Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-08-05

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Literally and FigurativeIy Iris Ford
Threw Up His Hands When He Got
Back to Win Shute's Room.
threw up his hands when he got back
to Win Shutes room.
The president of the United States
had been indicted into office with one
dominating ambition, namely, to place
a trust magnate behind the bars
While engaged In popularizing himself
with the electorate he had attacked
the giant combinations, and especially
lambasted the heads of the trusts.
Guilt. he insisted, was personal,
therefore nothing short of mag
Mates confinement in a penal institu-
ton would make the punishment fit
the crime"
But when 1t came actually to pick
| ing the one trust-the one magnAte
| upon whom the presidential wrath was
to descend-it was far from an easy
| assignment. The qualifications of big
| business were multifarious. and to
| turn in one direction was to tread on
some important body's money-crustei
| corns in another. Ultimately. the
presidents own predictions intlu-
enced him--uneonscfously. Of course.
| AS boy he had been afraid of fire
arms OF every variety. Hunting held
for him no lure. Even when he be-
came first citizen the presidential sa-
lutte of twenty-one guns made him
jump He much preferred Hail to
the Chief capably rendered by some
Ing brass and jingling cymbal. No.
the president wasn't sportsman. He
was an advocate of peace. Thus. un-
Willingly swayed by his personal bias.
the head of the nation selected the
president of the powder trust for the
role of horrible example.
j. Pierce Lamont. president of the
Pierce Powder company, was the mag
nate marked for sacrifice. And the
attorney general. aided and abetted by
the secret service, go " :sy, very busy.
This was some time before Win Shute
was shanghaied. before Imogen Leon
ard sailed for Alexandria, via Genoa,
under the name of Miss Riley-as d.
rected by her employer. who explained
that her confidential relations with
him. big figure in the business world,
would subject her to the opportunities
of interviewers.
Everything was done with unwonted
MT I
eminent undertaking, and the man
hunt was progressing most favorably
when. one day, the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Standard
called at the White House and re-
quested an interview with the presi-
dent. The Standard was an indie
pendent paper which lehned toward
the presidents party; its support the
executive fervently desired for his adj
ministratlve and legislative program.
The Standard was a great newspaper,
| therefore not untinged with yellow"
The details of that interview will
| never be known. But it subsequently
leaked out that the president, later in
| the day, made the big mistake of his
|
respondents head by appealing direct
ly to the editor. In word, the presi-
dent tried to suppress news! Result
-"pitiless publicity" (The phrase is
quoted because it was the presidents
own, uttered before election and
turned on him when he ran counter to
it, In twentyfour hours the coun-
! try rnoyoH with tiov
An American girl. sole support of a
widowed mother. while enjoying her
| first real vacation in years-a trip to
Europe-had been torn from her par
ent by Italian soldiers. thrown into
prison, and there given the third de-
gree" Poor, prosecuted Imogen Leon
ard!
Such was the "flash." in newspaper
parlance. that Travelled over free
America. In more detail:
Miss Leonard was stenographer and
| private secretary to one of the officers
of the Pierce Powder company. This
concern, sometimes called the Pow
der trust, because Of its command of
the industry, had manufactured pow
oSl AOA Tic ALalluu SONcfIlLiSuL4 ulluCT
| secret formula furnished by sItaly-a
powder peculiarly adapted for trans
portation and for use in the tropics.
The manufacturing was done by
agreement that powder so made was
not to be sold to any other country
than Italy, excepting, Of course, the
United States. ,.;
In the war with Turkey over TripOli,
Italy found that the Turks were using
identically the same powderl And
while the Turkish supply could not
be directly traced to the Pierce COM
pany. the Italian government was con-
WINGED In Its. monarchial mind that the
American Powder trust had violated
Its agreement. &. va.
+ Italy could prove this. there was