer- tain sentences as to abuses which were not specified, were those contained in the repeated statements Of MT. Sherley.
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
ShurIey's Declarations on
 "Pronounced Abuses .u

MT. Sherley stated that there had been pronounced abuses growing out of the use of the secret service for purposes other than those intended putting his statement in the form of question. and in the same form further stated that the private conduct of members of congress. senators. and others ought not to be in- vestigated by the secret service. and that they should not investigate a member of congress who had been accused of con duct unbeeom!ng q gentleman and a member of congress. In addition to these assertions couehed as questions. he made one positive declaration. that This secret service at one time was used for the pur- pose of looking nito the personal con duct of a member of congress- This ar gument of MT. Sherley. the only real ar gument as 10 the merits of the question made on behalf of the committee on ap-
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
Charge in Resolution Due
 to Density of the Solons.

This allegation in the resolution. there fore. must certainly be due to an entire failure to understand my message.
 The resolution continues: That the president be requested to transmit to the house any evidence upon which he based his statements that the chief argument in favor of the provision was that the congressman did not themselves wish to be investigated by Seeret-serViee men, This statement which was an attack upon no one, still less upon the congress. is sustained by the facts.
 "If you will turn to the Congressional Record for May 1 last. pages 5553 to 5560 inclusive. you will find the debate on this subject. MT. Tawney of Minnesota. MT Smith of Iowa. MT. Sherley of Kentucky and MT. Fitzgerald of New York, appear in this debate as the special champions of the provision referred to. Messrs. Par sons, Bonnet and Driscol were the lead- CTS of those who opposed the adoption 1 of the amendment and upheld the right of the government to use the most efficient means possible in order to detect crim- inals and to prevent and punish crime. The amendment was carried in the com mittee of the whole, where no votes of the individual members are recorded, so l am unable to discriminate by mention- Ing the members who voted for and the members who voted against the provision but its passage, the journal records, was greeted with applause I am well aware however, that in any case of this kind many members who have no particular knowledge of the point at issue are con tent simply to follow the lead of the committee which had considered the mat ter, and l have no doubt that many mem bers of the house simply followed the lead of Messrs. Tawney and Smith, with out having had the opportunity to know very much as to the rights and wrongs of the question.
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
Plan for an Electric Lin.

A project to build an electric line from Rush Creek to Melville, dis tanee of IT miles. the power for the line to be generated by power fur nished by water flowing through a tunnel cutting of the horseshoe bene of Buffalo river near Melville. Is now on foot. -
 The project. it is believed, is really being backed by Eastern capitalists, but directly it is in the hands of Memphis people. Indications at Yell vile are that it will be carried through
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08

than do. I have not the slightest sym pathy with the practice of judging men. Tor good or for i'll, not on their several merits, but in mass. as members of one particular body or one caste. To put together all men holding or who have held particular ofiice whether it be the office of president, or judge. or sena- tor, or member of the house of represent atives. and to class them all. without re- gard to their individual differences, as good or bad. seems to me utterly inde- fensible; and it is equally indefensible whether the good are fonfounded with the bad in a heated and unwarranted cham pionship of all, or in heated and un- warranted assault upon all.
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
FORREST CITY. ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY S. 1O9
will be found h columns i

' and of page 5556 ard column 1 of page 5o51 of the Congressional Record. Tn col umn l of page 5555 Mir Sherley refers to the impropr5ety of permitting the secret service men to investigate men in the departments. officers of the army and navy and members of congress-: in col umn i, page 5551. he refers only to mem bers of congress. His speech puts most weight on the investigation of members of congress.
 What appears in the record is filled out and explained by an article which ap- peared in the Chicago Inter-Oceaa of January B. 1901 under a Washington headline. and which marked tn. begin ming of this agitation agains. tho secret service It was special article of about Soo0 words. written, as I vas then in- formed and now understand. by MT L. w. Busbey, at that time private secretary to the speaker of the house. Ii con tained an utterly unwarranted attack on the secret service division of the treas ury department and it's chief
 At the time of this publication tine Work or the secret service which was thus assailed included especially the in- VestlSaGon of great land frauds in the west and the securing of evidence to hefp the department of justice in the beef-trust investigations at Chicago. which resulted in successful prosecutions
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
Declares He Said Nothing
 to Warrant the Statement.

"A careful reading of this message will show that I said nothing to warrant the statement that the majority of the con gressmen were in fear of being invesu- gated by the secret service men or that congress as a whole was actuated by that motive l did not make any such state ment in this message. Moreover I have never made any such statement about congress as a whole, nor. with a few in- evitable exceptions, about the members of congress. In any message or article or speech. On the contrary I have always not only deprecated but vigorously re- sented the practice of irdiscrimnate at tack upon congress. and indiscrminate condemnation of all congressman. wise md unwise. fit and unfit, good and bad llike No one realizes more than I the
 importance of cooperation between the
 executive and congress. and no one holds
 he authority and dignity of the congress sf the United States in higher respect
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
Cannot Understand Trend of
 the House Resolution.

'T am wholly at a loss to understand the concluding portion of the resolution I have made no charges of corruption against congress nor against any member of the present house. If l had proof of such corruption affecting any member of the house in any matter as to which the federal government has jurisdiction. ac- tion would at once be brought. as was and Burton, and Representatives William son. Hermann and Driggs, at different times since I have been president This would simply be doing my duty in the execution and enforcement of the laws without respect to persons. But 1 do not regard il as within the province or the duties of the president to report to the house alleged delinquences' of members. or the supposed corrupt action of a member in his official capacity The membership of the house is by the con stitutian placed within the power of the house alone. In the prosecution of crim- inals and the enforcement of the laws the president must resort to the courts of the United States.
 'In the third and fourth clauses of the preamble it is stated that the meaning of my words is that the majority of the congressman are in fear of being inves- tigated by secret service men and that congress as a whole was actuated by that motive in enacting the provision in question: and that this is an impeach- ment of the honor and integrity of the congress These statements are not l think in accordance with the facts
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-08
XII Move
 Found to Be Unavaiiino

lhese methods proved unavalIing to prevent the wrong. Mess~s Tawney and smith, and their fellow members on the appropriations committee pai6 no heed to the protests; and as the obno. ious pro- vision was incorporated in the sunary clNll Dill 1t was impossible for rne to ron sider or discuss 1t on it's merits. as should nave done had it been in a sep arate blil Therefore I have now taken the only method available that of dis. cusslng 1t ia my message to congress. ana as all efforts to secure what I regard as proper treatment of the subject withou. recourse to plain speaking had failed nave spoken plainly and directly. and nave set forth the facts in explicit terms
 Since 1901 the investigations covered by the secret service division-under the practlee which had been for many yeara recognized as proper and legitimate and which had received the sanction of tho hlshest law officers of the government nave covered a wide range of orfenseg against the federal law By far the uost important of these related to the public domain, as to which there was un. covered far-reaching and widespread system Of fraudulent transactions inyolv- ing both the Illegal acquisition and the illegal fencing of government land. and in connection with both these ofrensea the crimes of perjury and subornation of perjury. Some of the persons involved Tn these violations were of great wealth and of wide political and social influence Both their corporate associations and their political affiliations, and the lawles. character of some of their euployes. male the investigations not only difficult but dangerous. In Colorado one of the secret service men was assassinated.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-14
STORMY DEBATES AT
ZI0NISTS GATHERING

NEW YORK, June 13,-Debates at
the second days session of the Ameri~
can Zionists' convention today indicat-
ed that the great desire Of the Jews
TO return to their own land is not
receiving financial support satisfactory
10 the more jealous advocates of the
movement. The discussions were so
stormy and confused that il was i'm
possible 10 conclude the business scs-
SION, and the convention adjourned uu-
til tomorrow.
The Colonial Trust of London. or.
ganized to purchase land in Palestine.
is capitalized at one million pounds
sterling TO be raised by the sale OF
shares at five pounds each Thus far
only 100000 pounds has been received,
according 10 reports at the convention.
The national fund committee reported
81 427.15 subscribed in this country for
the cause This figure was criticised
as small in view of the great Hebrew
wealth in the United States.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-14
Special Summer Courses at the
University of Utah Begin Today

torily completed can be applied as credit
toward "a degree from the state university
as well as for tho teachers certificates
and diplomas.
a number Of college subjects have been
added To the list OF courses offered, for
the first time. A complete series OF
courses in modern languages, including
arranged under Professors Arnoldson and
Wise. This Is expected TO prove q very
popular course. and as advanced classes
as we'll as those for beginners are Of
fered those who have already taken the
subject VIII have an opportunity To con-
tinue,
Considerable stress is to be laid on
the school of physical education. y num-
Der of specialists have been engaged to
G.. Anderson. director of gymnasium at
Yale university. Will have general charge
OF the gymnastic work and will be as
sisted by Jacob Bolln dean OF the Chau-
tauqua school OF physical education, and
Henry S. Anderson. also of Yale.
Coach j. III. Maddox. director OF ath-
lctics for men at the university VIII have
tion Is to be given TO the high school
principals Throughout the state. who are
10 be given course in Athletic Coach
ing Mr.. Mnddocll will teach them the
methods OF training young athletes for
football. baseball. track work and other
sports so that they Will be prepared to
coach their students. a series of special
lectures by the men mentioned and
number of medical men from Salt Lake
the relation of mental TO physical health,
and presenting the most approved meth
ods of maintaining a high standard Of
health.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-14

The regular summer school course, to-
gether with the course in physical cdu-
cation, offered by the University OF Utah.
begins Monday morning June II. 60 con-
tlnue six weeks. The special ten weeks
course for teachers, which began on May
Il, showed a remarkable increase In en-
rollment over the number of last year,
and If as seems certain. the Increase In
the regular course is proportionate, the
authorities expect 10 have more than $50
students enrolled for instruction this
summer
The committee In charge of the work
Is composed Of Professor w. Nj. stewart,
Miss Maude May Babcock. Dr. w. &.
F.baugh. Professor u. r. Allen and Pro-
versty faculty. The list OF instructors.
besides those on the regular university
staff. includes a number of special IN
structors and lecturers of national fame,
who have been engaged TO conduct work
in the summer school and 10 give courses
OF lectures on subjects of general educa-
tional interest.
number of noted educators who Will
In all probability be here Immediately
after the close OF the convention OF the
National Educational association. TO be
held I'm Denver may be mentioned Mr.
Elmer c. Brown. United States commits
sioner OF education: William Allan Mel
SON. professor of English, Harvard uni
versity. and Miss Ida Hood Clark, dl-
rector OF elementary manual training
Milwaukee public schools.
Work for teachers, leading 10 ono Oh
the following diplomas issued by the state
board OF education, will be Il prominent
feature in the course; Grammar grade
life diploma. state high school HE Dip
Iona and state certificate for five years
In addition any collegiate work satisihc-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-14
The Passions of the Mormon Sultan
poIYGAMoUS
(THE PoLYGAMoUS ANIMAL) -

never renders an accounting. II would be
impossible to tell how much he contrib
ted 10 the national and state campaign
funds last fall: but these contributions
are supposed TO be large. for IL was
agreed among the Melchisedecs that their
chief passion was in danger. These pas
sions now feel safe until another cleo
tion Is hand Yet. with all OF this
power the wealth and politics give the
prophet. the polygamous passion is of the
greatest vital concern TO the Mormon
high priests.
What temple In all Israel is not dom
mated by n money changing. political
polygamist? Every ward meeting house
is a symbol of polygamy and politics; and
ii Is a politics that has for It's policy the
injecting of the degencrating effects Of
polygamy and It's lecherous consequences
upon civil society,
The Mormon sultan. at present In the
person OF the quintuple polygnmist. Jo-
seph +. Smith. Is the potential exponent
OF this Melchisedcc passion. Nothing
great In Mormonism is ever done except
by polygamlsts. FOR necessarily to be
great in Mormonism. any act would have
to have this highest passion OF the trim
ity. All OF the Mormon sultans were
was Bishop John l.. Lee
the Mormon hero OF Mountain Meadows.
so was ID. II. Wells, the Mormon general
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-14

OF all the passions Of these Mormon
high priests, the polygamons passion -
supreme. II is supreme with their sullu',,
In an earthly sense. because temporal
power through politics and money Is nee
essary to protect and Sustain the prac-
tlce OF this passion: and 1t Is supreme
I'm "heavenly" sense, for IL Is tnc SURF
and only road TO celestial ana tetres-
trial" glory IL is supreme with Mormons'
for Il knows no bounds OF the laws OF tnS
state and nation. polygamy, peii ana
politics. these three passions OF the trinity
of the Melchsedec godhcad are inLrehChed
and fortified in the temples and taDcr-
naclcs OF Israel" but the greatest OF these
is polygamy In the Mormon sultan -
found the chief exemplar OF all tho pas
sions--the polygamous master OF hSe' me me
chief god-priest money changer OF thS
temples of Israel" and the polltcal
OF Smoot and the rest oil inc
federal bunch" Linked with the sugar
trust. coupled with the railway magnates.
and drawing revenue from nearly every
I'm the states of Utah, Idaho and
Wyoming. the Mormon sultan is COM
mcrcial power To which the whole ma
tion must pay tribute. The consumer ot
sugar In surrounding states must con-
tribute to the profits of the sugar trust.
and thus. indirectly, to the support OF the
harems OF the Mormon sultan. As the
Mormon sultan, like the Moslem sultan.