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The Detroit times., 1910-05-16
HEATER CAUSES DEATH
Child suceumbs To Escaping Gases
and Others Are Made iiI.

Elours Rittenberg. 21-monthsold
daughter of Walter Rittenberg. Of No.
1871 Ellery-st, is dead. and Mrs Rit-
tenberg, an elder child. and Mrs. Mary
Kominsky, a neighbor. are seriously
III, after being saved by prompt efforts
of physicians from death from some
sort of poisoning which Is bathing the
police and coroners.
Various theories are advanced for
the sudden and terrible illness OK
everyone In the Rittenberg home, but
Coroner Bennett is OF the opinion that
gases, escaping from an old water
heater, were the cause.
The ptomaine poison theory was
also advanced, but the investigation.
SO far, seems to show that none OF the
Rittenberg family had eaten anything
between Saturday night and sunday
morning, when they were all stricken.
Mrs. Kominsky arrived in the homs
Sunday morning on a visit, and she.
too, was stricken, which seems TO In
dictate that gases were responsible.
Walter Rittenberg left home at 5
o'clock, Sunday morning. on q fishing
trip, and he was the only one who es-
capped the mysterious malady. He did
not learn OF the affair until he return
ed home, Sunday night
The Detroit times., 1910-05-16

There is no more serious danger to health than
the presence of too much uric acid in the body.
Uric acid cannot accumulate when the kidneys
are WE'LL The kidneys filter the poison off
If the kidneys are weakened, uric acid collects
rapidly 1t weights the blood weakens the heart en-
feebes circulation, deranges the stomach and bowels
The nerves are set "on edge" headaches grow fire.
quent rheumatic attacks, neuralgia gout. dropsy
swelings. There is sediment in the urine, and dan
ger of gravel and stone in the kidney. The tend
ency is towards Brights disease and diabetes.
The root of rheumatic and other uric acid troubles
kidney weakness Cure the kidneys and remove the
Doan Kidney Pills have cured thousands OF such cases
The Detroit times., 1910-05-16

A handy tool for cutting rubber
sheeting or soft packing can be made
by cutting set of saw teeth, inclined
toward the handle, in one blade OF a
pair OF shears, the teeth holding the
material to be cut.
The Detroit times., 1910-05-16

In several eastern cities street cars
are being tried that have a rail rum
ming through the center for standing
passengers to grasp instead OF the
usual straps. More persons can be
carried than in the customary mans
ner and at greater comfort.
The Detroit times., 1910-05-16
DETROIT PRO OF
CANTON STREET

J. A. Murray, 5O2 Canton Street, De-
troit, Mich, says: Il suffered greatly
from kidney trouble and though I tried
all kinds Of medicine, / could not ind
relief. The kidney secretions were too
frequent in passage, obliging me TO
get up at night and headaches and
dizzy spells also bothered me. The
worst symptom OF my trouble, how
ever, was "A constant, dull pain I'm the
small OF my back. causing me to feel
all tired out before the days work had
begun. Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills ad-
vertised. 1 procured a box and had
used them but a short time before 1
was benefited. continued to improve
until I was entirely cured and / am
glad to say that I have had no recur-
renee OF kidney trouble. In 1897, then
again I'm l 300, ! publicly recommended
Doan's Kidney Pills, and 1 stilI think
highly OF them"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

of us is weak and foolish connor.a
with the strength and wisdom of NJ.
all. This is the secret of the steadily
growing force of democracy. It ia
also the secret of the wave of inda.
pendent thinking and voting which
has staggered the most astute partv
bosses and brought their most cher.
ished plans to naught There NAV
come time when the star OF party
regularity will again rise but for the
present it is the spirit of independ-
ence which occupies the zenith.
In the town hall at PHILADELPHIA
hangs an old Bell. That bell was new
once; new spirit lay within it waiting
new gospel; the gospel Of Freedom
it rang not only to the ears of the
people in Philadelphia rang to the
ears of the world. And the oppressed
everywhere took to themselves cour-
age; that spirit once freed can never
be again imprisoned. But the old bell
is cracked now; it is the crack of
internal treachery and corruption. A
bell once cracked can never ring true
again. We want new independence
bell. The metal for it is now molten
in the hearts of the people-it is time
to mould it and swing it high in the
tower of Democracy. Already the
child of the future stands at our knee
and shouts, Ring. Grandfather, Ring."
Ring out the old. ring in the new:
Ring out the false; ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind:
Ring in redress for all mankind"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06
Good Roads a Necessity.

Good roads are the thread which
weave us into one community.
If the tax levy of this state can
be cut half mill, why return SO
cents to the villager and dollar to the
farmer, and eighty thousand dollars to
the steel company? Why not rather
put that amount into good roaos where
the dollar will do two dollars worth
of work for Minnesota and the eighty
thousand dollars will be contributed
out Of the wealth which the Creator
planted under the soil of Minnesota to
make the state richer in those con-
veniences which make for better liv.
ing and happier conditions.
But reductions of the state tax levy
are problematical. We can depend
upon them only as an occasional &C.
cession to the good roads fund. ]
stand, in addition, for the proposed
one rlill tax and believe that an
am -ndment embodying this feature
should be submitted to the people.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06
GOPHERS' FUTURE ADMlRALS.
Three Candidates From Minnesota En-
ter Naval Academy.

Washington, D. c. = A class of III
is shown in the list of midshipmen
who will begin their studies at the
United States naval academy Oct. L.
While this is an increase of Is when
compared with the number who entered
the academy last year, there were
more failures on the part of candidates
who took the examinations than in any
previous year.
great many appointees who passed
the mental examination failed to come
up with the physical requirements.
among the future admirals from Min
nesota included in this years class ares.
William Joseph Lahodny. Eighth dis
trict; Paul Leo Zesbaugh, Fifth dis
trict; Delorimer Mortimer Steece, ap-
pointed by Senator II. E. Clapp.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

continue to have that endorsement
and support in whatever position l
may be called upon to fill.
As to the Otis Decision.
I cannot forego a reference to a
recent court decision which has shaken
Minnesota to it's foundation. l refer
to the findings and decree handed
down last week at st. Paul by the
Master in the United States Court Of
Appeals involving the reasonableness
and validity of freight and passenger
rates for Minnesota. This decision
says in effect that the legislature Of
the state has absolutely no authority
to say what shall be reasonable and
fair rates for passengers and freight.
It makes the State Railroad Commits
sion a mere clerical body. It is sweep.
ing in it's scope and important not
only to Minnesota but to all the states
of the Union.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06
GRAY SEES DANGER IN OTIS DECISION
rates at all as to roads doing an inter-
state business.
State Shorn of Power,

State Shorn of Power,
THE master, having heard all the
testimony, seems to have found with
the roads on this question. and if the
decision is upheld in the higher courts.
its effect will be to deprive Minnesota
and all other states of the power to
regulate rates on business beginning
and ending within their respective bor-
ders, because of it's socalled indirect
effect on rates outside the state
"The decision goes farther in this
regard than any decision heretofore
rendered. The result of it would be
probably to restore the Scent passenger
fare in this state, but also to place all
state freight rates back where they
were years ago, at much higher level
than at present. 1t amounts to a dec
laration that, instead of the state hay
ing the power of control over railroads.
the roads have the power of control
over the state.
THE master also finds that the Min
nesOta rates are so low as to be con-
fiscatOry. The testimony of the rail
formed, was to the effect that in this
state the railroads are making all their
profits on their interstate business and
making no profit on the business be-
ginning and ending in the state. 1t is
clear that they are making an enor-
nous profit on the two classes of bust
| ness, and that their gross income is
high.
Rates to Be Raised.
.''In the face of the situation, the
newspapers inform us there is a con-
certed movement on the part of the
roads throughout the country to raise
their interstate rates. The hearing on
the subject is now going on in Chicago
before the interstate commerce COM
mission If this movement to raise in.
| terstate rates is successful, as it is not
unlikely that it will be, and the holding
of the federal court that the states can
not regulate rates at all should be up
held, it is plain that the railroad prob
lem overshadows all others in impor-
lance. and unless the people are aroused
to the impending danger, they are like
| ly to find that both interstate rates and
domestic rates will be raised so high
as to affect the prosperity of the
| country.
People Must Wake Up.
This is, therefore. time when the
people must wake up and learn that
politics affects their business, and pick
out men for public places who will rep
resent their interests and not the inter-
eSts of the roads.
The case of this state is being ham
died by capable men and nothing will
be left undone to protect the interests
of the people so far as they are con-
cerned; but the people must realize the
situation that confronts them, and it
is necessary for them to assert them
selves in no uncertain terms. They
must let it be known that they are not
going to yield the powers of govern
ment to corporations, and in this strug-
gle will be glad to enlist all the pow
ers of the Office of governor, should I
be chosen to that high position
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

The science of farming needs
to be brought closer and more
Immediately to the farmer boy.
The way to keep the big boy on
the farm is to show him when
he is still small boy the secrets
of nature and enamor him of her
conquest. The rural schools
should be developed and the
state should not grudge the mon-
ey it will take to do it.
"Forward to the Farm"
"Back to the farm" is a bad
slogan because it contains that
word "back." No one likes to
be turned back 1t suggests
coercion. Let us rather make
our slogan forward to the
Farm" When we learn to draw
and not to drive we will make
more progress. When we per.
feet means of communication we
make the cry, forward to the
Farm" of practical effect.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06


Railroads must earn a profit,
but on what? If we turn to their
stocks and bonds we cannot be
safe for they have suffered from
manipulation and watering.
This throws the public back
upon physical valuation of the
railroads and here difficulties
are raised through the hostile
theories of valuation advanced.
But this principle should control,
that the railroad is semi-pubIic
institution; the people who must
use it are semi-partners in the
enterprise; that they have
right to the least possible charge
for service consistent with the
railroads continuing in business
and that there must be an hon.
est showing of the actual in
vestment in the railroad, not for
speculation but for use. 1t is
unreasonable to propose that the
state can create a corporation
and lose its control of it's crea-
ture, and If elected Governor, !
shall use every constitutional
prerogative to protect and de.
fend Minnesota's sovereign pow.
ers in this respect.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

The State of Minnesota, acting
under its sovereign constitution
al authority to regulate carriers
within its borders, enacted in
1906 and 1907, pursuant to the
legislative messages Of Governor
johnson, two laws governing
railway rates:
First, a two-cent passenger
rate, which has been in effect
since May I, 1907.
Second, commodity rate law,
which the state was enjoined
from enforcing.
In the same period the railway
commission made reduction of
merchandise freight rates which
was urged by the governor and
accepted by the railroads.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06
Great Saving Affected.

The merchandise and passenger rate
acts have been in effect over three
years, with a saving of $4,000 day
to the shipping and passenger public.
but at the same time with such an
effect in increasing traffic, that the
loss of revenue to the carriers is be-
lieved to be nominal, if anything at
all.
Each of these acts is confined to
rates on business wholly within the
state. No court, or even railroad COM
pany, ever before has questioned the
power of the state to fix reasonable
rates on business beginning and end
ing within the state.
Both federal and state constitutions,
as interpreted to date, are framed on
the theory that sovereign state shall
make laws for the commerce within
it's own borders.
The federal government has not that
power; it touches only interstate com.
merce. Therefore, by the ruling of
Judge Otis, neither state nor federal
government has the authority to reg.
ulate the freight and passenger rates
on business beginning and ending
within the state boundaries; and the
railroad company alone has that pow
er.
In other words, the sovereign state
which grants to a railroad it's charter
to exist and do business has no pow.
er to regulate the business arising
pursuant to that charter; while, on
the other hand, the company created
by the state may defy the sovereign
power to which it owes it's life and
it's dividends and restore the old doc.
trine of 'All the traffic will bear"
Favors Physical Valuation.
If this is law, it is law which a free
people should make haste to amend.
The railroad problem is a compli.
Gated one. Lawyers theorize and ar.
que the matter from varying view.
points and the debate would be end.
less if we did not anchor ourselves
to the single, simple proposition that
railroad performs a function of the
state. When it exercises the powers
of the state, it must submit to the
same conditions which the state may
place upon it's own exercise of those
functions. We have gotten past the
point where railroad could be viewed
as purely private enterprise. Men
| who invest in railroads voluntarily
place their property in such a position
| that the nuh1ic has acnIlirad an inter
est in it's use. What is that interest
1t is that the railroad shall have nc
greater rights than the state would
have if it had built these highways it
self. Railroads must earn a profit
This is necessary in order that the
public may benefit by their presence
A broken-down, bankrupt railroad is a
pail upon the country it attempts tc
serve.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

Senator Smiths Senate Failed to Do
Its Duty.
For this neglect the State Senate
appears to be largely responsible the
defeat of e-apportionment being
charged to senators who refused to in.
terfere with their tenure in office.
The state authorizes the legislature
to make re-apportionment, if popu-
lation changes require it, after each
census. state or federal. Governor
Eberhart says at this time in the face
of another election that he favors re-
which he was part, pressed Con-
stitutional amendment allowing reap
pOrtionment to be made at any time,
thus probably deferring the question
until the amendment could be adopted
Permit me to say to northern Min
nesota here and now that the present
Constitution authorizes a re-apportion.
ment at this coming session and that
in all justice to the state it should be
accorded.
Stands for Employers Liability.
There is nothing more precious than
human life. There is no form of con-
servation more important to the state.
1t is the duty of the state to protect
from needless sacrifice the lives of
men and women who are obliged to
labor in our industries. Employers
and employees understand that every
restriction in our present inspection
laws should be removed so that the
state officials will have the authority
under the law to order safeguards in
every place where danger to human
life turks. But when we have solved,
SO far as protection to human life is
concerned, the question of accidents.
there still remain large number that
will take place because of the hazard
of the industry and which cannot be
foreseen or provided against. This
brings up the question of the basis of
compensation for such injuries. The
law that we have belongs to an era in
our industrial life that has passed. 1t
is based on the theory of fault or neg
ligence, which might have belonged
very well in the primitive days of hand
tools, but which has no application un.
der a system of industry which in.
wolves the buzz of intricate machinery
whirling saws and keen edged knives
Industry Must Bear the Risk.
The men who are obliged to work
under this hazard and who suffer the
pains from injuries sustained there
should not be obliged to carry all the
risk. 1t is the duty of the state to
step in and by proper legal enactment
to devise system for the injured
working man, which shall in no man
ner SAVIOR of aims or charity This
principle was recognized by the late
Governor Johnson. by the last legisla
ture, by the organizations of employers
and employees and by the State Bar AS
ISOLATION.
Commission is now at work with
a view of proposing bill which will
have for its purpose scheme of com
pensation for every person injured in
Minnesota industry without the nee
essity of costly law suit and with
the question of negligence wholly elm
mated. 1t has received my co-opera
tion and support as citizen and shall
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06
Interdependence of Rural and City
I ife


Life.
The discussion of rural education,
good roads, and kindred topics natur-
ally carries the mind to the relation
between the city and the country.
Minnesota has three magnificent cit
les, each as individual as three per-
sons, each has it's own peculiarities
and characteristics, but l think they
agree in this: that they have an in
tense pride in the creative part OF
Minnesota. The old dismal debate be-
tween trade and spade is closed. The
cities of Minnesota know that their
prosperity is dependent upon the
growth of the country. They can ad-
vance no faster than the farmer. 1t
has been said that we could burn all
our cities and still have a great coun-
try, but we could not burn all our
farms and have single great city or
single city of any kind. Therefore,
to say that country and city are at
war is to fly in the face of manifest
destiny which limits the city's growth
to the rate of advance of its tribu-
tary territory. The cities are not
more interested in their own growth
than they are in the growth of the
country. Nor are the cities selfish.
They are willing to carry their share
of the burden of the state. They are
eager to cooperate in all that makes
for the best of both.
Conserve in Act as Well as Voice.
Conservation-A splendid word to
conjure with. Conservation is city
as we'll as a country problem. The
non-conservation of forests already be-
gins to affect the city builder and the
city home-maker.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

profit from the gifts of nature to the
State tends to ease the direct burden
laid upon agricultural land, but wheth-
er we are wise or foolish in our con-
servation, we shall have taxation al
ways with us. Why should we not?
Taxation is a measure of benefits
bestowed. 1t is guarantee of the
public peace, of orderly justice. of
equal opportunity. The only problem
is to make taxation as light as the
needs of the state permit and as equa.
BILE as the finite judgment of man can
make it. Of all the forms of taxa
ton which have been proposed there
is none which appears to lay it's hand
more equitably upon the citizen than
the income tax. 1t is the only tax
which meets the corporation and the
individual upon the same ground
Il + Z + & =
Sees Wisdom in the Majority. =
There is but one issue in this =
campaign. 1t is stated in six =
+ words: Restore the rights of +
the people," We have a govern
ment of balanced powers, but =
the foundation of it all is the =
peoples right to self-government .
in an orderly manner.
We declare that the whole people
is wiser, stronger and better than any
minority however benevolent in its
purpose. The wisest and strongest
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

biggest factor, and they fight to put
the people out of power. To a great
many this condition has become intol-
cradle. They wish to know whether
the interests or the people are run
ming the government. 1t is necessary
for the peace and dignity of Mime
sofa that this question be tried out.
My opponent has said that if County
Option law were presented to him by
the Legislature he would sign it. He
could do no less. If elected, l will
do more. I shall take the position
that my election was a mandate from
the people to put this question up to
the Legislature, and l shall exercise
the constitutional function of the Gov
ernor to recommend proper legisla-
ton to carry out their will.
Re-Apportionment an Honest Demand.
I'VE are unequivocally in favor of a
re-apportionment of representation in
the State Legislature with view OF
making the composition of that body
a true reflection of the distribution of
population"
If series of Republican legislatures
had not been remiss in their duty,
this paragraph of the Democratic plat.
form need not have been written. But
Justice has not been done.
Project the southern boundary of
Otter Tail county east to Wisconsin
and west to Dakota and north of it
you will have twenty-five counties of
perhaps the most resourceful region
on the continent of North America.
1t has the greatest wheat fields and
the greatest iron mines in the world,
vast forests and water powers and the
source of three continental water
sheds. These twenty-five counties
have an area equal to that of New
York or Ohio.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

No spot on the globe offers
greater opportunities to the set
tier. All this region needs is
fair treatment at the hands of
the state. 1t needs good roads
and public schools. Il needs for
est protection and drainage, but
above all it needs and demands
Justice under Constitution
which guarantees to all an equal
voice in the government. 1t de-
mands that the legislature make
an honest re-apportionment. No
legislative re-apportionment has
been granted since 1897, a peri
Cd in which the population of
this northern domain has in
creased by perhaps 100000.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-10-06

The non-conservation of our
public lands threatens to bring
disaster upon our school fund, in
which city, country and univer.
sity have a vital stake. We
should all be conservationists,
but all of one kind-the kind
which conserves for use under
saIutary laws and not which
merely patters for the purpose
of famiIiarizing it's affrightened
ears with popular phrase.