The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-01-18

The correspondent of the News
was in one of the elevators in the
House of Representatives Office
building a few days since, and as
the car started upwards the affairs
of the great home newspapers fill
ed his mind. Someone was saying:
This is indeed a fine building-I
never have been in it BEFORE At
tracted by the question and a
friendly tap / looked straight into
the eyes of Andrew Carnegie, and
forgetting to ask him for library
for Philip l read in the face and
voice of the canny old Scotchman,
who for the moment was offguard,
a story which columns of the best
human interest description, could
not accurately relate. This little,
withered old man, who has spent
his millions for libraries, charity,
philanthropy and the advancement
Of the affairs of the world, is not
the active, energetic man common
ly pictured in the daily press. At
the steel investigation little mat
ters involving only a million or
two were quite forgotten, and
time and again the king of steel
turned to his attorneys to refresh
his memory. Occasionally there
was sharp sally sparkling with
humor, thoroughly characteristic,
and from these phases of the life
of Carnegie, rather than from his
usual manner, is the popular i'm
preston formed. Carnegie at
close range impresses one most
with being very old, almost feeble
he has countenance that fairly
shines with benevolence: and next
to the great pleasure he finds in
his giving follows the joy of ap-
plause that has been heaped upon
him by reason of the distribution
of his millions.
Ii any of the great trusts would
expend Sl4, 100000 in two years
and then with the completion of
their work in sight by the expend-
iture of another million-and then
with five months more work re-
quired to complete the task we'll,
if, at this stage of the proceedings,
the aforesaid trust would lie down,
suspend, turn off 100 employees,
and close shop, then every trust
buster in congress would jump for
a barrel top to howl against the
robbery of the stockholders and
the rights of the people," The
description hits the great Census
Department, where another mil
lion was required to finish the
work. Congress vetoed one-half
of the amount, and the director
promptly sent the accumulations
of fourteen millions of dollars ex-
penditures to storage. discharged
nearly the entire crew, and an
nounced that only population and
agricultural statistics would be
completed in detail, while the
country will have to be content
with totals" so far as everything
else which was to tell the great
story of industries, manufactures,
ETC., of the country is concerned.
The senate voted for an appropri-
alton to finish the census work,
but the democratic House of Rep
resentatives as part of their
economy plan, would stand for but
one-half of the amount, with the
result that the Thirteenth Census
is to become the great national
joke
The ''dove of peace should be
rechristened Democracy" There's
nothing like it in recent historyl
When any piece of legislation is
proposed Oscar Underwood and
Champ Clark take all the ''boys"
in the House of Representatives
into a secret caucus and tell them
what to do, and if they are not
willing, give them . few good
nstured cuffs on the ears, after