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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07
THE RIGHT KIND OF A MAN"

Editor Kohlsaat of Chicago, having
been relieved of the pledge of corfi-
dence. has revealed the source of his
information that a "slush'' fund of
100000 was raised to elect Lorimer to
the L. S. Senate His informant was
Clarence s. Funk, general manager of
the International Harvester Company
The latter testifies to a conversation
held by him with Edward Hines of the
Hines Lumber Co., in which Hines told
him that they had succeeded in put
ting Lorimer over" but that it cost
100000. and that they wanted to be
reimbursed and he had come to Funk
because you are as much interested
as any one In having the right kind
OF a man in Washington. Hines also
said. according to Funk, that "he
could only go to big people and wanted
TO get $4,000 from each of ten. The
man to whom Funk was 10 send the
money, was Edward Tilden who is
connected with the Chicago stock
yards.
The Illinois Senate committee which
is investigating Lorimer's election,
appears to have struck 1t rich.
Evidently, there was fund of 500. 900
for use In sending "the right kind Of
"A man. to the L. s. Senate, it being
clearly understood that Lorimer was
OF that type-that is. one who would
not be likely to forget interests which
contributed $4,000 each toward his
election The mystery as to the iden-
tity Of the contributors to the ''slush'
fund may now be removed. One clue
is found in the fact that its treas
urer Is connected with the Chicago
stockyards-that is. with the Beef
Trust.
While the Illinois Senate is thus in
vestigating. the question of Lorimer's
title to a seat in the Senate may be
reopened at Washington. Certainly,
il should be. If such procedure is pos
sfhle There Is now evidence that a
corruption fund OF 100000 was raised,
and there was previous evidence of the
use OF money IN the purchase of legis-
lators' votes, but not to any such
total as s10a.0e9 Now, the question is,
who received the remainder Of this
.-slush' fund. contributed by interests
willing to pay $4,000 each to send 1.-THE
right kind of a man" to Washing
ton.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

At 69c---Special price for large lot
two clasp kid gloves for ladies.
AT 1c---Extra large chickens for
Easter. This was a two cent article
and is a bargain.
At 7Hc-Special lot extra quality
bleached muslin, full yard wide.
AT 45c-Men's natural gray medium
weight Spring Underwear. Big value.
At 9c-Very large fancy boxes. good
Writing Paper and Envelopes. This
is called in trade the tandum box.
At 9Sc-Boys' or Girls Indian Suits
complete with head dress.
At &c, for 25c-Men's Ten Cent
Tan CoIored Socks. This is a splen-
did quality and seamless.
At 11hc-Large New Lot Best Per-
Gales yard wide. Very Handsome
patterns.
At &c. 6 for 5c-Beautiful Postals
for Easter.
At 9c-Special Lot Bicycle Bells.
AT SC pair-Oar Locks for Boats.
At 9c-Enameled Pinochle CARDS,
worth fifteen cents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

In the Judgment of the Hartford
Courant. there is no logic or sense
in taxing any bond whatever or any
evidence of debt. When a State taxes
its own bonds it simply charges it's
creditor for the privilege of lending
his money to it, Taxation of pri-
vate Indebtedness is equally illog-
icaP':
Unless we start out with the notion
that double taxation is just and fair
or else that in taxing we have no idea
OF being just or fair, we cannot find
any sound reason for taxing debts ex-
cept that 1t has been done. No note
IS in itself worth any more than the
paper II Is written on. All that gives
IL value Is the name or names upon 1t.
To tax both the property and the in
debtedness based on 1t is a double tax
alton.
This position is so logical that we
can only wonder at propositions to tax
bonds and other evidences of indebted
ness Another instance of a double
burden is the Inheritance tax.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

It is always enlightening, says Har-
per's Weekly, Ito know how much
money each side gets, and from whom
and good many of us would like to
have that information before elections.
The National Publicity Law Organiza-
ton will during the special session
renew its fight for a law requiring
publication before elections. The law
of June, 1910, contains no such pro-
vision. The original Mccall bill as
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

given good representation on the
Steering committee and on the COM
mittee charged with the construction
of committees. Even LaFollette and
Cummins are given places upon the
latter. Results of this policy are
awaited with exceeding interest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

1t Is now reported that the judiciary
committee will report a compromise
measure upon the public utilities ques-
tion-one that will be half commission
and half court of commerce. Presum-
ably, this means that Mr.. Mellen's
original proposition, to refer railroad
matters to a court, is to be incorpor-
ated in the measure If street rail-
way matters are also included, Mr..
Meiien will probably be satisfied.
Presumably. other public utilities are
10 come under the jurisdiction of a
commission. II is an exceedingly
peculiar proposition, this division of
jurisdiction Why steam railroads and
street railways should be favored with
a court exclusively devoted to them,
while other public utilities are Jumped
together under a commission, does not
appear. To be logical, the Judiciary
committee should report a court or
commission for each kind of public
UtINties-one for gas companies, an
other for water companies, etc.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

The Republican Regulars in the Sen
ate are striving desperately to concil-
late the Progressives, who hold a bal
ance of power between the two par
ties in the Senate. Only a year ago
the Regular leaders i'm both House and
Senate could scarcely find language
Eircng enough to fully express their
hostility TO the Progressives. and the
President was Withholding patronage
from them as means of coercing
them to the Regular programme. Now
conditions have changed. The Senate
Regulars cannot block the plans of
that wicked Democratic House with
out Progressive aid, and Cancellation
has taken the place of active antag-
onism. The Progressives have been
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

The Massachusetts, Senate has re-
jected. by a vote of % to Is. the prop
osition TO place a statue of Ben Butler
in the State House grounds. No other
action had been expected, the only
surprise being that the proposition
received SO many as Is votes
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-07

At 5c-Extra Good Base Balls and
Bats
At S9c-Roller Skates with Back
Strap and Iron Wheels.
AT 1Oc-Our Fifteen Cent Star Skirt
Braid
AT 5c-Very wide and handsome
heavy Torchon Laces suitable for Cur
tains. Very large lot just received.
SPECIAL SALE BETWEEN 9 s. 10
A. M. ONLY.
At 3Ac-Yard wide Cheese Cloth,
white or cream.
At 4Hc-Best Merrimac Light
Prints.
AT 415c-Best American Indigo and
other dark Prints. Big assortment.
At 4@c-Good Shaker Flannel.
At 6Mc-Amoskea Apron Cling
ham. The real articles
At SAc-Good Cotton Batting opens
up nice for light Quilts.
AT 9Ac-Extra good White Lawn,
40 inches wide.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
An Absurd Condition.

The notion that women will not vote if given the franchise is contra dicted by the registration in Los Angeles. Women to the number of 72,737 have registered for the city election which is to take place De- cember ,.
 It is to be hoped that one of the first amendments to the constitution of Arizona will be for the enfranchise- ment of women. It will be found, when they have the ballot. that they not only take an interest in public af- fairs, but an intelligent interest
 That thousands of educated, patri otic women in Arizona should be de- prived of the ballot while thousands of ignorent men help to make the laws. is an absurdity which cannot be defended on any line of sound
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
WHIPPING THE DESERT

The time is not far distant when every acre of land in the United
 States that will yield even the small
 est return must be farmed. The as founding increase in the population
 of this country precludes the idea of waste land. Even now in the west
 the era of choice is gone, and men
 are making the most of lands that
 were once passed by in disdain. An
 other ten years will find even poorer
 lands in the hands of eXperimenters
 who will prove that money can be
 wrested from acres that have long
 been sniffed at as worthless for any
 thing but grazing.
 There is nothing in the west quite
 so interesting as this struggle. It is
 mans patience, perseverance and
 knowledge pitted against Nature in
 her most grudging mood. The fight
 is bound to be a hard and grinding one, but every once in a while there
 will come the word that some new
 part of the desert has been subdued. and that homes are beginning to dot vast stretches where the pioneers thought only death could rule. In the changes that have come to the new west. there is nothing quite so dra- matic and inspiring as this fight to enlarge the area Of productive land. Only the Caucasian-and the best type of Caucasian-could carry on such a war against unkindly elements. The yellow man has the patience, but ha lFlr hn ind t. lr.t.lA Nk-if soil problems. His success will be only moderate at the best, on account of his lack of imagination. But the white man can install a gasoline en- zine on a sandhill and convert a land scape of dunes into a garden. He can Hume the precious water across a chasm. or send it miles through the sand by building cement ditches to do away with the seepage. ing amid the very thistles on a semi l arid plain. and. if he figures that his | land will yield only a dollar profit per l acre, he brings on his traction blows | and seeders and goes after his small i profits in wholesale fashion.
 These are the things that are mak- | ing the battle for the soil in the west | Df such absorbing interest. It is a | fight that will require all of mans | but the outcome never l seems in doubt to one who has ob- | served what has been accomplished | in the last decade. All the campaigns | If Napoleon do not contain half the | strategy of this campaign against the | 1esert. nor will Napoleon's rewards of I victory be tenth part so great and | as the rewards that will descend to the children of men when 1t last the desert has been whipped-l Denver Republican.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
"COlUM BUS"

St. Stephens celebrated hall was proud In learning's pomp that day. For there d robed and stately crowd Pressed on in long array A mariner with simple chart
 Confronts that conclave high. While strong ambition stirs his heart And burning thoughts of wonder part From lip and sparkling eye. What hath he said? With frowning
 face,
 In whispered tones they speak, And lines upon their tablets trace.
 Which flush each ashed cheek; The Inquisition's mystic doom
 Sits on their brows severe And bursting forth in visioned gloom Sad heresy from burning tomb
 Groans on the startling ear. Courage, thou Genoese, Old Time
 Thy splendid dream shall crown; Ton Western Hemisphere sublime, Where unshorn forests frown. The awful Andes cloud -wrapt brow. The Indian hunters bow. Bold streams untamed by helm or prov And rock of gold and diamonds. thou To thankless Spain shall show
 Courage. world finder, Thou hast
 need,
 In Fate's unfolding scroll, Dark woes and ingrate wrongs I read, That rack the noble soul
 On! on. Creations sacret probe, Then drink thy cup of scOrn, And wrapped in fallen Coesar's robe. Sleep like that master of the globe All gloriOus-yet fOrlorn
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12

has indulged he has spoken for the And in doing so he has expressed no more disapproval than have dissenting members of the courts whose opinions were in question.
 Of the broader principle enunciated last night, that the people must con trol their courts rather than the courts control the people. Mir. Roose- welt himself has rightly characterized it as the highest and wisest kind of conservatism. Plainly. if it ever comes to the point that the courts as now constituted lie squarely across the path of the people as they move forward the courts will be pushed out of the way And so with the Constitution. if it is placed in that unhappy position. Nor is this pro- phecy: it is history. Such a hap pening might again be accompanied with calamity as it once was. Con- fusion at least would result And true conservatism has its eyes open to avert confusion.
 MT Roosevelt's faith that this peo- pie must ultimately control it's own destinies" is in full accord with the safe and conservative progress of countries in which property and life are as secure as in America. For, as Judge Frank Doster. formerly of the supreme court of Kansas. said. in writing of the assumed power of the judiciary to nullify the serious, sober. fhnnuht ind nf hn people"
 "Only in this land of ours are men allowed to arrogatc to themselves tine prerogative of saving, to the cpllec- tive whole. T have a larger intelli gen"e thar you. a lof,ier patriotism. a clearer judgment. keener conscience, a more reverent regard for the insti tutions of society, and I. therefore. de cree all of you to be in the wrong. Kansas City Star.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
Young Indians for Social Betterment

A new association of young Indian leaders has achieved success at a
 bound. Its first meeting. held in Columbus. Ohio. so impressed that city that it is urging its second an nual meeting to be held there. But Colorado Springs and Washington are also trying to attract these young Indians to come to them. Among the leaders in this new movement are Dr. Charles Eastman of Amherst; Henry Roe Cloud, the only Indian who has graduated from Yale and now a student at Auburn Seminary; the Rev. Sherman Coolidge. an Arapahoe who is an Episcopal missionary; and Ar thur C. Parker, the Indian archaeolo- gist of the State of New York.
 This new association is in its pre- not yet been drawn up, and will not be adopted until next summer, but Nilt dSSoOldlitll dilil lS lllt CIV lC social betterment of the Indian peo- pie. Indians are not decreasing in but increasing, and many reckon it probable that there are now more Indians in the United States. by actual count. than there were when Columbus made his discovery. or American independence was achieved
 Christian men. some ministers and some not. are behind this new In- dian movement. but they announce their purposes to be educational, es peciaily industrial education, as the means to advance Indian conditions. and not simply religious effort. Chris tian leaders not Indians say that brighter lot of young men than those leading in this new Indian uplift movement they have never seen.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12

ma recognize in San Francisco more of the spirit of the west" than in any other city on the coast. The superb manner in which the citizens of San Francisco rallied from the staggering effects of the great fire was a manifestation of that heroic determination to overcome all ob- stacles which is characteristic of the true Arizonan.
 Hence there are at least two req sons why the sturdy business men of San Francisco who are on this excursion through our territory are genuinely welcome: They are our kind of people," and in working for the success of the great exposition which will be the greatest worlds fair of all-they are laboring for the greater prosperity of Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
San Francisco and Arizona.

Director General Brown and his en-
 thusiastic San Francisco boosters fol the great international Panama expo sition will be in Prescott today. They will find in the mountain city the
 same cordial greeting they met in
 Phoenix. for all the people of Arizona are cordial supporters of the exposi- ton idea.
 The people of Arizona know that it is not San Francisco alone which will be benefited enormously by the fifty million dollar exposition, but the whole Pacific coast country-and in these benefits Arizona will have a large share. The line between Cali fornia and Arizona is altogether imaginary. from the business view point. Commercially these two great
 commonwteaJths are so intimately linked together that they are practi- cally one. San Francisco, of course. IS lne melTOpOnS or the eHtlle CodSl country, and San Francisco gains from the growth of Tacoma, Seattle. Port land, Los Angeles. San Diego, Phoe- nix and the interior towns. and gains from the growth of the whole coun try west of the Rocky Mountains. And reciprocally all these towns and all this country gain from the growth and prosperity of San Francisco. This is elementary. and is well understood by every intelligent person. and it is only the ignorant provincial who is sorry to see the prosperity of other towns than his own. And in Arizona we have not many residents of the ignorant, provincial type. There is perhaps more in common between the typical citizen of Arizona and the typical citizen of San Francisco than exists with relation to any other California city. The citizens of Arizo-
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
Current Comment
MIR. ROOSEVELT, THE PEOPLE
 AND THE COURTS

I believe that the only ultimate safety for our people is in self-con- trol: not in control from the outside. do not believe in snap judgments, l do not believe in permitting the de- termination of moment to be trans mitted into a permanent policy; but do believe that serious sober. well thought out judgment of the people must be given effect; I do believe that this people must ultimately control its own destinies. and cannot surrender the right of ultimate control to a judge any more than to a legislator or an executive.
 One word in closing. What I have is not revolution It is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism-From Theodore Roosevelt's address in New York
 There is not word in this fine declaration of the former president which is not vital to the constitutional guarantee of "a republican form of government" Mir. Roosevelt's state ment that this people must ultimate ly control its own destinies. and can not surrender the right of ultimate control to a judge any more than to a legislator or an executive" is a re- affirmation of Lincoln's belief that government of the people. by the people. for the people. shall not perish from the earth
 In whatever criticisms of specific rulings of the courts MT Roosevelt
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
NY GUIDE.

There is no path in this desert waste For the winds have swept the shift
 ing sands; The trail is blind where the storms
 have raced. And a stranger, I. in these fearsome
 lands, But I journey on with a Ightsome
 tread. I do not falter nor turn aside: For I see His figure just ahead He knows the way-my Guide. There is no path in this trackless sea: No map is lined on the restless
 waves; The ocean snares are strange to me Where the unseen wind in it's fury
 raves: But it matters naught; my sails are And my swift brow losses the seas
 aside; For the changeless stars are steadfast
 yet, And I sail by His star blazed trail
 my Guide. There is no way in this starless night: There is naught but cloud in the inky
 skies; The black night smothers me. left and
 right, l start with a blind mans straining
 eyes: But my steps are firm. for I cannot
 stray; The path to my feet seems light and.
 wide; For hear His voice-''I am the wav," And l sing as I follow Him on-my
 Guide.
 Robert J Burdette
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
The Two Platforms.

The Republican this morning prints the two platforms-the republican platform, and the democratic plat form-upon which appeals will be made to the voters of Arizona in this campaign.
 It is a trite saying in American politics that usually the republican party in the making of its platform points with pride." and that the democratic party in its platform views with alarm" And really there is lot of truth in the old joke.
 Tine two platforms for Arizona, will upon analysis, support the familiar saying
 The republicans propose a policy of construction. They are looking to the future of Arizona. The democrats dwell on the past, and devote much Delegate Cameron.
 As passengers on the train of prog ress, the republican party is always looking to the front and planning for the future. The Democratic party sits in the rear of the train, fixes its gaze on the things that have been passed, and talks about the past
 The two platforms published this morning are therefore typical.
 The republican party is the party of real progress.
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
ONE OF THE lICkERS.

Dr. Wines. principal of a boys school, just before he went on his holiday had occasion to cane a pupil and, it is to be supposed, did the work thoroughly.
 that the doctor himself could not help laughing at.
 Dr. Wines front door bore a plate on which was the one word, Wines ''
 The boy wrote an addition to this in big letters, so that when the doc tor came along the inscription ran:
 "Wines and other kers.'-London Tit-Rits
Arizona republican., 1911-11-12
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