DAKOTA CITY HERALD
DAKOTA CITY, NEB.
JOHN H. REAM, Publlther.
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8EVEN OF THEM FURNISH THREE
BONDS FOR $10,000
EACH.
REFUSETODISCUSSCHARGES
It It Intimated, However, that Meat
Official Have Decided to Make a
Firm Stand and Thorough Test of
Cases Against Them.
Chicago. Seven of the ten officials
the Chicago packing companies In
dieted by a federal grand Jury for vlo
latlsn of the Sherman anti-trust law
appeared la the federrl court Tuesday
and gave ball for their appearance.
Bach defendant was obliged to fur
nish three bonds for $10,000 each. The
three men who did not furnish ball are
Leuls P. Swift, president of Swift &
Ce., who Is In Europe; Thomas J. Con
nors, superintendent of Armour & Co.,
who Is now returning from Europe,
and Francis A. Fowler, department
manager of Swift &. Co., who Is ill.
Judge LandlB ordered bench war
rants Issued for the defendants, but
after attorneys for the absentees ex
plained why they had failed to appear
In court the order was recalled and the
warrants were not Issued.
The packing company officials re
fused to discuss the charges made in
the Indictments. All cave personal
bonds signed by men who scheduled
real estate In Cook county. Surety
company bonds were refused by Judge
LandlB, who ruled against them a year
ngo.
It Is said that the packers will mnke
ao plea until the return from Europe
of Louis Swift Then a conference
will probably be held by the indicted
men.
While no person representing the
packers would make a statement, It
was reported at the federal building
that the big meat Interests had de
cided to make a thorough test of the
rresent cases. Without admitting that
there exists any combination contrary
to the Sherman law, they will contend
that it Is impossible to conduct the
packing business on different lines,
and that any association of the packing
companies In a holding company Is
one by which the consumer Is the
chief beneficiary.
JAIL BREAK IS FRUSTRATED
Alleged Newark, Ohio, Lynchers At
tempt to Saw Their Way
Out
Newark, O. What Is thought to
have been an attempt to liberate the
fifty or more men who aro in jail here
on charges of participating In the re
cent lynching of Cnrl Ethrrlngton was
frustrated by Sheriff Stabaugh Tues
day. Three men in an automobile
halted in front of the Jail and began
tinkering with the machine, cutting off
the muffler and running the engine so
that a terrific noifie resulted.
Under cover of this, prisoners be
gan to file the bars of the upper sec
tion of the Jail. Their actions were
discovered by the sheriff and after the
safety of his prisoners had been as
sured he left for Columbus to notify
the state authorities of the attempt.
The Fisheries Award.
The Hague. The award of the In
ternatlonal court of arbitration in the
Newfoundland fisheries case became
Irrevocable with the expiration of the
five days allowed for an appeal without
either the United States or Great Rrlt
aln having entered a protest against
the findings.
' Polndexter Nominated.
Seattle, Wash. The Insurgents' vie
tory in the Republican state primaries
has exceeded all expectations. Mllus
Polndexter of Spokane, one of the
most radical Insurgents in the house
has been nominated for United States
senator by a plurality which his head'
quarters In this city estimate at 30,000
Presides at Disinterment.
Montreal. Cardinal Vannutelll pre
sided at the disinterment of the body
of Mother Marguerite Bourdeol, found
er of the Order of Congregation of No
tre Dame, who will be canonized
The remains were Identified by the
cardinal, who subsequently placed his
seal on the casket.
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Sioux City. Tuesdays quotations
en the Sioux City live stock market
follow: Top beeves, $7.40. Top hogs,
19.20.
No One Is Injured.
Roanoke, Va. A special train on the
Norfolk & Western railroad bearing
President L. E. Johnson and General
Manager N. D. Maher was wrecked at
Delorme, W. Va. Neither President
Johnson nor Mr. Maher were injured
Rains Cause Heavy Losses.
Stockholm. Destructive rains have
caused heavy losses In the southern
province of Scandla. Much grain has
been ruined and the sugar beet crop
hag suffered severely.
Ready to Enter Office.
. Washington, D. C George E. Rob
erts has returned to Washington to
take his former position as director of
the mint after on absence of three
years. His appointment by President
Taft wait announced several days ago,
Lucius Tuttle Rce'gns.
ltobtou. Lucius Tuttle resigned tb
presidency of the Boston and Main
railroad. -Charles S. Mellen, pretldeut
of the New York. New Haven &. Hart
ford railroad. U acting president of the
Uoston ft Uuliio.
PACKERS
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MERCHANT PRINCE?
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J Unattainable! Not a bit of
w It, for most of the merchant
$ princes have started In right w
down at the bottom Just how
w your boy, by becoming a mes-
J senger or a parcel wrapper, In
a big department store, can w
travel along the glittering road
a to head buyer or general man-
J ager of a great retail business J
tr Also, how he may Improve his
J education and get healthful J
recreation while he Is going w
J upward, step by step. J
By C. W. JENNINGS. w
MERCHANT PRINCE Does
4 t h n nhraaa (oranlv rl o H r r I ru
tlve of great commercial
power and attendant
"Jit rt0088. sound too formld-
uui 10 you IU UW'J IU
your own boy even In your most am
bitious dreama regarding his life's
workT Yet it is a fact that most
Americans who have been designated
as merchant princes, since the day
when the phrase was made famous as
applied to A. T. Stewart, have sprung
from the ranks of the wage earners,
many of them winning their way to
this distinction in spite of poverty and
other equally hazardous handicaps,
Also, it Is a fact that most of them
have learned the business, of which
they are hailed as masters, from the
ground up, starting In such lowly post
tlons as cash boys, even.
The careers of the men who have
given us our big retail stores our
department stores thus go to prove
that It is entirely reasonable for you
to dream of, and plan for your boy to
be, a merchant prince some day. Also,
these careers should convince your
boy and you, too that it is not so
difficult to become a merchant prince
as he and you may have been led to
believe at least, not so difficult to
make the atart and get on appreciable
distance along the filtering highway.
It all rests wffh the hoy himself, and
the first thing Incumbent on him Is
not to look askance at work that will
probably make him appear less Im
posing fhnn wns the cash boy, even,
In the days before he "wns displaced
In the big retail stores by mechanical
money carriers. For your boy's first
Job If he decides that be wants to
become a merchant prince will be
that of messenger, or parcel wrapper,
or helper to a buyer, or stock boy,
and he will get anywhere from four
to seven dollars a week, according to
his natural ability.
It Is universally recognized econ
omy for a store to promoto its em
ployees as rapidly as they are worthy
of It, since it Is a well known business
law that it is easier for an employer
to find beginners than experienced
men. Therefore, from his humble be
ginnings as messenger or parcel wrap
per, a boy who is ordinarily bright
and chock full of ambition will no!
be long becoming a full-fledged sales
man behind one of the Iobs important
counters and earning eight to twelve
dollars a week. There are plenty of
cases where bright boys have been
salesmen within a year after enter
ing a department store as messenger
or parcel wrapper. Of course, 1 am
talking of boys who know the three
R's fairly well and long to know them
better; who are from fourteen to six
teen years of age when they begin
their life's work; and who, when they
filled out their applications for em
ployment, were well recommended by
the family doctor, the family minister
and other folks whose word carries
weight with big employers. In most
Btates child-labor laws will not permit
boys or girls under fourteen or six
teen years to take up the taRk of earn
ing their dally bread.
After a clerkship has been attained
and Ua work fully mastered and Im
proved, if possible, there are two
pretty distinct lines of advancement
in department store life that lead to
the Merchandise Kingdoms. One is
the executive end, which has entire
charge of the business; the other Is
the buying department. There is lit
tle choice in point of reward, though
there Is more public honor in being
known as the head of a great busi
ness. However, the head buyer for a large
establishment Is always a man of such
proved attainments that he virtually
commands his own salary. He has
grown up through every department
of merchandise knows all about
where and how It Is produced, its
cost etc., and has to keep in close
touch, through his own private
sources of Information and bis assist
ants, with exceptional opportunities
for getting large quantities of gnoilf
at the lowest possible prices.
It Is a great stroke for a buyer to
discover where a fine lot of goods can
be acquired at a bargain; for nowhere
Is competition more keen than In the
merchandise business, and such a
stroke will enable a store to get ahead
of Us rivals. Indeed, It Is in the power
of the buyer to save his house thou
sands of dollars annually; Just as his
mistakes will have the reverse effect.
It Is by no means an overstatement
to say that the success or failure of
the greatest as well as the smallest
department stores rests largely upon
the ability and faithfulness of the buy
ing end. And the head of this branch
Is quite as much the Merchant Prince,
though possibly not so picturesque, its
the general manager.
If your boy wishes to follow tip this
buying end, he goes to the stock de
pertinent, after he has had consider
able experience at selling, and be
comes an assistant buyer In one of
the branches. From here, after get
ting a pretty intimate knowledge of
r 11 TT J Ti e
4 '
Its details, he goes to another branch,
and so on, and before long finds him
self a sort of general overseer, then
an assistant to the head buyer, and
finally reaches that coveted goal him
self. In some stores, however, the differ
ent departments are run more sep
arately, there being a distinct head
buyer for the grocery, the millinery,
the men's clothing, the hardware, the
crockery and other departments, who
set together at times and confer with
the general manager. In such case
there Is no formal head buyer by that
title, his functions being performed
by the general manager. The salary
of a buyer for a department varies all
the way from $1,500 to $3,000 and
sometimes Is two and three times that
number of dollars a year, according
t.o the Importance of the department.
It Is quite likely, however, that your
boy will prefer to work up through
the executive end, as to be a head
buyer requires special talents In the
way of dealing with outsiders and
striking shrewd bargains that only the
exceptional young man possesses.
And bo, after his salesmanship, he
will become a floorwalker at any
where from $15 to $25 a week. This
man has direct charge of the salesmen
and saleswomen in his particular de
partment, and Is In direct line for an
assistant superlntendency. The lat
ter, under the superintendents, are
heads of floors or entire departments
of certain lines of goods, and super
vise the floorwalkers. Their salaries
are from $25 to $40 or so a week,
while the superintendents get as high
as $.1,000 or $4,000 n year.
Then come the assistant managers,
managers, and finally the general
manager of the entire business at any
salary the house can ntTord to pay,
It Is a fact that In some large stores
not even (he president of the United
States has much financial advantage
over li f in.
Now, all this is open to tne ooy who
makes his first little start as a mes
senger; lor, as I have already said, it
is always to the advantage of any
store to select Its executive heads
from the employees when they show
sufficient capacity, n would be ase-
less to attempt to give names of big
department store managers who have
risen from the bottom; for, llko Sol
fridge, the lanious London merchant.
who began wrapping parcels In a lit
tle American store, most of them
started at the very beginning.
The boy that makes his beginning
now, however, has nn advantage over
those ol previous generations; for he
In better trained by his employers and
has more opportunities. It Is not at
all uncommon for young men to have
become floorwalkers or assistant su
perintendents by the time they are
twenty-five or thirty, respectively.
It all depen.ls upon a boy making
the best of his opportunities, which
have been greatly Increased during
the last few years by the establish
ment of real schools In connection
with the department stores.
Thus, here Is being solved one of
the most vital problems that confront
the poor man who cannot afford to let
his boys go to more than the veriest
rudimentary schools, and some of
them not that, but has to have their
help In supporting the family. It la
sidved because the boy Is earning a
salary In a business in which he can
grow as far as he has It in him, even
to getting thousand;! of dollars a year;
and at the same time ho can acquire
a good, ordinary education.
This schooling Is looked upon In
the stoics that have worked It out as
being a pretty good try-out for the
new-comers. If a ' boy is dilatory In
his studies, or not tidy, or shirks, or
manifests symptoms of dishonesty In
his school Itl'e, be is not apt to be dif
ferent in his work, and he must over
tome these tendencies if he expects to
get tar. in the store through promotion.
If, hov.over, he Is In earnest in hla
endeavors, and determined to get all
he can In his pcliooling, and apply the
lessons learned to his work, his future
will be easy and ho will become a suc
cessful, valuable American citizen, an
honor to himself and to bis country.
And while he is making this progress
he will have the advantage of school
opportunities furnished by literary
and social clubs fostered by his em
ployer; concerts, recreation and lunch
rooms, and annual vacations under
pay, probably at resorts established
by the store proprietors features not
p.lvfii, as a rule, to employees In ither
llneB.
(Copyright, 1910, by the Associated
Lltetrary Press.)
Won't Economize on Daylight.
A year ago quite a furore was mads
over the proposed plan, which If not
to prolong our lives was literally to
lengthen our days by Betting the
clock hands an hour ahead in early
summer and back again to first prin
ciples when the sun resumed getting
up late mornings. The daylight-saving
bill was seriously considered la
parliament, but failed to become law,
although ltirmlnghaom, England, and
Cincinnati. ).. actually puBsed ordi
nances. Moth cities after a futile at
tempt to infoive the undesirable meas
ure, repealed It. The idea, which lika
most fads, was not without Its good
features, was given the widest posst
ble publicity in the press, but publlo
opinion was against It The Interest
Ing thin is low soon the pendulum
swings to the other extreme, for In
the space of 12 months a most talked
of Incident has tiecoiue the most for
gotten Popular Mechanics.
St. Peter's Retains Supremacy.
tt Peter's, fct Koine, reared centur
ies before the age of neam and eleo
tiliity began. Is still the biggest of
churches, the most colossal of ail
duces of worship.
NatiOIial Banker Criticises
M Conduct of
eiiaCe American People
Iy JOS. T. TALRERT, Vice President of National City Hunk, New York
I i
XTKAVAGAXCE has
El is in fact becoming a national menace. There does not appear
aujTWiii-ic iu tiisi in uh: euuuuei. oi uauuuai, municipal or
individual affair, that appreciation of the economical and pru
dent use of resources and that adjustment of expenditures to
means and incomes which alway has been found necessary to
the support of prosperity and to the maintenance of a condi
tion of solvency.
We are squandering on pleasure vehicles annually sums
iff
of money running into hundred of millions of dollars. The
initial eost of automobiles to American ujwis amounts to not leas than
$210,000,000 a year. The upkeep and oiher neorsaary expenditures as well
as incidentals, which would not otherwise be incurred, amount to at least
as much more. This vast sum is equivalent in actual economic waste each
year to more than the value of property destroyed in the San Francisco
fire perhaps to twice aa much. ThU sum, as large as it is, doe not
include the whole economic loss growing out of this single item of indul
gence. The thousands of young and able-bodied men employed in manu
facturing machines and in running ami caring for cars are all withdrawn
from productive usefulness; they become consumers of our diminishing
surplus products and constitute an added burden to the producers. The
economic influence of this withdrawal from the producing and addition
to the consuming class, is bound to be manifested in a tendency to higher
prices. Ita effect already must be considerable, and is comparable only
to the maintenance of an enormous standing army.
Thousands upon thousands of our people, frenzied by desire for
pleasure and crazed by passion to spend, have mortgaged their homes,
pledged their life insurance policies, withdrawn their hard-earned savings
from banks to buy automobiles ; and have thereby converted their modest
assets into expanding and devouring liabilities. The spectacle is astounding.
Location of
Original
"Old
Glory
.99
By GEORGE A. VJNTON
Chicago
Glory post, No. 70S, G. A. II., of Chicago,
of which I am a member, and Commander W. W. Fletcher the founder
and organizer.
At our next open meeting I, as Mrs. Roland's representative, will
present her rich donation to Old Glory post.
We do not indorse the statement that the "Essex Institute of Salem,
Mass., has the original 'Old Glory.' "
I have the documents and facts to disprove it, and W. U. Summers
of Tark Eidge, 111., near Chicago, who ma-ried Capt. William Driver's
daughter, also has the facts and more documents and small shreds of the
flag, which he will also donate to Old Glory post at our next open meeting.
Farm Boys
Should Be
Given
More Fun
By C. S. MORGAN
Diytea, Ohio
circus nor even to the county seat, except
on rare occasions and then only for business reasons. We were not even
allowed to play baseball because father thought it was time wasted. The
few little, pitiful pleasures we had were all stolen and in time we began
to hate the farm and everything connected with it. I am sorry that
father did not see things in a different light, because if he had given us
a hoy's chance we would all have been with him yet."
Protect
Against
Awful
Forest
Fires
By ALEX. TRUESDALE
means, these hardy pioneers who hew out
a home in the almost impenetrable wild and make fertile farms in the most
unfavorable sections for agriculture.
Year after year the newspapers are filled with graphic accounts of
disastrous forest fires in the northern and western states of the Union.
Many
Benefits
Derived
From
Boxing
By DYES HALTER
Many of our prominent citizens arc
firm advocates of all athletic games and exercises and boxing is certainly
as healthful a sport as football, cricket, basketball and many other of our
most popular sports. And by contrasting the number of fatalities on
both sides boxing is seen not to be a bit more dangerous.
To be a good boxer one must be clean physically and to be clean
physically one cannot be unclean morally.
There is nothing like our old-fashioned fair fist fights to test a youth's
'.mettle or prepare him for tLo greater tests to come later on in life.
become not onlv a national vie but
It is true that Capt. William Drivei
first named the stars and stripes "Old
Glory" in 1831, as a recent article said, but
the original flag is now in the possession of
his daughter, Mrs. Mary F. D. Poland of
Wells, Nev.
I have in my keeping the portrait of
that stanch old unionist, who saved "Old,
Glory" from being destroyed in Nashville,
Teun., during the civil war, and I have
shreds of that same "Old Glory" and all
the facts and history that Mrs. Koland has
most kindly and generously donated to Old
A son of my neighbor left the farm
when he was eighteen years old and came
back from the city on a visit the other day.
Jfe has not succeeded very well in the city
f.nd has an intense love for farm life, but
lacks the capital to buy a farm and start
right. I asked why he left the old homo
stead and he replied, "Because it is oil
work and no profit. My brothers and I
led a hard life. Father did not mean to
lie an unkind man but he secmeTl to have
forgotten that he liad ever been a bov him
self. We were never allowed to go to a
Speaking of the conservation of out
natural resources, what greater resource is
at stake than the welfare of our hardy pio
neers ?
Up in the wilderness, away from the
pathway of civilization,' are men with
brains and brawn. Their wives aro with
them and their children are growing up
in the same surroundings that our fore
fathers had.
They are making sacrifices and endur
ing hardships and privations.
Usually they are men of very limited
I believe that boxing is in a large sense
responsible for the fact that the young
men of America and Great Britain are su
perior to Uio young men of Mexico or
Spain. If two young Americans or Eng
lishmen have a quarrel, it is quickly set
tled by a fair fist fight But let two Mexi
cans (although not all are so) get into a
quarrel and knives are likely to flash and
inside of five or ten minutes one or prob
ably both of them are hustled off to the
hospital. In Mexico there are hardly ever
any prize fights.
I II
f ?! f total
Mendacious
Reprtnted from sn article by Theodora Roosrvelt In Th Outlook tir nnrta1
rr.ngtment with Th Outlook, of which Theodora RooaevHt Is ?ContrfbuUni
fcdltor. Copyright. 1010. by Tha Outlook Company. All Rights Raaervad!
In the New York Evening Tost of
Friday, August 26, there appeared In
an editorial article the following state
ments: " 1 will make the corporations come
to time,' shouted Roosevelt to the
mob. But did he not really mean
that he would make them come down
with the cash to elect him, as he did
beforeT For a man with Mr. Roose
velt's proved record It Is simply dis
gusting humbug for him to rant about
the corporations upon whose treasur
ers he fawned when he waa president
and wanted their money for his cam
paign. Does he think that nobody has
a memory which goes hack to the life
Insurance Investigations, and that
everybody has forgotten the $50,000
taken from widows and orphans and
added to Theodore Roosevelt's polit
ical corruption fund? Did he not take
a big check from the Beef trust, and
glad to get It? And now he is going
to make the corporations come to
time! One can have respect for a sin
cere radical, for an honest fanatic, for
an agitator or leveler who believes
that he Is doing God's will; but It Is
hard to be patient with a man who
talks big but acts mean, whose eye is
always to the main chance politically,
and who lets no friendship, no gen
erosity, no principle, no moral scruple
stand for a moment between himself
and the goal upon which he has set
his overmastering ambition.
' 'This champion of purity, this roar
er for political virtue, is the man who
was for years, when in political life,
hand In glove with the worst political
corruptlonlsts of his day; who toailed
to Piatt, who praised Quay, who paid
court to Hanna; under him as presi
dent Aldrieh rose to the height of his
power, always on good teijrns with
Roosevelt; it was Roosevelt who, in
190(5, wrote an open letter urging the
re-election of Speaker Cannon, against
whom mutterings had then begun to
rise; It was Roosevelt who asked liar
riman to come to the White Houao
secretly, who took his money to buy
votes in New York, and who after
wards wrote to "My Dear Sherman"
yes, the same Sherman reviling the
capitalist to whom ho had previously
written saying: "You and I are prac
tical men.' "
The Evening Post is not In itself suf
ficiently Important to warrant an an
swer, but as representing a class with
whose hostility it is necessary to' reck
on in any genuine movement for do
cent government. It Is worth while to
speak of it. There are plenty of
wealthy people In this country, and of
Intellectual hangers-on of wealthy peo
ple, who are delighted to engage in
any movement for reform which does
not touch the wickedness of certain
great corporations and of certain men
of great wealth. People of this class
will be In favor of any aesthetic move
ment; they will favor any movement
against the small grafting politician,
against the grafting labor leader, or
any man of that stamp; but they can
not be trusted the minute that the re
form assumes sufficient dimensions to
Jeopardize so much of the established
order of things as gives an unfair and
Improper advantage to the great cor
poration, and to those directly and in
directly responsive to its wishes and
dependent upon It. The Evening Post
and papers of the same kind, and the
people whose views they represent,
would favor attacking a gang of small
bosses who wish to control the Re
publican party; but they would, as the
Evening Post has shown, far rather
sec these small bosses win than see a
movement triumph which alms not
merely at the overthrow of the small
political boss, but at depriving the
corporation of Its Improper Influence
over politics, depriving the man of
wealth of any advantage beyond that
which belongs to him as a simple
American citizen. They would be
against corporations only after such
corporations had been caught In the
crudest kind of criminality.
I have never for one moment- count
ed upon the support of the Evening
Post or of those whom It represents
In the effort for cleanliness and de
cency within the Republican party, be
cause the Evening Post would support
such a movement only on condition
that It was not part of a larger move
ment for the betterment of social con
ditions. But this is not all. In the
struggle for honest polities there Is no
more a place for a liar than there is
for the thief, and in a movement de
signed to put an end to the dominion
of the thief but little good can be de
rived from the assistance of the liar.
Of course objection will made to
my use of this language. My answer
Is that I am using it merely scientifi
cally and descriptively, and because
no other terms express the ffcets with
the necessary precision. In the ar
ticle tn which the Evening Post comes
Doubtful Proposition.
"The Bohemian life is the one that
Is frank and sincere," said the man
with the artistic temperament.
"Perhaps," replied the practical
youth. "But I can't help having my
doubts about the frankness and sincer
ity of anybody who tries to convince
you that he enjoys being broke."
Noncommittal.
Lawyer Did the prisoner when he
stabbed his victim seem to recognize
him?
Witness Well, be cut him dead.
Journalism
to the defense of those in present con
trol of the Republican party In New
York state, whom It has affected to
oppose In the past, the Evening Post
through whatever editor personally
wrote the article, practised every
known form of mendatAty.
Probably the Evening Post regard
the decalogue aa outworn; but if It
will turn to It and read the eighth and
ninth commandments, It will see that
bearing false witness Is condemned
aa strongly aa theft Itself. To take but
one Instance out of the many In this
article, the Evening Post says: "It
waa Roosevelt who asked Harrlman to
come to the White House secretly,
who took hla money to buy votes In
Now York, and who afterwards wrote
to 'My Dear Sherman yes, the same
Sherman reviling the capitalist to
whom he had previously written, say
ing: 'You and I are practical men."
Not only Is every Important statement
In this sentence false, but the writer
who wrote It knew It was false. As
far as I was concerned, every man
visited the White House openly, and
Mr. Harrlman among the others. I
took no money from Mr. Harrlman se
cretly or openly to buy votes or for
any other purpose. Whoever wrote
the article in the Evening Post la
question knew that this was the foul
est and basest lie when he wrote the
sentence, for he quotes the same let
ter in which I had written to Mr. Har
rlman as follows: 'What I have to
say to you can be said to you as well
after election aa before, but I would
like to see you some time before I
write my message." I am quoting
without the letter before tne, but the
quotation is substantially, if not ver
bally, accurate. That statement in
this letter to Harrlman is of course
on its face absolutely Incompatible
with any thought that I wns asking
him for campaign funds, for it. Is of
course out of the question that I could
tell him equally well what T had to
say after election If it referred in any
possible way to getting money before
election. This Is so clear that any
pretense of misunderstanding is proof
positive of the basest dishonesty in
whoever wrote the article in question.
As a matter of fact, when Mr. Harrl
man called it was to complain that the
national committee would not turn,
over for the use of the state cam
paign In which ho was interested
funds to run that campaign, and to
ask me to tell Cortelyou to give him
aid for the state campaign. Mr. Cor
telyou is familiar with the facts. In
other words, the statement of the Eve
ning Post Is not only false and malt
clous, Is not only In direct contradic
tion of the facts, but Is such that It
could only have been made by a man
who, knowing the facts, deliberately
Intended to pervert them. Such an
act stands on a level of Infamy with
the worst act ever performed by a
corrupt member of the legislature or
city official, and stamps the writer
with the same moral brand that
stamps the bribo-taker.
I have seen only a telegraphic ab
stract of the article, apparently con
taining quotations from It. Practical
ly every statement made In these
quotations is a falsehood.
To but one more shall I allude. The
article speaks of my having attacked
corporations, and, referring directly tc
my Ohio speeches, of my having
"sought to Inflame the mob and make
mischief." In those speeches the
prime stand I took was against moy
violence, aa shown by the labor people
who are engaged In controversy with
a corporation. My statement was In
effect that the first duty of the state
and the first duty of the officials was
to put down disorder and to put down
mob violence, and that after such
action had been taken, then It was the
duty of officials to investigate the cor
poration, and if It had done wrong to
make It pay the penalty of Its wrongs
and to provide against the wrongdo
ing In the future. It is but another
Instance of the peculiar baseness, the
peculiar moral obliquity, of the Eve
ning Post that It should pervert the
truth In so shameless a fashion.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Cheyenne. Wyo., AUKUnt 27, 1910.
The Oely Way.
"Why did he leave all his money to
the black sheep of the family?"
"He said the other children were
too good to go to jail."
"Well?"
"And he wanted to fix It so the
black Bheep would be too rich."
Pa's Idea of It.
Utile Willie Say, pa, what Is
pride?
Pa Pride, my son, Is walking with
a gold-headed cane when you are not
lame.
Right Off the Reel.
"When is an actor not an actor?
asked the man with tho conundrum
habit.
The man who had passed the after
noon at a vaudeville house never hesi
tated a minute.
"About nine times out of ten," he
replied.
A Conservative.
"Do you take much Interest In these
new thought movements?"
"No. There's a great deal of old
thought I don't understand ret.'