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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-06

us remembered in the grateful hearts
Of their old-time friends.
Now, therefore, we, the mayor and
city council of the city of Grand
Forks, North Dakota, in council as
sembled, do hereby express to the
surviving Hon. Frank Viets and to
her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Titus,
our deepest sympathy for him in the
great loss that he has sustained.
And we desire hereby to spread in a
formal manner upon the official rec
ords of our city this resolution as a
tribute to one whose gracious pres
ence left a deep and permanent i'm
print upon the home life of our
city.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-06
Death OF OLD SETTLER
MRS. FRANK VETS FORMERLY
OF GRAND FORKS DIES
IN OHIO.
WAS ONE OF EARLIEST SET
TIERS IN THE RED RIV.
Err VALLEY.

Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 5.-The
death of Mrs. Frank Vets at Ash
tabula, Ohio, moved the city council
of this city to pass the following
resolutions:
Whereas the public press has
brought news of the death at Ashla-
bula, Ohio, of Mrs. Frank Viets, for
merly of this city, and
Whereas, Mrs. Viets was one of the
first white women to establish a res
idence in the territory that is now
the state of North Dakota, and she,
together with her husband, Hon.
Frank Vets, were of the very earl
lest settlers in the city of Grand
Forks, having located here when the
whole Of the city was a wind-swept;
and here maintained their residence
for many years, so that her social
graces, warm hearted friendship and
her Christian charity were known
and appreciated by the great and the
small, the rich and the poor Of our
then young city; and are yet not
withstanding their long absence from
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-06

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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
TRUST ECONOMIES AND THE PEOPLE

In its brief offered in the supreme court as a defense against its threatened dissolution for lawbreaking, the Standard Oil company makes three points:
 First that there is no principle of
 law or policy that requires manufac-
 turer to give away profit which he
 can make by economizng in manu-
 facturing
 Second that net profit of % per
 cent annually is Ca reasonable one for
 a great manufacturing business"
 Third, that few, if any, manufactur-
 ing enterprises make less than % per
 cent profits.
 However true these statements may be as to small individual, partnership or corporate man. ufacturing enterprises, they are wholly untrue as to vast corporations which have, for all prac- tical purposes created monopoly.
 The assumption that the owners of such monOpolies have right to the full profits of economies made possible by invention, the in- @enuity of employees and the increased purclas- ing power of the people, without regard to the cost of living or the rate of wages paid their em- plOyes IS equivalent to the claim that such a monopoly is greater than the government and greater than the people, and that the demands of its stockholders for dividends are superior to the demand of labor for living wage and the demand of the public for commodities at a reasonable price That assumption is absurdIv unjust and unfair, and to follow it to it's logical conclusion means to breed revolution.
 Higher than the right of trust stockholders to dividends are the right of the public to good ser
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
BOYS ARE STILL NAUGHTY

1t was in staid and erudite Boston. the oc- casion was the annual banquet of the Harvard freshmen; the bill for broken glass was $29O. all paid in advance. Why go into details? It takes no vivid imagination to conjure them It was Just free-born young America on rampage
 But sometimes we hear doting mother or an admiring father tell how colleges ruin boys. They dilate upon how carefully their offspring has been nurtured, how closely guarded from evil and how surrounded by faultess home and church influences. Then it is that the wonder of their friends grows at the little the average parent knows of his children
 These 290 young cubs had been at Harvard but half school year. Hardly long enough. this for them to acquire the full panoply of man ly vices. They must have made their start be- fore reaching the classic halls Nor were they setting a precedent in the ct ceteras of their banquet
 On the contrary, they but followed tradition or maybe added a notch to its free and easy pre- negatives. It is the custom for Harvard fresh men to deposit each an extra dollar to cover breakage, when paying the price of their ban quets. The caterer has been taught by experi- ence to play safe.
 It was a great night It started with wine and ended with head. Yet these youngsters are not all on the road to perdition. They but suffered from an eruption of Satan, which is as sure as the measles or chicken-pox to find its way in and break out in some form in all boy life.
 The main trouble with them was that they all had more surplus money than was good for them. Thirty years ago it would have been hard to find 290 boys in all Harvard who had $3 each to throw at the night hawks. For this change parents are responsible No one need wonder that college boy will live up or down to his al- lOwance.
 It is the same roicking, devil-may care spirit that possessed their dads and granddads. This is sad, possibly, but it is true and this same 290 probably returned to their studies after their fling. They had gotten out of them what was in them that ailed them.
 Only, thirty years ago they would not have dared let it get in the papers and go back home Are, then, the boys more reckless, or the parents more indulgent and more careless?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
THE COST OF LIVING

Increased prices are not confined to food stutfs, but include mems suitings. mems, wo- mems and chidren's hosiery; mems and wo- mems gloves blankets, cotton goods of all sorts, ladies waists, laces, embroideres, and colored wash fabrics of all cassifcations
 Almost in the same breath, United States Senator William J. Stone of Missouri showed that while there has been 50 per cent increase in the price of hosiery, underwear and other tex tile products in the last year, the cotton mills for whose benefit the Dingley rates were advanced are making profits ranging all the way from 25 to 67 per cent on their capital stocks. And just how much of the capital stock of these mill companies represents water is secret the pub lie is not trusted with.
 Here is one of the important tables placed in the Congressional Record by Senator Stone
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
SIGNS OF SPRING

l don't care for strikes in PhilIv,
 1 don't care about Pinchot. And the foreign stuff seems silly
 And the local stuff seems slow, But the dope from Marlin, Texas, Makes an awful hit with me: "Murray slammed it on the plexus; Seymour laced it out for three" don t care a rap what Teddy
 May be doing on the Nile, Nor that Bill the Kaiser's ready
 To slam England bout mile. It's the stuff that comes from Marlin Makes me stay awake at night: "Matty's new curves darlin':
 Mickey Donlin may play right What's it matter that corruption
 At the capitol be rife? Or that mountains in eruption
 Take their toll of human life? There is but one thing that matters, To it others yield first place: "Muggsy's strong this year on batters; Doyle is great at second base"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

vice at fair prices and the right of labor to a lv- ing wage. Industry is entitled to fair play for its services, but to no more. Capital is entitled to a fair return upon its honest investment, but to no more. And the time is coming when what constitutes fair play for corporate service and what is fair dividend return upon invested capital will not be decided' by any trust board of directors, but by the people, through their government.
 Says the Omaha World Herald, discussing the Standard Oil case:
 Suppose ten man started to live and
 do business with each other on an
 island. Suppose all had equal health,s
 equal ability and equal fortunes in the
 beginning. Suppose five of them ob-
 tained control of the production and
 sale of the five greatest necessities of
 life on that island, and were allowed to
 fix their own prices. How long would it
 be before the other five began to con-
 plain of the "lncreased cost of liv-
 ing?" How much longer would it be,
 if this condition continued, before the
 five ''free men' became the literal and
 helpless slaves of the five 'monop-
 Olists?''
 And how long would the five slaves consent to remain slaves? Not long. Not nearly so long, m that island without courts to delay and con- fuse with legal hairsplitting, without political parties to blind and delude, without sycophants to praise and palaver, as it has taken in this country to awaken. It would not be long, on that island, after the five men found themselves slaves, before they would refuse to be slaves any longer. In the face of hunger and slavery, cherished notions of the sacredness of property rights would be swept away on tide of revolt. If the five oppressed men were wise, they would take over the five monopolies and deal with them justly to themselves and to their owners. If they were not wise, but if they had been op- pressed so long that they were desperate and reckless they would probably seize the monopo- lies of the five monopolsts without gentleness or mercy, and the monopolists would be lucky if they got off alive and were permitted to be- come pensioners of the five who were lately slaves, and who had become masters.
 Oppression is dangerous business; dangerous alike to oppressor and oppressed.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
h The Halls of Congress
BY TAV.
Special Washingtor Correspondence.

The greatest objection to ship subsidy is that when you make direct appropriation from the taxes gathered from the people to build ur special interests, there is no defining where the line will ultimately be drawn; for if we can tax the people to subsidize one mans business we can tax them to pay tribute to another'
 In there words Representative Oscar w. Un- derwood of Alabama, one of the leaders of the democratic side of the house, presented the po- sition of the>minority on the ft-Humphrev ship subsidy bill, which provides for an annual subsidy of approximately $5,000000. Mr. Un- derwood advocated per cent discriminatory duty in favor of merchandise carried in Amer ican ships as the best method of solving the problem of the declining American merchant marine, explaining that one of the advantages of this method was that it would not mean in- creased taxation of the masses for the benefit of special interests.
 "A reduction of the tariff of per cent on all goods imported into the United States in Amer ican ships,'' said Mr. Underwood, ''woud give the American shipowner an advantage over the foreigner in payment of duties of from $10000,- 900 to $15000,0 annually. This would not fall as burden on anyone; it, of course, would en- able the American shipowner to charge nearly the amount of the discriminating duty as addi- tional freight rates, but it would not increase the cost of goods imported in this country dol lar over what they are today. It would not take a dollar out of the federal treasury, and, in my judgment, it is the only effective remedy that can be adopted toward building up the merchant marine of our country and keep the profits that are derived from the transportation of our for eign commerce at home instead of paving 1t to foreign nations.
 'The only objection that I have heard urged to this policy has been that it would be in viola ton of our foreign treaties, and that we could not afford to endanger our trade relations with foreign countries.
 'But there are no treaties that stand in our way to prevent us from enacting discriminat- ing tariff duty in favor of American ships. It was the policy of our fathers; it built up our merchant marine from point where it was car rying 17 per cent of our commerce to point where is was carrying 90 per cent of American in period of seven years It does lot place additional burdens upon the people; t is not policy of doubtful constitutionality it $ policy that has been tried and proven eff 'ective.
 ct is a policy by which we can restore the American flag to the seas and the American ships to our commercial trade. It is policy hat will enable us to build up the export trade ,f the American people. It is policy that will enable us to find foreign markets for our sur plus products in agriculture and manufacture
 'It is policy that will ultimately overcome he necessity of our paying foreign balance in gold to European nations and will bring pros )erty to all lines of industry" Applause on he democratic side.)
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

| Iowa republicans have decided to hold their state convention in Des Moines on August 3. | Indiana socialists have already nominated a state ticket for the election next fall.
 Isaac Stephenson, Jr., son of United States Senator Stephenson, is an asprant for the may orally of Marinette, Wis.
 Senators Beverdge of Indiana and LaFol- lette of Wisconsin have consented to address a political gathering in Chicago on March 26.
 The state ticket agreed upon by the South Da- kota "insurgent" republicans calls for the re- election of Governor R. s. Vessey.
 The West Virginia Anti-Saoon League will make demand of" the legislature to pass a statutory prohibition law at the coming session.
 At the state election next November the voters of Missouri will be given their first opportunity to vote for or against constitutional prohibit tion
 The fiftieth anniversary of the republican na- tiona convention in Chicago which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency will be eel ebrated in May by the Lincoln League of H. linois.
 A statewide primary is to be held in Arkan- sas next week for the selection of the democratic candidates for governor and various other state officers and also for representatives in congress-
 A question has arisen among Minnesota re- publicans as to whether the state nominating convention to be held early in the summer should take any action in regards to the indorse- ment of candidate for United States senator
 Representative Gilbert M. Hitchcock demo- crat, of the Second Nebraska district, has an nounced himself as candidate for United States senator, to succeed Senator Burkett, re publican, whose term will expire next March
 Cole Blease, mayor of Newberry, S. C., who was an unsuccessful candidate for the demo- cratic nomination for governor of South Caro- lima two years ago, has decided to enter the race again this year. He declares himself in favor of local option, prohibition, dispensary or license systems, as the individual counties may elect
 The platform adopted by the democrats off Kansas City for the municipal election early inI April invites the republicans of the city to vote the democratic ticket this year as an expression of disapproval of "Cannonism" and the Payne Aldrich tariff law. The platform also pledges support for the improvement of the Missouri river.
 Eastern cities have not taken so readily to the commission form of government as the cities of the middle west and southwest. Several New England cities have adopted the plan, however, and now the movement is being taken up in the South Atlantic section. Charlotte, N C., adopt ed the plan several years ago and within few weeks Columbia, S. C., is to vote on the question of its adoption.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Hiram w. Johnson, who is to make the race for governor of California on the ticket of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League of Republican clubs declares that he will make his fight as disciple of Theodore Roosevelt and as a champion of the former presidents policies. The Lincoln Roosevelt leaguers are preparing to make wig orous campaign for the election of their state ticket
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Democratic newspapers throughout the coun- try are writing good deal these days about "Cannon's fall" If the fall is to be measured by the 'dull, sickening thud' the Silver Belt doesn't think your Uncle Joe hit the ceiling with any greater force than did the democratic party.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

F'r nearly forty yearS Ive seen HiS coun- HIy goin' to h' diUvle, an' got aboord late. A@' # t'S been goin' that long dn' at that rate dn' has got DO nearer thin it is no,o, thin to diUvle iS c diOUle of wayS further of thin / feared.
 -DOOley.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Mir. Ballinger dismisses the Ballinger- Pinchot inquiry as a trivial matter in which only the west is interested Mir. Ballinger may not be aware of the fact, but he is including good ly piece of territory.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Richard Achilles Ballinger says insurgency is nothing but mere mirage. At that, Uncle Joe and his cohorts are having a deuce of time trying to dissolve it.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

The dedication of one of the finest little the aters in the southwest last night was another pretty feather in Globes cap
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Every man is responsible in large degree for his condition in life To blame this that and the other thing is confession of incapacity and cowardce.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

The greatest town knocker in the world is the fellow who stirs up factional fight
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Probably the camels are glad Roosevelt has gone, for it will mean less humping for them.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

The supply of George Washington anecdotes is rather meager owing to the fact that he lived in time of very limited magazine enterprises
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

And, really, it must be dry enough for the most exactng.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

"The reason auctioneers make money" says the Philosopher of Folly, lis that so many peo- pie think it only costs nickel to raise the other fellows bid } cents''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

Governor Brown, of Georgia, calls Peary a "faker." Where have we heard that word be- fore?
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24
MORNING SMILES

'What a bad toothache you've got
 ''No; but I'm calling on the dentist for the money he owes me, and this is the only way I can get into his house."
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-24

money he owes me, and this is the only way l can get into his house."
 John-One of your creditors wishes to speak to you, sir.
 Master-,Well, say I'm away from home. John-All right, sir, and I'll just light one of your best cigars; he'll be more likely to be- leve me then.
 Poet-Don't you think there's a world of hidden meaning in my poem?
 Editor-Yes, indeed. And it's so well hid den.
 'Well, my little man," inquired visitor, "who are you?''
 "Im the baby's brother,'' was the ingenious reply.
 Salesman Oately promoted to curio depart necklace, madam, was originally made for the duke of Buckingham who gave it to Anne of Austria. We're selling a lot of them.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-20
GREATLY INTERESTED
IN THE PLATFORM
Minnesota Delegation Watching
State Convention

Washington, June 20.-The Mime
sofa delegation in congress is watch
ing with keenest interest the drift of
politics in Minnesota that some line
may be had on the Republican state
platform to be adopted at the state
convention to be held Tuesday.
The delegation is divided on the
character of platform it would have
adopted. Senator Clapp and Repre-
sentatives Davis and Lindbergh hope
for progressive platform, taking an
advanced position on conservation,
the tariff and all progressive policies,
Senator Nelson and Representatives
Tawney, Nye, Stevens, Miller, Steen-
erson and Volstead are for what is
called conservative" platform. That
Is, one that ignores the progressive
policies, ignores tariff and conserya-
tion, eschews all reference to planks
such as carried in the Indiana and
Iowa platforms and deals generally
with national policies.
Both sides to the controversy are
willing there shall be an endorsement
of President Taft and the Republican
administration and a reaffirmation of
faith in the Republican party and it's
principles
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-20
AGAIN IN THE LlMELIGHT
Another Somber Chapter In Life Of
Beautiful American Girl.

Paris, June 20.-Another chapter in
the somber romances of beautiful
Clara Ward of Detroit was revealed
here when the woman, now the wife
of Peppino Ricciardi Of Naples, made
known that she had been deserted by
her husband, who accused her of an
intrigue with the family butler.
Ricciardi was known as "the hand
soonest man in Naples" He married
his wife shortly after her desertion by
the gypsy violinist, Rigo, for love of
whom she deserted her first husband,
Prince Chimay, and became social
outcast.
1t is reported that Ricciardi has
made absolutely no provision for his
wife, though he is man of consider
able wealth
Signora Ricciardi protests her inno-
cence of the charge made against her
by her husband.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-20
SEES DANGER IN SITUATION
New York World Comments on Popu
lar Feeling Toward Roosevelt.


New York, June 20.--The New York
papers editorially comment on the re.
turn of former President Roosevelt
for the most part from the standpoint
of their political prejudices. The Her
aid says nothing whatever
The World carries two editorials
one 1000 words long and the other a
single paragraph, as follows:
"The return from Elba is 100 days
late-this is the anniversary of Water
loo"
The leading editorial reviews the
feeling toward Roosevelt of the peo-
pie, which is characteristic as an ef-
fort to defy Roosevelt that is not po-
litical prejudice, but reaction. In con-
clusion it says:
What every thoughtful American
has reason to be concerned about is
not Mr.. Rooseyelt's plans and pur-
poses. but the average citizens atti-
tude toward Mr.. Roosevelt. This is
the thing of superlative importance
this new and sinister and un-American
passion for personal government"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-20
ADVOCATES PROBATION LAW
Former Senator Mason viii Urge
Measure Before CONGRESS.

Chicago, June 20.-Former Senator
William K. Mason will leave Chicago
in few days for Washington, where
he intends to urge before congress the
passage of a probation law, a draft OF
which has been prepared by the Ma.
tfonal Probation league, of which Mr.
Mason is president.
The bill gives all United States
courts having jurisdiction of criminal
or quasi-criminal cases power to sus
pend sentence and place on probation
any person found guilty before them
whenever the court shall be of the
opinion that the welfare of society will
be promoted thereby" The probation.
er is required to make restitution, ii
restitution is possible, for the offense
which he has committed, and to agree
to certain restrictions as to his per.
sonal conduct If these regulations
are violated he may be rearrested and
sent to prison under a suspended sen.
tence
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-06-20
PLANS ATLANTIC
AIRSHIP SERVICE
Promoter Says Journey VIII Be
Made in Seventy-two Hours.

London, June 20.--An airship serv.
ice between London and New York is
announced by Baron Roenne, Rus.
sian, who has been one of Count Yep
pelin's assistants and is now installed
in Offices in the Haymarket here. In
his prospectus the baron claims con
fidently that the super-Atlantic jour.
ney Is possible in seventy-two hours
even against head wind of fifty-five
miles an hour.
The first airship of the line Is to be
1000 feet long and 54 feet beam. The
envelope, to be constructed of spe
cial alloy, will carry 35,000,000 cubic
feet of gas. There will be eight mo-
tors, developing 1000 horsepower and
driving fifteen propellers, the whole
lifting 103 tons.