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from blacksmith shop, they put or
white sheets sand pursue the rene
gade. One brother Of the girl whips
a dozen or so United States soldiers
and others holding forth in gin mill
where the man is hidden but is him
self shot. The Ku kluXers pursue the
girls assailant, catch him and kill him
The audience applauds till the rafters
ring.
Now it happens that a blacksmiths
shop does figure in the origin OF the
ku KluX Khan. But it was Negroes
shop. The klu KluXers organized and
killed the Negro because he refused
to shoe horses for a white man until
the white man paid for the last time
he had had his horse shod. This was
two years before the ratification OF
the fourteenth amendment to the con
stitution-in 1866 The blacks could
NOT vote The I<u KluX organized to
keep them from working. as Judge
TOurgee has pointed out in his book,
"A Fools Errand.'
"The Birth of Nation is well
worth seeing And those who do not
know that the ku klux rose, flourish.
ed and died before the granting OF suf-
frage to the Negro will have abundant
opportunity to prove their ignorance
by their enthusiasm.
All parts in the plap are we'll acted.
The two MISUNDERSTANDING house
keeper and his political protege-are
portrayed with a spirit and ambition
that does credit to their southern
white fathers.
l. N. 3.
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11s and would get so weak at times that
l fell over. ! began to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
ten days later l could eat and it did not
hurt my stomach. have taken the
medicine ever since and ! feel like a
new woman. now weigh 127 pounds
SO you can see what it has done for me
already. My husband says he knows
your medicine has saved my life. -
Mrs. j. s. BARLOW, 1924 South 9TH St.,
Columbus, Ohio.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound contains just the virtues of roots
and herbs needed to restore health and
strength to the weakened organs of the
body That is why Mrs. Barlow, q
chronic invalid, recovered so completely.
1t pays for women suffering from any
female ailments to insist upon having
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound.
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A MARKED DIFFERENCE.

There is marked difference be.
tween the language which Mr.. Wilson
employs in his discussions with and
of the German government and the
language which he uses to and Of
NEWSSTAND CarranZa.
There is also marked difference
between the geographic conditions
which relate TO the Germans and the
Mexicans and the United States.
Between US and the Germans roll
three thousand miles of blue ocean
On which floats the British navy as
our sure defense. Between us and
Mexico flows the Rio Grande, along
which is strung q tenuOus thread of
American troops.
The presidents attitude III the two
instances reminds us of the self made
heroes" whom the cartoonists depict.
To the powerful Germans, three thous-
and miles away and on the other side
OF the British fleet, Mr.. Wilson uses
harsh and peremptory words. TO Car
rama, just over the river he uses
honeyed language, enters upon negO
tations and generally displays the ut.
most consideration.
We wonder why.
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self wholly to murder. arson, torture
and robbery upon the homes of Ne.
groes who tried to live honestly and
industriously.
4. Thaddeus Stevens died before the
Negro was given the ballot.
5. Thaddeus Stevens at the time he
was pictured as a middle aged, amor
GUS man making love to the mulatto,
was an aged cripple nearer so than 10
years old
s. The blacks never sought to inter
marry with the Whites. or 2,O00,0GO
mulattoes in the south, practically all
have white fathers.
Z. There was not one black soldier
of the United States army in the en-
tire south after the close OF the war.
THE Birth of Nation" endeavors
from one end to the other to heap
insults upon the uniform of the union
Veteran In depicting the attempted
rape OF southern white girl, Grit
fifth clothes the negro assailant in
the uniform of the United States army.
Practically all of the United STATES
soldiers appearing in the play, when
there is any detail as to their faces,
ugliness, Or the most disreputable
looking white men that could be found
In the meeting between General
Grant and General Lee at Appomatox
Leo is the very picture of dignilied
grandeur. Grant appears as an un.
couth boor. He slouches across the
stage with a cigar stuck in his face,
and grabs Lees hand in an insolen.
manner, cooking his cigar upward
There is real amusement in watch
ing the bump which the audience re-
ccives when Sherman's army is thrown
upon the screen, in 4 vista stretching
over wide valley. The audience
bursts into hearty applause as the
stars and stripes float to the breeze.
Then it begins to die away as the
spectators are RECALLED with the sight
of Shermans 10000 men burning
houses over the heads Of women and
children, and driving them into the
highways and byways.
Then what is described as the first
co!ored soldiers recruited in the war
appear, swarming into village. where
they murder everyone in sight. ire
spective Of age. They are finally scat
tered by gallant column of southern
white militia, and the audience bursts
into cheers. 1t so happens that the
first colored soldiers of the civil war
were recruited and commanded by the
late Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge of this
state. Careful scrutiny OF the screen
failed to reveal the figure Of General
Dodge. but presumably he ordered the
outrage which Mr.. Griffith puts upon
the screen, and may have been in the
inglorious retreat before the gallant
confederates.
There are many scenes in the play
Which are truly inspiring, and some
that awake sense OF unutterable pa
thos of the civil war. The plot of the
play is rather lightly sketched, with
a love element OF the typical southern
girl and an exceptional northern cap
son-for one match,
and the northern captains sister and
the southern girls brother in the other
match.
The rise of the ku klux is wildly
depicted. A girl leaps TO death from
a high rock to escape Negro soldier
of the United States army. Her bro
Their recruits group of white men
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Everybody's Colum n
The Review Solicits Communicate that
May be of interest to Readers of this Column.

"The Birth of Nation" which is
being shown at Bertchels theatre in
Des Moines, is creating considerab BILE
OF stir in the capital city Sunday
it was shown for the first time and
following the refusal of the managers
to stop showing the film the manager
OF the theater and two motion picture
machine operators were arrested. The
theater, we understand, has applied
for an injunction against the city to
prohibit it from stopping the show.
Mondays Register Il Leader printed
an article written by one of its read
ers dealing with this famous picture
film which will be of interest to Re-
view readers. The article follows:
The play is great spectacle, which
would not suffer as show if it had
been confined 10 the truth about the
civil war and the reconstruction per
iod
AS it is. "The Birth of a Nation" is
a tissue Of ialsehood from beginning
to end, ingeniously constructed for
the purpose Of making northern audi
ences cheer lynchings, and for the
glortication OF that cutthroat orga-
nization of renegades aud murderers
known as the Nu kluX Khan.
The Berchel was crowded to the
doors Sunday afternoon. and it was
an interesting study to observe the
response OF the hundreds of spectators
to the more vllanous of the lbels
thrown upon the screen.
TO have been consistent the audi
ence should have checrcd the assass-
inction of Lincoln and whooped it up
tor that great national hero John Viii
kes Booth. Just why the audience
failed to applaud at this juncture is a
mystery Possibly it had read a little
American history on the subject. Ger
tainly there was no evidence at any
other point in the play that the audi
ence was familiar with history.
Among the many libels and false
hoods OF the play the greatest is the
Justification of history as to Thad-
deus Stevens, Republican leadet in
the house Of representatives during
the reconstruction period. The pro
ducers of "rhe Birth of a Nation"
took no chance OF Jail sentence for
criminal libel by mentioning Stevens
by name. They concealed his identity
under the name OF Austin StOnemaE,
leader of the house.
In this play Thaddeus Stevens, or
Stoneman, is in love with mulattO
housekecper. guides the destiny OF
South Carolina under black voters.
and finally rebelling against racial
intermarria2e when mulatto poll
tician wants TO marry his daughter.
he witnesses her glorious rescue byl
the Ku Klux Khan from the mulatto
and black soldiers of the United
States. This, it is stated on the screen
occurred following the election of 1871.
The ku KluX Khan, according toI
"rhe Birth of Nation was organ
lied in 1871 for the restoration OIL
white political supremacy and thcI
protection of the honor Of white wo-
men.
The above is correct, historically,
except in the following Details
/. The ku KluX Khan was organized
in 1866 and was broken up in 1S6S-be-!
fore the ballot had been given to the
Negro.
2. Assaults upon women by Negroes,
were altogether unknown in the south
at this period.
3. The ku klux Khan devoted it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-03

A recent visitor at the capitol was
National Committeeman V. l.. High
land, of West Virginia He was most
optimistic as to the republican situa
ton in his state. He said that there
is already great interest manifested
in the primaries to choose delegates !O
the coming national republican conven-
ton. They will be held on May 4th.
Speaking of the political outlook in
West Virginia, he said: There is no
question as to the way our state will
go in the general election. We shall
carry West Virginia for the national
and state ticket and elect an almost
entire republican delegation to the
next congress"
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land, either, but they do not believe
to undertake war when it can only re-
suit in national humiliation tenfOld
worse than that which is now ours.
We want TO treat the belligerents
fairly and we don't want to make war
on the whole world. The country
knows that if congress voted its real
mind it would have voted to warn the
Americans off ships in the war zone
but it was coerced by the national
administration.
There is no demand in this country
for war with Germany. On the contrary
there is an overwhelming demand for
strict neutrality.
President Wilson has retracted his
steps many times. He has reversed
himself upon issues. He should be
ating his demands in the European
controversy. Abraham Lincoln did not
hesitate during the civil war to back
down from the position taken by his
cabinet officer in the MasOn-Slidell
affair. He recognized the futility and
foolishness of opposing superior fore
es over comparatively trivial affairs.
No substantial American right is be-
ing violated by Germany. No particu
lar humiliation can be involved in this
country warning American citizens off
freight carrying boats. Common sense
denies the justice of making war over
technical and contrOverted points of
international law which do not con-
travene substantial American rights.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-03

Two political sensations that were
sprung in the state of Utah lately have
brought CONSERVATION to the demo,
Gratis. Mr.. N l.. Morris, a delegate to
the progressive state convention.
startled the delegates with the state
ment that SO far as fundamental prin-
ciples were concerned, the republicans
and progressives stood on common
ground. He returned to the republican
camp and was accompanied by many
other members OF the progressive
party He was elected delegate to
the republican judicial convention, in
which he participated.
The other sensation was the an
nOuncement Of former state senator
Bamberger, lifelong democrat. that
he is not only opposed to the removal
of the tariff on sugar. but recognizes
the need of n tariff ION more things
than one to protect the farmers. manu-
facturers and wOrkingmen Of this cOun.
try" Senator Bambereer is a prOmi-
nent business man in Utah and was
assured of the democratic nomination
for the United States senate if he
would accept it. He declined, evident.
ly because he was no longer in sym
pathy with the policy OF his party.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-03
Notice in Probate.

I
State of Iowa, Crawford County. S.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate OF August
p. Liljeholm, late Of Crawford county,,
deceased. @
Notice of Appointment of Admins.
tratrix with will annexed.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
You are hereby notified that on the
10th day of April, 1916. the undersigned
was duly appointed administrators
with will annexed, of the above en-
titled estate, and all creditors of said
estate are notified to file their claims
in the Office OF the clerk OF the district
court, in and for Crawford county,
Iowa, within one year from the date of
this notice, according to law, and have
the same allowed and ordered paid by
the said court, or stand forever barred
therefrom.
Dated this 10th day of April, 1916.
MATILDA LILJEHOLM,
Administrative,
15-3t BY her Attorney, T. v. Walker.
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EXPECTED HAS HAPPENED AGAIN

The issuing of bonds in time of peace
for the purpose Of paying government
expenses is purely democratic pro-
cedure. Cleveland did it,; and now
Wilson will do it.
The army bill which has just pass.
cd the senate contains provision for
the expenditure of fifteen million dol
lars for the establishment of water
power plants for the manufacture OF
nitrates to be used in the production
OF munitions and for fertilizers. The
money is to be procured by the iSsu-
ance and sale of that sum in canal
bonds.
The canal, it will be remembered,
was constructed at cost running in,
to the hundreds of millions and was
paid for largely out Of the current re-
ceipts OF the treasury as provided in
the wise revenue laws for which the
republican party stood sponsor. In ef-
feet, we republicans built the canal
out of the small change in the nations
purse.
But the democrats, to find fifteen
millions, have to issue bonds. A bond
issue was confidently predicted as one
of the certain results OF a democratic
adminiStration-and sure enough, it
is to occur. 1t is the happening of the
eXbected.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-03
SIX YEARS
OF SUFFERING
Woman Made Well by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Columbus, Ohio.-'I had almost given
up. had been sick for six years with

female troubles anu
nervousness. ! had
o pain in my right
side and could not
eat anything with
out b ting my
stomach. l could
not drink cold water
at all nor eat any
kind of raw fruit,
nor fresh meat nor
chicken. From l78
pO,,nt]s I went to
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-03
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY CoNvEN-
TON.
70 the Republicans OF Crawford coun.
There will be held convention of
the republicans of Crawford county at
the court house in DenisOn on
SATURDAY. Nav 6. 1916

duties of said convention shall be the
selection OF delegates to attend the
state convention to be held at Cedar
Rapids on Wednesday, May 18th, at II
o'clock, and to transact such other
business as may properly be brought
before it. Crawford county is entitled
to nine delegates to the state cOnven.
ton. The several precincts OF the
county are entitled to delegates as fol
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Germany, in order to show her deep
respect and consideration for the Unit
ed States, has decided to merely
pigeon hole our ultimatum instead Of
throwing it into the waste basket.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-05-03

1t is claimed that torchlight parades |
will again be popular in the fall cam
paign, but there are some OF us who
will never again march out four miles
in the country and back for dough- |
nut and a cup OF coffee.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-22
COburn to Produce
Real Cowboy Films
Zortman Enlivened by His
Troupe; Film Dramas
With a Punch.

Zortman, Mont.-Wallace Coburn's
troupe of motion picture actors and
actresses, who are out to depict screen
dramas of the west of yesterday, add
much to the picturesqueness of life in
these parts, and old time cowboys of
northern Montana are keenly interest
ed in the undertaking of Coburn, the
cowboy "poet lariat" of the state.
Coburn is no parlor COW puncher,
and all of the old cowmen know it.
He comes from a family of cowmen,
who have operated in cattle on a large
scale in Montana for years. Disguised
with representations OF the cow
puncher, with his gracefully looped
hip belt and the Herpicide whiskers
which n made to adorn his schapps,
he decided to go into the business of
producing real cowboy films, with a
punch to them, and to use native Buck
Farlins who wnow their business in
stead of the studio product of the
east.
Coburn has about fifty cowboys
and cow girls in his troupe, and they
make their headquarters in a little
tented city just outside Of Zortman.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-22
Montana "Wu1t Mason"
Is a Real Prose Poet

although our chances of defeat were
good at ten to one; who gravely urged
the party's need and knew the public
will-these are the mes who dragged
us forth, and they should foot the bill.
Here is another that was inspired
b.. the threatened railroad strike:
THE GOAT
Employees Of the railroads now de-
mand a shorter day; they ask in no
uncertain terms a sudden raise in pay.
The railroads turn to congress to al
low a higher rate, ignoring Mr.. Aver
age Man who'll have to pay the
freight. And if they strike he'll sit
and watch his business go to rack;
his goods locked up in freight cars
standing idly on the track. He'll pay
the freight no matter what the out
come proves to be. (This, Mr.. Aver
age Man, is no one else but you or
me.) What though he's out of grocer
les and gasoline or coal; he cannot
let the railroads yield and then go in
the hole. To workingmen he cannot
stand to see injustice done. If there's
to be a goat in this, the average man s
the one. Whoever wins, he's sure to
lose; he'll have to pay the bill, but the
railroads have much water that
will help wash down the pill
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-22
ORIGIN OF
LET 'ER GO
GALLAGHER

Bozeman, Mont. -Bozeman's street
car system is probably the best of
any little city of 10000 in Montana.
Recent additions and extensions
are of the character that excite favor
able comment. But time was when
the system was little more than an
adjunct on wheels to the real estate
boom of some twenty years ago.
The rails started at the depot, ran
by the Bozeman hotel, down the prin-
cipal street, and out to subdivision
property. The car schedule existed
only in the mind of the street car
superintendent, whose name was Gal
lagher. Incidentally Gallagher was
lineman for the entire system and
motorman and conductor for the only
car that was in service. The other
cars were in the factory-not ord
cred.
When the train came in it was
Gallagher's duty to meet it with a
brave show, and keep the bells of the
car ringing until it attracted atten-
ton. It was supposed to be partic-
ularly effective on prospective pur-
chasers of lots in Bozeman, the
Beautiful, who might happen to gel
off the train.
When everyone had gotten on the
car and the start was about to be
made, some accommodating towns.
man would yell ''let her go Gallagh.
en-" and Gallagher would let Ter go
The injunction seemed to make
hit with the travelling men. They
caught the idea quickly. The mo
ment they would get on the car, the.
would say ''let her go Gallagher"
That is the way it started. "Le
Ter go, Gallagher" Did you eve.
hear ii? 1t went all over the United
States, and has been in the chestnu
heap these many years.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-22
UNCLE DICK SUTTON
OUT OF T~HEATRICALS
Started in Life With a Wagon Circus;
Made a Fortune in Butte Theaters.

Butte, Mont. - Uncle Dick SUIT
ton, for years the dominant figure in
theatrical affairs of the inter-moun-
tain region, ripe in years and rolling
in money, is out of the show business.
The sale of the Broadway theater re-
Gently to the Oppenheimer- Cohen
combination practically closed a long
and interesting career. He still owns
several theaters in various localities,
but he contents himself with collect
ing the rents therefrom, and has
nothing to do with the management
of these houses.
His career has been a most pic
turesque one. Sixty years ago he
started in life with an old fashioned
wagon circus. When the railroad
shows came into being he embarked
on a theatrical career. He has been
very successful and is now a rich
man.
He has owned innumerable road
shows, but his speciality has been the
"Tom Show" In theatrical parlance
this means a troupe playing Uncle
Toms Cabin. There have been times
in his life when he had half a dozen
"Tom shows" on the road.
SIN fact son." he said to the writer
on one occasion, "the most expensive
undertaking about a tom show is
buying meat for the bloodhounds."
Uncle Dick located in Butte about
a quarter of a century ago. He had
very little money, but managed to
open, with a home made stock COM
pany, in an improvised theater. He
made money from the opening,
bought the Mcguire opera house, then
the leading theater of Butte, opened
Sullivan & Considine vaudeville in
another theater, and finally built the
Broadway, the largest theatrical
house in Butte. AT one time he was
managing four Butte theaters and
two or three road shows.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-22
PIONEERS PLEASE WRITE

Butte.-Butte is to be the scene of
the enactment of a new western
photoplay, "The Parson of Pana-
mint and Dustin Farnum will be
featured therein as a fighting par
on. A concert hall and gambling
place will be an exact reproduction
of the old Casino, which, when Butte
was a little western Paris some TWEEN
ty years ago, was the center of a very
tough tenderloin. There are staid
business men in Montana, not far
from Butte, who could give the au-
thor some points as to his scenario.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-22
Hetty Green's Cash
Goes to MontananS
Hardin Garage Employe to
Get $11, 00O-Miles City
Man Made Wealthy.

Billings, Mont. Lawrence Grinnel,
an employee Of a garage at Hardin,
Big Horn county, was a distant cous-
in of the late Hetty Green, the
worlds wealthiest woman before her
death a few months ago. Recently
Mr.. Grinnell was notified that upon
the final probating of the Green will
next March, he will receive $1,000
as his share of the Gideon Rowland
estate, which was held in trust by
Hetty Green during her life time. The
estate of Rowland is valued at l.
500, 1000. There are about $50 heirs.
Another heir to the Rowland es-
state, E. r. Morton of Miles City, will
receive a still larger slice of the How
land estate, having been advised by
attorneys in the east that his share
amounts to $4,000.
Mr.. Morton's mother was a cousin
of Hetty Green. Gideon Rowland.
who was related to Mr.. Morton Is
mother, died in 1923, leaving the bulk
of his fortune to his daughter, Sylvia
Ann, the favorite of his ID children
Mrs. Morton and Hetty Green both
were cousins of Sylvia Ann Rowland
When Sylvia Ann died, she left hel
fortune, amounting to $1,50O,0OO, te
Hetty Green, to be held in trust unit
the death of the latter, when it was
to be divided among the hears of the
Rowland family.