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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-02

or Ransdell said that he would not
violate his word or betray the inter
ests of his constituents.
Then the President stood up.
There was a smile on his face, but
a cold look in his eyes and a hard
ring in his voice.
every well, Senator he said,
"then you and l must, as it were,
go to the mat but ] want to let
you know hat if we are to fight it
out / shall use every weapon at my
commando
This direct presidential threat to a
United States senator concerning his
vote-and I give literally the account
of an eyewitness-and the fact that
Mr.. Wilson has reserved the bulk of
his patronage for use at will, may
partly explain the otherwise unae
eountable failure of the profoundly
dissatisfied Democrats in congress from
breaking into open revolt as they see
the widespread signs of approaching
Democrtic defeat at the polls.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-02
BIT OFF MORE THAN 1T CAN
s'CHAW',.

The Ely Expositor has in a recent
issue the rather unusual announcement
that it will editorially squelch and
blot out of existence each and every
newspaper in the state that endorses
Senator Newlands for nomination at
the September primaries. The Ex-
positor is tackling a job of consider.
able size-to squelch three-fourths OF
more of Nevada's editors at one fell
swoop. The best answer to this boast
full threat of the Expositor is this
question, "Where is Mcintosh ~
Mason Valley News. :.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-02
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re.
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
+. j. Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and fnan-
eially able to carry out any obliga-
tions made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE.
Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
TESTIMONIALS sent free. Price Is
cents per bottle. Sold by all drug
gists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con
.~stipation.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-02
HOT WEATHER TONIC AND
HEALTH BUILDER

Are you run down-Nervous-Tiredl
Is everything you do an effortg You
are not lazy-you are sickl Your
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and whole
system need a Tonic. A Tonic and
Health Builder to drive out the
waste matter-build you up and re-
new your strength. Nothing better
than Electric Bitters. Start today,
Mrs. James Duncan, H%anesville, Me-.
writes: Completely cured me after
several doctors gave, me up soc
and $1.00 at your druggist.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-02
WILSON USING PATRONAGE AS
A CLUB

A CLUB
DANES Creelman in the New York
Mail.)
1t is no exaggeration to say that a
great part of the Democrats in con
gress believe that their party's for
tunes are being wrecked by the secre-
tive and unpopular course arbitrarily
taken by Mr.. Wilson.
The wonder is that the deep resent
ment expressed so freely in private
has not already burst into an open
cenflagration.
Yet President Wilson is still the
master.
Business is halted all over the
country. Multitudes have been thrown
out of work. The nation has been
brought to the verge of war. But
something like two-thirds of the
presidential patronage is still held in
reserve in Mr.. Wilson'S hands and he
is not averse to saying to a congress
man who hesitates in voting that he
is willing to allow that congressman s
constituents to decide as to which of
them is the party leader.
In searching for an explanation of
the extraordinary power of the Presi-
dent over unwilling members of con
gress I learned today the exact details
of his attempt to force the Louisiana
senators to vote for free sugar in the
tariff bill.
To understand the true significance
of this scene it must be understood
that the free sugar schedule has al
ready caused a loss of about 100000
900 to Louisiana, and that it is esti-
mated that the loss, in the ruination
of ar~-producing properties, will
reach $100,00 900 before the end of
the year.
When the free sugar schedule was
under consideration Mr.. Wilson ask
ed Senator Randsdell, of louisiana;
Mr.. Ewing, the Louisiana national
committeeman, and Congressman
Broussard, of the same state, to come
to the White house.
At that time the whole people of
Louisiana were in a state of wild
alarm over the prospect of the over
whelming state calamity involved in
the free sugar scheme.
The Louisiana Democratic leaders
had announced that Mr.. Wilson had
given his word that the Democratic
platform promise that tariff changes
were to be effected without iniuring
or destroying any legitimate industry
wa intended to apply to the sugar in
dustry.
When Senator Ransdell, Congress
mar Broussard and Mr.. Ewing each
ed the White house President Wilson
asked Senator Ransdell to vote for
free sugar.
The Senator declared that he had
made a solemn promise to his con-
stituents to oppose free sugar, and
that he could not violate his pledged
"oiu VI Dotiay INC pcOpic ne repre-
scented in the senate.
Mr.. Wilson then turned to Con
gresham Broussard and asked him TO
get Mr.. Thornton. the other Louisiana
senator, to vote for free sugar.
Mr.. Broussard said that Senator
Thornton was publicly pledged against
free sugar and that as he himself had
also promised to oppose it, it would
be treason to his constituents to do
as the President asked.
For an hour the Louisianians earn
estly pictured to the President the
great disaster to their state which
would follow the removal of the pro-
tective duty on sugar.
In the end Mr.. Wilson again asked
Senator Ransdell to vote for free
sugar, saying that 40 individual SEN
ator had the right to blockade a great
party program, and once more Senat-
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-02
COUGHS AND COLDS WEAKEN
THE SYSTEM

Continued Coughs, Colds and Bron-
chial troubles are depressing and
weaken the system. Loss of weight
and appetite generally follow. Get a
soc bottle of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry today. 1t will stop your cough.
The first dose helps. The best medi-
cine for Stubborn Coughs, Colds and
all Thoat and Lung Troubles. Mr.. O.
H. Brown, Museatine, Ala, writes
wife was sick during the hot
summer months and | honestly belieye
DR.. Kings New Discovery saved her
life Good for children. soc and
S1.00, at your druggist.
Subscribe Tor the Silver State, %
per year..
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29
ARE THE RAILROADS STILL CRIMINALS?

Two incidents of the opening session at the hearing granted by the interstate commerce com mission to the railroads the rate increase ques- ton strike unpleasantly the reader who has per sonal railroad property but who realizes that industry cannot prosper if transportation vice be crippled.
 One is the immediate appearance and active participation of Clifford Thorne, who was, and may be yet, Iowas railroad commissioner.
 MT. Thorne first attracted national attention with scheme for government ownership whose financial mathematics were simply ridiculous and whose csti- mates of profits for the public qualified him for the iustrious company of Colonel Mulberry Sellers and ]. Rufus Wallingford.
 The other the attitude of Louis D. Brandes' counsel for the commission MT. Brandels at once took the tone of q prosecutor and appeared to as sume that the railroad officials who were trying to show the need of higher rates were somehow criminals witnesses for criminals.
 The opening the hearing does not auGur well for practical solution problem, for speedy action Meanwhile, the railroad situation is grow ing worse daily. and with it the situation of indus try and commerce, which want low rates, of course but want still adequate and improved service and are saying so in uncertain tones.
 Therefore, it is respectfully suggested to the commission that it repress the volubity or MT Thorne moderate the prosecuting zeal of MT Bran deis and detach the inquiry from any sort of as sumption that the railroads still criminals who should be punished. That aspect of the situation may well be left to the coutrs.
 What the railroads need is help, that they may render the service without which trade and indus try cannot prosper. And the evidence accumulates that the railroads industry, gaspng for breath As the Herald said some weeks ago, if the railroads need a pumotor and signs multiply that they do, they need it now. When pumotors are needed at all they needed at once.-Chieaso Her
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29
Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

ones, and amended many more; but a great many of them absolutely new, and in hundreds of cases they have since been found to in conflict, though fact was overlooked when they were passed, with laws already the books This of itself suggests of the why ap- preaching legislative sessions will be full of statute mending and patching and tinkerng. At the end there will necessarily be great confusion founded, and a corresponding increase of labor put upon the courts in interpreting and reconciling the conflicting enacmets in accordance with the basic law and the wishes of the people expressed by their representatives
 The flippant remark is often heard that the nation and the states would be better served by their lawmakers if the latter would draw their pay stay at home and do nothing for few years. This is probably extreme view, but there is much merit in it. What the country needs is less egis- ation rather than more That land is governed best which is governed least. The most valuable service which could be performed in this connection would be the repeal of needless laws, and the simplifyin> of those that ought to be retained Of the former there untold thousands reposing within the sheepskin covers of the books-none of them per haps. vicious enough work direct harm yet all of them capable of doing indirect injury, since they useless, inconsistent and impossible of enforce ment Of those that ought to be retained the num- Der is comparatively limited. of enactments necessary for the public welfare the number is still less
 Under such circumstances the best patriot and the most useful legislator will be he who instead of making two laws grow where grew before shall contrive make plain, short, simple statute the place of twenty that now cucumber the books with silly verbal foliage in whose the average human intellect gropes wanders and last is lost
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29
Fewer Laws. Not More.

Of the making of laws, as with the making of books there seems to be end comments the News of Salt Lake. Congress itself sets the example and various state legislatures, as in duty bound obediently and enthusiastically follow the Washington lead For the session of the national body which opens two weeks from today, quite busy program is being mapped out For the state bodies which convene within the next few weeks and the number of measures which will be thrust into the light for enactment reaches into the thousands.
 Senator Root of New York, in a recent address to the members of the American Bar association, made caustic comment upon this tendency He pointed out with panstaking accuracy that in the five years from 1909 to 1913 inclusive no less than 62,014 laws had been passed by the national and state legislatures The scores of thousands which in force before 1909 defed even his enumeration; but the most indifferent thinker the subject will be able to mise that the figures would be excessive Of course, these e O1i recent statutes repealed some of the old
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

Chicago has contributed very generously to the Red Cross fund to the Belgian relief fund, to the Christmas ship and to other European charities, and still the local charitable associations of that city report that they receiving better support than ever. The heart that has been touched by need is ready respond more quickly to the appeal. il may be true that charity begins at home but the universal response to the suffering caused by the has proven the kinship of the world. Those who perceive the needs of their brothers and supply them blessed indeed
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

construction charge against lands under any reclamation project where no public notice has as yet been is sued. It is not clear to me just how any water user wouldproceed in .he event that he was dissatisfied with the charge against his land, as de- termined by the secretary Certain ly, if the secretary's acts are subject to judicial review, such a case could he tried in none other than a fedora! court
 But let LIS say that the water user can get into court. Does anyone be !ieve that he will receive more liberal trS4tment from the federal judges of the circuit court in San Francisco. or the judges of tho supreme court of the United States than from the secretary of the interior? In the last analysis, this fundamental truth stands out. that we have here question of fact that must be decided by some human authority In an ticipatinS the attitude that any man will take toward any question. Va have a right to consider his previous training and experience.
 Federal judges, as a rule, are men learned in the law and bound by it's traditions. They are more inclined tn follow precedcnts than to do that which is unusual. They have been appointed to the bench because of their qualifications as lawyers and not by reason of their executive ability or for any sympathy that they might have for struggling farmer
 Knowing the secretary of the in terior as l do, l believe you will re- ceive more liberal treatment froGI him than anyone else. He under
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

Colonel Goehals should worry. The locks Of Panama canal have already withsood- eighty y-seven earthquake shocks and signs of damage. Down in Panama where life just one slide after another the Colonel is certainly the right man in the right place.
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

Let's forget that tiresome question, Who started the war; The thing want to know is, Who will stop it?" When will the be over?" The opinion of the statesmen and financiers is that the terrible struggle will be of eighteen months duration. at least
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

There only 1,735,369 automobiles registered in the United States If the rest of the country did well Arizona, in proportion population. there would be a good many Down here, where machines do have be put away quarters" for fire months, the Automobile serves it's purpose the year through.
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

Let your palms be trimmed. your lawn be well mown your vines and nicely kept that your neghbor will see your good works and initiate them Don't kick about the looks of your street just set good example.
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29
AN ABLE ALLY

With the assistance of censorship army keep gaining ground for a remarkably long time without getting anywhere in particuar.W Washington Star,
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29
HER PRACTICAL PA

Suitor-Your daughter. sir is willing to trust me; why can't you?
 Her Father-She doesn't care how much thing costs, and I do-BOston Transcript.
Arizona republican., 1914-11-29

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-09
the week IN the Gulf and South Atlantic
states. except Central and Southern
Florida.
PROTESTS SENT TO WILSON
Merchants Fear Extension of
Parcel Post Will Ruin Express.

The resolutions passed by the Merchants
Association protesting against the crowd
ms out Of the express companies by an
extension OF the parcel post service have
been sent In the form Of letters TO Presl-
dent Wilson and Postmaster General
Burleson. Both communications repre-
sent substantially that serious harm would
result from any attempt to substitute the
parcel post for the express service, al
though this would be the inevitable result
Of further development of the govern
ments mail transportation scheme.
The committee on railway mail pay has
resumed its campaign against the parcel
post system I'm relation TO its compensa-
ton 10 railroads. II represents that while
the Interstate Commerce Commission in
Sists that the roads made fair charge for
every service rendered. the Railroad Com
mittee, in its recommendation TO Con
sress, suggests an increase TO the roads
Of not moro than one-half OF ! per cent.
The appropriation bill passed by Con-
Sress provides no payment to the rail-
roads beyond the provision already made,
that per cent might be added in the
cases Of roads on which there has been
no weighing since January /, 1918. The
committee on railway pay represents that
the governments attitude is thus unjust.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-09
SAY LAND TURTLES
MEAN EARLY SPRING
JERSEY Weather Sharps Thus Con.
strue Advent Of TortOises--
Used to Catch Mice.
fFrom the Tribune Correspondent.

Nontclair, n. j., March 8. 49, Although
snow still covers the ground In this sec
ton OF New Jersey, box tortoises. or land
turtles as they are sometimes called,
have made their appearance, which fact
moves weather sharps 20 predict an early
spring.
Nathan Price, who has had many oox
tortoises as pets said to-day that they
are useful for Kidding a garden or insect
pests. lie said that in some parts or Ne"
Jersey the box tortoise IS used 10 eaten
mice. The tortoise remains motlonless as
the mouse, apparently charmed, runs
about It in decreasing CIRCLES AS the
mouse comes within reach, the head or
tho tortoise darts forward and the strong
Jaws snap on the victim.
Mr.. Price offered some suggestions as
TO the housing and feeding of tortoisss,
based OH his own experience. Where
there is no fence inclosing a garden the
tortoise may be confined IN an inverted
packing box. The bottom OF this box
Should be removed, with the exception OF
a board at each end. These boards VIII
strengthen the box and also provide the
tortoise with shade. A pan OF water
should DO set in the earth, where the
tortoise may reach IL for drinking and
bathing. The tortoises diet is both ami
NAL and vegetable 1t relishes slugs
worms. ants melon rinds, fallen or over
ripe fruit and shreds of meat ends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-09
EVIL EYE BLIGHTS CAUSE
Man with Nervous Optic Steals
Jersey Suffrage Posters.

A marauding male anti" has struck
terro. 70 the hearts Of the Jersey euf-
fragists- 1t was learned yesterday that
thirty-seven suffrage posters advertising
meeting TO be held IN Orange on March
20. had mysteriously disappeared from the
windows OF shopkeepers, where they were
being displayed.
Mrs. Electra Reed, chief distributor Of
posters, began an investigation at once
and learned that soon after the posters
were placed a we'll dressed young man.
with a nervous left eye and red rose IN
his buttonhole, had called at the stores
and in suave and gracious tones had ex-
planned that there were some changes TO
be made in the posters and he had been
sent out to bring them all back to head
quarters. The shopkeepers permitted the
enemy TO make off with the pIacards.
The suffragists are thinking OF offering
a reward for the capture OF the young
man with the nervous left eye. They
want to make his acquaintance before
they send out the next batch of posters.
Tho meeting will be held as per the
stolen placards, whether he IS found or
not. The speakers will be Christopher P.
Connolly. of East Orange; Edmund r. Os-
bourne, OF Montclair, and the Rev. Walter
NJ. Haushalter, of East Orange.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-09
THINKS N. H. WILL YIELD
McReynolds Expects Elliott to
Resume Conferences.

Washington. March S-Although no
word had been received tonight from
Howard Elliott chairman OF the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
officials OF the Department OF Justice cx-
pected conferences over dissolution plans
TO be resumed here during the present
week.
Reports that the New Haven directors
had decided 20 fight in the courts rather
than give up control OF the Boston q
Maine road have not upset the hope OF
officials that peaceful settlement Will
be reached There has been no intima-
ton TO Attorney General McReynolds
since the New Haven board met in New
York on Friday that its officers have
abandoned negotiations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-09
REPORT ON TOBACCO
TRUST" THIS WEEK
McReynolds Then to Decide
Whether to Prosecute
METROPOLITAN Company.

Washington, March s.-The attitude OF
the Department Of Justice toward the
Metropolitan Tobacco Company, OF New
York, the distributing agent OF producing
concerns which made up the old Tobacco
Trust" probably will be determined dur
ing the present week in conferences here
between IL. Snowden Marshall. United
States District Attorney at New York;
Attorney General McReynolds. and G. {.
Todd. assistant TO the Attorney General
In charge Of trust prosecutions.
Mr.. Marshall has been conducting an
investigation OF the Metropolitan's activi-
ties for several months. but so far has
made no report OF his conclusions to the
department. He is expected to report in
person within a day or two. Charges by
independent tobacco dealers that the Met
ropolitan's methods of distribution main
tanned the monopoly OF the old American
Tobacco Company, dissolved by the SUI
preme Court, led to the investigation. 1t
has been generally conceded here by law
yers that the broad language Of the Su-
preme Courts decree might prove embar-
RAISING to future prosecutions.
Mr. McReynolds, who was the govern
ments attorney in the case against the
American Tobacco Company, was never
satisfied with that decree, but his chief
at the time. Attorney General Wicker
sham. accepted it. Mr.. McReynolds has
kept a close watch on the disintegrated
trust" and any restraint OF trade by the
companies into which IT was dissolved
probably would be visited with prompt
prosecution. Evidence gathered by Mr..
Marshall will be gone into carefully be
fore any decision IS made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-09

"A Little While with Alvin" tho
Shorty McCabe story in the Sunday
MAGAZINE of The Tribune next Sunday,
is easily the best, in the minds of many
that have read il in manuscript, OF any
that have been printed. There's such
a big philosophy, tho everyday, needed
kind that all city jewellers ought to
possess, brought out in tho story that
Il should be read again and again. par
ticuIarly in tho metropolises. Listen to
Shorty:
"Ssy, amt we a glunr, peevish. sour
lookin' lot, hero in New York? You'd
most think that shown any signs OF
oood nature was violatin' a city ordi.
nance and that all our dispositions had
been treated with acetic acid. Why, by
the suspicious looks we give the
stranger who rubs elbows with US you
might suppose our popu alton was 80
per cent escaped criminals
And then Shorty goes on to relate
his experiences with the inlmitable con-
taaion OF cheer that he accidentally
met in a subway car. And what a
wonderful lot Of cheering Alvin did In
the brief day that no was with Shortly