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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-05

BIG LOT RIBBONS
Plain and Fancy Or.
Colors. Special at AcO
Best all-siIk ribbons, all the
leading shades, quite wide;
a fine bargain at, yard 25c
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-05
FOUR NEW EMBALMERS.

Helena, April Observation-Disclosures
are four new embalmers in Montana.
They took the examination before the
state board of health and We're IL
censed as follows: M. M. Johnson of
Plentywood, j. E. Nightlinger of
Great Falls, Joseph E. Connors of
Townsend, and John Ferris of Butte.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-05

Rheumatism as a result of kidney
trouble, stiff and aching joints, back
ache and sore Kidneys will all Yield to
the use of FoleV Kidney Pills. They
are tonic in action, quick in results,
curative always. w. S. Shelton,
Stanley, md, says: Il would mot
take $4,000 for the relief from kidney
trouble l received from one single box
of Foley Kidney Pills" Missoula
Drug Co,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-05
EGG VIEW NOTE.
(From Judge.)

Ambrose Crosslots says: when you
see a Teller putin his biggest bills
on the outside of his roll, it's a sign
he expects to make q new acquaint-
ance."
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PR0GRESS|VES HOLD
FIRST CAUCUS
Continued From Page Onc)

the house to consider the m suf-
frage question.
The caucus was called to order by
Representative Hinebaugh OF Illinois,
AS temporary chairman.
Making History.
4 esteem it a great honor" said
Representative limbaugh in his OPEN
ing speech, "to have the privilege of
calling to order the first conference Of
the representatives Of the progressive
party.
-Four million, five hundred thousand
persons attended the birth of our
party and "A much larger number have
significd their intention of guarding
and directing it's growth. All great
movements are the result of the aWak-
ening conscience Of the people. The
overlords of special privilege would
not heed the peoples wrath, organized
greed refused to stay its hand, and so
the progressive party was born. The
nation will little note, or long remem-
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an unworthy fear Of the most just war
under Understanding names.
1t was reinforced by the large molly
coddle vote-the people who are soft ply
sically and morally. or who have twist
i'm them which makes them acidly can
tankerous and unpleasant as long as they
can be- so with safety TO their bodies. In
addition. there are the good people with
no imagination and no foresight Who
think war will not come. but that II II
does come armies auc uavies can be I'M
proyised-a very large element, rp.hed
by "A Senator ! knew personally. who. IN
A public speech. i'm answer 10 question
as 10 what We would do II America were
suddenly assalled by a first class military
power. answered that we would ouIld
battleship 100 every creek" Then, among
the wise and high minded people vino
I'm self-respcctiug and genuine fashion
strive earnestly for peacc there are tho
foolish fanatics always 10 be found ln
such d movement and always discreditins
1.-THE men who form the lunatic fringe
IN all reform movements.
All these elements taken together made
a body of public opinion so important
during the decades Immediately succeed
ing the civil War a. 90 put stop 10 any
serious effort TO keep the nation iu con-
dition of reasonable military prepared
ness. The representatives. OF this opinion
then voted just as they now DO when
they vote against battleships or against
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batt1s ship In every CrGGk

terrifying the Panama Canal II would
have been bad enough If we had been
content TO be weak. and, IN view Of our
weakness. not to buster. But we We're
not content with such a policy. We
wished 10 enjoy the incompatible luXuries
OF am unbridlcd tongue and an unready
hand. There was very large element
which was ignorant Of our military
weakness. or. naturally enough, unable 10
understand Il. and another large element
which liked 90 please its own vanity By
listening 10 offensive talk about foreign
nations. Accordingly. too many OF our
politicians especially 600 Congress, found
that the cheap and easy thing 10 do was
10 please the foolish peace people by keep
ing as weak. and 10 please the foolish
violent people by passing dcnunciatory
resolutions about international matters
resolutions which would have been inn
proper even r We had been strong. Their
idea was TO please both the molycoddle
vote and the vote OF the international
tail-twisters by UNFOLDING. with pretended
ardor and mean intelligence. a national
policy Of peace with insult
I abhor unjust war. ! abhor injustice
and bullying by the strong at the expense
Of the weak. whether among nations or
individuals. | abhor violence and blood
shed. believe that war should never DE
resorted to when. or so long as, IL rs pos
slble houOrably to avoid 81. ! respect all
men and women who from high motives
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14

and with sanity and self-respect do all
they can TO avert war. / advocate prep
aration for war in order 10 avert war;
and / should never advocate war unless
II were the only alternative TO dishonor.
/ describe the folly of which so many
Of our people We're formerly guilty, in
order that We may IN our own day be On
our guard against similar folly.
We did not az the time Of which I write
take our foreign duties seriously, and "a
we combined buster in speech with re-
fusal 10 make any preparation whatsoever
for action. We were not taken seriously IN
return Gradually a slight change for the
better occurred. the writings OF Captain
Mahau playing no small part therein. We
built some modern cruisers 10 start with;
the people who felt that batteships were
wicked compromising with their mis-
guided consciences by saying that the
cruisers could bee used Ito protect our
commerce"-which they could not be. un-
less they had battleships 10 back them.
Then we attempted 20 build more power
ful lighting vessels. and as there was q
section Of the public which regarded bat
tleships as possessing name immorallN
suggestive OF violence. We compromised
by calling the new ships armored cruisers
and making them combine with exquisite
nicely all the defects and none OF the
virtues Of both types Then We got 10 the
point of building battleshps But there
still remained "A public opinion. as old rs
the time OF jefferson. which thought that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14

i'm the event of war all our problem ought
TO be one OF coast defence; that we
should do nothing except repel attack
an attitude about as sensible as that OF n
prizefghter who expected 70 win by mere
IL parrying. instead Of hitting. To meet
the susceptibilities of this large class of
well meaning people, we provided for the
battleships under the name OF coast de-
fence battleships." meaning thereby thaI
We did not make them quite as seaworthy
as they ought to have been, or with quite
AS much coal capacity as they ought TO
have had Then we decided To build real
battleshlps But there still remained
lingering remnant of public opinion that
clung TO the coast defence theory and we
met this i'm beautiful fashion by providing
for "seagoing coast defence battleships -
the fact that the name was contradlc-
ton i'm terms being Of very small conse-
quence compared to the fact that we did
thereby get real battleships.
Our men had 70 be trained TO handle the
ships singly and in fleet formation, and
they had 10 be trained TO use the new
weapons Of precision with which the SHIPS
were armed. Not a few of the older OIL
fcers. kept in the service under our TOOL
ish rule of pure seniority promotion
were not competent for the task, but
proportion OF the older officers were eX-
ccllent. and this was true OF almost all
the Younger officers. They were naturally
first class men. trained in the admirable
naval school at Annapolis. They were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
BY Theodore Roosevelt.

II SUPPOSE the United States will al
ways be unready for war, and in
Il consequence will always be exposed
10 great expense and TO the possibility
Of the gravest calamity when the nation
goes to war. This is no new thing. Amer
leans learn only from catastrophes, and
not from experience.
There would have been no war in 1872
II. in the previous decade. America, in
stead Of announcing that peace was her
passion" instead of acting on the theory
that Unpreparedness ayerts war. had been
willing 10 go to the expense Of providing
a feet of a score Of ships of the line
However. in that case, doubtless the very
men who in the actual event depiored the
loss Of life and waste OF capital which
their own supineness had brought about
would have loudly inveighed against the
excessive and improper cost of armd-
ments"; so II all came TO about the same
thing in the end.
There is no more thorougngOing inter
national Mrs. GCmmidge and no more
utterly useless and often utterly mis-
chievous citizen. than the peaCe-at-any-
price. univerSal-arbitration type Of being,
vino is always complaining either about
war or else about the cost Of the arma-
ments which act as the insurance against
war. There is every reason why we
should try TO limit the cost Of armaments,
as these tend 10 grow excessive, but there
is also every reason 10 remember that IN
the present stage Of civilization proper
armament is the surest guarantee OF
peace-and is the only guarantee that
war # It does come. will not mean ire
parable and overwhelming disaster.
In the spring of 1897 President Mckinley
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
THE INEVITABLE WAR.

During those years, while we continued
at peace" several hundred times az
many lives were lost, lives Of men. wom-
en- and children, as We're lost during the
three months war" which put an end
to this slaughter and opened career Of
peaceful progress 10 the Cubans. Yet
there were misguided professional philan-
thropists who cared so much more for
names than for facts that they preferred
a peace" OF continuous murder to
war" which stopped the murder and
brought real peace. Spain's humiliation
was certain, anyhow; indeed, IL was more
certain without war than with IT, for she
could not permanently keep the island,
and she minded yielding TO the Cubans
more than yielding to us. Our own direct
interests were great, because OF the Gu
ban tobacco and sugar, and especially be-
cause Of Cuba's relation to the projected
Isthmian canal. But even greater were
our interests from the standpoint Of hui
manity. Cuba was at our very doors.
IL was a dreadful thing for us 10 SIT SUI
pine and watch her death agony. IL was
our duty, even more from the standpoint
Of national honor than from the stand
point Of national interest, TO stop the
devastation and destruction. Because of
these considerations / favored war; and
to-day, when in retrospect ii is easier TO
see things clearly, there are few humane
and honorable men who do not believe
that the war was both just and neees-
sary.
The big inanciers and the men gen,r-
ally who were susceptible 10 touch IN
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A swift journey to the metropolis follows
and the season is on.
VIII that appetite be as voraclous TINS
wear as last or the year before? II you
believe the lobster dealer in his Maine
bsrnts IL will not. He ascribes II to al
ferent reasons. partly to poverty ana
,srtlv TO the Democratic administration
hut then one must take the latter specu-
Istion with grain of salt. Maine was
for wears the great Republican stronghold
of the New England states. and It's loO-
e,eruen know something about politics.
A number of the large lobster POUNDS
AFRO situated on Frenchman's Bay. SOME
,,,,e. there are $4,000 Holsters in d pound
~. ono time. The middleman who owns
~. Mound holds for higher prices as
,,.,,,ld q farmer his cotton or potatoes
~. considers such business legitimate de-
spite the epicureans In the Dig to""'
One Of the best known shippers oil lop-
sters an the Maine coast Is the hrh Oh VI
W Colweu A. Co. OF South Hancock. IL
"a q .omparatively short distance from
Bar Harbor. and many New horheiS 10
IN the oound for Holsters often hoiu"'e
nicnics on the rocky shore near bS' anu
again carving away Holsters fresh from
the water i'm their yachts. Here AT t'is
tirne of wear they are being solo TOT %
cents a mound. I'm New York the same
crustaceans would be selling ior WV"
that much, and perhaps more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
As Assistant Secretary Of the Navy He Had
Much to Do with Getting Our Ships
and Men in Order for That Brief
Contest in Which He Later
Distinguished Himself.

appointed me Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy. / owed the appointment chiefly TO
the efforts of Senator H. c. Lodge. of
Massa chusetts, who doubtless was act
uated chiefly by his long and close friend
ship for me but also like TO believe
by his keen interest in the navy. The first
book l had ever published, fifteen years
previously, was The History Of the Ma
val War Of 1872" and ! have always
taken the interest In the navy which
every good American ought TO take. At
the time | wrote the book. in the early
SOS. the navy had reached its nadir. and
we were then utterly incompetent 10 hght
Spain or any other power that had
navy at all. Shortly afterward we began
timidly and hesitatingly To build up a
fleet 1t is amusing to recall the round
about steps we took 10 accomplish our
purpose In the reaction after the colossal
struggle Of the civil War our strongest
and most capable men had thrown their
whole energy into business, into money
making, into the development. and above
all the exploitation and exhaustion at the
most rapid rate possible, OF our natural
resources mines, forests, soil and rivers.
These men were not weak men, but they
permitted themselves to grow shortsight-
ed and selfish, and while many OF them
down at the bottom possessed the funda-
mental virtues. including the fighting
virtues. others We're purely OF the slori-
fed buckstor or glorided pawnbroker type
which when developed 10 the exclusion
OF everything else makes about as poor
national type as The world has seen. This
uuadulterated huckster or pawnbroker
type is rarely keenly sympathetic in mat
tiers Of social ana industrial justice. and rs
nenallr nhNslcallv tlmid and likes 70 cover
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
II OYSTERS

XII OBSIERS.
This is not a personal allu-
IL sion, as for example, what you
feel like saying when you sec certain
kinds Of persons in the metropolis. II IS
your expression when you gaze out over
an acre IF water in a little town on the
shore Of Frenchmans Bay, IN Maine. and
reflect on the fact that right before you
are 30O0O crustaceans IT is time to eX-
claim again. when the lobster pound man
for it is a pound about which We are
now speaking-tells you the inmates are
eventually to go TO New York.
Think Of thirty thousand Holsters along
the Great White Way; real Holsters, not
the two-legged ones. 1t is picture be-
yond comparison. And yet you hardly
have time for this amazing dream before
il is dispelled IN gloom by the lobster
man. When these thirty thousand are
gone it will be d sad day for the lobster
lovers These crustaceans have not the
ability to come back nor had any Oh
their ancestors. and for that reason the
errstacean family's birth rate has TOT
years been unable to Keep up WIN '"1
death rate Soon they will be as scarce
Is diamonds.
But dispel the lowering clouds WINE
We dwell on things as they are ana ho'
what they will be It's the glorious
month OF September. with its t"d'
usher3 In the oyster. H. is this mohlh
also which sounds the knell or the lou
stCr. For then begins, with Ne" ioiN
as the destination, the migration OF inc
crustacean family The various lobster
pound owners along the coast Of Maine
know this, and all summer long have
been fattening up their charges WIN
large quantities of herring, or have beeh
adding to their stock on hand. At least
they have been buying Holsters from the
fishermen in the districts where 1t Is not
against the law 10 catch them. 1t may
be closed season on one part Of the coast
ard omen on another But Nova Scotia
waters furnish most OF them these days.
September brings back 10 life more than
one thing. especially the epicures' VINO
have been worrying along" during IN"
dog DAYS. The Great White Way and its
lobster palaces wake up then, and the
iheatres-great enemies Of the crustacean
tamily-begin 10 get In line for the win
ter. Broied chicken or squad or quall on
toast may have their deyotees. but lobster
still pre-eminent
When this taste suddenly becomes APP
parent the increased pulse Is felt as far
away as Nova Scotia. The telegraph
wires hum with messages 10 the lobster
pound man, and ne in turn gets out his
barrels. his rock weed and his senes and
begins filling up the receptacles win the
crustaceans. Soon they are on the train.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14

Picture yourself face TO face with an
acre of Holsters. That is what the Trib-
une representative was able to do at
South Hancock, when he visited the Col
well pound The only trouble about II
was the inconspicuousnes OF the crusta-
ceans. They were so well satisfied with
the eight feet of water In which they
couId swim about that II was impossible
IN see any but those kept in crates.
About a thousand Of such are In the
crates for immediate delivery, and can
be ashed out with nets very rapidly.
Some are shedding their shells and are
kent I'm crates by themselves, and not
sold. others are seed Holsters. and these
latter are given to the United States gov
eminent.
Eyes. we have 5000 Holsters in the
mound now" said Charles Colwel. one OF
the firm OF Colwel & Co.
He wanted to show the reporter an i'm
mense seed lobster, one weighing twelve
mounds. He opened crate, pushed In
net on a long pole, and in a moment out
came the immense creature, Tapping It's
tail wildly and working its enormous
claws in a frantic effort to grab the lob
stermans fingers.
I'VE will give this one to the govern
ment." he declared. as he dumped the
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hard-shelled creature back into the crate.
Again he took his net and inserted it INFO
the mysterious depths Of another CRAZE.
He tugged heavily. as if lifting heavy
load. out II gradually came, and with 1t
a dozen Holsters. ranging from one pound
to ten Some of them were monsters. As
they were dumped out there was great
excitement. The big and little fellows
thus disturbed for the visitors editica-
ton and amaZement kicked about on top
of the crate where they had been dropped.
One big seven FOUNDER started for open
water at a fast clip. Strange about
lobsters-they 20 backward better th2n
forward. Indeed. they are Holsters at
in name only when you look at tLfir
clumsy attempts to beat retreat, o1ly
to be recaptured with ease.
The heavy. crushing claw and the other
one, built, according to the lobsterman, TO
hold the prey. conjure up thoughts OF
salad bowls. lettuce leaves and mayon-
naise instead of striking fear TO the
heart. There wouldn't be much left %
finger If the crusher fastened down on 4
That is not often possible in the lobst.r
pound. These crustaceaus have been
made harmless by little wooden plugs
jammed in on one side OF the claws IL
is impossible for the lobster TO open his
claws when these simple devices are In
place. Your thoughts Of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are
Immediately aroused on viewing such In
qusitorial practices, yet the lobsterman
has his reasons, economic and otherwise.
for "plugging' his lohsferS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
PLUGGING lOBSTERS.

AS the lobster fishermen brng IN some
times as many as five thousand OF the
creatures in the hold of a schooner az
one time and as the constitutions OF the
crustaceans are not what they are sup
posed TO be. II is imperative, they con-
tend. that plugs be put in place 10 keep
the big Holsters from harming the little
ones. and. second taking off the fingers
Of persons handling them.
At any rate. despite such logical rea-
sons. II you are at all tender hearted you
feel that the lobster is not getting any the
best of II under the circumstances. You
have fresh in your mind the efforts OF the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals in New York to compel shippers
Of turtles 10 keep their cargoes on their
bellies instead OF their backs. or that
Health Department rule that all livestock
or poultry must be kept on the feet while
being transported through the city limits.
These are humanitarian measures which
make you feel that the lobster has not
vet come into his own. Especially so Is
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overjoyed that at last they were given
/ proper instruments to WORK with, ana
| they speedily grew 70 handle these ships
| individually in the best fashion. They
were fast learning to handle them In
| squadron and fleet formation, but when
! the war with Spain broke out, they had
as yet hardly grasped the principles OK
modern scientific naval gunnery
! Soon after / began work as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy j became con-
vinced that the war would come. The re-
volt In Cuba had dragged its weary length
until conditions in the island had become
so dreadful as TO be a standing disgrace,
to US for permitting them TO exist. There
is much that / sincerely admire about
the Spanish character; and there are few
men for whom l have felt greater respect
than for certain gentlemen Of Spain whom
have known. But Spain attempted TO
| govern her colonies on archaic principles,
which rendered her control Of them in
compatible with the advance Of humanity
and intolerance to the conscience Of man
kind In 1898 the so-called war in Cuba
had dragged along for years with I'M
speakabe horror, degradation and mis-
cry. II was not war" at all. but muir
derous oppression. Cuba was devastated.
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Continued on seventh page.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-11-22

Miss Frances Robertson, Of wash
ington, D. c., is spending the week
end with Captain and Mrs. William D.
,Smithers, in north Columbus street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-11-22
CLOSE or THE SERVICES.
DR.. Mcmillan Delivers Last Sermon
At Second Presbyterian Church.

Revl w. j. Mcmillan preached
again last night in the Second Pres
bvter;an church to an apprcc atlre
audience. He took for rs text
Acts NV. 2S-"Then ASrippa SAID
unto Paul, almost thou persuadeth ne
to he Christian.
The speakers theme was "Why !
am Not a Christian" and he handled
his subject in an interesting and
forceful manner. "The sinner in the
church, he said, was sinner saw
ed, while the sinner outs c OF the
church was an unsaved sinner. The
doctor then PROCEEDED 20 show what
to be Christian"
.Arrangents have been ade for hold
ing meeting for II Ell in the West
Minister buidoing tomorrow Afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock. The speaker will he
Rev. Dr. \. W. Spooner, of Wash
ineton. ID. G.. DR.. SpOoncr w2S for
years an evangelist, is especially
strong before men. All men of the
city are cordially invited TO attend.