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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
One Man Party,
Says LaFolIette

MADISON, WIS. Aug. Ex-senator
LaFoIlette. in LaFoIlette's Magazine
today opens his fight on the Progress
sive party and Theodore Roosevelt. He
declares the Progressive party is a one
man party. The editorial says:
The last thing to be tolerated Of a
new political party, protesting to stand
for progress, is to bark back to boss
and machine rule through threats and
coercion of candidates for office. And
yet Roosevelt threatens to beat sena-
tors. congressman, governors, sherims
and coroners unless they declare for
him.
IF Cannon and Mckinley, fright
ened at the sight of the big stick, should
promise to come out for the Roosevelt
party, they would have no Progressive
opponents in their district ON the 9th
e. hand, Hadley, of Missouri, and Bo-
rah, of Idaho, neither of whom will go
into the Roosevelt party. are to be pun
ished by having Roosevelt tickets put
40 against them i'm their states
How do YOU stand on me" is
RooseyelJs sole test Of qualification
for d Progressive"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
RABIES ROBBED
Of ITS TERR0RS
Free Treatment by States Ex-
perts Reduces Hydrophobia
Deaths to Minimum.

Deaths from hydrophobia in Georgia
have been reduced to a minimum
through the campaign Of education and
the free Pasteur treatment of the state
board of health, despite the fact that
rabies has been constantly growing
disease among animals throughout the
South.
So rarely have there been losses after
treatment at the state institute that
the disease has been robbed of the dread
it once possessed. According to fig
ures given out by the board more than
1900 cases have been treated since the
institute was established three years
ago, and there has been no loss of life
except in rare cases when the disease
was far advanced before the patient
was given treatment.
Local physicians throughout the state
have been taught to ship to the institute
in Atlanta the head of any animal which
had bitten a human and suspected of
madness. Examination has shown that
70 per cent of these were afflicted with
rabies.
The person bitten is then sent to
Atlanta, where absolutely free treat
ment is given, or on application can
have the treatment mailed, to be adj
ministered by a local physician,
Twenty-one injections of hydropho-
bia virus administered daily is the full
treatment and a cure is considered
practically certain.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
GREAT SOUTHERN RISK
COMPANY TO CHANGE
HANDS AND QUIT FIELD

Purchase of the Great Southern Ao-
cident and Fidelity Insurance Company
of Atlanta by the Hillyer Trust Com
pany will be ratified at a meeting of
the stockholders of the insurance COM
pany at a meeting August 10 All as
sets of the company, which will go out
of business, will be transferred to the
trust company, while its insurance
business. will be turned over to an East
ern company of known financial in.
tegrtty.
Three hundred thousand dollars is
involved in the deal. which will be for
mally completed at the stockholders
meeting.
The Great Southern was organized
in 1909 and according to insurance re-
ports did a profitable business Its dis
solution is said to be based on the de-
sire Of stockholders to place their
money where the returns will be quicker
and larger.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10

had required prolonged fight. The
second time that fight might not be
won. And as I have said, that pro-
vision alone was, in the estimation of
the president, the great merit Of the
Payne bill
The wisdom Of the presidents view
from an economic, If not from a po-
litlcal standpoint-is shown by the
thorough accurate and convincing re-
ports which the tariff board has made
on every industry II has had time to
investigate. That the Democrats in
their folly have failed to avail them
selves Of the authoritative tnforma ton
secured by the tariff board is merely a
reflection on the intelligence of the
Democrats It is In no sense an i'm
parchment Of the information gained,
the accuracy Of which no man Of con-
sequence in either party has cared to
assaH.
The success Of the maximum and
minimum tariff provision Of the Payns
tariff bill has been all but lost sight
of. Under It's provisions tho president
was enabled, through the department
Of state. to compel the removal OF nu-
merous restrictions against American
products. both of the factory and OF the
farm, with the result that American
exports promptly Jumped from sixteen /
hundred millions in 1909 to two thou
sand millions in 1911. an increase of
$40O,0QO,0O0. Other nations had long
appreciated the benefits to be derived
from dual tariff system. Some Amer
lean statesmen had advocated such a
system. but none had had the oppor-
tunity, or the force to secure it's adop-
ton This was a starting point from
which to argue the advantages of the
policy, and to the logical and convinc-
ing arguments of Mr.. Taft was due it's
adoption.
1t has often been said that had Pres
ident Taft vetoed the Payne tariff bill
he would have won the appreciation of
the American people and have insured
his own reelection. Possibly it would.
Certain it is that view was urged upon
him. But he dismissed It as unworthy
of consideration. He was not admins
tering the duties Of his high office with
a view of augmenting his personal pop
ularity or of promoting his political
welfare. He was doing his duty as he
saw it, and those who take the trouble
10 study the effects of his approval of
the Payne bin must be convinced that
he acted wisely from the standpoint of
the nations welfare, even if not from
his own.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON
EXPLOSIVES I'M VALDOSTA

NALDOSTA. GA. Aug 10.-The city
council has passed an ordinance for
bidding the storing of dynamite within
the city limits, also ordinances regu-
Iating the keeping of gunpOwder, gaso-
line, benzine and naphtha. The regu-
Iations regarding the latter are much
strictor than heretofore, but not ex-
cessively so, and dealers will have no
trouble in complying with them.
An ordinance was also passed requir-
ing certain office buildings in the city
to be equipped at once with adequate
fire escapes. The council had ham
mered on this question for several
months
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
REBUILDING Y. M. c. A. HOME.

Work on the Thomasville Young Mems
Christian association building. with the
addition and changes which will make
it practically new. is progressing rap
idly and is expected to be completed
by October !. These improvements
We're made possible by $4,000 subscrip-
tons raised by a whirlwind campaign
some months ago.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
By CHARLES D. HILLEs.
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.

Committee.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 have been
asked why the president did not veto
the Payne tariff bill.
President Taft signed the Payne tar
iff bill because he believed that it would
lower tariff tolls, because he believed
that with the antiquated system Of
framing tariff bills, with no informa-
ton other than that ex -parte testt-
mony which is presented to the tariff
committees OF congress- he could OBJ
tain no better measure from congress.
and because the Payne tariff bill made
provision for machinery which would
insure adequate information on which
to base all subsequent revisions. Com
gress had been trying to do its work
without the proper tools. The Payne
bill provided the tools
Mr.. Taft pronounced II the best tar
if bill the party had ever passed" be-
cause it contained provision for the Gre
alton of the tariff board because it
made provision for "A maximum and
minimum tariff which would enable him
to compel foreign nations to grant fair
treatment TO American goods; because
1t imposed tax on corporations which
would yield a net revenue Of $4,000, 600
annually and subject their affairs to
more thorough Federal scrutiny than
had ever been possible before; because
although some of the duties imposed
We're, in his judgment, far too high. in a
far greater number Of instances mate
rial reductions of the duties were en-
bodied in its provisions, and because
his veto OF the measure would have left
the Dingley law in full force.
Tariff Experts" Questioned
Throughout the special session which
President Taft called to revise the tar
if he sought definite information re-
garding the various Industries affected.
He wished to know whether existing
duties were too high or too low. and.
If either, what change should be made.
Men who had long posed as tariff ex-
perts were called to the white house
and questioned regarding this industry
and that this rate and that only to
reveal that they were not thoroughly
informed about the relation of the rates
to the needs Of the industries it was
sought to protect, Senators and repre-
sentatives Of long experience would de-
clare that given rate was far too
low. Others. with equally long eXpe-
rience and equal reputation as experts.
would assert it was far too high. When
asked to produce proof. each faction
could only quote the testimony Of some
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
DENTIST DIVORCES WIFE
WHO "STAYED OUT LATE"

ST LOUIS, Aug. 1O.-On testimony
that his wife had an ungovernable
temper stayed out late at night and
neglected him, DR.. c. w. A. Spies,
dentist, got a divorce in Judge Hitch
cocks court from Mrs. Bertha Spies
Mrs Spies did not appear in court.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
TEACHING GIRLS TO CAN.

TOWNSVILLE GA, Aug. 1O.-Miss
Lila Forrest, of Boston. demonstratot
for the Girls Canning clubs Of Thomas
and Grady counties, has been giving
practical demonstrations OF the work
in the various districts of these coun.
ties. There are SO girls in the Thomas
county club The merchants here offer
to take everything they can get canned
10y the girls and pay the best market
prices.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
IT TOOK AZ HOURS TO
CATCH 65-F00T WHALE

TACOMA, WASH, Aug. lO-It re-
CURED "A whaling boat at Westport A
hours to conquer a 65-foot humpbaclz
whale, according to immigration In
spector Keagys just returned. The av-
erage whale is killed in two or three
hours, and old whalers said the enor-
NOUS creature Of the sea put up ter
rifle fight From the moment a har-
poon was hot into the beast until a flag
was hoistod over its body. it was an
elemental ana primitive contest.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
HILL6S EXPLAINS WHY
TAFT FAILED TO VETO
PAYNE TARIFF BILL

Taft was forced to the conclusion that
there existed no method Of determin-
ing beyond peradventure the actual re-
quirements Of the various industries.
No sooner had President Taft reached
this conclusion that he became con-
WINGED that the first essential was not
change in rates. but the instruments by
which the wisdom and business Of pro-
posed changes could be determined. He
would not proceed with a revision Of
grades until he had a survey. A judge
of long experience, he saw that the
committees of congress were obliged
to bas their conclusions on testimony
which was not evidence, to AK rates
by a series Of compromises between the
extreme claims of opposing witnesses,
and to do so far from free from politi-
cal influences which were powerful, II
not compelling Nor could he prove
either to his own satisfaction. There
was no starting point from which to
reason, no conclusive or even gener-
ally accepted basis He believed in, and
the national platform declared for. 3
tariff which should equal the differ
ence between the cost Of production
here and abroad 1t was, then, for a
logical mind a natural conclusion that
the first essential to an adequate and
satisfactory revision of the tariff was
method which would establish be-
yond question the cost Of production
here and abroad. Such machinery pro-
vided and its results in the hands Of
congress and Of the president, the rest
would be plain sailing. To that end he
bent his energies and when he had Sc
cured a bill which made provision for a
tariff board to investigate and scien-
ti1caIly to determine these costs he
felt. and not without reason, that such
a bill was the best that had or could
be passed
No Reason to Veto It.
It has been asked why President
Taft did not veto the Payne tariff
bill. From his standpoint there was
no reason whatever to veto it. As
I have said, it gave him three all
important provisions. and a fourth
some reduction of the existing
rates-which was not only good but
than which he could hardly expect
better until he had the information
on which to base his arguments for
still lower rates. To have vetoed the
Payne bill would certainly have i'm
periled the business of the country. IT
would greatly have prolonged the tar
tiff session. And there was no certain
ty that new bin would have contained
as much that was good and as little
that wa bad as did the Payne bill
To secure provision for tariff board
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-10
DIRECTORS NAMED.

JACKSON. GA, Aug. 1O.-The stock
holders of the Farmers union ware.
house met here this week and elected
directors as follows: J. A. King G. P.
Sanders, II. !. Gray, w. f. Foster J.
d. Brownee. s. j. Smith was re-eIect-
ed president, r. L. Walthal secretary
and J, NJ. Castor general manager.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21

date--it does not thereby become a
political organization, o is 1t guilty
OF undue political activity. On the
contrary 1t is simply performing the
plain duty which 1t owes to the PEG.
pie Of the state, and the people will
80 understand ii in due time. On no
other political question has the asso-
citation eve taken any action. No
Bar assocition ought Eel to hesitate
about indulging in that sort of poll.
tics.
But other and weightier questions
than who shall be our judges con-
front us. The initiative and referen.
dunn, and the recall of judges, ques.
ton which touch the very founda-
tons Of our government, are inviting
our attention. The liability of en-
ployer to employee; the private bust.
ness corporation as a factor in exist
Ing financial conditions; the simplif.
cation OF court procedure, and quail
fications for admission to the bar,
are among the questions that the bar
must answer for the benefit of the
people, because the people naturally
look to the bar for guidance in such
matters. And the bar ought to con-
slider itself as under a perpetual re-
tainer to the public for the purpose
not only Of advising but of directing
the proceedings whereby order may
be brought out of the present confu-
sion. To accomplish that end, calm
and earnest counsel together must be
had. Let us come together, then, as
an association, not for the purpose Of
enforcing the recognition or adoption
of our individual ideas as to one re-
form or another, but as doctors con.
suit with each oaher to ascertin, first
the real cause of disorder, and Sec
ond, to agree upon the remedies to
be applied. 1t requires no less pat
riotism to preserve and maintain a
government than it does to first es-
tablish it; and we of the bar are in
duty bound to put aside personal in
terests long enough to perform the
public duties We owe as lawyers and
citizens.
Executive Committee,
Bar Association Of North Dakota.
N. d.
Aug. 20, 1912.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
.BORAH AGAINST SIX Year PRESIDENTIAL Term

The Senator said arguments for q
longer term were advanced as a plea
for business tranquility. He said
marvellous strides had been made in
the industrial world and that bust.
ness dominated and directed every
thing and everybody. Il for n be-
lieve," said the Senator, that we can
pay too high a price even for bust
ness tranquility, the tranquility un-
der whose soothing shelter sprout
and grow special privileges govern
mental favors, a million times more
menacing to the life of a republic
than dictators; that business tran
guilty which causes men to become
Indifferent to obligations of govern
ment, and many times units them
for the sacrileges which every citizen
is called upon to make for the gen.
eral good. Back Of all forms and de-
tails of government, back Of all stat
utes and constitutions, back Of effi-
cient democracy, back of successful
representative government in the cit
izenship OF this country"
He urged that public institutions
and laws should be shaped with q
care for the building up of citizen
ship and for the training and for the
sacrifices and obligations exacted
and imposed by all who live rightly
in a republic.
The Senator said the concentration
and Capitalization of wealth, social
exclusiveness and Capitalization Of
government, were menacing and mo
mentous. He said that the power
now lodged in the bureaus Of this
government, which we're removed
from control or sympathy Of the peo-
pie, no farmer of our constitution
ever contemplated.
In conclusion Senator Borah said:
when Caesar comes, when the man
on horseback enters the other end Of
Pennsylvania avenue, it will be aft.
er the question Of the terms of office,
whether four years or six years, or
eligibility or ineligibility shall have
ceased to considered, 1t will be after
constitutions shall have been discred.
tied its terms forgotten. 1t will be
when the people shall have ceased
to consider whether 1t provides one
thing or another. So long as we are
making constitutions or. amending
them we do SO upon the basis that
that constitution is to serve a free
people who love their government,
who are Intelligent and who shall
jealousy guard its interests. For
such a people where can be no JUS
LITIGATION in taking away their rights
to select whom they would for their
! chief magistrate" ..,~,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21

ton to politics. In the East how
ever, the situation is somewhat diff
ferent. Big financial interests do not
like the attitude Of labor and the
government towards the railroads.
Two months Of hot tariff discussion
are closely ahead of US. Many of
Jul great industries would be seri.
ously disturbed by any radical revi-
sion of the tariff, which will be the
main issue during the campaign this
fall. Such a disturbance would be re.
Elected in financial quarters. While
the West is controlled chiefly by 10,
cal influences, the East is unavold.
ably controlled by national and inter-
national interest; hence its sluggish
ness in responding to Western optim-
ism. After all, it is possible that too
much attention is being paid to poll
teal considerations. Congress will
shortly adjourn. Then the opportun.
ity for legislative disturbance will be
over, and after the November cleo
ton the necessities for political fire.
works will be less urgent. Consid-
ering this fact, and that radicalism,
though not dead, ia declining in all
parts Of the country, there is reason
for taking more hopeful views regard
ing national political affairs.
The market has a strong undertone.
A considerable rise has already taken
place, which may induce temporary
reactions; but in 1he absence Of any
injury to the crops or other develop
ments of an %unfavorable nature, we
anticipate a more active and a wider
market. The vacations will soon be
and then we may safely look for
increasing activity.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
BIDS WANTED.

The board Of school directors OF
School District No. Is will receive
bids on material for and the erection
of a two-story, four-room school
house, to be built at Center. N. D..
and to be turned over to the board
completed, on or before October Is,
1912. Plans and "peciications may
be seen at the district clerks Office
at Center, N. D. IA certified check
Of 5 per cent Of the bid is payable
to the school district, is required
with each bid. Bids will be opened
August 80, 1912. The board reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
Dated at Cetner this first day Of
August, 1912.
FRANK !. v. K1HBERT,
District Clerk.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
BY Associated Press.

ASy
WASHINGTON. Aug. Ex-senator
Borah, of Idaho, in the senate spoke
against the proposed amendment to
the constitution limiting the presiden-
tial term to six years and making the
president ineligible for reelection. He
said he would like to know what
there was in the present situation
which should prohibit a man serving
his country, SO long as his acts and
character commanded the support
and approval OF the majority of his
cOuntrymen. He asked If anything
had yet transpired in the more than
one hundred years experience that
would indicate that the present plan
OF government was defective and ex-
pressed doubt that the supposed de.
fects of the plan would be eliminated
by the proposed change.
mo one knows until a MAI has
been an incumbent in that great Of
flee (the presidency in what manner
he will meets its great responsible
ties or how wisely he may exercise
it's great power" said Senator Borah.
But at the end Of four years the
record lies open to all. The wisdom
or want OF wisdom, the poise or want
OF poise, the understanding or the
lack OF understanding, the duties Of
the Office, everything which q
thoughtful and considerate people
engaged in the grave task of choos-
ing q chief magistrate needs to know
a be known.
I'VE must certainly be prepared
at all times to assert and success.
fully maintain that the strength and
virtue OF our individual citizenship is
the measure of the strength and vir-
tue Of the government itself. To
assert to the contrary, is to assert
that representative government has
an inherent and incurable defect"
Senator Borah said that if the peo-
pie, in the exercise OF the franchise,
could not reject a dangerous man OF
continue in office a useful man, then
the whole affair must terminate In
a wreck.
mo form OF free government" con
tinued the Senator, mo scheme Of
social policy can ever be devised by
which you can make a strong and
efficient and powerful government
out Of incompetent and irresponsible
citizens. The power which is to keep
this government going, which is to
supply it with vitality and strength
and durability must be found outside
OF the more technical forms Of gov
eminent, outside the formal statutes
and constitution must be found among
the people-when it is not found
there there is not hope elsewhere"
! Senator Borah declared that the Wit
al principles Of representative gov
eminent IS that the representative
should return at stated periods for
the approval or rejection Of the peo-
pie, "the conclusive presumption be-
ing that in the form of public con.
science we have not only the highest
but the wisest tribunal to which we
can apply in so grave a matter. II
the judgment of ninety millions OF
people expressed under the orderly
forms of procedure are not to be &C.
cepted to what arbiter shall we go!
II 1t shall be charged that a nan has
become over ambitious, that his plans
seem to threaten the stability o our
institutions, to whom can we submit
that proposition that to those in
those in whose keeping are all the
institutions under the flag"
~ LL.-#E.F Aa
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY Oh
SERVED,

Special to The Tribune.
New Ulm, MINI, Aug. 21:-Hun-
dreds of visitors attended the cele-
'bration here today of the fiftieth an
niversary of the defense of New Ulm
and Fort Ridgely against the upris-
ing o the Sioux Indians in 1852. The
days programme included historical
addresses by Governor Eberhart and
others and a graet street parade
which was participated in by the
Minnesota militia and regular troops
from Fort Smelling.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
SHERMAN's NOTIFICATION.

special to The TFIb066.
Utica, N. Y, Aug. M:-Vice Presi-
dent Sherman's formal notification Of
his denomination by the Republican
national convention took place here
today and was MADE the occasion
for a big demonstration. The cere-
monies were held in Roscoe Conkling
park, where a vast crowd assembled
and listened to the notification ad-
dress by Senator Sutherland of Utah
and the acceptance speech of Mr..
Sherman.