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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
MORE GOOD ROADS

There are to be 1000 miles Of inter
county and main market roads built
in Ohio this summer. Think Of what
that means to the farmers when the
crops are to be hauled to the markets.
The benefit can not be estimated in
dollars and cents, it is too great
Three millions of dollars are to be
expended in building these roads in
the country. It is an example Of con
structiYe work for the rural districts
that has never been equalled by pre-
Yious state administration.
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American farmers have never got
ten for their wool the market price in
Boston plus the tariff, and during all
the years of this country's tariff policy
the average price of wool has been
greater in London than in Bosto1.
For years the absolute control Of
prices by the Boston Wool syndcates
has been disgrace to American com
mercial intelligence.
"a few months of actual experience
may greatly enlighten the American
farmer on this vital question as to
whether the tariff has been or can be
a real benefit to him instead of a grand
scheme of deception by the high pro-
lection or trusts. Let time do the en-
lightenment"
The test Of time is here and is cer-
tainly doing the enlightenment regard
ing the deception of the high protec-
tion trusts. Farmers who we're induced
one year ago to sell their wool as low
as 1 to 20 cents, are now offered for
the same quality of wool as high as 27
cents per pound
A number of active buyers have
made offers of 25h cents to farmers,
with requests not to sell until they are
seen again. Even farmers who have
been offered 81 cents per pound for
their wool, have been requested by
the buyers not to sell until they are
seen again. So anxious are many of
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29

the buyers to purchase wool, that
farmers are frequently urged 10 make
sale of their wool before the sheep
have been clipped. The activity of
wool buyers in the interest of the Bos,
ton syndicates shows clearly the ex-
tent of the demand for wool the pres
ent season and also shows the falsity
of all the preaching by the Boston syn
dicate trusts Of year ago when they
were pressing down the price of wool
below its actual value on the tariff
howl that they then raised There
should be no political influences to af
feet business transactions pertaining
to the purchase or sale of a staple of
the character of wool, and the political
buncombe that has been so much in
evidence in recent years is now likely
TO be greatly discredited
Farmers of Licking county are to
day receiving offers for their wool of
prices that average 20 per cent high
er than what they received last year for
the same quality of the staple, and
the outlook at the present time is that
there will be still greater increase
in prices of wool in the near future.
Supply and demand in the worlds
great markets are what regulates the
price of great staple like wool, and
all this political buncombe about the
benefits of high protective tariff will
be absolutely discredited in the future.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
RICH TAX DODGERS CAUGHT

T. Over 10000 rich tax dodgers will be
caught this year by the new Warnes
tax law, and they are neither farmers
NOR worhingmen Most OF them re-
side in the cities. These dodgers are
the fellows who made the Warnes law
necessary and they are all causing it.
Few thinking men will condemn a
law which makes the rich dodgers pay
their taxes along with the people of
moderate means. With both hands,
and both feet every tax dodger APP
sDlauds every kick against the Warnes
aaw that is made by the standpat Re
publican organization. Its amusing
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN OHIO

How times have changed Truly, a
new order of things is at hand. Yes
terday on the same roofsheet, there
came TO the editors desk two news
items telling of state aid to unfortun-
ates One story told of a Columbus
workman, totally disabled by an acci-
dent at an east side manufacturing
plant, being granted $3.64675 In cash
and 50 week for the remainder of his
life by the state industrial commission.
The other item related the award by
the commission to a Columbus woman
of S3,29784, payable all at once, to en-
able her to buy home for her five
children, orphaned when the husband
and father was accidentally killed by
an electric wire.
And we could not help thinking, as
we read these stories, not unlike 9th
ers that appear every day now, how
very much better it is TO be working
man in the state of Ohio today than it
was Only few months ago.
In the past the survivors of the vic
Tins of industrial accidents generally
inherited nothing more than a law
suit. And most frequently these suits
were lost And if they we're not lost,
through the opposition of the high
priced and skilled lawyers that big
corporations employ, they we're always
dragged out through so many courts
and over SO many years. that even a
judgment for the plaintiff was eaten
up by court costs and attorney fees,
But now all this is changed The
great state Of Ohio now stands behind
its sons and daughters who toll and
guards their rights with firm hand.
The new order is more than mere
Tworkmen's compensation" 1t is so
cial justice. Columbus Citizen, May
%.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
HOW is THE PRICE WOOL
AFFECTED BY THE TARIFF?
(Newark Advocate)


One year ago a great hubub was
raised over the allegation that the
price of wool was seriously affected
by the tariff bill then pending before
Congress, which subsequently became
the law
On July 1, 1913, the Advocate ex-
posed the trick of the Boston wool
syndicates, which were then buying the
farmers wool at greatly reduced
price and less than it's actual value,
by making the plea that the reduced
price was due to the protective tariff
that was then being revised down
ward, and wool being placed on the
free list.
The real trickery of the Boston wool
syndicates which the Advocate then
exposed, now turns out to be true in a
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
WHO is THE VISION?

It was that distinguished former Re-
publican Albert j. Beveridge, who quot
ed in his speech at Columbus in Janu-
airy the Solomonic proverb, Where no
vision is the people perish" The tai
ented lndianian paraphrased by affirm
ing that numbered must be the days
of that political party which had no
vision. Those remarks were directed
at the Republican party, which Bever-
idge knew as one who had viewed il
from without and from within. From
ventiou Of 1912, where the force of
brutally operated patronage ma
chine defied the will of the majority of
the voters, as well as In the inner por-
tails of the United States senate, when
that body was "milliOnaire's club"
he had seen the Republican party.
What man could more truly say that it
lacked vision?
But perhaps we are too severe on
our troubled adversaries. Today they
are looking for a "vision" and it is
significant that the choice is limited
to what honest citizens might call
nightmares Who is to supply their
vision?
Shall it be Joseph Benson Foraker,
whose vision may possibly be John
d. Archbold and Standard Oil? Shall
it be fifty-year ranchise? The ques-
ton is pertient at time when For
aker Is the leading candidate for sena-
tor in the Republican camp.
Shall it be Warren G.. Harding, an
excellent gentleman personally, who,
however, not SO long ago paid defer
ece and devotion" to Geoge Il. Cox?
Is he the vision?
Shall 1t be Isaac b. Cameron or the
little black satchel that carried the
state funds on their semi occasional Wis
1t TO the state treasur to be counted?
Is Mr. Cameron the ision?
Is Charles W. Il. Dick of Akron, the
oiler Of the Hessian machine of years
gone by, the aupplier of the vision?
Who then shall it be?
Go through the list of the men first
and foremost in the Republican party
today Who shall furnish a broader
outlook? There is not one who did not
in the most recent years "stani by"
while looters wero at work in the
statehouse
BY whom was protest filed in those
halcyon days of public plunder? The
people have right to answer today.
Did those who now seek to wrap an
air of sancitity about themselves take
hand in driving the grafters from
the temple of the state? Why when
Judson Harmon and Staley Creamer
started in Ohio six years ago to make
"scoundrelism odious' what did the so.
called leaders of today do7 On every
hand they joined in the defense that
the treasury grafters sought Where is
there single utterance of any one Of
them crying out against the black de-
mon Of graft that was eating its way
into the very heart of Ohio?
Talk about a chastened party! That
men should have the temerity 20 sug.
Gest such thing astounds even the
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29

most emphatic degree. Just as the
friends of tariff reform then claimed
the Boston wool syndicates bought
wool in the farmers hands at such re-
duoed prices that the profits of the
syndicates amounted to millions of
dollars.
The Advocates article on July l.,
1913, turns out to be so truthful that
we herewith reproduce it, which Is as
follows;
TRICK OF THE BOSTON
WOOL SYNDICATE"
There are indications that the wool
growers of Ohio and other Western
States are being or have been pretty
badly bucoed by the Boston syndicates
in control of the American wool mar
ket The tariff bill has afforded the
Boston manipulators the prerequisite
pretext for bearing down the price un-
til the bulk of the product in the hands
of the numerous flock masters of the
Middle West could be bought up. This
being largely accomplished, the Bos.
ton syndicate, in close touch with Lon
don, the worlds greatest wool market,
is preparing to put up the price of the
product and it now promises to be sew
eral cents higher on the pound.
The price of wool should be regu-
lated in the same manner as that of
any other great staple-tbat of sup
ply and demand.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
. APAY DIFFERENCE
AND DEVOTION

Just at the time when the bank Of
Boss George B. Cox was forced by the
state to pay $4,000 Of interest on IL
legal deposits of state money by
crooked Republican state treasurers,
Warren C. Harding has announced his
candidacy for United States Senator
SO that he can pay Difference and de-
votion to Boss George b." in the upper
branch of Congress, if he should be
elected
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
JOHN D. FORCED oFF

HIS HIGH HORSE"
When the listing of property was
commenced this year, the deputy as
SCISSORS left tax notices for use in max
ing returns at the home of each citi-
zen in the state
The ordinary citizen of moderate
means filed out mis- blank making an
honest return of his property for taxa
ton and dispatched it the district as
SCISSOR of his county.
John d. Rockefeller the Standard
Oil magnate, the weaIthiest man in
the world, packed up his personal be-
longngs and fed from the state, ig-
noring the tax notice left at his home
in East Cleveland. Later his attorneys
made a return of $4,000 of personal
property, the amount it had been Gus.
tomary for the Oil King to give in
under the old system of listing his
property.
But this year John D. has learned
that his standing with the new taxing
officials is exactly the same as the
humblest citizen in Ohio. His millions,
his lofty position in the financial
world, and his domineering tactics
have not intimidated the Warnes law
officials in the least.
District Assessors Agnew and Fack-
Ter, of Cleveland, have placed the Oil
King on the Cuyahoga county dupli-
cate for a total of 311,226,3H of per
sonal property, not a dollar Of which
is taxed any where else. OF this
$285, 100000 is Standard Oil holdings.
This addition to the duplicate will
bring the taxes down in East Cleve-
land where the Oil Kings Ohio resi-
dence is located, from si4 per $1,000
to $5, and he will contribute $1,500, 900
in taxes instead of the paltry amount
he has been paying under the old
system.
And 80 it has been in all the coun-
ties of the state. The district asses
sors have not been concerned about
the thousands of people who have
been on the duplicate for adequate
amounts; but they have been on the
trail constantly for the wealthy lag
CARDS who receive the maximum of
benefits from our government and con-
tribute nothing in the way Of taxes to
its support. In Franklin county, NJ.
M. s. Petersen, retired steel manu-.
facturer, who never before made a
personal property return, was called
before District Assessors Ellis and
Pfeifer. AT first he denied owning
any stocks, but when confronted with
evidence IN the hands Of the district
assessors he listed $4,000 of steel
stock.
Such occurrences AS these could
be multiplied to include every county
In the State.
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HONEST ASSESSMENTS
columbus Journal, Rep.)

Columbus journal, Rep.)
The fight against the Warnes law
is about pegged out. But there is said
to be some opposition yet among the
farmers. the very place where it ought
to be favored, unless they have large
quantities of intangible values hid
away, which we do not for moment
believe. The purpose of the law is TO
get an honest assessment, and that
is what every honest man should
stand for If appointive assessors
will secure that object better than
elective assessors, they should be 80
employed. 1t is very foolish OBJ
jection that the selection 10 taken
from the people, If thereby the assess
ment Is more honest and complete.
The truest illustration of the popular
will is in the selection of a man who
will be the property on the duplicate
1t is not glittering generality mat.
ter; but simple question of who will
do the work best. 1t is the best ex-
'hibitiOn of democracy where no man
is allowed to sneak out of his share
OF paying his taxes, and it is the poor
est kind of politics to permit him to
do it,
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,e made to adjust differences.

be made to adjust differelces
A spirit OF optimism prevailed
throughout the informal conference in
the Governors Office and as a result
of it the men will go into the formal
assemblage in June in much better
spirit than they we're in when the
former negotiations which resulted in
a deadlock were conducted
Whatever the result, the people
know they have a Governor who is
on the job, and everyone wishes him
success.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29

uninitiated. Where was the vision of
Frank b. Willis? Who heard his stem
torian tones in denunciation of the
Camerons and the others? Where was
David Tod? The public has right to
know. Where was the Tod vision"
in those days?
And Beveridge says that where
there is no vision, the party must per
ish.'
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29
LIKE OLD TIMES

Seems like old times. The little
Republican bosses have gone UP to
Cleveland to consult Hanna Daniel
R. this time) and they have been told
to back Warren G.. Harding for United
States senator.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-05-29

values while the farmer paid taxes on
100 per cent. They ali have pleasant
memories of the days when the Re-
5ublicans we're in power and passed
the prosperity around to the boys.
They like TO think about it.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
AUTO BANDITS MAKE
RAID IN P|TTSBURG
Two Business Men Picked Up,
Thrown Into Taxi and
Robbed.

PITTSBURG. Jan. 2,-Automobile
bandits tonight kidnapped two business
men who were on their way home.
robbed them and rode them about the
city for two hours before dumping them
uncerenloniously Into the street. They
were given 10 cents apiece for car fare
home.
The victims are Charles e.. Succop.
president or q brewing company, and j.
a. Weldon, president OF a plumbing con-
Germ. Succop was seized by two mask ed
men. who had alighted from "A taSica b.
bllndfolded and then thrown into the car.
lie was robbed OF $50 and his jewelry.
Half an hour after the attack on Sue
cop Weldon was seized while approach
ing his home. bl!ndfolded and tied with
straps. He was relieved OF $50 and jew
elry.
4 third man. j. u Scottdale. a chauf-
feur, also was robbed. He told the po-
lice he had answered a call and while
waiting at a street corner was blua-
folded and thrown into the car. Six
dollars were taken from him.
Policemen found the abandol$.d taxi
cab two miles. from where II was seen
last by the victims.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
SHOWING FAVORABLE.
Report by Clerk OF Utah County Proves
Economy and Revenue.

Report by Clerk OF Utah County Proves
Economy and Revenue.
Special 10 The Tribune
PROVO, Jan. County Clerk A. "
robson says in his report OF his office tol
1918:
A good indice ton OF the amount Of
business transa cted In the clerks Of
flee during the year is shown by the
fees collected. and I therefore wish 10
make the following report:
for the twelve months ending De-
cember 81, 1913 there has been coll
lected In my office and turned into tbs
county treasury $5239.86: and In addI-
ton TO this there has been collected
through this office and turned into
the county treasury, as tho amounts
have come In, In licenses, s412.45. The
latter amount Is not included In fees,
as In the former adninlstratlo OF
this office these amounts were in
cluded in ths fees received
The salaries paid III the clerks Of
fee for the same period, twelve
months. amounts TO $3.50. which does
not Include salaries paid for extra
help on the assessment rolls.
For the same period OF time,
twelve months. ended December 81.
1912. the fees collected In this office
amounted to si7T2.15. watch did In
clude the amount collected i'm H.
censes. and the regular salaries paid
for that year amounted 10 $3.50 a
gain for the year 1913 over the year
1912 Of $500. LOS
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
NUMBER KILLED BY
AUTO is INCREASING
Over 800 Persons Meet Death In New
York Under Trucks and Big Ma
chimes Speeding Through Streets,

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Statistics com.
piled by Colonel Edward s. Cornell OF
the National Highways Protective so
ciety and made public today, show that
automobiles killed almost as many per.
sons IN this city during Tho year just
ended as they killed in the two Drc.
eeding years. The 1913 figures reveal
that 302 persons were killed by auto.
mobiles In 1911 aud 1912 combined
there were 1863 deaths from this cause,
notable part of Colonel Cornell 5
report deals with mail trncks, During
September, October and November these
vehicles killed eight persons, In De.
cember when the speed ordinance
amended to include them was enforced,
there was not fatality due to mail
trucks
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
FINDS THE FORTUNE
HER FATHER BURIED

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Jan. g.
Twenty~dollar gold pieces amounting to
S1400 were found today by Mrs. vii.
liam McCorkle of McCooI, Ind. They
from his home eight years ago by her
father, Nathaniel Marshall, carpenter.
The family dispensed after their home
was burned eight years ago and Mar
shall went to live with his son in Iowa,
Just before Marshall died he told his
son of burying the gold, but the young
man did not credit the story
When he met Mrs. McCorkle at a
Christmas reunion he told Of their fa-
atber's story.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
INCOME TAX SUIT IN
THE SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The first
suit concerning the income tax law was
docketed today in the supreme court.
Il was an appeal from the decision of
the federal district court of northern
Illinois, holding that it was without
Jurisdiction TO entertain the suit of
Elise de Wolfe against the Continental
e. Commercial Trust g. Savings bank to
enjoin the payment of the tax. on the
ground that it was unconstitutional
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
NO FUND.- FOR FORT
IN THE ESTIMATES
Continued from Page one.)

War: Sir-In view OF the fact that
a board is now In session to discuss
the subject OF rebuilding and locating
army posts, I do not think 1t would
be auiIss II called Its attention.
through you. to the many advantages
which Fort Douglas, Utah, offers as
a military post. I take 1t tllat the
first essential requisite TO the loca-
tion OF an army post Is climate. Fort
Douglas is especially fortunate In this
respect, The temperature Is even
and salubrious. without the iigors
OF winter or the excessive heat Of
summer ii is high and offers eN-
ceptional facilities for country drain
age and has a water supply second TO
none I'm the state.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03

health a few weeks ago. Mr.. Plat had
been a resident Of Idaho Falls for about
twenty years, having been enga ged in the
real estate and insurance business most
of the time He served two terms a :
widow and one daughter, Mrs Carl Rob
erts, were with him at his death. The
body viii be brought here for lnterment
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Aged Editor Dies

READING. Pa. Jan. 2.--William Ros-
enthal, 90 years old, ono OF the oldest
newspaper men in the United Sta ties,
died today. In his long career he pub
lished several weelsles In the German
language. He was widely known In Ger
man-American circles.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Club Keeps Open House.

Special to The Tribune.
POCATELLO, Idaho. Jan 2-More
than 1000 people were the guests of the
Commercial club yesterday afternoon,
All afternoon a happy crowd streamed
in and out of the clubrooms The spirI.
OF the New Year was on everyone nd a
pleasant programme was enjoyed.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Statistics Of Marriage.

Special 10 The Tribune.
PROVO. Jan; 2.-There were s27 mar
rage licenses Issued by tire county clerk
vorces were granted and two maria ees
snnulled for Utah county In the Fo,ITtf,
district court. There have been Eve
naSuranzali lions, eight pstitlons for natu-
ralization and thirteen declarations of In
tenttcn during the wear "
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
MUCH FLOUR BY MAIL.

Thousand Pounds OF MINIS Product Con
signed by Parcel Post.
Special to Tie Tribune
IDAHO FALLS. Idaho. Jan 2.-The
nrsf shipment under the new regulations
or me postofffce departments parcel post
received at the Idaho Falls postoffice was
1000 pounds Of flour from the icon MIN
Y fiftv-pound sacks. consicned 10 The
Cash Grocery OF this CITY
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03

his winter home at DefuniaIcs Springs,
Fla. He was born at Hillsdaie, n T.,
IN 1874, and was graduated from Yale
recently had been in Brooklyn.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Estate Left by Reid.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The estate left
by whitelaw Reid, enlba ssador to Great
Britain and editor and part owner of the
New York Tribune. was valued at 81 sos. :
ss4 IN report filed at White Plains to-
day by the tax appraiser.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Officers Installed,

Special 10 The Tribune.
PROVO. Jan. THE insts liza ton of
Bonneville encampment No, 6. !. o. 0. F..
took place this evening In the Odd Eel
lows hell. The ceremony was followed
by a banquet and social session.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Heavy Snowfall in Snain

MADRID, Jan. a.-Heavy SHOWS fell
throughout Spain again today. Tele-
graph and telephone services are widely
interrupted and the street railways In
several cities have suspended opera
tlon.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-03
Approves Lane's Plan.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.--The proposal
Of Secretary Lane to withdraw all lands
OF the public domain believed to contain
radium, in the interest OF the public good,
meets with the hearty approval Of Dr.
George Otis Smith, director OF the federal
geological survey.