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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Taft and Roosevelt

Washington Correspondence New York
 Sun.
 The newspapers of March ], 1900 record cd an impressive scene that had taken place in the Senate chamber just after William IT. Taft had been sworn in as President of the Unfed States.
 Then the former President says the Suns account of the inauguration, start cd to leave the chamber with Senator Knox IS an escort. As he passed around the rostrum Mir Taft was coming down. Mr. Roosevelt ran up the steps and grasped President Taft by the shoulders. The President grasped his predecessor in the same way. For a second they husged each other and then shook hands visor- ously.'
 This occurrence, testifying more dra- matically than any other to the warm friendship that existed between William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt three brief years ago, was recalled by hundreds in Washington when 1t became known that Roosevelt had entered the race for the 1912 nomination. and the questions were asked: What is the explaantionY What has brought about the change in the relations between these two men?'
 Republicans who know both Roosevelt and Taft intimately will tell you now that they realized from the time Taft was elected that break was bound 10 come between Taft and Roosevelt They credit Roosevelt with having been abso- luteiy sincere in his early manifestations of regard and affection for Taft. but they say they were certain in the end that Roosevelt's ambition. his love for power, his desire to dominate the Taft adminis- tration. his habit of magnifying innocent acts into intended sights and his dispo- sition to listen to the tales of trouble makers would lead to an estranSemept
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his head offen him?" Finding no dura- bilitv in our sandmen of the republic, our whim to decapitate all sandmen cannot be destructive or harmful to society, I suppose. But in our child's play of building and razing regulations, almost I have prayed for the appear ance of an iron and granite white Yuan Shi-kai-one larger than the sandman type, bigger than his contemporaries one of cemented sand, yeritable rock in the making. suppose the times must be all out of joint before 1he appearance of a dictator would be justified, but we clearly need statesmen of Yuan's type for our fussy. peevish, cunning genera tion of grafters. just as sorely as the Manchus and the Chinese need him for their reconstruction.
 But we can i'll afford to be crying wolf, wolf merely because We see fangs exposed nor because our republic is filled with blind and foolish children need we believe that none are seeing, none are wise.
 Whoever reads his daily newspaper
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they could not furnish an abstract, and who keep the toilers and masses under constant dread of persecusion by the guvverment and in a state of mind to welcum enny change that cums along, and they air neerly al- ways cunning.
 The U. S. Gpvverment has been too tollerent in times past with the Tar rantuler Jumpers. We have gone out of our way hole lot to treet them as folks, who could tell instintly the diff ference between Gum Drop and a Switch Engine, but they don't appre- ciate it; evvery time they get a chance to throw the hooks into sum American who has little enuff branes to invest his mummy in sum industry in there blooming country, they proseed to do so, if they have to pull off dozen
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OF CERTAIN HOPES AND FEARS-By A. B. Beale

latter's "Justice'-a thing that might rival Kennedy's Servant in the House. in intensity. But apart from it's dra- matic interest and the eosmopolitanism of the participants, it Is the first ack- nowledgment from the national body that an examinat ton into the differences between capital and labor Is the essen tially appropriate thing just now. It is a brave, full, mans stride toward federal social service. In few years, friend-maybe ten, maybe twenty years from today-I dare hazard a guess that the Labor department, or the Commits sion of Labor will not be second in inn portance to the War department or the Navy department.
 The public prints are writing history these days. The statlsticians of sweet ness and order and decency are hav- ing things to tell, however wee sma' their telings may be- They are even finding gestures that tally with the deeds of Jesus. But do not believe these statisticians when they say the prophets of light will in trice shame all of the devils breed into silence In
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I therefore, as little boys we knew each
 other and grew up together through grammar school days The fact became generally known that he would steal oat of the house when he was commanded 10 remain indoors; parents began to call him "a bad boy; after while it was said
 generally that he would not only ''steal'
 from. home. but when away from home he
 would actually steal anything and every
 thing that he could lay hands on The word "steal' was fastened upon him. and who cared to stop and distinguish i,s
 meaning and application. for he was only
 boy. After some time had passed the parents in the neighborhood forbade their
 boys to associate with That Boy" Why
 may I not?' many a little fellow asked.
 Because That Boy is bad and he'll come
 to bad end" was the answer. l Thus That Boy lost his playmates
 and companions. He was ostracised. If he played he must play alone; if he joined group of boys the group soon dissolved and vanished. He became bad boy in
 reality. Everybody said he was bad; they | told him at home that he was bad. so why disappoint everybody? He sought his companions elsewhere and disappeared | from the old haunts. Now and then one could hear that he had been seen in 1is- reputable neighborhoods; that he was now "clean gone" from responsibility, and We
 all congratulated ourselves that we were i, so much better than That Boy" I sus- pect that we were set of young phar- isees.
 must have been bad, too. For l would violate the command not to be seen with
 That Boy" He had a strange fascina-
 ton for me. Nobody else could tell such
 marvellous tales as he; nobody else knew
 so many things as he knew: nobody else s smile was quite as winsome as his and
 nobody else ever had such strange ad- ventures as That Boy" could relate.
 A year after he had left home and the
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cannot have missed the late reports of the congressional inquiry into the Law renee mill strike. The Associated press has handled the entire matter in it's usual unprejudiced way and with q thoroughness of detail that deserves praise. To my mind, this is a fine dra- ma-as good as the best-first-elass even to the choppy dialogue It is all purposeful, vast too in a sense. Mill girls from Lawrence are there, the gen oral superintend of the mills; the pastor ta sort of Pastor Manders he Is too, by the bye), employed by the mill owners for its operatives; some of the foreign women who were clubbod dur ing the riots; Victor Berger, that lone socialist of the House is there, talking, talking, while by his side the wife of the President is seated; near by, silent, though listening intently to all of the testimony. sits Miss Annie Morgan, daughter of ]. P. Morgan.
 Here are dramatic materials which might be novelized by James Oppenheim or dramatized by John Galsworthy into play as large, if not larger, than the
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that the republic may mother liberal and sane and high-minded leaders. We can at least be fervent well-wishers
 We hear much fearful gossip banded about, such as "a perfect limited mon archy is better than an imperfect re- public;" or, "the jurySsystem of Europe and the banking systems of Europe are much superior to ours" or, Eng land has no such scandals in high places as we have etc, etc. We accept this frank, truthful news much in the man ner that MT. Micawber did his continued ill-fortune. The while we lament our vulgar bungling at statecraft and law making, we yet believe something be- yond peradventure will presently turn up to give the republic release from all of it's doubts and fears. It is our faith in, the tomorrows that we are winning to that saves us from despair assuredly nothing that we can count as clear gain so far.
 Then, we still may vote, and that is pleasing consolation. In the fine privilege of the franchise there is al- ways thrill for the g2od citizen of
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TIE was thus designated in our home, "That Boy" He was well con I ! nccted and brought up in a relg ious home. I say "a religious home, and vet perhaps. l should modify that state ment. There were religious people in his home. but their religion. as I remember it, twas a stern religion" as Dickens says of Mrs. Clenams.
 There seemed to be no music Tn "Inat Boy's' home no merriment nothing sav- bring of humor, and little to attract him to it. He had no love for his home; any where was preferable to home. Therefore, if forbidden to go out of the house he was sure to watch his opportunity to steal off. Nobody took the trouble to hold him at home by reading stories to him, nobody tried to entertain him so that he would forget the outside world, and to sit at home doing nothing and hearing nothing was not to the taste of That Boy," who was all activity.
 He was good looking boy. His. hair and eyes were black; his testh were reg ular; his head shapeiy and well planted on his shoulders. His smile was captivat- ing. and his manner of address. for a boy of his age. was most agreeable.
 He had younger sister, sweet faced girl with many attractions. But she seemed ever to live a repressed life. think I never heard her laugh. The silent, unattractive atmosphere of the home seemed to enshroud her wherever she might be. She acquired the habit of look ing into gloom, and the custom of hearing only silence. I remember now that as a boy I passed her home and saw one of the older members of the family smile, in the doorway. It made an impression upon me, whose emotions I recolect this night. though 1t occurred many years ago. It was so odd to see smile in or near that home. That dear girl lived to reach young womanhood. then passed. as l believe. 10 . world of light. song and happiness.
 'That Boy" lived quite near my home,
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bill, and we'll stand for it. The best way to diplomat with these fellows is to put them on notice that we have reformed; tell them that the Nun row Doctrine that was, has been repeeled by the legislature, and that the next time they get Gay, we'll diplomat sum with them frum the bizness end of Mouser and in Dew and Ansient form. Tell them if they pass laws inveigling American mummy into bilding up of there coun- try, that the first time they renig, that we'll Start Sumthing that will make one of there little Revvolusions look like a prayer meeting at The Hague. Give them to understand in plain English, as it is spoke, that so long as they tend to there own biz
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your lifetime, or your sons lifetime or in tho twentieth century. Certain forces there are in this world that seem never in a hurry. Truths are tardily mbraced---truths. for instance that if understood would defeat hate of man for man--because your workaday chap twho represents the world. final ly) has got pat the bread theory of living; and the while he must wrestle like mad with his neighbor for his share of the loaf, he cannot evolve, and has no wish to evolve, any finer concept ot living than the brain belly concept. You cannot win n great following from an audience that Is alarmed about its belly. It Is no less than a great white fear. What man gives a tin<er's dam for all of your social service when he is speeulating about his breakfast7
 In one way we may help forward the dawn of mind and spirit. We might. for instance. be less greedy about our own breakfast. We might. suppose, just be glad for our own breakfast and not covet our neighbours too---or the price of our neighbor's breakfast. Isn't that fair enough?
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Fillander c. Knox down to visit the
 South American Republicks. Fillan- der may find the same Republicks he started out to visit, but the chances air agin it, it's. moor than likely that he'll find them in Jail and sum new Republick doing bizness at the old stand reddy for a fresh importasion of American capitol to protect. But Fillander can diplomat with who evver happens to be It, when he arrives and presious little good he'll do, but he will have nice trip and all expenses paid. They'll give him big dinners and allow him to make Goo-Goo eyes at the Seniorretters, and fall on his neck and tell him how much they love us, and then go out and comfiscate anuther American mine to pay the
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that's to rap him on the Beam. till he seys that you air boss-Same thing.
 Fillander and his predecessors have been using the Soft Soap treatment on our South American cuzzens too free ly, and while we admit they need the soap, it has not been applied rite-as it is, that kind of thing is played out, what they need is Pill-sevveral of them, administered in violent and suddenly convinsing manner, and they'll newer be Good till they get it.
 This Guvverment mite as we'll now as in the future lay it's mailed fist up against the nose of these little Warts and get it ovver, they air sertain to give us lots of trubble and no trade until it is dun. Bare this in mind. Yours trooly, BILL VINES.
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K XISTUR EDDITUR: It is grate MI country that lies south of us, M divided up into skore or moor of little Tin-Horn Republicks that change rulers oftiner than they take a bath. A country full of possibilities and Muskeeters, where the children air early taught the Evvolusion of Revvolusion, and the naturel re- sources air consumed in taxes to buy red uniforms to Revvolute in. The southern portion of North America and all of South America is rich country deserving moor at the hands of Sivvilazasion than to be the ren- devoo of a cheap lot of 18th sentury Aristocratts who air trying to live on the departed grandure of there un- sertain ancestors legal title to whom
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him, the streets, the streets of tue slums, and finally the narrow cell behind the nigh stone walls.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05
Was West Duluth Bow.

ANDREW Anderson, q years old,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ander-e
son, 2O15 West Sixth street, died
suddenly Tuesday evening at Bau-
dette, MINI. His family at the West
end was notified of his death yester-
day afternoon. The young mans
father left for Baudette last evening
and will return with the body tomor-
row morning, when funeral arrange
ments will be made. %e #
"Mr. Anderson was a graduate Of
one of the West end schools and had
a large number of friends in this
end of the city. He left for Bau-
dette three weeks ago to engage in
the restaurant business. He worked
formerly as engineer on the Canadian
Northern railroad. He is survived by
four sisters and three brothers, be-
sides his parents. The sisters are
Mrs A. Halvorson of Superior, Miss
Alley, Anna and Irene Anderson,
and the brothers are Arthur, Erwin
and George Anderson of Duluth.
According to the telegram re-
ceived yesterday by the family is
thought that death was due to heart
failure. The coroner of Beltramf
county will hold an autopsy this af-I
ternoon to determine the cause of
death"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05

BemidU Grand Army Men Get County
Z :. to Give $3.50; Have $500
On Hand
PUBLIC ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE
Copyright, 1871

Having received a pledge from the
board of county commissioners that
Beltrami will appropriate $3.50 to
the fund being raised by the Robert
Carr Post, Grand Army of the Re-
public here, a committee of four who
appeared before the commissioners
yesterday announce their belief that
a monument in honor of the soldier
dead can be unveiled in the Bemidji
cemetery next Memorial day.
r. j. Martin, J. M. Phillippi, J. M.
Fuller, and Carl Howe formed the
committee O fthe old soldiers appear
ing before the commissioners, Mr..
Howe acting in the place of c. F..
Schroeder, who was unable to act
upon the committee. Mr.. Martin,
the chairman of the committee, acted
as spokesman.
Mr.. Martin explained that under a
law passed by a recent legislature
any county board in the state may
give an appropriation not to exceed
$500 toward monument erected
to the memory of Civil War veterans
in any public park, grounds or ceme-
terry, providing that some organiza-
ton in the county raises sum equal
at least to the appropriation made by
the county board to be used in the
contraction of the monument.
"The Carr Post of the G. A. R. has
taken up this work." Mr.. Martin
said, "and has already raised $500
for that purpose. What we want is
to get your sentiment in this matter,
and if you are in favor of giving us
this appropriation, we will go ahead
and try to raise our share of the
fund. We do not intend to come the
subscriptions to Bemidji; we are go
ing to make a canvass of the entire
county," -.
After short discussion on the
matter, Commissioner Rako express
ed the sentiment of the board as be-
ing in favor of such an appropria-
ton, and agreed that, after the
monument had been raised, and ac
cepted by the board of county would
pay to the fund sum not to- exceed
$3.50. S. n 55g 81 s3
: ztl * {. ! + q
Although the design for the monu-
ment has not yet been decided upon,
it probably will be red granite
shaft. 1t will be erected in the
Soldiers lot in Greenwood Cemetery
where veterans are buried.
The committee has obtained the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05

California mines have yielded more
than $1Oo, 900, 900 worth of qufcksil-
yer in the last so years.
The Burmese 'pulgat'' is; the only
foreign measure in the world which
corresponds to our inch.
Seven companies supply London
with gas, and the prices vary from
40 to So cents for 1000 feet.
OF all the paper in the world dur
ing 1910 it is said that the United
States consumed more than one-half.
Italy now imports more than $780,
100000 worth Of cotton each year.
Hence the government is carefully
fostering all attempts to produce a
native crop.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05
$1,000 FIRE AT CASS LAKE
Lydiiek's Model Cow Barn Destroyed
BysR'sAze 81 Ms sterious Origin 4
u in the Haymow.-
F1REMEN WORK IN BITTER COLD

Cass Lake, Mimi, Jan. 5.-(Daily
Pioneer Special Wire Service)-Fire
of mysterious origin destroyed the
modern new $1,000 COW barn Of
George Lydick on the edge of town
late yesterday afternoon and the fire.
men fought the flames in tempera-
ture of % degrees below zero. All of
the rs cows in the barn were saved as
as also was q gasoline engine and
feed cutter. Es..
The firemen stretched 2,400 feet
of hose but the water froze and the
work was carried on with the great
est of difficulty but milk house and
refrigerating plant adjoining the
barn was saved. ~.
The fire started in the haymow. In
the morning the barn door lock was
found broken and it is suspected that
tramps, or some one else, climbed
into the haymow, but just how the
fire started is unknown. #ssY., s,
The barn was erected last summer
and was model structure. MIR.
sLydick at present is at Mineral
Springs, Texas. "a
The Lydick home was at no time
in danger and Mrs. Lydick served
hot coffee and lunch to the firemen.
4. The Cass Lake firemen called on
Bemidji to furnish hose and 800 feet
was sent from that place. N.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05
BEL RAMI MUSTPAY
SAYSATT'Y GENERAL

st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. DAILY
Pioneer Special Wire Service Bel.
trami county will be forced to pay
all proper bills in connection with
the prosecution of Dr.. Dumas and
the other arson cases, said Attorney
General j. A. Smith this morning.
There is legal provision made where
by counties in the tangle that Bel
.trami finds herself can be straighten-
ed out" he said. aThe present COM
.plication Is not without precedent.
Beltrami must pay.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05
POSTPONE DINNER TO MONDAY

owing to the inability Of many to
attend the dinner set for tonight at
the Markham hotel, the committee
has pstponed it to Monday night,
January 8. Those who have received
invitations are asked to mail their
postal stating whether they can at
tend. Those who have done so are
expected Monday night. Additional
invitations will be sent out Satur-
day. The purpose of these gather
lngs are chiefly to organize the
younger men of the city to take ac-
tive interest in city affairs. The
adding of gymnasium to the Com
mercial club is one Of the things be-
Ing worked for. Ma
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05
Following Wire to Northern Pub
Usher Members Meet Him; Work
Given Under Cloud.
OTHER PAPERS READY TO DO IT
Two Bemidji Publications and Black.
duck American Offered to Print
the Proceedings.

After the Beltrdml DOaru OI COuu-
ty commissioners had ignored COM
petitive bids from the Black
duck American, the Bemidji Sen
tinel and the Bemidji Pioneer,
Commissioner Clementson telegraph
ed the publisher of the Baudette Re-
gion and a bid from that newspaper,
taken up at secret meeting, was
accepted and the Region was named
as the official county paper for the
year 1912.
The action of the commissioners
brings about an unusual situation.
The only official publicity the tax
payers will have will be through the
columns of newspaper in the ex-
IRENE northern end of the big coun-
! ty of Beltrami, Baudette being To-
Gated on the Canadian boundary line.
In order to have the commissioners
official proceedings printed in the
county the commissioners action
means that acts of that board must
be sent first to International Falls
and from there through Canada,
back into the United States and Bel
trami county.
!. None of the bids presented exceed
ed the legal rate and that of the Pho
neer was below this rate with the adj
ditional guarantee that in addition
to publishing the proceedings in the
daily and weekly Pioneer, they would
be sent out to the subscribers of the
Bemidji Sentinel, the Blackjack
American and the Tenstrike Trib-
une.
Although the proper state rate for
this work is fixed by law at IS cents
for the first insertion and IS cents
for subsequent insertions the Pioneer
offered to do the work at the rate of
70 and 80 cents which would in
clude the cost of distribut ton Of the
proceedings to the subscribers of the
newspaper circulating in the most
densely populated sections of the
4 county.
8 The Region obtained the work, the
proceedings to be laid before its
readers only, at the rate of 40 cents
and 81 and IS cents for subsequent
Z insertions.
Still another unusual feature of
4 the new contract was the manner in
I which it was awarded to the Region
. Following the wire to the publisher
of that paper, a delegation of COM
missiOners went to the midnig light
train to meet him and he was secret
ed all of yesterday until in the af-
ternoon when he was taken into the
commissioners room and with the
Region bid the only one considered
at that time, the paper was awarded
the work.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05

assistance of w. B. Stewart, County
Superintendent of Schools in work of
raising the funds. An effort will be
made to cover the entire county,
especially among the school children
and raise the remaining $450swith-
in the next stWla mouths: so that tt
will be possible to dedicate the monu-
ment on Memorial Day of this year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-01-05

Oregon Governor Opposes Hanging.
Salem, Ore, Jan. 5.-Mike Nor
gan, who was sentenced to hang in
the State penitentiary here today,
was spared the death penalty. Gov
ernor West is opposed to capital pun
ishment and declares that no per-
son shall be hanged in Oregon dur
ing his term of office.