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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
By GINO G. SHERANzA
Member New York Bar

the possible exception OF France there is
an excess of population in relation to
soil resources; with us instead the native
stock, Is not only scarce in relation to
the possibilities of land exploitation, but
it has become so specialized in industrial
and business pursuits as to be now in
capable Of undertaking on sufficiently
effective scale that work of improving
and exploiting "our land resources which
constituted the greatness of power of our
forefathers.
A decreased birth rate among Ameri-
cans as ethnologists agree, does not re-
fleet a decrease in physiological capacity,
for the Yankees as the author tells us,
are physically inferior to no race" Yet,
despite such decrease, our population is
in constant increase owing to an aver
age annual immigration to our shores of
nearly one million persons. 1t is this
alien element which gives us an index of
births which is supernormal.
The restrictive measures of 1907 against
undesirables though applied with no very
definite tests. represent a fair seective
principle working on this rough alien
mass in justihable response to certain
civic and hygenic demands of the coun-
try. But the severity of the application
of such selective process is automati-
cally tempered by the need of the coun
try for supplying the scarcity of the ma
tive stock. Especially severe is the phys
ical, mental and economic examination
of immigrants from certain parts of Eu-
rope either because of an especially low
cultural level of the applicants or be-
cuse of their especially efficient labor
productiveness which would create dan
gerous competition with native labor.
Such restrictive legislation is also pro-
phylactic In character, excluding as it
does. certain alleged contagious diseases.
So that in general it may be said that
such legislation quite effectively meets
the object of preventing the immigrant
element from lowering the hygenic level
of the native stock
Closely connected with the immigration
problem is that of the negro. Negroes,
like immigrants, DR.. Clerici holds are
indispensable as labor machines and are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Recalls an Old Tragedy

f'rop the Detroit Free Press.
Memories of the old steamer st. Clair,
of Wards Detroit-Lake Superior line.
came to several Detroit vesselmen. who
read the story a few days ago about A.
A. Cole finding an ancient chair on the
shore of Lake Superior, near Marauette.
with the name "St. Clair'' stenciled on
the bottom OF its seat.
Very likely l have I have sat in that
same chair myself. many times,p says
Capt Charles II. Wcstcott, United States
supervising inspector of steam vessels.
Il have no doubt it is from the old ST
Clair of the Ward line. In those days
1t was the custom TO mark a sbip,s
belongings with hot branding iron. The
OR chair may have become entanglcd in
wreckage somewhere, preventing it from
coming to light sooner"
Captain Westcott was master of the
steamer st. Clair in 1854 The vessel
burned and sand in Lake Superior on
the morning of July ., 1876. off 14-mile
point, between ontonagon and Portage
lake, 26 or 81 81 persons on board meet
ing death in the disaster.
Capt Robert Rhynas of Detroit was
in command at the time and the ship
carried a crew of Is and 16 passengers.
Fire was discovered in the hold about 2
o'clock in the morning, and spread so
rapidly that the crew had no opportunity
to check it. The frimes envedoped all the
ships boats except one large yawl This
was launched but the rush to board it
caused the small craft to capslze six
times before it was finally righted with
four men on board. including Captain
Rhynas, through whose efforts the craft
is said to have been placed in serviceabls
condition.
number OF the passengers and crew
who left the St. Clair with life pre-
servers were unable to survive immer-
sion in the cold water of the lake and
it was afterward reported that several
of the number, who were helped aboard
the yawl, died soon after being taken out
of the lake.
The St. Clair, like other steamers OF
her time, used wood as fuel. A vessel
man who saw service aboard her recalls
that sparks frequently fell from a hols
in the backdoor hear of her. boiler. She
was built at st. Clair In 1866 as q
steam barge, and was transformed to a
steamboat in 1875. She was bound down
from Duluth at the time she was lost
A former vesselman now residing In
WallServille feels he has occasion for
thankfulness that ne was not aboard
the st. Clair when she burned. He had
shipped as watchman for the trip which
proved to be her last one up. Before the
boat got away the mate felt he was under
obligations to give the place to friend.
who came around later. He asked the
youth first engaged to go along as deck
hard, but the latter declined. The man
who took his place as watchman was
among those lost in the tragedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

these two parties are in constant con-
hict, the party democratic in spirit trying
to bring the government nearer to the
people, the party aristocratic in spirit en-
deavoring to obstruct every step toward
popular government With a century of
history to support the proposition I af-
firm that the party of the people is the
growing party everywhere. and that the
party of the aristocracy is the dying
party the world, around
For Popular Government
II time permitted illustrations could be
drawn from every land, but shall only
ask your attention to five and those re-
late to victories won for popular govern
ment within the last 10 years
First we have Russia; after infinite
suffering and sacrifice her people at
last secured a Douma, The FIRST and
second Doumas were dissolved, aud suf-
frage was withdrawn from more than
nine million voters in an effort to
secure a conservative Legislative body.
But even the third Douma refused to
write the word "autocrat' after the
name of the Czar and its first important
measure provided that there should be
schools enough for all the children in
Russia
Within seven years Persia has Sc
cured constitution. and during that
neriod Turkey has secured both a con-
stitution and a representative body.
Within ten years the Dowager EN-
press of China began to lay the foun-
dations of a constitutional monarchy
but the government uiu hot 81 W
enough for the people and we have
seen 4oo.0oo,Oo0 of Chinese driving the
Manchu from the throne and organizing
a republic. a republic whose chief ex-
ecutive taking a title like that of our
own, is called the President of the
United States of China.
But it is not among the backward
nations alone that democracy has won
victories. The people have won two
great victories in Great Britain in three
years. The first was in the matter of
taxation. The voters. speaking through
the House of Commons. compelled the
House of Lords to consent to a budget
which appropriated a part of the un-
earned increment of the landlords.
And then the House of Commons chal-
lenged the House of Lords to mortal
combat on one of the most fundamental
governmental propositions. namely
that hereafter the people should speak,
not through an hereditary body, put
only through those. whom they elected
to power. When the peers resisted the
measure the. King listened to the peo-
pies plea and forced the House of Lords
TO consent to the abridsement OF It's
powers demanded by the voters, and
hereafter that body cannot for longer
period than two years obstruct a meas
ure that has been passed in the House OF
Commons. And when the House OF
Lords of Great Britain. the most an
cient and illustrious of all the heredl-
tary bodies on the earth. bowed before
the onsweeping tide Of democracy that
rolls around the world-then came the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Have Been Keeping Step

tary rule.
Have Been Keeping Step
This is what the world has been do
ing outside of the United States, ana
while other nations have been marching
at doublequiclx toward governmental
forms the more responsive to the peo-
pies Will. we have been keeping step.
Nowhere on Gods footstool has faith in
the people grown more or been more
emphatically expressed than in our be-
loved land.
The first Illustration of this is in
the triumph of the movement that has
for it's object the election of United
States Senators by the direct vote of the
people. The struggle has lasted for two
decades but the victory is woa. The
Senate was at last compelled to yield
- the pSopie > utildHu ana TIE states
have ratified the amendment which
makes the United States Senate a pop
ular body. and it will be the reoples
fault if 1t does not become the greatest
legislative body of the world--a body
to which those may aspire who IN less
important positions have demonstrated
a capacity for government affairs and
proven their fidelity to the peoples
interests.
While the people have been winning
this victory they have also been inn
proving their election laws 50 as to
guarantee to each voter the right to
make his ballot represent freeman 5
will, and they have at the same time
been substituting the primary for the
boss-ridden convention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
By WILLIAMS JENNINGS BRYAN

LIAMS JENNINGS BRYAN
instead of falling is rising; the world in
stead of going into bankruptcy is coming
out. If you are paying a debt contracted
16 years ago you are paying it in dollars
that will not, on the average, purchase
more than two-thirds as much as the
dollars that you borrowed With this re-
lief from the grinding process there has
come an independence that was not then
known-that was scarcely then possible.
OF Moral Awakening
The political independence which we see
in this country today is largely the out
growth of this moral awakening. Men
do not believe less in parties than they
used to. but they are more strongly i'm
PEELED than formerly to regard the party
as a means to an end rather than an
end in itself. They are coming to believe
that the best service that one can render
to his party is not to allow the party to
sacrifice the permanent welfare of the
country 10 the temporary interests of a
party organization.
To this growing group OF disinterested
patriots I look for large labor in the
work that lies before us. Now it is en-
work that lies before us. Nor it is en-
ready enjoying the fruits of their toll. II
you ask me to name the one factor which
more than any other accounts for the
worldwide revolution of which We are
now part, / reply that it is this moral
awakening-this stirring of the conscience
of the world. The conscience is the most
botent force of which we have knowledge.
Tell me that 1t is law that makes men
honest For one man made honest by law
a hundred are made honest by conscience.
now come to the third proposition,
namely: that the worlds advance in the
science of government is as great as its
advance in education and in morals, and
It would be strange if with a larger IN
+elIieence there were not a better under
standing of the theory of government,
and it would be mortifying to us II, with
a better understanding of government,
there were not-a larger faith in the prin-
ciples of popular government. And 1t
would be strange, too if, with growing
conception of brotherhood, there were not
a cleared recognition of the rights of man.
Two Parties in Every Country
A century ago Jefferson said that there
we're just two parties in every country
and that wherever speech was free these
two parties would manifest themselves.
He described them, not by party names,
but by words that permanently symbol
ize the opposing spirits that animate par
ties. One he described as an aristocratic
party that would naturally draw to itself
those who do not believe in the people
and who do not trust them, and the other
as a democratic party that would nat
urally draw to itself those who do be-
lieve In the people and do trust them.
Jefferson, with that wisdom that put him
in a class by himself among the states
men, thus drew tile only line that can
be drawn always and everywhere through
society-the line that separates the man
who is at heart a democrat from the
man who is at heart an aristocrat. He
understood, as every statesman has whose
name has survived his generation, that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
No Particular Reform

But l am not going to advocate any
particular reform. As L stated in the
beginning, my purpose is to encourage
reforms and to arouse the indifferent TO
activity And reformers need encourage
ment. When one sees an evil clearly he
wonders why all do not see it; when he
finds remedy that seems sufficient he
wonders why all do not accept it. AS
great reforms come slowly It is not
strange that those who labor earnestly
should sometimes become discouraged
when they SEQ their hopes deferred. The
great reformers of history have had their
hours of darkness and of doubt. Elijah,
that brave prophet of the early day, who
had the courage to stand before kings
ana to rebuke wicledness in high places
even Elijah was faint of heart when he
was fleeing before the wrath of a wicked
woman and thought that all the other
prophets of the Lord had been put to
death 1t was not until Jehovah assured
him that 1000 had not bowed the knee to
Baal that his faith revived. Peter the
Hermit. whose zeal and eloquence stirred
a continent to crusade. was at times on
the verge of despair. ! come to you with
a message OF encouragement God is
still on His throne and the world moves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

By VII
about won and war has been declared
against gambling. china's second vice.
In most of the countries of Europe the
liquor question is the paramount moral
issue. In Ireland two years ago I met
the founder of the Catch My Pal society.
It began with meeting between min
lister and five drunken men on the street
during which one of the men asked the
minister to get the other four to sign the
pledge. lie invited them to come to his
house when they were sober and sign
the pledge they accepted the invitation
and after signing went out and brought
back five more each one his pal. When
the second five had signed the 10 brought
in 10 more and the 20 organized society.
It has since reached membership of
10000 and has changed the habits of en-
tire communities.
France, one of the great wine -produc-
ing countries of the world, has through
her government, decided to teach in the
schools the effect of alcohol upon the
system. work commenced in this coun-
try many years ago under the leadership
of the womans Christian Temperance
union
But the most important item of news on
the subject of temperance comes from
Germany. Something over two years ago
Emperor Wilhelm, speaking to the naval
cadets at Mirwig, told them that in crises
that might arise the country must depend
upon them, but that it could not do so
unless their brains were clear and their
nerves steady. And then he warned them
that alcohol would rob their brains of
clearness and their nerves of steadiness
and, in the name of the F'atherland, ap-
pealed to them to join total abstinence
societies and held up for their inspiration
the total abstinence societies of the Brit
ish navy
Change in Point of View
But there is another phase of this moral
awakening to which 1 must call your at
tention, namely, the change in the point
of view from which men are considering
public questions. Seventeen years ago
those most active in behalf of reforms
were, for the most part, men who felt
an immediate peeuniary need of remedial
legislation. This deep personal interest
was manifested everywhere and it is not
era of falling prices. For nearly a quar-
ter of a century the dollar had been ris-
ing in, it's purchasing power and the price
level falling; for nearly 25 years the
money owner and money changer had
been drawing in an unearned increment
and the world was being forced into
bankruptcy. 1t was not national peril
only, but a menace to the world.
Three times the leading nations had
Joined in great conferences, everybody
everywhere admitting the seriousness of
the situation, the only question being;
How shall we escape? That was the stu
alton then; now it is all changed. An un-
precedented increase in the production of
a precious metal has made such an enor-
nous addition to the worlds volume of
standard money that conditions are now
reversed.
The purchasing power of the dollar In
stead OF rising is falling; the price level
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31

beginning of the end of the heredi-
tary rule
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Outside Our Own Country

But let us go outside of our own coun-
try. In every nation with any degree Of
civilization an awakened conscience is adj
dressing itself to some ethical question
In China the opium traffic has been the
absorbing issue. but now at an enormous
sacrifice in national revenue the fight is
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
Lodge Elections.

Rathdrum lodge No. 10, l. o. o..
f., held annual election of officers
last Friday evening, choosing the fol-
lowing: j. NJ. Vanderpool, nob'e
grand; Beeman CASTOR, vice grand;
c. w. Culp, recording secretary; +.
i. Farnsworth, financial secretary;
G. R. Klopf. treasurer; Elmer Hile'
trustee.
Officers were elected by Panhandle
lodge No. l3, K. Of P. last Tuesday
night as follows: j. NJ. Vanderpoo''
chancellor commander; Henry Wad-
dell, vice chancellor; E. P. Dyer
prelate; E. E. Taylor, master OF work;
g. w. Culp, master of finance; }. Il
NJ. Culp. KRIS; G. r. Klopf, maste
of exchequer; w. II. Cleland, maste
at arms; J. S. Woolery, inner guard
D. z. Lyon, outer guard.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05

Mrs. M. A. Crandall who is staying
with her daughter Mrs. NJ. M. Clifford
In town, accidentally fell one day last
week fracturlng several ribs.
Arthur Corey will be here mex,
Monday, Dec. 8. Those wishing
pianos tuned, leave orders with G. r.
Klopf Price fer one tuning $500,
or S. 90 for the season ADV.
Mrs. Ben Kiel and son. Walter, ar
rived last Friday from Marshall,
Mimi, where they have been visiting
relatives. Mr.. Kiel preceded them
to Idaho some time ago and pur.
chased property In Rathdrum, the
family expecting to make this theil
permanent home.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
The Stingy Man.

Our readers will pardon US If we
let brother editor give his opinions
of a stingy man. We are glad there
are none such in our town, but all
other towns have them. Our brother
editor says that If there is anything
on earth that gives him a longing for
eternal rest and deep, damp solitude
it is man who comes to town or
country, builds up big. paying bust
ness, grows rich and then squats
down on the gold like hen on a door
knob and is too stingy even to let the
gravel grind 10 his own gizzard. A
real, genuine Is karat, stingy, selfish
man can't be honest, and IL he ever
gets to heaven and has wings, he
folds them up and walks for fear he
will ruffle plume or lose tail feath-
err. The kind OF men who build up a
town and county and enjoy life and
make the best citizens, are the enter.
prising, energetic and liberal men,
who believe in living and letting
others live; aud who do not, when
they get dollar, squeeze it until the
goddess of Liberty feels like she had
on corset. Such squeezing is what
causes such hard times and stops the
circulation of the American eagle. II
1t were not for our broad. gagged, en-.
terprising men it would be impossi bic
to build up any town or city.-Ex.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
Special Extra Feature for Saturday

Matinee and Night.
vITAGRAPH IN TWO PARTS
c,d,av Draw In THE STILL VOICE"
IInheeding the still small voice. opportunity
for reparation Is lost forever. convincing
drama OF unusal power
THE PHONEY SINGERS lively kaiem
comedy.
ADMISSION l0c. BIG CONTINUOUS sh0"
N-oET GOING YOU'LL LIKE IT-A
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05

Miss Elsie Fleming of Rathdrum
to Irwin Hattenburg in Spokane,
Wednesday afternoon. It is
rumored the couple will reside in
Montana, where Mr.. Hattenburg
has a homestead.
The school buildings were in
spected last week by DR.. D. D.
brennan, by order of the state
board of health. The doctor found
sanitation necessary and recon-
mended an assistant janitor to
keep the rooms free from accumu-
lations Of dust, etc. AS to the
heating plant, it seemed adequate
should the teachers OF each room
properly watch the thermometer
and keep the temperature at not
above 10 degrees. DR.. brennan
further suggested that while the
weather was good the board have
the school grounds cleaned up.
The postmaster has received
another communication regarding
the carelessness Of patrons Of rural
delivery routes in respect to loose
coins, and failing to stamp mail
matter before depositing it in the
boxes, The fourth assistant post
master general, James I. Blakslee,
points out that when it is not
practical to stamp first class mail
matter, coins left in the boxes for
purchase OF stamps should be de-
posted in coin-holding receptacles
and not inclosed in envelopes,
wrapped in paper, or left loose in
boxes.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
Local Paragraphs.

A lecture-scrmon was delivered
at the Methodist church last Sun.
day evening BY Prof. ]. D. Davis.
ellciting many favorable comments
|. The score at the recent basket
ball game was ID to Fl in favor of
kathdrum and not ID to 2 as was
reported, the latter being typo.
graphical error, the figure 81"
being accidentally lost in the form.
A box social and dance is an
nounced to be held by the Sun.
shine club Of Twin Lakes local of
the farmers union at the Twin
Lakes school house Saturday
evening, Dec. 6.
The first OF series of school
conferences for national guard
officers in Rathdrum was held last
Friday evening, Colonel w. H.
Edelblute, senior officer present,
acting as instructor. The confer.
ences are held under recent or.
der of the adjutant general.
Fred Bishop, an inmate of the
county poor farm, reports having
received letter from party in
Canada informing him of fortune
to which he has fallen heir, and
that his whereabouts have been
sought for the last three months.
All members of Evergreen Camp
No. 1917, Royal Neighbors, are
requested to be present at the
regular meeting Of the camp Sat-
urdry evening, Dec. 6. The bust
ness of the meeting will be annual
election of officers.
Friends report the marriage of
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
THE RUSTIC THEATRE

j. G. LANG, Prop. Rathdrum, Idaho
The Latest in Motion Pictures.
No Pictures shown at the Rustic over sixty
days old,
a Real City Show
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
Trouble Reported.

1t is reported that, acting under
instructions of the village board ia
enforcing the curfew ordinance and
quieting disturbances at night, the
marshal recently appointed. has en-
countered a little trouble on one
occasion at least, finding it necessary
last Friday night to encarcerate one
alleged disturber over night. Men,
bers Of the board say they desire to
maintain law and order. One trustee
stated that II the regulations cannot
be enforced the board may as well
repeal them and tell everybody to
"turn loOse".
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
Births Reported.

DR.. D. D. brennan, register OF
vital statistics, reports recent births
as follows,
Nov. "a, to Mr.. and Mrs. W. Il.
Sapp, a son.
Nov. 80, to Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Shook, a daughter.
Nov. 28. to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Lindley of Post Falls, daughter.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-12-05
BUSINESS BRIEFS.

II you wish to insure your property
In the Hartford Fire Insurance com.
pany, see The Tribune. adv. tt.
List your property with the Trl-
bune. We will try to help sell 1t FOL
you on commIssion.-Ady.
For sale.-Good residence property
Just south Of Catholic church IL
Rathdrum; cheap Address H. Kell
ner, 805-7th ST., Occur d'Alene. Ide
Adv. June6tf
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Methodist Church.

Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Preaching at II a. m. Subject,
"Practicing the Presence Of God"
Epworth League at $50.
Junior League at 3 p, M.
Preaching ut 1880 p. m. Subject,
"a Girls Dangers" This is the
fourth of series of Sunday night
S,rmOnS.
Come with US and will do thee
good.
Everybody is welcome.
Services at Hayden Lake at 3 p. m.