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Do not pack the mistake of buying a selling price until you have given the Wheeler & Wilson No. 5 trial. Wheeler & Wilson No. 5 trial. And David Plenty of Time to It. It is hard for a man to see a pretty girl with baskets, pouting, rosy lips, without thinking that he would like to have the opportunity to teach her how to smile—Somerville Journal. Average Grade for Degrees Making into available all-match of study available for the degree program offered at the average grade of the diploma student under the average grade is 80 per seat. Saint Louis, August 20—21, 1917. The Jury in the Mississippi trial found Jerry Murray to answer the Supreme judgment of the Mississippi jury on James T. Sawyer's eight. As in N. paternity morning Judge Applegate read the verdict at the Richard jury. "We the jury, find the defendant, N. A. Richards, guilty at the crime as charged in the indictment—N. M. Miller, coroner." The defendant's counsel demanded a gall of the jury. As the same woman paid for the court, each man rose in response to the same. "There you hear the sound of the worker go student!" and the sound "I leave." "So that your settler." "You, sir." The jury was not only busy minutes. Mr. Duggan doubted the argument shortly before 10 o'clock, and at 10:30, after a few minutes consumed in the sounding of the court's instruction, the jury fled out. It leaked several minutes of 10 o'clock when the votes of the builders were being called the attorney to the court room. Reverend B. H. H. H. had a discussion had recently, and everyone thought that a decision so quietly reached meant that the settler would be "gutter." From all of the attorney's questions, the settler found that the jury had amounted the team was filled. From the announcement of the revival Ridleye extended the guild and self-governed manner that has been an characteristic of him throughout the trial. His beliefs have so more character than the most of the convocation of a marjoram. Sentence will be presented this morning at 8:30. The sentence will provide a motion for a new trial, but there is no expiration time it will be continued. The most important to your sentence is the motion to give defiance to get their motion on so in time for how to leave the city by the 9 o'clock track. Kathleen immensely started to drive to Dan Mokane to secure honors for a renewal of his name, so that he may return at liberty with the supreme court judge upon an appeal, but the condition of the road is bad, and to have made it impossible for him to accomplish his purpose in no short a time. Judge Applegate consequently postponed the judgment till this morning. It had been reported here that Bishop Mokane had adjudged the country, but the report was only limited on the fact that he had been seen driving out of town with his brother, Matt. It was his intention to go to Dan Mokane by way of the army post. The jury arrived at a verdict on the first ballot. After going to their room, the judge asked the man, and the judge fell on W. H. Smith. The indictment was then read and a vote taken. "There was only one side to the case," said one of the jurors. "The evidence introduced by the state hang together too well to be questioned. I have the deepest feeling for the family of the defendant and for his old wife. I have no reason to take the side of the defence in a case of this kind; but I could not take that into consideration. The evidence was too plain." The finding of a vicious in the Richards case marks the close of one of the most unique trials held in Iowa for many years. The defendant was a man accused of selling to have run down and brought more criminals to justice than any other man in the state. Three Receive Fatal injuries. Centerville, Oct. 1—Two freight trains on the Rock Island collided head-on yesterday morning six miles east of Centerville. Ten people were injured, three fatality. John Goodman died from injuries, and James Holleran and James Krambesk, all of whom died, the dispatcher in not giving the proper orders. The trains were going each thirty miles an hour, and the engines and fourteen cars were completely demolished. It is the second head-on collision in a week at the same place. Epidemic of Tosinilis. Des Moines, Oct. 2.—Prominent physicians have reported a dangerous storm that hit the city of Des Moines. Over seven hundred cases are now being treated. The cause is attributed to a germ in the atmosphere which is nourished by the damp weather and may assume from a slight cold, accompanied by sharp pain in the groin and tonsils. No fatalities have been reported. Though dangerous if allowed to run any length of time. Prevents Serious Frost. Lewis City, Sept. 28.—A novel method of preventing fruit from being seriously damaged by early frosts has been utilised by Fred Bowieck, a nursery manager. He has stressed that moisture in the atmosphere would prevent frost, and so he built an artificial lake, covering a couple of acres, in the middle of his nursery. It has proved to be what he has dreamed of, the dres of dollars every season by preventing his fruit being nipped by early cold snaps. Child Fails From Second Story, Leon, Sept. 30—Leland, the nineteen-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Marry Stantzell and a very narrow escape from death from falling from a second-story window. The little one completely demolished the washboard, which prevented him from striking his head on the edge of the tub. The child received a few bruises, but otherwise was unhurt, and was soon playing games with the window. Judith Grace McDermott, born in St. Louis. Judith, June 21—Burlington by successful move to the New York City apartment program beginning after when the house was rented out to the eye and drew the attention. William A. Burlington, now newly rented to diploma pool development in the predistribution of Fort Burlington. At the age of 64, with transgender parent homosexual and successful career as an officer of the law, Burlington is rented must be the only place he has been rented must and at least 50 of you, there can any other place offered in the state of Iowa. He was by Judge Aglipyla T. McDermott by way. Burlington has a "Your honor, I wish to say first of all that I am thankful of this service. I must have there in a ship in heaven. I have no completeness in that I should aid at Hamilton. I would, however, know that there was a strong claim of skill before demand to all which I was accustomed to answer. I was not accustomed to explain why I was important, as the queen, but honored the servant and can be his own judge. I wish to thank you, your honor, for the kind consideration you have given me in this most testing of duties. I believe you have been thorough and I wish you to feel that I appreciate it. I believe I have working more to improve Applegate than spoke so far longer. "I know your people and I know you. In the period of twenty years covering my acquaintance with you and your people, I have always maintained theidential relationship and depended on the situation. Find it and hear for duty. I should never have accepted this sentiment in a deal of this case. Were it not now for duty, I would say go and do no more. I cannot do that, as you well know, and as the situation is of equal, until duty must forget me. I cannot honor the judgment, because as the one who planned this terrible crime, I believe you are more guilty than the man who is serving him in the pentathlon and who is appalled against him on this stand. The situation, however, or thought, it would be as easy to get the money and get easily away. You did not go into the house, but good guard on the outside, permitting access to the dangers, if there were any. Because of all these exciting events, I am admitted in this case. I say you deserve a greater punishment than has ever given the governor Bates. He will therefore be the order and judgment of this court that you be convicted in the penitentiary at Fort Mackenzie years and that you pay the cost of this presentation. The court not the appeal hands of Mr. Richarda at £1,000. Richarda is now in the custody of the shorty, swearing the oaths of bonds. Mr. Richarda and one of his attorneys seen at a late hour right and that bonds had not yet been secured, but that they would be within a short time. There are parties in Adair and Gorrie counties, who it is known, that delay is due only to the time required for securing the signature. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court; and the decision of that body will not probably be known for at least eighteen months. In the meantime, provided he succeeds in giving bondsmen, as there now seems to be no doubt he will. FATHER NEARLY LYNCHED. Accused of Assaulting His Wife and Daughter- Floriz City, Sept. 20, John Blades, a farmer from the eastern part of this county, was brought to jail here yesterday accused of attempting to murder his wife and criminally assaulting his own daughter. A gang of threestermen, upon learning of the crime, secured a rope and went to Blade's home to lynch him. He had fed on a bicycle and before he was captured had arrived at Mapleston, and stood and looked down at the mob from its purpose. There is still intense feeling against him. It is alleged that Blade, falling to induce his wife to go town and live an immoral life that he might get money for drink, assaulted her and booed murdererily. He was beaten off by his two sons, aged sixteen and twelve. At his preliminary hearing, the wife testified he had nearly killed her several times and that on August 15, 1914, he would earn money for him as he had directed, he struck her and then swore his daughter would obey him and that he would himself train her. She said he then dragged the girl to the house of the mother and boys saved her. He was held in $10,000 bonds. Angry Husband shoots Wife Ottumwa, Oct. 1. Mrs. Frank Umbles himself, Oct. 1, after the result of a shooting affair at noon yesterday, Ottumwa, angered because his wife left him, followed her from their home in Burton to Aflaf. Finding her in the depot there, he accused her of having stolen his watch her relatives in the east. Upon her routine to return the watch he began shooting at her, three of the bullets taking effect. The Rock Island cutoff which has been agitating the minds of Bloomfield people as well as many others is again assuming an aspect which looks favorable for Bloomfield. Two forces of surveyors are at work on the line directing fire from south through Uttawahie, Mo. The Sanborn roller mill and electric light plant was 'destroyed by a few days ago. It was a large frame of the loss was heavy, very little being saved. The mill was owned by J. H. Boyd of Crookston, Minn. The mill was not operated, but the electric lights will be greatly missed until the plant can be rebuilt. Lyman Turner, a farmer living near Washburn, was seriously injured while raking hay. He was kicked by a horse and sustained a broken leg and three broken ribs. He fell under the rake and was dragged along by the teeth while the team run away, finally slaughtered and lay there several hours. His condition is serious. Washington, Sept. 26. The following statement was given to the press at the White House last night. Pursuant to the request of Samuel C. Compass, president of the American Federation of Labor, the president granted an interview this evening to the following members of the executive council of that body: Mr. Samuel Tanguy, Mr. James Dumon, Mr. John Mitchell, Mr. James O'Donnell and Mr. Frank Morrison, as which nations legislated in the interests of those in executive action some discussed. Concerning the case of William A. Miller, the president made the following statement: "I thank you and your committee for your courtesy, and I appreciate the opportunity to meet you. It will always be grateful to you and your organization or of your federation as a whole. "As we negotiate the Miller case I have little to add to what I have already said. In dealing with it I ask you to work with the situation of the government to its employees. I must govern my action by the laws of the land which I am aware to administer and which differentiate any case in which the government acts in a party form all other cases whatever. These laws are intended for the benefit of the whole people, and cannot and must not be construed as permitting discrimination against anyone of the people of the United States, without regard to race, color, birthplace, occupation or social condition. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them as the employment department of the government service I can no more renegotiate the fact that a man does or does not belong to a union as being, for or against him than I can recognize the fact that he is a man of the union as being, for or against him. "To the communications sent me by various labor organizations presenting against the retention of Miller in the office, the grounds allowed are twofold. "First—That he is not personally second, that he is not personally first. The question of his personal fitness is a conservative detail, and cannot be allowed to conflict with or to complicate the larger question of governmental discrimination for or against him or any other man because he is or is not personally questioned now before me for decision and as to this my decision is final." SURPRISE IN BULGARIA. Bulgarian War Ministry Has Ordered Out Troops. Boda, Bulgaria, Oct. 2. The war ministry has ordered out the military contingency of recruits for October 14 instead of at the beginning of the year, as usual. This step, though quite constitutional, has occasioned some surprise considering the reported improvement in the general situation. While the conditions are undoubtedly more hopeful, there is a strong possibility that the Macedonian question is still very threatening, and can only be seted by war. The Bulgarian government, therefore, continues preparation for eventualities. In the meantime the Turkish diplomatic agent is conferring with the ministers here, and the new government is Constantople, N. Matschevics, goes to that city today. May Avert War Until Spring. Paris, Oct. 2. Official advises from the Balkans show two distinct signs that war will be averted at least until November. A special revisionary committee has made overtures to the Bulgarian government, and unless hostilities are actually undertaken within the next fortnight, all preparations will be suspended until spring. The purpose of this, it is understood here, will be to permit the Bulgarian government to through the winter and the completion of the preparation for a decisive move early in the spring. Second, M. Natchicha, Bulgaria's envoy at Constantinople, has agreed to take up negotiations. He at first refused to act on the ground that Turkey gave him an adjustment. His present decision is considered to indicate that Turkey has given adequate assurances. will shine. London, Sep. 29 — The Times learns from another worthy source that the place committee at the yildir. Klok has recommended that all Bulgarians captured in the future shall be shot. It is stated that the sultan holds the same view and that the necessary oath is required. The police committee consists of Tahsin, Edhem and Izset Pashas. The last named, who only recently became a member, is generally believed to have been largely responsible for the Armenian massacre at Constantinople. Lipton Will Try Again. Chicago, Sept. 29 — It is probable Sir Thomas Lipton will leave Chicago in the fall. He will be the only this week. In an interview Sir Thomas said: "If I could find a designer whom I was certain could beat Heresochow, I would build Shamrock IV, and challenge for the cup again at so that you can see that I am in hopes of finding such a designer. I intend to keep after the cup until I get it." Hundreds of Cattle Vaccinated. Bentrice, Neb. Oct. 2.—Within the past few days Dr. Gilbert Robertson, a veterinary surgeon of this city, has vaccinated 600 head of cattle on the farm where the disease known as blacking, which prevails among cattle in this section. It is said that Secretary Root was never known to smile. Chicago Tribune JAPAN TAKES A SIGNIFICANT STEP Part 1, Oct. 2—According to reliable information mentioned here, Japan has decided to send two regiments of infantry to Korea. This is regarded in authoritative quarters as being a most important step as affecting Eumyo-Russian relations and as likely to account for the potentialities of a war with Japan. Japan's decision is considered to be directly related to Russia's proposition to evacuate Manchuria, Oct. 8. It is now accepted in the highest quarters that this evacuation is impossible of accomplishment as China has not signee the terms with Russia on the proposed agreement. The advisers received show that China intends to continue the present Russian status in Manchuria rather than commit herself to firmly signing the proposed agreement. In view of these conditions Russia's decision to send troops to Korea is regained. The advisers further show that the war spirit in Japan has been materially augmented during the last fortnight. BROTHERS ELECTROCUTED. Three Van Wormer Boys Pay Penalty For Murder. Danaemers, N. Y., Oct. 2.—Without one unforeseen incident to mar the perfect and dignified execution of the death penalty imposed by the trial court of appeals, and not interfereed with by Governor Odell, Willis, Frederick M. and Burton Van Wormer were put to death in fifteen and one-half minutes at Clinton prison yesterday for the murder of their mule, Peter A. Hallenbeck, at Greendale, on October 16. The turn of the days on the care of their priest and banked on either side by prison deputies with calm demeanor, but extreme pallor. Father Belanger, a picturequee white-haired figure, not the ordinary day, the very day a black frock coat of clerical cut, with a little purple stole about the shoulders, walked along with each of the condemned men in turn, saying words of consolation. He had decided upon the order in which the men will go to the chair as follows: First, Willis, the oldest and most impressionable of the three; second, Frederick, the youngest, who has seemed to be the most hardened; third, Burton, the second in point of age. At 9:20 o'clock it was reported by the warden that the men were in the best possible condition, both in mind and body, and well nerved for their own. Willis Van Wormer entered the death chamber at 11:42:20, the current was turned into his body one minute later, and at 11:27 he was declared dead. At 11:42:30 Frederick entered the death chamber, and he was turned on and he was declared dead at 11:42:30. Burton Van Wormer entered the death chamber at 11:47:30, and he was declared dead at 11:48:30. The entire body of the man from his cell to the doctors declaration of the death of the last consumed but fifteen and one half minutes, and no untoward incident marred the execution of the law. KING OF YAP'S ESTATE. San Francisco, Sept. 30—William C. Hartridge, who went to the Caroline islands last May in the interests of M. Catherine O'Keele, widow of David C. O'Keele, has arrived on the steamer Doric. O'Keele was known as the king of Yap. He left his wife and daughter in Hong Kong, where he was wrecked on this island. Before he first white man the natives had ever seen, they treated him with every possible reverence and finally made him king. Over a year ago after visiting Hong Kong business, he started a return on one of his vessels and that last ever heard of him. Although he had two wives in the Carolines, he always kept his wife and daughter in Savannah well supplied with money. On hearing of his death, Lawyer Robert W. Mackenzie matters stood. He found a will in Hongkong, distributing an estate valued at $1,500,000 in property, all of which is productive. He has left quite a large amount to his daughter, B. Futter, of Charles, and it is estimated that Savannah widow will claim about 10 per cent of the estate. Curtisman Press No Longer Discusses the Invention. Sofia, Belgium, Oct. 1.—The improvement in the Bakken situation seems to be collected by the Sofia press, which no longer discusses Mieckheim situation. Prince Philip returned here yesterday from his Letters from Monastir say that the Turkish authorities are posting a final invitation to the insurgents to return to their homes. A report issued by the revolutionary Monastir gives details of a long list of activities committed by the Turkish troops who were hurried from high mount. It is stated that the Turks killed over 200 pennants in a number of villages, and attacked and killed prisoners to Nevada they measured 75 of them. At another place 18 women were outraged and then shot in a barn, which was set on fire. A speeches from Bila Monastir says a neighboring village, and that the men fed to the forests and that the soldiers beat and tortured the women and children. A report from Philippopolis says the Turkish army is buying horses and that a battalion of troops with 18 field guns has gone to the frontier. Another dispatch from the Hila monastery gives a report that the whole population of the district of Hazlok has been killed, and thousands women and children, fugitives from the Turkish soldiery, have arrived at Hila. Many villages around Hazlok are said to be burning. The monastery, which occupied by the Turkish troops, who avoid fighting and, according to the dispatch, attack only innocent people. Delawares Make Sensational Accusations in Bio Claim. Washington, D. C., Sept. 30—Sensational charges of fraud and irregularities are made against Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock and the members of the Dawes commission in a petition for $1,600,000 damaged files by an attorney for the Delaware Indians with the court of claims. The claim, which followed a decision by the supreme court of the District of Columbia dissolving a temporary Hutchock and the Dawes commission, is for expenses the Indians have been put to in defending the title to their lands. The decision in the injunction case was handed down by Justice Anderson. The case involved the right of the secretary to pass on the 157,000 acres of land in the Cherokee nation segregated by the Indians. The Indians claimed that the secretary is without authority to approve or disapprove of the segregation, as it had been approved by the Indians interested, and asked that be be enforced. The court, depending on the adjudication of the same question by the court of claims. King Peter Will Pardon Assassins. Belgrade, Sept 30—The trial of the army officers charged with conspiracy against the murders of King Alexander and Queen Draga was concluded yesterday. Captains Novokavitch and Leravitch, the former being the ring leader, were sentenced to two years' imprisonment and the loss of their commissions. Dr. Vellkovitch and Captain Lotjevitch, the former al-cemp of King Alexander, each resembles the mouth's imprisonment. Other officers were less prominent part in the conspiracy were condemned to a short prison sentence. It is anticipated that King Peter will pardon all the conspirators. Disfranchised for Belling Vote Springfield, Ill., Sept. 20—Clarke Younge, alias "Nippon," disfranchised in the Logan county court at Lincoln, by Judge G. W. Patton and sentenced to Postlaus for a term of ten years. Younge was found guilty of selling his vote at the last of the sixty who served Lincoln, and was one of the sixty who served Lincoln, by the grand jury for bribery at the election Judge Patton, in passing sentence, criticized vote selling severely, and said that he understood that the practice had been going on in that city for the past forty years. The vote of the American citizen is the greatest protection which he had. Rewarded for Massacres. Salonca, European Turkey, Sept. 20—Bakhar Pasha, who was responsible for the massacres at Krushno and Smiljevo, has been decorated with the order of the Medquida of the first district been sent to the district of Kastoria, where villages have already been burned and many insurgents killed. Death of Sir Birm. Herbert. London, Oct. 1- Shriram Michael Herbert to the United States, died Davis-Patts, Switzerland, after a long and plucky fight against consumption terminated with tragic success. The grandmother around Ferryville, Missouri, have desisted all vegetation in a district security mine long and fifty miles wide. The plains there are dotted with cattle that have starved to death because of the lack of harangue. As old as well as a bold soldier died recently at Salem, Oregon. His name was Joseph Dashaw, and his sip was 116. He was a soldier in 1806 to 1818 and fought at Waterloo, drove on an ox team to Oregon in 1847. A strange accident happened to a child that was playing the piano at a farmhouse in Cocholm, Romania. A couple of them wandered in, and one of them saw to the bed. Its owner, trapping against the trigger of an iron hanging on the wall, exploded the charge, which entered the child's head and killed it. Great excitement prevailed in Atlanta during a baseball game between nine composed entirely of colored men. Observing that the catcher had missed a pitched ball, a player tried to steal from the first to the second base. Before he beaten it the shot dead, the artifician of the opposing team. But this tragedy only temporarily delayed the game. Two linemen the later winted was famously shot because he rendered a decision that was considered unjust A tender-hearted judge dwells in Vienna, in the person of Wilhelm Statz. A prisoner was lately brought before him against whom there were over four hundred charges of theft. He was convicted of all of them, and if he had been sentenced for the full term of punishment, documents from the court and five hundred imprisonment; but the judge's heart melted, and in passing sentence he took off one thousand years in consideration of the man's youth. A tardy but raptuous wooer in Centerview, Mo. corresponded with a girl in Minneapolis for three years, but delayed his marriage proposal too long. A short time ago he received a letter and a picture from her. 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Lario, of 761 Twinthetch Avenue, tick- tleier in the Union Station, Col. say of "You've say to repeat what I first stated through our Denver papers about Doha's Kidney Pills in the summer of 1889, for I have had no reason in the interim to change the opinion of the rem- edy, and when first interviewed, he had a friend and no qualification suffering from backache or kidney trouble I would unbett- tally advise them to take Doona's Kidney, Pills. I was subject to severe aggravations of backache, always aggravated if I sat long at a desk. It struck me or the Kidney Pills performed half when they promised they might at least help, but not 17 the remedy. It absolutely stopped the backache. I have never had a pain or a twinge since." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Lario will be mailed to any part of the United States on application. Address Foster-Milbrane Co., Buffalo, N.Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. A true friend tells you of your faults privately and defends you publicly. Magnet Pile Killer Curve Piles. No woman is a heroine in the eyes of her cook. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defence Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 20 cents. It takes a genius to be a financier without being the possessor of any finances. DON'T POIL YOUR CLOSER. Use Rust Bleaching Blue and keep them white as soon. All grocery. 100 a package. A man could talk almost as well as a woman if he had time to practice. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defence Starch. Store for more than money—no cooking required. Some men are proud of their misdeeds and shamed of their virtues. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Frizzle As a rule, sharp business men are rather blunt. SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER There is no Beauty that can cure your tooth. Take care of your tooth. Only a dentist can cure your tooth. Iowa Farms Buy a house to MAD and have a great corn, fruit and grain crop, country rice and goo, bargain. Write as for the largest and smallest farm in the state. description. HAMILTON BROS., Winterstreet W. L. DOUGLAS '3, 50 & '3 SHOES UNION You can save from $3 to $6 yearly wearing W. L. Douglas $0 or $3 shoes They equal these that have been coated to $2.00. To $5.00. The immeasurable sale of W. L. Douglas shoes proves over all other mats. to be equified at any price. with extra. Illustrated from a book. Sold by retail store dealers everywhere. Look for name and price on bottom. That Douglass now comes that Douglass now comes in Dances about Jesus. In Dances about Jesus. grade Put. Leather muck. grade Put. Leather muck. grade Put. Leather muck. THERE AND BACK BY LOW RATES BIS CHIANGO BIS CINCINNATI BIS SIO TAMARITA BIS CINCINNATI Proportionate Rates from Intermediate Palettes. Slow-ons. Final Limit, Nov. 10. MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS R'Y. Agent Or write G. W. SMITH, N. P. A. BIS MARQUETTE Blg., OXIDAO MICHIGAN LANDS 40 ares or 40,000 ares Large and small tractors. Wholesale stocks of agricultural, stock raising, and general farm equipment in special bargains. Seed for circulars. Michigan Land Association, Michigan, Mich. Monster of the Sea Nearly Sinks Fish ina.0007 The fishing schooner actor acted into Boston last week badly leaked, as the result of an encounter with a mammoth swordfish off the Georges banks. The big fish struck the schooner with terrific force in a head-on collision. The force of the impact shock the large schooner from stem and set the crew thought the vessel had struck some half-sunken wreckage. Shortly afterward the vessel began to leak rapidly. An examination was made, and under the starboard bow, about two feet below the water line, there protruded the sword of a gigantic swordfish. Further examination showed that the big sword had penetrated the full wall of several inches within the hole. The vessel was headed for Boston, and during the voyage it was necessary to keep the pumps working a large part of the time. Lores Grijn Highest Paid Child Actor on the Stage. Lores Grijn is paid a weekly salary of $200, making him the highest-paid child actor in the country. This little chap, now nine years old, is the son of a prominent organ manufacturer of Cincinnati, and has been on the stage ever since he was four. In the last three years he has appeared in all of Charles Frohman's productions requiring the services of A a small boy. In the few years of his stage career he has saved enough money to purchase a piece of real estate in Cincinnati that brings him in a fixed income of $30 a month. This Master Lores is permitted to spend on clothes, for it has always been his ambition to be the best drummer in the seasonless this little Beauty drummer has actually set the fashions for boys' clothing. At the Children's theatre, Cincinnati, he was paid $50 a performance, which is a far greater amount than is usually paid to grown stars on Broadway. He also has an enviable reputation of playing string instruments by ear. Largest Tree in the World. In the public square of Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas islands, there is only one tree, but that tree literally fills the square and spreads its shade over all the public buildings in the neighborhood, for it is the largest tree in the world at its base, although it is hardly taller than a three-story house. It is usually known as a ceiba, or a silk-cotton tree, but the people of the Bahamas call it the hurricane tree. Even the oldest negro in the island can not remember when it was a bit smaller than it is at present. Steam Whistles Dialkil. Steam whistles have fallen under the displeasure of the physicians of Salem, Mass, and twenty-four of the doctors have pelfited the city council to adopt strict regulations concerning their use within the city limits. They declare that the noise made by them is often "a matter of life and death to persons seriously ill," and a nerve-racking and discomforting thing to most people at all times. A Kitchen Range. Incident of Maxim's Boyhood. The Piscataquis, Me. Observer of April 26, 1860, contained the following legal notice: "Freedom notice: For a valuable consideration, I have this day reallynailished to my son, Hiram S. Maxim, his time during his minority. I shall claim none of his earnings or pay any debts of his contract after this date, Isaac Maxim, Witness, D. D. Flynt, Abbott, April 18, 1860." The lad who was given his liberty is now Sir Himax Maxim, of London, Eng., the great inventor of rapid-fire guns and airships. An Old-Time House. Lewis H. Homeroy is taking down the Squire house in Sunderland, Mass., and will replace it with a new one. This house was occupied by a five times removed ancestor of M. Pomery, Jeddah Clark, who removed to Sunderland from Northampton about 1766, and he is thought to have been the builder as well as the occupant. Gave a Baby Parade. The tenants of a New York residential block resented the criticisms that they were "babbless" and members of the race-suicide society, and gave a baby parade, 200 strong. SIX MILLION TONS OF COAL awa's Coal Product Growing in Size Variety The report is complete, containing exhaustive statements by the three inspectors regarding the mines in operation, their location, system of working, means of ventilation and other facts of importance in relation to the safety and health of the employees. REGIMENT FOR DES MOINES Occupancy of the Army Post is, How even, Delayed Washington's Order of Orders were issued at the war department today for the entire Eleventh cavalry, Colonel Earl D. Thomas to take station at Fort Des Moines upon its arrival in the United States from the Philippine. The Eleventh cavalry is to be relieved in the Philippines by the Second cavalry. As the Second cavalry will not sail from the United States until January 1, it will be several months before the Eleventh reaches this country. The war department evidently does not believe the barracks at Fort Des Moines will be ready when the two squadrons will be deployed, which will be to be barracked there, reach Des Moines, as a general order from the department says the two squadrons, which are to be stationed in Des Moines, are to be quartered temporarily before the barracks until the Des Moines quarters are completed. The remaining squadron of the Eleventh is to be temporarily stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. The Fifteenth cavalry, which was stated originally for Fort Des Moines, is to go to Fort Myer, Va., and Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. CLASS FIGHTS TO END. President MacLean Puts Stop To the Annual Class Scrap. Iowa City, Sept. 29—After a three hours' struggle in which the freshmen class failed to lower a huge nursing bottle which had been hung as an object of derision by the sophomore class and labeled "07," President George E. McLean of the State university yesterday took a step which may put an end to the struggle. While the struggle was at its height and Central walk looked like a huge football field, President McLean clambered to the center of the fracs, and after finally securing attention, warned the gallantists that unless they desisted from the course and they would all be charged with unlawful assembly. He then ordered the sophomore class to take down their standard, which they did, and order was restored. President McLean's course came as a result of the fight last year, in which one of the participants received a broken leg. The bottle erected by the sophomores was of oak, bolted through and through and through and hung by a fastening it to trees on either side. Both sides were guarded securely by sophomores. Between two and three hundred engaged in the fight. The freshman class is disaffected with the outcome and there are rumors of entire sophomore class in Iowa river. A DERANGED MESSENGER. Made a Rough Car During Run to Des Moines Des Moines, Oct. 2.—W. H. Flash, express messenger on the Milwaukee between Des Moines and Spirit Lake, became temporarily deranged while on the trip south Wednesday night. At several of the stations he refused to receive express and at other refused to deliver. Between stations he amused himself with a joke. Word was sent to Des Moines, and, upon the arrival of the train at the Union station, Officer Riley of the Des Moines Union special force was waiting to take charge of the demented man. After a severe struggle, in which Fish flourished and snapped a revolver at several people, he was subjected to curled up by the agents of the express company, who finally got him quitted. Yesterday he went to the home of a daughter in Perry. The cause of his trouble is supposed to be excessive religious realism. For some time it has been a press company that Fish was something of a fanatic, but it was not thought that he was dangerous. Had his gun been loaded there would undoubtedly have been one or more fistfights. Not only did Fish aim, but also aimed several times into the crowd which had gathered about his car. Right Along A good thing lives and takes on new life, and so The Old Reliable St. Jacobs Oil keeps right along curing Pains and Aches. Price 25c, and 80c. A certain New York politician has a poor opinion of the capital of the nation. "Why," he says, "is a bum place. Nearly every gesser in Washington lives off the government, and them that don't lives off them that does." Traveling beauties never take passage on an ocean statermant without a spirit lamp, to heat their carling tongs. This practice imperils the ship, through danger of fire. One of the big steamship nues has fitted over statermant on its vessels with an electric apparatus for heating the curling tongs. Just for a joke, the friends of Phineas T. Lounabury, ex-Governor of Connecticut, last spring ran him for constable in Ridgefield, of which town he is a resident, and elected him. He accepted the office and was sworn in. He spent my leisure time in watching the men who ran me for office and in making them keep off the sidewalks with their wheels." A paper in South McAleister, Indian Territory, states that a negro criminal in the Choctaw Nation was so badly scared by being arrested that he turned an ashen gray, and has never recovered his proper color. Since then several colored damselflies thereabouts have become mischievous, and are courting arrest, so that they may be scared and bleached. The old-fashioned method of barring the bedroom windows of schoolboys in England is responsible for the burning to death of two Eton boys. A dormitory caught fire, and two victims were caught like rats in a trap. The bars are the old device for keeping the boys in their rooms after bedtime, in order to prevent them from going on night larks. A Bible was effectively used to banish the devils supposed to occupy the body of a sick man ih Hawaii. At first an educated physician was called; but as he hailed to give relief, a native medico, or Kuhuna, was brought over to the doctor over the head with a Bible, to thus drive out the devils, and his treatment was so persistent and vigorous that the sick man died. Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, speaking of political corruption, emphatically declared that a man must be made to feel that what he would be afraid and ashamed to do, in his own social relations he is to be equally ashamed to do in politics. He is not allowed to be a cloak under whose protecting folds he may be guilty of all manner of deceit and fraud. Mrs. Charles Johnson, of New Haven, Eng., engaged a comely cook in New York, and she proved a jewel in her line. On the fourth day in her new home she paralyzed her mistress by falling in an epileptic fit. On recovering, the cook stated that she was subject to them. Mrs. Johnson said the girl must leave the house. The latter declared that she had been engaged for a month, she was determined to stay. All persuasion having been useless to dislodge her, Mr. and the genuine Nurse temporarily at a hotel, leaving the cook in possession for a month. Watch out for the devil when he bids you "Good-bye." AVOID FRAUDULENT IMITATIONS. Use the genuine Nurse Bleaching Blue and preserve your clothes. All grocers. 100. It costs a merchant lots of money not to advertise. Defiance Starch should be in the kitchen so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cakes than any other brand of cold water starch. An actress doesn't always fare well on her farewell todr. Don't butter. E. K. Fool Comfort will cure your nose, tender, sweating hurting fire, and tenure or discomfort. You can butter, or send $20 to H. M. Carbarty, Jefferson, Iowa. It's no sign that stocks are feverish because they absorb water freely. Send dope for package of Baileh's Oil. If it is too hot, you can buy the money. SELL MEDICINE DO Des Moines, Iowa. Silence may be golden, but all mutes are not millionaires. JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR makes top of the market butter. Oxen and sheep fatten better in company than kept alone. Defauntness Cannot be Cured. by local applications as they cannot reach the disease portion of the market. And that is by constitutional remedies. Defauntness is caused by an inflamed condition of the tube is infused with a rumbling sound or inflammation. It is the result, and unless the inflammation is caused hearing will be destroyed forever. If most of the tea are caused by (tartar), nothing but We will give one Hundred Dollars for any case of the world's sugar was produced from beets; now they supply 68 per cent of the sugar the world consumes. Mr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in- fusion in the skin, curves mild colic. Beverage. There is no greater disaster in love than the death of the imagination. Magnet Pile Killer Cures Piles. Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. Do not believe Pile's Curse for Consumption has an equal for cough and colds—JOHN P Born, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1908. Past experiences give good counsel, but make poor patterns. Nothing except Kra-Nol for Head- aches, 22c. and 10c. Samples free. Lawrence Drug Co., Des Moines, Ia. It is said that Secretary Root is never known to smile. Some grocers say they don't keep *Defense Starch*. This is because they have a *defense* starch, which is only 12 on a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because *Defense* starch is too expensive. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. of *Defense* starch? Buy *Defense Starch*. Requires no cooking. Love may laugh at bolts, but politicians do not. WORN OUT. DRAGGED OUT. 10¢ Tone's Spices are always in packages. They have supplanted bulk spices were not available in the past. thought to purity and flavor. Bulk spices are really dangerous because of adulteration. By this recipe and use Tone's Spices. Excellent Ginger Cream. 1 cup Porto Rico mokkas 1 cup Tone's Jamaica ginger 1 teaspoon Tone's Jamaica ginger 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup coconut sugar 1 teaspoon Tone's Tonga cloves 1 teaspoon Tone's Tonga cloves 8 oz. teaspoon soda Four ounces for mixture to keep spice stand. Add the ginger and ginger cloves to the boiling water, in which and add the coconut sugar and brown sugar. Wet it in the evening and let stand overnight in a cool plastic container, about 10 of an inch thick and earl hole three inches long. Makes 100. From with hot oil or maple frosting. Paste this in your recipe book. At All Greens. Tone's Cannon Tea is packed in special packages. 1-lb package 60; 4-lb package 30. TONE BROTHERS, Des Moines, Iowa. We guarantee everything we maintains. TONE BROS SPICES AMERICA HERITAGE TEXAS RICE LANDS If interested in Rice Culture investigate my 30,000 acre tract of land located in most fertile rice producing section of Texas, 50 miles west of Houston. High prairie from shallow wells. Spreaded railroad facilities. Big crop now harvesting at large profit. Land sold at prices and terms to suit. Join one of our excursion prices. Write quick for rates, dates, etc. JOHN LINDERHOLM, - - Chesterville, Texas, Or Room 1, No. 234 La Salle Street; CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. There are but two kinds of starch. Defiance Starch, which is the best starch made and—the rest. Other starches contain chemicals, which work harm to the clothes, rot them and cause them to break. Defiance is absolute- DEFIANCE STARCH ly pure. It is guaranteed perfectly satisfactory or money back. The proof is in the doing and Defiance does. 16 ounces for 10 cents. Your grocer sells it. MANUFACTURED BY THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEIL. Are Most Women in Summer. -Pe-ru-na is a Tonic of Efficiency. Mrs. Tressie Nelson. JOSEPHINE MORRIS, 236 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "Peruna is a fine medicine to take any time of the year, but I have found it especially helpful to withstand the wear and tear of the hot weather. I have taken it now for two summers and feel that it has kept my system free from malaria, and also helped me to be happier and begged out look which so many women have. "If therefore have no hesitation in saying that I think it is the finest tone in the world." Josephine Morris. Peruna is frequently used as a mitigation of the effects of hot weather. What a bath in hot water can do is keep membranes. Bathing keeps the skin healthy. Peruna makes the mucous membranes clean and healthy. With the skin and mucous membranes in good working order, hot weather can be withheld with very little suffering. With an occasional use of Peruna is sure to mitigate the horrors of All Up-To-Date Housekeepers up to date Cold Water煮沸, because it is better, and 4 on more of it for same money. When you would fight sin, fear self. Mr. Tressie Nelson, 422 Broad St. Nashville, Tenn. writes: "An Peruma has done me a world of good, I feel so good of it, I hope that it may meet the sye of some woman who has su- fered as I have. "For I've years I really did not know what a perfectly well day of work I must not have had hands, I had backache, I where and really life was not worth the effort I made to keep going. "A good frisk advised me to use Peruma and I was glad to try anything, and I am very pleased to say that I am a new woman of me and I have so much life looks bright again."—mrs Tressie Nelson. hot weather. Many ladies have discovered that the depression of hot weather and the rigors they have been in the habit of attributing to malaria, quickly disappear when they use Peruna. This is why Peruna is so popular with them. Peruna provides clean mucous membranes, and the clean mucous membranes do the rest. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and the will you give to give your valuable advice grazis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Page W. N. U. Des Moines, Ia., No. 40-1908 Long State Register To: Long State Register Date: [Insert Date] Signature: [Insert Signature] Signature: [Insert Signature] Signature: [Insert Signature] Pictures in town this week: Max Lambert, Mrs. Bustine, Mrs. Lottinia of Boston. Mr. James Beaty and a party of four ladies were passing through. At his on-site resort in Chicago. The ladies being a few women like they were from the past, they padded their shoes. A very pleased and adherent were spent and they continued their trip on the 6 a.m. clock table. Born Mike G. Jackson of Shawnee City against a New Jersey in Killeen on the proper home. Miss Grace Maguire of Low Moores visited the past work with Mrs. M. McGarwood. Mrs. Frances Batterson in the poem and power of the A. M. R. clausius. He gathered the best women Sunday夜 and Mrs. Wharton and Mrs. Wharton's mother both Saturday evening for their new point. Mrs. Wharton will visit a few weeks in Chicago with her mother. Miss Maguire of Ottawa visited a few days of this work with Miss Elise Howe. Mrs. Mone and her two daughters have been visiting the past week with Mrs. Butler. On the North Western Line, Karen also tickets will be sold. May 16 to 27, individual, with any honorable return Karen an account of Christian Church National Conventions. Apply to 10 Agrarian Chicago & Karen Western Rd. PATRONAGE TICKETS May 10 A. Bankhold at Friday night for dinner. All, where he will take charge of the church there for the coming year. Missouri can book without a master Baboon was left without a parent and will be neglected now. The Macmillan Jolie is programming study under the leadership of a very prominent graduate, Mr. John Lowe; Mr. Bill Wintersky, and Mr. Mary Rose Spagnucci. Mr. John Mell and Mr. Johnson of California have become charter members of the Macmillan Macmillan Jolie. The Woman's Social Club was at the house of, Mrs. Cardwell McMenger, at Eagle Point, Monday night. After the program attendees were served and a delightful time was had. We are glad to see Mrs. Gortzauer Lovelace among the school teachers at Boston. Little Ida, Harbert and Lennie Groves are victims of the wheezing mouth. Mr. James Smith, who has been quite sick for the last month, is but more improved. Mr. Mary Lewis and Mrs. Lara Martin are on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin enter- ted Rev. and Mrs. Bunkel so diag- ses Friday. Mr. and Mrs. James Walker at Darrow and Crawford expect to make it their dinner home. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge are going to housekeeping and will make Dustyne their home for the winter. Mr. James Bennett of Minnesota has arrived to take up his work at the Budweiser Mine club. HOMESEEKERS EXCursion. One-way ride with two dollars additional, but round trip ticket on sale the first and third Tuesdays of every month, with Mint for return twenty-one days from date of sale. No ticket agents at Minnesota & Mt. Loris for information as to return, e or address. A. B. COTY, G. P. & T. A. Minneapolis, Minn. MUCHAKINOCK. Hello, hello this is Muchakinock. It has been some time since we have opened. Miss Daisy Boyce is a Buxton visitor this week. There were quite a murder in town yesterday night. Mr. and Mrs. Baxz were Oskaloosa vicious Pryder. The wedding bells will soon ring out again in Mundy. Mr. and Mrs. P. Thomas returned from Alba where they have been visiting the past week. Mr. Winston was a Oskaloosa visitor. Monday afternoon occurred a great ball game. The mango boys played against the marbled men and playing with all they did they thought the married men were too old to win. Married for the married men. There is to be a grand ball given by the club in a few weeks. Better join us on our work. Mrs. M. Williams will make her home in Mt. Pleasant. She will be greatly missed by her many friends. Mrs. Amanda Gardner was the guest of Mrs. O. T. Thomas this week. Mr. and Mrs. Brow were Oklahoma students Saturday. Mr. P. Thomas has been on the sick list for the last few days. Also Mr. M. James. Mr. B. Thomas. Mr. Robert Banness, who had a mature attack of the heart, had work to do in his own apartment. Mr. Mary Hill and family are pre- paring to go to Fort Smith, AL, where they will make their future home. WARNER-ALBERT PARKMAN dismisses and good negotiation in each state line in the security negotiation argument and advertises all established quality business license and Master's degree, training, additional all gen- erals in each district, and Wednesday from begal all offices. Home and marriage for wives only summery. Lafayette Nation will additional marriage. Col- onial, Ile de Bourbon, in Chicago. A number of Bartington spotters went hunting one last week, but all they brought back was a couple of cases of equine. Every one imagined that Cock and Cock were worms. They assumed that Henry Washington is also out after spending several months in the hospital. The daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. Tags are with special honour Mrs. Rose Patterson condition is improving. Father Alegand and Daughter Amara have returned Sousa their trip to Montreal. Mrs. Cora Major's friends will be pleased to hear of her being central account. SINOX CITY STREETS The Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday school gave a concert last Thursday evening under the management of Mrs. Paule by Jewell and others. It was well attended. Mr. Mar Jones, who was hit in the eye in the contest with another man, was taken to the Southern hospital and was taken out. He has our grandmother. Mrs. Betty Campbell of Paris, Ms. serviced in our city Sunday and is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Cora Harrison. A part of young people will meet Glenair list for Canada. Neh, to take in Glenair minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips left for Chicago last Friday to spend the winter. Mrs. Core B. Welsh of Carden, B. D., and Dr. J. William Moore, who is presenting his profession in our city and meeting with success, were quietly married last Tuesday by the judge of the case. We wish them a joyful life and a happy marriage. Mr. David Bates and son, David, returned home Saturday and mother visit with sisters and friends, and brother and sister by her grandmother, Mrs. Ellis, who will spend the winter. Mr. Poppy Rose and daughter Linda May, mother and sister of Mr. Henry Appell, arrived in our city from Paris, Mo., to spend the winter winter. We are glad to note that among the pupils attending high school this year we are so excelled namely: Miss Gothic Hackley and Mr. Leeland Washington and our teachers. Mrs. Hickley and J. M. Patterson came down from Minnesota, Minn., Sunday where she has been the guest of Mrs. Eighth Mountie for the past work. Rev. E. G. Jackson has been sent back to be mentor of the Malone school of the A. K. E. school for another commencement year. Everyone is pleased that school was called for members and friends to lay hands for the coming year. The prospects look bright for the future. Mrs. Agatha Early will leave Saturday for Minnesota, Mina, to join her husband and children where they have taken up their jobs. We are grateful very much. Mrs. John Morgan was quite hurt last Wednesday by being kicked by a horse which she was feeding. Mike Lyda Smith of Denver, Colorado, the guest of mr. knox knowles Last Tuesday evening Miss Lizzie South and Mr. Tommy Davis were united in marriage by the Rev. W. T. Green at the home of the bride's assistant on Palm street. After the bride arrived, she sent to their home Fortwright and Johnson streets, where they entertained a few of their friends. Mr. Edward Robertson's club of the Pilgrim's Rest Baptist church gave a twolly party last Thursday evening. The cars were well filled and the circuit of the city was made several times. Mr. Robert Scott will entertain a number of his young friends in honor of his birthday. Wednesday evening, September 20, at Eighth street hall. PETICULA HOME TO FIT ANY CYCLE. MESSAGE OF THE EC. LAB. DRESS & TUNNEL COUND EYES TESTED FREE DR. JOHN CAN COULIST DEM. MOINES, IOWA. 602 West Walnut Street. BUXTON NEWS. Sunday was rally day at Mt. Zion Baptist church. It would be said that they were $300. Good day's work. Hew R. H. Williamson was introduced Sunday morning at 10:45 to the members of St. John's A. M. E. church as their pastor for the next conference year. We are pleased to be so fortunate to again be blessed with one so able to expand the Scripture. We hear the Boston printing press is now in operation. Have not seen the paper but it is said, to be a very fine paper. The St. John's A. M. R. Sunday school is progesting Sunday the school was crowded with beautiful girls and boys. Looking over the church at the different classes we were attended of a lovely flower garden then the thought came the future church. Oh, if their hearts and minds shall be kept clean and purge what a powerful good they would be. Let us who know the stories of the self and do all we can to save the children. VERY LOW RATES TO BERKEH COLLEGE. In the North-Western Line Encor, also lines said that 4 to 8, includes with very favorable lines limit, an amount of annual convention of brotherhood of St. Andrew. Apply to Agents Chicago North-Western R. At the home of the baker's father, 218 white stone, firmly standing around the marriage of Miss Anna Columbo to Mr. George Reaper. The ceremony was administered by Kerr. Mattiulli of the M. R. Church. Only the matrimonial and intimate female weddings. The contracting party were attended by F. L. Ackermann and the bachelor's sister, Anna Columbo. Both gentlemen were the conventional black. The baker was very simply and familiarly atticed in white skin. In her hands she carried the Axer and cane was and wore the same in her hair. Miss Bonnie was simply atticed in white dotted white and no wore any whatever. The house hosted a few occasions except large bouts of patrons, holybody garments, antiquities, etc. The ceremony should have taken place at 6:00 o'clock, but going to an amphitheatre of the summer, it was a little later than the schedule time. Immediately after the marriage story one copainted for the East Side where a large reception was tented Mr. and Mrs. Taylor by the young man of the city. At the reception three large couches, and a bonnet adorned with all the little metal household articles, were presented to the newly married pair by their numerous white friends, Lawzer R. F. Dedeming the promotion speech. At the close of the reception those dressed in dance remained until a late hour. The air was a perfect success. The guests who attended the marriage list many beaming and medal presents. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor will be at home in a few days to their many friends, on Kusan street. Mr. Tom Palm and son, daughter, Mr. Binnie Washington, were hasty summoned to Ocean, Ma. owing to the serious illness of the latter baby girl, Marianne. Mr. Louis Johnson left Saturday night to attend the Chicago Centenial. Miss Anna Terry resumed Monday from a several weeks visit in Des Moines. 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His speech, which sounds the keynote of the campaign, follows: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I appreciate beyond expression the generous welcome of this meeting. Under, the influence, of its unbuffered enthusiasm, enters the campfire before me with new inspiration for the I am to do, and a profounder with in the principles I am to maintain. I defer until another occasion the consideration of matters pertaining to state affairs and pass directly to the issues of national concern. "The United States, that the great army of thinking men, the great body of the common man, the best body of the laboring man, must stand as one against combination, centralization, and the trust power of the present day." Again he said: "The protective policy is selfish, and while it is to remain upon our statute books, you should be selfish and vote for those men and the policy that will aid you." If these criticisms do not mean absolute hostility to the protective policy, it would be difficult to assign them any meaning whatsoever, and if the It was obvious for months before the democratic convention convened that, in their anxiety to find some plank upon which they could stand together, with a measure of harmony, as they float upon the rather turbulent sea over which they are sailing, they would repeat made upon the protective system of duties established and maintained by the republican party. When the convention came together, impaled, I assume, by the new-born zeal for unity, it declared for free trade as clearly and as unreservedly as it had formerly declared for free silver. under that order that the archaeology employed, I beg to read the announcement of the convention upon this subject: "As the most alarming features of our present conditions are the evils which come from trusts, and as these evils are made possible by legislation moving one class and against another by transportation privileges and by monopoly of original sources of supply of natural products, therefore, to the end that the evils connected with the growth of trusts may be minimized, and to the move of the tariff from all trust-made goods, and the demand that all tariff schedules be adjusted with a view to a tariff for revenue only." With this challenge before it, the republican convention met, and it gives me unqualified pleasure to read the candid statement and glowing eulogy upon the fundamental economic policy of the well-known party, announced in our most recent platform: "We reiterate our faith in the historic policy of protection. Under its influence our country, foremost in the counties of nature, has become foremost in production. It has enabled labor to secure good wages, and has induced capital to engage in production with a reasonable hope of fair realization. We have witnessed the history of its successes and the rapidity with which our national resources have been developed, and we heartily renew our pledge to maintain it." There is not a republican in the State of Iowa whose eye does not gleam with pride and whose heart does not warm with enthusiasm as he takes his bold and uncompromising oath of allegiance to the party of protection; it never rushed into the lists with times more advanced than the republicans of 1803 advance to meet the enemy who deny this triumphant doctrine. I have used the words "free trade" advisely, because in the terminology of economics "a tariff for revenue only" and "free trade" are synonym terms. Although the subject with my aim is dealing is one which has engaged me in the American people more than any other district the last century, and although I despair of adding anything valuable to the literature of the discussion, I beg your indulgence while I put the opposing policies in the plainest possible speech. I am duties, adjusted upon the protective伞伞, are laid upon those things which are do or not produce, and they are so laid to stimulate their production in our own country. They are so laid with the express design of preventing the free and unlimited competition of the producers of the world in our markets. They are laid, believing that the competition among our own producers will hold our production for fair American price and that we can bear the pay the American price than we can afford to have our markets monopolized by foreign productions. The enmity sought by the protective system of duties is to supply, so far as possible, the need of our own people with their own money. Upon the other hand, the demand for our own people with their own money is greater. With the least possible interference with free commerce and restrict as little as possible the free competition of the world in our markets. It is a system which, primarily, lays its duties upon things which we do not and cannot produce, and if such duties be insufficient, and if such duties be upon those things which we do not and cannot produce in the quantities we need. This is a tariff for revenue only, and this is free trade. In the presence of an audience = intelligent and so familiar with the writings of political economists, feel that it would be an imposition. I maintain my definition of a tariff for revenue and its identity with free trade by reference to the authorities upon such subjects. If, however, this identity is doubled by any inquiry democrat, I am quite ready to show him the avenues leading to other information. I am inclined to however, that when my democratic friends ponder upon the uterorrhea of unquashed opponent, they will not doubt that I speak delivered by Mr. Sulliwain in Chicago, shortly after his nomination he said: The protective policy of the republican party is doomed. Yet it will clean, before its last vestige is stricken from the statute books of "the United, States, that the great "arm of thinking men, the great body "of the common people, the great body "of the laboring men, must stand as "one against combination, centraliza- tion, and the trust power of the pres- "ent day." Again he said: "because the policy is selfish, and if this law is to, remain upon our st statute books, you should be selfish and vote for those men and the policy "that will aid you." If these criticisms do not mean absolute hostility to the protective policy, it would be difficult to assign them any meaning whatsoever, and if the democrats, as represented by their leader, are opposed to duties levied for protection, and if their platform expresses accurately their views, it follows inevitably that they favor duties levied upon the free trade plan. I have heard it said, sometimes by republicans, that protection is practically sound but theoretically unsoil. I make no such concession. I deny and repudiate the sentiment whether it comes from friend or foe. Protection is as sound theoretically as it is efficient practically. The chief purpose of government is to prevent the operation of natural law. Free commerce is no more sacred than freebooting or free killing. Tariff laws are the weapons with which Nations fight for commercial supremacy. The Government is under as high obligation to prevent the capture of our markets by foreign goods, if thereby the general welfare will be promoted, as it is to prevent the capture of our flag by a foreign army. It has the same obligation against unlimited importations; if they are enabled to produce for ourselves, as it has to prevent the general issue of bank notes in order that the integrity of our currency may be preserved. To say that we cannot divert the natural channels of trade to our advantage, is to impach our intelligence. I cannot dwell, however, upon this interesting, although abstract, phase of the proposition. I reiterate that tariff laws founded upon the policy of protecting the highest efficiency, but of the strenthest national morality, and I have little patience with the theorist who bases his objection to such laws upon the proposition that they contravene natural right. With what proof does our experience supply the debate? Examine with me if you will a moment, the general condition of the Republic when protection was first proposed. The country was young in years, still in population, and the country was Nature had bestowed her gifts with a prodigality not equalled in any like territory in the world. To utilize these treasures and prepare them for the use of man, required infinite labor and vast capital, a large population and a vast territory. Most of the countries of Europe were well advanced in production, labor was cheap, and capital already centralized. Under such circumstances free com- more meant that whatever we seized in agriculture, which Europe could produce, would be sent to us from across the sea. It must be conceded that without the aid of protective laws, capital would have been able to embark upon industrial enterprises would have lain undiscovered, much less touched, by the magic hand which has wrought the wonderful transformation which we now witness. Every honest man must acknowledge the truth of what I have just said. I have referred to it in the most outline. I have given you with you to supply the details which we need for our growth and development the most wonderful record ever inscribed upon the pages of time. If, however, the reason for adjusting our tariffa upon protective lines does not appeal to you, I have evidence in the life and growth of the Republic so clear and so convincing that it must overcome the doubt of the democratization of the country, drown the noisy utterances of the free trader in the mighty hum of an energy which fills not only our land, but that is now heard in every market place upon the earth. I will overcome the campaign sob of the hysterical orator, in the laugh of content and prosperity which is heard high above everything else, away the gloomy countenance which my distinguished opponent wears upon the sad occasions of his political meetings, by permitting his eyes to fall upon the happy faces of the multitudes who meet in these autumn days to taste and enjoy the pleasures of the harvest home. If, after all these things are seen, there are still mananthrops. I take over the history of the country which they love, and catch a glimpse of the path over which we have come. Prior to 1861 the United States for more than one half its life had a mild, very mild, protective tariff. Since 1861, barring a few years of well remembered disaster, we have been under the influence of a strong and efficient protective system. It would seem that if the republican policy is to remember the people as the democratic platform and democratic orators would have us believe, the Republic must be a feeble and emaciated body, death stricken with the poison of continuous wrong and paralyzed by the rigorous repression of natural energy. The fires of ambition must be dull in the hearts of the people, and patriotism must be a lost virtue. The people are by far the most temptable figure among the Nations of the earth, and our flag must be drooping in shame before the emblems of sovereignty which float from the peaks of other lands. What an infinite travesty upon the truth. The Republic of the United States, in 115 years, not a span in the life of a Nation, has been the most com­mandible figure in the whole community of Nations the world around. It surpasses every other country in its wealth; it has outstripped every other country in the volume and value of its productions; it has a point never before touched by man; it has a never before justified by a purity never before justified by a purity of society; it has been worn by the government; it has been worn by the government of any people; it has peacefully acquired, security held, and wisely exercises an influence for the good of humanity in all the doings of mankind. Its people are more properous, live more prosperous, and have more people under the earth. Its flag is the proudest emblem whose folds are touched by the winds of Heaven, and it floats in dignity and with power in every land and upon every sea. More than all this, it recognizes that it is yet upon the mountain side—that there are loftier hights to be scaled; that it is within the reach of which human victories may be achieved; and its maxim is move on up and up, until civilization shall embody all that mortals can possess. The man who, seeing all these things, can yet declare that the most important economic law of this brilliant career, and which exists amid the splendor of these conditions, is based upon its success, is very beneficent and builds up the few and destroys the many. I am totally unable to understand. The evidence, however, is not yet complete, and I venture upon a brief comparison. In 1860 the population of the United States was 16,000 in 1860 it had increased to 76,303,387. In 1860 the number of farms was 2.044.077; in 1900. 5.781.988. In 1860 there were 140,433 manufacturing establishments, employing 1,311,244 persons, whose yearly wages amounted to $378,878,966. The capital invested was $1,009,555,715 and the value of the products $1,885,651,676. In 1860 the number of manufacturing establishments had increased to 512,585, employing 5,310,598 persons, whose yearly wages amounted to $2,323,407,577. The capital invested was $9,853,630,789, and the value of the products was $13,019,261,614. I beg that the free trader will note the starling comparisons which these statistics will furnish. With respect to the number of employees elected prior to 1860 is not complete, and I pass down to 1870 for a further basis. In 1870 there were 52,922 miles of railway in operation in the United States; in 1900 there were 190,833 miles of railway—an increase of 261 per cent. In 1870 we produced 235,834,700 bushels of wheat; in 1900 we produced 522,229,505 bushels—an increase of 121 per cent. In 1870 we produced 1,094,255 bushels of corn; in 1900 we produced 2,106,255 bushels—an increase of 92 per cent. In 1870 we produced 23,863 tons of coal; in 1900 we produced 238,877,182 bushels—an increase of 626 per cent. In 1870 we raised 857,000 bales of cotton; in 1900 we raised 3,644,000 bales—an increase of 325 per cent. In 1870 the oil wells of the United States yielded 185,262,672 gallons of petroleum; in 1800 they yielded 2,396,164 gallons—an increase of 1198 per cent. In 1870 we produced 1,665,179 tons of pig iron; in 1900 the output was 13,789,242 tons—an increase of 728 percent. In 1870 we made 68,750 tons of steel; in 1900 we made 10,597,857 tons—an increase of 15,376 per cent. in 1870 we exported agricultural products worth $381,188,483; in 1900 we exported agricultural products worth $855,658,123—an increase of 128 per cent. In 1870 we imported steel and iron worth $82,655,454; in 1871 we imported wood, which was allied increase the consumption of steel and iron, we imported them to the value of but $20,478,727. In 1870 our exports of manufactured steel and iron amounted to $11,029,962, while in 1890 they amounted to $121,913,548—an increase of 1,098 per cent. In 1870 our exports of all manufactures amounted to $68,279,764, while in 1900 they amounted to $433,854,755—an increase of 536 per cent. Our total exports in 1870 amounted to 777,748,682 and to $1,294,463,802. The amount of 258 per cent. The amount of money in circulation in the United States in 1870 was $675,212,794, while in 1900 it was $2,113,294,983. Fascinating as these statistics are, I can quote no more. From every field of industry they can be paralleled, and they are open to the investigation of every man or woman who cares to pursue the inquiry. Is there yet a man in this presence who believes that protection destroys and that free trade builds up? If there be, I deparalleled up against him of his prejudice. He is fortunate however, for if he cannot be convinced, he shall still be protected, and the republican party will see to it that he is saved from the peril of his unbelief. You will carefully observe that what I have said relates to the merits of the controversy between the policy of protection and the policy of free trade, and there is still before me the duty of examining the application of the policy of protection to conditions as well as to conditions of protection, will be my pleasure to consider that part of our platform which points out in the clearest and most emphatic phrase how this policy is to be applied to the business of our country. Before I do so, however, it is, I think, courteous and appropriate for me to give some attention to the opening speech delivered by the democratic candidate for governor at Denson, on the 12th instant. I have read it with care and delight. With care, because I wanted to know how a good speaker could possess good delight, because I soon discovered how feebly even genius attacks the citadel of truth. His speech has two main divisions. In the first, he takes the tariff, the corporations, the trusts, and the rich, and in the caldron of his eloquence he boils them together until it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other; and with glowing indignation he pours out his wrath upon the rich, and in the caldron of his ends bad in any of them. Human justice has not adopted vicarious punishment, and therefore he must allow me to separate his victim into its component parts and deal with each according to its deserts. In the second division, he quotes some things I have said, and many things that I have not said, to prove that I believe in competition, that some of the duties now levied by the government and that he becomes with all the solicitude of a citizen, my inconsistency in helping to formulate the platform upon which I am now a candidate. My first thought upon reading Mr. Sullivan's speech was one of admiration for the courage he displayed. I say nothing of the discretion, in venturing to charge the republican party myself with sliding tapering, receding, or the heat of his enthusiasm he overlooked the fact, so obvious to all others, that he is at the present time living in a house built of the finest gossamer glass that ever came from the hand of an artist. It has not been a mistake that Sullivan was waking the echoes all over of Iowa, in his frantic demand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without the aid or consent of any other nation. I looked carefully over his keynote to discover how firmly he is now wedded to this country, and how much whisper in a paragraph relating to a set currency, running something like this: "Personally and independently of party, I am an old fashioned democ- crat, believing in the use of gold and silver, as the money of our country, and so believing, I cannot bring my mind to the thought that the bank has the power, or is more secure than the government itself." What a diminuendo after the crash of his eloquence in 1896 and in 1900. Nor can I forget, as I look upon the horrid picture which he paints of the dismal effects of the tariff, and when I hear the clank of the chains which I wear, I see the artisan as the bonds of serifdemand iniquitous system of import duties, that a very few years ago I saw this same picture, painted by the same brush and heard these same chains rattled by the same stalwart arm; but then all this misery had been brought about, and this miserable slavery owed to the failure to coin silver at the sacred ratio, and the tariff was not even mentioned. I am even more impressed with the courage of this speaker when I look into the democratic platform and the history of its adoption, and find not a single word from which any man can determine whether the domination or against free silver. It might be that if the beams in the democratic eye were removed the motes elsewhere would be less conspicuous. It is not enough, however, to suggest counter inconsistencies, for I desire fairly and in the most amicable way, to enlighten my opponent upon some matter, and to be misled. I am not a stickler for consistency, and I reserve the right to change my mind and avow the change just as often as it is necessary to hold and proclaim what I believe to be true. Respecting the tariff, however, I am not conscious of any change or modification in my views during the crisis quoted. I have spoken often upon the different phases of the subject in the last two years, but never without the most careful reflection and the most mature consideration. I have said nothing that I desire to retract, and I reiterate in this brood and general way, everything I have said to the dismay of the trusts. Referring to me, Mr. Sullivan said: "Our worthy governor declared in "one of his public utterances that the "duty on steel was the cause of mop-noply and increased the price to the "consumer 100 per cent, and that the "duty should be reduced." I am sure that my friend did not intentionally impute to me a statement that was never made, and I am equally sure that if he does me the honor to read what I say tonight, he will never repeat it. I never said in any utterance, either public or private, that the duty on ice was to cause damage, and I may say that the great majority of steel products there is not at this time, and never has been, a monopoly. I never said, either in public or private, that the price of steel was increased by reason of the duty, nearly 100 per cent. The statement is not true, and no sane man would make it. I have said many times, both in public and private, that I believed that upon many of the products iron and steel the duty should be reduced to the protective point. I repeat it, and I shall use what influence I possess to bring about that result. But this is no more an impeachment or criticism upon the policy of protection than is the censure of an imperfect law upon evidence, an attack upon trial by jury. II quote again from Mr. Sullivan a further reference to my views. He said: "Our worthy governor never uttered "a true sentiment that when he said "that the people needed competition "more than the monopoly needs protection." This is so palpable a misunderstanding of a well known statement of mine upon this subject, that negligence borders closely on recklessness. In discussing monopolies, in a speech delivered at fistfighters, the manman is better entitled to "competition than the producer to "protection." I believed what I said then, and I believe it now. If the time ever comes when I must choose between a monopoly of any important product and the protection of that product, I am for competition. I do not believe that any producer who successfully maintains a monopoly of any important product has the tag of a protective duty. I do not divide the people into consumers and producers. I say that when a monopoly is established, there is one producer, and that all who use or buy the product of his monopoly are consumers; and I repeat that these consumers have a higher and better right to competition in that article than are import duty upright. This position is not only consistent with the deepest devotion to the policy of protection, but it is the logical sequence of the argument for protection, for the obvious reason that one of the conditions which protection is intended to create is competition between the producers of the article protected, in the country which levies the protection. Mr. Sullivan finds much food for melancholy in the fact that the phrase: "We favor any modification of the "tariff schedules that may be required "to prevent their affording shelter to "monopoly," found in the republican platforms of 1601 and 1902, was not repeated in terms in the platform of 1600, and hence, fuyued the substitution of another expression. He asserts that the clause in our platform substituted for the one to which I have just referred is: "Dutics that are too low should be "increased, and duties that are too "high should be reduced." In so suggesting, my distinguished friend does not employ the fairness I am asking for. If that is our platform with any care, he knows that the phrase which was substituted for the one he quotes, reads as follows: "Tariff rates enacted to carry this" policy into effect should be just, fair, impartial, equally opposed to "foreign control and domestic monopoly" I claim no greater influence in the councils of the republican party than is exercised by its humblest member, and I hope that I will not be accused of vaunting myself when I say that I am the author of the constitution of the one expression for the other than any other man concerned in the construction of the platform. I gave absolute loyalty to the platform of last year, and I give absolute loyalty to the platform of this year, for with respect to the subject of which I am the author, I have thought in thought and purpose. I prefer the expression of this year, for I believe it to be clearer and more emphatic than the expression of last year. I fancy Mr. Suillan has accepted the headlines of some enthusiastic reporter and has not made himself familiar with the subject of this convention. I hope that at some future time he will inform his listeners what the words: "Tariff rates enacted to carry this" policy into effect should be just, fair, "and impartial, equally opposed to for-eign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and indulgence, to time be changed to meet the varying conditions incident to the pro-ress of our industries and their" changing relations to our foreign and "domestic commerce," mean. Let him tell the people, especially what construction he puts upon the statement that "Tariff rates should be opposed to the master, and tend to be the master, I do not pretend to have explored all the treasures of our mother-tongue, but in the limited range of my knowledge I do not know of any words that express the thought that our protective system must be the unrelenting foe of monopoly more clearly than the more clear foe of convention. But not only that tariff duties shall not shelter monopoly, but they mean that tariff duties shall be arrayed against monopoly. I commend to my fair-minded adversary a re-reading of the platform, and that he discover the meaning of its terms, not in the lightning flashes of its terms, in the firm and tranquil glow of an unabridged dictionary. It matters but little, however, what I believe, what I have done, or what I have said. The important question is: What does the republican party believe, what are its purposes, what has it done, and what has it said? It believes in the policy of protection, and if we may credit the evidence of "Tariff rates enacted to carry this" policy into effect should be just, fair, and impartial, equally opposed to for-eign control and domestic monopoly, sectional discrimination and harm from time to time be changed to meet the vary-ing conditions incident to the pro-gress of our industries and their changing relations to our foreign and domestic commerce. Duties that are too low should be increased and duties that are too high should be re-dued." Personally, I have no hesitation in avowing that there are duties which should be lowered to bring them to the point of protection, and the little that I can do to influence legislation in that direction, will be done. There are others, undoubtedly, who believe that the duties as a whole are as fairly adjusted as they can be, and I assume that they will act on that belief. It is not to be expected that direct modification will be made during the session of congress. A world that requires the unimpeded forbearance, the unimpeded consideration, and the most temperate discussion, will not be well done in the force partisanship which attends a presidential contest. We may differ, we do differ, respecting the details of application, but when the policy itself is threatened, it becomes every man who approves it, whether he be republican or democratic, and whether he is given direct revision, to lift his vote in its defense and cast his vote for its safety. Workingmen and Farmers. I must refer with more particularity to two phases of the opening speech of the democratic candidate for governor, upon which he expended intense energy. He sooms to concede that the clerics of American life, save two, are benefited by the protective system. These are the laboring men and the farmers; and he appeals to them in the most impassioned terms to overthrow a system which has reduced them to poverty and slavery. They are the men upon whom protection was offered, who have been the victims of grand larceny at the hands of all others for more than an hundred years. This is so remarkable a revival of an ancient delusion that I must give it more than a passing notice. It may be assumed that when the champion of free trade speech of workingmen of the United States, First, it is one of the accused facts in the statistics of the world that the wageworkers of the United States receive for their labor at least fifty per cent more than their follows in England. A week ago I happened to read in one of the well known newspapers of Chicago, a synopsis of the report of examination in British, looking to some changes in its tariff policy. I omit from it in order that I may be relieved of any charges of partisan conclusions: "The average level of wages in the "United States is one, and one-half" times greater than in the United Kingdom, while in Germany wages are three-fourths of the average prevailing "in the United Kingdom." It thus appears that from England's point of view, and if there is an error in the statement it is not in our favor, the men in whose behalf Mr. Sullivan pleads for free trade, earn and receive one and one-half times the compensation paid to the workingmen of the most favored nation across the sen. Accepting the same authority, they earn and receive substantially twice as as is paid to the workmen of Germany of such a size, it is baffled that a system under which these conditions exist is a system which robs labor of its just reward? The proposition will not deceive the feeble intellect that ever found its seat ```markdown ``` SUPPLEMENT TO Iowa State Dyslander. DEL BOLLER. . . . JOWA Friday, Oct. 2, 1908. I understand perfectly that this increase in wages has not been the result of unselfishness of employers. I know that it is largely due to the struggle of labor unions for the best wages, and also, that the classes of business from which these conclusions are drawn are not in the main the beneficiaries of direct protection, but it is nevertheless clear that these men could not have endorsed their just demands had there not been work to do. The could not have been paid. If it had not been profit in the business done. Before the free trader can establish his title as the friend of the wage-worker, he must be very much more specific than Mr. Sullivan has been. He must show, first, that under free trade there would be more work than there now is. Because that is not the case, or that the wageworker would be required to pay less for what he buys. He would indeed, be compelled to go further and produce satisfactory evidence that wages under free trade could be maintained at their present point. This is an appalling task for any man who undertakes it, and I venture to say that through the copy the copy would be a clearer speaker will attempt it. No thoughtful man has ever declared, or will ever declare, that with free competition in our own markets in everything, that we would produce more than we do now, and I therefore lay aside that part of the task as one which will never be entered upon. We are not claiming, and the defender of free trade dares not pretend to any intelligent audience that his doctrine will increase wages. If I understand Mr. Sullivan's position, he insists that the law of supply and demand must fix the prices and value of everything, and he will not be so inconsistent as to argue that an increase in the demand would affect the demand, could by any possibility enhance the compensation of labor. Free trade means the free competition of the world in our markets; that is, free competition of all the labor of the world through the commodities they produce, and this could not operate otherwise than to reduce wages if the workers of other countries own them. This, then, is another branch of the proposition over which the free trader will never successfully pass. There remains but one other. It has been claimed for free trade, and probably will be again, that it will reduce the cost of the things the wageworker must buy; that is to say, reduce the cost of living. I will examine this proposition, but I preface my examination by the suggestion that it would still be incumbent upon the free trader to show that his theory of government would maintain the present rate of wages, while lowering the necessary expenses of life. This he cannot do. He has made the experiment in times past, and with one invariable result—the reduction of wages and of men employed. Let us, however, see what the probable effect upon the wageworker is. The trader is vicious and vehement, and the rule, Sullivan is no exception to the rule, in asserting that the duties laid on agricultural products do not help the farmer, and therefore he could not say to the wageworker that what he eats, insofar as it is produced in his own country, costs him more by reason of the tariff, and it happens to be true that what is imported to him is substantially all upon the free list. The only exception of the slightest importance is sugar, and if we assume that the duty upon it, which is not true the tariff costs the head of an average family so insignificant a sum that I need not express it in figures. Insofar as he is a user of the ordinary articles of manufacture which are up to date, he is not required to admit that the wageworker of the United States pays a little more for them than the wageworker of Europe or Asia, but I assert that he does not pay by reason of the enhanced price of these articles five per cent of the difference between his wages and the wages abroad. This is susceptible of easy demonstration, and I only refrain from reducing the problem to figures. I will not be able to bear all the matters of detail. Do not misunderstand me upon this point. I believe that it costs the American laborer a great deal more to live than it costs the laborer engaged in like contributed in other circumstances. It is in the increasing because of depth given the things he has been, but if it be honoured the standard of life is higher in the —pay them it is therefore. The one more more and better things He was more and better things. He lives in longer and better places. He is more and better places. He possesses the power to maturity. For he is a better in the most important affairs of the community in which he lives. This is the price he pays for the smoother he enjoys, for the power he exercises, and for the responsiveness of citizenship; and if free trade rules his of the opportunity to make the lives of others, in at the same which almost he will be able and sensible. The Farmers. subscribe for the Iowa State Reciprocity. Upon the subject of reciprocity, the democratic platform is silent and necessarily so. There is no place in the political economy of the democratic party for reciprocity. Insisting as it does, upon free trade, the basis for reciprocal trade arrangements is at once destroyed, for there can be no such basis which we can yield in trade. The republican platform upon this point declares: "We indorse the policy of reciprocity as the natural complement of protection. Reciprocity between nations is trade for mutual advantage, and both sides must give and take. Protection builds up domestic industry, trade builds up domestic industry, ourselves, reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet for our garments." It is not a new doctrine in American politics, but it was a theory only until Blaine made it a living part of our economic policy. It was in full force and accomplishing great things for the business of the country when it was stricken down by the democrats when they came into power in 1984, and it was reinstated for in the Dingley law of 1897, and the last and most eloquent speech of McKinley's career was devoted to its explanation and defense. In recent years it has not received the loyalty it deserves. Many people have misconceived its scope, and have opposed every trade treaty which gave something for the benefits received. Our platform of this year pledges the party to re-establish the reciprocity which gives as well as takes. We will no longer dream of condemning a reciprocal treaty simply because it admits foreign commodities to our shores upon terms more favorable than thereafter existing, but will examine also the volume of our commodities which under its operation can be sold in the foreign markets opened or widened as a province of the United States. It is a plenary element of protection, and so it is. Locking at all other nations as hostile competitors, protection is the banner of war, and it bars them out. If, however, any one of them approaches under a flag of truce, and is willing to make terms for getting in, if the terms be favorable, it is admitted, and then after we business with that nation according to the terms we have agreed, we relate to imports — reciprocity to exports. Protection is the best adjustment that we can make within ourselves to enlarge the production of the country. Reciprocity is the best adjustment we can make with another nation to enlarge the production of our own country. The object of the two policies is identical—to develop to the utmost our own resources according to the terms we agreed. We ought to provide an amount of work by the American worker. I firmly believe that in the next decade the test of a successful administration will be found in the laws and treaties relating to an interchange of trade. I cannot dwell at this time, as I intend to later in the campaign, upon the details of trade treaties, and shall content myself with the most general reference to possible opportunities to establish reciprocity with Canada, a country just fairly started in its development, and whose markets in all manufactured articles we ought to supply by reason of the ease of our access to them. The United States is already the largest importer of commodities into Canada, and that notwithstanding the fact that her preferable competitor, upon terms 32½ per cent better than they admit the United States. We ought to obtain better terms there than England, but if we could even open the same terms the countries of our supporters to that country would be mighty increased and therefore the work done in the republic would be correspondingly multiplied. To obtain these terms, it will be necessary that certain of the products Canada shall be exported to the United States under lower duties. Our coal, iron ore, and pig iron should come in free as raw material and the natural products of her oil can be well admitted upon the best terms we can secure if thereby this great demand can be opened up to the market. We have no need to fear the competition of Canada in our own markets in those products which constitute our chief exports, nor is there any time to lose in pressing forward the negotiations for these free relations with Canada. Joseph Chamblain, England's chief minister with a clear vision than his associates, and ever his plan will be the plan of the English administration. He knows that if England were to impose a duty upon the agricultural imports from the United States and permit those same exports from the United States to induce Canada to raise still higher her barriers against the United States in manufactured articles and lower still more the barriers against the imports from England in manufactured articles, he would at once deprive the United States of its current currency of English manufacture, and bind the colony to the mother country with chains of enduring strength. We must thwart the designs of Great Britain, and reciprocity is our most effective weapon. Confronted by such an emergency, the democrats are helped by institutions their system of free trade we are at the mercy of the intelligent statemen of Europe. Before I close my consideration of the tariff and of reciprocity, I must refer to some peculiar conceptions which my friend Sullivan has of its operation and effect. There was a difference of opinion in 1887 among publicists, and still is, respecting the wisdom of putting the duty on lumber. It is one of those differences which will always exist, and I am not contending against the modification of the duty. I desire, however to point out the reasons for this, that Sullivan seems to be responsible. Taking the prices of lumber in 1897 as a guide, the average duty put upon it was less than 8 per cent of its selling price, and yet, in the favor of his love for free trade, Mr. Sullivan says: "There is not a man within the 'sound of my voice who does not know' it to be a fact that when the Dingler 'act passed, the price of lumber in 'every form was increased from 20 to 40 per cent.' It bright about the increase in the price of lumber in the prosperous days following the overthrow of Bryan and the establishment of the republican party in power, but I leave him to explain how an 8 per cent lot can increase the price of an article 40 per cent. The Standard Oil company has been the subject of indefinite discussion. Mr. Sullivan and I deplore its monopoly, but I believe Mr. Sullivan is entitled to the distinction of being the first man who has ever imputed its mighty power to the tariff. He says: "I wonder if Governor Cummins "does not believe that this tariff scheme is a shelter to monopoly in this instance." I instantly relieve his mind of any uncertainty upon this point, by saying that I do not believe that the tariff has contributed, or in any way does contribute, to the monopoly on atisfactory, return at our expense and get your money back. Jumped by this corporation, it may be the emperor part of the tin which the mans pays no duty, because its product is exported in the cans made from the imported tin, but it must be borne in mind that any person or any corporation can import tin with exactly the same privilege. With respect to the product itself, there is no duty upon it, there were it, would be a dead letter, for there is not a oil field in the world that can import into the United States petroleum and compete with the Standard Oil company if its product were admitted free. But I repeat, that there is no duty on petroleum. There is a provision of the law which declares that if any country imposes a good petroleum export, the United States may similar duty shall be imposed by the United States upon petroleum exported from each country into the United States. There is no country which can import petroleum, the law is of no consequence whatever, so the users of the article, and the tariff has nothing whatever to do with the greatness, the exaction of the injustice—in the monopoly, the standard Oil company. It is perfectly fair for a public speaker to point out the evil effects of so immense and successful a combination, but it is wholly unfair to impute whatever evil he may discover to the operation of e tariff. I pass from this altogether too extended consideration of our tariff system, to another principal feature of the democratic platform. The republican administration is arraigned in the serreest terms on account of the existence of certain corporations, which, though widely different in every respect, have been, by a loose generalization germanized, the same entity. It is alleged that they are lead and ought to be exterminated from the business world. It is further alleged that they spring from the protective system and that therefore the system ought to be abolished. Within the limits of any political speech it is impossible to consider the subject with that fullness which its importance demands. It is also the affairs of these corporations, it is in the highest degree necessary that we maintain our compose. It is somewhat difficult to do this, because hysteria seems to be in the atmosphere as we approach the topic. I will do the best I can to talk which they seem to be beget. It is admitted that they are not in question many of the consolidations have been brought about to reduce the cost of production. No reasonable man will or can complain of the enlargement of a corporation for the purpose of reducing the cost of the things which it produces. There is a point, however, beyond which it is not economical to aggregate industries, and many of the unquestionably many of the consolidations have been other motive underlying the combination. The vast increase of wealth in modern times and the intimacy of those who possess it have introduced two other elements into these combinations. The first is the desire to make money out of the mere organization through the medium of gross profits. It is therefore defensible disastrous to the country, and demands the speediest and the most effectual remedy that can be devised. I think there is a remedy, and I believe it will be applied, but inasmuch as it is not an issue between the parties. I do not dwell upon it. I pause only to remark that in the republican platform of this year is to be misled by any political party to reform in the organization of such corporations. It is in these words: "We believe that the large corporations common," called "trusts" should be so regulated and supervised, both "in their organization and operation," that their evil tendencies may be "checked and their evil practices pre-vented." It is my firm belief that if all corporations are so organized that the aggregate par value of their bonds and stocks is limited to the actual value of the capital contributed to the corporation, the trust question will not long become a problem of the United States and I fervently hope that all parties will unite to hasten this much needed reform. The second element in these corporations to which I have referred is the desire to stifle or restrict competition. It is as natural for producers to seek the death of competition as it for them to breathe. It is the common ordinance, and the man who will voluntarily share his market when he can monopolize it, is too good for this world. The individual or the corporation that can overcome actual competition by producing better wages or by selling at a lower price or by superior quality of products, the friend of mankind, for there always remains the potential competition which insures absolute safety for the public. The corporation or association, however, that is brought into existence for the express purpose or suppressing competition by the purposive consolidation independent plans coercing businesses that proposes to destroy the force of potential competition by the same method, is a vicious and unlawful combination, and all the powers of government should be employed for its annihilation. What has the democratic party ever done or proposed to do to prevent such exceptions except to clamor for free trade, whose blighting effects, like the showers of Heaven, fall upon the just and unjust alike. On the contrary, the republican party has set itself courageously and intelligently at the work, and with the Sherman act and its rebuke, the Sherman act will solve the problem, slowly and laboriously, it is true, *in the end it will be settled right.* Admitting freely that the most strenuous attempts have been made to establish monopolies, it is yet true that they have been generally thwarted by the authorities. Trusts are very many, monopolies are rare, and he, who does not distinguish between them is a poor guide in the labyrinth of modern affairs. He who would destroy all the so-called trusts that integrate the occasional monopoly, has enough to thought the gravity of the undertaking who, believing in protection all would abolish the debt of trust made goods because the trust may ripen into a monopoly, would remain childless lest his offspring may become I illustrate with a commodity often mentioned by Mr. Sullivan. The United Steel corporation manufactures steel rails. There are at least three other great corporations which also manufacture steel rails, and there is substantial competition. If they can manage steel rails to be made in this country, why remove the duty because they are made by trust? If however, the United Steel corporation should purchase its competitors and thus establish and maintain a monopoly in steel rails so that every buyer must be subjected to its arbitrary will, then the duty and it is therefore that our platform declares that tariff schedules must be opposed to domestic monopoly. I cannot leave this subject without a reference to the reiterated statements of the democratic platform, amplified in the speech of the democratic candidate for governor, that the tariff creates and fosters the trusts, and is responsible for whatever is bad in our industrial and commercial sector. That a confidence precedent of the trusts just as wealth, energy, enterprise and development are antecedents of the trusts. They have all helped to create conditions out of which the trust evolved, but they are conditions without which there could be no growth, no prosperity, and no progress. The tariff bears exactly the same relation to the trusts that the Chinese extension law and the Chinese extension against labor under contract for labor do to labor unions; and I am impatient to know from my worthy opponent whether the democratic party is in favor of abolishing these laws in order to destroy labor unions. I had intended to enter upon some discussion of our policy in the Philippines, but I must forego the pleasure until some other time. I must content myself tonight by saying only that of all the bright pages which record the worthy deeds of the republic, there are none which glow with more steadfast honor, more fervent patriotism, more exalted regard for the rights of humanity, and more written to the achievements of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and the army and navy of the United States in the Philippine Islands. Currency. I had intended also to refer to the subject of currency reform, and I only defer the discussion until I can again be heard. Let me say, however, that no proposed measure has yet become law. I must be sure that the expression of individual views. I hold certain opinions which I am quite ready to disclose, and lest my friend Sullivan shall again misquote me, I venture to say now that I am opposed to any currency which government does not agree to redeem. I have been somewhat analytical and therefore have already consumed more time than is ordinarily devoted in one evening to a political meeting. I am nearing the limit of my strength and your patience; but before I leave you may I move back from my close view of affairs, and from a standpoint of the whole history of republican administration say a word in conclusion? I know what all of you want for it is an instinctive and inherent desire planted deep in the heart of every good citizen. You are all conscious of the greatness of the republic, of the commanding place it occupies among the nations of the earth, of the vast possibilities of growth and decay. You are all conscious of the truth that the United States full of questions that must be answered and answered right if we are to fulfill the destiny for which the patriot prays. You want a government wise enough to know what is right and strong enough to do what is right. You want a government imbued with the spirit of the age in which we live, and that can keep pace with the swift march of events. You want a government that knows the worth of its manhood and womanhood, the good and poor, white or black, at home or abroad and that will defend and protect them with all its mighty power.