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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

Senator Cummins delivered an ad-
dress In Des Moines last night on the
peace treaties. Some wicked standpat-
tiers will wonder where In the Warlike
senator's political career he has gath
cred the material for a speech on the
subject Of peace.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

One of the speakers at the Mime
sofa banquet designed as the opening
OF LaFollette's presidential boom de-
clared that II Taft is renominated Min
nesota will go democratic. This
sounds more like the assertion OF
democrat to whom the wish is father
to the thought. Mr.. LaFollette Will
find that such speeches as his will not
further his doubtful candidacy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

when prominent farmer sat down
in Morris chair after nomadic pull
let had completed a modest contract
therein, and when he arose from MS
nap a rear view Of his anatomy looked
like a calico pony with the prick!y
heat. Teach your hens to keep their
place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
.DIEGLE SENTENCED
TO PENITENT1ARY

Columbus, O., Sept. 9.-Rodney D.
n,ep,e. former sergeant alarms Of the
Ohio state senate. recently convicted
Of aiding and abetting in the alleged
briber;T Of State. Senator L.. r. An
drews. today was sentenced to serve
three wears in the penitentiary.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

I Des Moines wants President TAFT
to lop of few hours Of his OttumWa
stay in order to give the citizens OF,
that modest village second presiden-
tial visit. When it comes down to
pure. unauthorized nerve the capital
city OF Iowa GODS the candy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

or reception hall
is liable to fresco
the family Bible
with fresh eggs
and cause ribal-
dry in the house
of prayer. "A
restless, wander
ing hen which
throws her pro-
duct around the
premises can
cause more dis
cord in the home
than a lippy
hired girl. We
saw an example
of this recently
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
TILE STATE FAIR.

Mason City Gazette: The state fair
was SO much OF success that it clean
ed UP $4,000 net, and that, of course,
will give it's officers courage to ask
the next legislature for 100000 or so
for improvements.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

If you want to get sure TIP on the
next big sporting event, the Sioux City
Journal observes, find out whether one
OF the contestants slept well the night
before
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

Col. Bryan is quoted as saying Il
have seldom been asked to take a
drink. The /, Kansas City Journal
finds a ready explanation for this. The
candidate, it says, Is supposed to 90
the setting 'em up" and Col. Bryan
has always been candidate.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
TAXING uNEARNED INCREMENT

TAKING UNEARNED iNcREM En- ~ :
..As q theory the Henry George IDEA
OF raising all revenues by taxing OUT OUT
the rental value Of land is attractive,
says the Minneapolis Journel But
the theory has been overWorked IN the
direction OF denouncing the unearned
increment. I'm
..Mr. Georges son, who is member
OF congress, recently made speech IN
the house celebrating the idea ina.
the man who acquires a piece OF land
where q city subsequently grows up,
fattens at the expense Of the commu-
nifty without ever having contributed
I'd its growth. He took the example OF
Manhattan Island sold by the Indians
IN the seventeenth century for twen-
tv-four dollars, and valued now for
taxation at three; thousand million dol-
lars.
".Who and what made the difference
in value" he asked, and answered:
Social growth, the birth OF babies, I'M
migration, laying out OF streets, the
making Of great public Improvements.
"This Is true, and If Mr.. George could
imagine the opening OF streets, the
building Of schools and other city i'm.
nrovements without owners of land, ne
vm,ld prove his case. But he can not
show; this from the history OF Amer
ica The first settlers in every COM
munity included men with some cap1-
tai. They took up land. They stimulated
imnrovem ent Of the community. they
thamselyes and their neighbors for the
enterprise. They led in the taxation OF
advanced the money to start the town
Then they went out and invited IN
new settlers On what basis? On the
basis OF the fact that here was COM
munity started; one that had already
some improvements, schools and IN
dustries that would give the new set
tiers something to do and enable them
IN time to become property owners and
taxpayers. Thus a large part of the So
called unearned increment is founo 70
have really been earned, when tne
facts, are historically examined.
"There are many cases OF individuals
Who have vegetated on a community
and crown wealthy at its expense, put
It is a mistake to say that they ARE
the. rule. The unearned increment
should certainly be taxed out wnere IL
can he reached, but 1t would be q mis-
take to treat all alike in this matter:
what would become Of the small Land
owners under the single tax? Wouldn't
thew be compelled by the rule OF tax
ing the land its full rental value to
make their lots smaller and smaller,
and i've closer and closer together, IN
stead OF spreading out as health and
good morals in large cities demand?
"The single takers appear to have
their ewes fixed on few parasites who
ara holding land away from use, and
- have devised their plan largely with
the idea OF pulling down these indi-
yiduals. They don't seem to have
stopped to consider whether they
would not be pulling down somebody
cleo at the same time"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

The Chicago Tribune believes you
get sufficiently accurate idea OF Up
ton Sinclair from his father-in-laws
casual remark about him: He cheWed
a nr1,ne twenty minutes"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
find it. Quit looking for strikes. Look

find it. Quit looking for strikes. LOOK
for some way out of it.
Strikes are simply calamities. Some
times these calamities teach lessons
but the teaching comes too high. The
strike is the costliest argument ever
used.
There was never a worse time to
look for big railroad strike than right
now. Those who look for it, II they
find what they look for, will be like
boys who find a storage house for
explosives and start playing with
powder.
A big strike means spoke In
wheels which are beginning to turn
with accustomed speed, 1t means idle
ness, suffering, loss. Quit looking for
It. Lose 1t.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

Don't make any bets that Colonel
Astor is doomed to widowerhood the
rest of his life. If the colonel keeps on
shaking that real money around under
peoples noses, you can bank on 1t that
some one will perform the ceremony.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12

authorities in eastern cities to prevent
the appearance Of this pair in theaters,
but such q step as this should not be
needed II the theatrical managers
have such q poor conception OF pupno
morals as to believe that the engage
ment OF such doubtful talent Will draw
at the box offices, there is every rea-
son to believe that a few nights OF
empty houses will show them their
mistake, a.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
Iafe YOUNG In CITY.

Hon. Lafayette Young OF Des Moines
is visiting in the city today, en- route
from Eldon to Sewal. Mr.. Young
made an address to huge throng at
the Eldon Big Four fair yesterday and
speaks again today at Sewal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
SENATOR cUMMlNs' TEST.

Sioux City Journal.-No statesman
whose attitude does not coincide with
that of Senator Cummins on every
issue can qualify as progressive, ac-
cording to the Cummins test. 1t may
as well be admitted without further
argument that Taft cannot qualify I'M
der the Cummins test. In this connec-
ton, however, it should also be set
down that Cummins cannot qualify
as progressive Under the Taft test.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
TAFT AND THE INSURGENTS.

Sioux City Journal: Wherein did
the president hurt his own case by
recognizing a situation that every
frank political writer in the country
had des cribed long before the presi-
dent opened his lips? What could he
lose by it? Not the possible support
of the insurgent leaders, for they had
organized an anti-Taft campaign long
before leaving Washington. Not the
support OF Senator Cummins in par
ticular, for he had declared against
Taft and in favor Of LaFollette in q
Des Moines interview before the Ham
ilton speech was delivered.
Is 1t not true that in vetoing the
nsurgent.democratic log rolling tariff
bills and electing to stand for schedule
by schedule revision based on informa-
ton furnished by nonpartisan tariff
board the president adopted the
most advantageous republican fighting
ground for the next campaign? Is it
not true that in adopting this ground
he must count on the enmity Of in
surgents as we'll as democrats who
went back on the tariff board princi-
pie? How, then, can any supporter OF
Taft and the tariff board claim there
is anything illogical in the develop
ments that must follow? How can
they expect to continue to stand by
Taft without hurting the feelings OF
those who are fighting him on his
chosen ground?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
SENATOR cUMMINs' BILL OF PAR
TICULARS AGAINST TAFT.

Chicago Record-Herald:~ Senator
Cummins, at the invitation Of the
has filed his bill Of
particulars against the president-the
bill being offered as demonstration
that Mr.. Taft docs not take the pro-
gressive View of things political and
economic. 1t has given us pleasure to
print the statement in full, first, be-
cause it is an argumentative contribu-
ton to a nom ntous discussion, and,
second, because 1t shows that even a
writer of Senator Cummins' skill can
not draw good indictment Of Presi-
dent Taft's nonprogressiveness when
required to give instances and con-
crete evidence.
The Iowa senator offers us proof
under eight heads, but the first three
do not concern the Record-Herald. 1t
has repeatedly and emphatically
criticized the Payne-Aldrich bill,
the attempt to put through the Wick
ersham railroad bill. the denial of
patronage to the insurgents or the
effort to read them out Of the republic
can party.
The Taft record which we are de-
Tending is record largely made in
the last eight months, although we see
progr in certain OF his
earlier utterances and actions.
Taking up the really relevant
points, what Is the case against Mr.,
Taft?
i. The Canadian reciprocity agree
ment, Senator Cummins says, is not
progressive; 1t was passed pursuant
to an understanding with the worst
standpatters. and It's price was the
vetoing Of all tariff revision bills This
is indeed a SCOOP" It will be strange
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
QUIT LOOKING FOR IT.

Marshalltown Times-Republfcan. -
Leading men among the railway shop
men are quoted as saying that in view
OF the circumstances and conditions,
they 'look for strikes"
These who look for trouble usually
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-12
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
WHY AFTER HE is NOMINATION.

WHY AFTER HE is NOMINATED?
Cedar Rapids Republican, seems
to US that the only mistake that Sena-
tor Cummins is making Is in SAVING
that he will support President Tart
II he gets the nomination. We would
call that mistake because 1t is not
being honest. If Mr.. Taft is the kind
OF man that the senator believes
him to be and is wrong on some elght
fundamental principles, why should he
be supported even after he is nominal
cd? Can a nomination make him
better man? 1t seems to us also that
the senator convicts himself of In
sincerity and that he is willing to vote
for any man who gets a nomination.
That is putting very low estimate
on ones "convictions." II we held the
views of Mr.. Taft that are held by the
senator we would not support him,
even after a nomination II voice
came from heaven telling us to do so.
But nowadays politics and even
convictions. 80 called, seem to be
merely "game" that men play.
A STATE PARK.
Iowa City Republican.-What pity
when the state Of Iowa was organized
some such county as Allamakee was
not set aside for state park. 1t Is
the hilliest county in Iowa, with seen
ery almost as wonderful as In the
Yellowstone National park, and with
in its borders If left in natures wild
ness, every kind Of game Known to the
state in pioneer days would be pre-
served. We have seen the passing OF
the deer, the elk, the prairie wolves,
the prairie chicken and other wild
game. All will be preserved for sew
eral generations in parks, mountain
regions and hilly country, except the
prairie chicken. 1t is the widest of
all the game ever known in Iowa, and
II cannot be tanned. The notion that
extinction is known to hunters is only
partially true. The wild hen will not
nest and produce her young in thickly
settled and generally cultivated or pas
tured lands. 1t is only a question of a
few years when the prairie chicken
will be extinct.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
GREATEST LINER PLANNED
Steamer Gigantic Will Carry Five
Thousand Passengers.

London, Nov. 27.-The Gigantic, the
1,000-footer which Harlan & Wolf
have contracted to build for the White
Star line, after the completion of the
steamship Titanic, sister ship to the
Olympic, Is to have beam of i'll feet
the first ship to exceed 100 feet-and
displacement of 10000 tons, with
gross tonnage of $4,000 tons. She will
have twelve decks, with the highest
seventy-five feet above the water line
The Gigantic is to carry more than
1000 saloon passengers and will be a
floating city of nearly 5000 souls. She
is being designed for seven-day boat
with reciprocating and turbine en-
gines, and will cost nearly $4,000, 900
She will have cricket field, tennis
courts, golf links, reception and ball
rooms, restaurant and veranda cafes
She will probably not be out for three
years.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
COTTON BRANDS
STORY FALSE
Duluth Attorney Says Martz
Did Not Tell Truth.
GENERAL DENIAL IS MADE

Declares Neither He Nor Attorney
Murray Ever Requested Engineer of
Missahe Road to Pad Cost of Road
and Contradicts Latter's Testimony
That He Lost His Position for His
Refusal to Do So.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov 27.-Denying as
an unqualified and malicious false
hood" the testimony given recently by
c. II. Martz before the Stanley con-
gressional committee investigating
the United Etates Steel corporation
Hon. Joseph b. Cotton of Duluth, at
torney for the Rockefeller interests
on the iron range and former attorney
for the United States Steel corpora
tion, has sent by telegraph the follow
ing statement to Augustus o. Stanley,
chairman of the investigating com
mittee:
&C. II. MartZ has testified before the
Stanley committee that he had been
ordered, rs chief engineer, to pad
the cost of producing the Duluth, Mis-
sabe and Northern railroad, alleging
that George Wildwood Murray and Jo-
seph b. Cotton, then attorneys for the
Duluth, Missabe and Northern, had is
sued the orders.
Failing to pad the cost of produc-
tion of the road, MartZ testified, his
position was taken away from him
within one year In the interest of
justice | hereby notify you that any
statement by said MartZ before your
committee, that either Mr.. George
Wildwood Murray or / ever requested
or advised or required Martz to pad
or increase the valuations or estimates
of cost, or cost of reproduction of the
Duluth, NIlssaDe and Northern rail-
road to any extent or in any particular
whatever. is an unqualified and a ma
licious falsehood."
Cotton goes on to say that Martz
was dismissed from the service of the
road for incompetency.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
NEARLY ALL MANCHUS SLAIN
Missionaries Give Details Of Massacre
at Sianfu.

Peking, Nov. 27.-Missionaries ar
irving in Peking from Tungchowfu.
eighty miles northeast of Sianfu, give
accounts of the recent revolution in
the province of Shensi, where the anti
foreign element declared its intention
to exterminate foreigners, Christians
and Manchus, but only partly succeed
ed.
The rebel general at Sianfu, they
say, issued a proclamation to the peo-
pie not to harm merchants, foreigners
or noncombatants, but only to destroy
Manchus. The Manchus thereupon
prepared for defense within their own
walled section of the city. They with.
stood one attack by mob of students
and soldiers, but in an attack the next
day nearly all the Manchus were slain
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
BANKERS SAIL FOR PANAMA
Delegates to New Orleans Convention
to Tour Caribbean Sea.

New Orleans, Nov. 27.-Three hun
dred and fifty bankers and members
OF their families who have been in
New Orleans during the convention of
the American Bankers association
sailed aboard steamers for cruise in
the Caribbean sea and on to Panama.
While in Panama the tourists will
be guests at a reception at the presi-
dents palace. An inspection of all
points of interest along the line OF
onuaj work will ~aa5e,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
Alderman BauIer Of Chicago
Expires Suddenly.
POISON IS HINTED AT
Deceased Had Been Mentioned In Con-
nection With Graft Probe Now un-
der Way and Is Said to Have Been
Angered Greatly by the Inslnuations
Made Against Him.

Made Against Him.
Chicago, Nov. 27.-Herman j. Bau-
Ter, alderman of the Twenty-second
ward, died suddenly at his home here
under circumstances which were de-
elared by the physician who was called
at the time to be deserving of investi-
cation by the coroner.
DIR. NJ w. Samuels, who responded
to an urgent summons too late to rem
der service to the dying alderman, de-
clared after an examination that Bau-
Ter probably had died of heart disease
But 1t is a case for the coroner" he
added, without explaining his reasons
for thinking so.
The father of the dead alderman
added to the mystery surrounding the
death by asserting that his son had
died with foam on his lips. He said
poisoning was suspected.
Alderman Bauler was mentioned by
Benjamin Hyman In his testimony be-
fore the civil service commission in
vestigating alleged grating by the po-
lice department as one of the North
Side political powers who executed or
ders of Oil Inspector James Quinn.
Mentioned by the Mayor.
Bauler, who was mentioned in a
statement by Mayor Harrison, who
declared indications were that efforts
were being made to end the present
Investigation Of the police department
by the introduction of testimony
which would involve his personal and
political friends, among whom he
named Bauler.
"If they are guilty, they must stand
for It," asserted the mayor He said
he would not interfere.
Alderman Bauler came into political
prominence within the past few years
and attained a position of consider
able influence on the North Side. He
was candidate for the city council
In the last municipal campaign as an
endorser of the candidacy of Mayor
Harrison, and was elected after a
memorable contest in his ward.
Bauler was known to have been
greatly angered by the insinuations OF
Hyman and it is believed this aggra.
waited his condition physically, as he is
said to have been suffering from q
weak heart.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
GENTLEMAN BURGLAR
IS FOUND GUILTY
Bertram G. Spencer Convicted Of
Numbering Woman.

Springfield, Mass, Nov. 27.-"Guilty
of murder in the first degree" was
the verdict pronounced here against
Bertram G. Spencer. After being out
for five hours the jury convicted him
of the murder of Miss Martha b.
Blackstone and Re will be sentenced,
in accordance with the law, to death
in the -alaatria= s.s-au -,
Spencer received the verdict calmly
His defense had been insanity. The
courtroom was crowded when the jury
filed in for the last time and crowds
were outside, unable to gain admit
tance. Neither Spencer's wife nor
mother was with the prisoner when
the verdict was brought in.
The murder of Miss Blackstone was
sensational in the extreme. II came as
a climax to a series of thrilling rob
berries, to all of which Spencer later
confessed.
Miss Blackstone was visiting at the
home of Miss Harriet Dow, a friend,
on March 81, 1910. With Miss Dow
and two other women she was sitting
in the drawing room when a masked
man suddenly appeared. Miss Black
stone sought to defend herself from
attack and was shot down, while Miss
Dow was slightly injured.
Spencer, happily married young
man of apparently exemplary charac-
ter, was some months later charged
with the crime, gold locket which he
had dropped betraying him.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
EIGHT THOUSAND
READY To WALK OUT
Rock Island Refuses to Grant
Demands Of ShOpEen.

Chicago, Nov 27.-Eight thousand
shopmen. representing five different
crafts. all employed by the Rock Isl.
and, are prepared to walk out on
strike at the word of international
officers of their unions
President H. u. Nudge of the rail
road refused any concessions in the
way of increase in wages and working
conditions at the conference with a
committee of international union Off
GERS. This, it is thought, will be the
final word of the railroad officials.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
FOR RIVER AND HARBOR WORK
Appropriation Recommended is Less
Than Last Year.

Washington, Nov. 27.--Estimates
for continuing the work of river and
harbor Improvement covering the fis-
cal year ending June 30, 1913, ask
congress to appropriate money only
for improvements which have received
the approval of the army engineers
after thorough investigation.
No new projects of any great impor-
tance are provided for.
The appropriations are S29,62S, ,69S
as against $3O,O95, ,69S for the current
year. President Taft in his message
will urge that they be strictly adhered
to.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
MISS SHERMAN Is Welded
Married to Lord camoys at Bedside of
Her Father.

New York, Nov. 27.-Plans for what
was to have been one of the smartest
" weddings of the season were suddenly
changed when Miss Mildred Sherman
wed Lord Camoys at the bedside OF her
father, s. Watts Sherman. The we'd
ding was to have been Dec. 2, but in
vitations were recalled because of Mr..
Shermans illness and the ceremony
performed at his bedside at his re-
quest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
GAVE LIFE FOR HER MOTHER
Miss Avis Jackman, Novelist and
Writer, is Dead.

New York, Nov. 27.-Miss Avis
Smith Jackman, novelist and short
story writer, is dead at her home here
after having nursed her mother, who
is ill with pneumonia, day and night
until the crisis of the sickness was
passed safely. Although Miss Jack
man was a prolific writer she died
penniless and a charitable organiza-
ton will have charge of the funeral
and will take care of the mother and
sister.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27

Chicago, Nov. 27.-Judge George A.
Carpenter, in United States district
court, granted the indicted Chicago
packers a delay in their criminal trial
until Dec. 6, pending proceedings for
the defendants before the United
States supreme court
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1911-11-27
Fatal Fire at Birmingham, Ala.

Birmingham. Ala, Nov. 27.-One
fireman is believed to have lost his
life and several others were hurt in a
fire which caused 100000 damage In
the heart of the business section of
this city. The blaze started in the
printing plantp of Roberts & Son. then
spread to the Majestic theater and a
warehouse.