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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-12-23
SOME RECENT RULINGS.

! A recent court decision has brought
to light an interesting case of liability
insurance agents, according to Joel
Tuttle. The court has decided that
an automobile owner is liable for the
injuries to passengers caused by &C.
cident to his machine, even though
the passengers pay nothing for the
transportation during which the injUr-
les are sustained. The same rule holds
true in the case of passengers injured
while riding with a demOnstrator Of
an automobile, though the passengers
themselves have requested the dem.
onstration.
The supreme court of Iowa. in the
case of Hunter VS.. The Colfax Con
solidated Coal Co. has decided that
the workmen's compensation law of
this state Is a valid statute but that
it does not mean, as has been gener-
ally thought, that an employer who
elects not to accept the provisions of
the law is thereby precluded from
showing, when one of his woTkmen is
injured. that he was not in any way
to blame for the accident. The court
held that II that had been the intent
of the law it would have been uncon.
stitutional
- - -
Among the points recently decided
by the Iowa Industrial commissioner
in interpreting the workmen's com
pensation act, is one that preacher
Is not workman within the meaning
Of the law, and cannot come under its
provisions. Another opinion fixes 10
weeks as the time during which com
pensation should be allowed a work
man who has lost all the fingers and
the palm OF his hand, the thumb only
remaining.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-12-23

According to a German medical au-
thority, fifteen minutes exposure to
the suns RAYS during an airship flight
a. high altitude will kill all the tuber-
culosis germs in a mans system.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
Mr.. Bryan's Mistake.
(BoSton POSt)

\DOStOll IOSl)
If ex-Secretary Bryan had the faint
est glimmering of hope that Ameri-
can sentiment as expressed by the
newspapers, eminent men of affairs
and the even more powerful man in
the street." would show any approval
Of his ill-timed, his discourteous, his
disloyal attack on the President Of the
United States while delicate negotia-
lions with a foreign power were in the
very process of going forward, he must
be bitterly disappointed man today.
The vast majority Of the American
newspapers whose editorials we have
seen and whose opinions have been
telegraphed tC us unite in condemning
the course Of a man who had been
Secretary Of State but a few hours
before rushing into print in behalf Of
Germany and marshalling as argu-
ment two Of the self-same demands
that German diplomats and semidiplo-
mats have long urged upon the gov
eminent Of the United States.
The general sentiment, so far as we
have been able to gauge it, is that by
deliberately adopting a course sure to
emharrass the President in the midst
Of the most delicate duties and grave
responsibilities, Mr.. Bryan has shah
billy infringed that good American doc
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responding increases in purchases
from this country, leaving no room
for doubt that goods sold to: them find
their way to German buyers.
It is not alone in munitions Of war
and foodstuffs that America had
found enormous demand in Europe.
A Providence, R L, concern ships
hundreds Of thousands Of pairs Of shoe
laces each week to England; and a
Philadelphia factory filled an emery
ency call for 100000 needles in one
lot to Liverpool. Drugs, chemicals
and hospital supplies add very ma
terially to the demand. Automobile
exports in February, 1915. aggregated
$4,S07,812 in value as compared with
$2,461,955 in the same month in 1914,
an increase of more than SO per cent.
All this not only creates a market
for American products. but provides
business for steamship companies
that necessarily do part Of their own
buying in this country. The French
line alone has within the past three
weeks placed under charter 81 steam
ers to be utilized mainly for the
transportation Of war freight from the
Atlantic Seaboard to Europe.
But even all these orders for Ameri-
can products are not sufficient to keep
up the price Of some commodities I'M
der competition with products given
free entry under the Democratic tariff
law. Last week corn declined about
one cent a bushel, largely on account
Of prospects Of larger shipments of
corn from Argentina.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
An Unpatriotie Act,
Boston News Bureau)

\bOSlOH NEWS Buredu)
One of the Wall streets captains of
industry says: "The Bryan sensation
u.s. In my opinion, almost certain to be
rejected by an extremely unsatisfac-
tory reply from Germany to the note
which President Wilson is about to
cable This unsatisfactory character
may even go to the verge of studied
lnsolence. In that event I can see but
one outcome and that means hostilities
between this country and Germany.
Germany will argue from the Rrv-
an resignation, which seems destined
to take rank among the great unpatri-
otic acts Of history, that public opin-
ION IS seriously divided in this country
Germany will argue that a powerful
peace-at-all-price party exists, that a
known German party exists and that
strong Bryan party is coming into
being.
Public opinion cannot express II.
SER IN opposition to this natural but
erroneous assumption until GERMANY
mas presented a note that may CAUSE
serious affront to every American Gift
zen. The fault for this dilemma ,s
clearly on the head Of Bryan. II we
go to war with Germany It will ba
Bryan's fault, whose ill-timed act is
on a par with the many stupid blunders
which ne has perpetrated in his public
career" -o
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He Missed the Point.

In an appeal ITO the American Peo-
ple'' to line up against the govern
ment in its presentation Of the Ameri-
can grievance against Germany, Mr..
Bryan, former secretary Of state, says:
81 ask you to sit in judgment upon my
decision to resign rather than to share
responsibility for it."
To put the case inelegantly but in
way entirely expressive Of the coun-
try's temper at this time. the people
do not care a rap about Mr.. Bryan's
decision to resign. In fact they are
delighted with it, but they do sit in
Judgment" on Mr.. Bryan's decision to
use, discourteously and reasonably.
the prestige OF his high position to
prejudice the world against the case OF
this government at most critical
hour. II Mr.. Bryan had resigned,
minus the fireworks, and had remained
quietly biding his time and the outcome
Of controversy and negotiations set in
motion with his acquiescence, he would
have held the respect Of the American
people, and might eventually have won
back his place in their confidence and
the leadership of his old following.
But the American people are slow to
forgive anything that savors of treach-
cry. They realize that Mr.. Bryan was
pushed to the wall of obscurity, but his
retaliation hits the people more than it
hits those who slowly and with pre-
cision drew a blanket over his political
effulgence.
Mr.. Bryan is ready to abandon our
ancient rights upon the high sea, if the
bare assertion Of those rights is liable
to give offense to belligerent nation
which is offensive. To follow the
same logic. Mr.. Bryan would humor
a mad man to the point of submitting
to decapitation rather than chance the
further irritation by opposition to the
unfortunate Even the Prince Of
Peace found occasion for physical in
depreciation Of the rights Of others and
in restraint of wrong doing.
At this stage of the world game,
which we must play to the end, the
idealistic ramblings Of William ].
Bryan constitute superlative piffle.
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"War Orders"

War orders from Europe continue
to stimulate business conditions in the
United States. Though industry has
not yet reached the degree Of activity
enjoyed two years ago, it is noticeably
better than last year after it had suf-
fered the effects Of one year Of Demo-
p cratic administration.
One Of the disclosures Of the past
week was the effect Of the European
war on the market for copper. The
price Of copper had rapidly advanced
and copper mining and smelling COM
panies began doing a profitable bust
ness in the last two or three months;
vet there was no noticeable demand
Cor copper from Europe. Investiga-
tions as to the cause for renewed
prosperity in the copper industry
brought the information that the use
of copper in the manufacture Of brass,
in making cartridges. shells and other
war equipment had created a new and
enlarged demand. Exports Of brass
for the first three months in 1915
amounted to nearly 100000 pounds
as compared with 1871, 900 pounds for
the same period a year ago.
The entry Of Italy as a party to the
European war has called attention to
the fact that for the last few months
that country has been an enormous
buyer Of American products. either in
preparation for her own needs during
the war. or as an Intermediary in sup
plying material to other European
nations. For nine months ending in
March, exports to Italy amounted to
$13s. 100000, a. compared with $685.
100000 for the corresponding period
OF 1914. Shipments Of wheat alone
during this period amounted to A.
$4,000 bushels. as compared with
! 100000 bushels for the same period
in 1914. This shows. in a large meas
ure, the reason why farmers have
been getting q high price for wheat.
Dispatches from Chicago give the
information that British and Belgian
buyers have been taking American
horses freely and paying as high as
5000 each. Market reports from
Kansas City contain the information
that the European war has added
enormously to the value and demand
for grain and has provided a market
for thousands Of horses for which the
farmer had little need.
It is apparent that although Ger
many IL cut OF from direct COM
'munication with the United States, 1t
Is securing American products in
large quantities from other sources.
For example. In March Of this year
our exports to Denmark were more
than $11.5oo. 900, while for the same
month year ago. they were only
31.a50.000. Other countries bordering
pn. or adjacent Is Germany, show cor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

The readers of the Biddeford Record
must be deeply interested in its long
editorial discussions of the editors and
policies of other newspapers. Gus has
not time, between meals, to deal with
the passing events, but he wastes
heavily of his dull gray think paste in
training to his liking the editors of
such papers as the Biddeford Journal,
Portland Press and Kennebec Journal
A man of his massive intellect should
not expect Of the rest of us, at OUR
salaries, such magnificent grasp of the
meaning of life as is to him an open
book. Be patient with us, Gus.
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Simply Another BIunder.
Oath Times)

Oath Times)
Mr.. Bryan has told the country all
about 1t. While everybody else except
the German agitators is up-holding the
President in his American course, Mr..
Bryan takes the liberty of advocating
something different. He would per-
init the sinking Of American ships and
the murder Of American citizens, in
contravention to the law Of nations
and the law of God, for year while
an international commission was inves-
tigating the matter, and in the mean
time he would have America voluntar-
lily yield the rights Of her citizens on
the high seas at the behest of the out
Jaw Of Europe. Mr.. Bryan will find
the country as unresponsive to this
doctrine as it was to his free silver
theories.
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Bryan a. His Own LAWYER.
Boston Journal)

N0oSlOH JOurnal
In prefacing his Appeal to the
American People," Mr.. Bryan says he
always shall be ready to talk when
the occasion arises, and then proceeds
to throw himself into one Of the most
untimely. uncalled-for stump speeches
this country ever heard. The egotism
Of his race to keep his personal opin-
ions abreast Of the Presidents voic-
ing Of the nations position Is exceeded
only by his sheer disloyalty. He has
not only hindered President Wilson,
but has turned against him.
There Is no way Of checking Mr..
Bryan's flow Of illogical oratory, any
more than there is possibility Of guess
ing what he will say next. He now
stands discredited as an Official and as
a prophet. He remains only an ex.
emplar Of exotic idealism.
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A Victory for Amerieanlsm.
THE Cleveland Leader)

(The Cleveland Leader)
The resignation of william Jennings
Bryan as Secretary Of State Is a dis
tinct and important victory for strong
and thorough-going Amencanism. It
is a triumph Of the outstanding and
vigorous elements in the national life
of this republic.
Mr.. Bryan steps down and out be-
cause he has not agreed with the Pres
ident and other members of the Cabi-
net in regard to the controversy with
Germany and the stand taken by the
Administration. He retires because he
found himaelf hopelessly out Of har-
mony witt the sentiment and con-
victions of the great majority Of the
people Of the United States. He has
steadily lost the confidence. admiration
and support of the people. His retire.
ment will be good for the President,
good for his Administration, and good
for the country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

Wouldn't Brer Bryan (private citi-
zen) expect that the acts to which the
American people object, would continue
throughout the twelve months we
should give Germany, under his plan,
to think it over and repent? Of
course, If we failed to set forth our
claims, our wishes and all the facts,
for fear of offending a friendly nation
which has a war lord instead Of a
Bryan, then such as the Lusitania in
cident would recure as often as oppor-
tunity offered. And then. after a
year, what?
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Not the Same Confidence.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)

cleveland Plaln Dealer)
The action Of Mr.. Bryan in resigning
as Secretary of State is without doubt
the best solution Of an embarrassing
situation. Perhaps never in the history
Of the nation have SO many and so
grave complications been presented to
President and Cabinet for solution.
The times demand not only the best
thought but a united judgment. The
country has confidence in the wisdom
Of President Wilson. It is no reflection
on Mr.. Bryan to say that not the same
confidence is felt in his judgment in
these particular issues.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

The editor Of an Illinois exchange
is public benefactor and when he
dies the people of his county ought
his memory. He has discovered a new
way to get rid of mosquitoes. He
tells you simply to rub alum on your
face and hands. When the mosquito
takes a bite it Fuckers it's gazoopie so
it can't sting. Then it sits down in a
damp place. tries to dig the pucker
loose, catches its death Of cold and
dies Of pneumonia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

According to a speaker at the conven-
ton of the National Liquor-Dealers' As
ISOLATION, prohibition is wolf in
sleeps clothing, destroyer and de-
vourer wearing the garments of tenn
perance and roaring with the tongue
and turbulence of the tempest" At least
there is nothing dry about rhetoric
like this. Has the Prohibition movement
hurt the liquor interests to the extent in
dictated by the convention oratory?-New
York World.
If so, it must be doing something in
the line of prohibiting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
The African in tho Fuel,
(Omaha. Rec,

We do not believe the retirement Of
Mr.. Bryan will alter the foreign policy
of the Administration. for that has
VIGOROUSLY been Mr.. Wilson's. Poll
tically, Mr.. Bryan's resumption Of the
estate Of private citizens is bound to
change the topography of our domestic
affairs, more especially in his home
State OF Nebraska. No one believes
Tor q moment that he will be content
to serve tn the ranks. We hardly look
to q fourth candidacy for the next
nreaidencx. at the next turu-but NE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
MIR. BRYAN'S RESIGNATION

step that leads close to disloyalty.
treason and copperheadism If he uses
the knowledge obtained as Secretary
Of State to try and advance or sus-
tain his theories.
Copperhead, it may be recalled. Is
the nickname for noisome and noiseless
enemies. applied first to tho Indians in
Colonial times, and lastly and more
Gratis who resided in the North and
sympathized with and aided the South
during the civil war: or. as the die
tionaries give 1t, "a very venomous
North American snake A
Northern sympathizer with the Con-
federates. so-called by Unionists dur
ing the civil war"
This country hates a gutter" and
the retirement of Mr.. Bryan in the
midst Of a grave crisis has already
alienated most Of the few friends he
had and filled many others with deep
disgust. but does he also desire to be
considered a copperhead?
Mr.. Bryan wants years time to
many continues numbering, not men-o'-
warsmen, but steamship passengers on
the high seas.
He thinks the attitude Of President
Wilson and Of a majority Of the people
Of this country Is wrong and that Ger
many is right.
Before official announcement Of the
American note to Germany has been
made Mr.. Bryan comes out with a
statement cunningly devised to create
the impression that the President is
running the country into war.
If this is not lending aid and comfort
to the enemy, what Is It?
And yet in the face of all this we are
told that Mr.. Bryan is acting as his
conscience dictates and that his mo-
tives are good.
Now Mr.. Bryan proposes to take the
stump and start war on the administra-
ton that tolerated him for two years.
There is very ancient story Of an
migrate who betrayed his Master. He
went out and hanged himself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

The Globe having correctly quoted
"keemo Keimo, delto die we should like
to ask if it can also. reproduce that
equally famous metrical composition be-
ginning. "Eenie, meenie. mimic, mo-
Owens Pique-work in Portland Press.
Or that old classic starting off:
"H-o, no (there's your ho); no, no
Chere's your no and your homo;
RI. ri (there,s your ri, and your no-ri,
and your ho-no-ri), etc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
Misplaced Pity.

Mrs. Anna Steinauer, Boston's police
woman, said, the other day: my dut-
les afford me shocking revelations. I
am astonished at the number Of Bos-
ton women who smoke. And as for
the men Of Bostcn-well!"
The fair policewoman smiled grimly
and added:
; How many. many a Boston wife
brushes in the morning the billiard
chalk from her husbands coat sleeves,
and thinks. with tears in her eyes, Of
the overtime the poor boy puts in
nearly every evening at his dreary
desk by the whiteFashed WALTZ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

burlington, VT, News.)
Rryanism.
New York Te1egram)

New York Telegram)
That Mr.. Bryan stung the hand that
fed him is generally conceded and that
he intends to continue the practice Is
stated in his explanation" Of his res
ignation when he announces his inten-
ton to employ as a private citizen
the means which the President does
not feel at liberty to employ"
In this the impractical idealist, lack
ing depth and knowledge. is taking a
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The Wrong Road.
portland Argus)

bryan's announced campaign, having
as It's object the shaping of American
pubic opinion away from the Presi-
oent. has something Of the character
OF submarine warfare. But the efforts
10 undermine the administration, with
probable disastrous effects on the ma
tion in event Of success, are far from
popular; and it is emphatically not
the road that leads to the Presidencv
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, F. AND
A. M. Special communication Tuesday
June 15. Work in F. C. degree. All So
journing brethren are cordially invited.
FRANCIS S. III. CALLAGHAN, w. NJ.
WESTON LEWIS. Sec.
ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER NO.
q. Q. e. s. Stated meetings the first
Wednesday Of each month at Masonic
Temple. All members sojourning in the
city are invited to attend
ANNA NJ. PARTRIDGE, W. NJ.
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON, Sec.
aug2S, m-W-ftf
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Maine Gossip
Heresy.

Heresy.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Now, isn't this q sorry trick
For spring to play on folks who love
her,
Who have been calling her a brick
And incoming Of the skies above her?
Those vernal skies that all have praised
Are changed to drab and clammy
smudges;
No voice in rapture now is raised
Mid snow clogged host that home
ward trudges.
Why. really. spring. you ought to hate
Yourself for being SO capricious;
A snowstorm now at any rate,
Was bound to grteve the mind judi
cious.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

Now that Bryan and Dernburg and
Bernstorff have warned Americans
against trespassing on the high seas,
Germany should have had sufficient
permission to shoot at everything in
sight,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
The Rift Grows Wider.

(Springfeld Republican,
The little rift within the Lutte, as it
seemed the first morning, grows wider.
Mr.. Bryan has embarked on a course
that may bear him far in antagonism
to the Wilson administration. Was it
necessary in wisdom and patriotism to
do the thing as he did it? The Amer-
can people do not seem to think so.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

Our former Chautauqua statesman
not only swaps horses midstream but
Immediately begins throwing stones at
the old outfit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12
and Airy
Tho Shower.

She was caught in a shower,
But she didn't get wet;
For more than an hour
She was caught in a shower
That she'll never regret;
Twas a shower of linen
That brides-to-be get.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

The June bride expects to be kissed.
These are trying times for nervous
man.-Waterville Sentinel.
No conscientious man, however, in
Maine or elsewhere, will neglect his duty.
Boston Globe.
Unless he is ashamed Of his breath.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

Without warning, the Hon, William
J. Bryan. the Chautauqua superba,
torpedoes the ship Of state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

The anchor chains Of the old schooner
Marion Draper, one Of the best known
Of the small schooners which for years
run to the Kennebec to coastwise ports,
are now holding down a new public
landing float at Juniper Point. in the
Boothbay section
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

Now there is one more "deservin,
Democrat" out Of a Job.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-12

would not be at all surprised to see
him throw his hat in the ring Tor the
Nebraska senatOrship.
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Saturday, June IL, 1915.

We should praise our friends
our near and dear ones-we should
look on and think Of their virtues
till their faults fade away.-H. B.
Stowe.
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ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
Friday evenings at 500.
c. E. PRATT, N. G.
e. +. WESTON, Sec.