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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-20

that he will give the matter serious
consideration.
The Sunday school will give a
Christmas tree at the church on next
Saturday night and the members are
working hard to make it a success.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-20
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-20
THE MARKETS.
(BN Associated PreSs.l

New Orleans, Dec. 20.-Cotton 4 to
G points up.
Chicago Dec. 20.-Wheat easy, one
eighth to one-fourth lower. Provisions
weak, unchanged to seven and half
cents lower.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
The Task of Recognizing

While people have talked for years
of dissolving trusts and compelling
them to bring their organizations
and operations within the purview of
law, only now, following judicial d.
rection, the most powerful of these
industrial organizations have been
dissolved, technically, and are trying
to reorganize on what will be ac-
cepted as a legal basis. But they
are finding the task quite equal to
the acumen and skill that have made
them the great institutions they are
Reports say that counsel for the
Harvester trust and the government
are in close consultation as to ways
of complying with the laws demands,
not trying to evade the law, but to
satisfy it to the fullest extent. The
Steel trust, it is said, is making
strenuous efforts to meet the de-
mands of the government, but by
reason of the complexity of the stu
alton little Roadway has yet been
made" 1t is a formidable task and
a new one, to tear to pieces and build
up on an entirely different plan, such
gigantic combinations of industry and
wealth.
This, of course, strikes the lay
mind as more or less of an anomaly
and arouses some incredulity. People
have come so generally to question
every move of a great corporate COM
bine that they find it difficult now to
believe there is anything in the line
of technical construction which they
cannot easily do. But this is hardly
a fair view. In any event the diff
Guilty of the task must suggest how
very far out of plumb with the pres
ent demand of the law our trend of
industrial combination had gone.
The Sherman law is not new, though
our Interpretation of its scope is.
We simply have come to a new era.
new system in such things, which
requires real effort to live UP to it
in good faith.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

dinner table or the banquet board be-
comes an indispensable factor in pro-
noting, at least, formal friendship
and goodfellowship as the forerunner
and complement OF business and re-
suits.
1t is an entirely laudable custom.
It saves time in this busy day and
soothes feelings. sometimes lily ami
mated. The very fact of men of op-
posing ideas getting their feet under
the same table, partaking Of the same
viands, in the demand thus made
upon common amenities. has its eff
feet as a non-irritant and with all
the possibilities of such an occasion
developed. becomes a prime factor in
hearty good will and peace. Why
could not the employer and employee,
in their disputes, adopt the banquet
board as an instrument of friendly
negotiation, at least?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
People Talked About

The omaha version Of the new thought
plan OF living $50 years is a tailender in
the race. In Bulgaria a steady butter
milk diet is warranted to run the age
score up to 400
At the age of 70, James J. Hill, the
kidnaper of the Burlington. hops up and
down the stairs in his st. Paul office with
as much agility as a monarchist duck
ing bombs in Barcelona.
The difference between a speech and
lecture, as defined by Speaker Champ
Clark, lies not in the topic discussed but
in the box office treatment Of the orator.
A speech is free, a lecture is paid for.
Forty-six years ago James r. Earl Of
Denver a veteran of the civil war. put
in a claim against the government for
S2.Sl, that being the amount which his
pay check was short. The bill was paid
the other day.
John Cavanagh. farmer OF Portland,
Conn, took his family to the Grange
fair at Haddam Neck Labor day in a
wagon drawn by ninety-six oxen, Mr.
Cavanagh owns ten yoke Of oxen him
self and the other thirty-eight yoke he
borrowed from the neighbors. The out
fit covered this distance Of twenty miles
in five hours
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
GOVERNORS ON GUARD.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: 1t would seem
that the governors have taken a wholly
proper step TO elucidate a difficult prob
lem which concerns, or IL likely at any
time TO concern, every state in the union
The three governors selected to argue the
matter before the supreme court have it
in their power to perform a public serv-
ice.
New York Times: The uprising Of the
governors in defense of state rights might
with wisdom and propriety have been
directed into a more promising channel.
But II is not a bad thing at all that the
subject has been brought up in a way TO
invite the attention Of the people to the
lines still existing on the map which de-
fine the outlines of the states. Some Of
our statesmen, progressive in another
way, have Of late shown a disposition to
attempt the effaeement of state lines
Philadelphia Record. When the people
OF the United States set about the estab-
hshment Of self-government they were
extremely careful In molding their con-
stitution not to set up a federal tyranny
10 supplant a regal tyranny They kept
in their own hands the great body OF
their liberties. only surrendering so much
as was necessary TO establish a republic
Of free commemorative prepared for uni
ted defense against outside aggression
The unanimous move OF the forty-six gov
ernors to protest against further federal
invasion OF states rights seems TO show
that the mass OF the American people
have not changed their minds
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Canada Rejects Reciprocity.

The overwhelming defeat of Pre-
mier Laurier and his party on the
issue Of Canadian reciprocity with the
United States is indeed surprising.
The surprise is all the greater be-
cause the reports quite generally had
foreshadowed an opposite result, and
even the claims of the opponents
went no further than a victory by
slight margin.
While the Canadian elections had
been ordered practically for the pur-
pose of ratifying or rejecting the rec
iprocity agreement and the result
must be taken as primarily a decision
OF that question, various other consid-
erations enter into It and help 70
explain It. 1t is plain now that the
influence of Great Britain to keep
every part Of the empire in CONNER
cial subservience is much more pow
erful in Canada than appears on the
surface, and the enemies of reciproc-
ity used with far-reaching effect the
fear of ultimate annexation, toward
which they told their people this
would be a step!
What will be the consequences in
this country of the rejection of rec
iprocity by Canada lies in the realm
Of speculation. 1t is our judgment
that it will be very small, just as we
believed the changes to be expected
from reciprocity were largely exag-
gerated. Politically, President Taft
position ought, If anything, to be
strengthened rather than weakened.
The acceptance of reciprocity by con-
gress was personal triumph of his,
and the refusal of Canada to complete
the bargain ought to reassure our
people that they were not getting
the worst of it. OF course, had
President Taft put it up to Premier
Laurier to secure Canadian ratifica-
ton first, he might have been saved
much trouble, assuming that Canada
would have decided as it did.
The rejection of reciprocity also,
1t seems to us, vindicates the presi-
dents vetoes Of the democratic tariff
bills, whose only excuse was that
they were designed to make good to
the farmer what he was to lose by
reciprocity. The president can now
appeal still more forcibly for the CO.
operation Of congress in scientific
tariff revision along lines to be laid
down by the tariff board.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Taft's Reasons Are Sound

The presidents restatement of his
reasons for vetoing the three make
shift tariff bills put up to him by the
democrats and their insurgent allies
in the late session of congress is d.
rect, frank and forceful, and will sat
isfy all who are not determined not
to be satisfied He was and is com
mitted to tariff revision along scien-
tific lines. He had promised himself
and pledged the people to work for
that kind of revision. He says he
could not find it in any of the three
bills he vetoed-"I could find no ar
gument which would satisfy my con-
science. Yet he Is denounced by his
critics for not shifting his conscience
and stultifying himself by signing the
bills.
The opposition claims for itself
the right to do what 1t calls keeping
faith with the people, but it denies
the same right to the president. The
American people have not strayed so
far from fundamental principles of
equal justice as to applaud or award
such unfairness as that. The coali-
tionists in congress maintain they
were consistent in their tariff con-
duct. The president insists he was.
The president had proposed and the
majority of the opposition had ap-
proved, In the Sixty-first session, the
scientific revision plan, which in
volVed the tariff board and it was
this opposition, itself, which fixed
the date of the tariff boards report
ing-December, 1911. The president
insisted on awaiting this boards re-
port, the opposition on going ahead
without it.. Who was consistent?
1t is too late for the democrats and
insurgent republicans to make any
thing of that argument.
The president shows effectually
that the tariff bills put up to him
were hastily drawn. ill-eonsidered
and, while touted as popular meas
ures, never submitted to the people
or outside representatives for their
consideration, as is customary. They
were thrown together in pancake
fashion in the house and the only
changes made in them we're such az
would reconcile petty differences be-
tween house democrats and senate
insurgents, not from point OF
principle, but to insure their
passage-it was anything to pass
the bills. And these are the meas.
ures the president, faithfully seek.
ing to bring about intelligent, help,
full honest tariff revision is de.
nounced for vetoing. We mistake II
the American people do not rally tc
the support Of the president in his
manly, honest course and resent the
presumptuous attitude of his demo,
cratic critics.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
THE POETS SOLITUDE.
Lord Byron

Lord Byron.
To sit on rocks to muse Ger flood ana
fell,
To slowly trace the forests shady scene,
Where things that own not mans domin-
ion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely
been;
To climb the trackless mountain all un-
seen,
With the wild fleck that never needs a
fold,
Alone Ger sleeps and foaming falls to
lean
This is not solitude; tie but to hold
Converse with Natures charms and view
her stores unrolled
But midst the crowd, the hum, the
shock OF men,
To hear, to see, to feel, and TO possess
And roam along, the worlds tirsd deni-
zen,
with none who bless us, none whom we
can bless;
Minlons of splendor, shrinking from dis
tress!
None that. with kindred consciousness
embued,
If we were not would seem to smile the
less
OF ali that flattered, followed. sought and
sued
This is TO be alone; this, this is solitude!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

aire. II think we had better keep II secret
until l can get q good chance TO break
the news to the governor When ne II IN
a pleasant mood" -
SBut how long is it likely to be before
he gets into that kind of a mood? -
ITS hard to tell. The stock market Is
bad, but let us hope for the best. lie may
win a dollar or two at poker some night
before the week is ended. '-Chicaso
Record-Herald.
Il note that you do not appeal as often
as formerly to the plain sense OF the
common people
No" answered Senator Sorghum;
I'm afraid l overworked that figure OF
speech. encouraged my constituents
to such an extent that they are disposed
to rely on their plan senses instead OF on
my advice. "-Washington star.
Mrs. Baye-She is simply mad on the
subject OF germs and sterlizes or tut
ers everything in the house.
How does she get along with her
family?'
Oh even her relations are strained. -
Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

IF you were to take all the
churches out OF the CITY," declares
one of our most prominent pastors,
real estate prices would slump so
per cent within year" Doubtless
true, understanding it to mean tax
ing out all the churches and keep
ing them out. We venture to sug-
gest, however, that an equally great,
If not greater, slump would be pro-
duced by taking all the newspapers
out of the city and keeping them
out.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Ftll stomaoh-Iight Heart

The banquet board has its place in
business, society, politics and even
diplomacy. AS a bridge of peace 1t
has spanned chasms OF discord be-
tween men and nations, and where no
diseord reigned, it has promoted good
will and fostered friendship. 1t may
not be the highest compliment to our
spiritual natures to say that they are
often best fed through our stomachs,
but 1t is a truth. A full stomach
often makes light heart. The festal
board has a psychological value too
great to ignore.
The infant cries when IL is hungry.
the small boy and the grown-up boy,
each is in much milder humor when
well fed. Hospitality is never fully
expressed without the welI-ladened
table In this day OF diplomacy, of
what, in every phase of life, we might
even call the virtue of deceit, the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Twenty Years Ago


At the convention of the Nebraska
woman's Christian Temperance union
one delegate proposed that the daily
papers have copies each day on table
in the convention hall so the convention
ers might know how the papers were
treating them. DR.. P. S. Merrill took
occasion to assure the women they need
have no fears as to the fairness and cor
rectness of the reports so far as The
Bee was concerned.
City Attorney Poppleton said the bond
given by the Ketchum Furniture com
pany Of Toledo to bind its contract to
furnish the city hall was absolutely
worthless.
Robert w. Baxter, 1t was announced,
had resigned his position as western su-
perintendent of the Baltimore q Ohio
railroad and would be appointed super
intendent of one Of the western divisions
of the Union Pacific.
william w. Mason and Miss Cora Nj.
Smith were married at high noon by Rev.
Father McMenomy at st. Francis Aa-
vier's church. They took up their nome
at Seventh and Mills streets.
Bloodshed was narrowly averted In the
council chamber in a clash between
Councilman specht and Ed Morearty over
the charges of bribery in connection with
the contract to furnish the city hall.
Morearty was one OF the members &C
cused by specht and he called specht
coward and dared him to name the men.
This was before Specht had named
them.) specht did and told Morearty he
would prove more than some folks
wanted him to, which he seems to have
done
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
IOokinS Backward
TEnisDaSy in0maEla
COMPILED from BEE FILES {
Thirty Years Ago
4 BEE FILES {
SEPT. %.

Thirty Years Ago
The Pleasant Hours club held its an
nual business meeting at the Board OF
Trade rooms and elected the following
officers c. z. squires, president; X. NJ.
Ross, treasurer; w. F. Mcmillan, secre-
tary: executive committee. A. z. Touzs-
lin, Major John B. Furay. Lieutenant
Foot, e. p. Peck. President Squires, who
is serving his eighth term, announced
that Boyd's opera house had been secured
for the coming seasons parties and the
dates fixed for November 2. November is.
December ?. December 30, January %,
1880; February p and April 10, The party
given December 30 will be the Centennial
party given by the club. and ex-
traordinary efforts will be put forth to
make it not only the social event OF the
season, but the greatest that Omaha has
ever seen.
Local marksmen are trying out a new
red clay shell for pigeon shooting, Mem
bers OF the sportsmen's club, Messrs
Hughes. Hathaway and Mills, shot at
the new pigeons today The scores didn't
run up very high, but the boys had plenty
Of fun.
Little Milhe Croft. daughter Of Lewis
A. Croft Of the firm Of Croft Mont
gomery, was thrown out of buggy on
ST. Marys avenue while riding to school
and severely bruised DR.. Coffman made
suiO that no bones we're broken Mile
is an attractive girl of about II years
and popular with her companions.
Members Of the Jewish community be-
gan today the celebration Of their re-
ligious holiday of Rosh- Hashona.
Sun Chung Lung, the celestial gentle
man and his wife, whom he married last
week, have already parted company.
Two burglaries are reported. one of the
residence of George z. Pritchett on
Eighteenth street, between Farnam and
Douglas. and another at the residence of
George Thrall on the corner of Nineteenth
and Douglas.
The water company today turned over
to the city the remainder Of the dis
tributing system, which includes the ter
ritory near Boyd's packing house and at
the lower end of Tenth street. The only
portion of the water supply system re-
naming to complete is that on Cunning
street, west of Saunders street
Burt Pierce, foreman painter at
Medimber & DaIy's wagon shop. was
made happy today by being presented
with a twelve-pound girl baby.
The Bohemians of this city sent an
other 100 florins to Prague for the new
national theater, making 500 already
sent.
Miss Allie Powers left for Wisner,
where she will handle the reins of gov
eminent Of one Of the schools in that
vicinity.
Mrs Lyman Richardson and daughter,
Miss Minnie. left this afternoon for a
few weeks visit east.
Superintendent ]. F. Clark, Division
Superintendent P. ]. Nichols and E. NJ.
Morsman, general manager Of the Union
Pacific express arrived home from an
extensive trip over the Union Pacific, and
report everything o. K.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

The conservatives are committed
to a policy of trade expansion within
the empire and a closed door against
the United States" That is worse
than conservatism; it is Imperialism
and OF the kind, which, If carried to
its logical results, would set Canada
back much more than the defeat of
reciprocity could ever advance it.
Canada's best interests demand close
contact, commercially and otherwise,
with the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Have vow Heard. MePhersonr
Boston Transcript.

II is entirely possible that some OF the
federal judges in the west have been us
tening to the remarks OF the governors
for II was Judge Smith Mcpherson In the
federal court OF Iowa, who on Saturday
decided in favor OF the State railroad
commission against the express compan-
les. He dissolved the temporary inJunc-
ton against the lowering OF express rates,
ordered by the commission, so that these
new rates. which are IS per cent
lower than the present. will go into eff
feet october first. Judge Mcpherson has
not hitherto been noted for his anti-eor-
poration decisions.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Ten Years Ago

Judge Mcpherson. sitting at Council
Bluffs. knocks out as invalid, three Ne
braska statutes, the one enacted In 1871
regulating the charges to be made by
the South Omaha stock yards for feeding
and yarding cattle and the two laws
enacted In 1897 for the regulation Of fire
insurance companies.
e. r. Morearty announces his with
drawal from the fusion party-peoples
and democratio-to join the republicans.
Mr.. Henry T. Clarke, preliminary to his
marriage, entertained his ushers and a
few other men friends at his home COW
ers being laid for fourteen. The guests
were Messrs. Ben Bates of Denver,
Scott Brown OF Chicago, Luther Kountze,
Fred Rustin, Frank Crawford. Linn sher-
wood, Wing Allen. Ross fowls, Charles
Young Gordon Clarke, ]. L. Paxton
Tupper and Herbert Gannett
Mr.. Herbert Gannett entertained friends
at a luncheon at the Omaha club in honor
of Henry T. Clarke, jr., who was to be
married in two days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H, L. Cummings went TO
Kansas City for a few days.
Mrs Nathan r. Adams returned from
Minneapolis, where she spent the sum
mer
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
ForRet III
VI 6GN ANa
ST Louis ClnhA.narnncr 4

81 LOUIS GIobe-Democrat.
The early opening of the Pine Ridge
Reservation lands recallss that there, at
a place called Wounded Knee, was fought
the last battle with the Indians. And
this had so much more the appearance
OF a slaughter than a battle that the
sooner we forget 1t the better.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

Mr.. Bryan told the Canadians he
never would again be a candidate for
the presidency. He has never taken
occasion to confide the secret to his
friends on the American side.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

The people would take more inter
est in the charges against Judge
Grosscup, now that they have learned
they are preferred by magazine.
II they knew who is behind the maya
zine
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
WHITFIELD TO A POINT.

"Bliggins is constantly talking about
his distinguished ancestors"
Yes replied Miss Cayenne; most of
them are dead and can't resent the IA
miliarity. "-Washington Star.
That publisher is mad because his
rival has entced away all his best funny
writer's"
We'll you must expect a man to be
mad when he's lost his wits."-Baltimore
American.
Now that we are married." said the
pretty chorus girl, What do you propose
to do?"
why" replied the son Of the million
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

President Taft well says that the
tariff bills he vetoed at the extra
session were made with blacksmith's
tools. They were the product of an
endless anvil chorus.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Opportunities Passed Up.

What is the matter with American arch
itects7 Ten years ago Australia decided
to build a new capital in the virgin
wilderness Of New South Wales. compe-
tition was invited from the architects OF
the world ana very tempting inducements
offered American RESPONSES were re-
grettably few, compared with the number
from European countries, a fact which
prompted the authorities to reject all
plans and advertise again. Competition
is now open, with purses of $500 for the
first, $3.50 for the second and $3.50 for
the third accepted design. American arch
tects are assured OF a shade better than
fair deal from the Australians.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
why Not Complete the TicAsets

Senator Cummins is unwilling to con-
slider any other man than La Toilette
for the republican nomination next year.
While he is about it he may as well pick
the candidate for vice president, thus re-
ljieving the country from any anxiety in
the matter and himself of any cause for
dissatisfaction.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

Mike" Harrington tripped him
self up when he ascribed Harmsn's
nomination in part to occupying a
preferred position on the official
primary ballot. He was evidently
unaware that the ballots were re-
Quired 70 be rotated, so that no one
had a preferred position. Mr.. Har-
rington Is a lawyer, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Costly Experience.
Cleveland Plain Dealer

0lGNcldnu ASNdlNls
II has cost that British Columbia bank
a great many dollars 10 find that locating
a financial institution next door 70 a
police station doesn't do away with the
security afforded by a s12-a-week night
Waterman.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23
Modern improvements.
Chicago News.

Mount Etna is throwing out more lava
in a week than 1t did in a month during
it's former eruption. Maybe II has caught
up with the times and is using steam
shovels-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

To tell just how to raise
100000 endowment fund for the
University of Omaha is as easy as
rolling off a log But to raise II is
different.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

Thus far the coast-to-coast flight,
on, the part of both the Californian
and the New Yorker, appears to be
the top-line farce OF the season.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

Subscribers leaving the city
temporarily should have The
Bee mailed 10 them. Address
will be changed ms often rs
requested,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

George Bernard Shaw says the
United States is not much of a nation.
Which clinches the argument that it
Is the greatest of nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

How 1t must make those old '49ers
grin to watch the struggling aviators
trying to follow the trail they marked
out sixty years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-23

Those city hall officials evidently
believe they should go on all the
junkets while they can. Commits
sion plan Is coming.