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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
ATTACK
ON COMMISSION
Macon Twice Called to Account
for Exceeding Limits of Par
liamentary Debate.
Continued on page ~

Washington, Feb S.-Demanding an in
vestigatiOn of the immigration commits
sion provided for in the resolution he
had introduced. Representative Macon Of
Arkansas renewed his attack upon the
commission in the House to-day and Wig
orously defended j. H. Patten. secretary
OF the lmmigra ton Restriction League,
his informant who was severely arraign-
ed by Representative Bennet Of New
York. a member Of the commission, in a
recent speech In the House. Mr.. Macon
was twice called to account for exceed
ing the limits OF parliamentary debate.
only his quick retraction averting discip-
line by the House,
Mr. Macon renewed his charges that the
commission had been extravagant. He
declared the official reports and expenses
a accounts corroborated his assertions. that
its trip abroad in 1907 was ''iunket" and
that the government had had no ade-
quate return from the expenditure by the
commission OF s6578a3.
Six members OF the commission and
seven employees made the trip to Eu-
rope sa'u Mr.. Macon. They drew s9o'-
CONTINUED GU paEe l4D
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
FIXES CUSTOMS JUDGES
SALARIES AT $1,000

Washington. Feb. 9--The conference
committee of the Senate and the House
yesterday agreed TO FIX the salaries of
Judges Of the recently organized customs
court at 5000 a year The nominations
Of the Judges have been held in the
finance committee pending statement Of
the question of salaries.
President Taft must nominate another
chief justice of the court. as Alfred II.
COKE OF Utica, y. y, recently declined
the nomination.
HEARING ON COTTON GAMBLING.
Washington, Feb. 9--Gambling in fut-
ures in cotton and other agricultural
products was the subject of hearing
begun to-day before the agricultural
committee of the House which brought
together a delegation of prominent mem
bers of the cotton exchange OF New York
and several delegations Of cotton growers
and agriculturalists who appear to give
testimony for and against the measures
designed to prohibit dealings in futures
PIPE LINE BILL REPORTED.
washington. Feb. a-The construction
Of a pipe line for oil or gas across the
opposed in the committee on public
lands by Senator Jeff Davis. on the
ground that 1t was in the interest Of
the Standard Oil company. was report
I'd favorably from that committee to-
Say. The passage of this measure will
make 1t possible to complete pipe lines
from the Oklahoma oil fields to the Gulf
Of Mexico.
GLACIER PARK BILL PASSED.
Washington, Fob. a.--The bill providing
for the establishment Of the Glacier Ma
tiOnal Park, in northern Montana, was
passed to-day by the Senate. II created.
the park will be located along the ma
tional divide just south Of the inter-
national line between the United States
and Canada and will adjoin a similar re-
ssrvation of the Canadian government on
the northern side OF the boundary.
READY FOR HOUSE FRIDAY.
washington, Feb. 9.The river and har-
bors bill carrying an aggregate of nearly
t4O 10000 was virtually completed in COM
mittee to-day. 1t will probably he taken
up in the House Friday. Among the ap-
lropriations is one Of $60o.ooO for Living
stone channel, Detroit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
BENNETT DOOMED FOR
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK

New York, Feb. 9.-Following Cover
NOR Hughess declaration, made recently
for the second time that he will not con-
slider a renomina ton. friends of Repre-
tentative william s. Bennett aye shaping
o movement which they hope will end In
his nomination for governor by the re-
pwblioans next fall.
The boom will be officially launched un-
DER the auspices Of special committee
st . dinner to be held in New York on
March IA.
T. Barnard. Postmaster Edward M. Nor
gan, Samuel s. Koenig. Edward Lauter-
bach. Isaac N. Seigman, DR.. Charles II.
Parkhurst and Abraham Gruber.
MIR. Bennet is now on his third term in
Congress-. lie VAS campaign manager
Tor Barnard al tho late municipal con-
M.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10

secret from every member OF the service
In Washington except tho stenographer
who wrote them. With equal conceal
ment from all the men In the forest
service. letter was prepared and sent
to the comptroller. asking for speedy
advance decision as to the legality Of the
ranger schools. This letter was clearly
Intended and was so framed as to secure
decision against tho schools. and II
was successful In doing so.
Us A "MlsREPREsENTATI
This letter Is a MISREPRESENTATION be-
cause II cmits to state two central es-
sential and incontrovertible fscts: First,
that tho forest service must have train
ed rangers, and second. that It can get
them only by training them after they
enter the service. 1t follows that the
training OF the rangers by the service
is necessary, clearly and undeniably for
tho administration. protection and im~
provsment OF the national forests. being
necessary for the purpose 1t falls We'll
within the terins OF the agricultural ap-
preparation bill and v therefore law
fol"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
DANGEROUS DERELICT
IN PATH OF LINERS

Ncw York. Feb. 9.-Having taken fire
at sea and been abandoned by her crew
the bark Calcium Of Parrsboro y. S.
burned to the waters edge. Is now
dangerous derelict in the track of trans
Atlantic navigation.
The burning bark was sighted on Feb
ruary 6, about S5 miles east OF tho
Delaware capes by the italian nava
transport Sterope. from Norfolk. 70,
Gibraltar. The crew was picked UP BY
the British steamer Scrvian and LANDED
Yesterday at Halifax.
The Calcium OF SS1 tons net regists
was bound from Connetable islant
French Guiana. to Carteret, n. J., with
a cargo of phosphate rock.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
HOUSE WRECKED
A SEVENTH TIME
Trolley Cars Have the Habit of
Jumping Rail at Sharp
Turn.

Yonkers, n T., Feb. 9.-Seven persons
were hurt to-day when for the seventh
time at tho same sharp turn n beovv
trolley car jumped the rails and plunged
down hill Into the house Of Albert N.
Garthwaite
In -FOUR OF the ak previous accidents
Earthwaite has been awarded damages
agsregatins 1900. His house was wreck
ea To-day his wife badly injured and
hsr mother frightened into collapse. Ow-
ing 10 her advanced age she may not re-
cover The others injured were passen'
gers On the car. Mona was dangerously
hart
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10

Cleveland, February S,-Cold storage
eggs have vanished from the Cleveland
market and reports from Pittsburg. Gin
cinnai ana other adjacent markets indi-
cate that a similar situation prevails
there. Notwithstanding, the sriss Of
eggs has dropprd from n cents . dozen
wholesale, thu h9urs of ten Aass ago, to
% l-2 cents t&-ntshFv avotAtlcn.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
TELEPHONE OPERATORS
TO HAVE A RAISE

Boston, Feb. 9--The New England
Telephone & Telegraph company, be
lievinR that existing economic cond-
tions press especially heavily upon
women wage earners and clerks In
receipt OF small salaries' has appro-
pr,ated 100000 to increase the wages
OF these two classes of employees.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
WINS $1,000 BY
RACE TO FRISCO
Coffroth Beat Specified Time from
London by Two Hours,
40 Minutes.

San Francisco, Cal, Feb. s-James w
Croffroth arrived in San Francisco at
S:3O O'Clock tonight. He won his bet of
81 0O0 made With member Of the Ma
tionala Sporting club OF London that he
could reach this city In ten days from
London. He had 4 margin Of two hours
and 10 minutes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
SICK JOCKEY KILLS WIFE.
She wouldn't Live with n Con.un'p'
tive-He IL Dying,

New York. Feb s-Because he had
consumption his wife would not live
with him John w. Harbin, formerly a
jockey In the employ OF such we'll
known horsemen as Mike Dwyer and Il.
Il. Thomas, shot her dead on the street
Tonight and then sent bullet into his
own BRAIN He is dying at a hospital
In n letter addressed TO the public"
Harbin wrote:
u care to live no longer have no
home. no money and | am tired or NE
My father refuses to help me- 1t seems
n n . crime 70 10 siok.''
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
CLARK HOWELL STRICKEN
Edtt"r Of Atlanta Constitution Undcr-
goes Operation for Appendicitis.

Atlanta Ga, Feb. e.--Clark Howell.
editor OF the Atlanta Constitution,
who was operated upon this afternoon
for appendicitis. rallied we'll after
coming out from under the anaestIiet-
ic and unless unforeseen complica-
tons set In. will recover
Mr.. Howell was stricken this morn
ing and suffered so much pain that no
attempt could be made to get him to
hospital. DR.. Flcyd w, McRae per-
formed tho operation at the editors
homo, The appendix was found in a
cry hai condition but the operation
was pronounced a success.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10

Baltimore. Feb. 9-Gsn. Leonard Wood
was reported this morning as resting
comfortably, AT the hospital here where
he is = patient. He was said TO have
passed fair night and that his condition
HAA about the sainA "a an xA~AA~AAx.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10

Continued Ou psKe l2.D
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

established among themselves to not
only set the price on their own manu-
featured articles, but have in their
great combine also set the price at
which the retailer shall sell them at
after he has bought and paid for the
same. This great combine is saying
to retailers all over these United
States what he shall sell his goods to
consumers at and if he dares to sell
at any less price, then he is scratched
off the list and is not able to buy any
more goods.
I want you to investigate Duke c.
Bowers, as he has much literature
out And then please apply this
"set rule price, to our cotton man
ufacturers, both in buying and then
on the wholesaler and then on the
men and women who cut and
make up this cloth, and then on the
retailer, and then tell us if this COM
bine of all the manufacturers Of all
lines of goods does not have the
power of keeping up prices of all
goods to the consumer as high as it
pleases him, and you will greatly OBJ
lige Your true friend,
]. G. YOUNGER.
Ripley, Tenn.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT
ESPERANTO is?

To the Editor: Doubtless you have
long ago formed your opinion as to
the merits of Esperanto, the interna-
tional language; I hope that it is
favorable; but as there is much ire
sponsible criticism of Esperanto, es-
pecially on occasion of the interna-
tional congress at Washington, want
to offer an opportunity for every
thinker to judge for himself. l have
had prepared 100000 brief grammars
of Esperanto, in pamphlet form, and
will send one to anybody who asks it,
enclosing stamp for reply. l think it
really due this great movement for
an international auxiliary language,
which now embraces fifty nations in
it's scope, that you publish this letter,
thus giving your readers the oppor-
tunity of Judging for themselves.
Very cordially,
ARTHUR BAKER.
Editor "Amerika Esperantisto," 700
E. 40th St., Chicago, Ill.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY THE
NEED OF THE HOUR.

Dear Brother Watson: Never has
there been a time in our country's
history when there was greater need
of faithful sentinels to guard the bat
Elements of human liberty. There is
so much of deceitful acting by priest,
politician and business financiers. 1t
may be truly said: "They steal the
livery of heaven to serve the devil
in" But light is breaking. The
growing unrest shows that the limit
of endurance is close at hand. The
present order is condemned and re-
jected by the tax-ridden people. Will
practical statesmen or mere dema-
gogues, riding into power on the
wave of popular discomfort, be placed
in authority? Jeffersonian Democ-
racy is a principle as broad as hui
manity, high as heavens Golden
Rule. This principle applied in leg
islation and administration is the
need of the hour and the only sure
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS
PROPOSITION?

NV Dear Mr.. Watson: In the
presidential campaign of 1908 you
received a vote of nearly twenty
thousand in this state. Now | sug-
gest that under your proposition to
insure your life for 100000, pay
able to the stockholders of The JEFF
fersonian Publishing Company at
your death, that each of these twenty
thousand voters subscribe the sum
of $500 each to the capital stock
of The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany. | will do better than this and
go it five better for share to my
wife. If this voting mass would do
this you would see publication in
Georgia which would set the woods
on fire sure enough. Every member
of the company would be working
force Immediately back of it to talk
it and to work it and urge their
neighbors to help us. Every man
would feel himself an integral part
of the concern which he has lOnged
for in the past to see in actual work
ing condition. Come now, We twenty
thousand old-liners and let's put this
publishing company on top Of the
hill by early spring, so that it's life
hereafter will be down-hill pull. [
am in more than I have suggested
and will send it right along just after
the Christmas holidays are over.
H. w. VALLEY.
Villa RIGA, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
SENATOR MASSENGALE TELLS
MORE ABOUT COTTON TARE.

Dear Sir: I notice in your issue OF
Dec. 18th letter to you from Z. w.
Daniel, Molena, Ca, in which he
states that a number of buyers IN
Atlanta territory issued manifesto
on August 18th, that one dollar per
bale would be deducted on every bale
of cotton bought from the planter
containing over six yards OF two
pound bagging and six ties. Inc
same thing prevailed here in Warren
county last season, and while can
didate this year for the legislature to
represent Warren county, promised
in a public address to introduce
bill to make it misdemeanOr to de-
duct unless there was more than ~
pounds of bagging and ties, unless
the bale should be under 800 pounds
weight. The law | am to Introduce
is copied from the South Carolina
law almost word for word, introduced
at the last session of the Carolina leg
islature, and l believe is constitu-
tional. [ have mislaid the bill, but
have written to the Secretary Of State
for a copy and as soon as received
will send to The JeffersOnian for
publication. [ have not the least
doubt of passing the bill
A few years back, when cotton was
7 and 8 cents per pound, the planter
was instructed to wrap up his cotton;
bagging was then 10 cents per yard,
a yard of two-pound bagging was
worth 20 cents, and the bagging
could be sold back to the planter at
a profit. Now cotton is Is cents per
pound and bagging, two-pound, 8
cents per pound, and you see the
howl. 1t hits the other fellow. We
have been abused for sending our
cotton to market exposed, and now
abused and robbed for trying to keep
it clean. Nine yards of two-pound
bagging and six ties weigh about 80
pounds and that will wrap up the
bale completely and no surplus.
Yours truly,
T. E. MASSENGALE
Norwood, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
COTTON FARMERS WAKING TO
THE NEED OF COTTON LEG
ISLATION.

Dear Mr.. Watson: I have just
finished reading your editorial: "A
discrimination against the cotton
farmer in the matter of tare."
In my platform, before the August
primary, you will find the following:
"Would it not be a good idea to
fix, by law, the amount of tare on
bales of cotton? Should not the
farmer be allowed by law to wrap up
his cotton in as much bagging and
ties as the tare, fixed in Liverpool,
amounts to in weight? And will it
not be better for the merchant and
cotton buyer to have this fixed and
settled? There is trouble about it
every year.
AS a farmer myself, and as a
friend to the farmers, I am very anX
iOus to have some legislation on the
subject enacted at the next session
of the General Assembly, and if you
ton from you as to the kind of bill
[ should draw and introduce on this
subject.
Your early attention will be ap-
preciated, as I am drawing such bills
as I desire to introduce, when my
stenographer is not otherwise en-
gagged in my office
Thanking you in advance for such
aid and suggestions as you may de-
sire to make, l am,
Yours very truly,
JOSEPH H. FELKER.
Monroe, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
FROM A sTAUNCH WATSON BOY

My Dear Sir: I was born a straight
out Watson boy and if [ live until
[ am 21 years old 1 will die Wat
son man. I am going to strive to be
a great and noble man like you. |
am a farmer and a hog-raiser. L
killed a hog today that weighed 100
pounds. You ought to be here to
help me eat spare ribs and sausages.
My father takes The Jeffersonian and
| dearly love to read it. I think you
are doing a grand and noble work.
I don't even want to hear the name
of Hoke Smith and Tom Hardw1ck.
May you live long life and keep up
the good work you are doing now.
You have my best wishes. Remem-
Der, l am Yours truly,
JIMMIE BOONE.
Deepstep, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
HTGH-HANDED PROPOSITION
FOR TENNESSEE PEOPLE.

Dear Sir: Your writings on the
tariff have opened the eyes of many
that did not know how it affected
their interest Also your exposure of
Foreign Missions was the best and
most timely of anything that has
come to the church in a long time,
and the same conditions exist in ev-
cry denomination. "The struck dog
always howls' l say, let them howl
and kick them again.
AS you have always stood for the
rights of the people, I want to ask
you to investigate Duke G. Bowers,
of Memphis, Tenn, who owns 81
stores. He had introduced bill in
congress by Bob Taylor on what is
called the "set price rule;' that is,
the rule that the manufacturers have
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
CAN'T SEE HOW GEORGIANS SUB
NIT.
NIT

Dear Sir: How the daily
press suppresses your most re-
markable achievements is a puz-
zle to me = especially your
implement of that old "Hoke." Why,
that is enough to arouse the nation.
Nothing that Roosevelt ever did, even
to "bearding the lion in his den,' is
equal to your courage (moral and
physical) to equal that-and to think
that the people of Georgia submit to
such a man as governor one hour
without suing you for libel-or MAX
ing him resign. Truly we are in the
'1ast days. Sincerely yours to COM
mand, CARL BROWNE.
Calistuga, Cal.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

hope of the future. Wishing you
health and lifelong enough to see
e fruition of your labor of love Tor
humanity, | remain,
Your fellow citizen,
JOHN SEITZ.
Melmore, Ohio.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

Good books, like good friends, are
always welcomes subscribe for $1.OO
worth of Watson's Magazine as a
Christmas gift to one of your best
friends. The Jeffs, Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

A heavy plate silver sugar shell for
a dime. Send in your order to The
Jeffs, Thomson, Ca, right away.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
Attention! Old Line PoDp11fs

For the Of awakening
THE NATIONAL
OF Geoga j. H. Powers Thomas A
world
the
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-03-24
THE MONEY MAKERS.

Incompetents have long held a
grudge against money making. The
money makers have likewise long
had the pity Of the pious poor.
With clearer understanding that
poverty is the greatest of all evils.
the honest efforts to get rich have
had better ethical rating. But
inst as the rich have gotten comfort
ably settled in the seats Of the re-
spected may not one see a new dan
ger on their horizon? Is there not
plenty of reason to believe that men
young men, especially who are
fitted 10 make class respectable.
will steer clesr of the money making
fraternity. not because money max
ing is immoral or spiritually danger
lous. but because it is too easy?
Really. when you come to consider
il. is there anything in the getting
rich game that makes an appeal TO a
young man of this period? OF
course to have the good things of
ife is pleasant and offers some ex-
element. But the good living need
not depend on money making as the
vocation of life. and the excitements
of that pursuit are mild,
A young man of good health and
good address and fair assortment
of thinking materials can make mon
ey so easily nowadays that many
who are SO equipped are beginning
to think it is shame to take it. OF
the young men of most any ones ac-
quaintance those who are having the
least fun and who count for the
least in the world are the chaps that
have gone in to make all the money
in sight. 1t is quite doleful to note
how these young fellows are left out
of the swim. 1t does not make tho
spectacle less melancholy that they
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-03-24

don't realize or care about their iso
lation.
The youths that are having the
real fun and know what life is, are
the ones that go into the city, OIL
that take hand in politics, or that
get irto the game to give the other
fellow show. 1t is almost a COM
monplace now to speak of the men,
tai and spiritual unrest of this cen
fury. Well, the thing itself is a
fact, whether or not it is yet COM
monplace to remark upon it.
And therein is "the cloud no big
ger than man s hand" on the hori-
ION of the wealth-hunting era.
Young men quit the knight-errantry
business when it ran out Of dragons
and imprisoned damsels and when
there wasn't any particular amount
of glory in it. Young men got tired
Of the subsequent courtier business,
when it passed out Of the stage of
its Three Musketeers quality with
the chance it then offered then to do
something Of account for the king.
They went in those that were
worth while did for democracy and
revolution when the only alternative
was to be stupid appendages of
somebody else's stupid interests.
All through the historic list it is the
same. Young men with fighting
stuff in them will get into the cur
rent Of the life around them. Very
few young men will consent to be
yilded nincompoops when there is
Iplend!d city to serve and when a
great social and moral stir presents
Is dragons to fight and its Castles
Oar gerous to dIsarm Kansas City |
,tar.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-03-24
A DANGEROUS MISTAKE.
Emmett Mothers Should Not Neglect
Kidney Weakness in Children.

Emmett Mothers Should Not Neglect
Kidney Weakness in Children.
Most children have weak kidneys.
The earliest warning is bed-wet-
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Later comes backache, headache,
languor.
IT'S a shame to neglect these
troubles.
To blame the child for its own dis
tress.
Seek to cure the kidneys
Save the child from deadly kid
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