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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-08-31
plood OF me venerable horses, OF which

prood OF the svenerabIe horses, OF which
they had no superfluity.
In Croatia, Dalmatia and Turkey
they fish for leeches, which are taken
in baskets like oysters. When these
arrived in France they were placed
in dark cellars without nourishment
the better to fit them for their work
on the invalid.
M. Boyer tells an amusing story of
a lot of leeches purchased for the
navy. They duly registered as
each was sent out. Five 1t seemed
died a natural death, a fact which will
be preserved in the archives Of the
ministry of marine.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-08-31
His Sense of Humor.
Mrs. Ycungwedd had been takir

Mrs. Ycungwedd had been taking
cooking lessons through a correspond
ence course
Although there was a marked inn
provement in the culinary department
Of the Youngwedd homestead the hus-
band lost no opportunity for poking
fun at his Wife's cooking. One morn
ing, just as he was leaving for bust
ness, she asked:
Ny dear. what would you like for
dinner this EVENING""
Well" he replied, smilingly.
we'll have lesson four with exception
81 little OF lesson 3 and perhaps the
postscript Of Idsson 10 for DESERT
Woman's Home Companion.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-08-31
THE CITIZEN REPUBLICAN.
P. A. BLISS, Editor & Proprietor,
SCOTLAND, s. D., Aug. 81, 1911.
LOCAL NEWS.
For Pianos see W. H. Miller.

Mrs. John Wittmayer went tc
Tyndall Saturday to visit relatives
and friends in chat city for q few
days.
Fred e. Waterbury, iineman nj
the electric light plant, spent Sun
day at bis home in Akron. La.
Mrs. Moses Hackett and child.
rem went TO Meck!ing Sunday tc
spend a few days with relatives.
Mrs. Alfred Brown returned on
Tuesday from a visit of two OF
three weeks in SPHINX county.
Misses Lottie Ardery and Anna
Iolnowsky returned from Parks.
ton Tuesday where they had been
attending institute.
Miss Nellie Mclean OF Yankton.
stopped off here Tuesday to visit
her brothers. She had been at
Kaylor to visit her sister, Mrs. C.
G. Max, and stopped here on her
way home.
Dean e. G. Perisho of Vermil-
lion was here between trains Sat-
urday en- his way from Springfield,
1a,
where lie delivered several address
es at the institute, to Parkston to
give an address that evening. He
went. from there So 500 Falls.
David A. Sowl got n fall of about
eight feet from the breaking of a
ppllsHk III ii scaffoii while working
on A. M. Warmers house Monday.
One arm was so badly bruised that
he WAS forced to take u lay-off for
a few days.
A new floor is being laid in the
Sioux Falls saloon building, and a
new plate glass front will he put
in. The door will be moved to the
corner Of the building making a
corner entrance, and two plate
glass, each ten feet square, put in
the front.
Mrs. Anna Wall and little Child
went to Ghamberlain Sunday.
Since leaving their claim west of
the river this summer she has been
staying at the home of her father.
Paul Weiland, until her husband
should find another location. He
has a position at Chamberlain, so
she went there to join him.
The Scotland public schools will
open nexs IfaeHdiay, September 9Th.
IL is hoped that all children of
school age will be prepared at that
time to begin with the school year
IN order that there may be as lit
tie confusion al possible caused
by pupils entering the grades after
the work has begun.
BY the School Board.
The little child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kroft, living south Of town.
died last Tuesday morning from
diphtheria and was buried in the
afternoon Of the same day. There
are four other children in the FAM
ily, oil Of whom have the disease,
one Of them being quite seriously
q osiior tirree are recoy.
ering. Mrs. Kroft also had the
disease hit hes nearly recovered.
Mrs. Ella Mahaney came from
Sioux City Saturday. Her house.
hold goods are in storage at Les
terVille and she went to that place
sunday tosee about shipping them
hereto her house which she will
occupy again. Az soon as she il
settled she and her daughter, Mrs,
bsancheI ice Of Sioux City, expect
g takea pleasure "trip to Califor-
n
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-08-31

Mrs. Henry Baisch went tt
Yankton Sunday to visit relatives
Carl Max was a passenger dowr
from Kaylor Saturday to spend the
day.
Atty. JAS. ScoDlic of TynGaI
was here Sunday returning home
from the south.
Harlan Colwell, who has a posi-
ton at Chamberlain, came home
Sunday to spend a few days.
e, V. Wilcox was here to spend
Sunday with his wife at the home
of her mother, Mrs. w. G. Bard
we'll.
Jos. Becker returned Sunday
from Chicago where he had been
buying the fall stock for Becker
Bros. Co. .
Mrs. VIM. Nellis and daughter,
Harriet, of haylor We're here over
Sunday, guests of Miss Sarah
Beecher.
Mrs. Burdick Of Yanktou was
here Sunday at the home of her
father, j. l.. Hutchison, returning
home Monday.
Aug. Clausen is having some re-
pairs made on the A. l.. Jones
house, which he recently purchased
and moved into.
Mrs. George Wade of Chicago
arrived Sunday to visit her sons,
"Bud" and Marshall, and her
daughter, Miss Marjorie Wade.
Mat Mccormick and family of
Tyndall we're here Saturday on
their way home from Canada
where they had been visiting Mrs.
McCormick's brother for about a
month.
Miss Katherine Wittmayer came
home from Sioux City to spend
Sunday. She has E,een given a po-
"a. rs. |
sition as trimmer in a. millinery
shop at Ellen, Neb, for the fall
season and expects to leave Sioux
City for that place Wednesday.
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Andrew and lmogene
Bv ROE FULkERSON

Andrew, it's too late for my present to come to-
night but you tell what it is, can't you dear
She was pulling at the lobe of his and talking in
her most wheedling voice
Its the thing you want most of anything"
spared Andrew. Nov, what's that?"
Something to wear?" she asked.
Sure he said
"On my feet, my hands, or my head?"
Guess" he said. Remember, it's the thing you
want the most"
Then it's not silk stockings, for 1 have plenty:
it's not rings, for 1 would be ashamed to wear
another; let me see-kow many of them are there?"
,"Er-er-three!" Andrew was getting into deep
water.
"Oh! I know" she exclaimed joyfully
What then, smarty," he asked, anxiously.
Il won't tell till you tell me what color they
are"
Guess" he said, still sparring for time.
"White!"
Right, OH" said Andrew
Now you just must tell me what kind they are.
I won't guess again till you do.
They are the er-er-jiggly kind" foundered
Andrew.
ooh you extravagant old darlng!" she
claimed Three long white willow plumes! the
iiggledy kind indeed! They the finest things in
the world! But oh, Andrew, they must have cost
an awful lot of money!" His face went white And
only to think that five minutes ago thought you had
forgotten me!" She spuggled into the hollow of his
arm and tears of mingled joy and contrition slipped
between her lashes.
Here! Here! Kitten he said, kissing her,
that won't do! Go powder your nose, you are max
ing streaks in your complexion! There, run along
now and come back when you are fixed up again."
She left the room, and showing back his sleeve,
he wrote hastily his cuff, Three long white will
low plumes," and he sadly looked at the memo
he muttered, 81 wonder how much of crimp they
will put in my bank rolI!"
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Andrew caught the note of pathos and laid down
his paper instantly and smiled sweetly at her.
y"You haven't forgotten dear, have your" asked
Imogene again.
Forgotten Monday, January the ninth? Well, L
should say mott" Still he looked puzzled.
81 am thirty-six today, you know" she said.
Know? Know?" he said, with an air of relief
haven't been sitting here all evening worrying to
death because the present bought you didn't come?
know you'd like it," he said, talking suspiciously
fast I'm sure you will
"Of course l will" she assured him. But oh,
Andrew ought to be ashamed at my lack of conf
dence in you! I've been sitting here all evening
thinking you had forgotten" She came over and
sat on his knee, kissing him contritely.
Darling, how could you doubt me?' he asked,
smoothing her hair.
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No Voice; No. Increase

Government employees not being al
lowed to petition, either individually or
through organizations, for better pay, of
course don't get it. That's about the
whole story.
The civil service employe is supposed
to have soft thing. That popular i'm
preston is going to be difficult of eradi-
cation, and yet it must be eradicated be-
fore there will be much chance to better
his condition. The truth about it needs
to be told all over the country.
Organized labor, fighting for the bet
terment of conditions, has raised wages
everywhere. Intelligent employers, recog-
nizing the reasonab bleness of fair demands
in a time Of constantly increasing living
costs, have conceded them. Uncle Sam
isn't an ordinary employer. He is an i'm
personal one He is afflicted with the i'm
preston, apparently, that the consumer,
in the language of Senator Lodge, is
"1argely myth.''
Organized labor has made it rule
that the laborer gets time-and-a -a-half pay
for overtime work. Railroad men get it,
employees of large concerns generally get
it. How about civil service employes9 Z
Why, here is what they get-this civil
service regulation:
No allowance or compensation shall be made
to any officer or clerk by reason of the discharge
of duties which belong to any other officer clerk
in the same or any other department; and no al
lowance or compensation shall be made for any
extra services whatever, which any officer clerk
may be required to perform, unless expressly au-
thorized by law.
Let US look into the facts about in
creases of wages in general employment.
/. The Department of Commerce and Labor
reports show that wages of employees of
all manufacturing concerns averaged, in
1907
2s.2 per cent higher than in 1896.
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1913 per cent higher than in 1897.
t28.5 per cent higher than in 1898.
Wages of Others

That is the way other people have been
meeting the increasing cost of living. Re
member that the figures are the Govern
ment's own-same Government that has
not revised the schedule of salaries in the
classified service since 1853.
Look next at how people in the trades
have had their wages boosted. Here are
the percentages of increase in wages of
the trades named from 1897 to 1907:
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The Filipino's Advantage

A town meeting of Filipinos, clad in
sunshine and breech-clouts, can petition
the Government of the United States to
plant bread-fruit tree over every ma
tive's hut; but TWO HUNDRED THOU
SAND AMERICAN CITIZENS, ESPE-
CIALLY CHOSEN FOR THE WORK OF
THE GOVERNMENTS OWN EXECU-
TIVE DEPARTMENTS, are denied the
right of petition!
This right of petition seems worth
looking into. Here is the text of the
FIRST ARTICLE OF THE BILL OF
RIGHTS of the Federal Constitutions:
Congress shall make no law respecting an es
tablishment of religion, prohibiting the free ex-
ercise thereof: abridging the freedom of speech
or of the press the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERN
MENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.
Isn't it possible that we are getting
our wires crossed bits Here is the Con
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a MINIATURE volcano of smoke rose from be-
II hind the evening paper which hid Andrew
1 \ from view Imogene sat with open book
in her lap gazing istlessy at the smoke as it rose to
the ceiling The corners of her mouth had pathetic
droop She sighed and then said:
Andrew, do you know what day this is?'
Yep" came from behind the paper, 'ft's Mon
day
After an interval of fifteen minutes she spoke
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His wages were

good deal of a snap. His wages were
high, for that time.
But suppose railroad brakemen of to-
day were asked to accept the same wages
that were paid to railroad brakemen in
1855?
Suppose engineers were called in by
their superintendent and told that the
wage scale of 1878 was to be restored?
Suppose carpenters were ordered to go
back to the wages of 1880?
Do you know what would happen in
this country? There would be such
crisis, such complete cessation of in
dustry and enterprise, such an utter stag
nation of all business, production and
merchandising, that the worst depression
the country ever saw would seem, by COM
parison, like an era of Lucullan luxury.
What we need is to get the truth about
the civil service employees understood by
Congress and the country. Congress
isn't really bad lot. Its instincts are
generous Why, less than two years ago,
when it was pledged to revise the tariff
downward, its habit of generosity to the
downtrodden producer was so strong that
it actually couldn't keep the promise. The
force of generous habit was so strong that
it raised the duties instead of lowering
them.
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again. An
drew, what Is
the first day
W e celebrate
after n g W
Year"
"Thanksgiv-
ing" he re-
piled, without
looking up.
&C an you
think of notn-
ir g e | s e."
a SIX d I'm o.
gene, her voice
breaking just
a mite.
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thousand of them right here in Washing
ton. First, they are
DISFRANCHISED.
They have no vote. Their part in the
government under which they live is the
same that idiots, infants, and criminals
have elsewhere: absolutely nothing. Sec
ond, they are
DENIED THE RIGHT OF ORGANI-
ZATION.
Who would organize a great force of
people like these, when the only possible
things that organization could accomplish
are expressly forbidden, on penalty of dis
charge?
When George B. Cortelyou was Post
master General he gave a public intima
tion that postal clerks might organize if
they liked, but advised them not to atfil-
late with the American Federation Of
Labor.
Other labor organizations make them
selves effective and potent through Co
operation and affiliation But after that
bit of paternal "advice," the postal peo
pie didn't affiliate.
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There is what the best statisticians of
the Government report as the increases of
average wages in ten years.
And for more than half century
there has been no revision of the scale of
Government wages!
Assuming thatthe consumer is myth,
there is still some evidence that the prices
he pays are not mythical. They can't be
paid in imaginary money, or blue sky, or
amiable intentions. 1t takes cash. How
much?
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See Your Congressman

Go and see your Congressman-you
must have one friend in Congress whom
you know we'll enough to assure that he
will not have you fired for it-and tell
him the truth about wages and cost of liv
ing and the difficulties of making ends
meet. Get him to understand that the
ancient superstition about the Govern
ment employees snap is a horrible anach-
ronsm at this juncture.
If you don't know Congressman that
you dare talk to for fear he will have you
fired, write to some friends back home,
and get them to read The Times poor
little pieces about this subject, ana teen,
when they have got the idea, to write to
their Congressman.
You haven't any idea-having been
disfranchised for so long-how respectful
Congress can be toward folks who are not
disfranchised.
It's enough to make Washingtonians
wish, sometimes, that they lived in the
United States.
Maybe it would be a good idea to
petition Congress to annex the District
of Columbia to the United States!
But not so fast: you'd all be fired, by
Executive order, if you undertook to ex-
ercise the right of petition!
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stitution prohibiting any abridgement of
the right of petition, and AFTER IT HAS
BEEN ,UNQUESTTONED FOR 113
YEARS IT is ADVOCATED BY. AN
EXECUTIVE ORDER!
In the language of an eminent cynic,
who maybe was advising the Executive
when that order was issued, whats the
constitution between friends?"
An Old Doctrine
But the Constitution hadn t been born,
OF dreamed of-when that doctrine of the
right of petition was established. Magma
Charta was adopted in 1915. 1t was the
beginning of the guaranty, among Anglo
Saxon people, of the right of petition to
the government.
The colonies revolted against Britain
for various causes, but they never were
denied the right of petition. Magma
Charta will celebrate it's Tooth anniversary
four years hence. 1t would be worth
while to attend public meeting of Gov
ernment clerks, in honor of the event.
They would have to extract what salts
faction was possible out of their dis
tinction as the only body of intelligent
AngIo-Saxon people on earth who had
succeeded in getting 700 years behind the
march of progress.
A Case of Muzzling
Don't imagine that Executive order
means nothing 1t means vast deal to
the Government employees in Washington.
Read about particular case.
This case is reported to The Times by
man who came to this Office but declined
to tell his name. He told the building in
which he worked. He said:
There are twenty people in the little office in
which | work Only one of voted in The Times
poll the other day, although we had talked great
deal about it, and everybody had decided opinions
and wanted to vote
The chief of force, however, went around
and intimated broadly that he thought it would be
better for us if didn't bother about voting He
didn't say anything about the Executive order. He
didn't need to. Every Government clerk knows
about il, and is duly afraid OF OFFENDING against IL
There would have been twenty votes in our room
instead of one but for that suggestion, from the
man who is our immediate superior, that it would
be better for not to vote.
The man who told that story would
not tell who was the chief under whom he
worked. He was afraid to do so. The
Times would like photograph of that
chief of division. 1t would like to print
it, accompanied with heartfelt tribute
to it's original. 1t wouldn't be surprised
to receive the photograph some day, show
ing the original looking through key
hole with both eyes at the same time. He's
just about broad enough between the eyes
to accomplish such feat.
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Horse of Another Color

Horse of Another Color
1t will not be safe, however, to assume
that this Government is opposed to labor
unions. By no means. Labor unions
whose members VOTE, and don't work
for the Government, are coddled and jol-
lied and cajoled for their votes. Last
session, in appropriating for the enforce
ment of the antitrust act, the House in
serted provisO that ''no part of this
money shall be used to prosecute
any combination whose purpose is TO i'm
prove the conditions or advance the wages
of labor -
The House voted that proviso in, and
the Senate struck it out. The House in
structed its conferees to insist, and they
insisted. Again the Senate refused to yield.
Finally, the President took hand, in
sisted that the House recede, and by a
vote of 1873 to 100 it yielded and the pro
viso went out.
But it went out only under the sever
CSI IIOlll lIlC HCClu vi Wv
ernment. The House wanted to retain it.
1t wanted to show, on the eve of a cam
paign, how friendly it was to labor. 1t
was anxious to go on record as the pro-
tector and advocate of labor unions and
their right to operate in combination to
improve the condition of their members.
Yes, indeed!
That incident illustrates how Govern
ment employees might promote their own
interests if they were allowed to use the
methods that EVERY OTHER CLASS
OF WORKING PEOPLE IN AMERICA
MAY USE.
We see, then, that Government en-
ployes are
DISFRANCHISED, and
DENIED THE RIGHT TO ORGAN
IZE.
Look farther in that precious Execu-
tive order, and you find that they are also
DENIED THE RIGHT OF PETI-
TION.
Yes, just that. The Executive order
says they shall not, on penalty of dismis-
SAL "either directly or indirectly, indi-
vidually or through associations, solicit
increase of pay or INFLUENCE IN
THEIR OWN INTEREST ANY LEGIS-
LATION WHATEVER"
Wouldn't have thought any American
citizens could possibly be subjected to
such humiliation as they, would you?
Well, none of them are-except Govern
ment clerks.
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Why the Clerk Can't
Help Himself

4 T the outset of any effort to secure
~ wage justice for the Government
employees, it is necessary to meet,
to fairly answer, and to overcome, body
of objection based on prejudice and ig-
norance.
Thousands of people in Washington
and millions throughout the country hon
estly believe that the civil service en-
ployes have "snaps," with little and easy
work, short hours, good pay and numer-
Gus privileges Let's see if that is true.
1t is no answer to demands for more
pay, to snort out that eff the Govern
ment clerks are not paid living wages, let
them quit" Yet that is the commonest
answer. The Government clerks cannot
strike. They are not allowed to organize
labor unions. They must take what is
handed to them and look pleasant.
Suppose, however, that the Govern
ment clerks were all to quito strike!
Suppose they took the advice of fool
"friends" who glibly announce, eff Il
man don't like his job let him quit and
get new one?" What then!
The first thing that would happen
would be reorganization of the schedules
of wages, along modern lines. 1t would
have to be done, before the jobs could be
filled with competent people.
Why They Don't
WHY don't the civil service people
organize bring political influence to bear,
and force Congress to act! That's the
way other people do when they want
things from Congress. The answer is
found in the Executive order of January
81, 1902:
All officers and employees of the United States
Of every description, serving in under any of the
executive departments or independent Government
establishments, and whether so serving in out of
Washington, are hereby forbidden, either directly
or indirectly, individually through associations
to solicit increase of pay to influence in their
own interest any other legislation whatever, either
before Congress or its committees on pen
atty of discharge from the Government service.
No, you are wrong. That order is not
q translation from an trade of Abdul
Hamid. 1t is no paraphrase of a ukase
by the Gar of Russia. 1t doesn't repre-
sent the absolutism of mediaeval Persia
or the military methods of modern Ger
Rany.
That Executive order was issued by
the President of the United States. It's
date shows it to be a twentieth century
production. Nothing else about it would
suggest period this side of the seven
teenth.
Read it over again, and, remembering
that it is still in force, ask yourself once
more why these fool clerks don't do
something for themselves?"
Seems like one of those foolish and
unnecessary questions, now, doesn't it?
Clerks Are Helpless
Congress is the paymaster of the Gov
ernment employees. Nobody else can
change their salaries. And if, singly or
through organization, they approach Con-
gress on the subject, they will be sum-
marily fired.
Yes, gentle reader, this under the en-
Eghtered institutions of the United
States. This under republican form of
government. This in the epoch which
somebody deliciously characterized as
"the so-called twentieth century"
Truly, it's fine snap these Gov
ernment employees have. Twenty-six
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. Cost of Food

Here we put the Department of Com
merce and Labor statisticians on the
stand again They have been doing a
powerful lot of investigating in order to
enable us to answer that question. They
find that the cost of food at retail in 1907
averaged:
22.2 per cent higher than in 1898.
25.2 per cent higher than in 1897.
26.3 per cent higher than in 1896.
Creeping steadily up, year by year.
The only thing that doesn't go up is
the pay of the Government clerk.
He works away at the same old wages,
fixed in 1853, and when he peeps-just
mildly peeps, you know, because If he
speaks out loud he'll be fired by EXecu-
tive order-when he peeps about it, every
body laughs at the idea of protest from
the possessor of an upholstered snap!
The Facts In the Case
To be fair about it, the Government
clerk who served before the civil war had