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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-03
Washington Officials Admit
L. S. Blundered in Max
ing Protest.
WILSON STILL WATCHING
: President Again Insists Policy
Will Lead to Downfall
Of Huerta.

NooALrs. y. NJ, March 2.-oen. Car
nr,a. frst chief Of the Constitutionalists
d.hed tonight the representatives Of for
.,sn Powers to interfere in Mexican AZ
AIRS. Carranra believes that Mexico
.sould work It's own salvation and that
10 as the provisional President Of the
country. is supreme in command.
rh!. he firmly expressed in an inter-
view he gave TO a sUN correspondent to-
day.
Great Britain has no rights In the
Benton case" said the rebel leader. land
sAould not attempt 20 interfere The body
q, Nadero was no. cold before certain
fo.ern Powers recognized Huerra as
p,es!len, ard England really now has no
representative here"
The United States, as guardian Of the
Powers was = subject the general refused
% discuss except TO say that the United
su,e- had refused TO recognise either the
rebels or the Federal Government. Gen.
carran.a expressed deep friendship for
the United Ctates and SEA that person
ally he hoped that some dAy the Mexican
sad American Governments would be able
y solve the question.
says villa IL military Leader.
Gen. Carrpnza said that he recognised
Villa az the military leader Of the Con-
satulonansts in northern Mexico. that
whatever villa did had to 'stand' and
tha, he would -upncad him, He added that
commission appointed to look into the
Benton case was a matter that was en-
tfeiy in Villas hands and that he would
Tot under any circumstances try 70 in
huence Villa in his decision.
Gen. CarranSa refused TO discuss the
Bsuch case, saying that all he knew was
What he had read in the newspapers and
10 the reports he received.
Gustav Baucn. the Constitutional!sts
insert was Federal agent inasmuch az
h worked for the railroad Transporting
AIMS and ammunition to the Federais.
whether he has been assassinated or
whether he Is In Juares or In prison in
Chihuahua. Gen. Carransa says he does
ao' know
villa is absolutely under my orders"
nd Gen. Carranza.
He cannot and will not make q move
nat Is against me. He has delegated to
him certain authority and I know villa
veil enough to know that he will follow
ny Instructions a. closely AZ he can. II
had not had implicit confidence In him.
would not have left the fight In the
Northern portion OF Mexico to him a. I
have
There II no break or difference be-
Wesn US and any intimation that there
% untounded."
VIII Protect Fsrelgness.
Asked II he would take any steps TO
Protect the lives Of foreigners In Mexico.
Zen. CarranEa said that he hoped that
we Constitutionalists would never be
proved to have wrongfully taken the life
OF any man.
Asked as to the probable date of the
'oreon battle the general said ne ex-
peeted the clash In about ten days.
Gen. Carranzs Is not in good health.
throughout the Interview he was oour-
.ous and was eager to express his friend
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-03
PUTS ONE OVER on THE SUM-"

"Hsi Hast" Over the Telephone.
It o'clock last evening:
want TO call your attention to the
clock on the Hall Of Records"
'sWoIf'
"It's not out All the rest In the neigh
borhood are not running. including the
City Hall. Ours 10 o. K"
That's good work."
'Course! Every time We break down
you swat us. lust want TO get back .:
ysa HA hal Coca Night"
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-03
ICELAND 10 HAVE RAILROAD.


Specsei Csbis Dssposch TO TIE Sun.
CuppNHAdEN. March at Is announced
that sixty miles Of railroad are to be
laid in Iceland. Hitherto there has not
been Q mile of railroad in that country.
There are not only no railroads In Ice
land. but throughout the greater part OF
the island there ara no proper roads.
even in the inhabited districts. There Ia
nothing but bride paths and In the unin-
habited districts not even these. All
land Journeys are made on horseback and
IN the moro remote parts of tho island
ali goods have to be transported by the
same means Many bridges have been
built In recent years. Steamers 30 around
the island and touch at nearly every
port
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-03

SOLID STEEL TRAINS TO YLORIDA
Pia0hurst, Southern Pines, Camden, Atlanta,
Birmingham. esaboArd Air Line iis< B'wsy.
ADJ,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
THE KILLING OF WILLIAM BENTON.

The killing Of William Benton the high spirited and
brave Scotchman, who dared to face and upbraid the
chief Of the bandits, Francisco Villa, for the ~robberies
and deprcdations on his ranch, but confirms the public
opinion Of Villa as a mcrrilcSs and arrogant desperate,
an outlaw in all the word implies.
How much the ''watching and waiting diplomacy
of our country has contributed to the tragedy that
lematical, but after the massacres by Villas forces at
Torrcon, the executions Of his helpless prisoners at
.Juarcz, the contscation of the residences Of the best
citizens Of Chihuahua, the holding for ransom in true
brigand style Of the merchants and prominent men
of that city, there could remain no doubt of the status
of that murderous chief, and our officials in the dip
lomatic service had ample and sufficient warning.
SO had the people Of the United States, Of Great
Britain, of Germany, of France, of Spain, of all Christ
endom, of the entire world and as the leopard can. not
change his spots, so Francisco Villa, the old bandit for
10 years, warning on his felloWmen, could not resist
the lust for slaughter when face to face with the man
he had robbed and mistreated, and if he did not kill
Benton with his own hands, he handed him over to
adeath by the hands of his organized band of assassins.
And it is this man, Villa, upon whom reliance is
placed for restoring Il constitutional government to
Mexicol
1t is this man, Villa, and his coadjutors in savag-
erv, who are to be the Instruments in bringing the
blessings Of peace to the poverty stricken and ruined
people of our neighboring republic Cincinnati En-
quirer. TT
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
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and still later, in 1887, he became a resident of Pierre
and has since continued to reside in the capital city.
AT the age OF twenty-five he married and began the
work OF ~home-making and BODYBUILDING. His first
home was an exceptionally modest one,-14x2O feet
but a home, as he viewed it, consisted not in measur-
able dimensions, nor in rich tapestry, but in content
ment and reciprocal love. His family besides his noble
and helpful wife, consists of four children who idolize
their father.
1t is needless to enlarge upon his early experiences.
lie encountered such obstacles as men of action and de-
termination are apt to meet and he stlrmounted them.
He gradually moved forward with the growth of the
country, IN whose development he has been no small
factor, and has succeeded in accommodating a moderate
amount Of property.
During his whole business and political career he
has impressed those with whom he has come into
contact with the inviolability Of his pledge. His word
is as good as a bond. Even his political opponents
concede this as a characteristic virtue.
His has been a clean life, an active life, a busy life.
and a truthful life. He is without ostentation. He
has been among the foremost in all public enterprises
IN his home city, to which he literally contributes
in both energy and means, but entirely without display
y member of the Protestant Episcopal church, vet he
gives freely to assist sister churches, especially in their
building plans. His contributions for charitable pur-
poses, and his assistance to the worthy poor, are mat
tcrs Of common knowledge within only a very limited
circle, believing, as he does, that the dispensing of char
ly and the helping of the needy should be done with
as little outward manifestation as possible.
1t is a tribute to Mr.. Burke's character that those
who have known him longest have unboundcd faith
in him as a man and that those who know him best
love him most.-Picrre Daily Dakotan.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
of confidence" or ''no confidence submitted to a
vote of the whole county.

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vote of the whole county.
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That was quite an insult which Senator Crawford
handed the editors Of the state when he charged that
Congressman Burke was using money to influence
their editorial opinions. T. b. ROBBERS comes back with
the statement that the Burke headquarters at Pierre,
or the Burke committee or Mr.. Burke himself have not
pad to any newspaper a penny for support. OF course
Mr.. Crawford knows that but he has reached the point
where 1t is absolutely necessary for him to talk about
something except his own record. Those % votes with
Aldrich and Guggcnhcim and PenroSe and Lorimer
and against every progressive member Of the senate
cannot be answered. Hence the false charge against
the newspapers. The Argus-Leader knows that Mr..
Roberts is telling the truth so far as it is concerned.
1t has not received, has not been promised, does not
expect and does not want, a copper from Mr.. Burke or
his committee. We believe that every other news
paper IN the state which is supporting Mr.. Burke can
bear the same Observation-Disclosures.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
BURKE IN PRIVATE LIFE.

The people of his home city know Mr.. Chas. II.
Burke in private life-know how he has lived, what
he has stood for, what he has done, and what he is
doing, but those living outside of his immediate sur
r~oundings know him only as a public man, having
ACQUIRED their knowledge during the nearly twenty
years that Mr.. Burke has been associated with them
in an official capacity.
Mr.. Burke's boyhood was spent ON the farm ON
which he was born. IN western New York. He exper-
fenced all the vicissitudes incident to the life OF the
average country lad. 1t was in the rural schools OF his
neighborhood that he secured his early education, at
one period in his boyhood driving five miles and return
each day to attend school and doing the ordinary farm
chores morning and evening.
During the summer seasons he worked as other
farm boys usually worked, taking his place as he APP
preached young manhood, side by side with the hired
man, turning aside from nothing in the line of duty
He worked with them, ate with them, and slept with
Item, as was the custom among farm boys.
During the latter part OF his teens he had ac-
auired sufficient education to be able to teach school
in his native state, teaching >the usual four months
term and spending the balance of the year in farm
work.
He was still under the parental roof when he att
tanned his majority in April, 1882, The sap was mov7
ing in the maple trees, and Mr.. Burke worked in the
sugar maple groves at one dollar a day, earning his
first money as a man,
Later IN the spring the struck out for the west,
with only sufficient means to carry him to his contem-
plated destination-Moorhead, MINI. Here he engag-
ed to work as d carpenters helper, IN the midst OF n
building boom, his only tools being a hammer, 9 sam re
and a saw.
But, with health and strength and vigor combined
with courage and perseverance and an optimistic tenn
permanent, he was determined to do his part n #hfe,s5
battle, He believed it to be his duty to- accept what.
lie could get in the way of honorable employment I'M
til opportunity should be afforded for something bet
ter.
III the summer Of the same year he joined . former
New York state friend of about his own age N q mer-
camille venture at Broadland, Beadle county this state,
and at the same time became a homesteaders A year
later lie removed to Hughes county settling at Blunt,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12

1T is only Il question Of the size Of Mr.. Burke s
majority over Crawford, - says the Doland Tinres-Rec-
ord. ''Some of the enthusiastic supporters Of Mr..
Burke place it as high as 10000 while the more con-
sentative estimate from $4,000 to IS 900" Mr.. Craw-
ford knows this as well as anybody. He knows that he
is beaten "to a FRAGILE" Hence his charge that the
newspapers OF the state have been bought.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
WILL AVOID THE FILTH.

In q signed statement addressed to the registered
republican voters of the state, G. II. Burke, proposed
by the minority committee of the republican party
of South Dakota for United States senator, says:
''In Iay opinion candidates for high office should be
drafted, rather than force themselves upon the cleo
torate by resOrting to a personal campaign of ex-
travaganrc, often misrepresentation, falsehood and
abuse.
eff the people would discourage self -promoted can
didates, the tendency would be to %supplant politicians
with statesmen and true representative government
would be strengthened and more firmly established.
EPrimary campaigns should be conducted along
lines of decency. Personalities should be avoided as
much as possible. fractional differences and feeling
should be suppressed * & = in order that after the pri-
mary election is over all can unite in supporting the
ticket nominated"
Continuing, Mr.. Burke declines to indulge in "a
campaign Of billingsgate and abuse He will not,
from the stump or through printed argument, attempt
to degrade others who may have ambitions like his
own. He submits his case upon the record he has
made, leaving it to the voters to decide whom they
want.
This is a most refreshing statement of intentions,
after all the filth Of the campaign, coming from the
highest aspirant down to the lowest, running through
the gamut OF personal abuse, of official criticism, of in
uendo, of charges of ineiciency, Of boastful selfag-
grandizement.
Mr.. Burke's clean and wholesome statement inclines
the lluronite to him more than it has ever before been
inclined, and it is well known that it has not been
among those that have praised him and urged him in
season and out of season.
But there is something more than gross material in
a man who can in the midst of a campaign unparal-
leled for its lapses from the amenities of intercourse,
meet the shafts of opposition and malice with a cool
headed disclaimer Of intention to himself become indie
cent.
If the indulgencies Of the primary campaign are a
sample Of what the public is to be given in the future,
the half-sick heart Of the voter will cry out against
their repetition.
They have contained nothing in the way Of reasons
why this man should be nominated or that man should
be defeated.
They constitute a record Of the abuse Of worthy
men, who have been unfortunately named for offices
within the gift of the people and because thereof they
have been placed in the pillory and made to regret the
day and hour when they became known.
It all amounts to nothing-these attempts to lower
men In the estimation Of other men, to prove that they
are unworthy of confidence, because they have been
declared worthy of confidence by a jury of intelligent
men. Mr.. Burke,s way is theb est way.-From the
Daily Huronite, Huron, S. D., edited by w. S. Bowen.
recognized for years as one Of the leading propressiyes
of the state.
&@&@ 1880
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
NO AGE.

Occasionally we may come across some almost in
comprehensive condition in domestic economy serving
to divert effort toward analysis from the profounder
mysteries thrust upon us by advanced science to the
commonplace in everyday apprehension instance, the
figures advanced as to the horse and the mule in the
statistics of the day. %
We are told that there are over a million automobiles
in use in our country, from the large touring car and
the limousine down to the smaller and cheaper ma
chimes. Add to these many other substitutes for horse
power, the motorcycle, the great number of motor
driven agricultural implements on the farms, and we
may well query, Why the horse and the mule? But
the fact seems to remain that on the farms and ranges,
where cattle are raised there are $4,000 more horses
now than there were a year ago-20,5 67, 900 horses,
worth say two and a quarter billion dollars, and 1885,
900 mules, worth about a half billion dollars.
On the streets Of cities and towns we see so few
horses drawing carriages that we wonder how soon the
fiction of a Mother Shipton prophecy may come to be
a reality. But start out to buy a good, stylish span of
horses, or a powerful draft horse, or a big, strong mule,
we will find that we have to pay more now than at any
time since the automobile was ia it's infancy. The
high price of these draft animals may be accounted
for by reduction Of stock raising, because of increase
of machine power, but producers of leather tell us that
there has been more demand during the past year for
harness leather than during the preceding year. From
the 1910 census to the estimates of values for the pres
ent time we have an increase of horses on farms and
ranches from a billion and a half dollars to two and
a quarter billions; and as to mules, an increase Of
twenty-three million dollars.
But now even the horse and buggy have given place
quite generally to the smaller machine for two or three
persons. Ia the heavy work of hauling powerful ma
chimes do much of the work, in many instances Of four
or more animals.
While the production of horses and mules has been
reduced on account of decrease of speculative interest
owing to the machines, we know that there are many
vast sections of country that cannot be developed ex-
cept by the use of animal power, and for these the
horse market has to be supplied-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12

The eharge" is brought against Anderson that Is
auditor he haslet the public know what has been going
on. Well, when Won come to think Of it, what is an
auditor for, # he doesn't audit the accounts submitted
to himg IT employees Of the state can charge up any
old thing to the state, and # the auditor is to be crit
icised for putting the pencil through such items as
are improper, then why not abolish the auditors oaice
entirely The charge against Anderson is that he
has done his duty. The attack on Anderson. 81 this
charge. ought to make his election a certain thing
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12

a decade, is another matter. 1t may require genera
tions to complete the task Of eradicating evil once IN
troduced in high places, for evil does not die with the
,passing of the evil-doer.
These thoughts are suggested by the ado over the
attempted padding of the accounts OF an employe OF
the insurance department. 1t was a reprehensible act,
we admit. and it has met with a merited though per-
haps belated rebuke.
But what shall we say concerning the legallzed
grating practiced in the attorney generals depart
ment? There is no other adequate term to apply to
it, albeit it was within the law.
The attorney general, assuming to be the highest
state authority in matters of that class, an authority to
which even the state auditor must bow, abstracts
perhaps in a legalized way, but abstracts, nevertheless
from the public treasury a sum of money represent
ing the expenses Of an unnecessary trip to Charleston,
S. c., by authorizing and sanctioning the attendance of
two representatives from his department at a conVen-
ton, the business of which could well have been at
tended to either by himself or his assistant.
1t was a wholly unjustiiable raid upon the treas
ury, but one which, while perhaps within the pale OF
the law, was no less reprehensible than the attempted
grating of Emil Guenther-Daily Dakotan.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12

A Detroit paper suggests as a lenten deprivation
that the women use safety pins to close up the slit
skirt. Why not have the men, as a lenten sacrifice,
close their eyes with safety pins.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-12
HONESTY THE ESSENTIAL.

Honesty is the essential element in self-government
At stands as the supreme requisite if we are to move
forward in civilization as becomes men Of intelligence.
In 4 self-glyerning people, matters relating to tar
ifs, taxation, expenditures, policies, social and eco
nomie affairs, may be corrected when we ascertain
that we have been pursuing an erroneous course.
Tariff schedules may be changed or wiped out,
taxation reduced, or increased at will, expenditures
CENTRALIZED policies reversed-and we can do these
things IN d single campaign il we really set about it.
But to regenerate ourselves in a single year, orseven
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
THE SECRET OF THE HILLS.

tFrom the Saturday Review
t know a hollow in the hills,
Under the strong suns eye.
Glrt in with craggy parapets
And neighbor to the sky;
And, quiet as the hour that ~cleaves
The m day in two,
And lonely as a crescent moon
Lost in the sultry blue,
A tarn, Gods little looking glass.
furnished and round and fair;
AND mountains craning solemn headg
To glimpse him
The blessed secret of the hills
(They share it with the stars
lncarnate spirit apprehends
Dimly, as through Hne bars
A captive in the neither gloom
Sees on his dungeon wall.
Down from the kindly world above,
A feeble glimmer fall.
But freedom and enlightenment
Are not for sue as we;
The hills preserve inscrutable
1nelr ancient mystery.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12
CAUGHT SHIPPER WHO SHOT HIM
Marine Tells Brother in Jersey OF
Experience in Vera Cruz.

Abe AnZelewitz, a policeman Of Paw
onne, got a letter today from his
protner Herman, a United States ma
rIne, telling how the latter was slight
ly at Vera Cruz when the
american forces landed and how he
shot the mar who fired at him and
later captured him.
Herman is Is years old and became.
a marine two years ago. In his letter.
ne says that he was among the first
FORCES landed and that a bullet fred
py a Mexican who was 'sniping'' from
,ne roCf OF a house grazed his fore.,
head above the left eve.
lie fired back and worndeo ~
Mexican and then he and another ma
fine made their way to the roof Of
ne house and captured the sharp{
shooter.