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Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17

It's plain to see she has a tone That's really, truly, all her own, No TretazZini or Calve
 Can ever hope to sing the way That Maggie does when she is right For her accustomed vocal flight. Life loses all it's other strings When Maggie sings.
 When Maggie sings, My Rosary. The folks who listen must agree No one on earth could initiate Her technique and that's safe to
 state. Her audience beneath her sway Sees other troubles pass away. They float on a mysterious sea Where they had never thought to be. The universe seems to stand still A feeling strange just seems to thrill Them and a ghsstly message send That this world is about to end. l always wish it would, by jings. When Maggie sings.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
THIS DATE IN HISTORY"
 MARCH 17

I74l-Jean Baptiste Rousseau, fam ous French writer, died ln Brussels. Born in Paris, April 6. 1871.
 l77G-British troops evacuated Bos' ton, and, with a large number of Loyalists. sailed for Halifax. isO6-Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts incorporated. S29-Massachusetts Horticultural So ciety organized. 1885 --yoastiutiop adopted for the ifeDs5 lie oE Tsxas, 1s64,--C eneraf sf&hf assomed com msnd a all Sthe prhues of the Union. A sff ISso-Prfnee Bismarck resigned the German ehancellorship.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
THE DEMOCRATS OF KANSAS.

The decisive defeat on Thursday in the Kansas Democratic State con rention of the supporters of Wood. row Wilson by the forces of Speaker Clark. proves this among other thlngs: that 'prosressivism" and the fallacies of so-called popular govern. ment are not as ra1pant among the democrats of Kansas as they are among the republicans of that state. And what is true Of Kansas is true of every other state. It has been h the strong republican states of the vest and the middle west that these fallacies have attained their most noxious and noisome growth.
 But Governor Wilson had apparent ly a strong advantage in the Kansas fight. The following of Mir. Bryan is still believed to be powerful in the IhAAaAOfti oAcAt anu lDtlt IS yet a large remnant there of the once po9,- erful popnlist party While. perhaps he largest portion of the remnant has gone to swell the tide of repub- hcan progressiyism, undoubtedly portion of it is an influential element in the democratic party.
 It is true that Mir. Bryan has never made a direct statement in support of the candidacy Of Governor Wilson; nor. has he directly disapproved tbc candidacy of Speaker Clark. Yet, we know that Mir. Bryan is in fuli sym pathy with the ideals of the former and we know. at the same time, the speaker has been disregsrdful of many Of the notiors of Mr. Bryan when the latter has tried to force them upon congress. He has gener ally been found with the democratic majority of the house caucus when it has frequently rejected the advance Of Mir. Bryan as a private citizen to the leadership of the party ill con- gress.
 Thus, Governor Wilson stands, a. least at the present time, for all those things for which MT. Bryan stands. In no public utterance has Speaker Clark appeared to abandon the doctrines of the fathers. It may be supposed that the speaker as a middle western man and former res ident, for brief period, of Kansas, enjoyed the advantage of locality in the conflict. We do not think so. We believe that as things have so shaped themselves in the present contest iI' both parties locality will be but slight ly influential, less so than ever be- fore. in the pre-convention campaign ay well as in the presidential cam paign.
 So. as we have stated. the victory of the speaker in Kansas may be st- tributed mainly to the fact that theIa is more conservatism. than radicalism among the democrats of Kansas. Ii that is so, it may De asked, whence tbe former great popularity of Mi urvau in that state? In reply ws may say that conditions rather than men have changed since IS96, 1900 and 1908. The doctrines of MT. Bry- a1. that is the more radical of them relating to popular government were not perhaps considered seriously by n majority of the democrats who xoted for him. The voters were sJ- ,r,cted to the man and to those doc ,rines whose adoption would afford relief from the burden Of the tarLf and the growing oppression of the ,r,sts In the advocacy of those doc- triues, NIT. Bryan was thoroughly democratic and thus, Mir. Bryan was supported by democrats, not for his extremely radical views but in spitei of them. .r
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
THE HIckEYvILLE CLARION

Livin' pictures was given at our opry house last week by the La dies Aid.
 Hank PUrdy and Hod R c nfre W posed for The Rasslers, a n q Hod reached into Hanks back pock- ct fer to get his bottle while they was in a clinch
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
WHEN MAGGIE SINGS

\ O ordinary voice is hers Because you see, 1t really stirs
 The souls of those W h O listen and II TT kind of music under stand. There s n ot another Of it's kind That anyone
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
Post Office is Robbed

Last Tuesday night burglars effect ed an entrance into the Miami post office, breaking a screen and opening a door with a pass key. Registered letters and packages, too large to be put in the safe, which was very small one, were taken, but reports from Miami are to the effect that the value was not large.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
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Cod.

The catch of cod in the United States is third in value of fish caught. amounting to almost s3,0oo.000. fol- lowed by that of shad. Holsters and clans.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
! ON .THE 'SPWI9 2
 2 OF.THE'MOMENT " By Roy k .Moulton. q
Copyright 1911. c. N. Mather)

a treat. First mix your dough and then mold it into nice round loayes. Your husbands silk hat will make an excellent mold. If he hasn't got a silk hat have him go to a banquet and get one by leaving fifteen min utes ahead of the other guests.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
Depths of Misery.

Downcast Alaskan Prospector-I just ain't got the heart to dig. cause with every ounce O gold takes out O. the earth, decrease the purchasia' power of the doliar.-Puck.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
~s,-. .-s- .-.
Naturs, ls- hppEsd

''Seedless lemons are developed by grating" So are the kind sometimes handed to oficeholders.-Cleveland Lader.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
Much Harder Question

What" said an interviewer to A candidate. do you intend 10 do If you are elected" My goodness!" said the poor fellow. what shall i do If I'm not zlected."
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
True Happiness

The happiness of man in this life does not consist in the absence. but in the mastery of his passions."- Tennyson-
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
LITTLE OELMoNICo
 REFINERY CUJCH

Has changed hands, Mrs. Nj. Fran cis giving bill Of sale to Mrs. C. L. Miller. It will be run hrst class III every respect. Strict attention 10 lunch pails. s1"
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
Cultivate Prudence.

A man who is not prudent is borrow ing his pleasure today at the expense of his brother tomorrow.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
SPECIAL TODAY.

aChristian Martyrs and, three other new reels of pictures. Star Theatre,
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17
-se RECALL IN VIRGINIA.

That saaguinary episode at Hills vile Va. on Thursday, may be de- rribed as the recall of tie judiciary
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17

Pretending and Knowing. Girls know so much because they pretend not to.
Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17

All He Had to Do With 1t. And you actually consented to let your wife run for ofice?" Consented? {? Certainly not. I acqIiesced."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
WILL TEACH FARMERS.
Uncle Sam Planning to Send Experts
Into Counties For Special Work.

Farm and Fireside, an agricultural
paper published at Springfield, Ohio,
contains an account OF the plans OF
the United States government for
advancing agricultural interests
throughout the country, in the COM
ing year Following is an extract:
The federal government will ex-
pend about $125,000 this fiscal year
in promoting the cause of better farm
management, through the medium of
county agents, who will impart in
|struction directly to the farmers and
to farmers organizations.
Such expenditure has been assured
by provision in the agricultural ap-
preparation bill which allows $780,
900 for farm management purposes.
A part of this sum will be used in
pursuing the farm management in
vestigations OF which William j.
Spillman has charge. Mr.. Spillman,
under whose division in the Bureau
OF Plant Industry the direction of
farm management matters falls,
estimates that about $125,00O will
be available for the employment of
agents in various counties and for
the organization needed to make the
work of these agents effective.
Farm management efforts of the
Department OF Agriculture have thus
far not been of nature TO bring the
farmers of the country and the farm
management experts of the depart
ment in touch. But new order
of things will eventually result in
the best expert advice of the depart
ment on practical problems of farm
management being given to farmers
in many counties directly. What is
going to be done by the government
year. there is good reason to believe,
year, there is good reason 10 btlieve,
Congress will largely increase the
amount allowed for the spread of
d1iu SocStiOH W
management That the government
will soon be paying out a million dol
lars year for this purpose is not
only possible but probable.
The plan is for the federal gov
ernment to nay half the salary and
expenses OF the agent for each coun-
ty. The other half is TO be raised
locally. That is, while the govern
ment will have about $125,000 to
spend for this purpose between now
and next June 30th, the end OF the
fiscal year. the fact, that an equal
sum win be raised in the different
counties that want agents will bring
the total expenditure for the promo
tion of farm management advice and
instruction up to s250,00o.'
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
Coordination of Institutions.

We are in receipt of numerous cir
culars respecting the announced
change in the state institutions OF
higher learning by the Board of
Education of the state of Iowa.
These changes, which will be made
after this year, include the concen-
trating of the engineering depart
ment at Ames and adolishing that
department at Iowa City: narrowing
the scope of the State Teachers Col
lege at Cedar Falls, making it strictly
a normal school, and concentrating
the domestic science department of
all these institutions at Ames. The
theory of the Board of Education is
that the Iowa City instieution should
be a university, the college at Ames
an agricultural school. and the col
lege at Cedar Falls normal school,
just as their names imply, rather
than that three rival institutions as
piring to universities should be built
up in Iowa. The Board also recon-
mends the opening of normal schools
in portions of the state not reached
by the Cedar Falls institution. From
the standpoint of expense, of opera
tion and of efficiency we believe the
Board OF Education has done the
right thing. We have thought for
years that the tendency at these col
leges was 10 get away from their
original purpose Now, let Iowa con-
tinue 10 have the best agricultural
college and the best state teachers
college in the United States. and let's
make the university at Iowa City the
best state university in the United
States.
A. H. Hanson of this city is Sec
retary of the Associated Students OF
Applied Science at the state univer-
sity. which organization passed strong
resolutions opposing the change.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
- " u
LIBERTY AND SECURITY.

President Taft's campaign for re-
election has not been one of personal
spell-binding. His chief rivals have
taken industriously to the stump.
Col Roosevelt has already crossed
and recressed the continent and Gov
ernor Wilson has gone as far west as
Iowa and Minnesota. Mr.. Taft has
spoken infrequently and travelled
little, bearing in mind the limitations
put upon his activity by his official
position. Yet his campaign prospcrs
because he represents cause which
speaks for itself. He has had the
powerful assistance of the greatest of
all the spell-binders-the content
which accompanies marked national
prosperity.
Agitate and vociferate as they may,
his two rivals have to contend with
the fact that victory for either
would operate to check the current
OF good times now swelling in vol
ume. A victory for Col. Roosevelt
would mean tampering all along
the line with the safeguards essential
TO the maintenance of liberty and Sc
curity. A victory for Governor VIII
son, on the other hand, would make
inevitable an assault on the existing
Industrial system, involving many dis
turbing changes in business condi-
tions. Since 1907 times have been
more or less hard and the country is
now feeling the first STRINGS CT a
new period of prosperity,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
SHORT COURSE SOON
Work of Preparation Now Well Under
Way.
DECEMBER TO : THE DATES.
General Committee Meeting at tn,
Court House Next Saturday
Afternoon to Complete
Organization, E:c.

The first Agricultural Short Course
for Winneshiek county will be held
during the week of December 2nd to
9TH, inclusive, and will be an event
of great Importance to every man,
woman and child in the county, for ii
will present an opportunity to see
and learn much of interest and profit
to the material prosperity and up
lifting of the county. We know OF
nothing from which more good to the
greatest number may be attained
than from attendance and study
through the Short Course for the
people of a county like Winneshiek
The course is furnished by the state
of Iowa, with the assistance of local
people interested, and is under the
supervision and control of the state
agricultural college, which takes full
charge and conducts the course
The course will consist of week s
study of practically everything that
pertains to agricultural life and pro-
duce. There will also be course
in domestic economy, and lectures by
men of prominence in the agricultural
field in the evenings. There will be
a large exhibit of corn and grains,
with long list of valuable premiums
for the best ten ears of corn. This
should be saved while seed corn is
being selected. This contest alone
will be an interesting feature.
These courses have been great
successes in practically every in
stance, and usually attract large
crowds. 1t will be money in the
pocket of every farmer and many
others who devote the week to the
short course. Make your plans to
participate in this expert, scientific
instruction brought to your COM
munity by your state.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16

through this machinery the German
farmer has received money, at times.
at rates lower than those current in
commerC al loans.
"But ta advantages to be gained
by the adop ption of this plan go beyond
the direct saving in interest charges
to the farmer. The great necessity
which prompted the establishment
and extension OF this plan through
out Europe was that of checking the
rapidly advancing increases in the
cost of foodstuffs, brought about by
the inevitable increase in consump-
tion and the failure of the long
drained soil to afford a corresponding
increase in production. That prob
lem faces the people of this country
Itoday-not in so severe form as it
threatened the older countries of
Europe, but, still, as great and
pressing economic problem.
I'm Europe this problem has been
successfully met, first, by reducing
the coo. o the farmer of producing
his cro,Hx, I'd, secondly, by increas-
ing his plo h tion through the adop-
tion of llurx methods of cultiva-
tion. Both Per federal and state
governments in u country have
done much to affo. d farmers in
Istruction in improyer 'gricultural
methods. But it still + rs for us
to reduce the cost of T. rmer's S
production by affording Hin che ne
cessary capital for the exploitation
of his soil upon the most advanta-
geous terms. He must be afforded
money necessary for him to adopt
improved methods. 1t must be made
profitable for him to place every
acre of his ground under cultivation.
This offers the consumer relief from
the increasing cost of foodstuffs.
THE country enjoys today great
prosperity. The factories are busy,
the workingmen employed and every
where wheels of industry hum. The
farmer shares in this general pros
perity. We have come to look upon
the farmer of today as one of our
most prosperous citizens. The pro-
posal which l make is not to sub
sidize the American farmer. For
tunately for this country, he does not
need 1t, nor would he accept it. What
this plan offers is means to secure
to this country greater productivity
at less cost, from the farms that are
now under cultivation, and, above
all, to give us more farms and more
farmers. 1t will make it profitable
for the farmer to return 10 the cul-
tivation of the abandoned farms OF
the East and to open up the vast
area of untitled land in the West.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
THE SHERIFF'S FEES.
DeCOrah journal Starts Another Cam
pa:gn of Misrepresentation
Voters Remember Pre-
viOuS Boomerang.

Whether it is the deliberate inten-
tion of the editor of the Decorah
Journal to misrepresent the facts
and mislead the voters of the county
in the series of attacks he has begun
against Sheriff Qualley, we leave it
to the voters to determine. But
certain it is that he ought to know
better, and certain We are that the
honest, fair-minded people of this
county will not forget the dose they
got two years ago in the Haugen-
Murphy and Qualley- Carolan con-
tests, both of which when brought to
the final legal test proved to be
farces without merit and unworthy
of consideration.
We had made up our mind not to
notice the attacks which appeared in
the last issues, respecting the amount
of money received from the county by
Mr.. Qualley for boarding prisoners,
but believe a statement of the facts
in the case will not be amiss, even
though his article is probably not
given serious consideration.
A complete reply is contained in
the following three paragraphs:
The state law prescribes the man
prisoners and paying for the same.
The prisoners are placed in jail by
the Judges of the District Court, the
Mayors and the Justices of the Peace
throughout the county. The sheriff
is required to receive all they send
to him and care for them. The law
says that he shall receive twelve and
one-half cents per meal and lodging
for each prisoner. The matter is
out of the sheriff's hands entirely.
He simply does what the law tells
him to do, and is paid what the law
says he shall receive. In addition
fifty cents is paid back to the county
by the sheriff for each prisoner re-
ceived by him. Perhaps Editor
Biermann would like the job of feed
ing and sleeping prisoners at twelve
and one-half cents per, with the
present high cost of living. Causxs
might also be advanced for the jail
being filed with prisoners mach Of
the time, but that is another stoly.
The Board of Supervisors are re-
sponsible for the conduct of the
county officers. They audit and pay
every bill, and if the bills are not
right it is their business to know it,
The Board of Supervisors in Winnie
shiek county is democratic. Hence
and so.
The sheriff of Winneshiek county
Is a bonded officer. His bondsmen
are reputed to be worth over $780,
900. If he has done anything wrong,
il he has overcharged the counryy
these men ought. to make it good.
If the editor of the Journal knows
OF anything wrong, it is his duty to
proceed against Sheriff Qualley in
the proper manner; not to malicious
ly represent the facts in an attempt
to fool the people. No man ever
won by that We do not believe that
the democratic candidate for sheriff
or his party condones such methods
of campaigning. The people of the
county had all they wanted of it two
years ago, and are going to show
their resentment to such politics by
voting the straight republican ticket
on November 5th.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-10-16
NOT MEN BUT PARTIES.


A correspondent asks if President
Taft is personally responsible for the
great prosperity which now blesses
the United States.
We answer frankly that he is not.
Neither would Woodrow Wilson be
personally responsible for the de-
Istruction of prosperity which would
assuredly follow his election.
Our government is one of parties,
not of men. The point at issue In
this campaign is not whether Taft or
Wilson shall be president-for Roose-
velt cannot possibly get 266 electoral
votes-but whether the Republican
or the Democratic party shall make
the laws and control the affairs of
government. The Republican party
has been in power 16 yea.-,, and dur
ing that time, under beneticent poll
cies enacted into law, the country
has enjoyed unexampled prosperity
and progress. Only once in the last
so years has the Democratic party
been in full control of the govern
ment, and those four years were a
period of universal distress, due to
destructive laws enacted by the
Democratic administration. They
were tariff-for-revenue-only laws,
which opened the gates for foreign
made goods, diverted American
money from American manufacturers
and American farmers and American
workingmen and American banks in
to the pockets OF foreign manufac-
turers and workingmen and financial
institutions. That was the reason
we had hard times under the Demo
cratic administration.
While President Taft is not indi-
vidually responsible for, prosperity,
he has contributed to our happy con-
dition because he has given the
country safe and conservative gov
ernment He has administered the
laws feariesSly and impartially; he
has not rushed us into war with
Mexico or any other power; he has
been clean, honest and dignified; he
has earned for the United States the
respect OF foreign nations by his
wise conduct of affairs; and he has
been economic and efficient in his
administration. This, and more, is
what President Taft has done per-
sonally, and when, in addition, he
represents the party which has
achieved so much for the country
ever since it brought liberty to thou
sands of men in bondage, there is
every reason why both he and the
Republican party should be victori-
Gus on the 5th of next November,