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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-20

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
Shows UP Roosevelt.

The report Of the majority Of the
committee that investigated the steel
trust shows conclusively that the pur-
pose of the organization was monop-
olistic, that its original capital was
one-half water, that Morgan and his
crowd made vastly excessive profits
out of the organization work, that
prices were controlled and fixed, and
finally that there was no justification
whatever for Roosevelt's permitting
the steel trust to grab the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company. It Ii shown
than the panic was over at the time
this permission was given, and that
Roosevelt had thanked C~ortelyou, his
secretary of the treasury, for his han
ding of the Wall street situation. 1t
is pointed out that the banks involved
were all solvent, and that there was
no trouble till the publication Of the
Perkins letter saying that one Of the
trust companies was a serious element
In the problem. 1t seems to us that
the case as here presented against
Roosevelt is conclusive. Had he
merely kept silent nothing would have
been done. But he promised not to
interfere, and the result was that the
chief rival of the steel trust was alb
sorbed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
Joke Dinner for Congressman, Joker Not There

AT 6 o'clock the other afternoon
Al members OF the house began to
flock into the dining DON of Con-
gress hall in droves.
At 5 minutes after 6, fifty members
were in the room. At 10 minutes
after 6 half a dozen members rushed
in with beads of perspiration trickling
down their faces. The late arrivals
explained to each other that they
had dinner engagements at 6 o'clock.
Each member inquired of the head
waiter for Representative Francis
Burton Harrison of New York. The
head waiter had not seer Mr.. Harri-
son all day.
Time passed. Members looked at
their watches. Finally each prospect
diner announced to his neighbor that
he was waiting for Mr.. Harrison. 1t
dawned on the assemblage that Mr..
Harrison was going to give a dinner
in the way Of a surprise party. More
time passed, and the clock struck
struck $50. Members began to ask
each other If they were sure the hour
was fixed at 6. Every one was posi-.
tive he was to meet Mr.. Harrison at
s promptly.
Members who had broken engage
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
"ldealists."

The Democracy of the present hour
is being reproached by the practical
stand-pat Republicans as being "a
crowd of idealists.'
The word "idealist'' isn't new. 1t
has had a familiar place in the ar
senal of political word-warfare for
than a century. 1t was thrown
at Washington, at Jefferson, at Lin
coin. And in each Of these cases it
meant the same thing. The mar
who, in a time when many things are
visibly out of joint, decides that JUS
tice and honesty in public life are
worth all they cost, is an "idealist."
That is Woodrow Wilson's position
today. This is the fact that has made
him the nominee Of the Democratic
party for president. That is the key
note of the Democratic platform.
The Republicans have been busy
telling us that things in general are
settled forever, that our government,
administered as much for the public
good as the Paynes and the Dalzells,
the Cannons and the Aldriches, the
Lodges and the Penroses found con
venient, Is the best government pos
sible. And the Democracy's position
in view CT that is shaped by the deep
conviction that certain changes will
be worth all it will cost to make
them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
FIVE COWS, A GIRL
and A Big AUTO
Romance of a Young Lawyers
ScorchIess Scorch on a
Highway.
BY ADA NIXON.

Copyright. 1912. by Associated Literary
Young Harold Inlay of Chester
had graduated in law and been taken
into partnership with his father. He
was having what he called a little
fling before settling down to the stern
business of law, and he had an auto
to help him out. The auto revolved
around the country at various speeds,
none of which was less than forty
miles an hour.
On a certain morning when It was
taken out to scorch up the highway it
refused to scorch. In fact, it went
dead" That's not 80 very rare a
case. There is a little something out
of kilter and the mar that knows how
can remedy it in a few minutes. The
trouble IN this case was that nobody
in the village knew how. The clock
tinker, the blacksmith, the cobbler
and the doctor all diagnosed and pre-
scribed, but without avail. Then a tin
peddler came along and hoped off
his wagon and fused for a minute
and hoped on again and drove off.
The auto was now all right. The
young lawyer offered free seats, but
they were declined with thanks. 1t
wasn't their day for dying, The de-
cliners saw man and machine disap-
pear down the highway like a cannon
ball and felt that it was good to be
alive and have dinner coming to them.
Very few lawyers take any mans
word for anything, and not one In ten
would believe a peddler under oath.
Young INLAY hadn't cut his legal eye
teeth yet, and he fondly believed. He
would have said to a jury that the
peddler could have no possible mo-
tive In lying to him, and the absence
Of a motive always raises a big doubt
Of the guilt of the accused. Perhaps
the man did not knowingly lie. Per-
haps he thought a balky auto could
be fixed as easily as a balky wheel
barrow. At any rate, after a run of
three miles, young Inlay discovered
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
Pajamas Are Suggested for UncIad Holsters

This form of life, Holsters and
crabs, Is very low" Mr.. Heap stated.
ut is not imbued with the same feel
ings as the higher orders. 1t is an ap-
proach to the vegetable kingdom.
Therefore, there is In such cases as
these suggested hardly any u for
controversy.
I'VE have had complaints about
such cruelties as turning turtles on
their backs and leaving them in that
position; but fish and reptiles seldom
afford any ground for complaint"
Mr.. Heap holds a far different opin.
ion about oysters from that expressed
by President John Craft, Of the Ala,
bama Oyster commission. Mr.. Graft
said he believes the oyster, when swal.
lowed alive, suffers agonies unspeak.
able only because the ~succulent bi
valve has no vocal organs.
HE would fairly shrek with pair
had he a voice" Mr.. Craft thinks.
MI. Heap said he could hardly con
ceive Of &c low a brute as the oyster
feeling any great degree of pain ever
when 1t was being torn from its native
shell.
Dealers in crabs and Holsters have
not taken the pajama suggestion Sc
riously. They have laughingly replied
to questions as to the feasibility o
the plan that III the ladies' Dreferret
to recommend pajamas rather thai
hobble skirts" pajamas would hav'
the right of way.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29

IF the next time you go marketing,
Il you see a lobster or a crab clad in
natty paiamas, don't rub your eyes Or
offer yourself to be pinched to see II
you are awake. Just take 1t as a mat
ter Of course.
For pajamas have been suggested by
certain humanitarians as means to
prevent crabs and Holsters from bit.
ing off each others claws and legs
and feelers and whiskers while they
are in captivity, the transitory state
between the deep blue sea and the
cooking pot. At present Holsters gen
orally have their claws checked with
small sticks of wood. which are said
to be painful assurers of ~quiescence,
and the crabs are left free.
That is not as 1t should be, a mem
Der of the Pennsylvania Women's So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals declares, and she has demand
ed some kind of clothing for the she'll
fish. Her demands have not been TAX
en- up in Washington.
I'VE must remember that the cold
blooded animals are not SO sensitive
Of pain as the warm-bloodeds" Score
tary John P. Heap. OF the Humane 60
,ciety, said.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
WILSON HAS RIGHT IDEA
Democratic Candidate Makes Appeal
to Reason in His Acceptance
Speech.

The hostile critics have found II
very hard to get much comfort for
themselves out of the speech OF Gov
ernor Wilson. We are told that the
Progressives are disappointed. Yet
II the governor had run wild" we
should have been told that he was not
safe" 1t seems to us that Governor
Marshall put the case very well when
he said, ut Is most pleasing that the
ills Of the country are to be treated
by a physician and not by a surgeon
AS no surgery is needed, at least
none Of the extreme form, the coun.
try may well be pleased that none Is
proposed. 1t is well. in this period
of calm, after the storm, that the
people should consider public ques-
tons from the point of view Of prin'
cipie. No progress of a real and last
ing sort car be made on any other
basis. We ought to be sure that We
know what we wish, and then we
should DO sure that we go about get
ting il in the right way. And that is
the Wilson idea.
We have had scores of nostrums
proposed, and many wild suggestions
made that a never be carried into
effect. And there is a marked dis
position on the part Of some public
men to promise anything If by 80 do
ing they think they IA win the favor
of the people. The time has come
for tho use of more reason and less
rhetoric In connection with u polit,
ical and social problems. And the
appeal OF Governor Wilson is to rea-
son. We doubt whether the people Of
this country will refuse to heed such
an appeal coming from Wilson or any
one else. During this campaign we
should take counsel together, which
is precisely what the Democratic
candidate asks us to do.
1t Is strange, indeed, that there
should be any people in this country
who should pretend to see in this
attitude proof of a non-progressive
mind. Yet there has been SO much
shouting and screaming, SO much wild
denunciation, sc much aspersion OF
motive, that perhaps we ought not to
be surprised that some people look
on all this as an essential element In
progressiveness. Governor Wilson at
least knows what this government Is
and what it can and cannot do. And
that is o than can be said for
some of our leaders. Also he has by
deed rather than by words proved
himself to be an efficient and earnest
reformer. II this campaign is to be
one of education 1t must be n Of
reason.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
WILSON SLABS TARIFF
CALLS FOR LAWS TO PROTECT
FARMER IN JERSEY SPEECH.
Democratic Candidate Tells Why Al!
drlch Quit-DeeIares Small Group
Have Controlled Legislation
Explains Platform.

Thousands of-farmers heard Cover.
nor Woodrow Wilson, Democratic
nominee for president, make his first
campaign speech at Gloucester, N. J..
The governor spoke at Washington
park, where farmers from New Jersey,
Delaware and Pennsylvania were par
~ticipating in a celebration.
He attacked former Senator Al
drich and his tariff making associates,
urged q merchant marine in connec-
ton with the Panama canal, and
blamed the influence of express COM
panies in preventing the adoption Of
a parcels post.
The governor declared for legisla-
tion to further the interests of the
farmer, saying one of the greatest
impositions upon the farmer that has
eve been devised is the present tariff
legislation.
Il have not heard" he said, of
farmers waiting for a hearing before
the committee on ways and means Of
the house and the finance committee
of the senate in order to take part in
determining what the tariff schedules
should be. While you were feeding
the world, congress was feeding the
trusts.
1T is a long time since tariffs were
made by men who even supposed that
they were seeking to serve the gen.
eral interest, because tariffs are not
made by the general body of mem
bers Of either house of congress. They
have been made by small groups of
individuals in certain committees Of
those houses, who ever refused in
formation to their fellow members as
to the basis upon which they had
acted in framing the schedules.
One Of the gentlemen who has
been most conspicuously connected
with this thing has In recent years
prudently withdrawn from public life.
Il give Mr.. Aldrich the credit of
having a large weather eye. He saw
the weather was changing in Rhode
Island-even in Rhode Island-as we'll
as in the rest of the Union; that men
who had long known he was imposing
upon them felt the limit had been
reached, and they were not going to
be imposed upon any longer.
Now there are various questions
which you gentlemen ought to realize
are pending, questions that directly
concern the farmers of this country.
The tariff intimately concerns the
farmer of this country.
Tariff measures are not measures
for the merchant merely and the man
ufacturer. The former pays just as
big a proportion Of the tariff duties
as anybody else"
The governor explained his idea Of
the benefits that might accrue to the
farmer from the digging Of the Pan
anna canal If the merchant marine
were restored.
The governor then advocated the
promotion Of industrial, agricultural
and vocational education, and ex-
planned that the Democratic plank
in this connection meant a system Of
university extension to the farmer,
making available to him the knowl-
edge stored in the universities of the
country on scientific farming.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
a Word to the Wise.

The %proverbial advice, "Cobbler.
stick to your last" had an opposite
exemplifcation in the following anec-
dote, for which lions Advocate is re-
~sponsible:
A colored man was brought before
a police judge. charged with stealing
chickens. He pleaded guilty, and re-
ceived sentence, when the Judge ask
ed how it was he managed to lift those
chickens right under the window Of
their owners house when there was a
dog in the yard.
"Hit wouldn't be of no use, Judge"
said the culprit, ito try to 'splain dis
thing to you all. Eff you was to try
it, like as not you would git yer hide
full O. shot, an git no chickens, nei-
ther. Eff you want to engage in any
rascality, Judge, yo' bettah stick to
de bench, whar yo' am familiar"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29

ments to meet the New York member
began to call up his Office and his Sec
rotary replied that he had not seen
him in several hours. That started an
exodus. Every one was sore, includ-
ing the head waiter who saw great
prospects ahead.
An hour later half a dozen members
walked into the grill Of a down town
hotel and found Mr.. Harrison dining
alone.
Hello, boys; mighty glad to see
you." Mr.. Harrison greeted them.
Come over and dine with me. hate
to eat alone"
They did, but not until he had con-
vinced them that he was inviting
them to dine for the first time.
Mr.. Harrison passed up his legisla-
tive duties for one day. The morning
he spent in explanations. He is still
looking for the joker.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
Army Mule indicates Ability to Deliver Goods

and leg and you will imagine that you
have been bit by a shark, Either
that, or he will give you a swift and
sudden jolt with iron shod foot some
where in the region of your c~arbureter.
and you will land in the next county.
where you can leisurely contemplate
the deceptive qualities of the mule.
But to get back to his contest with
the auto truck, the questionewas de-
cided in favor of his muleship in re-
cent transportation contests in Iowa
over rough roads. The mule won.
Whatever his faults are, the mule can
and will pull. He has never shown
any great fondness for work, but he
can perform and does so effectively
when there is no way to get around
1t.
The race between the mule and the
auto trucks in some respects recalled
the memorable one between the hare
and the tortoise, though not even the
mules most bitter enemies will assert
that he is in any respects like the tor
toise, but there is no disputlng the
fact that in speed he does moi equal
the auto truck when conditions are IA
vorable to the latter. The mule was
clearly ~outclassed in speed. But 1t
was dependability that finally won for
him, though that is nj thing for
which he has been given scant credit
While his gasoline consuming rivals
failed to negotiate hills, or got their
sparkling plugs gummed over rough
muddy cross roads, the long cared con
sumer Of oats and hay with his ever
ready left hind foot in good working
order to kick a personal friend on
the landscape, arrived at his destina-
ton and delivered the goods and
thereby retained his position.
Therefore, the mule remains in the
army. He has been a hard working
public servant and it would have been
a pity to have discharged him without
a character. There is then, some sat
isfaction in the thought that the mule
will not be drummed out Of the army
yet awhile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
PUT HIS RIFLE BEFORE ALL
To the Colonial Settler South and
North 1t Was the Most Price
less of His Possessions.

The rifles Of colonial and Revolu-
tionary days would stagger the mod
ern marksman at sight. Deckert, a
famous Pennsylvania gunsmith Of that
time, made most Of his rifles GA inches
long, with a heavy four-foot barrel.
1t took muscles Of steel to aim such
a weapon accurately.
But to its owner such a rife was
often the most priced Of all his earth
ly possessions. He called 1t a pet
name; he kept 1t oiled and cleaned to
perfection; he gave 1t all the credit
for his successful craftsmanship.
And largely he was right. For the
traditional skill of the American rifle
man depended In no small part on
the skill that went into the making
of his weapon, handmade in some
frontier gunsmith's cabin shop,
For the long, heavy, slender, small
bore rifle was distinctly an American
development; and it reached its eli
max when about 1850 some genius of a
rifieman hit upon the device Of wrap
ping the bullet in a creased buckskin
patch to make 1t fit the bore tight.
1t vas in no small part through
the craftsmanship attainable by such
weapons in the hands of the New
Englanders that Louisburg fell; 1t was
the accurate rife fire of the Pennsyl-
vanians and the southern rifiemen un-
der Morgan that cut down the ad-
vancing French on the Plains Of Abra-
ham; and, in the Revolution itself, it
was confidence In the superiority Of
their weapons that aided the Ameri-
cans to cut off Burgoyne in New York
state and Ferguson at Kings Noun
tain in South Carolina.
The colonists were the greatest
weapor-using people in the world Of
that epoch. On his rife the hunter,
the pioneer and the settler depended
for food, for protection against beast
and savage, and for offense in time
of war. And the necessity for the
best produced the best, something
that the owner priced next after his
wife and children.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
MAST TREES FOB THE CROWN
Mark Of the Broad Arrow Was
Placed on Pines in the Plymouth
Colony.

In the provincial charter of 1851,
under which the Plymouth colony and
the province of Maine were united
with Massachusetts,, it was provided
that all trees of the diameter of "a
inches and upward at IL inches from
the ground, growing upon land not
heretofore granted to any private
person, should be reserved to the
crown for the furnishing Of masts for
the royal navy. Harper's Weekly OBJ
serves.
A surveyor general Of woods was
appointed to see that this provision
Of the charter was carried into effect.
Near the coast all white pines of suit
able dimensions were marked with the
broad arrow'-three cuts through the
bark with an ak, like the track of a
crow. This was the kings mark.
Long after the revolution had oblit-
Grated the royal authority men who
had been taught in boyhood to re-
spect the kings mark hesitated to cut
such trees.
In telling a tree is was necessary
to bed it" to prevent its breaking.
This was done by cutting the small
growth and placing small trees across
the hollow, SO that there should be
no strain upon one section more than
upon another when the monster pine
struck the ground.
The mast was hauled out of the
woods on one strong sled, whether In
winter or summer, and so many oxen
we're required that the hind pair were
often choked in crossing a hollow, be-
ing hung up in their yoke by the pull
ing of those ahead of them.
A mast hauling was a great event.
and everybody within walking dis
lance came to see it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29

wv ASHINGTON.-The army mule
w has rather indicated himself. In
a fair and free for all contest against
the auto-truck and instrument, or We
hicle designed, We might say to get
his goat, the mule proved his right to
remain in the American army. They
tried to Gust him, but he kicked-the
mule may At all times be depended
upon to kick.
The proposal to discharge the army
mule without a pension, without even
an honorable discharge, began to find
supporters when the motor driven
army wagon first appeared upon the
scene. 1t was argued that the old or
der would have to give way to the
new, and that the all conquering aus
tomobile would certainly relegate the
mule to the real But they reckoned
without full knowledge of the latent
possibilities of the mule. A mule Is
a very deceiving proposition. He is
as hard to fathom in his various
moods and lenses as his counterpart,
the COON" or the senior senator from
Idaho. He is sometimes grossly mis-
understood; this is because in spite of
a long and close association with man.
kind-mankind yet fails to become on
intimate and cordial relations with the
mule. His disposition and character
do not invite affection or confidence.
At times he appears as innocent and
unsophisticated as a candidate for
congress-this is the time to beware of
him-for back behind those innocent
eyes and dropping ears there turks
misunderstanding in large and VIC
lent doses. With half closed eyes
he is watching you, and in an unguard-
ed moment-unguarded on your part,
he is likely to apply his strong white
teeth 10 the fleshy part Of your arm
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29
Curator Of the National Museum Gets a Skink

N r. LEONHARD STEJNEGER, head
~ curator at the National Museum,
Is the happieat man in America. He
has q skink. 1t came the other day
and was not brought by the stork.
nut by Mr.. Wood. q taxidermist. who
found 1t in Florida.
The skink is not a-well, It is need
Teas to say--as his name would indi-
cate. He does not belong to the cat
family. His scientific name ID leoseps
repnoIdsi. In appearance the skink 10
mot unlike an elongated lizard. He
ma four legs which he does not use.
they having become paralyzed from
lack Of exercise. He gets his food by
laying In walt, with his sticky tongue
extended, for something to come
along.
he Iiyes by waiting and hauling In.
me degenerate pins attached to
Ieoseps sides indicate that his remote
ancestors walks. The present day
specimen walks not nor does he Hy,
aut sWAmsdn the sand where ne Lives
Beings reptile and cold bIeoded the
wv
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-29

skinl does not need much air. He
spends much time in sand beds far
removed from the busy world.
From the standpoint Of the scien-
list the slkink Is most interesting be-
cause he resembles skinks found In
Persia and the Mediterranean, making
the old world and the new close kin.
Experts at the National Museum say
that the modesty Of the skink coupled
with his ability to swim through sand
many inches deep, has made him q
stranger to science IN this country,
His kind is plentiful IN Florida, but
the fact has iust been discovered.
The alkink when grown - about Ave
hches long and very slender. He Ia
81 q variety Of coiors.