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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
BY Lord Ogilvy.

The action Of General French in
resigning his commission has accen-
tuated the difficulties of the British
government in the Irish crisis, for
he is looked upon as leader of men
as we'll as a great general and soldier.
The government leaders are not sin
cere when they force a crisis in Ire
land at this time without recourse to
the referendum, which would give for
the first time an expression on the
question on its merits unbiased by
other interests or party consideration.
The Unionist leaders are also to
blame for injecting the question of
protection into their party program,
which has made large part of the
free trade electorate mistrust them.
However, they may desire to live I'M
der one parliament and one flag. Mr..
Burns, the labor leader, makes a great
deal of the army setting itself up as
superior to the power of parliament
and declines to consider their side of
the question at all, and would have
them act as the mere tools of his
party regardless of the oath they
swore on accepting their commission
regardless of conscience or patriotism
Burns would, in fact, consider them
as a lot of Hessians, merely hirec
men to do the will of weak coalition
government in face of any expression
Of popular opinion, government
moreover that shirks dissolution OF
getting a real expression of opinion
through referendum. Even the trivia
argument that the cost of referendum
is prohibitive has been used, and this
in the face of civil war not merely
threatened, but organized and ready
to break out with very little more oc
casion.
| 1t is not, however, up to the Ulster
men to start the trouble until a parli
ament is established in Dublin, which
tries to collect taxes, then they cal
refuse, and unless the Dublin par
lament can invoke sufficient fore,
they have to call in British troops in
to self-governing Ireland. This is tn
situation that really confronts tn
home rulers. A present war coul'
only be brought on by trying to dis
arm the Ulstermen or some activ
form >Qf coercion, and it is to tina
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
OPENING AND CLOSING
DAYS OF THE LEAGUES

American Association-April IA,
Sept. 81. ~. ~ .
National-April IA, Oct. Z.
National April IA, Oct. Z. =
American-April IA, Oct. 7.
Federal-April 10, Oct. 1.
1nternational-April 81, Sept. p
New York State-April 30, Sept. 10.
Texas-April 9, Sept. z. y. IT, =.
Western-April II, Sept. .27. /
I. I. April. %, Sept. 7. -.
Northern League-May 6, Sept. q.
Southern Mich.-May IL, Sept. 10.
Southern Atlantic-April 6, Aug. 29.
New England-April 20, Sept. IL.
Central-April %, Sept. z. i
Pacific Coast-March 81, Oct. rs. =.
Northwestern-April II, Sept. 2.
Virginia-April 16, Sept. IL. !
southern-April H. Sept. H. :.
Canadian-May Z, Sept. z.
Kentucky Indiana Tennessee May
8, Sept. z. ,sszz. 81: sz. :.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
st. Louis County and Virginia
Pioneer Passes Away at =
~ 10 A. M. Today.
FUNERAL WILL BE HELD
AT DULUTH THURSDAY
Prominent Figure in Develop
ment of City of Virginia
and St. Louis County.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
w. T. Bailey ST., president of the
w. T. Bailey Lumber company of this
city and pioneer of st. Louis coun-
ty and the city of Virginia, died at
Rochester, MIMI, at 10 o'clock this
morning, where he went several days
ago to undergo surgical operation.
Mr.. Bailey recently developed acute
kidney trouble and had gone to Ro-
chester to consult the Drs. Mayo.
While undergoing the usual several
days period of preparation for the
operation his vitality was so impaired
that anxiety was occasioned by his
family and friends. His sons, Rich
ard R. and w. T. Bailey of Virginia
were summoned to his side Sunday
and yesterday his condition was such
that little hope was held out that he
would rally. News of his death came
to Virginia this morning in kilograms
from R. R. Bailey.
The body will be brought from ST..
Paul to Duluth tomorrow morning,
reaching Duluth at $50 and funeral
services will be held Thursday. The
hour could not be definitely learned
in Virginia this afternoon. Interment
will be at Forest hill.
w. T. Bailey ST.. was 70 years old.
From boyhood he had lived the Wig
orous, active life of lumberman and
he was regarded as one of the best
practical authorities on all phases of
the lumber industry in the United
States. For forty years he had been
engaged in the numbering industry in
St. Louis county, operating extensive
ly all over this section of the state.
He made his home in Duluth, but since
1895 had owned and for much Of the
time directed sawmill and lumber
business here, which grew from small
beginnings to one Of the most profit
able and best conducted in the state,
Mr.. Bailey logged the pine from the
present site Of the Sauntry mine and
near Virginia. His business success
came only after years of hard labor
and was the natural result of keen
business sense backed by sturdy in
tegrity. News of his death brings
sincere regret to many friends in Vir-
ginia. He had visited the city only
a short time ago and seemed then
to be in his usual robust health. Mr.
Bailey was a man whose friendships
were stalwart. He was held in thu
warmest esteem by those who knew
him best.
He is survived by his widow, {
daughter, Miss Rebecca Bailey of Du
luth and by two sons, Richard ane
w. T. Bailey Jr. of this city.
Many old friends plan to attend thu
funeral services at Duluth Thursday
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
HAMMOND CHOICE
OF DElNOCR ATS AT
STATE MEETING.
St. James Congressman Favored
as Candidate for Governor
of Minnesota.
NO WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PLANK IN PLATFORM
Lynch Controls Convention
LAWYERS Supporters Out
Generated at Every Turn.

From Wednesdays Daily.
ESPECIAL TO THE ENTERPR1sE.)
ST. PAUL, April H.
Congressman w. S HAM
mond of St. James was in
dorsed by Minnesota Demo-
Gratis in conference here
yesterday as the state par
tvs candidate for governor
at the primary election
June 16, after the meeting,
which promised to be a
quiet affair, had developed
into a bitter contest over
the seating Of rival delega-
tions from Hennepin coun-
tV.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
W. I. BAILEY SR. ANSWERS
FINAL SUMMONS AT ROCHESTER
INFANT DIES ON TRAIN

While being rushed to Virginia
for medical treatment, the infant
son of John Pearson living near
! Cook, died on a Canadian Northern
train this morning in the arms of
Charles Johnson of Virginia, who
was assisting the parents. On ar
rival here the child was rushed to
the offices of DR.. Grove, but it
was dead. Bronchial pneumonia
was the cause of death.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03

= Lord Ogilvy, of the editorial
staff of the Denver Post, return
ed recently from a two months
visit to relatives in England and
has written an article on the pres
emf crisis over home rule, which
follows:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03

Lusk & SiegePs All Stars will meet
the City team in a match at Rivers
& Nurmi's alleys tonight. A return
match will be played on Lusk & Sic
gels alleys Friday night. These
matches will be for the championship
Of the city.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-04-03
BUTCHERS TRIM
GILBERT QUlNI

From Wednesdays Daily.
The Butchers defeated the Gilbert
bowling quint by a score of 1889 to
1927, on the Lusk & Siegel alleys
Monday night. The lineup:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
STAR CHAMBER SESSIONS

YEFFERSONIAN simplicity, as in
terpreted by President Wilson, has
received a new and important adj
junct in star chamber sessions"
Paul Warburg, the Presidents selec-
ton for member of the Federal Re-
serve Board. is no mere common citi-
zen. He is a multimillionaire and
closely identified with what our Demo-
cratic friends have chosen to call the
money trust of Wall street. He has
been seriously accused by the Senate
committee to which his name has been
referred previous to coming before the
Senate itself for confirmation.
Mr.. Warburg has insisted that he is
innocent. Very likely he is. But If SO,
why is it necessary for the Senate
committee to receive his testimony as
to personal conduct in secret session ?
II Mr.. Warburg has nothing to on
ceal, and certainly as a man aspiring
to such a high and responsible post
he should have nothing to conceal, he
ought to be perfectly willing to take
the public into his full confidence.
The Senate committees action in
this matter will not tend to convince
the popular mind that Mr.. Warburg is
all that the President claims for him.
The public has grown very suspicious
of star chamber hearings, particu-
larly when its interests are so vitality
at stake as in the present instance.
Mr.. Warburg could do nothing more
convincing o anything that would
tend to insure for him the approval of
the Senate as a whole than t. insist
that the hearings he is now attending
before the Senate committee be open
to the newspapers and the public.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has given some railroads an in
crease Of rates and others considerable
advice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
WARS COST IN HUMAN LIFE


tFrom the New York Herald
OF particular interest at this time are
the records of killed and wounded in
the last European wars-"little squab-
bles in the Balkans" they are some
times described. Professor Octave
Laurent has summed up these losses of
human life in the account of his eleven
months experience as a & with
the Bulgarian troops, which has Just
been published in Paris. He writes for
his surgical colleagues. not to produce
a sensation.
Bulgaria, with 4.3OO,O 900 inhabitants.
put 500, 900 soldiers in the field. of
these $4,000 were wounded and 10000
killed in the first wal and $4,000 killed
and $4,000 wounded in the second. AL
together 10000 killed and wounded
one-third of the effective force of the
There was one death out of every -four
injuries, a very high figure.
In the first Balkan war 10000 men
on both sides were killed or wounded
on the field in a single month. Eighty
thousand of these fell or the banks of
~Bregnalitza in the six days from the
30th of Jun to the 5th of July, 1913.
Professor Laurent quotes an authori-
tative prophecy to the effect that a zero
added to these figures would give the
losses in an European war which would
line up two armies of the Great Pow
ers. There would be not less than 15O,-
600. 900 wounded and killed in a month
once the forces were fully in the field.
The figures may be an exaggeratton.
but they come approved by a profess
sional expert who has just had the
latest possible experience.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
NO HAIR

~ITY COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
is absolutely correct in his con-
~ tention that all of the park
frontage along the river should
be in the name of the city, but it does
not follow that the improvement of
the River Front should wait upon the
transfer of the few pieces of property
still held by private owners. 1t is a
simple matter to obtain the compare
lively small stretches of property not
yet under the jurisdiction of the De-
partment of Parks and under the cir
cumstances it is to be hoped there
will be no splitting of hairs with re-
gard to the filing out of the slope and
the completion of the work. Even
should there be some little delay in
obtaining the frontage here and there
the work of filing out the narrow
stretches now in control of the city
ought to proceed.
1t is scarcely conceivable that this
important improvement should be
halted in any way by a situation so
trihing as the taking ove of a block
or two of the frontage. Those prop
erty owners who have, through indif-
ference or a desire to be shown the
intentions of the city regarding the
park treatment, refrained from trans
ferring their interest in this strip to
the city will doubtless see the impor-
lance of acting without further delay
in the matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03

struck, but he cares little who may be
the final victor. This may be because
we are so far removed from the scene
of conflict.
No better illustration of the in
tegrity of America as a nation could
be presented than this. Made up as
we are of Germans, Austrians. Eng
fish, French, Italians, Russians. Serbs
M what not, our people do not look
the nations from which they or
their ancestors came as the father
land. Doubtless their sympathy trends
in the particular direction from which
their forebears came to the United
States. but America is their home and
America is their nation. The Starry
Banner is their flag and the ambitions
and tribulations of foreign rulers,
while interesting enough as matters of
discussion around the family dinner
table. give them no more cause for
thought than If they and theirs had
always lived within the boundaries of
this country. 1t is only the floating
population. the million or two who
have come to America for the purpose
of accommodating enough money to let
them live at ease in Europe, who are
seriously disturbed by what is now
occurring in the lands from which
they anne
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
POLITICAL SIDELlCHTS

Republican leaders are in con-
ference to-day in Philadelphia on the
platform and campaign details.
Democratic City Chairman Brom-
ley has tartly answered the charges
against Philadelphia's city committee
by saying that the people did not trust
the reorganiZers enough to elect them.
The Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Fifteenth district is
Reardon. not R%ueradan or Rwidan,
as stated in the mourning machine
organ to-day.
Congressman Palmer will be able
to resume his duties in Washington
to-day. The transforming tour is over
for a few days.
Sugar Valley had a treat on Sat-
urday when Mccormick and Greasy
addressed the picnic. other Democrats
will get a treat of sugar later on.
Rather unkind of NJ. T. Stokes,
Washingtonian candidate. to butt into
the Sugar Valley picnic the day McCor-
mick was there.
Would not be a bad plan to spread
some sugar over the warning Demo-
Gratis in Huntingdon county.
Now Danville, Lancaster county,
has been given a postmaster, &C
cording 10 the Patriot to-day. More
Democrats will now roar.
War bulletins received at the
Democratic state windmill from bel
ligerent counties have the European
scrap beaten all hollow.
Candidate McNair is going to
make speeches on his own hook in
Philadelphia this week. According to
the Patriot. McNair was not in Sugar
Valley.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
THE RAILROAD RATE DECISION

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
After it's prolonged delay in reaching
a conclusion the Interstate Commerce
Commissions decision in the Eastern
railroad rate case is likely to fall rather
Hat. On account of the vast questions
which have been suddenly thrust upon
the financial and business communt-
ties in the last few days the rate case
has been reduced from a matter of
much IMMEDIATE consequence to values
and to the Influences which make for
business activity or depression. The
decision, nevertheless, has an import
nee for the future which is bound to
be recognized in time, and the fact that
the ordinary methods of rejecting it
hastily are precluded by the suspension
of the stock market means that its
bearing will be better analysed and ap-
preciated.
To the extent also that the judgment
of the commission contains disappoint-
ments for railroad investors and for all
thoughtful citizens who really how
much prosperous activity depends on
the encouragement of capital, 1t may
be pointed out that disappointment has
been more than discounted lately in the
tremendous shock caused by Europe's
war panic. In comparison with The
vast disturbance winch Europe has
promoted all the other affairs which
seemed troublesome recently are now
of trivial significance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
MONDAY EVENING,

losses incurred by the loss of trade
with Europe.
1T would be idle to deny the far
reaching effects the 'prodigious grapple
would have on the United States. 1t
would set u trade topsy-turvy for a
time. But our railroads would still do
business, our factories run. our mines
be worked. our farms be titled. This
nation, in fact, would be the only great
one left productive. the only great
civilized entity which could continue
to produce the things that mankind
must lave. The quasi-monopoly which
this would give us would become ap-
parent gradually during the war, and
the full fruits of 1t would be gathered
directly after the war, when most of
the civilized world would be clsmor-
ing for the things which we and we
only would possess"
No war was ever a benefit to the
nations involved or their neighbors.
Whatever of temporary advantage APP
peared in the beginning was overcome
by the woeful waste from which 1t
requires years to ecove Our coun-
try's isolation at this time is a reason
for grateful thanks.
I'm these dark days of Europe the
geographical, historical and political
good fortune of the United States is
worth being thankful for" says the
New York Sun. ITO begin with, in
the dark backward and abysm of time
the 'tetrahedral formation whatever
the biologists mean by that, of the
earth's crust laid out the continents
and oceans very thoughtfully for the
American convenience. On each hand
the dissociable ocean keeps invasion
far off and invites to that merchant
marine, once an American pride, and
now perhaps to be resuscitated by the
calamities across the Atlantic.
The United States will suffer in
evitably to some extent from the waste
and destruction abroad. put it has per-
manent cause of gratitude in its insu-
lation from the worst"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
THE DIE is CAST

[From the Philadelphia Public LEDGER
The suspense is ended. It is to be
war. 1t means chaos in Europe. the
massacre of the strong men, weaklings
left at home to propagate the breed, the
vitality and energy of the nations turn
ed to destruction. The suffering and
poverty resulting will reach down from
this generation to the neX and to the
next. out of it nay emerge new dy-
nasties and new nations. The die has
been cast in favor of the things against
which civilization has been struggling
for centuries. No good can result.
There is but one promise. and that is a
result so terrible that never again will
men resort to brutal settlement of their
difficulties. And 1t is just possible that
a new balance of power will be evolved
too stable to be upset. The awfulness
of the catastrophe is too great for men
yet to comprehend 1T; the human MIND
does not yet grasp the full tragedy of
the Napoleonic wars. If modern engines
of destruction render the conflict short
because terrible 1t will be fortunate for
the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
rom the Philadelphia Press.I

[From the Philadelphia Press.1
The unspeakable crime of the ages is
about to be committed. 1t is clearly
understood by the directors of public
affairs and leaders of public opinion in
Western Europe hat the war into
which the foremost civilized nations Of
the world are drifting would be a crime
without extenuation. 1t cannot ven be
asserted that the atrocious act in con-
temptation would be an unprecedented
crime OF passion. The calm serious
ness" of the English nation is COM
mented on In the cable dispatches.
Never has the prospect of war been re-
garded with less enthusiasm. we are
told and yet at is doubtful IL England
ever approached a war with a sterner
resolve"
Such deliberatness implies the exist
ence of compelling reasons for the i'm
pending action-reasons that would ap-
peal to the highest order of intelli-
gence or would come home to the minds
of men with the force of destiny. One
listens in vain, however, for an autori-
tative utterance from anywhere which
would carry conviction. On the con-
trary. when the wherefore of the i'm
pending war is referred to by English
observers of wen ordinary mentality,
they regard the participation of Eng
land in in a conflict between Slav and
Teuton for the sake of semi-barbarous
Balkan State under Russian influence
as "unmitigated folly"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
THE WAR AND AMERICA

ERHAPS the most singular hin
in connection with the war that
= has broken out in Europe is the
GOODNESS and lack of feeling ex-
pressed generally throughout the
United States. While there is naturally
a very strong interest in happenings
in the war zone, and while various
scattered communities made up largely
of this or that particular nation show
their sentiments by cheering for Ger
many or Austria or Russia, as the case
may be, the average American cares
little on whose banners victory finally
perches.
This is an extraordinary condition.
When Japan fought China, when the
Russians and Japanese came into con-
fict and when England and the Beers
were It swords points in South
Africa popular sentiment in America
was strongly arrayed. The people had
their preferences and were not slow in
expressing them. Even the newspa-
pers took on considerable color and
their headlines and editorials showed
very plainly the feeling throughout
the country. Now, however, the atti-
tude Of the average American is that
Of the man on the fence watching a
fight between men he has never seen
before. He is interested in the row
and ready to applaud a good blow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
THE RECKONING

What do they reck who sit aloof on
thrones,
Or in the chambered chancelleries
apart,
Playing the game of state with subtle
art,
If so be they may win. what wretched
groan
Rise from red fields, wha u~nrecorded
bones
Bleach within shallow graves, what
bitter smart
Pierces the widowed or the orphaned
heart
The ~unhooded horror for which naught
atones!
A word, a pen stroke, n this might
not be!
But vengeance. power lust, fostering
Triumph, and grim carnage stalks
abroad.
Hark! Hear that ominous bugle on the
windi
they who might have stayed it,
shall they find
No reckoning within the courts of
clinton Scollard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-03
PREPAREDNESS
[From the Philadelphia Record

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
The story has long been current about
Napoleon III that, on the eve of the
Franco-Prussian War. he asked his
Minister of War if everything in the
army was ready. Yes, sire" was the
reply, down to the very last button on
the soldiers shoes" The test of war
showed that there were a whole lot of
things more important than buttons
missing from the French equipment,
and it was largely because of this de-
fective preparation that the Germans
achieved such rapid victories. Our own
experience in the Spanish-American
War was not unlike that of France.
Which of the European armies now
modifying is to repeat this tale of un-
readiness?