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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 12
ADMIItAfj MHLVIIiliW
Tho doath of Rear Admiral GeorEe
Wallaco Molvlllo roniovoH a romark
ablo character from tho life of Phila
delphia and tho wider theatre of na
tional and particularly naval
affairs.
Molvillo's careor linked tho two
,oraa of our naval hintory and wit
noBBod tho traiiHition from tho
wooden flcotH of tho civil war to tho
otool-clad Hhlps of 'he encounter with
Spain. Ab chiof of tho bureau of
Btoam engineering and chief engineer
of tho navy hiB hand and brain lod
tho way to the acceptance and inatal
lation of radical improvements ho
waa novor ono of thoao to whom "it
givofl pain jo recelvo a now idea."
Tho horoic temper of his soul was
shown again and again, from tho
'timo ho rammod tho Florida off the
coast of Drn7.il till ho found Do Long
and 1Mb shlpmatos on tho Arctic
shoroa of Siberia. The melancholy
story of tho .leanotlo expedition is
illumined by tho resourceful courage
of Molvlllo, who novor gave up, who
toiled uncomplainingly with super
human vigor, and accomplished a
journoy of 2,200 miles in 100 days,
.hauling a laden slodgo like a boast of
burden, in tho tooth of overy adverso
condition of cold, hunger, disease and
opon mutiny. Tho indomitable will
of tho man had no such word as fail
in its lexicon.
Though his post of duty was tlits
ongine-room and not tho bridge
while ho was in activo service, who
shall say that tho duty of tho engi
neer is any less precarious than that
of the commander? If tho ship goes
down, his chance of escape is the
slondorost. Melville know what ho
was doing when ho said ho would
run tho ongines of tho Florida alone,
aftor thoy told him tho boilers would
crush and scald him to doath in tho
onglne-room. Ho was never a man
'of cravon mindfulness of his own
safety. It is fitting that whon doath
,camo it found him, not in comfort
able retirement, but meditating tho
continuanco of his labors. Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
personal motive of tho men who are
responsible for our undoing.
I am trying to get Lal'ollottos
and other progressive papers to help
this cause on. Yours truly.
GEORGE II. PHELPS.
GOOD OLD IUCPUBIjIOAN
HARMONY
Popular Bluff, Mo., March 19.
Aftor an hour of riot and uproar
Taft supporters withdrew from tho
fourteenth congressional district con
vention hero today, leaving tho
Roosevelt adherents in possession.
Each faction named delegates to tho
republican national convention.
Roosevelt men were in a majority
and could have controlled the situa
tion by force of numbers. At the
afternoon sossion members of tho
Cnpo Girardeau delegation partici
pated and cast twenty-three votes for
tho Taft delegates. Thou they withdrew.
Resolutions indorsing Colonel
Roosevelt as tho greatest living
statesman, tho statesmanship of
President Taft and the administra
tion of Governor Iladloy were passed.
Tho morning session was a con
tinual uproar, with two sets of offi
cers trying to transact tho business
of tho two factions. Before the con
vention tho ten Roosevelt men on the
district committee ousted Chairman
B. L. Guffy and Secretary Harry Hae
tor and elected Fred E. Kies chair
man and Luther Conrad secretary.
Tho Taft faction indorsed Presi
dent Taft for renomination and soon
after adjourned to the sidewalk,
whoro it was announced that its dele
gates to tho national convention are
George L. Greene of Naylor and Byrd
Duncan of Popular Bluff. The Roose
velt delegates named in tho conven
tion are Samuel Ulen. of Dexter and
John C. Harlan of Gainesville.
The Roosevelt faction claimed 112
delegates to tho congressional con
vention and the Taft followers 89.
diseases through fixing their teeth.
Tho Department of Agriculture has
been wondering, ho says, what has
been killing tho hogs? and ho has
tho correct answer. Every disease
known to swine, ho says, is duo to
bad teeth, and his remedy is good
for well hogs as well as sick hogs.
Ho gives as reference tho Union
Stock Yards of Omaha, where ho has
worked doctoring tho swine popula
tion beforo tho slaughter. "I am,"
ho concludes, "the only hog dentist
in the world." Ex.
WORKING AT HIS TRADE
Colonel John P. Irish, who
stumped the state against equal suff
rage, is now advocating unlimited
Japanese labor . for California. Ho
will probably next appear in favor
of making the United States an un
limited monarchy. Lob Angele3
Tribune.
"Why does that old maid use so
much paint on her face?"
"She's making up for lost time."
Brooklyn Life.
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Findlay, Ohio, March 1G. 1912.
Editor Tho Commoner: As you are
well aware, there are progressives in
both particB in congress who are
making horoic efforts to prevent tho
American hankers association, the
concroto form of the currency trust,
from putting through tho Aldrich
scheme of national reserve associa
tion, a sort of Shylock's snug harbor.
If you will study the history of
tho American bankers' association
you will como to tho same conclusion
I havo that beforo thoro is any more
investigation by congress or any com
mittee of congress, or any banking or
currency legislation, that we must
find means to determine how many
members of this trust occupy seats in
tho jury box.
Every fow minutes I hoar one. I
wrote you about Vreeland, the most
lunuencuu republican on tho banking
committeo and vico chairman of tho
monotary commission. Now I seo
in La Follotto's current issue that
Hauna of North Dakota (Fargo) is
president of a bank.
I tell you this American bankers'
association comes within everv nor-
view of a trust within the letter and
spirit of anti-trust legislation. No
member of it has any business to sit
in judgment on matters affecting tho
interests of bankers as against tho
people.
At least we must make an effort
to develop and make public the status
of the congressmen and enlighten the
pooplo. If we can not do this in con
gress 'wo must do it outside
I hope you will help agitato this
matter of getting at' the' private in
terest of congressmen' In 'banks and
banking, so that if wo are oaten up
by this money trust we will know the
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