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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

! seeing, as was proved eventually, thai
victory for the colonies could be wc1
only by the longterm organized and
disciplined centinentals, composing "a
small but good army"
Squabbie Over Officers.
Congress in the winter OF 1775, rec
ognizing the necessity of raising troops
to take the place of those whose terms
expired, resolved to provide twenty
six regiments, with power to Wash
ington to select the officers, which re-
suited in many Verplexities for him
and his general officers, for, as Wash
lngton wrote, Connecticut wanted no
Massachusetts man in her corps. Mas
sachusetts could see no necessity for
having a Rhode Island man in hers
and New Hampshire says it is very
hard that her experienced officers
should he discarded because her own
regiments cannot provide for them"
November II he wrote: MANY of
the officers expected promotion, others
stood aloof to see what advantage they
could make for themselves The diff.
Guilty with the soldiers was greater,
if possible. than with the officers.
They refused to enlist unless they
knew their colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major and captain"
Put Washington IN Dilemma.
Up to November 10 only 966 men
had enlisted. By November 28 they
had reached $500, and they all wanted
furlough. Washington wrote: Our
situation is truly alarming. and of this
General Howe is well appraised, it be-
ing the common topic Of conversation
when the people left Boston last Fri
day" In a private letter of the same
time he wrote Such a dearth Of pub
lie spirit, such stock jobbing and fer
tility in all the low arts to obtain ad-
vantages in this great change of mill
tary arrangement, pray Gods mercy
may never see again. What will be
the end Of these maneuvers is beyond
my sean. I tremble at the prospect.
We have been until this time enlist
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19
Inspection Lanps for Shells.

A British electrical manufacturer
has designed an electric lamp for IA
cilitating the inspection of the iute.
rior walls OF shells in munition works
TIE equipment may be described as
tubular lamp protected by wire
guard. a long metal rod, a wooden
handle in which is a pusbbutton
switch, and connecting cord and
plug. The equipment is held by the
handle while the lamp, supported on
the long brass tube. is lowered into
the shell to be inspected
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19
COUNTRY'S DEBT
TO WASHINGTON
Probably the Only Man Who
Could Have Wan Liberty
for the People.
Difficulties Which He Had to Encoun-
ter Were Almost insurmountable
Lack of Proper Training
Hampered Continentals in
All Their Battles.

y GORGE WASHINGTON, the
commander of the American
armies, knew better than any
one else the offensive and de-
fensiye value Of the forces under him;
and he has left vivid written record
of the relative value Of unframed
short-term men and Of a disciplined
iong-term body made OF individuals of
the same class, He plainly expressed
his opinion, fully confirmed by military
men since his time, of the army need
ed by this country when soon after
the disaster at Camden. he wrote to
congress: what we need is a good
army, not a large one.
Probably no war was ever carried
on where the one side was represent
ed in the field by so great proportion
of unorganized troops, not under a
central national control, and no great
commander, before or since, has ever
succeeded with so rapidly shifting
body of badly equipped men.
Bunker Hill Analysed.
At the battle Of Bunker Hill, an
army of untra.aed American minute
men and militia, under the command,
however, of veteran officers like Pres
colt, Stark, Putnam and Knowlton Of
the higher rank, and among the lower
officers a sprinkling Of men expert
enced in the French and English wars.
from behind Entertainments hastily
erected. hut Of value against low-pow-
err armament, successfully resisted
two attacks Of eIlorganized and
disciplined British veterans. with q
loss to the latter Of 1854 killed and
wounded. But these same troops. by
virtue not Of superior individual cour.
age. but Of their combined valor and
discipline We're rallied by their we'll
trained officers, made q third charge.
and although Outnumbered. succeeded
in driving the Americans. at the point
Of the bayonet from their trenches.
their supply Of powder being exhaust.
ed and their muskets not having bay
Onets.
The American force was Justly
proud of its resistance and of the
heavy punishment it had inflicted but
the result was, in spite of it's good
fight a defeat to its arms perhaps
only through failure in tie quarter
masters department. The British.
however, carried the hill on account
OF the better discipline OF their lire.
the better control of their officers. and
because their supply OF ammunition
was not exhausted. And they there
by prevented the success of the CO.
loniaI military plan.
Continental Weakness.
This story in various ways was
many times repeated in the WA of
the revolution, always with the same
result. In spite of the brilliant gen
eralship of Washington, Greene
Schuyler, Lee and others, the Ameri.
cans did not win a single victory over
the British regular troops when the
latter were not outnumbered
a brief examination of the powers
of the Continental Congress will show
what were the chief causes of this
weakness in our armies that led so
near to the collapse OF our national
defense and caused the intense anxiety
and distress to Vashington and the
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

Before the war. no tobacco was too
fine for the parisienne. Egyptian.
Turkish or Russian. was eagerly
sought Cigarettes with real gold tips
were not enough. A rose petal was
considered a more dainty mouthpiece.
Now the cheapest tobacco is the fash
ion and in their sympathy with the
men at the front women have taken
TO smoking "caporal." as their heroes
TO. The ivory cigarette holder may
have "A circle of pearls set In it. but
the cigarette must be the same as
his"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

ing about thirty five hundred men
. After the last of this month our
lines will be so weakened that the
mlnutemen and militia must be called
in for our defense. and these. being
under no kind Of government, will de-
stroy the little subordination | have
been labOring to establish and run me
into one evil while l am endeavoring
to avoid another But the less must
be chosen"
After five years Of experience in
command Of the mics. Washington
thus expressed himself in a letter to
the president of the congress, dated
August 20. 1880:
Had we formed a permanent army
in the beginning, which, by the con-
tinuance of the same men in service.
had been capable of discipline, we
never should have had to retreat with
a handful of men across the Delaware
in 1875, trembling for the fate of Amer
lea, which nothing but the infatuation
Of the enemy could have saved; we
should not have remained all the sue
ceeding winter at their mercy. with
sometimes scarcely a sufficient body
OF men to mount the ordinary guard.
We should not have been at Valley
Forge, destitute Of everything. in a
situation neither to resist nor to re-
tire. We should not have seen the
country raYaged. our towns burned,
the inhabitants plundered. abused.
murdered, with IMMUNITY.
Army Expenses Doubled.
THE arrangement of our finances is
essen sally 10 be ascribed to It, The
expenses of the war and the emissions
Of paper money have been greatly
multiplied by it. We have a great part
of the time had two sets of men to
feed and to pGy-the discharged men
going home and the levies coming in.
Our discipline has been much hurt.
if not ruined. by such constant
changes. There is every reason to
believe that the war has been pro
tracted on this account"
little later Washington wrote re-
garding that defeat CT General Gates
at Camden: Regular troops alone are
equal to the eXigeEcies of modern war
fare. as we'll for defense as oTenss.
ana wherever a substitute is attempt
cd ii must prove iuusory aud ruinous.
IN my ideas Of the true system of
war, the object ought to be To have a
good army rather than a large oEe. a."
DurinE the entire war the lack OF
money entailed greatest suffering upon
the army. but the men Of the continen-
tai army. with the exception of enc
or two regiments. were true to The
end through hunger. cold. sickness.
poverty at home. nakedness and de-
feat For this fidelity there were three
reasons patriotism. training and
George Washington.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

What is that horrible looking efigy
they've got stuck up in the middle of
the public square?" asked the city
man of the landlord of the Punkville
arms.
That sir replied the landlord, lis
the statue of Silas w Punk, the man
who founded Punkville."
Founded Punkyille, Ell? Well, II
that's the case he richly deserved
what the artist did to him"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

DR. Perce's Pellets are best for liver.
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
q iaxatiyc--three for a cathartic-Adv.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

The grave is narrow escape from
life.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

When a fool and his money are
parted the parting is such sweet sor-
row.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

If YOU have 1rieei. sticsS % him
and always Try to do him good. only.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-19

Men who have lean and hungry
look are nearly always the biggest
eaters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
TO Give 5000 ACRES
FOR HOME FOR BOYS
Kansas Ranchman Working Out
a Scheme Of Philanthropy.

Topeka, Kan.-John Marriage, own
er of the Eagle Canyon ranch in Null
linville, is going to turn his 5000 acre
ranch over to Il home for orphan
and neglected boys as training school
in farming. Marriage told of his plans
in a letter to COV|.';n" Capper. He
wants the govern0; ~ ~.
He would make i-v i1ioWa county
ranch a big home fu.' JoyS where they
may go to school, learn to farm. live
right and become honest and indus
trious farmers.
Il have a ranch of 5000 acres, fully
equipped with machinery and stocked
with pure bred CATTLE" the letter said.
''It is excellent land, 2,400 acres de-
voted to farming and 5000 acres in
pasture. For years | have been oper-
ating it with hired help. but | want to
get different helpers and cooperate
with them on a profit sharing plan so
Portable home here SO long as they do
right and are satisfied to remain.
''This property never is to be sold,
but is to be made into a training home
for orphans and neglected boys. There
will be three trustees to have the gen
eral management of the property and
nine co-operators to do the work and
live Christian examples. We are non
sectarian, but take the whole Bible as
our creed. Each co-operatOr will be
DprmittQd TO draw cash each month
for his living. also be credited Jan. |
of each year for share of The ranch
profits. We have good schools and
Sunday schools on the ranch. No one
who uses liquor, tobacco, vulgarity or
profanity will be tolerated.
Just how many boys or what sort of
boys are to be taken and under what
conditions they are to be permitted to
enter the ranch school has not been
worked out. Mr. Marriage is consult
ing other philanthrOpistS.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Tariff and Politics.

The tariff can be taken out Of poll
tics when the protectionists cease
their agitation. The Democrats are
not literally free traders; revenue
tariff will afford a considerable meas
ure of protection, and at present no
considerable number Of persons urge
anything beyond that. If the protec-
tionists will cease their clamOr for the
exclusion of foreign goods and will
allow a commission to fix duties with
reference to revenue and the costs Of
production, the tariff can be taken out
of politics. But when President Taft's
tariff board made it's reports the pro-
tectionists were no better pleased
with them than with report from
Democratic ways and means commit
tee. They did not accept the commits
sion's report in 1888, or the report Of
the Mann committee on paper and
pulp in 1908
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Matter to Be Reasoned.

There will be plenty of discussion
of the revenue proposals of Secretary
McAdoo; but it is likely that his plan
of pay as you co. will appeal to most
people and be accepted by congress.
The emergency that requires this
country to increase it's revenue, say,
from a thousand to twelve hundred
millions of dollars a year is not one
that justifies issuing bonds. The bill
lion-a-year now spent is raised without
grave imposition on anybody. To add
two hundred millions to this sum would
not be seriously noticed. SO far as
concerns the countrys capacity to
pay, there need be no great worries,
but there is, Of course, room for dis
agreement about the precise methods
through which money is to be pro
duced.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
TAFT O[D-FASH|ONED TARIFF MUST WAIT
Believes Republican Party Should
Have Principles.
Forgets That "Anything to Win!" Has
Long Been the Slogan of the Or
Qanization Ex-President
RooseveIt's Position.

Mr.. Taft is still an old-fashioned
person with a fossilized mind. He
thinks that a political party ought
to have principles in defeat as well as
in victory, and that having principles
it ought not to sell out. Consequent
ly he is opposed to letting Mr.. Roose-
welt either frame the next Republican
platform or name the candidate for
president.
There was a time when this sort
of doctrine held favor, but times
change and parties change with them.
The average Republican politician is
not worried much by principles. What
he wants most is to get back into
power. If Roosevelt seems to offer
a bridge, he is not disposed to quar-
rel with the means by which the end
might be reached AS for differences
of principle between RooseVeltism
and Republicanism, they do not worry
him. He knows by experience that
not improvised to fit the occasion, and
that the situation cannot change last
er than the colonel. Progressivism
looked like a winning card in 1912, and
so the colonel was Progressive. If the
1916 tide runs toward reaction, the
colonel can be as stout a reactionary
as Barnes or Penrose or Uncle Joe
Cannon.
To Mr.. Taft the game of good Lord
and good devil is offensive, but Mr..
Taft was never a successful politician.
He never was capable even of betray-
ing a friend, and if his greatest ambi-
ton in life was to play the dema-
gogue, he would not know how to be-
gin. A party Of great moral ideals
cannot afford to listen to the advice
of such old fogies if it is to get away
with the swag.-New York World.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Intelligent Revision at Present
Impossible.
Conditions That Will Follow European
Conflict Will Have to Be Properly
Understood Before Work Can
Be Undertaken.

A majority of the members of the
Republican National committee, &C.
cording to a poll made by the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
World, believe the tariff will be the
principal issue in 1916.
To the Republican organization the
tariff is naturally an appealing issue,
because the industries that demand
extortionate protection will be the
only source of a Republican cam
paign fund. But how much of a popu-
lar issue is the tariff likely to be, and
how sharply are the rank and file Of
the two parties likely to divide?
Until the war has ended and the
belligerent nations have begun their
economic reconstruction, there can be
no intelligent revision of the tariff.
If Elihu Root, Senator Gallinger, Sem
ator Lodge, Senator Penrose, Joseph
G. Cannon, James R. Mann and Sen
ator Smoot were shut up in room
and asked to prepare a tariff bill
which would meet all the Industrial
dIu IGNOuuO u0CuS VI CuO Ou1LOu
States after the war, they would be
helpless. Senator Underwood, Speak
er Clark and all the Democrats who
helped frame the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tariff would be equally helpless. No
body knows; nobody can know.
Before the tariff can be revised in.
telligently again, the American people
will have to discard most of their
parochial theories about imports and
face the issue frankly as great ques-
ton in world economics. The United
States is now in a position to hold a
commanding position in the worlds
trade, but it will not hold that position
long if it attempts to impose prohibi-
tive duties on foreign imports. Dis
eliminating tariffs are a game that
two can play at. Great Britain, Ger
many, France, Russia, Italy and ia
pan can erect tariff walls as easily as
we can, and unquestionably will if we
try to close the American markets to
them. 1t is only by trading with us
that they can buy of us.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
PREACHER, II, ADOPTED.
aev. Henry EIatsch to Take Name of
His Legal Mother.

His Legal Mother.
New York.-The new law permitting
tie adoption of adults made it possible
fer Mrs. Sarah Ella Furnald, seventy
one years old and widow of Francis P.
Furnald, to fulfill Il hope of years
when Surrogate Fowler permitted her
to adopt the Rev. Henry Natsch, forty
one years old. With his wife the cler
eyman resides at the home Of Mrs.
furnald. "a West Seventy second
street.
Mrs. Furnald was the mother of four
children, all of whom are dead, the last
diving in 1899. Her husband died in
1907. Her only living relative is an
aunt, eighty years old, who has no rela-
tives. She had hoped to be able to per-
petuate the family name through an
adoption.
She met Mr.. Natsch when he was a
student in the Union Theological sem
mary in 1902 and shortly after he
went west to live with Mr.. and Mrs.
Furnald He married Miss Ethel Hele-
ma Burlington on Dec. 2, 1914, and the
two made their home with Mrs. Fur
nald. Mr.. Natsch now becomes Henry
Natsch Furnald, and his wife's name
changes accordingly. Mrs. Furnald
has a substantial estate, which, she
says. she will leave to her adopted son.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Bio Guns UnlimbSred.

Chiffon Times The big guns OF the
republican party have been numbered
and there is some rapid firing all along
the line. Gov. Philip is hammering
at LaFollette's trenches and is doing
some damages. Bob is still using the
old smooth bore, and it is some bore,
for he holds the crowds for weary
hours telling how corrupt the re-
publican party of Wisconsin is. That
is, the wing that will not follow him.
Democrats, it is hoped, will have brains
enough to let right and left wing of
the republican party fight it out among
themselves.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
How Congress Can Help.

Congress at this critical time can
render invaluable assistance to the
president in conducting the foreign
affairs of the United States. To do
this it need only enact the admins
tration's national defense program
into law without a days unnecessary
delay. That would strengthen the
presidents hands UNNECESSARILY. 1t
would be a demonstration of American
earnestness and unity which would
make an immediate impression upon
every capital OF the world New York
World.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Real Revival Of Business.

Persons who are trying to belittle
the wonderful revival of business make
the point that the increase Of exports
is almost entirely in supplies for the
belligerent governments. This is
true, but the whole export business is
small in comparison with the domestic
business. The purchases by belliger-
ent governments bulk largely in the
export Of statistics, but in the total
production and transportation of the
country they are very secondary.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Mr.. Perkins MOI lnfaIiibIe,

The colOnel's action in withdrawing
from the Republican primaries in Ne
braska should end all talk that he is
going back to the old party.-George
w. Perkins
Mr.. Perkins is an energetic, public
spirited citizen; a captain of industry
Of the first rank; an able banker and
a far-sighted financier; the most gen
erous angel" that ever financed bat
tie for the lOrd-but his knowledge of
scented by the algebraic symbol Of zero
divided by A.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
FORTY-NINTH STATE URGED.
Upper Peninsula of Michigan Seeks
Entrance as Superior.

Calumet, Mich.-Plans for a cam
paign to carve the forty-ninth state Of
the Union out of the upper peninsula"
of Michigan, under the name "Supe-
rior," were discussed here by Roger M.
Andrews, proprietor of the Menominee
Herald-Leader, at the annual banquet
of the Calumet Business Mems associ-
alton.
He asserted that the assessed valua-
ton of the district exceeds that of any
one Of seventeen states which he
named and laid stress upon the fact
that it is isolated from the rest of the
state
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20

Copies of the Congressional Record
for the first session of the sixty fourth
congress are received daily at The
Democrat office. Citizens who are in
terested in the doings of our national
lawmakers are invited to call and
consult this important public publica-
ton. There will be very important
history made at Washington during the
next few months.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20

a great many newspapers, including
The New York World, are trying to
persuade President Wilson to name
Former President Taft for the vacancy
in supreme court. Mr. Taft is a man Of
many good parts; but man who saw
in Aldrich, the trustman, great states
man, and followed his leadership, is
hardly the man to construe the laws for
this great nation. The judicial mind of
such a man as John B. Winslow or
Franklin X. Lane is needed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Resented typewriter Letter.

A catalogue of farming implements
sent out by a manufacturer finally
found it's way to a remote village,
where it was evidently welcomed with
interest. The firm received a care
fully written, if somewhat clumsily ex-
pressed, letter, asking further particu-
lars about one of the articles adver-
tised. To this, in the usual course of
business, was sent typewriter an
swer. Almost by return of post came
reply: You need not print your
letter to me. | can read writing"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-01-20
Mr.. Hammond Hard to Please.

Mr.. John Hays Hammond told
Detroit audience that nothing but
"egregious blunders' could prevent
the Republicans from winning the
presidency next year. On the sub
ject Of Republican blunders, Mr. Ham
mond speaks as one with authority.
He has figured in some Of the most
egregious Of them. And it is a dis
tinctIy left-handed compliment which
he pays to the sagacity of his party
leaders when he predicts that they will
not blunder in 1916 because there will
be small OCCASION for them to do so.
The inference is that if they possibly
could make a mistake they would. AS
for the Democrats, whatever they do
is a blunder. They propose special
taxes to meet the cost Of national de-
Tense. That is a blunder. They
should have issued bonds. But that
would have been only a smaller blum
der. Direct taxes the people do not
favor Bond issues they merely look
upon 'unfavorably." 1t is hard pleas
ing Mr. Hammond