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The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28
NATIONAL POLITICS.
[Goodwin's weekly
beware!

The Senate is working its weary
way through the tariff schedules.
The result cannot yet be foreshad-
owed, except that at present writ
ing the tariff on metals will not be
changed.
The bill proposing a national in
come tax law has been holly debat-
ed during the past few days. To
make a guess we should say it will
be defeated in the Senate. The
great moneyed interests of the east
of course oppose it, and then there
are great many bright men who
believe it is something which the
Federal Government has nothing
to do with, that it belongs exclu-
sively to the states. and the argu-
ments behind this idea are very
strong.
One curious feature of the tariff
debates is that a good many south
ern democrats favor the tariff on
certain articles which their imme-
diate constituents were directly in
terested in--though this is shock
ing from the standpoint of their
own platform-while a good many
northern republicans are leaning
toward a great reduction in many
of the schedules. We suspect that
this is merely human nature. Man
is, down deep, supremely selfish
creature, and the southern member
whose constituents are, say rice and
sugar planters, dares not go home
and'meet the reproachful question:;
why were you mum in our behalf,
when every other interest except
ours was being looked after?"
We suspect nothing will be done
at this session looking to a new cur
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28

rency law. The able men who have
the matter in hand, either cannot
agree, or there are difficulties in
their path which they cannot yet
surmount. Indeed, the principle
they are working on, tofound cur
rency system on a nations debt,
looks like travesty from the very
start. But how can they change
that with all the banking interests
in the country founded upon it2
No wonder the wise men hesitate
before promulgating their plan.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28

revise the tariff in accordance with
its pledges.
"The people know the Republi-
can party well enough to know that
even though inadvertently, it might
make expressions that sounded
badly, it could be trusted in the
hour of its responsibility" He rid
iculed those Republicans who inter-
preted the platform to mean that
the party was committed to revis-
ion downward.
Senator Borah, who had been a
member of the committee that
drafted the Chicago platform and
the tariff plank, and who is also
identified with the faction of the
party denounced by Hepburn, took
issue with his colleague. He clearly
resented Heyburn's slurs.
Il am one of these" said Sena-
tor Borah, who believe that the
Chicago platform meant an honest
and faithful revision of the tariff,
and that that revision was under
stood in the public mind to be re-
vision downward, but always with
in lines of sufficient protection to
American industries and American
labor"
He cited declarations of Presi-
dent Taft to show that he also in
terpreted the platform and favored
revision downward.
And the worst of it is Aldrich
and his crowd will win out on
all vital issues that come before
congress. On every vital point
for relief for the masses and re-
form, they either win in opposi-
ton, or so modify the measures
passed that the beneficial fea-
lures are all made null and void.
How long, 0 CatalineI will you
abuse our patience?" as Cicero
exclaimed when delivering his
famous address before the Roman
Senate, at the trial of CatiIine
for graft and corruption, short
time before the downfall of the
Roman Empire. History is re-
peating itself, and the time is
fast approaching when q. S. Sen
ators will be brought to the bar
OF justice for ignoring the wishes
OF their constituents. Hepburn,
bewarel
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28

Senator Hepburn has at last
come out and declared how he
stands on the question of keep
ing faith with the people and re-
deeming the pledges made in
party platforms and adopted at
the National Conventions. How
do you likeit2 Senator Hey burn
had many admirers, even among
the democrats, before he began
to show his true sentiment on
questions of vital interest to all
patriotic citizens, but when he
says that .. s. Senators must
not be instructed by their con-
stituents, and that pledges in
party platforms are made not
only to catch votes and to be
broken at the will of the party
bosses, he not only looses the es-
TEEN and respect of the masses
of the people, but the leaders of
his own party cannot help but
feel that he has lost all sense of
right, justice and patriotism. On
the other hand, Senator Borah
takes the stand that the revis-
ion plank in the Chicago plat
form was made in good faith and
that the republican party should
redeem the pledges for revision
as understood by the people, and
advocated by Taft and other
party leaders during the last
presidential campaign. Itwould
be much better for all citizens of
the u. s. if more of the repub-
lican party would "absorb dem
ocratic doctrine" as Senator
Hepburn expresses it, and thus
conform to the wishes of the peo-
pie. At any rate the republican
party, not only in congress, but
oil over the country is getting
hopelessly divided on this vital
question, with Aldrich, Cannon,
Hepburn & Co., as leaders of one
faction, and the better element.
led by BOrah and others IN tho
other.
The following associated press
dispatch needs no explanation:
Washington, May Ex-senator
Hepburn in his tariff speech in the
senate today went out of his way
to arraign the progressive Republi-
cans for their advocacy of honest
tariff revision, denounced the plat
form committee that inserted the
revision plank in the Chicago plat
form, declared that they were actu-
ated in doing so solely because of
fear and made the declara ton that
the Chicago convention was not
representative of the Republican
party as whole, but was in con-
troll of faction OF the party that
had absorbed Democratic doctrine.
He undertook to say that the peo-
pie did not expect the party to live
up to its platform declaration and |
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28
FRIDAY. MAY %. 1909.
Chicago Platform
A Fake

Senator Hepburn declares that
Republican Party did not in
tend to live UP to pledges Only
made TO catch Bora n
and Others who wrote Platform
had absorbed Democratic Doc
trine.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28

Our spring line of shoes win be in about
next week. We will have everything in
Oxford's for Ladies, Gents and Children,
at the Silver City Supply Co.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28
Stove Repairs at Philips.

Sweeney has suits of all kinds, and can
fit any size from aclothespin to tubemill.
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-05-28

Jap-a-Lac, Liquid Veneer, Housepaint,
Oils, Varnishes, Enamels, Bronzes and
Brushes at Philips.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

A selfish man can not possibly
De a town builder -Apa lachico-
la Times. Eminently correct,
brother Johnson. But he can be,
and usually is, the greatest
drawback to the prosperity OF
a town Selfshness has never
yet accomplished anything for
general prosperity, but when
men, good men, strong men.
orainy men, forget their own
little selfish motives and work
together for the general good
my! how they can make things
hum.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30
A Sprained Ankle.

AS Ally treated II spra;ned ankle
VIII disable the injured person for 3
month or more, but applying Chamber
Ia'n's Liniment and observing the d.
REGIONS with each bottle faithfully, q
cure may, in most cases, be effected NJ
ess than one weeks time. The lint
nent is most remarkable preparation;
Try 1t fer sprain or a bruise, or wh{n
LAID up with chronic or muscular rhfl-
ratlsm, and YOU are. certain to be VI
lighted with the prompt relief which,
Affords. For sale by W. b Davis and
B. F. Mosely.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

1t is always pleasant to an
editor to have his readers COM
mend him for his efforts, and we,
like the average scribe ARE deep
ly appreciatiye of the many
kind comments received because
OF our paragraph in last week 5
paper concerning certain condi-
lions and necessities of our town.
But after all, words, unless fol-
lowed by deeds, count for but
little, and if we could only see a
determined effort upon the part
OF our people to carry into effect
the suggestions which we have
offered, then, indeed, we could
feel that our labors have not
been IN vain. We claim no credit
Tor our honest desire to see our
Town emerge from lis SAUNDERS
and by the united efforts of all
our people take the place ia
commercial. moral and material
circles TO which its advantages
entitle 1t. We want to see the
town blossom into a live. pro.
gressiye and enterprising city.
We know that We possess the
natural advantages in abundant
measure, and we believe that bv
the exercise of a broad spirit
a spirit which works for "tbe
good OF all" rather than for the
good of individuals-we could
make of our town market place
sought by people from all sec
tons A newspaper may sug
gest out 1t is up to the people
themselves to make the sugges.
IONS mature into living facts
Let us all get busy, Talk up
the town, talk up the county
Let the outside world know
what we are and what we can
do Invite settlers, Offer them
inducements. Let our own conn
ty people understand that here
in Madison they will receive as
good prices for their products
as they can obtain elsewhere.
and that they can supply their
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

Fifteen cent cotton looks very
probable, and chat before Christ
mas. Such a price will help a
goodly number of our farmers in
This county WHO raise that kind
OF cotton--the kind called Up
iand-but we would also like
very much to see thirty or
thirty-fve cents the mark e t
price for the Sea Island variety.
That would help MS more as we
raise more Of it.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

1t is an old saying that "what
is nobody's business is every
body's business" and that is
our excuse tor grabbing the
bull by the horns" and issuing
the call for meeting Of citizens
of the town of Madison which
appears in another column. Mr..
Business Man, it is your duty
to be present at this meeting.
You have no right TO SIT snugly
at home and leave it to the other
fellow to plan for your prosper
ity. The movement which we
hope to inaugurate at this meet
ing is for the universal good.
and you have a right-nay, it is
your duty to help the movement
along. We don't know lust
what the meeting will do, we
don't know what direction it
will take. We have absolutely
no personal motive in calling it.
but we call it for the sole Dur.
pose OF getting our people to-
gether TO discuss matters which
may arise at the meeting look
ing to the betterment of condi-
tons in our town and county.
We earnestly hope to see every
business man and every patriotic
citizen of the town present when
the meeting is called4o order.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

Editor Smith of the Tallahas
see True Democrat landed the
State printing contract which.
was awarded at Tallahassee last
week Congratulations. brother.
Smith. 1t is a Juicy plum and
you ought to be able TO retire iu|
Il fewyears.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30
HOppity Hop.

Are you just barely getting around
by The aid Of crutches or a cane? I'm
less you have lost limb or have a dc
tormlty--if your trouble is rheumatism
iumoa0o' sprain'stiff jonts,or anything
OF like nature use Billiards. Snow Lini.
ment and in no time you can throw awav
your erutches and be as well as anyone
sofa oy W. B. Davis Price esc 5Oc
and sl.O0. wv
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

Who was it said that Madison
bonds would find no sale in the
money markets? If anybody
even thought such a thing he
mas another think coming. Our
recent forty-fve thousand dol
lar bond issue for public i'm
provements has been sold TO a
Chicago company for one hun
dred cents on the dollar, and ne
fore many weeks have passed the
construction of the various i'm
provements will be under way.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30
COLUMBUS B. SMITH. EDITOR.
THURSDAY, SEPT 30, 1909.

Doing business? Don't forget
TO see the Tax Collector to-mor.
row and renew your license, else
Sheriff Stanton might seek to
interview you.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30

necessities at our stores as cheap
ly as any other town can supply
them. Reach out, turn them
this way and when you get them
here accord them such treatment
as will insure their return.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-30
Whya

from a small beginning the sale and
use OF Chamberlain's Cough Remedv
mas extended to all parts OF the Unitea
W ,ya ana to many foreign countries
why? Because IL Las proved esnso;eI
y, ~ valuable Tor @ uohs and colds. For
SAFE oy " B. DAVIS and B, F. Mosety
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12
KEPOIkAI CHARGES WERE
LOST IN THE SHUTTLE
(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
By Ernest G.. Walker.

(Mal Special to the Adveriser)
WASHINGTON
against
Interior
reluctance official circles discussing
claimed the Justice
toward outing the Judge is in prospect.
BRECKoNS REPORT DIGESTED.
by W.
iably made.
probably
forwarded the Capitol
Committee
for the Christmas holidays.
Delegate Kalaninaole
General
Honolulu They
that city The Quartemer
henceforh portion supplies
heavier supplies such as feed provided
transportation supplies but willing
n
NO
school to the War Department
the pupils could drill military
grade.
QUEENS HEARD
The Delegate
bill Territory maintaining
in good way pass
Senate this
COFFEE PROSPECTS
The
Tor revenue purposes is understood
not been formally discussed by the Committee
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12
PERSISTENT vAGRANT
REARRESTED YESTERDAY

George f. Steele, who has been max.
ing a nuisance of himself about the
streets for several weeks, and who was
sent to the reef last week for drunken
ness, was gathered in by the police
again last evening. He was drunk, as
nsual, but loudly proclaimed himself as
sober as any policeman. Steele had
been making a nuisance of himself dur
ing the evening by entering the Young
Hotel, from which he was elected sew
eral times. The police were notified and
he was arrested at the corner of Fort
and King streets. At the station he
said he was as good as anybody and
to prove it slapped an ofiicial.looking
envelope down on the desk.
Examination of the contents showed
that Steele was at one time member
of the 43rd Volunteer Infantry and tha
he had received an honorable discharge
In answer TO letters from local peopl
asking about his standing in forme
times. there were several replies mostl,
from Pennsylvania in which the writer
said that they had known Steele abou
fifteen years ago and had employed hiI
only a short time and that therefor
they knew little about OF of him. Steel
claims TO be the son of a prominer
railroad man Of Altoona, Pa The pOlC
are in hopes that a thirty-day sentenc
will be the means of putting Steele o
his feet again.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12
PRICE OF BEEF
ON THE JUMP

Beef, on the hoof or sawed into Other
shapes, is going up. This year has been
a bad COW year, not only on Hawaii
but throughout the Union, and not only
throughout the Union, but throughout
the world. Worse yet, according to
meat men, the whole world is getting
nearer to compulsory vegetarian
basis, hogs, poultry and sheep being
decreased in numbers everywhere.
In Hawaii, particularly in Honolulu,
ahc price of beef will go up very short
ly. probably this week. This is due to
n number of causes, the main and most
pressing one being that the drought has
affected the local supply and there are
very few heef cattle left in the Terri
tory ready for the market. The i'm
portations to Honolulu from hawaii
have stopped, parity because there are
few to export and mainly because the
beef eaters on Maui are offering bigger
prices than Honolulu buyers and are
getting what few go out. The retail
quotations on Maui last week were:
Choice cuts, 17la cents; rumps and
rounds, 10 cents, and beef, just PLAIN
beef, l2M cents per pound.
Honolulu will have to look to the
mainland or the Colonies for beef, just
as it looks to the Colonies now for
portion of its mutton and to the main
land east for its poultry. These i'm
haN n mi
once or there viii be no beef on the
market at any price.
The London Meat Trades Journal is
of the opinion that the worlds meat
supply is rapidly decreasing, while the
demand, if normal conditions continue,
must necessarily increase with the in
crease of population. The world is
eating up its sheep, says the Journal,
and the number on foot is steadily be-
ing diminished. As, this view applies
10 the former great herds of Australia
and all the other sheep-breeding parts
of the world, it means more than such
statements usually do; and if true it
affects not only the supply of food, but
the supply of clothing also. With the
reduction of mutton must come a cor
responding reduction of wool.
The important British authority
above referred to declares further that
available statistics show that the num-
ber of cattle, hogs and poultry is also
diminishing at such a rate that should
there be no increase all would be con-
sumed within three years. In other
words, the world now has on hand but
three years supply of meat, and unless
the increase exceeds the consumption
which it is not doing now, the time
can not be distant when meat will be
more and more of luxury.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12
.H|LO GIRL TRIES
To DROWN HERSELF

Mrs. Mary Plaine, formerly of Hilo,
tried to commit suicide oa December
27 by lcaping from the deck of the
ferryboat Oakland into San Francisco
bay. The woman made the attempt at
2:SO in the afternoon, but was saved
by a boats crew. She was accompa-
MED on the boat at the time by her
little daughter, Mabel, aged FIVE years.
The Chronicle says:
Mary Plaine is native of Hawaii,
of Spanish descent, very beautiful and,
according to her own account, is pos.
sessed of husband who for years past
has been treating her harshly, acting
unkindly to the children, living a life
Of comparative idleness, drawing the
income from his wife's property, and
at the same time cherishing an affinity
whose identity his wife is unwilling t
disclose.
"The pair were married six wear
ago at Hilo, Mary Plaine being at tn
time fifteen years of age. They short
ly afterward came to this city, wher
Charles Plaine, the husband, met tn
woman he had formerly loved and VIII
has been, according to the wife,
scourge to the happiness of the house
hold. Two children have been born t
the marriage, Mabel, now five, an
Charles, two and half years old.
"After coming to San Francisc
Mrs. Plaine became proprietress, of a
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12
PEARL HARBOR
CONTRACTORS

The advance guard of contractors on
the lookout for contracts for Pearl
Harbor work arrived last evening in
the Nippon Maru in the persons of
Charles McDermott and ]. J. Overn.
engineer, of the McDermott Contract
ing Company of Philadelphia. The
head of the concern is here to person.
ally go over the specifications for the
drydock and other naval works, size up
the situation and put in their bids.
which will have to be submitted by
Wednesday next.
"We are down here to see what
Pearl Harbor looks like, size up the
situation and the specifications and
bid in all we can get,'' said Mr.. Overn
last evening. HThere's about three
and a half million dollars in the Jobs
and we want to get them all. Wen
burn up the cable while here and hope
to land the job"
The contractors made inquiries con-
cerning the supply of labor, parapher-
nafia, supplies, ETC., even before land
ing from the steamer. They will get
busy today and lose no time while they
are in town. The contractors are here
as lie.over passengers and may con-
tinue on to the Orient. Otherwise they
will pay the usual fine to the steam
ship company, amounting to 5000 each,
and remain on the ground, which
would enable them to return to the
mainland by coastwise steamer.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
COMING FOR PLEASURE

W. II. Bancroft, one of the leading
men of the Southern Pacific Railway
company, and E. L. Calvin, vice pres
ident and general manager of the South
ern Pacific, with headquarters at San
Francisco, whom the cable press dis
patches yesterday morning stated were
coming to Honolulu, sail from the Coast
today on the Siberia. A private letter
received from prominent railway man
of Utah gives the information that the
visit of the two railway men is purely
for recreation and for pleasure, and is
probably the hrst outing of the kind
either official has had for eighteen OF
twenty years.
They may visit the volcano, and vii
probably so arrange their visit that
they will return to the Coast about the
end of the month. The writer says
that their lives have been particularly
active in the development of railways
in the Rocky mountains and west To
the Pacific coast and their official
careers have teemed with enormous re-
sponsibilities and strenuous work.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Bancroft was
at the head of the old Union Pacific
system with headquarters at Salt Lake
City and Ogden, while Mr.. Calvin was
superintendent of the Idaho division, al
Pocatello. Both have risen rapidly In
the railway service and are regarded a.
authorities in all railway matters.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-12

in another official envelope, addressed
to G. w. Carr, Assistant Superintend.
ent of Railway Mail Service. Mr..
Stayton's actions were closely observed
after the Nippon Maru mail arrived.
He was seen to leave his office and go
to the lavatory. Later the lavatory
door was opened and Mr.. Stayton was
found with the two envelopes address
ed to Mr.. Hare and the one addressed
to Mr.. Carr. The latter one had been
opened and Mr.. Stayton was reading
the enclosure when caught.
On being taken to Mr.. Breckons' Of
fee he admitted that he had abstrasted
the letters from the mail and that he
had opened the Carr letter. and that
had gone so far as to destroy letters.
This accounted for the requests that
came from the Postoffice Department,
calling attention to the fact that Mr..
Hare had not answered some of the Of
fetal communications.
1t is stated that at the investigation
Mr. Stayton gave an odd excuse for
his action. He said that he was over.
worked and had feared that an order
would come ordering a new inspection
OF ms Office and he didn't want such
an inspection, and therefore intercept
ed the letters.
The penalty for opening letters ad-
dressed to others and destroying the
contents is severe, and is particularly
so when an employe of the postoffice
department is the guilty one. The pub
lies only safeguard in having mail
properly forwarded is through the hon.
esty of its employees. Where this hon
esty fails the public is at the mercy
of men on the inside.
Mr.. Stayton has been connected with
the Honolulu postoffice for several
years, and rose from clerkship to his
present position after showing devotion
to his duties. He is young man and
has enjoyed blameless name up to the
present time.