Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 21, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDII DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTNRNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J._PRYOR. T Entered in the postofice at Bemidji. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM _— THANKS, BROTHER. Kelliher Journal: The Bemidji Pioneer put another feather in its cap in giving the rerults of the ball games between Chicago and Detroit for the world’s championship. The Pioneer ‘“‘scooped” all other papers in this respect, reporting the result of each day’s game in its evening edition, THE CANDIDATE. “When the sap begins to rise and the geese begin to mate, we hear the gentle carol of the county candidate, O, he’s a jolly fellow and full of vain conceits, and sees a bosom friend in every man he meets. ““He asks about your family, your horses and your hogs, and shows a friendly interest in the children and the dogs. O, he’s a jolly gentleman as gamesome as a lamb, as -blithe- some as a meadow lark, and happy asa clam. His prospects are the brightest and his chances they are sure, and he spends his money freely to help the needy poor. He goes to church on Sunday and his pious traits appear, but when its necessary he will then set up the beer. O, he’s a sanguine, buoyant duck, the jocund candidate, he starts out early in the morn and stays until its late. His patient wife unlocks the door, and with a look of pain she says, ‘You needn’t lie to me, your leg’s been pulled again.’ ”’ CAUSTIC COMMENT. LA. G, Rutledge.] The melancholy days have come, the sad- dest of the year, When with a force that strikes us dumb the coal man doth appear, And ere the calculation for the winter's coal is made We realize with sorrow that the ice bill isn't paid. A Philadelphia doctor says “Health lies in canned goods.” We fear it does. Even casual observation will con- vince anyone that the latest femi- nine fashion is a little rough on the neck. A Wisconsin man whose house was on fire saved his fish pole first and his children second. He was willing to spare the rod and spoil the child. And Colonel Allen hasn’t taken up the offer of the Pioneer to wager a few ‘‘simoleons” on the respective circulations of the Senti- nel and the Pioneer. Come on, Colonel; I will personally wager you another of those becoming broad- brimmed black hats. f 1ne Brave Butterfly. Here is an unorthodox story of King Solomon: One day a butterfly sat on the king’s temple and boasted to his wife. “If I chose I could lift my wing and shiver this building to the ground,” he swaggered. Solomon, overhearing, sent for the boaster. “How dare you?” he thundered. The butterfly groveled, “I did it to impress my wife,” he pleaded. The great monarch was in- stantly appeased and let him go. “What did Solomon say to you?” gasp- ed a quivering wife five minutes later. ““Oh, he begged me mnot to do it,” sald the butterfly airily. And Solomon, again overhearing, smiled.—Chicago News. Wifely Curiosity. “Henry, dear, I tried on a sult of your clothes the other day, and it fitted me to perfection.” “May I ask your object in taking Buch a liberty with my garments?” “Why, Belle Greene said she heard Mommy Tolliver say that you wasn’t much bigger than a shrimp, and I was Just wondering how big a shrimp i5.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. [ Alike In One Way. | "He’s quite wealthy and prominent now,” sald Mrs. Starvem, “and they say he rose practically from nothing.” “Well, welll” remarked Mr. Border. “That’s just what I rose from—at the breakfast table this morning.”—London Answers. i Those Amiable Creatures. Maud—This {8 my engagement ring. Isn’t it lovely? Edith—Perfectly ador- able! How generous Fred was to give you such a valuable ome! And to think that folks say that your father paid for 1t!—Boston Transcript. Sympathy. . *What made you kick Jimpson?” “He called me an ass.” “Oh, well, kicking is a characteristic of asses, but I shouldn’t think you'd want to confirm Jimpson’s statement #o quickly.”—London Telegraph. Why It Was There. ‘Aunty—Tommy, I put three ples in here yesterday, and now there is only one. How is that? Tommy—Please, it gras so dark, aunty, I didn’t see that smel—Punch, o ~—From the Philadelphia Press. TRUE PROPHETS AND FALSE. HOW TO TEST THEM. “1 wiil not deny that there may be prophets to-day, but the trouble is te tell the true prophets from the false ones. The Bible says that false prophets will rise. It tells us how to distinguish the false from the true. It says: “‘By their frults ye shall know them.'”—Willlam J. Bryan's Speech at Baltl- more, Jan. 20, 1800. BRYAN PROPHECIES. THE ANSWERS, “TARIFF WILL CRUSH THE FARMER.” 1899, Free Trade. “Thus In every State, so far as these statistics have been collected, the pro- portion of home-owning farmers is de- creasing and that of tenant farmers in- creasing. This means but one thing: it means a land of landlords and tenants, and, backed by the history of every natlon that has gone down, I say to you that no people can continue a free people under a free government when the great majority of its citizens are tenants of a small minority.”—Willlam J. Bryan; speech on the protective tdr- iff in the National House of Represen- tatives, March 16, 1802. 1896, Free Colnage!—16 to 1. “I reply that, iIf protection has slain its thousands, the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands.’— ‘William J. Bryan; speech at Demo- cratic National Convention, July, 1806. “The Democratic party has begun a war of extermination against the gold standard. We ask no quarter; we give no quarter. We shall prosecute our warfare until there is not an American citizen who dares to advocate the gold standard. You ask why? We reply hat the gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race, and that we should no more join in it than we would an army to destroy our homes and to destroy our families.”—Willlam J. Bry- an; speech at Albany, N. Y., August, 1898. The Answer in 1908, The answer is found in the prevaik ing good prices for graln, corn, hogs, cattle, hay and all the products of the farm, together with the fact that since the date of Can- didate Bryan's “crushing” speech, Western farm lands have doubled in value, and thousands of “tenant” farm- ers of that date have become prosper- ous home-ewners, tilling their own land in peace, happiness and plenty. Under the Natlonal Irrigation Act, and the Republican conservation movement, the West 18 soon to be the intense agricul- tural and horticultural producing area of the United Btates. “GOLD BSTANDARD WILL DESTROY HOMES.» The Answer in 1808, The gold standard has “slain” no one, nor did it write the ‘“future in blood,” mor did it -destroy our homes nor foreclose the farm mort- gege, nor did it close the dis- trict school; on the contrary, it has proved the sound and solid foundation of widespread prosperity, leading to In- dividual progress and happiness, aided in paying off the farm mertgage and expanding the country’s educational fa- cilities. : It has brought such prosperity to our country as was never known before. Americans are the happlest and most prosperous people on earth to-day. “NO MORE FOURTH OF JULY.” 1800, Imperialism! “The fight this year will be to carry out the sentiment of that song we have 80 often repeated: ‘My Country, ’tis of Thee.! If we lose, our children and our children’s children will not suc- ceed to the spirit of that song, and cel- ebrations of the Fourth of July will pass away, for the spirit of Empire will be upon us.”—William J. Bryan; speech to the Bryan Home Guards, Lincoln, Neb., July, 1900. The Answer im 1908, E Answer this for yourself. Do you know of any spot In the United States where the spirit of 1776 is dead and forgotten and the Fourth of July a meaningless date on the calendar? On the other hand the humblest citi- zen is growing prouder of his American citizenship and the spirit of 1776 is permeating the entire body politic. “ROOSEVELT THE SPIRIT OF WAR.” 1004, Anti-Roosevelt. “f would rather gfio down to eternal oblivion than be &nstrumental in the election of Roosevelt.”—Willlam J. Bryan, Oct. 17, 1904, while touring In- diana. “The surrender of the present Presi- dent (Roosevelt) to corporate Influ- ences furnishes an excellent proof of the wisdom of Judge Parker in making the statement he has. But President Roosevelt stands for militarism. * * * The present occupant of the White House (Roosevelt) represents in an ag- gravated form the warlike spirit, as contrasted with the pacific policy that has heretofore characterized our na- tlon.”—William J. Bryan, in a speech at Springfield, Mo., Sept. 1, 1904, where he accused President Roosevelt of sur- rendering to the corporations and hold- Ing “bloody, brutal and barbarous” sen: timents. The Answer in 1808, President Roosevelt, instead of rep- Tesenting the “apirit of war,” stands before the world the greatest ex- emplar of international peace in bis generation. History will in full season award him the titles he has justly wom, and the greatest of these will be “The Peacomaker,” im spite of Candidate Bryan's assault upon bim in 1904. Under President Roos» velt's policies the United States has taken ite place im the front rank of world powers. Taft is committed te cont{nuing these olicies. ‘GOVERNMENT MUST OWN RAILWAYS.” 1808, Govermment Ownership of Ratlways. “I have already reached the conclu- alon that raflroads partake so much of the nature of a monopoly that they must ultimately become public property, and be managed by public officials in the interest of the whole community.— William J. Bryan; Home-coming speech st New York Olty, August, 1008 } The Answer im 1908, The broad meaning of Candidate Bryan's remarks on this subject is that railway regulation by statute law is impossible, and that “gov- ernment ownership” 18 the only remedy for transportation abuses The eractment of the Federal Rate Law Las totally disproved the claims of Candidate Bryan and vividly displayed his unsound ressoning om great publie The friends of organized labor can- not forget that Bryan is the man who proposed to cut wages in two with the fifty cent dollar. Mr. Bryan declares that he has been a tariff reformer for twenty-eight years. His platform in 1896 insisted that the tariff should not be agitated until the money question was settled. He postponed it in 1900 to discuss im- perialism and is making it an issue in 1908 only in communities where his other vagaries have no standing. Mr. Bryan says the stars in their courses are fighting for him. Mr. Bry- :‘1; always wins his elections up in the Mr. Bryan declares that he does not favor government ownership of rail- roads. He favored it as late as May, 1907, and has not yet recanted the statement he then made that he did not belleve anything could be accom- plished by attempts to ‘regulate the rallroads and that government owner- ship of them was inevitable. A8 loou_uu SEES BRYAN. “You say that you have advo- oated more radical measures against private monopelies tham either 1 or my party asseciates have been willing to undertake. You have, indeed, advocated measures that sound more radi- oal, but they have the prime de- fect that in practice they would not werk. I should not in this letter to you discuss your uttl- tude on this question if you di@ net yourself bring it wp, but as you have brought it up, I answer you that in my judgment . the measures you advocate would be wholly ineffective in curing a single evi], and g0 far as they had any effect at all, would mere- ly throw the entire busiuess of the country into hopelegs apd ut- ter confusien. I put Mr. Taft's deeds against your words. I ask that you be judged both by the words you wish remembered, and by the words that seemingly you and your party now desire to have forgotten. . . . I hold it entirely matural for any great law-defying corporetion te wish to see you placed 12 the Prosi- dency rather than Mr. Taft. Your plans to put a stop to the abuses of these corporations are wholly chimerical, — Theodore Roose- velt.” CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURES. Demooratic Party Cannot Olaim Un< sullied Virtue as to Source of Its Revenues. (From Gov. Hughes' Youngstown Bpeech.) “Mr. Bryan also has much to say with regard to corrupt practices and campaign expenditures. But he omits to give due credit to the Republican party for what it has accomplished with regard to these important reforms, an accomplishment the more notewor- thy in the light of Mr. Bryan's reiter- ated criticlsms of contributions to Re- publican campaign funds. In the State of New York a Republican Legislatu In 1906 passed a statute prohibiting corporations from making any political contributions directly or indirectly, and providing that officers, directors or stockholders participating in or econ- senting to the violation of the law should be guilty of a criminal offense. And I know of no more drastic statute in this country with regard to the pub- lcity of campaign contributions and for the prevention of corrupt practices than that passed in New York under Republican auspices. These were not promises of an opposition party seek- ing power, but enactments by a party in power securing genuine reforms. Proper recognition must, of course, be given to the patriotic Democrats who supported these reforms, but they were enacted by a Republican administra- tion. Congress has also legislated against pouti&i'contrlbuflonp by cor- porations. Purity of elections and free opportunity for the uncorrupted expres- sion of the popular will lie at the foun- datlon of every reform and cannot be too carefully safeguarded. And there should be federal legislation securing proper publicity of and accounting for campaign contributions in connection with federal electiens. But it must fairly be recognized that the skirts of neither party have been clean. If we search Mr. Bryan's following we shal) find not a few who have sinned, and also those who, if we may judge from their local activities, are still unrepent- ant. The Democratic party cannot claim unsullled virtue either with re- gard to the source of its revenues or its readiness to recelve them.” A STARTLING STATEMENT New York Medical Authorities Claim Dyspepsia Causes Consumption. The post mortem statistics of the big New York hospitals show that some cases of consumption are due to unchecked dyspepsia, especially when the victim was predisposed to tubercutosis. Dyspepsia wears out the body and brain, the = weakened, irritable stomach is unable to digest food, the body does not receive the required nourishment, constipation ensues and the victim becomes thin, weak and haggard. As a result, the body becomes a fertile field for the germs of disease to lodge and flourish. Therefore, the person who permits dyspepsia to progress unhindered is guilty of contributing toward the development of one of the most in- sidious and fatal diseases known to mankind. Dyspepsia is curable if properly treated. Barker’s Drug Store sells a remedy which they positively guarantee will cure indigestion or dyspepsia or they will pay for all the medicine used during the trial. This remedy it an absolutely new medical discovery and has been named Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. Certainly no ‘offer could be more fair, and the offer of Barker’s Drug Store is proof positive that Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are a dependable and infallible remeey. Inasmuch as the medicine will cost you nothing if it does not benefit you we urge you who are suffering with indiges- tion or dyspepsia to try this remedy. A twentyfive-cent box of Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets contains enough medicine for fifteen days’ -treatment. Hopeless. Martha, endeavoring to instruct a: would be housekeeper in the mysterles of pudding making, was overheard. “Yer jes’ takes some bread en”— “But how much bread, Martha?’ “Oh, jes’ what yer needs, Miss Min, en den yer puts yo' milk on it"— “And how much milk, Martha?” “Well, yer mus’ use yer jedgment 'bout dat, Miss Min.” “But 1 haven’t any judgment, Mar tha.” “Well, de Lord he’p yer, Miss Min, ‘cause I can’t.”—Trayel Magazine. A Pointer. “You can always tell an actor whose season has not been prosperous,” said Mr. Stormington Barnes. “How?” “He won't talk with you five min- utes without saying that the publie doesn’t appreciate art.”—Washington Star. MAKES RAPID HEADWAY Add This Fact to Your Store of Knowledge. Kidney disease advances so rapidly that many a person is firmly in its grasp before aware of its pro- gress. Prompt attention should be given the slightest symptom of kidney disorder. If there is a dull pain 1n the back, headaches, dizzy spells or a tired, worn-out feeling, or if the urine is dark, foul-smell- ing, irregular and attended with pain, procure a good kidney remedy at once. Your townspeople recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read the statement of this Bemidjii citizen, Mrs. N, E. Crowell, living at 323 Mississippi Ave.,, Bemidji, Minn., says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills and know them to be a reliable remedy for disordered kidneys, At the time I began their use, I was not confined to my bed, but felt very miserable, I was dull and languid, and there was a constant achein the small of my back, At times I was very dizzy and these spells gave me greatest discomfort. I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills at the Owl Drug Store, and they gave me such great relief that 1 continued taking them. In return for the satis- factory results I derived from their use; I can recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills highply.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, New York, for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s and take no other. sole agents Complete_Formula, Ayer's Non-A oVecrelsimmsss g?:fizlg&,?-!ll‘k,!gfl lé)fllflo[ B e e approves of this Biilinia koo Ak o oot s ood, TS s | Accept his answer without question. Oli'Bassafras 3 Gry roring e gt e LT rern Folemas sl Wo b 5.0, a7ezcu, BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence 'part of town which will be sold on easy terms. For further particulars write or call Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS. Agent. Swedback Block, Bemidjt. Lumber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwlding material of all descriptions. Call in and look over our special line of fancy glass doors. We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W00D St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. Subseribe For The Pioneer. Typewriter - Ribbons The Pioneer keeps on hand all the standard makes of Typewriter Ribbons, at the uniform price of 75.cents for all ribbons except the two- and three-color ribbons and special makes. Remember Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are only sold at Barker’s Drug Store.