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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
Morris HlIIquit Takes UP Latest "Re-
form" Remedy and Dis
sects It.
SAYS POLITICS IS
BETWEEN SOCIAL CLASSES
Holds That salvation viii Not Come
From curtaiIment Of
Democracy.

New York, July 27.-The third of a
series Of letters between Morris Hill
cult, the we'll known Labor lawyer,
and various organizations, have been
made public, and the present letter
and answer is as interesting as its
predecessors. The "Short Ballot Or
ganization" wrote Mr.. Hillquit, asking
his opinion Of their efforts and their
plan, and he replied. The letter to
Mr.. Hillquit is as follows:
THE SHORT BALLOT
ORGANIZATION.
President
Woodrow Wilson. Princeton. N. J.
Vice Presidents--
winston Churchill. Cornish. N. n.
Ben B. Lindsey. Denver, Col.
VIM s. URen, Oregon City, Ore.
VIM Allen White. Emporia, Kan.
g. Rogers Woodruff. Philadelphia.
Advisory Board
Lawrence F. Abbott
Henry Jones Ford
Richard s. Childs.
Norman HapgOod.
woodrow Wilson
9acretary and Treasurer
Richard S. Childs, New York, n. Z.
SS3 Fourth Avenue. New York.
May ~, 1911.
Mr.. Morris Hillquit.
$40 Broadway, City.
Dear Sir:
We are anxious to get clear idea
as to just how the Socialist party
stands with reference to the Short
Ballot. There has been considerable
opposition among the Socialists to the
Commission Form Of Government,
and as you doubtless know. the report
Of the committee in the national con-
vention in 1910 was mainly adverse.
OF course. the Commission Plan en-
bodies the Short Ballot idea, and also
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27


der Short Ballot system, and they
fill the principal appointive offices. It
seems to me that if the powers of our
Governors and Mayors are to be so
Increased as to give them the appoint
ment Of practically all civil officers
within the state and municipal govern
ment, there will be added Z incentive
for the dominant political machines to
control these powerful sources of all
possible graft and patronage. and to
see to it that none but their most re-
liable tools be elected to these high
offices.
The Shor. Ballot may thus prove
quite ineffective even from the view
point Of the .good-men' theory. But
the Socialists do not believe in that
theory. Good men in politics is an
altogether meaningless phrase.
whether public Office is good or
bad may be matter of vital inter
est to his wife or intimate circle Of
friends; the community at large IS
concerned only in his public policies.
a public official cannot be good or
bau to the entire community alike.
The public Official who is good to
the large business interests and en-
plovers Of labor, is thereby bad" to
the workers and consumers, and vice
versa. II IS the interests, not the per
sonal qualities; the platforms. not the
candidates. and the measures not the
men. that count in public life. No
public Official, whether personally
good" or bad can escape the in
fIuence Of his own class and environ
ment, or the control Of the parties and
interests that nave elevated him to.
ofIice and upon whom depends his
political career
The public oficial serves the politi-
"a party to whom BE owes bis ONCE.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

Two union men have been elected
city commissioners of Pekin, ILL.,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
SAVE ALFALFA CROP

enough interested in the farmers OF
Utah and other states to tell us to
proceed with our experiments. and we
shall do all we can to get the best re-
suits from this work.
THE alfalfa weevil is a native of
Europe and western Asia. In those
countries, however. its avage are
kept down by a parasite. 1t Is that
parasite We have brought from Italy
to experiment with in this country.
There is no telling how long ago
the weevil was introduced into the
United States. 1t may have been
brought over in hay used as packing
or something of that sort. At any rate
it got here. and when it reached Utah
1t found conditions just right for pro-
pagation."
The Italian parasites were nipped
from Portici, Italy, by a government
agent sent there for the purpose OF
gathering them. Twenty boxes were
Kirkland having come on with them
received in Utah last month. Mr..
Kirkland having come on with them
from New York, and more will be re-
ceived during the course Of the work.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
Strikes at Cigar Butts and Has
Taste for Nicotine.

Bartletts. N. Y.-John J. Flanagan.
manager at Bartletts. has as one OF
his proteges a black bass which uses
tobacco. The fish, being an intelli-
gent one, does not smoke cigarettes.
But 1t chews.
Mr.. Flanagan got acquainted with
the habits Of the bass about a month
ago. The bass favorite loafing ground
is near a power-house. Always. when
Mr.. Flanagan goes to the power
house. he filings the cigar he happens
to be smoking away, SO that there
will be no danger Of fire.
He flung his cigar into the water by
the power-house one day and the bass
made a rush for 1t and grabbed It. dis
appearing under the water. Mr..
Flanagan thought little of that at the
time. for on certain days bass Will
strike at nearly anything, while on
other days the most alluring bait Will
not tempt them. A day or two later
he flung another cigar butt into the
water and the same fish rose to it
and nabbed 1t.
After this had happened a dozen
times, Mr.. Flanagan was forced to
the conclusion that it was not mere
random hunger on the part OF the
bass. but q genuine taste for tobacco
Several times shreds Of the cigar.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
Black Bass Chews Tobacco

much torn and raveled, have risen to
the top of the water half an hour or
so after the fish has grabbed them,
thus showing that the intelligent bass
really tried to smoke the cigar. but
being handicapped by certain natural
disadvantages, contented itself by
merely chewing the weed.
Some of the summer boarders. after
observing Mr.. Flanagan's bass came
to the conclusion that a natural taste
for tobacco might be Unborn with fish,
just as 1t is with deer and goats.
They experimental on several other
fish. notably a number of catfish. The
catfish. however. when put into a tub
on shore, and fed small portions Of
navy plug chewing tobacco, became
very sick at the stomach. showing
every sign of nausea, and mewing
pitiably. This. and other research
along the same lines. with dog fish
and pickerel convinced them that the
black bass who hangs around the
power-house Is unique in his habits.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
Personal.

Representative Lobeck wants the
international Harvester company in
vestigated.
DR.. Abraham jacob, Of New York,
was elected president of the American
Medical association.
The New York grand jury returned
indictments against members of the
so-called wire trust.
Jim Jeffries, of fighting fame, is
back from his European trip.
President Taft is about to withdraw
troops from Texas.
There are signs OF q deadlock in
the senate on fixing a day to vote on
Canadian reciprocity.
Hines, the lumberman, figured more
prominently than Lorimer In the n.
atorial election investigation.
Woodmen Of the World selected
Jacksonville, Fla, for the 1913 con
vention.
Senator Kenyon believes there has
been perjury in the Lorimer inquiry
and Is in favor Of prosecution.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
FROM MANY POINTS
EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A
FEW LINES.
DAYS EVENTS BOILED DOWN
Personal, PoIitic~i, Foreign and Othsr
intelligence Interesting to the
General Reader.
WASHINGTON.

President Taft accepted invitations
to address the Christian Endeavor
convention at Atlantic City. July Z,
to visit the New York state fair at
Syracuse in September and 70 stop at
st. Louis later that month.
Delegates to the convention OF the
worlds Baptist alliance. which closed
in Philadelphia, were received by
President Taft at the White house.
Earlier in the day the delegates visit
ed the capitol and were greeted by
Speaker Clark.
After two years investigation of
the steel trust, Herbert Knox Smith,
commissioner of corporations, laid
before President Taft an exhaustive
report of his findings. The report
Don will be made public at the pres
ident's direction, SO the house corn
mittee investigating the steel trlTt
may obtain the benefit of it.
Speaker Champ Clark issued a def
to the administration a few days ago
on learning of reports that President
Taft purposed to veto any generaj
tariff legislation at the extra session
of congress-. The speaker in a formal
statement declared that the whole
tariff ought to be revised and that
the democratic party would rest its
cas- with the country.
The house foreign affairs committee
decided to report favorably a resolu
ton introduced by Representative
Hammill of New York asking the sec
rotary OF state what action, if any, he
has taken regarding a recent speech
of John l.. Griffith, American consul
general at London, before the Pill
grims' society lin favor of an alliance
between the United States and Great
Britain for val upon a nation with
which this country is at peace"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
New Bug Being Imported to Xii!
Injurious Weevils.
Government Brings Italian Insect
Over in Storage Vaults and II
Revives Under Utah Sunshine
Work Is Experimental.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Swept from
the alfalfa crops in sunny Italy; fro
zen stiff and transported in cigar-box-
like cages in the cold-storage vaults
of a liner across the Atlantic ocean to
New York, and then transferred
again to the refrigerator compartment
of a transcontinental train and hurried
to Utah. is the experience of the al
falfa weevil parasites which. 1t IS
hoped, will save the alfalfa crops OF
Utah and all intermountain armers
from the ravages of the alfalfa beetle.
The parasites are nov coming to life
again in the sunshine which hlters
through the windows Of the United
States entomology experiment station
In the Utah capital, and they will be
used in a series of experiments
planned by the government with a
view to helping the farmer IN his
f1ght against one Of the most de-
structive pests of recent years.
The work is under the immediate
supervision OF A. H. Kirkland. special
agent OF the government in the alfalfa
weevil investigation Mr.. Kirkland
was in charge of the campaign waged
by the government against the de-
structive gypsy moth In Massachu-
sets. and was signally successful In
fighting that pest. He has been
through the practical as we'll as the
technical features Of such work, and
Is now employed by the government
t o supervise such Investigations as
are under way In Utah.
The work locally with the Italian
parasites and the alfalfa weevil is
purely experimental. The idea Is to
have the parasites lay their eggs in
the eggs of the weevil and SO destroy
the weevil, while propagating the par
asites. When 1t is known that the
weevil's eggs, In which the parasites
eggs are to be laid. are only about
the size of a pin point. 1t can be read
lily understood that the men in charge
Of the work are called upon to use
great skill in watching developments
in such minute forms of life.
Mr.. Kirkland. in telling OF the work.
says:
I'VE cannot promise. Of course, that
the ean we have undertaken to
eradicate the alfalfa weevil pest will
oe successful. We are hopeful. how
yer. At any rate. the government il
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
ANGLER IS DUCKED BY EEL
WInsted, Conn.,, Man Captures Speci.
men Six Feet Long After Being
Pulled into the Water.

Winsted, COMFY John Rogers"
exclaimed Joseph Rogers when pulled
into deep water in Highland lake. III
get that darned %whopper yet" he said
to his comrades In a boat as he
toundered in water many feet deep.
And he did. but not without a strug-
gle.
The "whopper" was n of those
large. strong, hungry cells which have
Deer in Highland lake SO many years
that they dare to tackle any human
trespasser. Rogers was standing in
one end Of the craft holding a steel
roo when he was pulled overheard.
He held on to the steel rod with one
hand and kept himself afloat with the
other until his companions reached
him. The eel was six feet long.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
CROWDS IN SAN FRANCISCO PUSH
PELL NELL FROM ALL
BUILDINGS.
BUILDINGS ARE CRACKED
One Man Dies of Eright.-Two Shocks,
Heaviest Since 1906 Cat
astrophe, Are
Felt.

San Francisco, Calif.-Two earth
quake shocks, the heaviest since the
big shake of 1906 and separated by
only a few seconds, Jared the central
portion of California and western Ne
vada. The first sharp shock. expert
enced at POI p. m, was followed with
in a few seconds by one of similar in
tensity, each lasting about five sec.
onds.
Only trivial damage has been re-
ported from any section, but in San
Francisco and other cities In the al
fected area, panic seized upon crowds
in stores and restaurants and there
was a pell nell exodus from the large
buildings.
One peculiar feature of the earth
quake was that it did not appear to
follow the old fault" in the earth's
crust which has been the playground
of tremeblers in the past, but extended
from the seacoast eastward to the
Sierras, including hitherto exempt
mountain areas. II was felt TO the
northward of Sacramento in the Sac.
ramento valley, southwark as far as
Fresno, and to the east to Reno and
Carson, New, the latter place expert
encing the heaviest shock in it's his.
tory.
Cracks in Office Buildings.
Some slight damage was done TO
buildings in a Francisco. Heavy
stones in the colnice of the Mechan.
les Bank building were moved slight
ly out of alignment; superficial cracks
were made in several large office
buildings; cornices of the new post
Office buildings were disarranged and
minor damage was done to the in
terror walls of several other buildings.
Within a few seconds after the first
shock many downtown buildings were
depopulated in a rush to the streets.
Telephone and telegraph service was
suspended by the operators deserving
their posts. Herbert Hadkey. a lodg-
ing house in mate. fell dead of fright
and some cases of hysteria, of cuts,
and bruises suffered in the s%emi-panic
were treated at the hospitals.
San Jose, heavy sufferer in 1906. re-
ported that the shock was the severest
experienced since that time, but it did
no serious damage.
At the observatory in Santa Clara
college the ~seismographs were badly
damaged by the quake. both reels be
ing thrown off the recorder. They
were quickly replaced, but not in
time to preserve a perfect record of
the waves.
Stockton and Fresno people were
frightened by the Earring but there.
as in Sacramento, where the state
Offices were deserted in a trice as a re-
suit of the trembler, the damage to
buildings was trif1ing.
In Reno, New. the shock was scarce
ly felt but in Carson City it was So
we're. A session of the federal court
was being held and the chandeliers
in the courtroom rocked to and fro.
Judge, jury. and attorneys rushed
from the chamber in fright. No dam
age has been reported, however.
The mean time clock at the observa-
tory of the University of California
was stopped for the first time since
the great quake Of five years ago.
The deep, booming reverberations
which usually mark disturbances of
a widespread character accompanied
the first tremor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
General.

The election of Senator Stephenson
OF Wisconsin, may undergo investiga-
ton.
Twelve masked men held up an
Erie train and fatally shot one of the
mail clerks.
The house and senate are badly d.
vided on the question Of direct elec-
ton Of senator's.
Senator Cummins spoke strongly in
opposition to Canadian reciprocity as
at present framed.
George H. Earle continued his at
tack on Colonel Roosevelt at the sug
ar trust investigation.
There will be no action at the spe-
cial session Of congress to fix the toll
rates OF the Panama canal.
Norris Brown says he is willing to
vote for downward revision on al
most any tariff schedules presented.
President Taft announced the ap-
pointment Of Philander Claxton of
the University of Tennessee as COM
missioner Of education.
President Taft was told by Presi-
dent Shotwell, of the Nebraska pro.
gressive league, that the state is for
him.
Robert Swazey, a Canadian, was
burned at the stake by Mexican ban
dts near Fort Summer, New Mexico,
on June Is.
General Porfirio Diaz, former presi.
dent Of Mexico, Is on his way to Wies-
baden, where he will take the cure.
Two hundred persons were wound
ed In an election riot at Kalusz, East
ern Galicia. It was necessary to call
out the troops to put IN end to the
fighting.
A dispatch from Warsaw states that
the congress Of the national demo
cratic party decided to discontinue
the boycott Of government schools in
Holland.
President Taft will spend one of the
0rst week-ends of the summer at his
new country place" In Massachusetts,
mex Saturday, arriving there from
Washington with his family.
One thousand delegates from Iowa,
ANOU1eoAds AA0bdS, anu
Missouri attended the first annual
convention o.. the interstate retail
dealers association, which met in
Kansas City for a three days session.
The total reserve held by 7,277 ma
ti0nal banks at the close Of business
on June Z. the last call of the comp
tfoller Of the currency, wal STATS
s140,7o5, an average Of 22.1O per cent
and 4121.67O,S15 above the o
required to be held by law.
II VA held by the interstate COM
merce commission that q privilege
savoTing Of . gratuity can not be or
dered continued BY the commission
unless the original granting OF the
privilege rested on some legal obli-
cation.
Sarah Bernhardt sailed for France
altar = tour OF America. She said
that ne probably will return for an
Other tour n 1915.
JoAn Mc1Sarrey, chief Of the Kansas
Cit. Kas, lre department. was dan.
esronely iniured when he fell through
~ 1oor 81 : burning house In that
m
~
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
GET GIRL.

Atrocity Pulled OF In Wilds Of New
York City.
New York, N. Y. - Five young men,
believed to have been members of a
notorious West Side gang. jumped from
a taxicab in Central park, ran through
the shrubbery te a bench. shot a young
man there and carried of the young
woman with him. They put the girl
inside the t.xicAb and were gone be
fore any one of y number of spectators
including a policeman, could reacl
them.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
Twin City Markets.

Twin City MErkefN.
Minneapolis. July 3.-Wheat. July,
95tsc: Sept. 96&c: No. l northern.
9shc; No. 2 northern. $3.50: No. | du-
rum, S6Ac; No. 3 corn. 60hc; No. 3
white oats, 43c; barley. mailing, 99c:
No. 2 rye, sac; No. ! fax, $2.05.
Duluth. July 3.-Wheat. July. 97Hc;
Sept. S7Nc; No. l northern, 97Ac; No.
] durum. sc C.
South st. Paul. July Seattle
steers. !5.25@6.So; cows. :3oo9425:
sheep, yeariings. $500 5000.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, July 3.-Cattle-Receipts,
estimated at 200: steady: beeves. $4.6b
@6.75; Texas steers $4.50@6: western
steers. $4.7O@6.95; stockers and feed
ers, $3.26@6.40; COWS and heffers, $2.25
M5.75: calves. $5.75MS.
Hogs-Receipts. estimated at 5000;
strong, &c higher; light, $6.3 066.72H:
mixed. $6.3OM6.76: heavy. S6.20@6.70;
rough. So. 20 6.35; good to choice
heavy. $6.35M6.50; bulk of sales $3.50
Q6.65.
Sheep-Receipts estimated at 5000:
weak; native, $2.5064.40; western,
$2.75@4.40: yearlings, $425@6.10;
lambs. native, $4.50W7.55; western.
$4.5OQ7.50.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07

Beat Is Lonesome; Policeman Resigns.
Newark. N. J.-After three hours
service as a Newark policeman Patrol
man Daniel F. Haggerty found his
beat SO lonesome that he telephoned
in his resignation and went home.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07
Cir, Saves $500 on 81 a pav.

Worcester, Mass.-Relatives of Miss
Marguerite Hudon. who died after
working as a shop clerk seventeen
years at 81 a day, found bank de-
posits in her m aggregating S.
zoo. Her total earnings had been S..
.04.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-07

Named Wisconsin Revenue Collector.
Washington, d. c. The president
nominated Frank L. Gilbert to be col.
lector of internal revenue, Second dis.
trict of Wisconsin.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-28
No. D.
The Government Not Particularly I'm
h ten on the Subject.
(By the Associated Pres

b the Associated ITeSS.1
Chattanooga. Tenn, March IA
though Judge Sanford yesterday ruled
in the Federal Court that the Coca
Cole Company must disclose the com
position of the mysterious "Merchan-
disc No. s." the principal ingredient
used in the manufacture of Coca-Goltt
syrup. the government was not en-
frightened on that subject today in the
herring Of the case of the United States
against forty barrels and twenty kegs
of Coca-Cola. DR.. l.. Schaefer, OF
haywood. n. j., whose company man
ufactures "Merchandise No. s." was
Gale dto the stand. He gave the pro
cess Of making Merchandise No. s.
used in the Coca-Cola syrup. He
stated that the article contained q por-
ton Of both cocaine and cola. He
testified that to nine hundred gallons
Of dilute alcohol, in reality California
wine, he used 3S5 pounds Of coca
leaves and 125 pounds of COLI nuts
from all of which the entire amount OF
cocaine and associated alkaloids were
| extracted. the alcohol being Of q
strength represented in twenty per
cent. The cocaine and ak aloids eX-
tracted are only On~e-twentieth OF he
entire weight of the coca leaves and
cola butts. Machinery is used for the
p~ercolating process in the manuf3@-
ture. and the infusions are combined
mechanically and chemically.
The Coca-Cola Company uses fifteen
gallons Of the resulting "Merchandi~'
No. 5" TO 1850 gallons of the finished
Syrup.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-28

ulease." You may kill me" said N4s-
rice, but not before / utter a s-F
which would bring upon You the srt.
Siers who now surround this nous
Geneviexe. with tears and prayer lta-
.plored Maurice not TO sacrifice TIE
life Of the Cheyalier, but to help t5rH
70 escape-he had been the friend ana
nrateetor OF her family. "Geneytsra"
asked Maurice, taking her aside $50
that the man whose life was III que
ton could not hear, do 2 la"N
me Maurice. | do love YOU. V.s
the reply.
He returned to the Chevalicr. st,
him the countersign and hade I#u,
take GeneVieve out by q side cutra..-
the countersisn would enable tlser
to pass the lines OF soldiers in
next street. Dixmer had been ,r-
formed that his houSe Was be'E@
tied by the Government agents sud-
had already escaped. So when t..
soldiers came they found the cage. h4s
the birds had flown. Whatoyer s-s
picions they may have felt rs t" tar
part played by Maurice they knew
nothing Of a surety and could prov.
nothing. That night when NaHrfe.
returned to his lodgings he found Cen
eyieye there waiting him. The Chgv-
alier and her husband had d~isappeac-
ed-Maurice became her protector.
But Dixnler had not fled from PARIS
/ ana one udk ne IOuitd odl III - IssAl+
of Genevieve and. during the abscuce
of Maurice. took her away. II Will nat
kill YOU said he. but Will devote
your life to the liberation OF the
Queen Ear and Wild die Mdurtce
seek Dixmer and when they met they
went to the side of the river and
fought a duel. Dinner Vas killed
Maurice. Genevieve and Lorin We're
arrested. tried and sent to the gull
lotine. Genevieve died murmuring
the name OF Maurice and he the name
of GeneyieVe. Then the royal captive
was led forth to her doom. Nh"u
the AK had fallen the crowd cried op'
that there was an aristOcrat dippi"S
his handkerchief in the blood Of tine
Queen. The man stepped forth amt
tearing open his shirt. showed Il deer"
self-infIicted wound. 1t was the Ch@E-
alier de Maison-Rouge, and with "a
!. mile upon his lips he fell dead below
the headless body Of the daughter "i
! the Caesars, whom he had 80 long
: loved afar off and to whose cause IA
, had unavailingly devoted ana sattf'
, feed his life.