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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

The promise is that the Senate will
hurry the tariff debate. And now the
question is what the Senate means by
hurry. Generally speaking, the Senate
would consider speed.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

Chicago women bathers want to dis
pense with skirts TO their bathing suits,
but want men TO have skirts to their
bathing suits, They say that men s
suits, without skirts are so immodest
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

The railroad advertising men are TO
have session in this city. These rail
road boosters ought also to be boosters
for Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

Bryan will vacate any of his Chautau-
qua lecture engagements in order to
consider and reply TO Japan latest
note
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

An offer of $4,000 for lecture eu.
cagement has been turned down by
Bryan. But it must have been "a
Terrible Template -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

A poets bank is proposed in Paris
II will probably not enter Eeenlv into
the contest for the most extensive de-
posjts
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

Taft administration, at the appeal OF
Nicaragua though not provided for by
any treaty
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04
OWEN ON THE BANKS.

| The dispatches yesterday morning men
tion a circular to country bankers is
/ sued bv Chairman Owen of the Senate
I Banking Committee. Senator Owen in
| that circular undertakes to convince
the country bankers that they will get
great profit in the workings of the ad-
ministration currency law. He figures
that the net result to every banker
| would be gain from the new system
Of approximately per cent on the cap
ital OF the bank But il is shown that
the banks Of Oklahoma. which Senator
Owen in part represents. and which are
properly called country banks, belong
in the small group of banks which
would gain by the rcdiscounting pro
posed in the bill. The Fnancier Of
New York has taken the trouble to in
vestigate thoroughly this whole aues-
ton, and from the tables il has pre-
pared. it appears that in Oklahoma
twenty banks out of every hundred
are borrowing money, In Texas fifty
out of each hundred; North Carolina
sixty to the hundred; Louisiana sew
enty to the hundred; Georgia and South
Carolina eighty-three out Of the hun
dred are borrowing money. On the
other hand, scarcely more than two
banks in every hundred in Vermont,
Illinois and Indiana are borrowing
money. The result Of the investiea'
tion shows that the New England
banks. III order to borrow S4,0OO.Oo0,
have to contribute $lo00o,0o0 in loans
to other banks, and the Eastern group
in general would contribute $34 100000
to borrow back $16,000,0oo. The Mid
die States would have to contribute
s2s.000,o00 in order to borrow back
$s.000.000, On the other hand, the
cotton-growing States would contribute
only about $13,0Oo,oo0 to enable them
to borrow back $35,00o,000, or nearly
three times as much as they put in.
1t appears. therefore, that Senator
Owen in making his plea that the coun-
trv banks would make money bv the
rediscounting process, figures chiefly
from the standpoint of his own State
and of the States of the South. These
States would get tremendous gains out
Of the rediscountinr process provided
in the bill This makes the measure
a distinctly sectional one, and puts the
onus of the operation OF rediscounting
distinctly and directly upon the East
and the North; the benefit to be de-
rived by banks in the Southern States
almost exclusively, 1t is natural that
this should be so, since the business
of the South is less active and the de
mands for moving the cotton crop es-
pecially. and in other respects, are Of
the heavier class, while the local sup.
plies of money are OF the lighter class,
so the banks have to borrow money to
10 their business; this money to come
from the North and East. The proposed
currency bill would make this compul.
sorry process, in place. of business
process as it is now. The fact that
the borrowing class is also the parti
san class to be benefited by the passage
Of this bill, makes the Democratic pol
iticians all the more eager to pass it.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

Some davs ago. Chairman Owen re-
piled to protests Of bankers of the East
against the proposal to take the con-
troll of their business away from them;
that is, 10 detach the owners of the
banks and of the money from the man
agement Of these banks and money,
and turn this control over to a po-
litica board, by saying that bankers
have no more right even to ask to take
charge of their own property and mon
ev than the railroads would have the
right 20 demand release from the con-
troll OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The fallacy of that, however,
is plain from the fact that the Inter,
state Commerce Commission does not
undertake 10 interfere in the operation
Of the railroads 1t does not undertake
TO say bow railroads ought to be oper
ated, nor what their revenues shall b.
save only that the freights shall not
Of the fact 49, railroads have effective
representation on the Interstate Com.
merce Commission, and that they re-
tain complete control of their operating
and financial functions; that the com
mission is as evenly divided politically
as possible; that matters political have
no possible influence or function in the
rulings Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission; and that the roads have
complete liberty TO apply to the courts
slider themselves wronged. All these
safeguards are completely withdrawn
from the banks in this administration
currency bill Even allowing that the
banking operations of the country are
quasi pnhlic, and thus amenable to pub.
lie regulation, and allowing Senator
Owen 8 citation OF the railroads TO be
analogous, the currency bill withdraws
from the banks ali of the safeguards
which the railroads are shielded under
with respect to their operation, and
more particularly the Interstate Com.
merce Commission is specially and care
| fully guarded against being Of a parti
san character or allowing the introduc
| ton Of politics in its investigations o,
decisions The similitude sought to b.
established. therefore, by Senator Owen
between the railroads and the banks a:
subjects of public supervision utterly
fails as TO the banks and the opera
tions Of the Federal Reserve Board
when contrasted with the operation OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission as
affecting. the railroads. None of the
safeguards are thrown about the bank.
in this administration currency bill
that are by law thrown about the rail
roads with respect to their operations
and there is no intrusion by politicians
appointed by the President, or other
wise, in the management Of the rail
roads, as is provided for in the case ci
the banks by this proposed currency
| law.
| II IN ia vain thAt Sssuator Owen will
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04

It is in vain tkAt ssnator Owen will
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
The Blind Senator.

The COmmOner:- senator Gore l.
II years old. He is serving his sec
ond term in the Senate. His term
viii expire March 3. 1918. Senator
Gore is blind. When he was eight
years old he was accidentally struck
in the left eye by a stick which a
companion threw. The whole thing
WIS an accident, the stuck rebound
ing and striking him under part Of
the cyebail. Some injury to the op-
tic nerve resulted and the sight
gradually failed i'll that eye.
When he was II years Old, and a
page i'll the Mississippi Scnate-he
was born and brouhgt up in that
State-hr bought an airGun to take
home to his brother for Christmas
present. Some OF the children at the
hotel where he was living wanted to
see it work, and naturally an l.
year-Old boy did not need to be
asked twice. While he was showing
it of The rod he fired kept catching
in the barrel, so, finally, having
placed it in position, young Gore
squinted down the barrel, with his
good eye of course, to see if every
thing was all right that time. Some
how or other the gun went off, and
so did part of his right eye OF
course the sight was destroyed.
Senator Gore has undergone sew
eral operations in Washington and
elsewhere in the hope that his eye
sight might be restored, but without
avail. Since he was II years old Sen
ator Gore has not been able to read
a word. After he lost his sight be
promptly decided on an education
as the first necessity for life, AMI
set about getting one.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Governor SuIzcr of New York.

II was Charles f Murphy, the
leader of Tammany, the big political
boss of New York, who with other
political bosses attempted to beli!-
tie and TO sidetrack William J. Bry-
an in the National Democratic Con-
vention at Baltimore, but he was
sorely worsted in his game. Instead
Of sidetracking Bryan as had been
planned, it was the Nebfaskan who
eclipsed the marplots and finally
dominated the convention and Sc
cured the nomination of Governor
Woodrow Wilson's, who is now the
president-elect of the United States.
So much for Bryan. -.
In New York State there appears
to be man, William Suizer, the
Democratic Governor. who, SEEM
ingly, is possessed of a backbone
equally as straight and as strong as
Bryan. He had scarcely been in
Quoted into the gubernatorial re-
sponsibilities when he was tried by
Boss Murphy. who has come to real
ize that while as the leader of Tam
many he is entitled to some consid-
Grafton, he can not and will not be
permitted to lord it over the Gov
ernor. 1t would. seem that this ''po-
litical tilt. arose over the leader
ship of the party in the proposed
disposition of political offices. The
bosses, while still all powerful I'M
the big States and in the big cities,
are gradually being weakened by
the better feelings of Democracy,
which is growing in predominance
throughout the country.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Millennium a Long Way OFF.

The CommOner: \ person who
has recently inherited a million and
It half and has ten million more to
come has spent tWo-thlrdS OF the
amount in six months, and as the
following would indicate. is looking
forward Ionsin"Iy to The next dis
tributiOn:
Il am going to have The very best
sort of a good time. for what Is
money for if it is not to give one ac-
cess 10 real enjoyment? | have al
ready started to have a good time,
I'm having it, and I'm going to have
still more of it. I'm going 10 have
all the good time that money can
buy
What an insipid prospect, We
soon tire Of dessert when We eat
nothing else.
The millennium is long way Off
if there are nlany who believe that
no better use can be found for
money than TO have. all the good
time that money can buy.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Permanent Pasture Lots.

1t is common practice Oh many farms
to keep few acres seeded down in
permanent bl:IR grass pasture These
permanent pasture lois ara. almost in
diSPensable rs sort ~ nursing
ground" for Overionc horses and other
run down farm animals ai0ut the
place that require q hit Of pulling to
gether." Seldom. If ever Is any
thought taken Of their mpkeep-NIjnlexs
plant food Is returned In greater.
amount than is done by the animals
pastnring on them. pastures will slow
~ starve to death. and deterioration ik
the result Many fields seen, newer to
flag In their productive powers. but we
have noticed greater number that are
each year falling short in their heritage
production. 1t takes time to seed a
good stand Of grass AMI often too. 9th
er factors enter in to make renewing
more profitable than reseediuy 4
good top dresSin. OF well rotird ma
nure, we'll narrowed in before the
ground freezes, will do wonders % in.
crease next years resources The ap
pIication to be most effective should
be thin and the narrowing done when
the soil is moist
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05

Mansfield Journal: There is prob
ably more money in the pockets OF
the farmers of DeSoto Parish than
has been the happy condition before
in the history of the parish. The
reason for this prosperity is that
our farmers are constantly learning
to farm more economically and are
getting more results per acre, are
raising more at home and are buy
ing less on credit. And these four
things about cover the entire cata-
lOgue of essentials of success on the
farm. The year 1912 taught several
lessons of Importance, mainly that
good crops could be made in much
time than formerly believed
and with this was also learned the
practical fact that with good sea-
son in the ground hard and indus
triOus labor would count for very
much with very little rain 10 help
along
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Board Of Health.

Vital statistics Of Shreveport for
week, ending January 1, 1913
Marriages: Columbus Brown and
Francis York: H. G.. Runnels ~and
Mrs. Katie Mullen: Harry J. Spear
man and Miss Clara FlorSheim;
Newt Edwards and Sadie Mays:
Mack Richardson and Susie Thomp-
son.
Births-White: Horace G. Vaughn
and wife, boy: Bert f. Peyton and
wife, boy; John H. Post and wife,
boy. ColOred: Thos. G. Hotchkiss and
wife. boy: Josh Johnson and wife,
boy: b. Miller and wife. boy: John
Erwin and wife, boy.
Deaths -While:f Jim Colley. 80
years; J. Murray Wilkinson, 25
years: Emile Workman, 50 years !;
Tony kezerle. 81 years: MaybeIle
Windham, 81 years: Mrs. Anytime
High. II years; Mrs. Julia Saxton
Parker. 81 years. Colored: Luther
1SHlNci. O~SCdlS. Mdf n Idiliid, cc
years: Hayellan Woodland. II years:
lobe r. Lottimore, 10 years: Aself
Wilson, age unknown: Geo. Walker,
80 years: Geo. Thomas, Is years:
Henry unknown, age unknown:
Jerry Bryant, 81 years; J. T. john
son, 10 years: Paul Gentry, 36 yrs;
Maggie Camp. 81 years: Hanna Tay-
Tor. 33 years: Mandy Chairman. u
years: RozellO Washington 10 years
Causes of Death: Diffuse multiple
sarcomae: tuberculosis. abscess Of
liver: shotgun wound: acute neph-
ritis: meningitis, paralysis, malarial
fever, pellagra, cancer of thyroid
glands. ptomaine poisoning. pneu-
monia, fracture of spine. intestinal
obstruction. sarcoma Of groin, mi
trail obstruction. typhoid fever.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
A\TI-SALO0N LEAGUE
Will Hold Convention in the Spring.
Date and Place to be Announced.

| have travelled pretty we'll over
| this State and have talked to lead
erS Of all churches and parties and
| | feel sure that We are going to he
able to get together solidlN. Our
cause mistakenly demands thls ami
Il think the friends will be heroic
enough to put the cause aboN" all
else. We have not been able to mus
ter into real service more than ONE
III five hundred who are sentiment
italy and theoretically on our side.
BY the phrase muster into service
i don't mean enrolment Is sub
scribers to league work. mean that
approximatcly 200 people out of -rV-
cry 500 who are in favor OF no
liquor in this State are DONG next
to nothing anywhere. III any way TO
advance the cause. My hope Is that
we will be able 10 have Il State con-
Vention With every part of Tie state
and every moral and social welfare
Or2anlZat ION represented. he league
has a programme to submit to TIE
temperance people of this state. and
it is >tiil. practical programme.
business men will not support any
other sort. There are men and
women in Louisiana who have tn"
money and they are willing for Us
to use some of il in this fight when,
they are conN inced that we know
The lay of the land and mean to do
something.
Neither is it a question Of dong
everything all at once. The business
people Of this Stale who support us
are We'll aware that this victory will
not come right away. When they
subscribe they do not demand that
we win in a week and never ask
them for another cent. But they do
want a clearcut programme. a defin-
tie plan of action. They expect us to
show them Il road that looks like it
was going somewhere.
me methods OF the league are
unimpeachable Its organization and
plan Of advance are modelled upon
the best known rules of business. 1t
is the finest fighting machine ever
turned loose on the liquor traffic. 1t
has Knocked them to pieces III
many quarters and scared them to
death everywhere. 1t can be made a
blessing to this State if we care to
do it, And whether We care TO stop
or go on in a big way ought to be
decided at the spring. convention.
Think it over, talk it over with
your neighbOr, and watch for tn"
date and place.
JAMES A. CHRISTIAN.
Superintendent.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
The EQUALIZATION OF Assessments.

The importance and the necessity
Of equalizing the assessments can
no longer be disputed intelllgently.
The spirit of reaching fair equal
izatiOn is based on equity. All tax
able property when guaged by that
standard will operate in the adjust
ment of property if assessed too low
or too high.
In the agitation of the cquallZa-
ton of assessments, which IN engaS-
ing the attention of the community,
the main and only purpose is to Sc
cure equity in its bearing on taxable
property. Indeed. the subject has
been fully discussed i'll the seN erai
editions of the Caucasian and the
local press, and ii would seem I'M
necessary to reiterate what has been
said and is being we'll understood
by the people.
IT is conceded that the equallZa-
ton of assessments is attended with
perpleXities, due to the system
which exists throughout the State,
but which as is being demonstrated
can be bettered. With the expert
ence of Baton Rouge it can no
ienger be declared that a fair equal
ization of the assessments is ImpOs-
sibie. 1t may be said in all candOr
that ii is the successful demOnstra-
ton of this possibility by Baton
Rouge that prompted number OF
the citizens of Shreveport to agltate
the issue. These same citizens have
been and will continue to contribute
their best efforts towards the end in
view and propose to give the as
SCISSOR all the cooperation and all
the assistance in their control.
After all, the equalization of as
sessments on fair basis is simply a
matter of business, and. it is from
that view alone that it should be
considered seriously and pract ically.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
The Baptist Chronicle.

Winfield. La. Jan. 1.-The Bap-
list Chronicle. published al AleNan-
Gria, the olficia lorgan of the Bap-
list Church in Louisiana has chang
ed hands. Rev +. q. Ware. for the
past seventeen years corresponding
secretary of the Baptist State Con-
vention and one of the best known
divines of North Louisiana, has pur-
chased The paper and assumed ed
iiorial control today Rev. A. ID. Ken
drick of the First Baptist Church of
WinnfieId will be associated with
DIR. Ware, having charge of the
Young Peoples Page
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Anarchy Also.

The ComnOner: Associated Press
dispatches show thai al the very
moment when thirty-two repreSen-
tatives of labor are being sent to
prison upon conviction of compile
iiy in dynamite outrages. Federal
officials are making an organized
search for William Rockefeller. the
Standard Oil magnate. The scar
2eant-at-a of the House of Rep
rescntatives has long held a sub
poena commanding Mr. Rockefeller
To appear before the House investi-
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Senator Davis OF Arkansas.

The sudden death of United States
Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas,
which occurred Friday morning,
was shocking to his family and to
lis friends. Death resulted from APP
Oplexy. He was born in Little Rock
County, Arkansas, in 1862. He was
thrice elected Governor of his State
and was chosen to the United States
Senate by a handsome majority of
the Legislature Of his State. For
years as the executive of his State
and as the representative of his
States in the United States Senate
lie was subjected 10 the severe crit
icism by his opponents, but he kept
clear OF all entanglements and, tri-
umphed repeatedly over the men
who We're striving to discredit him.
II he had strong hold on the peo-
pie who are all powerful at elec-
TONS
While he was frequently subject
ed to ridicule, when in the activities
of life, at his death it has been
stated at Washington that since
taking his seat in the Senate in 1907.
Senator Davis had grown steadily in
the esteem of his fellow members.
At first he was regarded as an ex-
treme radical in his views. When
death overlook him he was chairman
of the Senate Committee on the Miss.
sissippf River and Its Tributaries.
and member of the Committee on
Claims. Coast and Insular Survey,
Interior Department Expenditures.
immigration, Indian Depredations,
Private Land Claims and public
Lands
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
Biz ORANGE Year.

New Orleans Picayune:: The re-
turn of from $3.50 to 1000 per acre
off of all orange groves in southern
Louisiana the past year is respon-
sible for the general belief in real
estate circles that 1913 will be the
banner year in development OF lands
suitable to citrus culture. New Or
leans land dealers are advertising
the fact widely, and tons of litera-
ture are being distributed through
out the country telling Of the mer-
its of the southern Louisiana orange
and the cheapness of orange lands.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
: Governor Wilson's Progressiveness.

.
New Orleans States, The recent
speech of Governor Wilson at
Staunton, Va, gives further assllr-
ance, if such were needed, that the
incoming administration Of the
Federal government will be respon-
siye to the popular. demand for a
change in the methods at Washing
ton.
mr.. Wilson's declaration" says
the Brooklyn Times, Republican,
THAT the biggest transactions in the
country must be squared with the
simplest standards Of morality and
obligation will be received with
popular acclaim. That is precisely
what the people of the United
States, smarting under the sense of
impersonal injustice that affects the
community more THAN the individ-
ual. have been seeking for half
dozen years past
III the presidents eIect lives up to
the solemn declarations he made at
Stanton, and there is every reason
to believe he will, this country will
have realized the era Of social jus
lice" that Colonel Roosevelt and his
100000 supporters said they stood
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05

eating committee. Rockefeller has
successfully evaded service and his
friends appear to regard II as IA
great joke. 1t is not joke. 1t Is
plain defiance of law.
Several years ago John ID. Rookie
Teller hid from the officers for a
long period of time and that also
was a joke, in the opinion of the
Rockefeller friends. 1t may not be
doubted that William Rockefeller
will be hunted down and required to
appear before the committee To
permit him to escape would be to
recognize exemption from legal pro-
cess on the part of trust magnates.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
\ Trees Begin TO Bud. Butterfly
EmcrUeS.

Montreal. Canada, Jan. 2-The
weather in this part of Canada is
so mild that trees have begun to
bud, and the st. Lawrence river is
absolutely free of ice. Never before
since this province was settled has
the river been open later than jan
uary I. The unreasonable weather
has proved hardship for many,
but has proIIed The street railways,
telephone and telegraph companies
by many thousand dollars. 4 coun-
try correspondent reports seeing a
butterfly.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
The Pork Crop of DcSOtO.

Mansfield Journal: The pork crop
of DeSOto ought to be bumper this
year. as the nucleus is he large
amount Of feed produced last year.
hog is always winner in these days
of Soc bacon and can afford TO give
the precious animal considerable at
tention.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05

for in the last campaign. 1t is ali III
terestinS fact that some Of the
closest friends Of the Bull Moose
leader are saying that if will be
found in the future that in all I'M
dertakings on the line Of his Staun-
ton speech the new president will
have no firmer supporter than Col
Ouel Roosevelt.