The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 6, 1904, Page 2

Peace Policy Suspicious. ¥. “Fhe question: St Is the United seine prepared for war? may well Ser to President Roosevelt, says: wm Ut JON A WAR FOOTING. President Roosevelt's Strenuous ates <xwsked. Joseph Pulitzer in his open let-/ ““Ve are spending more money now navy (ham any Olver couairy ts the world, e&cept England; a third | be europe without exception. fs costing us hitherto the ‘France, avé.000 ‘on hers, and Germany, styeror, $50,000,000, certain war. “We are snips to England's ten, Germeny armored cruisers, prac 3 hips, to England's sixteea, Fr six and Germany's two. We are nishing half a dozen smaller em “’&We have more first-cl Nready built than any oth in the world except E ¥nevlish editor of Bra al says that in ten ) “ia wlube, low much do you 4 ent? Fifty ye n frigates, and our peaceful meret <#s supposed to protect it.” fhnis is not a party matter, sehemes are personal, “Exeropeanism, emf the true American spirit. vuens, Not content eran Hemisphere. wel the head of twenty-one. mmake Monroe rise in his grave. ty te woward, writings of any previous President @m Europe.” ork World.) NOT A MILITARY PEOPLE. vawents may please the eye and, for ? [ere on our army than Austria-Hun-|_ ~ary, with nearly 400,000 men under Sons, and twice as much as Japan In *Zime of peace, and more on army, navy ‘ma pensions than is spent for the <saps purposes by any of the over- Cewaed military powers of continental Our navy $98,000,900 this year. second naval gower in the world, !s spending $61,- under -voar iustrious counterpart, the Em- On its face, our ac- veity looks as if we were preparing for building thirteen battle- *s seV- 2 and France's six, and thirteen grea «ent rate we shall displace Great Brit- as the first naval power of th» Yet you keep prodding us on, Neets covered the seas, To-day we hava syer 600,000 tons of steel battlesuips ned cruisers, and our merchant mar a the foreign trade has shrunk until 32 is hardly larger than the navy that samy party justifying your proposed geugzerainty over the Western Hemi- aphere. But if you fail to find any Yerarrant for your policy in the Consti- ‘tation of the United States or the gpractice of your predecessors, you may a@ind it abundantly in the quarter from ‘which you borrowed the policy itself— [Jos, Pulitzer in New 4 “We are not a military people, bent om conquest, or engaged in extending eur domains in foreign lands, or de- sirous of securing natural advantages, Jhowever great, by force; but a people Moving peuce, not only for ourselves, bat for all the nations of the earth. ‘ The display of great military arma- moment, excite the pride of the citizen, SENATOR COCKRELL : ARRAIGNS WALBRIDGE go our navy consisted of a few woode- Says He is Not the Man Who Would Drive Bribery From State. ne ao “I am not speaking to Democrats—- Your not partisan. Wour boasted Americanism is really It is the very antithesis You are groposing to Europeanize our institu- with the extraor- «Jumary increase in the powers and pat- mmnage of the President of the United 3tates, you propose to become prac tueally the President of the whole West- The accidental head «oF one republic, you would make your- In the cyame of James Monroe, the strict con- structionist of the Constitution, and sander a hypocritical pretense of duty, yeu assume prerogatives that would arn Hamilton pale and that would I de- any of your eulogists, from the bril- Yront and distinguished Whitelaw Reid Chillicothe, Mo., Oct. 2.—Senator F. M. Cockrell addressed an audience that crowded the courtroom here to-night, His epeech had largely to do with the comparative histories of the Democratic and Republican par- ties in Missourl. Speaking of Folk Senator Cockrell sald when Mr. Folk came into office in 1900, all that it was neceesarw for him to know that there had been boodling in Missour! was to read the files of ‘the Globe-Democrat, which pointed out the corruption of the Walbridge and Zeigenhein adminis- trations in St. Louis, and told of specific instances of bribery and blackmail. Why did not Mr. Walbridge‘and a Republican circuit attorney take is show one line in ‘he| heed when these charges were pub- of he ask lished in thelr own organ?” ed, “Mr. Walbridge could not detect the stench of bribery when it was committed under his very nose. If he were elected governor, the boodlers would be able to carry off the very capitol and he would not know it.” There is no reason now Why Repub licans, who so loudly praised Mr. Folk before his nomination, should not yote for him because it is a trav- esty to ask that such a man as Wal- bridge should be elected governor to drive boodling iicm the state.” Mr. Cockrell, in speaking of the post office department scandals, said that he believed that Mr. Roosevelt did his whole duty in the matter, the aut it cannot bring the country @ained. Any other course would cmous. I protest, however, against ~we have assumed in the world, Wecause we have grown great whe world. I also protest against tthe country in that attitude. swens are directly involved. edependence.” a#apeech of acceptance.] SECTIONAL BITTERNESS. ‘rains, brawn and muscle of a single dmmigrant, nor induce the investment 4 there of a dollar of capital. Of course, ssuch armament as may be necessary for the security of the country and the protection of the rights of its citizens, at home or abroad, must be main- mot only false economy, but pugillani- feeling, now far too prevalent, that ®y reason of the commanding position smmust take part in the disputes and) Yroils of foreign countries; and that ‘@hould intervene in any important -aqnestion that arises in other parts of erection of any such military establish- sment as would be required to maintain sshould confine our international activi- #iies solely to matters in which the} Auditorium hotel lastnight, pushing weights of the country or of our citl-/ back through the windo That Is znot a’ situation of isolation, but of in- {From Judge Parker's, the tion of other departments, even when the Republicans knew that they investigation. SHE WOULDN’T CASH be the we Mistaken for a Dancing Master in Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 2.—' we the We) rather you would be iden th that had been offered her. of Mr. Shaw?” “0,” eaid the cashier, “the de oth doing all that he could to bring the guilty ones to justice but that a Re- congress resolutions looking to an investiga- themselves would have charge of the SHAW’S CHECK The Secretary of the Treasury ““H-m-m-well—I suppoee it’s all right, but I would ,” aid the young woman cashier at the LJ pear man on the other side of the window drew himself up and. said: “Don’t you know him orhaveyou not heard \“DEAD FILIPINOS ARE | THE ONLY GOOD FILIPINOS” ‘Co, ¢ ates County Investment C rR BUTLER, MO. Capital, = = 850,000. ; p real at low rates. Abstracts of An Army Officer Writes toa tide t ail lands and town lote in Bates county. Oholee securities always on hand and forsale, Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate Hon. J, B, Newsueny, Vioe-. papers drawn, President. © Sao tran ¥. J. Treamp, President, Jno. 0. Harus, Abstractor. 8. F. Wannoox, Notary. Friend That the Islanders Are Being Pacified bythe ~ Old Indian Methods | | Buffalo Aldermon Indicted, Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. present and former aldermen have been indicted on bribery charges by the grand jury investigating the recent publicaliy made charges, Talk of fight and suicide is heard throughout the city, as it is believed some of those now under indictment will tell what they know about that municipal grafting in this city. One alderman is declared to have bought poison to-day, and to have told his friends that if his name ap- pears among those indicted he would kill himsilf. Strenuous efforts are being made to stop the investigation, but the district attorney shows no sign of relaxing his endeavors. He is a Democrat, but there has been no charge as yet that has shown parti- san bias. The board of aldermen is composed of thirteen Republicans and twelve Democrats. 29 —Seven | Forced Angle Worms Down Boy’s Throat. Jersey Shore, Pa, Sept. 28.—As the resulé of being forced to eat angle worms, ten-year-old William Hummer, son of A. B. Hummer, is in @ critical condition. The worm eat- ing occurred a few days ago and since then young Hummer’s life has hung in the balance. The Hummer boy, with several other lads of his own age, had been along Pine creek fishing and were re- turning home about 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon by the way of the rail- road. On the way Hummer said he met two other boy school-mates. These boys were somewhat older than the Hummer lad. One of them sald: “Hummer did not catch any fish, 80 we will make him eat the worms.” With this the two are alleged to have pounced on the little fellow and bunch of the fish bait down | his throat. He isin a very critical condition and recovery is doubtful. To Make Campaign . With a Talking Machine devices. His first innovation, now third district, himeelf and will fire away all night. save perhaps the blind. phonographs with megaphone at- the passers-by will be greeted with: channel.” Baltimore, Md., Oct. 2.—Congress- man Frank C. Wachter will make a novel-campaign and by automatic being placed in several parte of the comprise electric “talking signs.” The. signs will be “loaded” with 40 different reasons why the candidate should succeed In this way Mr. Wachter hopes to engage the attention of every voter But Mr. Wachter has overcome he eber used th or tole & this by arranging to ed song Sain Sombie ava ! phe tachments at a prominent corner. email | alday and night long the ears of “Elect Wachter and get a deeper “Frank Wachter always has the ‘ashington, Oct.-2—Letters re- ceived from United States army ned grunts ch SN cers of high rank in the Dieele o e show that the pacification of the islands is proceeding most vigor- ously. And the Filipinos are being pacified by the old method that was used against the Indians on the theory that “the only good Filipino is a dead Filfpino.” Besides, the strongeuspicion grows here that the truth affairsin the Phil ippines is being concealed officially until after next November, on whose result the President, “the friend of peace,” builds all his hopes. The war department is not making known the losses the army constantly suf- fers in the Philippines, except to ¢* relatives of the killed and wounded. A frank letter which has been re- celved here follows. Necessarily the name of the officer who wrote it to an intimate friend cannot be given. The letter reads: “This island is not cleaned up. I am afraid the efforts that are being made to keep things quiet until after the election will not do us any good, We are going back to something like the old method of fighting Indians. Recently, Foster of the Twelfth in- fantry and 37 men were jumped on and two officers and fifteen men were killed. Lieut. Young, with a small company, was attacked and Lieut. Lewis was shot through the body. Pope, the son of the great Gen. Pope while going up the river with twelve scouts, had four men shot in ten minutes. The two nearest him were kilied. He could not do a thing, for the grass on the river’s banks grows 16 feet high. In three weeks we have lost 20 stands of arms. The Filipinos sneak up to the sentinel, even close to the guardhouses, and even some officers have been cut up in this way. Having been connected with a sec- tion of army where I constantly met officers going eastward, I hear the samo old story—war js still on and the Fillpinos are kept kown only by constant strong arm methods. Army officers, while they like ‘Taft person- ally, claim he knows nothing of the situation, while the policy of ‘pacifi- cation’ may result in theloss of many American soldiers. They are allot one mind—that if the army is much more weakened in the Philippines a general uprising will result and our troops will be slaughtered like 80 many sheep. The Filipinos hate us more than they did the Spaniards. Another thing disturbs army men —many former army vets with polit- ical pull have never even seen the Philippines, while others have been sent here one, two, three, and even five, and in one or two cases six FARM LOANS, To be able to borrow money on real estate on long time, with the privilege of an advan- making payments before due, is tage which the frugal borrower appre- ciates. We loan money in this way and at a low rate of interest. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, BUTLER, MO. Misnenses eee eee eM oe oe oe ae HAY AND GRAIN. We are in the market for your hay and grain for which we will pay the highest market price. Will try and furnish sacks to patrons when ready to thresh. We keep a full line of feed on hand at all times, and also handle one of the best brands of Kansas hard wheat flour. Try us when you wish to buy—don’t for- get us when you want to sell. Peoples Elevator Co. Timber Reserves Burning. Hamilton, Mont., Oct. 2.—Reports from the Bitter Root forest reserve say that the timber of the reserve is burning, desjiie the recen* rainfall. In one instance the flames, fanned by & stiff breeze, burned a swath about in expr Bae ten miles long by a half mile wide in Ro, a1 inter ATE DIVISION one night. Several cabins of pros- h 5 ae amas teagan pectors and lumbermen on the edge of the reserve have burned, but no lives have been lost. About fifteen square miles have been burned. No. 92 stock bean No, 29 St. erations 5:08 P.M No. 27 Kansas City & No. 26 Kansas City & Jopl! No. 118 Local T. C. BOULWARE, Physician and Surgeon. North Side dqvare, Detion, the ~ Diseases of women and & specialty. Averted an Idaho Lynching. Blackfoot, Idaho, Oct. 2.—As the funeral procession of thedeputy sher- iff, Mr. Sweet, who was murdered by a man named Conroy Sunday night, while the latter and his companion were attempting to rob some section men, was paseing to the cemetery DR: J. M. CHRISTY: Diseases of women and Children a Specialty Office The Over Butler Cash Depart- times. Favoritism in the army is today, a mob was hastily organized, ment Store, Butler, Mo, niemanae: @ rope procured and 8 rush made for | Omee Telephone 20. House Telephonsls. All army ah hated Root, They the jailfor the purpose of lynching 4 .|Conroy. The officers, however, were | — — bsol tek pe snee too quick for the half-formed mob, ? wae ataly mle tn his rou and with the ald of hastily eworn in ‘DR, J.T. HULL deputies. protected Conroy and per- DENTIST. aded the crowd to disperse. Uncle ’Rastus on Men. Fo Mntrance, same thatloed te Bagudans's From the Chicago News. ‘ bid 3 “When @ man dun tells me,” says Uncle ’Rastus, “dat he has becomeso ‘BF. JETER, ; good dot he feels like bustin’, I go . rastice, right home an’ put an extra padlock Among ye Henna mart f fart , - Office over H. H. Nichola, |. bchen East side square, “When @ man sheds tears ober de Butler, Mo. condishun of de far-off heathen, de f ' heathen at home had better be keer- ful how dey lend him money. “De man whose conscience won’t let him go to a place of amusement has bin known to elope wid anoder man’s wife. “De man who can’t remember dat Infirmary of Osteopathy Two blocks west of vlc wel or, on rested fur robbin’ “De man who allus wars a smile am now sargin’ hie third term in state prison. Was Run Down aki an. ta”