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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10

that he fancied. He has had only
one minister in his cabinet, and
this man merely was a professional
ilatterer If anyone brought bad
news to the palace, he was likely
to be kicked down the front steps
by Zelaya himself.or to be beaten
by bodyguards. Consequently, Ze-
laya. the autocrat, hemmed in on
all sides by his foes, was ignorant
of the volcano under him until it
was in a high state Of eruption.
AS thug elaya stands first class
among all the Central American
thugs who have mounted shaky
presidential seats. He seized the
property Of others, especially Amer
leans. He hated all gringoes. as the
foreigner is called in the unhealthy,
noisome land.
Like his fCrerunner in revolution
and flight from power Castro, Ze-
laya played the Castro game. He
gave rich concessions, for brides. to
Americans and others, and then
revoked these concessions at will.
People could not stand the effects
Of this conduct long.
Property of Americans was
burned, and they were III treated.
But the state department st Wash
ington was lazy-it always has
seemed lazy in such cases. Prob
ably this laziness was for the sake
of peace in the Pan-American fam
lily, but it made Zelaya actually
think that Uncle Sam was AFRAID
of him. So in this temper he went
on with the conduct which has
made him an international repro
bate.
His sensuality reached climax
when he began breaking into con-
vents and Selling girl victims for
his orgies in the palace. The troops
did his bidding, being well grogged
and Needless of the consequences.
When the converts were desc
Grated by Zelaya. General Juan Els
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10
lE[AYA, MAN WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE
Nicaragua President Stop
ped at No Outrage, But
When He Broke Into Con-
vents the E evolution
Started.

Whether the United Staes or
enemies of his own blood be first
to overthrow him, certain it is that
Jose Santos Zelaya win be known
to the world as the man without a
conscience.
A fratricide, wading through
blood to accomplish the ends OF
his perverted ambition, eZlaya long
has been synonym for terror in
revolt ridden Nicaragua. where now
the revolut!onist army seems at
last to have accomplished the ty-
rants overthrow.
Zelaya is an opportunist, a SEN
sualist, an autocrat, a thug.
And at the same time he pos
sesses the faculty for leading men
that has made him supreme for
years in the fever plagued, tropical,
peppery little republic
Selaya is dark. swa:thy. though
of unmixed blood. A man whose
blood is unmixed is marked in Mica
ragua, because, most Of its people
there who are not wholly Indians
and these include the common
classes-are half breeds. octoroons,
negritos and European adventurers
He himself was educated in Spain
and grew up as a youth to hate
Americans. When he returned 10
the. land he was to rule he brought
this hate with him and also a ma
ture free from control and coupled
with vanity.
On stae occasions, before his ac-
couterments were spattered with
swamp mud in his flight from Man
aqua, Zelaya used to smear his face
with rice powder to make him look
a real 'blanco" OF unmixed blood.
When election day would come
around, the event was a farce. The
stading army of Nicaragua was
marched up and voted for Zelaya.
Then the government got the army
drunk
Consequently, by Zelayas orders,
there were more opportunities to
join the army before the election.
And afterward, if the army ven
tured to beat up few Americans
or burn an American warehouse or
two, nobody cared least of all Ze-
laya.
The United States government
was once awed by Zelaya-he
thought and he dreamed great
dream of becoming a NAPOLEON of
the tropics, bereft of conscience as
he was.
Then the elections became more
corrupt, the army was strengthened
for voting purposes and made more
intoxicated, also for voting pur-
poses. And meanwhile the people
OF Nicaragua stood for all those
things. Zelaya, man without con-
science, still held aloof from tam
pering with the Catholic religion of
his country.
AS an opportunist, Zelaya first
shone. He studied government in
france, Belgium, Londand and New
York. He married a beautiful wo-
San, and all the county soon sym.
/<thized with Nine. Zelaya.
AS sensualist, there was no out
rage against his country's woman
hood that he stopped at
The parents of young girls whom
he had his troops lock up in his
palace have gone to Zelaya's tor
ture chambers in great numbers.
Some have never come back.
AS an autocrat Zelaya carried out
to tho end a0rthin~ c~un1 or unjust
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10

trada, one of the tyrant's own COM
manders, led the long threatened
revolt. Now Zelaya is in flight, and
it will be wonder if he escapes
alive.
Yet this is the man of whom was
spoken recently: HE is to be the
Bolivar of the twentieth century,,
the pacifier and ruler of a united
Central America, the Napoleon of a
reorganized isthmus." .. ..-
Such was the fame of elaya, now
fled, and thus has the reward of
ignominy come to him because he
is the man without conscience.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10
TWENTY-FOUR YOUNG FOLKS
MAKE A WEDDING PACT.

NECKER, Ind, Dec. 10.-A mar
riage pact among ~ couples of
young people living in the Franco
German settlement of Chimney
Pierre Hills has resulted in two
double weddings while the remain
ing couples are anxiously awaiting
their turn. The last double we'd
ding took place at the home of
William Sanneman, as one of his
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10
HEROIC RESCUERs RISK LIVES TO SAVE
PAPER MACHE "CORPSES" FROM FIRE

CHICAGO, Dec 1o.-When company Of fremen entered
smoke filled factory today of
out trembling.
They're lying dead in heaps For sake call the
, jeii
call for ambuances brought half changing
down the street. The flames had gathered
Policeman Sullivan decided He walked in to take
out the dead A volunteers followed.
Five minutes later the grnned sheep
shy vanished into the found
and paper mache trunks, heads and legs
The factory H. manufacturers
surgery supplies.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10

daughters and one son were we'd
ded. Several weeks ago the men,
bers of the marrying club" held
a secret meeting and decided that
it would be a nice thing to do to
have two couples married at a
time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-10
Money-Making Business

The hotels and rooming houses
of this city are making good
money. Get in the swim. We
can trade that house and lot or
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you can make a good income
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We make that specially
800 BUYS a four or five room
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have farms, acreage, timothy
ranches, homesteads and timber
land trades of all kinds.
EAGLE REALTY CO.,
16 Curtis Block, Corner Lin
coin and Sprague.
Phone Main 1856.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-05-28

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
When Winston, as Governor,
 Won the Fight Against ".Stute Aid'

and Percy Walker, Congressman, of Mobile. John E. Belser, ex-Congress- man. and L. J. Judge. Supreme Court Judge, Montgomery; John Cochran of Barbour. Joshua L. Martin, ex-Gover- nor, of Tuscaloosa; Leroy P. Walker. ex-Congressman. of Lawrence; Jabez L. M. Curry of Taliadega, Congress man and Minister. etc; R. s. Hatcher and G. c. Phillips. represented Dallas county; Cochran was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Meek, was Chair man of the Educational Committee. and Curry was Chairman of the Internal Improvement Committee.
 Cochran made but short speeches, or talks. in favor of or against any meas ure from his own seat or wherever he chanced to be when 1t came up. In fact, there were few long speeches or harangues during the session. It was business. Jabe Curry. however. was the central figure. State Aid was the vital topic. Many members of the House. and the ablest, had been in- duced to enter the contestv In favor of 1t, In the Interest of the localities they represented. Curry acted his part wei! in the extension of the Selma, Rome and Dalton NRailroad, he and others were besieged by lobbyists as to other roads in embryo. particularly the N & & then called) to Birmingham and Nashville. But there was no graft, or suspicion of graft. in those days It was plain practical proposition of duty and expediency. But, however desirable. 1t was for individual work, not for the State.
 The sentiment was too much against state Aid" and luckily saved the State from & reckless institution, which would have bankrupted us.
 Alex B. Meek was Chairman of the Committee on Education and drafted bill for system of public schools. in Alabama. It was adopted with very slight notifications and has been the basis of our whole public schools ever since. with slight changes.
 There should be In every public school in the State a tablet or memo rial as monument of the author of the first free public schools in Alabama.
 What write Is history, though im- perfect, from memory alone. I regret that the Secretary of State is unable to supply the Journals of that session of the Legislature that I might be more specific as to the record of Gov ernor Winston and his compeers, who saved the State from wild legislation and bankruptcy; I expect all are now dead
 There should be some means of col lecting and . restoring those missing journals Doubtless if Mir. Julian | would call for them, many could be restored or reclaimed. Are there any of that Legislature now living?
 would like to knew.
 Selma. February 2s, 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
Men and Women
 Suffering with Nerves" Read This

The impairment of the nervous force in men and women is first manifested by extreme nervousness, sleeplessness, dread, worry and anxiety without req son, trembling of the hands and limbs, with the slightest exertion, heart palpi- tation, constipation. kidney trouble, and a general inability to act ration ally at all times as others with health in their bodies do. This, if neglected, leads to deqbondepcy, melancholia and lost. ambition. making the likelihood of q cure more and. more difY1cult, while frequently locomotor ataxia, 'blind staggers." paralysis and even insanity are direct result of 'neglectfng to in- crease the life giving nerve force.
 A simple home treatment has been provided which. If taken in time, will certainly work wonders. The mixture can be prepared at home by obtaining the four ingredients separately, and the embarrassment or timidity which most sensitive people abhor Is thus avoided various prescriptions.
 In a half pint bottle get three ounces of syrup sarsaparilla compound, and add to this one ounce compound fluid balmwort and let stand two hours; then get one ounce compound essence cardiol and once ounce tincture cado. meme compound (not cardomom): mix all together. shake well and take . tea spoonful after each meal and one at retiring.
 This contains no opiates whatever and may also be used by men and wo. men who suffer with their nerves with absolute certainty of prompt and last ing henents.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

tickied with the arrangement as are the Yankees"
 Negro Land Owners.
 Actuated by e false sentiment. these ''kind-hearted Southerners" have per- mittei the poor niggers" to acquire land in the South on the easiest pos sible terms: and now the shadow of negro landlordism." Is beginning to arise-"no bigger than a mans hand" ito becloud the situation. and add to the difficulties of the problem" Your Southern orator is ever ready to dilate on the gravity and menace of this negro problem; yet name me the Southern man in public life who has ever laid his hand to one practical scheme for removing this menace from his section.
 who is deeply interested in the negro question and aggressively insistent upon the negro's rights" told me that Senator Bacon of Georgia had voiced most pessimistic sentiment in re- gard to 1t. saying in effect that there was no solution: that 1t was an in- soluble problem"
 And Senator Bacon Is quite light so long as we call 1t ''the Southern prob lem;" but what has Senator Bacon. or any other Southern Senator ever done
  ting?
 In the recent senatorial pow-wow over the Crum appointment. the food gates of southern eloquence were un- loosed. but so far as any report of 1t reached the outside world. they merely re-thrashed the old straw. Nothing practical, nothing remedial or construc- tive was heard.
 Senator McLaurin of Mississippi had an excellent opportunity. when Sena- tor Beyeridge made his proud boast that. mo foot of Indiana soil was for. bidden to the negro. and no constitu- tional right denied him there," to re- spond with suggestion to send half of the Mississippi. negroes up into that favored Beverijge region-but no such sensible proposal as that broke the stiffness of the Senate Chamber more's the pity!
 Senator Money in the same connec- tion, pade a powerful appeal for the integrity of the Anglo-Saxon race in this country. which we are told stirred some of the Northern Senators to the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
N. A. AGEE WRITES OF A STORMY
 SESSION.
The Legislature of 1854, in Its Indt- vidual Personnel, Was One of the
 Strongest That Ever Assem-
 bled at the Capitol.
RY N. A. AGEE.


 A recent Advertiser mentioned the receipt by Dr. owen of a portrait of Governor John A. Winston. This re- calls to my mind the campaign of 1853 and the Legislature of 18534.
 The issue in the campaign was State aid to railroads, whether the State should enter into a system of internal improvements and endorse the bonds of those already begun and others in prospect. Governor Winston vigorous ly opposed the whole scheme. The election for State officers was the first Monday in August. and he was elect ed Governor by large majority.
 Another Issue in that election (though mostly locaD was the temper ance or anti-liquor platform. A few enthusiasts met in Selma and prepared bill to be submitted to the Legisla- ture for adoption, restricting the sale of intoxicants, and suggesting to the voters not to support any candidate who would not promise to vote for the bill.
 This manifesto cut but Q small fg- ure in the election and the movement fell still born. The voters were then conservatives. had not been educated CD to favor a paternal government and sumptuary laws. They opposed one-Idea man-thought if a candidate was competent to legislate on other subjects for the Interest of the public, he could act wisely on that special matter; and refused to vote for men committed to one idea, without refer ence to other qualifications. The Leg islature met in November and Cover nor Winston was inaugurated Decem- Der 20, in simple unpretending way, without display or pyrotechnics.
 He was a plain man, not given to fattery or demagogery. but firm in his convictions of right. not swerved by popular clamor; stern, almost aus- tere in his manner, but never used the big stick to threaten, or the persua- sive powers of executive patronage to persuade CD or coerce recalcitrant members to his way of thinking He was honest and straightforward without or play to the galleries. Hence his following was sincere and  The House of Representatives was composed of many of the ablest men in the State. was perhaps equal In talent. | If not superior to any ever assemb bled at the Capitol. Among them were men before and since known to fame: ex-Governors and | I recall A. B. Meek ]
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
The .South's Economic Folly

course we will be forced to try some other kind of labor"
 White Labor.
 Now my Southern friends, in all frankness. what sort of white labor do you hope to entice into the South with that sort of talk? Is 1t not reasonable to suppose that a self-respecting Ger man, or Swede, or Scotch-Irishman a n would reply to 1t: If they prefer their precious 'nlggers.' by all means let them keep them. We don't care to intrude."
 In Richmond. va.. a few weeks ago. the secretary of the Immigration Bureau there told me he was daily In receipt of letters conveying this very idea and the dread of social condi- tons superinduced by the negro's presence. Hence the South, the fairest and richest section of this smiling land of liberty, is hampered and clogged at every step of her progress by the economic dilemma of negroes who won't work, yet occupying the space and blocking the way for any other laborers who might.
 And who is to blame for this con- dition? In seeking to right any wrong, 1t is all-important to fix the responsf- bility for the wrong. and thus begin at the beginning. A reform of system. to be effective, must come from with in; and while 1t may be a thankless office to tell these Southern orators who have been bowling over the race problem for the past forty years, that they more than anybody else have re- tarded it's peaceable and. equitable set tlement; nevertheless. this seems to be the fact. The history of the negro question in this country. as every body knows who has studied 1t. Is the history of sectionalism. We fought d sectional war over him. and the end Is not yet The South was loser in that sectional fight. and it would seem she ought to have learned something, but it does not appear that she has. For her orators are still piping sec- tional strain on the negro question. and her people are blocking the only practical way of obtaining for 1t a national consideration and an amicable adjustment.
 The sum total of Southern states manship since emancipation has been: This is our problem: we understand the negroes, and if the North will only hands-off and leave us alone with them, we'll settle it"'
 All the Southern orators and edi- tors, from Henry Grady to Henry Wat terson. have insisted in season and out. that "the South was the place for the negro: that the southern white man was his best friend; and that here he would find his best opportunity and greatest good"
 Who does not see that the net pur- port of all this southern talk has been to fasten yet more firmly on southern soil this black incubus. and to make of our section ''the negro quarter" of these United States, thereby damning 1t industrially. economically. and every other way?
 For whatever may be said for or against the negro, there is no disput- ing his unpopularity-he admits this much himself; and every real estate agent in every city can testify that wherever the negroes congregate in any particular, locality. there the property values decline, X,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
BY ANNIE M. CLISBY. ,

Six weeks ago. with fear and tremb- ling, we left Phil Armstrongs "Janu- ary sunshine in Alabama" for this land of Ice and snow. and for -four weeks after our arrival not one glimpse of the ground did we get. snow. snow. Ice. ice, till our eyes were blinded and our hearts faint within us. At the end of that time. 1t was curious to see the street force digging 1t up with pick axes and loading 1t on the carts in solid blocks. Of course it had not been allowed to pack that way on the crossings, nor in the business district. The first morning after getting here we heard a COW bell ringing In the dawn and thought we must surely be dreaming. Then came another and another. until at six o'clock it sounded like herd being driven to pasture snowy instead of green. Then there was a variation in the tune, the long disused dinner bell ringing vigorously.
 Certainly" we thought this is a nigh tmare that we can't shake off" Getting up, We peeped out the window and discovered that 1t was no dream. Every milk wagon. delivery wagon. city cart, every description of wagon had either genuine COW bell or an old ashioned dinner bell fastened to the horses collar All that day and each succeeding one the dangling pro- cesion continued but we were not able at first to get an explanation. Then we were told that when all the vehicles are on runners. and the horses feet fall noiseless in the deep snow, the pedestrians are in constant danger at the crossings; so a city ordinance pro- vides that every horse shall be belIed. Private vehicles are. of course, equipp- ed with the musical sleigh bells, but for the rest, 1t Is case of "any old bell" The effect is rather startling to strangers and not conducive to morning slumber.
 We are in the heart of the Students Quarter" of the city. The New Eng land Conservatory of Music. five schools of Expression, a Medical Col lege. and private studios innumerable are all within few blocks; and there Is an endless procession of students, men and women day and night: stu dents with a varied assortment of musical instruments: students with rolls of music: students with bags suggesting horrible surgical instru- ments; students with bags of books; student intent upon note books; ear nest students; fiippant students; well dressed students; seedy students; all sorts and conditions of students.
 To feed this studious host restau-