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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
ODE 3effersontan

Think of that The protected manufac-
turers after setting aside net dividends of
eight per cent, divide among themselves
about two billion dollars every year.
AS already explained, none of this huge sum
comes from the Steel Trust or the railroads.
Only mite comes from the wage-earners of
the shipyards.
Practically every dollar of it comes out of
the pockets of those who are not protected
from foreig competition The great bulk of
it is taken from the unfavored millions en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits.
And the ship subsidy proposition means
that the specially privileged are to get another
governmental favor at the expense of the over
burdened farmers.
Pretending to be in agony because of the
disappearance of 'the flag" from the high
seas, the benefciaries of Legislation cool
ly demand the right to use public funds to
replace the marine which their blessed tariff
destroyed.
they sell us their goods at the prices made to
foreign countries? When Oliver, of "chilIed-
plow'' fame, died a few months ago it was
found that his estate amounted to sixty mil
lion dollars; the result of a tariff system
which enabled him to charge his fellow
countrymen one hundred dollars for the same
plows that South America got from him at
sixty dollars.
Men of that sort care nothing for ''the flag
What they want is your money.
If they are so agonized about 'the flag,
why don't they remove part of the custom
house duty from cargoes imported in Amer-
can bottoms!
Or, why don't they allow the merchant to
buy and man his vessel where and how he
pleases?
Either Of these simple plans would imme-
diately put ''the flag back on the seas from
whence it was driven by our diabolical fiscal
and navi cation laws.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
Ask Your Congressman
Number Three

1) The national bankers have the free use
of eleven million four hundred and forty-four
thousand dollars of your money on collateral,
which consists of railroad bonds, city bonds
and State bonds. (On other collateral they
have twenty-seven million dollars more.)
A few years ago when the Farmers Ali
ance asked for government loans of govern
ment money, at two per cent interest, on land
ed security, we were laughed at. Congress,
however, takes your money out of the Treas
ury and lends it, without interest, to the ma
tional banker, on the security of railway
bonds.
Did your Congressman oppose this law
when it was on it's passage? Has he made
any effort to repeal it? Has he not been in
dustrously getting some of the swag for the
national bankers of his own district? Has he
not been hard at work getting your public
money into the private business of his friends.
the national bankers of the towns and cities?
ASK HIM.
o. Congress rules Washington City, max
ing the laws which govern it. In your ma
tiOnal capital the intermarriage of whites and
blacks is lawful. Such marriages occur fire.
quently. Congress could prohibit them Has
your Congressman been doing all in his power
to secure the passage of an act that would
penalize such marriages?
ASK HIM.
(3) An ecclesiastical lobby has for many
years been at work in Washington, seeking
to establish permanent relations between the
Catholic Church and your national treas
ury. This lobby works Congress for appro-
priations for Catholic institutions It has
been wonderfully successful.
Congress seldom adjourns without having
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
They Should Set Mr.. DucBzvorfh
Right

In his Union Neacs of last week, Mr. r. F.
Duckworth has another ringing editorial
against the proposed ship subsidy steal
The Galveston Neaos the Houston Post and
the Amoerican Flag have been slandering Mr..
Duckworth by pretending that in the Farm
ers' Union Convention, which almost unani-
mously" adopted the ship subsidy resolutions
Mr. Duchworth made IAN enthusiastic
speech in support of those resolutions
The journalistic traducers of Mr. Duck
worth ought to be ashamed of themselves.
They should be made to set him right. "Sick"
Ladson on 'em, Duck
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
Ship Subsidy ThieveS


The Merchant Marine League is flooding
the country with it's plausible literature, and
the lobbyists of ''the interests" are talking the
heads off lots of honest people. The com
bination is perhaps irresistible The Steel
Trust, the transcontinental railroads and the
American shipbuilders have apparently
promised higher wages in the shipyards pro-
vlded the raid on the Treasury is successful;
hence we see the Northern labor unions lock-
ing shields with the capitalists
The Steel Trust clears bigger profits every
year than the millions of agricultural workers
ever cleared in any year. (Don't take my
word for that; ust analyze the official figures
in the United States statistical abstract)
What the railroads make is easily learned;
they not only clear enormous sums on actual
valuation and investment, but they manage to
float fully twelve billion dollars of fictitious
talizatiOn-Watered stock.
AS to the men employed in shipyards, they
already enjoy the eight-hour day and very
good wage.
Now, let us reason together, calmly and
earnestly
The government is asked to take money out
OF the common treasury and pay it over to
those transcontinental railroads that own lines
of Ocean-going steamers.
engaged in shipbuilding, either as employers
or as employees; the few who are owners of
railroads and steamships; the few who oper-
ate the Steel Trust.
Whose money will be given to these favored
few? Yours. You are the common people
who, in paying unnatural prices for the neces-
saries and comforts of life, put one dollar in
the national treasury and five dollars into the
pockets of such concerns as the Steel Trust
every time you buy twelve dollars worth of
goods.
The Steel Trust not only does not pay any
Federal tax but levies one on all the people,
and the amount is generally something like
hundred million dollars year. Its fervent
affection for ''the flag is revealed in the fact
that all other nations can purchase Steel
Trust products at about half the price that
we who live under ''the flag" are forced to
pay.
The railroads pay no tribute to the manu-
facturers, for the simple reason that these cor
porations have the power to levy such freight
and passenger rates that the patrons of the
roads are made to pay the railroad taxes If
these corporations are not allowed to earn SIX
per cent. above all expenses, the courts hold
that their property has been "confiscated".
The few laborers engaged in the shipyards
have to pay tribute to the manufacturers just
as you do, but the amount paid by this. hand
full of men is not drop in the bucket in
comparison with the tremendous total.
That total amounts to eight per cent. clear
profit on the capital invested, plus nearly taoO
thousand millions Of dollars.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
Automatic and Concurrent

BY some unaccountable stupidity mem
Der of the AH0nta Journals editorial staff
stated that when a citizen of Georgia paid
his taxes he was automatically registered"
OF course it is hard to believe that Mr.. Hobe
Smiths own paper would wilfully deceive the
subscriber, who is supposed to be a Smith
man.
But the Journal did print a statement
which was calculated to make every one of it's
Georgia adult male subscribers lose his vote
had not examined the law myself, and when
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-27

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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-27

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$3.50 Imitation
Lynx Scarfs $4.98

Made from good imitation
of black lynx; extremely
long. shirred satin lining.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
MAY BE CONTEST
Stephens0n's Seat In Senate Nay BE
Investigated by LaFOllettc.

Washington. March 16.-The action
of Senator La Toilette in presenting
to the senate the credentials of Mr..
Stephenson and in accompanying him
to the desk Of the vice president to
take the oath of office as United
States senator today is without
significance as to the course that may
ultimately be taken by Mr.: La Toilette
concerning any contest that may be
determined upon over the question of
the regularity OF the action of the
Wisconsin legislature
The legislature is investigating
these proceedings and should this re-
suit in the finding of serious irregu-
larities In the election of Mr.. Step
henson. Mr.. La Toilette may introduce
a resolution calling for an investiga-
ton by the committee ON privileges
and election as to the right of Mr..
Stephenson to retain his seat. A
senator's credentials properly signed
by state officers has always been ac-
cepted by the senate as prima facie
evidence of his election until con-
test is entered. 1t is expected that
the course TO be taken by Mr. La
Toilette will depend upon the result
of the investigation now being made
by the Wisconsin legislature.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16

meaning of the constitution. justifying
and requiring the calling of an extra
session.
"1n my inaugural address l stated
III summary way the principles upon
which. in my judgment, revision of
tariff should proceed. and indicated
at least one new source of revenue
that might be properly resorted to
in order to avoid future deficit. 1t is
not necessary for ME to repeat what
then said.
II venture to suggest that the vital
business interests of the country re-
quire that the attention of the con-
gress in this session be chiefly devoted
to a consideration of the new tariff
bill and that the less time given to
other subjects of legislation in this
session the better for the country.
WIN. H. Taft"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
SQUARE DEAL
FOR SENATORS
Youngsters Will be Given a
Chance to Win Their
. Spurs

Washington, March 16.--The COM
position of the senate committee on
committees as announced by Senator
Hale. chairman of the Republican
caucus Of the senate, is generally ac-
cepted as indicating a distinct pur-
pose to conciliate the youngsters of
the senate, as the band of erstwhile
insurgents and their sympathizers
are called. Senator'S Aldrich, Kean,
McCumber and Crane of the 'oli
guard" formed but a minority of the
nine members. Senators Flint,
Southland, Curtis, Borah and Dixon
all being of the younger element.
Yet 1t is realized that in this men,
bership there is enough conservative
sentiment to prevent any domination
on the part OF the radicals should an
effort be made by them to do 80. The
fact that the far west predominated
In the committee is also noticeable,
six OF the nine members began from
west OF the Missouri.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
PRESIDENT JAFT'S MESSAGE To CONGRESS
ON THE NEED Of REVISING THE TARIFF LAW
Changed Conditions Make New Schedules Impera.
tive-"Attention Must be Given to Means of
Overcoming Present Deficit

Washington, March 16.-President
Taft today sent to the congress his
message on the tariff, for the purpose
of revising which he has convened
congress in extraordinary session. The
message in full follows:
ITO the Senate and House of Repre-
senatives:
II have convened congress in this
extraordinary session in order to en-
able it to give immediate consideration
to the revision of the Dingley tariff
act. The conditions affecting produc-
ton, manufacture and business gen.
orally have SO changed in the last
twelve years as to require readjust-
ment and revision of the important
duties imposed by that act More than
this; the present tariff act with the
other sources of government revenue,
does not furnish income enough to
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
THE FRIEND Of
DUMB ANIMALS
George T. Angel Died This
Morning at the Age of
Eighty-Six

Boston, March 16-George Thorn
dixie Angel, the friend of dumb ami
mails" and the leader in the humane
educational movement in the United
States. died here early today, aged Sc
years. lie had been in failing health
for a long time. Angel was presi-
dent and one Of the founders of the
Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals and for
twenty years had been president OF
the American Humane Educational
society. Angel established the pub
lication, Our Dumb Animals"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16

pay the authorized expenditures of the
government. By July l.. next. the en-
cess of the expenses over the receipts
for the current fiscal year will equal
S100.000,0O0.
'"The successful party in the late
election is pledged to revision of the
tariff. The country and the business
community especially expect it. The
prospect of change in the rates of
import duties always cause sus-
pension or halt in business because
of the uncertainty as to the changes
to be made and their effect. 1t is,
therefore, of the highest Importance
that the new bill should be agreed
upon and passed with as much speed
as possible consistent with its due
and thorough consideration. For these
reasons. l have deemed it to be an
extraordinary occasion within the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
Operation Was Pronounced a
Feat in surgery-Boy May
Recover ,..t,,x,xfIl
0R|F|CE DRILLED THROUGH
SKULL FOR F0RCEPS TO ENTER
Growth Had Produced a Paralytic Con-
dition and the Removal May Allow
the Brain to Resume Its Normal
Functions Again

Washington, March 16.-What is
pronounced feat in surgery was an
operation on the brain of Russell
Dulin, an IL year old lad, performed at
the Georgetown hospital. The boys
brain was seriously impaired by
humorous growth and this produced
something akin to a paralytic condi-
ton. The surgeon made an incision
in the scalp and drilled an orifice in
the bone of sufficient size to enable
him to use his forceps. The humorous
growth was removed and it is said the
child's brain may assume it's formal
functions,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
BACKBONE Of
STRIKE BROKEN
Operators Who Voted for a
Strike Last Night Working
This Morning

Paris, March 1G.-The general
strike of the telegraph. telephone and
postal employees OF the state. voted
with SO much enthusiasm last night.
is turning out today to be anything
but effective and unless there should
come some sudden change for the
worse. 1t promises to be of q short
duration. An overwhelming majority
of the day shifts in all branches of
the service reported for duty this
morning. Hundreds of men who We're
present at the meetings last night ap-
parently had concluded. after Sleep
ing over the matter that they would
not run the risk OF losing a perman-
ent employment. Nevertheless the
various services We're more or less
crippled OF demoralized today. The
main defections occurred in the tele-
graph and railroad mail services.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
EXILE MINISTER
Man Castro Drove Out of Country Gets
Promotion

Washington, March 16-Pedro Eze-
quiel Rojas. one of the men driven out
of Venezuela by President Castro, will
be acceptable to the United States
as minister from that country accord
ing to official statements made today
He has been living in New York un-
til recently and Is we'll regarded in
Caracas
Mr.. Rojas is about sixty-fiye years
of age. His designation to the post
at Washington follows the success
full results of the mission of Special
Commissioner Buchanan to Venezuela
in reaching a basis of settlement of
the disputes between the two countries
and marks the complete resumption
of diplomatic relations between them,
former American Minister Russell hav-
ing left Washington some days ago to
resume his duties at Caracas.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
ANOTHER NOTED
SCIENTIST TOO
Jader Tjader Will Go Into
Nearly Same Wilds as
Roosevelt ..

Oyster Bay, N. Y, March ia
fellow passenger of ex-President
Roosevelt and other members of the
Roosevelt Smithsonian African expe-
dition on their voyage from Naples to
Mambasa on the steamer Admiral is
to be the noted naturalist, Richard T..
Jader Tjader, who already has left
New York for Europe. He is going
into about the same country as
Roosevelt's expedition, but will not
join the party. His work will be for
the American Museum of Natural
History Of New York.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
NO WORK-SUICIDE
Nineteen Year Old Boy Driven From
Home Takes Life

Indianapolis, Ind, March 16-Gu-
thrie Powers, nineteen years old, kill
ed himself in his room by drinking
carbolic acid late today. He could not
find work. He and the little daughter
of the housekeeper were fast friends
and Guthrie left the child the follow
ing note:
My Dear Little Verna: 1 am sorry
l cannot look into your dear sweet
face again. Honey, goodbye. There
is no place on earth for me. You are
my dearest and only friend. What is
life without friends or home?"
The boy left his home six weeks ago
after a quarrel with his stepfather.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
Will APPOINT
ONLY FIVE NOW
Speaker Cannon Will Only
Name Necessary Committees
at This Time

Washington, March 16-Only five
committees Of the house will be nam.
ed by Speaker Cannon for the present
These will be ways and means, rules
printing, mileage and accounts. The
other committees will be announced
about the time the special session Is
ready to adjourn.
In making up the committees, it is
stated on reliable authority the speak.
er will consult with every member OF
the house, who desires to discuss as
signments with him."
This means that Minority Leader
Clark will not enjoy the privilege ac.
corded his predecessor, John Sharp
Williams, of selecting the minority
members. 1t was stated today that
Mr.. Cannon. after a trial of six years
had reached the conclusion that the
plan was not the best and that hence
forth he will not shift any of the re-
sponsibility for committee assign.
ments to the minority leader.
The attitude taken by the Demo.
Gratis at caucus held this evening,
after the house adjourned. is in sharp
conflict with the new policy OF Speak
er Cannon. A resolution was adopted
to prevent members of the minority
accepting committee appointments
without the approval Of Minority
Leader Clark. The resolution reads
Resolved. that 1t is the sense of
tho Democratic caucus that no Demo-
crat should accept appointment on any
committee without the previous ap-
proval Of the present Democratic
leader"
This was adopted by vote of 1876
to 1, one member voting present"
Previous to the vote, however, a num-
ber of members had left the caucus.
including Repre- sentetives Fitzgerald
IN. W, Moon (Tenn.l. Edwards,
Brantley and Livingston (Ga.)
On the Dalzell motion to adopt the
rules Yesterday, the following thirty
one Republican representatives vot-
ed in the negative:
Cary. Cooper. Davidson, Kopp. kus-
ternann. Ienroot. Nelson and Morse
Of Wisconsin; Fowler of New Jersey;
Gardner and lowering of Massachu-
setts; Gronna, North Dakota; Hayes,
California: Hollingsworth and john
son, Ohio: Madison and Murdoch.
Kansas. Good. Haugen. Hubbard, Ken
dali. Pickett and Wood, Iowa; Hin
sham. Kinkaid and Morris. Nebraska;
Lindbergh, Davis, Steenerson, Fol-
stead, Minnesota; Poindexter, WASH
ington.
The Democrats voting for the rules
were:
Riordan, New York; Broussard,
louisiana: Estcpinal. louisiana; p.
Connell, Massachusetts.
Representative Townsend of AIichi-
gan voted present" under agreement
with Representative Russell of Texas.
Conroy, Fornes and Golldfogle of
New York and Moon of Tennessee,
who voted with the regular Republic
cans on ordering the previous ques-
ton. voted against the adoption of the
rules. The vote of Representative
Johnson Of Ohio increased the insur-
gent vote of so on the previous ques-
ton to tllirty-one on the adoption of
the rules.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
GOT THE CAN
Bingham Fired the Right Hand Man
of Jerome

New York, March 16-Police Lieut.
Peter Beery. personal friend of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome and head of his
staff OF detectives, was today dismiss
ed from the force by Commissioner
Bingham as a result. it is said. Of his
having permitted the escape from Gus
tody OF Francis G. Bailey of Colds
boro" fame. while Bailey was under
restraint in a vessel in the harbor OF
Puerto CorteZ. Honduras.
The vessel was within a mile of
Puerto Cortez and Bailey was taken
TO land by some confederates who
stole up to the ship in Il rowboat.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
DRESS HURTS MORALS
Visitor From africa Extols African
WOmen'S MOdesty.

New York. March 16.-"If American
women wore less clothes they would
be more modest. The women of Afri-
ca wear very little raiment and they
are the most moral women in the
world
This is the contention of Arthur
George Pomeroy Collen. son CT re-
tired English officer, Lieut.. Gen. Sir
Edwin Collen, for 40 years resident
OF British East Africa.
Clothes makes the savage women
shy and coquettish." Mr. Collen con-
tinued. II have noticed that in their
native garb. which consists OF strip
of bark or bit of woolen blanket. they
are as unconscious OF their charms as
children.
How Vanity Crceps in.
"a white shirt waist and skirt, to
which the missionary introduces them.
seem to SOW the first seeds OF vanity.
AS soon as it is explained to them
that they are without sufficient COW
ering it has the most demoralizing
effect upon them. They become vain,
flirtatious. aud conceited as they are
invested with apparel. don't like
to think what would be the result If
q directoire gown were let loose in
their midst. The morality OF morals
would be prodigious!
American women consider African
women savages. Why, as far as mod
esty and morals are concerned the
African women would think the Amer
team women savages. There is tribe
Of Wanderrollos, that If white man
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16
REELFOOT RESERVE
Attempt to Make Tragic Scene Public
Hunting Ground.

Union City, Tenn. March 16.-It
was the opinion of the five witnesses
who testified before the legislative
committee named to report on the bill
making Reelfoot lake, the scene Of
the recent. night rider depredations.
a public game and fish preserve, that
the market fishermen and hunters
would be willing to pay for the privil-
edge and that all contention would
cease as soon as the control of this
privilege passed out of the hands of
the West Tennessee Land company. .
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-16

ana Immediately destroys her hut and
her beautiful shell dress and bids her
make herself a new hut and new
dress.
Wants Missionaries from Africa.
81 think an ornamental purity bri-
gade with an African woman as mis-
sionary would help Occidental morals
and manners. | should like to show
YOU one of the native women before
she has been civilized and dressed,
and one who has been taught the diff
ference between being covered and is
fashionabiy gowned in the latest Eng
lish style.
why, style is responsible for all the
trouble the chiefs and kings of Africa
have with their wives.
They are meek and docile and
modest before they are dressed. Aft
erwards they get regular new wo-
man notions. They begin flirting and
breaking up homes Or huts, should
say, and want to outdress their wom-
Ell friends.
african women believe in trial
marriage, too Mr.. Collen continued,
'and it is very successful. Ten dol
lars in cash or cattle will buy a
charming Cavirondo belle, and after
a simple ceremony they set up house,
keeping in waffle hut. OF course,
If for any reason they find they are
not suited to each other, or the mar
riage has not been a success, the
bride returns to her family and the
chief demands the return of his
caft1p