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The Parker post., 1911-07-15

probably will find it unable to dis
pose of the issue The senate cen
SIS committee has reported the bill
for the reappOrtionment of the house
membership, but Senator Root of New
York and several other eastern and
middle western senators are strongly
opposed to the passage of the bill
at this special session, so it is quite
certain that it will get caught in the
jam and will not be allowed to go
through.
Once in awhile one of the depart
ments tells congress to "go chase it.
self" This has been the case during
the past few days. The house COM
mittee on expenditures in the pOstof
flee department has been attempting
there is a difference of 900 be-
tween a state department voucher
and the amount actually paid for the
portrait of Judge Day. The expendi-
ture was approved and passed by Sec
retary of State John Hay in his life
time, and Secretary Knox testified
that the payment was regular. 1t ap-
pears that the amount was used for
secret purposes of the government.
Notwithstanding the approval given
the item by two heads of the deparl
ment, Messrs. Hay and Knox, the
committee which is made up of
number of democrats seeking excite
ment, have demanded that two former
employees of the department, both of
whom are still in the government SER
vice. shall be discharged to which the
state department has answered, in
substance, that the committee is in
vited to go way back and sit down.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
BAIT LOOKS GOOD
INVESTMENT BAD
Land Swinders Claimed Desert Tract
Would Be Under ChuckaWalIa
Ditch, Which They Claimed Was
Under Construction.

W. H. Macomber and w. B. Rob-
erts, doing business under the firm
name of w. HI. Macomber Company,
are charged with having operated a
systematic swindle IN connection with
school lands in San Bernardino coun-
ty, in complaints filed against them
last week in Los Angeles by d. J..
Whitmore, J. A. Jones and U. L..
Laughlin.
The experience of each of the men
with the firm, as related in their ap-
plications for relief, are similar They
allege that they were anxious to get
some of the land as they had been told
Macomber and Roberts assured them
they say, that all they had to do was
to pay over $640 and the firm would
do the rest.
They claim to have put up the
money and later the concern asked
them to sign affidavits that they had
personally visited the land They aver
that they demurred to swearing to
falsehoods, but did so on being as
sured that it was a mere matter of
form.
They declare that they were told
that the land was as level as a bill
lard table, and that it was several
feet lower than the ChuckaWalla
ditch, which was being constructed
to convey water from the Colorado
river Further they were told that the
soil was admirably adapted to rails
ing citrus fruit.
Subsequently they say they were
each compelled to pay the state more
than $17O for filing, charge which
they declare they were assured they
would not have to stand.
The plaintiffs now charge that they
have discovered that the land is
rough; that it is not suitable for
raising fruits and that it is from $50
feet to 900 feet above the prospect
| i've water level of the ditch.
They are asking the court to re-
turn to them the money they paid
out, they having received nothing,
the state having Cancelled their en-
tries because of irregularities.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
TWO sTUPENDOUs DEALS.

DOUGLAS, July Zone Of the
largest deals reported recently is that
in which Bill Jones, mayor of Bo-
NEVILLE, is to engage shortly Mr.
Jones has arranged for the purchase
of $4,000 canary birds which will be
ruthlessly slaughtered to meet the
demands of modern civilization.
The feathers of the birds are to be
sold to large pillow manufacturer
in Aqua Prieta, which will make up
a huge amount of Indian head sofa
cushions. 1.-THE bones will be sold
to fertilizer plant. The flesh of
the birds will be canned for use of
restaurants in chicken pie Their
songs have been contracted for by a
phonograph manufacturer The heads
will be used to ornament hat pins.
This will entirely dispose of the
birds and Mr.. Jones expects to reap
huge profit from the deal.
1t was reported in an afternoon
poPSi IhoI d lcSlucIj Vi GIIIlGV1Il6
had purchased 5000 hurros. Their
grease is to be made into soup and
the bones and hides worked over
into fertilizers,
When Mr.. Jones heard of this deal
he was overcome with jealousy, but
decided at once that Pirtleville should
never have the better of his own Bo-
NEVILLE. He therefore closed the long
pending contract, at once, by wire.
81 think that | have put a good
one over on Pirtleville," said Mr..
Jones, last evening to an interviewer.
"The world will listen to the voice of
my slaughtered canaries for years
and years. That's the main point.
No mention was made of the use that
the burros' brays will be put to-
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
TAFT OPPOSED
TO THE RECALL
Statehood Resolution Reported to
the Senate-Chairman Smith Gives
Recall.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 11.-Af-
ter three weeks holdup of the
statehood resolution, after it had been
ordered reported by the committee on
territories of the senate, chairman
Smith of that committee made a re-
port to the senate today with a rec
ommendation of it's passage. Mr..
Smith stated that while he personally
favored the admission of the terrific
.ries and was willing to do what he
could to bring them into the union, he
deemed it eXpedient to amend the
Flood resolution, and he gave notice
that at an early date he would offer
an amendment cutting out the recall
of judiciary in the Arizona constitu-
tion.
He closed by saying that he was
going to ask for unanimous consent
for an agreement to vote on the res
Olution at an early date
Senator Nelson stated in present
ing the minority report of the commit
tee that he favored the admission of
New Mexico with the constitution l.
had adopted, but he was utterly op-
posed to the Arizona constitution for
two reasons, first the recall of the
Judiciary, and second, the fact that
fifteen per cent of the voters could
set in operation the initiative and
referendum.
In an interview Mr. Smith said the
president was in a very belligerent
mood regarding Arizona recall and
that if territories were to get state
hood at this session, he believed it
would have to be cut out, otherwise
it would certainly be vetoed.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
CHANGE OF TIME.

Tb. time for the departure of the
West-bound freight was changed last
Tuesday, and beginning on that day
the train will leave here at o'clock
in the morning The same crew will
double back from Cadiz, arriving
some time in the night This change
was made in order that the freight
crews would be enabled to sleep at
night during the hot weather, which
does not permit of much cumfort or
rest while old Sol Is on the job dur
ing the day. All crews will lay over
in Parker. The railroad boys feel
highly elated over the change
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
INDIAN WEDDING.

Judge C. w. Graves officiated at
an Indian wedding last Sunday morn
ing at his office The contracting par
ties were Isaac Cathaway and Anette
Ameelyunyay. The ceremony was
brief, but the judge says that it will
stick just as hard as the more lengthy
variety. The bride was attired in a
dress of varied colors, trimmed with
more cOlOrs, and presented a very
natty appearance.
The local Indians seldom resort to
marriage ceremony, but since Su
perintendent P. T. Lonergan has had
charge of the agency he has i'm
pressed upon them the necessity OF
getting regularly married like white
folks.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
1000 DATE TREES.

The planting of the date trees re-
in progress at Coachella. Last Jan
uary it was announced that steps had
been taken to commercialfze the date
growing possibilities of that valley as
proven by the government and
Messrs. Reed and Johnson, private
growers, during the past eight years,
by the American Date company, a
Coachella valley Incorporation, send
ing one of it's directors to Algeria
for the purpose of securing a large
shipment of cate off-shoots of the
best varieties.
More than 1000 palms were in the
shipment, and as they are being
planted 4S to the acre, more than 21
acres, or the largest single grove of
standard variety dates in the world
outside of Algeria, is located in the
Coachella valley.
The 1000 palms represent an out
lay of about $4,000 to the company.
The greater part of this expense was
incurred in transporting the palms
from the interior points of southern
Algeria where they were purchased,
to the coast This transportation is
done by camels, who are able to car
ry about 600 pounds per animal.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
MAY
BE DEFERRED
Feeling Increasing at Washington
That Most of the Questions of Leo
isIation Will Not Be Considered
This Session.
Especial Correspondence.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 12.-
A good deal is being published nova
days about the attempts of the demo
cratic members of the house to re-
form the affairs of the administra-
ton of Alaska, and one would be
tempted to believe that the republi-
can policy that has been maintained
in the government of our northern
poss ession has been anything but
satisfactory. In contradiction of this
impression, it should not be forgotten
that Secretary Fisher of the depart
ment of the interior, has recently is
sued one of the most important or
ders in history, in reference to the
coal lands of Alaska In reference
to legislative action concerning the
territory, it must not be lost sight of
that the committees on territories of
the two houses were favorably dis
posed to the reforms in legislation
pressed by the delegate Wickersham
in the last session. Mr.. Wickersham
is regarded as the foe of the Guggen-
helms and the Morgans, and if ever
man since the time of Lincoln, has
struggled for the rights of the peo-
pie, that man has been Wickersham.
There is something about these del
egates in congress that causes one
to sit UP and take notice They are
after big things for their people. and
in the case of the men who represent
Arizona and New Mexico, Hawaii,
and ;ht Philippians, there is a con-
stant struggle to secure the best re-
suits of government aid for the resi-
dents of the territories. Last session
Mr. Wickersham succeeded in get
ting bill through congress providing
for commission, to be made up of
the members who were to visit Alaska
during the summer months, but the
extra session of congress interfered
with this plan. Chairman Flood of the
committee on territories has been
having a good deal to say about the
affairs of Alaska, but the real legis-
lation is still coming in from Mr..
Wickersham, and to press his claims
he has introduced a house resolution
to the effect that the committee on
territories be authorized and direct
ed to take up and report the legisla
ton now pending in reference to-
Alaska. So far as the territories are
concerned the wheels of government
are at standstill in congress. None
of the committees are at work, nor
do they propose to do anything un-
less given permission by the demo
cratic house caucuses, which are far
more powerful than congress itself.
The feeling appears to be increasing
that most of the questions of legisla-
ton will not be considered at this
special session, and statehood for
New Mexico and Arizona are likely to-
be among the matters that will go
over this session. The senators are
anxious to dispose of Canadian reci-
procity and the tariff bills, after which
the disposition will be to hike for
for their homes or the summer re-
sorts. The direct election matter is
likely to be disposed of, providing the
fight that has been precipitated by
the Bristow amendment can be set
tied by the conferees. The question
Of campaign publicity is also likely
to remain unsettled, as the senate
The Parker post., 1911-07-15

''Killsants" kills ants, 25c. City
Drug Store
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
SHARLOT HALL TO
TAKE LONG TRIP
Arizona's Historian Will Face the
Dangers of the Desert to Secure
Important Data Relating to Early
Days of Territory.

Miss Sharlot M. Hall, territorial
historian, is in Flagstaff at present
completing arrangements for making
one of the most interesting and novel
journeys ever undertaken by any wo-
man in recent years in the west, in
conjunction with her official duties
in gathering data of pioneer days of
a thrilling character says the AriZo-
ma Democrat. Her purpose is to
leave that city next week, going to
Mohave county, where her journey
will be initiated in a long and weari-
some trip to the isolated regions of
southeastern Nevada, where many are
still living who will recall events of
long ago and who also have stored
away in memory some of the vivid
dOings of other days, of an intensely
interesting history of Arizona. Miss
Hall will leave Kingman on horse
back, accompanied by a guide and
camping outfit and limited stock of
provisions. She will go into camp
whenever overtaken by night, follow
ing the characteristic of the Hassay-
amper in his wanderings when he
first came to the country, and as
guide only the star of the north. The
itinerary of Miss Hall as tentatively
agreed upon by correspondence takes
her through section of Mohave
county which has no resident for
over 100 miles to the Colrado river
at Scanlon's ferry, which is unin-
habited, and lives in name only now
adays. Nevada is then entered, and
yet there are many more days to be
travelled before the journey will bring
her to the first signs of civilization
or to the first inhabitation. That
wild and uninhabited land will
then be Zigzagged and it is believed
there are enough survivors of the
first days of Arizona left alive to give
Miss Hall the invaluable data she is
so Jealous to obtain. The trip will
undoubtedly be attended with hard
ships and privations, but in this re-
spect Miss Hall faces her official du
ties imbued with keen interest and
willing heart to secure data that
is so much to be cherished and which
will complete one of the most inter
esting chapters in the history of Ari-
Zona
Some idea of the magnitude of the
undertaking which faces this nervy
woman may be formed when it is
learned that it is her intention to
be away until October The object
in going to that particular part of
Nevada is due to the conditions
which prevailed when Arizona was
first formed as a territory. At that
time it contained Piute county, which
afterward went to Nevada, where it
has remained The Colorado river
was officially designated as the boun-
in later years, and to gather official
data and the personal "reminiscences
of that old land, Miss Hall enters
the wilderness in the same spirit so
many other noble women of the
pioneer era faced when the trails
were blazed and the country was
opened.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15

Schuster's Malt, Best Summer Ton
ic, Pints, 25c. City Drug Store.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15
WORK ACCEPTED.

the new Indian school buildings was
completed last Saturday and formally
accepted by Superintendent P. T.
Lonergan and government inspector
of construction. The work was done
by the Des Moines Iron Works, un-
Cox.
The Parker post., 1911-07-15

flood, stopping the delivery of Gus
tom ores The road is being repaired
and the treatment of ores will be re
sumed at once
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09

real Democrat tardily advanced to the posi-
ton on which we old Pops marked our firing
line?
Is not the whole country-so far as the
common people are concerned seething with
Populism? Drop the binders, and open wide
your eyes. See things as they are. Be man
enough to admit that you've honestly mis-
understood me.
Let's get together. Let us cooperate in
good work. l am not after anything for my
self. [ don't want your vote-nor your
money.
AS Editor, publisher and unpaid cam
paigner, / can do my people far more service
than would be possible were in office.
Nobody's boss, I'm nobody's slave No
corporations or specially privileged interest
will ever clamp letters on me. The truth, as
| see it, will always be what you'll hear from
regardless of personal consequences.
When the South has been assailed by the
North, have / ever failed to defend my own
people?
When insolent, pampered, commonplace
Booker Washingtons and Bishop Turner's
have vaingloriously Dragged about the adj
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CONTINUED ON PAGE NTNE.)

vancement of the negro. have | ever failed to
demonstrate that the black man is but the
slavish imitator of the white mans develop
mentS?
Which one of the public men of the South
has shown a greater concern for her past, her
present and her future? Who is better
equipped to meet her enemies in the gate?
Which one of your leaders has shown that
he understands, better than [ do, the great
principles of good government?
Don't you think that the white people of
the South sorely need a leader-unselfsh
patriotic and capable? Did you ever see a
great organization more cIumsily generated
than the Democratic party has been? Can
you not recognize the irreconcileable differ
ences of interests and opinions that tear it
with internal commissions?
Why not join with us i'll our Peoples
movement, and purge the party of all those
so-called Democrats whose convictions ought
to carry them to the Republicans?
Let us make the Democratic party demo-
cratic.
And then let us work for reforms that will
bring about prosperity and a higher, nober
standard of living
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09

And, as Mr. McDufie said, the most as
founding feature of the whole diaboical sys-
tenn is the completeness with which the poll
ticians and the Privileged can dupe the vic
TINS of Protection into the belief that the
Privilege benefits the unprvileged
With the doors of immigration standing
wide open, vomiting into our industrial world
all the cheap white labor of the universe. our
Protected capitalists are still able to convince
our wage-earners that American capital pro
tects American labor from the competition of
foreign 'pauper" labor!
Having ground down the price Of factory
labor to such low point that they can under
sell forei gners in the foreign market, our
Privileged and Protected Capitalists can
nevertheless convince American laborers that
the motive for high tariffs is to enable the
capitalist to pay big wages.
And they swallow 1.-THE wage-earners
swallow it, meekly, blindly, trustfully.
The record Of a century teaches them moth
ing. <'TsRE
The evidences of their own senses are
ignored.
The very factory hand who, at Fall River
lived off the soup of the Salvation Army, de
voutly believed that if it hadn't been for the
Protective system they wouldn't even have cot
the soup.
The factory girl who is paid five dollars per
week, and who, when she complains that she
cannot live on the wage, is sardonicalIy ad-
vised to get gentleman friend, actually be-
lieves that were it not for Privilege and Pro
lection she would not get the five dollars.
God in heaven No wonder that George
McDuhie expressed his doubt as to whether
the masses could ever be enlightened. No
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09

will not permit myself to believe that the Presi-
dency OF the United States will ever be bought
and sold. But | must say that there are certain
quarters of this Union in which, if the candidates
for the Presidency should come forward with this
Harrisburg tariff in his hand nothing could resist
his pretensions if his adversary were opposed to
this unjust system of oppression"
ordinary infatuation which a combination of capi-
talists and politicians have had the heart to
d1ttuse over more than one-haf of this Union
when | see the very victims who are about to be
offered up to satate the voracious appetite of this
devour1ng Moloch, paying their ardent and sin
cere devotions at his bloody shrine, | confess |
have been tempted to doubt whether mankind was
not doomed, even in it's most enlightened state to
be the dupe of some form of imposture, and the
victim of some form of tyranny
Sir, in casting my eyes the history of
human idolatry [ find nothing, even in the
darkest ages Of ignorance and superstition which
surpasses the infatuation by which confederated
priesthood of politicians and manufacturers have
bound the great body Of the people of the farm
ing states of this Union, as if by SPELL TO THIS
MIGHTY SCHEME OF FRAUD AND DELUSTON."
Bear in mind that this speech was made in
1924
Then look around you and see how pro
phetically Mr.. McDufie pictured the future.
The Presidency is bought and sold. Con
gress is bought and sold. The confederated
priesthood of politicians and manufacturers
does dominate an infatuated people whom it
deludes and plumbers.
The Trusts are nothing in the world but
the legitimate children of Privilege and Pro
lection.
Campaign boodle-funds are nothing in the
world but the sop which the corrupt COM
bination of capitalists pay to renew the lease
which they hold on the Government
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09

What book, or editorial, penned by me, stirs
your Indignation?
When the people have called on me for un-
selfish service when did / ever refuse it?
When great moral issues we're on trial,
when did | ever shoulder arms for the i'm
moral?
When great principles at stake, who
fought for them harder than I?
Have you ever known me to make play to
the grand stand?
Have you ever seen me finch under punish
ment! Did you ever know me to desert a
friend or apostatize on conviction? Did you
ever hear me boast after victory, or whine,
after defeat?
Am | not standing where | stood twenty
two years ago, when making my first race for
Congress? Did / not in Congress, strive for
the very things that I'm battling for moa0?
Has not the Insurgent Republican and the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09

- against our QamllaDle Iar11 OVSteln
Well, it does. Such men as Nelson Ding
ley and Joseph H. Walker were good Judges
III such matter, and they regarded Nc
Duties argument as the strongest ever made
against the New England scheme of enrich
ing It's capitalists by plundering other sec
tons. DR.. Goodwin Smith should also be
competent judge, and you will find that Nc
Duties speech IS the one he quotes from in
his "Political History of the United States
Mr.. McDutfies great speech against the
protective system IS too long to be reproduced
here; but in the concluding paragraphs he
predicted with such clearness of vision the
reign of rotten business and rotten politics
which now afflicts us that his words read
like an inspired prophecy:
Sir when I consider that by single bill like
the present, millions of dollars may be trans
terred annually from one part of the community
to another; when I consider the disguise of disin-
terested patriotism under which the basest and
most profigate ambition may perpetrate such
act Of Injustice and political prostitution l cannot
hesitate for moment, to pronounce this system
the most stupendous instrument of corruption
ever placed in the hands of public functionares
"IT BRINGS AMBITION AND AVARICE AND
WEALTH INTO COMBINATION WHICH 1T is
FEARFUL TO CONTEMPLATE BECAUSE 1T is
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST
DO we not perceive, at this very moment the
extraordinary and melancholy spectacle of less
than one hundred thousand capitalists, by means
of this unchallenged combination, exercising an
absolute and despotic control the opinions of
eight millions OF free citizens and the fortunes
and destinies of ten millions?
"Sir, will not anticipate forebode evil
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09
A WORD TO THE HOSTILE DRUMMER

AVE | ever done you any harm? Have
ever given you any valid excuse for
abusing me? What vote of mine, in
the Georgia Legislature, or in Con-
gress, met your condemnation What
speech of mine do you find fault with?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-02-09
oaNOTHER TALK ON THE TARIFF

= I'D you know that to the almost for
} gotten statesman, George McDuffie, be-
longs the distinction of having made
SM the most powerful and most prophetic
SKI speech that was ever made in Congress
III against Our damnahle Tariff Sustem2