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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19

succeeded In terrorizing Louise ~
the same methods that he used with
her sister, so that she Is trying to dis
suade me from pursuing Crandall.
Rouser, when he left the postoffios.
went away on his wheel on the road
that leads from the station. II you
follow that road with me, perhaps we
can find him. Pretty good for one
days work, don't you think
"Not bad" said Davis. IF only you
would not persist in mlstaking your
own deductions for facts; but you
overlooked the most important fact"
What do you mean?
"You didn't happen to find out from
Miss Cox or from the Widow Smith.
did you, whether or not the missing
postmaster was left handed?"
Whats that got to do with it?"
cried, convinced that as usual he WAS
amusing himself at my expense.
"Much more than you think" he an
swered gravely. 1T was the know.
ledge that the criminal must, or at
least one Of the pair, must have been
a left handed man that gave me one
Of the most important clues in this
case"
"Confound you and your clues!" I
exclaimed. Where have they led 70?
What more do you know about this
chain of crime than when we started?"
He listened unruffled to my TRADE
and as finished remarked calmly:
II only know this much: Constable
Dodds and are going out at 8'o'clock
tonight to arrest the missing postmas-
ter and his accomplish know where
they both are, or where they will be
tonight. You may come with us Il
you wish. And now am going to got
la couple Of hours sleep. expect We
will have q rather busy night Of 1t"
AS he concluded his amazing state
ment he rolled over on his side ana
closed his eyes, and In few seconds
was apparently fast asleep.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
rAFTIls- PROGRESSIVE.

progressive is as progressive does
said President Taft in his recent Chi
cago address. can administration
which has been successfully progress
sive in deeds is entitled to the approval
of the people, The president in that
speech outlined many real steps of
progress made during the present re-
publican administration in the way Of
regulating the use of corporate capital
and privilege and preventing its
abuses, in the preservation for the
public of what belongs to it, and in in
creasing the functions of the govern
ment for the benefit of the whole peo-
ple. Commenting on this speech the
Springfield, Mass, Republican, de-
clares that Taft is progressive, and
that the record of his administration
Is record of progress.
Nothing" says the Republican,
Hcould have been more progressive
than his Canadian reciprocity policy,
concerning which Mr.. Roosevelt said:
4 hail the reciprocity arrangement
because it represents an effort to bring
about closer and more intimate and
more friendly relationship of mutual
advantage on equal terms between
Canada and the United States
Nothing could have been more pro-
gressive than the arbitration treaties,
which Mr.. Roosevelt helped to kill.
'The postal savings banks represent
progress, and so do the tariff COM
mission and the federal corporation
tax. Mr.. Taft was progressive in his
Alaskan development policy, in his
federal incorporation proposal, in his
ideas as to the control of water powers
and the exploitation of mineral de-
posts in the public lands He took
advanced ground concerning employ
ers' liability and workmen's compensa-
ton acts. He favored and secured the
extension of the powers Of the snter-
state commerce commission. He
has surpassed his distinguished pre-
decessor in his official recommends
tions as to the promotion of civil SER
vice reform. If he failed to get much
tariff revision, he got more than that
same distinguished predecessor, who
never got any and who never even
asked for any.
"If Mr.. Taft isn't progressive, it is
because he fired Clifford Pinchot, de-
nounces the recall of decisions as con-
tanning the seeds of tyranny respects
the constitution and the laws in gov
eminent, never called man liar and
never boosted that he took another
country's territory and let congress
discuss the lawfulness and justice Of
his spoliGtion afterward."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
(To Be Continued.)

A Nebraska editor. his back bent
from repeated jousts with the snow
shovel, unburdens himself in this
wise: 1T is dawning with these daily
repetitions of the same old task that
the snow shovel is an ancient and
primitive implement. How is 1t that
they can be inventing broomless house
cleaners while shovelless suction side
walk cleaners are still a dream?"
Here is task cut out for Edison and
the other inventive geniuses. Let them
come forth with an invention that will
make sidewalk cleaning easier and a
cation of tired snow shovelers will rise
up and call them blessed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
FIRST AID FROM ANDY.

Andy Carnegie's money continues to
figure in the present presidential cam
paign First it developed that Candi-
date Wilson had made request for a
pension from Uncle Andy's well filled
barrel. Now it has come out that Car
negie helped finance Rooseyelt's Afri-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
HOW LONG?

We just simply can't resist the i'm
pulse to reproduce the following edl-
torial from the Cedar Rapids Gazette,
it fits local conditions with such
nicely:
We wonder how long the city coun-
Gil Of Cedar Rapids is going to insist
on having precincts that are about
three times as large as they ought to
be. In most cities the average precinct
has no more than 800 to 500 votes,
with $50 nearer the average. But here
in Cedar Rapids it does not seem to
be possible for the council to get away
from the idea that we ought to have a
few precincts with 900 to 1000 regis
tered voters We wonder how long the
council will stand pat on this PROPOSE
Ton:
Really, it is about time to make the
change. And we hope the new council
will have gumption enough to make
the desired change. This year will be
a good time to rearrange the pre-.
cincts, making them the proper size.
This is presidential year, and a gem
eral registration will be required.
Cedar Rapids ought to be divided
into at least sixteen precincts. And
eighteen would be nearer the proper
number. We hope the incoming coun-
Gil will exhibit little horse sense in
this matter. 100. ..,.
Cedar Rapids may think it has big
precincts, but it ought to come down
and look ours over. We, have voting
precincts in the city where they start
counting the vote after the polls close
Tuesday night and wind up their Ia
bors Friday morning. INTERCHANGEABLE
circumstances we know whom we
have elected by Friday afternoon.
This present year of our Lord, 1912,
will be a great little year for cleo
tons. And il history repeats itself
there will be loud howl in June and
November when election officials are
worn to a FRAGILE counting votes for
two or three days and nights, while
the people are losing sleep specializing
on the result, and then the whole
thing will be forgotten until another
election brings a similar howl.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER!

| STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER!
Chicago Inter-Ocean: This propos
ed method of reversing judicial decis'
ions lays the ak at the root of the tree
of well-ordered liberty and subjects
the guarantees of life, liberty and prop.
erty to the fitful impulses of a temp.
orary majority.-The president at To.
ledo, March 8. . .....
Thus does Mr.. Taft strike straight
from the shoulder and hit square In
the face Mr.. Roosevelt's proposal to
substitute mob rule for the reign OF
law. Mr.. Taft tells exactly what the
Roosevelt plan means and is, thus:
What this recall Of decisions
amounts to is a suspension of the con-
stitution to enable temporary major
ity of the electorate to enforce popu-
lar but invalid act. @
And "the electorate as Mr.. Taft
showed, is not "the people," It is less
than one-fourth of the people whose
rights Of life, liberty and property the
law and the courts protect.
Destructively cogent was Mr.. Taft's
answer to the Roosevelt argument that
If the people are competent to estab-
lish a constitution they are compel
ent to interpret it. AS Mr.. Taft said:
The approval of general principles
in a constitution is one thing. The
Interpretation of a statute, with con-
sideration of it's probable operation in
a particular case, and It's possible in
fringement of those general principles,
is quite different thing. The former
is simple, the latter is complex.
" Furthermore, and as Mr.. Taft point
ed out, the Roosevelt plan would des-
troy all consistency in the interpreta-
ton Of constitutional guarantees. For:
The majority which passes on one
law would not be the majority which
comes to consider another. The OBJ
legation of consistency would sit more
lightly on each recurring electorate.
The system would result in suspension
of constitutional guarantees according
to popular whim.
Sheer anarchy, with none knowing
his rights under even the fundament-
al law, then a taking refuge in the des-
potism Of the strong man backed by
armed force for the sake Of civic
peace and order, would be the neces-
sary outcome of the Roosevelt system.
Doubtless Mr.. Roosevelt and his
worshipers believe he has divine
right to be the "strong man. But
he is not immortal. What after him ?
Well may we ask with Mr.. Taft:
Can it be that the power of a temp
orary majority, by a single popular
vote, to do away with rights which
have been inviolable since the days
of Magma Charta approves itself to
those who love liberty and hold dear
it's sacred guarantees?
1t does not. It approves itself only
to those DESTROYS of their neighbors
goods and to half-baked minds unable
or unwilling to understand the preda-
tory motives of socialism. .
The American people are not ready
for a socialistic confiscation of their
liberty and their property, no matter
what it's professions of benevolence.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
Mr.. TAFT ON THE RECALL.

The arguments against the principle
underlying the recall of judges and the
'recall of judicial decisions as pre-
scented by Presidec1S yaft, are summar-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19
YOU HAVE TO HELP YOURSELF.

.
tional convention at Columbus, ONO
in some respects is like Roosevelt s
speech. The kind of doctrine that
these two men are preaching is an at
tempt to create in the mind OF the
man who is working for wages or con-
Quoting a small business, a prejudice
against all kinds of success, whether
imaginary or real. They exaggerate
the success Of one and likewise exag-
gerate the lack of success of the
other.
The highest form of human happi-
ness is not found in the superlatlve
degree of riches or poverty. The nap
piest men in every community are
those of the ordinary homes. The man
who owns a home and is making a
small amount over his necessary ex-
penses and saving it, paying his bills
promptly, attending church on Sunday
and spending a majority of his even
ings at home with has family, repre-
sents type of citizenship about as
high as can be reached. That man
realizes that he has a civic RESPONSE
bility all his own-he has realized that
all the time He knows he is to bear
his part of civic responsibility. He
knows it is his duty as a citizen to
accept his part of the work of con-
Quoting his community. He pays no
attention to the men who preach that
only a few people in the country have
any responsibility in this government.
He does not want to evade his
responsibility as citizen, and ne
resents it when some public speaker
treats him as if he did not know any
thing of his responsibility to the gov
eminent.
We all have our part as individual
citizens to bear. We have to help our
selves If we want to get ahead. IL
makes no difference how rich or how
poor someone else may be, II WE 90
not save part Of what WE make, we
will not get out of the condition we
are In. - 81.
It would not. help us if every man
in our community who has money
would lose it. We would not get any
of it if we were just to stand around
listening to some public speaker who
was trying to create prejudice In our
minds against everyone else. The man
who gets ahead is the man who puts
in his time in some other way more
than listening to the man who Is try
ing to prejudice the masses" against
the Glasses" as these public speakers
MT IL Es rE.s.E " -.,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-19

Foreign representatives: Cone, Lor-
enzen & Woodman, Steger Building,
Chicago; 225 Fifth Ave-, New York
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
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IN DISGUISE:
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
Inerease II craIn Yield.


Value of growing pedigree grain
was shown in the experiments con-
Quoted throughout the state by the
college of agriculture of the univer-
sity this summer. For years the
agronomy department of the univer-
sity have been breeding rye and bar
ley to secure one or more varieties
of each grain that would produce a
larger yield per acre. The essential
characteristics of the barley were to
be such that kernels were of a uni
form size, the straw of equal length
and free from smut.
The resulting grain was sent to
members of the Wisconsin Expert
ment association for tests on various
soils and under different climatic con-
ditions. The average of a five-year
test shows an average yield of 40
bushels per acre better than the aver
age of the best other varieties grown
beside it. Continued selection has
given a bumper crop this year Of an
average of more than so bushels to
the acre.
Yield of Wisconsin pedigree grain
on the farm of the college of agricul-
ture of the university show a marked
increase over any previous year. Pedi-
gree rye yielded an average Of 40
bushels per acre on a six-acre field.
This rye was grown on a field which
was planted in alfalfa last summer.
The bumper crop was obtained with
out applying any additional fertil-
izer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
INSURANCE PLAN
\ WILL START SOON
Commissioner Ekern Doing Final
Work on Schedule of Rates.
STATE TO DO BIG BUSINESS
Better Risk Than Old Line Companies
Law Provides That Policies
Shall Be Issued to Persons
Between 20 and 90 Years.

Madison Wisconsin will be ready
To engage in the business Of life insur-
ance within a few weeks. Com1nls-
sioner Extern, who is doing the maj
work on a schedule OF rates, Is reIl-
cent about naming a definite date
upen which the state will be prepared
to consider applications for policies,
because such announcements IN the
mast have been followed by a food OF
letters seeking information about the
plan that the state will conduct insur-
ance business that swamped the de-
partment Judging from early lndl-
cations the state will do large insur-
ance business, as Mr.. Extern has re-
ceived hundreds of queries asking
about rates.
"The law" said Commissioner
Ekern, provides for life insurance
and annuities on basis that IS ap-
solutely safe. 1t uses the same as
sumptions of death claims and for IN
terest earnings as the safest Amerl-
can old-line life insurance companies.
The rate of premiums, said Mr.
Ekern, will probably not be much
lower than those Of private insurance
companies, but the security would
doubtless be considered better. The
liability of the state, however, is not
to be beyond the amount of money
contained in the insurance funds
This fund will be derived from prem
iums, interest, earnings and similar
sources
AT the outset four different kinds
Of policies will be issued They will
be whole or ordinary life, twenty
payment endowment, ten-payment en-
dowment and term to age of sixty
five years. Later a system Of annu-
tiles will be offered. The annuities
will begin when the benefic1aries
reach the age Of sixty-f1ve years. No
annuity can exceed $500 a year.
The law provides that policies shall
be issued to persons between the ages
of twenty and fifty years. Life In
surance is to be granted in sums OF
$500 or multiples thereof, but no per-
sons will be permitted to carry more
than $4,000.
Commissioner Ekern is confident
that state insurance will not injure
the business of insurance companies,
but will stimulate it, because OF
better and broader understanding OF
the science of insurance among the
people generally.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
State Banks Show Increase.


The resources of state banks
have increased $26,054, 023.41 In the
past year. This statement is shown
in abstract of the state banking de-
partment issued by Commissioner A.
E. Kuolt showing the financial condi-
ton of the 582 state banks, four saw
ings banks and Is trust companies or
Wisconsin at the close of business
September 4, 1912
The total resources of these 500
institutions are $2O5, 619, 366.30, as
against a total of $198, TOP, 967.90 on
June IA of this year showing gross
gain of $6,916,998.40.
The items of resources wherein the
principal increase is shown are loans
and discounts, increase, $3,349 1881,
and amounts due from approved re-
serve banks, which have increased
$3,192,225.89.
The principal increase in the liza
bilities is in the item of deposits sub
ject to check, which show gain Of
SO, sos, 721.73, in the period from June
IA to September of this year Time
certificates of deposit show an in
crease of $1,707, 915.57, and savings
deposits have gained $1,077,276.46.
The gain in the number of banks
is ten, from $50 on June Ii to 500 on
September 4, and the capital has in
creased 1897, 900.
The total resources of the state
banks on September this year was
$205, 916,39S.30, as compared to total
resources on September 1, 1911, Of
$179 1867, 1883. This is an increase
of over $26,00O,O00 in the past year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
Official Count Ended.

The state board OF election can
vassers completed it's count of the
votes cast at the primary election for
the candidates for state offices. Gov
ernor McGovern, Republican candidate
for governor, received 1880. The
official count gives Karel 4S,23S and
Schmitz 36,975. For state treasurer
on the Republican ticket, Johnson Sc
cured 1881 and Krumrey 32,3S5. In
the contest for the Republican nomi-
nation for attorney general Owen re-
ceived 1882 and Lehner 1921. Bob
lens received 1928 in the contest for
the Democratic nomination for lieu
tenant governor and Moehlenpah 25,-
1859. For state treasurer on the
democratic ticket, I.eonhard secured
S4,427 and Schmidt 37129. Kading
successful Democratic candidate for
attorney general, received 37,4O5 and
Doherty 35,329.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
Bankers Start Campaign.

The winter campaign of the Wiscon-
sin Bankers association in the inter
ests of better crops opened with the
mailing of a copy of the proceedings
of the recent agricultural conference
at Minneapolis to each Of the 7OO
members. An accompanying letter
from the associations agricultural
committee seeks the members opin-
ions on the practicability of state
employed agricultural experts, in
struction in agriculture in the dis
trict schools, and agricultural courses
in connection with the county teach
ers' training schools. The agricultural
committee of the association con
sists of L. A Baker, New Richmond;
Earle Pease, Grand Rapids, and J. r.
Wheeler, Columbus. Secretary George
ID. Bartlett of the state body is act
ing secretary for the committee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
NOTHING More to Live For.

Without question, the Scots curler
of whom Lord Lyveden tells in Fry's
Magazine placed the proper value on
his sport.
During a recent curling-match in
Switzerland, the skip of one of the
teams, who happened to be a Scots
man, was so delighted with the accu-
rate shot of one of his team, that he
was heard to address him in the fol-
lowing manner: Lie down and dee,
mon; lie down and dee Yell never
lay finer stane nor that if we live to
be a hundred"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-10-03
EVIDENTLY OUT OF PLACE
Indignant Frenchman Sad Some
Fault to Find With Postmaster
and Said So.

A Frenchman with a name spelled
la Paris and pronounced something
a la Paris and pronounced something
like Ca-choo had never learned to
read or write, but he managed to dis
guise the fact pretty well until he
moved to new community where the
name was not common. Going to the
postoffice one morning he inquired:
"Got any mail for Joe Ca-choo?"
What's the name?" inquired the
clerk
"Ca-choo, Joe Ca-clfoo."
How do you spell it,"
Cant you spell Joe Ca-choo?"
''No," said the clerk, 81 never heard
it before"
Then the disgust of the Frenchman,
which had been constantly rising,
boiled over and he snorted:
We'll, if you can't spell. why don't
you sell your old postoffice to some
one that cam" Nf -