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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-02-19
HIGH PRICES


divided into two parts : first, what
is not the cause, and second, what
is the cause?
First of all, the increased pro-
duction of gold is not the cause,
neither is the tariff, so l cannot be
preaching either Republican or
Democratic politics.
Gold is the measure of all val
ues. Cheap gold must raise all
prices alike. You make hats; l
make shoes. Hats are So, so are
shoes. Suppose that hats go to
$40. What difference is that to
me, if shoes go to $40. Prices are
nominally high, but l can still get
a hat for a pair of shoes. If hats
went TO $40, while shoes remained
the same, l would be injured; but
if this were the case, cheap gold
could not be the cause, for cheap
gold necessarily means increased
prices of everything of which gold
is the measure of value; that is, Of
all labor products and of all labor
also.
The tariff, then, say some. This
also is a fallacy. Suppose by rea-
son of some unaccountable in
crease in the demand for shoes my
shoe business suddenly became
twice as profitable as your hat
business. You do not make hats
because you want hats. You make
hats because you want money. If
you can get money more easily
making shoes, you will quit the
hat business. If you do not go
into the shoe business, enough
others will, to bring my profits
down to the average return.
But suppose this increased profit
in the shoe business were due, not
to an increased demand for shoes,
but to tariff on shoes. Will not
the advantage due to the tariff in
vite fresh competition just as GER
tainly as though it were due to
something else? What, then, is
the cause? Let us look at it be-
fore we give it a name.
You may raise the price of your
hats as high as you like, but how
can you compel the public to pay
your price? You cannot, unless
you can prevent others from max
ing and selling hats more reason
ably.
Notice now the ways Of doing
this If you can get a patent on
something that the people want,
you can charge high price be-
cause the patent makesitimpossible
for the public to buy of anyone
else.
Or you may get franchise fix
ing some unreasonably high price
at which you are given the exclu.
sive business of selling goods. II
you have hats or shoes to sell, of
course you will not be foolish
enough to expect such grant.
But if you are selling gas or cleo
tricity or street car transportation,
you will seek "A franchise which
will protect you from competition
while it permits you to charge
enough to ply the customary wild
ows' and orphans dividends.
Again, you may engage IN some
business, like railroading or the
manufacture of woolens, which,
while not resting on any legal
privilege, nevertheless requires
such vast investments OF capital
that combination is easily possible
and through the formation Of
trusts or by secret understandings,
iniquitous profits may b. reaped
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-02-19

something that cannot be repro
duced, and yet they must be had.
These are four ways of making
people pay you exorbitant prices
patents, franchises, collision
with your competitors, and the
ownership of social value in land.
The best name for these four
things is monopoly-and arsenic
would be good remedy.-Rev.
Herbert S Bigelow.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-02-19
LINcoLN'S BIRTHDAY

Lincoln's birthday was cele-
brated in Denver last Saturday
when it is reported that at least
l2,00O republicans gathered from
every county and nearly every pre-
cinct in the state.
Harmony seemed to be the uni
vcrsal watchword and the defeat Of
the party two years ago admon-
ished all that il will require united
action to regain the state in the
fall.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-02-19

A. l.. Stroup went 10 Denver
Monday night to attend n weeks
session Of Forestry business, ut
which all tho supervisors in tho
district will DO present.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1910-02-19

The Chicago Tribune has taken
vote of western republican editors
TO get preferences of presidential
candidates for 1912. Roosevelt
leads with 1860 votes, Taft comes
next with 1883 votes, La Toilette
third with 1877, Hughes, l22, Cum
minis, %, Pinchot 30, Deliver
and Cannon II each.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-09-02

Lisools C0sn., Leader PHH, TslsAs. Or
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

Usually the manager sov ,av 7,r-- .. q. 2 tae
long run for this same treasurer WOULD rurn
around and rob his employer with equal avid
itv,
Only q few years ago che tr------r q
Broadway playhouse was discover 70b0ng
the theater nightly OF sums va-vl-g from
fifty 10 one hundred dollar. which he accom-
pliShed through the con1ederaC- or -he man
who took tickets at the gallery door, Up G.
that time even the most PTogress-V@ -leaIerS
tised gallery tickets made Of 5t-tt -.-- oozsd.
which were sold over and over again Il Wa5
an easy matter for the man on -Er s17r oI the
gallery, who collected these tickets. -I return
batch every now and then during The evening
to the ticket seller down stars s1-, I1v- aI'''
sell them over again
In this way. with a packed gallery. ~aeA as
the theater IN question vas drawing -- -cAtl
could be made 10 do double duty. and The box
office man would have 20 account only -'7 t7e
number of hard tickets found n c-a -. Ser DON
when the counting was done
y man connected with Clc -lcl-5r prclrd
10 90 up in the gallery one night. he -l- %.
served that the receipts from THIS 11rTl1n 'i
the house were not 80 large a~ they ~-1-.d oe,
and investigated making an actual count ot
the people VINO came m. II did not agree Win
the number OF tickets accounted for fer Oh
BY the treasurer. The -1--c-. when called u
book confessed,
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
The Old Short Change Game

MEMBER for instance. an individual n
d thcatcr IN Boston who could take a twenty
dollar bill from woman Who was buving two
one-dollar seats, and then look her in the face
and swear that she had given him only a two
dollar bill. | saw him do it once The woman
demanded change and he looked SnIl1ngly at
her saving
Change madam For what
'I gave YOU a twenty-doilar bill
You gave NE q tWeu- and then he
reached for the money drawer. into which he
had thrust the bill with apparent carelessness,
opening IL so she could see its contents. There
was certainly nothing that looked ike a twenty
dollar bill in sight Instead, on the pile where
he had plainly placed the woman 5 money. It
posed q neat tvo-dollar bill He pointed 70 -.
There, madam is the very bill YOU gave me
You saw mt put 1t there, d1dn't yOut
Il did: but | am sure
VERY sorry. madam. but YOU are mistaken.
However Il you doubt me- | am unable 90 help
t. What can YOU dor Well. | VIII count my
cash carefully this evening. and II YOU come out
during the performance III see II / have made
4 mistake. But think YOU will find on taxing
your memory. that YOU have made the error,
Good morning. madam
Now, | had not seen the twenty dollar bill SO
surely that | could have sworn that the treas
A few years later he was caught stealing from
the manager of the theater. exactly rs he had
stolen from the public
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
An Inconvenient Draft

7 RECALL a similar case. which occurred m
New York The front Ot the theater had
been TemOdelcd and the bOXOfflCC moved across
the lobby. The treasurer moved INTO his new
CffiCe and Immediately there was howl from
HIM. The manager came IN 10 see what the
trouble was.
The draft Mr.. Blank" said the treasurer.
It's terrible How do YOU expect me 70 work
in this place.
Why" said the manager. on Investigation,
II don't see that there's such a terrible draft.
No more than IN the old boXotfce."
No" SAID the treasurer. no worse; but II 5
out instead of in. How can | work here"
An outward draft would blow any money
placed on the ticket window sill out into the
lobby. instead of into the boNothce. thus max
ing IL impossible for the treasurer TO play the
old 1t must have got lost on the floor some
where-Iu look it up and send II 70 YOU
game.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01

Grand Got two good seats in 4, center aisle
Hold 'em7 What nane2 All right No i'm
possible. I'm sorry. but can hold EN- only
till seven-thirty. You'll call; Very we'll.
CAT the window Beg pardon: told you
I had nothing nearer than y. and just told that
ladv over the phone she could have two IN y
center aisle You'd prefer those, Here are
two next TO them. Yes, they are IN the balcony
YOU don't want them? Very well.
Good morning. Miss Beasley- How do You
do2 Certainly, I have saved the seats you
asked for. with the managers compliments
Goodby,
NO, that was not Ethel Barrymore.
And so on Qi iUfHftnW-
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
Would Rob Their Employers

I WILL not SAY that there were many theater
managers who encouraged such peculatlon
from the public on the part of their treasurerS
but the fact remains that many a ticket seller
who was charged time and again with PLAYING
such little tricks was retained 'u hi~ position
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
Then Counting Up

A T night after the house is sold out or az any
rate sometime during the performance. Ine
treasurer and the manager OF the company
count up. This Is operation OF great neSe5-
sity with every performance The treasurer
goes through the ticket rack and tlndS what ne
has not sold He must put down the rest OF the
seats as sold then. though he can account IOT
some of them rs having been issued on passes
All passes, however, must be found IN the
ticket boxes which are brought IN and efnpt1ed
on the table IN the presence OF both the treas
urer and the travelling manager, who then pro
Ceed to see how the stubs. which have bttn put
into these boxes by the ticket takers az the
door correspond with the number stated as
sold by the treasurer
II the taIlieS do not agree, It Is the treasurer
who Is stuck for the balance. As the salary Qf
the average theater treasurer rarely exceeds
three thousand dollars year. It Is easily seen
that ne cannot afford to be very much short
It IS ardtio,1s work. and work that requires,
as may be seen. a peculiar temperament lHeIt
are, as = conSeq uence, among the thousands OF
theater treaSurerS in the country. COmpard-
tively few who shine as individuals. And these
are not only treaSuTerS but treasures 10 the
managers who employ them
The business has developed as the entire
theater business has developed. maTvelOuSly
during the last twenty years. The average
theater treasurer in the old DAYS was looked
on with general di5trrI5t by the general Pu6iIG,
who saw IN him graSpIng ogre whose one ms
sion in life was 10 short change them when they
put money into his hands and To lie about the
location of seats In some respects the public
was right; not that the average boS0tFlGe man
was dishonest but some of them we're
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
CANES AND ENTERTAINMENTS

81 AVL VAIIpEVIti + Sketche, Monoiogues Dialogue.
.att Minstrel Material lohes kectations, lableauA.
Drills NuscaI Pieces, Eulotanments Makeup Goods.
' ' r,,alog Free 4 Deaisou, fubr, Dept d. Chicago
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
REAL. ESTATE
AGENTS WANTED

WANTED-MEN AND WOMEN TO SELL REAL
Estate in a new subdivision located IS minutes ride
from u s Capitol Laudover Park Company, Washing.
,ap y c
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
CORPORATIONS

INCORPORATE YOUR BUSINESS IN ARIZONA
at Cost Transact business keep books anywhere Pres
lt Soddafd former secretary OF Arizona. Free Law
h,.I avs and Forms. Reference Any Bank i'll Arizona
d,,d incorporating Company, Box 300 Phoenix Arizona
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
ARIZONA REAL ESTATE

BUY LAND IN SALT RIVER VALLEY, ARIZONA
Dam RAISE fruit, alfalfa, melons
highest returns; failures Land selling 500
acre up Write today for booklet and SIN months
rhe Earth free G. l.. Scagraves Gen Cot
uni1aton Agt a. -S s Ky, 1890 Railway ENc Chicago
New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
The Box Office Man

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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
CONTRACTOR DISAVOWS
BILL FOR A JOY RIDE.
Dun for 500 from st. Louis
Garage ArOuses Resort Mans Ire

ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. 9.-Claimlng
that he has not been in st. Louis for
twenty-one years, Contractor John w.
Coney, wealthy resident of this city,
has secured detectives in the effort to
discover the identity of joy riders
whom he asserts used his name in the
Western city to run up a $50 automobile
bill on November 10 last.
Coney, who was forced to prove to
his wife in this city that he had not
even been in st. Louis when the claim
came here for collection, threatens
heavy damage suits and criminal pro-
eeedlngs if he can find the men whom
he declares used his name fraudulently.
The first claim for the bill from a ST.
Louis taxicab firm came to Coney In a
statement asking him to remit. The
local contractor, supposing a mistake
had been made, paid no attention to
the bill, which was later followed by a
letter demending payment. He has
since learned that the party who used
the automobile were guests OF q man
who said he was John w Coney, Of At
lantIc City, and promised to pay from
his city by check.
The contractor Is now trying to dis
cover If any Atlantic City men with
sporting proclivities were in st. Louis
on the day and night when the bin
was run up.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
ELECTRICAL WORKERS ARE
TO HOLD A RECEPTION.

The seventh annual reception and
ball of the United Electric Employees
Association will be held tomorrow night
in Kruegers Auditorium. Raymond
King will be floor manager and his as
sistants will be George Hodkinson,
Thomas Hayes and Paul Gottschlick.
The arrangement committee consists
of John Denny, Ross Ritter, Rube Wad-
dell, George Donohue, William Web
Der, James Gallagher, Matthew Hig-
gins, Alderman D. Elliot, William G.
Hirth, Walter Blass. Steve Blass, John
Gormley, John Kinney, Frank Kotz,
Charles Lavercolle, Fred Oliver, George
Mather.
The following are members of the
reception COMMITTEES: p. j. O'Connor,
Jack Bannon, Mathew Downs. Louis
Fernett. Harry Kritzmacher, Walter
Spillane, A. Jorkan. Henry Snyder,
Ibert Crosse, Arthur Prinz, Martin
Byrne, Benjamin Byrne, Jess Small,
Max Eliss. Perry Conklin. George
Brown, William Varion. Herbert A,
Marion, Charles Ritter. John Kelley,
Joe Lanning, Frank Koenig, Nathan
Byron, George j. McI&eon, Paul A
Freitag, John Bohlman, Nicholas Fa-
gan, Frank Gaffney, Joseph Callahan
James Kinney, Frank Burhage, George
Mills, Valentine Stable, A. FL. Goetye
and JacksJ. Schwenck.
The officers Of the club are: Waltei
Ross, president: Frank Mills. vice.
president; Walter A. Smith, treasurer;
Arthur Hill, secretary. and Benjamin
Widner, financial secretary.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
FAMILY OF SIX
TOO MANY FOR BRIDE.

BALTIMORE, Dec. Six step-chil-
dren are too many for any bride Of a
few months to Withstand at one time.
If they should happen to disagree with
the bride, according to a ruling of Judge
Duffy in the Criminal Court yesterday.
She has q perfect right to leave her
new home and expect support from her
husband at the same time, says the
judge.
The complainant was Mrs. Ida HASH
niger. The husband conducts a 10Y
ing picture show, runs a pool table and
has a Goa yard. They were married in
November, 1909, and soon afterward,
according to the testimony of Mrs.
Hasillnger, her troubles with the six
began. Then she left home.
Hasilinger was sentenced to ten days
in the house Of correction, but Judge
Duffy said he would suspend sentence
as long as he paid his wife So a week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09

announced in the STAR on Friday, De
cember 16.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Es

ruff; Aunt Mary, Florence %Siondells;
Miss LaWton, Able Mitchell; maid,
Elizabeth Heddon.
Miss Coult, head of the English de-
partment, is coaching the players.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
HELPLESS INVALID
BURNS IN HER BED.

AEBURY PARK, Dec. S.-Bedridden
and helpless from paralysis, Mrs. Ann
Trice, SO years old, was probably ia
tally burned yesterday when her two
room cottage in West Ocean Grove was
Quilted By fire. a spark from the
stove is supposed to have caused the
fire.
Neighbors, seeing smoke issuing from
the house, found Mrs. Trice and her
bed in flames. A married daughter
lives nearby and another daughter was
at work. leaving Mrs. Tri3e alone.
Closely surrounded by other frame
structures. the burning building
menaced the district urtil firemen ar
rived.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
WHAT COUNTRY is THIS?

The girl and boy who send in the
neatest correct answers a have their
choice Of a box Of paints. a good
book, q penknife or any one OF sew
eral very fascinating games. # the
writing is not legible the coupon will be
rejected. Uncle Jack viii publish the
picture of any prize-winner who cares
to send him a photograph. Ping-pong
and tin-type pictures cannot be used.
Only children under Is years of age
are eligible to compete. Be sure to
place a two-cent stamp on the en-
velope, to avoid delay at the postofflce.
The names of the prize winners will be
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
school Calendar for 1911.

ever issued. 1t will be issued on De-
cember 20 and about 700 have been Or
dered by the students. The calendar
will contain pictures of the champion
ship football team, the baseball team,
the cro~ss-country team, two interior
views of the new gymnasium, n with
q girls class at work inc one with a
boys class at work. Besides these,
there will be pictures of the four gym
nasuiln instructors.
Debating Team Chosen.
The Newark High School debating
team, which will represent the school
in the interscholastic debate, between
Montelair Military Academy, Mont
clair High School and Newark High.
which is to be held in the local school
on January IA, has been selected. Th
subject of the debate will be "Woman's
Suffrage in America" The affirmative
team is composed Of Harrison Sayre,
captain; Albert Levin and Martha
Roeber: the negative team of Philip
! Gordon, captain; Bernard Divinl1y and
Harold Leslie. The alternates are
Lewis Fast and James Powell. Last
year the teams representing h local
school won all the debates and earned
a leg of the cup. 1t will be necessary
for them to win for two more years to
have permanent possession Of the cup.
Trip for Checker Team.
The checker team Will journey to
Summit on Tuesday afternoon to play
the team representing the High School
of that place. The Newark boys lave
only to beat Summit and Montclair to
win the New Jersey interscholastic
checker championship, and the chances
are bright. Those who will make the
trip are Marcus Gross, David Abeles
and Bert Lauderbach.
In the local tournament Lauderbach
has yet to lose a game while Gross is
a close second, having lost one game.
Secretary Arthur Sherwood, of Sum-
init High School, has decided that the
chess match between Newark and
Summit, and which ended in a draw,
shall be played off at Newark next
Saturday.
Football Game Melted $73e.
The Athletic Association held their
regular monthly meeting yesterday.
President Ripley Quimby was in the
chair. Treasurer Raymond Ward re-
ported that the receipts of the Newark
East orange lOOlDdll game III Iidiihs-
giving We're 1898. This is the largest
amount ever taken in by a high school
team at M game. Emblens were
awarded to fifteen football men and
seven c-ross-country men. Besides this,
eleven fellows of the second football
team got numerals.
Manager Nelson Perry. of the basket
bali team. vas given $50 for h sea-
sons expenses. Donald Harris was
given $50 for the swimming team The
a. A. decided not to give the football
team a banquet.
LIB Farce.
The Junior b farce, which viii be
given in honor of the graduation class
on December 16, is being rehearsed
every day by the young actors.
The dramatis personae who will take
part are: Mr.. Roberts, Walter John
son. Mr.. Cueman, Herman Goodrich;
Mr.. Miller. Carl Richland; Mr.. Camp
bell, Edgar Hay, Mr.. Bemis, ST., Harry
Jerome; Mr.. Bemis, 1r., George Rouse;
Or. LawtoD, Adam F'reiderichs; Ell
Roy, Harold Carol; Mrs. Roberts
Helen Finney; Mrs. Cueman, Esther
Michaeison: Mrs. Miller. Anns Wood
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
Glee Club.

The Glee Club has resumed its re-
hearsals, after a weeks layoff, which
was caused by the storm giving so
many of the members bad colds. Mr..
Hart is working hard to get the boys
in shape for their concert, which will
constitute the Christmas exercises at
the. local school.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
WIDOW IS FOUND DEAD
BESIDE HER FIRE,

BRIDGEToN, Dec. 8.-In the rear
part of her home in Eagle, Mrs. Har-
riet Campbell, SO years old, was found
sitting beside the stove dead Wednes-
day afternoon by the occupants Of the
front of the house.
She was the widow Of Captain Frank
I'm Campbell. q seagoing man, and the
mother Of Captain Lewis Campbell,
Morton Campbell and Mrs. Bedford r.
Ware.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
WOMAN is HURLED
BY FLYING COASTER.

BRIDGETON, Dec. s.-while trying
to escape the many coasters who were
using the West Commerce street hill,
Mrs. Charles D.. Ingersoll, of North
Pearl street, was struck by a sled At
the corner of Atlantic and Commerce
streets Wednesday afternoon and
thrown with great force against a tele-
post, rendering her unconscious.
Physicians who were called pro-
nounced her suffering with conclusion
Of the brain.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
THE PRIzE.WINNERS.

puzzle was Stanley. The following chill
dren SEN in the neatest correct an
swers and were awarded the prizes:
DOROTHY FOSTER, aged IA. 40
Eleventh avenue, Newark (game);
FREDERICK ROSE, aged 9, 1872 IN
wood avenue, Montclair (penknife).
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
CONVICT LOSES HAND IN MACHINE

TRENTON. Dec. s.-R- G. Edwards,
who is serving three years in h State
prison for grand larceny, while working
al all electric cutting machine in the
handkerchief shop. had his left hand
30 badly mansled that the prison phy-
siciaDs decided that ampusat1on wRs
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09

necessary. Edwards has served TIN
the prison before. Upon his releas
was ~befriended by Jerome Schw
who operated the handkerchief I.
but showed irsratitude by steal
from his ~bsnefaftor, ana was emf ba