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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-12-09

+ GOING WEST.
4 VI SIT, Passenger .......... Gar a. m.
\ 80. SOB, Passenger.......... 7:45 D m,
~ 1911 Time Freight........ 2:55a. m.
i N".l5 Way Freight,.."~.. 400 .. m
GOING EAST.
I Na.516 Passenger .......10:Oap m.
-. 5t4, Passenger ......... p:45 a M
h NIL, Way Freight............ $40 a. m.
Nos 517, SOB, sic daily Others daily
Except Sunday. All trains carry pas
'angers except Time Freight Nos 121
A.C. JOHNSON. General Agent.
III. I. STIMSDN, Local Agent
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-12-09

A. M. Stone went up to Andover last
Thursday evening to look after business
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-02
CONFIDENCE IN THE PROGRESSIVES.

The progressives are to have a conference, about the time Con- gress opens, to decide what na- tional policies to push at the com ing session. So far the progress sives, acting as a sort of third party, have been the only organi- zed body in Congress interested in national policies. The regular Republicans generally have been concerned chiefly with getting what they could in patronage and appropriations and with protect ing the various interests that SUD- ply them with campaign funds. The Democrats have been dispos- ed to lie quiet and wait for the other fellows to make mistakes.
 That is why the progressives have won the country's confide- nee. They have convinced the public that they were really con- cerned first of all in promoting the nations welfare.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-02
HOLBROOK the County Seat of Navajo County THE COMMERCIAL CENTER of NORTHERN ARIZONA

statesman labored in his efforts to remain on good terms with congress and at the same time carry out a practical policy at Versailles, If he had not been the wisest, most tactful and most patient man then alive, his mission to France would have failed. And he would have fail ed, unquestionably, if he had followed, the petulant instructions poured upon him from congress. Fortunately there was nc cable in those days, and the letters were three months or more apart. It was not practicable to recall' Franklin, or congress would have sent to fill his place one of it's own hot headed members who were firm in the belief that King Louis and VergenDes, his prime minister. could be forced" to come to the aid of the struggling states. And Franklln's unhappy situation was created for him by a congress which had become contemptible because of an in ferior personnel, the result, in a large measure, of the recall" policy.
 It the proceedings of the feder- al constitutional convention, these facts were alluded to as a sufficient reason why the recall" should not be made a part of the American system of government. The reason was kccepted as conclusive, unanim- susly according to Madison.
 And yet we have statesmen in Arizona who 'know" that Presi- dent Taft, and the republican and democratic senators of the United States who are devoted in their allegiance to our estab- lished system of government, will readily approve a constitu- tion for Arizona which provides for "the recall. "-AriZ Rep.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-02
A Romantic Wedding

MT. John Blevins was married in Flagstaff Monday evening to Eva Ditmore. just twenty-five years previous MT. Blevins led the same lady to the altar, and they lived a happy married life Four children were born to them. Severri years ago their matrimon- ial sky became cloudeo and a sep aration resulted. The nearly grown sons and daughters at tended the happy reunion of their parents. MT. and Mrs. Blevins were residents of Holbrook for many years. Coconino Sun.
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-02
The Vicious Recall


 the fact that the recall" which they fondly suppose is a new and therefore specific remedy for political ills. was peremptori- 1 Ly thrown aside as a quack rem edy by convention of real states men that framed the constitution of the United States?
 How many of them have given thought to the probability that the great lawyers in the United Stares senate, democrats and republicans, being familiar with the history of the country. will as peremptorily reject the consti- tuition of Arizona if it provides for "the recall'?
 The recall" instead of being new and patent remedy invent ed in our own day, was already a discredited feature of popular government when the delegates assembled to frame the federal constitution.
 'The recalP was in force dur 1 ing the life of the continental congress. It had been devised as apparently good scheme to enable the people of the thirteen states to secure the best of service from their representgtives in the con gress. At first, as all students of our country's history know, the men in the congress were of an Exceptionally high class. They were noted not only for their un- selfishess and broad patriotism, but for extraordinary intelligence. The war, although it was con- ducted in the field by washington and his officers, was under the direct management of congress. Franklin, sent as an envoy Ot congress to France, was suppos- led to do nothing without the direct instruction of congress. But the war dragged, and suc- cess. seemed far off-as it was land doubtful at best. There were murmurings in the several states. The people at home were dissatisfied with their congress, and the legislatures began to re- call the congressman and send new men in their places But. as a very natural sequence, inferior men were sent in place of the men '.recalled'. Men of real in dependence and ability to cope with the difficult war situation were not willing to go to con- gress, subject to a whimsical re call" engineered at their homes by personal and and politica enemies and shortsighted people wno thought they knew all about | the best way to carry the war tc success. The congress in fact SC deteriorated in the quality of its membership that in the last days of the war it had practically nc voice in the field operations, nol anything to do with foreign aff air. Washington, while tacti fully purporting to obey the or ders of congress, conducted the war according to his own notions Franklin, although bedevile( with letters of instruction iron members of the foreign affairs committee, went his own way ignored and disobeyed the letters and secured the alliance witt France, and the funds iron France, which enabled Washing
 ton to defeat Cornwallis.
 The diplomatic correspondence
 of the revolution is full of letter , to and from Franklin, whicl
 glaringly set forth the difficultie
 in which that almost superhumal
The Holbrook news., 1910-12-02

We do all kinds of job work at the NEWS office. Give us a TRIAL.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24
THE LODGES.
MAsoNIc NoTlcEo.

80
>EA|Hall In New Masonic Temple.
~ Visitors always welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE. 100, 4. J. 4
A. NJ. Work in second degree Friday.
Dec. 80. at 1880 p. m. In now temple.
r. w. Chamberlain, w. n.
H. S. Lawrence. Secretary.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. 20. r. 4. n.
Regular convention Dec. 10. 1880. In the
new temple.
george H. Bossie. q. n. =.
I. S. Willard. Secretary.
KING SOLOMON Council, No. 80, n.
& S. NJ. Stated assembly, Monday.
Jan. 1e. 1911. 1880 p. m.
I. T. Forbes. Recorder.
A. d. Meeker. I. I. -.
st. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY. No.
80. K. r. Stated conclave Tuesday even.
ing, Dec. 20. 1910. at 1880 o'clock. Sir
knights be present II possible. in new
temple
F. NJ. Wilbur. y. G.
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. "a. q. r
Especial meeting Wednesday even
ing. Dec. %, 1880 p. m. new temple.
Mrs. George Downing. W. =.
Edna c. Fularton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24
The NEED FOR A1ARRlEf BOARD.

AS a slight evidence OF the work
waiting for a board OF tariff experts to
perform a circular recently appearing
in the mails of the newspaper editors
offers its suggestion. A gentleman
writing in behalf of the non-trust pot
ash producers call upon the newspapers
Of the country TO expose an Ubiquitous
tdax which has been imposed upon the
potash producers by Germany as an
export tax 20 protect a syndicate in
,ha, country. His information is pub
lished without endorsement by this
newspaper for the facts there stated
since the average pub!ishe> is unable
upon notice 20 investigate the facts.
But the value of his story IS in the
suggestion offered 70 the verag read
ct OF the great necessity Of a board OF
experts charged with the duty and pos
sessed with the ability 20 investigate
conditions such as these. which il true.
constitutes an iriquitous extoreton up
on .h% public. No- only is America
entitled 70 the protection from extor-
ron by foreign rus1s but Il Is also en-
-:.led 20 protection from similar extor-
ions oy domestic trusts and il IS APP
2-ent mat i trusts in Germany are
o-k:-g he government 20 suppress
hair competition TIE !de. has either
cen imported . his IL. already
- i soon VII, be.
The g~eatlemen's story as 20 the pot
7~h --as. reads rs fellows:
"vhen The German -o-a=a .r-s..
-;o7 controls tire worlds SIMPLY,
eo--5 tna- 7l-7os- --a -ho'. American
--ee- raj hes oh-at-al ~ odf---ust
,9:r=s q. r-icas IS -a- ce~t l1ve- thar
ne --usts o-tcas. 6=--aai was rada
non ne Ga---eo government - +t-d
~o-e way - inva'ide,a he iow-p-:ce
mean contracts.
'ThiS vas a-cca-'-lieh.d ~ ? law
vrian n est@o- nlaces 4 -av - 1nh oer
-e-- or Potash so'i - American con-
--ac. Tha -av falls ~ ne
cons-~e- because ht= cor-r7c-s --ov:d>
-ha- ire buyer shall pay al government
charges.
"TrA production ot tha ror-t-ret
n-t-a= IS limited - an a-or7- ha~e,v
sufficient 20 fill .iaet- American con-
-rao-S: halt -hi= a-o--t must =. Sol1
n Ce-r1e--. Failing . - --;s (Which
i vas well known tha non---us- ~i,a=
could TO 6ol IN th=ir mir. oraiTe-
n7rS- - ra;T - ero~-ous tax s-a-.1.
.PAto-e N. tax law was passed
promises were made that Germany
would not impair existing contracts
Th- state derar-wer: Is no- making
ev=-v effort 70 secure observance %
rhese rror1ises.
"Prest5ert Tar IN r:s racen- message
% said: 'Tnera are urfort-
u~na-ely Instances whe-a foreign gov
errnen.s deaI ARBITRARILY wish Ar. ri
can interests 1ithin their ~iuris5ic-ion
in 4 ann Injurious ard irequ:table.'
The German potash .ax. lev.ed FOR
tie bereft OF a monopoly and 70 de-
prive American % ne be7a-
4ts n which thav are entitled un1e-
contracts made long before the -ar Low
was oasse@1, su-elv comes under The
presidents definition of injurious and
inaduitah'e' treatment.
"~Errichnner- Of American farm soil
should Re daoer6art u0oa the over
enrichment Of the German potash trust.
The hope Of all agricultural interests
is that our state derar-meo- Till NOT
allow this wrong to continue"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24

the man who ought to pay taxes upon
his moneys and credits invariably es-
capes. The tax actually falls upon the
estates II the widows and orphans left
to them by their deceased wage Garner,
and upon a few, oh, so few, honest
assessor.
The rate Of interest which these peo-
pie can secure upon their money is es-
tablished by those outside the state
whose money is untaxed. Hence the
honest man. the widow and the orphans
who would loan honey in Iowa, must
accept the rates fixed and established
by the untaxed money from out
side the state, and for the privilege
of living in Iowa they must submit to
an income tax Of 40 per cent.
Iowa farm lands are seldom Waited
by assessors for more han 50 per cent
Of their real value. and the tax levy in
the rural community is seldom more
than half what it is in cities and own
Hence. as compared to the income tax
of 40 per cent levied upon the estates
of widows and orphans We lie, the
farmers off for half the levy upon so
per cent of their values and Ola Money
Bags gets off Scott free.
Taxation, fundamentally. is nothing
more 10 less h the equitable dispo-
.s;.;oo NP %ba J,,rGoos 30 r,yare~np ,
and any taxation which is not equitable
is no: good public policy. l: we really
desired to levy a tax upon the money
loaned in the state we should 10 as
Minnesota and other states Co. we
should levy a small tax upon every
mortgage that is recorded and pro lie
that no mortgage should be a valid in
s--uo1ent until it could show 4 tax COL
lectors receipt. In this way We could
raise far more money for public PR
poses than We now do and We could
make everybody. i, the state ard Oh.
OF II, who loans honey II the state
upon mortgage security pay the FAX
alike. BY p~-o-at;ng a :ax which c7u!d
be collected we could raise the anne
amour. OF money with an assessment
30 many times reduced tina: i would
70: constitute y AK Of 40 per can: %
.hs income % a loan.
Rent upo. -ea! estate is now adjust
81 50 as % r=et the amour: 81 taxes
ard leave a air inte-es, rae as a net
return. Senator May.ag, who Is 2 man
u~tsc.u-=-, and bankers generally who
know VIVA. an induca-en- % industrial
expansion and employment 81 labor ..:s
. have plenty Of none :, Ian in a
community. can al See ;ha: the tax Of
40 per cen. OF -he income % loan Is
not only unjust ara i-iqli'ous 70 ne
dependent widows and orphans 5u,
constitutes an actual blight upon ;ae
industrial! development Q. our safe.
Senator Maytag Is right; he tax upon
.5oaey and credits as i NV stands
stould De repealed Or re~ised q. :ha
present s=ss on.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24
TAXING WIDOWS FORTY PER CENT.

Senator Maytag. who is about 10 re-
tire from a long career Of most sue
cessful and prominent service in the
Iowa IA has suggested that II ne
we're again to become a member Of the
Iowa legislature he would like 10 vote
for the taxation OF moneys and cred
is. Il has also been suggested that il
we are worried as to the loss Of opu
lation in Iowa It might be we'll : 0 in
quire as to the number Of thrifty citi-
zens Who have changed their residence
from this state to California and else
where because Of the activity OF the
tax ferrets.
Now there is not much occasion f,r
the shedding Of tears over the loss Of
the citizens who wish TO escape paving
taxes upon their money, but when we
contemplate that we are today exact
ing an income tax Of 40 per cent upon
incomes Of widows and orphans and
Of a few honest people. we can appreci-
ate lHe iiiIuii VI Il SYSTEM WHICH
Senator Maytag thinks should be rem
edied.
Money loaned in Iowa today upon
safe security should carr 5 per cent
interest. AS the loan is returned for
: taxation at the average assessment in
most cities and towns where money
~loaners live the tax would be 2 per cent
constituting a co%nhscation Of two-afths
Of the income from the loan: the equiv
alent Of an income tax OF 40 per cent.
It was originally intended that men
VINO own Hnonsy g .ca1 she-:!a 70!
escape taxation, and Of course the pur.
pose was IN h interest Of equitable
taxation. but we have seen the law N
operation and We have learned that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24
WHAT ISN'T THE NATTER.
rCeGar Eapids Gszette1.

IISCdT apr doESltcJ'
One W. w. Wheeler. writing in the
Chicago Tribune, tells what. in his
CD Mon, is the mater with Iowa.
LAS ar old citizen Of the nee great
state Of Iowa l am mortified beyond
measure by the fact that it is the only
state in the union that has lost in place
years. That this loss is the result Of
vicious legislation IS so true that ev-
erycne who will Investigate must ac-
knowledge the Iamentable fact.
Vicious ard unwise Laws have closed
nearly every factory save in the cities
along the g7ea. rivers hat border
iowa. Il the river towns this vicious
legislation has had but little effect. as
heir rivers still rlIn. untrouhled by
bad laws while the towns IN the inter-
or have been dried up and their popu-
lat.on drained BY HI mechanics who
aave beer forced TO fee to other states
where they could get work at their life
vacations.
This drying ~ ard the feaing in
consequence os the mecnar,cs and their
families fully o FOR the disas-
trous decrease the state has suffered.
The making o. bad Laws began under
the fanatical teachings % Governor
Lar-abee. ana was continued under
2oies and his successors down 20 and
Including Cunr0ins.
The vicious laws have absolutely
prevented tie manufacturer Of Iowa
from selling even 70 his naxt door
re;ghbor in competition with the man
ufaciure-s o. other states. so that today
the people OF Iowa are forced TO buy
their wagons ard automobiles. harvest
ers ard plo"s and haerows.
c~ultivators and corn seeders. and near
iy everything else thev use from factor
les located in other states.
The heartiess Gennagcys hat have
put Iowa :Tto IT'S present class used the
cry Of monopoly against the railroads
10 carry out their villa,nous work. and
toda- these railroads in Iowa are tied
hand and foot ard can do nothing to
aid in restoring the state Of Iowa to
the position she once held as a manu-
factoring state"
With due respects to Mr.. Wheeler.
whoever he is-he is a shining example
OF a man who IS densely ignorant on
the subject which ne discusses. He
states what every citizen of Iowa VINO
is not feeb!e-ninded knows to be false
when he says vicious laws have closed
nearly every factory ave in the cities
along the border rivers. The interior
cities. Cedar Rapids, Waterloo. Des
Moines, and Mason City. nav grown
rapidly. The factories are g-eater IN
number than eve and their output Is
very much greater in value. The state
has not lost mechanics; its working
man population has increased.
The talk about the "heartiess dema-
gogs' IL the veriest sort Of rot. The
discrimination in freight ra.es has done
ten thousand times more to hurt lows
i taau TIE SC o..1S "s>.r.:ess aema-
Goes" have done. !.
Mr.. Wheeler takes the p1iss for miss
] ing the mark the ~farthefest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24
NEW LAW As 70 GAS RATES.

Litigation al Cedar Rap;ds ard IN
Af~a-snaIitown over the rates Cor gas
and electricity IS fast making a record
which will support State Senator Van
Laws bill intended 10 give 70 Cit.
councils the right ot access 10 the
books OF 2 public service corporation
when engaged n its statutory duty o.
fixing rates for public utilities.
AT Ce5ar Rapids some three years
ago when ne city council enacted ar
ordinance Cor e0-cen- gas the company
en;o!ned the ordinance or the ground
that the rate Of 90 cents per thousand
for gas WIS rot an adequate rate. The
attorneys fled = the lawyers called
a cross bill % discovery in which a
long list ot questions were asked OF me
company as to the value OF lis prop
e-ty, is earnings. its cost Of p-oduc-
tor, its reI profits, etc. The distric,
court ruled Upon a demurrer tha, the
company must answer the inter-og-
atories r when the
AAi4 ~ A4-C EA-SL "a.
It was found necessary in order
20 sustain its contention that eo-cent
gas was rot IN adequate rate 20 make
certain statements which were rot fully
sustained By the books of the ~corapany
when they were later exposed in the
curse Of he rial. However. this dis
trict court held that so cents was az
adequate rate in Cedar Rapids. The
case was appealed TO the supreme
court Of the state where the rate OF 50
cents was sustained as being adequate
and upon an appeal to the federal
ourts the difference involved between
the rate then being charged by the
company and the new rate Of 80 cents
was ordered ~inlpounded in the hands Of
gas consumers Of Cedar Rapids pro
rata hould the decision of the TWO
state courts be finally upheld.
Shortly after the success OF the-9O-
cent rate at Cedar Rapids the city
council OF MarshalItown enacted ordi-
nances fixing a rate of 81 for gas and
making reductions in the rates then
being charged for electric light AMI
power. The company at Marshalltown
enjoined the ordinances in Smith Nc
Pherson's FEDERAL court and the Mar
shaIltown lawyers. noting the success
of the litigation at Ceca. Rapids i'm
mediately fled a cross bill OF discov-
cry asking OF the company in sub
stance the same LIST Of pertinent ques-
tons IS to It's earnings me- profits.
cost Of production, valuations. etc. But.
for reasons which no laymen vii, ever
be able to understand. Smith McPher-
o reversed the state court procedure
and sustained a demurrer, holding hat
the company need not answer the ques-
tons asked OF It until the trial vas
actually held and the testimony Of wit
nesses introduced. /.
Thus We have the law IN iowa ~
to rates for pubic utilities, In effect.
dfst in the statutes that city coun-
ellis shall have power to fix rates which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24

would not permit him to ny away:
this last gay jest out Of the pages of
Alice in Wonderland" about hunting
for a walrus.
"God!" he whispered as he turned
away-"My Cod"
He had his revolver, and besides the
six cartridges which the cylinder con.
tanned. there were. perhaps, 80 in his
belt. For how many days. or weeks,
would they avail to keep of starva'
ton?
But his face was composed again
when he turned back to her. There
are two things that come before break.
fast" he said-"fre and water. There
Is 4 line of driftwood down the beach
to the westward. there at the foot Of
the talus. When va get q IRE 60
ing" he stopped niusei s.os g!
rs GQAp9 to sey that - could melt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-24


agreement, then when the city council
comes to fix a rate there Is no way
whereby it can gain any information a.
to the cost OF producing a public util.
ity or as to the degree OF excess exist
ing in the rates already in force. and
finally we have 1t established by the
federal courts reversal Of the district
court procedure that even after a new
rate has been established and has been
enjoined, the city council can not OBJ
tain from, the company a written state
men as to its earnings, cost Of produce
ton, valuation, etc.
1t would seem to a laynan that the
law. in effect. now provides that city
councils shall fix the rates. but that
they shall not be able to know anything
about the public service corporations
business in order to make h rate fair
and adequate. and that il shall not be
allowed in case Of litigation to obtain
any Information about the company's
business until the city's lawyers are IN
the thick Of a court trial compelled to
meet in the dark any proposition which
a public service corporation may choose
to present.
Senator Van Law, member Of the
state senate from Marshall county. who
| happens TO be one Of the attorneys for
the city in the Marshailtown case. in
:roduced a bill in the legislature at the
session Of two years g providing that
when city councils are fixing a rate for
a public utility under the authority OF
the statutes they shall nave the righ;
to subpoena the Officers OF the public
service corporation for the purpose OF
obtaining intormat;n as 10 the earnings
OF the company and cos;s OF production
in order that they might fix rates in
diligently. His bill was defeated by
the opposition Of attorneys for public
service corporations. bu, will be re-
newed in the coming session. Last sum-
mer when the Platform Of the republic
car party was being considered intos-
A-oAks oe
Minis a plank was presented by Con-
gresham Good, who had been the sue
cesstul attorney for the city OF Cedar
Rapids in its so-cent gas ase il which
it was proposed that me republican
party's Platform should endorse the
principle set forth IL the Van Law
bill. AT the meeting 4 net with a
hearty approval Of bo:a United States
senators because. as senator Dolliver
said, il was in line VIZ. their conten-
ton il the federal congress for the
governmental valuation Of railroad
properties as a basis @. fixing rates,
ard It was promptly recommended to
the COMMITTEES on Platform selected by
the various congressional districts, bu,
!. failed OF adoption principally because
o.. the opposition raised by the mem
ber o< the committee from the Third
district. who now ppea-. as an at
.o-ney for the gas company IN the Mar
shalitown case. Bat when the Var
Law bin again appears in the state
senate this wiate- 1t should be better
known III no.e popular with the leg
isla.o-s who b=iieve in real reform OF
he ircunlocations which now prevent
effective regulation OF our public ser
vice.