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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-22

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ceiling nationally advertised automobile spe-
rights YIN Be grated eevetns TERRITORY y
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siye selling sx,.rss.ee, fsssresess. iseindins
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BIG MNNEY Tor saiesnes naki.( towns under
our goods easily. quickly: merchant pays only
for good. he sells. We take back THAT he
mission on each order; commissions paid
day Pioneer Novelty Co.. 1905 Wells g..
EXPERIENCED calendar .ai..nen to represent
s : % ssss ''is Co. iss'ss
srolis Ind.
FIRsr-cLAss Statesmen to sell, s.r.se.. fae-
tion for active men. Milwaukee Tank Works.
rIwr k"'. Wis.
HIGH-GRADE Statesmen wanted to assist in
nnsncing large automobile manufacturing en-
tomobiie concern yet established; ofIicrrs and
dir. ciors well known business and banking
men with q cement of experienced auto
mobile engineers and experts: stock selling in
Large and small blocks and appeals to people
in every walk Of life; company manufacturing
iow-prfced car now on the market and owning
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opportunity IL offered to the sincere salesman
ail 4 liOrral income car be had; leads from
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tell us about your past experfspce. Address
George N. Campbell. II W. 34th st., New
York city.
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You can make Il selling our art advertising
fans during spare time; sell TO every line q
business: write now. Fan Dept, United
States Cslrndsr Co.. Cincinnati.
LARGE manufacturing concern win pay 500 To
$500 month for live salesmen: steady work
one with own auto team preferred. Ad.
dress Fairfax Mfg. Co.. Cieveland. Ohio.
REAL ESTATE SALEsMEN-Ffvs wanted for
aixteenth Street Heights; splendid opportunity
and permanent employment for satisfactory
men; all answers must be By letter and win
b. treated strictly confidential. Robert q.
Hester. Colorado building.
SALEGMAN-We havs good sids hAs EsF
meotuD-xes1 dry eDd fh1ey goods ta1s IN
city; emau sa0Daess eeamile1ea: sa1tAh1e
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Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01

but not BY the ideali.m Of plutocr@cy;
Labor in the interest Of I'll wage esrn. d,
established two large and growing sys-
the businesses that employ them. One
is for mediation of labor disputes. in
which he has failed to settle less than
to him, and has settled over two hun
half q million wage earners were In
volved.
Recently the whole country held its
breath while a nationwide railway
Is it difheuit to picture such catas-
trophe? What business man was there
-legitimate business man-who aid
had penetrated every home. and house,
wives laid in supplies ahead lest the
household starve. while travellers rush.
ed homeward lest they be held up In
ST strike; l Howl To undsrstand sts! - how" how
why the danger Of a strike? Either
side could have prevented it by yield-
ing to the other, But neither would
million men or more. while the other
represented all the economic and politi-
cal power that goes with concentrated
So the President had to interpose or
the strike would have come.
Perhaps the railroad managers want
se of al their ane
other 9TH sid side % Would not accept. Knowing,
slogan with employers when they have
the upper hand is not arbitration" but
nothing to arbitrate." Also. at any
vented the strike. the Santa Fe man
agement publicly expressed regret that
he had succeeded in doing 50. -"
adi%stment 9ee or the strike ra wonid ki have
come.
What, then, was the issue? The
dTty as ene as 50 Sseq At
stretch. Senator La Toilette had. stop
ped that-against tremendous railroad
Hughes would doubtless have thought
necessary in so novel situation-by
to i% hours! Bnt SSars ter
for extra hours after 10, and the men
demanded reduction Of those regular
This is the point at which Judge
the men were to get the same pay for
their Wages Would be Increased. Increase Ac- c.
cordingly, further echoing. the railroad
MANAGERS, he says that the issue was
| HOL OVcT question O1 uOuIS OuI VI pay. :.
AS matter Of abstract mathematics.
very good. But the practical point is
that the standard distance required was
! 100 miles in 10 hours, whereas the men
demanded opportunity to make 100
| miles in hours.
why shouldn't the railroads accede
to that demand? Not on account of
higher wages, for the wages of the
men would have remained the same.
Was it, then, because the cost In coal
would be more for 1914 miles an hour
than for 10 miles an hour? But that
| question is subject to investigation un-
ience, not in advance Of experience as
Judge Hughes would have had it.
Was it because the trains are extra
table business, and therefore cannot
he moved so fast? If that is true, why
should the companies get all the extra
none of it? But that aside, this point
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01

the Indian reservations and Indian
schools, and on that trip did go to Nor
ris but how did happen that the Com
missioner, who had no authority what.
ever to make any agreement for the dis
posal of this school entered into any
such agreement? I examined the rec
regard to this transfer and there is no
such agreement there, all the CORES
pondence in regard to this matter was
% MY real devi,try in the matter is de-
scribed by Mr.. Spooner as sending him
a telegram asking him to postpone ac-
school until he heard further from me;
that he did not near anything and then
took trip to Washington to see about
while on the train going to Washing
ton he fell in with Sherman, afterwards
vice President and then Chairman Of
covered that I had bill to sell the
school to the highest bidder and turn
that %ad
bill; that he then appealed to Senator
1aPp that the senator g % Warned him not to let
me know anything about Mr. Spooner's
presence in town and that they would
SRI and g Mr spooner ADDS he got out of
town without seeing me. That is an
interesting story. reads like novel.
M. spooner, the hero, goes =. down m, to to
School. A strange but fortuitous provi-
dence shapes the accidents 50 that he
meets MI Sherman the chairman nma .Pf Of
his pledge of support against the viii
lain that is trying to defeat him.. Sec
recy is necessary: The plot would not
silently steals away without letting me
know that he has been there to undo
my villainOus work Notwithstanding
Messrs: Sherman and Glapp that net nsfar.
in the House and was sufficient to do
| nate the school to the State free of
charge Only two bills aisnoye were eyer I'm. In
school. one by Senator Clapp and the
other by me. The two bills were iden-
tical in that they granted the school
and the land belonging to it to the State
free Of charge. There is not a word In
either bill that would aqthorize ;anS Or
they are Of record When Mr.. Spooner
produces copy Of the bill that in
troduced containing the provisions he
! that he may run for Congress-. that. a.
his friends all know, is what he has
4 wanted for many years. Mr.. Spo0ners
/ whole letter breathes the spirit of vim:
4 dictiveness. II he had the public good
in mind he would ct least have had the
i lter date so they could be answered
i Evidently it is timed to prevent an an
II sWer. The statements thatsl have made
in connection with this Norris schoo
4 it. The balance Of his letter is mere
!. matter Of abuse.
J AespSo.5uV6 4 !. uV6LsTEAD.
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01

also Z. subjsct to investigation under
IS y, would appear; tnen. that the roads
tton to have the extra expense (tf any)
OF making 100 miles in 8 hours instead
Of Of hosn heG IN 10 hours guessed Ct tnstead
II President Wilson 1snsii did not permit
foe tho 5e hays their His
than It was for monopoly interests
something quite unfamiliar to the "in-
VII visible bic .ia, Eovernment" which now seeks
pursue the only course open to it or to
him-except possibly one. Is it asked
what that might have been? Judge
provingly. It would have been to de-
clare military necessity an to put
M the operation M Of the railroads into the.
this course. what legitimate sentiment
did President Wilson offend?
Judge Hughes says that the Presi-
Whoms By yoG19s h1ndreds % of thousands aassn % 81
citizens who earn their living In the
Ewsat OF anh,c By
companies have. And about a matter
which CO concerns their lvelihood the
TRANSPORTATION. # this is Coercion.
{Ss What r.;e0dd Xe1id i have been e side VII
pat" upon the power Of their privileges
for FOL the ths purpose OF enforcing their de-
If the President had not done as he
did, and the strike had come. what
said. and been entitled to. say? Would
he had been coerced by railroad finan-
ton, BY the "invisible government"?
to the plutocratic cohorts whose cause
Judge Hughes Is leading. but would it
nave been more agreeable to the pub
The Mexican situation might have
been considered in connection with do
do. the question Of hefss: Whether: a = pluto. 'es
cratic few or the democratic many shall
Intervention in Mexico, which Presi-
dent Wilson has set himself against,
and his plutocrattc adversaries are in
effect demanding. would mean valida-
piutocrats at the cost Of the blood LOT Of
an army Of American youth.
1t would mean to the south Of us
such he'll on earth as has broken
loose in Europe.
But Mexican problems are only one
of ss series 1is 4daa Of var problems that have
administration. The President had
been able to make only a. beginning in
his, work of cleaning out domestic evils
| and clearing up the Mexican situation,
| when the European war burst upon the
world, bringing to him host Of new
and perplexing problems.
Can any of us forget the thrill with
which the whole country welcomed the
| Presidents proclamation OF neutrality?
No one at that time condemned it. Ev.
erybody praised it. It was alive with
common sense and it rang with note
Of sincerity as from whole people.
No document from any book Of forms
| or bundle of precedents was that proc
| lamation, which phrased q nations pur-
| pose to be neutral not only in act and
| word but in thought.
Has, then, the nation under President
proclamation? So far as he could in
fluence peoples thoughts and words
and acts, it tncontestably has been.
be than that the unreasoning partisans
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01
WOULD PUT SPOoNER IN ANANIAS CLUB,
Congressman vo|stead Denounces Spooner Letter As "Scu
|ous" and Later Demands That Editor "1NhhdraW' L.

Granite Falls. Minn., Oct. 2s. 1885,
Editor Willmar Tribune, s
Willmar, Minnesota.
AS you have seen fit to publish sour
rilous attack upon me in the form of a
letter. from L. C. Spooner, I ask that
am not surprised at Mr.. spooner's
si SANDER that thai Mr.: G spooner has been cir. :
ad the 70 th
open, The gravamen Of the charge is
that I opposed granting the Morris In,
ean scheS Credit tf the savs stae been
mental in securing it.
When this charge was hinted at this
fenane as m tns caed TO t6en my took
the article to Senator Clapp and in sub
stance told him had been informed
that he was in a measure to blame for
permit anyone to misrepresent me in
that fashion: He told me that he dig 1
not the
and make a statement in regard to the
matter. I told him would and that I
should put the statement into the Con-
prepared from the official records and
shown to Senator Clapp who, after read
ing it over carefully, said he was salts.
that statement to the Hancock Record
and to several people in Morris. Not
long afterwards I was informed that
Mr.. Spooner had written Senator Clapp
rect. Senator Clapp then had one of
his clerks go over the official record
very carefully and wrote Spooner to
the effect that my statement was cor
rect. In this statement I called atten-
to the that cpR
| and others would recall the circum-
| stances. If Mr.. Spooner had tried to
be fair he could have. secured truthful
statement from these parties. Hon. F.
speaking at Morris expiained my share
in securing the school sand fully sus-
tanned the claims that 1 have made in
regard to it..
). ber of statements that. seem strange.
| We are told that this Indian school was
| an injury to western Minnesota and
that he therefor determined to get rid
of 1t. Why it was an injury does not
appear The. Secretary Of Interior had
Mr. spooner became interested in the
matter. expressed his Judgment that
several Of the nonreservation schools
like this at Morris was not needed
might be dispensed with: Great minds
sons. Mr.. Spooner after coming to this
determination says he corresponded
with the Secretary Of Interior and the
Il Commissioner of Indian Affairs anI
that this correspondence resulted in al
come to Morris; that he came and tha
he there entered into written agree
ment with Mr.. Spooner in regard to tn,
steps to be taken looking to the trans
sioner made q trip to see private citi
zen at Morris to arrange to give ava!
, this school is not made clear. Thl
, Commissioner made general survey 0
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01
A CAMPAIGN talk TO OLD FRIENDS
A Prominent CIVIC REFORMER OF
NATION REVIEWS ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN

President Wilson's administration is
the first to make substantial headway
against the invisible government
which for nearly forty years has been
thrt.sting peoples government aside.
So intimately had plutocracy encir-
cled Senator Hannas remodeled Repub-
lican party, that distinguished Repub-
lican unconsciously described the plight
Of his party when he pictured President
Nraft, to whose lost leadership Judge
Hughes has succeeded, as IAN aHiable
gentleman completely surrounded by
interests that know exactly what they
1ant."
bich woodrow Wilson'S election dis
iced, and which the American peo-
lting President Wilson for re-elec-
& Upon Mr.. wilson's election four years
40 the power Of plutocracy had already
gTown SO great that his official future
anxoq5}y fhs fasstt9hsa Repablean party had
Hng fostered privileges Of plutocracy
f1er any curtaliheat? Might IN not this
III interests that know exactly what
lost themselves. What certainty was
Would not get Wilson too"?
II To be sure. his gubernatorial admin,
s@stration in New Jersey offered hopeful
circumstances of his campaign for Gov
knor; back of which again was his
6ght at Princeton for democracy in edu-
Stion But anybody can strike a dem
6rattc note once in while; it takes a
Genuine democrat to carry the tune.
And were those democratic notes really
"a tune? or did they show ability to car
ry TUNE? or were princeton and Tren-
I ton at(aN comparable to Washington as
halls for democratic music?
MO 1SckNp hi CT a Nm
fssr Would Mr.. Wilson turn out to be
E>our democratic leader against plutoc-
racys as Lincoln has been against its
he be genuine in spirit and also astute
in action, progressive in purpose and
prudent in method, true to democracy
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01

and ana wise ,2 in leading it It, forward? tI Al !,
ne won d Wsan o5 hs bs ha sa@e
for the democracy of our time?
We now know that thus far President
Wilson has as st9od the test The large
and prove 1t.
Throughout the era of invisible gov
ernment," complete monopolistic power
over the volume of the currency was
conserved under .plutocratic control.
Every move regarding it was framed in
that % centered in Wall street; and When
the Wilson administration attacked this
castle OF plutocratic privilege, every in
came to it's .efense.
But in spite of those interests the
Federal Reserve system of banking was
ton.
AS a consequence, the currency Of the
United States is now elastic for the
first time since the outbreak of the Civ
il War-elastic and safe. Governmental
guarantees make it safe; it's elasticity
depends upon no ones mere say so, put
upon the volume of commercial credits.
Corners in currency are no longer
possible.
While the invisible government" rul-
of President Wilson, the farmers of the
country had no borrowing facilities ex-
cept upon mortgages OF a burdenSOme
kind.
Efforts were made during the era of
invisible government to accommodate
farmers in that respect, but plutocracy
conserved the interests of bankers first.
The interests of farmers were secon-
dary consideration, If they were con-
sidered at ALL
But by the farmers loan measure of
| the Wilsona administration, the borrow
| ing wants of farmers are now provided
| f@ hrrv HF tCroC Cp0C nj W
able in installments at reasonable in
! terest and through cooperative agen-
| cies supervised by the government.
|
Income taxes are at last established
as part of the Federal system under a
| Constitutional amendment which Gov
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01

Granite Falls, Minn., Oct. .2S, 1916
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01
ars and rumors of war.

wars and rumors of war.
Read also this saving clause in the
gives US the key to Pr PresidenHWiisona SS nnaSa $
preparedness policy:
]. 4,o IF at any time before the construc.
been established, with the cooperation
Of the United States Of America, an
international tribunal OF tribunals
ations of all International disputes. and
which shall render unnecessary the
maintenance of competitive armaments,
pendituresa as may be inconsistent with
the engagements made In the estab-
lishments of such tribunal or tribunals
the President Of the United States.
To compare the unexpectedness and
the gravity OF the problems of Wilson's s
administration with those Of Lincoln's
there any exaggeration in comparing
the wisdom of the solutions Wilson is
making now. with the wisdom Of the u,e
first term expired. Very much as Lin
coins defeat for reelection would have
been a. national calamity while our
be while the world is at war.
And great as is the crisis in our for
eign relations now, complicated ant
novel and delicate and momentous az
our international problems are, calam-
itous as it would be to turn these over
for solution to the political party which
In this campaign is either the war par
ry or nothing, nevertheless those prob
lens are no more complex or novel, nor
at more delicate stage of solution
nor more momentous with reference tc
progress toward democratic ideals, than
the domestic problems which President
Wilson was chosen to solve, and which
the record shows he Is solving In right
eous spirit and with wise discrimina-
ti0ns.
A vote against the reelection q
President Wilson would be vote fol
vote for President Wilson's reelection
will be vote Of confidence in him. il
his foreign and domestic policies, in
democracy. The record plainly shows
that his reelection would mean prog
ress toward democratic ideals. Te
achieve these in their fullness is only
| matter of keeping on IN the direction
toward which the policies of his admin.
istration are turned.
LOUIS f. POST.
Willmar tribune., 1916-11-01
of both sides have condemned the Presi-
dents neutral policies.

US1A| . ASu0 oA PO!AS4S9. @.fe.
Because President Wilson would not
challenge war with one side by propos-
actions with It in munitions which it
could transport across the ocean, partt-
sans of the other side, which is as free
able to carrv purchases home, have de-
nounced him: and some pacifsts unin-
formed of the nature of international
san % Implication 10 % of an embargo ge Rnder pndtlr
such circumstances, have echoed those
partisan outcries. But no calm judg-
me1t, men ndTpa imTpartially applied can condemn
one, would have been the unneutral
policy.
Because the President made impera-
tive demands upon one belligerent for
cessation Of novelties in warfare which
endangered American lives. and did not
make like demands 50 imperative upon
that affect nothing Put personal com
from some sources assertions Of his
r;e-echosd :; by the biased and the
ence between wrongs that affect only
that tHoa enda1ger % human IN iife? One One 'RHad Rind
can be redressed in money damages af-
ter war, as the Alabama" depreda-
dressed @ I at all President a V1h Wison @e has ne
recognized this humane distinctions; and
who dares. condemn him for it, except
In every way. to the fullest extent
has President Wilson'S administration
preserved the neutrality which at the
donF so he's has kept
country out of war, and has done it
without yielding anything that gener-
GUS American patriotism ought not to
The Detroit times., 1916-05-24
Street Openings.

To the Honorable the Common Council:
GentlemeE-To your Committee on
street Openings was referred the Pc
tition OF Caroline r. McGinnis for the
acceptance of the plat OF the McGin-
mis- Subdivision. The said plat having
been approved by the Corporation
Counsel and the City Engineer. your
CCmmitte can see no objection there
tC, and respectfully recommend the
adoption or the following resolution.
Respectfully submitted.
EDWARD BARNETT,
JAMES VERNON
ALBERT r. ALLAN,
JOHN a. KRONK,
JOHN r. THOMPSON,
HERMAN r. link.
Accepted and on leave, the follow
ing resolution was offered:
By Aid. Barnett:
Resolved, That the plat OF "NcGin-
mis- Subdivision OF lots 2i0 20 245. in
elusive. OF Roehm's Subdivision on r
G. 90. City OF Detroit. County OF
Wayne" be. and the same is hereby
accepted and approved. and the Com
missioner OF Public Works be, and he
IL hereby directed TO sign and APP
prove same.
Adopted as follows:
Yeas-Ald. Allan, Ashe. Barnett
Bell. Burton. Cranshaw. Dill. Ellis,
Field. Gilman. ,Guthard. Hindlee
Jakel. hsating, koche'. Krimmel
Krcnk. Kunz. Lempke. Littleheld
Lodge, Movie, owen. Richert. Robin
son, Rollo. Sohemansky. schultz,
Starkey. Thompson. Vernon. wartell
a r.. Wilson, w. ]. Wilson. link,
Zoeller and the President-57
Nays-None.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-24
Street Openings

To the Honorable the Common Council:
Gentlemen-To your Committee on
street Openings was referred the pc
tition Of Robert ID. Dick ct al l7s72),
street west OF Artillery Ave. Your
Committee md that petitioners de-
sire simply to fence on from the al
ley the blind end OF the street so that
their property. AS the alley has am
pie outlet into the IT. alley north of
Muster street your Committee can see
nc objection 10 the granting OF the
request, and herewith offer the proper
resolution 10 that end.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD BARNETT.
JAMES VERNON.
ALBERT T. ALLAN.
JOHN T. THOMPSON,
JOHN A. kRONk,
HERMAN +. ZINK.
Accepted and on leave the follow
Ing resolution was offered
by Aid. Barnett:
Resolved, That the Department OF
Public Works be and is hereby autn-
cried and directed TO issue permit
TO owners OF property on Muster
street To build fence AT westerly end
OF said street connecting the westerly
lines OF lots IL and IS,
Provided. That no rights In the said
street shall be considered waived by
this permission which is granted with
the uhuerstahuihS lhat saiu renee anu
all distractions In connection there
with shall be removed at any time
when SO directed by the Common
Council.
Adopted as follows;
AeaS-Ald. Allan, Ashe, Barnett
Bell. Burton, Crapshaw. Din, Ellis,
Field. Gilman. Guthard. Hindle.
JakeL keEting. kocher. krimmel.
Kronk. Kunz Lempke. Littlefield.
Lodge, Movie. owe Richert. Robin
Starkey, Thompson. Vernon, Wartell.
\. r.. Wilson. w. j. Wilson. link.
Zoeller and the President-37.
Nays-None.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-24
|O protesting sgaInst paving said

(seos) protesting against paving said
alley. Your COMMITTEES has carefully
considered the matter. has consulted
With. the City Engineer and recon
mends that the petition OF the Ma
tional Grocer Co. be granted in ac-
cordance with the resolution hereto
attached and that the petition OF the
Iosca Land co. be denied.
Respectfully submitted.
MAURICE j. HEATING.
JAMES CRANSHAW,
EDWARD BARNETT,
w. III. c. HlNDl.E,
JOHN l. JAkEl.
JULIUS l.. kRIMMEt.
Accepted. and on leave. the follow
ing resolution was offered
BY Alderman Heating;
Resolved. That the grade Of paw
ing In alley between Fourth. Firth,
Congress anc Jefferson shall start az
the existing grade OF Fourth avenue,
and run west at rate OF lnChrs 70
100 feet for "A distance OF 20 test'
and from thence shall ascend al the
same rate, for 1870 feet.
Adopted as follows:
:. Yeas--Ald. Allan. Ashe. Barnett
Bell. Burton. Cranshaw. DIN, Eliis'
Field. Gilman. Guthard. Hinole'
iakeL Heating. kOcrcl. krlmmei
Kronk. Kunz. Lempk'. Little neId'
Lodge, Movie. Owen. e. OK. tuh!h-
son, Rollo, SCHcIn .-.t, SchultE
Starkey, Thompson. ) .rnor, WarteiL
A r. Wilson " = Wilson, Eink'
Zoelier and the President-S1.
Nays-None.