The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 18, 1909, Page 12

eis a Government have doubled in that | Rosson was a native of Virginia, was It seems to me that the! born in Culpepper county September up 8 dollar for a dinner in honor of| the men who Is rather care- is @ tendency toward extravagance | thoughts of men ought now to bede- | 22, 1817, came to Callaway county, some distinguished citizen, arranged | ful in having the States take care Of| and wasteful expenditure of public| voted to how we can administer | Missouri, in 1866, located in Bates by a little coterie of satellites whose| their own affairs and not leave too | revenue in the conduct of thegovern- | good government at less expense to | county in 1889. He became a mem- ** political fortunes are linked with}much to the general government | ment, municipal, State and national. | the people.” | ber of the Methodist church in 1839, |those of tha object of their adula. I said something like this before the | | His ehristian character will long be |son. But the country editors are Legislature of Missouri some time | |felt by those who knew him Todo getting wiseon these feeds. They jago and was criticised for it. My | | justice, to love mercy, and to walk . It is acold day when the Missourl Butler Weekly Times editor {s not cordially invited to dig inted on Thursda y of each week. and better done by the States than by the general government. There | time. Senator Stone of Missouri | Is one of The I. D. ALLEN, Edis Prix or and Prop. vor cee Entered at the e of Butler, } second-class mal! Speaking of the proposition toestab: Aca A it The Commoner’s Tribute. MORE POWER WANTED. lsh a bureau of mines, which has Alligon’s victory pronounced, exquisite-smoke taupe the principal tenets of the Demo- } . . 68c, 98c, $1.23 $1.48 hah stone green, rose, wis- : : gs cratic faith. Democratfe adminis-} The legislature passed {ts fires bill : : : $1.98, $2.23 and up trations in Missouri have practiced |Jas¢ week, establishing school supér- teria. Fullofgraceare = * ; this for nearly forty yeare, and re-|viston in all the counties of the state styles--Coats are both duced the state levy from 50 cents|which was promptly signed by the i 1 W ¥ to 17 cents while paying off an enor-| governor, Thfs bill, or similar ones, wae 48 ¢ MSSeRS. Beautiful Hea Ss of Ne § mous bonded debt left as anheritage| have been before every legislature mostly hipless models ; : by the last Republican administra-|for she past twenty years. It has --skirts are long again--- W ash Goods % tion following the war. Every Dem-|pbeen faithfully champloned by the But why should we : ocratic governor from Woodson | teachers of the state and to them ts : down to and ineluding Folk have}larzely due {ts tinaladoption. About Neon wd Leap he The very spirit of spring is held captive in the } tried to keep public expenses to 8] twenty-five counties in the state, in- of what you are invited | jovely new cottons that we have to show you { minimom, while burdening the peo-| eluding Bates is already under coun- to see! There’s an ad- ; : : + ‘ z tay - : | 1 % y j ple as llstle as poselble with taxa-|ey gupervision, she only effect the | Tb ncaa parotid Like summer cloud-banks tinted with a rainbow. oe tlon. That appears to be all chang-|new law will have on this county + A wonderful profusion of new weaves, colors and | ed now and she first Republican gov-| will be to Increase the Superinten- the prices. | designs. Great values at ae | ernor since 1870, before getting his|dent’s salary from $850 to $1400, 4 seat fairly warm, begins the agita-)¢400 of which will be paid by the $12 to $27.98 | : i Stone ralsed a warning against such | game law has been an abject failure, ’Twould bea pity were the snowy mounds lessened | Don’t fail to see the Bae a trend, Republican papers and their |80 far as preserving the wild game of before you see and choose from them. Prices | new lines of ready-to- ; Ed allies the Kansas City Star and Post-|the state from ruthless slaughter | wear hats. ene} Dispatch, abused him for e moss-|and, ifcontinued, ultimate extinc- 10c, 12¢, 15¢, 19¢, 25e, 35c and up. : : hi back. It would be much better for| ton. A beautiful collection i the tax payer if we had more such Rohn +t te sed ~ gE eee a eee of the Bigs mete a rightno@. | conse inftaxation the Kaneas City New Oxfords Very Latest Styles Governor Hadley’s public utilittes bill, introduce? in the House by Rep resentative Wade, and in the Senate by Senator McDavid, !s a formidable document, containing about 30,000 words and affects every public utility in Missouri. Is creates ‘a public service commission, which 1s invest- ed with authority to supervise and regulate every public utility in the state” and given the proper power and authority to carry out its provis- fons. After naming the generally known utilities, {t provides that the commission shall have dom{nation over “all business Impressed with public use or which the public must use in buying and selling.” The com- mission is to be composed of five members at $3,500 per year, tobe} 4 Jarge majority of members of the appotnted by the governor, NOt!) »gisiature of both parties would more than three of one political party. ‘The sober, sensible people of the state stood aghast at Governor Folk’s demand for a state exerctse commisstoner, as giving too much power to the governor; what will those same people tiink of this de- mand by a Republican governor that he be given the authority to appoint a commission to control absolutely every public utility In the state, The vast possibilities of such stupendous power placed {n the hands of one man can scarcely be estimated, Ot course, our Republican governor had no tntention of trusting the people to select the men on whom thisgreat power {8 to be conferred, He must select them himself, they are to be his creatures, responsible to him for their commisstous and ready to do his bidding. The olflities great and small throughous the state to be controlled and supervised must know that the governor ts the power be- : : hind the throne. We have no doubt} met the greatest encouragement ev- ning Waists f that the Republican house will ser-}erywhere he went, the Democrats all vilely do the governor’s bidding and |in line and promise to turn out to Ne i ) w Styles in Wom- : : pass the bill, but we do not belleve | the school elections. He said if there . 5 agg A most extraordinary waist that {t will geé a single Democratic}{s any disaffection in the party's en's sults . showing--s mart tailored { vote in the Senate, notwithstanding the governor's “smooth” methods ot inducing a Democratic senator to In- troduce is, ——_ EXTRAVAGANT CRAZE, Retrenchinent and reform sre of tlon for increased assessments and 6 demand tor more money. These Re- publican administrations come high, as most great luxuries, but appar- ently it is what the people want. The ery for more money and ex travagance has become almost & craze, so much go that when Senator Theexpected hashappened. Joseph G. Cannon bas been re-elected speak- er of the House of Representatives and the old rules were adopted with , few minor changes. But the Demo- crates, under the leadership of Champ Clark and the insurgent Republicans, 28 strong, led by Murdock of Kan- sas, made a magnificent fight against the old gag rules that have permit- ted “Uncle Joe” to control legisla- tion absolutely, to punish and re- ward members at will, and would have won but for the traitorous de- flection of New York Tammany _ Democrats and a few from southern states that have special interests in their districts that were promised protection by the speaker. Ollie James, the eloquent and gifted con- gressman from Kentucky, who wae Bryan’s spokesman at the Denver can get much better dinners at home for much less and know they are wanted merely to lend prestige to the event. Here’s how the home- spun editor of the Shelbina Torch- light sent regrets to @ recent St. Louts dinner. But this thing of theee city fellows organizing an affair of this kind and inviting a oue gallused editor to pay out several dollars railroad fare to get to and from the thing, pay hotel bill while there and a dollar to get into thelr meetin’ after landing tn the clty, is a little soo much for this “cousin Rube” at this time. Bring your ban juet around and we'll take a squint at 16. —Clinton Democrat. dodge the prohibition submission question ff they could, but they can’t and will have to be put on record. Isis matter of small importance anyhow, no matter what thelr ac- tion, as the Prohtbitionists have a method through the late constitu: tional amendment, the inttlativeand referendum, by which they can force a submission. So there {s little doubt that the voters of Missourt will have achance to vote on constitutional prohibition at the next general elec- tion, If not before. ‘Phe Anti-Saloon league organization so far {s oppos {ng atate wide prohibition, but fay oring local option with more strin- gent enforcement laws. Prof. Porter M. Allison, Demo- cratle nominee for County Superin- tendent of Schoole, was fu Butler Saturday on his way home from @ week’s canvas in the southwest part of the county. Prof. Allison said he ranks anywhere he failed to locatett. Prof. Allison 1s @ strong school man, enthusiastic In the work and will make Bates county # splendid super- intendent. Every Democrat {nter- ested in the success of the schools should turn ous and make Prof. state. Thore is Itttle doubt that the legls- lature will re-enact the old Walmsley game law, with minor amendments. The great{majority by which it was sent to engrossment leaves little doubt on that score. The present Star refers grandiloquently to “rich and imperial Missouri.” Who made {¢ “richfand impertal’” if it was not the men!most bitterly denounced and ridiculedjby the Star and the other reformers, the men who took charge when 8 per cent state bonds were hawked around at a discount, float- ed a 3 per cent bond Issue at par, re- duced taxation from 50 cents on the $100 to 17 cents on the $100, set aside nearly one-third of that for school proposes and at the same time wiped out the etate debt? Mis- sourt is “rich and {mpertal,” made so by the sterling honesty and strict economy of the “Old Guard,” but it will not take the reformers very long to reduce her again to poverty and burdened with debt.—Usceola Demo- crat. “The Booster” claims that the been urged on account of the neces- sity for protecting miners, Senator Stone sald: “Iam not opposed to any laws designed for the protection of the lives of men engaged in the actual work of mining. It seems to me, term ended a little more thana de-| The last issue of Mr Bryan’s Com- | humbly before God, was his motto. }eade ago. Expenditures incident to | moner had the following notice ot | He was a man of strong conviction, | the administration of the public af | | of splendid intelligence, and unswery- |fairs of Missour! have practically jdoubled anda little more in that time and I am quite sure that theex- |!" Butler, Mo., Tuesday morning, penditures in the cities have doubled & late esteemed Butler citizen: | ing devotion to that which he believ- “John W. Rosson died at his home| eq right. He was personally ac- | quainted with Mr. Bryan, and paid however, that that is a business | in shat period. We all know that | years. C. W. Ray, of Butler, refer-| ocrat, by voting for him at the lust which could well be left to the States | the expenditures of the National | ring so his fine character, says: Mr. | election.” A Brilliant Panorama of New Spring Fashions Now Passing in Review ONTHS of effort toward assembling the best merchandise for selling at the lowest prices which can buy it have culminated in the surpassing Spring Exhibits now on view at this store. The general verdict is that we have excelled former achievments at all points—-that varieties were never so large, styles so beautiful or values so great. With our hands on the pulse of demand and our eyes alert to avoid the “freakish” and the fads that die in a day, we have assembled only such styles as will be worn by refined, well-dressed women the season through. That is our idea of our duty to our customers—but not all of it. We do Not Overlook Prices It’s one thing to choose the very latest, most elegant and correct styles and another to buy them and sell them so that they may be within reach of the modest purse. Such styles have we bought—such prices are marked on them. Comparison proves AND COMPARISON IS ALL WE ASK. And the White Goods-- Fresh, crisp, immaculate--waiting to be made up into the daintiest of waists and dresses. New tailored Suits New and Win- models, dressy silk waists and fluffy, frilly “lingeries.” | Try to pick the ONE you | like best and you'll proba- | bly wind up by wanting a half dozen. Come greet the new suits and try to resist them! Wonderfully charming are the col- ors—soft, subdued and 10e, 15c, 19c, 25c, 35c, 39¢c and 48e¢ Ready-to- Wear Hats At Marvelously Low Prices. Every one can afford to buy a new hat for Easter at the price we are selling them. Oxblood, Tans, Patent Leather, Vici Kid, In all the new shapes Come to our store for the newest and best in Ladies’ Ready- to- Wear and Dry Goods. Something new coming all the time. New Dress Goods... New Silks....... ere New embroideries—BIG BARGAINS NEW HAND BAGS, BELTS AND BUCKLES ..ss+++. 0c, 65c and 98c New Table Linens, 75c quality............65c New Kimona Goods, 23c quality....,.....15¢c New Lingerie Waist fronts. ........63c to 98c .....35¢, 39c and 50c ¥ , tion, spoke in glowing terms| Katy at Rockville has bee aus ‘Clark’s poh nnd and|to vod 6 new baggage un aie THe see S | BUTLER prophesied that his leadership would|as © result of advertising in that for 1 Ss a he win for him the next Democratic} medium. Keep your nerve working, BARGAINS re MISSOURI nomination for President. Bro. Bosard. February 2, at the age of ninety-two | his last tribute of respect, as a Dem.#* PR ery a. ae Se eS ee