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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-28
DAVIS COUNTY FAIR
SOCIETY ELECTS

Bloomfield, Nov. 27-A public meet
ing. of the Davis County Fair associa.
ton was held at the court house and
the following 1913 officers were cleo
ted: .fg .-. '.. ..s.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-28
| DR. AIN TILE
For prices and information write
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OTTUMvA, IOWA
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been sent as well as the postonice
where they desire it to be changed to.
The evening world., 1912-02-14
More than a Million
Men Tried to Invent
a Bottle Which Can't
Be Refilled!
Here It Is!

Thousands of patents were applied for, but-the Non
Reliable bottle wasn't made practical until The Wilson Dis
tilIng Company did it.
No man could be sure of the whiskey he was drinking until
Wilson Whiskey was put up in the bottle that can't be reGued.
Maybe you haven't liked "Wison" in the past-maybe it's
because you didn't always get the real "Wlson."
You can be IRE of it nom! Ask for "Wilson"-the old
"Wlson"-in the new bottle-the one that can't be refAed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
TO POLISH-AMERICANS

HE resolution condemning Gov.
l. Wilson for reflections on Polish
Immigrants formulated by the COM
m1ttee of the Gmixa recently is an ex-
ample of the use to which politicians
are constantly attempting to put our
Polish American citizens Again and
again it is sought to use them in fur
thering some political scheme, to
make them the prey of politicians
who have private ends to gain. The
for 1t has fought their battles for
Journal feels it has the right to rea-
son with these good friends of ours,
years, and has held their interests at
heart. We say to them that Gov.
Wilson Is no more opposed to the in
terests Of the Pole who is making a
good citizen than they are. The i'm
possibility of finding anything to Gov.
Wilson'S discredit has led to the
twisting and turning by those who
are opposing him Of anything he has
ever said that might be used to ex-
cite prejudice. It is an insult to the
intelligence of any voter to attempt to
use him thus. It ought to be proof
enough that any man who makes the
attempt does not deserve his support.
To divide Americans on race lines is
harmful to those who permit them
selves to be set off as having some in
terest from the body of American
citizens. II Poles allow themselves
to be used as a mask politically they
cannot complain if others unite to act
against them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
CANADA'S WAY.

~ANADA has broken a trust. An
~ American trust at that. While
the Washington administration is
talking, Of what it is going to do to
the United Shoe Machinery company
Canada has set in motion some very
effective laws and turned the trick.
Canada has a way of taking care
Of such little things as monopolies. 1t
has law that gives the. government
which they secure control and to take
away their tariff protection. There is
no long drawn investigation covering
years, followed by suits and appeals
and further appeals even unto the
third and fourth year Of litigation,
with the monopoly getting In it's work
all the time. Nor in the end are all
the projections of government still
about the trust. even after it has been
officially and legally dissolved. =;
Gov. Wilson and the Democratic
party propose to prevent monopolies
by much the same means as Canada
prevents them, to destroy them In
much the same way that Canada 80
effectively turns the trick. 54 !. #
# Gov. Wilson and his party propose
to readjust the mother Of the mono
poles, the tariff, so as to take from
them the government protection un-
[ der which they fatten, and ia
strengthen the anti-trust law to per
init them to deal with them promptly
and effectively. H u.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
LIBERTY AND OPPORTUNITY.

" ICE President James S. Sherman,
' who is standing for reelection
as the running mate of President
Taft, says that the two issues before
the country are constitutional liberty
and industrial opportunity" Just so.
Constitutional liberty and Industrial
opportunity are always issues. They
are not only national and party but
individual issues. It was real kind in
the vice president to call attention to
them specifically.
This year the Democratic party
stands for constitutional liberty and
industrial opportunity as it has never
stood for them before-for all the
people. And the party which has re-
nominated Mr.. Sherman for his pres.
ent post is standing, as its record in
dicates, for just those things-for
some of the people.
This year the trusts more tlfe.n any,
thing else, save the trust mothering
tariff, are the issue. BY standing for
the readjustment of the tariff so it
will cease to be the factor that gives
the trusts and monopolies their power
the Democratic party stands for the
constitutional liberty of the people to
engage in trade embarrassed by
crushing combinations of wealth. It
stands for industrial genius, free from
the crushing power of these tariff.
mothered and fairfield monopolies
which the Republicans cry against
but protect and foster
Constitutional liberty and industrial
opportunity are the issues. The Dem
ocats stand for just those things-for
all the people.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

some instances only an an excuse for
q further Tightening Of the strings.
But the need Tor greater supply Is
apparent, because the consumption ID
constantly growing. All over this
country there are vast expanses OF
land that, while not suitable for ex.
tensive farming, is suitable for cat
tie raising, even on a small scale. We
may rest assured that if there were
no prospects Of making money by rails
ing cattle the United States Steel Cor.
poration would not undertake it. But
why cannot others do likewise; why
cannot the hundreds of thousands Of
acres now lying fallow be put to such
economic use?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
BIG BUSINESS.

W. HEN the house committee on
w banking and currency set about
to inquire into the existence of a
money trust there was a great cry
of ridicule. Especially were the dec
lorations of Samuel Untermeyer and
Louis D. B1nndeis, attorneys who
have figured in the investigation, dis
puted. The assertions Of these men
and of others similarly interested, and
the suspicious of the public, seem to
be confined by the report made by
special experts to the house commit
tee. These experts were assigned to
look into the question Of concentrated
finance as aided or perpetuated by in
terlocking directorates. Their report
shows that one-third, or nearly SO per
cent Of the wealth and natural re-
sources OF the country is in the con-
troll of two mem. Pierpont Morgan
and John D. Rockefeller. This con-
troll reaches a total Of $39,711, $685.
678, divided as follows:
Industrials and public
utilities Sic, $3.50, IS 49, 14
Railroad properties .. 17,250,000,0 900
Banks and other fnan-
.cial institutions 49,. 4,0O0,911,932
Mining and oil prop
critics ............. 1900, 949,9 42
Standard Oil, Morgan concerns,
Vanderbilt property and Hill and
Guggenheim interests all came under
the general classification, and in these
it was found that the interlocking d.
rectorate led back to Morgan and
Rockefeller. The report indicates
that there are not two opposing
groups, but one great interest," that
dominates all groups. This interest
extends not only through the Morgan
banks and the plants Of the Standard
OIL company, but to the industrial
concerns, such as the United States
Steel Corporation. the railroads,
mines, and securities generally. The
working of the interlocking directo-
rate was made plain during the in
vestigation Of the steel corporation by
the house committee.
But it seems that the interlocking
directorate includes most of the great
activities, linking banks and railroad
companies, iron mines and mills. One
fact that indicated the dominance of
the Morgan Rockefeller interests was
the presence Of their directors on the
boards Of such corporations as the
Vanderbilt railroads, while the VAN
derbilts were not represented in the
corporations of the Morgan-Rockefel-
Ter interests. The power was all one
way. 1t is sinister report. It en-
phasizes the presence of Big Business
the Big Business that is playing
every end for itself. And one of these
ends is politics. Further information
as to the operation of interlocking d.
rectorates in such matters as the
Morgan and Rockefeller contributions
to the Republican campaign fund Of
1904 should be obtained.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
STEEL AND CATTLE.

THE Carnegie Land company, q
4 subsidiary of the United States
Steel Corporation, which controls seven
Thousand acres Of land in Erie county,
pennsylvania, is preparing to go into
the cattle business. The steel corpor-
alton acquired the land several years
ago with the intention of erecting an
other plant. These plans went astray
and the land holding company-the
Carnegie company-rented the prop
erty to farmers. but the returns from
this venture were too small So the
advice Of Professor w. A. Cochel, for
merly head of the animal husbandry
department of the Pennsylvania CO..
lege of agriculture, but now Of the
Kansas Farm college, was sought,
and at his suggestion the Carnegie
company is purchasing shorthorn
bulls and grade heifers.
The entrance Of the steel corpora
tson into the cattle business should
invite no further criticism of the con-
Germ. 1t is only an excellent business
proposition. In these days of dummy
directors and interlocking directo-
rates, when the management of the
United States Steel Corporation is
also the management OF banks, rail.
roads, and trust companies, 1t is pos
sible that the cattle trade might offer
Inducements. AS vet the COMPRESSION.
al investigation has not esta blished
any connection between the packing
trust and the steel trust. Bot TO,
purposes OF making money in this
era Of high prices such connection Ii
not absolutely necessary. y$
What this country needs Is more
cattle for the meat mark ct. NJ This has
been emphasized time and again bs
packers and meat distri butofs, II
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
BOOSTS AND SLAMS !.
. Z ON CURRENT EVENTS
STANDARD OIL IN POLITICS.

THE Hearst letters printed this
month show that Congressman
S1bley, the accredited agent of the
standard OIL company, was in fire.
quent conference with President
Roosevelt in the early months of the
year 1904, and that he carefully re-
ported to John D. Archbold. The
president was very anxious, SO Sibley
writes, that Archbold should lunch
with him, and SO insistent did he be-
come that Sibley feared he would be
angered If .Archbold did not accept
the invitation. Here is an extract
from one Of the Sibley letters to the
Standard Oil man:
Your letter at hand this a. M,
and went to the White House
with it thinking although it was
marked personal it was meant to
show him. He is as tickled as
boy with new pair Of red top
boots. He still wants you at
lunch. It told him that inasmuch
as now there was a perfect I'M
derstand1ng all around a meeting
would not be necessary thinking
You probably would not wish to
Gomez. He wanted me to tell you,
however, that he wished you to
come over as early as possible
and for me to come with you, and
yet I do not know as I would
hurry unduly.
Whether Archbold held off because
he feared the effect Of a visit to the
White House, or because-as is init
mated in the Hearst article-the
Standard Oil was distrustful Of Mr..
Roosevelt, and hoping for the nomi-
nation Of Hanna, it is impossible to
say. But the point is not important
What is important is that Sibley
should report that the president was
as ttckled as boy with a new pair
OF red top boots" to know that the
Standard Oil was friendly. Later the
company gave a hundred thousand
dollars to the Roosevelt campaign
fund. And amid the lunch negotia-
tons the president wrote to Archbold
saying, II shall carefully take up the
name Of your brother-in-law with the
hope that I can promote him." The
hope was realized, and the brother
1n-law was promoted over the heads
of other experienced officers.
One word further should be said
about Archbold. He was the political
man of the Standard Oil interests pre-
cfsely as Perkins was the political
man Of the Morgan interests. Their
functions were the same. It was the
business of both to form political
friendships, and to "get next to men
in public life. The Standard OIL COM
pany operated through Archbold, who
worked through sibley; the Morgan
interests operated through Perkins,
who also had friends in office. It is
this fac< that makes Perkins appear
ance in politics, whether as a champ
ion of Mr.. Roosevelt or a contributor
to the campaign fund Of Mr.. Beve-
ridge, so interesting. In the pre-
election days of 1904. the relations
between Standard Oil and the Roose-
welt administration were apparently
very friendly. Archbeld was far from
being an undesirable Citizen
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

Der OF that organization, and while his work since
then has called him out Of the labor movement he
has contributed as much on the outside to bring
about greater measure Of social justice than any
other man in Minnesota.
Peter NJ Rngdal ought to be the next COVER
nor OF Minnesota He will be the next governor
and if he is he will be no rubber stamp governor
either.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

Senator George H. Sullivan, in his Virginia
speech, referring to Governor Eberhart, declared
the governor had backbone as stiff as that stove
pipe, and he pointed to badly dented pipe attached
to reversible elbow leading to the chimney The
audience caught the joke and the laugh was on the
senator.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

The trades union movement represents in con-
crete form the hopes, desires and aspirations of the
working classes for better economic and social con-
ditlons The trades union has the best opportunity
OF studying and ascertaining the evils affecting the
trade; it is the most competent to defend it's inter-
ests in the industrial and legislative field
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

The professional politician continues to grapple
with the trust problem in the most clumsy fashion
but fails to propose any concrete legislation which
has any tendency to check the onward march of en-
trenched monopoly in the most hideous form.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

How it gets Congressman Millers goat when a
person in his audience tries to smoke him out and
ascertain who he is supporting for PRESIDENT Mr..
Miller is quite an artful dodger, but he is due to
get caught on Tuesday next
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

Governor Eberhart succeeded in driving many
votes away from him at the Armory meetings last
Saturday evening when he be-littled the work Of
Governors Hadley of Missouri and Harmon of Ohio
in the Infamous railroad rate case
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

Under our industrial conditions trades unions
are absolutely necessary Those who beltte or seek
to destroy them would rob disabled man Of his
crutches r -S* II rs5 IT - -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02

Give US j. NJ. Ringdal for governor and the
people Of Minnesota will in short time rival Wis
consin ~ the passage Of substantial progressive
legislation. 1. zas &. " 81 4 Is -''1 :.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
THE WOMAN WHO KNOWS

Somewhere she waits to make you
win,
Your soul in her firm white hands
Somewhere the gods have made for
You
The woman who understands.
AS the tide went out she found him
Aashed to the spar of despair
The. wreck of his ship around him,
The wreck of his dreams in the
air
Found him and loved him, and gath
cred
The soul of him to her heart;
The soul that had sailed an uncharted
The soul that had sought to win and
The soul of which she was part;
And there in the dusk she cried to
the man,
win your battle-you can-you
cam"
Helping and loving and guiding
Urging when that was best
Holding her face in hiding
Deep in her quiet breast
This is the woman who kept him
True to his standards lost
When tossed in the storm and stress
and strife,
He thought himself through with the
game of life
And ready to pay the cost
Watching and guarding
still,
"Win-you can-and I know you
WILL
This is the story of ages
This is the woman's way
Wiser than seers or sages,
Lifting us day by day
Facing all things with courage
Nothing can daunt or dim;
Treading LIES path wherever it
Lined with flowers or choked with
weeds,
But ever with him-with him:
Guardian, comrade. and golden spur.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14
MOUNDS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Alex Pollock who was operated on
for appendicitis. at st. Mary's In.
Urinary Is quite sick again. Isl
Miss Florence has returned from
a visit with her sister at Marion.
Mrs. Louie Marley returned
Thursday from Craai Springs where
she visited her mother.
Mrs. A. A. Anderson and dauya-
stefs- Juanita and May returned Wed
nesday. from q visit with Mrs. An.
derson's sister. Mrs. Ben Henley at
Harrisburg. 90
The Juniors Of the Congregation
al church have shanged the date. Of
their social from thh 18th to tho
18th. Remember the place, Mrs
Dunsworth,s.s as, sbs $50 ya4t
Dr.. Royal Of villa Ridge was III
] town Friday On BUSINESS.
Rev. Martin wsk0 il holding meetA
ings: at CairoEwas calling on friends
here Friday. .s
Mrs r. NJ Block and son Wesiey
were Cairo shaHpers Friday.
Several Of our people attended the
show, ip Mound City Thursday even,
ing. .,s,..3Y
4. Sam Blum has bills out for his
biz sale which Is now going on.
!, Mrs. Leonard Armstrong spent
Friday With or mother III tile coun-
\. . H-t = . -. 4 =
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14

visit with friends in this city, has
returned to her home In New Mad
ITid.
Editor Frank NJ. White of the
Sikeston Standard, was in this city
Friday,
Geo. F. Bridges was in st. Louis
this week on business trip.
Mrs. II. D, Garrett is visiting rela-
tiyes in Martin, Tenn.
Miss Lucille Rhodes was In Blod-
gett on Friday.
Prof. Alton of Cape Girardeau,
was a visitor to this city this week.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14

Mrs. A. d. Ashcroft and Mrs. T.
b. Presson have gone TO East st
Louis to visit Mrs. Emma Hazel.
Miss Delphiney Hammond who
has been the guest OF DR.. and Mrs
II. L. Reid has returned to her home
In st, Louis.
Mr.. Frank Lee is very sick at the
home of Mr.. Albert Gordin
Mrs Handy Smith of Sikeston,
has been the guest of Mrs. Buekner
Ragsdale.
Mrs. Sue Howlet and daughter,
Mrs. Frank Thompson have returned
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14

from a two weeks visit to Mrs. Earl
Melotte at Boyle, Miss.
Rev. II. f. Cook was in Sikeston,
on Monday night. ,
T. j. Mylett has as HIS guest Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis of Pasadena, Cal.
Mrs. Luke Anderson has gone to
Carthage to visit Mrs, Lena Keith
Mrs. r. L. Miller of Brownwod
Tex, and Mrs. Emma Sans of
Thebes, ILL.,, are the guests of Mrs.
j. c. Stewart.
Mrs. A. ]. Wheeler Is In Chicago.
Mrs. c. H. Stanfleld and children
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14

are in Lexington, Ky, visiting rela-
ltives.
Joseph Jackson has returned to
his home in Blytheville, Ark, after
visit to friends in this city.
Hon. VIM. S. Cowherd, Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor. adj
dressed crowded house on Wednes-
day evening at the court house in
this city.
Mrs. Leonard Hewlett entertained
with s O'Clock dinner on Friday
evening in honor of Mrs. Webb Wal,
ker of MELVILLE, Ne.
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Mrs. ]. G. Mench as returned
from Alton where she has been Wis
iting relatives and friends.
Ed Robinson is in Mounds for a
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Givens visit.
ed Mrs. Givens' parents in Don COLA
the first of the week.
There will be nopreaching ser.
vices at the Congregational church
Sunday as the pastor is taking hi,
vacation. Sunday school as usual al
9.io anu junior Ealeayor at, O.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHARLESTON !
Observation-Disclosures

Mr. Hardy Potinger has returned
from Little Rock. Ark, where he
has been spending a few DAYS this
week.
Miss Stella Faust has returned
nome from Bardwell, KY, where she
mas been visiting for the past
month.
Miss Allen Lewis after a pleasant
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14
.IIEus OF THE Rivers
Cairo Gauge.


\ At p.s m. yesterday the rive
stood at 25s0s a-fan OF 5 during th'
previous "a hours.
Towboat y. B, Finley arrived at
$3.50 a. m. yesterday from New o.
leans.
Towboat Charles S. Pearce, in port
since I a. mi Sriday. left at So. NJ.
yesterday for the upper Mississippi
river with the French show boat.
Tnwboat Reaper arrived at a
m. yesterday from she upper Ohio
passed to Donaldson.
Steamer Stacker Lee arrived a.
1850 a. m yesterday from St. Lonia
left at $50 p. m. for Memphis.
Cairo and Paducah packers. ri
Myer and Rapids, arrived and de-
parted on time yesterday.
Steamer. j.. s. Summers, in roft
since June %. left At A. m. for tha
lower Mississippi rith l. empty
barge and d derrick boat.
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River Forecast.

1tIFFI IVFENdStt
The Mississippi, from below st.
Louis to Cairo, the Ohio from the
mouth of the Wabash to Cairo, and
the Wabash at Mt. Carmel, viii
probably fall at a decreasing rate
for the next 2 days.
The Tennessee, at Florence, will
rise slightly for the next days
and from below Florence to thf
mouth, it will change but little fol
the next "a to 36 hours, then rise
R T. LINDLEY
Local Forecaster.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-14

Central Ice Co., Mounds, I'll.
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perieneed ice handlers and four fire.

men, $3.50, $3.50 per day. Call at
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-07-11
OREGON RAISED NURSERY
STOCK SECOND TO NONE

c. f. Lansing, who from his seven
ty-three acre farm near the Fair
Grounds, supplies more than fifty
smaller nurseries of Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho, with stock, has built
up a trade on the merits Of his trees.
He believes in bringing up a tree in
the way 1t should 60 and sprays his
stock accordingly. Thirty-five years
as a practical nursery stock grower
in the east as well as the west, enables
Mr.. Lansing to put out trees Of the
highest quality, those which are ac-
climated to the conditions in Oregon
Mr. Lansing grows every kind OF
fruit and ornamental trees as well as
all kinds Of plants and shrubbery. He
does a general wholesale and retail
business and none of his stock is con-
dcmned or returned marked undesir-
able as is often the case with the hap
hazard grower.
Some of the finest prune, peach,
cherry and apple orchards in the
state flourish as a living monument
of the great work Mr. Lansing is do
ing for the fruit interests Of the state
and he deserves and gets the hearty
slpport of all those who know or
know of him.